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A06924	The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, 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, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.; Country contentments, or the English huswife	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1631 (1631)	STC 17353; ESTC S109817	171,466	276

it vnto the broken place and it wil knit it also it shal good for the party to take Comphry roots and rost them in hot imbers as you rost Wardens and let the party eate them for they are very soueraine for the rupture especially beeing eaten in a morning fasting and by al meanes let him weare a strong trusse til he be whole Additions To the diseases of the reines bladder Take Goates clawes and burne them in a new earthen pot to pouder then put of the pouder into broth or pottage and eate it therein or otherwise take Rue Parsley and gromel and stampe them together and mixe it with wine and drinke it For he that can not hold his water Take Agnus castus and Castoreum and seeth them together in wine and drinke thereof also seeth them in vinegar and hot lap it about the priuy parts and it wil helpe For the Gonorea or s●e●ding of seed Take Malmsey and Butter and warme it and wash the reines of the backe whereupon you find paine then take oyle of mace and annoynt the backe therewith For weakenesse in the backe First wash the reines of the backe with warme white wine then annoynt al the backe with the ointment called Perstuaneto For heat in the R●ines For comforting and strengthning of the backe Take a leg of Beefe a handful of Fenel roots a handful of parsley roots two roots of comphry one pound of raisins of the Sunne a pound of damaske prunes and a quarter of a pound of dates put al these together and boile them very soft with sixe leaues of n●p sixe leaues of clary twelue leaues of bittany of the wood and a little harts tongue when they are sod very soft take them into the same broth againe with a quart of sacke and a penny-worth of large mace and of this drinke at your pleasure For the Hemeroides For the Hemeroides which is a troublesome and a sore griefe take of D●ll Dogge-fennell and Pellitory of Spaine of each halfe a handfull and bea●e it in a morter with sheepes suet and blacke sope till it come to a salue and then lay it plasterwise to the sore and it will giue the griefe ease For the piles or Hemeroids For the piles or Hemerods take halfe a pinte of ale and a good quantity or pepper and as much allome as a walnut boyle all this together till it be as thicke as birdlime or thicker this done take the iuyce of white violets and the iuyce of housleeke and when it is almost cold put in the iuice and straine them all together and with this oyntment annoynt the sore place twice a day Otherwise for this griefe take lead and grate it small and lay it vpon the sores or else take muskles dried and beate to pouder and lay it on the sores For the falling of the fundament If a mans fundament fall downe through some cold taken or other cause let it be forthwith put vp againe then take the pounder of Towne cresses dried and strew it gently vpon the fundament and annoynt the reines of the backe with hony and then about it strew the pouder of Cummin and Calasine mixt together and ease will come thereby For the Hemeroids Take a great handfull of orpyns and bruise them betweene your hands till they be like a salue and then lay them vpon a cloth bind them fast to the fundament For the greene sicknesse To helpe the greene sicknesse take a pottle of white wine and a handfull of Rosemary a handfull of wormewood an ounce of cardus benedictus seed a dramme of Cl●●es all these must be put into the white wine in a iugge and couered very close and let it steepe a day and a night before the party drinke of it then let her drinke of it euery morning and two houres before supper and to take it for a fortnight and let her stirre as much as she can the more the better and 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 and put thereto two ounces of fine sugar two spoonefulls of white wine vinegar let the party drinke euery morning foure spoonefulls thereof and walke vppon it To increase a