THE Family-Dictionary; OR, Household Companion: Wherein are Alphabetically laid down Exact Rules and Choice Physical RECEIPTS FOR The Preservation of Health, Prevention of Sickness, and Curing the several Diseases, Distempers, and Grievances, incident to Men, Women, and Children.  
Also, Directions for Making Oils, Ointments, Salves, Cordial-Waters, Powders, Pills, Bolus', Lozenges, Chemical Preparations, Physical-Wines, Alice, and other Liquors, etc. and Descriptions of the Virtues of Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Seeds, Roots, Barks, Minerals, and Parts of Living Creatures, used in Medicinal Potions, etc.  
Likewise, Directions for Cookêry, in Dressing Flesh, Fish, Fowl, Seasoning, Garnishing, Sauces, and Serving-up in the Best and most acceptable Manner. The Whole ART of Pastry, Conserving, Preserving, Candying, Confectioning, etc.  
Also, The Way of Making all sorts of Perfumes, Beautifying-Waters, Pomatums, Washeses, Sweet-Balls, Sweet-Bags, and Essences: Taking Spots, and Stains out of Garments, Linen, etc. and Preserving them from Moths, etc. Washing Point, Sarsnets, and Restoring Faded Linen; and Scouring, or brightening Tarnished Gold, or Silver Lace, Plate, etc.  
Together, With the Art of Making all sorts of English Wines, as Currants, Cherries, Gooseberries, and Cider, Mead, Metheglin, etc. And the ART of Fining, and Recovering Foul or Faded Wines. The MYSTERY of Pickling, and keeping all Sorts of Pickles throughout the Year.  
To which is Added, as an APPENDIX, The Explanation of Physical Terms, Bills of Fare in all Seasons of the Year. With the ART of CARVING. And many other Useful Matters.  
By J. H.  
London, Printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride-lane, in Fleetstreet, 1695.   

LICENCED,  
February the 28th. 1694/5.   

THE PREFACE.  
Courteous Reader,  
IN this elaborate Work, thou wilt find such Satisfaction, as perhaps the present, or past Ages, have not before afforded thee. If Health is held valueable in your Eyes, and you would avoid the Pains and tediousness of Sickness, or Grievances incident to Human Bodies; here you may repair to an Asylum, and find the Arcana opened for your Good, which have been hitherto locked up from the greater part of Mankind. All Difficulties, and Hard Terms, or Words, are removed, which have puzzled Ingenious Persons, and the Path is made so smooth that any reasonable Capacity or Understanding may travel in it without the least fear of Stumbling or falling into Error, if some particular Cautions, that will herein occur, are used as a Guide and Conductor. For, I confess, in weighty Matters, such as tend to the Preservation of Health; the preciousest Jewel of Life, things ought to be well weighed and considered, that every thing may concur with the Ends for which it was designed and made public, which is the Benefit of Mankind.  
That it is called a FAMILY-DICTIONARY, shows it is intended for the Public Good, containing such Things as cannot in one way or other miss of their designed Ends, in being Useful and Advantageous to those that stand in need of Good Advice or Directions, and will be so wise or kind to themselves, as to consult their own Benefit in what is contained in this Book, it being a Mixture of many Rarities that have (when practised in Private) given Contentment even to Admiration, and answered the End beyond Expectation.  
Here you will not only find Physical Receipts for the most reigning Distempers, Diseases, and Grievances, incident to English Bodies; but how to Prepare and Administer them in the best and properest Ways and Methods: So that every one may be provided with Remedies when Necessity calls for them, and a Physician or Surgeon are not to be had: which may be done with little Cost and Labour. The Rich, being Charitably disposed, may find an easy Means to exercise their Charity, in helping the afflicted Poor; and even Gardens and Fields may afford Relief, without any Cost, to ease the Pains and Miseries of those that labour under tedious and troublesome Distempers, or Grievances, when Friends may fail.  
Here you are also taught how to make all sorts of Wines, Cyders, Metheglins, etc. and several sorts of Cordial-Waters, Perfumes, Washeses, Beautifying-Waters, and other Rarities of the like Nature.  
All sorts of Cookery are herein nicely displayed; and the whole Mystery of Confection: with many other Things too tedious to be recited in a Preface: So that the Roses are twined with the Gessamine, and many other Fragrant Branches, bearing curious Flowers of Profit and Advantage, to render it a Garland lovely and acceptable.  
What shall I further say, but that it is recommended to the World by Ingenious Persons who have perused it, as a Curious Piece done in an easy Method to direct the Reader in what he is desirous to know, or practise. And will not only do Good to the present, but future Ages: Be a Helper at Need, and treasured up as a Jewel by those who will undoubtedly find their Expectations answered in the Particulars they require to be satisfied about.  
To conclude, what is not done from the exactest Experience, is taken with Care and Caution from the most approved Authors as well Ancient as Modern.  
Take it then as you find it, and let neither Fear, small Charges, or Neglect, deter you from practising what is convenient or advantageous for your Health, as occasion offers, or requires it: And may every thing succeed according to your Wishes and Desires.  
VALE.   


ACHE, or Swelling: Take Sheeps-suet, Oatmeal and Black Soap of each Four Ounces, boil them in Two Quarts of Water till they come to the thickness of a Salve; then spread a Plaster, and laying it to the Place grieved, it will remove the Pain.   

Aches: For Aches in any part of the Body, take this following Ointment thus made;  
Take the tender Tops of Wormwood, Rosemary and Bay-Leaves, of each a Handful, Sage and Rue each a Pound, the Kidney-suet of a Weather, clean picked from the Skin, half a Pound, Oil of Olives Two Quarts; bruise the Herbs and Suet, being first shred small, then put in the Oil and temper them well, and so suffer them to stand in an Earthen Vessel, close stopped, for the space of Seven Days: Then set it on a gentle Fire, and let it heat by degrees, and keep it stirring till the Herbs are shrivelled with the Oils and Suet; and then strain it and use it with Success, not only for Aches, but for Lameness in the Limbs, Stitches, Gout, or Bruises.   

Adder's Tongue: This Herb is used successfully in Wounds new or old, either outwardly applied, or taken inwardly: And in case of Ruptures, dry the Leaves; and having made them into a Powder, take about a Dram and a half, according to the Age of the Party, in Two Ounces of Oak-buds, which you may, for the more conveniency of taking sweeten with the Syrup of Quinces; and so take it in a Morning fasting, for Fifteen Days, or thereabouts, having the Rupture put up and trussed well before you begin to take it. There is also an Oil made of it in this manner, viz. Bruise a Handful of the Leaves in a stone Mortar, boil them in a Pint of Olive-Oil, till they have sucked up the Oil; then press them hard, and keep the Oil that comes from them for your use. It is used with Success in Wounds and Ulcers.   

Aegyptiacum: To make the Ointment so called, observe to take of Verdigrease Five Ounces, Honey Fourteen Drams, Vinegar Seven Ounces, put them together, and let them thicken and incorporate over a gentle Fire, and it will be of a purple Colour; so make it up into an Ointment, and use it in cleaning Ulcers that are it inveterate, and Fistula's. It consumes proud, spongy and dead Flesh.   

Aethiops Mineralis: Take of Crude Mercury one part, and of the Flowers of Sulphur twice as much, mingle them well together in a Glass Mortar, and fire the Composition till it becomes a Black Powder.  
This is exceeding successful in the French Disease, commonly called the Pox; also for old Sores, and in the Dropsy: The Dose is properly half a Dram, and no more; and is best taken Night and Morning, mixed with the Syrup of Clove-Gillyflowers; or you may make it into a Bolus with Conserve of Red Roses, and continue taking it for the space of Three or Four Weeks; yet it may be convenient, though there is no danger of its Fluxing, to take a gentle Purge once a Week, during the Course.   

Agrimony, its Virtues: It cleanses the Blood, removes Obstructions of the Liver, and is consequently good in the Dropsy, and Jaundice, the Leaves of it being boiled in their ordinary Drink; it may be used outwardly in Baths to strengthen weak Limbs: Half a Dram the Powder of the Leaves in Conserve or Wine, restrains involuntary Pissing.   

Agrimony-common: This strengthens and cleanses the Blood, and opens the Obstructions of the Liver; for which reason it is very available in Dropsies, the Jaundice, and ill Habits of the Body, if you infuse it in Ale or Beer, or your ordinary Drink. Eight Handfuls in Four Gallons, are sufficient: It is used also outwardly in Baths and Lotion.  
There is a Powder likewise made of it, which is done by drying the Leaves, to prevent involuntary Urinal; half a Dram of it in the Conserve of Roses being to be taken going to Bed, for Three Weeks successively.   

Agues to Cure. To make an excellent Water for the Cure of Agues: Take the Roots and Leaves of Fennel, the Leaves of Rue, Sage, Wormwood, Mugwort, Rosemary or Rosemary-Flowers, the Tops of the lesser Centaury, of each a Handful, bruise them, and let them stand Three Days in a Gallon of White-Wine, and so distil them.  
This Water is highly commended and approved in the Fits of the Ague, especially the Quartan, given at the beginning of the Fit, from One to Four Ounces.   

Ague-Tertian, to remove. Take of Rhubarb one Dram, infuse it in Six Spoonfuls of Succory-Water over a gentle Fire for Three Hours; then strain it, and add half a Dram of the Syrup of Rhubarb, three Spoonfuls of the Syrup of Roses, and a Spoonful of Cinamon-Water; take this fasting after the Fourth Fit: But if the Distemper has not so much weakened the Body, but that it will bear somewhat a stronger Purge, add a Dram of the Leaves of Senna, and Two Drams of Fennel-Seeds; and it will in once or twice taking, effect the Cure.   

Ague falling into any part of the Body: If the Ague take its station in any particular Place, and affect not the whole Body at once, to remove and expel it, Take Parsley, Smallage and Hemlock, of each a small Handful, bruise them, and add Four Ounces of Barrows Grease; then mix them by braying well together, and boil them half an Hour, stirring them continually until they become very green; then putting them in a Canvas-Bag, strain out the Oily and Liquid part, and with it bathe the afflicted Place, as hot as may be endured, before a Fire: And in so doing Two or Three times, it will remove the cold Humour that occasions the Ague.   

Ague, in a Woman's Breast: To remedy this, Take the Leaves of Hemlock, bruise them, and then fry 'em with the best sweet Butter; and being made into a Poultis, apply it to the Breast as hot as it can be well endured, clapping over it a Handful of white Cotton, and it will in a short time, cure the Ague.   

Ague in the Breast: To remedy this, Take Grounsil, the Leaves of single Daisies, also the Roots, and corpse Wheat-Flower, and as much of the Parties own Water, as, when they are well beaten together, will bring them to be spread Plaster or , on a Leather or thick Cloth, and apply it to the Stomach or Parts where the Coldness or Trembling is most observed, as hot as may be well endured; and in so often doing it will prove a Remedy.   

Ague to cure, a Powder: Take Antimony and Cinnabar an Ounce, common Salt roasted Two Drams, powder them together, and put them into a glass Cucurbit, and pour, on them Four Ounces of the Oil of Sulphur; let them digest for Two Days over a moderate Heat in a Bath of Ashes; then by increasing the Heat, evaporate the superfluous Moisture, and having well washed the Mass that remains, dry it and reduce it to a Powder, and mix it with Four Ounces of the Flower of Sulphur, and set it over live Coals in an earthen Platter, stir it continually with an iron Spatula, and when the Flowers are consumed, pour in Spirit of Wine Three Fingers high; and when it is consumed, take the remaining Mass, powder it, and keep it for use.  
This is a Powder extremely commended for the Cure of all intermitting Agues, being taken half an Hour before the Fit, from 15 to 20 Grains in some Syrup or Cordial-Water, and supping a little Broth about Two Hours after it; and if the first and second Dose prevails not, a Third may be taken; for it works easily, and mostly by Sweat.   

Alder, The Leaves of it bruised and applied  to tumors, easily discuss them; and being put into the Shoes of Travellers, (some say) prevent, in a great measure, Weariness.   

Aleberry: Boil Ale or Beer a Quart, scum it well, put in slices of fine Manchet, and blades of large Mace, boil it well, and put in some Sugar, with a sprig or two of Rosemary; strain it and drink it hot. It is not only Strengthening, but very good against Colds and Rheums.   

Ale-Purging: To make this (according to the true Receipt left by the famous Dr. Butler) Take Two Ounces of Sarsaparilla, Senna, and Polypody of the Oak, of each Four Ounces, Anniseeds, and Carrawayseeds, of each half an Ounce, Liquorish Two Ounces, Agrimony and Maidenhair, of each a small Handful, Scurvygrass Ten Handfuls; beat and bruise these together grossly, put them into a Bag made of Canvas, and hang it in Five or Six Gallons of Ale; and when it is Three Days old drink it. This Liquor chief purges by gentle breathing Sweats and Urinal, being excellent to expel Scorbutic Humours and Dropsies, etc.   

Ale, a Syrup of it: Take of new Ale a Gallon, it being the Wort of the first running; put it into an iron Pot over a clear gentle Fire, keeping the Pot open, and scumming it continually; and when 'tis boiled away to a Pint, take it off, and put it in an earthen Pot with a Cover, and take a little thereof Morning and Evening on a Knife point. This is excellent good for Pains in the Back, occasioned by the foulness or Heat of Urinal in the Ureters, Kidneys, or the Stoppage of the Passage in the Reins, and also for the Whites in Women.   

Alabastrum Vnguentum, an Ointment so called; to make which, Take Red-Bryer tops, when at the tenderest, Six Handfuls, stamp them small, and add Two Quarts of White-Whine, Rue One Handful, the Flowers and Leaves of Camomile One Ounce, Powder of Alabaster Two Ounces, Fennel-Seeds One Ounce, Oil of Roses half a Pound, Wax half a Dram, put them altogether, except the Camomile and the Wax, let them infuse over a gentle Fire, and when they seethe, put in the Wax and Camomile; let it boil up till the Wine be consumed; and when it is cold, take the Whites of Five Eggs, mingle them well with all the Materials, and strain them through a fair Linnen-Cloth, and put it into a glazed earthen Pot.  
This Ointment is singularly good for Pins and Webs, and other Spots in the Eyes, by dropping a little of it into them, and keeping them close for a time. It is also good for the Megrim and Headache: Likewise Pains in the Matrix are eased by anointing the Belly, Flanks, and Reins of the Back with it. The Stomach being anointed with it is eased of its Pains, and any other part; even the Pains of the Gout are removed by it.   

Alexander, its Virtues: This Herb is under the Dominion of Jupiter, and therefore friendly to Nature; it is by some called Horse-Parsly, or Wild-Parsly. It warmeth the Stomach, and opens Stoppages of the Liver and Spleen; it moves the Courses, and expels the Afterbirth; it breaks Wind, and provokes Urinal, helpeth the Strangury, if the Leaves be boiled in Wine, and drank Two Ounces at a time pretty hot; the Seeds have the same virtue, and are effectual against the biting of Serpents.   

alexander's: This is mostly used in Broth in the Spring-Season, because it cleanses and cools the Blood, and strengthens the Stomach. The Seeds to the quantity of half a Dram dried, so that they may be reduced to Powder, and drunk in a Glass of White-Wine, provoke Urine.   

Almond-Bisket: To make this, Take the Whites of Four new-layed Eggs, and Two Yolks, beat these well for the space of an Hour, having in readiness a quarter of a Pound of the best Almonds blanched in cold Water, beat them very fine with Rose-Water, lest they come to an Oil; then beat a Pound of fine Loaf-Sugar in the Eggs a while, and so put in the Almonds, with Five or Six Spoonfuls of the finest Flower, make them into proper Shapes, and bake them in a moderately heated Oven, on Paper Plates, dusting over them a little fine sifted Sugar.   

Almond-Cakes: To make these, Take a Pound of Almonds blanched in cold Water, beat them with Rose-Water till they lose their glistering, put in half a Pound of fine Sugar well sifted; beat these and the Almonds together till they be well mixed, then take the Whites of Two Eggs, and Two Spoonfuls of fine Flower well dried, and beat them together, and pour in your Almonds; then butter the Plates you frame your Cakes in, dust them with fine Sugar and Flower; and when they are a little brown in the Oven, draw them, suffering the Oven a little to cool; then set them in again upon brown Paper, and they will become much whiter than before.   

Almond-Caudle: To do this well, Take of new Ale Three Pints, boil in it a quarter of an Ounce of Mace and Cloves, as also some sliced White-bread, then put in a Pound of blanched Almonds well beaten, and half a Pint of White-Wine, skim it well in boiling, and when it is sufficiently thickened, sweeten it according to your palate. This is not only pleasant and nourishing, but very good in a Consumption.   

Almond-Caudle: Strain half a pound of blanched Almonds, well beaten in a Mortar, into a Pint of new Ale, then boil in it slices of fine Manchet, large Mace and Sugar: Being almost boiled put in a Jill of Sack, and so serve it up sweetened with a little Sugar.   

Almond-Cheese: Take Almonds beaten fine, make a Sack-Posset made only with Sack and Cream, take off the Curd and mingle it with the beaten Almonds, set it on a Chafing-dish of Coals, and put some double refined Sugar to it with a sufficient quantity of Rose-Water, then in a Pye-Plate fashion it into the form of a Cheese; put it into a Dish, and scrape a little Sugar over it, and when it is cold serve it up.   

Almond-Cream: Take half a Pound of Almond-Past beaten with Rose-Water, strain it with a Quart of Cream, and put it in a Skellet with a Stick of Cinnamon broken into small pieces, stir it continually in the boiling; and when it is boiled put Sugar to it, and serve it up when cold.   

Almond-Cream another way: Take thick Almond-Milk, made with fair Spring-Water, boil it a little, and then removing it from the Fire, put into it a little Salt and Vinegar; put it then into a clean strainer, and hang it on a Pin over the Dish, till 'tis all drained out; then take down the remainder, put it into a Dish, and add to it some fine Sugar, and a quarter of a Pint of Muscadel or Canary, strew it then over with Red Biscuit, and serve it up.   

Almond-Custard: Take Two Pound of Almonds, blanche and beat them in a Stone Mortar very fine, adding as much Rose-Water as will make them very moist; then put them in a Press, and squeeze out the liquid part, and put it to Two Quarts of Cream, Twenty Whites of Eggs well beaten, and a Pound of double refined Sugar, put it into a Pan, cover it with a Lid of Puff-past; let it be baked gently, and then scrape over it fine Sugar.   

Almond-Ielly: Take a Pound of Almonds, and steep them in cold Water Six Hours, when they swell, the Husks may be taken off; then make a Decoction of half a Pound of Ising-glass, with the Juice of Two Lemons, and Two Quarts of White-Wine, boil it till half be consumed, then let it cool, and strain it, mingle it with the Almonds and strain it: With a Pound of double refined Sugar, and with suitable Colours you may make it of what Colour you will; put into it Eggshells or Orange-peels that is, place them on the top of it, and serve it up.   

Almond-Leach: To do this, according to the French Fashion, Take a Quart of fresh Cream, a quarter of a Pint of Rose-Water, Four Grains of Musk dissolved in Rose-Water, and Four or Five Blades of large Mace, boil them with half a Pound of Ising-glass, steeped before in Water, and washed cle●n; put to these half a Pound of Sugar, and being boiled to a jelly, strain it through a Jelly-Bag into a Dish; and when it is cold, slice it into a Diamond-fashion, and chequer it over, and serve it on glass or other Plates, strewing, if you please, Sugar mixed with the Powder of Cinnamon on them.   

Almond-Milk: To make it, according to the best Method, you must boil about Two Quarts of Water, scumming it well, and when it is taken off suffer it to settle; pour out the clear part, and setting it over the Fire again, boil in it Violet-Leaves, and Straw-berry-Leaves, of the Roots of each a large Handful, Sorrel-Roots half a Handful; these being well washed, put in with them a Crust of Bread, and stoned Raisins of the Sun Two Ounces, and so suffer them to boil over a gentle Fire till the liquid part be consumed to a Quart; and then with Fifty Almonds blanched, and Thirty Pompion-Kernels all well beaten, draw an Almond-Milk, sweeten it with fine Sugar, and drink Morning and Evening about Three Quarters of a Pint. This excellently sweetens the Blood, and causes a ruddy and fair Complexion, being very good in Consumptions.   

Almonds, an Oil: To make this, Take sweet Almonds, blanche them and bruise them, then pour on them a little Rose-Water, and put them into a Vessel that they may be kept warm, as it were in hot Water; then put them into a Bag that is very porous, pressing them at first gently, and so continue it by degrees, till you perceive a clear Oil come out. This by bathing mitigates Pains and Swell, comforteth the exasperated Parts, especially the Lungs and Kidneys, it mollifyeth dry and hard Swell and is profifitable in Hectic Fevers to be given in any cooling Liquors, and for the anointing the Forehead and Stomach; it also supples the Face and Hands, and keeps them plump and soft.   

Almond-Pudding: To make this, Take Two French Rolls, or other White-bread, slice them and put them into a Quart of Cream; put it then on a gentle Fire till both be hot, beat it well together, add Twelve Eggs, and the Whites but of Four, Beef-Suet, or Marrow Four Ounces, as much of Currants and Raisins, and season it with grated Nutmegs, Mace, Salt, and Sugar, scattering into it a little Flower, then make a piece of Puff-past, as much as will cover your Dish; set it in a quick Oven, but not too hot bake it sufficiently, and server it up.   

Almond-Snow-Cream: Take a Quart of Sweet Cream, a quarter of a Pound of Almond-Past, beat it well up with Rose-Water, mix it with half a Pint of White-Wine, and strain it, put into it the scrape of Orange-Peel, and Nutmegs sliced. Two or Three Sprigs of Rosemary, and suffer it to steep Two or Three Hours; then put some double refined Sugar to it, strain it into a Basin, and beat it till it froth and bubble; and as the Froth rises, take it off with a Spoon, and put it into the Dish you serve it up in.   

Almond-Tart: Strain beaten Almonds with the Yolks of Eggs well beaten, and new Cream, Sugar, Cinnamon and Ginger, boil it thick, and fill your Tart; and when it is baked, ice it over with gleer of Eggs, Sugar and Rose-Water, beat up well together.   

Aloes-Rosatum: Take of the finest Aloes-Succotrine Four Ounces, make them into a Powder; take the Juice of Damask-Roles clarified two pound, put them together, and let them stand in the Sun in a glass Vessel, or in Balneo, till all the moisture be exhaled: do this four times, and then make it into Pills, which are excellent to purge the Stomach, for Pains in the Bowels, and a gentle Purge upon any Occasion.   

Alom to burn: Burn this in a new earthen Vessel, keeping as much as may be the more subtle part from evaporating; and when it ceases to bubble, and no more froth or scum, upon the sudden taking off the Cover, arises, it is sufficient.   

Ambergrease-Cake: To make this, Take fine white Sugar, beat it and sift it well, then beat Six new-layed Eggs till the Froth rises, and by degrees drop them on the Sugar, mixing that and them together by stirring round very quick in a marble Mortar; and being wrought till it may be dropped thin on Plates, then put in a grain of Civet, and Two Grains of Ambergrease; then butter your Pye-Plate, and taking the stuff up by Spoonfuls, drop it on the Plates in the nature of Cakes, and put them into a gentle Oven; when they begin to rise take them out, and keep them for use in a dry Place. These are good for the Stomach and Head.   

Ambergrease-Cakes: Take fine Flower a quarter of a Peck, mix with it slices of Marmalade of Quinces, a quarter of a Pound of Sugar and Rose-Water beaten up together, of each 10 Spoonfuls, Yeast half a Pint, Currants a Pound, clean picked and washed, Cinnamon and Mace, finely powdered, each half an Ounce, candied Orange-Peel cut very small; then with Ten new-layed Eggs, and a Quart of new Milk, thicken it, and mix it well, then dissolve a Dram of Ambergrease in a quarter of a Pint of White-Wine, and mix with the rest, So make it up into a Cake, and bake it in a gentle Oven, and it will prove excellent, if iced over with Sugar melted in Rose-Water, and the White of an Egg.   

Ambergrease, the Tincture: To make this, Put in half a Pint of Spirit of Wine into a strong Glass, Ambergrease one Ounce, Musk Two Drams, let the Glass be stopped close with a Cork, and tied over with a Bladder, and place it in warm Horse-Dung for the space of 12 Days; then pour off the Spirit gently, and put on as much new Spirit, and place it as before, pouring off the second rhyme clean; and after all this, the Ambergrease will serve for ordinary Uses: And the Tincture drawn off as before: one drop of it is an excellent Perfume, and being drunk in Tea or Coffee, is an excellent Cordial against Fevers and Pestilential Distempers.   

Amber-Pills: Take Venice-Turpentine washed, one Ounce, Powder of white Amber Six Grains, mix them well and put them in a clean glazed Earthen Pot upon Embers moderately hot, and to try whether it be enough, take a drop and let it cool, and when it is so stiff that it will not cleave to the Fingers, it is enough; then take of the Powder of Pearl, white Amber and Coral, of each a Dram, of the inner Bark of an Oak, Nutmeg, and Cinnamon, of each a quarter of an Ounce; add to these Three Ounces of Loaf-Sugar bruised and sifted, then make them into a Powder and seethe them, and put the Pills into them; (but before you take them, it will be proper to take a gentle Purge) after which wrap up Three of the Pills in as much of the Powder as will lie on a Shilling; and take them, swallowing after them the Yelk of an Egg a little warm: And by so doing Two or Three times, it will eradicate noxious Humours, and fortify the Body against violent Distempers.   

Amber-Pudding: Take, to make this the Guts of a young Hog, turn them and wash 'em very clean, then take Two Pound of the best Hogs-Lard, a Pound and a half of the best Jordan-Almonds Almonds blanched, beat one half of them very small, and the other half reserve unbeaten; take further, a Pound and a half of Sugar, Four Penny White-Loaves, grate them over the former Composition, and mingle them well, put in half an Ounce of Ambergrease scraped very small, half a quarter of an Ounce of Levant-Musk, a quarter of a Pint of Orange-flower-Water, mingle all these very well, fill the Guts, but not too tied; boil them over a gentle Fire for fear of breaking, and they will prove excellent fare.   

Amber, a volatile Salt: Take of Amber Two Pound, let it be finely bruised and reduced to Powder, and put it into an earthen Cucurbit, or Glass, so that Three quarters of the Cucurbit may be empty, than set it in Sand, fitting the Head to it, and a small Recipient; and when the Junctures are well luted, put a moderate Fire under it for the space of an Hour; then the Cucurbit being hot, increase the Fire by degrees to a third degree hotter than at first, and so you will find a Phlegm and Spirit, and after them a volatile Salt, which in little Crystals will fasten to the Head, and afterward an Oil will distil, but from White changing to Red, it will continue clear however; and when you perceive no Vapours to rise, extinguish the Fire; and so suffering the Vessels to cool, unlute them, and with a Feather gather the volatile Salt into a convenient Vessel; and although as yet it will remain unpure, by reason of the small quantity of Oil that is found to be mixed with it, you must have a Viol sufficiently large that a Fourth only may be filled with the volatile Salt, and stopping it only with Paper, place it in Sand, and sublime it with a gentle Fire, so that the pure Salt will appear in Crystal very fair at the top of the Viol; and when you perceive the Oil gins to rise, then raise the Glass from off the Fire, and having suffered it to cool, break it to separate the Salt; and here finding at least half an Ounce, keep it in a Viol well stopped for use, and it will prove very excellent.  
Its Virtues are rare in the Jaundice, Scurvy, Ulcers of the Bladder, to force Urine, and for Fits of the Mother. It may be taken from Six to Eight Grains, in some proper Liquid.   

Anacardiums to prepare: Having first powdered, and then infused them in a convenient quantity of Vinegar, when you have sufficiently imbibed it, cause the Vinegar gently to evaporate, and dry them.   

Andolians: Soak the Guts of a Poarker in Water and Salt, turn them and scour them that they may be made very clean; let them steep after that a Day and a Night in fair Water, dry them well with a Linnen-Gloath, turn the fat side outwardmost; then shred Sage very small, mix it with beaten and then sifted Pepper; do the like by Cloves Mace, and Coriander-seed, mingle with them a little Salt, and season the fat side of the Guts, then turn that side inward again, and draw one Gut over another to what thickness you please, boil them in fair Water with a piece of interlarded Bacon, some of the Spices beforementioned, and a seasoning of Salt, tie them fast at both ends at what length you please, and as it is more liking and savoury to your palate, you may put into them Pennyroyal, Savory, Leeks, Onions, or Sweet-Marjoram, chopped or bruised very small; or if you please further to gratify your Appetite, Rosemary, Thyme, Nutmegs, Ginger or Pepper grossly bruised.   

Angelica is hot and dry, even the Herb, but more especially the Root: The Root preserves against the Infection of the Plague, if infused in Vinegar, you frequently chew it and hold it to your Nose. Take a Dram of the Powder only of the Root, and half a Dram mixed with as much Venice-Treacle; and this being taken once in Six Hours, will cause a curious breathing Sweat. The candied Roots and Stalks sweeten the Breath, and help against the Diseases of the Lungs; you may make Lozenges of them, which are excellent Preservatives, being held in the Mouth in pestilential Times; Thus,  
Take the Extract of the Roots of Angelica, and Contrayerva, of each of them an Ounce, Three Drams of the Extract of Liquorice, of the Flower of Sulphur sublimed with Myrrh Five Drams, of Oil of Cinnamon about Eight Drops, fine Sugar twice the weight of all of them, with a mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth made in Scordium-Water, and so make them up into Lozenges.   

Angelica, to Candy: Take the Stalks, boil them in fair Water till they become very tender, then shift them in Three Boiling Six or Seven times, that the bitterness may be so taken away; then cover them with Sugar, and let them boil a Minute, then take them out and dry them in an Oven; and being dried boil the Sugar to a Candy height, and so cast them into the hot Sugar, and take them out again suddenly, and use them as the former.   

Angelica, its Virtues: The Powder of the Root of it resists the Plague and Pestilential Fevers, being drank in Wine a Dram at a time, or infused in Vinegar, and held to your Nose: It eases violent Pains in the Head. The Powder taken with Venice-Treacle or Diascordium, causes gentle breathing Sweats, carrying off the sharp Humours that many times, by settling, occasion racking Pains in the Joints.   

Angelot to make: To do this, Take a Gallon of Stroaking, and a Pint of Cream, put to them, when mixed, a little Rennet; when you fill, turn up the middle side of the Cheese-fat, fill them a little at once, and suffer it to stand all that Day and the next; then turn them, and so leave them till they will slip out of the Fat: Salt them on both sides, and when the Coats begin to come, lay them a drying, and it will have a very pleasant relish.   

Angling: To have the best Sport and Success in this part of Recreation, Take Assa-Foetida, Camphire, Aquavitae, and Olive-Oil, bruise them in a Mortar till they become a pliable Ointment; and by anointing your Bats therewith, the Fish will presently take them.   

Anodyne-Clyster: Boil a Pint of Milk once up, and mix with it the Yolk of an Egg well beaten, so that in the putting in, it curdle not, then Four Spoonfuls of brown Sugar, and a little of the Decoction of Camomile Flowers; and being administered pretty hot, it gives speedy and effectual Ease to the gripe and Pains in the Bowels.   

Antiepileptick Water of Langius: Take the Shave of Man's Scull, Misletoe of the Oak, Peony and White Dittany, of each two ounces, fresh Flowers of Lilies of the Valleys two handfuls, Cinnamon six Drams, Nutmeg half an Ounce, Cloves, Mace, and Cubebs, of each two Drams: these being all bruised together, put them into a Matras, and stop them up as secure from Air as may be, in eight pints of Malmsey, and when they have macerated for a Week over a gentle Fire, distil them in a moderate Sand Bath.  
This is properly called a Corrected Antiepileptick Water of Langius, and has been long in request, and by the preparing it as here directed, it is excellent, given in Epileptick-Fits. The Dose is two Drams. It may be also used for the prevention, as well as the Cure of this Distemper, and is very proper for all cold Diseases in the Brain.   

Antimonial Claret-Water: Take Glass of Antimony finely powdered, two Drams, Claret-Wine a pint and a half, macerate them over a gentle Fire for a considerable time in a Matrass carefully stopped, and often shaking it, mix then with the whole, four Ounces of fine Loaf-Sugar, two drops of the, Chemical Oil of Cinnamon, and keep it for use.  
This Liquor must be kept in a double Glass-Bottle, well corked, and tied down: It is very pleasing and agreeable to the Taste, purging gently upward and downward, Two Drams being taken for a Dose.   

Antimony, its Cinabar: Put into your Retort of Sublimate Corrosive and Antimony, as much as half fills it, powdered and well mingled together; let the Retort be placed in Sand, in a small Furnace, fit to it a Receiver, lute the Junctures, and so make a Distillation, and perceiving a red Vapour appear, take away the Receiver, and put another into its place, not luted, increasing the Fire by degrees, till the Retort is red hot, and so let it continue three or four hours; then suffering it to cool, break it, and you will perceive a sublimated Cinabar sticking to the Neck of it, separate it, and keep it. It is a very much prized Remedy for the French Disease; it likewise forces Sweat, and remedies the Falling-Sickness: it may be taken, if the Party be careful of him or herself, from six to fourteen grains.   

Antimony Diaphoretic, To do this, mix three parts of purified Salt-Peter with one part of Antimony, and your Crucible being very hot, cast in a Spoonful of this mixture, which will make a kind of a thundering, and after that is past, do the like by another Spoonful, and so do by all the rest; and when it has been on the Fire about two hours, throw the Matter, which then will be white, into an Earthen Vessel, almost full of fair Water; let it soak ten or twelve hours, that the Salt-Peter which is fixed may dissolve in it: then let the Liquor be separated by Inclination, wash the White Powder you find remaining in the bottom, Five or Six times with hot Water, so dry it, and you will have Diaphoretick Antimony.  
It is Sudorific causing Sweats, and notably resists Poison, and is approved in Malignant Diseases and the Plague: The Dose is from six Grains to thirty, in some proper Liquid.   

Antimony, an Oil or Liquor: Take six Ounces of fine white Sugar-Candy, beat it to powder, then do the like by eight Ounces of Hungarian Antimony, and mix them well together, and put them into a Glass Retort, and distil them on a Sand-Bath with a gradual Fire: This Liquor cures intermitting Agues, given in White-wine, three, four, five or six drops at the beginning of the Fit, and so repeating it two or three times.   

Antinephritick-Water: Take of Narbone Honey half a pound, Venice-Turpentine two Ounces, Nephritick Wood and Roots of Restharrow, of each an Ounce and a half, Lignum Aloes an Ounce, Galingal, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mace, Cubebs, and Mastic, of each half an Ounce, bruise and macerate them for three days together, in two Quarts of Rectified Spirits of Wine, or for want of that, in Aqua vitae, and distil them over a moderate Fire.  
This Water is highly recommended for removing of Gravel or Sand out of the Bladder or Kidneys, as also for easing the Pains of the Colic, given from one Dram to half an Ounce, either alone, or mixed with proper Liquors.   

Antiscorbutic Elixir Propritetatis: Take Myrrh of Alexandria, Aloes Succotrina and Saffron, beaten into Powder, of each four Ounces, digest them in a close stopped Vessel for eight days in a moderate Sand Bath, with four pints of Antiscorbutic Spirit; then for one hour increase the heat of the Bath, and filter and keep it apart; then pour on the remaining Mass, a pint of fresh Spirit, and reiterate digestion and filtration; then draw off the Spirit in a Sand-Bath, with a moderate Fire, till there only remains a third part; and when the Vessels are cool, preserve the Elixir; and when it is to be used, mix it with a third or fourth part of the volatile Spirit of Hartshorn.  
This Elixir is now wonderfully in use, and highly esteemed in all Diseases that proceed from Corruption of Humours, but chief used in the Cure of the Scurvy; for it purifies the Blood, and quickens the Motion of its Circulation. It may be taken in Wine or some other Liquors, from Seven or Eight to Fifteen or Twenty Drops.   

Appetite to restore: Take Wood or Garden-sorrel a Handful, boil it in a Pint of White-wine-Vinegar till it becomes very tender; then strain it out, sweeten it with Two Ounces of Sugar, and boil it to a Syrup, and take a quarter of an Ounce at any time when you find your Appetite fail you.   

Apple-Cream: Take Ten or Twelve Pippens, when pretty ripe, pair them, take out the Cores and slice them thin, cut them in quarters and put them into a Pipkin with Claret-Wine, a few slices of Ginger, Lemon-peel scraped, as also some white Sugar, let them boil up together till they are very soft; then take then off the Fire and put them into a Dish, and when they are pretty cool, take a Quart of new Cream boiled with a little Nutmeg, and put in of the Apple stuff, to make it of what thickness you please; and so with a little sprinkling of Sugar, and Rose-water, serve it up as a most acceptable Banqueting.   

Apple-Tansey: To make this, Pair your Apples thin, cut them in round slices, fry them in sweet Butter, beat Ten Eggs in a Pint of Cream, add Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Ginger, of each a Dram, well beaten or grated Sugar Three Ounces, Rose-water Two Ounces; these being well beaten together, pour on the Batter, fry them moderately, and dust them over with Sugar and a sprinkling of Rose-water, and serve them up.   

Apples, a Purging Syrup: Take of the Water and Juice of the best scented Pippins, of each a Pint and a half, borage and Bugloss-water and Juice, of each Nine Ounces, Eastern Senna half a Pound, Fennel and Anniseeds, of each Three Drams, Cretan-Dodder Two Ounces, White Agarick, and the best Rhubarb half an Ounce, Mace and Ginger, of each Four Scruples, Saffron half a Dram; let the Rhubarb be infused with the Senna a part in White-wine, and the Juice of Apples of each Two Ounces; infuse, except the Saffron, all the rest in the aforementioned Water: The following Day pour on the Juices and set them on the Fire, let them simper gently, take off the Scum, then strain the liquid Parts and add Four Pounds of white Sugar, boil it to a Syrup, the infusion of Rhubarb being put into it, and the Saffron often dipped in it tied up in a Rag, and so squeezed out. This Syrup is held to be a very gentle Purge for melancholy People, and very safe and easy: but proves more effectual in its Operation and Strength, if Two Ounces of it be taken in Three Ounces of the Decoction of Dodder.   

Apoplectick-Water: Take of the Lilies of the Valley, Rosemary, Lavender, Sage, Primroses, of each three handfuls: let them macerate eight Days in the Sun, or in a Stove, in rectified Spirits of Wine and Orange-Flower Water, of each three pints: then distil them in a Sand-Bath, and preserve this excellent Water for your use.  
It fortifies the Brain and noble Parts, being taken from half to a whole spoonful: It is successful, as well to prevent, as to cure the Apoplexy, and all other violent Diseases of the Brain.   

Apoplectick-Water, another: Bruise four pound of Black-Cherries, Roots of Valerian, and Shave of Hartshorn, of each three ounces; grated White-Bread one pound, Cloves and Mace beaten fine and sifted, of each half an ounce; Saffron two drams, Flowers of Lilies of the Valley, and Lavender, of each three handfuls: mix them well together by bruising and shredding, and macerate them twenty four Hours in a warm Water-Bath; then increase the heat, and put them in Balneo Mariae.  
This Water eases Apoplectic Pains, Palsy, and other Distempers in the Head and Brain, arising from Cold, being taken at seasonable times from half an ounce an ounce.   

Apoplexy: To cure this violent and dangerous Distemper, Take two quarts of the Spirit of Wine; infuse in it a pound of Imperatory, Castor, and Sarsaparilla, of each half an ounce; being bruised a little, add to them two handfuls of ordinary Lavender and Sage-Flowers; steep them in an earthen Pot well glazed: stop it very close, and set it in a Chimney-corner, or other warm place, four or five Days, often setting it on warm Embers, and as often shaking it: then take nine Drams of Camphire dissolved in half a pint of Sack, and put it in, setting it in a cool place, and then philter it two or three times; and when the Distemper approaches, which is known by a shooting Pain in the Head, a swimming dizziness of the Eyes, etc. rub the Forehead and Temples with it till it dries in, and it gives speedy ease.   

Apricocks: Apricocks are a delicious Fruit to the Taste, and much more wholesome than the Peach; but above all, from the Kernels of them an excellent Oil is extracted for Hemorrhoids, Pains in the Ears, Swell, and Inflammations. The Kernels much avail in the Heart-burn.   

Apricock-Cakes: To make this, Take the largest and smoothest Fruit, parboil them in Spring-Water till they become very tender; then pressing out the Pulp, put to it an equal weight of Sugar; set them over a gentle sire, and keep them continually stirring; and when you can see the bottom of the Skillet or Pan, they are enough: then put the Pulp and Sugar into Cards sewed round, and dust them over with sifted Sugar, and letting them stand two or three Days, turn them; and than if they be candied, take them out of the Cards and dust them with Sugar again: and so often turning them, let 'em dry for your use in a gentle heat.   

Apricocks to Candy: Take the Apricocks, pair them very thin, and strew fine Sugar lightly on them; then lay them on a broad pewter Dish, and so put them into an Oven as hot as usually heated for Manchet, and as the Liquor comes from them, pour it forth and turn them; strew more Sugar, and sprinkle them with Rose-Water, turn and sugar them till near dry, then lay them on a Lettice-Wyre till they are dried, which you may do in an Oven after the drawing, and by this means they will keep all the Year.   

Apricocks to dry: In the first place, Take out the Stones, then weigh the remainder, and take the weight of them in double refined Sugar, and make a Syrup with so much Water as will wet them, and boil it up so high that if a drop be dropped on a clean Plate, it slip off, being cold: put in your Apricocks pared when the Syrup is heated, stir them about and turn them out, and tie them one by one in Tiffanies; then put them in again, and set the Syrup over a quick fire, making it to boil as fast as it can, and scum it well: and when they look clear, take them from the fire, then lay them on a Sieve to drain, and being well drained, take them out of the Tiffanies, and dry them in a Stove, or the Sun, in Glasses, to keep off the dust.   

Apricock-Iambals: Take Apricocks, scald them to a tenderness, and dry the pulp in a pewter or earthen Dish over a Chafing-dish of Coals, then for a Day or two set it on a Stone, and beat it afterward in a Stone Mortar, adding as much fine Sugar as will make it a stiff Past; then colour it with Saunders, Cochineel, or Indigo, roll them long, tie them into Knots, and so dry them for use.   

Apricock-Past: To make this, Pair your Fruit, and stone them; set them between two Dishes on a Chafing-dish of Coals, till they are boiled very tender; let them cool, and lay them out on white Paper, take their weight of Sugar, and boil it to a Candy height, with as much fair Water and Rose-Water, as will dissolve the Sugar; then put the Pulp into it, and let it boil till it be as thick as Marmalade, still keeping it stirring; then on a Pye-Plate fashion it into the shape of whole Apricocks; and so being dried, it will be very transparent, and eat more luscious and pleasant than Apricocks newly gathered from the Trees.   

Apricocks to preserve: Take them when they are pretty well buttoned, yet so tender that you may run a Needle through the Stones and all, without any difficulty; then put them into lukewarm Water to break them, and let them stand close covered in that Water till a thin Skin will come off with scraping, and all this while they will look yellow; then put them into another Preserving-Pan, or Skillet of hot Water, and let them stand covered till they recover a curious green colour; then having equally weighed them with a like weight of Sugar, clarify the Sugar with the White of an Egg, or some Water, and so preserve them for use.  
If you would preserve them when ripe, you must take out the Stones; you need not at all boil them in Water, but with the Juice of some of them dissolve the Sugar, and stew them in it; then having a Syrup of Sugar boiled to a height, put them in it till they look clear, and so set them up close covered for your use.   

Aqua Coelestis: To make this, Take of Cinnamon one dram, Ginger half a dram, the three sorts of Saunders, of each of them a quarter of an Ounce, Cubebs and Mace, of each of them a Dram; Cardamum the bigger and lesser, of each three drams; Setwell-Roots half an ounce, Fennel-seeds, Anniseeds, and Basil-seeds, of each two drams; Angelica-roots, Gillyflowers, Thyme, Calamint, Liquorish, Calamus, Masterwort, Peniroyal, Mint, Mother of Thyme, and Marjoram, of each two drams; Red-Rose-seeds and Flower, Bettony and Sage, of each a dram and half; Cloves, Nutmegs, and galangal, of each two Drams; the Flower of Stechadoes, Rosemary, borage, and Bugloss, of each a Dram and half; Rind of Citron three Drams: Bruise these well together, and put to them Cordial-Powders, the Spices made with Pearl, of each three drams: Infuse them in twelve pints of Aquavitae, in a close stopped Glass fifteen Days with often shaking; then distil them in an Alembick, and hang in the Spirit a Cloth, two drams of Musk, half a dram of Ambergrease, and ten or twelve grains of Gold.  
This excellent Cordial fortifies the Heart against the Plague, and all pestilential Diseases, expels Poison, and heals Aches and Pains.   

Aqua Epidemica: This is the London Plague-Water. To make it, Take the Roots of Tormentile, Angelica the greater, Peony, Liquorice, Elecampane, of each half an ounce; the Leaves of Sage, the greater Celandine, Rue, the tops of Rosemary and Mugwort, Burnet, Dragons, Scabeous, Bawm, Carduus Benedictus, Bettony, the lesser Centaury, the Leaves and Flowers of Marigolds, of each a handful; shred, bruise and steep them four Days in a glass Alembick, and take from a quarter of an ounce to half an ounce at a time, and it mainly resists the Plague, pestilential Fevers, and all infectious Diseases, reviving and cheering the Heart and Brain, and rarefying and sweetening the whole Mass of Blood.   

Aqua Lactis alexiteria: Take Carduus Benedictus, the Leaves of Meadow-sweet, and Goats-Rue, of each six handfuls; Mint and common Wormwood, of each five handfuls; Angelica two handfuls, Rue three handfuls: bruise them very well, and put to them three Gallons of the best new Milk; and suffering them to infuse for twelve Hours, distil them in a cold Still.  
This Water, though it be frequently used as a simple Water in making up Medicines, is nevertheless of singular use itself, being a very gentle Alexipharmick, and may be given (to expel Malignity, and prevent the Infection) with other things. It comforts the Heart and Stomach, and sweetens the Blood taken singly; and so inoffensive it is, that you may take four, five, or six ounces at a time.   

Aqua Mirabilis: To make this, (according to Dr. Willoughby's Receipt) Take Galingales, Mace, Cloves, Cubebs, Ginger, Cardamons, Nutmeg, melilot and Saffron, of each an equal quantity, in all four ounces; beat and bruise them well, and add Agrimony-Water a dram or two: Take of the Juice of Celandine half a pint, mingle them together with a quart of Aquavitae and three pints of White-wine, put them in a glass Still, and let them infuse twelve Hours: then distil off the Water with a gentle fire under a Sand-Bath.  
This Water dissolves the Swell, and removes the Oppressions incident to the Lungs, helps and comforts them, being Wounded, not suffering the Blood to putrefy; and those that use it often, will have little cause to be blooded at any time, unless in cases of sudden or violent Bruises, or internal Bleedings, etc.   

Aqua Mirabilis: To make this, Take Cubebs, Cardamons, Galingal, Mace, Cloves, Ginger, Mellilot-Flowers, of each one dram; bruise them: then take a pint of the Juice of Celandine, the Juices of Bawm and Spearmint, of each half a pint, Sugar a pound, Flowers of Cowslips, borage, Rosemary, Marigolds, and Bugloss, of each two drams; Canary three pints, strong Angelica-water one pint: bruise the Spices and Flowers well, and steep them in the Sack and Juices the space of twelve Hours, and distil them the next Morning in a glass Still, laying Hearts-Tongue Leaves in the bottom of it.  
This Water is an excellent Preserver of the Lungs, purifying the Blood, and removing the Defects of the Spleen; it helps Digestion, preserves a youthful Complexion, and contives a good colour in the Face.   

Aqua Mirabilis: Take Cinnamon the best sort an ounce; Nutmegs and Citron-Peel, of each six drams; Cloves, Galangal, Cubebs, Mace, Cardamons, Ginger, of each two drams: bruise them all together, and let them infuse in White-wine, and Spirit of Wine, of each a pint, distil them in a moderate Sand-Bath.  
This is an excellent Cordial taken from half an ounce to an ounce at a time: It fortifies the noble Parts, and resists Poison, etc.   

Aquavitae Regia: Take Lignum Aloes, Roots of Zedoary, Carline-Thistle, and Valerian, of each an ounce, choice Citron-Rind, Mace and Cinnamon, of each six drams; Cloves, the lesser Cardamons, and Fennel-seeds, of each half an ounce; Flowers of Oranges, Rosemary, Sage, and Marjoram in the flower, of each two handfuls: bruise what requires it, and put them into a Matras with the Spirit of Wine and Malmsey, of each two quarts; stop the Vessel close, and let them infuse over a gentle fire for the space of three days: then distil them, and dissolve into the distilled Bath Musk and Ambergrease, of each a dram and a half, and keep it for use in a close Vessel, or rather in glass Bottles.  
This Water fortifies the Brain, Head and Stomach, and all the noble Parts, when enfeebled by the dissipation of the Spirits, or over-pressed by the ill Qualities or abundance of bad Humours. It is to be taken fasting in a Morning from one dram to half an Ounce, mixed with proper Liquors, as Bawm-water and Mint-water.   

Aquine's Diuretick-Water: Take the Roots of Parsley, Eringoes, Restharrow, Juniper-Berries, and Alkekengi, of each two ounces, Pimpernel, Water-cresses, and Elder-flowers, of each two handfuls: bruise and macerate them twentyfour Hours in White-wine, add a quart of the Juice of Radishes, with one ounce of Narbone-Honey, Venice-Turpentine half a pound; distil them in a moderate Sand-Bath, adding to every part of the distilled Water dulcified Spirit of Salt.  
This is an exceeding prevalent Water to strengthen the Heart, but is chief designed for opening Obstructions in the Ureters and Bladder, and causing a free Passage for the Urine: You may safely take it from one to three or four ounces.   

Arcanum Carolinum: Put red Precipitate into an earthen Vessel well glazed, pour on it Spirit of Wine well rectified, so set fire to it, and when the Spirit is consumed add more: do this six times.  
This is excellent for Purging, and sometimes procures Vomiting, opening Obstructions, and dissolving scirrhous tumors, and mainly contributes to the Cure of the French Disease. The Dose is from three to five or six grains.   

Arsmart: The common sort of this is hot and dry, chief used in outward Wounds or Swell. A Decoction of it is good to wash old Sores. The Water helps the Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder; the Root or Seed put into an hollow Tooth cures the Toothache.   

Artery-Hurt: Take Olibanum two ounces, Aloes Hepatica one ounce, the Wool of a Hairs Scut a little, the Juice of Ash-Leaves half an ounce; mix with these the Whites of Eggs beaten to Water, and dipping a Rag into the liquid Compound, lay it to the Artery either cut, bruised, or otherways afflicted, renewing it as it dries, and then bath or anoint the Place with Oil of Roses.   

Artichokes to bake: Boil them first in fair Water, and so soon as you can separate the bottoms from the Leaves without breaking, lay them in a Dish, and season them with Nutmeg, Pepper and Cinnamon, very lightly, having laid a Sheet of Past under them with some bits of Butter; then lay on Potatoes sliced round the Dish, also some Eringo-Roots and Dates, Beef-Marrow, large Mace, sliced Lemon and more Butter; close it up with another Sheet of Past, and being baked, liquor it with Grape-juice or Verjuice, Butter and Sugar beat up together, ice it with Sugar and Rose-water, and so serve it up.   

Artichokes to dress: The best way is to boil them in a Beef-pot, and when they are tender sodden, take off the tops only, leaving the bottoms with some round about them; then put them into a Dish, putting some fair Water to them and two or three spoonfuls of Sack, and a spoonful of Sugar, stew them on a Chafing-dish of Coals, take the Liquor then from them, and make ready some Cream with the Yolks of two Eggs, two ounces of Marrow, and as much sweet Butter as will serve 'em up.   

Artichokes stewed: Having first boiled the Artichokes, take off the Leaves and the Choke, cut the bottoms into quarters, split them in the middle, put them into a flat Stewing-pan, put under them Toasts of Bread, and the Marrow of two Bones, five or six Blades of large Mace, half a pound of preserved Plumbs, with two ounces of Sugar, and suffer them to stew together the space of two Hours: then put them into a Dish with Sippits, garnished with Barberrie, and so serve them up, and they will make a delicate and much approved Dish.   

Ash, or Ash-Trèe: The Seed of the Ash-Keys dried, powdered, and drank in White-wine, provokes Urine. The Juice of the Leaves drank constantly in drink prevents Fatness, and reduces those that are so. The Bark and Wood dry and attenuate, and are supposed to soften the hardness of the Spleen by a specific Quality. The Juice of Ash-Leaves drank and the beaten Leaves outwardly applied, avail much against the biting of any venomous Creature, and stench blood. The Juice, with Honey, is good for internal Bruises. The Leaves and tender Twigs boiled in your usual drink, is good against the Dropsy: though the Seeds powdered and taken in Wine, in the Opinion of others, are more powerful. The Salt of Ash provokes Urine.   

Asparagus, or Sperage: The prickly sort of this, which in many Places grows wild, being boiled in White-wine provokes Urine, is good against the Strangury or difficulty in making Water, expels Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder, eases Pains in the Reins; and boiled in Wine-Vinegar, closes the Arteries, and eases the Pains of the Hip-Gout, or Sciatica: The Decoction of the Root boiled to clear the sight, and being held in the Mouth, eases he Pains in the Teeth.   

Asthma: Take the distilled Water of Nettles, and Coltsfoot-water, of each one pint, Anniseeds and Licorice-Powder, of each two spoonfuls; Raisins of the Sun, and Figs sliced, of each a handful, boil them till half a pint of the Liquor be consumed, strain the remainder, and with a pound of white Sugar-candy finely pondered, make it into a Syrup: take a quarter of an ounce at a time, and the Stomach will be helped to a good Digestion. It removes also Obstructions of the Lungs.   

Astringent-Powder: Take , and Terrasigillata, of each two ounces; Pomgranatflowers, Red-Roses and Dragons-seeds, of Sumach and Whortle-Berries, Frankincense and Mastic, of each two ounces: make all these into a fine Powder.  
This Powder taken in Wine, or some Decoction, from a scruple to a dram, in losses of Blood, weakness of the Stomach and Intestines, is singular good: It may likewise be applied outwardly, incorporated with Whites of Eggs, Vinegar, or some Astringent-Water or Decoction, like a Cataplasm, to stop defluxions and loss of Blood, and to strengthen or close the Parts.   

Astringent Saffron of Mars: Take of the filings of Steel and Sulphur powdered an equal quantity, mix them well, and make them into a Past with Water; put the Past into an earthen Vessel, and suffer it to ferment there four or five Hours; after which set the Vessel over a quick fire, and with an iron Instrument fit for that purpose, stir the Matter about, and it will flame: suffer the Sulphur to burn out, and it will appear very black, yet continue it over a brisk fire, and stir it about for two Hours after, and then you will perceive it of a red Colour; then wash it five or six times in strong Vinegar, leaving it to steep an Hour at a time, and then calcine it in a Pot or on a Tile in a great fire five or six Hours: after suffer it to cool, and stop it up close.   

Avens: This Herb is Astringent in some degrees, it strengthens and discusses, being cephalick and cordial, and resists Poisons; though it is mostly appropriated to the Cure of Catarrhs, and for quickening the Blood when thick or coagulated. Wine, wherein the Roots have been steeped, have a fine pleasant taste and smell: It cheers the Heart and opens Obstructions. The Root infused in Beer, is excellent in strengthening the Joints, and Bowels. Two ounces of the Root, or a handful of the Herb boiled in Water or Posset-drink, to the quantity of a Quart, and consumed to a fourth part, has been used successfully in the Cure of Agues, more particularly the Tertians, by taking it two Hours, or thereabout, before the Fit comes.   

BAck, the Crick in it: To remove this Pain, Take the Marrow of the Bone of a Horse, and a little of the Juice of Elder-Leaves, mix them together over a gentle Fire, and, when become an Ointment, chafe it into the Place grieved.   

Back heated: To remedy this, Take Rose-water, infuse therein, for twelve Hours, Red and Yellow-Saunders, the Leaves of Red-Roses; then bathe your Back with the liquid part, bloodwarm, and it will assuage the Pain, and in a little time utterly remove it.   

Back wasting: Take Plantain and Ribwort, distil them in a common Rose-Still; and when you are to use the Water, take Pippins, roast them, and take away the Skin, and Core; then put them into Water, making thereof a Lambs-wool as thick as you please; and this being sweetened with Loaf-Sugar, take thereof half a pint when you go to Bed, and so do nine Nights together. It is also good for the Strangury, and many Pains incident to those Parts.   

Back, weak: To strengthen the Back, if it be over-strained or troubled with Pains or Aches, take the Yolk of a new-layed Egg, put to it a quarter of a pint of Muscadel, or Alicant, and being well warmed, grate in some Nutmeg, and drink it hot twice a Day.   

Back, weak: Take of the Pith or Marrow of a Black Ox's Backbone three ounces, Dates stoned and sliced two ounces, boil them well together in a pint or more of Muscadin, and take two or three spoonfuls Morning and Evening, and you'll find it exceedingly strengthen the Back, especially of old People.   

Balls of Eggs; tried: Put your Butter or tried Suet into the Pan, and when it is melted and hot, stir it about till it runs round in Circles; then break an Egg in the midst of the whirling, and whirl it round till it becomes as an Egg poached, and it will, with the motion, become as round as a Ball; then take it up with a slice, and put it into a warm Pipkin or Dish, and set it a leaning against the Fire: You may do thus by divers, and serve them up with fried and toasted Collops as a dainty Dish.   

Balsam: The following Balsam is very excellent for any Wounds, Burns, Scalds, old Sores, Botches, Scabs, etc.  
Take Conduit or Spring-water and Olive-oil, of each a quart, Turpentine four ounces, Liquid-Storax six ounces; put them in an earthen glazed Pot, and suffer them to stand together all Night: in the Morning having melted half a pound of Bees-wax, shred Marjoram, Rosemary, and Bays, of each a handful, beat and bruise them very small; then add Dragons-Blood, and Mummy made small, of each an ounce: Let them boil in the Wax a while, then add Oil of St. John's-wort, and Rose-water, of each two ounces; boil it together a little more, and then put in some red Balsam, and red Saunders pulverised, and being cooled, make a hole to let out the Water; dissolve it again on a Fire, and put it up in a close Pot for your use. This Balsam likewise cures the Headache, only by anointing the Nostrils therewith; also it is exceeding good in the Wind-Colick, or Stitches in the Side, being warmly applied to the Side or Belly, an ounce at a time, for four Mornings.   

Balsam: That called Lucatelloes, so highly in esteem for its Virtues, is made after this manner: Olive-Oil three pints, Venice-Turpentine one pound, Sack six spoonfuls, yellow Wax one pound, natural Balsam half an Ounce, Red-Saunders in Powder and Oil of St. John's-wort, of each an ounce; wash the Turpentine three times in Rose-wawater, water, then slice the Wax thin, and place it on the Fire, and being thinly melted, put in the Turpentine, incorporate them well by stirring: then let it stand till the next Day; cut it in thick slices, and let all the Water drain out, and melt it again; put in the aforesaid Oils, Balsam, and Saunders, with about six spoonfuls of Sack; stir them well together again over a gentle Fire for the space of an Hour, that it may become thick; and being cool, use it for Wounds with Gun-shot, Scalds with Lead, Sulphur, Blasting, etc.   

Balsam of Fallopius: Take of clear Turpentine two pound, Linseed-Oil one pound, Rosin six ounces, Myrrh, Aloes, Mastic, sarcocol, Mace, Wood of Aloes, of each two Ounces, Saffron half an ounce; put them in a glass Retort, and set them in Ashes; and when they are distilled, there will come out a clear Water, and after that a reddish Oil, which is excellent in curing Wounds, healing old Sores, cleansing Ulcers, etc.   

Balsam of Sulphur: It has an excellent Virtue to cure Ulcers of the Lungs and Breast, and wonderfully cleanses all other Ulcers. The Dose is from ten to twenty Drops, and may at any time be taken, though not too often, with any convenient Liquor mixed with Sugar to abate a little the sharpness of it.   

Barberries: These are cooling and astringent, they provoke Appetite, are great strengtheners of the Stomach, which is the reason the Conserve is used so much in Fevers, Looseness and Bloodyflux, for which it is very good: The inward Bark of the Branches and Root steeped in White-wine, are prevalent in the Cure of the Yellow-Jaundice: A Concoction of the Bark, the Juice of the Berries, or the Juice of the Leaves mixed with Vinegar, cure the Toothache, occasioned by fluxion of Rheums. The Conserve is usually taken with success in Inflammations of the Mouth and Throat; or more expeditiously, if the Mouth be gargled with some of the Conserve dissolved in Vinegar and Water.   

Barberries to pickle: Take the largest Bunches, steep them an Hour or two in warm Water and Salt, then boil up the Water with more Salt, having first taken the Barberries out: when the Liquor is cool, put in a few slices of Ginger, and a little lump of Alom, and then press the Barberries down with a Stone or Slate, cover them close, and keep them for your use. Thus Medlars, Services, Grapes, and suchlike Things, are pickled to keep all the Year.   

Barberry-Tree, the Virtue: The inward Rind of this Tree boiled in White-wine, and every Morning a quarter of a pint of it drank, is very much approved for cleansing the Body from choleric Humours, and freeing it from such Diseases as Choler causeth, viz. Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, Yellow-Jaundice, Boils, and the like. It is also excellent for Agues and Burn, scalding Heat of the Liver, and the Bloodyflux. The Berries have the same Virtue.   

Barley: This is a common Grain amongst us, and of great use in many Cases; many of its Virtues are known but to a few. It is too well known to need a Description.  
Its Virtues: The Meal of Barley boiled in Honey and Spring-Water, resolveth all Inflammations or Imposthumes; with Rosin, and Pigeons-Dung, it ripeneth all hard Swell; with melilot and Poppy-seeds, it easeth Pains in the Sides; applied Poultiswise pretty hot, and mixed with bruised Quinces or Vinegar, it easeth the Inflammation of the Gout in the Legs or Feet: The Ashes of  Barley mixed with Olive-Oil, is very good for Burns or Scalds.   

Barly-Posset: Boil half a pound of French Barley in three pints of Milk, boil it till it is enough, then put in a pint of Cream, some Mace and Cinnamon; sweeten it with fine Sugar, and when it is just warm, pour in a pint of White-wine, froth it up, and eat it with a Spoon; or press out the liquid part, and drink it.   

Barly-Pottage: Take a pound of French Barley, cleanse it well from Husks, put it into two quarts of Milk to steep, and boil it a little; when it is pretty well boiled, put in a quart of Cream, an ounce of Salt, some Mace, a little Stick of Cinnamon broken in small pieces; and when it is thick enough, scrape some fine Sugar into it, and serve it up.   

Basil (Garden): This comforts the Heart, and expels Melancholy, moves the Courses, and cleanses the Lungs.  
There is another sort called Wild Basil, which forces the Courses and the Birth, and removes Melancholy, being bruised and infused in Wine.   

Bastings of Meats or Fowls: (1.) Clarified Suet. (2.) Fresh Butter. (3.) Minced Sweet-herbs, Butter and Claret-wine; and this last is excellent for Mutton or Lamb. (4.) Water and Salt. (5.) and especially for a Flayed Pig, Cream and melted Butter well beaten up together. (6.) Yolks of Eggs, Juice of Oranges, and grated Biscuit: And if this be intended for large Fowl, as Bustards, Peacocks, or Turkeys, you may use the same.   

Bath for the Legs: For Diseases in the Legs make this Bath, Take Sorrel and Fumitory, of each two handfuls, Nep one handful, Barley, Bran and Lupins, of each half a handful, and a like quantity of Violet and Mallow-Leaves; white and black Ellebor, of each an Ounce, Honey two ounces: let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Water till the third part be consumed, and then bathe the Legs with it very warm. It is good for Sores, Scabs, Botches, Boils, and Aches, and the Gout.   

Bath for a Rupture: Take of the Bark and Flowers of Pomgranets, Cups of Acorns and Sumac, of each an ounce; Lark-Spurs and Comfrey, of each a handful; Hypocistis, Galls, and Alom, of each two drams; Roses, Camomile, and Anniseeds, of each two pugils: boil them in an equal proportion of Red-Wine, and Smiths-Water, and with the Decoction bathe the Part affected.   

Bay-Tree: The Decoction of the Leaves, Bark and Berries of this Tree, makes an excellent Bath for the Diseases of the Womb and Bladder: The Oil of Barberries is very useful in cold Diseases of the Nerves and Joints. The Electuary is frequently used in Clysters to expel Wind; it also eases the Pains of the Colic; and in like manner does the Concoction of the Berries in Ale or any dulcified Liquor.   

Bdellium: To make the Tincture of it, Take Bdellium in Powder one ounce, Spirit of Wine sixteen ounces, mix, digest, and extract a Tincture which keep for use. This, as the Gum, eases the Colic, provokes Urine and the Terms, expels the Afterbirth, and is Traumatick and Vulnerary: The Dose is from one dram to a dram and a half.   

Beef to Collar: Take the Flank, and when you have taken out the Sinews, the more skinny part, and some of the Fat, put it into as much Water and Salt as will cover it; let it steep three Days, then hang it to drain in the Air, and dry it with a Linen-cloth; Mince Tops of Sage, Rosemary, Marjoram, Savory, and Thime shred small, get a quarter of an ounce of Mace, half a quarter of an ounce of Cloves, a slice or two of Ginger, half an ounce of Pepper, and some Salt, roll them up in it, bind it up well, and put it into an Oven and bake it.   

Beef to Souse: Take the Buttocks, Cheeks, and Briskets of Beef, season any of them four Days with Pepper and Salt, roll up them as even as you can; boil them in a Cloth tied fast about, in Water and Salt; and when it is pretty tender, put it into a Hoop-frame to fashion it round and upright; dry it in some smoky Place, or in the Air, and cutting it out in Slices, serve it up with Sugar and Mustard; observing before you dry it, to souse it in Water, Vinegar, and a little White-wine and Salt.   

Beet is hot and dry: It loosens the Belly, and the Juice snuffed up the Nostrils, occasions sneezing, and purges the Head: The Leaves boiled and eaten with Vinegar, create an Appetite: They extinguish Thirst, and suppress Choler in the Stomach. The Juice of this Herb snuffed up into the Nostrils, gives ease to an inveterate Headache.   

Benjamin: This is an odoriferous, fragrant, and well scented yellow Rosin, or Gum, very much used among the Perfumers; it attenuates, and is pectoral, used chief inwardly against Catarrhs, Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, Obstructions of the Lungs: It purges the Brain by sneezing, and likewise fortifies the Heart, and resists malignant Humours, being taken in Wine, etc.   

Benjamin Spirit: Put one Pound of Benjamin in a Cucurbit of glass, and distil it in Balneo Mariae, or a Sand-Furnace, and there will first come over a clear Liquor which will have the odoriferous Scent of Benjamin.   

Benjamin, a Tincture: Take of Benjamin three ounces, Storax half an ounce, let them be powdered grossly, put them into a Matrass or Bottle, so that either of them may be but half filled, then pour on them Spirit of Wine, stopping them close and covering the Vessel with warm Horse-Dung; so let the Materials digest for fourteen Days, than filter the liquid part, and keep it close stopped in a glass Viol., and you may, if you please, add five or six drops of Balsam of Peru, to give it the better Scent.  
This wonderfully whitens the Face and Hands, and is an excellent Wash to take away Spots or any Deformities; but you must not put above a dram of it into four ounces of Water, which is sufficient to turn it to the whiteness of Milk, and then it is called by the Beautifiers, Lac Virgins, Virgins Milk.   

Bezoar is a very highly esteemed Powder and excellent against all sorts of Poisons and Venom's; for it fortifies and defends the noble Parts, and expels the Malignity by Sweat, or by insensible Transpiration. The Dose taken in Sack, or some other Cordial-Wine or Water, is from a scruple to a dram.   

Bezoardick-Balsom: Take distilled Oil of Rue, the Rind of Citron, the Peels of Oranges, Lavender, and Angelica, of each half a scruple; Oil of Amber rectified five drops, Camphire four grains, Oil of Nutmeg half an ounce: make these into a Balsam by bruising and well incorporating over a gentle Fire.  
It is good in pestilential Airs, and apoplectic Fits, or any disorder of the Brain   

Bezoar-Stone: The use of this is excellent in all pestilential Distempers, being a rare Cordial to fortify and strengthen the Heart in any Plague or pestilential Fever; Take the weight of three Barly-corns in a spoonful of Carduus, Bugloss or Borrage-Waters, and keep yourself moderately warm Morning and Evening.   

Bezoardick-Water: Take the Roots of Carline-Thistle and Swallow-wort, of each four Ounces, Leaves of Water-Germander, Rue, Carduus-Benedictus, Thyme, Tops of St. John's-wort, of each two handfuls: bruise and shred these, and suffer them to macerate or infuse in four pints of distilled Water of Nuts, and one pint of Spirit of Wine, distil them in a Sand-Bath with a moderate Fire; burn the Sediment, and extract a Salt out of it, to be dissolved in Water when you use it.   

Bifoyl, or Twa-blade: This small Herb growing up from a Root that has something of a sweet Savour in it like Garden-Musk, is good, being bruised or applied to green or old Wounds; and also for Ruptures, the Herb being applied  when the Parts are well trussed up.   

Bilberries: These made into a Syrup, are cooling and astringent, alloy the Heat of the Stomach, and quench Thirst.   

Bile: To cure this Grievance, take a white Lily-root, roast it in the Embers in a brown Paper; then bruise Figs small and Fenugreek-seeds with Linseeds, of each a quarter of an ounce; beat these well together, boil them in new Milk until it be thick, stir it well and put to it a quarter of a pound of Barrows-grease, and lay it on Poultiswise.   

Birch-Bark: It is bituminous, and therefore mixed with Perfumes, it renders a wholesome Air in such Places as it is burned. The Fungus of it has an astringent quality, so that it very strangely stops bleeding. The Tree being pierced in the Spring before the Leaves come forth, yields a very wholesome and nourishing Liquor against the Dropsy.   

Birch-Tree-Leaves: These are hot and dry, cleansing and resolving, opening and bitter, for which Cause they are much available in Dropsies, in the Cure of the Itch, and taking away Scurf and Deformities from the Skin; and the decoction of them in Water or White-wine is very good to wash old Sores or Breakings-out in any Part of the Body.   

Birds-foot: This is of a drying quality, and therefore used successfully in Drinks or Potions to be given for Wounds, as also to be applied outwardly. It also helpeth the Rupture, being taken inwardly.   

Biscuit: To make Biscuit the best way, Take half a peck of Flower, four Eggs, half a pint of Yeast, an ounce and a half of Anniseeds; make these into a Loaf with sweet Cream and cold Water; fashion it somewhat long, and when it is baked and a Day or two old, cut it into thin slices like Toasts, and strew them over with powdered Sugar, dry it in a warm Stove or Oven, and sugar it again when dry; and so do three or four times, and so put them up for use.   

Bistort the greater: This is cooling and drying, the Root is harsh and astringent, being mostly used to stay Vomitings, and to prevent Abortion, etc. The Powder of the Root mixed with Conserve of Roses, prevents spitting of Blood, as also the Bloodyflux: It stops the immoderate Courses, and the Powder sprinkled on fresh Wounds, stays Bleeding.  
Take of the Roots of Bistort and Tormentil, of each an ounce; of the Leaves of Burnet, Woodsorrel, and Meadowsweet, of each a handful; burnt Hartshorn two drams, Ivory the like quantity: boil them in three pints of Spring-water to the Consumption of a third part; then add three ounces of red Roses, strain the liquid part, and take six Spoonfuls a Day if you see convenient.   

Bistort-Water: It is excellent in making the white Potion for a Gonorrhoea, and the Whites in Women: The fresh Root made into a Cataplasm, eases the Pain in the Gout. The Herb is cold, dry and astringent, stays Fluxes in the Bowels, also Vomiting, and brings a disordered Body into a good Temper and Habit.   

Biting by a Snake, Adder, or Mad Dog: Take a handful, or more, of Hazle-Nuts, Rue about a quarter of a handful, a Clove of Garlic; stamp these with a quarter of a handful of Ash-leaves or Ash-keys, squeeze out the Juice, and put a little Venice-Treacle to it, and drink it very warm in Beer, Ale, or Wine.   

Black-Pudding: To make this the best, and far exceeding the common way, Boil the Umbleses of a Hog tender, take some of the Lights with the Heart, and all the Flesh about them, taking out the Sinews, and mincing the rest very small; do the like by the Liver: add grated Nutmeg, four or five Yolks of Eggs, a pint of sweet Cream, a quarter of a pint of Canary, Sugar, Cloves, Mace and Cinnamon finely powdered, a few Carrawayseeds, and a little Rose-water, a pretty quantity of Hogs-fat, and some Salt: roll it up about two Hours before you put it into the Guts, and then put it into them after you have rinsed them in Rose-water   

Blamanger to make: Take a Capon, either boiled or roasted, and mince it small; then blanche a pound of Almonds, and beat them finely till they become a Past; beat the minced Capon among it with some Rose-water, mingle it with Cream, and ten Whites of Eggs, and grated Manchet: then strain all the foresaid things with Salt, Sugar, and a little Musk, boil them in a clean Pan or broad Skillet to the thickness of Pap; stir it continually in the boiling, and being boiled, strain it again, and serve it according to what form or fashion you please.  
To make your Past into acquaint devices, Take a quart of fine Flower, a quarter of a pound of Butter, and the Yolks of four Eggs; boil your Butter in fair Water, and put the Yolks of eight Eggs on one side of your Dish, and make up your Past quick and stiff, but not too dry.   

Blamanger another way: Take half a pound of fine searsed Rice-flower, put to it a quart of Morning-Milk, set a broad Skillet, and strain them into it, set it on a gentle Fire, and stir it with a slice; and when it is a little thick, take it from the Fire, and put in a quarter of a pint of Rose-water; set it to the Fire again and stir it well, and in stirring beat it to the sides of the Skillet, and when it becomes as thick as Pap, take it off, and put it into a fair Dish, and when it is cold, lay three slices in a Dish, and scrape on Sugar.   

Blisters to draw: To do this without the help of Cantharideses, Take Crowsfoot a handful, put to it about a spoonful of Mustard; beat them very well together to the consistence of a Poultis; put this to the thickness of a Man's little Finger in a Box-cover cut shallow, and about the breadth of the Palm of ones Hand, and cut a hole of the wideness of the Box in a Plaster of Diapalma, or the like, to make it stick; and this apply to the Part, and let it lie on twelve or fourteen Hours, because it works as well more slowly than Cantharideses, as more safely and innocently.   

Blisters, Another: Take Cantharideses reduced to Powder, and upon half an ounce of this put two or three ounces of Spirit of Wine: let them continue together four or five Days, that the Spirit may gain a good Tincture; then filter it, and dip into it a Linen Rag six or seven times double, and of the figure and largeness that you desire: This Cloth being thoroughly wet, and covered with a Melilot-Plaister, or a Plaster of Diachylum, to keep it sticking on, apply it to the Part, and at the end of five or six Hours you may take it off.   

Blites: This Herb eaten as a boiled Salad, loosens the Belly, cools Heats of the Stomach and Bowels: The Juice, which may be taken to four ounces, provokes gentle Vomits. A Syrup made of the Juice is very cooling, and allays the Heat of the Blood, also of the Liver and Spleen, abates the Heat of violent burning Fevers, and a Saline or salt Tincture of it opens Obstructions, cools the Reins and Bladder, provoking Urine.   

Blood extravasated: Grate or rasp the Roots of well grown burdock's into a fine Powder, spread it on a Linen-cloth, bind it quite round the affected Part, and renew it twice a Day.   

Blood-spitting: Take Comfry-Roots six ounces, Leaves of Plantain two handfuls, beat them well together in a stone Mortar, then press out the Juice, which strain through a Linnen-Cloth; let it settle, then boil it up to a Syrup, and clarify it with the White of an Egg. Take a spoonful of this Syrup several times a Day, and at any time in the Night.   

Blood-spitting, Another: Take Leaves of Colts-foot half a Handful, shred it very small, then fry it with a little Bacon; then put to it the Yolk of an Egg, and stir it in the Morning fasting. Continue this for some time.   

Blood to staunch: Take Hungarian Vitriol and Alom, of each half a pound, Phlegm of Vitriol ten pounds, boil them till the Vitriol and Alom are dissolved; and being cold, filter them through a brown Paper; and if any Crystals shoot, separate the Liquor from them, adding to each pound an ounce of Oil of Vitriol: Dip a Cloth into this Liquor, and apply it to the Part affected.   

Blood to sweeten: Take of the best and clearest red Coral an ounce, reduce it (by grinding it very well on a Stone or Porphyry) to an impalpable Powder: Take a dram at a time of this Magistery made without Acids, as long as you find 've occasion.   

Blue-Bottles: The distilled Water of the Flowers give help in the Inflammations of the Eyes, and in drying up and healing putrid Ulcers: The Powders of the Flowers taken inwardly are very effectual in the Jaundice.   

Body-bound: To remedy Costiveness, boil in a large Porringer about a handful of the Leaves of common Mallows, and let the Party sup them up before Meals.   

Bole Armoniac: To prepare this, you need no more than moisten it with May-dew, or any other Dew not too gross, and dry it in the shade.   

Borrage: This is one of the four Cordial-Flowers, it comforts the Heart, cheers Melancholy, revives the fainting Spirits, and purifies the Blood: The Water of it is good for Inflammations of the Eyes, and for Fevers; and the like virtue has the Conserve made of the Flowers: The Conserve of the Flowers mixed with Wine, opens Obstructions in the Female Sex.   

Bore baked: This is usually meant of the Parts of a wild Boar, though it will indifferently serve for any: Take the Leg, season it very and then lard it with Lard seasoned with Nutmeg, Pepper, and beaten Ginger; lay it, the Bones being taken out, in a Pie with fine, but strong thick Crust; then sprinkle it over with the foremention'd Spices and Salt, putting a few whole Cloves and Bay-Leaves on it, with large slices of Lard, and store of Butter: and being baked, liquor it with sweet Butter, and stop up the vent; and if you would have it keep long, bake it in an earthen Pan, and filling it up with Butter, it will, if it be not set in a very moist place, keep a whole Year; or before you put the Flesh into the Pie, you may lay it in soak two Days, then parboil it, and bake it in all Points seasoned as before.   

Box-Leaves: Dry them and powder them; then take from one dram to one and a half: They purge gently; so does the Decoction of an ounce and a half of them in Whey, or some such like Liquid.   

Bramble-Berries, or, Blackberries: The Berries not quite ripe, are very astringent: A Decoction of them heals sore Mouths, and allays the Heat of Fevers.   

Brawn broiled: Cut a Collar of Brawn into slices, and lay it on a Plate in an Oven; and when it is broiled enough, serve it up with the Juice of Oranges, Pepper, Gravy, and beaten Butter.   

Brawn of a Pig: Let not your Pig be any way spotted, yet pretty large and fat, and being scalded, draw and bone it whole, only the Head being cut off; then cut it into two Collars overthwart both the sides, and being washed, soak them in Water and Salt two Hours; then dry them with a clean Cloth, and season the inside with minced Lemon-peel and Salt; roll them up even at both ends, and put them into a clean Cloth, bind them about very tight, and when the Water is boiling, put them in, adding a little Salt, keeping the Pot clear scummed, and when they are sufficiently boiled, hoop them, and keep them in an even Frame, and being cold, put them into a soused Drink made of Whey and Salt, or Oatmeal boiled and strained, and then put them into such a Vessel as you can conveniently stop up from the Air.   

Brawn to souse: Take a fat Brawn about three Years old, and bone the Sides, cut the Head close to the Roots of the Ears, and cut fine Collars of a side Bone, and hinder Legs, an inch deeper in the Belly than on the Back, bind them up equally at both ends, soak them in fair Water and Salt a Night and a Day, put them into boiling Water, keeping the Pot continually scummed; and after the first quick boiling, let them boil leisurely, putting in Water as it boils away, and so lessening the Fire by degrees, let them stand over it a whole Night, then being between hot and cold, take them off into Moulds of deep Hoops, bind them about with Packthread, and when they are cold put them into Souce-drink made of Oatmeal ground or beaten, and Bran boiled in fair Water; being cold, strain it through a Sieve, and putting Salt and Vinegar to it, close up the Vessel tight, and so keep it for your use.   

Bread, the French way: Take four pound of Wheat-flower very fine, a pint of new Ale Yeast, beat the Whites of six new-layed Eggs, mingle them together, adding three spoonful of Salt finely beaten, a then so much Milk and fair Water, an equal quantity, as will make it into a Dough, so that it may be pretty stiff; and having worked it well that it becomes of an even mixture in all Parts, cover it with a wooden Tray pretty warm, and when the Oven is prepared for receiving it, make it into Rolls, or as you please, and when it rises and gins to look brownish, take it out, chip off the Crust whilst it is pretty hot.   

Breading Meats or Fowls: These being divers ways to be done, it is necessary they should be here set down in order to prevent their being frequently mixed, and not readily found upon occasion. (1.) Flower mixed with grated Bread. (2.) Sweet-Herbs dried and powdered, mixed with grated Bread. (3.) Lemon-peel dried, so that it may be beaten into Powder, or Orange-Peel scraped very small, and mixed with grated Bread and Flower. (4.) Sugar finely beaten and mixed with Cinnamon, grated Bread, and fine Flower. (5.) Corianderseeds, Fennel-seeds, Cinnamon and Sugar finely beaten and mixed with Flower. (6.) For young Pigs, beaten Yolks of Eggs, beaten Pepper, Nutmeg, and Ginger mixed with grated Bread, and a little fine Sugar. (7.) Sugar, Bread and Salt only mixed. This is generally known by the Name of Dredging or scattering over the Fowl, or Meat, whilst roasting, to keep it up to a good colour, and secure the Gravy from too much evaporating by the Heat of the Fire, or running out into the Dripping-Pan.   

Breast-aching: This is either occasioned by the emptyness of the Veins, or a pricking caused by virulent Humours: To remove this grief, take a piece of Flannel of a deep blue Colour, so often dipped in the die, till it looks as if it were black; anoint the Breast with Oil of Camomile and Smallage, and then cover it warm with the Flannel,   

Breast cankered: To remedy this grievance, Take a mellow Pippin of about a Year old, cut off the top, and take out the Core, fill it with Hogs-Lard, and cover it with the Cap: roast the Apple then to Pap, so take off the Skin, and mingle the Pulp and Grease together; then spread it thick on a Linen-cloth, and apply it to the Place grieved very warm, and cover it over with a piece of a Bladder or the Skin of Suet; and by often renewing it, the Party will find it a Remedy.   

Breast cold: for a Cold in the Breast, Take half a Sheet of brown Paper of as even a mixture as can be had, anoint it over as even as may be with the Tallow of Candles that have been made a long time: do this before a Fire, so that the Paper may be thoroughly penetrated; then grate over it as much Nutmeg as will cover it, clap it warm to the Pit of the Stomach, that it may reach a good way above and below it.   

Breast sore: This comes many times though want of Milk, and frequently after Childbirth: To remedy this, Take of Barrows-grease half a pound, yellow Bees wax an ounce, Burgundy-Pitch five ounces, Venice-Turpentine one ounce; put these into a Skillet with a quarter of a pint of fair Water, and let them simper over a gentle Fire, scuming off the bubbling Froth, and pour it into an earthen Pan to cool: when it is cold, take it out of the Pan, and scrape off the Dregs or Dross at the bottom; melt it again, and refine it over the Fire, and so making it into Plasters or Cerecloaths, apply it to the Place grieved.   

Breasts of Women: women's Breasts, especially after their Lying-in, contract a hardness, and are sore, occasioned by gross Humours fixing there: To remedy this, Take two Turnips, boil them in Spring-water till they are very tender, then press out the Water, and mash them in a wooden Dish or Mortar; scrape on them an ounce of , and make them into a Poultis with fresh Butter; and being laid to the Breasts very warm on a hot Linen-cloth, they will take away the Pain.   

Breath, shortness thereof to help: Take a quarter of a pound of blue Figs, an ounce of Licorice, Caraways and Anniseeds, of each half an ounce; boil them in two quarts of Ale till a pint be consumed, and then sweeten it with Sugar-Candy: Drink half a pint Morning and Evening.   

Breath to sweeten: Take the dried Flowers and tops of Rosemary, Sugar-Candy, Cloves, and Mace, of each two drams, Cinnamon one dram; dry these and beat them into fine Powder. About a dram of this at a time in a new-layed Egg, sucked up fasting Morning and Night, clears the Lungs from offensive Matter, and sweetens the Breath.   

Brook-lime is excellent in the Scurvy; it powerfully expels the Stone in the Bladder and Kidneys; it provokes the Courses. For the Scurvy, Take the Juice of Brooklime, Water-Cresses, and Scurvygrass, of each half a pint; the Juice of Oranges four ounces, fine Sugar two pound; make a Syrup of it, and take a spoonful of it in your ordinary Drink.   

Broken-Belly, or Burstenness: Take Cranesbill, usually called Columbinum, reduce the Roots and Leaves to a fine Powder; take about half a spoonful of this Night and Morning forabout three Weeks together, washing it down with a spoonful or two of Red Wine or Claret.   

Broom: The Root of this is an excellent Opener, being one of the five opening Roots, and is principally made use of for Obstructions of the Liver, the Urine and the Courses. The Syrup of the five opening Roots, is thus:  
Take the Roots of Fenel, Butchers-Broom, Asparagus, Parsley, and Smallage, of each two ounces, Spring-water three quarts, digest 'em hot, and boil them in Balneo.   

Broom-Rape: The Herb or Roots of this are to be had Candied, and are very good in the Diseases of the Spleen and Melancholy.   

Broth, very excellent: Parboil two young Cocks, the Legs and Wings being cut off; scum the Water you boil them in very clean: then take them out, and wash them in cold Water, and with a pint of Rhenish-Wine, and two quarts of strong Broth, put them into a Pipkin or convenient Vessel, add two ounces of Chinaroot, and an ounce and a half of Hartshorn, with an ounce of Cloves, Mace, Pepper and Ginger mixed together; season it with a little Salt, and cover the Pipkin close, and set it in a Pot of boiling Water, so that the Water get not into it: let it boil for six Hours, then pour out the Broth squeeze into it the Juice of Lemons, and serve it. This is excellent to strengthen or restore decayed Bodies after Sickness, and for such as are Consumptive.   

Bruise: To remedy the Pain of a Bruise or Swelling, Take a pint of fair Water, boil in it a handful of Salt, and half a handful of Ash-leaves, or Ash-bark; bruise then the Bark, or Leaves; and straining out the Liquid part, dip Linnen-Rags in it, and apply them to the Place grieved.   

Bruise in the Head: Take Rosin, and a little Red-Deer's Suet, Camphire, and White-wine, set them over a moderate Fire till it boil; then strain it and beat it till it comes to an Ointment, over a somewhat gentler Fire, and anoint the Place grieved with it as hot as you can, and chafe it in.   

Bruise, with great Swelling: Take Hemp, Tow, or Flax, moisten it with Brandy, and spread it over with Honey; then sprinkle Brandy again upon the Honey, and bathing the swollen Part withsome Brandy very warm, lay on the other, and it will not only sink the Swelling, but give ease to the bruised Part by dispersing the gathering Humours.   

