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woman_n	child_n	conceive_v	womb_n	1,568	5	9.6606	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06913	Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1623 (1623)	STC 17343; ESTC S112049	175,630	246

for your peeles cole-rakes maukins and such like though they be necessary yet they are of such general vse they need no further relation And thus much for a ful satisfaction to all the Husbands and Huswifes of this kingdome touching Brewing Baking and all what else appertaineth to either of their offices FINIS A Hous-wife must be religious Shee must bee temperate Of her garments Of her diet Her generall vertues OF Her vertues in phisicke Of feuers in generall Of the quotidian Of the single Tertian Of the accidentall Feuer Of the Feuer hettick For any Feuer Of thirst in Feuers For any ague sore For the quartaine Feuer To make one sweat Of the pestilent Feuer A preseruatiue against the plague Fer infection of the plague For the Pestilence Another A preseruation against the Pestilence To draw a plague botch to any place you will A cordyall for any infection at the heart Against too violent sweating For the head-ach For the Frenzie For the lethargy To prouoke sleepe For the ●wimming of the head For the palsie For a new cough For an old cough For the falling sicknes For the falling euill OF An oyle to helpe hearing For the ruhme For a stinking breath A vomit for an ill breath For the tooth●ach Another A drinke for a perle in the eye For paine in the eyes For dimme eyes For sore eyes For waterie eyes For a canker A swelled mouth For the Quinsie Against drunkennes To quicken the wit For the Kings euill Additions to the particular sicknesses first of the head and the parts ●hereof the lungs Another For the head ake a●d to stay bleeding at the nose To dnaw out bones broken in the head For the falling of the mould of the head For the Squynancie For the tooth●ake To make teeth white To draw teeth without yron For teeth that are yellow For teeth that are loose For any venome in the eare For a stinking breath which commeth from the stomacke For stinking nostrills For a canker in the nose A red water for any cauker To cleare the eyes Another for the sight For sore eyes For sicke eyes For bleared eyes For the pin and webb in the eye A pouder for the pin and webb in the eye A pretious water for the eyes To make hayre to grow An other For a pympled or redsancy face For the rhume For hearcemesse in the throate For a dangerous cough For the dry cough For the tis●ike For griefes in the stomacke For spitting of blood For vomitting To force one to vomit For the Ilica passio Additions to the diseases of the stomacke For the stomacke For the Illica passio For paine in the brest For the Mother Obstructions of the liuer Against the heate of the liuer For the plurisie A plaister for a stitch Heate in the liuer For the consumption To stanch blood For the yellow Iaundisse For the yellow Iaundisse For a desperate yellow Iaundisse For the blacke iaundisse Additions to the diseases of the liuer For wasting of the Liuer A restoratiue for the liuer To heale a ringworme commiog of heate from the liuer To stanch blood For great danger in bleeding For a stitch A bath for the dropsie For the dropsie Paine in the spleene For paine in the side For fatnesse and short breath Additions to the diseases of the ●pleene For 〈…〉 For the stepping of the spleene For the hardnesse of the spleene Diseases of the heart For the passion of the Heart For heart sicknesse For fatnesse about the heart For the wind collicke The wind collicke For the lask For the blodie fluxe To stay a laske For the flex For the worst fluxe For costiuenesse For wormes Additions to the diseases of the belly guts For the greatest lax● For the bloody flixe For an easie laske To haue two stooles a day and no more For hardnes of the belly or wombe Against costiuenesse For the stopping of the wombe For the wind collick For the Rupture For the stone Another The collicke and stone Another A pouder for the collicke and stone Another For the stone in the reynes For the stone in the bladder A pouder for the stone in the bladder A bath for the stone A water for the stone Difficultie of Vrine For hot vrine For the strangullion For pissing in bed For the rupture Additions to the diseases of the Reynes and Bladder For he that cannot hold his water For the Gonorea or shedding of ●eede For weakenes in the backe For heate in the reines For comforting and strengthing of the backe For the Hemeroides For the piles or hemeroids For the fa●ling of the fundament Additions to the diseases of the priuate parts For the hemroids For the greene sicknesse To increase a womans milke To drie vp milke Apultus for sore breasts in women For ease in child bearing Childe dead in the womb Aptnesse to conceiue Additions to womens