womans milke To increase a womans milke you shall boyle in strong posset-ale good store of Colworts and cause her to drink euery meale of the same also if she vse to eate boyled Colworts with her meate it will wonderfully increase her milke also To dry vp milke To dry vp womans milke take red sage and hauing stampt it and strayned the iuyce 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 thereof for the nipple of the breast to goe through couer all the breast 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 to her breasts vpon the earth will cause her milke to dry but I referre it to triall A pultus for sore breasts in women 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 For ease in child bearing If a woman haue a strong and hard labour Take foure spoonefull of another womans milke and giue it the woman to drinke in her Labour and she shal be deliuered presently Child dead in the wo●be If a woman by mischance haue her child dead within her she shal take vitander Felwort and Penyroyall and stampe them and take of each a spoonful of the iuyce and mixe it with old wine and giue it her to drinke and she shal soone be deliuered without danger Apur●sle to concei●e To make a woman to conceiue let her either drinke Mugwort steeped in wine or else the pouder thereof mix●● with wine as shall best please her tast Additions To 〈…〉 Take the pouder of Corrall finely ground and eate it in a ●ear● egge and it will st●y the flux To 〈◊〉 women ●●owers Against the flowers Against womens T●●mes make a pessary of the iuyce of Mugwort o● the water that it is ●●dden in and apply it but if it be for the flux● of the f●owers take the iuyce of plantaine and drinke i●●ed wine For the matrix Take a Fomentation made of the water wherein the Leaues and flowers of Tu●son is sodden to drinke vp the superfl●t●es of the Matrixe it cleanseth the entrance but this hearbe would be gathered in haruest if a woman haue paine in the Matrixe set on the fire water

THE ENGLISH HOVSE-VVIFE CONTAINING The inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a compleate Woman As her skill in Physicke Surgery Cookery 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 and Dying the knowledge of Dayries office of Malting of Oates their excellent vses in a Family of Brewing Baking and all other things belonging to an Houshold A Worke generally approued and now the fourth time much augmented purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men and the generall good of this Kingdome By G. M. LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for IOHN HARISON and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row 1631. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND MOST EXCELLENT Ladie FRANCES Countesse Dowager of Exceter HOwsoeuer Right Honourable and most vertuous Ladie this Booke may come to your Noble Goodnesse clothed in an old Name or Garment yet doubtlesse excellent Madam it is full of many new vertues which will euer admire serue you and though it can adde nothing to your owne rare and vnaparalleld knowledge yet may it to those Noble good ones which will endeauour any small sparke of your imitation bring such a light as may make them shine with a great deale of charity I doe not assume to my selfe though I am not altogether ignorant in abilitie to iudge of these things the full inuention and scope of this whole worke for it is true great Ladie that much of it was a Manuscript which many yeeres agon belonged to an Honourable Countesse one of the greatest Glories of our Kingdome and were the opinions of the greatest Physitions which then liued which being now approued by one not inferiour to any of that Profession I was the rather imboldned to send it to your blessed hand knowing you to be a Mistresse so full of honorable piety and goodnes that although this imperfit offer may come vnto you weake and disable yet your Noble vertue will support it and make it so strong in the world that I doubt not but it shall doe seruice to all those which will serue you whilest my selfe and my poore prayers shall to my last gaspe labour to attend you The true admirer of your Noble Vertues GERVASE MARKHAM The Table CHAP. 1. THe inward vertues of the