Bucks-Horn: This is a small Plant or Herb growing in barren and sandy Grounds, and comes up with some of its Leaves jagged or sprouting out at the sides, like the Horns of a Buck, from which Allusion, I suppose, it takes its Name. This is a kind of Plantain different from some others, and has a quality of binding and drying. The Decoction in Wine drank, and the bruised Leaves outwardly applied, ease the Pains, and remedy the Bitings of most venomous Creatures; and the Juice helpeth those that are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys, Bladder, or Reins, and stops Bleeding.   

Bugle, its Virtues: Either inward or outward it is a good vulnerary Herb; it is used in the Yellow-Jaundice, and Obstructions in the Liver, Reins and Bladder.   

Bugloss: Take the Juice of Bugloss clarified three pound, white Sugar two pound; boil them up to a Syrup. This Syrup cheers the Heart, prevents swooning Fits, and expels Melancholy.   

Bullock's-Cheek, the Italian way: Break the Bones so that the flesh be as little mangled with them as may be, wash it very clean in shifted Waters, and let it steep three or four hours; then boil it in fair Water with some Bolonia-Sausage, and a piece of interlarded Bacon; and when they are tender boiled, dish them up, and garnish them with Flowers and Greene's, and serve them up with Mustard and Sugar in Saucers.   

Bullock's-Cheek, to Stew: Having cleaned, well soaked and ordered them, by taking out the Bones, after you have half-roasted the Meat by an indifferent quick fire, save the Gravy, and put them into a Pipkin with some more Gravy and Claret-wine, also some strong Broth; sliced Nutmeg and Ginger, Salt and Pepper, with an Onion and a Shalot or two; let it stew about two hours, and so with the Materials it is stewed in serve it up on carved Sippets, and it will be an excellent Dish, worth all your cost and trouble.   

By'r of the Meadow: This Herb, or Plant, grows in wet places, most commonly by Rivers and Ditch-sides in Meadows & Marshy-grounds, flowering very early, so that they decay in February or March, before the Leaves appear, which put not out till April. The Sun claims an extraordinary Influence over this; and therefore, as all other Herbs under the Solar Government, it is a great strengthener of the Heart, cheating the Vital Spirits. The Roots are good against the Plague, and Pestilential Fevers, by provoking Sweat, if they be powdered, and taken in a glass of Whitewine. They likewise greatly resist Poison: being taken with the Powders of Angelica and Zedoary, they prevent the Rising of the Mother. The Roots boiled in Wine, are good for those that are troubled with Shortness of Breath.   

Burnet: This Herb, infused in Wine, cheers the Heart, and renders it very pleasant, by imparting a curious Smell and Taste to it: it preserves against the Plague, and the Bitings of Mad Dogs, and also resists Poisons.   

Burnet-Water: Take the Tops of Wormwood, Rosemary and Burner, Mugwort, Sun-dew and Dragons, Scabious, Agrimony, Carduus, Bettony, Baum, and the Lesser Centaury, of each a handful; Roots of Angelica, Peony, Zedoary, Tormentile, Liquorice and Elecampane, of each half an ounce: bruise, shred and infuse them with Sage, Rue, Celandine, Marrigold-leaves and flowers, of each a handful, three or four days, in four quarts of the finest White-wine: Then distil it carefully, and let the Dose be three or four spoonfuls at a time.   

Burns: For any Burns or Scalds, mingle Limewater with Linseed-oil, by beating them together with a Spoon; and with a Feather dipped in it, dress the place grieved till you find the fire is gone: Do this as often as you have Occasion.   

Burns: Take a couple of hard Onions; mash them in a Mortar with half a handful of Bay-salt, so apply them. If for Scalding, Take the inner Rind of an Elder-tree, and fresh Sheep's-dung, of each half an handful, & with Fresh-butter or Oil make thereof an Ointment, and with it anoint often the scalded place, and the heat will be extracted.   

Burn in the Eye: Take a new-layed Egg, boil it hard, and apply one of the Whites at a time pretty warm, but not too hot, and keep it on some hours; then take two or three rotten Apples, beat them to mash, and lay them over the Eye as a Poultis.   

Burn, an Ointment: Take Saccharum Saturni half a dram, and of the sharpest Vinegar four ounces, make a Solution of the former in the latter; then put Oil of Elder so much as will serve to make it into an Unguent or Ointment, and so apply it to the Part affected.   

Burn or Scald: Take Oil of Olives three ounces, White Wax two ounces, Sheeps-suet one ounce and an half Minium and Castle-soap of each half an ounce, Dragon's Blood drams; mingle and make 'em into an Ointment according to Art: This is a most approved Remedy for Burn or Scald.   

Dr. Butler's Ale. See Ale-Purging.   

Butter, called May-Butter: To preserve this, Take the freshest and newest Butter made about the middle or end of May, put it into a large glazed Earth-pot, and place it so hot in the Sun, that it may run and melt; then press it through a fine Cloth, and expose it to the Sun again, till it is well clarified: Take the purer fart from the Settle, and it will keep all the Year. It supples and assuages hard Swell, allaying the Heat and Inflammation of them; cures breakings-out and Heat, being mixed and made into an Ointment with the Juice of Wormwood and Vinegar, and is thus prepared to mix with divers toppling and mollifying Ointments.   

CAchexies: To make a Pill for the Cure of them, Take half an ounce of Trochiscs of Alhandale; Myrrh, choice Aloes, and Galpanum, of each three drams: Scammony, Jallop, and white Agarick, of each one dram and a half; Oil of Nutmeg, one dram; Amber, Cinnamon, and Cloves, of each six drops; Extract of Juniper, as much as is sufficient to make them up into Pills, when they are very well mixed.  
These are very much recommended for the Curing of the Quartan Ague, Jaundice, Dropsy, and the Retention of the Menstruums. The weight of these Pills must be but two grains a piece, and two or three may be taken at a time; but be careful to keep your Body warm, in good order, three or four hours after.   

Calves-Foot-Pye: Take Calves-feets boil them very tender; then take out the Bones, and mince them small: do the like by two pound of Beef-suet; then add a quarter of an ounce of beaten Cloves and Mace, Lemon-peel small shred; a quarter of an ounce of beaten Cinnamon and Nutmeg,; and strew over all a little Pepper and Salt finely beaten together. And to any of these Pies you may, if you think it convenient, put in this following Caudle when they are baked: viz.  
A quarter of a pint of White-wine, half as much Verjuice, a blade of whole Mace, the Yolks of three Eggs, a quarter of a pound of Sugar, and as much Butter; beat them up well, and strain out the thinnest part, and so put it into the Pie as it is just going to be served up at the Table, and it gives a curious flavour and relish: you may likewise scrape fine sifted Sugar over the Lid, and so serve it up.   

Calves-Head-Pye: Boil your Calf's-Head till the Meat will come from the Bones; then cut it into thin slices; then take half an ounce of Nutmeg, as much Cloves and Mace, half an ounce of Cinnamon, half a pound of Dates sliced thin, a pound of Raisins, a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace, the Marrow of four bones, the Yolks of six Eggs hard boiled, cut them in halves, and then take half a pound of candied Lemon-peel and Citron, a handful of pickled Barberries and Lemons sliced thin, a pound of Butter, and so bake it pretty well.   

Calves-Head-Pye with Dysters: Order the Head as the former, season it with a quarter of an ounce of Pepper, two large Nutmegs, and a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace; put in six Cloves of Shalots small minced, two quarts of Oysters, and on the top and bottom lay two pound of Butter; lay on four Anchovies mixed, or in small streaks, and over these pour half a pint of Whitewine.   

Cammock: The Root of this Powder drank in White-wine, with the Juice of Lemons, is excellent in the Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder, especially when the Conduits, through which the Urine should pass, are obstructed: And (according to the Testimony of Matthiolus) a certain Man having used the Powder of this Root for many Months, cured himself of a Rupture. The Decoction also of this Root, and Water which hath been distilled from it, provoke Urine, and remove Obstructions in the Reins and Bladder.   

Cammock, to make the Distilled Water, You must take four pounds of the Rinds of the green Roots, cut them very small, and infuse them in a gallon of Malmsey or Mallaga, and then set them over a gentle heat: Distil them in a glass Alembick in Balneo Mariae, and you will have a pleasant Water fit for the abovesaid Uses.   

Capon, Boiled the Italian way: Take a young Capon, draw it and truss it to boil, then lay it in fair Water, and parboil it a little, then boil it in strong Broth until it be enough: Then take a good quantity of Beet-leaves, boil them in fair Water very tender, press out the Water, and take six Sweetbreads of Veal, boil and mince them and the Herbs very small, then add the Marrow of four or five Bones; steep the Sweetbread & Herbs that are minced small, and boil the bigger pieces in Water by themselves, and lay on the Capon on the top of the Dish: Then take Raisins of the Sun stoned, shred them small with half a pound of Dates, a quarter of a pound of Pomcitron minced, and a pound of Naples Biscuit grated; put them together in a large Dish or Charger with half a pound of Sweet-butter, and work it with your hands into a piece of Paste; season it with a little Nutmeg, Ginger, Cinnamon and Salt well beaten, and some Parmesan grated and mingled with fine Sugar; then make a Paste of fine Flower, six Yolks raw of Eggs, a little Saffron beaten small, and half a pound of Butter, and a little Salt; then drive out a long sheet with a Rowling-pin very thin, and lay the Ingredients in small heaps round or long; then cover them with the Paste, and cut it asunder, and lay about the Capon till you have filled the Dish; then pour on Butter with little strong Broth; garnish it with Lemons, and serve it up.   

Carbuncle: Take Salt well beaten to Powder, sift it, and incorporate it with the Yolk of an Egg; and applying it, it will draw away the Venom, and offensive Humours, break any Boil, or Plague-sore, and contribute much towards the healing of it.   

Carp, to Roast: Make a Pudding of Almond-paste and Cream, grated Bread, Nutmeg, Currans, and Salt; and when the Carp is drawn without cutting open, viz. through the Gills, put in the Pudding that way till the Belly be full; tie it to a Spit, and when it is roasted, make the Sauce with what drops from it, and the Juice of Oranges, Cinnamon and Sugar, beaten up with Sweet-butter.   

Carp Stewed: Having bled him, save the Blood, scrape off the Scales, and take out the Entrails; then put him into your Stew-pan, with Made, Ginger, Cloves, Nutmeg, Sweet-herbs, and a large Onion quartered, with half a pound of Butter; mix some of the Blood with Claret; put it in, and being enough, garnish it with sliced Lemons, and green spinach, and serve it up to the Table.   

Cassia, its Virtues. It's Loosening, and a Purifier of the Blood; it allays Heat, and moderately loosens the Belly; provokes Urine, purges Choler and Phlegm, and mollifies the Breast and Throat; it resolveth Inflammations, and cleanses the Reins from Sand and Gravel.   

Caustick Liquor of Verdigrease: Take Verdigrease four ounces, Salt of Niter eight ounces; mix them together, fire them, and let them burn in an Iron or Marble Mortar well heated; then make them into a Powder, and put them into a convenient Vessel. Let them, by dropping, dissolve in a moist place; and preserve the Liquor that falls in a thick Glass or glazed earthen Pot.  
This Liquor is highly approved for consuming proud and corrupted Flesh; and likewise all sorts of Excrescencies, more particularly such as accompany Venereal Distempers.   

Caustick Powder, or Specific Corrosive of Paracelsus: To make it, Take Corrosive Mercury Sublimate three ounces, Shall Armoniac two ounces, powder them together; put them into a Matras, pour on them a pint of Aqua fortis; which evaporate in a moderate heat till the Ingredients come to the consistence of a Paste: dry the whole Mass in such a moderate heat as will reduce it to a fine Powder.  
This Powder Cauterizes very speedily and violently any superfluous Flesh, and such Excrescencies as are to be removed. It is quick in Operation; and the regard that is to be had to the Nature of the Corrosive Sublimate, requires much Caution and Prudence in the Use of it; insomuch, that you must put on but a very little at a time, and use it only upon strong Bodies; and it is to be applied upon no other Parts than what are remote from the Emunctories of the Noble Parts.   

Celandine the greater: The Juice of this is very good to take out Spots, Pins and Webs in the Eye; but by reason of its sharpness, you may allay it with a little Breast-milk: Being put into hollow Teeth often, it will loosen them, and greatly facilitate their Drawing: Warts frequently rubbed with the Juice of Celandine, will dry up, and peel off. The Decoction of the Root being drank with Aniseeds and Whitewine, is good for the Jaundice, or to wash eating Ulcers withal. The Root being chewed assuageth the Toothache.   

Celandine the less: It breaketh the Skin where it is applied as a Poultis: it cause bad Nails and Hair to fall off: the Juice of it snuffed up the Nose, greatly purges the Brain: A Gargarism made of the Decoction of it with Honey, has the same effect.   

Centaury major: The chief Virtues of this consists in the Root which is used for Ruptures, Difficulty in Breathing, old Coughs, Pleurisies, and Spitting of Blood: It is successfully given in the Dropsy and Jaundice, being either infused in Wine, or beat to Powder, and drank immediately.   

Centaury minor: Of this Lesser sort Galen has written a large Treatise. It purgeth Choler and Phlegm; for which cause the Decoction thereof is given in Tertian Agues: It kills Worms in the Belly. The Leaves of this Herb being applied fresh to Wounds, search them, and heal up Ulcers.   

Cephalick Elixir: Take Misleto that grows on the Oak, Piony-roots, the Bigger Valerian, of each an ounce and an half; Piony-seed, Laurel and Juniper-berries, of each one ounce; Cinnamon, Mace, and Cubebs, of each three drams; Flowers of Tillet, Rosemary and Lavender, of each a handful: bruise what is to be bruised, and macerate them together for twenty four hours in the Water of Lilies of the Valley, Black-Cherry-water, the rectified Spirit of Wine, of each a pint and an half: then distil them according to Art. To the Liquor distilled add refined Sugar one pound, Tincture of Ambergrease a dram; put this Elixir in an Earthen-Pot, well stopped and glazed.  
This Elixir is of wonderful Use in Epilepsies, Apoplexies, and other cold Diseases of the Brain, being taken fasting, from half a spoonful to two spoonfuls.   

Cerate for Masks for Women: Take white Bees-wax four pound, Sperma Ceti two ounces, Oil of the four greater cold Seeds cleansed, extracted without fire, and Bismuth precipitated, of each three drams; Borax and Burnt-Alom finely powdered, of each half a dram; melt and mix them in Balneo Mariae, and at the same time dip and spread the Cloth. This Preparation for the Lining women's Masks, or laying on their Faces, going to bed, wonderfully preserves the Beauty, and increases its Charms and Loveliness to Admiration.   

Cerate for women's Breasts: Take Oil of Roses six ounces, bruised Periwinkles three ounces; the Juice of Mint, and the lesser Sage, of each an ounce and an half; boil them over a soft fire to the consumption of the Juices: then press out what remains through a close-threaded Cloth; then melt into it Bees-wax three ounces; and when it is almost cold, put in three ounces of the Powder of Mastic; and having well stirred these about, dip in the  you intent to use.  
This prevents the Breasts of Women from swelling or growing big after Childbearing; it likewise changes the course of the Milk, and turns it downwards: it must be laid pretty hot on the Breast, and wrapped up with warm , and renewed every  hours, till the desired Effect be performed.   

Cerecloth for Broken Bones: Take Frankincense and Galbanum, of each three quarters of an ounce; Mastic an ounce, Wax three ounces, Rosin an ounce and an half, Olive-oil an ounce; dissolve the Galbanum in a little Vinegar, and then melt all together in the Oil, and so bruise and strain it through a Cloth; then dip your Cerecloth, and apply it to the Fracture, and it will mainly strengthen the Sinews, and knit the fractured Bone sooner than can be reasonably expected.   

Cerecloth of Galbanum: Take prepared Galbanum an ounce and an half, Turpentine an ounce, Assa foetida half an ounce, Bdellium a dram, two drams of Red Myrrh, and two ounces of Bees-wax; the Leaves of Fetherfew and Mugwort, of each half a dram; the Seed of Daucus one scruple: Dissolve all, except the Assa foetida, in Whitewine-Vinegar, and that is to be dissolved with the Turpentine; and so mixing them well together, make a Cerecloth.  
This being applied to the Belly, expels Wind, kills Worms, and provokes the Courses; prevents Fits of the Mother, etc.   

Cerecloth of Saunders: Take ten drams of Red Saunders, and six of White and Yellow; an ounce and an half of Red Roses, and seven drams of ; half an ounce of Spodium of Ivory, and two drams of Camphire; Yellow Bees-wax one pound, Oil of Roses six ounces. Let the Saunders be powdered together, and the Roses, Ivory, Bole and Camphire apart: then melt the Wax over a moderate fire; and when it is somewhat cool, mix the Powders, putting in the (amphire last dissolved in Oil, so mix them well together for your Use.  
It is extraordinary good, applied to the Stomach, for Inflammations of the Liver, and other Parts; likewise against Pains and Weakness of the Back and Reins, and may be used for Pains in any other Parts.   

Chalybeate Salt against an ill Habit of Body: Take Vitriol of Mars an ounce, Sal Prunellae two ounces, Salt extracted out of the dead Head of Aqua fortis three ounces; pulverize them together, and put them into a glass Cucurbit, set them in a Sand-Bath with a Fire made under them by decrees; augment the Heat till the Matter look red hot and flows like Water, and in the end turn to a hard red Stone or Salt.  
This is much applauded for the Cure of Cachexies and scorbutic Distempers, also to purge the Mass of Blood, create an Appetite, and open the Passages of the Urine, provoke Sleep, and divert the Fluxes of Rheum; it also carries off bad Humours by Sweat and Stool, or insensible Transpiration: You may take it when 'tis finely reduced to Powder, from seven or eight, to twelve or fifteen grains, in a Glass of Wine, or some convenient Cordial Waters.   

Cheese to Make: It is not here meant the ordinary sort of Cheese, but a Rarity. To make it therefore, Put whole Cinnamon in new Milk, or Cream, let it boil; then take it off and sweeten it with Sugar, add two quarts of Milk or Cream, a spoonful of Runnet, cover it till it curdle; then strew on it Sugar and the Powder of Cinnamon, and dip Sippits in Canary, and serve it up.   

Cheesecakes: Put to a Gallon of new Milk half a pint of Runnet, let it stand till it is curdled; then put the Curd into a Linen-cloth, tie it up, and by laying a Weight on it, press out the Whey; which being done, beat up the Curds with Yolks of Eggs, White-wine, and Rose-water, with a little Sugar dissolved in the latter; then add half a pound of Currants washed clean from Gravel and Stones; make up all these Materials into a Puff-past of fine Flower, Eggs, Butter, Ale, Yeast, and as much Milk as will fashion it; beat it with a Rolling-pin till it is of an equal temper, then take and roll it up into little Balls, spread them out into round flat pieces as thin as is convenient: make them into what fashion you please. When they come to be turned up, put the Curds and other Materials in the middle of them, than wet them round with Water, turn up and pinch the Corners, and put them into due proportion, and when baked, strew them over with Sugar mixed with Powder of Cinnamon, or without, and sprinkle over them Rose-water, and so serve them up.   

Cheesecakes, the Italian way: Take two pound of Pistaches, stamp them, when taken out of the Shells, with two pound of Morning-Milk Cheese-Curd newly made three ounces of Elder Flowers, and ten Eggs, Sugar and sweet Butter, of each a pound, with two quarts of Flower; drain these in course Strainers, and put them into a Puff-past, Cheesecake fashion.   

Cheesecakes without Milk: Take twelve Eggs, and lay away six of the Whites, beat them up finely, and having a quart of new Cream boiled up with Mace, take it off, and putting in the beaten Eggs, stir it about till it curdles, then let it cool a little, and put in a good quantity of Sugar, beaten Mace and grated Nutmeg, dissolve a little Musk and Ambergrease in Rose-water, and sprinkle it over lightly; then put in three or four spoonfuls of grated Bread with half a pound of beaten Almonds, and a little cold Cream, with some Currants, and it will make an excellent Curd; Then make up a Puff-past Cheesecake fashion, in which this is placed, and bake them in a moderate Oven, and drawing them, sprinkle them over with Rose-water and Sugar, and so serve them up.   

Chicken in White-Broth: Take a quart of White-wine, and three pints of strong Broth, and put one or more Chickens to it in a Pipkin, or a convenient earthen Vessel, add a quarter of a pound of Dates sliced, half a pound of fine Sugar, and four or five Blades of Mace the Marrow of three Bones, and a handful of white Endive shred small, and let them stew over a gentle Fire; and when the Broth is well tasted, strain the Yolks of ten Eggs into it, keeping it continually stirring, that the Eggs may mix with the Broth, and not curdle: then take out the Chickens, put the Broth into the Dish, and lay them in it, and garnish it with Marrow, sliced Dates, large Mace, Endive, preserved Barberries, and boiled Skirrets, and make Leer of Almond-Past and the Juice of green Grapes.   

Chilblains: Take a Turnip, put it under hot Embers, and roast it well; then take off the Coat, and beat it to Mash: apply it very hot Poultiswise, shift it often for fresh ones, and continue it three or four Days.   

China-Broth: Take an ounce of Chinaroot chipped thin, steep it in three pints of Water all Night, on Embers covered; the next Day take a Cock-Chicken, put in its Belly Agrimony and Maidenhair, of each half a handful, Raisins of the Sun stoned a good handful, and as much French Barley; boil these in a Pipkin close covered on a gentle Fire six or seven Hours: strain it, and take it for a Consumption, or any Defect in the Lungs.   

Chaps of the Breast: Take two drams of the white sort of Gum-Tragacanth, beaten and sifted into fine Powder; macerate them over a gentle Fire in a sufficient quantity of Rose-water, and extract a Mucilage.  
This is a very good Remedy to cure Cliffs and Chaps of the Breast and Nipples: It may serve for the Hands, Lips, or any other Parts, being bathed or anointed with it warm.   

Cinnamon takes away and dissolves all superfluous Humours of the Body, and fortifieth the Members. There is a distilled Water made of Cinnamon, strong in Smell and Taste, and of great Virtue, and is thus made.   

Cinamon-Water to Make: Take a pound of Cinnamon that has not lost its Scent, bruise it and put it into a Vessel with four pound of Rose-water, and half a pint of White-wine; then set your Vessel, being very close stopped, in warm Water, and then make your Distillation in the same Water, being placed on a Furnace where the Fire is maintained, in such manner that the Water may continue boiling.  
This distilled Water is sovereign against all Diseases proceeding from cold Causes; for it dissolveth and consumeth Phlegm, removes Windiness and clammy Humours, and comforts the Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Brain, and Sinews: It is an admirable Cordial against faintness or fainting Fits, comforting and cheering the Heart; it resists Poison, or the biting of venomous Beasts, provokes Urinal and the Terms, and proves helpful to those that are shortwinded, or are sick of the Palsy.   

Citron: The Juice of it represses Choler, and (if made into a Syrup with fine Sugar) is very good against the Plague, and pestilential Fevers. The Meat or Pulp is of a gross and phlegmatic Substance, the Kernels bitter and loosening.   

Citrons, a Syrup: Take Citrons, as many as you think convenient, pair and slice them very thin, than put them into a silver or glass Bason with layings of fine Sugar till it be near full; the Day following pour off the Liquor into a Glass with a paper Funnel, strain it with a tiffany Strainer, clarify it on a soft Fire, and it will keep a Twelvemonth. This is excellent in hot Distempers, especially mixed with Juleps and Cordials.   

Claret-Water for the Stomach: Take four ounces of Cinnamon, bruised Cloves Ginger, Mace, Galangal, and Cardamons in Powder, of each half a dram; macerate them in the Cold in two quarts of Aquavitae, and a pint and a half of Rose-water six Hours: being put into a Matrass very close stopped; filter it, and in the filtering dissolve two pound of Loaf-Sugar, and so the Water is perfect.  
This is very pleasing in Taste, and exceedingly fortifies the Stomach and Vitals, dissipates Windyness, and creates a good Appetite; you may take it from three drams to half an ounce.   

Cloves: They help Digestions, stay the Flux of the Belly, and are binding; they clear the sight, and the powder of them consumes and takes away the Web or Film in the Eye, as also Clouds and Spots: being beaten to Powder, and drunk with Wine or the Juice of Quinces, they stay Vomiting, restore lost Appetite, fortify the Stomach and Head, gently warm an over-cold Liver; and for this Reason they are given with success to such as have the Dropsy: The smell of the Oil of them is good against fainting Fits and Swoonings; and being chewed, they sweeten the Breath, and fasten the Teeth; the Powder of them in White-wine is given for the Falling-Sickness, or Palsy; the distilled Water of Cloves is good against Surfeits and pestilential Diseases; receiving the Smoke of the Gloves into the Nostrils whilst they are burning on a Chafing-dish of Coals, opens the Pores of the Head.   

Clouted-Cream: Set new Milk to simper on the Embers twelve Hours, add sliced Marmalade of Damascens, Sugar and Cinnamon finely powdered, with as much Cream as amounts to a third part of all these Materials, serve it up strewed over with Sugar, and sprinkled with Rose-water.   

Cock-Ale: Stone four pound of Raisins of the Sun washed and well dried; take a young Cock, truss him, and put him into twelve Gallons of Ale, with the Raisins; of Nutmegs, and Mace, of each an ounce, Dates half a pound: infuse these in a quart of Canary twenty four Hours, and put them to the Ale: When the Cock is boiled almost to a Jelly, strain and press out the Liquor, put it up into a Cask, and put about half a pint of new Ale-Yest to it, let it work a Day, and the next you may broach it; but three or four Days is better, If this prove too strong, as no doubt it will to some Palates, mingle it as you please with plain Ale in the drawing, or by putting two Gallons of it into three Firkins of plain Ale in the Barrel. It is excellent to strengthen and restore decayed Nature, and is drank with success in a Consumption.   

Cock-Water: Take a Cock, pull him alive, then kill him and split him, take out his Entrails, quarter him, and bruise his Bones; then put him into a Rose-water Still with a Pottle of Sack, Currans and Raisins of the Sun stoned, and Figs sliced, of each a pound; Dates stoned and cut in halfs half a pound, Rosemary Flowers, wild Thyme, and Spearmint, of each a handful; wild Marjoram, Bugloss, Pimpernel, of each two handfuls, new red Cow's Milk two quarts: distil these over a gentle Fire, putting into the receiver a quarter of a pound of brown Sugar-Candy beaten small, four grains of Ambergrease, and forty grains of prepared Pearl, and half a Book of Leaf-Gold. Two spoonfuls of this taken Morning and Night are good for a Consumption.   

Codlin-Cream: Scald the Codlins' till they are pretty soft, peel them, and scrape off the Pulp from the Core, strain the Pulp through a thin Linen-cloth, add to it Sugar well dissolved in Rose-water, and then mingle these with Cream: adding, if you find occasion, more Sugar, Rose-water, and a little Cinnamon powdered very fine, and serve it up.   

Codlin-Tart: Take Codlins' before they are quite ripe, pair them, cut them in quarters, and take out the Cores: lay them in quarters in the Tart, with a thin slice of Quince under each quarter, and the scrape of Orange or Lemon-peel, strew them over with Sugar and Rose-water after you have poured in the Syrup of Quinces, or the Syrup of Pippins; scatter over them a little Cinnamon beaten into fine Powder, close up the Lid, and bake them in a gentle Oven.   

Codshead to Dress: Cut it fair and large, boil it in Water and Salt, add a pint of Vinegar, so that all the Head and Appurtenances may be just covered, put into the Mouth of it a quart of stewing Oysters, a bundle of sweet-Herbs, and an Onion quartered; and when it is sufficiently boiled, set it a drying over a Chafing-dish of Coals; then take Oyster liquor, sliced Onion, and two or three Anchovies, a quarter of a pint of White-wine, and a pound of sweet Butter, shred the Herbs, mix them with the Oysters, and garnish it with them, adding withal some slices of Lemon, grated Bread, and a little Parsley.   

Colic and Stone: Drink of the distilled Water of Parsley, in White-wine, or good Ale.   

Colic and Stone: Take four long Pepper-Corns, two races of Ginger, both bruised, two sprigs of Rosemary, the shells of two new-layed Eggs in fine Powder, the inner Skin being taken away; boil them together for a quarter of an Hour in a pint of White-wine; let it boil well, and brew them together with two ounces of Loaf-Sugar, and drink it warm going to Bed.   

Complexion to preserve; Take Water-Lily Flowers, Mint, Vine-Leaves, Violets, Myrtleberries, or Seeds, Roses, white and yellow Saunders, Citron-peels, dried Quinces, dried Prunes, of each a dram; Camphor and Saffron, of each a scruple; make them up into Balls with Vinegar, wherein the best Bolus has been dissolved: and it is not only of an excellent Scent; but dissolved in fumitory Water, it causes a very charming Complexion, as well as preserves Beauty.   

Confection to cause Sweat: Take Treacle and Mithridate, of each an ounce; Pimpernel and Angelica, of each ten grains; Cardamons and Camphire, of each five grains; bruise and mix them well together, and make them up into a Confection with ten grains of beaten Cinnamon, and of this take to the quantity of a Hazelnut in Carduus, or Sorrel-water, first dissolving it well; and keep close and warm in Bed, and you may continue sweeting three or four Hours, if the Distemper be violent; or a less while, as occasion requires: For want of this Confection, if any sudden Cause requires sweeting, you may take a dram of Mithridate in Carduus, Treacle, or Sorrel-water, and keep yourself warm for some Hours afterwards, lest the Pores by this means opening suddenly, suck in the cold Air, and do more harm than good.   

Confection against Pestilential Airs: Take white Diapalma, fine Bolus, sealed Earth, Myrrh, Wormwood, Scabious, Pimpernel, Sorrel, Zedoary, and Rue, of each a dram and a half; Tormentile, Aristolochy, and Bay-Leaves, of each a dram; five or six Walnut-Kernels peeled, twelve new Figs; Mithridate and Treacle, of each an ounce, Camphor and Saffron of each a Scruple; Unicorns-Horn, Bone of a Stag's Heart prepared, Pearl burnt, and Hartshorn, of each a dram and a half; of either the Seeds of Citron peeled and bruised, half an ounce, Mace a dram: make them into a Powder, and with Citron-Syrup mingle them to the thickness of a Confection. Take half a dram Morning and Evening in a glass of Canary or Muscadine, and it mainly strengthens and preserves Nature against corrupt and pestilential Airs: For want of Wine, in Summer especially, yond may take it in Rose or Mint-Water.   

Confection to help the Sight: Take Eye-bright and Fenel of each a Dram, Cardamons and Mace, of each a dram and a half; Seeds of Rue and Celandine, of each a quarter of an ounce; Rosemary an ounce, Aniseed, Lignum-Aloes, and Carraways, of each half an ounce: make of these finely beaten a Confection with Honey or Sugar. This is called the Oculists Confection, and is very strengthening to the Eyes and Brain; it restores decayed Sight. Take three or four Drams in five or six spoonful of Wine.   

Confection, Another, for the Sight: Take Celandine, dried Bettony, Eye-bright, Hyssop, Peneroyal, of each a dram; Fennel, Coriander prepared, Marjoram and Basil-seeds, Cardamons, Cinnamon, Ginger, Galingale, Nutmegs, Cloves, long Pepper, Lignum-Aloes, Mastic, Spicknard, of each half a dram; preserved Citron-peels three drams, Conserve of borage and Rosemary-Flowers, of each six drams: make them up with Sugar and Fennel-water; or for want of Fennel-water, Rose-water. Three drams at a time of this may be taken in White-wine, Rhenish, or any other convenient Liquor.   

Conserve of Citron-Flowers: Take their weight or more in white Sugar, dissolve them in Rose-water, hang it over a gentle Fire, then take it off and boil it almost to the consistence of a Syrup; then put in the Flowers, and boil it up to a height, and mash them to a Conserve.   

Consolidative-Plaister: Take the dried Leaves of Aristolochia, and the round ones an ounce; Mastic, Frankincense and Myrrh, of each two drams; Aloes Succotrina one dram, Litharge four scruples, red Led two scruples, Meal of Lupins a dram: make them into fine Powder, and dissolve an ounce of Deers-suet, Hogs-grease half an ounce, Oil of St. John's-wort six drams, Turpentine washed half an ounce, yellow Wax three ounces; incorporate them over a gentle Fire to the consistence of a Plaster. This is excellent for the Plague sore, or any such poisonous or infectious Swelling.   

Consumption: Take Colts-foot, Succory, Endive, borage, Liverwort, of each six handfuls, shred them all very small, put them in a gallon of New-Milk; let them steep all night, and in the morning distil them; take of this Water, and Red Rose-water, of each three spoonfuls: put this to half a pint of Red Cow's Milk, sweeten it with Sugar of Roses, and so drink it warm at least three times every day.   

Consumption, a Broth: Take Chinaroots thin sliced two ounces, White and Red Saunders of each three drams; put them into a large Pipkin, and pour upon it four quarts of fair Water; cover it close, and let it stand to infuse in a warm place, or in hot Water, for  hours; then put to it a good Pullet, or two Chickens; let it boil, and scum it well; then put into it two handfuls of Five-leav'd-grass, Maidenhair and Hart's-tongue of each half a handful; 20 Dates cut small, a little Mace, with the under-Crust of a Manchet: Let all these boil together till two quarts be consumed; then take out the Pullet's or Chickens, and stamp them in a clean Stone-Mortar; then put it in the Broth again, and let it boil half an hour longer; then strain it, and press out all the Broth from the Pullet: If you please, you may sweeten it with Sugar-candy. Drink of this Broth early in the Morning, and sleep after it, if you can; and another Draught at Four in the Afternoon, and another at night when you go to Rest.   

Consumption, a Broth: Take two spoonfuls of French Barley, scald it in two Waters, throw away the Waters; put the Barley into a Pipkin. with a Crag-end of a Neck of Mutton, and a Knuckle of Veal; pour thereon a sufficient quantity of fair Water, and let it boil, scumming it well; when it hath boiled an hour, put into it a Pullet, and let it boil an hour longer; then put in a large quantity of Sorrel, Lettuce, Purslain, borage and Bugloss, and let it boil an hour more, viz. three hours in all. Before you put in the Herbs, season the Broth with Salt, and a little Pepper and Cloves; then strain out the Broth, and drink it pretty warm, three or four times every day.   

Consumption, a Water: Take the Liver of a Calf, and the Lungs of a Fox; the Herbs Lungwort, Liverwort, Sage, Rue, Hyssop, of each one handful; Elecampane, the Root of Flag, of each half an ounce; Anniseeds, Carrawayseeds, Sweet Fennel-seeds, of each half an ounce; Flowers of borage, of Bugloss, of each two drams: cut them all very small, then infuse them for  hours in two quarts of Old Mallaga; and Scabious, and Carduus Water, of each four ounces; Hyssop-water two ounces; then distil it, and sweeten it with Sugar-candy: Drink a little glass-full thereof two or three times a day. This Water comforts and strengthens the Lungs and Liver, attenuates thick Phlegm, and expels Wind out of the Stomach and Bowels.   

Contagion of the Plague, to Expel: Take Rue, Wormwood, and Black-berry-tops, of each half a handful; Celandine an handful and a half; put them into a glazed earthen Pot, when bruised together, with a pint of strong Whitewine-vinegar: stop the Pot close, then let them seethe in Balneo Mariae till the third part be consumed, and then strain it out, and keep it close stopped: Let the Party infected drink two or three ounces of it, and sweat after it, without sleeping, a considerable time, if it may possibly be prevented: it fortifies the Heart, assisting Nature against Poisons, and infectious Airs.   

Contrayerva-Stone: Take Oriental Pearls, the Root of Contrayerva, Coral and White Amber prepared, of each a dram; prepared Crabs-eyes double the weight of the rest. Take the Jelly of Vipers, and with it make the rest up into Balls, and dry them, and keep them for your use.  
This reduced by scraping into a Powder, is highly commended against the Plague or Pestilence, or suchlike raging Diseases occasioned by Infection: It may be taken in Wine, or Cordial-waters, from ten to twenty or thirty grains.   

Coral, to Prepare: Take such a quantity as you think convenient, make it into a fine Powder in a Porphyry or Steel Mortar; drop on it, by degrees, a little Rose-water, and form it into Balls for use. After this manner, Crabs-eyes, Pearl and Precious-stones are prepared, to make up Cordials compounded of them, and other suitable Materials for the strengthening the Heart in Fevers, or suchlike violent Diseases, and to restore the Decays of Nature.   

Cordial, Excellent: Take two ounces of dried Red Gillyflowers, and put them into a Pottle of Canary; add three ounces of fine Sugar in Powder, and half a scruple of Ambergrease in the same manner; put them into a Stone-bottle, and stop it close, often shaking it; and when it has stood ten Days, then pass it through a Jelly-bag or Strainer; and putting it up for use, take two or three spoonfuls of it at a time, and it will greatly strengthen the Heart, and restore Health again, etc.   

Cordial-Water: Take a gallon of Strawberries clean picked, put to them a pint of Aquavitae, and let them stand four Days, and then pour off what is liquid, and strain the rest into it; sweeten it with a little Sugar, and infuse a grain of Musk or Ambergrease into it. This strengthens the Heart and Stomach: Half a quartern in a Morning is a good Preservative against ill Airs and Infections.   

Cosmetick-Water: Take fine White Sugar a pound, Roach-allom three ounces; White Poppy-seed, Flower of Beans, Water-lillies, Violets, and great Housleek, of each one handful; the Juice of four Lemons, and the grated Crumbs of two White Penny Loaves; Goats Milk and White-wine, of each a quart: Bruise what is to be bruised, and mix them together, putting them into a Glass Alembick. Distil them in Balneo Mariae, and it will be an excellent Beautifing Water to preserve the Hands, Face, and other parts of the Body, clear, smooth, and of a good Complexion.   

Cough: Boil in two quarts of Posset-drink, a good handful of Moss that groweth upon Oaken Pales, and drink a good draught in the Morning, and take three spoonfuls of good salad-oil after it: drink it afternoon and at night without Oil, taking sometimes at Night one of Matthews' Pills with it.   

Cough: Take Raisins of the Sun stoned, and Figs warned and sliced, of each two ounces; unset-Hyssop a handful, Enula-campana dried and bruised two ounces, Aniseeds bruised one ounce; boil all these in a gallon of small-Ale till half is consumed; then strain it, and put to it Honey and Sweet-butter of each four ounces, Saffron dried and powdered half a dram: boil them again gently till they be well incorporated: Drink half a pint of this Liquor warned, both Morning and Night. This Proportion made twice, hath cured Coughs of long continuance.   

Coughs: Take three spoonfuls of the best salad-oil, three spoonfuls of Vinegar, and Sugar-candy enough to sweeten it: Take it in the Morning fasting, and at Night when going to rest.   

Cough or Cold: Take a quart of Milk, and make a Posset thereof with a pint of Ale; then strain it, and put two spoonfuls of beaten Aniseeds, two Pippins sliced with the Pareings, and a stick of Licorice bruised, and a quarter of a pound of Raisins stoned: let it boil gently for half an hour; then strain it again, and drink a draught thereof warm, with a little piece of Fresh-butter in it: Take it two or three times a day.   

Cough or Cold: Take Fennel and Parsley-roots, four of each; wash and scrape them, and take the Pith out of them: Maidenhair, Rosa-Solis-flower, of each one handful; Licorice, Coriander and Aniseeds, one ounce; five Leaves of Harts-tongue; Lungwort and Liverwort, of each a handful; Raisins stoned half a pound; shred the Herbs, and bruise the Seeds, and put them all into a Pottle of Spring-water, in a Pipkin close covered: which set on hot Embers for a whole Day together, till the Liquor be half consumed; then strain it without pressing it, and sweeten it with Brown Sugar-candy, and drink thereof Morning and Evening.   

Cough or Cold: Take three ounces of Enula-campana, scrape off the Rind, and cut it into thin slices; then boil it in three pints of Water till it comes to a pint and an half; then put therein a pound of fine Sugar, and let it simper a little on the fire; then take it off, and let it cool, and it will be a perfect Syrup; of which take three spoonfuls both Morning and Evening.   

Cough or Cold: Take one pound of fine Sugar; Licorice and Enula-campana, finely powdered, of each four ounces; put them into a little earthen Pan, and moisten them with two or three spoonfuls of unset Hyssop-water, distilled when it is in its flower: then sprinkle into it a little powdered Pepper, and cast them into a Pye-plate, with Flower strewed on it; and when it is cold, make Lozenges of it.   

Cough or Cold: Take Germander, Hyssop, Horehound, Maidenhair, Agrimony, Bettony, Liverwort, Harts-tongue, of each an handful; boil them in nine pints of Water to the Consumption of six; then let it cool, and strain it: To the Decoction put clarified Honey half a pound, fine Powder of Licorice five ounces, Elecampane-roots in Powder three ounces; boil them up to the thickness of an Electuary, and take of it about the quantity of a Nutmeg, at any time, especially in the Morning fasting, and at Night when you go to rest.   

Court-Ielly: Take three or four Calves-feets, and lay them in Water all night; then scald off the Hair, slit them, and take out the long Bones: then take a young Cockerel and dress him, after he has lain all night in Water; boil him and the Feet together in four pints of White-wine, and as much fair Water, until they be enough: then let it run through a Strainer into a Basin, or other Vessel, letting it stand till it is cold: then with the point of a Knife or Spoon take of the clearest from the settlings, and put it into a Pot with three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar, and two ounces of Cinnamon scraped, an ounce of Ginger, two sliced Nutmegs, and ten Cloves; boil them together; and while they are boiling, put in the Whites of six Eggs, and a Branch of Rosemary; strain it through a Jelly-bag, and so serve it up. This greatly fortifies Nature, creates good and wholesome Blood, and restores decayed and Consumptive Bodies.   

Cramp: To make an Amulet for the Stomach, Take the Roots of Mechoacan, reduce them to a Powder, and fill with this Powder a little square Bag of Sarsnet, or some such slight stuff: Let it be about three inches square, and hang it by a string about your Neck, so low that it may reach the Pit of the Stomach. Wear it next the Skin.   

Cream-Cheese: Take two quarts of Milk warm from the Cow, Almonds blanched half a pound, beat the Almonds small; add a pint of Cream, and of Rose-water four ounces; half a pound of fine Sugar, and a quarter of an ounce of beaten Cinnamon, and as much Ginger; then put the Runnet to the Milk and Cream; and when it is curdled, press out the Whey; and what remains beside, serve up in Cream.   

Cream of Eggs: Take a quart of Cream, heat it, and beat up the Whites of five Eggs: keep them stirring; and when it boils, add two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water; and when it gins to thicken, take it off, let it cool, and put in a little Salt and fine Sugar, and so serve it up.   

Cream-Fool: Take two quarts of Cream, set them over a gentle fire in an earthen Vessel; and when it simpers up, add the Yolks of twelve Eggs well beaten up with three or four spoon-fuls of cold Cream; put them to the hot Cream, and keep it continually stirring, to prevent burning-to. When it is boiled well, take it off, and let it cool; then put to it half a gill of Canary, stir it about, and pour it on Sippets cut very thin, and strewed over with the Powder of Cinnamon and Sugar; then pour over it some Syrup of Raspberries, and serve it up.   

Cream-Tart: Take Manchet-bread, pair off the Crust, and grate the Crumb very fine, mix it with sweet Cream and Butter, beat up the Yolks of a dozen Eggs with Cream, adding four ounces of Sugar, boil them till they come to a thickness; then make two leaves of fine Paste as thin as conveniently can be raised; make them but shallow, and put the Materials into them, put on the Lid, bake the Tart in a gently heated Oven; and when it is baked, strew fine Sugar over it, and then serve it up.   

Curd-Cakes: Take a pound of Curds, four Yolks of Eggs, and two of the Whites, a little Flower to bind them together, Sugar, grated Nutmeg; mingle 'em well, and bake them in Cakes, Icing them over with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water, or drop them into a Frying-pan in hot Suet, as you like them best.   

Currant-Cream: Take Red Currants, plump them up in warm Water; then mash them, and strain them through a Cloth with hard pressing, put to them the Powder of Cinnamon and Sugar, and a quart of new Cream, and serve them up.   

Currants or Gooseberries, a jelly: Take the Fruit indifferently ripe, press out the Juice through a corpse Linnen-cloth, clarify it, and add to each quart a pound of Sugar clarified and boiled up to a Candy height; then boil them together till a third part be consumed: put to them a pint of White-wine, wherein an ounce of Cherrytree or Plum-tree Gum has been dissolved, and it will bring it into a curious Jelly.   

Custards, to Make: The Paste being raised into what Form you please, dry it a little in an Oven after it has been drawn, that the Moisture that is to be put into them, by reason of their thinness, may not make them fall when put into a hot Oven: then break eighteen Eggs into two quarts of Milk, yet half the Whites must be omitted; and if made of Cream, no Whites at all, only the Yolks: then a pound of Sugar, and a little Rose-water, beat them together till they are very well mixed; and when you fill your Pans or Pastes, strain out the liquid part, and leave the Curds and Crudities, if there be any behind, and bake them in an Oven about three-quarters heated.   

Custards, another way: Boil a quart of Cream, with Nutmegs, Mace and Cloves bruised, of each two drams; the Yolks of ten Eggs, and the Whites of five, beaten up with a little cold Cream; mix these together with a grain of Saffron wet in White-wine or Canary, and strained through a Linnen-cloth with a hard pressure, upon often wetting, put these Ingredients into the Paste you have provided for them, in what fashion or form you please: and if you find it proves too thick, make it thinner with a little Milk and Rose-water, adding a little refined. Sugar and powdered Cinnamon infused in White-wine: then bake them in a gentle Oven, and serve them up on Plates, with Sweetmeats or Flowers made in Paste.   

Cyprus, the Bark of the Boots Prepared: Infuse the Bark, after you have cleansed it in sharp Vinegar for the space of three Days; then dry it, and keep it for use. And in this manner you may Prepare the Leaves of Spurge, Laurel, Mezereon, or such like.   

DAistes: This Herb is excellent for Wounds in the Breasts; the Oil of it, Plaster, or Syrup, are extraordinary good, and requisite to be kept in all Families. The great wild Daisy is a Wound-Herb, to be had in great regard, often to be used in Drinks or Salves, either externally or internally. The Juice of these, or the distilled Water, as also of single Daisies, greatly tempers choleric Heats, refreshes the Liver, and other inward parts. A Decoction of them much availeth in the cure of Wounds in the hollowness of the Breast or Stomach; as also for Ulcers and Pustles in the Mouth, Tongue, or Privy-Parts. The Leaves bruised and applied to the Testicles, or any other hot and swelled part, dissolves the Swelling, and temperates the Heat: being boiled with Wallwort and Agrimony, they greatly help in the Palsy, Gout or Sciatica, dispelling Knobs or Kernels in any fleshy part. They help Bruises and Ails occasioned by Falls, or Contusions by Blows. They are successfully used in case of Ruptures; the Ointment of them cools and expedites the cure of inflamed Wounds, especially when they happen in or near the Joints: the Juice may be dropped into rheumatic sore Eyes.   

Damascens, to Preserve: Gather your Damascens in dry Wether, suffering them to be very ripe, or they will be but of an indifferent colour; to every pound of them put a spoonful of Rose-water, and a pound of Sugar finely beaten; then put the Fruit in a large bottomed Pan, one by one, and set them on a Chafing-dish of five Coals, but not at first too hot; then put in as much Sugar and Rose-water as will melt it; and when the Pan is warm, cast on half your Sugar, and let it be no hotter than you can endure your hand upon it, forbearing to turn them till there be as much Syrup as will bear them up: then turn them, and cast on the rest of the Sugar, not suffering them to seethe when you turn them, lest they break on both sides: when they are enough, take off the Skins gently; and when they are cold, put them up in a Glass, and put into them four or five Cloves, and as many little bits of Cinnamon, and so you may Preserve any Plums. Rutilio to any sort of White Plums put neither Cloves nor Cinnamon.   

Dandelyon, or Denti de Leon, or Lion's Tooth: Its Quality is Cleansing and Opening; by which means it is effectual in removing the Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen and Gall, and such Diseases as arise from them, as Hypochondriacal Passions, and the Jaundice, etc. opening the Passage of Urine in Men and Women of all Ages, cleansing Aposthumes, and the inward urinary Passages, and then by a temperate and drying quality heals them: In this case, you may boil the Leaves in White-wine; or shred small, put them into Broth. It is good likewise in a Consumption, boiled in Broth, or the Juice of the Root drank in Canary, or in the bad Disposition of the body called Cachexia: it procures Rest and Sleep, when the Body is disordered by Agues. The distilled Water is good in Pestilential Fevers, and to wash old Sores.   

Dates: Of these there are divers kinds; and as to their Physical Virtues, some of them are dry and binding, as those of Egypt; others are soft, moist and sweet, as those growing in Syria, Palestine and Jericho; the rest are a mean between those two kinds, and all of them are hard in Digestion, and not very good for the Head; because they many times cause the Headache: but the Powder of them is successfully taken by such as spit Blood, or are troubled with the Bloodyflux.   

Deafness: Take Betony and Horehound, and stamp them in a Mortar; strain out the Juice, and when the Party is in bed, and lying on one side, drop in three or four drops into the Ear, and it will in a few days time restore the Hearing, if the Party was not born Deaf, or some Violence has hot been offered to the Organs of Hearing.   

Decoction to Open the Body: Take twelve Prunes, Licorice, Aniseeds, Currants, and Fenelseeds, of each half an ounce; Flowers of borage and Bugloss, of each a dram and an half: boil them bruised and shred in a quart of fair Water till the third part be wasted; then strain it, and drink it at three several times very hot, and walk about upon it. It loosens the Belly.   

Decoction for Clysters: Take the Leaves of Violets, Mallows, Pellitory, Mercury (the Herb so called) of each a handful; the Flowers of Camomile two pugils, Sweet Fenelseeds half an ounce, Linseed two drams; boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water or Milk to a pint. These are the Herbs commonly used in Clysters to cool and empty the Bowels in Stoppages, or hot Diseases; but to make them work well, you must add brown Sugar.   

Decoction Pectoral: Take Raisins of the Sun stoned an ounce; Jubebs and Sebestenes, of each fifteen; six Dates, and eight fat Figs; Barley cleansed an ounce, Licorice half an ounce; the Leaves of Maidenhair, Hyssop, Scabious, and Coltsfoot, of each one handful; boil them in three pints of Spring-water to the consumption of a third part. A quarter of a pint taken of it every Morning, is excellent good for Heats, Pains, Swelling, or any Distemper or Diseases of the Breast, and to help Expectorations.   

Decoction of Senna: Take two ounces of the Leaves of Senna; of the Roots of Polypody of the Oak, of each half an ounce; Raisins of the Sun stoned two ounces, Ginger one dram, Sebestens and Damask-prunes, of each a dozen; of the Flowers of borage, Red Roses, Violets, and Rosemary, of each two drams: boil them in two quarts of Spring-water till half be consumed. This is an excellent Purging Potion. The Dose is four ounces: If it be given to a strong Body, that it may work the better, put to three ounces of it, an ounce of the Syrup of Buckthorn or Roses solutive. This may be safely taken as often as any occasion of Illness or Indisposition requires it, or for prevention.   

Decoction of Woods: Take Sarsaparilla-roots, split and cut small, four Ounces, Guaiacum three ounces, the Bark of the Wood two ounces, Sassafras one ounce and an half; the Roots of burdock's and Butterbur, of each two ounces and an half; Rhodium-wood and Yellow Saunders, of each an ounce; Carduus-seeds and Juniper-berries, of each six drams; of the outer Bark of dried Citrons two drams: infuse them all night in six quarts of fair Water, and then boil them to the consumption of half the Liquid. This drank as a Diet-drink, is exceeding good for those that are troubled with the French Disease, King's Evil, Rheums or Coughs. It may be taken four times a day, for twenty or thirty days together.   

Decoctum Amarum: This bitter Decoction, or Draught, is made in the following manner: Take the Flowers of Camomile, the Tops of the Lesser Centaury, of each a pugil, or very small handful; Gentian-root half a scruple; the Leaves of Senna cleansed, and Carduus-Benedictus-seeds, of each one dram: boil them in a sufficient quantity of clear Spring-water to four ounces. This strengthens the Stomach, restores lost Appetite, and causes a good Digestion, You may take four ounces of it for a Dose fasting, five or six Mornings together.   

Defluxion on the Eyes: Take red Sage, and Rue, of each a handful: fine Wheat-Flower, a spoonful, the White of a new-layed Egg beaten to Water; mix them very well, and spread them upon a very thin Leather, or black Silk, and apply it to the Temples, it draws off the Rheum that afflicts the light.   

Defluction, another: Take the Tops of Rosemary one dram, beat them up with one or two ounces of rotten Pearmains, or Pippins, spread them like a Cataplasm, and lay them on the Eyes when you go to Bed. It assuages the Heat, and removeth the Pain, redness and Inflammation in the Eyes.   

Devilsbit: This Herb and Root being boiled in White-wine, makes a Decoction, good against the Plague, and pestilential Airs, and Diseases occasioned thereby, as Fevers, etc. It is an Antidote, and much fortifies against Poisons, and helps the Pain caused by the stinging or biting of venomous Beasts; and also for inward Bruises, Contusions by blows, and dissolves congealed or clotted Blood. The Root and Herb bruised and applied Poultiswise, takes away the black and blue Marks in the Skin. The Decoction of the Herb only mixed with Honey of Roses, is with success applied to tumors and Swell in the Throat, by often gargling the Mouth, and down the Throat, as conveniency will permit: It helpeth to procure women's Courses, and easeth all Pains of the Mother, expels Wind in the Bowels: The Powder of the Root drunk in Wormwood-Water, kills and drives out Worms: The Juice of the distilled Water is good to wash green Wounds with, or old Sores: It cleanseth the Body, being taken inwardly; and the Seed decocted, takes away the Itch, cures old Sores, removes Freckles, Pimples and Morphew, the Parts being bathed with it especially, and the sooner, when a little Vitriol is dissolved in it.   

Diacodium: To make it, Take the heads of white Poppies, neither the greatest nor ripest, about twelve in number, Aqua-Coelestis a quart; boil them to the consumption of a third part, and when it is strained, put thereto of the best Sapa, that is, new Wine boiled to a third part, five ounces, of the best Honey two ounces; boil them together, and in the end of the Decoction, put red Roses, Leaves of pomegranate, Acacia, Sumach, of each two drams, Seeds of Purslain, white and red Coral, of each a dram.  
This Syrup stays the Flux in the Belly, procures Sleep in over-watchful Persons, helpeth Catarrhs, and violent Colds.   

Diarrhoea: Mix fifteen Grains, or if the Distemper be but light, ten grains of the Powder of Rhubarb, with half a dram of Diascordium, and take it either going to Bed, or early in the Morning after the first Sleep. It stays Loosnesses, and remedies Fluxes in the Belly.   

Difficult Breathing: Take Castoreum dried to Powder two or three grains, at the most but four; mix this with ten or twelve grains of Gascoin Powder, add a little Syrup or Conserve of Roses, and being taken, wash it down with a mixture of five drams of Penny royal-Water, and two drams at most of compound Water of Briony.   

Difficulty in Hearing: Take a chive out of a Root of Garlic, put a fine piece of Thread or Silk through it at the end, that it may easily be plucked out again; crush it a little between your Fingers, and anoint it over with the Oil of Bitter Almonds, and so put it into the Cavity of the Ear, at going to bed; and draw it out the next morning, stopping the Ear with Black Wool: But if the first time succeed not, you must use it oftener.   

Digestives: Take two ounces of Venice-Turpentine, incorporate it well with the Yolk of an Egg, add to it at discretion, a little Spirit of Wine: With this dress the Part Morning and Evening, laying on thicker if the Part be near some Nerve, and the less where it is most fleshy, and it will soon bring it to a head, or dispel the Tumour, Humours, or Pain contracted. It is used instead of Basilicum.   

Digestion to help: Take fine Sugar, powdered and sifted two ounces, sprinkle on it the Spirit of Wormwood; then take a quarter of an ounce of Gum-Tragacanth, and steep it all Night in Rose-water; then take some of this, wet the Sugar with it, and beat them together till it come to a Past like Doughty: you may add a little Musk, and then make it up into Cakes the breadth of a Groat. Lay them upon Plates, and dry them gently in an Oven, keeping them in a dry place. Eat one or two of them in a Morning, and they will help Digestion.   

Dill: This is a great strengthner of the Brain: The Decoction of it is good in Pains and Swelling, eases Pains in the Belly, and is excellent for Women troubled with Pains and Windiness: It stays the Hiccough, if you hold your Nose over the steam, if boiled in Wine. The Seed is of greater virtue than the Leaves, as being more powerful to digest vicious and raw Humours, and very useful in Medicines appropriated to expel Wind: It dries up moist Ulcers, more particularly in the Secret Part, Dill-oil resolves Humours and Imposthumes, eases Pains, and procures Rest. The Herb or Seed in White-wine expels Winds, and provokes the Terms.   

Dill-Seed, etc. Its Virtues: Four drops of the Oil extracted from it, and half an ounce of the Oil of sweet Almonds mingled together, and taken in warm Ale, are excellent good for Hiccoughs when they proceed from cold Causes. The Seed bruised and applied, discusses and ripens tumors, disposes to Sleep, being steeped in Wine. They take off the excessive Heat and Desire in Venery, stay Vomiting. The tender Tops and Roots boiled with the Seeds in White-wine, greatly provoke Urine, and are helpful in dissolving or bringing away the Stone or Gravel.   

Diseases from Obstructions: Drink every Morning, the first thing, a moderate draught of your own Urinal, newly made, whilst it is warm; and forbear eating any thing after it, the space of an Hour or two.   

Distilled-Vinegar: Put six quarts of strong White-wine Vinegar into an earthen Pan, evaporate about a quart in a Bath, till the phlegmatic Part is removed: pour what remains into a glass or earthen Cucurbit; distil it in a strong Sand-heat, till nothing but substance like Honey remains at the bottom. It is mixed likewise with Cordial Potions to resist putrefaction, an outwardly applied, it assuageth Inflammations; half a ounce of it may be taken at a time in any proper Liquor.   

Diuretics: To make them, Peel off the inner Rind or Skin of an Eggshel, beat the Shell to a very fine powder, and take about a scruple of it at a time in a spoonful of convenient Liquor.  
It eases Pains and Obstructions; adding to it Powder of Crabs-Eyes, it brings away the Stone or Gravel.   

Diuretick-Tablets: Take Stone-Parsly, Roots of Restharrow, Butchersbroom, Fenel, Eringoes, of each half an ounce; the Seeds of Burdock and Grounsil, of each two drams: boil these in two pints of the distilled Water of Radishes. Boil the straining, according to Art, with half a pound of double refined Sugar, into Tablets of two drams weight apiece, and take one or two of them in a Morning fasting for the Stone or Gravel, or Ulcerations in the Kidneys, or Bladder.   

Dock: It is a great cleanser of the Blood, and strengthener of the Liver when they are afflicted with Choler. Some hold, that the yellow Dock-roots work most effectually when they are so afflicted: All Docks have in them a kind of a cooling, drying quality, but not all alike: The Sorrel being most cold, and the Blood-wort most drying, the Seed of them stays the Lasks and Fluxes of divers kinds: The Roots boiled in Vingear, cure and take off the Itch or Scabs, (the place being washed with the Concoction,) and the Breaking's out of the Skin. The distilled Water of the Herb and Roots have the same virtue, and more-especially cleanse the Skin from Morphew, Spots, Freckles, or other discolourings: Any of the several Docks being boiled with Meat, make it boil sooner; Bloodwort especially is a very wholesome Pot-herb, though some, ignorant of its virtues, refuse it, because it makes the Pottage blackish: but those are more nice than wise.   

Doctor Stephen's- Water: Take a gallon of Claret-Wine, or Canary, Cinnamon, Ginger, Grains of Paradise, Gallingal, Nutmegs, Aniseed, and Fenelseed, of each three drams; Sage, Mint, red Roses, (Pellitory of the Wall, wild Marjoram, Rosemary, wild Thyme, Camomile and Lavenden, of each a handful; bruise the Spices small, cut and bruise the Herbs, and put all into the Wine in an Alembick; and after it has stood twenty four Hours distil it.   

Dodder, a Decoction: Take of Mirobolans' half an ounce, Arabian Stoechas, Raisins of the Sun stoned, Dodder of Thyme and Senna, of each an ounce, Fumitory half an ounce, Hemp and Agrimony five drams; of the Roots of Polypody of the Oak six drams, Turbith half an ounce, Whey two quarts; boil them all but the Dodder, till the Liquid be consumed to a quart, then put in the Dodder, and make it afterward just ready to boil, and so take it from the Fire, adding a dram and a half of the Roots of black Hellebore, of Agarick half a dram, Sal Gemma a dram and a half: When these have been infused about ten hours, press out the Liquor, and take four ounces of it at a time, as an excellent Purge for Madness or Melancholy.   

Dodder of Thyme: It is effectual in Melancholy, and purges black or  Choler; it takes away the Trembling of the Heart, swoonings or Faintings, all Diseases and Griefs of the Spleen and Melancholy arising from the windiness of the Hypochondria: It purges the Reins and Kidneys, it opens the Obstructions of the Gall, and is hereby helpful in case of the Jaundice: It purges the Reins of phlegmatic, and choleric Humours, and mixed with a little Wormseed is good in Agues in Children.   

Dog-Biting: If you are bitten by a mad Dog, or any other, Take the Roots of Gentian one dram, Myrrh two drams, the Eyes or black Claws of Crabs burnt and powdered, two drams; put them into White-wine, boil them, and straining out the Decoction, drink a quarter of a pint at a time fasting, if you can, and very warm, then wash the Wound with your own Urinal, wherein Rue and Carduus have been boiled, and so continue to do three or four Days successively, having first laid some of the Powder dry on it, to draw out the putrefied Blood, and cleanse it.   

Dogs-Grass: It is gentle in its operation; being boiled in Whitewine or Ale, it openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Gall; it removes the Stoppage of Urinal, eases Gripe, and Pains of the Belly, and Inflammations. The Seeds work powerfully in expelling Urinal, and the Decoction of them stays Lasks and Vomiting: The Roots boiled in Whitewine, are a general Remedy against all Diseases occasioned by Stoppages.   

Dogs-tooth: This is a kind of Grass so called, and has in it many excellent Virtues in Physic: viz. The Decoction of it healeth the Pains of the Belly, helps difficulty in making Water, breaketh the Stone, and brings away Gravel. The Root bruised and applied, searcheth Wounds, and keepeth them from Inflammation. If the Decoction be put into a little Wine or Honey, and the third part of so much Myrrh, Pepper and Frankincense, and be made to boil in some Copper Vessel, it is a singular Remedy for the Toothache, and Rheums falling into the Eyes. It is good for the Headache, being stamped and applied to the Forehead. It likewise stenches Bleeding at the Nose. And the Seed thereof greatly provoketh Urine, and bindeth the Belly, and stayeth Vomiting, etc.   

Darnel: The Meal of it is good to be applied to Gangrenes, or any the like fretting and consuming Cancers, or corrupted Sores. It is excellent to cleanse a Leprous Skin, or that which is affected with Ringworms or Morphew. It dissolves Knots and Kernels, being used in quick Brimstone and Vinegar, breaking those that will not easily dissolve. Being boiled with Pigeons-Dung and Linseed in White-wine, it gives ease to the Sciatica. The Meal of it, applied , draws Splinters or Thorns out of the Flesh, as also Splinters of broken Bones, so that they may be easily taken out. The Red Darnel concocted in Red Wine, is excellent to stay Lasks, Fluxes, and bloody Issues; and retains Urine that would otherwise pass away too suddenly.   

Dovesfoot Is a present Ease for the Wind-colick: it expels the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys; and boiled in White-wine, is good for Bruises, Hurts or Wounds, stays Bleeding, dissolves and expels congealed Blood, cleanseth old Sores and Ulcers, being washed therewith, and also Fistula's. The green Herb bruised and applied to green Wounds, assuageth the Pain, and allays the Inflammation. The Decoction of it in Red Wine eases the Pains of the Gout, and Aches in the Joints or Sinews: the Powder or Decoction of it taken for some time together, is experienced to be very helpful in the Rupture or Burstenness of Old or Young. This Herb, by some, is called Cranesbill.   

Down, by some called Cotton-Thistle: The Leaves and Roots help (if the Juice or Decoction of them be drank) Cricks and Pains in the Neck. Galen affirms, That the Roots and Leaves are of a Healing Quality, and help against Convulsions of the Nerves, whereby any Part of the Body is drawn up by some Spasm, as the Rickets in Children, and the Shrinking of the Sinews in Old People.   

Dragon's: The Water of this distilled, scoureth and cleanseth the Body: being applied outwardly, it takes away Freckles, Morphew and Sun-burn, especially if mixed with strong Vinegar: an Ointment of it is good in Wounds: it consumes the offensive Flesh growing in the Nostrils, called Polypus, and Cancers. If dropped into the Eye, it takes off Films. It is likewise good against the Pestilence.   

Drink in Fevers: This is most excellent in hot and continued Fevers, viz. boil a handful of the Leaves of Rue in fair Water till it taste very strong of it; strain it, and add an ounce of beaten Licorice, and two ounces of Sugar; to half a pint of this add ten drops of Spirit (not Oil) of Vitriol, and use it for an ordinary Drink, and it will allay and drive out the Heat that occasions the Fever.   

Drink, another: Take half a pint of Small-beer, half an ounce of  Hartshorn; powder it, and boil it a little in the Liquor, and it will fortify the Heart, and expel the Heat.   

Drink for Malignant Fevers: Take Spring-water a quart, give it a walm or two, put into it an ounce of  Hartshorn; the Mixture being cold, put in three ounces of Syrup made of the Juice of Lemons; make them well together, and take a quarter of a pint both Morning and Evening.   

Drink for Head-Pains: Take of the Leaves of Senna one ounce; Cinnamon, Aniseeds, Fenelseeds and Currants, of each a dram; Licorice two drams, Rosemary and Sweet Marjoram a handful; shred and bruise these, and slice in three or four new Figs, boil them in three pints of Water, with an ounce of Sugar, till a third part be consumed; then strain it. The Dose to the weak is about two ounces; but for stronger Bodies, from two to four ounces. It removes Pains, if the Body be open or soluble, that the Vapours arise not too hastily to afflict the Brain.  
☞ Note, If the He●d be pained, and the Body bound, endeavour, the first thing you do, to open and render it soluble; otherwise the ascending of Vapours to the Brain will so disturb the Head, and distemper it with Heat and Pain, that Lightness of the Head, Frenzies, or raging Madness may happen to ensue, if not timely prevented.   

Drink correcting sharp Humours: Take an ounce of choice Barley, wash it very clean, then boil it in a quart or more of Spring-water till the Grains begin to burst; then strain the Decoction through a Cloth, and drink it for your ordinary Drink at Meals.   

Drink for the Scurvy: Take two handfuls of Water-trefoyl, and suffer it to work in about eight gallons of Wort; use it for all or the greatest part of your ordinary Drink, and it will purge out by gentle breathing Sweats the noxious Humours that occasion the Distemper.   

Drink for Wheezing: Take five pints of fair Water, half a pint of Honey, six Figs, an ounce of Blue Currants, two drams of Licorice; boil them to the consumption of a pint and drink a quarter of a pint of it both Morning and Evening pretty hot. This brings away tough Phlegm, cures the phlegmatic and slimy Cough, and remedies Shortness of Breath.   

Dropsy: Take Smallage, Thyme, Hyssop, Watercresses, Pennyroyal, Nettle-tops, of each a handful; Caraway-seeds, Calamint, Elecampane-roots, of each one ounce; boil them in six Quarts of running Water until one half be consumed, then strain it: put to this Liquor two quarts of Canary, add Licorice scraped and bruised two ounces, Sweet-Fenel-seeds one ounce, Cumin-seeds, and Alexander-seeds, of each two drams: boil all these together again for half an hour, then strain it for use. Take nine spoonfuls of this Liquor in the Morning fasting, and as much about three or four in the Afternoon, and continue it for some time.   

Dropsy: Take the Root of Gors (it groweth upon Hills and Heaths, and is full of Prickles and yellow Flowers) pair off the outward Bark, which throw away; then scrape off the inner Rind, and fill a pint Bottle with it lightly; then fill it up with Rhenish or White-wine; let it stand to infuse all night, the next morning drink a glass-ful of it, and continue it till you are cured.   

Dropsy: Take Rue, Camomile, Melilot, Calamint, of each two ounces; beat them small, and boil them in Wine, and Oil of Dill; then add of Gummi Carana, as much as sufficeth to make a Plaster.   

Dropwort-Root, its Virtue: A Decoction of it provokes Urinal and expels Gravel, cures the Heat of Urinal, and removes the difficulty in making it. The Juice of the Root, and the Powder, are held to be successful in the Falling-sickness. The Dose is a dram of the Powder or Juice of the Root in Wine. It's excellent in stopping Fluxes. It heals the Ruptures of the Belly, and cures the Bloodyflux.   

Ducks-Meat: It swims on the Tops of Ponds, mostly in Summertime; it helps Inflammations and St. Anthony's-Fire, as also the Gout, when applied  with Barley-meal. The distilled Water of it is good against Inflammations inwardly, and Pestilential Fevers. It removes the Redness of Sore-eyes, and the Swell of the Breasts of Women, if applied before they be grown too large. The Herb fresh, easeth the Pains of the Head, if caused by Hear, or hot Inflammations.   

Dullness of Hearing: Take the Juice of Red Onions, and drop it into the Ears, stopping them with Cotton-wool; or the Juice of Briony-root, but not too often, nor too much at a time; and the Obstructions, by this means, being opened and removed, the Hearing will be recovered and removed, the Hearing will be recovered and restored   

Dysentery: for this Disease, which many times proves very dangerous, Take the Dung of a Pig, dry it very well, and burn it till it becomes grey, in Ashes; put about half a dram of it into a spoonful of Vinegar, and drink it both Morning and Evening, and it will remove this Distemper.   

Dysentery: To remove this, and other sharp Fluxes, Take the Herbs and Leaves of Fleabane, dry it by degrees, till it be reduceable to a Powder; take about a dram of it twice or thrice a day in White-wine, or you may take it rolled up in Conserve of Roses.   

Ear Imposthumated: If you perceive any Imposthume breeding in the Ears; To ripen it, Take fine Wheat-flower an ounce and an half, Fenegreek-seed, Eels-grease, Litharge of Gold, Ceruse and Frankincense, of each one dram; mix them together, and make a Plaster of them; lay it all over the Ear, having first dropped in some Oil of Myrrh: when 'tis ready to break, take Sarcocolla, Aloes, Dragons-blood, Myrrh and Frankincense, the Dross of Iron and Verdegrease, of each half a dram; mix them with Vinegar to a thinness, dip a Taint therein, and put it into the Ear.   

Earthworms Prepared: To do this, that they may be kept for any use, you must only slit them down the middle, wash them well in White-wine or Whitewine-Vinegar; then dry them in the Sun, and put them up into dry Boxes to make Powders, or for other Uses upon occasion.   

Ebony: The Decoction of it, when rasped or made thin in Shave, is approved in Convulsions, if it be drank sweetened with Honey.   

Eels to Collar: Take a large silver Eel, take out the Backbone, dry and season it after its having been washed, with beaten Nutmeg and Salt, then cut off the Head, and roll in the Tail, being seasoned in the sides; bind it up close and strait in a fine white Cloth, than put it into a fit Pipkin, with as much fair Water and Whitewine, as will cover it upward of two inches, of each a like quantity: then season it with some Salt, and the Eel being put into the boiling Liquor when it is boiled pretty tender, take it up; and when the Liquor is almost cool, put to it a little Vinegar, and make a souse of it, adding some Blades of Mace, and a few Bay-Leaves and Tops of Rosemary; and when you intent to use it, take it out of the Cloth, pair it, and dish it up: place a Sprig of Rosemary in the middle of it, and boil up the Liquor it was boiled in to a Jelly, by adding a little Isinglass, and so serve it to the Table.   

Eels, Court-fashion, to Bake: Cut your Eels, being warned, stripped, and well cleaned, into convenient lengths, have a convenient earthen Pot, or Vessel, that being put in, they may stand end-ways; and put to them a spoonful or two of Water, with some chopped Sage, Margerum, Thyme and Rose-mary-Tops, with a little Pepper, Garlick, or Shalors, small bruised; and when they are enough, beat up some Butter with Claret, Whitewine, and the Liquor that comes from them, and laying them in order in a fair Dish, serve them up.   

Eels another way to Dress: Having drawn them and washed them in clean Water, rub them in Pepper and Salt finely beaten; cut them athwart on both sides a good depth, than crossways, and so cut them thorough in such pieces as you think convenient: then having a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar pretty well heated in a Dish, put them to it, and sprinkle a little Salt; and then having a Pot over the Fire full of fair Water, put more to your Eels, some sliced Onion, a few Cloves and Mace; and so place your Dish, or other Vessel wherein they are, that the boiling Water in the Pot may surround it, but not come into it; and when by that heat, with often turning them, they are sufficiently enough, take them out and drain them from the liquor; and when they are cold, take a pint of White-wine, boil it up with Saffron to colour it; then take out some of the liquor, or put it into an earthen Pan, take out the Onions, and all the Herbs, suffering the Cloves and Mace to remain, and so serve them up in the Liquor, adding some beaten Butter and Powder of Cinnamon or Ginger; and this way they are accounted the best of any boiled.   

Eels Hash'd: Take two or three large Eels, bone them: when they are drawn and washed, mince them; then season then with some Cloves and Mace, and put to them Stewing-Oysters, an Onion cut in four quarters, and a little White-wine: stew them with these and an Anchove or two on a gentle fire: then serve them up on fine carved Sippets, the Dish being garnished with some slices of Oranges; run them over with beaten butter, the Yolk of an Egg or two, grated Nutmeg, and the Juice of an Orange.   

Eel-Pye, to Season: Take about eight silver Eels of a middle size, cut them into convenient lengths; beat half an ounce of Cloves and Mace, scrape two Nutmegs, and put in a quarter of an ounce of Pepper: then take a quarter of whole Mace, break it into little sprigs, strew it on with Salt; and add two pound of Butter, placing it under and above the Eels in thin slices.   

Eel, to Roast: Take a large silver Eel, draw off the Skin, and cleanse it well: then take a handful of Thyme, Winter-savory, Marjoram, Rosemary and Sage; shred them, and bruise them small; incorporate them with about half a pound of Sweet-Butter, and a little grated Nutmeg and Mace; stuff it into the Eels Belly, sow it up lightly, and then draw the Skin over him: prick it full of holes, to prevent breaking, so tie it to a Spit and roast it; saving what comes from it, to be beaten up with some Butter and Claret for the Sauce.   

Eels Spitchcockt or Broiled: Take a pretty large Eel, split it down the Back, and joint the Bone, but leave on the Skin, and cut it into four pieces of equal bigness; salt and baste them with Butter and Vinegar, broil them on a gentle fire; and being well broiled, serve them up with beaten Butter and Juice of Lemons, and garnished with Sprigs of Rosemary.   

Eels Stewed: Having drawn and washed them, place them round or in pieces; then with a quart of Whitewine, a pint and a half of Wine-Vinegar, and a quart of Water; some Salt, and a handful of Rosemary and Thyme bound hard up, letting them boil before you put in the Eels; let them take a walm or two, and so put to them some whole Pepper, and a few blades of large Mace; and being boiled, dish them with some of the Broth, beat up thick with Butter: place Sippets, sliced Lemon, Barberries and Grapes about the Dish, and so serve them up.   

Eels Stewed: To do this, You must cut the Eels in pieces at moderate lengths, and put them into your Stew-pans, with White-wine, Butter, Parsley shred, and some Capers; a few Chip of Bread, to allay the Sauce; and when all is enough, serve it up: and if you please, you may make a white Sauce to it with Whites of Eggs and Verjuice, or Whits-wine and Vinegar.   

Eels, another way: Cut two or three Eels into pieces of a convenient length, set them endwise in an Earthen-Pot, and put in a spoonful or two of Water; and to them put some Sage, Thyme and Winter-savory chopped small, season them with Salt and Pepper, and so set them in the Oven, and serve them up with a Sauce of Butter, Mace, Nutmeg, Verjuice, and the Herbs baked with them.   

Eglantine: The Virtues of the Flowers are Astringent, for which reason they are used with Success in Fluxes of the Womb: the Fruit is in high esteem for its Lithontriptick Virtue; the Heads being ripe, afford a Pulp of a very pleasant sharp Taste, which some reckon good in Fevers, or to sharpen and restore lost Appetites. The Conserve of it is good against Spitting of Blood, and the Scurvy. The Root boiled in White-wine, and inwardly and outwardly applied, heals the Bitings of Mad Dogs. The Ashes of it cure the Heat of Urine, and kill Worms.  
Take the Conserve of Hips and Woodsorrel, of each one ounce; Cream of Tartar a dram, Conserve of Barberries half an ounce; and with the Juice of Lemons and fine Sugar make these into an Electuary, and thrice a Day take the quantity of a small Nut. It is excellent in allaying the Heat of Fevers, and Cooling the Blood.   

Eggs Fricased: Take twelve Eggs, Cream, Sugar, Nutmeg, Mace and Rose-water; then pair and take out the Cores of some good Apples, slice them very thin into the Pan, and fry them in Sweet-Butter; and when they are enough, take them up, and fry half the Eggs and Cream with more Sweet-Butter; then put in the rest of the Eggs and Cream, and lay the Apples round the Pan and the Eggs that were first fried uppermost. Dish them on Plates, and put to them the Juice of Oranges and Sugar.   

Eggs to Poach: To do these the best and surest way, Take a dozen of new-layed Eggs, and the Flesh of four Partridges, or other Fowls; mince the Flesh small, and season it with a few beaten Nutmegs, Cloves and Mace; adding a Ladleful of the Gravy of Mutton, wherein two or three Anchovies are dissolved: then set it a stewing over a gentle fire, and when it is half stewed, and boiling up, break in your Eggs one by one, putting away the better half of the Whites; make a place in your Dish of Meat, and therein put the Yolks of the Eggs round in order among it; so set them to stew till your Eggs be enough, taking care they harden not; then grate in a little Nutmeg, and the Juice of a couple of Oranges, but none of the Seeds; wipe the sides of the Dish, and garnish it with slices of Oranges, and Lemons, and a little Pepper, Sugar and Salt.   

Eggs Quelquechose: Break about forty Eggs, and beat them together with some Salt; fry them at four times on one side; and before you take them out of the Pan, make a Compound or Composition of hard Eggs; boil some Sweet-Herbs finely shred with some Currants: Then put them to the Eggs, and strew them over with beaten Cinnamon, Almond-paste, Juice of Oranges and Sugar; and dividing them, roll them up like Wafers, and put them in a Dish with Juice of Lemons, and white Sugar: then warm and Ice them over in an Oven with beaten Butter and fine Sugar, and serve them up as a Dish very admirable and rare.   

Eggs the Spanish way: Take about twenty new-layed Eggs, break, and mix them with a quarter of a pint of Canary, and a quarter of a pound of fine Sugar, some grated Nutmeg, and Salt; beat them together with the Juice of an Orange, set them over a gentle fire, keep them stirring till they begin to thicken; serve them up in a Dish with toasted Manchet and scraped Sugar; sprinkle them over with Orange-juice, Comfits or sweet Wine, having dipped the Toasts before you lay them in Juice of Oranges, Claret, or White-wine.   

Electuarium Diacarthamum: Take of the Spices of Diatragacanth frigid half an ounce, of the Pulp of Preserved Quinces one ounce, of the Marrow of the Seeds of Bastard-saffron half an ounce, white Ginger two drams, Diagrydium powdered apart three drams, of white Turbith six drams, Manna two ounces; Solutive Honey of Roses strained, and Sugar-candy, of each an ounce; of Hermodactyls half an ounce, white Sugar boiled to the Consistence of solid Electuary ten ounces and an half: and when it is hot, mix with it the Honey of Manna and Pulp of Quinces; then add the Powders, and make it up into solid Electuary, to be form into Tablers. It is excellent good for Pains in the Stomach, and comforteth the Heart and Brain.   

Electuarium Diaprunum: 'Tis so called from the Plums of which it is partly made, and is made of Damascens after the following manner: Take of those that are large, ripe and fresh, about a quart; let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Water till you can easily pulp them through a Sieve; then boil an ounce of Violet-flowers fresh or dried, in the same Liquor, and strain it, and add to it two pound of Sugar, boiled up to a Syrup; then add the Pulp abovenamed, and of the Pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds strained and dissolved in a small quantity of the Liquor, of each an ounce: boil it up again, stir it continually, and add the following Powders, viz. Saunders, White and Red, and Rhubarb, of each three drams; Red Roses, Violets, the Seeds of Purslain, Endive, Barberries, Gum Tragacanth, and the Juice of Licorice, of each two drams; of the great Cold Seeds one dram. These being made into an Electuary, are exceeding good in Fevers, as being Cold and Moist.   

Electuary of Citron Solutide: Take Citron-peel candied, of the Conserve of the Flowers of Bugloss, of Species of Diatragacanth frigid, and Diagrydium, of each half an ounce; of Turbith five drams; Ginger half a dram; of the Leaves of Senna six drams; and of the Seeds of sweet Fenel a dram; of white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water, and boiled up to a sufficiency, ten ounces: beat in a Brass Mortar the Turbith and Ginger, being first cut small: the Senna, Fenel and Diagrydium must be powdered apart, and mixed with a little of the Diatragacanth: the Bark of the Citron must be pounded in a Marble Mortar; then add the Conserves pulped through a fine Sieve, and boiled a little in the Sugar dissolved: take it off the fire, and when it is just warm, put in the Powders, and lastly the Diagrydium and Diatragacanth: of this Paste make Tablets, which are good against Pestilential Distempers, or for such as have been bit by any venomous Creatures.   

Electuary of Lawrel-Berries: Take ten drams of the Powder of dried Rue; the Seeds of Bishopsweed, Cumin and Lovage, Caraways, Nigellum, wild Marjoram, wild Carrots, Parsley, Bitter Almonds, Round and Long Pepper, Horse Mint, Lawrel-Berries and Castor, of each two drams; Sagapenum half an ounce, clarified Honey a pound and an half, Opopanax three drams: these things being well beaten, bruised and mixed together, add the Gums, towards the end, dissolved in White-wine, and make them up into an Electuary.  
A dram of it may be taken at any time. It is good for the Colic, expels Wind, and strengthens the Stomach; and when, upon extraordinary Occasions, it is given in Clysters, near half an ounce of it may be mingled with the other Ingredients.   

Electuary Lenitide: Take of Raisins stoned; Polypody of the Oak, Oriental Senna, of each two ounces; Mercury a handful and an half; Jubebs and Sebestenes, of each twenty five; Maidenhair, Violets and Barley cleansed, of each a handful; Damask Prunes and Tamarinds, of each six drams; Licorice half an ounce: boil them in five quarts of Water to the consumption of a third part: then strain them out hard in part of the Liquor dissolved, of the Pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds, fresh Prunes, Violets and Sugar, of each six ounces: and in the other part of the Liquor dissolve two pound of fine Sugar; then add an ounce and an half of the Powder of Senna, and two drams of the Powder of Aniseeds, for every pound of the Electuary, and so make it up according to Art. This is an excellent Electuary for Cooling and Purging gently. The Dose is from an ounce to an ounce and an half.   

Electuary for Obstructions: Take Cinnamon, Mace, the Roots of Asarabacca, Spikenard, Mastic and Saffron, of each six drams; unwashed Aloes twelve ounces and an half, clarified Honey a pound and three ounces; make these up into an Electuary. It powerfully opens Obstructions, yet purgeth but gently, and greatly cleanses the Stomach. The Dose is from two to three drams.   

Electuary Purging: Take Rhubarb an ounce, bring it into Powder; then in a Marble or Glass Mortar put about half a pound of Currans clean picked and washed, and bruised as small as may be, strewing and incorporating the Powder of Rhubarb with them; and of it take in the Morning fasting as much as an ordinary Walnut. This is good for Pains and Gripes, and especially Worms in Children.   

Electuary of Sassafras: Take of this fragrant Wood two ounces, three pints of Spring-water; boil them to the consumption of a third part, adding towards the end, half an ounce of Cinnamon bruised; then place two pound of Sugar in an earthen Pan, and strain out the Liquor to it; and being well mixed, boil it up into a Syrup, adding two drams more of beaten Cinnamon, half a scruple of Powder of Nutmeg, Ambergrise thirty two grains, Musk three grains, ten beaten Leaves of Gold, and so make it up into an Electuary with four drops of the Spirit of Vitriol.  
This is a singular good Drying Medicine, and therefore to be taken in Rheumatisms, or Moist Diseases, and consequently in Defluxions of Rheums and the Dropsy. A dram is sufficient for a Dose in some Cordial-water that is healing or cheering the Noble Parts.   

Elixir for the Head: Take Misleto that grows on the Oak, Piony-roots, and the bigger Valerian, of each an ounce and an half; Laurel, Juniper-berry, and Piony-seeds, of each an ounce: Cinnamon, Mace and Cubebs, of each three drams; Flowers of Rosemary, and Lavender, of each a handful: bruise what is to be so bruised, and macerate them together twenty four hours in the Water of Black Cherries and Lily of the Valleys, and Spirit of Wine rectified, of each twenty four ounces: then having distilled them, dissolve in the Water a pound of the best white Sugar, and a dram of the Tincture of Ambergrise: keep it close stopped.   

Elixir Proprietatis: The new way to do this, is to take Saffron, Myrrh and Aloes, of each half an ounce; the rectified Spirit of Wine very near three quarters of a pint; Spirit of Sulphur per campanam, half an ounce: draw, in the first place, a Tincture from the Saffron into the Spirit of Wine, by infusing or digesting it six or seven Days: then add grossly bruised Aloes and Myrrh, and the Spirit of Sulphur; digest them in a long Viol well stopped for the space of thirty Days, but keep it frequently shaking; than you will find a black Tincture on the faeces, pour that off, and let it stand still for twelve hours, and so decant it till you find no faeces at the bottom. The Dose is fifteen or twenty drops in a Morning, in a glass of Wine, or some other convenient Liquor.  
This Elixir is Stomachick, Anodyne, Alexipharmick, and Uterine. It has great success in Tertian Agues, and may be safely given to all Ages and Constitutions. It altars, Evacuates and Strengthens.   

Elixir Proprietatis. Vid. Antiscorbutic Elixir Proprietatis.   

Elixir Salutis: Take of the Leaves of Senna, four ounces; Guajacum and the Roots of Elecampane dried, of the Seeds of Anise, Caraways and Coriander, of each two ounces; of Licorice two ounces; Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound: infuse them cold in three quarts of Aquavitae, or some other good Spirit of the like Nature, not too strong, for the space of four Days: draw it off, and bottle it up. If it proves an excellent Cordial, you may, if you would have it somewhat more Purging, put a few slices of Rhubarb into it. It is good in the Colic, or any Pains of the Belly; also it cleanses the Stomach, and dissolves the Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys. It brings away the Gravel and Stone. Two or three spoonfuls are a sufficient Dose for an ordinary Constitution; and so more or less, as it can be borne.   