infirmities To cesse womens flowers Against the flowers For the matrix A generall purge for a woman in childe bed To deliuer the dead birth To increase milke For a woman that is new brought in bed and soundeth much To prouoke sleepe For ●ore brests For morphew of both kinds To breede haire For the gout For the Syatica For any pain or swelling or the stinging of venomous beasts For swelings in the legges or feete A water to wash a sore-with A pultis for a sore For any old sore For scabs or itch For the Leprosie To take away pimples Priuie parts burnt For any burning For any scalding A pultis to drie a sore To eate away dead flesh A water to heale woūds To heale any wound For sinewes cut or shrunke To breake any impostume Additions to generall infirmities of Surgery and first of burnings scaldings For burning or scalding with either liquor or gunpowder For burnings or scaldings on the face Anoyntment for burning Vlcers and Sores A salue for any old sore To take away dead flesh A water for a sore A blacke plaister to heale old sores and kill inflamation An oyntment to ripen sores For the stinging of any adder or venomous thing For any venoming For a ringworme For the itch For thy dryed Scabbe To kill the Itch or tetter serpego To take away the arrs of the small Poxe For the French or Spanish pox To put out the French or Spanish Poxe To make the scabs of the French poxe to fall away Additions to greene wounds A deffensitiue for a greene wound A salue for a greene wound A water to heale any greene wound cut or sore To stanch blood and draw sinewes together A mayden oyle for shrinking of sinewes For a wound in the gutts For prieking with a thorne To gather flesh in wounds Additions for ach or swellings For the Cyatyca A yellow searcloth for any payne or swelling For bruise● swelled For swelled legges For any ache A plaister for any paine or ache in the ioynts Additions to griefe in the Bones For bones out of

as she can the more the better as earely as she can Otherwise for this sicknesse take Isop Fennell and Peny-royall of these three one good handfull take two ounces of Currants seeth these in a pint of faire water to the halfe then straine the hearbs from the liquor put therto two ounces of fine sugar and two spoonefuls of white wine vinegar and let the party drinke euery morning foure spoonefuls thereof and walke vpon it To increase a womans milke you shall boyle in strong posset ale good store of Colworts cause her to drinke euery meale of the same also if shee vse to eate boyled Colworts with her meate it will wonderfully increase her milke also To drie vp womans milke take red sage hauing stampt it and strayned the iuice from the same adde thereunto as much wine vinegar and stirre them well together then warming it on a flat dish ouer a few coales steepe therein a sheete of browne paper then making a hole in the midst therof for the nipple of the brest to goe through couer all the brest ouer with the paper and remoue it as occasion shall serue but be very carefull it be laid very hot to Some are of opinion that for a woman to milke her brests vpon the earth will cause the milke to dry but I referre it to triall To helpe womens sore breasts when they are swelled or else inflamed Take violet leaues and cut them small and seeth them in milke or running water with wheate bran or wheate bread crummes then lay it to the sore as hot as the party can indure it If a woman haue a strong and hard labour Take foure spoonefull of another womans milke giue it the woman to drinke in her labour and shee shall be deliuered presently If a woman by mischance haue her child dead within her shee shall take Vitander Felwort and Penyroyall and stampe them and take of each a spoonefull of the iuice and mixe it with old wine and giue it her to drinke and shee shall soone be deliuered without danger To make a woman apt to conceiue let her either drinke Mugwort steeped in her wine or else the pouder thereof mixed with her wine as shall best please her tast Take the pouder of Corrall finely ground and eate it in a reare egge and it will stay the flux Against the flowers with-holden in women make a pessary of the iuyce of Mugwort or the water that it is sodden in and apply it but if it be for the fluxe of the flowers take the iuice of plantane and drinke it in red wine Take a Fomentation made of the water wherein the leaues and flowers of Tutson is sodden drinke the superfluities of the matryx it clenseth the entrance but this hearb would be gathered in haruest if a woman haue paine in the matrix set on the fire water that Amomum hath been sodden in and the dewition make a pessarye and it will giue ease Take two or three egges and they must bee neither rost nor raw but betweene both and then take butter that salt neuer came in and put it into the egges and supp them off eate a peece of browne bread