House-wife pag. 2 Her garments pag. 4 Her dyet and generall vertues pag. 4 Feauers and their kindes pag. 5.51 ●6 To make one swea●e pag. 8.11 A preseruatiue against the plague pag 9 A Cordiall against infection pag. 11 To draw a plague-botch to any place pag. 11 For the head-ache pag. 11.16.17 For the Frenzie pag. 12 For the lethargie pag. 12 To prouoke Sleepe pag. 12.37 For the swimming of the head pag. 12 For the Palsey pag. 13 For all colds and coughes pag. 12.22 For the Falling-sicknes p. 14 To helpe hearing p. 14.17 Xor the Rhume pag. 14.21 15.19 For stinking breath pag. 14. For the tooth-ake pag. 14 1● For all sore eyes p. 16 ●● 1 For a Canker p 16.19 ●0 For swell●ng in the mouth pag. 16 For the Q●●●sey or Sq●●nacie pag 17.18 For drunkennesse pag. 17 To quicken wit pag 17 For the Kings-euill pag. 17 To staunch bloud pag. 27.28.52.26 27 To draw out bones pag. 18 For the falling of the mou●d of the head pag. 18 To make teeth white c. pag. 18 For any venome in the eare pag 19 For stinking nostrills p 19 To make haire growe p 21.41 For a Saucie face pag. 21 For hoarsnes in the throate pag. 22 For the Tyssicke pag. 22 For griefe in the Stomacke pag. 22 For spitting blood pag. 23 For vomiting pag. 23 For the Illica passio p. 23.24 ☞ Aditions to the diseases of the stomacke pag. 24 For paine in the brest p. 24 For the mother pag. 24 Obstructions in the liuer pag. 24.25 For the Plurisie pag 25 For a stitch pag. 25.28 For any Consumption p. 25 ☞ For the Iaundise pag. 26 27 Ed●tions to the diseases of the liuer pag. 27 For a ring-worme pag. 27 For the dropsie pag. 28 For the spleene pag. 28.29 For pa●ne in the side pag. 28 For fatnesse short breath ☞ pag. 28 Aditions to the diseases of the spleena pag. 29 Eor the diseases of the heart pag. 29 For the wind ●hollicke pag. 29. ●● 32 34 For a laske 30.32.56 For the bloody-slixe pap 30 31.32.56 For Costiuenesse pag. 31.32 ☞ For wormes pag. 31 Aditions to the diseases in the belly pag. 32 Hardnesse of the belly p. 32 For the stopping of the wombe pag. 32 For the rupture pag. 33.36 For the stone pag. 33.35 To helpe vrine pag. 36.37 For the strangullion pag. 36 Aditions to the diseases of the reines ☜ pag. 37 For the gonorda pag. 37 For weakenes in the back 37 For the hemoroids pag. 37 For the falling of the fundament pag. 38 Aditions to the diseases of the priuie parts ☜ pag. 38 For the greene sicknes p. 38 To increase womans milke pag. 39.40 To dry vp milke pag. 39 For ease in child-bearing 39 For the dead child pag. 40 For aptnes to conceiue p. 40 Aditions to womans infirmities ☜ pag. 40 For the flowers pag. 40 For the matrixe pag. 40 For sore breasts pag. 39.41 For woemen in child-bed pag. 40.41 For the Mopphew p. 41 For the Goute pag. 41 For the Ctattica pag. 42 For the stinging of venomous beasts pag. 42.49 For swelld leggs pag. 42 For old and new sores pag. 43.45.47.48.51.52 For scabs and itch pag. 43.49 50 For the Leprosie pag. 44 For pimples pag. 44 Prime parts burnt pag. 44 For any burning p. 44.46.47 For scalding pag. 44 To eate away dead flesh pag. 45.47 For sinewes cut or shrunke· 45.52 To breake an impostume pag. 46.49 For a ring-worme pag. 49 To take away Scarres of the Small-poxe pag. 50 For the French-poxe pag. 50.51 ☞ Additions to greene wounds pag. 51.52.53 For pricking with a thorne pag. 53 ☞ Additions for atch and swelllings pag. 53.54 For paine in ioynts pag. 54 ☞ Additions to griefe in the bones pag. 44.55 A bath to cleare the skin 55 The oyle of swallowes pag. 57 Oyle of Camomile pag. 57 Oyle of Lauendar pag. 58 To make smooth hands p. 58 To make Dr. STEVENS water pag. 58 To make rosasolis pag. 59 ☞ Aditions to oyles pag. 60 To make oyle of Roses or Violets pag 60 Oyle of Nutmegs pag. 60 Oyle of Spike pag. 61 Oyle of Masticke pag. 61 CHAP. 2. THe outward and actiue knowledge of the houswife pag. 62 Knowledge of hearbs pag. 62 Skill in gardens pag. 63 Skill in cookerie pag. 65 Of sallets simple c●mpoun● pag. 65.66.67.68.69 Of fraises of all kinds pag· 69.70.71.72.73 Of Quelquichoses pag. 73 ☞ Additions to Cookery p. 74 Puddings of all kinds pag. 74.75.79.77 Boyld meates of all kinds pag. 78.79.80.81.82 83.84.85 The Ooleopothrigo p. 81 ☞ Additions to boyld-meats pag. 05.86.87