Elm: The Leaves, Branches and Bark of this Tree are Astringent. The Leaves bruised with Vinegar, stop Bleeding; and applied to fresh Wounds, facilitate their Cure; as also boiled in Vinegar very strong, they much avail in the Leprosy. The Bark of the younger Sprigs boiled in Spring-water almost to the Consistence of a Syrup, and a third part of Aquavitae mixed with it, is an excellent Remedy for the Gout in the Hip, if the Part affected with it be fomented before the Fire. The Water in the Bladders on the Leaves, clears the Skin, and mends the Complexion.  being wet in this Water, and applied, helps Burstenness in Children, the Bowels being at the same time kept up with a Truss.  
Take of the Bark of Elm six drams, Red Roses half a handful, Raisins of the Sun stoned twenty: boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a pint and an half; dissolve in it Honey of Roses, and simple Oxymel, of each two ounces. It is an excellent Gargarism for Inflammations, and in hot Diseases that dry and parch the Mouth or Throat, or in such as afflict them with too much Phlegm and slimy Matter.   

Emplaster of Bettony: Take green Bettony, Burnet, Sage, Milfoil, Agrimony, Peneroyal, and the lesser Centaury, great Comfrey and Clary, of each six ounces; Mastic and Frankincense, of each three drams; Orris and round Bithwort, of each six drams; white Beeswax, and clarified Turpentine, of each eight ounces; Rosin of the Pine six ounces; Gum-Elemy, and Oil of Fir, of each two ounces; Whitewine three pints: beat the Herbs very well, and set them seven or eight Days to infuse in Whitewine; stir them well, then boil them, and strain out the Wine: boil it with a gentle Fire to the consumption of a third part; add the Oil of Fir, next the Wax melted, and so the Rosin and Gum, and the Turpentine; and having boiled them a little, and removed them from the Fire, cool them by degrees; then put to all these, well mixed, the Powders of Orris, and Bithwort, and make 'em into an Emplaster.  
This is exceeding strengthening and restoring. It is applied with great success to fractured or broken Bones, all so to strengthen weak Joints. and heal Sprains or Bruises of the Sinews; small Emplasters of it laid to the Temples and Nape of the Neck, draw Rheums away from the Eyes, and also ease Pains in the Head.   

Emplastrum Caesaris: This is called Caesar's Plaster, for the strength it gives to those that are weakened with Sickness or Hurts. To make it, Take red Roses an ounce and a half, the Roots of Bithwort, Cyprus Nuts, the several sorts of Saunders, Mint, Corianderseed, Dragrons-Blood, Hypocistis, Acacia, seal'd-Earth, bowl and red Coral powdered, of each two drams; Turpentine that has been infused in Plantain-water four ounces, Oil of Roses three ounces, white Wax twelve ounces, Rosin of the Pine ten ounces, Stone-pitch six ounces, Plantain, Orpin, and Housleek-Juices, of each an ounce. To the Rosin, Wax, and Pitch melted together, add the Turpentine and Oil, than the Hypocistis and Acacia dissolved in the Juices, and then the Powders; and so over a gentle Fire make them into an Emplaster, or Cerecloath.  
It is very astringent, and therefore strengthens the Back and all other Parts of the Body, removes Pains, and is a most excellent Remedy for the over-straining of the Sinews.   

Endive-Water: This is an excellent cooling Water to mix with cooling Syrups, and to give in Fevers and hot Diseases: It allays Inflammations and the Heat of the Blood. The Herb eaten in Salads raw or boiled, resists Choler. It prevents Heat breaking out, that deforms the Body with Pimples and Redness, and frequent flushings of the Face.   

Epilepsy: Children, it is observed, are many times troubled with the Falling-Sickness, either during the first Month after a Looseness, (in which case, Diacodium, to the quantity of a Pepper-Corn dissolved in Saxifrage-water, or the Woman's Milk, is given with success,) or about the time of their breeding Teeth from the 7th. to the 10th. Month; it is accompanied with a Cough, or, what is worse, Vomiting and Looseness, voiding green Excrements: In this case apply a blistering Plaster, as soon as may be to the hinder Part of the Neck.  
Take of Langius' Epileptic Water three drams, Liquid Laudanum two drops, or more, if the Child be strong; Syrup of Peony one dram; mix them for a Draught, which must be presently given: or, Take of the Water of Rue three ounces, Langius' Epileptic Water, the Compound of Briony-Water, of each an ounce; Syrup of Gillyflowers half an ounce. Of these well mixed together make a Cordial or Julep, and give a spoonful every Hour, if the forementioned Draught has not discussed the Paroxysm.   

Eringoes, otherways called Sea-Holly: It forces Urinal and the Courses, expels Wind, helps the Jaundice, and eases the Gripes in the Belly and Stomach. The Roots candied are reckoned amongst Sweetmeats as very wholesome and pleasant, and are good Preservatives against the Plague, contagious Fevers, and infectious Airs: those that have the Consumption would do well to eat them often. The Roots candied, cure the Gonorrhoea, and prove advantageous in contributing to the Cure of the French-Pox. Some hold that being stamped and applied to the Bellies of Women, they prevent Abortion.   

Erysipelas: This is a very strange Distemper, for all Parts of the Body, with the Face especially, are swollen red, and full of Pains, overspread with little thick Pimples, which sometimes rise into Blisters, and the Eyes seem to be closed with the Swell, Coldness, Shivering, and the like. In this case, open a Vein in the Arm, let not the quantity taken away exceed nine or ten ounces. Then take of Lily-roots and Marshmallow-roots, of each an ounce; Camomil-flowers, Elder an Base Mullein, melilot, the Tops of St. John's-wort, an the lesser Centaury, of each a handful; Fenugreekseed and Linseed of each half an ounce; boil them to three pound in a quantity of Water sufficient to do it; strain out the Liquor, and when you design it for use, add two ounces of the Spirit of Wine, and in this Water so strained out, dip pieces of new Flannel, and having squeezed them, apply them hot, often anointing the Parts so grieved after fomentation, with the fllowing Direction.  
Take half a pint of the Spirit of Wine, Treacle two ounces, Long-pepper and Cloves in Powder, of each two drams; make these, by mixture and infusion, as strong as may be; and being strained, dip Cap-paper into the Liquid so strained, and apply it wet and warm to the afflicted Part; and for the more speedy Remedy after letting Blood, the Party may take a Clyster of Milk with Syrup of Violets, and cooling Emulsions and Juleps.   

Erysipelas: An experienced Remedy for this, is, the Blood of a Hare, best in March, but at other times may serve: Take it hot if you can, and anoint the Place infected with it; otherwise apply a Linnen-Rag, that has, though a good while since, throughly imbibed the fresh Blood, and dried in the Air; but if it be too hard or stiff, soften it with a little fair Water, the cold taken off.   

Evil: for this, commonly called the Kings-Evil, Take Cuttlebone uncalcined, scrape off the outside, or that which is coloured, dry the white part, and beat it to Powder very fine, and take half a dram in a spoonful of Aqua Malvae.   

Excoriation: This is when the true Cutis is affected; then Take Prunella, called in English Self-heal, bruise it well in a Mortar of glass or stone, and apply it to the Part afflicted, renewing it but seldom, and sometimes not at all.   

Excoriations: Melt Mutton-Suet of the Kidneys, freed from Fibres or Strings, two ounces; add by little and little sixteen or eighteen drops, though in small Matters eight or ten may serve, of Oil of Turpentine; spread the Mixture on a Linen-cloth, and apply it to the Part afflicted by binding, or otherwise.   

Expectoration: This is designed to ripen Coughs; and dissolve Phlegm. To do it, Take hard Onions, fry them with sweet Butter, or first with a little fair Water, to take away their Taste; then take them out of the Pan and boil them with new Milk till it be well impregnated with them, and they become tender: Mash them together, and for your better Accommodation, you may scrape Among them some Sugar-Candy, it matters not whether white or brown, and put it up in a Galley pot, taking Night and Morning two or three spoonfuls.   

Eyes Blistered: Take Saffron half a dram, the Juice of Sloes a scruple; mix them with Rose-water, and beat them into as fine a thinness as you can with the White of an Egg, and drop a little of it into the Eyes, and anoint the Eyelids with it when you go to Bed.   

Eye bright: It chief helps and strengthens the Sight, and cures such Diseases as are incident to the Eyes. The distilled Water wonderfully strengthens the Sight, and the Juice is very good on the like account. Divers knowing Oculists order the Parties, whose Sights are defective, to use this Herb in Salads, and in their Broths; and Drink.   

Eye Bruised: Take Bettony and Eye-bright Water, of each a spoonful; drop three or four drops of clarified Honey into it, then shake them together, dip a fine Rag or Cotten into it, and lay it to the Part grieved.   

Eyes Burnt or Scalded: Take Mucilages of Quince-seed, Fleawort, Linseed and Fenugreekseed, of each a scruple; boil them a little in four ounces of Bettony-water, filter it, and apply it to the Part.   

Eyes to Cure: If the Eyes be dull, cloudy, or specks, spots, or films begin to appear on them, Take Paracelsus, (Zibethum Occidentale) viz. Human-Dung of a good colour and consistence, dry it by degrees moderately, till it be capable of being reduced to Powder, than powder it and searce it very fine, a little of which must be blown once or twice a day into the Eyes, as the nature of the defect requires; then keep it in for a time by closing the Lids, and so wash it off with Eye-bright-water.   

Eyes foul, a Water: Take prepared Pearl and Coral, of each a scruple; Aloes finely powdered three grains, red Rose-water and Succory, of each an ounce, mix them well: and if you would have the Mixture stronger, put in a few grains of Trochisci Albi Rhasis in very fine Powder, and wash the Eyes with it as you see occasion.   

Eyes Inflamed, or Bloodshot: Boil a new-layed Egg hard, cut it in halves without taking out the Yolk, and apply one of these considerably warm, but not too hot, to the Eye grieved; and keep it on, if need requires, six or eight hours, and it will draw away the Heat: Or you may make a Poultis with it and rotten Apples, and apply it in the same manner.   

Eyes Inflamed: Take the Juice of a rotten Pippin; some Hen-dung, that of it which is the whitest; beat the White of an Egg very fine, burn the Hen-dung to Powder, put the Apple-juice to the White of the Egg; add Loaf-sugar finely scraped: and having well mixed them together, dip a Feather in them, and drop a few drops into the Eyes, winking hard to keep it in; and by often so doing, you will find the Pain, Redness and Heat abated.  
Or This, (especially if the Sight be weakened with the long continuance of the Inflammation, or any other matter,) Powder very small a whole Nutmeg, so that being dried well, it may be sifted through a fine Lawn: do the like by the Leaves and Flowers of Eyebright, the tender Tops and the Seeds of Fenel; add a small quantity of  Alom and fine Sugar as finely powdered: mix these together, and take the Composition from a dram to two ounces or more at a time, doing it often, and washing your Eyes both Morning and Evening with fair Water.   

Eyes, an Ointment in general: Take new Hogs-lard two ounces, Tutia prepared six drams, Lapis Haematitis washed one scruple, Aloes washed and powdered twelve grains, Seed-pear finely powdered three grains; steep the Lard in Rose-water six hours, and then wash it very well in Whitewine: powder the Tutia very finely, and so over a gentle fire make it into an Ointment with a little Fenel-water. And in case of any grief in the Eyes, you may use it with success by anointing the Eyelids, and Corners of the Eyes, for present ease, till you meet with a more particu●… Remedy.   

Eyes Pained: For the extraordinary Pain or Heaviness in the Eyes, Take Flower of Melilot, of Elder and of Marrigolds, of each a small handful; Linseeds, Fenegreek, Fleawort, Cummin and Quinces, of each half a scruple; French Barley half an ounce, Damask roses half an ounce, Spring-water a pint and an half: mix, boil and strain these well, and with the Decoction foment the Forehead and Temples considerably warm.   

Eyes, their Pains to assuage: Take young Endive, and stamp it with the Oil of Roses and Violets, and anoint the Corners of the Eyes and the Eyelids with it; and so doing often, the Pain will quickly be abated.   

Eyesalve: Take Oil of Myrtle, and Juice of Rue, of each two ounces; boil them, and strain out the liquid part, and set it again upon the fire, and put to it Saphire prepared half a dram, Jacinth one scruple, and Antimony half a scruple; burnt Copper one scruple, Tutia prepared three drams: let them seethe on a gentle fire, and add two or three drams of Bees-wax, and so anoint the Eyelids, or spread it on a thin piece of Silk, and lay it on the Eyes. This helps Watery Eyes, the Pains in them, and stays Defluxions of Rheums.   

Eyesalve, another: Take Starch three quarters of an ounce, Tutia prepared in Rose-water half an ounce, fresh Hogs-grease an ounce; bruise and temper them well together: anoint the Eyelids, Forehead and Temples with it. It remedies Inflammations, Pains, Wounds and Bloodshot Eyes.   

Eyelid Sore: Take Tutia and white Sugar-candy, of each half a dram; Powder of red Roses a dram and an half, the Crumbs of white-Bread half an ounce; Coral prepared, and Pearl, of each half a dram; Flowers of Saint John's-wort one dram: make these into a Poultis, and lay it to the Eye on a fine Cloth.   

Eyes Spotted: If any Spots appear growing on the Eye, Take fine White-Paper, let it flame away upon a clean Pewter Plate, till so much Oil of the Paper sticks to the Plate as you have occasion for; so blow off the Ashes of the Paper, and with a little of your Spittle mingled with the Oil, mix it with your Finger, or some other convenient thing, into an Ointment; which with a Feather apply gently to your Eyes once or twice a day, as need shall require, or as you can bear it; for it will make the Eyes smart, but in a little time you will find the benefit of it.   

Eyes Red: Take three grains of Camphire, and a large blanched Almond; incorporate them well by grinding them, and add by little and little two or three ounces of Red Rose-water, still grinding them till the whole be brought to a kind of Emulsion, drop a little of this in the place affected, and it will, by often so doing, ease the Pain, and take away the Redness.   

Eyes Red and Fiery: Take Ground-Ivy, single Daisie-roots, and Housleek: distil them, or for want of that Convenience, press out the Juice; dissolve in two ounces of the Water or Juice about a quarter of a spoonful of clarified Honey, and suffer them to depurate by residence; then drop it into the Eyes, two or three drops at a time, and continue so doing four or five times a day: But if there be no great Inflammation, there must be more of the Daisie-root and Ground-Ivy, than of the Housleek.   

Eye-Water: Take , Rose-leaves, Saffron, Spica, of each a quarter of an ounce; beat them small, and make Cakes of them with Spring-water; and when you are to use it, take a dram thereof and steep it in the White of an Egg well beaten, and wash the Eye with it; and by often so doing, it will not only repel the Matter, and consume the Pain, but produce a clearer Sight than usual.  
Or, Take Juice of Fennel well clarified an ounce, Aloes two drams and a half, Leaf of beaten Gold, mix them well together; then add seven grains of Frankincense, and dissolve them in Whitewine: mix them all together with Fenel and Rose-water, and drop three or four drops of it into the Eye twice a Day.   

Eye-Water, another: Take two or three ounces of the simple Water of Pimpernel, distil it in Balneo, and put it into a little Pot or Porringer of Rose-copper, and then put into it the quantity of a hazle Nut of strong Quicklime; cover it, and let the Ingredients lie till the Liquor hath acquired a bluish Colour; very warily pour off the clear, and add to it as much live-Honey as will give it a little Taste. If you find it too strong, weaken it with Water of Pimpernel, or clear Spring-water, and apply it to the Eyes, by bathing them with a linen Rag dipped in it. This takes away Heat, Pains, sharp Rheums, Prickles and Inflammations of the Eyes.   

Eye-Water, another: Take Red Rose-water, and Water of Plantain, of each an ounce; Tutia prepared half a scruple, Lapis Lazuli prepared six grains, Red Coral prepared five grains: mix and make them into a Collyrium, or Eye-Water. This dropped into the Eye, being first very well mixed by shaking, wonderfully revives and clears the Sight, provided there be no great foulness nor scrofulous disposition of the Body, or temperament of the Party, It takes away the Redness from the Eyelids, if a Sponge be dipped in it, and often wetted with it: it also takes off thin Skins very easily.   

Eye-Water, another: Take the Flowers of Corn-flower, Blue-bottles gathered with their Cups; bruise and infuse them in Snow-water  hours at the least, then distil them in a moderate Sand-bath.  
This Water being very Cooling, most effectually cures the Infirmities of the Eyes, especially those that are troubled with Inflammations. It Cheers, Strengthens and Preserves the Sight.   

Falling-sickness: Take half a dram of choice Amber, powder it very fine, and take it fasting once a day in a quarter or a pint of Whitewine, for seven or eight days successively   

Falling-sickness: Take Misleto of the Oak, the Leaves and Berries, and all the tender Branches; dry them in a gentle Oven or Stove, so that they may be beat to Powder: sift it very fine, and give as much as will lie on a Shilling, for one of riper years: for middle age a lesser quantity; and so to a Child, by lessening the Dose. Let it be taken both Morning and Evening in Couslip-water, three Days before and three Days after the Full of the Moon: repeat the Dose for a considerable time, at least two Months, if necessity requires it.   

Falling-sickness, another: Take Senna two ounces; Turbith, Mechoacan, of each half an ounce; Rasping of Elks-hoof, Powder of a dead Man's Skull, and Nutmeg, of each two drams; Roots and Seeds of Peony, Misleto of the Oak, of each half a dram; Cardamom, Cassia Lignea, and Cloves, of each a dram; Flowers of Male Peony, of Lily of the Valleys, of Lavender, of the Tyle-tree, of each half a dram; Rhenish-wine one quart and half a pint: digest these in a warm place for two Days, then strain out the liquid part, and sweeten in with three ounces of double-refined Sugar. This is also good against Vapours.   

Falling-sickness, another: Take white Incense, called Olibanum; Mastic and Spicknard, of each three ounces; Galbanum and Opopanax, of each half an ounce; Viscus Quercinus an ounce, Amber half a scruple, Peony-seeds half a dram, Labdanum two drams, the Seeds of wild Rue one dram, Nutmeg and Cubebs, of each half an ounce; Castor and Copperas, of each half a dram: having beaten those that are to be beaten very well, and dissolved the Gums in Oil of Rue, incorporate them with your Hands, or some convenient Instrument, with the Viscus; which being done, and the Amber put in last in Powder, the Head of the Party being shaved, spread a Plaster of the Composition, and lay upon it, and renew it once in three or four Days: And in so doing, the afflicted Party will find great ease, and in a little time the Cause of this troublesome and dangerous Distemper removed.   

Fats to Prepare: To do this, that they may be in readiness on sundry emergent Occasions, Take the freshest of any of them, take out the little Veins and Fibers, and separate the Fat from the Skin, then wash it in clear Water till it is freed from Blood; then mince it very small, or bruise it, and put it into a double Vessel to melt; then strain it into clean Water, and having remained there till it becomes cold, drain the Water from it, and keep it in an earthen glazed Pot in a cool place, though not too moist, and it will keep good for use a Twelvemonth.   

Fevers continual: Make a Decoction of the Leaves of Rue in Spring-water, or other clear Water till the Liquor be pretty strong of the Plant; which being strained, make it somewhat a palatable Liquor, with a sufficient quantity of Licorice, Sugar, or an aromatic Body, and to half a pint of it add ten drops of the Spirit, not Oil, of Vitriol, and take it Morning, Afternoon, and at Night.   

Fevers, another Remedy: Take in half a pint of some convenient cooling Liquor, half an ounce of Hartshorn burnt to a great whiteness, and powdered, being first bruised a little in the Liquid, and this may be taken as occasion requires.   

Fevers, another Remedy: Apply to the Soles of the Feet a mixture, or thin Cataplasm, made of the Leaves of Tobacco, cut and beaten into a moisture with new Currans.   

Feverfew: This is excellent in the Diseases of the Womb; the Decoction of it forces the Courses, and expels the Afterbirth, and does all a bitter Herb is capable of doing. It is successful in Fevers, by being applied to the Soles of the Feet. Take of it a handful, warm it between two Tiles, and apply it twice or thrice, and it cures a Hemicrania; and the crude Herb applied to the Crown of the Head, cures the Headache. A Decoction of it, with the Flowers of Camomel, cures the hysterical Symptoms, and forces Childbed purgations, etc.   

Figtree: The Fruit of the Figtree applied outwardly Ripens, Mollifies and Attracts; being beaten with Salt and Leaven, they break pestilential Buboes, or other tumors, in few Days. The Juice of the Figtree is very biting, and may be numbered among Caustics, and may be used for the Cure of Warts, and suchlike excrescencies of the Skin.  
Take Raisins of the Sun stoned one ounce, Jubebs and Sebestens of each fifteen; eight fat Figgs, and six Dates, half an ounce of Licorice, and an ounce of French Barley; of the Leaves of Maidenhair, Hyssop, Scabious and Colts-foot, of each a handful: boil them in three pints of Fountain-water, till a third part be consumed: press out the Decoction, and take eight spoonfuls three times a Day. This is a very good Pectoral.   

Figwort, its Virtues: The Powder of the dried Root applied to Piles, dries them up; it is also useful in Cancers, and eating Ulcers; a dram of the Powder taken inwardly, expels Worms; the Water distilled from the Roots steeped in Water and Vinegar, cures the redness of the Face: and of this Herb an excellent Ointment is made for killing the Itch, and bringing away the Scurf of it: The Decoction of it taken inwardly, and the Herb bruised and Poultiswise applied, dissolves and brings away congealed and clotted Blood: The distilled Water takes away Freckles, Morphew, etc. There is a Plaster of it made for the King's-Evil, as follows:  
Take the Leaves of Figwort, Houndstongue and the Flowers of white Archangel and Foxglove, cut them very small, then melt a pound of Lard; and it being very hot, put them into it, boil them till they are crisp, then strain them out, and put in others, till the Ointment look very thick of the green; then having strained them out, put into the Hogs-Lard two ounces of Turpentine, and an ounce of Verdigrease, and as much Rosin refined, and Bees-wax, as will make it into a Salve; spread a Plaster, and apply it to the grieved Part, renewing it often. It assuages the Swell, disperses the Humours, not only of the King's-Evil, but of any other Knots, Kernels, Bunches, or Wens.   

Filbert: This Garden-Nut is very pleasant, and used mostly for serving up at Tables among other Fruits; an Oil is extracted from them that supples hard Swell, and is successfully used in old Sores; but the much eating of these breeds the Headache, and much Windiness in the Stomach.   

Films: This is when a thin Skin grows over the Eye, and clouds the Sight. To take it off, Make some Limewater, by pouring a gallon of boiling Water on a pound of Lime unslacked, stirring the Lime in it, and after some Hours decant warily that which is clear, and to a pound of this Water, put an ounce of choice Verdigrease in powder, and in a very moderate Heat extract a Tincture of a fine, but somewhat dilute saphirine colour, but not too deep; decant this very warily, and let a drop of this, as often as necessity requires, fall into the Eye, the Party winking hard, and it will shrivel off the Film.   

Firtree Has its Virtues, mostly consisting in its Rosins and Turpentines, which in their proper Alphabets you may see: The Branches and Tops of this Tree are infused in Diet-Drinks, and given for the Scurvy with good Success.   

Fits-Apoplectick: Fix a Cupping-glass without scarification to the Nape of the Neck, and one to each Shoulder, and let them take fast hold, till they begin to loosen, and they will draw down the afflicting Humour or Vapour from the Brain.   

Fits of the Mother: To remedy this, Dip Sea-Salt in Vinegar, and into it dip a soft Linnen-Rag, fold it three or four times double, lay it warm to the Soles of the Feet, and keep it on till the Fit be over.   

Flag, the sweet one: This grows in divers Parts of England, and is distinguished from others by its curious Scent. It is chief used in Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Courses; also in the Colic it provokes Urinal: And the Roots of it candied are of a pleasant Taste, nourishing and grateful to the Stomach, and keeps out evil Airs and Infections; and for this cause the Turks frequently chew it, and the Tartars boil it in their Water, or infuse the Roots of it in cold Water before they drink it.   

Flax: There is an Oil made of the Seed of this Plant that is very excellent in sundry Medians, as also alone. It is taken inwardly in the Colic, Quinsy, Pleurisy, and Consumption; outwardly it mollifies hard Swell, eases Pains, and is used much in Paintings, etc.   

Flax, or, Wild Dwarf-Flax: This Herb infused in Whitewine, after it has been bruised, for a whole Night over hot Embers, purges watery Humours very strongly: Take of this purging Flax an handful, of sweet Fenelseeds two drams; boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water, adding to every six ounces two ounces of White-wine, and it makes a gentle purging potion, being taken two or three spoonfuls at a time.   

Flix of the Liver: Take Agrimony one handful, Squinant two handfuls, spikenard and Liquorice, of each half a handful; Mace and Mastic, of each half an ounce; Lignum Aloes three drams, , Lapis Hematitis, and Terra sigillata, of each six drams, Corianderseeds prepared one ounce and half, Spodium two drams, dried Roses one ounce, Barry-Meal two ounces, the Filings of Iron prepared one dram, the Compound of the three kinds of Saunders, made with Camphire, half an ounce, Oil of Myrtle and Mastic, of each two drams: powder the Herbs, then mix with them the other things made into Powders, then add the Oils, and being set over a gentle Fire in a close Vessel till dissolved, stir them well to the thickness of a Plaster, and apply it very large on the right side of the Body, so that it may reach from the Breast unto the Stomach.   

Flixweed: A dram of the Seed of this taken in red Wine, or Syrup of Sloes, stays Loosnesses, and both the Seed and the Herb help in the Flux of the Belly, and the Bloodyflux: It is used in Plasters for Wounds and sordid Ulcers; and some hold, that the Seed boiled in Vinegar, and drank warm, expels Gravel.   

Florentine of Carp: Take a quarter of a peck of fine Flower, sweet Butter three quarters of a pound, and six Yolks of Eggs; work these up in the Butter and Flower, and dry them; then put to it as much fair Water as will make it up into a Past: then take the Carp, scale it alive, and scrape off the slime, draw it, and take away the Guts and Gall, and scotch it, season it lightly with Nutmeg, Pepper, and Salt, and lay it into the Past made up into a Pie in the fashion, a● near as may be, of the Fish; put the Milt into the Belly, lay on sliced Dates in halves, Orange or Lemon sliced, Barberries, Raisins, and Butter; close it up, and bake it; and being almost baked, close it up and liquor it with Butter, Sugar, Verjuice, Claret, and White-wine, and ice it over, and so serve it up when it is hot, and it will prove a very acceptable Banquet.   

Florentine of Eggs: To do this, Boil about eighteen Eggs hard, then mince them with two pound of Beef-Suet clean taken from the Skins and Fibers, till it be very small; then take a quarter of an ounce of Cloves and Mace, one large Nutmeg; let these be finely beaten or grated with a quarter of an ounce of Cinnamon; then add half a pound of fine Sugar, and a pound and half of Currans, a quarter of a pound of Dates minced very small; then mince or bruise very small some choice Lemon-peel, and lastly having mixed all the foregoing things well together, put about a quarter of a pint of Rose-water, and a little Salt in it.  
When you have so ordered the Materials, put them into the Oven; let it moderately bake, and then have in readiness this Leer to put to it when it comes out, viz. Heat a little fair Water, and beat up half a pound of Butter with it to a thickness; add a quarter of a pound of Sugar, and the Juice of a Lemon, and so serve them up upon it.   

Florentine with Partridge: Your Partridge being roasted and minced small with the weight of the Meat in Beef-Marrow, put to it two ounces of Orange-peel, with as much green Citron small minced; season the Meat with beaten Cloves, Nutmeg, Mace and Salt, and Sugar, mixing all together, put the Materials into a Puff-past, and open it, being baked, and put in half a grain of Musk or Ambergrease dissolved in the Juice of an Orange and Rose-water; stir them among the Meat, then cover it, and serve it up.   

Florentine of Tongues: Boil and Blanche a fresh Neats-Tongue, and being cold, cut it into little square bits as big as great Hazle-Nuts, lard it with small Lard, then having another Tongue raw, take off the Skin, mince it with Beef-suet, then lay one half of it in a Dish on a Sheet of white Paper, and lay on the Tongue, being finely larded and seasoned with Nutmeg, Pepper and Salt, and with the other minced Tongue put grated Bread to it, some sweet Herbs small minced, and Yolks of raw Eggs, and being made up into Balls as big as small Washballs, lay them on the Tongue with, some Barberries, Marrow, and interlarded Bacon and Butter, close it up with a convenient Lid, and bake it; and being baked, liquor it with Butter beaten up with Verjuice, and the Yolks of three or four Eggs strained.   

Flower of Rice and Cream: To make a dainty Dish of this, Take half a pound of Rice, see it be well dusted and cleansed, then wash it and dry it in a moderate Heat, and when it is dry, rub it and beat it in a Mortar till the Flower be very fine; then take a pint of thick Cream, and the Whites of three or four new-layed Eggs, beat them well together with a little Rose-water, and set them on a soft Fire, boil it very thick, and so put it into a Dish, and let it stand till it is cold; then slice it out, cast some Biscuit on it, and serve it up.   

Flummery to Make: This in the Western Parts of England is made of Wheat-Flower, which is held to be the most heartening and strengthening: To make this, Take half a peck of Wheat-Bran, let it soak in cold Water three or four Days, then strain out the milky Water of it, and boil it to a Jelly; then season it with Sugar, Rose and Orange-flower-water, and let it stand till it is cold and thickened again, then eat it with white, or Rhenish Wine, or Cream, or Milk, or Ale.   

Flux of the Belly: Take half an ounce of Mithridate, two ounces of fine Sugar, dissolve these over a gentle Fire in a pint of new Milk, and take it as a Clyster.   

Flux-Bloody: Take Syrup of Sloes two ounces, the Powder of Acorns a quarter of an ounce, the Ashes of Ash-keys, or the Bark of the Root of an Ash-Tree two drams, Conserve of Roses a quarter of an ounce, dissolve them in a quarter of a pint of Claret or red Wine, and drink it fasting somewhat warm. Do this two or three times, and you shall find the Flux abate, and the Body restored to a liveliness.   

Flux-Bloody, another: Take the Powder of Crepitus Lupi, or Fuss-Balls, make it up with Conserve of Provence-roses, and take it often from a scruple at a time to about half a dram of the Powder, and it will stop the efflux of Blood, and heal the Bowels.   

Flux, or Looseness: Take the Filings of Needle-makers Steel four ounces, put them into a glazed Pipkin and pour thereon a quart of the deepest red Wine; let it boil till about three parts of the Liquid be consumed; stir it often, and strain it whilst it is hot; then take two spoonfuls of it in warm Broth or Ale in the Morning fasting, for three or four days sucessively. This likewise is good to stay the Bloodyflux, and remove the Cause.   

Flux of the Whites: To remedy this, Take half an ounce of Ising-glass, dissolve it over a gentle fire in a pint of New-Milk.   

Frankincense: This grows chief in the Forest of Arabia, where they lance the Bark of the Trees, the better to let the Frankincense flow out, or else the Liquor whereof it is made. This being drank about a dram in a glass of Whitewine well digested, is very good against the Dysentery and Fluxes of the Belly, increases the Memory, chases away Sadness, and cheereth the Heart. It stays the Bleeding at the Nose, being powdered and incorporated with the White of an Egg and Aloes, and held to it, or put up the Nostrils tentwise. It eases the Pains and Migraines, being mixed with the Whites of Eggs and the Powder of Myrrh, and spread on a linen Cloth, and applied to the Forehead and Temples.   

Freckles, to take away: Take four spoonfuls of Fumitory-water, a spoonful of the Oil of Tartar, and the Gall of a Cock; mingle these together over a gentle fire, till they become a kind of Ointment, and with it anoint the places where the Freckles are, and let it dry on them: Then take a little Rye-meal, put it into Milk, and wash off the Ointment.   

French way for Carp: To stew these Fish the French way, Put it in boiling Liquor, and take a good large Dish or Stew-pan that will contain the Carp, put it into as much Claret as will cover it; wash off the Blood, and take the Fish out, and put into the Wine in the Dish three or four slices of Onions, some large Blades of Mace and Pepper grossly beaten, with a little Salt; and when the Pan boils, put in the Carp, and cover it close; and being well stewed down, dish it with fine carved Sippets round about it: pour the Liquor it was boiled in on it, with the Spices, Onion, sliced Lemon, and Lemon-peel; run it over with beaten Butter, and garnish it with dry Bread.   

French-Pox: Take good Mercury sublimate, Mithridate or Venice-Treacle, of each an ounce; mix them well, and infuse them into a quart of Spring-water; set them in Balneo to dissolve in a close Vessel; and of this Liquor well settled take about half a spoonful, or, if need require it, a spoonful, but not above a spoonful and an half by any means; take it in a quarter of a pint of small Ale fasting in the Morning, and an ounce in the Afternon or Evening, the Stomach being as near as may be empty, intermitting every second Day, and taking, a gentle Purge.   

Frenzy or Madness: Take the Juice of Burnet, Sage and Ground Ivy, of each half an ounce, sweeten it with half an ounce of Virgin-Honey, and give it to the Party so distempered or afflicted.   

fricassee of Chickens: The Chickens for this purpose must be cut in small pieces, and fried in Butter: then pour on them some hot Broth, or boiling Water; put into it an Onion quartered, and a little shred Thyme and Parsley, with Pepper and Salt enough to season them; the Lean of Bacon cut small, and a few Cloves; the Yolks of Eggs beaten fine, with the Broth or Whitewhine-Vinegar; keep it in motion till the Sauce be thickened, and then serve it up. Note, If in this manner they be stewed too long, they will be Tough.   

fricassee of Pigeons: Take young Pigeons, cut off the Wings and Legs, and quarter the Bodies; put them into a Stew-pan, add to them some fat Bacon cut square in small pieces; as much whole Pepper and Salt as will season them, a few Cloves, a bundle of Parsley and Thyme, and an Onion quartered: then pour on so much fair Water as will nearly touch the top of the Pigeons: when they are tender, put in a sufficient quantity of Butter; change the Parsley and Thyme for some more that is fresh; then take the Yolks of Eggs finely beaten in a little of the Broth, White-wine and Verjuice; lay them out in a Dish upon Sippets with the Broth; squeeze an Orange over them, and serve them up.   

Fritters, the English way: Take a Pint of Canary, the like quantity of Ale, and a little Ale-Yest; the Yolks and Whites of nine Eggs beaten first very well by themselves, and then with the rest: add a pound of fine Flower, and little Ginger. Let the Butter stand a while, and then put in Apples thin sliced, and fry them with Beef-suet clarified, or a little Butter: take them out, and strew them over with fine Sugar; then sprinkle them with Rose or Cinnamon-water.  
Or, Take a quart of Flower, three pints of Mutton-broth when cold; Nutmeg and Cinnamon of each a quarter of an ounce; beat them fine, as also a Race of Ginger, five Eggs, and a little Salt, and strain the Materials; put to them some thin slices of Pippins, and fry them in as much Suet as will suffice, ordering them as the former in serving up. Some make the Batter of Eggs, Cream, Cloves, Mace, Saffron, Nutmeg, Barm, Ale and Salt. Others, of Flower, grated Bread, Mace, Ginger, Pepper, Salt, Barm, Saffron, Milk, Sack, or White-wine. Some again use Marrow perfumed with Musk and Rose-water, by being steeped in the latter with the slices of pleasant Pears of Quinces. Others again, with Raisins, Currans, Apples cut Dice-fashion, and as small, in quarters or in halves. I leave the Reader to his Choice.   

Fritters, the Italian way: Take a pound of Holland-Cheese or Parmesan, grate it into a pound of fine Flower, with as much fine Bisket-bread muskified and beaten to Powder; the Yolks of five Eggs, some Rose-water, Saffron, Sugar, Cloves, Mace, Cream; make of these well tempered a stiff Paste, and rolling it into Balls as big as Walnuts, fry them with clarified Butter.  
Or, Take a pound of Rice, boil it in a pint of Cream something thick; lay it abroad in a Dish, and when it is cold, bruise it in a Mortar with a pound of grated fat Old Cheese, some Musk, and the Yolks of four or five Eggs boiled hard, a little Sugar and grated Manchet; then mix these well together, make them into a stiff Paste, and that Paste into small Balls. You may, for the greater variety, colour them with the Juice of Flowers or Sweet-herbs, as Marrigolds, Violets, Carnations, etc. And if the Paste be too tender, work more Bread and Flower, and fry them pretty well; and when you serve them up, scrape on Sugar, and sprinkle them with the Juice of Oranges, or Orange-water.   

Fritters of Spinnage: Boil the Leaves of spinach in fair Water, yet but tenderly; then drain the Liquor from it as much as may be, stamp it or mince it very small; add to it beaten Cinnamon, Ginger and Nutmeg, grated Manchet, and the Whites and Yolks of Eggs, and as much Cream as will moisten it, yet the Batter must remain of an indifferent thickness; then put in some Currants that have been swelled in warm Water, mix them well together, and having a Kettle boiled with tried Suet or Lard, drop them into it by spoonfuls; and when they rise, take them out, for than they are enough.   

Fritters of divers Forms: To make these, Take a quart of fine Flower, strain it with some Almond-milk, Saffron, Sugar, White-wine; have then Moulds made of Tin, of various Forms, as Arms, Dolphins, Birds, Flowers, and the like; put the Batter into them, and place them in the Pan, covered with Suet or clarified Butter, and they will come out in such Forms as the Mould impresses on them, and look very pleasant, if orderly placed in a Dish.   

Fumitory: It purifies the Blood, and purges Choler, and is available in the Leprosy, Itch, and other Diseases of the Skin: The distilled Water is used for Beautifying, It opens Obstructions of the Liver, and helps the Jaundice and Scurvy. The Juice or Water of it dropped into the Eye, helps Dimness of Sight: Being mixed with Venice-Treacle, it resists the Plague and Pestilential Fevers. An Ointment made of the Juice of it, sharp-pointed Dock, and Honey, is a speedy Cure for the Itch, Botches, Scurff, or any other Deformity in the Skin.   

Fundament-falling: Take a quarter of an ounce of the best Ginger, slice it very thin, put it into a little Pan, and heat it by clear and well-kindled Coals, and receive the Fume of it call on by little and little in a kind of Close-stool, or some convenient Seat for that purpose, where the lower part of the Body may be well covered for about half a quarter of an hour at a time.   

GAlimafre of Mutton: To do this, Take a Gigget of Mutton, or, if you please, the whole Leg; when it is ready dressed, hash the one part as small as you can, and put it into a Dish with Onions minced small; and the other parts of your Mutton cut into bigger pieces, breaking likewise the Bones; set it a stewing, and add Verjuice, Pepper, a handful of Capers, a quarter of a pint of White-wine, some salt, and a little white Sugar; and when it is stewed, serve it upon Sippets carved or plain.   

Gall Obstructed: Take Gum Lac prepared, and of the Roots of Rhaponticum, of each three drams; Schenanth of Spike, Indian Nard, Mastic, Juice of Wormwood, Agrimony thickened, the Seeds of Smallage, Bishopsweed, Aniseeds, Fenil, Savin, bitter Almonds, Zedoary, the Roots of Madder, cleansed Myrrh, Asarabacca, Bithwort, the round and long Gentian, Saffron, Cinnamon, dried Hyssop, the Roots of Cassia and Bdellium, of each a dram and an half; Ginger and Black Pepper, of each a dram: dry, bruise, and make them into a Powder, and take half a dram of it at a time in a Vehicle. It purifies the Blood, opens Obstructions of the Gall, Liver, Spleen and Bladder. It's good for the Dropsy and Jaundice, and is a great Dispeller of Wind. It likewise cleanses the Stomach, and drives ill Vapours from, the Brain.   

Gammon of Bacon: To dress this the neatest way, having watered it, scrubbed it with a Brush, and scraped the Rind, and dried it again with a Cloth, put it into a Kettle wherein it may have sufficient room: then take Sage, Margerum, Fenel, Sprigs of Bays and Rosemary, and boil it till it is enough; then slit the Skin, and so curiously carve it, and stick the places so stripped with Cloves; strew some Pepper on it, and serve it up with Mustard, Pepper, Vinegar, and the Herbs small minced, cut up in fine slices of what length you please, but of a very indifferent thickness.   

Gangreen: When the part afflicted with this Malady has been lightly scarified, apply, as hot as can be endured, a Cataplasm of strong Brandy and Crumbs of White Bread, shifting it three or four times a day, or as often as you find convenient; or, for want of this, take a boiled Turnip, mash it with Hogs-lard, and lay it to the place.   

Gargarism to Cleanse the Head: Take Margerum, Galingale, Carraways, Ginger, Broad Plantain-seed, and Mustardseed; beat them grossly together, and put two ounces of this Powder to a quart of Water, in a Vessel that may be close stopped: boil it in Balneo, and when it is well sodden, put a quart of White-wine to it, and an ounce of clear Honey; and let it seethe again till about a pint of the Liquor be wasted, and then strain out the rest, and with it gargoyle the Mouth well every Morning, holding it hot also in your Mouth, that the Fumes may ascend up into the Head.   

Gargoyle: Take six ounces of Scabious-water, one spoonful full of Mustard, as much of Honey; put these into half a quartern of Wine-Vinegar, and mix them all together in a marble or glass Mortar, till they become very liquid, and then gargoyle your Mouth with it.   

Gargoyle for a Sore Throat: To make this, Take fur ounces of Plantain-water, three or four spoonfuls of Red Rose-water, mix them very well with the White of an Egg beaten to Water; sweeten this mixture with a small spoonful of white Sugar-candy beaten into Powder, or, for want of that, Loaf-sugar; and letting it go a little down your Throat, gugle it up again These will cool and allay the Heat, and take away the hot Humours that occasion them.   

Garlick: This being stamped and infused in Vinegar, and drank, resists the Plague, and is good to dissolve the Stone, and bring away Gravel: and being made into a Syrup by boiling and squeesing out the Juice, and adding as much Sugar as will bring it into a Syrup, it wonderfully preserves the Lungs, removes Coughs and Colds, and kills Worms in the Belly and Stomach.   

Garlick: It provokes the Courses, and Urine; and helps the Bitings of Mad Dogs, and other venomous Creatures: It kills Worms in Children, and avoideth tough Phlegm, purging the Head, helping the Lethargy. It is a good Preservative against, the Plague; also cures Sores and Ulcers, takes away Spots, and Blemishes in the Skin, and eases Pains in the Teeth; breaks Imposthumes, and eases Pains in the Ears. It hath a special quality to discuss the Inconveniences coming by corrupt Airs, and Mineral Vapours, or by drinking unwholesome Waters or Liquors; as also by unadvisedly taking Wolf-bane, Henbane, or Hemlock, or other dangerous Herbs. It is held good in the Jaundice, Cramp, Convulsions, Falling-sickness, the Piles or Hemorrhoids, and such like Diseases proceeding from Cold. But it has not its Virtues without its Vices; for it heats very vehemently; and all such hot Simples send up ill Vapours to the Brain. In Choleric Persons it will increase the Choler; and in those that are troubled with Melancholy, it will attenuate the Humours, and cause strange Fancies and Visions in the Head; therefore let it be taken inwardly with great Moderation; but for outward Applications you need hot be so strict.   

Giblets to Bake: Let them be well cleansed and scalded, and season them well with Pepper, Sale and Nutmeg; put them into a Pie, than put some Butter, slice an Onion or two, and close up the Coffin with a Lid; bake them well, and soak them three Hours: then pour in more Butter into which a Nutmeg has been grated.   

Giblets to Boil: Take the Giblets of a Goose, or any other Fowl; scald them well, and boil them whole in Water and Salt, and two or three Blades of Mace, and so serve them on Sippets, finely carved, with beaten Butter, Lemons, scalded Gooseberries, scalded Grapes, Mace, Barberries, and Lemons sliced.   

Gillyflowers to Candy: Take refined Sugar, or white Sugar-Candy, to the weight of your Flowers, sift it, and put to if some Rose-water, set them over a Fire made of Charcoal, but not too hot; stir these till they be a candied Syrup height, then keep them in a dry place, and use them as you find occasion: and if you use them for Salads, put a little Wine-Vinegar to them to make the Syrup thinner.   

Gillyflowers to Pick: Take Clove-Gilliflowers, when just blown, clip the white Bottoms from them, when taken out of the Husks, lay them to steep a little in fair Water, boil up some Whitewine-Vinegar till the scum will come no more on it: squeeze the Water out of your Gillyflowers, and the Vinegar being cool, put them into it; then melt as much Sugar as is convenient in Rose-water; put it to them with a little broken Cinnamon, and a few Blades of Mace; stop them up close, and when you use them, mince them small, and putting a little fresh Vinegar to them, strew a little white Sugar finely beaten, and they are an excellent Sauce for Mutton or Lamb.   

Glove-Gilliflowers: These Flowers are of a fine temper, neither excessive in heat nor cold, nor dryness, nor moisture, that can be perceived in them: They are great strengtheners of the Heart and Brain, and therefore serve indifferently for Cephalicks or Cordials; good in Consumptions, and easy to Nature, helping it in many Emergencies. The Syrup and Conserve of these Flowers, are wonderfully fortifying against pestilential Fevers and Poisons, and may be taken with great safety at any timely Young or Old, either by themselves, or dissolved, or mixed in any convenient Liquors.   

Ginger: It is a Root belonging rather to a Herb or Plant, than a Tree; for it bears a Top like Reeds, and runs knotty in the Ground a great way yet is of admirable use, viz. It helpeth Digestion, looseneth the Belly, moderately is good for the Stomach, and profitable against all things that dim and hinder the Sight. It heateth much, though not at the first tasting, like Pepper, for which Cause some will not allow it to consist of subtle parts, though that may be attributed to its earthiness, as being a Root, and known to be composed of gross and undigested Substance, tending much to watery, yet is of excellent Use in Physic and Diet.   

Gingerbread to Make: Take a pound of Jordan-Almonds, a penny white Loaf grated and sifted among the Almonds, when blanched, and finely beat them together; then add an ounce of Ginger finely scraped, Licorice and Aniseeds in Powder, each a quarter of an ounce, add two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water, and make them all up in a Past with half a pound of Sugar, mould it and roll it thin, then print it and dry it in a Stove: And thus you may make Gingerbread of Sugar-plate, putting Sugar sufficient to it, that will keep all the Year round.   

Gladwin: That here intended, is that they call the Stinking sort. The Juice of it snuffed up the Nose, causes Sneezing, and purges the Head, Rheums, and offensive Matter: the Powder of the Root drunk in Wine has the same Effect, and gives ease to the Cramp and Convulsions of the Nerves: It mainly avails in the Pain of the Gout, or Sciatica, and gives ease to those that are afflicted with griping Pains in their Bowels, as also in the Strangury. The Roots boiled in Wine and drank, effectually procure women's Courses; but is dangerous to be taken by a Woman with Child; lest it cause Abortion: half a dram of the Powder removes Obstructions in the Ureters and Bladder, and immediately provokes Urin.   

Gleetings: Take four ounces of Spring-water, or rather Plantane-water, dissolve it in about one scruple of Sympathetick-Powder, or so much as will give it a sensible, but yet a faint Vitriol, like Tincture, inject as much as is usual, through a small Syrup every Morning and Evening, as long as need requires.   

Gloves to Perfume lightly: Rub over your Gloves with Gleer of Eggs and Benjamin-water, very thin and fine, wherein a grain of Musk, Ambergrease, or any other strong Perfume has been infused, and it will take and hold the Scent a long time: You may, as you like for change and alteration of Scent, rub them over with a fine Puff of Silk dipped in Gessimine, Orange-flower Butter, Essence of Roses, etc.   

Goards: This Plant is cooling and mollifying by Nature. The fresh Leaves applied to the Breasts of Women in Childbed, lessen their Milk; the Seeds are accounted among the four great cold Seeds, for a red fiery Face or often Flushings of the Face. Take the Seeds of Goards two ounces, the Kernels of Peach-stones four ounces, make an Oil of them by Expression, and anoint the Face often, and the redness will decrease, and in the end vanish.   

Goatsbeard: This Plant is reckoned delicious in Food, being often eaten raw in Salads; It's a great Nourisher, and therefore good for Consumptive People: It is used for the Cough, and in Diseases of the Breast, and difficulty of Breathing. It is held good to expel the Stone, and provoke Urine: The Juice of the Root of it, and the distilled Water have the same Effect, as the Juice or Concoction of the Herb.   

Goats-Blood Prepared: Take the Blood of a middle-aged Goat, receive it into an earthen Vessel, and having covered it with a Cloth, set it in the Sun that it may coagulate: then drain of the watery part, and dry the thicker part, so that it may be reduced into a Powder; mix it with the Juice of Nettles and Ash-leaves to stay Bleeding, or being taken a dram of it in a glass of the Decoction of Licorice in White-wine, it much comforteth the Heart and Lungs. It is also prepared for divers other Uses too tedious here to mention, but will occur in the various Medicine scattered over this Work.   

Golden Rob is excellent for Wounds inwardly or outwardly applied, two drams of the Powder heated in White-wine, and taken every Morning, removed the Obstructions of the Bowels, stops Fluxes of the Womb or Belly, and inward Bleeding.   

Gonorrhoea: To remedy this, Take two ounces of ripe Laurel-Berries, and infuse them for a Day in a quart of Whitewine, and let the Patiented drink about two or three spoonfuls twice a Day for a good while, and then intermit a Day, and so a third, that some gentle purging Medicine may be taken.   

Gonorrhoea, another: Take choice Mastic a sufficient quantity, beat it and searce it well, then put about half an ounce of it at a time in the Yolk of a new-layed Egg, washing it down with Ale or Beer, but not too much; or else take this, viz. Choice Amber and Mastic both reduced to very fine Powder, and very well mixed in equal parts, and of this Mixture give half a dram at a time in Chocolate, or Tea, etc. and if need require it, continue it for three Weeks, or a Month, purging the Day before you begin to take it, and once every Week afterward, especially when you leave off the use of the Powder.   

Gonorrhoea, another: For this, Take Mastic and the finest red Coral, of each an equal quantity, let them he separately reduced into a Powder very fine, and being well mixed, take about thirty or forty grains for one Dose in a glass of Whitewine.   

Gonorrhoea, another: To make Tablets for the stopping it, Take Seeds of Plantain, Agnus Castus, white Poppies Rue, red Roses dried, Mint and Coral prepared, of each two drams: reduce them into a Powder as fine as may be, and make it into Tablets with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, and fine beaten Sugar, of each eight ounces; make your Tablets half an ounce in weight, and take one of them in a Morning fasting: They are very proper to stop the Gonorrhoea after the general Remedies taken.   

Goose Boiled: Put it into a Pipkin, or other Vessel fit for it, boil it with strong Broth, or fair Spring-water, and scum it clean, then add three or four sliced Onions, some Currants, Mace, Raisins, Pepper, and a bundle of Sweet-Herbs, grated Bread, White-wine, and two or three Cloves; and when it is boiled enough, slash it on the Breast, and dish it up on fine carved Sippets; and lay on a few slices of Lemon and Lemon-peel, Barberries, or Grapes, and run it over with beaten Butter, Sugar, or Ginger, and trim the Dish sides with grated Bread, or beaten Ginger: And this way you may dress and serve up any large Waterfowl, as Swans, Ducks, Teal, Whoopers, etc.   

Goose Old, to Boil tender: Take the Goose being powdered, and fill her Belly with Oatmeal, being first steeped in warm Milk or Water, then flash the Breast, and put her into a Pipkin with her Breast downward, put in them two or three slices of Onion, and Carrots cut like Lard, some Butter, Mace, Pepper, and Salt, Savory, Thyme, strong Broth, and a little Whitewine; let the Broth be half consumed, and stew it very softly, being well stewed, dish it up on Sippits, and pour on the Broth, etc. or you may boil her this way, viz. Put her into a Pipkin, as before; put to the Oatmeal you stuff her withal some Beef-suet, minced Onions and Apples, seasoned with Cloves, Mace, Sweet-Herbs finely shred, and also beaten Pepper, fasten the Neck and Vent by tying a string hard; and serve it up on Brews, with Colliflowers, Cabbage, Turnips and Barberries, and run 'em over with beaten Butter, and it will be very delicate and tender.   

Gooseberries: These being boiled in Broth, before they are ripe, are very agreeable to the Stomach, and are Cooling in Fevers. They stop the Flux of the Belly, and cause a good Appetite. They cure the Whites and Gonorrhoea. They are applied outwardly with good success for St. Anthony's-Fire, and Inflammations; but if before they are ripe they be eaten raw, especially to any excess, they cause griping Pains and Slime in the Bowels.   

Gooseberry-Cream: Coddle your Berries green, and boil them up with Sugar as for a Preserve; then put them into the Cream strained, while the Berries are whole; then scrape Sugar over them, and so serve them up in boiled or raw Cream. And in this manner you may use Strawberries, Raspberries, or Red Currants whole, in raw Cream; or serve them up with Wine, Sugar and Rose-water, without Cream.   

Gooseberries, to Preserve: Take of the largest Berries, when they are green and hard; of those, if you can get them, that are called Gascoign Berries: pick them clean, and covering them very close, let them stand over a gentle fire half an hour, to coddle a little; but suffer them not to boil, lest the Skins break; and when you perceive a fixed greenness on them, put them into a Sieve, that the Water may drain from them: then put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them and simper leisurely, being close covered, by which means they will look greener than they grew; and having suffered them to stand on the fire in the Syrup, take them off; and being cool, put them up for your use. Now as for Preserving the various sorts of Green Fruits, there are several proper Seasons to be observed: Viz.  
Green Gooseberries about Whitsuntide; White Wheat-plumbs in the midst of July; Pear-plumbs in the middle of August; the Peach and Pippin about Bartholomew-tide; Grapes in the beginning of September. Note, That when your Green-Fruit is to be Preserved, you have two Skillets of boiling Water, to shift 'em into one as the other cools, and fettle them in the Water till they fix to a greenness; then take and put them into a Sugar Syrup, and let them boil gently about a quarter of an hour, and so put them up for use.   

Gooseberries, to Pickle: Pick the Berries clean from the Stalks and Buds, lay them in soak in Salt and Water all night; then put them into the Juice of Crab-cherries, Grape-verjuice or other Verjuice, and so barrel them up. In this manner you may Pickle green Grapes and Plumbs.   

Gooseberry-Wine, the best way: Take the ripe Berries, and put them into a Vessel, and pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Water very hot; and then covering the Vessel very close, let them stand till the Liquor is impregnated with the Juice, at least three or four Weeks; then draw it out, mix it well, and ferment it with fine Sugar; putting it up in Bottles close corked, it will become a generous Wine: A little of it is good in Fevers, and other hot Diseases; or it may be drank for Pleasure, as ordinary Wine.  
A Decoction of the Leaves of Gooseberries cools and allays hot Swell and Inflammations; and when they first begin to bud, being beaten and infused in White-wine, they much help in expelling the Stone; and being eaten with cooling Herbs as Salads, they alloy the excessive Heat of the Liver and Stomach.   

Gout: Take the Roots of Red Dock and Burdock; bruise them, and put to 'em a little Spirit of Wine; let 'em stand twenty four hours; then hard, and put to it a little Oil of Turpentine and Olive-Oil, and stop these up close in a Glass for your use; and when you are to use them, pour out a little into a Saucer, warm it over a Chafing-dish of warm Coals, and dipping a thick linen Cloth in it, wrap it hard and close about the part grieved; and in so doing twice or thrice, the Pain will entirely cease.   

Gout, to Check it: Take three ounces of Sarsaparilla sliced and cut thin; to these add an equal weight of Raisins of the Sun rubbed very clean, but not broken: put both these into three quarts of strong Water, and let them stand on a moderate heat, that the liquid part may simper for several hours; and being closely bottled up, take a quarter of a pint when the Pain comes upon you, and it will ease it.   

Gout, a Plaster: Take Paracelsus and Diapalma, of each a quarter of an ounce; melt and incorporate them well together, and spread it Plasterwise upon Leather; then anoint the part grieved with the Ointment of Tobacco and Oil of Turpentine; and so laying on the Plaster, the Pain in a little time will cease.   

Gout, to Remove: Take highly rectified Spirits of Man's Urine, warm it a little over a gentle fire, and rub it in on the part afflicted with a woollen Cloth, and in a little time the Pain will remove, and at last vanish.   

Gout, Running: Take Earthworms well cleansed in Moss, and fill an earthen glazed Pot well luted and covered; set it with them in a gentle Oven, and let it stand there till the Oven becomes cold; then take out the Pot, and remove the Cover, and you will find a gross Liquor: strain this, and keep it stopped for your use, rubbing the part grieved with it, very warm, once or twice a day: And if the Smell be offensive, you may put in a few drops of the Oil of Rhodium, or any other odoriferous Unguent to correct it.   

Gout-Wort: This is so called from the excellent Advantage it brings to those that are afflicted with the Pain of the Gout, or Sciatica in the Joints, if the Juice or Herb be applied  Some hold, it will allay these Pains, by being carried about the Party afflicted therewith.   

Grapes: The sweet ones are of a more hot substance, and therefore cause Thirst, and loosen the Belly; but the sour ones are binding, and of hard digestion. The Juice of the ripe Grape applied to Burns or Scalds, eases the Pain. The Mother of the Wine or Grapes being kept, is profitable against Inflammations, of the Breasts, and Hardness of them through too much abundance of Milk. The Decoction of it in Clysters is good for Dysenteries or Fluxes: The Stones or Seeds slave a restringent virtue, and are profitable for the Stomach; and being parched, and beat to Powder, and drank in Whitewine, are very good against the Flux, as also the Weakness of the Stomach. Dried Grapes and Raisins have yet a greater virtue and property in Physic, and more-especially those that are sweetest, and of most substance, as they of Damascus, Cyprus, and Candia. They are good for Coughs, Sore Throats, Pains in the Reins and Bladder, if you eat the Stones with them. Being boiled with Sugar, and the Flower of Barley, and an Egg, they purge the Brain: Being reduced into a Plaster with Flower of Beans and Cummin-seed, they alloy Inflammations. The fat Raisins nourish more than the sharp and lean ones. Those that are stoned are Lenitive, and therefore very helping in Pains of the Breast, Coughs, Sore Throats, Pains of the Bladder or Reins, and the Obstruction in the Liver.   

Grapes to Preserve: Take the Grapes when green, stone them, and break the little bunches of the stalk of the great ones; then take their weight in refined Sugar finely beaten, and strew a row of Sugar in your Preserving-pan, and a lay of Grapes upon it; then strew some more Sugar on them; then put in four or five spoonfuls of fair Water, and boil them up as fast as may be.   

Grapes and Wine, their Virtues: Very admirable are the Virtues of the Vine, and the Fruit thereof; I had almost said, above all other Plants: for the Leaves and tender Branches being bruised and laid to the Head, by their Cooling quality, ease the Pains of the Head, occasioned by Heat, also the Inflammations or Heat of the Stomach, being applied to it: And the Juice drank in Borrage-water, helps the Dysentery, Fluxes or Spitting of Blood, Weakness of Stomach, and bad Appetite, especially of Women Great with Child. The Water which flows from the Vine, when it is cut, or bleeds (as some term if) being drank in White-wine, purgeth the Gravel. The Ashes of the Branches of the Vine, and Stones of Grapes, mixed with Vinegar, help Costiveness. It's good against the Stinging and Bite of venomous Creatures; and if mixed with Oil of Roses, Rue, and Vinegar, and laid Plasterwise, it helpeth the Inflammation of the Spleen.   

Gravel: If you be troubled with the Gravel in the Reins, Kidneys or Bladder, Take Daucus-seeds and Burdock-seeds, of each an ounce; mix them together; and put one ounce of the Mixture into a gallon of small Ale; and when that has steeped a while, and is drank up, put the other ounce into another gallon, and so continue it as a Drink.   

Gravel, another: Take Crabs-claws one ounce, and beat them into Powder; Fenelseed powdered half an ounce, Powder of Nutmegs four drams, double-refined Sugar two ounces; these being mixed and finely stuffed, take as much at a time as will lie on a shilling, in a glass of White-wine in a Morning, fasting: or it may be taken in Ale or Beer.   

Gravel, another: Take a quart of Water that is ready to boil, put into it half a handful of Scabious, and half as much Sage; let it boil pretty well, and drink it in the nature of Tea with Sugar, and the Juice of a Lemon squeezed into it.   

Gravel, to Remove: Take a quart of White or Rhenish-Wine, boil it well to the consumption of a third part; then put in an ounce of the Juice of White Lily roots, Juice of Housleek, and Syrup of Citron; mix them well together over a gentle fire, and let the Party drink a quarter of a pint at a time bloodwarm; and so doing four or five times, it will force the Gravel before it, and cause it to void through the neck of the Bladder.   

Gravel, to Expel: Kill a black Hen or Cock, if it be to be had; if not, one of another Colour may serve; take out the thick Membrane or Skin that lines the Gizzard, wipe it clean, and dry it cautiously so as it may be beat to Powder: with this Powder mix an equal part or half so much red Coral calcined, and take thirty or forty grains of it at a time in White-wine, or some other such kind of acid Wine.   

Gravel, another, to Expel: Take two large Red Onions, and a White Lily-root, bruise them in a Mortar; squeeze the Juice of them into White-wine, and drink it in the Morning fasting, sweetened with a little Honey: This gives Ease presently; and continuing it, it removes the Cause.   

Green Ointment: Take new Butter, toiled and purified, four Pound; Burgundy-Pitch, and Rosin, of each a pound; Yellow Bees-wax four ounces; melt them, and make an Ointment of them over a gentle fire, adding an ounce of Verdigriese in Powder, to make it of a deep green Colour, and so keep it stirring till the Ointment be cold.  
This is a wonderful Cleanser and Healer of all sorts of Wounds and Ulcers; it gives Ease to Pains, and allays Burn and Heats in the Wounds, or any Inflammations. It's greatly in request for Burns and Scalds, especially if mixed with Oil of Roses and Snow-water, and applied on a linen Cloth to the place grieved.   

Green-Sauce: Take the Blades of Green Wheat, Sorrel, Parsley and spinach; stamp them in a wooden Mortar or Bowl, with some Vinegar and fine White Sugar, and serve it up in Saucers, somewhat thinnish, with a Leg of Veal boiled, or a Calf's Head.   

Green, or Winter-Green: This mainly conduces to the healing of green Wounds; the green Leaves bruised, or the Juice applied. A Salve of the green Herb stamped, or the Juice boiled with Bees-wax, Hogs-lard, salad-oil, and Turpentine, is highly preferred for the Cure of all manner of Wounds or Sores. The Herb boiled in Wine or Water, and given to such as are troubled with any inward Ulcers of the Kidneys or Neck of the Bladder, mainly relieves them. It stays the Fluxes. It is good in Inflammations rising upon Pains of the Heart; also in Cankers or Fistula's. And the distilled Water may be carried along with you, or kept by you for the abovesaid uses.   

Gripes in Children: Take the Oils of Nutmeg and of Wormwood, of each a dram; mingle them well with two drams of Camomel, and anoint therewith the Party's Navel, and Pit of the Stomach; and by often so doing, the Pain will cease.   

Grounsil: This indeed is very common, which renders its Virtues less esteemed, though they are very rare; for the Seeds cleanse the Reins, help much to break and expel the Stone, and provoke Urine; two drams of it taken in a glass of White-wine, in Powder, three three or four times a day, some say, facilitate the Birth, if it be taken by the travailing Woman in a little Breast-Milk.   

Ground-Pine: This is excellent to strengthen the Nerves; and to open the Parts: it also provokes the Courses, expels the dead Child in the Womb, and the Afterbirth; but not safe to be taken by Women during their going with Child; because it works so powerfully, that it endangers Miscarriage. If it be boiled in White-wine, or powdered, and made into small Pills with Hermodactyls and Venice-Turpentine, it is given in Dropsies: and outwardly applied, it cures Ulcers, by cleansing and filling them with good Flesh.  
Take of this and Wormwood, of each two handfuls; Scurvygrass five times as much, Sage of the Mountain six handfuls, sliced Oranges six; make a Paste of, Barley-meal and Rye an equal quantity; make it into the fashion of a Pie, and equal these in it small shred; then take them out and shred them with the Crust over again, and so put all into a Bag, hanging it in about five gallons of Ale, not too strong nor too small, about six days, and then drink it twice or thrice a day, about half a pint at a time. This has been proved for the Scurvy, and afflicting Pains of the Gout.   

Guajacum: This for its singular Virtues is called Holy-wood: The Decoction of it well managed, and taken in time, is a certain Remedy for the French Disease. It is good in Dropsies, for Asthmas, Falling-Sickness, and Diseases of the Bladder and Reins, Pains in the Joints proceeding from cold tumors and Wind. It grows in the West-Indies, and there the Spaniards learned the Use of it from the Natives.  
The way to prepare the Decoction of this Wood is in this manner: Take twelve ounces of the Wood cut small, of the Bark of it beaten two ounces, infuse it in six pints of Water, in a large earthen Pot, the space of twenty four Hours, keeping the Pot close stopped, and boil it with a gentle Fire to the Consumption of two quarts; and when it is cold, strain it: then put to the same Wood a gallon of fresh Water, boil it to a quart, and keep these two Waters apart for use.   

Gums Apostemated: Take a handful of red Sage, boil it in Whitewine, add an ounce of the Powder of Burnt-Alom, and wash your Mouth frequently with this Water: It is also good against the Scurvy. It likewise fastens the Teeth, and keeps them from rotting; it gives them a Whiteness, and eases the Toothache.   

Gum of Cedar, its Virtues: An Oil extracted from this Gum is hot in the fourth degree; wherefore it doth, without pain, rot soft and delicate Flesh; but in hard Bodies it operateth with more time and difficulty. It drieth dead Bodies, and preserveth them from Putrefaction, by consuming the superfluous Humour, without touching the sound Parts: but in living Bodies the Heat in them augment the force of the Oil, which causes it to burn the tender Flesh. It is excellent to kill Nits, Lice, or any Insect crept into the Ear, and good in cold Distempers to anoint the Joints and Limbs, withal being much available in the Pains of the Gout, if mollified with Oil of Camomile, or suchlike supling Oils.   

Gum Plaster of Diachylon: Take Bdellium, Sagapenum Amoniacum, of each two ounces: dissolve 'em in Wine, and strain 'em; boil them to the consistence of Honey and Great Diachylon.  
This being applied, dissolves, digests, and ripens hard Swell, and is for those Purposes very excellent, if not the best of Plasters.   

Gums Scorbutic: Take Bole Armoniac the best, two drams; choice Myrrh (not Lucid) one dram, Roch-Alom crude half a dram, Claret one pint; boil them over a gentle Fire, strain out the Liquid part, and put a spoonful in your Mouth twice or thrice a Day.   

Gums to Strengthen: Take Japonian Earth, and in a pint of Claret, or Red Wine, dissolve as much as you can of it; then decant the Liquor warily from the subsiding Faeces, and with it, when well settled, wash your Mouth Morning and Evening, and it will not only fasten the Teeth, but renew the Gums where they are decayed or wasted.   

Gunpowder to Remove: If any spots of Gunpowder, or Shot stick in the Face, or other Parts of the Body, you may remove either of them: by taking fresh Cowdung, warming it, and putting to it a little Hogs-Lard, and applying it Poultiswise.   

Guts-Griping: Take about a quarter of a pint of Brandy, and having made a Toast of Bread, not too fine and white, throw it very hot into the Brandy, and as soon as 'tis thoroughly drenched, take it out and eat it hot: this being repeated two or three times, the Pain will cease. Or use this, viz.  
Take a handful of wild Camomile, wash it, and seethe it in a quart of new Ale; add an ounce of Licorice, and half an ounce of Ani-seeds; sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy, and drink it very hot.   

Guts-Griping, or, Colic: Take half a pint of good old Hock, and boil it, and put therein a lump of Loaf-Sugar; drink it hot going to Bed.   

Guts-Griping, or, Colic, another: Take Sage and Mint, boil them in a fit proportion of Claret-wine; then strain it, and sweeten it with a little Sugar, and drink it warm.   

HAberdine-Pye: The Fish being boiled, take it from the Skin and Bones, and mince it with some Pippins cored, season it with Nutmegs, Ginger, Cinnamon, Pepper, and Caraway-seeds, Rose-water, Raisins, and Currans, Sugar, sliced Dates, scraped Lemon-peel, Butter beaten up with Verjuice and Whitewine; and when these are so ordered, fill up a Pie with them, and being baked, ice it with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water.   

Hair to Fasten: If the Hair be subject to fall off, Take half a pint of Ox-Urin newly made; boil in it Sage and Rosemary-flowers, of each a quarter of an ounce; then strain out the Liquid part, and anoint the Roots of your Hair with it, and a pretty while after, wash it over with Water wherein Bran and a little Alom have been boiled.   

Hair to make Grow: Take of the Leaves of Radishes, boil them in Water with as much more of the Roots of Dog-Fennel, and being well boiled, strain and press them out, and with the Decoction often wash the place where the Hair is fallen off, and it will grow again.   

Hair to make grow Thick: Take of the best Honey three spoonful; a handful of Vine-sprigs that twist like Wyre, beat them well, and strain their Juice into the Honey; temper them a little over a gentle Fire, and lay it on the Place where the Hair is come off.   

Hair to make grow Thick, another: Take three ounces of Honey, and a handful of the Tendrils of a Vine; bruise the latter with the former, and having heated them over a gentle Fire till the Honey is melted, anoint the Place where the Hair is defective, or grows thin, and it will, in often so ordering, sprout up, and become very thick and curling.   

Hair to take away: To do this, Beat the Shells of a great many Eggs, very small, and put them into a Still with a quick Fire, and there will come forth a curious Water, with which anoint the Place where superfluity of Hair grows. This being done, take the hard Dung of a He-Cat, dry it, and powder it; then make a Plaster with strong Vinegar, and put it to the Place.   

Hands to Beautify: Take of the Oil of Myrrh half an ounce, the Marrow of Hogs, or Calves-feets, two ounces; of the Water of Tartar, an ounce; the Oil of spikenard half an ounce: mix and dissolve them well over a gentle Fire, and allay their Heat with two ounces of the Oil of sweet Almonds: then strain it, put it into Boxes, anoint the Hands and Face with it, and it will not only take away Spots or other Deformity, but create a lovely charming Complexion.   

Hare Boiled the French way: Take a large Piece of Beef that has a Marrowbone in it, as also a piece of Bacon, and your Hare; season it with a little Salt, and when the Hare is almost boiled, take it up and bruise some Pease, and set them a boiling in the Broth wherein the Hare was boiled; then take all the Bones out of your Beef, and put the Hare again into the Pease, and the Pease being boiled enough, take them up and strain them through a thin Cloth, and put the Pulp a boiling in a Pot by themselves: then dish up the Hare, and smother it by covering ●t over with the Pulp of the Pease, and it eats very excellently. In this manner they order a Capon or Turkey.   

Hare to Dress the French way: Take a Hare cased and washed from the Blood, as also some fresh Pork, or Veal, cut in handsome pieces of about three Finger's thickness; put it into an earthen Pot, or Pipkin, with Onions fried with Hog's-Lard; then put to the Hare and Pork some Beef-Broth, as much as will half cover it, so set it a stewing on a gentle Fire, renewing it by degrees: then take Bread well toasted, and the Livers of six Fowl parboiled, put them to steep in some of the Broth, then add Cinnamon, Ginger, Long-pepper, Nutmegs, Cloves, and Salt, finely bruised, but not to Powder, of each two drams: then with a little Vinegar and Claret-wine, strain it into the Pot where your Hare, Pork, or Veal is, and let them stew together till they are enough; then withdraw them, and so dish them up at your pleasure.   

Hare Hashed: Case it, draw it, and cut it in moderate Pieces, wash the Pieces in Claret and Water very clean, strain the Liquor, and parboil the Parts; then take and slice them, and put them into a Dish with the Legs, Head, Wings, or Shoulders whole; cut the Chine into many Parts, then put in two or three sliced Onions, and some of the Liquor wherein it was parboiled, stew it between the Dishes over a gentle Fire, covering it close till it be tender; and put to it some beaten Pepper, Mace and Nutmeg, serve it on fine carved Sippets, running it over with beaten Butter and Marrow, garnishing with Lemons and Barberries.   

Hare, or Leveret-Pye: Most are of Opinion, that these are best baked with their Bones, though some, more nice than wise, will bone them; however, being baked with the Bones, let the Bones be broke, and the Hare well larded, season it with Salt, Pepper, Cloves, Nutmegs, and Bay-leaves, put it into either white or brown Past at your discretion, and with it a sufficient quantity of Lard beaten, that it may as well conveniently lie under it as above; and being baked, stop the Funnel of the Pie, after having poured in some melted Butter, and set it in a dry Place to cool; and being cold, serve it up; but observe, if you will bone your Hare, to leave the Flesh as whole as may be, and larding it with great Lard, season it as directed.   

Hare to Roast with her Skin: When it is imboweled, dry the inside with a clean Cloth, make a farcing or stuffing of all manner of sweet Herbs, as sweet Marjoram, Savory, Thyme, Parsley, etc. shred very small and rolled up in Butter; and being almost roasted, flay off the Skin: bread it with fine grated Manchet, Flower and Cinnamon very thick, and so froth it up, and dish it on Sauce made of grated Bread, Claret, Wine-Vinegar, Barberries, Sugar, Cinnamon and Ginger; and garnish the Dish with Shalots, Lemon and Parsly.   

Hare, another way: Put the Hare on the Spit or Gridiron, when it is hot through, cut it into quarters, and put it into hot Hog's-Lard in a Frying-pan; then steep toasted Bread in Beef-Broth and Whitewine, strain it through a Strainer with beaten Ginger and Cloves, add then some Verjuice, so that your Composition may appear blackish, but not too thick nor binding; and so with Butter, Mustard, Sugar, and Juice of Lemon well beaten, serve up this Dish, garnishing it with slices of Lemons and Greene's: in the same manner you may dress Rabbits, but especially old Coneys.   

Haricote of Mutton: Take a Shoulder of Mutton, or the bloody end of it, with the Head, Neck and Breast, and cut it into small Pieces, and fry it in a Frying-pan with tried Suet. Hog's-Lard, and some small shred Onions: this done, put it in a Stew-pan with Beef-Broth, and let it stew and boil with Parsley, Hyssop, and Sage shred small, and serve it up with Sippits, garnished with slices of Lemon, and green Parsley.   

Hartshorn Burnt: Take of Hartshorn, as much as you think convenient, put it into a Crucible, and so put it into the Fire, till it becomes black, and continue it till it grows white, powder it, and make it into Troches with Rose-water, and so keep it for use. In this manner you may reduce Ivory or Bone into a fine Powder.   

Harts-Tongue: The Decoction of it in Whitewine, is excellent for the Swelling of the Spleen, Flux of the Belly, and Spitting of Blood. If outwardly applied, it cleanseth Wounds and Ulcers. The Powder of it is of excellent use in the Palpitations of the Heart, for Fits of the Mother, and Convulsions, being taken in Small-beer, and Posset-drink. A Conserve made of the green Leaves of it, is to the same Effect.   

Hash of Oysters: Parboil boil about three quarts of Oysters in their Liquor, mince about two quarts of them small, and stew them with half a pint of Whitewine, an Onion cut in Quarters, four large Blades of Mace and a grated Nutmeg, sliced Chestnuts, some Pistaches, and a quarter of a pint of White-wine-Vinegar, a pound of fresh Butter, Pepper, Salt, and a bundle of sweet Herbs, stew them well on a soft Fire, and fry the remaining Oysters seasoned with Pepper, Salt and Nutmeg, in a Batter made of fine Flower, Eggs, and Cream; green it with the Juice of Spinnage, and serve them together with Lemon-Juice, and a Garnish of sliced Orange and Olives.   

Hash of Scotch Collops: Cur a Leg of Veal in thin slices, beat them with a Rolling-pin, and fry them with fine slices of interlarded Bacon, add sweet Butter, and being well fried, dish them up, put from them the Butter you fried them with, and put beaten Butter, with Lemon, Gravy, and the Juice of Oranges. Mutton may be hashed the same way, only leave out the slices of Bacon: or if you would do them the French way, parboil your Meat, then take it up and pair off some thin slices on the upper and under side, and round it; prick it through, and let out the Gravy on the slices, then shred and bruise some Thyme, Marjoram, Parsly, and Savory, and put to them sweet Butter and Verjuice, with some beaten Pepper; and when the Meat is boiled or stewed, pour all the Herbs, Slices and Broth into the Dish, and serve it up garnished with Parsley and Barberries.   

Hash'd Venison, the Dutch way: Cut a Haunch of Venison into Collops, fry it with Sweet-Butter and Oysters, adding a little Gravy or strong Broth: then having your Stew-pan simpering with some Broth or Gravy, put it in with the Oysters, and suffer it to stew about half an hour; and then strip in some Thyme and Winter-savoury, with a Blade or two of Mace, and some whole Cloves and Pepper: then make Anchovy-Sauce, and with the Gravy serve it up, garnished with Lemon-peel, and Shalots peeled and slit in halves, and some few heaps of grated Manchet mixed with Cinnamon and Pepper. This is very savoury Meat.   

Hastereaux of Veal: Cut them out of a Leg or Gigget of Veal as thin as possible may be, and beat them with the backside of a Knife or Rouling-pin: then take fat Bacon or Lard, and Beef-suet and sweet Herbs, mincing them very small, and mincing them together, season them with small beaten Spice and fine Salt; and having made them up round like an Orange, or Balls of Venison, stew them, and serve them up whole in good Broth, garnished with Oranges, and put some Verjuice into the Broth.   

Headache: Take green Hemlock that it tender, put it in the Socks of your Shoes, that it may lie thinly between them and the Soles of your Feet, and shift it once a day for that which is fresh.   

Headache, another way: Take Bettony-water two ounces, Red Rose-leaves as much, Wheat-flower two ounces; Oil of Roses and Housleek, an ounce of each; boil these in a pint of Wine-vinegar till they come to a thickness, then spread them on a linen cloth, applying it to the Forehead and Temples, and it will avert the Pain.   

Headache, another way to Cure: Take four ounces of Rosemary-flowers, stamp 'em, and infuse them in White-wine and Bettony-water: let them infuse in the Sun, or some other gentle Heat, four or five days, the Glass into which you put them being close stopped; then distil them over a gentle fire, and you will find a Scum or oily Matter; separate these, and keep them close stopped in different Glasses. Their Virtues are excellent; viz.  
The Oil, by anointing the Forehead and Tempos, easeth all inveterate head-aches, and strengthens the Memory and Sight: being dropped into the Ears, it helpeth Deafness: some few drops of it in White-wine are prescribed for the Dropsy and Yellow-Jaundice. It helpeth the Colic, and Rising of the Mother; and is an Antidote against Poison, and infectious Air, the Plague and Pestilence. It comforteth the Heart, and cleanseth the Blood; makes a merry and cheerful Countenance, and creates a good Colour. It purgeth out the Humours, by Sweat, that occasion the Itch, or any Breaking-out. In short, It is a sovereign Remedy in all Distempers proceeding from cold and moist Humours. The Water is good for Beautifying, and sets a rare Complexion on the Face and Hands.   

Headache Inveterate: Take strong Vinegar, dip a Rose-cake in it, and sprinkle that over with scraped Nutmeg and Powder of Wormwood; lay it to the Forehead, and burn Feather few under your Nose, on a Chafing-dish, that the Smock may ascend up your Nostrils.   

Headache or Megrim: Take Unguentum desiccativum rubrum one dram, the Power them well together, and make them into a Plaster upon a piece of new Leather, and lay to the Temples upon the pained side: or if that, by reason of an universal Pain, cannot be distinguished, lay it on both sides, renewing it every other day, and the desired Cure will be effected.   

Head Bald: To cover it with a comely Hair, if Age has not proceeded too far, and utterly denied it, Take a handful of Southernwood, dry it to Powder, or reduce it to Ashes by Fire: mix it with the Oil of Radishes, and anoint the place, and in a few times so doing you may perceive the Hair to sprout amain.   

Head Breaking-out: This mostly happens to Children, caused by the super-abundance or hot Humours, and is very afflicting and offensive to them: To cure it, boil some Olive-oil and Vinegar, to the consumption of a third part; of Hogs-lard an ounce; anoint it with these, when they come to the thickness of an Ointment, both Morning and Evening; putting on, after the anointing, a linen Cap; and give them to drink Whey, wherein Scabious, Agrimony, and a few Tops of Wormwood have been boiled, to clear and purify the Blood.   

Head Breaking-out, another way to cure: Take Butter and Salt, and fry them till a Blackness appear. Or, Take fine Olive-oil and Vinegar, beat them together, and anoint the place afflicted both Morning and Evening. If these have no effect, Take a quart of Whey, boil in it Agrimony, Scabious and Wormwood, of each an ounce, and wash the Breaking out with the Liquid; you must give two ounces of it to drink at the same time.   

Head to Clear: Snuff up, in the Morning fasting, a spoonful, or somewhat less, of the clarified Juice of Ground-Ivy, or of Beets, spitting out, from time to time, as much Liquor as comes into your Mouth.   

Head disturbed with Noises: Take a green Ash-stick, and whilst one end is burning, receive the Water or Moisture that hisses out of the other; dissolve in it a little Civet; and being well dissolved, drop a drop or two of it into the Ear, when you go to rest, and immediately stop it with Lint moistened in the same Liquid, and lie still about half an hour with that Ear uppermost that it is dropped into; in so often doing, the Noise will cease, and the Head be restored to its former Ease and Quiet.   

Head Lightness: If by reason of a violent Sickness, as Fevers, Smallpox, etc. there is a Lightness in the Brain that disorders the Understanding, Take the distilled Waters of White single Primroses, and Cowslips, of each an ounce: put into them a dram of the Powder of Pearl, and a grain of Bezoar-stones; and let the Party take it, and compose himself, as much as the Disorder will permit, to rest after it. This has brought many to their Speech again.   

Head Lightness, another: For the Lightness or Swimming of the Head, especially in or after Sickness, Take the Flowers of single White Primroses, distil them, and drink of the Water: If this succeed not, mingle with it the like quantity of Rosemary-flower-water, and Couslip-water, and this will soon restore your Speech.   

Head and Nerves: Take of the fresh Roots of both the Peonies, gathered about the Full of the Moon, of each an ounce and a half; of Contrayerva half an ounce; Elks-hoof an ounce; of Rosemary before it is flowered a handful, or with the Flowers; Bettony, Hyssop, Wild Marjoram, Ground-Pine, and Rue, of each three drams; of the Wood of Aloes, Cloves, and the Seeds of the Letter Cardamom, of each two drams; Ginger and Spikenard, of each one dram; Stechas and Nutmegs, of each two drams and an half: After a warm Digestion for one day in three quarts of the distilled Water of the Roots of Peony, bo●… them to two in a Bath: then strain, and with four pound of Sugar make it into a Syrup an a Bath. This is good for most Diseases of the Head and Nerves. The Dose is an ounce, which may safely be taken at one time.   

Head Noisy: If there be a beating or singing in the Head and Ears, Take a pretty large silver Eel newly caught, tie it to a Spit, and let it roast without any basting, unless with a little Water rubbed on with a cloth to keep it moist, having, before you lay it down, put some Cumin-seeds into the Belly of the Eel: then take what drops from it, and putting it into a glazed earthen Vessel, let it stand close covered with some fresh Cumimn-seed on warm Embers, and then going to Bed drop three or four drops into your Ears, or that only on which side of the Head the Noise is most.   

Head-Pains, a Cephalick Wine: Take two ounces and a half of Succory; the like quantity of the Roots of Avens; Elecampane one once; Ceterach, Bettony, Red-Sage, Liverwort, Carduus, Centaury, of each a handful; dried Orange-peel half an ounce and two drams; bruise the Barks and Roots, and shred the Herbs small: infuse them three or four days in a gallon of Rhenish-wine, often shaking them; and then strain it, and drink about three ounces of it every Morning fasting, and the like at Night when going to rest.  
This helps the most violent Distempers of the Head, and also those of the Spleen; and is an excellent Pectoral for the Breast and Lungs, as likewise for curing Catarrhs.   

Head-Pains tending to Madness: Take a quarter of a pint of the Juice of Ground-Ivy, of the Juices of Burnet and Red Sage, of each two ounces: drink them fasting in the Morning, and at Night when going to rest; and do it for twelve or thirteen days, but not successively, intermitting a day between, if the Distemper continue so long; and after it you may take Red Rose-leaves dried; mix them with Flower and Vinegar, Oil of Roses, and the Juice of Housleek; boil them together until they be thick, and spreading them as a Poultis or Plaster, apply them to the Forehead and Temples.  
The Conserve of Rue is also excellent for the Brain, preserving it from the Fits of the Apoplexy, Palsy, and such like painful and dangerous Distempers. Make it in this manner; with one part of Rue, mix two parts of fine Sugar, mixing them well together, so that they may be made into a Conserve; of which eat both Morning and Evening to the bigness of a large Hazle Nut.   

Head Powder: Take the Flowers and Leaves of Bettony, Damask-Roses, and the Flowers of Rosemary and Sage; dry these well, and add the Powder of Lignum-Aloes, and some Seeds of Nigella Romana: make them into a fine Powder, to be used as an Hair-Powder, when the Party goes to rest, his Head covered close with a Cap. This is excellent against the Headache, Pains in the Eyes, and likewise Swimming of the Head.   

Head to Purge: Take Agarick and Mastic, of each three drams; the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Hare-hound, of each one dram; Turbith five drams in Powder, Hiera Picra half an ounce; Pulp of Coloquintida and sarcocol, of each two drams; Myrrh one dram, Sapa as much as shall suffice to make them into a mass. These purge very strongly from all parts of the Body, both Choler and Phlegmatic Humours, but especially from the Head and Breast, and are good against old Colds and Catarrhs. The Dose is half a dram.   

Head Scald: Take Olive-oil, put it into a Dish-full of fair Water, beat them well together; then add some fine Powder of Brimstone and May-Butter; make an Ointment thereof, and anoint the Head therewith.   

Head Scald, another: Take Olive-oil two ounces, put it into half a pint of Spring-water, stir and beat them well together; then add half an ounce of Flower of Brimstone, and three ounces of May-Butter, and over a gentle fire make it into an Ointment, and anoint the Head therewith as hot as may be endured: bath it about seven or eight hours afterwards with Oil of Roses and Camomel melted or mixed together over a gentle fire; and by often so doing, you have the Remedy.   

Head Scald, another: Take half a peck of Oyster-shells out of which the Oysters have newly been unshelled; calcine them in a clear fire so that they may be reduced to Powder; sift it as fine as Flower, and mix it with White Ointment, so that it may be something stiff, and anoint the Head with it daily, and you will soon find the Effects answer your desire.   

Head to Strengthen: Take Ointment of Mastic, and anoint the Temples and Forehead therewith. You may make it in this manner: Take of the Oils of Mastic, Wormwood and Nard, of each one ounce; Mastic, Mint, Coral, Red Roses, Cloves, Cinnamon and Wood of Aloes, of each a dram; and of Yellow Wax a sufficient quantity to make it into an Ointment. This not only strengtheneth the Head, but the Nerves and Stomach, and is Astringent.   

Hearing: For Thickness of Hearing, Take Garden Daisie-roots, and beat then till a Juice may be pressed from them; then laying your Head on a Bolster, your Body lying at length, drop three or four drops into the Ear you hear best withal; and so continue to do for three of four days together, stopping the Ear with Cotton-wool, or Lint, to keep the Air out.   

Hearing to Recover: Take the Juices of Celandine and Daisy roots, and drop into the Ears, stopping them afterward with Black Wool or Cotton, lying on your Back, with your Head very low, for the space of half an hour after it; and in twice or thrice so doing, you will find great advantage by it.   

Heartburning: Take Red Coral finely powdered about a dram, take it in White-wine or Ale: for want of this, scrape some Chalk that has been well burnt in the fire, and drink it in the abovesaid Liquors.   