to them drinke a draught of small ale Take the root of Aristolo●hia rotunda and boyle it in wine and oyle and make a fomentation thereof and it helpe Take the budds and tender crops of Bryonye and boyle them in broth or pottage and let the woman eate thereof it is soueraine Take Mugwort motherwort and mynts the quantitie of a handfull in all seeth them together in a pint of Malmsey and giue her to drinke thereof two or three spoonefull at a time and it will appease her swounding Take henbane stamped and mixt with vinegar and apply it plaister wise ouer all the forehead and it will cause sleepe Take Sage Smallage Mallowes and plantane of each an handfull beate them all well in a morter then put to them oatemeale and milke and spread it on a fine linnen cloth an inch thicke and lay it to the brest or brests or otherwise take white bread leauen and straine it with creame put thereto two or three yolkes of egges salt oyle or oyle of Roses and put it vpon a soft fire till it bee luke warme and so apply it to the brest For morphew whether it be white or blacke take of the Lethargie of gold a dram of vnwrought brimston two drams beate them into fine powder then take of the oyle of Roses and swines grease of each a like quantitie and grind them all together with halfe a dramme of camphyre and a little vinegar and annoynt the same therewith morning and euening To breede hayre take Southerne-wood and burne it to ashes and mixe it well with common oyle then annoynt the balde place therwith morning aud euening it will breede hayre exceedingly For the gout take Aristolochia rotunda Althea Bett●nie and the roots of wild Neepe and the roots of the wild Docke cut in peeces after the vpper rind is taken away of each a like quantitie boyle then all in running water till they be soft and thicke then stampe them in a morter as small as may be and put thereto a little quantitie of chymney soot and a pint or better of new milke of a Cow which is all of one entire colour as much of the vrine of a man that is fasting and hauing stirred them all well together boyle them once againe on the fire then as hot as the party can suffer it apply it to the grieued place and it will giue him ease For the Syatica take of mustard seede a good handfull and as much in waight of hony and as much in waight of figges and crummes of white bread halfe so much then with strong vinegar beate in a morter till it come to a salue then apply it to the grieued place and it will giue the grieued party ease so will also a plaister of Oxicrotium if it be continually warme vpon the same To helpe all manner of swellings or aches in what part of the body soeuer it be or the stinging of any venomous beas● as Adder Snake or such like take horehound smallage porrets small mallowes and wild tansey of each a like quantitie and bruise them or cut them small Then seeth them altogether in a pan with milke oatemeale and as much Sheepes suet or Deares suet as an hens egge and let it boyle till it bee a thicke plaister then lay it vpon a blew woolen cloath and lay it to the griefe as hot as one can suffer it For any swelling in the legges or feete take a good handfull of water cresses and shread them small and put them in an earthen pot and put thereto thicke wine lees and wheate branne and sheepes suet of each of them a like quantitie and let them

mint calamint and horshow of each of them a like quantity and beware they differ not the waight of a dram vnder or aboue then put all the pouders abouesaid into the wine and after put them into the distilling pot and distill it with a soft fyre looke that it bee well luted about with rye paste so that no fume or breath goe forth and looke that the fire be temperate also receiue the water out of the Lymbecke into a glassevyall This water is called the water of life it may be likned to Balme for it hath all the vertues and properties which Balme hath this water is cleere and lighter then rosewater for it will fleete aboue all liquors for if oyle be put aboue this water it sinketh to the bottome This water keepeth flesh fish both raw sodden in his own kinde state it is good against aches in the bones the poxe and such like neither can any thing kept in this water rot or putrifie it doth draw out the sweetnesse fauor and vertues of all manner of spices rootes and hearbes that are wet or layd therein it giues sweetnes to all manner of water that is myxt with it it is good for all manner of cold sicknesses and namely for the palsy or trembling Ioynts stretching of the sinews it is good against the cold gout and it maketh an old man seeme young vsing to drinke it fasting and lastly it fretteth away dead flesh in wounds and killeth the canker Take rosemary Time Issop sage fenell nip roots of elicompane of ech an handfull of marierum and penyroyall of ech halfe a handfull eight slippes of red mynt halfe a