Heart to Cheer: Take Carduus, Bean, borage and Bugloss-waters, equal quantities, and in all but one ounce; put into them three grains of Bezoar-stone finely beaten to Powder; and having infused it for the space of an hour, drink it off, and keep yourself warm an hour afterward, and then drink a glass of Muskadel; and in so doing often, it will remove Heart-sickness, Pains and Tremble, as also Melancholy, etc.   

Heart to Cheer and Comfort: Take of the Leaves of Celandine the Greater with the Roots, three handfuls; of Rue a handful; of Scordium two handfuls; Dittany of Crect, and Carduus Benedictus, of each a handful and an half; the Roots of Angelica and Zedoary, of each three drams; the outward Peels of Citron and Lemon, of each five drams; of July-Flowers one ounce and an half; Red Roses, and of the Flowers of the Lesser Centaury of each two drams; shred what is to be shred, and infuse them three days in three pints of Malaga-Wine, or the Spirit of Wine: The Vinegar of July-Flowers, and the Juice of Lemons, of each a pint: distil them in a Bath in a Glass Vessel; and to the distilled Liquor add of Cinnamon three drams, Cloves two drams and an half, Mithridate an ounce, Venice-Treacle three ounces, Troches of Vipers half an ounce, Camphire two scruples, Wood of Aloes a dram, Mace two drams, Yellow Saunders one dram and an half; of the Seeds of Carduus Benedictus one ounce; of the Seeds of Citron three drams: let these be infused two days, then with a gentle fire distil them twice or thrice, and draw off half thereof. This Water is excellent to Cheer and Enliven the Heart, and for expelling Melancholy.   

Heart-Passion: Boil Pimpernel the Garden sort, Herb, Flower and Roots, in Ale, till the Ale be very strong of them; drink it up hot, sweetened with a little Syrup of Roses or Violets: this twice or thrice done, removes Heartsickness, or the Infection of the Plague; and made into Posset-drink with Milk, is good in Pestilential Fevers.   

Heart-sickness to Remove: Take Ale, and make a Posset-drink thereof: then clarify it, and seethe Pimpernel in it, till it becomes strong of the Herb; sweeten it a little, and drink it often.   

Heat in the Eyes: Beat the White of an Egg, and dissolve in it a pretty quantity of fine Loaf-Sugar; beat them till they become thin, then drop it into the Eye.   

Heat in the Face: Dip a Cloth in the Juice of Lemons, and Salt and Atom heated in White-wine; and in often applying it, the Heat or Redness of the Face will be removed, and the Skin become clear, smooth, and of its proper Colour.   

Heats or Inflammations of the Eyes: Take the Powder of Tutty-stone, Aloes and Sugar, of each an ounce: infuse them in a quart of Red Rose-water and White-wine: being put into a double Glass, and placed in Balneo Mariae five or six days with often shaking; wash the Eyes, Forehead, Temples, and indeed the whole Head with this often, so you will find a speedy Remedy.   

Heat of the Liver: Take Liverwort, Garden and Wild, and Endive, of each a handful; Maidenhair half an handful; boil them in Water with a little Sugar; and being clarified, put into the Decoction a little of the Wine of Pomegranates, and drink it alone, and in your usual Drink, for a Week together, or as you see occasion. The Dose is a quarter of a pint at a time.   

Hellebore, to Prepare: Infuse the Roots of Black Hellebore in the Juice of Quinces three days in a moderate Heat, then dry them, and keep 'em for use.   

Hemlock: This, by reason of its Coldness, is supposed to be poisonous; yet it is frequently used, and not without success, for Tumours, and Inflammations of the Spleen. A Cataplasm or Plaster of it with Ammoniacum, powerfully discuss all Tumours or hard Swell. Twenty grains of the Root in Powder, is an admirable Diaphoretic in any Malignant Fevers.   

Hemlock Plaster: Take of the Juice of the Leaves of Hemlock four ounces; Vinegar of Squills, and Gum-Ammoniack, of each eight ounces: dissolve the Gum in the Juice and Vinegar; and after a sufficient Infusion make them into a Salve over a gentle fire. This is a very good Plaster to soften hard Swell, or take away Inflammations.   

Hemorrhoids: If these be not too much inflamed, dip your Finger or a fine Rag in the Balsam or Sulphur made with Oil of Turpentine, and besmear and anoint the tumors once or twice a day: But if inflamed much, take Myrrh, Olibanum, common Frankincense, of each a like quantity: powder and mix them very well, and receive the Fume of this Mixture cast on a Chafing-dish of Coals with Embers, in a Close-stool, or some such convenient thing, about a quarter of an hour, more or less, as the Party can endure it.   

Hemorrhoids, another: To prepare these for a Cure, Take White-wine, boil it in a handful of Incense, which is only to comfort it; then wash with it the part grieved very often; then dip some Lint or Rags in Oleum Magistrale, (to make which, you will find under O L,) and often apply it as a sovereign Ointment for this Grievance. Then for a Plaster, Take the said Oil, Venice-Turpentine, and new Bees-wax, of each an ounce; set them over a gentle fire, and keep them stirring a quarter of an hour; then let it cool, and being cold, apply it as a Plaster. This is good for Fistula's, Ulcers, and all such Grievances occasioned by hot Humours offensive to Nature. It is applied in Wounds made by a Sword, etc. Gun-shot, and Blasts by Gunpowder, Scalding with Lead, or any Mineral.   

Hemorrhoids, another way: Take the Sole of an old Shoe worn by a Man much used to travel, cut it to pieces, and burn it, yet neither to grey nor white Ashes, but to a fryable and tender Coal: reduce it into an impalpable Powder. Take then unsalted Hogs-lard, and work it with it to an Ointment, and anoint the afflicted part often therewith.   

Hen-Pye: Take away the Hen's Breastbone, truss and set them in warm Water, lard it with Lard not too big, season it with Pepper, Salt and Nutmeg; raise your Paste to an Oval form, and put in your Hens, and garnish or fill them with Champignons' Artichoak-bottoms, Livers of Fowls, Sweet-Herbs, and Lard melted or beaten: cover the Pie with the Lid, and let it bake for the space of three hours; and being baked, put in some Juice of Lemons, beaten up with Butter and Gravy.   

Hern-Pye: Take your Hern, and pull the Feathers and Stump clean off: break the Breastbone, and lay it to soak in warm Water and Salt for the space of an hour: then having Sweet-Herbs and Onions shred, make little Balls of them; sticking them together with Butter, and put it into the Belly; season it with Salt, Pepper, Nutmeg, Mace and Ginger finely beaten: then lard the Breast, and stick pieces of Lard under the Wings: lay also other Balls about it of the Composition of these that were put into the Belly, till the Coffin is full: then sprinkle on some Juice of Lemon, and so bake it for two hours: when it is enough, pour melted Butter into it, set it in a dry place till cold, and then serve it up.   

Hern to Roast: Take a Hern that is not too old, lard the Back and Breast after you have parboiled it; then put it on a Spit, baste it with Butter and White-wine beaten up together, and dridge it with grated Bread and Sweet-Herbs cut very small: and when it is sufficiently roasted, make a Sauce of the beaten Yolks of Eggs, Anchovy, Claret, and Vinegar: garnish your Dish with Oranges, Lemons, Savory, and Tops of Rosemary.   

Herring-Pye to Season: Take about eight middle-sized Herrings, the soft-Roes are the best, slit them down the Backs, and taking out the Bones, rub them over with Pepper and Salt: then mince Onions, Leeks and Apples, and scrape in Lemon-peel; then strew over them some Nutmeg finely grated, half a pound of Currans, and mix a pound of Butter with a little Flower, and place it above and beneath in thin slices.   

Hiccough: This is dangerous when it happens in Fevers; therefore to remedy it in that extremity, Take only two or three preserved Damascens at a time, keeping your mouth close shut, and holding your breath now and then.   

Hippocras of White-wine: Take about three quarts of the best White-wine, a pound and an half of Sugar, and an ounce of Cinnamon; two or three Tops of Sweet-Marjoram, and a little whole Pepper; let these run through a filtering Bag with a grain of Musk; then add the Juice of a large Lemon, and when it has taken a gentle heat over the fire, and stood for the space of three or four days close covered; put it in Bottles, and keep it close stopped, as an excellent and generous Wine, as also a very curious Cordial to refresh and enliven the Spirits: Or, if you think it best, as to the Colour, you may make it of the Colour of Claret, though this at pleasure may be coloured with Red Wine, Syrup, of Elderberries, Mulberries, Clovegilly-flowers, etc. It easeth the Palpitations and Tremble of the Heart, and removes the Causes of Panick-Fears, Frights, and sudden Start: It giveth Rest to weary Eyes, and heats the cold Stomach.   

Hispidula, Known otherwise by the name of Colts-foot, is an Herb growing on Hills, and bearing a Red Flower, and sometimes a White: it has a particular Virtue against the Ulcers of the Lungs, Physic, and Spitting of Blood. A distilled Water of the whole-Plant, and a Syrup made of the Juice, are either of them admirable good against the Consumption of the Lungs. The Essence of the Juice is singular good against the Bloodyflux, and either Fluxes of the Bowels.   

Hoarseness: Take three ounces of Hyssop-water, and sweeten it with fine Sugar; then beat well in it the Yolk of a new-layed Egg, and drink it fasting.   

Holly: The Prickles of Leaves boiled in Posset-drink, wonderfully ease the Colic, and Pains in the Bowels, (as hath been often approved, when other Remedies more costly have failed.)   

Honey Clarified: Boil Honey that hath been clarified with the Whites of Eggs, until it come to a thickness: then take it off the fire; and when it is cool, put it up for your use. This is good in Inflammations, either taken inwardly, or outwardly applied to any Part where extraordinary Heat is predominant.   

Honey of Raisins, the Best: Take three quarts of Water, heat it, and when it bubbles up, scum it: stone two pound of Raisins, and put them into it till they swell and are pulpy; then boil them to the consumption of half the Water; then strain and press out the remainder of the liquid part; boil the Decoction to the thickness of a moderate Honey; and then add two pound of clarified Honey, and being well mingled, boil it to the thickness of a perfect Honey.  
This is good for any Stoppages or Defects in the Lungs: if mixed with White-wine, it helps Digestion; and mixed with cooling simple Water, is given in Fevers.   

Honey of Violets: Take of the Flowers of Violets, the Bottoms chipped off, viz. Purple Violets, two pound; infuse them in two quarts of Water, boil them up, and add two pound of Honey, and so boil them up to the thickness of an Honey, and press the liquid part through a linen Cloth.  
This eases the Inflammation of the Liver, cures sore Mouths; and mixed with the Decoction of Woodsorrel and Barberries, is Cooling, and much allays the Heat of Fevers. Thus you may make Honey of Roses.   

Hordeum: This is an Excrescence growing on the Eyelid: To remove it, Take Housleek, dry it, and bring it to a Powder; then take of the Housleek-juice, and make a Cataplasm of the Powder, and cover as much as is needful of it, viz. to the thickness of Half a Crown, or a Crown-piece, in the fold of a Rag; fasten that part then upon the Eye, and let the rest of the Cloth bind round the Head, and so let it continue all night, and repeat the Application two or three times, if need require.   

Horminum, or Clary, (by some called Clear-eye:) There are two sorts of this, Garden and Wild. The Herb and Flower is Cleansing, Attenuating and Strengthening, and is good to be eaten by those that have weak Backs, or Pains in them. The Seed of it concocted in Spring-water, is wonderful good for clearing the Eyesight, the Eyes being washed therewith. The Powder of the Leaves snuffed up the Nose, purge the Head and Brain of Phlegm. A dram taken inwardly, provokes Venery. The Essence of the Juice strengthens Weakness in the Reigns, and much availeth in Barrenness, comforting and strengthening the Womb. A mucilage of the Seed discusses Swell. The Leaves of Wild Clary are discussive, strengthening, and clear the Sight.   

Hodgepodge of Beef: Take a Brisket Rand of Beef, any piece of Mutton, and a piece of Veal; put this into a sufficient quantity of boiling Water, keeping it clear from the Scum: then put in Sweet-Herbs; minced Cabbage, but not too small; and Carrots sliced: let them boil almost to a Jelly, and so serve them up on Sippets.   

Hodgepodge of Pigeons: Put your Pigeons (drawn and a few Sweet-Herbs finely shred, and mixed with Butter) into a Pot, as many as you think convenient: then put to them some strong Broth, after you have laid between them some slices of interlarded Bacon, beaten Nutmeg, Ginger, and a little Saffron, that they may give them a colour; then make 'em boil apace, and when they are boiled enough, put in some Verjuice of Grapes, or Wine-Vinegar, and so season them with a little Salt and Pepper, and serve them upon Sippits. And thus you may order a Hodgepodge of Chickens, only these you must cut into quarters, and lard them with small square pieces of Bacon Lard, and boil or stew them not too hastily: you may add some sweet Herbs shred small, and a piece of Butter; and being enough, garnish and serve them up as the Pigeons. This way you may draw any sort of small Fowl, either Wild or Tame.   

Humour in the Eye: Take new Milk, let it stand till a little Cream comes over it, then lying on your Back, dip your Finger into the Cream, and shutting the Eyelids, besmear the Eyes with it, keeping it out of the Eyes as much as may be. Let this be done when you go to Bed, and let it continue on till the Morning, and to renew it often.   

Humours fallen into the Eyes: To remedy this Grievance, Take of Whitewine six ounces, red Rose-water the like quantity, Tutty-stone in powder three scruples, Eye-bright-water six ounces, Aloes three Scruples, Loaf-Sugar finely powdered four scruples; put them into a Glass with a narrow Mouth, stop it close, and let them infuse in the Sun, or some warm place, about three Days, then draw off the purest Water separated from the settling, and wash the Eyes with it frequently; and it will restore them to their strength and firmness of sight without any Trouble.   

Humour in the Eyes, a Water: Take prepared Tutty half an ounce, Pearl half a scruple, Trochisci Alb-Ros five or six grains; red Rose-water, and Succory-water, of each an ounce and a half: mix them well, and if you will have the Medicine stronger, put three or four grains of Aloes into it, dissolve these well by shaking as well as may be, and with the liquid part wash the Place grieved.   

Humours to Draw out of the Head and Face: Take a couple of new-layed Eggs, and by opening the Top, take out part of the White, and put in some Powder of Cummin-seed, and also the Powder of Aniseed by degrees; then having closed the Egg with Past, till it is very hard: cut it in the middle, and lay it to the Nape of the Neck.   

Humours Sharp to Correct: Take the Roots of Marshmallows two ounces, Meadow-grass, Asparagus, Raisins of the Sun, Licorice, Red Chich-Pease, of each half an ounce; Tops of Marshmallows, Mallows, Pellitory of the Wall, Plantain, Burnet, Saxifrage, white and black Maidenhair, of each one handful; of the four dat and greater Coldseeds, of each three drams: wash and cleanse the Roots from their Dirt, Pitch, and Strings, and so cut them into slices, and having boiled the grass Roots first a quarter of an hour in eight pints of Water, put into the Decoction the Roots of Marshmallows and Asparagus, let them boil well for half an hour with the rest: after that add Licorice sliced, and the Maidenhair cut, and when they begin to boil, put in the cold Seeds, and keep them down in the Decoction: then take the whole off the Fire, and strain them about a quarter of an hour after, and so clarify the Liquor with the White of an Egg, and four pound of Sugar, and boil it on a moderate Fire to the Consistence of a Syrup.  
This easeth Pains, correcteth sharp Humours, and has its principal Use for the remedying the Disease of the Bladder, and Stone in the Kidneys. An ounce at a time may be taken in any convenient Liquor.   

Hurt in the Eye: If the Hurt makes a solution of continuity in the Eye, take two ounces of Cellendine-water, put to it three or four drops of clarified Honey, stir them well together, and add four or five drops of Oil of Roses, and dress the Eye with it. The Mixture must be made fresh once in two or three Days, or it will four.   

Hydromel, a short way: To make this, Take two Gallons of Spring-water, boil it over a gentle Fire, keeping it scumming till no more will arise, then put in a pound of the best Honey, adding a little Fenel and Eye-bright tied up in a bundle, and so let it seethe till the third part be consumed, scum it very well, strain it through a fine Cloth or Sieve, and with a quarter of a pound of Sugar-Candy finely beaten, put it up into a Vessel, and keep it close stopped; and it is an excellent cooling Liquor, greatly comforting and reviving the Spirits in Fevers and other hot Diseases, and is good in extreme Costiveness to loosen the Belly, and contributes much to the freeness of making Urin.   

hydropsy: Take half a dram of transparent yellow Amber twice or thrice a day in any convenient Liquor. This has been proved with good success.   

Hyoscyamus, or Henbane: A Cataplasm of the Roots applied in the Gout, Tumour or Toothache, gives present ease. The Leaves which have all the Virtues, and Preparation of the Root, wonderfuly mollify and ease Pains, being laid on as a Poultis. A distilled Water of the Flowers and Seeds, not ripe, and an Oil compressed out of them, cure the Pains in the Teeth and Gout, and are held to help Deafness and Noise, and Worms in the Ears, if dropped into them, though hot too much. A Gataplasm of the Leaves boiled in Vinegar and Whitewine, eases all Inflammations of the Eyes, assuages Swelling of the Gods, or in Woman's Breasts: Gives ease to the Sciatica, and other Pains in the Joints, proceeding from hot Causes.   

Hyssop, its Virtue: The Qualities are piercing and attenuating, opening and abstersive, and therefore it hath power to heal and purify. Being concocted with Figs, Honey, and Rue, of an equal quantity in fair Water, is good for Inflammations of the Lungs, old Coughs, Difficulty of Breathing and Catarrhs. It kills Worms in the Belly, and being beaten with Salt and Cummin, it remedies the poisonous Biting of Serpents, if immediately applied to the Wound with a mixture of Honey. It is profitable to those that are troubled with the Falling-sickness, the Decoction of it being drunk in Whitewine, as also to cause the voiding of Phlegm, especially when it chief oppresses the Stomach and Lungs, as also the phlegmatic Maladies of the Brain and Sinews; and not only purgeth, but also fortifieth them. It driveth away Ventosities, and moveth Appetite; provokes Urinal, and lessens the shaking of the Ague Fit, sharpens the Sight, and supporteth a good Colour. It is good for the Spleen and Dropsy, and is singularly good against the Quinsy in the Mouth and Throat, being gargarized with the Decoction of it, and Figs in fair Water. The Oil made of the Leaves and Flowers helpeth refrigerated or benumbed Sinews and Nerves, and strengthens them: And in brief so admirable are the Virtues of this Plant, that it has begot a Saying, viz. He that eateth Hyssop, shall live long, etc.   

Hysterick Affections: Take an ounce or sufficient quantity of Volatile Salt of Hartshorn, drop on it as much Spirit of Tartar as will satiate it, when the Conflict is over; digest and mix it for a while, that it may acquire a redness in Colour, and keep it carefully stopped. The Dose is four or five drops in any convenient Syrup. This is excellent good for the Genus Nervosum and other Distempers and Afflictions.   

Hysterick-Balsom: Take Galbanum, Opopanax, the Tears of Assa Foetida, Sagapenum and Armoniac, of each a dram: distilled Oils of Rue, Juniper-Berries, and Amber, of each a scruple: melt the Gums in a brass Melter, and mix the Oils, and make a Balsam by remixing them over a gentle Fire.  
This Balsam is very excellent to suppress the Vapours of the Matrix, put up into the Nostrils, and by anointing the Navel with it, it provokes the Terms, or by applying it to the lower part of the Belly.   

Hysterick-Elixir: Take the distilled Oil of Wormwood, Pennyroyal, Amber, Featherfew, and Rue, of each six drops; Tincture of Castor and Saffron, of each three ounces; refined Sugar, Elder-flower-water, and Mugwort, of each six ounces: make these into an Elixir, and let it stand ten Days before you use it.  
It is an excellent Elixir against all Diseases and Infirmities of the Matrix. The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one.   

Hysterick-Liquor: Take of Castoreum two drams, Saffron and Camphire, of each an ounce: let them macerate fifteen days in a pint of Aquavitae, not being set on any Fire, and then filter the Liquid part.  
This is an excellent Specific to suppress Vapours, especially in Women, when arising from the Matrix: it may be taken upon any occasion, the Party who takes it being fasting, that it may operate the better, from half a spoonful to a whole one. It also may be snuffed up the Nostrils, or the Temples bathed with it, to ease Pains in the Head, and prevent the ascending of offensive Vapours to the Brain.   

Hysterical-Vapours: These are usually called Fits of the Mother: To cure or avert them, Take the Liver of a hunted Hare, hang it up for a time in a dry place where it may not putrefy, till it may be reduced to powder, then take two or three scruples at a time in any convenient Liquor.   

Hysterick-Water: Take the Roots of Briony, and Peony, and Orange-peels, of each three ounces; Flowers of Mugwort, Baum, Featherfew, Pennyroyol, Savin, and Elder-flowers, of each ● handful; Myrrh and Castor, of each an ounce; Saffron two drams. Let these macerate twenty four Hours in two quarts of Canary, a pint of the Water of the Catkins of filberts, and the like quantity of Orange-flower-water, and distil them all on a Sand-Bath.  
This Water is very highly commended by most learned Physicians for the Cure of the Distempers and Grievances of the Matrix. The Dose is an ounce and an half.  
Or take this, viz. Juice of Neppe, Wormwood, Mugwort, Pennyroyal, Elder-flowers, and Hyssop, of each half a handful; distil them, and preserve the Water for Use. This is not so powerful as the other, though very good, and contributing much to the Ease of the aforesaid Grievances and Distempers.   

IAcinth Confection: Take Jacinth Stones, red Coral, Bowl Armoniac, and sealed Earth, of each two ounces and two drams; the Shave of Hartshorn, the Seeds of Sorrel and Purslain, of each five drams; Leaves of Cretan Ditany, Grains of Kermes, Roots of Tormentile and Bithworth, Seeds of Citron cleansed, Aethiopian Myrrh, Saffron, red Roses, the several sorts of Saunders, the Shave of Ivory and of the Bone in a Stag's Heart, of each five drams; Smaragds, Oriential Pearl, Topazes, raw Silk, and Leaves of Gold and Silver, of each eight scruples, Ambergrease, and eastern Milk twenty grains, Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers six pound and seven ounces.  
This is an excellent Confection to strengthen the Heart, remove Infections, and is proper for killing of Worms in the Belly or Stomach. It may be taken in a Bolus alone, or mixed with other Powders, or Opiates, or else dissolved in Wine or Broth, or in some Cordial Liquor. The Dose is from a scruple to a dram, and sometimes two: It is likewise outwardly applied in Liquid and solid Epithems.   

jacobine-dottage: Take either a Capon, or two Brace of Partridges, roast them, and take out the Bones, and mince the Brawn very small, then breaking the Bones, boil them in strong Broth with a Faggot of sweet Herbs, in an earthen Pot: then strain out the Broth upon Sippits of Bread, and lay on the Bread a layer of Flesh or grated Cheese, then put over it some Broth, of Almonds, and make it boil; then fill up your Dish by little and little, till it be quite full, so garnish it with the ends and pinions of the Wings, and the Bones, by sticking them end ways in your Pottage, beat then the Yolks of three Eggs very thin, mix them with a little Almond, or other Broth, and pour them over the Pottage, and so serve it up as a dainty Mess.   

jaundice-black, to Cure: Take Smallage, Sage, Parsley, and Groundsil, cut them small, and boil them as Potherbs with Pork, and drink the Liquor, and feed on the Meat, as a constant Diet for a Week together.   

jaundice-black, another: Take a spoonful of Honey, boil it gently, and scum it till it come to a good consistence, add then Wheat-flower and Saffron reduced to Powder, as much of each as will lie on a Knife's point; and having mixed them well over a gentle Fire, till the scent be lost, put them into a little stone or earthen Pot, and let the Party grieved take the quantity of a Pea at a time of it made up into a Pill, and anoint the Navel with it, chafing it into the Cavity, repeating the application for some Days together, when the Stomach is empty, and fast afterward two or three Hours.   

jaundice in Children: Take half an ounce of the best Rhubarb, make it into a Powder; then take two handfuls of fine Currans, and incorporate it with them, when extraordinary well beaten, and so make it up into an Electuary: And of this, let Children take the quantity of a Nutmeg at a time fasting, and fast an Hour after it for several Mornings successively.   

jaundice Yellow: Take an ounce of Castile-soap, slice it thin, and put it into a pint of cold Small-beer; set it on the fire, and let it boil half away: then scum it once, and strain it through a Sieve, and drink one half of it in the Morning, and the other in the Evening: take a lump of Sugar after it, and fast two or three hours. Taking this, will not hinder any moderate Business If the Distemper be far gone, you may take it once or twice more in two or three days-time afterward.   

jaundice Yellow, another: Take two or three ounces of Hempseed, and boil them in New-Milk till some of the Seeds begin to open and burst, or somewhat longer; then strain out the liquid part, and drink it very warm, renewing it, if occasion require, for two or three days together.   

jelly: Take a dozen Calves-feets, sealed them, and take away the Fat between the Claws, as also the great long Shank-bones; lay them in Water four or five hours, and boil them in two gallons of Spring-water: keep them scumming till the Water comes to about three quarts; then strain it through a thick linen Cloth, and let it cool; and when it is cold, cleanse it from the Settle: pair off the top, and melt it; then put into a large Pipkin three quarts of White-wine, and three races of Ginger sliced, six or seven blades of Mace, and a quarter of an ounce of Cinnamon, a grain of Musk, with eighteen Whites of Eggs beaten with four pound of fine Sugar: mix them with the Jelly in the Pipkin, then put in the Juice of three Lemons, and let them boil leisurely: then strain it again, and run it, and serve it up with any Meats, or other things that require Jellies. 'Tis very good to strengthen the Back, and enable Generation.   

jellies, their proper Meats: 1. Three pair of Calves-feets. 2. A Knuckle of Veal, and a fine well-fleshed Capon not very fat. 3. One pair of Calves-feets, a well-fleshed Capon, half a pound of Hartshorn, and an ounce of Ising-glass. 4. An old Cock, and a Knuckle of Veal. 5. Hartshorn, and a Pullet. 6. Good bodied Capons only. 7. A Cock or Capon with Ising-glass. 8. Jelly of Hogs-feets. 9 Sheeps-feets, Lambs-feets, and Calves-feets. And these may be all ordered as the foregoing, for matter of Boiling and Straining.   

jelly of Apples, the French way: Make a Decoction of Apples pared, sliced, and cored; then run it through a fine Cloth, and to a French pint (which is almost one of our quarts) put about three quarters of a pound of Sugar, and so boil it up to a Jelly. This is very cooling and wholesome for the Stomach, and good to be given in Fevers, and hot Diseases; yet it must be taken, in such cases, with moderation.   

jelly-broth: For the true making this, observe what is material, besides the matter to be jellied, viz. the Meats, add a, quart of White-wine, a pound and a half of Sugar, six Eggs, two Nutmegs sliced, a quarter of an onnce of Mace, two Races of Ginger sliced, a little stick of Cinnamon grossly bruised, two grains of Musk, and Ambergrease.  
Sometimes, for variety, instead of Wine, use Grape-Juice, a quart of the Juice of Lemons, a pint of the Juice of Oranges, a quart of Woodsorrel, or a Quart of the Juice of Quinces.   

jelly Crystalline: To do this, Take half a dozen Calves-feets, scald off the Hair, take off the Claws, and take out the great Bones and Fat; then casting the Flesh into fair Water, shift them three or four times a day and a night, and in the morning boil them in a glazed Pipkin, in six quarts of Water, keeping it very clean scummed, till it is reduced by boiling to three quarts; then strain it into a clean earthen Vessel, and when it is cold, take away the Dross from the bottom, and the Fat from the top, if any remain there; then put it into a large Pipkin of six quarts, and put to it two quarts of old White-wine and the Juice of four Lemons, three blades of Mace, and two races of Ginger sliced; then melt or dissolve it again into Broth, and let it cool, and then have four pound of Sugar ready beaten, and in a large Dish mix it with twelve Whites of Eggs; then put them into the Pipkin where the Jelly is, and so stir them together with a grain of Musk, and Ambergrease: put it in a fine linen Cloth; bound up, and a quarter of a pint of Damask-Rose-water, and set it a stewing on a gentle Charcoal-fire; before it boils, put in a little Ising-glass; and being boiled, cool it, and then run it up.   

jelly of whole Currants: Boil to candy sour pound of fine White Sugar clarified with the Whites of Eggs; put into it Red Currants about five pound: let them boil together till they are almost become a Jelly, then put into it some whole Currants fresh and cleanly picked; and when they are enough, put them into the Sugar, but let it be very clear, and well ordered, and scum it well while it boils with the Sugar, and so you will have an excellent Jelly, very cooling and grateful to the Stomach, and useful for restoring a lost Appetite.   

jelly of Flesh: Take a Red Cock, and a Knuckle of Mutton, or the Sinews and Knuckle of Veal with a little Mutton, Raisins of the Sun stoned; boil all these to pieces: then take the Vessel wherein they boil, from off the fire, pour but what is in it into a wooden Vessel, and break and mix it together very well: then run it through a Strainer; and when it has stood all night, scum off the top, and season the rest with Sugar, a stick of Cinnamon broken very small, a blade or two of Mace; so boil it up again, and strain it through a Jelly-bag for use. It is exceeding nourishing and good for those that are in, or inclining to a Consumption; also to restore weak and decayed Bodies.   

jelly of Gooseberries, the French way: Take Gooseberries, and press or bruise them, and strain out the Pulp through a Straining-cloth: measure the Juice, and to every pint put three quarters of a pound of Sugar: make it boil up well together; and when it is so well boiled, that some of it being laid on a Plate, it will not stick, but come clean of, then strain it, and keep it to put into Tarts with Pears, Apples, Quinces, or the like, to make them taste like Gooseberries, when Gooseberries are out of season. And so you may Jelly Raspberries, Cherries, Currants, or any such like soft Fruit.   

jelly of Hartshorn: This has been a long time greatly in request. To make it, Take half a pound of Hartshorn, boil it leisurely in Spring-water close covered, and in a well-glazed Pipkin that will hold a gallon: boil it well; when 'tis cold, strain it through a fine Cloth, and put it into another lesser Pipkin, and with the Juice of eight or nine large Lemons, a pound and a half of double-refined Sugar, and so let it boil a little, and put it into a Galley-pot or small Glass, or cast it into a Mould, or any fashion you fancy best. This is by Physicians held to be a special Cordial, and a great Strengthener; a Restorer of Consumptive Bodies, or those faln-away by long or violent Sicknesses.   

jelly to Make: Take a large Leg of Veal, cut away the Fat as clean as you can; wash it well, and let it lie a soaking a quarter of an hour or more, having first broke the Bones: then take four Calf's-feets, and scald off the Hair in boiling Water, slit them, and put them to your Veal; boil them over the fire in a brass Pot, in two gallons or ten quarts of Water, according to the Proportion of the Meat: scum it very often, and so continue it till it is boiled away to three pints; then strain it through a clean Strainer, and let it stand till it be quite cold, that it will easily be cut out; pair the top and the bottom, and then put it into a Skillet: then take two ounces of Cinnamon bruised, and Nutmeg sliced, a race of Ginger, and a large Mace or two, a little quantity of Salt, and a spoonful or two of Wine-Vinegar, and the Whites of Eggs well beaten: put all to the Jelly, and then set it on the fire, and let it seethe two or three walms, stirring it all the while; then strain it through a Jelly-bag, and eat it when you find Nature weakened or decayed, and it greatly strengthens and fortifies it.   

jelly of Quinces, the French way: Make a Decoction of Quinces pared, quartered and cored, till they are very soft, so that they may be mashed and mingled with the Water they are boiled in; then strain them through a Straining-cloth, and boil the liquid part up again with Sugar, a pound to a quart, till it comes to a reddish colour: then scumming it lightly, let it settle, and take off the finest part, when it is warm, put it into glazed earthen Vessels, and let it stand till it is cool, and it will become a curious red Jelly, and is a great Comforter of the Stomach, exceeding good for the Lungs, and Shortness of Breath.   

jelly of Verjuice: Boil Verjuice in fair Water, then strain it, and in the Decoction boil Apples, and a little Ising-glass; and when the liquid part gins to consume, it will be a perfect Jelly. This is good to use in Sauces, and for garnishing Dishes; as likewise to prepare the Stomach for a good Appetite, by being eaten with Sugar and Rose-water.   

jelly White: Take a pound of Almonds, and steep them in cold Water till the Husks come off; being blanched, beat them with a quart of Rose-water; then a Decoction of half a pound of Ising-glass boiled with a gallon of fair Spring-water, or else half Wine, boil it till half be wasted; then cool it, and strain it, and mingle it with your Almonds, and strain with them a pound of double-refined Sugar, the Juice of two Lemons, and cast it into Eggshells; put Saffron to some of it, and make some of it blue, and some of what colours you please, though naturally it will be as white as Snow.   

jemelloes to Make: Take a pound of fine Sugar beaten and sifted, four Yolks of new-layed Eggs, a grain of Musk, and two drams of Carrawayseeds finely beaten and sifted, a little Gum-dragon dissolved in Rose-water, and six spoonfuls of fine Flower; beat all these together in as equal mixture as may be; so beat them into a thin Paste a little softer than Butter; then run it through rough a Butter-Squirt of two or three els long, bigger than a Wheat-straw; and let them dry upon Paper a quarter of an hour, then tie them up in such Knots as you fancy most proper; and being dry, boil them in Rose water and Sugar, and it proves very useful in setting out a rich Banquet.   

Ill Habit of Body, to Remedy: Take double-refined Sugar one pound, the distilled Water of Citron-peels four ounces, boil them over a gentle fire to the consistence of a solid Electuary: then add a Nutmeg, Sugar powdered and passed through a Sieve, Pulp of Pistaches three drams; choice Cinnamon and Mace finely powdered, of each two drams; put in first the Nutmeg and the Pistaches, after that the Peel, and then the Powder; and being all incorporated, make them up into Tablets, and dry them, so that they may be well kept for use.  
These Tablets are of a very pleating Scent and Odour, grateful to the Stomach, and removing the ill Habit of Body. They increase the Appetite, and facilitate Concoction and Distribution of the Nourishment. They also are very effectual to expel Wind, and hinder the Putrefaction of the Humours. You may take of them for a Dose two drams in the Morning fasting, and immediately after Meals, and may continue the use of them as you see occasion.   

Incontinency of Urine: Take the Pizzle of a Weather, dry it in an Oven so that it may be reduced to a Powder; mix it with a little Powder of Coral, and take as much as will lie on a Threepences in a spoonful of Vinegar.   

Inflammation Day: For this, Take Crumbs of Bread half an ounce, Coral and Pearl prepared, Tuttia and white Sugar-Candia, of each half a dram; Powder of red Roses a dram and a half, Flowers of St. John's-wort one dram, and with a sufficient quantity of Milk make a Cataplasm or Poultis; and for a dry hot Inflammation lay it on the Eyes.   

Inflammation Moist: Take a Pippin, and having cut it in two halves, take out the Core of each of them, and fill up the cavity with the tender Tops of common Wormwood, and so close them together by tying the halves: and when it is well roasted, take off the Skin bruise it into a kind of a Poultis, and apply it warm to the Eye, spread on a Cloth.   

Internal Piles: Take two parts of Flower of Sulphur, and one of Sugar very finely powdered; mix them exactly together, and make them up with a sufficient quantity of Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth, into Lozenges, of about a dram weight, and take one at a time thrice a day; or, if need require, four or five times a day.   

St. John'swort: This is a sovereign Herb for Wounds, or internal Bruises; boil it in White-wine, and drink it very warm, with a little Sugar. For Wounds, make it into an Ointment or Bath. It opens Obstructions, and dissolves Swell: It closes up the Lips of Wounds, and strengtheneth the Parts that are weak and feeble. The Seed, especially if brought into a Powder, and drank with the Juice of Knotgrass, helpeth all manner of Spitting or Vomiting of Blood, closes a Vein broken inwardly, and helps those that are stung by any venomous Creature. It is good for those that are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys, or have difficulty in making Urine. Two drams of the Powder of the Seed taken, in a little Broth, gently expels Choler, or congealed Blood in the Stomach. The Decoction of the Leaves and Seeds, being drank somewhat warm before the Fit of an Ague, whether Tertian or Quartan, does alter the Fits; and by often using, takes 'em away. The Seed is very much commended, being drank for forty days together, in helping the Sciatica, Falling-sickness, and Palsy.   

joints Afflicted: Take Bay-leaves two large handfuls, and of the Berries half a pound; Colewort-leaves a pugil, Neats-feet-oil five pints, Beef-suet two pound; bruise what is to be bruised, and mingle the rest: boil them till the Berries and Leaves are crisp, then strain out the Ointment, and use it by suppling or bathing pretty hot in all cold Distempers that afflict the Nerves and Joints.   

joint-stiffness, etc. Take of the Flowers and Tops of Rosemary, Marjoram, Rue, Wild Thyme, and the Roots of Wake-Robin, and Wild Cucumbers, of each four ounces and an half; and of the Leaves of Bays, Sage, Savin, Briony-roots, of each three ounces; Fleabane, Spurge, Laurel, of each nine ounces; the Leaves of wild Cucumbers and Calamint, of each half a pound: they must be gathered very fresh, cleansed and bruised, and infused seven days in five pints of the best Olive-oil, and one of the Spirit of Wine: boil them gently till the watery Humour be evaporated; strain out the Oil, and melt it in fifteen ounces of yellow Bees-wax, Bears-grease, and the Oil of Bays, of each three ounces; of Mascheleum half an ounce, Petroleum an ounce, Butter four ounces: stir them, and sprinkle in the following Powders, viz. of Mastic and Olibanum, of each six drams; of Pellitory of Spain, Pepper, Ginger, and Euphorbium, of each an ounce; make them into an Ointment over a gentle fire, with well mixing and stirring; and, lastly, straining out the liquid part, keep it close stopped in an earthen Vessel for your use.  
This is an excellent Ointment for all cold Diseases, as Palsies, Stiffness of the Joints, Cramps, Convulsions, and the Colic, and Pains of the Reins, etc.   

Italian Biscuit: Take a pound of fine Sugar, beat it yet finer, and sift it; and to it put a pound of fine Wheat-flower, and six Eggs beaten very thin; then beat them all together in a stone Mortar for an hour's space, not suffering it to stand still, lest it prove heavy; then put in half an ounce of Aniseeds: rub Butter over your Plates, and drop the Ingredients with a Spoon as fast as possible you can: set them into an Oven and bake them, but let them not be too much by any means.   

Italian Chips: Take Past of Flowers, beat them till they are reduced to a fine Powder; then sift them, and take some Gum-dragon steeped in Rose-water; beat them in a wooden or stone Mortar to a perfect Paste, than roll it very thin, and lay one colour upon another in a long roll, and being rolled very thin, cut them overthwart, and they will appear of divers curious and delicate Colours like Marbling.   

Itch to Cure: Take strong Limewater one pound, and put it into a gallon of Spring-water; let them work together for some hours, and then carefully pour off what is clear: filter the rest, and take two ounces of Quicksilver tied up in a linen Bag: let this hang in the Liquor, and boil it half an hour or more: then pour off the clear Liquor, and with it wash the part afflicted; and when it is well dried in, anoint the same places with Ointment of Tobacco, which you may have ready prepared.   

Itch, another way to Cure: Take a handful of the Roots of Elecampane, and as much of sharp-pointed Dock; shred them small, and boil them in two quarts of Spring-water till a pint be consumed; then strain out the Liquor, and wash with it the place affliccted once or twice a day.   

Itch, a Durge: Take Tamarinds half an ounce, sharp-pointed Dock-roots two drams; Fumitory and Succory, of each half a handful; white Tartar half a dram, Ginger a scruple: let the Herbs be shred very small, then stamp the Roots, and boil all in a sufficient quantity of fair Water, till it be consumed to about a quarter of a pint; to which, being strained, add an ounce of the Syrup of Roses, and two drams of Syrup of Buckthorn Berries: Take it in the Morning fasting, and it will purge and cleanse the Blood, so that the Humours, that occasion the offensive Disease, will be expelled, by gentle Swell.   

juice of Crabs: This is commonly called Verjuice, it cools, dries, binds, and quenches the Thirst, assuages the heat of burning Fevers, stops Fluxes, and causes Appetite. In other Countries they imitate ours with the Juice of unripe Grapes. It is used with Sauces in Food, to sharpen the Appetite; and made into Lohoch with Virgin-Honey, it cools in hot Diseases, and cuts tough Phlegm.   

juice of Cucumbers: Here is meant the wild ones: It is Catharick; it prevails against the Gout, Scurvy, and King's-Evil, Obstructions of the Viscera and Jaundice, also the Dropsy: It is to be taken from two drams, to three, four, or five.  
To make a Syrup of it, Take of the Juice two pound, of choice Senna two ounces and a half: mix and infuse them over a gentle Heat close covered, sixteen or twenty four Hours; then strain it out, and boil it up with as much white Sugar, as will make it into a Syrup. The Dose is from two, three, four, or five spoonfuls in any of the Distempers or Grievances . It purges out watery Humours very strongly.   

juices Depurated: Let your Juices settle for twelve Hours, then pour it off gently from the gross Impurities settled at the bottom; boil it gently in a Pipkin, and take off the Scum or Curds, letting it boil only a warm or two, then strain it.   

juice of Garden, or Field-Sorrel: This made into a Syrup, or the Juice sweetened with Sugar, is very cooling and astringent, it allays the Heat of the Liver and Stomach, stays Fluxes, and inward Bleedings. It is good to expel the afflicting hot Vapours infesting the Brain in Fevers, and to hinder the Lightness in the Head: Eaten in Salads, it cools the Blood and thins it. Applied , it assuages hot Swell, or any external Inflammation, takes off the Redness and Heat of the Face, or any Part of the Body, being washed with the distilled Water of it, and that of Scabious.   

juice of Hypocistis: This Juice proceeds from a Plant growing like Mifleto. It thickens and binds strongly, and is used chief to stop all Fluxes of the Belly, Womb, and Stomach: It stays Vomiting and Spitting of Blood, by reason of internal Bruises, An aqueous or vinous Tincture of it, is used to stop the Gonorrhoea, and Whites in Women. A Lohoch made of it with red Wine, and adding a third part of Honey, that it may be inspissated to a thickness, is given for the Cure of Ulcers in the Lungs, Stomach, or Bowels.   

juice of Licorice: Of Licorice there are two kinds, viz. the Spanish and the English, though much of the same Virtues. The Spanish Juice is made by boiling the Juice to a thickness, or inspissating it by Evaporation, and then making it up into Rolls or Cakes, which they wrap up in Bay-leaves, and that which is best good breaks free, and is clear and shining like Jet. The English Juice is made into round Balls, and is generally a Composition made of the Juice and the Pulp of Prunes, and so inspissated to a Body.  
It is one of the greatest Pectorals, good against Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Wheesing ' Difficulty of Breathing, Shortness of Breath, stuffing of the Lungs, Breast, and Stomach; also for Ulcers in the Kidneys, sharpness of Urine, and the Corrosion of the Bladder: It helps Expectoration, lenifies roughness, loosens the Bellies of Children, and takes away the Gripe and other Pains. It helps to overcome and remove the Effects, many times left behind, of strong and sharp Purgers.  
To make an aqueous Tincture of Licorice take this Rule: Take Spanish Juice very thin sliced, or bruised to pieces in a Mortar, one ounce, fair Water three quarts, Salt of Tartar three drams: mix and put all these into a glass Body digested over a very gentle Heat twenty four Hours, and a pure Tincture will arise into the Water, leaving all the Faeces, or earthy substance behind in the same form or shape it was put in: Beware you shake it not, but decant the pure clear Liquor for use, and cast away the Faeces. It wonderfully sweetens the Blood, and is excellent in the Scurvy and French-Pox.   

juice of Licorice white: Take clean Powder of Licorice-roots, and Orris, of each six scruples; Wheat-flower two ounces, Sugar finely beaten one pound; Eastern Musk, and Ambergrease, of each three grains: incorporate these together with a mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted in Rose-water, mixing and beating them together in a solid Paste: make them up into Tablets or Rolls, and dry them in the Sun, or before a gentle Fire, on fine Paper.  
The Juice of white Licorice is more pleasing than the black, very acceptable to the Taste and Smell; and dissolved in Mint, or Rose-water with a little Syrup of Gillyflowers, is good against Coughs, Colds, Phthisicks, Asthmas and most pectoral Diseases.   

juice of Nettles: It stays Bleeding, mixed with white Sugar and snuffed up the Nose. A quarter of a pint of the Juice of the Tops of young Nettles drank at a time, stops internal bleeding. It is also good, made into a Syrup with Sugar, against the Diseases of the Lungs, as Colds, Coughs, Asthmas, Peripenumony, Pleurisies Stitches in the Side, Heat, Pain, and Stoppage of Urinal, whether proceeding from Sand, Gravel or other mucilaginous Matter.   

juice of Pomegranate: This is cooling and Cordial, cheering the Heart, and refreshing the Spirits: It resists Poison, and the Infection of the Plague, and all other pestilential and contagious Distempers: It cools, and that which is most acid, is grateful to the Stomach. It is given in choleric Fevers, the Pica in Women with Child, Gonorrhoea's, and cures the sore Mouth. The Wine like Juice, that is between sour and sweet, is Cordial and Cephalick, good against the Migraines, Vapours, fainting and swooning Fits; the sweet Juice is good against old Coughs. Of the acid or sharp Juice is made first, Syrup, with a sufficient quantity of Sugar to make it into a convenient thickness; secondly, Lohoches with Honey, and the distilled Spirit of the Wine of Pomgranets, is an excellent Cordial mixed with cooling Waters in all hot Diseases.   

juice of Woodsorrel: Take four pints of the Juice of Woodsorrel, purify it, and pour it into a glass Cucurbit, cover it with its Alembick slightly luted, place it in Balneo Mariae, and distil about half the moisture with a moderate Fire; then take away the Cucurbit, and let it cool: this being done, pour out the acid Juice that remains by inclination, and pass it through a brown Paper, to separate the Dregs gathered in distillation; then weigh out a quart of the clarified, Juice, and in it dissolve four pound of fine Sugar, and give it a little time to wamble over the fire: Take it off, and scum it when it is come to the thickness of a Syrup: you may likewise clarify the fine powdered Sugar with the White of an Egg, and fair Water, and boil it to the strong consistency of a solid Electuary; and afterward incorporate the Juice of the Woodsorrel prepared as is directed.  
This Syrup is very cooling, and is useful to quench Thirst in hot Diseases; also the Heat of the Liver and Stomach. It is very much commended in Burning Fevers, and in Malignant and Epidemic Distempers. It comforteth and strengtheneth the Heart, and allays the Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue, likewise that of the Palate and Throat: the distilled. Water of the Juice may be very properly mixed with the Syrup, or you may drink the Water alone. The quantity to be taken is from half an ounce to an ounce, and may be taken in the Morning fasting, and at Night when you go to rest; or at any time of the day, as necessity requires.   

jujubs, a Syrup: Take six Jujubs; Barley picked, Licorice and Maidenhair, of each an ounce; fresh Violets a handful; Seeds of Mallows, Quinces, White Poppey, Melons and Lettuce, of each three drams: put the Barley into a glazed earthen Pot, with six pints of Water, and let it boil over a gentle fire for half an hour; then put in the Jujubs sliced, and let them boil a quarter of an hour; then add the Licorice scraped and bruised, the Maidenhair cut, and the Seeds bruised: let them boil a while, and then add the fresh Violets, thrusting them down into the Decoction, at the same time taking off the Pot from the fire; and when the Decoction is somewhat cool, strain it, and clarify the Liquor with the White of an Egg, and three pound of sine Sugar; boil it over a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup.  
This Syrup is chief given in dry Coughs, or hot and thin Defluxions on the Lungs; for it thickens the Phlegm, and qualifies the Acrimony thereof, and helps to expectorate. It may be taken from half an ounce to an ounce, either alone, or else in Pectoral Juleps, Apozems, or mixed with lohoch's.   

julep: To make an excellent Cooler for a Calenture, or Burning Fever, Pair ten Lemons, press out the Juice, and let it settle  hours; then pour off the clear part, and strain it or filter it, and digest it in a stone Bottle in hot Water, or in Sand, for twelve days; then filter it again, and digest it as before: repeat this until no more faeces settle; and during that time, calcine the outward or yellow Peel of the Lemons, and with distilled Water draw the Salt out of the Ashes, and put this Salt into the purified Juice; and having digested them for some time together, put it into little Vials of an ounce a piece, which is a Dose sufficient for any one. Some say, That two Doses of this will allay the greatest Burning Fever, and by degrees so cool and temperate the Blood, that the Distemper in a little time will cease. It may be given by itself; but if it prove unpleasant to the Palate, you may mix a little Sugar with it.   

jumbals: To make these, Take a pint of Wheat-flower, and a pound of white Sugar, make a mixture of these with the Whites of two or three Eggs finely beaten, and a pound of blanched Almonds well beaten, with half a pound of fresh Butter, and a spoonful or two of Rose-water. To these add half a pint of Cream, and mould it till it becomes a Paste, so roll it into what shapes you please, and dry it a while; then bake it in an Oven not too hot, to the number of twenty or more.   

jumbals, another: Take a pound of fine Wheat-flower, the Yolks of four new-layed Eggs, about a quarter of a pint of sweet Cream, a quarter of an ounce of Aniseeds, and half a pound of cold Butter; make all these into a Paste, and roll it into long rolls as big as your Little-Finger, and make them into what Knots, Forms or Fashions you please: then boil them in fair Water; after that, bake them, and keep them in Boxes in dry places to set out the Table, as occasion requires.   

jumbals sugared: Take two pound of fine Flower, beat a pound of Loaf-Sugar into Powder, sift it, and mingle it with the Flower: then take a pound and an half of Sweet-Butter, break it in small pieces among the Flower and Sugar; then take five spoonfuls of Canary, and three or four Yolks of new-layed Eggs, and a quarter of a pint of Cream; beat them well together, and put them to the rest of the Materials, and when they are worked up into a Paste, fashion them as your Fancy leads: lay them on white Paper, or on Plates, and put them into an Oven, and bake them with a gentle heat, taking an extraordinary care that they be not scorched.   

juniper-berries, their Virtues: The Spiritous Water, as also the Oil, are either of them proper to free the Reins and Ureters from Gravel, and vicious Matter, that stops the Passages, and hinders the Urine from having its course. They are also very useful in cold Maladies of the Brain, and in Scorbutic Distempers. They fortify the Stomach, and create an Appetite, help Digestion, and resist Putrefaction, and the Humours, and kill the Worms in the Body; also expel Wind, Colic, and cold Maladies of the Bowels.   

Ivy: This Simple, though by some not much regarded, is of great virtue: for Dioscorides tells us, A pugil of the Flowers, which may be about a dram, boiled in Red-Wine, or powdered and drank twice a day, helps the Lask and Bloodyflux. It is an Enemy to the Nerves and Sinews, if taken much inwardly; but very strengthening to them, if applied outwardly in Oil, Ointment, or Poultis. The Berries powdered, and drank in Ale, are good against the Jaundice, Black or Yellow; they help those that spit Blood, and kill Worms. They are a great Enemy to Wine; for if any one has got a Surfeit by hard, drinking of Wine, boil a handful of Ivy in the like Wine, and the Decoction will greatly contribute towards the Party's Health. The Juice of the Berries snuffed up the Nose, purges the Head of Rheum, and is good for sore Eyes.   

Sir KEnelm Digbies Wound-Drink: Take an handful of the Leaves of Sage and Rue, bruise them, and put them into a thin Bag or Boulter, and hang it in four gallons of ordinary Small Ale well brewed; and as soon as it is Turned, take three hundred live Sows, commonly called Hoglices, (they live under old Wood and Stones:) bruise these with a little of the Ale, that all the Moisture may be extracted; then strain it, and pour it among the rest, and put the Skins of the Sows to the Herbs in the Bag: when it has worked sufficiently, begin to drink it at Meals, and at other times when you have occasion to drink: and to render it more grateful to the Taste, you may add a fourth part of White-wine, forbearing, during the taking of it, to eat salt Fish, or salt Meats.  
It is not to be wondered at, that this Drink should be so efficacious, though it be compounded but of few Ingredients, since all famous Authors ascribe such wonderful Virtue to these Creatures; and Experience testifies, that they cleanse, resolve and purify to a wonder. They dissolve the Stone in the Reins and Bladder to a Slime, and bring it away; they open the Obstructions, help the Jaundice, and all Obstructions, Stoppage and Strangury of Urine; the Colic, Asthmas, Shortness of Breath; and also restore lost Appetite. They are very much recommended for the curing all sorts of Cancers, scirrhous Tumours in what part of the Body soever, the Kings-Evil, and all sordid and inveterate Ulcers and Sores. With this Drink did Sir Kenelm do great Cures at Frankford, in Germany, and at other places. It likewise stays the bleeding of Wounds, and heals them very speedily.   

Kermes: This is usually called the Scarlet Oak. The Grains of this Tree are doubly useful, either for dying Scarlet Colour; or for Medicine, which is most to our purpose: Wherefore, to omit the former, it is astringent, and used successfully for Wounds, especially where the Nerves are cut; and also prevents Miscarriage in Women. They are used in sharp Diseases, as Apoplexies, Palsy, etc. as also for the Palpitation of the Heart, Fainting, Swooning and Melancholy.   

Kermes, a Confection: Take the Juice of pleasant smelling Apples, and Rose-water, of each a pint; boil them almost to the thickness of Honey, then take it from the fire, and whilst it is hot, add two drams of Ambergriese, cut small, and dissolved with some drops of the Oil of Cinnamon; which being well mixed, add what follows in Powder, viz. Wood of Aloes and Cinnamon, of each six drams, prepared Pearl two drams, Leaf-gold one dram; then drain and mix them with the Syrup of Kermes, which is made in this manner: mix the Grains in a marble Mortar, pulp them through a Sieve or Strainer, and mix them with an equal quantity of Sugar. This is the proper Conserve; and to make it a Syrup, it is but adding more Sugar, raw Silk, the Juice of Apples, and Rose-water. It is a great Strengthener of the Heart, and Restorer of Nature; expels Melancholy, and restores a cheerful and wholesome Complexion.   

Kermes, a Confection: Take the Juice of pleasant Apples, and Rose-water, a pound and an half; raw Silk cut very small one pound; put them into a Matrass well stopped, and digest them for twenty four hours in Balneo Mariae; then squeeze the warm Silk in a Press, and boil the Liquor to the consistence of a solid Electuary with two pound of Sugar: then take it from the fire, and dissolve in it a pound of the new thicker Juice of Kermes; and afterward mix with it Oriental Pearl prepared, Yellow Saunders, and biting Cinnamon, of each half an ounce; Ambergriese pulverised with three drops of the best distilled Oil of Cinnamon, Lapis Lazuli burnt, washed, and made smooth, three drams; Leaf-gold one dram, Oriental Musk half a dram.  
This Confection, without dispute, is a very excellent lamb den day one, and held to be one of the best and purest Cordials that ever and Galenick Physician invented; for it repairs and recreates the Vital and Animal Spirits, cures the Palpitations of the Heart, and remedies Swooning-Fits: it very much fortifies the Brain, and all the Noble Parts, and is an Enemy to Putrefaction: it re-establishes the languishing and decaying Strength, and drives away Melancholy and Sadness; and restores and preserves both Body and Mind in a good Condition. It may be taken upon the Point of a Knife, or dissolved in Wine, or in Broth, or in any Cordial or Cephalick Liquor. It is sometimes mixed with Electuaries or Opiates either soft or solid; The usual Dose is from one scruple to one dram. It is also mixed in Epithems prescribed for the Heart and Liver, and rarely fails the Parent's Expectation.   

Kermes, the juice, its Virtues: Kermes, or Alkermes, is made of the Kermes-Berries, and brought from Marseilles: it is of a bright Scarlet Colour, well-tasted, and of the thickness of an ordinary Syrup. It is a very great Cordial; it discusses Wind and Vapours, cheers the Heart, revives the Spirit, helps Women in Travail, helps Nature, cures Wounds and wounded Nerves, resists the Poison of the Plague, and the malignity of Pestilential Fevers, and very powerfully and kindly drives out the Smallpox and Measles. The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and an half, and may be taken in this Mixture, viz. the Juice of Kermes six drams, Aqua Lactis Alexiter. four ounces, mix them together for a Draught. Or in this manner; Take the Juice of Kermes six drams, the Tincture of Cochineel two drams, Aqua Lactis Alexiter. four ounces; mix for a Dose a Syrup made of this Juice with double-refined Sugar: it is good to cut tough Phlegm, if mingled with a little Juice of Lemons or Citron; also to open Obstructions of the Breast and Lungs, and strengthen the Stomach; it causes a good Appetite, and is good against pestilential Diseases. A Water distilled from the Juice very much resists the Plague, and creates a good Habit and Constitution of Body.   

Kernels of Peaches: These bruised and applied to Inflammations allay the Heat, and bring Swelling Humours to a Head; there is an Oil drawn from them that in hot Inflammations is very good, and also to anoint the Stomach with, in fainting or swooning Fits.   

Kernels of Pine-Apples: The Decoction of them is taken with good success by such as are of phlegmatic Constitution, or afflicted with Rheumatisms, as also to wash old running Sores with, and to cleanse Ulcers, and suchlike Matters.   

Kibes: Take Navel wort, the Leaves and Root, stamp it very small: to half a handful of both these, put two ounces of Linseed-oil, and a quarter of an ounce of Alom in powder; mix them well together over a gentle fire, wash your Kibes first in Water and Salt, and being dried, bind this on as a Plaster or Poultis. It is the same for Chilblains, and helps Corns, it being so applied, when they are newly cut.   

Kibes Broke, to Heal: Take the Lungs of a Ram dried and beat to Powder, mixed with the Oil of Earthworms, and Linseed-oil, and by applying it three or four times, and washing them with Urinal, your Expectation will be answered: or if they be not broken, make a Plaster of Alom, Vinegar. and Mustard, and lay it on them.   

Kidneys: If you find any Swelling in the Kidneys, by reason of Obstruction of Urinal, Cold, some Blow received, or otherwise, Take the Oil of Roses and Quinces, of each two drams; warm and mix them well over a gentle Fire, chafe it on the Reins of the Back, and swath the Body very warm with a Flannel Wrapper.   

Kidney-Beans: To enlarge upon these will not be amiss, seeing so many and various Uses are appropriated to them.  
They open Obstructions, provoke Urinal, expel Sand, Gravel, and slimy Matter, strengthen wonderfully, and cause a good Colour in the Face, restore in Consumptions; they thicken, cleanse, and stop Fluxes, as Diarrhoea's, Lienteries. The Decoction of them is good against the Stone; a strong Broth of them boiled till they are broken, dissolved and strained, is good against a Consumption. The Flower is used in Poultices, and to ripen Fevers. It eases Pains outwardly, it takes away Freckles, Morphew, and Sun-burn, and other Deformities of the Skin. A Cataplasm made of it, discusses Bruises in the Eyes. A volatile Salt made of them, is good against the Apoplexy, Epilepsy, Palsy, Lethargy, and Convulsion, Gout, Stone, Rheumatism, Colic, and other Diseases of the Head, Nerves, Womb, and Joints. The Dose is from six grains to ten. They are likewise pleasant for Food, and very nourishing.   

Kidneys, their Pains Cured: Take five ounces of Maidenhair, Licorice five ounces; infuse them twelve Hours in three quarts of Spring-water; then boil them gently in a Bath, and press out the Liquid part, when a third part of it is consumed, and add, by well mixing, three pound of clarified Sugar.  
This not only helps the Diseases and Pains in the Kidneys and Sides, but also opens the Obstructions of the Lungs, provokes Urinal gently, and expels the Gravel and Stone out of the Bladder: An ounce of it may be taken at a time in any proper Liquor.   

Kidney-Pye, or Pastry: Take the Kidneys of Veal, Fat and all, with some of the Meat, when the Loins of Veal are just roasted, mince them very small with the Marrow of six Bones cold, to which add sweet Marjoram, Winter-savory and Thyme, very well bruised, or small shred, Rosewater a quarter of a pint, half a pound of Currans, a sliced Nutmeg, half a pound of Sugar, and the Yolks of six Eggs; and mixing them well together, let the Crust of your Pies or Pasties be of Puff-past, and of but an indifferent size. These, by some, are called Marrow-Pasties; but then there is usually more of the one than of the other among the Ingredients: These, being made very small, may be fried in sweet Butter, or tried Suet.   

Kidney, the Stone in it: We may beforehand perceive the Signs of this dangerous Distemper by a fixed Pain in the Loins, bloody Urinal, or voiding Sand or Stones, the numbness of the Leg on the side of the affected Kidney, the retraction of the Testicles on the same side the Pain afflicts, a queasiness of the Sromach, and straining to Vomit. In this case, if the Person be of a sanguine Constitution, about ten ounces of Blood may be taken from the Arm on the side the Pain most afflicts; after that drink Posset-drink wherein two ounces of the Roots of Marsh-mallows have been boiled, and take the following Clyster, viz. The Roots of Marshmallows and Lilies, of each an ounce; the Leaves of Mallows, Wall-flower, brank Ursine, and Camomel-flowers, of each a handful; Linseed, and Fenugreekseed, of each half an ounce: boil them in a convenient quantity of Water to a pint and a half; make a Clyster, and after the rejection of the Vomit and Clyster, let a large Dose of Liquid-Laudanum be exhibited, viz. to twenty five drops, or fifteen or sixteen grains of Matthew's Pills. If the Patient be old, and much weakened by the continuance of the Disease, or it be a Woman much subject to Vapours, especially at the beginning of the Paroxysm, and she void black and gravely Urinal, then omit the Bleeding; but in all other Cases proceed according to the Method prescribed.   

Kidneys Ulcerated: Take of Chinaroot sliced very small two drams, Golden-rod, Maidenhair, Bettony, Mouse-ear, Agrimony, Comfrey, Scabeous, Bugle, red Bramble-Leaves, Marshmallows, Pelletory of the Wall, and Plantain, of each half a handful; then take one spoonful of French Barley, and a Stick of Licorice sliced very small, a handful of Raisins of the Sun stoned, boil them softly in a pottle of running Water to the consumption of a quart; and taking it off the Fire, add two ounces of the Conserve of red Roses, stir and mix them well together, and strain the liquid part through a fine Cloth, and keep it close stopped in a Glass, and drink thereof every Morning fasting about half a quarter of a pint pretty warm.   

Kidney-Wort: It is otherways called Wall-penny-royal, or Wall-penny-wort: The Juice of it being drunk with a little fine Sugar, is excellent, cooling, and good in all Inflammations and unnatural Heats: Excellent is the distilled Water of it in cooling a fainting hot Stomach, or heated Bowels, or hot Liver; it takes away Pimples, or Redness in the Face, St. Anthony's Fire, and other outward Heats and Inflammations; it also easeth the Pain or Soreness of the Kidneys, occasioned by the Stone or Gravel; it provokes Urinal, and is available for the Dropsy. The Juice being made into an Ointment, is excellent in easing the hot Gout, or Sciatica.   

Kidney-Wort: The Juice, or distilled Water being drank in very effectual for all Inflammations and unnatural Heats. It cools the Bowels, Stomach, and Liver. The bruised Herb, or the Place bathed with the Juice, or distilled Water, cures Redness and Pimples in the Face, and all other outward Heats and Inflammations, and has many peculiar Virtues for the Cure of the Stone, especially in the Kidney. In Bleeding and Wounds it is very effectual, as also in the Gout and most violent Pains in the Stomach, Bowels, and the like, helps Swell in the Throat, and is very good to heal the Blistering or Fretting of the Skin, by being applied. Some hold it to be good in the Disease called the King's-Evil. An Ointment made of it, and some of the Skin of the Leaf laid upon them, is excellent good in green Wounds, and to stay Bleeding of Wounds, or upon other Occasions.   

King's-Evil: Take a handful of the Herb called White-Archangel, stamp it small, and mix with it some Hog's-Lard, and apply it Plasterwise to the Swelling or Tumour; or, Take the lesser Daisy; or common wild Daisy, usually growing on the Commons and in Fields, and stamp the Roots, and use them as the former. Figwort is likewise applied with very good success in this Distemper.   

King's-Evil, another: Let a quart of new Milk just boil, and taking it off, put into it two spoonfuls of Honey, which being dissolved with stirring, set it on the Fire again, and let it boil about a Minute: so divide it into four parts, and drink one part warm early in the Morning, another about ten, another about four in the Afternoon, and the rest at Bed time: Do this daily a Month or two together, or less. On the Days you Purge, which must be once a Week, if you be a grown Man or Woman, you may take three quarters of an ounce of Caryocostinum dissolved in Posset-drink, and keep yourself very warm, and be careful after it: Dress the Sores, if they run, with any drawing Cerecloath, or a Plaster of Burgundy-Pitch. This Medicine, though not very promising, is yet very famous for the many Cures done with it by a very charitable Lady, from whose ingenious Chaplain the Receipt was procured.   

King's-Evil, another: Take the Roots of Pilewort a handful, bruise and boil them in Hogs-Lard till they become crisp, after that press them hard out, and boil in the same Lard as many more fresh ones, press them out again; and do this the third time, and then keep the Lard wherein they have been boiled, and with it anoint the grieved Parts twice or thrice a Day.   

Kingfisher: This is a Waterfowl, blue, green and purple, very beautiful; it builds in the Winter by the Seashore, when generally for fourteen Days there is a Calm, which is the time of their hatching; which makes some believe this Bird has an instinct of Nature to know when the Winds will be still, and against that time prepares to build her Nest, and breed.   

Kingfishers' Flesh is exceeding good for Consumptive Bodies, wonderfully restoring them, and making the Parties grow fat, fresh, and lively.  
Take upon this Account of the Potentates two ounces, the Powder of Vipers a dram; mix them together for a Dose, and give them to the consumptive Party.  
Take of the Flesh dried to Powder in an earthen Pot, set one ounce of it in a hot Oven, Amber half a scruple, Man's Skull a scruple, and it is a curious Remedy for those that are troubled with the Epilepsy.   

Kite: This is a Bird of Prey, and very ravenous; yet Nature has so ordered it, that all Creatures shall one way or other redound to the Good and Benefit of Mankind. Some People, as the poorer sort in Germany, eat the Flesh of this Bird as a great Dainty; yet being a gross kind of Food, it is not used by us for Food: However, Take the Powder of that Flesh a dram, volatile Salt of Amber twelve grains, Shall Armoniac four grains: these being mixed for a Dose, are prevalent against the Gout. Again, Take of the Flesh of a Kite in Powder one dram, Salt of Man's Skull a scruple, Filings of Elk-hoofs, and native Cinabar, of each ten grains: mix these for a Dose against the Epilepsy.   

Kites-Ashes (of the whole Kite) given in the same manner, as beforementioned, are prevalent against the fame Diseases, so also is the volatile Salt and Oil made by distillation, as Oil and Salt of Man's Skull, which may be given from twelve or sixteen grains to a scruple, in any convenient Liquor.   

Kites-Blood: Anoint the Forehead and Temples with it, and it eases Pains in the Head, and prevents strange and frightful Dreams, causes Sleep, and sets a fair Complexion on the Skin: Made up with Oil of St. John's-wort and Wormwood into an unguent, it eases Pains in the Joints, and is good to anoint the Head and Stomach with, in case of the Falling-sickness.   

Kites-Dung: Take of the Dung of a Kite, the younger the better, an ounce and half, Camphire in fine Powder two drams, common Soap as much as will suffice to make 'em into a Cataplasm. This applied hot, immediately eases the raging Pain of the Gout, insomuch that several Persons of Note, who have been troubled with this afflicting Distemper, have caused Kites to be taken, either the young ones, or others, and kept them tame as charily as their Hawks, for no other purpose than for their Dung.   

Kites-Grease: This is good, to anoint old Sores and Swell, also Pains and Aches; it supples the Joints, and resists the penetration of sudden Heats. Iron Instruments rubbed with it, and afterwards heated in the Fire, become very hard, and are rarely after subject to rust or decay, as some say.   

Kites-Liver is good against the Gout and Epilepsy, and also Convulsions. Take of the Powder three drams, oil of Rosemary and Lavender, of each five drops; and make them up into one Dose.   

Kites-Testicles: Take of the Powder one dram, extract of Satyrion one dram and half; Powder of Viper's half a dram: mix them for a Dose, and for some time being taken it helps Barrenness, and causes Fruitfulness; 'tis exceeding good in Consumptions. To conclude, of a Creature so little taken notice of by most, few have better or more Virtues to do good in these kinds.   

Knapweed, its Virtue and Use: This Herb or Weed grows in Fields and Meadows about the Borders and Hedges; its Virtue is to stay Bleeding both at the Mouth and Nose, or any other outward parts, and those Veins that are broken, or inward Wounds, as also the Fluxes of the Belly; it stays the distillations of thin and sharp Humours from the Head upon the Stomach and Lungs; it is good for those that are bruised by any Falls, Blows, or otherwise; it is very profitable for those that are bursten and troubled with Ruptures by drinking the Decoction of the Root and Herb in White-wine, and applying it outwardly to the grieved Part; it is singular good in all running Sores, Cancers, and Fistula's, drying up the moisture, and healing them gently without sharpness; it is of special use for the soreness of the Throat, the Swelling of the Uuula and Jaws.   

Knapwel: This grows in most Fields and Meadows, and about their Borders and Hedges, and in many waste Grounds. As for the time it flowereth, it is in June and July; and the Seed is soon after ripe.  
This Herb stayeth the Flux at the Mouth, Nose, and other outward Parts, also those Veins that are inwardly broken, or inward Wounds, as also the Flux of the Belly: It stays the Distillation of thin and sharp Humours from the Head upon the Lungs and Stomach: It is good for those that are bruised by any Falls, Blows, or otherwise: It is very profitable for those that are Bursten, and have Ruptures, by boiling the Herb and Root in Wine, and drinking the liquid Decoction sweetened with Sugar, and applying the Herb and Roots so boiled as a Poultis to the grieved Part: It is singular good in all running Sores, Cancers, and Fistula's, drying away the Moisture, and healing them up gently: It does the like to running Sores, or Scabs on the Head or other Parts: It is of singular use for the soreness of the Throat, Swelling of the Uuula and Jaws, or to stay Bleeding, and heal up green Wounds.   

Knees Swelled: Take a handful of Goat's Dung, and mix it with Barley-Meal, boil them in Vinegar and Water till they become thick enough to spread as a Plaster, and then apply them to the Swelling, often renewing. This Plaster will quickly assuage the Pain, and in time remove the Swelling. It is also good for Swell occasioned by Pains of the Gout, or the like, in any Part of the Body.   

Knot-Grass: The common sort of this Grass (for there are divers sorts of Knot-Grass) has a Root hard, woody, and single, and many Fibres: It's of an astringent Taste, and has many Stalls sometimes standing upright, but oftener bending towards the Earth. The Seeds are pretty large, triangular, and of a dark Chesnut colour.  
It closes Wounds, and contributes towards their healing, as being drying and astringent: It stops inwardly Fluxes, and outwardly the Bleeding of Wounds: The Juice of it allays Inflammations, especially of the Eyes. A noble Man that vomited Blood, and had used many other Medicines to no purpose, upon the using this, viz. the Juice, had his Flux of Blood stayed, which else perhaps had not ended but with his Life.   

Knot-Grass: This kind of Grass springs up late in the Spring, and abides till Winter, when all the Branches perish: The Juice of it is excellent in staying Bleeding, being drank in steeled or red Wine: It stays Bleeding at the Nose, being applied to the Forehead and Temples, or squirted up the Nostrils. It's good also for the Bloodyflux, stops the Courses: It is singular good to provoke Urine, and is helpful against the Dysury, Gravel, Biting of venomous Beasts, Rheums, Worms, Heat, Choler, Inflammations, Imposthumes, Gangrenes, Fistula's, Ulcers, Cancers, and Wounds in the Ears, with many such like Distempers.   

LAce, or Point: To Wash and Starch these, Put your Lace, or Point, on a Tent, and make a strong Lather with Spanish-Soap, usually called Castile-Soap, then with a small soft Brush dipped therein, rub your Point or Lace well, but with a light and gentle hand, for fear of fretting it; continue to wash it on both sides for four lather's; then rinse it in Spring-water or Pump-water, which is all one: and after, pass it over on the wrong side very lightly with white Starch made as thin almost as Water, and follow it with your Brush, then suffer it to dry, and with a round Bodkin, or Skewer, open the holes or parts that were closed in the washing, as also set in order the Gimp or Over-layings, if it be Point, not suffering it to ruckle; then with a moderate hot Iron smooth it gently on the wrong side, and set it out to Advantage.   

Lace of Silver, etc. To cleanse this when it is tarnished, first rub it over with  Whiting in Powder once or twice; then by dusting it clear from the Whiting, and having ready some Powder of  Alom, run it over with that finely sifted two or three times; and if the Silver upon the Lace be gilded, it will restore its faded lustre, and render it almost as fresh as at first; and so you may recover the lustre of any tarnished Plate, gilt or ungilt.   

Ladies-Mantle is an excellent Wound-Herb, being hot, dry, and astringent; it stops Bleeding and Courses: The Leaves, the Tops, and the Root, are given in Potions for Wounds with success; as also are the Powders; the Plasters and Ointments of it applied, are very good on that account. Rags dipped in the Decoction of it, and applied to a Woman's Breasts when they are lax, makes 'em round and solid. It agglutinates inward Wounds and Ruptures: And the Decoction of it, or the Powder of the dried Herb taken in the Decoction, or in the distilled Water, is excellent for curing Burstenness in Children.  
Take of Ladies-Mantle, Sanicle, Golden-Rod, Sengreen Bettony and Agrimony, of each a handful; Marsh-mallows, Fern, Flowers of Camomel, St. John's-wort, Mugwort, the Buds of Briars, Origanum, and Tormentile Leaves and Roots, of each a handful: put them into three Bags, and so boil them in the Faeces of Red-Wine, and apply them one after another. These are very astringent, and successful in stopping the Flux.   

Ladies-Smocks, the Conserve: Take this Herb and Brooklime, of each two handfuls; shred them small and bruise 'em, and then boil them in a quart of fair Water till the greatest part of the Liquid is consumed: then wash them, and put to them an equal quantity of Sugar, and make them into a Conserve: Take of it six ounces, and, the Species of the three sorts of Saunders, and Diarrhodon Abbatis, of each a dram and an half; Ivory reduced to Powder one dram; Salt of Wormwood and Tamaris, of each a dram; make of all these an Electuary with a convenient quantity of the Syrup of Coral, and take to the quantity of a quarter of an ounce both morning and evening, and it is an excellent Remedy for a hot Scurvy, and for removing Scorbutic Humours, etc.   

Lamb: This Metamorphosis may at first seem somewhat strange, though we can assure you it has been much in esteem, viz. to make Lamb of a Pig, in this manner: Take a fat Pig, scald him, and cut off the Head, slit him, and truss him up like a Lamb; then being slit through the middle, and flayed, boil him a little while: then being drawed with Parsley, as you do Lamb, roast it, and dridge it, and serve it up with Pepper, Butter and Sugar, and it will not be easily discerned from Lamb.   

Lamb-stones Fried: Having parboiled the Stones, put Butter into a Pan, mince the Stones small, and put them into it; then strain them with some Cream, Pepper and Cinnamon made small; grate in some Parmesan or Holland-Cheese, or old Cheshire-Cheese; and being strained, put them into the Pan again; and then being well fried, serve them up with Sugar, and Rose-water. And in this manner, without any variation, you stones.   

Lamb-stone-Pye: Take six young Pigeons, as many Chickens, truss them and bake them with six Ox-Palates well boiled and blanched, and cut into little pieces; take six Lamb-stones, and as many Sweetbreads of Veal cut in halves and parboiled, twenty Coxcombs boiled and blanched, the Bottoms of four Artichokes boiled, a quart of Stewing-Oysters parboiled, the Marrow of four Bones seasoned with Nutmeg, Pepper, Mace, and Salt; fill the Pie with the Ingredients, and mingle some Pistaches among them; grate in the Yolks of Eggs hard boiled, and covering all with a thin leaf of Butter, close it up, and put it into a little fair Water at the hole in the Lid: being baked, drain out the Butter, and liquor it with Gravy and Butter beaten up with Lemon-pulp; or you may bake it in a Dish, covered with a Bisket-Lid.   

Lamb to Souse: Bone your Side of Lamb first, soak it well in Water and Salt, wipe it dry, season it with Nutmeg, Ginger, and Sweet-Herbs shred small, Corianderseeds, Lemon-peel, and Salt; lay broad slices of Lard over the Seasoning, than roll it up into a Collar, and bind it up in a linen Cloth: boil it in Salt and Water, taking off the Scum, put in sliced Ginger, Nutmeg and Fennel, with Parsley-roots; and when it is almost boiled up, put in a quart of White-wine; and being boiled, take it off, and put in slices of Lemon, the Peel of two Lemons, and twelve Bay-leaves, and keep it close in a convenient Vessel for your use. In this manner you may souse a Breast of Veal, Kid, Fawn, or Venison.   

Lamblike Venison: To order this that few shall discover it, Take Lamb, bone it, and dip it in the Blood of a Pig, or any other wholesome Blood; parboil it in Small-beer and Vinegar, three parts of the first to one of the latter: let it stand all night, then put in some Turnsole, and bake it with Claret, Butter, Pepper, Cloves, Mace, and some sprigs of Rosemary, and it will afford you an excellent Dish.   

Lameness in the Limbs: This is many times occasioned by sudden Colds, or Humours settling in particular Parts. To cure or remove it, Take of Oil of Spike and Earthworms, of each an ounce; mix them well together, and bathe the afflicted part as hot as may be well endured.   

Lampreys, to Bake: Draw and split your Lampreys, take out the Strings in the Back, flay them, and truss them round; then having parboiled them, let 'em be seasoned with Pepper, Nutmeg and Salt: place a laying of Butter at the bottom of the Pie, lay on the Lampreys with some sliced Onions, a few whole Cloves; and covering it with Butter, close it up: wash over the Lid with the Yolks of Eggs, and Beer or Saffron-water; and when it is baked, fill up the Pie with clarified Butter beat up with a little Red Wine.  
The Italians bake 'em in this manner; viz. The Skin being taken off, season it with Nutmeg, Pepper, Salt, Cinnamon and Ginger; fill the Pie either with whole Lampreys, or those that are cut in convenient pieces, with the addition of Raisins, Currans, Prunes dried, Cherries and Dates; and covering it over with Butter, close it up; and being baked, liquor it with strained Almonds, Grapes, Raisins, Verjuice, Sugar, and Sweet-Herbs small chopped, and boiled all together: then serve it up with Juice of Oranges, White-wine, Cinnamon, and the Blood of the Lampreys: Ice it, and serve it up pretty hot; or you may keep it cold, but not very long.   

Lampreys in Patty-pans, Baked: Roast your Lampreys very tender, basting it with Butter; and being roasted or cold, put it into the Pans with Plain or Puff-Paste, being first buttered underneath; then season it with Pepper, Nutmeg, Ginger and Salt, Sweet-Herbs shred, Bisket-bread grated, slices of Lemon, Currans and Dates, and so close them up; and being baked, liquor them with Butter and White-wine, or Sack and Sugar.   

Land-Fowl Boiled the French way: Take Green-Pease, and put them into boiling Mutton-broth, with some thin slices of interlarded Bacon; and being near boiled, put in some Parsley and bruised Aniseeds; strain some of the Pease, and thicken the Broth; then add Pepper, grated Cheese, Pease or Flower, and sometimes Saffron or Mint, as your Relish best suits: lay a few Sippits in the Dish, and pour this Broth on the Fowls; garnish the Dish with Flowers, sliced Lemon, and Spices, and serve it up. And thus you may order Seafowl with Green-Pease, or Lambs and Kids-Heads, only dridging them over with the Yolks of hardboiled Eggs.   

Land-fowl, to Carbonade: The Fowl being roasted cut them up, and sprinkle them with Salt; then scotch and broil them, and make a Sauce with Vinegar, Butter, and the Juice of Oranges, garnished with slices of Orange or Lemon.   

Languishing of the Parts: Take half a pound of Licorice, bruise two ounces; White Sugar-candy four ounces, Jelly of Calves-feets two pound; Mace, Cinnamon and Nutmeg, of each a quarter of an ounce; White-wine a quart: boil them up to the thickness of a Jelly, and strain them through a Jelly-bag, and eat of it both morning and evening, at least five or six spoonfuls at a time.   

Lapis Bedicamentalis: Take Hungarian Vitriol one pound, Salt of Nitre half a pound; Ceruse, Alom, Bolearmenian, Salt of Glass, of each four ounces; Shall Ammoniack two ounces; beat them all very carefully, and mix them with White-wine-Vinegar; then bake them in an earthen Pot, over a gentle fire, till they become as hard as a Stone, and then preserve it for use.   

Larks to Boil: Truss them, and cut off their Legs and Heads; boil them (having put a little Parsley and Sage finely shred into their Bellies) in Mutton-Broth, or in Water seasoned with a little Salt, that has been boiled, and often scummed before you put 'em in: then boil up, when the Broth or Water is half consumed, large Mace, Dates, Marrow, Currans, Pepper and Salt; and being well stewed together, lay them on fine carved Sippits, and thicken the Broth with Almonds beaten and strained; add a little Rose-water and Sugar, and garnish with Lemons sliced, Barberries pickled, Sugar and grated Bread strewed about the Dish; and for Leer, strain grated Bread and hard Eggs beaten in Verjuice and some of the Broth. And thus you may boil and dish up all manner of small Birds well ●…uced, as Quails, Rails, Thrush, Blackbirds, Snites, Wheat-ears, Sparrows, Feldefers, martin's, Ruffs, Brews, God wits, Knots, Dotterels, Pewits, Strenits, Ollines, Gravelens, Red-Shanks, etc. But as for the latter ten, this way is best approved by some Cooks; viz.  
Let 'em be half roasted, and stick on one side a few Cloves as they roast; save the Gravy, and put them into a Pipkin with it and a little Claret and strong Broth so much as will cover them, some boiled Household-bread strained, also Mace, Cloves, Pepper, Ginger, fried Onions, and Salt; stew them well, and serve them up on fine carved Sippets: and sometimes, for change, you may garnish with Lemons, and Sweet-Herbs shred pretty small.   

Lark-Pye: Take a dozen of Larks fresh and good, two Penny Manchets, one pound of Currans, a quarter of an ounce of Cinnamon, one Nutmeg grated, a quarter of an ounce of Mace finely beaten, a quarter of a pint of Rose-water, three Eggs, and a little Salt; work all these together till they are very well mixed, and make the Mixture into Balls as big as Walnuts; put them into the Bellies of the Larks; then having placed them in order, put a pound of Butter and a Lemon sliced over them, half a pint of pickled Barberries, and half a pound of Citron, and Lemon candied; a quarter of a pound of Eryngo-roots, and a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace: and when it is baked, put in Butter on the top of it, and serve it up.   

Lark-Spurs: The Juice of the Flowers clear the Sight, and strengthen it: it is successfully used in Vulnerary Potions: the Decoction of the Flower in Wine, and drank with a dram of Saffron infused into it, removeth Obstructions.   

Lasks: Take a dram of Rhubarb, Baum, Mint, old , of ' each a pugil or little handful: boil them in Claret, or Red Wine, and drink of the Decoction two ounces at a time in the morning fasting.   

Lawn Faded, to Recover: Take the Decoction of Vervain a quart, the Water that distils from the Vine when cut in the Springtime, as the Sap is riling, half a pint; the Roots of Primroses and Rosemary-flowers, a handful of each steeped a day in a quart of new Milk: mix all these together, and steep the Lawns in the liquid part, being well strained from the grosser a night: when they are next washed, they will thicken, and become fresh. And by this rule, Muslings, Lace, and Tiffany are recovered.   

Laxation of Parts: You must spread Emplastrum Divinum upon soft Leather, and apply it to strengthen the Part weakened by the Sublaxation.   

Lead-wort: This is good, bruised and applied to old Sores; also to kill Worms in the Flesh, by washing the Parts with the Juice of it.   

Legs Inflamed or Ulcerated: To cure this, Take a quart of Spring-water, four ounces of White-Bread; add to it two ounces of Sheeps-suet cut very small: and having boiled it a little, add an ounce of Rosin finely powdered, and a quarter of an ounce of seared Brimstone, and spread them well mixed and tempered on Cloth or Leather, and lay it to the Part grieved, and it will give sudden Ease, and in time work a Cure.   

Leg of Mutton, to dress after the best manner, either Roast or Boiled in that way they call Forced: Mince the Meat with Beef-suet or Bacon, Sweet-Herbs, Pepper, Salt, Cloves, Garlick, raw Eggs, Chestnuts: then with all these together fill the Skin of the Leg, out of which the Meat was taken in order to be minced: prick it up, and either boil or roast it, according to your Discretion: make Sauce with the remainder of the Meat, and other Ingredients that will not go into the Skin, and with Gravy serve it up: garnish the Dish with pickled Grapes or Barberries.   

Leg of Veal: To dress this with Rice, or a Knuckle, put it into your Cauldron or Pot, the Water being pretty hot; put some Salt to it, and then put in some Mace, and Rice finely picked; wash some Raisins of the Sun, and when it is tender boiled put in about a dram of Saffron, and to serve it up on fine carved Sippits, with Rice all over it: pour on Broth, and run it over with beaten Butter: otherwise cover it with Paste cut like small Lard, boiled in thin Broth and Saffron, or in white Broth, with Fruit, spinach, Sweet-Herbs, and Gooseberries.   

Leg of Veal, another way: Stuff the Veal with Beef-suet, Nutmeg and Salt; so boil it, and keep it scumming; put in some Salt, Parsley, and Fenel-roots, in a bundle bound up: then being almost boiled, take up some of the Broth in a Pipkin, put to it some Raisins of the Sun, Mace, and Gravy; stew them well, and let them be thickened, which is best done with grated Bread and the Yolks of hard-boiled Eggs; and before you dish up your Broth, have Parsley, Margerum, Thyme, Sorrel, Marrigold-flowers, and spinach stripped or picked; bruise them with the back of your Ladle, give it a warm, and dish up your Leg of Veal on carved Sippits, and run it over with beaten Butter.   

Leg of Veal, another way: To dress this, Take out the Meat, and leave the Skin and Knuckle whole together; then with some Beef-suet mince the Meat so taken out, as also some Sweet-Herbs; then season it with Nutmeg, Ginger, Pepper, Salt, and three or four Yolks of hard Eggs, and cut into quarters; Pine-apple-seeds, two or three Eggs raw, Pistaches, Chestnuts, and Artichokes sliced; then with all these so ordered fill up the Skin again, and prick it with a Skewer, or sow it up close with white Thread; then boil it in two or three gallons of fair Water, and a quart of White-wine, if you think it convenient: scum it, and take up some of the Broth, and put to it Pistaches, Chestnuts, Pine-apple-seed, Marrow, large Mace, slices of Artichoak bottoms; stew them together, dish it on Sippets of fried Bread, put on Marrow, garnish it with sliced Lemon, and the Peel; run it over with beaten Butter, and so serve it up.   

Leg of Veal Soured: Bone it, and Lard it, but first season the Lard with Pepper, Cloves and Mace, and the Veal with the same and a little Salt, and then strew minced Sweet-Herbs over it; roll it up like a Collar of Brawn; boil it or stew it in an Oven with Water, Salt, and White-wine: serve it in a Collar, whole or sliced; or fill it with Butter, the Liquor being put away, or bake it with Butter in a Roul: Jelly it, and mix some of the Broth with Almond-Milk and Jellies in slices of two Collars, and then serve it up.   

Lemons: They are very Cooling; the Juice of them is taken with success in all hot Diseases: it likewise, if mixed with a little unslacked Lime, cureth the Itch, cleanseth Spots, and destroyeth Worms in the outer-part of the Body, in the Nose, or parts of the Face or Breast, where they many times appear with their black Heads, even with the Skin like studs of Gunpowder: the Juice of them only takes away Pimples, and Redness in the Face: and if made into a Syrup with fine Sugar, it kills Worms in the Belly: it is given with success in all Fevers: if you steep Pearl in this Juice a considerable time, they will dissolve, or become as soft as Wax.   

Lemon-Paste: Take Lemons that have plump and well-coloured Rinds, put them into Water, and in the boiling, shift them six times, till they are tender: the first Water being seasoned with a handful of Salt; then put them into a Wooden Vessel, but be sure not into any of Metal: beat them into a Pulp with a wooden Rouling-pin or Pestle, and strain them with very hard wring through a corpse linen Cloth: then take somewhat more than what they weigh, in fine Sugar, and boil up what you have squeezed out of your Lemons with it to almost a Candy-height; then take it our, spread it pretty thin upon Plates, dry it in a gentle Oven or Stove, turn it, and cut it out into what Form you please.   

Lenten-Tansie: Take tansy, Fetherfew, Parsley, Violet-leaves; bruise them, and strain out the Juice into eight or ten Eggs well beaten; then stamp Almonds with the Spawn of a Pike or Carp, and strain them with the Crumbs of fine Manchet, Sugar, and Rose-water, and fry it thin in sweet Butter, or put the Juice of the Herbs only strained with eight or ten Eggs; fry them in sweet Butter, and dish them up with Sugar; or you may put a little Flower and Rose-water to them.   

Leprosy: Take crude Antimony well chosen and powdered, about one, two, or three scruples, Morning and Evening, according to your Age and Strength, in a spoonful of the Syrup of Clovegilliflowers, or Elderberries: this, if need require, may be continued four or five Months. So that if the first Dose prove beneficial, in cases not urgent, a scruple or half a dram may serve, nor need it be continued for so long a time.   

Leprosy a specific: Take one ounce of Pomatum, the Flower of Sulphur a dram, Sal Prunellae half an ounce; mix them very well into an Ointment, and with it anoint the Part afflicted.   

Lettuce: They are cooling to the Stomach, qualify Choler and Heat, dispose to Rest, and increase Milk: they yield good Nourishment. In Frenzies, Madness, and Burning Fevers, etc. let them be applied to the Temples, and the Coronal Suture, and Wrists; but it is better to dip double Rags in Lettuce-water wherein Sal Prunellae has been dissolved, viz. half an ounce to half a pint of the Water.   

Lettuce-Stalks, to Candy: Boil them tender in Water; and then having boiled up your Sugar to a Candy, put them into it; let them boil therein, then take them out, and lay them a drying in a warm place; and so put them up in Boxes as a Sweetmeat, which much cools and moistens the Mouth. Being eaten when going to rest, they cause gentle slumbers. In this manner you may candy Fenelstalks, or any kind of Flower that is not extraordinary tender.   

Lettuce-Water: This is an exceeding Cooling Drink: it allays the Heat and Disturbances of the Brain occasioned by hot Vapours, and disposes to sleep. Eating the Herb boiled or raw, it qualifies the Heat of the Stomach, also the Effects of Choler, and increases Milk in Women, yielding good Nourishment; yet it ought not to be eaten too excessively: Being applied Poultiswise to the Coronal Suture and Temples, and also the Wrists bound about with double Rags dipped in Lettuce-water wherein Sal Prunellae has been dissolved, viz. Half an ounce of the Salt to a pint of the Water, it proves exceeding helpful in Frenzies, Madness, burning Fevers, and suchlike Distempers, occasioned by violent Heats, or Fermentations.   

Leveridge-Pudding: Boil a Hog's-Liver very dry, and being cold grate it, taking as much grated Manchet as Liver, sift them through a fine Sieve or Cullender; season them with beaten Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon and Nutmeg; you may, if you please, put in a little Ginger, but no Pepper; put then half a pound of Sugar, and a pound and half of Currans, half a pint of Rose-water, and three pound of Beef-suet, eight Yolks of Eggs, and but four Whites; put these in the small Guts of an Ox, or the great ones of a Hog clean washed, and beware of breaking them in boiling, or you may do it in a fine Cloth sewed up narrow and long.   

Licorice is in Virtue, abstersive, cleansing, and allayeth the bitterness of Humours, and therefore is very good for the Heat of the Urinal, being chewed especially whilst it's green or fresh; it allayeth Hunger and Thirst, and retaineth that Virtue many Days: The Juice of it held, when very thick in the Mouth, and there suffered to melt, hath the same Effect. It is good for the Breast and Lungs and is therefore successfully given to those that are shortwinded, and breath with much difficulty, or such as are in Consumptions, or Pleurisies. The Juice assuages prickings, not only of the Arteries of the Lungs, but the Bladder also, and does excellently relieve Thirst, as being tempered with moisture, and colder than our Nature. It is to be noted that the Root, in which consist all these properties, is much better being fresh taken out of the Ground, than when it is dry; and is exceeding more pleasant in the Taste when used in Medicines.   

Lignum Columbrinum: This is a great Expeller of Poison; the Wood, Bark, and Root, being beaten grossly, and boiled in White-wine, and drank hot about a quarter of a pint at a time.   

Lignum Molucense: This is brought from the Molucca Islands in the East-Indies. This Wood is a great causer of Sleep. Taken inwardly or outwardly, it expels hot Poisons, being rasped and decocted in Whitewine. It likewise remedies the Biting of any venomous Creature Ten grains of the Powder of it being taken in Rose-water, cures Wounds made by poisoned Arrows; yet half a scruple of it is a Dose for the strongest Man. When it is used for Purging, the Party that takes it must abstain from much eating: It purges Humours in general, but more particularly, gross, clammy, and melancholy Humours. It is good for quotidian Agues, and continual Fevers; for the iliack Passion, Wind-Colick, Dropsy, and Gravel; for Difficulty of making Urinal, Pain of the Joints and Scirrhus, and the King's-Evil. It kills all sorts of Worms and restores lost Appetite. Some use it against inveterate headaches, and the noises in the Head. The Indians keep it so choice, that they will scarce let a Stranger see it, though the greatest use they know of it is to catch Birds withal, by boiling it with Rice; and when the Birds have eaten of the Rice boiled with it, they fall down in a Sleep; and if they eat too much they die. And if in taking it, it work too much, let the Party take a little of the Decoction of Rice, and it will qualify it.   

Lily of the Valleys: The Flowers and Leaves of this are held exceeding good for the Apoplexy, Falling-Sickness, Palsy, Giddiness, and other cold Diseases of the Brain. Take the Conserve of these Lilies, six ounces; of the Powder of Male-Peony half an ounce, Man's Skull prepared in powder three drams; the Seeds and Flowers of Male-Peony dried and powdered, of each two drams; Red Coral prepared, Pearl, and white Amber, of each a dram; the Salt of Coral four scruples, the Syrup of the Flowers of Male-Peony, a sufficient quantity to make into an Electuary. Take of this two drams Morning and Evening, against any of the beforementioned Distempers; but especially in Fits of the Apoplexy, etc.   

Lily-Water: This is distilled from white Garden-Lilies in a cold Still as you do Roses and other Simples. It is given with success to Women that have hard Labours, and to expel the Afterbirth. The Root of these Lilies are admirable in Cataplasms to assuage Pains and ripen tumors: The Oil extracted from them, has not only the same, but a more powerful Virtue. We find in several noted Authors, that they have mainly contributed to the Cure of divers troubled with the Dropsy, viz. The Juice mixed with Barly-Flower, and made into Bread, and eaten with their usual Diet, Thirty or Forty Days together.   

Limbs to Comfort: Apply to the Part grieved a Plaster of Oxicrocium made in this manner: Take two ounces and a half of Saffron, Ship-pitch, Colophony, and yellow Wax, of each four ounces; Galbanum, Turpentine and Ammoniacum, Myrrh, Olibanum, and Mastic, of each one ounce and three drams: to the melted Wax, add the Pitch cleansed from the Dross and Strained, next to that the Colophony: These being melted, take them from the Fire, and let them cool a little; then add the Ammoniacum and Galbanum dissolved apart in Vinegar, and strained, and boiled to the consumption of the Vinegar, and mixed with the Turpentine; then sprinkle in Frankincense, Myrrh, and Mastic, in very fine Powder a quart; and in conclusion, the Saffron finely powdered and well mixed, and so make it into a Plaster.  
This comforts and strengthens the Limbs, and is an excellent Emollient for Aches, and to discuss cold tumors, or any cold Humours settled in the Joints, or afflicting the Nerves and Sinews, and consequently a very good Gout-Plaister.   

Limbs, a strengthening Plaster: Take Minion powdered one pound, Ceruse prepared half a pound, Soap ten ounces, common Olive-Oil a quart, Orange-flower-water nine ounces; boil them according to Art, till they become thick enough to spread on a Plaster.  
This is very highly commended for strengthening the Ligaments, and the Matrix; being spread upon a round piece of Leather, and applied; it also strengthens the Backs of Women near Travel, and eases the Pains that frequently afflict them on that score.   

Lime-Tree: The Leaves and Bark of this Tree repel, dry and provoke Urinal: A Mucilage made of the Bark is good in Burns and Wounds. The Leaves bruised and sprinkled with Water, discuss Swell in the Feet. The Flowers are cephalick, and of a very fragrant Scent. The distilled Water is much in esteem for the Apoplexy, Falling-Sickness, and Giddiness; the Dose being from an ounce to an ounce and a half. It is likewise a great Beautifier of the Face; and drank with Water of Camomile it cures the Gripes. The Berries dried till reduced to powder, are much commended for the Bloodyflux, and other Fluxes of the Belly. Being mixed with Vinegar, and put up the Nostrils, the Bleeding at the Nose is stayed.   

Limewater, to Make: Take a pound of clean quick Lime, slack it in a gallon of warm Water, and let it stand till all that will subside be settled to the bottom; and separation being made, the Water swim clear at top, at which time it will often happen, that a kind of thin and brittle substance, almost like Ice, will cover the surface of the Liquor: As soon as the Water is thus impregnated, delay not to pour it off warily, and keep it well stopped. This is useful on divers occasions, as to wash Sores, supple Pains and Aches, cure the Toothache, the Mouth being washed with it and a little Honey.  
If it be designed for Consumptions, or Obstructions, it must be made thus: Take a gallon of Limewater made as the former, infuse in it cold Sassaffras, Licorice, and Anniseeds, of each an ounce; adding thereto half a pound of Currans, or the like quantity of Raisins of the Sun stoned. The Dose of this compound Limewater, is from four to five ounces, and may be taken twice a Day.   

Limonade: To make this, Scrape the Lemon-peel as much as you think fit, into Water and Sugar, and add a few drops of the Essence of Sulphur, with some slices of Lemon, observing always to put half a pound of Sugar to a pint of Water. This is very wholesome for the Stomach, creates Appetite, and good Digestion, and is a very pleasant cooling Liquor; and in case of the Distemper, called Furor Uterinus, Take the Feathers of a Partridge, burn them for a considerable time under the Party's Nose, so that the Fume may ascend the Nostrils, and drink a quarter of a pint of this Limonade after if.   

Liniments for Hemorrhoids: Take of the Flower of Sulphur two drams, Oil of Eggs half an ounce, Oil of Roses one ounce, mingle them for the Lineament for application. Or,  
Take of the Oil of Linseed, the Pulp of an Onion well baked or roasted in Embers, of each two ounces; white Wax half an ounce: of these make a Lineament Or,  
Take Hoglices, and mash them, the Ointment of Poplar, of each an ounce; Extract of Opium half a dram: mix them, and make them up into a Lineament. All these are very proper to assuage the Swelling and Pains of the Hemorrhoids, and other violent hot Swell, occasioned by infectious Humours.   

Lineament to prevent Scars of the Smallpox: Take lethargy of Gold prepared, and well washed in Rose-water, of each one ounce; Oil of the four great Seeds cleansed, bitter Almonds and Eggs, of each half an ounce; Nightshade and Plantane-water, as much as is sufficient.  
This Lineament is a great restorer of Beauty.   

Lineament for the Sciatica: Take three new whelped Puppies, as many live Moles, Earthworms one pound, Lees of Rosemary, Laurel, Lavender, Mother of Thyme, and St. John's-wort, of each a handful: boil them in common Oil and red Wine, than strain and press them strongly out, and to the Liquor add of yellow Wax and Goose-grease, of each ten ounces.  
This Lineament is much praised and commended for its excellent Virtue in easing the Pains of the Sciatica, and all sorts of Rheuma tisms and Gouts.   

Lineament for Tetters: Take Mercurial precipitate, and green Vitriol, of each one ounce; Verdigrease and Borax, of each two drams; Juice of red Dock two ounces; Hogs-grease, and new Butter, of each four ounces; pressed Oil of Henbane one ounce.  
This Lineament is excellent to cure Tetters, Ringworms, or any other Sores.   

Lineament to stay Vomiting: Take of the Oil of Nuts strongly pressed out, and the Queen of Hungary's Water, of each half an ounce; distilled Oil of Wormwood one dram, select Mastic finely powdered two drams, and then make up a Lineament of it.  
This being applied hot to the Stomach, immediately stays Vomiting, and eases the Defects of the Stomach, removing the Causes that force violent Vomitings and Straining.   

Links to Make: Take th● Fillet of a Leg of Pork, and cut it Dice fashion, season the Meat with Mace, Cloves, and Pepper finely beaten; mince a handful of Sage, mix it with a handful of Salt, and put it to them; then hang the Guts in the Air till the moisture is a little taken out of them, then fill them, and hang them up a drying again; and when you spend them, boil, fry, or roast them as you please: They also make a good Dish, stewed with divers kinds of Meat.   

Linen Scorched: To recover this Accident, if it be not gone too far, Take two ounces of Fulling-Earth, half a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar, half an ounce of Castile-soap, half an ounce of Hens-dung, and with two Onions quartered, boil them in a quart of fair Water, till it gins to be thick; then let it cool, and being in a kind of a Jelly by putting in a little white Starch, spread it on the Place so scorched; and if it be but lightly done, it will soon recover it so, that in a wash or two, no marks of the Fire will remain.   

Linen Stained: Take two ounces of Castile-Soap, boil it to a Jelly in a quart of Milk, keeping it from any thick curdlings; then if your Linen has been trained by Fruits, or the like, spread it on as you do Fulling-e●…th, and suffer it to lie on all Night; and that being taken off, wet the Place with the Juice of Lemon; and in a wasting or two the Stains will disappear.   

Lips Chapped: Take the Brains of a Goose, mix them with that of a Buck or Stag, and put to them so much Deers-suet, as will bring it into an Ointment, and with it anoint the Lip; or for want of these, take lethargy of Silver, Myrrh, Ginger, of each two drams beaten fine; and then with Wax, Honey, and Olive-Oil, make them into an Ointment over a gentle Fire; and having rubbed your Lips over with your Tongue to supple them, put this Ointment on a Linnen-Rag, and lay it on your Lips when you go to Bed, and in the Morning you will find them reduced to a smoothness, or at least in twice applying it. This may serve for the Hands, Arms, Knees, or any other Parts appertaining to the Body.   

Liquid-Amber: This is the Rosin that flows from a Tree that has Leaves like those of Ivy: If is much used in Physic, it heats and strengthens, resolves, and is Anodyne; it comforts the Brain, the Head being anointed with it; it cures all sorts of Pains proceeding from cold Causes. It provokes Appetite, strengthens the Stomach, and helps Concoction. It likewise gives Gloves a very fragrant Scent. It resolves tumors, and opens Obstructions of the Womb, assuaging the tumors of it. It is good to provoke the Courses. Some cut the Wood of the Tree from which it flows into small pieces, and boil it, and take off the Fat that arises from it, and sell it for the true Oil. Some Apothecaries sell that for Liquid-Storax, when indeed it has little or nothing of the Virtue of the Liquid-Amber, or Storax.   

Liquor for Ulcers: Take the green Bark of Oak, bruise it well, and upon it pour good Limewater, which before you are directed to make, and let the Infusion continue till the Liquor has acquired a deep Tincture, and with this wash any Ulcers, or old Sores, Bruises, or Wounds, if need require it, twice a Day.   

Liver Cooled: Take two Gallons of Whey new made, and boil therein one Fennel-root, and one Mallowroot, their Piths taken out; bruise the Roots, with Senna, borage, Bugloss, Violet-Leaves, Endive, Sorrel, Agrimony, Scurvygrass, Watercresse, and Cinquefoil, of each a handful; Licorice six drams, Fennel-seed an ounce; Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon, and Juniper-Berries, of each two drams: boil these in the Whey till one half be consumed; then strain out the Liquid part into an earthen Vessel: being cool, bottle it up, and drink it as you find occasion. It mainly fortifies the Stomach, and helps Digestion.   

Liver Obstruded: Take Lavender-Cotten, when flowered, a handful, cut off the gross Stalks that grow toward the Roots, concoct the rest in a pint of Whitewine, sweeten it with some Powder of white Sugar-Candy, and drink a quarter of a pint of the Decoction Morning and Evening, as hot as may be. It likewise removes Obstructions in the Kidneys and Ureters, is helpful in the Jaundice, and kills Worms.  
The Leaves and Flowers are also good to lay among , not only to give them a good Scent, but to preserve them from sustaining any Injury by Moths and Worms.   

Liverwort: This is an excellent Herb for removing the Obstructions of the Liver, and Stoppages in the Bladder and Ureters, by drinking the Decoction of it in Whitewine. It is helpful likewise in the Jaundice: and by outward Bathe, it cures the Itch and Gonorrhoea; and the br●…sed Herb applied stops the Blood in Wounds.   

Loaves of Cheese-Curds: To make this, Take a Porringerful of Curds, and four Eggs, and so much Flower as will make it stiff: after that, take a seasoning quantity of Ginger, Nutmeg, and Salt, and so knead and mould the whole mass into Loaves, and set it into an Oven moderately heated; when they begin to change colour, take them out, put melted Butter to them, with fine Sugar beaten in Sack, and then serve them up as a dainty Dish.   

Lobster Broiled: Being boiled, though but indifferently, lay them on a Gridiron, or toast them against the Fire, keeping them basted with Vinegar and Butter, or if you like it best, with Butter alone; and being leisurely done, serve them up with sliced Lemon, Nutmeg, and Butter and Vinegar beat up thick.   

Lobster Broiled on Paper: Slice the Tails round, and the Claws in long slices: then Butter a Dripping-pan made of Paper, and lay it on a Grid-iron over a clear Fire; then put some slices of it seasoned with Salt, the slices of Nutmeg, and fresh Eel, Sage-leaves, Rosemary-tops, and two or three Cloves; or you may lay Bay-leaves, or Sweet-herbs chopped; or, if the Fire be too hot, do it on Embers: and being well done, ●…ve them up on a Dish or Plate, in the same Dripping-pan: put to them the Juice of Oranges beaten up with Butter, and garnish it with slices of Lemon.   

Lobster to Farce: When the Lobster is half boiled, take out the Meat, and mince it, season it with some Cloves and Mace beaten, and minced sweet Herbs mingled among the Meat; then put Yolks of Eggs, Gooseberries, Grapes and Barberries; sometimes the Bottoms of boiled Artichokes cut Dice-fashion are used, or boiled Asparagus; others will mingle Almond-paste with the rest; but however, when the Composition is fixed, fill the Lobster-shells, viz. Claws, Tail and Body, and bake it in an Oven not very hot; make for it a Sauce with Gravy and White-wine: beat it up with sweet Butter, the Juice of an Orange, and Anchovy dissolved in a little Water. To this Farcing you may sometimes put Almond-paste, Currans, Gooseberries and Sugar, and make Balls with them to lay about the Dish, and then serve it up with Venison-Sauce.   

Lobster Fried: Take out the Meat of a boiled Lobster, slice it long-ways, and flower it; fry it in sweet Butter, that it may be crisp and white, or put it in Batter of Eggs, Flower, Salt, and Cream, roll it in this and fry it: then make a Sauce with the Juice of Oranges, Claret, and grated Nutmeg; beat them up thick with sweet Butter, rub the Dish over with a Shalot or an Onion; and having garnished it with slices of Oranges or Lemons, pour on the Sauce, and then serve it up to the Table.   

Lobster Hash'd: Take off the Shells when the Lobsters are newly boiled, mince the Meat very small, and put it into an earthen Pot or Pipkin with as much Claret-wine as will near cover it; then add Salt, sweet Butter, grated Nutmeg, sliced Oranges, and a few Pistaches; and when it is very well stewed, serve it up on Sippits, being run over with beaten Butter, and garnished with sliced Oranges, some cuts of Paste, or Lozenges of Puff-paste.   

Lobsters Iellyed: Take a Tench, draw him at the Gills; then put it into as much Water as will conveniently boil it; season it with Salt, Wine-vinegar, and five or six Bay-leaves; large Mace, three or four whole Cloves, and a bundle of sweet Herbs: and the Fish being boiled, take it up, and rub off the Scales, then strain the Liquor through a Jelly-bag, and put to it a piece of Ising-glass washed and steeped, for that purpose, in fair Water, and boil it very cleanly, and run it through the Jelly-bag: and then your Lobsters being taken out of the Shells, lay them in a large clean Dish in slices, and run this Jelly over them. You may, for variety's sake, make this Jelly of divers Colours, by putting to it Saunders, Turmerick, Turnsole, or any such like Colours.  
Garnish the Dish with Lemon-peel cut in branches or long slices, Barberries, and fine coloured Flowers. Thus you you may Jelly Craw-fish and Prawns; but they must be laid in the Dish whole, when the shells are taken off.   

Lobsters Marinated: To do this, Take them out of the Shells when they are parboiled, lard the Tails with a salt Eel being parted in halves the longest way of the Eel; fry them in clarified Butter, or Olive-Oil, and when they are enough, put them into a Dish or Pipkin, and make a Sauce with Wine-vinegar, White-wine, three or four sliced Nutmegs, and as many blades of large Mace, some sliced Ginger, and ten or twelve Cloves, with two drams of whole Pepper, and some Salt: put into this Sauce Winter-savoury, Thyme, Rosemary, Sweet-Marjoram, Bay-leaves, Sage and Parsley; then slice three or four Lemons: dish up the Lobsters, and pour these on th●… finely shred; and garnishing it over with some of the Oil or Butter they were fried with, serve them up pretty hot.   

Lobster Pickled: Boil the Lobster in Vinegar, White-wine and Salt, then take them up; and having Bay-leaves and Rosemary-tops, Savory, Thyme, large Mace, and whole Pepper, boil them in some of the Liquor the Lobster was boiled in; in the middle of the boiling put in whole Cloves, then place the Lobsters in a Barrel, and put the Liquor to them, with the Herbs and Spice, and some Lemon-peel. In this manner you may keep them a long time, and send them sweet to any Part of England; which otherwise cannot be done: and when you serve them up, do it with Spices, Peel, Herbs, and some of the Liquor.   

Lobster-pie: Take four boiled Lobsters, and a fat raw Conger, cut some of it into square pieces as broad as may be; then take the Meat of the Lobsters, and slice the Tails in two halves length-ways, as also the Claws, and season both with Nutmeg, Pepper and Salt; then put Butter pretty thickly laid in the bottom of your Pie, and lay on the slices of Conger, and then a layer of Lobster; thus lay three or four layings till the Pie be full; then scatter some whole Cloves, Butter ●nd Whitewine, or only clarified Butter.  
If you design to eat it hot, season it lightly; and being baked, season it with Butter, White-wine, sliced Lemon, Gooseberries, green Grapes, or Barberries, and so garnish it with slices of Lemon, some Red Beet-roots sliced, or Red Cabbage-leaves finely cut into Flowers, etc.   

Lobster Stewed: Take the Vinegar of Claret, Nutmeg, Salt and Butter, stew your Lobster somewhat dry, dish it in a convenient Dish, and running over with Butter, garnish it with sliced Lemon; or you may cut it into the fashion of Dice, and warm it with White-wine and Butter, put it into a Pipkin with Claret-wine, or Grape-verjuice, and grated Manchet, and so fill a Scollop-shell, or other convenient thing, with it, and serve it up garnished with Sampire.   

Loches to Suppress: The sign of these, are a Swelling of the Belly, a heavy Pain in the lower Parts, the Loins and Groin, Redness of Face, Difficulty of Breathing, and the like. To remedy or suppress which, apply the Hysterical Plaster to the Navel; then take this Electuary, viz. Conserve of Roman Wormwood, and Rue, of each one ounce; Troches of Myrrh two drams, Castoreum and English Saffron, Volatile Salt of Amber, Shall Armoniac, and Assa Foetida, of each half a dram; make these with Syrup of Violets and Rose-water into an Electuary, and take to the bigness of a Nutmeg every four hours. Then take of Rue-water four ounces, compound Bryony-water two ounces, Sugar-candy as much as will sweeten it into a Julip, and let the Party take her rest after the taking what is prescribed, and the Effect will, no doubt, answer her Expectation.   

Loin of Veal to Bake: If you put it into the Oven with the Bones, joint them very well, season it with Salt, Nutmeg and Pepper, and put it into your Pie; put Butter to it, and close it up, being sure always to have a well-seasoned strong Crust, liquor it with sweet Butter. In this manner you may bake a Breast of Veal in either Pie or Pastry, also a Rack or Shoulder stuffed with sweet Herbs and Beef-suet.   

London Plague-Water: See Aqua Epidemica.   

Looseness: To stay it, boil a convenient quantity of Cork in Spring-water till the Liquor taste strong of it; then sweeten it, and drink a pint at a time, and in two or three times so drinking he will find the effects of it. Or, Drink in the morning fasting a moderate Draught of your own Urine.   

Lozenges of Flowers: Make a good Syrup of Sugar, then take the Blossoms or Flowers that are wholesome, of what sort you please, shred 'em small, and beat them in a wooden Mortar, and put in as many as upon boiling up will colour the Syrup of the proper Colour of the Flower; then boil it with stirring till it may be taken clean from the bottom of the Pan, and so thick that it will scarce drop out of the Spoon: then pour it on a wet Plate, and wetting your Knife or Spatula, spread it abroad to the thinness of a Crown-piece: then cut it like Diamonds, or in what fashion you please, and as the Virtue of the Flower is, and the Virtues of divers Flowers treated of in this Book, so will the Lozenges be available.   

Lucatello's Balsam. See Balsam.   

Lumber-Pye: Take grated Bread, Cloves and Mace finely beaten, Beef-suet cut small into square pieces, than Veal or Capon minced small, with Suet and sweet Herbs, Salt, Sugar, and the hardboiled Yolks of six Eggs, and about half a pint of Cream; work them up in the Cawls of Veal like Sausages, than put them into a Dish, and bake them to a half, and so your Pie being ready, and dried in an Oven, put them into it, with some Butter, Verjuice, Sugar, Dates, large Mace, and Grapes, or Barberries, and Marrow; and when it is baked, scrape over some Sugar, and serve it up.   

Lumber-Pye, to Season: Take any cold Meat (Beef or Pork excepted,) shred a pound of Beef-suet to every pound of Meat; then put to them two Nutmegs grated, half an ounce of Cloves, and Mace finely beaten, a quarter of an ounce of beaten Ginger, and the usual sweet Herbs shred very small; then work them up together (the Meat being likewise minced small) with a little Salt, and six Eggs, into Balls as big as Pullet's Eggs, and put into the Pie one pound of Currans, one pound of Raisins, and a quarter of a pound of Dates sliced, and close up all with a pound of Butter conveniently dispersed among the Ingredients. And if you will have it finer, make this Caudle and put into it; A quarter of a pound of Sugar, a quarter of a pint of Canary, half a quartern of Verjuice, the Yolks of three Eggs, and about a quarter of a pound of Butter; boil them up to a thickness with a little Mace, and put it hot into the Pie, when it is about to be served up to the Table.   

Lunacy: This is a Distemper first seated in the Blood, and then afflicting the Brain. When the Symptoms of it first begin to appear, by extraordinary Flushing and Heat, and the Party talk wildly, Let Blood, but not too much, fourteen ounces is sufficient: Then take a quarter of an ounce of Rhubarb thin sliced, Angelica-roots an ounce, a sprig or two of Savine; boil these in a quart of Spring-water till it consume to a pint, and let it be drank lukewarm at two Draughts, an hour's time between each Draught, sweetened with Sugar, and the Party put into bed, and a warm Caudle, or else some strengthening Broth provided and supped up about an hour afterward: by a gentle breathing sweat the afflicting Humour will be dispersed, and by degrees evaporate.   

Lungs and Breast Diseases: Take the best Old Malaga, and distil it in a Glass Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae: when you have drawn off the Spirit, change the Receiver, and continue the Distillation, drawing off the Phlegm until there remain in the bottom a substance like Honey; which pour out, and mix it again with the Phlegm that you distilled last: drink of this Liquor two or three times a day, putting into every Draught a few drops of the odoriferous Spirit of Benjamin.   

Lungs Infected: Take the Leaves and Seeds of Marsh-mallows, and boil 'em in Milk or Wine with a few Aniseeds and bruised Licorice, and let the Party drink half a pint pretty warm in the morning fasting.   

Lungs Inflamed: Take the Leaves of Red Poppy-flowers a quarter of a peck, infuse them in Spring-water very hot, but not boiling-hot, and let them stand  hours, then wring them out: infuse the like quantity of fresh Flowers, and having well pressed them after a convenient standing, boil up the Liquor into a bath, till with its equal weight of Sugar it is made into a Syrup.  
Half an ounce at a time is a sufficient Dose; and being exceeding Cooling, it not only helps the Inflammation of the Lungs, but also Pleurisies; and is good in most Heats, or hot Diseases, easing Pains in the Head, and causing rest.   

Lungs to Purge: Take Agarick Trochiscated three drams; the Roots of Orris, with the Blue or Sky-coloured Flowers, Mastic and horehound, of each a dram; Turbith five drams; Sarcocol, and Troches of Alhandal, of each two drams; the Species of Hiera Picra half an ounce, Myrrh a dram, and as much Sapa as will amass them; and of this take half a dram at a time, and it gently purges the Lungs, carrying off those Humours that chief create their Diseases, and afflict them.   

Lungs Rising: There is nothing better than the Water of Enula-campana-roots, stamp the green Roots in a stone Mortar, and mix with them half as much green Licorice; then distil it in a glass Still: Take of this Water half a spoonful at a time, whensoever the Rising doth trouble you: mix it with as much Old Malaga, if you cannot take it alone.   

Lungs stop with Phlegm: Take Enula-campana-root well dried, Licorice and Aniseeds, of each one ounce; Flower of Sulphur half an ounce, Sugar-candy six ounces; make all into a fine Powder, and take thereof half a spoonful three times a day.   

Lungs Stuffed: Take the Syrup of  or Ground-Ivy moderately tart, stamp in it Rose-leaves and Mugwort, and make them with the Syrup and Sugar into a Conserve; of which take a quarter of an ounce Morning and Evening.   

Lung-wort, its Virtues: This is Astringent and Drying, stops Bleeding, and cures fresh Wounds; stays the Flux of the Belly and the Courses; the distilled Water, Powder and Syrup, are used with success for the Diseases of the Lungs, as Short-breathing, Coughs, Consumptions, etc. That sort of it which grows on the Oak, is excellent for curing the Jaundice, by taking a handful of it, and boiling it in a close stopped Vessel, in a pint, or somewhat more, of Small-beer, till half be consumed; and of this take three, of four ounces, as hot as may be, both Morning and Evening.   

Lupins to Boil: Take French Lupins and French Beans, and take away the Tops of the Cod and the Strings, and then having a Pan or Skillet of fair Water boiling on the Fire, put them in with some Salt, boil them up quick; and being boiled, serve them up with beaten Butter and a little Pepper. Garnish the Dish with Barberries, Lemon-peel and Endive, and so serve them up, having made a Division or Separation of the awo sorts.   

MAcaroons, to Make: Blanch a convenient quantity of Sweet-Almonds, by putting them into hot Water, beat 'em to a mash in a Mortar, and strew on them between beat a little fine Sugar sifted; and when they are well mixed, add the Whites of Eggs and Rose-water; and when they are of a sufficient thickness, draw over your Wafers a Feather dipped in melted Butter, and take the Butter up in, spoonfuls and lay it on them, and bake them in a gentle Oven, Iced over with Sugar, dissolved, in Rose-water.   

Madness or Frenzy: Take the Gall of a Hare, boil it in a quarter of a pint of Whitewine: this being drank, causes the Party to sleep, and eases the Labour and Disturbance of his Brain, until Vinegar be given him.   

Maidenhair, a Syrup: Take two good handfuls of it, shred these small, and boil them in two quarts of fair Water till a third part be consumed; then strain it, and boil up the Decoction with Sugar to a convenient thickness, and take hall an ounce at a time in any convenient Liquor. This removes the tartarous and viscous Mucilage out of the Lungs, and is good for those that have Coughs, Shortness of Breath, and Pains in their Sides, or in the Bladder or Kidneys. The Powder of this Herb being taken four days together, provokes Urine, expels the Stone and Gravel, and is of great use for Children in Ruptures: Or for any of these, the speedier to facilitate the Remedy, you may take the Syrup of Maidenhair, and Jubebs, of each three ounces; Linseed-oil, newly drawn, two ounces; fine Sugar two drams: mingle them, and make a Lohoch, and take about a quarter of an ounce every other Hour.   

Maladies of the Skin: Take Oil of Roses half a pint, beat two ounces of lethargy of Gold to dust or powder with Vinegar, add a little of the Oil, as you bruise it in a Mortar with an iron Pestle, till the lethargy and Oil has so overcome the Vinegar, that it appears not, and it becomes a kind of a whitish, Ointment; then put it up for your use, keeping it close covered.  
This takes away Spots, Pimples, Sun-burn, Morphew, and Yellowness of Complexion; cures Itch, Scabs, Botches, Breakings-out, Tetters, Ringworms; kills Worms in the Skin, makes it smooth, and forces out the watery Humours, tending to Dropsies, by anointing with it.   

Marchpane like Bacon: To make this, Take March-pane-paste, work it with Red-Saunders till it has coloured it; then roll a broad sheet of white Paste, and a sheet of red Paste, and so till there be three of the white and four of the red one on another, in a mingled sort every red between; then cut it overthwart, and it will look so like Rashers of Bacon, that it will deceive the Eye, till you come to handle it: and so having dried it, you may keep it for your use on any occasion.   

Marchpane to Gilled and Garnish: Blanch Almonds in hot Water, beat them well in a Mortar; put to them Sugar finely sifted, beat them and mingle them till they become a Paste; add a little Rose-water, then cover it with a sheet of Paper, make Impressions round it with a Spur-iron, or Marking-iron, used in Pastry; Ice it over with Sugar, Rose-water and the White of an Egg beat up together: and being drawn, garnish it with Comfies, cut Leas-Gold or Silver in divers shapes, and stick it on with Gum-water; then strew grated Biscuit and Carraways on it. If it happens to be Oily in beating, to remedy this, put in as much Rose-water as will make it as thin as Ice.   

Marchpane like Hung-Beef: Work some of the Paste with Red Saunders, spread it into a flatness; and the other being White, lay them one on another; and when it is dried and cut fine, it will, at first sight, appear like Interlarded Beef.   

Marchpane: Blanch two pound of Almonds, beat them in a Mortar into a fine Paste, add to them a pound of fine Sugar, and by mixing them well together, they will thereby become a good Paste. Observe, as you mix them, to prevent their turning to Oil, you must put in a few spoonfuls of Rose-water, than cover the Marchpane in a sheet as big as a Charner, and set an Edge about it as you do about a Tart, and a Bottom of Wafers under it: then bake it in an Oven or Baking-Pan, and when you perceive it dry and hard, take it out, and Ice it with Rose-water and Sugar, being made as thick as Batter for Fritters: so with a Wing-feather of a Duck or Goose, spread it on, and again put it into the Oven, and when it rises high, take it out and garnish it with the Figured of Birds, Beasts, Leaves, not the like, made of the same stuff, and sticking long Comfits upright in it, serve it up.   

Marrigold-Water, its Virtues: This is an excellent Water for Inflamed Eyes: being dropped in them, it takes away the Inflammation and Redness; or a Rag dipped in it, may be applied to the Eyes with the same success. The Flowers are very Cordial and Hepatick, they provoke Sweat and the Courses: There is therefore an excellent Conserve made of them, after this manner: Take of Marrigold-flowers two ounces, Confection of Kermes and Hyacinth two drams of each, the Powder of Pearl an ounce, and as much Syrup of Citron as will make them into a Conserve, by mixing and bruising them well together with a sufficient quantity of fine Sugar; take of it about a quarter of an ounce Morning and Evening: it is a great Cordial for refreshing the Spirits, and a Preservative against the Plague and Pestilential Fevers.   

Marrigold-flower-Water: Take the Flowers of Marrigolds a quarter of a peck, and distil, them in a cold Still; then take a fine linen Cloth, and wet it in the distilled Water: this applied to the Forehead, helps Pains of the Head: The Eyes washed with it, removeth Inflammations; and drank in hot Diseases, is very available and beneficial to the Party grieved.   

Margerum Conserved: Take the Tops and tenderest part of Sweet Marjoram, two handfuls or more, as you require; a greater or lesser quantity of Conserve; bruise it very well in a wooden Bowl or Mortar; add twice the weight in Sugar, boil it up with Marjoram-water till the Sugar comes to the thickness of a Syrup; then put in the beaten Marjoram, and it will be a rare Conserve.   

Marks, to Prevent: In case of the Smallpox, Measles, or such violent Distempers as leave Scars behind them, Take lethargy of Gold in fine Powder, White-bread or Ceruse washed in Rose-water, of each an ounce; Oil of the greater Cold Seeds, and of Bitter Almonds, and Oil of Eggs, of each half an ounce; Nightshade and Plantane-waters, of each half an ounce, or so much as will make it into an Ointment by grinding it in a stone Mortar, pouring to it sometimes of the Oils, and sometimes of the Waters; and with this anoint the Face and Hands when the Scab or Scurf is green, and it will keep them from Pitying or Scars.   

Marmalade of Cherries: Take Cherries not too ripe, fairest you can get; and having stoned them, lay them in a Preserving-pan over a gentle Fire, so that they only simper but not boil; then take out a part of the Liquor, leaving only so much as will moisten them; then put in fine Sugar, and boil them up over a quicker Fire, bruise them well, and continue strewing more Sugar till the Colour is very good, then take them off, and being well incorporated, put them up into a Glass or glazed earthen Vessel, and they will keep a considerable time; and being carefully looked to, and set dry, you will find it good for twelve Months.   

Marmalade of Red Currants: This is an excellent way, if well observed, viz. Take of Red Currants when ripe, clean picked, squeeze out the Juice of some of 'em, and put the rest into it, adding the Juice of Raspberries; boil them together gently, and when the Currants that were whole begin to break, boil up an equivalency of Sugar to a Candy height, and put in the Currants, letting them boil with the Currants again, and sprinkle into it Rose-water; and when it comes to the thickness of a Marmalade, having taken off the Scum if it rises, put them into a glazed Pot, being mashed as they boil till none of them remain whole: and so when this Marmalade is cold, slice it for your use, and it will prove of an excellent Taste, and is good to moisten the Mouth and comfort the Stomach in Fevers, or other hot Diseases.   

Marmalade of Damascens: Take about two quarts of the largest Damascens when they are ripe, but not over-ripe, pair off the Skins of three pints of them; put 'em into an earthen Vessel, placing those you have not skinned undermost, put as much fair Water as will cover them into a Kettle or Pot; and when it boils, put in the Pipkin, or other earthen Vessel into it, close stopped, so as the Water cannot get in; and when they are, by this way of Infusion, tender, take off the other Skins and Stones out of them all; then take their weight of Sugar, put it to the Pulp, and set them together over a Fire, till it boil apace: keep it clean scummed, and when it is boiled to a height, put it into a glass for your use.   

Marmalade of Grapes: Take White or Red Grapes, as you design the Marmalade for Colour, let them be gathered in a dry day, and dry them afterward on a Table when they are separated from the Stalks; then boil them in fair Water, often scumming them, whilst the Water is reduced to a third part, and then let there be but a gentle Fire under them; and when you find it thickened, strain it through a Sieve; boiling it once more, add a small quantity of Sugar, and so put it up when cool, and cover it close for your use.   

Marmalade of Pippins: Take the best Pippins when they are newly gathered, and not too ripe, pair them, and take the Core out, then put to them their weight in fine Sugar, put them into a Preserving-pan; and pour upon them as much Spring-water as will cover them; boil them with a quick Fire, till you find them by trial Jellied on a Plate when cold; then take it off the Fire, and put into it a little of the Scrape of Lemon-peel, and a like quantity of the yellow Rind of Oranges boiled tender, (casting away their first Water, to correct their Biterness,) cutting them into narrow slices, and so bruising them all together into a Pulp; let the Substance cool in earthen Pans or Pots, and set 'em in an indifferent dry place, strewing some Sugar over the Marmalade, and it will keep well a Year or two.   

Marmalade, the Spanish way: Take of ripe Pear-Quinces, pared and cored, fifteen pound, three pound of fine-white Sugar, a quart of fair Water, stew them over a gentle Fire, and as they grow dryer, add a little Rose-water, and Whitewine or Canary, as the Scent best pleases; squeeze out the Juice and Pulp, and put to it four pound of Sugar more, a little more Rose-water and Orange-water, try it on a Plate, and if it comes clean off, it is sufficiently enough; then take it off, and let it cool, put it in Boxes, and strew over it some perfumed Comfits, and keep it close for use.   

Marmalade White: Take six pound of Quinces, pair and core them, and then boil 'em to a Pulp, put to it two pound of Sugar moistened well with the Juice of Quinces; boil them gently together at first, till the Liquor be swelled out of the Quinces, and the Sugar dissolved, and all come into a convenient thickness and so put it up for your use.   

Marrow, a fine Dish: Take the Marrow of two or three Bones, cut it square like Dice, and put it into a penny Manchet grated fine, with some Dates cut in halves, and a quarter of a pound of Currans, seven or eight spoonfuls of Cream, roasted Wardens, Pippins, or Quinces sliced, and two or three Yolks of raw Eggs: season them with Cinnamon and Ginger; bake them, and serve 'em up.   

Marsh-Mallows: Though these are very common, yet they are of much Virtue and Value in their Use, viz. the Leaves sod in Whitewine or Milk, and eaten, take away Hoarseness; and being beaten with Sage-leaves, make a singular Poultiss for Wounds, Bruises or Inflammations: They also are good against the Biting of any venomous Creature, being applied  with Leeks and Onions stamped very small. The Juice, if dropped into the Ear, appeaseth the Tingling, Singing or Buzzing Noise in the Head. The Herb and Root concocted till the Concoction seem somewhat clammy, and sweetened, viz. the Liquid part, with a little Honey, is successfully given to Women, to restore Strength, after a hard Labour in Childbearing. The Seed, if powdered and drank with Red Wine, prevents excess in, Vomiting. Six ounces of the Juice of Mallows, sweetened with a little Sugar, extremely removes Melancholy, and are of such virtue, that they were called by the Ancients Omnia Morbia, that is to say, Good against all Diseases.   

Mallows Wild: These are another sort, which Physicians distinguish somewhat from the former, though their Virtues are little less; being sod in White-wine, or Water and Honey; they expedite the healing of Wounds, by warning them with their Concoction: and being applied Poultiswise, they are good to allay the Swell of the Kings-Evil, draw Imposthumes to a Ripeness, alloy Inflammations of the Breast, and help Ruptures of the Fundament, Ventosities, and Shrinking of the Sinews. The Leaves bruised, with a little Oil, are applied for Bitings, Burns or Scalds. The Seed powdered, and drank in White-wine, is good against the Dysentery, and Flux of the Belly.   

Master-wort, its Virtues: It cures the Bitings of venomous Creatures, being stamped and applied to the Wound with Bay-salt. It is given in malignant Diseases, helps Expectoration, sweetens an offensive Breath. 'Tis also accounted good for the Dropsy; and a piece of it stopped in a hollow Tooth, eases the Pain thereof.   

May-weed: This Herb, though very common, and of no pleasant scent, is nevertheless of admirable Virtue: for, if boiled in Ale or Small-beer, with Figs, Licorice and Aniseeds, of each an ounce, and the Decoction drank hot, it eases the Colic, and all violent Pains in the Bowels: If heated between two hot Tiles, with Elder-leaves, and applied, it draws the violent Heat of the Fever from the Head. The Decoction in Whitewine is successfully given for the Kings-Evil, and other Diseases.   

Mead-White: Take Rosemary, Thyme, Sweet-Briar, Agrimony-wood, Betony, Eye-bright, Roman Wormwood, and Scabious, of each a like quantity, which is the sixteenth part of a handful each; cover them with Water in a wooden Vessel open at the top, and let them steep a Night and a Day, and then boil them very well in another Water, till the colour be very high, then in another quantity of Water boil them up till the colour looks green; and so let it boil as long as any greeness continues: then with the Herbs in it, let it stand a Day and a Night, and to every gallon of Water, put two pound of clear Honey, the Liquor first strained from the Herbs, and when it will bear an Egg to Threepences breadth above Water, work it together until the Honey is quite dissolved; then after a Night's settling boil it again a quarter of an Hour with the Whites and Shells of six Eggs, then strain it: let it cool, and put it up with Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs and Cinnamon bruised together, being hung in the Cask in a Bag; and if you require it to drink very speedily, take the Whites of two or three Eggs, a spoonful of Yeast, and two spoonfuls of Wheaten-flower: beat them together, put them into the Cask, and when it has worked, stop it up with Clay and Bay-salt well tempered, and so it will keep long.   

Measles: Take two or three grains of Saffron, dry it well by the Fire, and then put it into a Rag, and tying it, infuse it in Posset-Ale, and then press it; or it may be done in Mace, Ale, or White-wine, till all the Virtue of the Saffron is exhausted in the Liquids, and let the Party drink it, keeping very warm: And if in this Distemper, or the Smallpox, (for it is good in either) there is a soreness in the Throat, do thus:  
Take half a dram of dried Saffron, tie it as the other in a Rag, and boil it in half a pint of new Milk till the Milk becomes very yellow, then boil in it a Stay of Linen, and put it wet and warm under the Throat where the Sore is; and when that is cold and dry, put on another so ordered: and this will in six or eight Hours take away the Pain, or Soreness.   

Meat to Roast: When a Capon, Chicken, or Fowl, has been long enough before the Fire, and thoroughly hot, that they require basting, do them once over very well with sweet Butter, dridge them over with Flower, and by so doing, it will make a thin Crust that will keep in all the Juice, so that they are best without any more basting till they are enough; then baste them well with Butter, as before, which will make the Crust relent and fall away: this being done, and they grow brown on the outside, sprinkle them over with a little ordinary white Salt in gross Grains, then baste them over with Yolks of Eggs finely beaten, continuing so to do till another Crust of the Eggs arise on them, and they are sufficiently enough to dish, sauce, and serve up to the Table.   

Medicine for the Stone: Take a Male-Kid of nine Months old, keep him up in a close Place, and feed him with Smallage, Parsley, Fennel, Pimpernel, Ivy, and Lovage, and kill him in the Month of August when the Sun is going into the Sign Cancer, and receive the Blood in a clean Vessel; take off the thinnest part, and Water, and dry the rest in an Oven till it may be powdered. Take a dram of it in Whitewine, wherein Onions, or Lily-roots, are infused.   

Medlars to Preserve: Scald the fairest of them, when indifferently ripe, till Skin may be easily taken off; then stone them at the Head, and add to each pound of them, a pound of fine Sugar dissolved in the Liquor till it become ropey: then take them from the Fire, and put them up in a close Pot for your Use.   

Megrim: Take a large handful of ground Ivy, commonly called Alehoof, wash it clean, and dry it well by swinging in a Cloth, shred and bruise it a little in a Mortar, boil it in a quart of strong Ale to the consumption of a pint, and drink it hot in the Morning fasting. This cures Pains and Inflammations, Defluxions in the Eyes, and is good against the Jaundice and Coughs of the Lungs, Consumption, Stone, and Gravel Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen; and, according to the Learned and Judicious Sir Kenelem Digby, being applied to a Felon like a Cataplasm, it cures it by ripening and kindly breaking it, being admirable likewise for old Sores that want cleansing, if a little Honey and Copperas be mixed among the Juice.   

Megrim: This dangerous Distemper in the Head is removed by taking an ounce of Honey, Whitewine-Vinegar, the White of an Egg beaten to Water, Pepper and Frankincense, of each two drams: bruise and mix them well together with some Flower, as much as will thicken them to a Past, and spread some of it on two pieces of Silk, or Leather, and apply them to the Temples, observing to renew them Morning, and Evening.   

Megrim, or Vertigo: Take Aaron-roots, cut them small, and steep them in Whitewine twelve Hours, then pour fresh Whitewine upon them, and steep them a considerable time; then dry and reduce them to Powder. Take of this Powder two ounces, Acorns, and Burnet, of each an ounce; Crabs-Eyes half an ounce, Cinnamon three drams, Salt of Wormwood and Juniper, of each half an ounce; Sugar of Roses an ounce: make these into a Powder very fine, keep them close stopped, and take a dram at a time in an ounce of Mint and Betony-water. This is a good Cephalick, and Excellent, especially against the before mentioned Grievances: It also removes Coldness and Weakness of the Stomach, Wind, Stone, Quartan-Agues, and all tartarous Obstructions: The Dose, to a strong Body, may be augmented to two drams. Take it in Canary.   

Mellatons to Bake: Wipe them clean, and put them in a Pie made Scollopwise, or some other acquaint Device of Paistry; put them in whole, with their weight in refined Sugar, close it up, and when it is baked, ice it over with Sugar and Rose-water: Sometimes, for change, you may add small bits of Cinnamon, or whole Cloves and sliced Ginger.   

Melancholy: Take Borrageflowers, Clove-Gilliflowers, Couslip-flowers, and Conserve of Roses, of each an ounce; preserved Citrons two ounces, Alkermes half an ounce, preserved Nutmegs, and Mirabolans, of each half an ounce; Bezoar 15 grains, Tincture of Saffron half a dram: mix these together, and make them up into an Electuary with Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers, adding two or three drops of Oil of Cinnamon, and take a quarter of an ounce at a time, and after it a glass of Canary when you find your Spirits lumpish, dull, or heavy.   

Melancholy, another: Before you eat any thing in the Morning, and so consequently before every other Meal, drink a glass of Claret with a spoonful of the Syrup of Glove-Gilliflowers; and after Dinner, a quarter of an Hour, eat some Marmalade of preserved Quinces, or Citron.   

Melancholy, another: Take Horseleeches, and place them to the Fundament, and at Spring and Fall purge with Mechoacan-Ale, or some suchlike like easy Purging-Ale, for the space of a Fortnight; then take Conserve of Roses two ounces, Bugloss and Marrigolds the Conserve, of each an ounce; Powder of Cinnamon one dram: make these into an Electuary with the Syrup of Field-Poppies, and take about a quarter of an ounce at a time, washing it down with a glass of Sack, or some warm Ale.   

Melancholy, another: Take borage and Bugloss-flowers, the Conserve of them half an ounce each; Alkermes, the Confection of it, one ounce; Diamber, a pennyweight, Aromaticum Rosatum, two penny-weights; two Leaves of Gold: imbody these well together, and make thereof an Electuary, and take a little of it every Morning fasting, or at any time when you are Afflicted, Pensive, or Melancholy.   

Melancholy, a Cordial-Water: This Water the famous Dr. Butler recommended to the World out of his large Experience of its Effects, viz. Take Pinks; Marrigolds, the Flowers of Cowslips, Clove-Gilliflowers, Stock-Gilliflowers, single and damask Roses, of each three Handfuls; the Leaves of Baum, the Flowers of borage, and Bugloss, of each two handfuls: infuse these damped well in a quart of Canary, put them into a close earthen Bottle, or Jug, stopped with a well boiled Cork, often shake them, and after two Days put to them Anniseeds bruised one dram, Saffron two penny-weighty and within twelve Hours after, distil them in a cold Still with a quick Fire, hanging at the Nose of the Still a little Ambergrease and Musk in a fine Linnen-Rag; and when the Water is distilled, put into it six ounces of white Sugar-Candy in powder, and put the distilled Water in a glass two Hours in hot Water.  
This Cordial taken three spoonfuls at a time, three times a Week in the Morning fasting, or oftener, if you find yourself oppressed, or afflicted, expels all melancholy Fumes, and infinitely comforts the Heart and vital Spirits.   

Melancholy, a Diet-Drink: Take Fumitory-Hops before they are ripe for gathering, and Borrage, of each a pound; boil them in two gallons of Spring-water, till they come to the consumption of half; strain out the Liquid part, and sweeten it with Sugar-Candy, or Honey, and let it stand about eight Days to settle and digest, and drink a moderate Draught of it in the Morning fasting, and the like at Night when you go to Bed, and it will much enliven the Spirits, and remove, the Causes of Melancholy.   

Melancholy to Suppress: Take Epithymum, Fumitory, the Flowers of Bugloss, and Borrage, of each a quarter of a pound, Senna half an ounce, Poly-podium of the Oak an ounce, Fennel-seeds two drams, Whey three pints: infuse them three hours, and then boil them to the Consumption of a quart, whereunto add two ounces of the Syrup of Roses, and when you drink half a pint of it warm in a Morning, strained and settled, mix with it a dram of the Electuary or Roses; and in two or three times taking, you will find wonderful Ease and Comfort: And so, as often as you find yourself oppressed with Melancholy, use it in the manner prescribed.   

Melion: This is cold and moist. Take of the Seed, and that of Pompey, half an ounce, the Seeds of white Poppies two drams, and eight Almonds blanched; beat them in a Mortar, mix them with a pint and half of Barleywater, strain and sweeten it with fine Sugar, and make an Emulsion for the Heat of the Urin.   

Melilot: This Herb mollifies and eases Pain, for which purpose it is frequently used in Cataplasms To ease the Pains of the Pleurisy with it, take the following Fomentation: Melilot and Pellitory, of each two handfuls; Betony one handful: make a Decoction, and often wash the Breast, or Stomach with it.   

Mermaid-Pye: Take a Pig, scald it, and bone it; and having dried it well with a Cloth, season it with beaten Nutmeg, Pepper, and chopped Sage; then take two Neats-Tongues, when dried and cold after boiling, and slice them in lengths, and as thick as a half Grown, and lay a quarter of your Pig in a square or round Pie, and the slices of the Tongue on it; then another quarter, and more Tongue: and thus do four times double, and lay over all these some slices of Bacon, scatter a few Cloves, put in some pieces of Butter and Bay-leaves, then bake it; and when it is so, fill it up with pieces of sweet Butter, and make your Past white of the Butter and Flower.  
This Pig, or Mermaid-Pye, so called, is to be eaten cold.   

Metheglin, its Virtues: Metheglin has been highly held in Esteem in this Nation, and is of excellent use among us, if rightly made; nor can it be otherways, since Honey, its principal Ingredient, is the Collection of so many Herbs, Plants, and Flowers; and no doubt the quintessential part of them. It's an excellent Pectoral, good against Consumption, Physic, and Asthma: It is cleansing, and diuretic, good against the Stone and Gravel: It is restorative and strengthening, comforting the vital Part, and affords good Nourishment. To make it then, take these following Rules.   

Metheglin, a new way: Take Hyssop, Agrimony, Burnet, wild Thyme, Baum, Mint, and Fennel, Rosemary and Angelica, and other suitable wholesome Herbs that have strength in them, of each about a quarter of a handful: boil them in a sufficient quantity of fair Water, till tender; then press out the Water, and let it stand a Day and a Night to settle: draw off that part which is clear, and put two quarts of Honey to two gallons of it, and so proportionably; let it boil an hour, keeping it clean from the scum, than set it a cooling, and being cold, add a little Ale-yeast, and put it into a convenient Vessel, covering the Bung with a wet Cloth; and when it has worked, at three Days end take off the Yeast, or leave it behind, by drawing it off, and putting it into another Vessel, in which it must have vent for three Days longer: then stop it up close, yet when you hear it make a noise, you must give it vent with a Piercer, or else, if it force not out the Cork, it may happen to break the Vessel: If you think convenient, you may make a Bag, and put in good store of Ginger sliced, also Cloves and Cinnamon, suffering it to hang and infuse so, as not to touch the bottom, and at two or three months' end, you may, if you think fit, draw it off.   

Metheglin another way: Take Spring-water, and boil it with Rosemary, sweet Marjoram, Sage, Baum, and Sassaffras, until it has boiled three or four Hours, the whole quantity of Herbs not needing to exceed one handful to a gallon of Water, of each an equal proportion; and when it is boiled sufficiently, set it to cool and settle a whole Night, then strain it, and add Honey the best, than set it over the Fire, and take the Whites of twenty or thirty Eggs, beat them very well, and when it boils, pour them in at twice; stir it well, and then let it boil apace before you scum it: after it is scummed, take it off the Fire, and pour it into any earthen thing to cool; and being cold, put five or six spoonfuls of new Ale-yeast to it, stir it together, and then every Day scum it with a bundle of Feathers till it has done working, and so put it up into a Cask, if you can give such a one, that has had Sack, or Malaga in it; and to every gallon of Metheglin, put a quart of Sack, or one pint of Aquavitae, a quarter of a pound of sliced Ginger, and two or three peels of Lemons and Oranges in a Bag.   

Metheglin-Physical: To order and prepare this, Gather the Herbs under-mentioned in July, choose to dig them on a dry windy Day, if any such happen, and keep them drying till the Michaelmas following, viz. Saxifrage, Agrimony, Centaury, Thyme, Betony, brown Mint, and the Tops of Rosemary, of each a handful: boil them in Spring-water till the Herbs have much altered the colour; then take it from the Fire, and cool it; put into the Wort, when it is a little warm, about three pound of Honey-combs, temper and mix them well together, and so run the Liquid part through a fine Sieve, or Strainer: then to try its strength, put in a new-layed Egg unbroken, and if it bear it not, you must put in more Honey till it will; then strain it again, and boil it over the Fire a little, keeping it clean scummed, and so being cold, put it up into a Barrel; and when it has done working, stop it up close, and draw it not off in two Months, and it will purge Melancholy, much revive the Spirits, comfort and strengthen the Heart, purge by Urinal, and gentle breathing Sweats, and keep the Party moderately drinking of it in a healthful constitution of Body.   

Metheglin-White: Take Sweet-Marjoram, Sweet-Briar-Buds, Violets and Strawberry-Leaves, of each a handful; a handful of Violet-Flowers, the double ones, if they can be got; broad Thyme, borage, and Agrimony, of each half a handful; and three or four Tops of Rosemary; the Seeds of Carraways, Coriander and Fennel, of each two spoonfuls, and three or four Blades of large Mace: boil these in eight gallons of running Water three quarters of an Hour, scum it and strain it; and being lukewarm, put as much of the best Honey to it as will make it bear an Egg, the breadth of a Sixpence above the Water; then boil it again, so long as any Scum will rise, so set it to cooling; and when almost cold, put in half a pint of new Ale-yeast, and when it has wrought till you perceive the Yeast to fall, than put it up, and suffer it to work in the Cask till the Yeast has left rising, filling it up every Day with some of the small Liquor; and stopping it up, put in a Bag with a sliced Nutmeg in it, a few Cloves, Mace and Cinnamon, all unbruised, and a grain of Musk. The best time to make it, is a little before Michaelmas, and it will be excellent to drink towards the beginning of the Spring.   

Millet: This in some Countries is made of great Account for Food, but among us, mostly for Physical uses, or uses tending to it, viz. Boiled and mixed with Salt, and applied to the Belly, it eases the Pains caused by Windiness: mixed with Camomil-Flowers, and boiled in Whitewine, it eases Pains in the Head and Stomach; being mixed with many Medicines, it maketh them keep long from moulding and putrefying: cover fresh Flesh of any kind in a heap of it in hot Wether, and it will preserve it a long time.   

Milk to Dry up: Bath the Woman's Breasts with the Decoction of Colewort-leaus, and anoint it with the Juice of Plantain, and the Business will be effected.   

Milk to Increase: Take Aniseeds, Licorice, and Fennel-seeds boiled in Posset-drink: Some hold that the Fore-hoof of a Cow burnt to Powder, and a dram taken Morning and Evening in a Glass of Canary, with the Yolk of an Egg, rarely fails: or, far want of these, Lady-thistle boiled in Milk, and the Milk drank warm; or Fennel-seeds, and Cumin-seeds, bruised and boiled in Barley, has the same Effect: likewise a Coney-skin, or Hair-skin, the fleshy sides being laid on the Breasts when green.   

Minced-Pyes: Take, if you would have them exceeding short and luscious, Neats-tongues but a little salted, boil them, but not too much, pair off the outside, mince the Meat of them very small, take a quantity of Marrow and Beef-suet, shred them together; then wash and pick clean your Raisins and Currans, mingle them then with the former, shred very small; so candied Citron, or Orange-peel, which you relish best; dust in a little powder of Cinnamon and Ginger: then having put these into your Coffin, put in a spoonful or two of Canary, and the like quantity of Rose-water, into every Pye. To make the Crust stand fine, and eat short, sprinkle the Flower, as much as there is occasion, with cold Water, and work the Past with pieces of unmelted Butter: and being brought into a form and thinness, the Crust, when baked, will far outdo that made with hot Water, and melted Butter, as the usual way is. You may strew over the Tops a little ambered Sugar, and grind two or three grains of Ambergrease, and half a grain of Musk, the which quantity will serve five or six Pies: But instead of Neats-tongues, if you please, Veal, Beef, or Calve's Cauldrons, will do very well.   

Minced-Pyes to Season: To do this, Take the Meat you design to make them on, minced finely, when parboiled; let it lie pressed all Night, than put two pound of Beef-suet, minced small, to every pound of Meat, mix them very well together, and take half art ounce of Cloves and Mace beaten, half an ounce of Nutmegs, the like weight of Cinnamon, and a little Salt, half an ounce of Carrawayseeds, five Pippins minced small without the Core, a Lemon-peel scraped, and a quarter of a pint of Rose-water, a pound of Dates, half a pound of Sugar, a pound of Raisins of the Sun, two pound of Currans; mix them well together, and put them to every pound of Meat and Suet.   

Mineral-Crystal: To make this pure, Dissolve it when pretty well reduced to a smallness before, in damask Rose-water, evaporate it, and then filter it warm through a brown Paper, on which Rose-leaves are strewed, moistened with a little Spirit of Sulphur, with a few grains of Musk and Ambergrease, and so let it crystallize, and it will become a delicate mineral Crystal, pleasant in colour and smell, being endued with all the Virtues of exalted and pure Nitre. If is a true Anodyn, and an excellent allayer of Thirst, extinguishing the preternatural Heat of all manner of Fevers. It is a peculiar and special Antidote against the Plague, and all manner of pestilential Infections. It removes Stoppages of the urinary Parts, and provokes Urinal, gives ease in the Quinsy, in hot, sharp, and scalding Urinal, and Gonorrhoea; and for these purposes, it is best to take a dram of it in Wine sweetened with Sugar.   

Mint: This is meant of that sort of Garden Mint, called Spearmint. Its Virtues are very many, viz. Beat it and lay it to the Stomach that is weak and wants digestion, and it comforts and fortifies it. It is a sovereign Herb to restore the Smelling and Feeling to those, wherein they are much decayed; for the first, being often held to the Nose, and for the other, the Decoction of it very strong applied to the numbed part. The Leaves dried and powdered, given to young Children, kill and bring away Worms: The Juice drank with Vinegar stenches Blood; and with the Juice of sour Pomegranate, restraineth Vomiting, Hicups, and Colick-Passions. This Mint, with Rose-water, and grated Nutmeg, laid on the Forehead, assuageth the Headache; and laid on the tender Dugs full of Milk, it easeth the Pain of them. Applied with Salt, it is good for the Biting of Mad Dogs: And the Juice of it mixed with Honey, dissolved in Water, being dropped into the Ears, easeth the Pain of them. The whole Herb distilled In a glass Alembick, in a Bath of hot Water, or otherways, four ounces being drank, stayeth Bleeding at the Nose. Those that affect much Milk, to prevent the curdling of it in their Stomaches, would do well to chew Mint in their Mouths, and swallow the Juice after it. If Cheese be sprinkled with the Juice, or Decoction of it, it will keep from Corruption, or Rottenness.   

Mint-Syrup: Take about a pint of the Juice of Quinces when they are almost ripe, the Juice of Pomgranets half as much, dried Mint six ounces, red Roses two ounces; steep them in the Juices twenty four Hours, then boil it half away, and strain out the rest, and with fine Sugar make it into a Syrup; and if it be too thick, add a little Mint-water.   

Mint-Water: Take Baum, Penyroyal, and Mint, of each a handful; Canary-Lees, a gallon; and after the Infusion of twenty four Hours, put them into a Still of Pewter, and keep a quick Fire under it: cover the Still with wet , and put into the receiver as much fine Sugar as will conveniently sweeten it, and then distil it over again. This is excellent in Fevers, or any hot pestilential Diseases. It comforts the Heart, and strengthens the Memory; and given with Syrup of Licorice, is good for Obstructions of the Lungs, and Difficulty of Breathing.   

Mirabilis: To make this Water, (so wonderfully commended by the Learned Sat Kenelm Digby) Take Galingal, cardamum's, Cubebs, Mellilot-flowers, Mace, Cloves, Ginger, and Cinnamon, of each a dram; bruise them small, and infuse them in a pint of Celandine-Juice, and as much Spear-mint-water, half a pint of the Juice of Baum, and one pound of the Flowers of Cowslips, Rosemary, borage, Bugloss, and Marigolds, of each two drams; three pints of the best Canary, a pint of strong Angelica-water, red Rose-water half a pint: bruise the Flowers and Spices, and infuse them in the Waters, Juices, and Wine, for twenty four Hours, then distil them in a glass Still.  
This Water is excellent against fainting Fits, comforts the Heart, is good in Consumptions, the Spleen and Melancholy; it keeps the Countenance fresh and young, and very much helps the decay of the Memory. Taken fasting it creates a good Appetite, is excellent in internal Bruises, and indeed a better Cordial for any pectoral Distempers, or Defects, cannot be founnd.   

Miscarriage: In this it is proper, that young Women should not be ignorant of the Symptoms, or Signs, threatening or forerunning Miscarriage; and some of them are these, Sudden Pains in the Back, or Belly, the Breasts often filling and falling; upon which, let her apply this following Cerecloath to the Reins of the Back, or Breast.  
Take the Roots of Bistwort, and Coriander-seed, of each two drams; unripened Galls, Saunders, and Hypocistides, of each a dram; Labdanum, and Mastic, of each half an ounce; Frankincense, and Bdellium, of each two drams: reduce those that can be so served into a Powder, and with Oil of Mastic, Turpentine, and Bees-wax, make two or three Cerecloaths, and apply them sometimes to the Loins, at other times to the Sides, and the Region of the Womb under the Navel, the Party for a considerable time altogether avoiding any violent motion both of Body, and agitation of Mind, as Excess of Joy, Anger, Melancholy, etc. relating to the latter, also violent Sneezing, Coughs, Straining, or Affrights.   

Miscarriage to Prevent: Take Coriander-seed two drams, the Root of Bistwort, Shave of Ivory, and red Coral prepared, of each a dram; of white Amber, and Crystal, of each a scruple; reduce all these to fine Powder, make them up into Tablets, Lozenge-wise, with four ounces of Rose-water, and half a scruple of the Confection of Alkermes, their weight consisting of each a dram. Take one of these when you think there is any fear or danger of Miscarriage, they being very Cordial, and great strengtheners of the Matrix; and to confirm it the more, take afterward some Powder of Pearl, or Coral, in a new-layed Egg.   

Miscarriage to Prevent, another: Let the Party, who fears a Miscarriage, drink in Morning fasting a draught of Sage-Ale pretty warm; and about an Hour after, take Syrup of Garden-Tansie, thus made. Take half a pint of the Juice of tansy well strained, let it stand and clarify, and dissolve in it, the dross or settle taken off, a pound of fine Sugar, boil them up to the thickness of a Syrup, and take a spoonful of it, especially when apprehension of danger is conjectured, stamp likewise more of the Herb, and sprinkling it with Muscadel, apply to the Woman's Navel, binding it on with a linen Roller.   

Miscarriage, another: Take a sprig of Rosemary and Baum, a few Cloves, and a small quantity of Nutmeg; put them into a pint of Claret, burn it, and then beat the Yolks of three new-layed Eggs, and having taken off the Wine from the Fire, brew it with the Herbs and Spices; then take the Cock's Treddles of six Eggs, and the White of one, beat them to an Oil, and having taken off the Froth, mix them with the rest, and so brew them over again with fine Sugar; and when the Party feels any Pains that usually forerun a Miscarriage in the Back, or Belly, let her immediately take four spoonfuls of it.   

Miscarriage, another: Take half a dram of Stitch-ing-Silk, of a crimson Colour, cut it into small shreads or pieces, put it into the top of a new-layed Egg, stop up the hole you put it in at with Bees-wax, boil it till the White is only curdled, and let the Party suck it up, keeping in motion, though gently for some time after. This is used commonly by the Direction of the French Midwives, and many of the more Judicious in England accounting it an effectual prevention of Miscarriage; it having prevented many.   

Mouth-Diseases: If the Mouth be cankered, Take a pint of Wine-Vinegar, (and if you can get it, let it be that of Claret) Rue, red Mint, red Sage, and Rosemary, of each a quarter of a handful, or as much as you can hold between the Forefinger and Thumb; shred them small, and boil them in Vinegar, then dissolve in the liquid part a spoonful of Honey, and half an ounce of Alom, and half a spoonful of white Salt: wash the Mouth with it Morning and Evening.   

Morello-Wine: To make this, Take half an Am of White-wine, twenty pound weight of Morello-Cherries, divested of their Stalks; bruise them so, that the Stones may be broken, press out the Juice and pour it into the Wine: take that which remains, and hang it in the Wine in a Bag, so that it may not touch the bottom of the Cask; then stop it up, and let it continue a Month, at least, before you draw it: You may put in Spices at your discretion, but it will be very pleasant without it.   

Mugget Minced-Pye: Boil your Muggets tender, and being cold, mince them small; then put to it pieces of Lard, cut square like Dice, or interlarded Bacon, the Yolks of hard Eggs cut in the same manner, also small pieces of Mutton, or Veal, the same bigness; then put some Goosberries, Grapes, and Barberries to them; season them with Nutmeg, Pepper, and Salt, and fill up your Pie, and lay on it slices of interlarded Bacon, but very thin. Bake it, and liquor it with Whitewine and Butter beaten up.   

Mugmort, the Syrup: Take Fennel, Stone Parsly, and the Roots of Garden-Parsly, Elecampane, French Orrice, Peony, and the bigger Madder, of each an ounce; the Leaves of Penneroyal, Mugwort, Cretan Dittany, Savin, Arsmart, Margerum, Germander, Ground-Ivy, Hyssop, St. John's-wort, Rue, lesser Centaury, double Fetherfew, Bettony, and white Horehound; of each of these a handful; the Seeds of Fennil, Annis, wild Carrot, Stone Parsly, Basil, and Rue, of each three drams; Tartar of Montpelier two ounces: wash, cleanse, and bruise all the Roots, infuse them with the Tartar pulverised twenty four Hours over a gentle Fire in an earthen glazed Vessel well covered in three pints of Hydromel newly made: cut the Herbs, and bruise the Seeds, and put them into an other glazed Pot by themselves in ten pints of the said Liquor, covering the Pot, and setting on hot Embers for twelve Hours: then boil the infusion of the Roots over a gentle Fire for half an Hour, and mix the infusion of the Herbs with it, and boil them together for a quarter of an Hour; strain out the Decoction, when almost cold, and squeeze the Herbs: clarify the Liquid with the White of an Egg, and five pounds of Sugar, boil them over a moderate Fire to the confidence of a Syrup; then the Syrup being cold, incorporate an ounce of fine Sugar with six drops of the distilled Oil of Cinnamon.  
This Syrup is different from what are elsewhere met withal, and is chief used for the Diseases of Women; to open Obstructions of the Matrix, and expel Wind, to repress Vapours and Suffocations, also to provoke the Terms, and evacuate the Impurities of the Matrix. It is good against Obstruction of the Spleen, Liver, and Bowels, as well for Men as Women. The Dose is from an ounce to two, alone or in Whitewine, or in opening Waters or Decoctions: it is also, sometimes, to be mixed in Opiates, and other Medicines.   

Mulberries, a Honey: Take of the Juice of red Mulberries a pint and a half; then put to it a pound of clarified Honey; boil them up often wlth scumming, so that the Honey may be well dissolved in the Juice; and a third part being consumed, take it off, put it into earthen Vessels, and keep it close stopped, as a curious cooling and cleansing Honey.   

Mulberry-Honey: Gather Blackberries, and Mulberries, when they begin to ripen, the Dew being on them, of each a quart; bruise them, and strain them, and put to the Juices fine thin Honey two pound, and boil them over a gentle Fire to the thickness of Honey, and keep it close for use.   

Mullets Boiled: Save the liver and Roe of this Fish, and being boiled, take it up and pour out the greater part of the Water, arid add to the rest a pint of Claret, a bunch of Thyme, Marjoram, and Winter-savory, Salt, Vinegar, and two Onions quartered, or sliced, and the Juice of a Lemon, also Nutmegs sliced, and Mace broken; boil these till the Fish tastes strong of the Ingredients, then dissolve into it two or three Anchoveys: season it with Salt, dish it up garnished with stewed Oysters, and Bay-leaves, and Sippits, if you please, under it. This, though it mentions no number, may extend to what number you please, the Materials being proportioned.   

Mushrooms Fricased: Having stewed them, put away the Liquor, and put them into a Frying-pan with a piece of Butter, some stripped Thyme, sweet Marjoram, and an Onion shred very small, also a little Salt, and beaten Pepper; and when they are fried, make a Leer, or Sauce, with three or four Eggs, dissolved with some Claret-Wine, and the Juice of two or three Oranges, grated Nutmeg, and the Gravy of a Leg of Mutton; shake them well, and give them three or four tosses in the Pan: dish them, and garnish the Dish with Orange and Lemon, and rub it with a Shalot, or Onion, and some serve 'em up.   

Mushrooms, the Italian way: Peel them, wash them, and boil them in a Skillet, with Water and Salt, having boiled in the Water sweet Herbs before you put them in, also Parsley and a Crust of Bread; boil and drain them from the Water, and fry them with the best Olive-Oil: and being fried, serve them in a Dish with Oil, but not that they were fried in, also Vinegar, Pepper, and fried Parsley; or, for want of Oil, you may use sweet Butter.  
If you would Stew them, Peel them, and take out the under part, and do it with sweet Herbs, Pepper, Salt, White wine, and Gravy, over a gentle Fire: put to them, when enough, some sweet Butter beaten up with the Juice of Lemon, or Orange. These are good for those that are of a hot, or choleric Constitution; but those of a cold or phlegmatic one, must eat them sparingly.   

Mushrooms to Pickle: To do these that they may keep a long space, and not rot, as many do that are not well ordered, Take the Buttons, as soon as they put out of the ground, being gathered in a dry Day, wash them in Water, Salt, and Vinegar; then scald them in the Decoction of Bay-leaves and Rosemary: put them afterward into Glasses that they may be very closely stopped, and mingle among them long Pepper, Blades of Mace, and slices of Nutmeg, and Ginger, and so close 'em up with a Cover of Leather for your use.   

Musk: This is an Excrescence, supposed by some to be a Tumour, or Swelling, of corrupt Blood about the Navel of the Musk-Roe; which, after putrefaction and ripening, becomes Musk in a perfect Cod, which, others affirm, falls off from the Beast of its own accord: Being well prepared, it is not only a very sweet Perfume, but also taken in Cordials, cheats and revives the Heart, and dispels gross Vapours from the Brain; and is good against pestilential Diseases, infused in Mint, Baum, or Rue-water.   

Muskadines to Make: Take half a pound of refined Sugar, being beaten and fearsed, put into it two grains of Musk, a grain of Civet, and two grains of Ambergrease, and about two drams of white Orris-powder, beat them with Gumdragon steeped in Rose-water; then roll it as thin as may be, and cut it into Diamond fashion, like Lozenges, with your jigging Iron, and let them in some warm Oven, or Stove; then put them into Boxes for use, and in this manner they will keep all the Year.   

Musk-Sugar, to Make: Bruise four or five grains of Musk, put it into a piece of Cambric, or Lawn, lay it at the bottom of a Pot or Glass, and sift fine Sugar on it, stop the Pot close from Air, and set it in a warm Place, and in a few Days the Sugar will have sucked up the Tincture of the Musk, and yield a very pleasant Smell. Thus you may perfume Sweetmeats, or Comfits, by keeping them up very close; but if the Air gets in, the Spirit of the Musk will evaporate.   

Mutton to Hash: Slice a Shoulder of Mutton thin, till the Bone is only left; then put some Claret, sliced Onion, and Gravy to die Meat, the Tops of Thyme, six Anchoveys, and three ounces of Capers; and the Meat, and other things minceable, being reduced by that means small, take nine or ten Eggs, and the Juice of a Lemon, or two, and make a Leer of them; then put the Meat into a Frying-pan, and when it is thoroughly hot, put the Leer in and soak all together over the Fire, till it be very thick: then boil the Bone with what Meat is on it, and place on the top of your Meat, the Dish garnished with slices of Lemon.   

Mutton, the Turkish way; Cut your Mutton in thin slices, wash it in Vinegar, and put it into a Pot that has a close Cover, then add clean picked Rice, and a quantity of whole Pepper, and two or three Onions: let all these boil very well, keep it scuming; then take out the Onions, and dish it in Sippets.   

Mutton to pass for Venison: Take a Shoulder of Mutton, pretty large, but let it be young and tender, strain the Blood of the Sheep amongst grated Bread, then prepare your seasoning of ordinary sweet Herbs shred very small; take the Bones out of the Meat, and roll them up in it, or stuff them in at convenient places, then wrap it up with a Caul of Veal, lay it in the Blood to soak twenty four Hours, prick it so with a Knife that the Blood may the more easily penetrate it bake it and serve it as usually Venison is done; and it must be a very curious palate that can discover it from what it represents.   

Myrrh: This precious Gum grows upon a low prickly crooked Shrub, with a smooth Bark like Laurel, but the Leaves like Olives, and much rougher; yet out of this Tree proceeds a Gum little differing in appearance from Drops, or Tears, but afterwards it becomes of a greener Colour, and is clear and sweet to the Smell, but not so to the Taste, it being somewhat bitter▪ The right Myrrh being drank in White-wine, abates the Fit of the Quartan-Ague: it is also very good in Antidotes against Poisons and Hurts by venomous Beasts: It resists pestilential Fevers and Plague; and being applied to Wounds, it expedites their Cure. And many other excellent Virtues, not here mentioned.   

NAils-Cloven: Mingle Turpentine and Wax together, spreading it as a Plaster, lay it on the defective Nail, and as it grows, cut it away, and in a short time it will be reduced as the other.   

NAils falling off: Take Powder of Agrimony, mix it with the White of an Egg, lay it on the Nails, and it will strengthen and confirm them; it will also take away the aching, that usually attends them in such Circumstances.   

Nails to grow: Take fine Wheat flower, mingle it with Honey, lay it on the place where the Nail is defective, Plasterwise, and the Nail will sprout out and grow apace to its due proportion.   

Nail-Pricking: If a Nail or piece of Iron, run into any part, so that it causes a pain, or festering, Take Turpentine half an ounce, Bees-wax the like quantity, the Juice of Housleek, Burgundy Pitch, and Mutton-Suet, of each a quarter of an ounce; mix them together into a Plaster, and by application it will take away the Pain, and cure the Wound.   

Nail-Scratching: It is held, that the Nails of the Hand scratching in some Cases prove venomous; yet this is no more than the suffering it to fester, or the Humours to flow to that place before prevented; to remedy it, and cure the Wound made, Take Olive-Oil a quarter of a pint, Juice of Groundsil two ounces, Bees-Wax, two ounces, Stone-pitch half an ounce: make these over a gentle fire, into a Salve, and spreading it on Linen, or Leather, apply it to the place grieved, and in two or three times changing, and anointing with Linseed Oil, the danger will be past, and the Cure effected.   

Nail wort: This is held exceeding successful, being applied to Imposthumes in the Joints, and any Defects under the Nails, especially for Whitloes, Felons, and Nail-wheals.   

Naples Biscuit, To make these so much in use: Take a pound of fine Flower, and the like Weight of Sugar, eight Eggs, and two spoonfuls of Rose-water, an ounce of Carrawayseeds beaten small: mix them well together, and put them, when made, into a fit thinness with fair Water, into Tin Coffins, and bake them moderately in a gentle Oven, glazing them over with Water, in which Sugar has been dissolved.   

Nature to restore: Take an Artichoke, and dress it with Milk; that is, first boil your Artichokes in Water till the Leaves will just draw off, then put them in New Milk, and boil them thoroughly; then bruise the Pulp in the Milk, and add a little Mace and grated Nutmeg, sweeten it with Sugar, and eat often of it with a Spoon. It exceedingly restores decayed Vigour, and strengthens not only the Spirits, but the whole Frame of the Body. The Germans and French usually eat the tender Stalks of this Plant boiled with Butter and Vinegar: the Italians seldom boil the Heads, but eat them raw, with Salt, Pepper, Oil, and Vinegar: they are moreover held to provoke Venery, and the Decoction of the Buds drank, provoke Urine.   

Navel pained: If a pricking or shooting in the Navel happen, which frequently by communication extends to the Fundament, or Privy Parts, by its twitchings and shootings, Take Oil of Roses, and Camomile, of each an ounce and a half; Comfry the Herb, half a handful; bruise it, and fry it in the Oils a little, then apply it plasterwise, to the Navel as hot as can be endured: it also takes away the Pains of the Belly, and causes the Rumbling of the Bowels to cease.   

Navel-wort Ointment: This is moderately Astringent, and therefore good for hot Distempers or Inflammations: some use it for the Kings-Evil, and for the curing Kibes, Chilblains, and the like.   

Nauseousness: When the Stomach, or Appetite is offended in this manner, and brought to a kind of Loathing, Take the Powder of the Seed of Common Fennel in a Glass of White-wine, sweetened with Sugar, every morning fasting, till the Offence be removed. This likewise wonderfully clears the sight, strengthens the Stomach, and being mixed with pectoral Medicines, it relieves those that are Asthmatick. It also resists Poison, and the Leaves of Fennel, boiled in Water, wherein Barley has been boiled, increases Milk in Nurses; and a Concoction of the Seeds and Leaves give ease to the Nephritick Pains, forces Urine, and expel Is Gravel; the Roots provoke the Courses, open the Obstructions of the Spleen, and Liver, and mainly help the Jaundice. The whole Herb shred and boiled in Broth, takes away Fat, and keeps the Body in a good Proportion. Many other Virtues are ascribed to it.   

Neats-Foot Pie: To do this, boil the Neat's Feet, then take out the Bones, and put as much Beef-suet as will answer their quantity; mince them, and then season them with Cloves and Mace, finely beaten; add then some grated Nutmeg and Sugar, with a little Salt, put them into the Coffin or Past with some Barberries, Currants, and Raisins of the Sun; bake it well, and serve it up hot.   

Neats-Foot Pie, another: Take Neats-feets, and boil them tender, and when they are cold, bone them, and mince them very small, seasoning them with Pepper, Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Ginger, a little Salt, and a pound of Currans, a quarter of a pound of Dates sliced, and a quarter of a pound of fine Sugar, with a little Rose-water and Verjuice; stir them together in a Dish or Trey, laying a little Butter in the bottom of the Pve, and on the Meat the Marrow of Three Bones, stick some Dates on the top of the Meat and close up the Pie; and when it is half baked, Liquor it with Butter and White-wine, or Verjuice, and Ice it, and so set it in the Oven again, 〈◊〉 it be baked; and then put into it Rose-water and Sugar well beaten together.   

Neats-Tongues to dry: Take Bay-Salt, beat it very fine, so that it may be sifted through a fine Hair-Sieve, and Salt-Peter, of each a like quantity; and having soaked your Tongues in warm Water, rub it on very well in every part, especially at the root, then lay them in a place where they may be covered with the Salt, and as that wastes, put on more; and when they become sufficiently hard and stiff, then roll them in Bran till they are dry, put them into a Mould a while, then dry them in a Kill, with a soft Fire; or for want of that necessary Implement, you may hang them up in a Chimney where the Smoke comes but little at them, and when they are sufficiently dried, press them out somewhat flattish, and at length, and so put them in dry Boxes, and keep them for use.   

Neats-Tongues to dry, another: Take Bay-salt bruised small, and Saltpetre, a like quantity; rub the Tongues well with a Linnen-Cloth, than put the Salt to them, forcing it in, especially at the Roots; and as it wastes into Brine, add more; when they are hard and stiff, than they have taken Salt enough. Rowl them in Bran, and dry them in a Mould over a Sawdust Fire, or for want of such a Material, hang them up in a Chimney; and when you boil them, let it be in Spring-water, and it will make them look the redder.   

Neats-Tongues, divers ways: Take a Neats-Tongue, being boiled tender, blanche and slice it into thick slices about the bigness of a shilling; fry it in sweet Butter, and being enough, put to them some strong Broth, Gravy, Nutmeg, Salt, and Saffron; stew them together, and then have some Yolks of Eggs, beaten up with Grape Verjuice; put them into a Pan, and give them a toss or two, and the Gravy and Eggs being pretty thick, dish it on fine Sippets, or make the same with Cinnamon and Saffron: sometimes you may slice them as aforesaid, no bigger nor thicker than a Three pence, and used in all points as before, but only add some Onions fried, and stew it with Mushrooms, Nutmeg, and Mace, and serve it up on Sippets, first rubbing the Dish with a Shalot; or you may stew it with Raisins, Mace, and blanched Almonds, or Pistaches, Marrow, Claret-wine, Butter, Salt, Verjuice, Sugar, Strong Broth, and Gravy, the Yolks of six Eggs, with Vinegar or Grape-Juice, and so serve it up on Sippits.   

Neats-Tongue roasted the French way: Boil and blanche it first, and when it is cool, Take out the Meat at the great end, leaving the Skin whole; and having minced it with Sweet Herbs and Apples, as also the Yolks of Eggs boiled hard, and Beef Suet, beaten with Salt and Ginger, fill up the Skin again, till it appear to be a perfect Tongue as before; and having stopped the hole with some Mutton-Skin or Caul of Veal, lard it with small Lardings of Bacon, and tie it to a Spit; and then being roasted, make Sauce with Gravy, Nutmeg, Butter, and the Juice of Oranges, and serve it up with Lemons sliced, and pickled Barberries.   

Neats-Tongue Fried: Boil it first, and take it off; then cut it into thin slices, season it with Nutmeg, Sugar, and Cinnamon, dip the Slices into the Yolks of Eggs, add the Juice of Lemon, and mix them together; then having your Pan pretty hot with sweet Butter in it, take up the rest in Spoonfuls, and put them in, then being fried enough, serve them up with White-wine, Sugar, and Butter, well beaten together.   