pound of Licoras halfe a pound of ani●eeds and two gallands of the best Ale that can be brewed wash all these hearbes cleane put into the Ale licoras aniseeds and hearbes into a cleane brasse pot and set your limbecke thereon and paste it round about that no ayre come out then distill the water with a gentle fire and keepe the lymbecke coole aboue not suffering it to runne too fast and take heede when your water changeth collour to put another glasse vnder and keepe the first water for it is most precious and the latter water keepe by it selfe and put it into your next pot and that shall make it much better Take of balme of rosemary Flowers tops and all of dried red rose leaues of penny-royall of each of these a handfull of Issop halfe a handfull one roote of elycompane the whitest that can be got three quarters of a pound of Licoras two ounces of Cinamond two drams of great mace two drams of gallendgall three drams of coliander seed three drammes of carraway seeds two or three Nutmegs cut in foure quarters an ounce of aniseeds a handfull of Borage you must chuse a faire sunny day to gather the hearbes in you must not wash them but cut them in sunder and not too small then lay all your hearbes in souse all night and a day with the spices grosly beaten or bruised then distill it in order aforesaid this was made for a learned Phisitians owne drinking Take a galland of Gascoin wine ginger gallengall nutmegs grains Cloues aniseeds fenell seedes carraway seeds of ech one dram thē take sage mints red-roses time pellitory Rose-mary wild time camomile and Lauender of ech a handfull then bray the spices small● and the hearbs also put al together into the wine and let it stand so twelue houres stirring it diuers times then distill it with a limbecke and keepe the first water for it is best of a gallon of wine you must not take aboue a quart of water this water comforteth the vitall spirits and helpeth inward diseases that commeth of cold as the palsey the contraction of sinewes also it killeth wormes and comforts the stomacke it cureth the cold dropsy helps the stone the stinking breath and maketh one seem yong Take a pottell of the best Sacke halfe a pint of Rose-water a quarter half of a pound of good Cinamon well bruised but not small beaten distill all these together in a glasse-still but you must carefully looke to it that it boyle not ouer hastily attend it with cold wet cloathes ●o coole the top of the still if the water should offer to boyle too hastily This water is very soueraigne for the stomacke the head and all the inward parts it helps digestion comforteth the vitall spirits 1 Take Fennell Rew Veruine Endiue Betony Germander Redrose Capillus veneris of each an ounce stampe them and steepe them in white wine a day and a night and distill water of them which water will diuide in three parts the first water you shall put in a glasse by it selfe for it is more pretious then gold the second as siluer and the third as Balme and keepe these three parts in Glasses this water you shall giue the rich for gold to meaner for siluer to poore men for Balme this water keepeth the sight in cleernes and purgeth all grosse humors 2 Take Salgemma a pound and lay it in a green docke leafe and lay it in the fier till it bee well rosted and waxe white and put it in a glasse against the aire a night and on the morrow it shal be turned to a white water like vnto Christall keepe this water well in a glasse and put a drop into the eie and it shall clense and sharpe the sight it is good for any euill at the heart for the morphew and the canker in the mouth and for diuers other euils in the body 3 Take the roots of Fenell Parseley Endiue Betony of each an ounce and first wash them well in luke-warme water and bray them well with white wine a day and a night and then distill them into water this water is more worthy then Balme it preserueth the sight much and clenseth it of all filth it restraineth teares and comforteth the head and auoideth the water that commeth through the payne in the head 4 Take the seed of Parseley Achannes Veruine Carawaies and centuary of each ten drams beat all these together and put it in warme water a day and a night and put it in a vessell to distill this water is a pretious water for all sore eies and very good for the health of man or womans bodie 5 Take limmel of gold siluer lattin copper iron steele leade take lethurgy of gold siluer take callamint columbine steep al together the first day in the vrine of a man-man-childe that is between a day a night the second day in white wine the third day in the iuyce of fennel the fourth day in the whites of egges the fift day in the womans milke that nourisheth a man-child the sixt day in red wine the seuenth day in the whites of egges and vpon the eight day bind all these together and distill the water of them and keepe this