Neats-Tongues, the Italian Way: When the Tongues are boiled in an earthen Vessel till they may be blanched, Take them out, and put them into some strong Mutton, or Beef Broth, covering them very close, and having boiled them a while, put in two or three large Blades of Mace, with a quarter of a pint of Canary or White-wine, and some slices of interlarded Bacon; scum the Liquor when it boils, and put in more Mace with some Ginger, Pepper, and Nutmeg. To these add a few Raisins, Currans, Prunes, Sage-Leaves, Saffron and Cherries; then slice the Tongues, and being well stewed serve it up on French Sippets.   

Neats-Tongue Pie: To do this, Take a couple of large Neats-Tongues, set them over the Fire in Spring-water, and parboil them, pair off the Roots and the Skin, mince the Meat with Beef-Suet, and a littte Parsley, sweet Marjoram, Thyme and Pennyroyal; season it with grated Ginger, beaten Mace, Cloves and Pepper finely sifted; add to these grated Bread and fine Sugar, and the Yolks of three or four Eggs; make your Coffin into the fashion of a Tongue, and put these in, bake it, and then make a Liquid of Butter and Verjuice with some Sugar and Rose-water, and pour it in at a vacant place, left for that purpose, or raising the Lid on one side.   

Neats-Tongue Pie, another: Take fresh Neats-Tongues, boil, blanche, and mince the Meat with four pound of Beef-suet by itself; mingle them together, and season them with an ounce of Cloves and Mace, finely beaten, some Salt, half a preserved Orange, and a little Lemon-peel minced, with a quarter of a pound of Sugar, four pound of Currans, and a little Verjuice, and Rose-water, and a quarter of a pint of Canary; stir these all well together, and fill up your Pies in Coffins of what Figure you shall think fit or convenient.   

Neats-Tongue Pie, another way: Take a Tongue, and mince it raw, the Skin, as much as may be, being pared off. Then take another, and boil it very tender, cut it likewise into pieces, the bigness of a Walnut; mince with them some Beef-Suet or Lard, and lay some of the minced Tongues in the bottom of the Pie, and the Pieces on it, and make Balls of the other minced Meat, as big as the pieces of the Tongue, with some grated Bread, Cream, and Yolks of Eggs, the Bottoms of Artichokes cut like small Dice, Nutmeg, Salt, Pepper, and a few sweet Herbs finely shred, Marrow, Grapes, boiled Chestnuts sliced, and slices of interlarded Bacon; liquor it then with Gravy, Verjuice, and the Yolk of Eggs well beat together; bake it, and as the former eats best cold, so this must be served up hot.   

Neats-Tongues another way: Make a hole in the root-end of the Tongue, Take out the Meat, mince it small with the Fat of Bacon, or Beef-Suet, season it with grated Nutmeg and Salt, put to it then the raw Yolks of Eggs, Marjoram, Thyme, and Pennyroyal minced small, Pepper and Ginger, and fill the Tongue with this Composition, viz. the Skin from which the Meat was drawn out, wrap it then in a Caul of Veal, boil it till it will blanche, than put it into a Pipkin, or other convenient earthen Vessel, with some Claret and Gravy, Cloves, Salt, and Pepper, grated Bread, and sweet Herbs, reduced small by chopping or shredding: then add fried Onions, Marrow concocted in strong Broth, and laid over it; and to complete it with a garnish, rake some scalded Grapes, when very green, Gooseberries, the slices of Oranges, or Lemons, and so serve it on Sippets, running it over with Butter well beaten, with the Whites of Eggs, and mixed with the Powder of Cinnamon.   

Neats-Tongue otherways: Boll a fresh Tongue very tender, and blanche it; and when it is cold, slice it into thin slices, season it lightly with Pepper, and Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Ginger, all finely beaten; then put into the Pie half a pound of Currans, lay the Meat on, and stoned Dates in halves, the Marrow of four Bones, large Mace, Grapes, or Barberries, and Butter; close it up, and bake it: then liquor it with Claret, Butter, and Sugar, and so ice it over.   

Neats-Tongue, to Roast: Take a Neats-Tongue tender boiled and blanched; and when it is cold, cut a hole in the butt-end, take out the Meat, and put in the Meat minced with sweet Herbs finely shred, a Pippin, and two or three hard Yolks of Eggs minced, as also Beef-suet and Bacon made very small; mix with all these Ingredients, beaten Ginger, and fine Salt, fill the Tongue, and stop the end with a Caul of Veal, lard it, and roast it, and then make Sauce with Butter, Gravy, and the Juice of Oranges.   

Neats-Tongue Stewed: Boil them first very tender, then slice them, and put them into a Pan with fresh Butter, fry them a little, and so put them into a Pipkin, or Stew-pan, with some Gravy, or Mutton-Broth, large Mace, and sliced Nutmeg, Pepper, Claret, and a little Wine, also a little Vinegar and Salt; and when the Stewing at your discretion is almost completed, then put to the Meat two or three slices of Oranges, Asparagus, Skirts, Chestnuts, and serve them up on fine Sippits, cover them with Butter, slices of Lemon, and Marrow.   

Neats-Tongues, another: Let your Neats-Tongues be seasoned with Pepper, Salt, and Nutmeg; then lard them with Bacon, and let them steep in Claret all night, and you may, if you please, add to it a little Vinegar; put in then Nutmegs sliced, and Ginger finely pared, whole Cloves, and beaten Pepper, with a little Salt; steep them in an earthen Vessel, and cover them up close, they being undelayed with Sippets of Whitebread, some Cinnamon and Nutmeg grated on the top.   

Nep, or Catmint: This procures the Courses, and being taken inwardly, or outwardly alone, or with convenient Herbs to bathe them, or sit over the hot Fumes of it, and by frequent use, it removes Barrenness, and the windy Pains of the Mother; it is used likewise in pains of the Head, proceeding from cold Causes, as Rheums, Catarrhs, Swimming and Giddiness of the Head, and is an excellent Remedy for Windyness in the Stomach and Belly. It is profitable in Cramps and cold Aches to dissolve the cold, and expel the Wind that afflicts the Parts where they happen, and is used for Colds, Coughs, and shortness of Breath. The Juice drunk in Wine is advantageous in Bruises. The green Herb when bruised, applied to the Fundament for two or three hours, easeth the pains of the Piles: but the Juice being made into an Ointment, is the more effectual to that purpose. The Scabs, or breaking out of the Head, are taken away, being washed with its Decoction in fair Water, and has the same Effect upon the break out of any other Parts tending to the like nature.   

Nerves afflicted: Take the Roots of Male-Peony new taken out of the ground, one ounce, of the Seeds of that Plant two drams, and with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Peony, beat them up into an Electuary, of which take the quantity of a large Hazelnut, or more if need require it, twice a day.   

Nerves their Diseases to cure: Take of the Powder of Castor half an ounce, Spirit of Castor half a pint; digest them in the Cold ten days, then strain out the Spirit, and when it is well settled, take ten drops inwardly in any proper Liquor. This not only strengthens the Nerves, and is good for the Diseases of the Head, and Fits of the Mother, but provoke the Courses, and remedies Deafness.   

Nerves pricked: Take Peruvian Balsam, and warm it a little; then bathe it in, where the grief is; and in a little time it takes off the acrimony of the Sanies, from whence proceeds the Pain and Convulsion when we are wounded or bit by venomous Creatures: It i● excellent in staunching blood, insomuch that it is affirmed, that the Beads in Peru and New Spain, from whence it comes, finding themselves so hurt, by an Instinct of Nature rub themselves against the Tree from whence it issues. It is of a dark colour, fragrant Smell, and brought to us in little earthen Jars.   

Nerves Uncovered: To Remedy this. Take the Oil which is thus prepared; Powder grossly three or four ounces of the best Camphire, and having put it into a Mattress, pour on of Spirit of Nitre, twice as much, stop the Vessel close, and let it over a Pot half full of Water, pretty well heated, frequently stirring it, to help forward the Dissolution; which will be done in two or three hours, and by this means you will find the Camphire turned into a clear Oil, which will swim above the Spirit, then separate it in a Viol for use. This is not only used to touch the Nerves that lie uncovered, but for the caries of Bones: yet this Oil is nothing but a Dissolution of the Camphire in the Spirit of Nitre; for if you cast Water upon it, to kill the Force of the Spirit, it will turn into Camphire as before.   

Nerves Wounded: Take Horsetail, distil it, and if the Nerves be much hurt or wounded, Take three spoonfuls of it, in a morning fasting; apply it likewise outwardly: this stays bleeding, cures Ulcers in the Reins and Kidneys; and if the Lungs be ulcerated, drink three ounces of the Decoction of it, or two ounces of the Juice, morning and evening: a dram of Powder made of this Herb, and taken in three ounces of Plantane-water, morning and evening, is held very good for a Consumption.   

Nettle juice: This is good to stop bleeding, and ease the Pains in the Head; being drunk it provokes Urine, and is helpful in the Dropsy: the Leaves of Nettles made into a Poultis and applied to Inflammations and tumors, alloy them; mixed with Hog's Lard and Flax-seed.   

Nipplewort: Out of this comes a bitter Milk, or whitish Juice, which being mixed with Woman's Milk, and a little Oil of Roses, and mingled well over the fire in a Saucer, is greatly available to allay the Heat and Anger of sore Nipples, and recover them so, that the Infant may suck without giving the Woman any pain.   

Niter: This is held an excellent Medicine for the Colic, or any Pains, prepared after the following manner, viz. Take of the best Nitre an ounce, rub it sufficiently in a clean Mortar of Glass or Stone, then grind it with half a Scruple of Saffron, and of this Mixture take about half a dram at a time, infused in about three or four ounces of Spring-water.   

Nodes: These are a kind of Knots occasioned many times by Scorbutic Humours. Take two drams of Rhubarb, boil it in half a pint of Ale, till it consume to a quarter of a pint, drink it in a morning fasting; and anoint the place where these Knots are, with Oil of Camomile, mixed with the Spirit of Wine, three or four times, intermitting the first for a day.   

Noise in the Ears: Take the Oil of Ben-Nut, drop it into the ear, and it not only cures the Noises, but in a great manner helps Deafness. It cleanses the Skin from Spots or Morphew, and the longer it is kept, the better it is. This Ben-Nut likewise mixed with Honey, dissolves hard Swell, and the Kings-Evil; made up to a Poultis with Barly-Meal, it is good in the cold Afflictions of the Nerves: Mixed with Meal of Lupins, it takes off the Obstructions afflicting the Liver and Spleen; it subverts the Stomach, occasions Nauseousness, and moves the Belly. It purges gross and clammy Phlegm, by Vomit and Stool; wherefore it is good for a phlegmatic Colic.   

Noise, a singing Noise in the Ear: This is usually the Forerunner of Deafness, and few that have it to any purpose, escape the losing their Hearing, especially for a time; therefore the best way is timely to prevent it: to do which,  
Take the Pills de Hiera, or Hiera cum Agarico, with which the Apothecary or Druggist will furnish you. Take of them a dram at a time going to Bed, and settle yourself as well as may be to rest, and the next morning, take the following Decoction, viz.  
Take the Tops of Mint, Marjoram, and the Flowers of Wood-Roses, Bettony, Sage, and Camomile, of each half a handful: boil them in a convenient quantity of Water, till half be consumed; then taking them from the fire, let the Fume or hot Vapour ascend into the Ears, by laying first one and then the other side of the head over it; or you may drop three or four drops of the Oil of Amber palliated with Oil of Roses, into the Ears, and stop them close from the Air, when you go to Bed.   

Nose Bleeding: To stay this speedily and effectually, Take the long things that grow on Hazle-Trees before they Leave, by some called the Nut-Blossoms, burn them so that they may be reduced to a Powder, but not to Ashes; and when the Blood issues from the Nose, blow up some of it with a quill into the Nostrils, and let the Party drink the Juice of Plantain, or Plantane-water and Milk, and the Bleeding will stay: This also will stay inward Bleeding till better Remedies can be obtained, though many times, of itself, it is effectual, and there needs no other, unless some large Vein be broke, or some extraordinary Flux of Blood otherways happens.   

Noses to Dress: This is meant of an Ox, Steer, Cow, etc. Boil them tenderly, and then fry them in sweet Butter; and when fried drain the Butter from them, and put to them the Powder of Nutmeg and Anchovies dissolved in fair Water and Whitewine, with a little Salt and Mutton-Gravy: give all these a warm over the Fire, and serve them up in a Dish; then run it over with Butter beaten up with the Juice of Oranges, Marrow, Sage-leaves, fried Parsley, and the Yolks of Eggs.   

Nurse's Milk to Increase: Take of Earthworms an ounce, wash them well, and dry them so that they may keep sweet, and yet be reduced to a Powder; then take half a dram, or two scruples for a Dose in a Glass of Canary.   

Nutmegs are somewhat Astringent, and Stomachick, Cephalick and Uterine; help Concoction, discuss Wind, take away the offensive Fumes of a strong Breath, are good in the Palpitations of the Heart, and prevent Faintings, lessen the Spleen, and stop Looseness and Vomiting, provoke Urinal, and quicken the sight; are of great use in Fluxes, especially the Bloodyflux, having all the Virtues necessary for a Medicine fit for these Diseases: The Oil cleanses and defends the Bowels from sharp offensive Humours, and eases the Pains that frequently afflict them: The aromatic quality, consisting in the airy spirit, penetrates the noble Part, and administer Comfort, whilst the gross and earthy part dries up Ulcers, and cicatrises them: Candied Nutmegs, or as they come over with their green Husks about them, are good in all cold Diseases of the Head, as Palsy, and other Diseases of the Nerves, and Womb, and are very Cordial: And notwithstanding all these Virtues in this one small Simple, yet if it be taken immoderately, that is, in too great a quantity, it proves very hurtful, occasioning sleepy Diseases, seeing they are very Narcotick, insomuch that Tavernier relates, That when these Nuts ripen in the Molucoa-Islands, where they, chief grow, the Birds of Paradise come flocking to feed upon them; which they have no sooner done to any purpose, but a Giddiness seizing them, they fall on the Ground in a profound Sleep, or Doziness, and lie so long before they recover, that swarms of huge Aunts that frequent those spicey Woods, frequently eat off their Legs, or intolerably sting, and kill them in earnest.   

Nutmeg to Candy: Take a pound of fine Sugar, a quarter of a pint of Rose-water, and Gum Arabic three penny weight; boil them up to near a Candy height: then having soaked your Nutmegs in Water, put them into it in an earthen Vessel, cover it close that the Air may not come in, no more than through the porous Part, and keep them in a warm Place twenty Days, and they will be of a Rock-Candy, etc.   

Nut-Oil: Take small Nuts, break them in a Mill, or otherways; take out the Kernels, lay them in warm Water rill the Skins or Husks come off them, then steep them in warm Salad Oil; and when they swell, take them out and press them, and a curious Oil will issue from them: put them into a glass Vessel, and let it settle and digest twelve Days in a warm place; then use it as occasion requires. It is good for cold and moist Swell, or Pains in the Joints; or Burns, Scalds, and tumors, especially mixed with the Ointment of Marsh-mallows, and likewise that of Tobacco.   

OAk-Tree: This Tree in every part is astringent, but especially the Bark, the Decoction of which is good for the Bloodyflux, or Spitting of Blood. The Acorns are Diuretic, and the distilled Water of a young Oak is good for women's Diseases. Those that are cut for the Stone use a Bath of it, made of the Bark, to heal the Wound or Incision. The Galls that grow upon outlandish Oaks, not only make Ink, but are of many singular Virtues, as being powdered and drank in White-wine, to dissolve the Stone, or Gravel; ease Pains in the Bladder, or Reins, and cleanse the Stomach, causing a good Digestion.  
Take of the Water of Oak-Buds, and Plantain, of each three ounces; Cinamon-water Hordeated, and Sprup of dried Roses, of each an ounce; Spirit of Vitriol two or three drops, to make it pleasant and sharp, and take it Morning and Evening: it's excellent to stay immoderate Courses, and to prevent them.   

Oats: They are Physically moderately drying, resolving, and restringent; they are cool, and therefore boiled in Posset-drink, in Fevers they are good; being heated, and put into a Bag and laid 〈◊〉 the Side, they ease Pain●… as likewise by such application, the Headache: The Ale made of them, cools and purifies the Blood, and eases the Heat and Pains in Urinal: A strong Decoction of them eases the Flux in the Belly; and boiled with Figs, Licorice, and a little Honey, in Ale, they ease the violence of the Cough, or Cold; and in a little time, the liquid part drank often as hot as may be, removeth the Cause, and the Effects consequently cease   

Odoriferous-Water: Take the Roots of Florence Orris, and Benjamine, of each one ounce and half; the best Storax six drams, Lignum Rhodium half an ounce; Aromatic Reed and Labdanum, of each two scruples; Flowers of Benjamine on scruple: beat them into Powder, and put them into a Matras, and let them macerate twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae lukewarm, in a pint of Rose-water, the Matrix being stopped, and then distil them in the same Bath a little hotter; and mxing with this Water-Musk and Ambergrease six drams, keep it as a Water of a curious, wholesome, and odoriferous scent, to scent, or perfume Rooms, Gloves, or what else requires it.  
This, for its admirable pleasant Scent, is called Angels-Water: It likewise contributes much to the lustre of the Face and Hands, being washed in it, mixed with a little of the Water of Fumitory. The Sediment dried and mixed among , gives 'em a fine Perfume, and drives away Moths, Worms, etc.   

Oesepius Prepared: Take of the uncleansed Wool from the Neck, Buttocks, and Shoulders of a tired Sheep, and infuse it in hot Water frequently, till the Fat swims upon the Water; then squeeze the Wool, pour the Water out by way of brewing frequently from one Vessel to another, till the Froth arises; then let it stand till the Froth sinks, and take off the Fat that swims on the surface of the Water, and froth the Water again, by pouring it from one Vessel to another; and so continue to do till no more Fat appears: then wash all the Fats with Froth in fair Water, keeping it continually stirring, and changing the Water often, till what is superfluous be washed away; and until, upon the Taste, it makes no biting on the Tongue: then put it into a well glazed earthen, Vessel, and keep it for use.  
This is good to anoint old Sores, also for Scabs, Itch, Botches, or Boils, Excoriations, or Gallings, etc.   

Oil Anti-Epileptich: Take the Shave of a dead Man's Skull, that died a violent Death, four ounces, Amber pulverised two ounces; mix them together, and put them into a glass Retort, fitted with a Recipient, and distil them in a Sand-Bath with a gradual Fire; distil the Oil mixed with Spirit, Phlegm, and volatile Salt.  
This Oil is beyond compare for the Epilepsy: A few drops of it taken in some cephalick Waters, as that of Bettony, Pellitory, Camomel, or Mint, you may take from three or four to five drops: Anoint with it, in great Pains, the insides of the Nostrils, Temples, and the sutures of the Scull, and immediate ease ensues.   

Oil of Bays: Take the ripe Berries, bruise and boil them a good space in Water, then strain it out; press the Berries hard, and when the liquid part is cool, skim gently the Salt that swims on the Decoction, which is the Oil, and is good to extenuate, calefie, and dissipate Wind in the Stomach: it dissolves cold Diseases in the Head, and eases the Pains of the Colic.   

Oil of Bitter Almonds: Take bitter Almonds, dry and purge, bruise and calefie them in boiling Water, then strain it out; and press out the Oil. This Oil does very much attenuate, and dissipate Wind, cures the Noise of the Head, by ●…opping into the Ears; monifies the Stubbornness of the Sinews, and opens Obstructions of the Liver.   

Oil of Bitter Almonds, another: Take bitter Almonds two ounces, putting to them half an ounce of Sperma Ceti; bruise them, and extract an Oil; and with it anoint the Face when the Smallpox is drying; and by often doing it, it will make them shell kindly, without leaving any Marks.   

Oil of Camomel: Take the Flowers of Camomel, the white Leaves taken away, bruise them, put them into a considerable quantity of Oil, and let them infuse in the Sun, or some convenient Heat, covered with a single linen  a considerable time, then press out the Oil, and keep it for use. This is Anodyne, and gives ease in the Colic and Pleurisy, by bathing the affected part: It is also given in Clysters, to the same effect, with good Success.   

Oil of Camomel, another: Take the Flowers, bruise them, and put them into Olive-oil, let them stand twelve Days, boil it a little, take it off and press out the Oil and Juice, put the Juice, or Oil, in a Glass, and put in ●…esh Flowers. This eases Pain in the Joints, softens Swell, closes Chaps, or Cracks in the Skin, and supples stiffness of any Member, and, in a great measure, gives ease, by being anointed with it very hot, or a linen Rag dipped in it, fixed to the place grieved,   

Oil of Cinnamon: Bruise four pound of Cinnamon, infuse it in six quarts of hot Water, leave it to digest in an earthen Vessel close stopped for two Days; then pour the Infusion into a copper Alembick, fit the receiver to it, and lute the Joints with a wet Bladder, distil with a pretty good Fire three pints of the Liquor; then unlute the Alembick, and pour into it, by inclination, the distilled Water, and at the bottom you'll find a little Oil; put it into a Viol, and stop it close; distil the Liquor as before, and then return the Water into an Alembick. Take the Oil found at the bottom of the Receiver, and mix it with the first, repeat this Cohobation till no more Oil arises. This Oil strengthens the Stomach, eases women's Deliverances, the Courses, and much increaseth Seed.   

Oil for Deafness: Take pressed Oil of Leeks, bitter Almonds and Laurel, of each two ounces; Spicknard, Castoreum and Coloquintida shred, of each a dram; Juice of Rue, and Whitewine, of each an ounce and a half: put these into a Matras close stopped, and let them digest twenty four Hours in a lukewarm Balneo Mariae; then increase by degrees the heat of the Bath, and boil them to the consumption of the moisture: then strain and press the Oil out for use, mixing afterward with it six grains of Musk.  
This Oil put just warm into the Ears, a drop or two at a time, wonderfully helps Deafness in those that were not born so; but such as were born deaf very rarely recover, though some foolish pretenders to all manner of Cures, will, for the fake of your, Money, promise infallible Success.   

Oil of Eggs: Take the Whites of twelve Eggs, beat them so that they become a kind of an oily substance, extract that and put one spoonful of the Oil of Tartar to it; mix them well together, and set them in the Sun, so that at the bottom a thick settlement will remain; take then the Oil that swims a top off, and put it into a Viol, and let it stand in the Sun till it becomes as white as a Curd. This is exceeding good for Pains, Aches, Bruises, or any hot Humours settling, also for Burns or Scalds   

Oil of Eggs, another: Take Yolks of Eggs, and put them in a Pot over the Fire, let them stand till you perceive them to grow black, then put them in a Press, and an Oil will squeeze out of them, which is excellent good in all manner of Burns, and Scalds, Blasts by Lightning, or ill Airs.   

Oil of Elder-flowers: This is made with the Flowers infused in good Oil when well beaten, and the Oil after a considerable standing pressed out. This Oil Discusses Mollified and Resolves.   

Oil of Exeter: Take two handfuls of Sage, Thyme, and the green Sprigs of wild Vine, a handful each; Hyssop two handfuls, St. John's-wort one handful, Bay-leaves two handfuls, Goose-grass one handful, Rosemary two handfuls, Peneroyal two handfuls, Camomel, white Lilies, Lavender, Dragon-leaves and Wormwood, of each two handfuls; Mint, Sweet-Marjoram, Pellitory of Spain, Fetherfew, and Angelica, of each one handful: stamp these very small, put them into a Pot, with as much fair Water as will cover them, till the Water be in a manner consumed; then put to it two quarts of Couslip-flowers steeped about a Month in the Oil of Olives, with two quarts of Whitewine, and as much Olive-oil, boil them to●…her an hour or two till they are almost drained dry: then press out the Oil very hard from the Herbs, and put it up in a Glass. This is excellent good for dressing old Wounds and Sores, and gives ease in Aches, and violent Pains of the Colic.   

Oil of Fennel: Take two handfuls of the tops of Fennel, and put it between two iron Plates, or clean Tiles, when they have been well heated in the Fire; and pressing them hard, you will find an Oil come out, or oily Liquid, good to anoint the Stomach with in the Physic, or any Inflammations.   

Oil of Foxes: Take a Fox of about a Year old, flea, disbone it, and cut it to pieces: put to it four ounces of common Salt, Spring-water as much as will serve to boil it; boil it in an earthen glazed Pot, covered over a gentle Fire, so long that the Bones start out; then strain out the Broth, and squeeze the Flesh till all the moisture comes from it: then put to it Dill and the Tops of Thyme, fresh gathered, of each two handfuls; Sage, Rosemary, and ground Pine, of each one handful; salad-oil four pound: return the Broth into the Pot, and having put in the Herbs and Oil, cov●… 〈◊〉 very close, and let it stand twenty four Hours in a warm Bath; make it boil for two Hours, and then strain it strongly, pressing out the substance. Then separate the Oil, and keep it for your use  
This powerfully digests and discusses cold Humours that fall on the Nervous and Membranous Parts: It is proper against all Infirmities of the Joints, Rheumatisms, Sciatica's, and cold Gout, and may be applied hot to the Parts alone, or mixed with other proper Unguents.   

Oil of juniper: Take the Berries of Juniper gathered from the beginning of August to the end of September, bruise them and infuse them in Spring-water three or four Days, and the Water of the first Infusion will serve for the rest; then take two Alembics, the one full of Berries, and the other half full of the Infusion; (let them be made of earthen Ware:) put these into the Earth, one on the top of the other, or conveniently fastened upon the other: after having strained it with a Cloth, put it into a Furnace, and when cold open it, and gather the Oil on the top, leaving the Water to run out, and let it take as little Air as may be. This is excellent good for Strains or Afflictions of the Sinews and Nerves, and is used with Success in the Pains of the Gout.   

Oil of Lilies: Take of Costus, Mastic, Calamus Aromaticus, Oil of Pellitory, and Carpobalsom, of each an ounce; Cinnamon and Cloves of each half an ounce; Saffron three drams: when you have bruised them, infuse them in Water twenty four Hours, then boil them a little; and having taken them from the Fire, pour in Oil of Olives two pound, the Leaves of Lilies eight ounces, set them forty Days in the Sun: then strain it, and take off the purest Oil that swims on, the top, and take it as an excellent Remedy against the Pains of the Gout, as also for the Headache, and many other Use.   

Oil of Lizards: Take pressed Oil of Walnuts, depurated, three pound, and three ounces of Whitewine, put them into a glazed earthen Pot with a narrow Mouth, set in Balneo Mariae, boil it till it is exceeding hot; then take green vigorous Lizards, in number twelve, fifteen, or twenty, as they are in bigness, suffocate them in the scalding Oil; and having well stopped the Pot, boil them to the consumption of their moisture: then strain and press them, and reserve the pure Oil for use.  
Oil of Lizards is commended for making the Hair grow on bald Heads, etc. It is a Specific to cure Burstermesses, the Bowels being first put up, and the Party anointed with it very warm, then laying on the pannicle that encloses the Intestines of an Animal moistened with this Oil, and strewed over with some astringent Powder, binding on a good Pillow to keep the Bowels tied.   

Oil of Mace: Three or four drops of it fasting, in a little Broth, eases the Pains of the Colic and Strangury; it comforts the Heart and Stomach, and helps cold Diseases of various kinds.   

Oil of Mint: Take the Leaves of sown Mint, bruise them, let them macerate with the Juice in the Oil of Omphacine, and change and boil it as you do Oil of Roses. This greatly strengthens the Stomach, a few drops being taken in Wine, Beer, or Ale, and the Stomach anointed with it; it also helps Concoction, and does many other good Offices, proper to an excellent pectoral Oil.   

Oil of Mustardseed: Take two pound of the plumpest Mustardseed, four pound of Olive-oil, grind them together, and let them stand nine Days; then press out the Oil, and keen it for your use. It is exc●…t in case of the Palsy, Gout, Itch, or any other suchlike Maladies.   

Oil of Nard: Take of Spicknard, out small and bruised, three ounces, strong Wine five ounces; put them into a strait-mouthed glazed earthen Pot, and let them infuse in a moderate hot place; then add half a pint of Olive-oil, stop up the Pot, and keep it in a boiling Balneo Mariae till the Wine be almost consumed: after that strain and press it strongly, then separate the Oil from the faeces, and keep it stopped very close for your use.  
This Oil is proper to Heat, Digest, and Attenuate, being a moderate Closer; so that it is very useful against Cold and Windy Afflictions of the Brain, Stomach, Liver, Kidney, Spleen, Bladder, and Matrix; it unstops and purges the Brain; Cotton being dipped in it, and put to the Nostrils, assuages the Pains of them; it is good against the Palfie and Shaking of the Nerves, also tumors, Suffocations, and Stranglings of the Matrix, being used as a Pessary; it is also used, by way of Injection, to assuage and allay Pains, or heat of the Bladder.   

Oil for the Nerves: Boil Neats-feets, and you will find an oily quality swimming on the top, scum it off, and purify it; and in case of any Afflictions of the Nerves, anoint the Place grieved with it as hot as can be endured, and it will extremely strengthen them, taking away Pains, Aches, or Weakness in the Back, Reins, Muscles, Joints, or Nervous parts, when anointed with it Morning and Evening. It likewise cures a wasting Consumption, or Pining in any part of the Body, being anointed often with it, by reason it nourisheth the fleshy, or musculous Parts, adding strength to them; but is more powerful in its operation, if you take a pound of it with the Oils of Amber, Lavender, Rosemary, Oranges, of each an ounce; Camphire half an ounce: mix these well together, and in case of Strains, Coldness, or Weakness of the Joints anoint them with it, chafing or rubbing it in warm, you will find wonderful ease, and a cessation of Pain: it makes likewise the Skin plump and smooth.   

Oil of Orris: Take the Roots of Florentine-Orris, and of the purple Flower, two pound; also a sufficient quantity of the Water wherein the Roots of Orris are boiled; of sweet Oil washed six pints; boil them in a double Vessel, put in fresh Roots and Flowers till the watery part is consumed; then press out the Oil, and keep it for use.  
This Oil, or Ointment, digests crude Humours, dissolves hard Swell, mollifies and discusses, digests, and eases Pains.   

Oil of Osprey: Take thirty Scorpions, Oil of Bitter Almonds two pound; put them into a narrow-necked Vessel, and let them digest for thirty Days in the heat of Summer in the Sun; then strain it out, and keep it close stopped.  
This is good against the Stone or Gravel m the Kidneys, the Reins being anointed with it, as also the Share and Perinaeum; and injected into the urinal Passage, it is also good against the By't or Sting of any venomous Creature, and the malignity of the Plague. Some think it should be used only as an Ointment; but others hold it may be given inwardly against the Pains of the Colic and Stone, the Dose being from one to two drams in any Powder or Vehicle.   

Oil of Roses to Make: Gather the Buds of those Roses, called Provence-Roses, take the Flower off clean without Stalk or Seed, and put to them the Juice of other red Roses a pint; then put them into five pound of Oil Omphacine, which is without Salt, and let them stand a considerable time in a glass Vessel close stopped, viz. the space of eight Days in the Sun, if possible, after boil them three Hours, strain them, and put in fresh Roses into the Liquid: do so twice or thrice, then being strained, boil the Liquid in a double Vessel, till the Juices be consumed; and then put it up for your use. This is extraordinary strengthening and cooling: It thickens and stays Fluxes, and helps gnawing Pains of the Bowels, if taken in a Clyster; or, otherways, in a little Whitewine, with some. Syrup of Licorice.   

Oil of Roses, another: Take sweet ripe Oil, often washed, and red Roses full blown, bruised, and gently boiled in a double Vessel; but the thirtieth time you place it in the Sun, it must remain there forty Days, then keep the Oil and Roses together without expression. This Oil mollifies, heals Burns and Scalds; if mixed with powdered white Lead, and the White of an Egg dropped in the Ears, it easeth the Pains of them; and in the Eyes, refreshes the Sight.  
Oil of Rue is made in the same manner as that of Roses, and has excellent Virtues in it to warm and strengthen the Joints and Nerves, and is good for Convulsions and Palsies.   

Oil of Rue: Take the Leaves of Rue, shred them small, put about two handfuls of them into an earthen Pot, with a quart of Olive-oil, let them stand twelve Days; then boil them to the consumption of a third part; strain it, and keep it close. Four or five drops of it drank in White-wine fasting, is good against pestilential Fevers, Plague, or any infectious Disease.   

Oil of Saffron: It's excellent to provoke Sleep, by anointing the Forehead and Temples with it; mixed with a Woman's Milk, it stays the Fluxion of the Eyes. It destroys St. Anthony's Fire, the grieved Part being often anointed with it; being drank in Wine, it cheers the Heart, etc.   

Oil of Savin: This is made in like manner as the Oil of Elder-flowers: It cures and cleanses Ulcers, and takes away the Scabs in children's Heads, being anointed with it.   

Oil of Scorpions: Take those of a middle size, when the Sun enters Leo, to the number of thirty; Oil of Bitter Almonds a quart: set them in the Sun forty Days, then press out the Oil, and keep it close stopped.  
This is a good Oil for the King's-Evil, old Sores, Cancers, Inflammations, and Defects of the Skin: It gives ease to the Stone, the Reins and Flanks being anointed with it, and cures the Biting of poisonous Creatures.   

Oil of Swallows: Take about sixteen young Swallows, whole Camomel, Rue, and the greater and lesser Plantain, Pennyroyal, Bay-leaves, Dill, Rosemary, Sage St. John's-wort, Costmary, of each a handful; common Oil two quarts, Spanish Wine a pint. If you take as much May-Batter as Oil, and boil these in it, it will have the Name and Consistence of an Ointment. This is exceeding good to anoint lame or decrepit Members withal; also to bathe old Aches, and for Pains and Weakness in the Joints.   

Oil of Violets: This is made of Omphacine-Oil, and Flowers of Violets, by infusion, and then pressing out the Oil: It Moistens, Cools, and Mollifies.   

Oil of Violets, another: Take the Flowers of blue Violets, clean picked from the Stalks, two handfuls; Oil of sweet Almonds, or Olive-oil, a pint; put them in a glass Vessel, and let them stand in the Sun ten Days, shifting the Violets as the former, and in every thing ordering them alike, and anoint any part that is grieved with Aches, or Pains, occasioned by Heat or Swell, and you will find ease.   

Oil of Vipers: Take live Vipers, large, fat, and vigorous, in number twelve; the best Olive-oil two pound; strong Whitewine two ounces: put the Oil into an earthen Vessel well glazed within. Let it boil in a hot Bath till you cannot endure to put your Finger into it; then plunge the Vipers one after another into the Oil, and when they are stifled, pour in the Wine prescribed; cover the Pot, and let it boil till the moisture of the Vipers is almost consumed; then strain and press out the Oil, and separate it from the rest, and keep it for use.  
This is chief commended for taking away the Deformities of the Skin, as Tetters, Scurf, Leprous Ulcers, and highly esteemed for those Ulcers that are caused by a venereal Poison; the use of it externally, is alone, or in Liniments, or Pomatums: It is also recommended for assuaging the Pains of the Hemorrhoids, and to facilitate the Delivery of Women, the whole Region of the Belly being anointed therewith.   

Oil of Wall-Flowers: Take ripe Oil one pint, Wall-flowers four ounces; bruise them, and infuse them in a Warm place, and so press out the Oil. This Oil strengthens the Nerves and Joints, and is good for the Palsy and Cramp.   

Oil of Wormwood: Take the Leaves and Tops, and bruise them, than put them into the Oil, and order it as Oil of Roses. This helps the Pains in the Bowels: Drops of it in Whitewine create a good Appetite, and restore the Lungs.   

Ointment for Aches: Take, five or six young Swallows, Tender of Strawberries, Rue, Lavender, and Bay-leaves, red Nettle-Tops, Wormwood, and Horehound, of each one handful; the Gall of an Ox, and about six black Snails, Oil of Olives half a pint: stamp the Swallows in their Feathers whole, with the other Ingredients reduced very small, then add half a pint of Olive-oil, and about two ounces of May-Butter, put them into an earthen Pot well glazed, set them over a gentle Fire, and keep them continually stirring: then strain the Ointment through a linen Cloth, and anoint the Parts grieved with it very hot: It eases most Pains in the Joints, Slips, Strains and cold Humours that afflict the Serves.   

Ointment for Burns: Take the Juice of Housleek, Grounsil, and Plantain, Omphacine Oil of Roses, a little  grated, and the White of an Egg; beat them up together till they come to art oily substance, and then anoint the Place where any Scald or Burn has happened; and so doing often, it will draw away the Heat, and remove the Pain.   

Ointment for Imposthumes: Take Olive-oil two pound, white and yellow Bees-wax, Rams-suet from the Kidneys, clarified Rosin, black Pitch, and Venice-Turpentine, of each half a pound; the best Mastic finely powdered two ounces: make these into an Ointment over a gentle Fire.  
This is excellent good to break all Imposthumes, as also pestilential Carbuncles, and venereal Buboes, by reason the Consistence of this is harder than almost any other Ointment, and it is to be used from the first breaking of Imposthumes, till the Cure be perfected.   

Ointment for Scalds: This is excellent either for Scalds, or Burns; Take a pound of Hogs-grease, White-wine a quart, the Leaves of the lesser Sage, Wall-Ivy, and Ground-Ivy, the bigger sort of Marjoram, and Housleek, of each two handfuls: shred, beat, and boil them over a gentle Fire, to the consumption of the moisture, stirring them often, and then strain and press them strongly, and keep the Ointment in a glazed Pot for your use, and use it with success.   

Ointment, another: Take sweet Butter two pound, melt it over a moderate Fire, put into it, when taken off the Fire, as much Snow; then scum off the Butter that swims above the Snow-water, and add to it an ounce of Venice Ceruss-powder, Camphire a dram, mixed with a little Spirit of Wine, and make them up into an Ointment over a gentle Fire.  
This Ointment, among the Professors of Chirurgery, has a great Esteem: For it not only cures common Burns, or Scalds, but those with Gunpowder, Lightning, melted Sulphur, or Led, if curable.   

Ointment for the Smallpox: If you would prevent Scars, and pitying in the Face, Hands, or any part of the Body, Take a piece of fat rusty Bacon, with the Rind off, and put it on a Spit, set a pewter Platter under it with fair Water, and let the Fat drop into; and when it has dript away as much as is convenient, beat the Dripping and the Water together about a quarter of an Hour, and let them stand till they are cold; then pour out the Water, and pass the Fat with mixing through two or three Waters, till all the saltness, and offensive Scent is gone: then wash it in Rose-water, and put it up in a Gallypot; and when you use it, melt it and pitle it on your Face with a Feather, often so doing till the Scabs and Scurf come clear away, and a delicate smooth Skin appears under them.   

Ointment for Sores, Old or New: Take Honey of Roses, and common Honey, of each four ounces; Oil of Turpentine an ounce and three quarters; Barleywater half a pint; the Yolks of two new-layed Eggs: mingle them well, and keep them stirring over a gentle Fire, till the Water is near consumed, and they become an Ointment: then dip Rags and Pledgits in it, and lay to the grieved Place, often renewing them.   

Ointment for the Spleen: Take Whitewine-Vinegar four spoonfuls, red hollyhock, Mallow, and Briony-roots, the Pith taken out, of each a pound; sprinkle them with the Vinegar: let it steep in, and then boil them till the Roots be very soft, then stamp them and strain out the Juice. Take Boars-grease a pound and a half, sour leavened Bread four ounces: mingle them together in a Mortar, and then sprinkle some more Vinegar on them, and over a gentle Fire make the liquid part into an Ointment, and in the Morning rub the place where the Spleen is with a warm corpse Cloth, then lay on it a, piece of blue woollen Cloth, wet in the Water of a Manchild, as hot as can be laid on, and when it waxes cold, take it away, and dry the Skin with a warm Cloth, and bathe in some of the Ointment warmed in a Saucer; rub it well in, and lay upon it a quilt of black Wool, and in so doing often, you will find extraordinary ease.   

Ointment for Ulcers: Take six pound of Butter made the latter end of May, or beginning of June, boil it over a gentle Fire, clarify it, and take away the dregs, then add yellow Wax four pound, Rosin two pound, and Venice-Turpentine one pound: make these into a proper Ointment over a gentle Fire.  
This Ointment is very solid, that it may continue on the Parts grieved, and is not only proper for the Cure of Ulcers in the Legs; but for Tetters, Chilblains, Chaps, and Rifts of the Breasts, and other Parts of the Body.   

Oysters: The Flesh of this Fish is nutritive, Stomachick, and restorative in Consumptions, being either pickled, stewed, roasted, or eaten raw; they open Obstructions of the urinary Parts, and increase Seed; eaten raw, they cause a good Appetite, and are easy of Digestion, confirm a weak Stomach, and create good Nourishment to decayed Members. There are Waters, Oils, Spirits, and volatile Salts, drawn from Oysters in this manner.  
Take five quarts of large Oysters, when out of the Shells, put them into a Cucurbit, and in Balneo Mariae distil off the Water to dryness, that it is Phlegm, with very little volatile Salt in it. This may be used in all Cases where a Milk Water is requisite. Then put the dried Oysters at the bottom into an earthen Retort, or a glass one well coated, fixing to it a large Receiver; and upon the Fire, though not too violent, draw off the Spirit, Oil, and volatile Salt: let the Fire at first be very gentle to bring forth the remaining Phlegm, then increase it gradually, that the Spirit may follow in white Clouds; then continue the Fire, increasing it to the highest degree: so will the volatile Salt and Oil ascend and come forth, which rectified, separate and keep for use.  
The Salt restores in Consumptions. It is good against all Diseases of the Head, Brain, and Nerves, as the Apoplexy, Epilepsy, Vertigo, Lethargy, and Palsy; as also Pleurisies, and all Obstructions of the Lungs and Breast, Stoppages of Urinal, Jaundice, and the like: You may take it from four grains to twelve. The Spirit has the fame Virtue, but is weaker; and therefore may be taken from twenty four to forty, fifty, or sixty Drops. The Oil smells very strong, and therefore must be rectified. The smelling to it is good against Vapours, and Hysterical-Fits, especially being anointed on the Nostrils. Take of the Oil two ounces, Spirit of Niter one ounce: mix and digest them ten Days, then add eight ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine, and digest it a Month; filter it, and keep it close. This opens Obstructions, and prevails powerfully against the Obstructions of the Bowels. The Dose is from twelve to thirty drops.   

Oysters Broiled the Dutch way: Take two quarts of large Oysters, open and parboil them in their own Liquor: put them into a strainer, and then into a Pipkin, with some Mace, Butter, and slices of Onions; then stew them, and after that lay the Shells on a Grid-iron, and put two or three of them into a Shell, and there let them broil or Stew in their Liquor; and so setting them on Plates, fill them with beaten Butter, and serve them up.   

Oyster Chewits: Take three quarts of large Oysters ready opened, and parboiled in their own Liquor, then wash them in warm Water; dry them, and mince them very fine, season them lightly with Salt, Pepper, Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon, Carrawayseeds, some minced Raisins of the Sun, sliced Dates, Currrans, Sugar, and half a pint of Whitewine: mingle all together, and put Butter in the bottom of the Pies; so fill them up and bake them. These must be very small Pies, and ten or twelve of them served upon a Plate together.   

Oysters, another way: Take the largest, wash them in warm Water, then parboil them, and save the Liquor, and steep them in Whitwine-Venegar, sliced Nutmeg, large Mace, whole Pepper, Cloves, a little Salt; and having given them a warm on the Fire, set them off, and let them steep two or three Hours; then take them up, and dry them, and dip them in a Batter made of Flower, and the Yolks of Eggs, some Salt, and Cream, and so fry them; and when they are fried, keep them warm: then take some of the Spices, Liquor of the Oysters, and some Butter, beat them up thick, with some slices of Orange, or Yolks of Eggs, and dish the fried Oysters over a Chafingdish of Coals: run the Sauce over them with the Spices, and garnish them with Barberries, and grated Manchet, and then serve them up.   

Oister-Ielly: Take ten Flounder, two small Pikes, or Place, and four ounces of Isinglass finely cleansed, boil them in an earthen Vessel in two quarts of Spring-water, and as much Whitewine, with some sliced Ginger, and large Mace; and being boiled to a Jelly, strain it through a Strainer into a pretty deep Dish, and when it is cold, pair the top and bottom, and put it into a Pipkin with the Juice of six or seven Lemons to each two quarts of Jelly, also three pound of fine Sugar beaten with the Whites of twelve Eggs. Rub altogether with a Rolling-pin, and put among the Jelly, being melted, but not too hot; set the Pipkin on the Fire to stew, put into it a grain of Musk, and as much Ambergrease well rubbed, and let it stew half an Hour on the Embers: then stew the Oysters in Whitewine, their own Liquor, and the Juice of Oranges, Mace, sliced Nutmeg, whole Pepper, and some Salt; and having dished them with some preserved Barberries, large Mace, or Pomegranatekernels, run the Jelly over them, and garnish them with preserved Lemons, large Mace, and preserved Barberries.   

Oister-Pye: Parboil your Oysters, and season them with Pepper, Salt, and Nutmegs, and the Yolk of hard Eggs; and the Pie being made, put a few Currants in the bottom, and lay on the Oysters, with some sliced Dates, blades of and Barberries; then put on Butter, and close it up, and bake it: then liquor it with Butter, Whitewine, and Sugar beat up together.  
Or this way: Season them as before, but boil them not; put in two or three Onions cut in Quarters, but leave out the Currants, and Sugar, slice a Nutmeg on them, as also hard Eggs must be laid in halves with large Mace, and Barberries; liquor them as before, only add to the Liquor, Juice of Oranges.   

Oyster-shells: Take the inward part of the Shell, that is of a shining White, or Pearl colour, and reduce it to powder by calcining: It easeth Heart-burnings, and the Pain of the Stomach, and Colic; as also other Pains of the Bowels, proceeding from sharpness of Humour; it cheers the Heart, and has almost the Virtue of Pearl.   

Olives, their Virtues: Olives are gathered, either that Oil may be extracted out of them, or that they may be reserved for Banquets by pickling them in Salt and Water; The Olive hath in it a very restringent Virtue; for the Decoction of the Leaves in a Clyster, stayeth the Flux of the Belly, and the Juice with Whitewine, or fair Water, being often drank, restraineth the Bloodyflux: The Sap distilling out of the Olive-Tree, or that out of as the Wood where it is burning, cures the Itch, Tetters, and Ringworms. Leuk-Olives, especially being eaten, provoke Appetite, and get a good Stomach: The Oil extracted, or rather flowing from them of its own accord, is of singular Virtue, being either applied outwardly, or nwardly, according to the indisposed Parts of the Body: It looseth and mollifieth the Belly, abateth the force of Poison taken inwardly; and if any Venom, Burn, or Scald, happen on the outward Parts, bath it well with this Oil. It is so generally approved, that few Oils, Unguents, or Salves, are compounded without it.   

Oleum Magistrale: Take a quart of the best old White-wine, Olive-oil three pounds, Hypericon half a pound, Carduus Benedictus, Valerian the least, and Sage, of each four ounces; steep them in the Wine and Oil twenty four Hours, then boil them in a nealed Pot, or copper Vessel, keeping them stirring over a gentle Fire, till the Wine is consumed; strain it, and melt in a pound and half of Venice-Turpentine, than set it again on a soft Fire a quarter of an Hour, add Olibanum five ounces, Myrrh three, Sanguis Draconis one ounce, and make it into an Ointment. It's good against Sores, Wounds, Gun-shot, Blasts by Gunpowder, and Pains in the Joints.   

Onion: This is proper to such as are afflicted with cold vicious Humours, because they procure Sleep, and help Concoction, prevent sour Belchings, open Obstructions, force Courses, and the Urinal, promote insensible Transpiration; but are not proper to be taken by those that are of colerick Constitutions, because they disturb their Heads, and cause troublesome Dreams, and offend the Eyes; an old Onion steeped in Water a Night's time, and the Water with a little Honey given the next Morning, kills the Worms in Children: a large Onion filled with Venice-Turpentine, and roasted, softens hard Swell, laid Plasterwise; also opens them: a raw Onion, stamped with Salt, draws the Fire out of Burns, or Scalds; and the inward Cloves, under the several Coats of a raw Onion, laid to the Gums, ease the Pains of the Toothache.   

Opiate-Plaister to Make: Take the great Diachylon four ounces, Quicksilver two ounces, Opium one ounce; mingle them, and make them into a Salve, with a very gentle heat, and apply Plasters of it to any Part afflicted with Pains or Aches.   

Opiate for the Toothache: Take Camphire two drams, Castor half a dram, Opium one dram; bring these into a powder, mix them with the Syrup of Gillyflowers, and make an Opiate.  
This assuageth the Pains of the Teeth very speedily, and if any of them be rotten, put a very little of it into the hollow Tooth, and leaving it there, it will ease it.   

Opthalmick Ointment: Take Oil of Roses two ounces, Narbone-Honey half an ounce, choice Aloes, and Sarcocol, of each two drams; infuse them three Days in a Woman's Milk without stirring, yet shift the Milk very gingerly, powder of white Trochiscs of Rhases, Bolearmoniack, Tutty prepared, of each four scruples; white Vitriol, and Sugar-candia, of each one dram; Powder of Saffron, Myrrh, and Olibanum, of each two scruples; Thebeian Opium fifteen grains: make of these an Ointment according to Art.  
This is excellent for Infirmities of the Eyes: Put to this purpose a large drop of it into the Eye, and sleep upon it, and in the Morning when you rise, wash it with white Rose, or Plantane-water; and so order it once or twice after the first time, and you will find wonderful Benefit.   

Oranges to Dry: Rasp or scrape off their outward Rinds, cut them into halves, and take out their Pulp; lay them in Water three or four Days, then shift them into fresh Water, and boil them tender, shifting them likewise in boiling, to take away their bitterness: When they are tender, take them out, and wipe them with a clean Cloth, and put to them as much clarified Sugar as will cover them, and let them boil leisurely two Hours: then take them off the Fire, and put them into an earthen Vessel for four Days; then set them on the Fire again till they be through hot: let them drain, and take fresh Sugar, boil it to a Candy height, and put your Oranges to the hot Sugar; which being boiled up, take out the Oranges, and lay them on a Wire, or Sieve, to dry in a Stove, or Oven, and within ten Days they will be dry, and fit for use. In this manner Lemons are candied.   

Orange-Marmalade: Take the fairest Rind Oranges, cut them in halves, and take out the Pulp, boil the Peels tender in fair Water, often shifting, to take out the bitterness; then take them up, and squeeze all the Water from them, beat them in a stone Mortar with the Pulp of three or four yellow Pippins; then strain, and boil it with stirring until it become thick: take it from the Fire, and lay it on White Paper, and take as much refined Sugar as the Pulp weighs, put it into a Pan, with as much Rose-water as will melt it; boil it to a Candy height, and put the Pulp into the Sugar, keeping stirring till it rises from the bottom of the Pan: then put it into Boxes, and so into a Stove uncovered; and when it is tolerably dried, cover it up for your use.   

Oranges, a Past: Take Oranges well coloured, and boil them in Water, shift them six or seven times in the boiling, and put into the first Water a handful of Salt; then beat them in a wooden Bowl, with a wooden Pestle: strain out the Pulp, and take the weight of Sugar equal to them; boil it up to a Candy height, dry it on Plates, and fashion it as you please: And in this manner you may make Past of Lemons, or Citrons.   

Oranges: The Water of these, besides the pleasantness of the Fruit, and other Advantages that arise from them, being distilled in an Alembick, by paring the Oranges, and putting the Peels into a convenient quantity of low Wines, or Spirits, is not only excellent in Scent, and may be sprinkled as a Perfume to give a fragrancy to what you please to asperse it on, but is very good in pestilential Fevers: It strengthens the Heart and the Brain. Three or four spoonfuls taken going to Bed, causes likewise a gentle breathing Sweat. The Juice of Oranges is cold, and therefore resisteth Corruption, and is given with a little Sugar, successfully to cool and temperate the Blood in Fevers and hot Diseases.   

Orpin: This kind of Herb is vulnerary and astringent, and is chief used for healing Ulcers of the Bowels, occasioned by the Bloodyflux, also for Ruptures and Burns. 'Tis held excellent in easing Pains both in fresh Wounds, and old Ulcers. The Herb roasted on Embers, and mixed with Hogs-Lard, cures a Felon.   

Ostiocolla: This is a kind of a Stone found in Saxony, Silesia, etc. and grows in the Sand like a Coral. It is of a glutinous Quality, and therefore of excellent use for binding and knitting broken Bones, immediately breeding Matter for a Callus, and thereby hastening the Conglutination. The Dose, in subtle Powder, is from one to two drams in any convenient Liquor, and outwardly to be applied to the Place in a Cataplasm, or Emplaster. Aldrovandus affirmeth, That broken Bones being rightly placed, and tied up, it heals them, being used outwardly with a mixture of the Oil of Cranesbill, and inwardly with red Wine. It dries and binds without Agrimony, and is good against Poison and the Plague.   

Ouzel, its Dung: Half an ounce of the Dung of this Ouzel, or Blackbird, mixed with two ounces of the Juice of Lemons, and a dram of the Powder of Camphire, and applied to the Face, or Hands, taketh away Freckles, Lentils, and other Deformities of the Skin. The Flesh of this Bird frequently eaten, wonderfully restores Consumptive People, and giveth ease to the Colic Pains, and is held to be prevalent against the Dysentery, and Infection of the Plague, especially the raw Flesh being applied to the Sore, draws out the Poison.   

Oxgall to Beautify: Of this an excellent Cosmetick is made in the following manner:  
Take four pints of the Galls of an Ox digested twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae; Roach Alom, Salt, and of glass powdered, of each one dram; mix them well, and put them into a Matras, stop it carefully, and expose it in May to the heat of the Sun, shaking it four or five times a Day; then filter the Materials, and in the filtered Liquor put two ounces of Porcelain powdered very fine, and dissolved in the Spirit of Vinegar; Borax and Sperma-Ceti, of each an ounce; sweet Sublimate, and Camphire, of each three drams; then expose them to the Sun again ten Days, often shaking the Ingredients: then filter the Liquor, and keep it for its proper use.   

Oxymel Simple: Take of the best Honey four ounces, of Spring-water, a pound, or pint; boil them till half the Water be consumed, then pour them into a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar, and let them boil to the thickness of a Syrup, and take about half an ounce at a time. This extenuates gross Humours, and carries away slimy Matter, opens old Obstructions, and Obstructions of the Lungs, with Phlegm, and what Causes arise from shortness of Breath.   

PAin of the Bladder: Take of Pulegium, and Spicknard, of each a little quantity, bruise them, and putting them into a little Bag, apply it warm, as near as you can, to the Place grieved, at the same time drinking about a quarter of a pint of the Decoction of Horehound, boiled in a like quantity of Wine and Water.   

Pain in the Eyes: Take Melilot-flowers, the Flowers of Marigolds, and Elder, of each a handful; Linseed, Fenugreek, Fleawort, Cummin, and Quince-kernels, of each half a scruple; French Barley half an ounce, Damask Roses half an ounce, Spring-water a pint and half; mix and make a Decoction, with which foment die Forehead, Temples, and Eyebrows, being sufficiently warm: and by Efficiently warm: and by often using it, the Pain will not only be abated, but the Eyes will be very fresh and lively, the sight more quick and penetrating than usual.   

Pains in the Loins: Take of Quick-sulphur half an ounce, beat it into Powder, mix it with an ounce of Hogs-lard, powder the Seeds of wild Mint, add a little Wheat-flower, and make them into a Plaster, or Ointment, with a little Wine over a gentle Fire, and apply it warm to the Place grieved, often renewing it.   

Pain of the Stomach: Take a quantity of green Peach-leaves, bruise them with Knotgrass, boil them in Whitewine to the thickness of a Poultis, and apply them warm to the Stomach; or, Take Rue, Dill, Cummin, and Smallage, of each half a handful: boil them in a pint and a half of Whitewine, the Leaves picked clean from the Stalks, then add three pound of Olive oil, boil them again; and being taken from the Fire, dip therein so much unwashed Wool, as, spread pretty thick, may cover the Stomach: lay this where the Grief is most apparent pretty hot; and when the heat has dried up the moisture, anoint the Stomach with Oil of Nard, and walk about with a quick motion. This remedies that Disease of the Stomach likewise called Nausea.   

Pannado to Make: Take a quart of Spring-water, and put it on the Fire in A Skillet, then cut A Penny white-Loaf in slices, about the bigness of a Sixpence, and as thin as a Wafer, and lay it on a Dish placed on a Chafing-dish of Coals; then put it into the Water with a handful of clean picked Currants, and a little large Mace: and being boiled to a sufficient thickness, season it with a little fine Sugar beat well and dissolved in Rose-water.   

Parsly: It hath many Properties in Physic, as well as for Kitchen uses, viz. the Decoction of the Leaves, or Roots thereof, openeth the urinary Passages, bringeth away Sand and Gravel, easeth Colic, and the Pains in the Reins, being used in the nature of a Fomentation upon the grieved Parts: And the Seed is of the greatest Virtue in those Matters; it voideth Windiness in the Bowels, and is good in the Biting of any venomous Creature. The often eating of Parsley, or drinking the Juice of it, sweetens the Breath. Being bruised with the Crumbs of fine White-bread, and applied, it healeth Tetters, and Ringworms, and assuageth the Swelling of the Dugs. It diminishes the Milk of Women in Childbed.   

Past of Apricocks: Take the ripest Apricocks, pair them very thin, and set them in a Preserving-pan over a gentle Fire, with as much Water as will keep the bottom of the Pan moist; then break them, and stir them about with a Skimmer, suffering it to stand till the moisture consume, and they come to something of a dryness: then with Sugar boil them to the thickness of a Conserve; and so, by continuing longer, it will become stiff in order to a Past.   

Past of Cherries: Boil some of the ripest Cherries till they are reduced to a soft Pulp, then strain them through a corpse Cloth, or hair Bag, and boil a fourth quantity of Pippins, not over-ripe, till they are very soft: then take away the Core and Rind, and mash them into Pulp: add to these an ounce of fine Sugar to every pound, spread it then on Plates, and fashioning it as you please, let it dry for your use.   

Past to scour the Hands: Take the Husks of Bitter Almonds half a pound, bruise them in a marble Mortar, sprinkling on them a little Salt and Aquavits, then add two Yolks of Eggs, and Narbone Honey one ounce and half; Orris-roots, finely powdered, one ounce: mix and mould them well together, and make them into a Past, and use it as you see occasion.  
This is excellent to cleanse the Hands, and is easily prepared: There is little occasion for wetting it in Water; for it may be used as it is prepared, if you let it not dry too much.   

Parsly-Water: This must be distilled from the Leaf, Root, and Stalks, in Balneo Mariae, being gathered in the beginning of the Spring. It Attenuates, Opens, Cleanses, and is Hepatick and Diuretic, insomuch that many allow it to cure all Pains and Effects of the Stone, where the Party frequently and freely drinks of the Water: but this is certain, that being exceeding Diuretic, it nevertheless forces without Pain, and makes the Urinal come freely from those that have had Obstructions for many Years; and, in some, it has brought away the Urinal with ease, after it had been totally obstructed for many Days. It may be taken from six ounces, sweetened with white Sugar-candy, or alone, to eight, or you may add to it ten or twelve grains of Salt of Tartar, or what other Diuretics you think convenient.   

Pear-Pie: Take Wardens, or other hard Winter-Pears, bake them with a little Water, and a good quantity of Sugar, in a Pot covered with a Lid of Dough. Let them not be fully, baked  you draw them: then quarter them, taking off the Rind and Core, raise a Coffin of Past, and between every laying scatter a few Cloves, Cinnamon, and candied Orange-peel cut small; and putting in the Liquor that issued from them in the Pot, let them bake to a fitness.   

Pear-Pie, another: Bake your Pears first in an Oven, either upon the Stone, or in a Pot; peel and core them, put them in halves into your Coffin, with some slices of Quinces between them, and the shaving of Lemon-peel, some whole Cloves, Cinnamon, and Sugar; and when baked, raise the Lid on one side, and put into it some Cinnamon Powder, beaten up with Sugar and Rosewater, and so serve it to the Table, either hot or cold, as you please.   

Pear-Pudding: Take a cold Capon, or one half roasted, which is the best of the two; then shred some Suet very small, as also the Meat taken off the Bones, with half as much grated Bread, and two spoonfuls of Flower, beaten Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, and Sugar, as much as will season it, half a pound of Currans, the Yolks of two Eggs, six Pears, the Pulp of them, and as much Cream as will make it up into a kind of a Past; then make it up into the fashion of a Pear, stick a piece of Cinnamon for the Stalk, and for the Head a Clove.   

Pearls to Whiten: Take half an ounce of Bean-flower, Lime, and Eggs an ounce, white Salt a pound, Water of Confound, Alcohol of Wine eleven ounces; distil the Water; and if you wash solid or clouded Pearls in it, it will restore them to their native Lustre.   

Pectoral Pills for the Lungs: Take Tears of Storax two drams, Juice of Spanish Licorice a dram and half; Tincture of Saffron four scruples, Labdanam, Olibanum, Myrrh, and Extract of Opium, of each a dram; Ambergrease a scruple, Syrup of Citron-peels, as much as suffices to make a mass for Pills.  
These Pills stop Defluxions on the Lungs, and assuage Coughing. The Dose to be taken, is five or six grains at Night.   

Pepper boiled in White-wine is good against the Ague, and in most cold Diseases, but is more commonly used in seasoning Meats, than in Physic; and indeed is more proper in the general to that purpose, by reason its dryness qualifies the moisture that ever abounds in many Meats, and causes it to digest kindly in the Stomach.   

Perfumed-Cakes: Take Benjamin four ounces, Storax two ounces, Laudanum a dram, Cloves, in number, twelve, Calamus Aromaticus a dram, and a little Citron-peel: Take a new glazed earthen Pot, and boil the Benjamin and Storax in it in half a pint of Rose-water for an Hour, if the moisture holds long, without being evaporated; then put in the rest of the Materials, mentioned in a little Linen Bag, adding more Rose-water: and when they have boiled a while, take them off, and strain them through a Linen Cloth: and so soon as cold, there will be a curious perfumed Past.   

Perfume for Confection: Take of Myrrh a scruple, Musk, or Civet, the like quantity, Oil of Nutmegs as much: infuse them in Rose-water, and with it, when well dissolved, sprinkle your Confections, or Sweetmeats, and they will have a curious pleasant Scent, which will likewise add much to the flavour in the Taste.   

Perfumes of Flowers: Extract, through a Retort, after the manner of Aquafortis, the Spirit of Salt-petre, or common Salt, and keep it close stopped in a Bottle; then take what quantity of Violets, Roses, or other Flowers you will, and put into an Alembick with an ounce of the Spirit of the said Salt, a pint of Spring-water, and so proportionably till the Alembick be full, and let them infuse twenty four Hours till you see the Water well coloured, which pour out by inclination into another Glass, and it will carry with it the colour and smell of the Flowers infused, though it leaves the Flowers fresh, as if they had been newly gathered.   

Perfumed Powder: Take Florence-Orris a pound, dried Roses a pound, Benjamin two ounces, Storax one ounce, Cloves two drams, yellow Saunders an ounce and a half, Cloves two drams, a little Citron-peel; beat all to fine Powder in a Mortar: put to this twenty pound of Starch, or Rice, ground; mix it well, and finely sifting it, keep it very dry for use, and it will prove an excellent perfuming Powder.   

Perfumed Washballs: Take what quantity of Musk you please, dissolve them in sweet compounded Water; then take about the quantity of one Washball of the Composition, and mix it together in a Mortar; then mix and incorporate them with your Past; and making them up into Balls they will all of them retain a curious perfumed Scent.   

Perfum'd-Water: Take Calamint, Storax, Benjamin, Cloves, and Mastic, beat them well together, and put them into Aquavitae, or the Spirit of Wine in a glass Viol., and when the Liquid is changed to a red colour, infuse in it a grain of Musk, strain it, and keep it for use.   

Pericarpium for Agues: This, especially for the Tertian-Ague, has been often tried with good Success, viz. Take a handful of Rue, newly gathered, half a handful of Sage, a spoonful of Bay-salt, and a spoonful of good Vinegar; beat all these well together into an uniform Mass, which must be divided into two parts, and make thereof two Wrist-plaisters, to be applied at the usual time before the coming of the Fit, and to be renewed, as occasion requires, till they grow dry and troublesome.   

Physic, a Remedy: Bruise a handful of Bettony-leaves, put to them half a pound of Honey, half an ounce of Licorice-powder, and Pine-Apple-kernels, that have been boiled in White-wine bruised small: make these into an Electuary, and let the Party take about a quarter of an ounce at a time.  
Some for this have only eaten the Lungs and Heart of a wild Goose boiled with Hyssop, and have found great ease by it; yet I cannot but recommend the former to be the more effectual in the Cure.   

Pickled Artichokes: Take the best Bottoms of Artichokes, parboil them, and when they are cold, and well drained, dry them in a Cloth to take away as much of the remaining moisture as can be; then putting the Bottoms, without the Choke, and but a few Leaves remaining on, into an earthen Pot, boil some fair Water, scum it till no more will rise, and mix with it so much Salt that it will bear an Egg; put these to the Bottoms: then melt sweet Butter, pour it on this Water, and it will, by spreading, make a Coat to keep the Air out; then tie it over with Paper, or Leather, and they will keep all the Year: so that having occasion to boil them for serving up at Table, lay them in Water six Hours to take out the Brine, then boil them.   

Pickled Oysters: Take about a quart of the largest Stewing Oysters, with the Liquor that comes from them, wash them clean, and wipe them; put to them a pint of fair Water, half a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar, and half an ounce of whole Pepper, a handful of Salt, and a quarter of an ounce of large Mace: put Liquor, and all together, into an earthen Pot over a soft Fire, let them simper, but not boil, about a quarter of an hour; then take them up, and put them into a little fair Water and Vinegar, till they are cold, and then put them into the Pickle they were boiled with, and Pot 'em up close for your use.   

Pig to Dress: To do this the French way, which is highly approved, The Pig being scalded and drawn, spit it, and lay it to the Fire; and when it is thoroughly hot, take off the Skin, cut it off the Spit, and divide it into twelve pieces: then take Whitewine and strong Broth, and stew it therein with an Onion of two minced very small, as also some stripped Thyme, Pepper, grated Nutmeg, and two or three Anchoveys, some elder Vinegar, Butter, and Gravy, beat up well together: dish it up with the Liquor it was stewed in, lay slices of French Bread under it, garnished with Oranges and Lemons under and upon it.   

Pig to Dress, another way: Scald, draw, and wash it clean, put a Crust of Bread, and some Sage in the Belly, prick it up, and spit it, roast it, and baste it with Butter, than salt it; and being roasted fine and crisp, make Sauce with chopped Sage, Currans, a little grated Nutmeg boiled up in fair Water and Vinegar; then add a little grated Bread, the Brains, some Barberries, and Sugar: give these a warm or two with good stirring, and adding a little beaten Butter, divide the Pig's Body, and Head, take off the Ears, place them on the Shoulders, and so serve it up: Or, this way,  
Mince some sweet Herbs, as Sage, and Pennyroyal, roll them up on Balls, with some Butter, and prick them in the Pig's Belly; roast him: and being roasted, make Sauce with some Butter, Vinegar, the Brains, and some Barberries, and serve it up: Or,  
Flea it, only the Head, and truss the Head looking over its Back, fill the Belly with a Pudding made of grated Bread, Nutmeg, a little minced Suet, and two or three Yolks of raw Eggs, a little Salt and Cream; roast it, and prick it up, baste it with Yolks of Eggs: being roasted, squeeze a Lemon over it, and dridge it with grated Bread, Pepper, Nutmeg, Salt, and Ginger; then make a Sauce with the Yolks of hard Eggs, minced Vinegar, Butter, and the Gravy, and serve it on this Sauce.   

Pig to Souse: Scald a young Pig, and boil it in fair Water and Whitewine, a quart of the latter to a gallon of the former, put to it a dozen Bay-leaves, Ginger sliced, and Nutmegs quartered, and half an ounce of whole Cloves; let it be boiled tender: then take it out, and lay it a cooling; which done, put the Liquor it was boiled in, into a Trey, or Pan, and put it in, so that it may lie covered, adding only a little Salt, and White-wine-Vinegar; and in this manner it will keep a long time.   

Pig-Pie, Court fashion: Take off the Skin of a young Pig, and cut it into quarters, season it with Pepper, Ginger, and Salt, finely beat and mixed, lay it in a Coffin of Past made in the fashion of a Pig, shred a handful of Parfley, and about six Sprigs of Winter-Savory; strew this over the Meat, and on that the Yolks of two or three Eggs, hard boiled and grated small; upon that a f●w Blades of Mace, and some Bunches of Barberries, a handful of Currans washed and picked, and half a handful of fine Sugar, half a pound of sweet Butter spread thin, so close it, and let it soak in an Oven not overheated, about three hours; then beat up a pound of Butter, with a little Sugar, pour it into it, and serve it up with a little Sugar scraped over the Lid.   

Pigeon-Pye: To order and season this, Take an ounce of finely beaten Pepper to a dozen of Pigeons; put Butter rolled up in Balls, with a little fine shred Parsley, into the Belly of your Pigeons, and two pound of Butter is sufficient for the whole Pie, wherein are only a dozen of Pigeons, sprinkling them likewise with a little Salt, before you close up the Coffin.   

Pigeons, Water of them: To make an excellent Cosmetick, Take this way, Gut two young Pigeons, and cut them in pieces, grated White-bread half a pound, Peach Kernels, and the four great cold Seeds cleansed, of each four ounces: The Whites of twelve Eggs, and the Juice of four Lemons; macerate them twelve hours in two quarts of Goat's Milk, then distil them in Balneo Mariae. To the distilled Water put Borax, Camphire, Sugar-Candy, burnt Alom, of each three drams; set them in a Glass in the Sun, three days, than fifteen days in a cool Cellar; filter the Water, and keep it for use.  
This smooths, beautifies, and wonderfully preserves the Complexions, if the Face, Hands, or other parts be washed with it twice a day.   

Pigeon Water, another: Take six ounces of the Powder of choice Myrrh, two young Pigeons, gut them, and cut them in pieces; put to them Whey and Canary, of each a quart, the bigger Housleek, Juice of Lemons, and ripe Pippins, of each one pound; water of Roses and Lilies, of each half a pint; two Whites of Eggs: mix these together in a glass Alembick, distil them in Balneo Mariae, and preserve the Water as an excellent Beautifier and a restorer of a fresh and lively Colour: Or,  
Take Strawberries a pound and a half, Flowers of Lilies, and Beans, of each half a pounds; Roach Allom and Stone-Allom, of each an ounce; Sal Gemmae, Nitre, Verdigrease, of each two drams: infuse them fifteen days in Malmsey-Wine, Narbone Honey, Whitewine Vinegar, of each a pint: distil them in a moderate Sand Bath, and keep the Water as very rare and excellent to take away Freckles, or Morphew, from the Face, if you dip Linen in it, and lay it on the place going to Bed, and wash it off the next morning with Water of Lilies.   

Pike to Boil: Take as much Whitewine and Water as will cover it: set the Liquor to boil, cleanse the Civet, and truss him in a round Ring, scotch him on the back, and when the Liquor boils, put him in, and make under it a quick Fire; being boiled enough, take him up, and for Sauce, take Whitewine-Vinegar, Mace, whole Pepper, a handful of Cockles, or Oysters boiled, or fried, sweet Herbs, finely shred, and the Liver of the Fish minced, and scrape in a little Horseradish: these being boiled together, dish up the Pike on Sippets, and beat up the Sauce with sweet Butter and minced Lemon, garnishing with sliced Oranges or Lemons.   

Pike Broiled: Split it, and scotch it with your Knife, on the outsides, as you do a Herring; then Salt it, and having the Gridiron very hot, lay it on a clear fire, baste it with Butter, and turn it often, and being broiled stiff and crisp, serve it up with beaten Butter, Juice of Lemons, and Wine-Vinegar, garnished with slices of Oranges or Lemons, and the tops of Rosemary.   

Pike to Fry: Cleanse it well from the slime and blood, dry it, and flowering it, roll it round in your Pan, or slit it, and fry it pretty crisp with sweet Butter; then for Sauce, beat up Butter, Claret, Oyster-Liquor, Nutmeg, Salt, and garnish it with sliced Oranges, Lemons, Barberries, and fried Parsley.   

Pike Hash'd: Bone and scale it: then mince it with good fresh Eel; then put in some sweet Herbs finely minced, and stripped Mace, Ginger, beaten Nutmeg, Pepper, and Salt, stew it in a Dish with a little Whitewine and sweet Butter; and when it is stewed sufficiently, serve it on fine carved Sippets, and lay on some large stewed Oysters, some fried in Batter, others green with the Juice of spinach, others yellow with Saffron; garnish the Dish with them, and run it over with beaten Butter.   

Pike to Roast: Scrape him well, and take out the Entrails, lard the back with Pickle Herring: then take Claret-wine and large Oysters, and having seasoned the Oysters with Pepper and Nutmeg, stuff the Pike's Belly with them, intermixed with Rosemary, Thyme, Winter-savory, sweet Marjoram, and some slices of an Onion; then sow up the Belly, and with two flat sticks about the breadth of a Lath, bolster up the sides of the Pike; then baste him with Butter and Claret-wine, beat up together, having tied Rosemary and Bays to keep off the heat coming too much where the Laths do not defend it from the scorching; and when it is wasted, or roasted, take it off, and take out what is in the Belly of it, and with what has dropped from it, some beaten Butter, and Claret, dish it up.   

Pike Soused: Draw it, and wash it clean from the blood and slime, and then boil it in Water and Salt, putting it in when the Liquor boils up, and suffering it to boil leisurely, season it well with Salt, but beware you boil it not too much, nor in more Water than what will just cover it; and if you design to keep it long in the Souse, you must put as much Whitewine as Water, with some Wine, Vinegar, slices of Ginger, large Mace and Cloves, when the Wine, Vinegar and Water boil, adding a little Lemon-peel, boiling it up quick, but not too much: then pour on the Liquor, and cover it up close, and when you serve it in Jelly, dish and melt some of the Jelly, and run it all over; garnish it with Bunches of Barberries, and sliced Lemon, and when you serve it up, you may lay round the Dish, divers small Fishes, as Bleak, Dace, Gudgeons, Roach, or the like, for the greater setting off, and ornament.   

Pike to Stew: After you have dressed your Pike, open the back, and lay it as flat as if you were to fry it; then lay it in a large Dish, and put Whitewine, so that it may cover it; set it on the fire, and let it boil gently till the Scum arise; then take it off, put to it Currans, Sugar and Cinnamon, as much as will season it; cover it close then with another Dish, and stew it a little longer: after this, put in a good quantity of Butter; then dish it up with Sippets, and the Liquor it is stewed in, garnishing it with Barberries, and stewed Prunes.   

Pike Stewed, the City-way: Take your Pike, splat it, and lay it in a dish, and when the blood is washed out, put to it as much Whitewine as will cover it, and set it a stewing, and when it boils, put in the Fish, and scumm it; then put in some large Mace, whole Cinnamon and Salt, and being well-stewed, dish it up on Sippets finely carved.  
Then thicken the Broth with two or three Yolks of Eggs, some thick Cream, Sugar, and beaten Butter; give it a warm, and pour it on the Pike with some boiled Currants, and boiled Prunes, laid all over it; as likewise some Mace, Cinnamon, and Bunches of Barberries, and sliced Lemon; garnish with the same, and scrape on fine Sugar. In this manner you may stew Carp, Bream, Barbel, Chevin, Roach, Conger, Gurnet, Tench, Dace, Perch, or Mullet.   

Pikes to Souse and jelly: The Fish being scalded and cleansed, bone it, and season it with Nutmeg and Salt; roll up three or four Pikes like Brawn or coloured Eel, and bind them in that posture; then put them in a clean Cloth, and boil them in Water, Whitewine, and Salt, with the Spice; observing always, that the Pot boils before you put them in; keep it scummed, and add some large Mace, and slices of Ginger: If you only intent to souse them, boil them not down so much; but if they are to be Jellied, put to them some Isinglass, and serve them up in the Collars, standing in the Jelly: and thus you may do with Eels, Tench, Salmon, Congen, etc.   

Pike, and White-Broth: Here the Pike must be cut into three equal pieces, and boiled in Water, seasoned in a little Salt, and sweet Herbs when it boils, beat in the Yolks of six Eggs, with a little Sack and Sugar, melted Butter, and some of the Broth: then dish the Pike, putting the Head and Tail together, cleave the middle piece in two, and take out the Backbone, put one piece on the one side, the other on the other; blanche all, pour the Broth on, and garnish it with Sippets, fine Sugar, or Ginger, and serve it up.   

Pills against Cachexies: Take Trochiscs of Alhandal half an ounce, Galbanum, Myrrh, Aloes, and Amoniack, of each three drams; Mercury precipitated, prepared with Gold, two drams; Scamony, Jalap, the whitest Agarick, one dram and half; pressed Oil of Nutmegs one dram; Amber, Cinnamon, and Cloves, the Oil of each six drops; Extract of Juniper as much as will make these into Pills.  
The Pills are much commended for remedying what they are proposed for; also in Quartan-Agues, Dropsy, and Jaundice, and the Retention of the Menstruums; the weight of each Pill must not exceed two grains, and they may be taken two or three of them as often as is necessary.   

Pills Diuretic: Take Chios Turpentine, and white Vitriol finely powdered; mix them into a mass, and make Pills of them exceeding small.  
The vomitive quality of the Vitriol, being corrected by the Turpentine, the Pills work good Effects, especially in all difficulties of making Water, being given from half a dram to a dram.   

Pills for the Dropsy: Take Elaterium, and Extract of Aloes prepared, with the Juice of French Orris, of each half an ounce; choice Mastic made into Powder two drams: make them up into Pills, according to Art, as small as is convenient.  
These Pills powerfully purge Hydropick-Waters; they are to be taken in a Morning fasting, from six to twelve, or fifteen grains, using them as often as occasion requires.   

Pills for the Green-sickness: Take Extract of Mars, prepared with Musk, one ounce; Aloes-Succotrine, prepared with the Juice of Succory, six drams; Extract of Rhenbarb half an ounce, Extract of Saffron two drams, distilled Oil of Cinnamon six drops; mix them to a mass, and so make small Pills of them.  
These Pills cure the Green-sickness in young Virgins, the Party so grieved taking a scruple at a time in a Morning fasting, and drinking after them two or three ounces of Wormwood-wine, and walking after that about an Hour, for several Mornings together.   

Pills for the Stomach: Take Extract of Licorice, two drams and a half, Tears of Storax two drams, distilled Oil of Cinnamon six drops, Extract of Saffron four scruples, Labdanum, Olibanum, choice Myrrh, and Extract of Opium, of each one dram; Ambergrease one scruple, Syrup of Citron-peel, as much as suffices to make them into a Mass, and so into Pills.  
These are excellent to stay Defluxions that fall upon the Lungs, and to assuage the violence of Coughs. The Dose is from five or six to eight or ten grains.   

Pimpernel: Of this there are three sorts, the one groweth very great, and hath long Roots; the other sort is little, the third bears red Flowers, and grows in most Gardens: the Roots of the two first, in which consists their main Virtue, boiled in Whitewine, are very good for Pains in the Reins and Bladder, caused by the Stone; for it driveth out Gravel, and the long retained Urine. The Juice of the Root drank in White-wine, is good against all Poisons, or infectious Airs, and the Biting of venomous Creatures: It is used with success in the Plague, the Root being stamped and laid to the Sore. As for the third sort, though little differing in likeness, yet in Virtue it does from the two former; for it is more restringent in Taste, and very nourishing; for which cause it may be thought to be of a binding nature: wherefore it stayeth the Dysentery, and other Fluxes and Vomitings proceeding from colerick Humours, or Causes; it heals Wounds and Ulcers, and is of special use in Ointments that are made for Wounds in the Head, and for Cankers: Some Physicians have much commended it in the Cure of pestilential and contagious Fevers, concluding that the often drinking the Juice of it in Wine, or other convenient Liquors, is a sovereign Preservative against the power of those dangerous Diseases.   

Plague to Preserve from: Take Barberries, when they are ripe, steep them in warm Water, that the Husks, or outward Skin may come off; then dry them that they may be beaten to Powder with a little Salt, and when you find yourself somewhat discomposed by the effects of ill Airs, hot or feverish, mix this Powder with strong Vinegar, about two drams, in half a quarter of a pint, and drink it up warm, and keep yourself warm also, that you may sweat upon it; but if you find yourself under such apprehensions, shivering with Cold, you must take the Powder in strong Wine.   

Plague-Sickness: Take Water of Scabious, Endive, Rue, and red Roses, of each four ounces; white Dittany, Tormentile, white Coral, Gentian, and , with Terrasigillata; reduce those that are to be powdered separately: Infuse them in the Water in a glass Vessel, and drink about an ounce at a time pretty warm, keeping the Body warm after it: Or,  
Take a Viol, or some other Glass, and fill it to the third part with Venice-Treacle, the other third part with Brandy, or Spirit of Wine: mix these well together by shaking, and take Morning and Evening half an ounce in two ounces of Mint, Rue, or Baum-water.  
But of all others in this contagious Distemper, this occurs as a very much approved Remedy, viz.  
Take Wallnuts when the green Husk is on them, and before the Shell is hardened underneath; put them, when bruised, to steep in White-wine eight Days: then with some Baum, Rue, and Tops of Fetherfew, and Wormwood a little bruised, put them into an Alembick, and distil them; then when you drink an ounce and a half of the Water, which you may do Morning, Noon, and Night, put into it some perfumed Comfits, and stir them well about till they are dissolved.   

Plague-Sore to Break: Take Bay-salt, Rye-meal, and the Yolks of Eggs as many as will make them into a Past; then spread it on a piece of Leather, and apply it to the Sore, or Carbuncle, and it will draw the Poison to a centre, so that the Sore will ripen; and being broke, the Infection will come away: to expedite the Cure of which, when it is broke, put the Rump of a live Chicken to the Mouth of the Sore, so that its vent may be placed on it, and it will draw the Infection into the Body of the Chicken, insomuch that in a short time it will die, and so will one or two more, if the Infection be great; but when they cease to do so, it is a sign the Poison is exhausted, and the Party in a very fair way of recovering Health.   

Plaster of Bay-Berries: Take of Bay-berries two ounces, Myrrh, Mastic, and Frankincense, of each half an ounce; Honey just warmed four ounces; powder Costus, Bay-berries, and Cyperus finely together, and mix with the Honey; powder the Myrrh, Mastic, and Frankincense apart, and put them to the other: then add the Oil of Bay-berries, Turpentine, and Wax melted together, and so make a Plaster.  
This expels Wind, and strengthens the Stomach, also eases Pains proceeding from Cold and Weariness.   

Plaster for Bruises: Take Oil of Olives six ounces, yellow Bees-wax an ounce and half, Ammoniacum and Bdellium, of each half an ounce; Galbanum, Opopanax, and Oil of Bays, Lapis Calaminaris, and either of the Bithworts, Myrrh, and Frankincense, of each two drams; refined Turpentine an ounce, Litharge of Gold powdered four ounces: boil the Oil and lethargy together, keeping them stirring, and when it will not stick to your Fingers take it from the Fire, and melt the Wax into it, add the Turpentine with the Gums, afterward the Powders; and being cold, put in the Oil of Bays and Frankincense, and make it into a Plaster.  
This Peracelsian Plaster is good for Bruises, and all manner of Aches.   

Plaister-Cleansing, etc. Take the Mucilages of Raisins of the Sun, Figs, Roots of Marshmallows, Linseed, and the Seeds of Fenugreek, Bird-lime, the Juice of Orris, Squills, the Oil of Sheeps-feets, Dill, and Camomile, of each eight ounces; Litharge of Gold powdered finely one pound; Turpentine three ounces, Rosin of the Pine, and yellow Wax, of each two ounces: mix the lethargy well with the Oil, and boil it over a gentle Fire, keeping it continually stirring till it grows thick; then take it off, and being a little cool, add the Mucilages, being first boiled with the Oil, and strained, and gently boiled to the consumption of the superfluous moisture: after that add the Birdlime, and Squills, boil them till the Juices are consumed, and whilst they are boiling, melt the Wax and Rosin, take them presently from the Fire, and mingle with them the Turpentine, so well stirring the Mass, that it may be brought to the consistence of a Plaster.  
This is called the Great Diachilon-Plaister, and is excellent in cleansing and healing, also to assuage Swell and Inflammations; for it very much discusses and softens.   

Plaster for the Head: Take two ounces of clarified Rosin, Stone-pitch an ounce, Turpentine and Labdanum, and Pidgeons-Dung, of each half an ounce; Gum of Juniper and Nutmeg, of each two drams: dissolve the Turpentine with the Labdanum, in a hot Mortar, and mingle the rest, so that it may be made into a Plaster; and if any Cause requires it to be stronger, add the Powder of Euphorbium, and Pellitory of Spain, and black Pepper, of each about two scruples.  
This wonderfully strengthens the Head, and eases the Pains of it, the Crown being shaved, and it applied Plasterwise to it, as also to the Temples. Though upon many occasions, it is applied to the Soles of the Feet to draw down the Vapours that afflict the Brain.   

Plaster of Mastic: Take three ounces of Mastic,  washed in red Wine one ounce and half, red Roses six drams, Myrtleberries, and Ivory, of each half an ounce, Turpentine, Colophony, Tacamahaca, and Labdanum, of each two ounces; Oil of Myrtle four ounces; Bees-wax a pound. The things that are to be powdered, powder apart, melt the Wax and the Oil together, and take it from the Fire, and add the Turpentine, and afterward the Roses, and , the Ivory being finely powdered; order the Mastic in like manner, and so being well mixed in a Mortar, that is pretty hot, make them into a Plaster.  
This laid to the Stomach, very much strengthens it; as also stays Vomitings and Defluxions.   

Plaster of Melilot-Simple: Take of yellow Rosin clarified eight pound, yellow Wax four pound, Mutton-suet of the Kidneys, cleansed from the Skin and Fibers' two pound; melt them, and add to them green Melilot cut small five pound; and being thickened, bruise it with the aforementioned Ingredients, and bring it to the Consistence of a Plaster.  
This draws very gently and therefore is commonly used in dressing of Blisters, and in gentle Swell, and tumors.   

Pleurisse: Distil about the end of May three handfuls of Burnet, or as much as you think convenient; and the grieved Party, drinking of this, Morning and Evening, about half a quartern at a time, will find wonderful ease, and in a little time be restored.   

Polonia to Make: Take the Fillets of a Hog, mince them very small, and do the like by Sage, Pennyroyal, and Thyme, of each half a handful stripped from the Stalks: then season it with beaten Ginger and Pepper finely sifted, put it into a Hog or Sheep's great Gut, and lay it in Water and Salt three Nights: then boil it gently for fear of breaking, and hang it up in a Chimney, or dry place, and they will keep a long time.   

Pomatum: Take Bacon-lard, and by washing it well, and often melting, take out the Salt, then boil a handful of Oats, and some white Starch in it, and strain out the oily part, which is of excellent use for Chaps, Sores, Burns, Scalds, as also to make the Skin supple, smooth, and plump.   

Pomegranet: Of these there are three sorts, Sweet, Sharp, and Winy; and the quality of them all is Restringent, but not alike; for by their Taste you may judge their difference, and their Grains are more binding and drying than their Juice, the Rind more than the Grain, and the Blossoms have the same Virtue with the Fruit. The powder of a Pomegranate dried in an Oven, in a new earthen Pot close stopped, is singular good to stay the Flux of the Belly. The Leaves of the Pomegranet-Tree well beaten, and the Juice of them mixed with the Oil of Roses, does very much help the inveterate Pains of the Head; and so sovereign it is, that most hold that no venomous Creature will come near the Boughs of it: for which reason the Ancients laid them in their Beds, and stuck them about their Houses.  
The Decoction of the Root of a Pomgranet-Tree being drank, kills the large Worms in the Belly, and causes them to be cast out.   

Pork-Pie: The Pork you intent to put into Pies, must have the Skin taken off; then cut the Pork in streaks, and take half an ounce of Ginger, and the like quantity of Pepper well beaten, slice or scrape in two Nutmegs, season it pretty well with Salt, and put in a little fair Water that has been well boiled and scummed; and so bake it sufficiently, and serve it up.   

Poppy-Red: The Flowers are very cooling and assuage Pain, and bring Sleep to weary Eyes; and therefore are chief used for Fevers, Pleurisies, and Quinsies, and other Diseases, especially of the Breast, that need cooling Medicines, and for immoderate Fluxes, The Conserve, the distilled Water, and the Powder of them are greatly in use; but the Syrup most.  
To make it, Take the fresh Flowers of Red Poppies two pound, and pour upon them two quarts of Spring-water well warmed, press them out the next Day, and infuse the quantity of fresh Flowers in the Liquor, as before; then strain it, and put in as much Sugar as the Liquor weighs, and so make it into a Syrup, by boiling it to a thickness over a gentle Fire.   

Poppies, a Syrup: Take the Heads of black Poppies freshly gathered six ounces, and of white ones, not thoroughly ripe, eight ounces, Aqua Coelestis two quarts; boil them to the consumption of one quart of the Liquid, and put therein Sugar and Penids, of each eight ounces: boil them to a Syrup. This is excellent good to allay the Heat of the Forehead, or when it too much afflicts the Brain. It is given with success in Frenzies, or to those that are restless, and cannot sleep well, as also for Catarrhs and Coughs.   

Pottage: To make this very excellent, nourishing, and conducing to Health and Strength, take the Knuckle end of a Leg of Veal, very largely cut, put into it a gallon, or six quarts of Spring-water, a pint of Oatmeal sifted very fine, Pennyroyal, Parsley, Thyme, and Winter-savory of each a little Faggot, or bundle, unshread; also Sweet-marjoram, Sorrel, Violet and Marrigold-leaves: you may let it stand a whole Night over a gentle Fire, and boil it up the next Morning, with some Mace, Currans, Hartshorn Shave and Sugar; then strain it, and eat it warm.  
This is very good against a Consumption, or any Defect in the Lungs, or Stomach.   

Powder of Amber: Take six ounces of Bean-flower, and pass it through a fine Sieve with four ounces of Cyprus-wood, two ounces of Saunders, two ounces of Benjamine, and half an ounce of Storax, two drams of Calamus Aromaticus, and as much Laudanum; pass these likewise through a Sieve, and to two pound of the Composition add four grains of Ambergrease, and half an ounce of Pomander, Privet beat and sifted, which you must mix in a hot Mortar with Amber; then mix them altogether, and keep them in a glass Bottle close stopped, and make of it sweet Bags to perfume your .   

Powder of Aromatick-Rosatum: Take red Roses, the Whites at the bottom of the Flower, the Leaves clipped off, 15 drams, Licorice finely scraped seven drams, sharp and quick biting Cinnamon five drams, Wood of Aloes, and yellow Saunders, of each three drams; Mace, Cloves, Indian Spicknard, , and Gum-Tragacanth, of each two drams and half; Cardamons the Lesser, and Galangal, of each one dram; Ambergrease two scruples, and Oriental Musk one scruple: reduce these into a Powder by beating and sifting, etc.  
This is excellent good to strengthen the Brain and Stomach; it dissipates superfluous Humours, and moisture of the Entrails, resists Putrefaction, creates Appetite, and stays Vomiting, and want of Retention in the Intestines, and is proper to strengthen and restore those that have been weakened by long Sickness. The Dose is from half a scruple to half a dram in Wine, or any convenient Liquor.   

Powder to create Cheerfulness: Take the Seeds of Clove, Basil, Zedoary, or Setwell, Saffron, yellow Saunders, Cloves, the outward Peel of Citron dried, Galangal, Nutmeg, Mace, Calamint, and Storax, of each three drams and a half; Anniseeds, Shave of Ivory, Thyme, Dodder of Thyme, Oriental Pearl prepared, and the Shave of the Bone of a Stag's-Heart, of each one dram; Ambergrease, Oriental Musk, and Leaves of Gold and Silver, of each a scruple: make these into a very fine Powder.  
This corrects the cold and moist temperature of the Stomach and Liver; it helps Digestion, restores the Appetite; it is very good against Weakness, and Palpitations of the Heart, also to restore a good Habit of Body, and to create a good Complexion, to keep the Breath sweet, and sweeten it when it is defective; to restore decayed Strength, and dissipate Melancholy, proceeding from an internal, or no real Cause. The Dose is from ten to twenty grains in any convenient Vehicle.   

Powder, the Countess of Kent 's: Take the black parts of the Claws of large Sea-Crabs four ounces, River-Crabs Eyes, oriental Pearl, and red Coral prepared, of each an ounce; Roots of Contrayerva, and white Amber, of each six drams; the Bone of a Stag's-Heart four scruples, Bezoar-stone three drams, Saffron two scruples: make these into a fine Powder, and sprinkle it with an ounce and a half of the Spirit of Honey, and mixed with Jelly of Vipers, you may make it into Trochiscs, letting them dry in the Shade, to be powdered, as occasion requires, for the better preservation of its Virtue.  
This Powder is highly in Request for the Remedy of Epidemical Diseases, particularly in the Smallpox, or Measles. It is also used in the Plague, as well to preserve from the Infection, as to cure it, when taken, by reason it mainly strengthens the Heart, and other vital Parts, against Infections, and the malignity of the beforementioned Diseases. Not only the English, but other Nations approve it, and use it with wonderful Success. The Dose is about ten grains.   

Powder of Diamargaritum: Take oriental Pearl prepared half an ounce, red Roses cleansed, and Flower of Water-Lilies, and Violets, of each three Drams; Wood of Aloes, Saunders, red and yellow; Roots of Tormentil, and white Dittany, Myrtleberries, Cinquefoil, Grains of Kermes, Melon-seeds, Endive, Sorrel, Shave of Hartshorn, Ivory, white Coral, and red Coral prepared, of each two drams; Ambergrease, and the Leaves of Gold, of each half a dram; oriental Musk four grains: make these into a fine Powder.  
This wonderfully strengthens the noble Parts, restores the languishing force, and cures swimming and fainting Fits. It is good in Fevers, and other Diseases: It is given to asthmatick and consumptive Persons, and to such as are wasted and brought low by sickness. The Dose is from ten to twenty grains, in Wine, or any cordial Water: It may be taken in any pectoral Electuary, in Sugar, or with any convenient thing, as you please.   

Powder for the Gout: Take Hermodactyls, Turbith, Costus, Mechoacan, and Scammony, of each a dram; white Sugar-candy two drams, powder them very fine.  
This Powder purges Serosities that lay a Foundation for it, or nourish those Humours that occasion the Pains. The Dose is from a scruple to a dram, taken in a Glass of Whitewine in a Morning fasting, and fasting two Hours after it.   

Powder, called Hungarian-Powder: Take Hungarian-Earth, and , of each an ounce and an half; Stones of Jacinths, Smaragds, Saphires, Rubies, white Coral and red prepared, oriental Pearl, Roots of Tormentil Woolfsbane, or white Dittany, yellow Saunders, Shave of Unicorns-Horn, and Ivory, of each half an ounce; the utmost Rind of Citron and Sorrel, of each three drams; that which is biting three drams; Saffron and Cloves, of each half a dram; fine Leaves of Gold in number twenty five, The Unicorn's Horn and Ivory must be rasped very finely, the Stones and Coral must be also beat to a curious Powder.  
It is used frequently, especially in cold Countries, for malignant Fevers, and all epidemic Distempers; also against all sorts of Poisons, being dissolved in Cordial-water, and sweetened with Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers, Lemons, or Pomegranet, and taken fasting from half a scruple to a dram; and being made into Tablets, and taken fasting, it has almost the same Effect, especially against pestilential Airs.   

Powder to Incarnate: Take Olibanum, Sarcocol, Myrrh, Mastic, Aloes, and Mummy, long and round Bithworts, of each an ounce: bruise and make them into a fine Powder.  
This cleanses Wounds, and causes the Flesh to grow, being laid to them alone; or mixed with Ointments, or proper Waters, as Camomile, Bugloss, Mint, Rue, St. John's-wort, Blood-wort, etc.   

Powder of the Three Saunders: Take of every Colour, viz. White, Red, and Yellow Seeds; of Violets, and red Roses, of each half an ounce; Pontic Rhubarb, Juice of Licorice, and Shave of Ivory, of each two drams; Gum-Tragacanth, and Arabick-seeds, of Endive, melon husked, also Purslain-seed, of each a dram: make them into Powder according to Art.  
It is highly commended for Diseases that proceed from Weakness, or ill habit of the Liver, to temper the heat of the Entrails, and to digest and discuss Matters gathered together at the going off, or conclusion of Agues: It is very proper in Heart-fainting, Jaundice, and Physic, and is internally given in Potions, Opiates, and Electuaries, and outwardly applied in Frontals, Epithems, and Liniments.   

Powder to whiten Teeth: Burn the finest sort of Pumice-stone, Cuttlebone white Coral, and Cream of Tartar prepared upon Porphyry, the Roots of Florence, Orice finely powdered, of each half an ounce; Sal Armoniac in Powder a dram, Musk and Ambergrease, of each three grains: mix them well together, and make a Powder.  
This Powder cleanses and whitens the Teeth. You may use it as it is, or mixed with Syrup of Coral, or dried Roses, or Syrup of Roses. Or to save all this Charge, if your Teeth be sound, Rub them with a fine Pumice-stone, and they will be as white as Ivory.   

Powder of Violets: Take the Roots of Florence-Orris one pound, yellow Saunders five ounces, red Roses four ounces, Storax, and Benjamin, of each two ounces; Cyprus, and Tops of Marjoram, of each one ounce; Lignum Rhodium half an ounce; Cloves, Aromatick-reed, and Flowers of Lavender, of each two drams; make all these into a Powder, but not very fine, and it is an excellent Perfume to put amongst Linen, Silks, or any Apparel, etc.   

Precipitate against the jaundice: Take Crocus Martis, prepared with Sulphur one ounce; the Leaves of Senna and Rhubarb, of each half an ounce; the best Cinnamon, Salt of Wormwood, and Tamarisk, of each two drams; Saffron a dram: powder what are capable of being powdered, and with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Mugwort make an Opiate.  
The Dose is from two grains to seven, mixed with a little Vinegar, and made up into a Bolus, or mixed in Whitewine, or some proper Decoction, and take as often as occasion requires.   

Prevention of Agues: Take the gratings of Angelica-roots, Flower of Antimony, of each half a dram; the best Canary three ounces: infuse them in a cold Place for forty eight Hours, and pour off the clear part for two Doses.  
This is a singular good Vomit for the prevention or Cure of Agues of all sorts, being given in a Morning fasting, when an Ague is expected, or about four or six Hours before the coming of the Fit.   

Primrose made into a Syrup, and decocted, is good for phlegmatic and melancholy Diseases, and Fluxes of the Belly, and to strengthen the Stomach of weak Persons.   

Pudding of Cream: Take grated Bread, mix it with a like quantity of Flower, some minced Dates, Cinnamon and Nutmeg finely beaten, Beef-suet, warm Milk, Eggs and Sugar; then take half the Pudding for one side, and half for the other, make it up round, and put some Butter into the middle of it, on the other side, aloft on the top, and put it in a Cloth, when the Liquor boils, into your Pot; and being boiled, cut it in two, and serve it up with Butter, Sugar, Verjuice, and Rosewater.   

Pudding Excellent: Beat the Yolks of three Eggs with Rose-water, and half a pint of Cream; then setting it over a gentle Fire, put in about the quantity of a Pullet's Egg of sweet Butter; and being melted, mix the Eggs and that together, and season it with Nutmeg, Sugar, and Salt; then add as much grated Bread as will make it as thick as Batter, and about half an ounce of Flower, with a dozen blanched Almonds beaten: then all being mixed together, take a double Bag, wet and flour it, and put in the Batter; and when it is boiled, serve it up with Rose-water, Verjuice, Butter, and Sugar.   

Pudding in Sweet-Herbs: Steep a Penny white Loaf in a quart of Cream, and only eight Yolks of Eggs, some Currants, Sugar, beaten Cloves, Mace, and Dates, with the Juice of Spinnage; then add Saffron, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg, Sweet-marjoram, Thyme, Savory, Pennyroyal minced very small, and some salt Beef-suet, or Marrow.  
These Puddings are excellent for stuffing of roast or boiled Poultry, Kid, Lamb, Veal, or Breast of Mutton.   

Puff-Past, the Best way: Take a pound and a half of Butter to every quarter of a peck of fine Flower, likewise six Eggs, (observing only to put half a pound of the Butter at first to the quarter of a peck of Flower) then roll it up ten times one after another, and put Flower and Butter every time to it, as you beat it with your Rolling-pin, till it is so incorporated, that it becomes a pliable Past.   

Purple-Violet, its Use and Virtues. It is in its nature temperate, and very fit to alter and change the ill quality of Humours, and to evacuate them chief. Violets purge Choler, and qualify the vehemency thereof: They are good for the Pains in the Head which proceed from Heat; cause gentle Sleep, and mollify the Pricking of the Breast, and of the Lungs, and are profitable against the Quinsy, and the falling of the Palate in the Mouth, and Inflammations of the Breast, and Side, and Stomach-Thirst, being dried and concocted in Whitewine; They open Obstructions of the Liver, and cause Inflammations to cease: They are very good in the Jaundice, Black or Yellow: The Syrup mollifies the Belly, and is good in Pleurisies: and indeed is a Flower more to be admired by all in Physic than for its charming Colour, and fragrant Smell.   

QVails to Roast: Truss them, then chop some Sweet Herbs, and Beef-suet together, and put into their Bellies; put them on a small Spit, and at the first heating, baste them with Salt and Water, after that with Butter, and dredge it with Flower: make Sauce with Gravy, in some of which an Anchovey or two has been dissolved, as also a sliced Shalot or two boiled; squeeze in the Juice of two or three Oranges and Lemons, and garnish with Lemon-peel, or slices, and some grated Manchet, a few whole Cloves, and some Bay-leaves; and so pour on the Sauce, and serve them up as hot as they can be got from the Fire.   

Quaking-Pudding: Take new Cream a quart, blanched Almonds half a pound: beat the Almonds very finely, boil them in the Cream, and then strain them: put in a Blade or two of Mace, and season it with Rosewater and Sugar; then take five Whites of Eggs, beaten up with Powder of Cinnamon, and two or three spoonfuls of fine Flower, put in what was left in the Strainer; so make it into a thickness and boil it: serve it up with Cinnamon, Sugar, Rose-water, Butter, and Verjuice.   

Quartan-Ague: Take a dram of the Powder of the black Tips of Crabs-Claws, and take it in any convenient Vehicle or Conserve, twice or thrice, without remitting any Day when the Distemper comes.   

Queens-Bisket: Take twelve ounces of Flower, and a pound of fine Sugar, twelve Eggs, yet the Yolks but of nine of them, to prevent their being too yellow; take what Anniseeds and Corianderseeds you think convenient, beat and mix the Materials very well together till they become a soft Past; and to make it lighter, if you think it convenient, you may add a little Yeast. Let this Past be put on a Paper, or in Coffins, about two Inches broad, and four in length; which put on a Tart-pan into the Oven moderately hot, and when they begin to turn brown, take them out, and lay them on a Paper in so dry a Place, that they may be kept from relenting.   

Queen of Hungary's Water: Take Maidenhair two handfuls, Scabeous a like quantity, the Tops of Lavender half a handful, Borrageflowers two ounces, Rosemary-flowers half a handful, Fumitory the Tops of it three ounces, gathered when flowered, Dew swept off the Grass, or Corn, or gathered in a clean Napkin, and so wrung out, one quart; cut the Herbs small, and put them into the Liquid to steep in a moderate warm Place, or in the Sun, for forty eight Hours; then add a quart of fair Water, and as much new White-wine, put them into a cold Still, and draw off the Water till no more will come, put it into Bottles, and stop it up close, and use it as occasion requires with a little white Starch put into it finely powdered, and shaked till dissolved.  
This Water was found out by Elizabeth Queen of Hungary, who used it to preserve her Beauty; which she did to such a wonder, that in her extreme Age she appeared young and beautiful, insomuch that the King of Poland desired her in Marriage.   

Queen's Perfumed-Water: Take Benjamin four ounces, Storax two ounces, yellow Saunders one ounce, Cloves two drams, two or three pieces of Orris, half a Citron-peel Cinnamon half an ounce, two Nutmegs, and about two quarts of Water: put all these into a new glazed earthen Pipkin, and let them boil over a gentle Fire till half the Liquid is consumed: then take about six grains of Musk powdered, with about as much Sugar as the bigness of a small Nut, which dissolve with a little of the Water: then strain it all, and put it into a Glass well stopped, and use it as a curious perfuming Water to scent Rooms, and sprinkle on Linen, etc. The Dregs likewise dried and powdered, make a good Perfume.   

Queen's Sweet-Water: Take red Roses, and a quart of damask Rose-water, Muskadine and Orange-flower-water, of each three pints; Water of Melilot-flowers, Flowers of Myrtle and Garden Costmary, three pints: put all the beforesaid distilled Waters into a glass Bottle, to which add a pound of Benjamine in Powder, Cloves, Cinnamon, and Orange-peel dried; and finely bruised; stop the Bottle close, and suffer it to continue so a Month before you use it, and then it will yield a very fragrant Scent.   

Quicksilver Purified: Put half a pound of the Powder of Sulphur in a large earthen Pot well glazed, set it on a hot Coal-Fire, and put a pound and a half of flowing Mercury into a piece of Chamois Leather, tie it in a hard knot, and when the Brimstone is well melted, drop the Quicksilver upon it, and press the Knot between your Hands, so that it may pass through the Pores of the Leather, stirring the Substance in the mean time with a wooden Spatula, and continuing the pressing forth, and stirring the Mercury till it is all pressed through, and uniting with the Sulphur, they appear a black Mass: then let it cool, and beat it into Powder, and so put it into an earthen Pot proper for Sublimation; join to the Mouth of that another Pot of the same bigness, with the bottom uppermost, having stopped the hole with a piece of Paper; begin the Sublimation with a gradual Fire, increasing it some Hours, by which means the Mercury being incorporated with a portion of Sulphur requisite for it, it will sublime to the top of the uppermost Pot, leaving some f●…ces in the lower Pot; then when the Vessels are cold, you will find the Mercury sublimated into Cinnabar of a very red Colour, veined with long brown glittering Streaks; but the Colour will appear more fresh and lively, when it is broken in pieces and ground; and therefore it is that the Painters make use of it in this manner.   

Quiddany: This may be made of Quinces, Plumbs, Apples, Pears, Apricocks, or any other Fruit that is suitable: and to do it, Take of the preserved Fruit you intent to make it of, and add a pound of the Fruit separate from the Stones, Rind, or Cores boiled till it may he beaten into Pulp; add then a pound of fine Sugar, and when it comes to the thickness of a Jelly, let it cool.   

Quince-Cakes: To make the red sort, Take the Syrup of Quinces and Barberries, of each a quart, and about a dozen of Quinces pared and cored; boil them till they are very soft, and strain the Pulp or liquid part, and boil it up with six spoonfuls of fine Sugar, till it be candy proof: then take it in a Ladle, fashion it on Plates into Cakes; and letting it cool, dry them in a Stove, or in a gentle Oven, soon after the baking is over.   

Quince-Cakes Transparent: Take a pint of the Syrup of Quinces, and a quarter of a pint of the Syrup of Barberries; boil and clarify them over a gentle Fire, scumming them clean; then add twenty ounces of fine Sugar, stir them well together on the Fire: and when it is taken off, till it be almost cold, spread the Pulp as before, and make your Cakes into what fashion you think proper.   

Quince-Cakes White: Take a quart, and half a pint of Water, boil it up, and add so much fine Sugar as will heighten it to a Candy; then pair about a dozen large Quinces, core them; and when they begin to be soft in other Water, wherein you may first set them over the Fire, take them out and beat them into Pulp, and so put that Pulp into the boiling Sugar and Water before mentioned, and let them continue there a long while; then make them into Cakes on a Plate: If you would have them very white, clarify your Sugar with Whites of Eggs, that you first sweeten your Water withal.   

Quince-Cream: Roast four or five ripe Quinces, quarter them, take out the Core, and cut them in thin slices; then boil them up gently in a pint of sweet Cream, with a whole Race of Ginger; and when it comes to a thickness, strain it out, adding so much Sugar and Rose-water as will sweeten and scent it.   

Quinces a jelly: Take some of the Decoction and Inside of the Rind of the Quince, or other Fruit, that has boiled long in a considerable quantity of Water: The Decoction being made, let it waste in the Sun, or before the Fire, and so boil it up to a Jelly with a quart of Isinglass.   

Quinces to Pickle: To do this, that you may keep them green all the Year, Take them when they are not quite ripe, wash them in Salt and Water, and rub off the Scurf, if any be on, and let them lie in that water twenty four hours, boil up a Pickle of Wine-Vinegar, put into it a handful of Bay-salt, a few blades of Mace, and some Cloves, with six or seven Bay-Leaves; put the Quinces into it scalding hot, and parboil them: then put them with the Pickle into an earthen Pot, and so they will keep, and be of use for Tarts, or what other use you please to put them to.   

Quince-Pye: Take preserved Quinces, separated from the paring and the Core; then make a Syrup of Spring-water, with fine Sugar boiled up in it, and take as much as the Quinces weigh; to every pound add a pint of the Syrup, make the Syrup in a Preserving-pan, and being scummed and boiled, put the Quinces into it; boil them till they be well coloured, and then put them into the Pies in halves, or quarters; make them in fashion round, either in Pies, Tarts, or Patty-pans, with a cut cover; but before you bake them, put in more fine Sugar, and leave the Syrup to put in after; and then Ice it. Thus you may do by Wardens, Pippins, hard Pears, or green coddlings.   

Quinces to Preserve: Take of Apple Quinces, when moderately ripe, lay them a while after they are gathered, on fresh Straw, or new Hay, for three or four days, covered so that they may sweat a little, and evaporate the superfluous Moisture: then pair them very thin, and boil them in Spring-water till they are very soft: then cut them in Quarters, take out the Cores, and mingle the Pulp with the Water, ten Quinces, and two spoonfuls of Sugar being sufficient to boil up a Pottle of Water: and when it is boiled to a thickness, put in the Quinces you intent to preserve, and let them boil till they contract a greener Colour than natural, then put to them some more Sugar; the scumm being taken off, put them up in an earthen glazed Pot, and stop them close.   

Quinces Raw: To keep these all the year, Take some of the worst Quinces, and cut them into small pieces, boil them in Water, putting to each Gallon three spoonfuls of Salt, and as much Honey; and so let them boil till the Water becomes very strong of the Quinces, and when it is cold, put in a quart of Whitewine Vinegar, and then put the best Quinces into the Liquor, close them up in an earthen pot, and they will keep fresh all the year, so that you may use them for Marmalades, or other Matters, at any time.   

Quince-Seed, an Oil: Take the Seeds or Kernels of Quinces, bruise them; and put them into a Frying-pan with a little Wine. Let them be well stirred together, till they are so hot you cannot endure your Finger on them; then put them into a Canvas Bag, and press out the Oil with a considerable strength; and having both Oil and Water you must separate them.  
This Oil is very good against all Pains in the Stomach, helps Digestion, and is good against windiness in the Stomach, and Bowels, bringing it away. It inciteth to Venery, and is good against the Hemorrhoids and Pustles, the Parts afflicted being anointed with it.   

Quinces the Syrup: Take three quarts of the Juice of Quinces, settle it well, and clarify it from the Dregs, and boil it over a gentle fire till half be consumed: then add three pints of Claret, or a deeper Red Wine; four pound of White Sugar, Cinnamon a dram and a half, Cloves and Ginger two scruples; and boil them up to a Syrup. Let it cool by Degrees, and keep it close stopped in Glass-Viols for your use; this mixed with Water of Endive, is very cooling and excellent in Fevers, and other hot Diseases, two or three spoonfuls being taken at a time.   

Quince Tart: Pare and slice your Quinces very thin, season them with Candied Citron, and beaten Cinnamon, and andied Orange scraped small, or raw Orange, or Lemon-peel, or Carraway or Anniseeds; put ten Pippins to six Quinces, and according to the bigness or littleness of your Tart, half the weight of the Fruit in Sugar; then close it up, and bake it, and Ice it over with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water, and make your Tarts into what Forms you please, and serve them up. Scrape over them Sugar and Powder of Cinnamon.   

Quince Tart: Take Quinces newly gathered, or kept very dry in straw, pair them thin, and take out the Cores; and being cut in four quarters, slice them thin; then take Pippins, or any hard Winter Fruit, gathered before they are ripe, and using them in the same manner, lay a Laying of each, scrape an Orange-Peel, and scatter it among the Laying; then add Syrup of Quinces, and on the top of all, strew fine Sugar mixed with a little Powder of Cinnamon, and close up the Coffin in what Fashion you please, baking it well in an Oven not heated with too quick a fire.   

Quinsies to Cure: Bruise thirty two ounces of purified Salt-Petre, put it in a crucible which must be put in a very hot Fire in a Furnace, and when the Salt-Petre is melted, put to it an ounce of Flower of Sulphur, by a spoonful at a time, so that the matter will presently fall into a flame, and the more volatile Spirit of the Salt-Petre will evaporate; and when the flame is over, the matter will remain in a very clear Fusion. Then with a pair of Tongues, Take out the Crucible, and turn it upside down into a very clean Basin a little warmed.  
This beaten into Powder, is taken with good Success in the dangerous Distemper called the Quinsy. It also cools and works by Urine in burning Fevers, and other Diseases, that proceed from Heat and Obstructions, and the Running of the Reins. The Dose is from half a dram, to a dram, and may be taken in any proper or convenient cooling Liquor.   

Quinsies' Description, etc. This Grievance does most frequently happen between the Spring and Summer, the first Assault of the Fever is seconded by the Pain of the Inflammation of the Jaws, which together with the Swelling of the Uuula, Tonsils, and Larynx, renders the afflicted Person unable to swallow, and scarcely to breathe. In this case, let blood in the Arm, and take away as much as the Constitution of the Party will conveniently bear; then anoint the inflamed part with Honey of Roses impregnated to a very high degree of Acidity, with Spirit (not Oil) of Vitriol, or Sulphur, and presently after, take the following, (not after the usual manner, but only hold it in the Mouth till it is hot, and then spitting it out, renew it with that which is cool,) viz. Plantane-water, Rose-water, and Frog spawn-water, of each four ounces; the Whites of three Eggs, beat and reduced to Water, Sugar-candy three drams; mix them well, and make a Gargarism of them.   

Quinsey: Take Milk warm from the Cow, and Album Graecum, a pint of the one, and half an ounce of the other; Honey of Roses two spoonfuls, Verdegrease half a dram; boil them a little, then strain it out, and Gargarize the mouth and throat often with the Liquid part, putting to thin it more, a little borage Water.  
This is likewise excellent for any sore Throat, tumors, or Pains of the Mouth and Jaws.   

Quintessence of Honey: This is the curious Extract of Honey, and is very useful in divers Diseases and Grievances, viz. It helpeth the Cough, or Catarrh, Palsy, Falling-sickness, and pains of the Milt, and divers other Diseases; and it's said, that if two or three drams be given to a Party struggling for Life, or gasping for Breath, it will for a while bring them to themselves again.   

Quinque Nervia: This Herb is astringent and vulnerary, the Juice is good against spitting and pissing of blood. The Essence of the Juice taken with Spirit of Wine, does the same. The distilled Water of it is good against spitting of blood, and the Physic. The Infipissate Juice stays the Courses, heals all inward Griefs of the Body and Inflammation, and is more effectual than any other sort of Plantain. This being one of the narrow-leaved sorts, called by some Ribwort.   

Quinque Folium, or Cinque-Foil: The root of this is dry and binding, and is to he taken from one to two drams in Powder. It stays all manner of Fluxes of the Bowels, and Fluxes of the blood, in any part, Catarrhs and Defluxions on the Lungs, and allays the sharpness of Choler, eases the Pains of the Gout and Gonorrhea's; the Juice of it, is good in Fevers and hot Diseases; an Infusion of it opens Obstructions.   

RAbbits, a fricassee: Take your Rabbit, and cut it in pieces, put it into the Frying-Pan, put in half a pound Of fresh Butter, and let it boil, then put in your Rabbit, and let it be half enough: then take it out, and clean your Pan, and put in some Water, and let it boil; then put in one slice of Onion stuck with Cloves, and a little whole Pepper, a Bunch of Thyme, and a little Limon-Peel, and let them boil together a while; then take out your Onion and Thyme, and put in your Rabbit: then shred some Marjoram, Thyme, Parsley, Limon-peel and Nutmeg, and strew on your Rabbit in the Pan; then take three Yolks of Eggs, and beat them well, and a Piece of fresh Butter, and a quarter of a pint of White-wine, or a spoonful of White-wine-Vinegar, and beat with your Eggs; then put them into the Pan, and let the Pan be kept shaking and stirring with a spoon, till they be thick, then pour them into your Dish, and serve it up to the Table.   

Rabbits Fricassed: Take young Rabbits, and cut them into small Pieces, mince a handful of Thyme and Parsley clean picked; season them then with Nutmeg, Pepper, and Salt; take two Eggs and a half, a quartern of Verjuice, beat them together, throw them into the Pan, and having sliced it when enough, dish it up in Sippets with Butter and Verjuice.   

Rabbits to Hash: Wash them, take the Flesh from the bones, and mince it small; then put to them a little strong Broth, made of Mutton or Veal, some Vinegar, and a Shalot or two, with a little grated Nutmeg: Let it stew, and then shred a handful of Parsley; then half a pound, or as much as will serve, of Butter: Toast Bread for Sippets; serve it up, garnished with Lemons.   

Rabbits to Stew: Take a couple of Rabbits of about three months old, half roast them, and so take them off the Spit, cut them into handsome pieces, and put them into a Dish with the Fat and Gravy that fell from them, and as much Water, with half a pint of White-wine, after boiling and scumming, as will cover them; then put in a piece of fresh Butter and Ginger, finely grated, with Pepper and Salt, and two or three Pippins minced: Let these stew about an hour, over a gentle fire, and dish them up with Sippers.   

Radish; or, Horseradish: This is in some places found wild, but most usually planted in Gardens, increasing much in most shadowy places: it flowers in July. The Juice of it given in drink, is held to be very effectual for the Scurvy. It kills Worms in Children, the Juice being drunk in convenient Liquors, or the Root laid, bruised , to the Belly; by the latter means it takes away the Pain of the Sciatica, join-ache, or the hard Swelling of the Liver and Spleen: The distilled Water of the Root and Herb is better taken with a little Sugar. That called the Garden-Radish, is vulgarly known; and though it be but of bad Digestion, yet it has some good Qualities with it; for though it is held when eaten raw in Salads or the like, to breed ill Humours, and corrupt blood; yet it wonderfully helpeth those that are afflicted with the Stone and Gravel, and the stoppage of Urine; and the Juice of these Roots made into a Syrup, is exceeding good to purge Urine.   

Radish, a Syrup: Take of the Roots of Garden, and Wild Radishes before they begin to run to Seed, of each a handful; cut off the Tops, and wash the Roots very clean, three ounces of the roots of Saxifrage, Kneeholm, Butchers-Broom, Sea-Holly, Petty-whin or Cammock, or Ground-Furz, Parsley, Fennel, of each alike, in all about a handful; Leaves of Bettony, Pimpernel, Thyme, the tender Tops of Nettles, Cresses, Sampire, and Maidenhair a handful in all, and of each alike: The Fruit of sleepy Nightshade and Jubebs, of each Ten ounces, the Seeds of Parsley, of Macedonia, Carraways, Seseli, yellow Carrots, Grummel, Bark of Bay-tree-root, of each two drams, Raisins stoned, and Liquorice, of each four drams; boil them in five Quarts of Water, till two be consumed; then strain it, and dissolve in it two pound of purified Honey, and Four pound of white Sugar-Candy, so make it into a clear Syrup, seasoning it with an ounce of Cinnamon, and as much Nutmeg as sufficeth: the making of this is worth the Cost and Labour; for it excelleth all other in expelling the Gravel and Stone, scours the Kidneys and Bladder, and easeth pains in the back, opening Obstructions in the Ureters; and mixed with Lenitives, causes Urine, when at any time restrained.   

Ragwort: This has several Names, as Stammerwort, Seggrum, St. Jame's-wort: It flowers in June, or the beginning of July, the Seed of it being ripe in August. The Decoction of the Herb is good to wash the Mouth that is sore, or has Ulcers, also for Hardness, Swelling, or Impostumations, it being very cleansing and healing in such Matters; as also helpful in the Quinsy, and King's-Evil: It stays Catarrhs, thin Rheums, and Defluxions into the Eyes, Nose, or Lungs, proceeding from the Head. The Juice is singular good to heal green Wounds, to cleanse and heal old Ulcers in the Privities, and other Parts of the Body; as also inward Ulcers or Wounds; and puts a stop to the malignity of running Cankers, and hollow Fistula's, hindering their spreadings, and is much commended for Aches, or Pains in the Nerves, fleshly Parts or Sinews; also the Sciatica, or Pain in the Hip or Hucklebone, to bathe the Place with the Decoction of it, or anoint it with the Ointment of the Herb bruised and boiled in Hogs-Lard with a little Olibanum, and Mastic in Powder.   

Rails to Boil: Cut off their Heads and Legs, truss and put them into a Pipkin of strong Broth, add to them Currans, Dates, some Blades of Mace, half a pint of Whitewine: Pepper, Salt, and a piece of Butter; and when they are all together stewed enough, place them orderly in a Dish upon Sippets, thicken the Broth with grated Manchet, melt a little Sugar in Rose-water, put the Broth to them, and serve them up garnished with Lemons, or Oranges sliced as a dainty Dish.   

Raphanus, or Radish: Though no great notice is taken of this Root, but the eating them with Salads and Provisions, yet there are many excellent Virtues in it. The Root of the Garden Radish cleanses, attenuates, and opens, and in the Stone is of great Virtue for expelling it, and provoking Urinal; if cleanseth the Stomach of slimy tartarous Humours, and opens the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, Reins and Womb, and distributes the Chyle. The Seed, which has all the Virtues of the Root, is hot in the third Degree, and dry in the second; wherefore two drams of it is successfully given in a spoonful of Wormwood-water for killing the Worms in Children, and removing the Gravel and Sand from the Kidneys and Bladder. A distilled Water of the Roots and Leaves, beautifies the Face and Hands by taking off the Spots, Scurf, and making the Skin smooth and fair, if often washed with it. A Syrup of the Juice is excellent against the Stone, (to make which, find the Receipt in this Work.) It is a singular Remedy against the Scurvy, helps all Obstructions, and the Asthmas, old Coughs, and shortness of Breath.   

Raspberries: These are very Cordial and good in Taste: The Syrup much availeth in Fevers To make which, take these Directions: Of the Juice clarified, and Sugar, take an equal quantity, boil them to a Syrup, and stop or cover the Vessel close: It is very cooling and pleasant, and is to be given in hot Diseases. Again, Take the Syrup of Raspberries and Clove-Gilliflowers, each two ounces; of the Juice of Kerms one ounce: make a white Mixture, and take a spoonful every Morning; and it is an excellent Cordial for Women before Delivery.   

Raspis, a jelly of: Take of the Fruit pretty ripe, set them over the Fire in a Posnet, and extract the thin Juice, cooling the bottom of the Skillet, as you find occasion, with fair Water: then strain them with a fine Strainer, and when as much is taken as can be, add the like weight of Sugar, and boil them up into a Jelly.   

Raspis, a Syrup: Take nine quarts of Raspis, or Raspberries gathered dry, and clean picked, put them into four quarts of Canary in an earthen Pot, and paste or lute it up very close, keep it in a cool Place ten Days; then distil them in a Glass or Rose-Still, adding a fourth part of the former quantity, and fresh Berries, and Wine: and when all the colour is taken out of the Berries, strain out the remaining Liquid part, and put as much Sugar as will boil it up into a Syrup, keeping it scumming during the boiling.   

Rattle-Grass: Of these there are two kinds, viz. Red and Yellow. The first of these is used to heal up Fistula's, hollow Ulcers, and to stay the Flux of Humours, and Fluxes of Blood, being boiled in Claret, or other red Wine, and drank hot about a quarter of a pint at a time.  
The Yellow sort is by some called Coxcomb, and is held to be good for those that are afflicted with Coughs, Catarrhs, and the like; or Dimness of the Sight, if the Herb boiled with Beans, and a little Honey added to it be drank, or dropped into the Eyes.  
The whole Seed being put into the Eyes, draweth out any Skin, Film, or Dimness from the Sight without any trouble or pain.   

Raleigh, Sir Walter his Cordial-Water: Take a gallon of Strawberries, put to them a pint of Aquavitae, and so let them stand four Days: then strain them out, and sweeten the Liquid part with fine Sugar, and add, if you please, a grain of Musk. This greatly revives the Heart, and is good, a spoonful or two taken at a time, in violent Fevers.   

Red drying Ointment: Take Olive-oil two pound, and white Bees-wax half a pound; melt them together over a gentle Fire; then take them off, and stir them together with a wooden Spatula till they begin to thicken, and when they are cold, add the following Powders, viz. Calaminaris-stone, and , of each four ounces: Litharge of Gold, and Ceruse of Venice, of each three ounces; Campbire one dram: grind the Calaminaris and  upon a Stone, and fierce it through a fine hair Sieve, and powder the lethargy very fine, and so put all the Powders into the Ointment, stirring it till it becomes cold: then add a drop or two of the Spirit of Wine.  
This Red Ointment is drying and cooling: it closes and strengthens, and stops Defluxions that fall upon the Parts. It digests and consumes the superfluous moisture of Wounds, and Ulcers, and is of great use to finish the healing Part, and hasten the Cure, etc.   

Redness in the Eyes: This often proceeds from the over-abundance of Blood that flows into the Eyes; and in this case it is necessary, if need require it, to bleed by Cuping-glasses, applied to the Shoulders; and on the contrary side to open the Head-vein, and purge the Body; and outwardly to apply such things to the Eyes, as may repercuss and drive back the Humours offending. To do which,  
Take the White of an Egg, beat it up to a very fine thinness with Woman's Milk, and drop it into the Eyes by degrees, cooling and keeping them close when it is dropped in. Or,  
Take Linseed, boil it in Water, and wet a Sponge in the Decoction, and lay it warm on the Eyes: Or do it in like manner with the Decoction of Fenugreek and Camomile; or the Juice of Nightshade beaten up with the Oil of Roses, and the White of an Egg; and dip a Linen Cloth in it, and lay it on the Egg, when you lie down to take your rest.   

Redness of the Eyes: Take Camphire a quarter of an ounce, Dragons-Blood and Bolus, of each half an ounce; Verdegrease bruised and sifted very fine, an ounce: infuse these in a pint of the distilled Water of large Plantain, with often shaking them; wash the Eyes with the Water often, and it will take away the Redness and Pains, assuage the Swelling of the Eyes that have long so continued, and may be used as an excellent Mouth-water for impostumated Sores or Ulcerations.   

Reins Hurt: Take Pellitory of the Wall, wash it, and boil it in Whitewine, or squeeze out the Juice only into the Wine, and drink it, applying the Herb to the Reins likewise, as a Poultis.   

Reins Running: Take a Parsnip, slice it very thin, and boil it soft in the new Milk of a Red Cow, till it looks very white: take it out, and mash it with the Juice of Oak-Apples, or for want of them, Acorns or Oak-leaves; and sweetening it with a little Sugar beat up in Butter, eat of this Morning and Evening moderately, for three or four Days successively.   

Restharrow: The Bark and Root provoke Urinal, expel Gravel, ease the Pains of the Teeth and open Obstructions of the Liver, being infused in Wine, or in Posset-drink, and drank fasting.   

Restrictive Ointment: Take two quarts of Olive-oil dried, Whortle-berries half a pound, Green Services, and the Juice of Whortle-berries, of each a pound; Roach-Alom a pound and half: put the Berries into a large earthen Pot well glazed, pour in the Oil, and dissolve the Alom in the Juices, and so put it in with them, and cover the Pot: set it boiling in a Bath till the moisture is near consumed, then press out strongly the Matter; and having separated the Oil from the Faeces, take the same Oil three pound, white Bees-wax nine ounces, melt the Wax in the same Pot and Bath, than the Pot being taken off, stir the Ointment with a wooden Spatula; and when it thickens and grows half cold, take Cypress Nuts, Whortle-berries, Pomgranet-flowers, and Rinds of Garnets' and Acorns, the Stones of Grapes, and Ox's Thigh-Bone calcined, Grains of Sumach, Burnt-Alom, Mastic, Acacia, and the middle Rind of Chestnuts; calcine the Bone, and burn the Alom in an ordinary Fire; then beat them into Powder with the rest of the Ingredients the Mastic excepted, which must be beaten apart; and having sifted the Powders thus prepared, mix them with the Ointment, stirring it till it becomes cold.  
This is a good Styptic Ointment applied with success to the Reins to strengthen them; also the Ligaments of the Matrix, the Descent whereof it hinders, and prevents Abortion, by anointing the entrance thereof, and the lower part of the Belly. It is also successfully used to close the Neck of the Matrix after Lying-in, and to consolidate what Defects may have happened in difficult Labour: It is also very proper against the Relaxation of the straight Guts, applied without, and put into the Fundament; and to stop the unreasonable Loss of Blood in Women, applied to the Region of the Reins and Liver, and all the Belly: It is also laid upon the Stomach to stay Vomiting. This Ointment causes not Heat, and is the best known for Cleansing and Consolidation.   

Rheubarb: The Root only of this Indian Drugg is here preferred: It is an excellent Medicine, gentle and without danger, wherein many Virtues are comprised: It cleanseth and fortifieth the Stomach and Liver, heals the Pains and Prickings of them, clears the Blood, openeth and healeth all Maladies that proceed from Stoppages, as the Jaundice, Dropsy, Swelling of the Spleen, and long Fevers: It is good against Spitting of Blood, and stops it. It may be moderately taken at all convenient times without danger. The chewing of it purges Choler and Phlegm. It is excellent boiled and taken in Posset-drink before the cold Fit of an Ague comes, and is indeed extolled by all ingenious Physicians for the most excellent of Roots that ever was brought into this Nation from any Foreign Parts.   

Rheum: Take a pint of Malmsey, or Muscadel, boil it gently, thicken it to a kind of a Syrup with five ounces of fine Sugar: then put in half a quartern of the distilled Water of Horehound; and being cool, bruise a Licorice-stick at one end: and when you take it, which will be best towards Bedtime, dip the bruised end of the Stick in it, and suck from that about as much as comes to an ounce at a time. This is excellent good likewise against Colds, and cleanses the Stomach and Lungs of offensive Matters.   

Rheum to Dry up: Take Lettice-seeds, white Poppey-seeds, and Purslain-seeds, of each a dram; Tragacanth, , and Saffron, of each half a darm; Opium three grains: bruise and powder these, and make them up into a Past Lozeng-wise, with Syrup of Red Poppies; and when you take one of them in a Morning, and at Night, bruise it, and put it into a little Wine; then keep yourself warm, and as much from the Air as may be.   

Rheumatic Eyes: First gently Purge the Head and Body, and let the Patient sweat a little: Then use the following Powder for the Eyes:  
Take Tuttia prepared an ounce and a quarter, Red Coral, and Yellow Mirobolans, of each a quarter of an ounce; Pepper half a dram: powder them very finely, and strew some of it in the corners of the Eyes: This do frequently, and the Rheum will be removed; and then by washing, the Sight may recover its clearness. Or,  
Take Rain-water, boil in it Myrtle-seeds, and Gall-nuts, fine Bolus, and Cyperus-nuts; and with the Decoction well strained and settled, wash the Eyes Morning and Evening.   

Rice: This nourishes mainly, but it is made of more easy Digestion, than to be eat as the Turks use it with their Mutton, and other Meats, with only boiling it with them as we do Roots or Herbs; being boiled in Cows-Milk, or Almond-Milk, it is very good to give to such as are troubled with the Lax, and Colic. The Flower of it is very good in repercussive Plasters. It stays Inflammations in the Breasts of Women, and helpeth them. The Decoction of Rice is very profitable in Clysters, given in Laxes, or Fluxes; and boiled in your common Drink, it allays Heartburning and the Heat of the Liver.   

Rickets: Take about six Shell-snails, and if you can get them, those that hang about Wines, wash them when taken out of the Shells, and boil them in a pint of new Milk, to the consumption of half of it: then take out the Snails, put in Bread and Sugar, and give it the Child troubled with the Rickets to eat; and let it do this Night and Morning for nine or ten Days, and use the following Ointment for anointing the Back, Stomach, and other Parts afflicted, viz.  
Take Oil of Olives half a pint, two ounces of the Oil of Camomile, two drams of Mace beaten very fine, grate into these some White-bread, set them into an Oven in an earthen Pot, when the Bread is drawn, and the Oven pretty hot; then strain it and use it warm.   

Rickets, another: Take four or five handfuls of Shell-snails, put them in a course Linen Bag, and hang them up, setting an earthen Vessel under to receive the moisture that droppeth from them, and with it bathe the Joints of the Child, and other Parts grieved, Morning and Evening.   

Rickets, another: Take fresh Butter, Sanicle, and Red Mint, of each one pound; stamp the Herbs very small, then incorporate them with the Butter, and put them over a gentle Fire, till you can press out a Juice or Ointment pretty green, and anoint with it the Parts grieved, especially the Breast, if any Affliction of this kind be of continuance; and do so in other Parts before a warm Fire, and keep out the Air as much as may be.   

Roach-Alom, its Virtues: Take Roach-Alom an ounce, beat it into Powder, and add as much Vitriol likewise in Powder; dissolve these in Spring-water, and filter it after they have stood a considerable time.  
This cures all manner of Tetters, Ringworms, Herps, Scurf, Morphew, or Breakings-out in any Part of the Body, tending to Deformity, if the Place be washed with the Water these were dissolved in, two or three times a Day. This Alomwater, without the Vitriol, is good to cleanse Wounds, and Ulcers: And being burnt in a rusty Fireshovel, or on an old iron Plate, till it becomes light, spongy, and white, the Powder of it will consume by degrees, and with little pain, the moist and spongy Flesh, and Excrescences in Wounds and Ulcers, and in the Lips, commonly called Proud Flesh. It also hinders Corruption, dissipates and dissolves humid tumors. It whitens the Teeth, being rubbed with it, and fastens them: and being mingled with Sage-Water, and Honey, is good against the Scurvy, or Defects of the Gums, that make them shrink away and decrease, that many times the Teeth fall out.   

Roast Oysters: Take large Oysters, cut them out of the Shells into a Vessel with their Liquor, but so, that no Gravel may be among them; set them then on the Fire covered, till they are scalded, draw eight or ten stripes of Lard through each Oyster, seasoned with Nutmegs, Cloves, and Pepper very finely beaten and sifted; then put them on two small Lard-spits, tie them together, and in the roasting baste them with Anchoveys dissolved in Water, dridge them over with fine Bread, and then with what falls from them, make a Sauce, only add the Juice of a Lemon; and when they are pretty brown, take them off, and serve them up.   

Roast Seafowl: Draw them, and truss them, roast them larded, or unlarded, as their Particulars require; then take some Claret-Vinegar, two or three Anchoveys, the Gravy in which the Gizards were boiled, with Pepper, some hard Yolks of Eggs beat up but very thinly with these: and garnish them with stewed Oysters and Lemon slices, or Camphire and Bayberries.   

Rob: There is a Rob made of Barberries in this manner: Put to the Juice of Barberries one pound, or a pint, half a pint of white Sugar, and with the gentle heat of the Bath make it into a due thickness.  
This is excellent good in hot Diseases, quenches Thirst, and cools the Stomach, and creates an Appetite.   

Rob; or, juice of Licorice: Take the Roots well cleansed and bruised, but yet so gently, that the Liquor may not fly away. Infuse the bruised Roots three Days in fair Water, so much as may rise two Inches above them; and after it has boiled a little, press out the Liquid part, and boil it with a gentle heat to the due consistence of a Rob or Juice.  
This is exceeding good for Coughs, and most Diseases of the Lungs. Of this, as of the former, you make take half an ounce at a time twice or thrice a Day.   

Rocket, or Cresses: This is called Winter-Rocket, or Winter-Cresses; it Flowers about May, and Seeds in June: It provokes Urinal, helps the Strangury, and helps Gravel and Stone: It is successful in the Scurvy, good in cleansing Wounds. The Juice or Decoction being drank, or outwardly applied to Ulcers and Sores, by its sharpness cleanses them.  
There is another sort called Garden-Rocket, which is more used in Salads than Physic. But another sort called the Wild-Rocket, is more strong and effectual to help Digestion and provoke Urin. The Seed is applied to cure the Biting of venomous Creatures, and expel Worms that breed is the Body. The Herb boiled, or stewed, and Sugar added to it, is very available in the Cough, or Cold, especially taken by Children. The Seed often taken in Drink, takes away the ramish Scent of the Skin It increases Milk in Nurses, and abates the Swelling of the Spleen; and mixed with a little Honey over a gentle Fire, if you anoint the Face with it, it will cleanse the Skin from Spots, Morphew, and other Discolouring; and in Vinegar it takes away Freckles and Redness, not only in the Face, but in other Parts; and mixed with an Oxgall, it smooths slight Scars, Wrinkles, Marks with the Smallpox, Black and Blue Spots, and the like.   

Rocket-Wild: This is hot and dry, and its chief use is to stimulate Venery, and is a preservative against Apoplexies; outwardly applied as a Poultis, it draws out Thorns and Splinters.   

Rosa Solis: The Herb or Plant so called, or in English Sun-dew, is hot and dry in the third degree, sharp and quick, and of subtle Parts. The Leaves beaten with Salt, and applied, are held to raise Blisters and Exulcerations. The distilled Water of the whole Herb, is very Cordial, and held by Physicians to be greatly available in the Consumption, salt Rheums distilling on the Lungs, Wheesing, and Shortness of Breath: also heals Ulcers of the Lungs, comforts the Heart, and revives the fading Spirits.  
A distilled Water called Rosa Solis, being by all held to be a very excellent Cordial, an Essence of the Juice strengthens the Stomach, Head, Heart, and Liver, also the Bowels, and gives ease to Wounds: It is very famous in the Epilepsy, Blague, and all sorts of malignant and pestilential Diseases. Held in the Mouth it cures the Toothache, and drank in a Glass of Wine it provokes the Terms, and expels the Birth. The Herb is held to cure Quartan-Agues, if applied six Hours to the Pulse, and the Party bathed with the Water, or Decoction of it, and often repeated. The distilled Water drawn in a glass Still, is of a glittering yellow Colour like Gold.   

Rosa Solis, the Court way: Take of Aquavitae two quarts, Sugar finely powdered a pound and a half, common Water a pint and a half; boil them up to a little thickness, but not to the consistence of a Syrup: then put to it half an ounce of Cinnamon powdered, and when it is boiled up, strain it through a Cloth with two grains of Musk, and half an ounce of Sugar-candy.   

Rose-Lozenges: Take Provence or Damask-Roses when they are in their prime of flowering, beat them very fine and small, yet lose as little of the Juice and Scent as may be; then sprinkle over them Citron, or Lemon-Juice, cover them close, and add as much fair Water or White-wine, as will boil them up a little till they become tender: then having fine Sugar boiled up to a Candy height, put them into it boiling, exempted from the Water and Juices, and keep them well stirring about a considerable time: then take cut the Sugar and Roses, so mixed, with a Spoon, and lay it on Pye-plates; make it thin as is convenient, and cut it out into what form you please.   

Rosemary-Water: Take the Flowers and Leaves of Rosemary when they are at their best, half a pound, of the Root of Elicampane four ounces, Red Sage a handful, Cloves three ounces, and a like quantity of Mace, Ani-seeds twelve ounces; beat the Spices separately, and the Herbs together; put to them four gallons of Whitewine: and having infused them for the space of seven Days, distil them.  
This Water greatly comforteth the Heart, removeth Pains of the Stomach, creates a good colour, and gently purgeth the Blood by breathing Sweats.   

Rose-Water: Take Roses, when just blown, before they open too much, and lose their fragrancy in the Air, gather them when the Sun has dried off the Dew or Moisture; and having picked the Leaves from the Stalks, without suffering any Seeds to scatter among them, spread them on a clean Carpet free from Dust, till they are altogether free from any moisture: then put them into a pewter Still, and make a Fire under them gently by degrees, and fasten your Bottle, or Receiver to the Nose of the Still, tying Paper, or Linen about it, to keep in the scent; and so corking them up, when full of the Water, within an inch of the Cork, set them in the Sun two or three Days, and then in a warm Place especially, lest the Frost take them, and either break the Bottles, or spoil the Scent of the Water.   

Roses, an Oil Compound: Take fresh Red Roses bruised one pound, Juice of Red Roses four ounces, common Oil four pound, put them into a glazed earthen Pot with a narrow Neck, and stop it well: set it in the Sun to macerate, and having boiled it in Balneo Mariae, strain and press out the Liquor, and return it into the same Vessel again; do the like two or three times: then purify the Oil, and keep it for use. If there be any moisture in it, it will be easy to separate it, because it falls to the bottom.  
This Oil dulcifies and dissipates Fluxions that fall upon the external Parts. It extinguishes Inflammations, and hinders the descent of the Humours, and appeases Pains; it tempers the heat of the Stomach, and the heat in the Reins; it assuageth the Pains in the Head, as also Deliriums, and provokes Sleep, dulcifying the sharp Humours that interrupt by their Acrimony. It must be warmed before you anoint the Part with it. It may be also internally given against the Worms and Dysenteries, from half an ounce to an ounce: It is good to anoint the Parts upon Fractures, and Dislocations of Bones. It is mixed with equal Parts of Vinegar of Roses, to anoint the Head when shaved, for the abating the Vapours that ascend in burning Fevers, which too frequently 'cause want of Sleep, and Deliriums. This Oil also mixed in Pain-easing, and dissolving Liniments, and Cataplasms, and softening Plasters, to give them the consistence of Searcloath, is of singular use. The same way that this is prepared, you may prepare the Oils of Myrtle, Melilot, Elder-Water, Lilies or Nimphaea, Chamomil, Violets, Lilies, etc.   

Roses-Red, Dry: There is a Syrup however to be made of these, upon necessity; and to do it, Take two quarts of Water, make it pretty warm, and infuse in it for the space of twenty four Hours four or five handfuls of dried Roses; and when the Scent of them is gone mostly into the Water, put fresh ones, and squeeze them at the taking out, and into this Water dissolve two pound of white Sugar, and so dissolve it into a Syrup.  
This mitigates the hot Diseases of the Brain, assuages Thirst, strengthens the Stomach, causes Sleep, stays the Flux of the Belly, and agglutinates and mundifies Ulcers.   

Roses, a Simple Oil: Take fresh Red Roses bruised two pound, the Juice of them half a pound, and common Oil five pints; put them all together in an earthen glazed Pot covered, and let them, if possible, macerate thirty or forty Days in the Sun; then boil them in Balneo Mariae, and press out the Oil very hard, and keep it for use.  
It is cooling, assuages Heat, mollifies Swell, and is good in Burns, or Scalds.   

Roses-White Infused: To infuse Roses, and bring them to a Syrup, Take of White Roses half a Peck, clean picked from the Stalks, infuse them over a gentle Fire in a gallon of Spring-water, strain out the Water, and squeeze the remaining Juice out of the Roses into it. Take of this Water five pints, to which the Gallon ought to be consumed in infusion, clarified Sugar four pound, boil them over a gentle Fire to the thickness of a Syrup.  
This Syrup extracts thin offensive Choler from the Entrails, and waterish Humours from the Stomach; and is very good to be given to Children, old People, and such as are weakened by Sickness, and the like.   

Rosin, its Virtues: The Rosin of the Larch or Turpentine-Tree, is hot, emollient, cleansing, healing, vulnerary, and pectoral, etc. it heals Ulcers in the Lungs, helps and stops the Gonorrhoea. It gently provokes Urinal, and opens the Obstruction of the Reins, Ureters, and Bladder. The Dose in Powder is from one dram to two drams. Outwardly, it is used in Balsams, Ointments, and Emplasters. It softens tumors, and ripens them, if made up with Beef or Mutton-suet. It ripens and heals Felons and Whitlows, and cures them when they break, cleanses Ulcers, and heals green Wounds; is much available in the Pains of the Gout, and all other Aches, and Pains proceeding from a cold Cause. Helps Strains and Hurts of the Nerves and Muscles, and strengthens weak Limbs.  
Of this, Spirits, Oil, and Balsam, are extracted, by distillation, in a large Retort in Sand, distilling first with a very gentle Heat, till all the Phlegm, and Spirit, (in which is contained the volatile Salt) is come over; and then gradually increasing the Fire to force over the Oil and Balsam, which are to be rectified from Colcothar, or Bonnet Ashes.  
This Spirit is very Excellent: For it takes off the tartarous Mucilage in the Lungs, Reins, Breast, and Stomach, Ureters, and Bladder, It hinders the generation of the Stone and Gout. The Dose is from one to three drams.  
The Oil dissolves tumors of the Gout, strengthens the Nerves, cures the Palsy, tumors, Wounds, and Ulcers, and all manner of Convulsions, Cramps, Aches, Pains, Strains, and Bruises proceeding from a cold Cause, or Violence, the Part grieved being often anointed with it. The Balsam has the same Virtue, but not so penetrating, and therefore is mostly used in the curing old Sores, Fistula's, Ulcers, Pain in the Gout and Sciatica's, &c.   

Rue: This is for its wonderful Virtues called the Herb of Grace. 'Tis very Attenuative, Incisive, and Digestive, Resolutive, and Provocative. It driveth out Windiness, by reason of its heat in the third Degree, and not only sharp in Taste, but bitter also, by reason whereof it may resolve and penetrate gross and clammy Humours; and through the same qualities provoke Urine. It consists of subtle Parts, and is numbered among Medicines, which are great dryers; and therefore it is good against Inflammations, assuaging any lustful Appetite. The Seed boiled, and drank in Wine, greatly resists Poison. The Leaves eaten alone, or made into a Conserve; if the Party take half an ounce fasting, it resists ill Airs, causeth pestilential Fevers, and consequently the Plague. The Decoction drank, easeth Pains in the Breasts and Sides, Inflammations of the Liver, and the Pains of the Gout; also the Shaking of Agues. Being eaten raw, it cleareth the Sight, and is good against Difficulties of Breathing, and the Cough. Being mixed with French Cherries dried, it allayeth the Pains and Heaviness of the Eyes: and with Oil of Roses and Vinegar, it easeth the Headache. Being bruised and put up the Nostrils it stays Bleeding. The distilled Water of it infused into an equal portion of Wine and Rose-water, is very sovereign for any Pains in the Head, or Stomach.   

Rue of the Meadow: This is to be found on the Borders of moist Meadows, and by Ditch sides, flowering towards the end of July, and beginning of August. Dioscorides highly approves it for Bruises, and the healing of old Sores, being applied to them Poultiswise, or they washed with the Juice: The distilled Water and Flower of this Herb have the like Virtue Some People use it shred among common Potherbs in their Broth, for opening Obstructions of the Body, and to render it soluble: But the Roots clean washed, shred, or sliced and boiled in Ale, I hold to operate more in that kind, than the Leaves; yet they provoke Stool, but very gently. The Roots boiled in Water, destroy Lice and Vermin, incident to humane Bodies, by only anointing the Places with their Decoction. Camerarius tells us, That it is in great Esteem in Italy, as an Antidote against the Plague, and that the Saxons use it with success in the Yellow Jaundice.   

Ruffy's Pills: Take of the best Aloes two ounces, Myrrh and Saffron, of each an ounce: mix these finely powdered with as much Aromatic as will make them into Pills. These taken one at a time as big as a Pea, help Concoction, and Digestion, clear the Stomach, and create a good Appetite, and are much available against pestilential Airs and Contagions.   

Ruffs, and Redshanks, to Boil: Take these Fowl, put them upon a Spit, and lay them to the Fire with a little Basting, till they are half roasted; then having Water boiling in a Pipkin; after you have stuck at few Cloves about them, put them into it, (but it must be very little;) and when they have taken a warm or two, put out all the Water to a pint: then put in some Claret-wine, and strong Broth, a few Mace and Cloves, with the Gravy that dropped from them when they were roasting, then and some Pepper, Ginger, fried Onions, and Salt: stew all well together, and serve them up on Sippets.   

Rupture: Having a good Truss, Take Comfry half a handful, bruise it well with the Filings of Iron, spread it thin on a Plaster of Diatulum, and apply it to the Rupture, and keep it close up: and by often renewing it, great Advantage is found.   

Rupture to Cure: Take Cyprus Nuts, make them into Powder, and take Juice of green Hops, or the tender Tops, mix them well together; and having the Bowels put up, and well trussed, lay it at the bottom of the Belly, and in all convenient Places, as a Plaster; and as it dries, supply the place of it with a moist one.   

Rupture on the Navel: The Rupture, or Burstenness, is generally known by the falling down of the Bowels into the Cod, tho' there is a Rupture that appeareth above the Privy Parts, or at the Navel of Men and Women, the Rupture of the Navel being known by a swelling, or hanging out of the forepart of the Belly. To remedy this, Take Comfry tow ounces, stamp it well, mix it well with an ounce of Bees-wax over a gentle Fire till it can be brought into a Plaistor, and apply it to the Navel. But if the Rupture be great, often renew it; and anoint the Backbone of the Party with Bears-grease, chafing it in hot; and let the Party take Morning and Evening a dram of the Herb Through wax in a little Wine.   

Rupture, a Plaster: Take Daisie-roots, the like of wild tansy and Comfry, of each half an ounce; Mastic a quarter of an ounce, Pomgranet-flowers, and the Juice of Sloes, half a dram of each; Hares-wool clipped small one dram, Stone-pitch two ounces, Bird-lime an ounce, Wax five drams, Oil of Roses as much as will make them into a Plaster, and apply it to the Intestines, being put up, and a Truss over them, to secure them. You need not take off the Truss, but when you renew the Plaster, which need not be under five or six Days. Or use this, viz.  
Take of Cyperus-Nuts two ounces, Myrrh and Cyperus-Roots, Marjoram, Galls, Juice of Sloes, and Frankincense, of each an ounce: then dissolve an ounce of Gum-Tragacanth in Wine, and temper the rest with it; and then over a gentle Fire, by well mixing, and a consumption of the moisture, make it into a Plaster, and lay it on the Runture.   

Rupture through Water: This is a hydropical watery Humour in the Liver, Veins, and Pores, which falls down into the Cod, and is known by the swelling of them, and the Navel. To remedy this, Take Mastic one ounce, Cyperus-Nuts half an ounce, Gum-Tragacanth half an ounce: bruise them, and temper them well together with Oil of Roses, and then apply it, and use this Purgation, viz.  
Take Turbith a quarter of an ounce, Ginger one dram, white Sugar three drams, temper them well together, and let the Party take it every fourth Day in Wormwood-wine, or Water; and the other Mornings between them, Water of Baum, Bettony, and Wormwood, of each an ounce and half; Vinegar of Squills an ounce: mix them together, and drink them fasting.   

Rupture through Wind: In this Case the Party must, during the Cure, eschew all such Meats and Drinks as cause Windiness in the Body, as Milk, sweet Wine, moist Fruits, Pease, Beans, Turnips, etc. then take Sulphur-Vine two ounces finely beaten, Grains half an ounce grossly beaten, Cammomil-flowers a quarter of an ounce: seethe these in a pint of Spring-water till a third part is consumed: then dip a Sponge in it, and apply it to the Place as hot as may be, renewing it five or six times a Day.   

Rupture-Wort: This is mostly found on dry, sandy, and rockey Places. It is Excellent in the Curing of Ruptures, not only in Children, but also in those of Years, if the Distemper be not too inveterate; by taking a dram of the Powder of the dried Herb in a glass of Wine for a considerable time: or the distilled Water or Juice of the green Herb taken in like manner. It helpeth likewise all other Fluxes in Men or Women, Vomitings, and the Gonorrhoea, and Running of the Reins, by being taken either of the ways mentioned. It helpeth those that have the Strangury and Stoppage in Urine, Stone or Gravel in the Reins, or Bladder; helps Stitches in the Side, or griping Pains in the Stomach and Belly, Obstructions of the Liver, Worms, Yellow-Jaundice, Defluctions, and foul Ulcers.   

Rushes: These some hold so inconsiderable, that it is of no value, but for making Candle-Wicks: But learned Physicians, who have searched more curiously into the abstruse Retirements of Nature, are not of their Opinion. Dioscorides, Galen, and Pliny agree, being powdered and drank in Wine, it stayeth the Lask in Woman's Courses, provokes Sleep, (but must be taken with caution, lest they cause Pains in the Head.) The Root boiled in Water to the consumption of a third part, doth mainly help the Cough.   

Rye: This grain boiled in Water or Wine to a strength, and drank, viz. the Decoction, kills Worms in the Belly, and brings them away, especially if Corianderseeds be boiled with it.   

SAdness to Expel: Take the Herb called Cranesbill, Rue, and Pulegium, of each as much as may be held conveniently between the Thumb and Forefinger; dry them in an Oven, and beat them into Powder: and being mixed with a little Sugar, and Powder of Licorice, make them up into little Balls, or Lozenges, with Cinnamon-water, or Rose-water, and eat them as you find occasion.   

Saffron: The best Saffron is that which tinctures your Hands upon a gentle touch, and smelleth somewhat sharp, and is not very brittle. In property it is good for the weakness of the Stomach, and faintness of Heart; and being taken in a small quantity of Wine, it preserveth from Drunkenness, and healeth the Bitings of Serpents, and Stinging of Spiders: It is restrative. The too much Smell thereof is bad for the Brain, and the taking too much of it is troublesome to the Spirits.   

Sage: This is a singular Remedy against all cold and phlegmatic Diseases in the Head, and against all Pains of the Joints, either being taken in Drink, or applied in Fomentation; wherefore it is very good for those that have the Falling-sickness, or subject to Lethargies, or have at certain times their Members benumbed, or senseless: It availeth much against the Defluxions of Phlegm, and Maladies, incident to the Breast; and is very advantageous for Women with Child to eat it often, especially if they are subject to travail before their time; for it keepeth the Child in the Womb, and doth quicken it. If a Person subject to spit Blood, takes three or four spoonfuls of Honey with the Juice of Sage, double the quantity, in a Morning fasting, the Blood will be stayed in twice or thrice so doing. The use of Sage in Pottage, and otherwise, serves to sharpen the Appetite, and cleanse the Stomach, that's oppressed with ill Humours. In fine, when there is any occasion for heating, drying, or binding, use this Herb as a very good Medicine.   

Saland-Grand: To make this of minced Meats Mince Capon, Veal, dried Neats-tongue in slices, Lettuce shred, small Olives and Capers, Mushrooms pickled, Sampire, Broom-buds, Lemons or Oranges, Raisins, Almonds, Potatoes, Caparoons, or Crucifix-Peas, Currants, pickled Oysters, and Tarragon. To dish this up, Take a little Tarragon and Lettuce, mince them small, and put the several Things by themselves, and garnish the Dish with Oranges and Lemons sliced, or in quarters.   

Salmon Fried: Take the Rand, Chine, or Jowl of Salmon, and fry it, cut in thin slices in sweet Butter; and when you perceive it gins to grow crisp, prepare your Sauce with Claret, sweet Butter, grated Nutmeg, the Juice of Oranges, and the Liquor of pickled Oysters, heat them over a gentle Fire with continual beating, and pour them on the Fish; and for garnish, lay Sage-Leaves and Parsley fried in Butter, but not too crisp.   

Salmon-Pie: Take a convenient piece of fresh Salmon, two quarts of Shrimps, or Prawns, and the like quantity of opened Oysters, a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace, the like of beaten Ginger, and four Anchoveys: mix what can be conveniently so ordered, spread the bottom of the Pie with Butter, lay in the Fish, and scatter the seasoning all over it, and uppermost another laying of Butter.   

Salt-Diuretick: Take the Urinal of a healthful Man, and put it into as much Hungarian Vitriol powdered as it's capable to dissolve; make the Dissolution in a large Vessel, that there may be room for Ebullition, which being ceased, put the Liquor into a glass Cucurbit covered with its Head, and distil off the Phlegm and Spirit in a Sand-Bath, first with a slow Fire, then with a gradual Fire increased, and sublimate the volatile Salt at last.   

Salmon to Roast: Take a Jowl of Salmon, or a Rand, and divide it into four pieces, season it with Salt and grated Nutmeg, stick in it whole Cloves, and put it on a convenient Spit, laying on it likewise a few Bay-leaves, and Sprigs of Rosemary: then baste it with Butter, and save the Dripping to mingle with other Butter, to be served up in Sauce, mixed with Verjuice, the Juice of Oranges, and garnished with the slices of Oranges.  
This Salt composed of the volatile Salt of Urinal, and several acid Particles of the Vitriol, vigorously expels serous Humours by Urinal, the Passages whereof it opens. It is to be taken in White-wine, Diuretick-Waters, or Decoctions, from a scruple to a dram. It is very available in Dropsies, dissolved in opening Decoctions; for which purpose you may mix the Spirit with your usual ordinary Drink. The Phlegm applied to the Gout, assuages the Pain thereof. It is also good to allay the Inflammations of the Eyes.   

Sarsaparilla, an excellent Drug, much used in many Distempers. It is a very long Root, not much unlike to a small Cord, brought out of the Spanish West Indies. It's given in a Diet-drink, ordinarily for the Cure of the French-Pox, or Gonorrhoea, and King's Evil. To do this, Take a gallon of Water, mealy Sarsaparilla split, a handful; Raisins stoned, blue Figs split, and blue Currans, of each two ounces; Licorice, Carraways, Anniseeds, and Juniper-ber●ies, and Fennel-seeds, an ounce of each bruised: mix and steep them twenty four Hours in the Water, then boil it to the consumption of one half; strain it out and suffer it to settle: then when it is cold, bottle it up, putting into each Bottle half an ounce of white Sugar, and a quarter of a bruised Nutmeg.   

Sarsnets to Wash: Take your white Sarsnet, and spread it on a smooth clean Board long ways, soap it well, yet let it remain on but very thin, then raise a gentle Lather with a small hard Brush, by brushing it the right way of the Silk; and so in order turning it, do the other side in the same manner: then cleanse it with fair Water, and make a new Lather hot, and so renew it three times with turning; then cast the piece into hot Water, where a little Gum, with a small quantity of Smalts has been dissolved; let it lie so covered a convenient time, fold it smooth, and dry it as well as you can, by clapping it between your Hands, and so dry it over Brimstone, spread it on a Table, and iron it on the right side.  
Black Sarsnets are managed the same way in washing, though they are generally rinced in Small-beer, without any Gum, or on a woollen Cloth.  
Coloured Silks may be washed as white Sarsnet, avoiding the blue Water, or drying over Brimstone, for that fades their Colour.   

Sauces for Beef-Stakes: (1.) Beat Butter with the Juice of Lemons, and garnish with slices and sprigs of Parsley. (2.) Gravy and Butter. (3) Mustard, Butter, and Vinegar (4.) Butter, Vinegar, minced Capers, and grated Nutmeg; and if you design to garnish them sundry ways, take either Parsley, Sage, Clary, Onions, Apples, Carrots, Parsnips, Skirts, spinach. Artichokes, Pears, Quinces sliced, and fry them in Butter, and they indifferently serve for any sort of fried Meats whatsoever, acaccroding as your palate best relishes, as Udders, Sweetbreads, Tongues, Rabbits, Chickens, and the like.   

Sauces for Chickens Roasted: (1.) Gravy and the Juice, or slices of Oranges. (2.) Mutton-Gravy, the Gravy of the Chickens, Verjuice and Butter. (3.) Butter and Vinegar boiled together with a little Sugar. Make thin Sippets of Bread, lay the rest Chickens on them, and serve them up hot. (4.) Wash a good handful of Sorrel, stamp it, prepare thin slices of Manchet, and put them into the Dish with some Vinegar, and the Juice of the Sourel, Sugar, Gravy, beaten Cinnamon, and beaten Butter, some slices of Lemon and Orange, and strew thereon Cinnamon and Sugar. (5.) Sliced Orange, White-wine, Cinnamon, Rosewater, and a few Blades of Mace, Ginger, Sugar, and beaten Butter, set them on a Chafing-Dish of Coals and stew them: then place some slices of Manchet round the Dish, finely carved, and the Chickens being roasted well, lay them into the Sauce, and serve them garnished with slices of Lemon, Barberries, and Parsley.   

Sauces for Duck, or Mallard: (1.) Vinegar and Sugar boiled to a Syrup with two or three Cloves, and a little Cinnamon, or Cloves only. (2.) Gravy of the Fowl, Oister-Liquor, a whole Onion boiled in it, Nutmeg, Anchovey; and if lean, farce and lard them. (3.) Onions sliced, Carrots cut Dice fashion, boiled in strong Broth, and Whitewine, or some Gravy, minced Parsley, Savory shred small, Mace and Butter well stewed together. This may indifferently serve for divers kinds of wild Fowl, but more particularly for Waterfowl.   

Sauces for Greengeeses: (1.) Mince Sorrrel, and Sage, stamp them with Bread, and the Yolks of Eggs hard by boiling, and grated, or sliced Pepper, Salt, and Vinegar. (2.) Stamp Sorrel, White-bread, and the slices of Pippins, or other hard Apples, put Wine-Vinegar and Sugar to them; then press out the liquid Part through a fine Cloth, put it into Saucers, and scraping Sugar into it, serve it up. (3.) The Juices of Lemon, Sorrel, grated Bread and Sugar: Garnish with Parsley, the slices of Lemons, or Oranges; or, for want of them, with Barberries, and Tops of Rosemary, and so serve them up. These Sauces may serve likewise for young Ducks, Teal, or Widgeon.   

Sauce for Greengeeses: Take the Juice of Sorrel mixed with scalded Gooseberries, and served on Sippets and Sugar with beaten Butter.   

Sauces for Hares: If a Hare be roasted, take the following Sauces as your palate best relishes.  
(1.) Beaten Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, and Pepper, boiled Prunes in Whitewine (2.) Currans strained, muskefyed Biscuit bread beaten to Powder, Sugar and Cloves boiled in Water to the thickness of a Grewel.  
Having made these Sauces, or prepared them for making, Take the Hare, flay it, and lard it over with small Lard, stick it with Cloyes, and put a Pudding into the Belly of it, made of grated Bread, grated Nutmeg, beaten Cinnamon, Salt, Currans, Eggs, Cream; make it stiff and good, fill the Hare and roast it; and if you desire to have this Pudding green, put to it the Juice of Spinnage, or Parsley; if yellow, Saffron, or Turmerick; if red, Turnsole.   

Sauce for Hens, or Pullet's, Roasted: Take the Yolks of six hard Eggs, minced small, put them in White-wine, or Wine-Vinegar, with beaten Butter and the Gravy. (2.) Juice of Oranges, Pepper, Salt, and Gravy, boiled with the Neck, Liver, Heart, and Gizzards, and add Mustard if you please. (3.) Beer, Salt, the Yolk of three hard Eggs minced, or grated Bread, three or four spoonfuls of Gravy; and when these are well beat up, put in two or three slices of Orange, or Lemon, with Lemon peel shred small. (4.) Beaten Butter, with Juice of Orange, or Lemon, White or Claret-Wine well mingled and beat up with the Butter. (5.) Take Gravy and Claret-Wine, boil in it some slices of Onion, Nutmeg, and Salt, serve it up with slices of Orange and Lemon. (6.) Oister-Liquor, an Anchovey or two, sliced Nutmeg, Gravy; and rub the Dish with Onion, or Shalot. (7.) The Yolk of Eggs hard boiled, and Lemon-peel, mince them very small, and stew them in Whitewine, Salt, and the Gravy of the Fowl.   

Sauce for Land-Fowl: Take boiled Prunes, and strain the Pulp into a little of the Blood of the Fowl; add then Cinnamon and Ginger finely beaten, boiled with a little Sugar to an indifferent thickness, and serve in the Dish, with the Gravy of the Fowl.   

Sauce for a Loin of Veal: Take Thyme, Pennyroyal, Mint, Sage, and Marjoram, boil two Eggs hard, and shred the Yolks of 'em with a little Salt, and grated Nutmeg; then the Herbs being shred in, boil them together with a few Currants, beaten Cinnamon, Sugar, and some whole Cloves, dish it on this Sauce, and garnish it with slices of Oranges.  
For a Leg of Veal the following Sauce.  
Stuff it with Beef-suet seasoned with Nutmeg Salt, and the Yolks of two or three raw Eggs well mixed with the other: then make Sauce with the Gravy that drips from it, when the Fat is blown off; and giving it two or three warms on the Fire, squeeze in the Juice of two or three Oranges: Garnish it with Violet-flowers, Parsley, and Oranges sliced.   

Sauces for Pigs: When your Pig is drawn, prick up the Belly with a Crust, and a little chopped Sage in it, or a Pudding of grated Bread, Currans, and beaten Mace, lay it to the Fire, but not too near at first, for fear of scorching; and when it is a quarter roasted, if you baste it not well, than bread it with grated White-bread, Currans and Sugar bruised together, and dried again, so that they may stick on: then being roasted, draw it, and serve it whole with this Sauce, viz. White-wine, Cinnamon, whole Cloves and Sugar, boiled up to a Syrup, and the Gravy with what else fell from it. (2.) A little grated Bread, the Pig's Brains, Sugar and Barberries, with a little beaten Butter. (3.) Vinegar, Butter, the Yolks of hard Eggs, minced into the Gravy of the Pig; boil these up, and serve them as a Sauce. (4.) White-wine, some strong Broth, or a minced Onion, some stripped Thyme, grated Nutmeg, and the grated hard Yolks of Eggs, some Anchovies and Pepper beaten small, Butter beaten up with Elder Vinegar, and the Gravy that falls from the Pig. (5.) Two or three Yolks of raw Eggs, beat up, grated Nutmeg, Sugar, Currans, Cream, Salt and Pepper, Sugar and Cinnamon.   

Sauces for roast Pigeons: (1.) Gravy and the Juice of Oranges. (2.) Fill their Bellies with minced Parsley, and when roasted, beat up some Butter and Vinegar thick, and put the Parsley to it. (3.) Onions stewed with Gravy, Claret-wine, and a little Salt, and garnished with Parsley and Marigold-flowers. (4.) Vine-Leaves roasted in the Bellies of the Pigeons, minced, and put into Claret-wine and Salt, beaten up with Butter and Gravy.   

Sauces for Rabbits: (1.) Beat Butter, and rub the Dish with Onion or Shalot. (2). Sage and Parsly minced, rolled in Balls, in Butter, and fill the Belly with this stuffing. (3.) Beaten Butter with Lemon and Pepper. (4.) According to the French Fashion, Onions minced small, and fried and mingled with Mustard and Pepper. (5.) The Rabbits being roasted, wash the Belly with the Gravy of Mutton, and add to it a slice or two of Lemon.   

Sauce for Red-Deer: (1.) Sweet Herbs small minced and boiled with the Gravy only, or Whitebread boiled with Water pretty thick, without Spices, putting to it some Butter, Vinegar, and Sugar. (2.) The Juice of Oranges, Lemons, and Gravy beat up well. (3.) A Galladine Sauce made with strained Bread, Cinnamon, Sugar, Vinegar, Claret-wine, and some beaten Ginger, finely strained, or you may add a few Cloves and Sprigs of Rosemary. (4.) If you will stuff or farce any part of the Dear convenient to be so used, stick the piece chosen with Thyme, Rosemary Savory, or Cloves, or else with all manner of Sweet Herbs, minced with Beef-Suet: lay the Caul over the side, or half of the Haunch, and so roasting it pretty well, serve it up with any of the  Sauces, garnishing with Oranges, Lemons, and red Beet Roots.   

Sauces for Roast Mutton: Gravy, Capers, Sampire and Salt, stew them well together in two Waters; Onions, Claret-wine, sliced Nutmeg, and Gravy, boiled up with three whole Onions, stewed in strong Broth or Gravy, White-wine, Pepper, Pickle Capers, Mace, and three or four slices of Lemon.   

Sauces for Roast Pork: (1.) Gravy, minced Sage and Onions boiled together with some Pepper. (2.) Mustard, Vinegar, and small Pepper, well beat together. (3.) Apples pared and quartered, and boiled in fair water, with some Sugar beaten up with Butter. (4.) Gravy, Vinegar, sliced Onion and Pepper, boiled up together. The Sauces thus ordered, you may take a Chine of Pork, and draw it with Sage on both sides, when it is on the Spit, then roast it; and so you may do by any other Joint of Pork, viz. Loin, Pack, Breast, Spare-rib, or Harslet of a Bacon Hog; being salted a night or two.   

Sauces for any kind of Seafowl roasted: Make a Galladine with grated Bread, Cinnamon, and Ginger beaten, a quarter of a pound of Sugar, a pint of White-wine-Vinegar, and a quart of Claret, boil them up and strain them, add a few whole Cloves, and boil them again with some sprigs of Rosemary, add a little red Saunders, and boil it thick as Grewel; and putting a sufficient quantity into a Dish, place the Fowl in it: And this especially is an excellent Sauce for Whoopers, Swans, Cranes, Shovelers, Herns, and Bitterns.   

Sauces for Stubble Geese: (1.) Sour Apples, or Pippins, boiled to a Pulp and strained, add to them Sugar, Vinegar, Gravy, Barberries, grated Bread, Mustard, beaten Cinnamon, and boiled Onions strained. (2.) Slices of sour Apples boiled in Beer, mash them, and put in Sugar, and beaten Butter; and for variety, add Barberries, and the Gravy of the Fowl. (3.) Take the Gizards and Livers minced small with Sage Beets, sweet Herbs, and sprinkled with Salt; add minced Lard, and fill the Belly of the Goose, sow tip the Rump, or Vent, tie the Neck with a Packthread, and roast the Goose: being roasted, take out the Farcing, put it in a Dish; and then put to it the Gravy of the Goose, Pepper, and Verjuice, give it a warm on the Fire, and serve it up. (4) The French Sauce for Geese, are only Butter, Mustard, Sugar, Vinegar, and Barberries.   

Savory: Of this Herb there are two kinds, one like to Thyme, and the other greater, and more branched. The latter being used as a Cataplasm, with Wheat-flower sod together in Wine, is available against the Sciatica; but the use of it is chief good for healthful Persons, whether it be in Pottage, or Sauce, or otherwise; and being dried in the shade, and brought into Powder, it may be used instead of Spices.   

Sausages to Make: The best way to do this, is to take a Leg of Pork that has lain an Hour or two in Salt and Water, Take off the Fat, and mince the Lean very small, and shred into it Beef-suet, season it with half an ounce of beaten Cloves, and an ounce of Pepper, and the like quantity of Mace beaten fine, shred small, a handful of Sage and Rosemary, and break in about a dozen Eggs, and mix all well together; then fill the great Gut of a well washed Hog, and boil them gently: then dry them in a Chimney, and they will keep excellent good for a very considerable time.   

Sausages without Skins: To make these, Mince the Lean of a Leg of Pork very small, having first taken out the Sinews and Strings; then add two pound of Beef-suet finely shred, and two handfuls of red Sage, a little Pepper, Salt, and Nutmeg, with a piece of an Onion: mingle them, being all finely minced and beaten, having put in two or three Yolks of Eggs; and so with a small matter of Flour, make it into a Past in lengths, or Balls: and when you fry it, cut it out in pretty thick slices.   

Scabious: This Herb, though wild, and mostly growing in the Field, is of excellent use. The Herb and Root boiled in Wine, or the Juice of it, or the distilled Water of it, cures Imposthumes, Pleurisies, Coughs, or other Diseases incident to the Breast, or Lungs. 'Tis good also in the Quinsy, Plague, Ulcers in the Fundament, Itch, and likewise for Beautifying.   

Scabs: Take the Roots of Celandine, Wormwood, and red Dock, of each a handful; Laurel and Ivy-Leaves, of each half a handful: bruise them well, and fry them in Butter till they become crisp: then strain out the Butter with hard pressing, and keep it as an Ointment of special use in all manner of Scabs, Breakings-out, Botches, or Blains; and if mixed with a little Powder of Sulphur, it is excellent for the Itch, and to hinder the biting of Bugs, or cure those that are Bit.   

Scabious-Water: Take four handfuls of Scabious-flowers, a handful of the tender Tops of Comfrey-flowers, of Fumitory four ounces, Roots of Orris three ounces, Baum, and Celandinetops, of each a pugil: distil these in a cold Still with four ounces of Almonds blanched, and steeped in warm Water till they swell.  
This is an excellent Beautifier, and causes a fresh Colour.   

Scalds to Cure: Take a quart of sweet Cream, then wash, pair, and slice a handful of Fern-roots; boil them together in an earthen Pipkin with two ounces of Dove's-Dung finely powdered; or, for want of that, Hen's-Dung for the space of half an Hour, or till, by continually stirring it, it jellies, or thickens: then let it cool, and so spreading some of it on a Cloth, apply it to the Place scalded. So by often applying, the Fire will be taken out in a little time, and the Pain removed.   

Scaily-Nails to take off: Take the Seeds of wild Mint, and Linseed, of each a quarter of an ounce; bruise them and mix them with Honey; make a Plaster, and fix it on the Nails, and in a little while they will fall off, and other sound ones grow in their stead.   

Scaily-Spots: To remedy these rough and unseemly Deformities of the Skin, Take half an ounce of Nigella-seeds, bruise and boil them in a quart of strong Vinegar until half be consumed; then add as much of the Oil of Walnuts, as will, when strained, and a little more boiled, reduce it to an Ointment; with which anoint the Place often, and it will make it smooth and beautiful. This is likewise a Remedy for the fretting and galling of the Skin, and Itch.   

Sciatica: Take four handfuls of Strawberries, boil them in a quart of Water, and having bathed the grieved Place with the liquid part strained from them very warm, dry it; and then anoint it with this Ointment, viz. Unguentum Dialtheae one ounce, Honey half an ounce, Bees-wax a dram: mix them over a gentle Fire, and make an Ointment for the aforesaid use: and by often anointing, the Pain will cease.   

Scorbutick-Water: Take the Juices of Scurvigrass, and Water of Pimpernel depurated, of each three pints; fine white Sugar two pound: make them into a Syrup over a gentle Fire.  
The use of this Syrup is very successful, taken in scorbutic Maladies, from one spoonful to two in any scorbutick-waters, Mint, or Penny-royal-waters, etc.   

Scorbutick-Water of Scurvigrass: Take the Bark of Capers, Tamarisk, Ash-Tree, Polypode-roots of the Oak, of each two ounces; Water-cresses, the Tops of Baum, Agrimony, Germander, and Ground-pine, of each two handfuls; Fenel, and Aniseeds, Carduus-Benedictus, of each one dram and half; the Flowers of Broom, St. John's-wort, Centaury the Less, Elder, and wild Thyme, of each a pugil: let these be infused in Fumitory-water, and Whey, of each three pints, Whitewine two quarts; add Oxymel of Squils' one pound: then strain them, by pressing out the Liquor very hard; dissolve in it Troches of Capers, six drams; after distil it in an Ash-bath, and take two ounces at a time for Pains in the Stomach, Vapours arising to the Brain, Breaking's out, Scurfiness of the Body, Nodes, or Knots in the Skin; and for carrying off all gross and ill Humours by Sweat, Stool, or Urin.   

Scurvigrass-Bath: Take Scurvigrass and Fumitory, of each a handful; Fenugreek-seeds three ounces and a half; Flowers of melilot two handfuls, and of Camomile one handful; Mallow-roots, Brooklime, and Mugwort one handful and half; the Seeds of Water-Bettony, and Parsley, of each three ounces and half; Bay-leaves a handful: boil these in two gallons of fair Water to the consumption of a quart.  
This removes hard Swell, and Pains in the Joints, allays the Pain, occasioned by excessive heat, restores shrinked Nerves and Sinews; and is good in easing Pains of the Gout, being applied to the grieved Part.   

Scurvigrass, its Essence: Take Scurvigrass, Fumitory, Germander, and Wormwood, of each three handfuls; of Orange-peel, six drams: digest them with Spirit of Scurvigrass, and Elder, of each so much as suffices, to the Extraction of their Tincture, and let them be strongly pressed out, and put of the former Herbs and Powder into the straining; and do this three or four times: and when it is clarified by settling, add of the Spirit of Fern, and Scurvigrass, of each three ounces and a half; Spirit of Tartar nine drams: mix them, and take it from twelve to twenty drops in Ale, Beer, Wine, or any other convenient Liquor.  
This is good against Fits of the Mother, Falling-sickness, Oppressions of the Stomach, Afflictions of the Matrix, and cause Urin.   

Scurvigrass Physick-Wine: Take Water-cresses, and Wall-rue, of each one handful, wild Radish-roots, and Roots of Polypody, of each two drams; black Hellebore-roots, and Jalap, of each one ounce; the Leaves of choice Senna one ounce, the inward or yellowest Rind of an Orange two ounces, best Cinnamon one dram and a half, crude-Tartar three drams. These being cut, and grofly bruised, put them into a thin Bag, sew them up, lay them by in a stone Pot, and pour upon it two quarts of Whitewine; let it stand eleven Days, draw it off, and take three ounces, or more, according to the Strength of your Body.  
This purges Choler, and Melancholy, cleanses the Stomach, and eases Pains in the Bowels, causes gentle Sweats, and cleanses the Blood.   

Scurvigrass-wine: Take the Juice of Scurvigrass, Water-cresses, Brooklime, Sorrel, all depurated, of each a quarter of a pint; Rhenish-wine two quarts, Roots of Horseradish, Elecampane, Flower-de-luce, cut into thin slices, of each an ounce and half; two Nutmegs bruised: put all into a stone Bottle, stop it very close, and keep it in a cold place for use.  
Taking Morning and Night a quarter of a pint, cures the Scurvy to a wonder, and purifies the Blood.   

Scurvigrass-Wine, another: Take of fresh Scurvigrass four handfuls, beat it very small, pour upon it two quarts of Rhenish Wine, let it stand in a cool place three or four Days; then strain it, and let it settle, and so draw it off from the dregs.  
Drink of this half a quarter of a pint fasting, and it will purify the Blood, help Digestion, take away pricking Pains, and Heats, or Flushings in the Face or Body, provokes Urinal, and evaporates noxious Humours by sweat.   

Sena: The best of it is that which is brought from Alexandria in Egypt. It purgeth Choler, Phlegm, and Melancholy; it cleanseth the Heart, Liver, and Brain, also the Spleen and Lungs, and all Parts of the Body; it is profitable for all Accidents of them: It openeth the Internals, and delayeth the Injuries of growing old Age, causing exhilaration, or Joy in the Mind. The Leaves decocted with Camomile are exceeding good to wash the Head for the fortifying the Brain and Sinews, and Sight and Hearing; as also, in all such Diseases as proceed from melancholy Humours: likewise for Ulcers, or Palsy, Headache, and Falling-evil. It fortifieth the Heart, especially when mixed with some Violets and Cloves concocted in Whitewine; and being mixed with infusion of Roses, or laxative Syrup of Roses, it is an excellent Purge for all evil Humours. There is a Syrup made of Sena.   

Senses to Refresh: To enliven the Senses, and restore the Memory, Take a handful of Baum, bruise it and steep it in Whitewine in an earthen Vessel well glazed, and covered; then put it into an Alembick, and of the distilled Water take every Morning fasting a spoonful, and fast an Hour after it.   

Sharpness of Urinal: Take the dried stuff that divides the Lobes of the Kernels of walnuts, beat them to a Powder, and take about a dram at a time in a draught of Whitewine or Posset-drink, or in any other convenient Liquor.   

Shoulder of Mutton, with Disters: Take a Shoulder of Mutton, roast it with Oysters, stuffed in the most convenient Places of it; then make Sauce with some Gravy, Claret-Wine, Pepper, grated Nutmeg, sliced Lemon, and Broom-buds, giving it a warm or two: then dish the Mutton, the Oysters being taken out; put the Sauce to it, and they in it, and garnish with sliced Lemon, and Barberries.   

Sickness-Falling: Take half a dram of the best Amber, beat it into fine Powder, and take it once a Day, when the Stomach is most empty, in a quarter of a pint of Whitewine.   

Sight-Weak: Take Eyebright, sweet Fennel-seeds, and fine Sugar, of each an ounce; reduce them to Powder, and mix these together, and take the Composition from a dram to two or more, as occasion requires.   

Sinews Hurt: If these are any ways bruised, pained, or swelled, Take Lavender, the Stalk, Leaves, and Flower, cut them small, put them into Whitewine, and distil them through an Alembick, washing the Parts grieved with the said Water; and drink about two ounces of it Morning and Evening, and wash the Forehead and Temples with it, in case of any Pains there, by reason of any Afflictions of the Brain, from which the Sinews and Nerves originally proceed.   

Skin Infected: Take the Roots of Vines, boil them in Water with the Seeds of Vetches, commonly called Tares, and Fenugreek, of each a handful; and therewith wash the Places where ill Humours are apt to settle.   

Skin to keep open: If an Issue in the Skin is not easily kept open, but too apt to dry up, Take Lapis Infernalis an ounce, Crown Soap an ounce and half, Chalf-finely powdered six drams; mix them altogether carefully, and keep them close stopped, and when you use them, mix them well together, and lay over it Plasterwise.   

Sleep to Procure: Take Water-lilies half a handful, Opium one dram, steep these, the Lilies being bruised, in three pints of Malmsey, twenty four hours, then put in an ounce of Salt finely beaten, Poppy-seed a dram, Lettice-seed three drams, distil them in Balneo Mariae.  
The Dose is from half a dram to a dram, when the Party is going to Bed. There is likewise an Ointment to cause Sleep, viz. Take about half an ounce of Oil of Violets, Henbane-seed, and Mandragora-roots, of each half a dram, Saffron and Cassia-wood, of each a Scruple, Oil of Olives six ounces, Oil of Mallows, as much; bruise and mix these till they may be reduced to an Ointment, over a gentle Fire, by pressing out the unctuous Matter, and with it anoint the Breasts, Forehead, and Temples when you would go to rest.   

Smack Elixir: Take the distilled Oils of Cinnamon, Cloves, and Wormwood, Citron and Orange-Peel, of each six drops, refined Sugar, finely beaten, Spirit of Wine rectified, and Mint and Orange-flower-water, of each six ounces: mix them well, and make an Elixir.  
This Elixir is exceeding good in all cold Infirmities of the Stomach, as also to fortify the Nobler Parts. The Dose is from two drams to half an ounce, in Wine, Ale, or the like.   

Smallpox, the Scars thereof: To prevent these, Make a Lineament of Rose-water four ounces, Hogs-lard two ounces, Oil of Rosemary halt an ounce, Tuttia one dram: These being made into a Lineament, anoint the Face, Hands, and Neck, just as the Disease is in its declining, and the Scabs begin to dry.   

Sores: Take a solution of Sublimate, and having made with Quicklime a strong Limewater that will bear an Egg, drop it gradually on the Sublimate, till it will precipitate on more reddish stuff at all; and when you perceive the Liquors act on longer visibly upon one another, pour the Mixture into a filter of Cap-paper, which retaining the Orange colour precipitated, will transmit an indifferently clear Liquor, which must be kept close stopped in a glass Viol., viz. to wash the Part grieved.  
This is exceeding good in old Sores, Ulcers, Breaking-out, and other suchlike Diseases.   

Sores of the Mouth to Heal: Take the Leaves of Marshmallows, and boil them in Wine, wherein Honey has been dissolved, add some Roch-alom in powder, then press out the liquid part very hard, so suffer it to stand and cool: and with this Decoction wash and gargoyle your Mouth and Throat, if it be sore.   

Sore Nose: This often happens through the Effects of the French Disease, not perfectly cured, and many times in the Mouth, as well as the Nose. For Remedy then, Take the Juice of common Hounds-tongue, and that of Plantain, of each three ounces: boil these Juices to a thickness over a gentle Fire, adding to them Oxymel Scilliticum, and anoint the sore Part often; or dipping a linen Rag in it, thrust it up the Nostril, if the grief be mostly there.   

Sores Old: Take Aristolochia Longa, Aloes Epatica, of each an ounce: make them into a Powder, and with Honey of Roses work it into a Past; and having cleansed the Sore with Oil of Tartar, or the Decoction of Myrrh; spread some of the Past on a Leather, or pliant Cloth, and lay it to the Place grieved; and in twice or thrice renewing it, you will find wonderful success in the Cure.   

Sores Putrefied: Take Milfoil and Sanicola, of each half a handful; boil them in Water, and strain the liquid part through a linen Cloth, and with the Decoction, mix the Meal of Fenugreek, the Fat of a Goat, and as much Olive-oil as will thicken them, and make them into an Ointment over a gentle Fire: with which often anoint the Sores, and it will heal them.   

Sore Throat: Take a piece of greasy linen Cloth, so much as being double may make a Bag in the from of a Stay to reach from one side of the Throat to the other, and contain as much Matter as may make it of the thickness of an inch, or more: then filling it with common Salt, heat it thoroughly and apply it to the Part affected as warm as may be well endured; and when it grows cold, apply another like it well heated, and so continue to do forty eight Hours, if the Remedy be so long needed. This makes the Kernels fallen down, retire to their proper places, and abates Swell.   

Speech lost: This is not meant of those that are deaf from their Infancy, and so consequently dumb; but of such as through accident or hoarseness are deprived of their Speech. To remedy this, Take Ireos' half an ounce, Pennyroval, Hyssop, and Licorice, of each three drams; Gum-Tragacanth, and bitter Almonds, Kernels of Pines, Cinnamon and Pepper, of each one dram and a half; Figs, Dates, and Currans, of each two ounces; red Styrax three scruples and a half; cut the Fruits small, and powder the rest, and to every ounce add three ounces of Sugar, and make it into an Electuary with Honey, or Syrup of Hyssop, and take in the Morning fasting, and at Night going to Bed a quarter of an ounce, washing it down with warm Ale: and so do for five or six Days and Nights, and the Cure will be effected.   

Speckles: For these, or Pimples, th' t are not angry or fiery, Take the Blood of a Hare warm, if you can get it, and the Oil of Cinnamon, and anoint the Face with it.   

Specifick-Purge: Take raw Antimony, and Sal Amoniack powdered and mixed together, of each six ounces: sublime the combustible red Flowers, according to Art, and of them take four ounces; of the best Nitre take eight ounces: let them fulminate in subliming Pots, and gather the Flower without wasting any of it; dulcify the Flower with hot Water till there be on more saltness remaining: upon this Powder dried over a very gentle Fire, pour rectified Spirit of Wine four Fingers breadth above the Matter, put them all into an Alembick with a Receiver luted to it; then distil them at first with a gentle Fire, increase it by degrees that the substance may come to a dryness: expose the Powder, being perfectly dried, to the Fire for the space of an Hour, and keep it for use in a close Box, or Galley-pot.  
This remarkable Preparation of Antimony is sudorisick, powerfully provoking Sweat, pens the Belly gently, being taken at a distance from Meals, from twenty to thirty grains in some Conserve, in a Bolus, or dissolved in some agreeable Cordial-water.   

Speedwell: The Male sort of this Herb is of excellent Virtue for opening Obstructions of the Lungs, for the Colic and Spleen, and is an Antidote against the Plague, and is helpful in Wounds, curing the Itch. We have it from good Hands, That a large Dose of the Decoction of this Herb, taken for some time, expelled a Stone from the Kidney of a Woman that had been tormented with it for fifteen or sixteen Years. Also a Woman that was accunted Barren seven Years, conceived upon taking the Powder of it in the distilled Water for a considerable time. The Syrup is of great use in the Disease of the Lungs; and a Person who had a very dangerous Ulcer in his Leg, found Ease, and in a short time a Remedy, by washing in the Water of it, and applying wet Rags dipped in the said Water, by taking away the Inflammation, and all the Symptoms that accompanied it. One who had a Fistula in the Breast, and in vain had used divers Medicaments, it's said, was cured with this Water, by inwardly taking it. Rags dipped in it, and applied hot, do make Scabs fall away in Children, and then wash them over with Water of Fumitory and Whey. But for all these Experiments, the Reader may try them as occasion offers, and be more amply satisfied. The Virtues of this Herb are many.   

Spirit-Antiscorbutick: Take Elder and Juniper-berries, and bruise them; the Seed of Scurvigrass, Carduus-Benedictus, and Garden ●…ses, of each two pound●, put them all into a convenient Vessel; and having mixed with them a pint of Ale-Yeast, set them to ferment in a Stove, or hot Place; and when that is over, distil them, and preserve the Spirit.   

Spirit Epileptic: Take the Flowers of Lily of the Valley, Lavender, Sage, Tillet, Primroses, and Rosemary, of each two handfuls; gather the Flowers in their season, and macerate them altogether in six pints of the Spirit of Wine rectified; then add to them Misleto of the Oak, Roots of Valerian, and Male-Peony, of each four ounces, being bruised and macerated eight Days in a pint of Malmsey, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, and Nutmegs, of each half an ounce; mix them altogether, and distil them in a glass Cucurbit covered with its Head in a Sand-bath, and preserve the Spirit as a very excellent one.  
It is very proper for the ease and cure of Epileptic Diseases. It is to be given from two drams to half an ounce, alone or mixed with cephalick Liquors, It may be also put up the Nostrils, applied to the Temples, and other Parts, for easing Pains, and preventing the arising of Vapours to the Brain, which occasion Fits and Disorders.   

Spirit of Salt: Take the finest white Salt, and dry it over a Fire, or else in the Sun, so powder it finely to the quantity of two pound weight; mix it well with six pound of Potters-earth finely powdered, make them up into a Mass very hard with Rain-water, as much as will conveniently do it, from this Mass, by dividing into Balls, in the bigness of a Hazelnut, and let them dry in the Sun a considerable time; and when they are dried, put them into a large earthen Pot, or a Glass that may be luted, a third part of it being left empty, place the Retort in a reverberatory Furnace, and fit to it a large Receiver, luting the Joints, and give a moderate heat to warm it, and so make an insipid Water drop forth; and when white Clouds succeed those drops, pour out that which is in the Receiver: and having refitted it, lute the Joines close, and by degrees encreale the Fire to the last degree of all; and so in this condition continue it twelve or fifteen Hours, when all that time the Receiver will be hot, and full of white Clouds: but when it grows cold, and they disappear, then unlute the Junctures, for the operation is at an end; and than you will have the Spirit of Salt in the Receiver. So pour it into a glass or earthen Bottle, and stop it with Wax.  
This singular Spirit has an aperitive quality, and therefore is used in Juleps to an agreeable Acidity for such as are subject to the Stone, or Gravel; 'tis also used to cleanse and whiten the Teeth, also to fasten lose Teeth, being tempered with a little Water, and to consume the rottenness of the Stump.   

Spirit of Salt, Dulcified and Sweet: Mix equal Parts of Spirit of Salt, and Spirit of Wine, set them two or three Days in Digestion in a double Vessel in a gentle Sand-Bath.  
This is taken more safely inwardly than the former, because it is less Corrosive: It may be given from four to twelve drops in some proper Liquid.   

Spirit of Scururigrass: Take the Bark of Ash Tree, Roots of Fraxinel, Tamarisk, and Capers, each one ounce and half; Polypody of the Oak two ounces, wild Radish three ounces, Scurvigrass-Leaves four handfuls, Water-cresses, Brook-lime, Sorrel, and Spleen-wort, of each three handfuls; Bay-berries, and Juniper-berries, of each six drams; the Tops of the lesser Centaury a handful; Seeds of Citron, Mustard, Carduus-Benedictus, of each halfan ounce; Cloves, Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg, of each three drams: these being cut and bruised, digest them in a warm Sand-Bath, in a gallon of White-wine, and three pints of good Brandy for three Days: then distil them in Sand by an Alembick.  
Of this twenty drops is a sufficient Dose for the Scurvy, and all the other Distempers attending it, as Pains, Prickings, Shortness of Breath, Foulness of the Lungs, Yellowness of the Teeth, decaying of the Gums, and the like. This is called the Golden Spirit of Scurvigrass, easing the Pains of the Belly in Children, and kill Worms. But for the latter, ten or twelve drops may serve.   

Spirit Uterine: Take the Roots of round and long Bithwort, Peony, and the lesser Valerian, of each two ounces; Castor one ounce; dry Tops of Wormwood, Mugwort, tansy, Fetherfew, Elder, and Camomil-flowers, of each a handful: shred and bruise all together. Let them macerate three Days in two quarts of the rectified Spirit of Wine: then distil them according to Art, and keep the Spirit for your use.  
This is excellent, and most effectual to suppress the Vapours that arise from the Matrix, and to open Obstructions. It is to he given from one to two or three drams at a time in Hysterick Waters, or Decoctions: It may likewise be put up the Nostrils, or applied to the Temples, or Navel, with good Success.   

Spirit of Wine to Distil: Take the Wine and Lees of what sort you think convenient, put it into an Alembick, draw it off, and rectify it into what height you please. It is excellent, taken in cold Distempers, or to mix with any Cordial Water, to temper them with heat, according to the degrees the Distempers require, for which they are to be taken. The Joints afflicted with cold Pains, being bathed with it, ease them: It's good in the Gout and Sciatica, the afflicted Parts bathed with it, and is used for Lacca to change Silver to a gold colour, as also in Varnish, and in making up sundry Medicines. Baum, Rue, and the Leaves of Walnuts being beaten and made up into a Conserve with it, resist the Plague and pestilential Fevers.   

Spirit of Wine, another: This Spirit, when made the best way, is drawn from Branny chief, and not of that which is usually called Wine. Four gallons then of the best Brandy must be mixed with four quarts of ordinary Salt, and put into an Alembick, or Bay-salt dried and finely powdered. Lute the Head, and do it over a gentle Fire, lest being too long a drawing it off, it waft and consume too much; that which is the highest or rectified part being fired, will burn all away; but the second Spirit will not do so.  
This makes curious Tinctures in chemical Operations, and being upon other occasions outwardly applied, it discusses tumors, and cures Burns, if taken in time: It also eases the Pains of the Gout, and cold Pains in the Joints.   

Spitting Blood: Take Ash-leaves, and the Seeds of Nettles; boil them, when well bruised, in Whitewine: put to the Decoction a little Sanguis Draconis, Spodium, and : then these being infused, strain it again, and drink half a quarter of a pint mixed with half an ounce of the Syrup of red Roses.   

Spots, or Stains: If in Silk, caused by Grease, Take the Bone of a Sheep's-foot, burn it to powder, and beat a red-hot Tobbaccopipe into Powder also: then sift these, and mingle them together. Take of this Powder, and lay on the Spot; then lay on it the back of a Spoon that has a red-hot Coal in the hollow of it; and then the heat, if the Grease be little, will cause the Powder to suck it out.   

Spots of Pitch and Rosin are taken out by applying Oil of Turpentine, rubbing it in, and letting it lie, and it will crumble away: so likewise Tar will rub out like a speck of Dirt.   

Spots in the Skin to take away: Take Water of Talk, and Lemon-juice; infuse in them the Roots of Mandragora, and let them stand five Days in the Sun, or some warm place, and then strain out the liquid part, and with it bathe the Spots: and in often so doing they will disappear. Or, for want of these, wash them with the Water of Radishes, drawn by an Alembick, and anoint the Skin with the Meal of Orobo mixed with Honey.   

Spots in Stuff, or woollen: Take Fullers-earth two ounces, Castile-soap an ounce, the fine sift of coarse Bran half an ounce: mix these with fair Water, make them up into a kind of Paste, and lay then some of it on the Spot; and being then a little moist, let it dry on before a gentle Fire.   

Stains that come not by Grease are taken out by boiling Lemon-peel in Small-beer, with a little Copperas, till it be very strong of them: then with a hard Brush rub up the place with it, and take it out again after a while with fair Water, wherein a little Castile-soap has been dissolved.   

Staunching Blood: Take round Mushrooms, or Puff-balls, in Autumn, when they are full ripe; break, them warily, and save carefully the Powder that will fly out, and the rest that remains in their Cavities, and strew this Powder all over the Part affected, binding it on with a Lineament, and the Bleeding will be immediately stayed.   

Stephens'- Water: See Doctor Stephens'- Water.   

Stiffness of the Sinews to supple: Take twelve Frogs, Hog's lard one pound, Oil of Bays two pound, and Bay-berries dried and reduced to Powder two ounces: boil them together sufficiently, then press them through a linen Cloth, add then white Incense in powder one ounce, and make the Liquid into an Ointment over a gentle Fire, with which anoint the Parts often, and it will comfort the Sinews, and restore them to a limberness, and make them very supple; and always after anointing, wash it with the following Decoction, viz.  
Take the Roots and Leaves of Agrimony, with the Roots of Mallows, boil them in Water till they be tender, strain out the liquid part, and bathe with it.   

Stinging of Infects: If you are stung with Wasps, Hornets, Bees, or the like, Take Juniper-berries when ripe and bruise them, then distil them through an Alembick; and not only wash the place stung, but drink about a quarter of a pint of it with an ounce of the Juice of Rue.   

Stiptick-Water, the New Way: Take Colcothar, or red Vitriol, which remains in the Retort after the Spirit is drawn out, Sugar-candy, and Burnt-alom, of each half a dram; the Urinal of a young Lad, and Rose-water, of each half an ounce, Plantain-water two ounces: mix them well together for a considerable time, then pour the Mixture into a Viol, and when you separate it, do it by inclination for use.  
This is so excellent for stopping Bleeding, that a Bolster dipped in it, and applied to an open Artery, and held there a while, it has stayed the bleeding of it. A Pledget thrust up the Nostrils does the like for the bleeding there. Taken inwardly, it cures the Spitting of Blood, and Bloodyflux, etc. The Dose, taken inwardly, is from half a dram to a dram, and it may be given in the Water of Knotgrass, Nettles, or Woodsorrel. This Water is excellent for any one to carry about them, and may upon any Accident happening save a Life, that the Effusion of Blood, if not speedily stopped, may carry away with it.   

Stomach Hot: When you find any great Heat or Burning in your Stomach, Take green Housleek, bruise it and press out the Juice; then over a gentle Fire make it into a Syrup with white Sugar.  
This is likewise excellent good, a quarter of an ounce taken at a time for the Heart burn.   

Stomach Pained: If the Stomach be afflicted with Pains occasioned by windiness, or Causes proceeding from the defect of the Milt, Take an ounce of Cinnamon, Rapontici and Galangal, as much; put to them, when bruised, half a pound of Sugar, and lay it, when boiled up to a height, on Plates, make them into Lozenges: Take one at a time, and drink a glass of Wine after it, and it will work gently; so that in often taking, your Thirst will be much abared.   

Stomachical Tincture: Take Agrimony two drams, small Centaury-tops one dram, Corianderseeds bruised one scruple, Sassafras, Shave and Bark, one dram; Gentian-root half a dram, Zedoary-root ten grains: put these to three quarters of a pint of boiling Spring-water, cover it, and let them steep twelve Hours: then strain it, and Bottle it up.  
It exceedingly fortifies and refreshes the Stomach, eases it of Pains and Gripe, and prevents the Iliac-Passion.   

Stone, the Cause and Cure: The Stone is engendered of vicious and slimy Phlegm in the Reins and Bladder, where by heat it petrifies and takes to itself the hardness and nature of a Stone.  
To dissolve and bring away this, Take of the Tops of borage, Fenel, Parsly, Endive and Succory, Spearage and Beets, of each a little handful; shred them and boil them in three quarts of Rhenish-wine, drink a quarter of a pint of it Morning and Evening; and once a Week, take a Clyster made of Mallows, Groundsil, Southernwood, and Fetherfew boiled in fair Water, and mixed with two ounces of brown Sugar, especially if the Affliction be in the Reins.   

Stone, or Gravel: Take thirty or forty Drops of Spirit of Castor in a Glass of Rhenish Wine every Morning fasting.   

Stone and Gravel: Take four gallons of running Water, four pound of fine Sugar in powder, Eringo-roots, and Raisins of the Sun stoned, of each one pound; a branch of fresh Rosemary: boil all these together till half be consumed; then work it up with a little Yeast, tun it, and put the Peel of a fresh Lemon into it: when it hath done working, you may Bottle it if you please. Of this drink Morning and Evening, and whensoever you are adry.   

Stone and Gravel, another: Take the White of a new-layed Egg, and beat it well with a Spoon in a Porringer for a quarter of an hour; then let it settle, and take off the Scum: mix the Clear with two spoonfuls of Whitewine, and four spoonfuls of red Rose-water, and put to it one ounce of Sugar-candy in Powder: mix all well together, and take it in the Morning fasting, and another at Night going to Bed. Continue this seven Days.   

Stone and Gravel, another: Take of the Juice of Leeks, Onions and Radishes, of each two pound; Juices of Lemons, Pellitory, and Mouse-ear, of each half a pound; Calx of Crystal, and Pidgeon's-dung, of each half a pound: digest it for ten Days, then distil it. You may give it from one dram to half an ounce at a time in Rhenish Wine.   

Stone and Gravel, another: Gather the Leaves of Golden-Rod when it is in its greatest Vigour, dry them in the shade; and when you are troubled with the Stone or Gravel, take one ounce thereof (made into subtle Powder) in a small Glass of White-wine and Milk, of each a like quantity; repeat this as often as there is cause for it. When the Herb is green, you may boil a handful of it in Whitewine Posset-drink, and drink it instead of the dried Herb, which is to keep all the Year.   

Stone and Gravel, a Diet: Forbear eating of Eggs, all salt and tart Meats and Sauces, Pork, Milk, or any thing made of Milk, except Possets, Cabbage, Colworts, Colliflowers, and suchlike: let your Diet be Mutton, Veal, Rabbit and Fowl, and the quantity moderate; let your Drink be of the middling sort, and not too stolen. Forbear drinking Claret, drink Spanish Wine rather than French.   

Strain: The Strain or Sprain being newly contracted, Take a handful of Wormwood and bruise it well in a stone Mortar, then put to it the Whites of two Eggs beaten; make a Poultis of it, and lay it to the grieved place.   

Strangury: This is caused either from the Urin's being over sharp, which provokes the expulsive Faculties to expel it before any quantity be gathered together, or that the retentive Faculty to the Bladder is weakened through some distemperature, especially of Cold, or else through some Ulcer, or Inflammation of the Bladder, to which the Urinal coming, doth extimulate the expulsive Faculty; or lastly, when the Womb, or Bowels being inflamed do trouble or distend the Bladder. To remedy this,  
Take Cassia one dram, Manna two grains, Violets, Sorrel, and Purslain, of each a pugil; Licorice, Prunes, and the Leaves of Mallows, of each two ounces: bruise and boil these in two quarts of Whey till a fourth part be consumed; strain out the liquid part, and sweeten it with Honey, and drink a quarter of a pint as hot as may be fasting, and an hour after take a quarter of an ounce of the Oil of Violets, and half an ounce of the Oil of sweet Almonds mixed together.   

Straitness of the Breasts: This is frequently occasioned by evil Humours settling in the Breasts. To remedy which,  
Take Taxus-Barbatus, Fennel, and Licorice, of each a little handful: boil them in Water and Wine a like quantity; and when they become tender, strain the liquid part through a Linen-cloth; sweeten it with Sugar, and take about a quarter of a pint of it pretty hot in a Morning fasting.  
This likewise removes Hoarseness, or Defects occasioned by Cold, or tough Phlegm.   

Strengthening the Bowels: Take Cloves, or Chives (not Bulbs) of Garlic and swallow at convenient times one or two of them without chewing.   

Stump-Pye to Season: Take Veal or Mutton mince it raw, and make it up into Balls about the bigness of large Walnuts; then put half an ounce of Pepper, half an ounce of Nutmegs, and half an ounce of Cloves and Mace; Margerum, Thyme, and Savory cut small, then add a pound of Currans: mix these well together, and put them to two pound of the Meat; then work them up into Balls of the aforesaid bigness with six Eggs, and at the closing up put a pound of Butter dispersed among them in little Balls as big as Marbles. Then make a Caudle with a quarter of a pint of Whitewine, half a quartern of Verjuice, the Yolks of three Eggs, and a little whole Mace: then putting in about a quarter of a pound of Butter when they are well beaten up and thickened over a gentle Fire, put it into the Pie; and so closing the Lid, bake it in an indifferently well heated Oven.   

Surfeit-Water: Take what quantity of Brandy you please, and steep a proportionable quantity of red Poppy-flowers in it, the black Bottoms being taken off; and when the colour is extracted, press them out, and put in fresh, and so do till the Brandy is of a deep Tincture; then slice in Nutmeg, Ginger and Cinnamon, of each two drams, to a quart of the Brandy, and add an ounce of fine Sugar likewise to every quart. Then keep it close stopped, and it is excellent good for Surfeits, Wind, or Illness of the Stomach.   

Sweat to Provoke: Take the Herb or Plant called Rape, the Roots of Plantain the Lesser, and Knotgrass, of each a handful; bruise them well, and boil them in Vinegar, strain out the liquid part, and take about a quarter of a pint of it going to Bed, and keep yourself warm, and it will purge out the ill Humours by a gentle breathing Sweat.   

Swelling to Break: Take of salt Butter half an ounce, Leaven one ounce, white Mustardseed two drams, Garlic one dram, Oil of Camomile three quarters of an ounce: bruise and mix these together, and apply them hot Poultiswise, spread on Colwort-leaf, suffering it to lie on four or five Hours; and than if the Matter be soft, and the Skin not broke, open it gently with a Lancet, or potential Cautery of Cantharideses; and being opened, for its speedier Cure use this Decoction.  
Take round Aristolochia, Agrimony, Self-heal, Parsly-roots, and Gentian, of each an ounce; boil them in half a pint of Wine, and as much Water; and tenting it with proper Unguents, lay on this consolidating Plaster.  
Take the dried Leaves of round Aristolochia one ounce, Frankincense, Mastic, and Myrrh, of each two drams; Aloes-succotrine one dram, Litharge four scruples, red Lead two scruples, Meal of Lupins one dram; make these into a very fine Powder: then dissolve Deers-suet one ounce, Oil of St. John's-wort six drams, washed Turpentine half an ounce, Bees-wax three ounces; and being well incorporated over a gentle Fire, put in the Powder, and make all into a Plaster.  
This is admirable in any tumors, or Swell, and more-particularly in Plague-Sores.   

Swelling when the Gout ceases: To Remedy this, Take the Ashes of  Oyster-shells, or rather the Powder of them, when they are calcined, the Ashes of Spongel and Dodder, of each an ounce: boil them in a pint of sharp Vinegar, and a quarter of a pint of Water; and with the Decoction bathe the liquid part as hot as may be endured.   

Swelling of the Liver, or Milt: Take the Leaves and Berries of Ivy, infuse them when bruised ten days in Whitewine; then boil it till the Wine is nearly consumed, strain out, by hard pressing, what liquid part remains, and put to it a like quantity of Olive-oil, and half the quantity of Bees-wax, and therewith being warmed over a gentle Fire, anoint the Place nearest to the Internals, so grieved, as hot as it may be endured; and in so often doing, you will find great Advantage thereby.   

Swelling of the Matrix: This is frequently caused by Ventosities, or Windiness after the Birth of Children. To Remedy it. Take Mustardseed, or Rape-seed, and boil them in Water, make a Fomentation, and inject it: but if it happen through inflammation, or evil purgation, attended with an Ague, let the Party take a dram of the Powder of Peony-roots in warm Broth, fasting, in which has been boiled the Flowers of Chamomil.   

Swallow-Water: Take twelve Swallows out of the Nest, cast them whole into a glass Alembick, add thereto the Shave of a Man's Skull three ounces, Castor one ounce and a half, Powder of Misleto one ounce; Juice of the Roots and Leaves of Male-Peony six ounces, Water of the Flowers of Tillet, Lavender, and Lily of the Valley, of each a pint and a half; Vinegar of Squills half a pint: macerate them over a gentle Fire the space of forty hours; then distil them in a moderate Sand-bath, and keep the Water for use.  
It is an excellent corrected Anti-Epileptick-Water, and has particular Virtues against that Distemper. It is given about a spoonful in the Fit, and may be continued every Day, as occasion requires, after the use of general Remedies.   

Swelling of the Yard: Take the Juice of the Herb called Cauda Equina, mix it with the Juice of Endive, and take four spoonfuls Morning and Evening; or, Take the Water of the Herb distilled through an Alembick to the like quantity, anointing the grieved Part with a Mixture of the Oils of Mallows, Roses, and Earthworms.   

Syrup of Citron-Iuice: Take three pints of Citron-Juice extremely purified, put it into a glass or glazed earthen Vessel; then dissolve therein six pound of fine Sugar, stir it till the Sugar be wholly incorporated with the Juice; continue stirring, as well when it is off, as when upon the Fire, and observe that you make use of no Vessels for the preparation of this, or any other Syrup of acid Juices, but such as are made of glass, or glazed Earth; for if they be of Metal, the Acids will take their Tincture and spoil.  
This is a great cooler, and therefore given in Fevers and hot Diseases; also to cut Phlegm, and gargarize sore Mouths.   

Syrup of Coral: Take four ounces of red Coral well chosen, beat it into Powder on a porphyry Stone; moisten it with Rose-water, and being dry, put it into a glass Cucurbit, and pour on it three pints of the Juice of Barberries well clarified; put the Cucurbit in a Bath of Ashes moderately hot forty hours, stirring the Ingredients from time to time with a wooden Spatula; then filter the Liquor through a brown Paper; weigh it, and return it into a glass Cucurbit set in Balneo Mariae; dissolve in it the double weight of Sugar, and it is excellent in pestilential Distempers.   

Syrup of Elder: Take ripe Elderberries, bruise them well, press out the Juice, and put to a gallon a pint of Canary, or Muscadel, boil it to the consumption of almost one half, keeping it well scummed; and when 'tis hot off the Fire, put in the Sugar, and stir it about: then set it on again till it thickens to a Syrup.  
This cleanses the Stomach and Spleen, takes away the Obstructions of the Liver, by taking a spoonful fasting, often.   

Syrup Epileptic: Take Misleto of the Oak, Roots of Peony, the Shave of a dead Man's Skull that died a violent Death, of each half an ounce; Flowers of Lily of the Valley, Rosemary, Lavender, Sage, and Marigolds, of each a little handful: bruise the Misleto and Roots, and put them together with the Shave of the Skull and Flowers, into a Matras, and pour on them one pint of rectified Spirit of Wine; and having well closed the Vessel, let them macerate a Week together over a moderate Heat; then with a gentle heat draw off half the Spirit of Wine, and preserve it apart. The remainder being pressed, reduced, and filtered, bring it into the consistence of a Syrup with eight ounces of the finest Sugar; then aromatize it with two drops of distilled Cinnamon.  
This Syrup is very highly commended for the Prevention and Cure of the Epilepsy. It is to be taken alone, and fasting, from half an ounce to an ounce: You may reinforce the Dose with a dram of the Spirit drawn off, and mix the Syrup with cephalick Waters, or Decoctions.   

Syrup of Rhubarb: Take of the best Rhubarb, and the Leaves of Senna, of each two ounces and a half; a handful of Violet-flowers, Cinnamon one dram and a half, Ginger half a dram, the Water of Bettony, Bugloss, and Succory, of each a pint and a half: let these infuse over warm Ashes, or Embers, a Night, the liquid part being well pressed out through a close Strainer; and then boil it up with Sugar to a Syrup, adding to it four ounces of the solutive Syrup of Roses.  
This is a very curious and gentle Purge, and may be safely given to Children and weak People upon any urgent occasion, they being kept from taking Cold upon its reception. The Dose is from one ounce to an ounce and a half. It expels evil Humours, fortifies the Stomach, and causes a good Digestion, kills Worms in Children, and causes gentle breathing Sweats.   

Syrup for Rheums: Take Syrup Jubebs, Syrup of Corn Poppy-flowers, and dried Roses, of each an ounce: mix these together, and take half a spoonful at a time.   

Cider to Make and Order: Take your Apples, as you fancy the Cider most convenient to your Palate, viz. either Red-streaks, Pearmains, Pippins, Golden-Pippins, etc. when they are indifferent ripe, so that upon shaking they will fall with tolerable Ease: bruise or grind your Apples very small; and then putting them into a Hair-Bag, squeeze out the Juice in a Press by degrees, and not over-hastily: put up the Liquid part into a Cask seasoned by burning a Rag in it, at the end of a Stick, dipped in Brimstone, when the Smoke is evaporated, and the Vessel washed with a little warm Liquor that has run through the second straining, or Husks of the Apples: and to make it work kindly, put in a little Flower and Honey made up in a Past, and enclosed in a thin Rag; so let it stand in a moderate warm place six or seven Days; and then draw it off from the Lees or Settling into another Cask so ordered or Bottle it up at your discretion. But in Bottling take care to leave an inch space from the Cork, lest it working or fermenting again, it either force out the Cork, on break the Bottles. Or if such Danger appear by the singing of the Air through the porous Part of the Cork, you may open them and give them vent, or have a Quill run through the Cork, which you may stop and open at pleasure with less danger and difficulty. And so of the Cask, in Winter keep it in a warm place for fear of chilling or freezing: and in Summer in a cold Place, lest it ferment; and that tainting it, it grow musty or thick. You may likewise preserve it from these latter, by putting a little lump of Loaf-Sugar for it to feed on.   

Cider of Codlins': This is usually made for present spending; for it will not keep longer than Autumn, though it is of an excellent Taste, and very pleasant, and sparkling to the Eye; and so called Summer-Syder. To do this, Take your Codlins' when they begin to be ripe, and lay them in Hay or Straw three Days, after they are gathered, to sweat a little; then cut them in quarters, and take out the Coat and Kernels, and bruise them as the former; squeeze out the Liquid part, and let it run into a Vessel beneath the Press, through a very fine Hair or Tiffany-Sieve, that may stop the Fragments that will come away with it. Being drawn off, warm it over a gentle Fire, but suffer it not to boil, scum off the part that bubbles up, and sprinkle into it some fine powdered white Sugar-candy; then put it up into a Cask, and with a little of it, heat about half a pint of Ale-Yeast, and pour it in very warm; and so let it work for Twenty four Hours, then draw it off into another Cask, or Bottles, and leave either of them open ten or twelve Hours in a cool place till it is fit to stop up close: and so ordering it, it will be fit to drink in eight or ten Days, and have a curious cooling tart flavour with it.   

Cider another way: Take such Apples as are suitable to your Palate, pair them, and cutting out the Core and Kernels, slice them, and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water till a third part be consumed. A Peck of sliced Apples to a Barrel of Water, when first put in, before the consumption, is sufficient. Then strain the Water from the boiled Apples, and pour it on three Pecks of bruised Apples that are not boiled; and so letting it, after fourteen or fifteen Hours steeping, run from them; then press out what will not otherways come away by the swelling of the Apples, and put it up for use. Let it work sufficiently; then stop it close, and be careful to mind it, also giving vent, if there be occasion, lest it force the Cask, or Bottles; and when it is fined, it will be in Colour and Taste like Champaign Wine.   

Cider another Way: Take a peck of Apples and slice them, and boil them in a Barrel of Water, till the third part be wasted; then cool your Water as you do for Wort: when it is cooled you must pour the Water upon three measures of ground Apples; then drain out the Water at a Tap three or four times a day, for three Days together; then press out the Liquor and Tun it up: when it hath done working, then stop it up close.   

Cider its Spirit: This may be gained without distilling, and the better way by setting a Hogshead of Cider to freeze in Winter, and so the strength of it retiring to the middle, (which will be about twelve or fourteen gallons, when the weaker part is overpowered by the cold● let it out by broaching with a hot Iron. It will prove stronger than Canary, and much of the Taste.  
This Way is frequently used in New-England, and other Places, where they have great plenty of Cider.   

TAblets of Saffron: Take Saffron of Vitriol of Mars half an ounce, Earthworms washed in Wine, dried and pulverised, one dram, Cinnamon Powder, very fine, half a dram, refined Sugar boiled in Mugwort-water six ounces: mix them well, and make them into Tablets, called Tablets of Saffron of Mars.  
These Tablets are proper to open Obstructions of the Bowels, and particularly those of the Matrix. The Dose is from two drams to half an ounce: they are to be taken fasting in a Morning, and about an Hour after drink two or three spoonfuls of Wormwood Wine.   

Taffety-Tarts: Take fine Flower a quarter of a peck, the Yolks of twelve Eggs, sweet Butter two pound, Yeast a quarter of a pint, Sugar two ounces: mix these well with hot Liquor till they may be made into a stiff Past, roll it up into small Balls, and then into thin Plates with your Roller: wash round the Brims of them with new Milk; then boil Pippens soft, take off the Peel, and scrape off the Pulp from the Core; mix the Pulp with a little Sugar, Rose-water, the Scrape, and candied Orange-peel, and a little Marmalade of Quinces: make them up in the forms of Tarts, bake them in a gentle Oven, after you have dried them first in a warm Place, and serve them up scraped over with Sugar, and sprinkled with Essence of Violets, or Roses.   

Talk-Water: Take of the best Talk six pound, slit it in five pieces, put it in a thin Canvas Bag, and let it down into a Well, or any deep damp place, by a Rope, that it may hang about a Yard from the Water, with a Vessel under it, to receive the dropping when it moistens.  
Let it hang there ten or twelve Days, then take the Water you find and distil it with as much of the Water of Fumitory in a cold Still.  
This is an excellent Beautifier, makes the Skin smooth and plump, giving a rosy Blush, and wonderfully preserves a youthful and healthy Complexion in Men and Women.   

tansy: The Juice is good, but the Conserve is most approved. 'Tis used for the Gripes, Stone in the Kidneys, Worms in the Belly, Obstruction of the Courses, and the Dropsy: It resists Putrefaction, and brings away or expels putrified Blood: It is good for the Scurvy, and purifies the whole Mass of Blood, enlivening the whole Body; but especially for the Dropsy it is taken with good success.   

tansy the New Way: Take about twelve or thirteen new-layed Eggs to three pints of Cream, yet put in but seven of the Whites of the Eggs, and strain out a pint of the Juice of spinach, or Endive, and Sorrel, six or seven spoonfuls of the Juice of tansy, Nutmeg sliced small, and half a pound of fine Sugar, with a little Rose-water and a little Salt beat together: then fry it in a clean Pan, that it be not blacked, with Butter. Serve it up with Sugar, Rose-water, and Orange-juice.   

tansy, another way: Take a penny Manchet, grate it very fine, add a handful of fine Flower, and the Yolks of six Eggs; then grate in two Naples Biscuits: make these thin into a Batter with Rose-water and Canary; then add two ounces of the Juice of Garden-Tansie, after it is well clarified and settled, and an ounce of the Juice of Clary, with a little beaten Cinnamon and Sugar: Fry these in sweet Butter over a gentle Fire, till it becomes somewhat brown, but beware of burning it, for than it is spoiled: then serve it up sprinkled with Rose-water, wherein Saffron has been infused, and scrape over some Loaf-sugar.   

Taragon: This is used frequently in Salads to correct the coldness of other Herbs, and their Crudities. It is good for cold Stomaches, procuring an Appetite, and expelling Wind: It provokes Urinal and the Courses, opens Obstructions; and being chewed, evacuates Phlegm, and eases the Pains of the Teeth.   

Taragon-Poultis: Take of Taragon a handful, Ruetops half a handful, Brionyleaves five or six; bruise them well, and mix them with two ounces of the Oil of Water-lilies.  
This is an excellent Poultis, to allay Inflammations in Swell, ease Pains in the Belly, by being applied to the Navel pretty warm; suddenly draws to a Head, and breaks Plague-fores, or other Swell caused by internal Corruption.   

Tar-Water: Take of the best Sweeds Tar, refined from its dross, or settling, six pound, put it into a thin earthen Vessel, and set that Vessel in a cold Still; make under it a gentle Fire, and when there comes a thorough Heat, a thin Vapour will ascend and distil into your Receiver; or for fear of injuring the bottom of your Still, you may have such an earthen Vessel as will shut close with the head of your Still.  
This is an excellent and approved Water for all dry or old Sores, Scurfs, Scabs or Ulcers, being washed or bathed with it. It likewise eases the Pains of the Gout, or any Pains occasioned by coldness in the Joints. A Lint dipped in it, and applied, eases the Pains in the Teeth: the Temples bathed with it eases the Pains in the Head.   

Tart of Green Pease: Boil the Pease tender, and pour them out into a Cullender, season them with Saffron, Sugar, and Salt, add sweet Butter, and then close up these Materials in a Past or Coffin: when it is baked, ice it over with Sugar and Rose-water: put in a little Verjuice, and shake it well; and so scraping a little Sugar on the Lid, serve it to up.   

Tart of Green Sprouts: Take green Sprouts, and give them a scald in hot Water, lay them a draining, and so mince them small, and put them into fine Paste, and garnish them with Herbs, season them with Lard melted, and Beef-marrow, and an Onion stuck with Cloves and Pepper, and some thin slices of interlarded Bacon between the interlaying of the Herbs, and so cover it up with some Paste; and when it is baked, put in some Gravy, and the Juice of Lemon, and serve it up.   

Tart of Pistaches: Cut the Pistaches, and green Citron, and put it into fine Past, and season it well with Sugar and Cinnamon, with the Juice of Lemon, and cover it up; when you serve it, put Orange-flowers flowers to it for garnish, or other candied Flowers.   

Tart of Rice: Boil the Rice, when clean dressed, in Cream, or Milk; and when it is tender, put it into a Dish, and season it with Nutmeg, Ginger, and Cinnamon, a little Pepper, Salt and Sugar, the Yolks of six Eggs, and the Juice of Oranges: bake it in a gentle Oven; and being enough, draw it: then scrape Sugar on the Lid of it, and so serve it up.   

Tartar, the Cream soluble: To make this Soluble, Take Cream of Tartar, as much as is convenient, dissolve it in a sufficient quantity of hot Water; then gently drop into it Liquor of Salt of Tartar till the Ebullition cease, evaporate the superfluous Moisture, and the soluble Cream of Tartar will remain; for the quantity of the fixed Salt surmounting the Acidity of the Cream of Tartar, breaks the union of its parts, and insinuating its pores, makes it dissolvible in cold Water, or cold Liquors; whereas, otherways, it could not be dissolved, but in those that are boiling hot.  
For Soluble Emetic Cream of Tartar take this Rule, Take Crocus Metallorum, mixed with Salts and Cream of Tartar, of each two ounces; pulverize them very finely, and let them macerate for fifteen Hours in three pints of cold Spring-water: then digest them as long in a moderate Sand-bath, and at length increase the Fire, and let them boil gently; filter the Liquor, and evaporate it till a thin Film cover it, than set it in a cool place to crystallize.  
The Parts of the Tartar-Cream being disunited by the fixed Salt remaining in the Saffron of Metals, is easily dissolved in cold Water, and fitted to purge upward and downward, giving it from two to three, four, five, or six grains, in Broth, or Wine, or some other convenient Liquor.   

Teal Boiled: Take the largest sort of Teal, draw them and pick them clean, then take about a dozen stewing Oysters, Thyme, Sage, Winter-savory and Parsley clean stripped and cut small: make them with a little Butter and Pepper into a Ball stiffened with Flower; and the Fowl being trussed, put this into the Belly, tying the Neck and Vent very close, than put the Fowl into the Water when it gins to boil: being boiled tender, dish them on Sippets, with Gravy, Anchovy-sauce, and the Herbs; laying the Oysters, with some Lemon-peel and Parsley, about the Dish for garnish.   

Tears to Prevent: If Tears or watery Humours are usually standing in the Eyes, hindering the Sight, and being much troubled, Take of Aloes Epatick two drams, infuse them in about half a pint of Whitewine, and Rose-water, of each an equal quantity, and wash the Eyes with the Liquid part Morning and Evening; or else foment them with the Water of Stechado's.   

Teasle, its Decoction: This is usually called Fullers-Thistle; the Roots of it boiled in Wine help to cure Ulcers, and Warts. There is a Water that is received in the hollowness of the Leaves of this Plant as it grows, after a shower of Rain, which, by long standing there, becomes good for the Inflammations of the Eyes, also to take away Spots from the Face, and beautify it. The Herb boiled in Wine purges by Urin.   

Teeth to Fasten: Take a pint of Red or Claret-wine, and about two drams of Japan-earth, dissolve it as much as may be; then pour off the Clear, and wash the Mouth with it often: or, Take Sage, and Winter-savory, boil them in Spring-water till the Water is strong of the Herbs; then put into a pint an ounce of Honey, and half an ounce of Alom, boil it a little till the latter are dissolved: and then it being strained, wash your Mouth with it at convenient times.   

Teeth to keep Sound: Let the Party, if it can be agreeable, frequently rub his Teeth with the Ashes that remain in a Pipe after it is smoked, washing it afterward with fair Water. Or, Take the Juice of Housleek, and Scabious, and wash your Mouth with it once or twice a Week in the Morning.   

Teeth to make Firm: Take the Ashes of Vine-sprigs, and those of the Root of Burdock, put them into Vinegar, let them steep about six Hours; and then first wash your Mouth with fair Water, and afterward with Vinegar strained clear from the Ashes, and it will fix and preserve the Teeth to a very great Age.   

Teeth Offensive: If your Teeth, by reason of their Rottenest, or Humours settling under them, cast an ill savour, to remedy it, Take four ounces of Cummin-seed, seethe if in a quart of Whitewine with some Tops of Baum and Mint, till a quarter of a pint be consumed: and with this wash your Mouth Morning and Evening.   

Tench-Pye: To order this, and season it well, Take about six Tenches; and having made the Coffin, lay a laying of Butter, and some Nutmeg, Cinnamon, and Mace lightly scattered over it; then lay in the Tench, put over them some more Butter and Spice, with a few blue Currans clean washed, and pour in about a quarter of a pint of Claret, then bake it well: when enough, take it out, and put in more Butter at the spout, and serve it up with some fine Sugar dusted over it.  
In this manner you may season a Carp-pye, but three of them, if any thing large, are sufficient in one Pye.   

Tender Eyes: Take the Water of Plantain, Eye bright, Pimpernel, and the Oil of Roses; beat them up together, and wash or anoint the Eyes with them, and the Sight will be much strengthened.   

Tenesmus: Mix Balsam of Sulphur, made with Oil of Turpentine, with Linfeed, or some other suchlike convenient drying Oil, till the Balsam be thereby so well allayed, that it may be well endured; then let the Party dip a Finger in it, and use it as a suppository once or twice a Day.   

Terms to Provoke: Take for three Mornings together, about the expected time of the Menses, a dram, or a dram and a half of the Galls and Livers of Eels dried and reduced to Powder, in a Glass of Whitewine or Canary.   

Tetter: To cure this, Take black Soap a quarter of an ounce,  two drams, Oil of Turpentine three drams, Bees-wax half an ounce, and Bears-grease one ounce; make these up into an Ointment, or thin Plaster, and apply it to the Place, renewing it every Day, and a speedy Cure will ensue. This also breaks the Whitloe, and is excellent against Scalds or Burns.   

Tetters to Kill: Take of  Alom. Ginger, and Flower of Brimstone, of each a like quantity: mix them well, and incorporate them with fresh Butter, so much as when melted will bring them into the consistence of an Unguent; and with it anoint the Part afflicted, as hot as can be well endured, when you are going to Bed, and let it continue on all Night; and when you rise wash it off with Celandine-water: but upon going to Bed take a little Gascoin-powder in a spoonful or two of Treacle-water to prevent the Humours being driven into the Mass of Blood, which oftentimes happens when this is not on, bathing the Place with Celandine-water.   

Thorow-war: The Decoction of this Herb in Wine, of the Leaves powdered, are applied successfully in Ruptures and Contusions. Some hold it is a proper Remedy for the King's-Evil, also Fractures, and an Erisipela's.   

Thoru-Apple: An Ointment made of the Juice of the Leaves, and Hog's lard, is excellent for Burns and Scalds. The Seed is to be avoided, because taken for a time it occasions Madness.   

Throat Sore: Take Verjuice of Grapes an ounce, best Honey half an ounce, crude Alom about a dram and a half, Rock, or Spanish Salt half a dram: make these into a thinness, and with a fine Rag at the end of a small Stick, or Wyre, thrust it as far as is convenient into your Throat where the Sore is, and bathe the Place grieved with it. Do this often, and between every two times make a gargling with some Plantain and Rose-water.   

Throat-wort: This Plant, especially the Root, is astringent and drying, and therefore the Decoction is excellent at the beginning of Ulcers and Inflammations of the Mouth and Tonsils, and for other Diseases that require astringent Remedies.   

Thrush: This is usually incident among Children, and frequently proves very dangerous: wherefore to Remedy it, Take an Egg, open the top of it, and take out the White and Yolk, and fill the Shell with the Juice of red Sage, and set it on hot Embers till it simpers; then skim it with a Knife's point whilst any Scum will rise, and take as much Alom beaten as the bigness of a small Hazelnut, and half a spoonful of Honey, which when the Juice gins to waste, put in to fill it; so let it boil a little: and having cooled it, rub the Party's Mouth with a little of it, washing it afterward with the Juice of Sage.   

Thyme: (here I mean the wild sort) It is hot and dry, and consequently forces the Courses and Urin. It is Cephalick, Uterine, and Stomachick, and therefore good against Spitting of Blood, Gripes, and Convulsions, etc. Outwardly applied, it eases the Pains of the Head, and Giddiness, and disposes to Sleep.   

Thyme, its Virtues: These are very great, as will appear to any one that does but observe, That it provoketh Urine: it doth heat, and being taken in Drink, doth purge the Internals, and expectorates all nauseous and ill Humours of the Lungs by Spitting: four drams of Thyme dried and reduced to Powder, being taken fasting in a glass of Canary, by often repeating, eases the Pains of the Gout; for it gently purges Choler and other sharp Humours: It is good also for Diseases in the Bladder; and a dram being taken in an ounce of Water and Honey, is good for such as have their Bellies begin to swell, for the Sciatica, and Pains in the Reins, Sides, and Breast; for Inflammations and Stitches about the forepart of the Belly; for Melancholy Persons, and for those that are troubled in Mind and much given to Frights and Fears upon slight occasions, if three drams be taken in an ounce of Honey and Vinegar well tempered together: it is also profitable against the Inflammations of the Eyes, and the vehement Pains thereof, and much revives the Sight. There is an Oil extracted from it of the colour of Gold, which cometh forth with a Water, when the Herb being fresh and green is distilled in a Bath of hot Water. This Oil smells like a Citron, and is very tart in taste: its Virtues are to heat all cold Parts; but by the way note, That for what has been mentioned, Black Thyme must not be chosen; for it corrupteth the Temperature, and engendereth Choler; and therefore it must be that which bears a carnation Flower, or that which beareth a white one.   

Tickling: This is caused by defluxions of Rheum, and is often very troublesome. To remove it, Take Olibanum and Venice-Treacle, of each a like quantity; incorporate them well, and make them up into little Pills, and let the Party take a dram of them; and if need require it, a scruple or two once or twice a Day.   

Tiffanies Faded: To recover these, Take the Water of Vervain a quart, half a pint of the Water that distils from the Vine when it is cut in the Spring, etc. a handful of the Roots of Primroses, and as many Rosemary-flowers; to these put a quart of new Milk, and boil them together with two ounces of Alom in Powder: strain out the Decoction, and steep your Tiffanies in it twenty four Hours; and then washing them out, they will not only look much whiter, and be the more capable of a gloss. In this manner you may do by Lace, Muslins, or Lawns, if the substance of them be not too much decayed.   

Tiffanies to Wash: Take the best crown Soap, and soap them on their Hems, or Laces; and with a gentle Hand pass them over three lather's, and afterwards rinse them, keeping them as much as may be likewise from the Air, and dry them over the Flame of Brimstone: then add a quarter of an ounce of Smalt to a pound of Starch; and if it be convenient, add the bigness of a Hazelnut in Alom, which you may dissolve, boil it to a fineness, and charge it lightly upon your Tiffanies and dry them being wet by a Fire, still clapping them in your Hands; and when they are clear, shape them by a Pattern you design them for, iron them with a smooth though quick Iron, till they shine, and you will find little difference as to the gloss between them and new. Some, instead of Starch, use Gum-water: but this I leave to your Discretion.   

Tincture of Amber: Reduce five or six ounces of yellow Amber into an impalpable Powder, put it into a Bolt Head, and on it pour Spirit of Wine the height of four Fingers, and stop the Head with another to make a double Vessel; and when you have exactly luted the Junctures with a Skin or wetted Bladder, place it in Digestion in hot Sand, and leave it five or six Days till the Spirit of Wine is sufficiently tinged with the Amber colour, then decant the Tincture, and put more Spirit of Wine to the Matter, and so digest it as before; then having separated the Impregnation, mix it with the other, and filter them, and so put them into an Alembick, and distil them with a soft Fire. About half the Spirit of Wine, which might before serve, may do in this last. Keep the Tincture which you find remaining at the bottom of the Alembick close stopped up.  
You may take ten drops of this in some convenient Liquor for the Apoplexy, Palsy, or Epilepsy; and it is much commended for the helping Women in most Distempers of the Head, or Affliction of the Brain.   

Tinctura Sacra: Take of the Species of Hiera Picra one ounce, Canary a pint: infuse the former in the latter in some cool place the space of seven Days, shaking it two or three times a Day, and then let it stand till the Wine looks clear.  
This wonderfully cleanses and strengthens the Stomach, is good for the Jaundice-Dropsie, ill Habit of Body, and for opening Obstructions in the Liver and Spleen. Three spoonfuls may be taken at a time, or more or less, according to the Age and Strength of the Party afflicted.   

Tincture of Saffron: Digest in eight ounces of Treacle-water two ounces of Saffron for the space of six Days; then the Tincture being strained out, keep it close stopped for use. You may take of this half an ounce at a time in a glass of Wine, or any other convenient Liquor.  
This is wonderfully efficacious in cheering and comforting the Heart, concocting the crude Humours of the Breast, helps the Jaundice, and is good against the Infection of the Plague, and is of singular validity in driving out the Smallpox, but in that case you must be wary in taking too much of it, for fear of inflaming the Blood.   

Toasts, or Balls, etc. Fried: Take a boiled or raw Pike, mince it and stamp it into some old fat Cheese grated into it, season it with Cinnamon, Sugar, and boiled Currants, add the Yolks of hard Eggs grated; and these being all well mingled together, you may make them up into Toasts, Balls, Pastils, or any such little things, as you please; and frying them with sweet Butter, and grated Nutmeg, they will taste wonderful pleasant: but the chief use they were devised and intended for, was to lay about the Dish, or under sundry sorts of fried Meats, the better to set them off, though they eat very curiously.   

Tobacco: Though many are ignorant of any use of this Plant than in smoking, it has nevertheless many other ways of singular Virtue, viz. It resists Putrefaction, provokes sneezing; the smoking of it stops Catarrhs, and disposes to rest, takes off Weariness, and suppresses the Fits of the Mother: It is a good Preservative in Plague times. A Gargatism of it cures the Toothache, and dissolves the Tumour of the Uuula. A Bath of it, or the green Leaves applied, cure Leprosy, the Itch, kills Lice, and heals Wounds, cleanses Ulcers, and takes out the Fire of Scalds, or Burns. The Smoking of it strengthens the Stomach, helps Concoction, and gently moves the Belly; but is not good to be taken, especially to any excess, by those of a hot Constitution, because it dries up or evacuates too much moisture: It eases Pains in the Teeth, a hollow Tooth especially, being stopped with it, either as it is, or the Cinder of it not burnt to Ashes. And in case of the Palsy, take the green Leaves of Tobacco, and infuse them in old Mallaga, and rub the Parts afflicted with the liquid part after Sweeting: this has been often tried with success. A Pipe lightend, and the Smoke forced up the Fundament, eases the Colic, or Pains of the Belly; it also cures the Fits of the Mother, and Faintings.   

Tobacco Salve: To make an excellent Salve of Tobacco, Take the Juice of green English Tobacco one quart, Olive-oil a pint, with as much Turpentine, Wax, and Verdigrease, as will thicken them over a gentle Fire to the consistence of a Plaster.  
This is excellent for Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Gun-shot, and to be applied to the Place which any venomous Creature has bit or stung.   

Tongue-Pye: In the first place, Take a Neat's-tongue well boiled, blanche it and cut it in thin slices, as also some interlarded Bacon, and lay a Laying of the Bacon between every Laying of the Tongue; but let the Bacon be cut much thinner and lesser in quantity: then take half an ounce of Pepper, two large Nutmegs, and three Anchoveys, forbearing to sprinkle any Salt: after this make a Leer with half a pint of Claret-wine, and some Gravy, the Yolks of three Eggs, a piece of Butter, and grated Nutmeg, boil them up to a considerable thickness: then when the Pie is to be served up, put it in with a Funnel at the Pipe, or open Place left for that purpose. And by this method you may order and season a Hare-pye to the best Advantage to please the Palate.   

Toothache: To ease the violent Pain of the Teeth, with which old and young are too frequently afflicted, Take two parts of Lisbon-Sugar, and one part of black round Pepper, fine them into Powder, and put them into a Spoon over two or three well kindled Coals; and when the Sugar gins to relent, take off the Spoon, and whilst the Mixture is soft, form it into little grains, the size to shape the hollowness of your Tooth, and stop it in as close as may be; and so renew it as you find the first waist.   

Toothache, another: Take Henbane-seed, and Hyssop-seed, bruise them very small; then put as much Sweeds-Tar as will fix them together, to make then up into little Pellets, and stop these into the hollowness of the Tooth, tied up in a little fine Rag.   

Toothache, another: Take Ginger, beat it fine, and sow it up in a fine Rag, more long than broad; then so●… it in the Spirit of Wine, la● it to the Root of your Tooth● and though by its Heat it may at first cause the Nerve of the Tooth to rave a little; yet in a short time, being often dipped and applied, it will altogether take away the Pain. Or, for want of this, take what follows, viz.  
Seethe clarified Honey one ounce in two ounces of Rosemary-water, or Hyssop-water; and taking off the Scum that will arise, put in the sine Dust of Pepper, let it consume till a blackness ensue, and it thickens; then dip into it a Sage Leaf, whilst it is hot, and lay to the Tooth, and the Pain will presently abate.   

Tooth to make Fall out: If you have a lose and troublesome Tooth, or one that is hollow and offensive, that you would remove, Take the Shave of Heart's horn, burn it to Powder, mix with it a little slacked Lime, the Tallow of a Ram, and the Juice of a white Lily and Plantane-root, stop it into the Tooth, in a Rag, if hollow; or otherways, lay it to it between the Cheek and the Gum, and it will in a little time, fall out without any pain at all.   

Tooth not Hollow: If there be no hollowness in the Tooth, or visible defect, and yet it aches, Take the Root of ●…ack Hellebore, commonly ●…lled Bear's-foot, scrape off the Rind, and cut a pretty slice, and lay it to the Tooth between your Gums, and the inside of your Cheek, avoiding the Rheum that it will occasion; and so renew it with a fresh piece. If you fancy, by a strange sort of a stirring, at certain times, that there are Worms in your Teeth, sprinkle some Henbane-seed and Frankincense, on a Pan of Coals, hold a Funnel, the broad end over, and let the narrow Spout be placed to the bottom of the Tooth that the Fume may come to it; and if there be any place for them to do it, the Worms will creep out; If they do not, it will however kill them.   

Tooth-Wort: The greater sort of this is excellent for Ruptured and inward Wounds, and for Diseases rising from Defluxions, by taking two drams of the Powder in Broth successively for several Days. It likewise eases Pains and Aches in several Parts of the Body.   

Tormentil: This is drying, and very astringent, and therefore is very powerful in the Fluxes of the Belly and Womb; and being mixed with vulnerary precious Ointments and Plasters, it festinates the Cure of Wounds, old Sores, and Ulcers. From half to a whole dram of this, taken in Wine, is greatly commended for curing an Epidemic Dysentery; Rhubarb being used before, if occasion require it.   

Treacle, Remedy for Agues: Take of Venice, or London-Treacle, put it into about four ounces, of White-wine: then put it into a Vessel close covered, and let it simper for half an hour over the Fire, but not boil, stirring or rather shaking it sometimes about, and take it pretty hot about two Hours before the Fit comes on, and let the Party keep close in a warm Bed, in order, to sweat; and repeat this two or three times.  
This was experienced by the famous Sir Kenelm Digby, and by him ordered to be given to divers Persons; which was rarely given without Success.   

Treacle-Spirit: To make this, Take the Roots of Master-wort, Angelica, Athamantick, Spignel, and the bigger Valerian, of each three ounces; Juniper-berries, and the Seeds of Bishop's-weed, and Seseli of Marseiles, of each an ounce; approved Treacle four ounces: The Roots and Seeds being bruised together, macerate them eight Days in two pints of rectified Spirit of Wine: then make your Distillation, and preserve the Spirit.  
This Spirit resists very powerfully all sorts of Poisons: It may be taken in Spanish-Wine, or any Cordial Liquor, from one to four drams: It may be also applied to the Nostrils, Forehead, Temples, and Sutures of the Skull, for head-aches, Fainting Fits, or Drousiness of the Brain.   

Treacle-water: This is the most Excellent sort of all. To make it, Take the Roots of Gentian, Angelica, Master-wort, Valerian, and Contrayerva, of each two ounces; Citron-rinds, and Orange-peels, Cinnamon, Cloves, and Juniper-berries, of each an ounce; Tops of Water-Germander, Rue, and St. John's-wort, of each one handful: infuse them to three Days in Spirit of Wine, and Waters of Nuts, and Blessed Thistle, of each a quart: then add four ounces of approved Treacle: distil the whole in a Sand-Bath, and keep the Water close stopped for use.  
This is an excellent Water to resist Poison, and to fortify all the noble Parts, being taken from one dram to half an ounce. Some make a Treacle-water, by dissolving the Treacle in equal parts of Spirit of Wine and Vinegar, using it without any Distillation; but Reason and Experience tells us this is far more Excellent.   

Tre-foil, or Bucksbane: The Decoction of it in White-wine is good against the Scurvy, as also, for Pains in the Limbs. The Leaves boiled in Beer, and taken hot, ease Pains in the Bowels; but being bitter, it is best taken in any lenitive Syrup.   

Trembling, a Remedy: If the Members tremble and shake, that you cannot at certain times hold them still, though no cause of Fear, Danger, or Defect, is evident to cause it, anoint the crown of the Head, the Hair being shaved off, and the other Parts especially where you find the Trepidation, with Oil of Cinnamon, and drink two drams of the Water that is made of Man, or Swine's Blood, brought to putrefaction, with Aquavitae, or Spirit of Wine, and afterward distilled: and this must be frequently repeated for a Month's space.   

Troches Pectoral: Take of white Sugar a pound, white Sugar-candy, and Penids, of each four ounces; of the Roots of Florentine-orris half an ounce, white Starch an ounce and half, Licorice six drams, with a convenient quantity of the Mucilage of Tragacanth extracted in Rose-water: make the Materials into Troches, that they may be perfumed, as occasion requires it, with four grains of Ambergrease, and three of Musk.  
These are Excellent for Coughs and Catarrhs in Winter, and for the preventing taking Cold in such whose Occasions constrain them to Travel in damp and foggy Airs.   

Troches of Winter-cherries: Take of Winter-Cherries three drams, , Tragacanth, Olibanum, Pine-nuts, bitter Almonds, white Starch, Juice of Lemons, , and the Seeds of white Poppies, of each six drams; Melons, Cucumbers and Gourds, of each three drams and a half; Smallage, white Henbane, white Amber, and Earth, of Lemons and Opium, of each two drams; and with the Juice of fresh Winter-Cherries make Troches. The Dose is two scruples to be taken at a time.  
This is excellent for expelling Gravel from the Bladder, or Kidneys, and to provoke Urin.   

Trochiscs of Benjamine: Take Benjamine, and the Ashes of a Sallow-Tree, of each an ounce; Rosin and Storax prepared a like quantity; sweet Tacamahacca, and Lignum Aloes finely powdered, of each half an ounce; Ambergrease a dram, Musk half a dram, Zebit six grains, distilled Oil of Lignum Rhodium, Cinnamon, and Cloves, of each six drops: make up these with Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water.  
These are more excellent than any, as casting a more fragrant and incomparable sweet Smell.   

Trochiscs Odoriferous: Take the Powder of green Willow-coals three ounces, Labdanum two ounces, Storax and Benjamine, of each half an ounce; Mastic, sweet Tacamahacca, and yellow Amber, of each two drams; Lignum Rhodium a dram and half: make them up with the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water, and dry them in the Shade.  
This is an excellent Perfume for Chambers and Rooms of Entertainment, as likewise to drive away ill Airs, and bad Scents.   

Trochiscs, another Way: Take the Coals and Ashes of Rosemary, beat small, and sifted finely, four ounces, Labdanum two ounces, Storax and Renjamine, of each an ounce; Roots of Cyprus, Aromatic, red Mastic, and Amber, of each two drams, Cloves one dram, Musk, Civet, and Ambergrease ten grains, the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth, extracted with Orange-flower-water, as much as will make them up, and suffer them to dry as the former.  
These give an excellent Odour, and are very wholesome to the Brain, and drive away offensive Vermin and Infects, being burnt on Coals.   

Trotter-Pye: This is done with Wardens, Quinces, Pears, etc. and you may either take them severally, or altogether quartered, or sliced raw; it in quarters, put some whole ones among them; if sliced, beaten Spices, and a little Butter, and Sugar, taking to every twelve large Quinces a pound of Sugar, and a quarter of a pound of Butter, close it up and bake it; and when it is well baked, mash the Fruit; then put in some Cream, and Yolks of Eggs well beaten, and stir them altogether: then cut the Cover into five or six pieces, Diamond fashion, put in a little Rose-water, and scrape Sugar over it.   

Tumour in the Eye: This is otherways called a Phlyctena, or a little Tumour in the carneous Tunicle of it. To remove it, Take the Decoction of Mucilages, and dress the Eye with if for some time to ripen the Tumour; then with a steady Hand open it with a Lancet, or Needle, and press out the offensive Matter: then cleanse and heal the Part with Honey dissolved in a little Saga-water. But when the Tumour is beginning, and not great, if you have not the Decoction of Mucilages, you may dress the Eye with the Mixture of equal parts of the Water of Melilot, Chamomil, and Bettony.   

Tumour of the Knee: Take a green Colwort-leaf, with red Veins, or Streaks, pair off the Ribs flat and almost level to the rest of the Leaf; then with the haft of your Knife bruise it, and apply it to the Part affected, renewing it three or four times a Day. This also allays any Heat or Pain by other means; and draws gently, mostly evacuating the Humour by Sweat.   

Tumour to Ripen: Take eight, ounces of fat Figs, two ounces of white Lily-roots, two ounces of Bean-flower, (or Meal:) boil them, the Figs and Roots being bruised, in as much Water as will reduce them to the consistence of a good Poultis; which spread to a good thickness, and lay warm upon the Part, and shift it often till it becomes dry.   

tumors Sharp: Take Spring-water a gallon, put into it a good handful of dried Sage, let it boil till it be strong of it, at what time put in about two ounces of Spanish Cake-soap; and when it is dissolved, the Concoction is complete: and with this, and Stuphes, foment the Part grieved warm for a considerable time together. This is excellent good to allay and disperse all tumors accompanied with sharp and afflicting Humours.   

Tumour in the Throat: To cure or remove this, which indeed is sometimes very dangerous: Take a quart of new Milk, put into it a handful of Mallow-leaves, and a like quantity of the Leaves of Nightshade: shredding them small, and let them boil till the Herbs be tender; then put to them an equal quantity of the Crumb of White-bread, so that being stirred with the other Ingredients, it may be reduced to the consistence of a Poultis, amongst which scrape a little  fine in powder; and so spreading it on a Stay, lay it to the Throat warm as may be well endured, and as it cools and dries supply it with another.   

Tumour in the Throat, another: To Remedy this dangerous Defect, gargarize your Mouth with Wine of Pomegranates, and Barleywater mingled together; also take Syrup of Poppies, and Syrup of Mulberries, of each a quarter of an ounce; Rose-water three ounces: temper them together, and not only gargarize your Mouth with it, but mixing a little Honey and  with it, swallow as much as will lie on a Knife's-point Night and Morning, and it will allay the Swelling, and ease the soreness.   

Turbut Boiled: Draw the Fish, and wash it clean from the Blood and Slime, put it into boiling Water and Salt, and suffer it to boil very leisurely, keeping it scuming, and add more Salt in the boiling; and when the Water gins to shrink, add a little Whitewine & Vinegar, Mace, Ginger, and two or three Cloves, with some Lemon-peel; and when it is boiled and cold, put in a sliced Lemon, or two, and take up the Fish, and keep it in an earthen Pan, with the Liquor it was boiled in, close covered. Your Liquor you boil it in, must never be but little more than will cover it; and the Fire must be gentle, over which it is boiled, for fear of breaking.   

Turbut to Fry: Slice the Fish, then hack it with your Knife, and it will be ribbed, fry it with Butter till it is near brown; then drain the Butter from it, and the Pan being made clean, put it in again with Claret, Ginger, and Nutmeg, sliced Anchovy, Salt and Saffron beaten small, and so fry it till, half the Liquid be consumed; then put in a piece of Butter, mix it well with the rest, and mince a Lemon into it; then having rubbed the Dish with Onion, or Shalot, serve it up in what you last fried it in.   

Turbit to Souse: Having boiled it, put it into Vinegar, Salt, and Whitewine, with some of the Water it was boiled in; then add some Spices, as Cloves, Nutmeg, and Ginger, some Tops of Fennel, and Bay-leaves, keeping it close covered.  
If you would eat it hot when boiled, pour on it some stewed Oysters, lay slices of Lemon, and run it over with beaten Butter, place Sippets conveniently in the Dish, and stick it over with fried Bread. Or, Serve it up with beaten Butter, sliced Lemon, sweet Herbs boiled and minced, Onions and Barberries cut small.   

Turbot to Stew: To do this the best way, Cut it in slices, and fry it; and being half fried, put it into a Stew-pan, or convenient Dish, with Claret, grated Nutmeg, and three or four slices of an Orange, a little Verjuice, or Vinegar, and some sweet Butter; and when it is sufficiently stewed, dish it up, and run it over with beaten Butter, sliced Lemon, or Orange and Lemon-peel, and so serve it up.   

Turkey-pie: For this, to season it well, you must take half an ounce of Cloves, finely beaten, with a little Mace, Pepper beaten one ounce, Nutmegs sliced thin, or scraped one ounce and half, a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace; then put four pound of Butter in the Pie, mix more Salt than Pepper, and forget not to put two pound of Butter to every peck of Flower: And in this manner you may season and order a Goose-pie.   

Turkey Roasted: Draw the Fowl, and take sweet Herbs, and shred them, and put them into a Linen Bag with Butter and Spices, and so put it into the Belly; then baste it as it is turning on the Spit with hot Water, till it is as it were parboiled; and drying it with a fine Cloth, baste it with Butter, and dridge it over with a very few Crumbs of Bread and grated Ginger: and when it is roasted, serve it up with Anchovy-sauce, small Herbs minced, and the Juice of Lemon; garnishing it with Lemon-peel, Tops of Hyssop, or Winter-savory.   

Turkey Soused: Take one or two fat Turkeys when they are well dressed, take out the Bones, and tie up the Flesh in the manner of a Sturgeon, put into your Vessel two quarts of White-wine, one of Water, and one of good Vinegar: make it boil, and pretty well season it with Salt, then put in the Flesh, and let it boil till it be very tender; and when it is sufficiently boiled, Take it out, and taste the Liquor; and if it be wanting in sharpness, put more Vinegar, and when it has boiled a little, put it into an earthen Pot; and when cold, put in the Liquor it boiled in, quite covering it; so suffer it to remain three Weeks, or a Month: then serve it up as you do Sturgeon, with Elder, and Vinegar, and garnished with Fennel. Thus you may pickle a Capon, only than you must lard it with great Lardings before.   

Turnip-Bread: Take about half a Bushel of the middling sort of Turnips, not sticky, but such as will boil soft; being pared and boiled, press out the Water very hard till they are quite dry, beat them then in a Mortar, and mix with the Pulp about two pound of fine Wheat-flower, and two ounces of Carrawayseeds; put in a pint, or somewhat more of new Ale-yeast, mould it up as other Bread, and let it be well soaked, and it will not only look, but taste like Bread. This is not only made for saving Charges in poor Families in a dear Year, but of late has been much in esteem for Consumptions, and those troubled with shortness of Breath and Ptissick; being very wholesome and nourishing.   

Turpentine Plaster: Take four ounces of the best refined Turpentine, two of Bees-wax, one of Honey, a quarter of an ounce of Verdigrease, Deers Suet two ounces, Oil of Roses and Lilies, of each an ounce: make these into a Plaster over a gentle Fire, by well stirring and mixing together.  
This is exceeding good to draw Swell to a Head, ease cold Pains, Aches, or Numbness of the Joints; to draw out Thorns, Splinters, rusty Iron, broken pieces of Swords or Gun-shot; and is a very singular Drawing Plaster on all Occasions, where the Humours are stubborn.   

Tutsan: This stays Bleeding: the bruised Herb or Juice applied, stays spitting of Blood, or hinders the blood from flowing inwardly: the Juice being drank with a little Cinamon-water and the Spirit of Wine.   

VAlerian: Half a spoonful of the Powder of the Root of this Herb before the Stalk springs, taken in Wine, Waters, or Milk, once or twice, helps those that are troubled with the Falling-sickness: The Leaves bruised are usually applied with success to slight Wounds, and have a power, when decocted in any convenient Liquor, to purge upwards and downwards, and give, if the Party be careful of himself, fine gentle breathing Sweats.   

Udders Baked: To do this the Italian way, Boil the Udder of a Heiffer tender, then let it stand till it cools, cut it into small square pieces like Dice, season them with Cloves, Mace, Ginger, Cinnamon, Salt, Pistaches, or the Kernels of Pine-Apples, Dates, and slices of Marrow; then put them into the raised Past of a Pie, not making it above an inch high, like a Custard, and of Custard-past, prick it and dry it in an Oven, and put in the Materials before mentioned, and to them some Custard stuff made of Cream and Eggs, Salt, Rose-water, and a little dissolved Musk: bake and stick it with the slices of Dates, candied Pistaches, and scrape fine Sugar on it.   

Vdder-Pye, another way: Lard a young Udder with great Lard, season it with Nutmeg, Cloves, Pepper, and Mace; and when it is boiled tender, and when it is cool, wrap it in a Choler of Veal, having seasoned it again with the Spices, and a little Salt, lay some slices of Veal in the bottom of the Coffin of your Pie, and place the Udder on them, the which cover with other slices of Veal, and for seasoning, put Lard and Butter, and close it up; and when it is sufficiently baked, liquor it with clarified Butter, if you design to use it cold; but if hot, put in White-wine, Gravy, and Butter well beaten up together.   

Veal, the Chine to Broil: Cut the Chine in three or four pieces, and lard them with small Lard, season them with Salt, and broil them, laying under them some Sprigs of Rosemary, Bay-leaves, and Sage, dust them over with a little Flower; and being broiled, serve them up with Gravy, the Juice of Lemon, and beaten Butter, as a commendable Dish.   

Veal, a Leg to Broil: Cut it round the Leg in Slices, or in rowls as thick as your Finger, and lard, or not lard them at your discretion, broil them softly on the Embers, beat up Butter, Gravy, the Juice of Oranges, and the Yolk of Eggs for Sauce.   

Veal to Boil: Here I mean a Breast of Veal, a Joint unusually boiled. To do it, Make a Pudding of grated Manchet, minced Suet, and minced Veal, season it with Pepper, Nutmeg, and a little Salt, three or four Eggs, Cinnamon, Currans, Dates, Raisins, Cream, Sugar, and Pepper: mingle them well together, fill the skinny end of the Breast with them, prick it up, then put it in a Pan, or between two Dishes, and stew it with strong Broth, Gravy, Whitewine, some Marrow, sliced Dates, and a few Blades of Mace; run it over with Butter, Grapes, Lemon-slices, and Barberries. Or thus, Joint it well, and parboil it, put it into a deep Dish, or Stew-pan, with some strong Broth, and a bundle of sweet Herbs, some Mace, and slices of interlarded Bacon, some Capers, a few Cloves, and half a dozen sprigs of Camphire, the Yolks of Eggs and Whitewine: slew these to a tenderness, and serve them up on fine carved Sippets.   

Veal Forced divers ways: (1.) Mince some Veal with Beef-suet, shred sweet Herbs small, then beat Cloves, Mace, and Pepper, put in some Yolks of Eggs, grate in Bolonia Sausages and old Cheese, season it with Salt. (2.) Grated Cheese, Calves-brains, sweet Herbs, and Spices, Saffron, Eggs, Gooseberries, and Grapes. (3.) Raw Eggs, Marrow, Butter, sweet Herbs, Lemon-peel shred small, Ginger, Cinnamon, and Sugar. And these may indifferently serve for Kid, Lamb, or Venison, that is to be forced or stuffed.   

Veal-Pye to Season: Take an ounce of Cloves and Mace finely beaten, a quarter of an ounce of Pepper, and a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace, half a pound of Currans, and two ounces of Salt. These are sufficient to season a Loin of Veal, or any proportionable Joint fitting to be put into a Pie; there must be added like wise two pound of Butter. And this seasoning is very suitable for a quarter of Lamb, if it be put in Past.   

Vein to Stop: In case a Vein be cut or broke, to stay the excess of Bleeding, Take Olibanum two ounces, Aloes-Hepatick one ounce, a little Wool of a Hare, the White of an Egg: mix these together, and dipping a Lineament into it of Flax, apply it cold to the Place, suffering it to stick on a Day or two; then if you see occasion, take it off with Oil of Roses.   

Veins Windy: To expel offensive Windiness that afflicts the Veins, Take the Powder of Licorice, Carrawayseeds, Sugar-candy beaten small, of each an equal quantity; to which put Rhubarb in powder a third part, with a like quantity of Cream of Tartar in Powder. Take as much as will lie on the point of a Knife three or four times a Day as it is, or in a glass of Wine, and so continue to do for about seven Days.  
This gently purges, very much cools the Blood, and by expelling the Wind, eases Pains, and many Disorders that are occasioned by it.   

Venetian Wash: Take the Whites of twelve Eggs, when indifferently hard boiled, and cut them very small, Endive small shred six ounces, Purslain-leaves a handful, Juniper, and Ivy-berries just gathered from the Tree, of each a good handful; Fern-roots four ounces, the inner Bark of Elder, and Barberry-tree, of each two ounces: bruise those well in a stone or wooden Mortar, and infuse them in two quarts of Rose and Bettony-water, each a like, twenty four Hours; then draw them off in a cold Still, till the moisture be entirely extracted from the Herbs, and bottle up the Water, corking it close; and when you use it, put a little Flower of Almonds in it, and shake it about.  
This is highly commended as a great Beautifier in most Courts of Europe.   

Venison to Broil: Take half a Haunch of fat Venison, cut it into slices half an inch thick, salt and broil them on pretty quick Embers; and when they are well soaked, bread them and serve them with Gravy only. And in this manner you may broil a Side of Venison; or boil it first in fresh Water and Salt, and then broil it, and dridge it, and serve it up with Gravy, Vinegar, and Pepper. As for the Chine broil it raw, bread it, and serve it up with Gravy.   

Venison Counterfeited: Take a Buttock of Beef, cut it down the long ways with the grain, beat it well with a Rolling-pin, and broil it on the Coals; and when it is cold lard it; then put to it some Whitewine-Vinegar, Pepper, Salt, Cloves, Mace, and Bay-leaves: so let it lie three or four Days, and bake it in a Rye Past; and when it is cold, fill it up with Butter, and let it stand ten or fourteen Days before you cut it up, and it must be a very curious palate that can distinguish it from Venison of red Deer.   

Venison to Counterfeit, another: Take Ram, or Weather, steep it in warm Blood, either of a Goat, Pig or Sheep, and season it as you do Venison; the Bones being taken out, and a little Claret-Wine added, bake it in a Pot, or Pye.   

Venison-Pasty: Take four pound of Butter to a Peck of Flower, and make it up into a Crust or Past with cold Water; beat the Past with a Rolling-pin, and likewise so order two pound of Beef-suet beaten small: then put the Suet into the Pastry both at top and bottom; (take notice likewise that you put the Whites of twelve Eggs into the Crust:) than your Meat being boned, or the Bones broken to pieces, rub it over with an ounce of Pepper, and as much Salt mixed with it: or if you take out the Bones, you may put them well broken into a Pot, with a little Claret, fair Water, Pepper, Salt, and a slice or two of Nutmeg, and bake them, that so the Liquor may serve to put it into the Pastry when it comes out of the Oven, in order to be served up at the Table. And this way, without alteration, Mutton, or Beef-Pasties may be ordered; and the latter among the more ignorant, so ordered, will pass for Venison.   

Venison to Pot: Take a Haunch of a fat Buck, not lately hunted, bone it and beat three ounces of Pepper, twelve Nutmegs grated, and a sufficient quantity of Salt to season it: mix the Spices and Salt with White-wine-Vinegar, wash the Venison over with it; then make holes in the lean sides with a Knife, and stuff it as you do Beef, with Parsley small shred; and then put it into a convenient earthen Pot, with the fat side downward: then clarify three pound of sweet Butter, and put it to the Venison, cover your Pot with a Past, and let it stand in the Oven five or six Hours: then take it out, and with a vent press it down to the bottom of the Pot; and letting it be cold, take the Gravy from the top, and boil it about half away, then put it with the Butter to the Meat again.   

Venison to Souse: Boil Water, Beer, and Vinegar together, and having taken off the Scum, put in Bay-leaves, Thyme, Savory, Rosemary-tops and Fennel; and when it boils, put in the Venison, let it parboil, then press it and season it with Salt, Pepper, and Nutmeg.  
This takes away the Scent when tainted, and it will keep in this Souce-drink a long time; and so you may bake it to be eat cold or hot.   

Venison to Stew: Slice it out, and put it into your Stewing-dish, set it on a heap of Coals with a little Claret-wine, a Sprig or two of Rosemary, and half a dozen Cloves, a little grated Bread, Sugar and Vinegar; so let it stew together a while, then grate one Nutmeg into it, and serve it up.   

Venison Tainted: If you would recover your Venison when Tainted, Take strong Ale, and as much Vinegar as will make it sharp, boil it with some Bay-salt, and make a strong Brine, scum it, and let it stand till it cools; then lay your Venison to steep in it twelve Hours, press it and dry it, then parboil it, season it with Salt and Pepper, and it will be fit for use. Or,  
Bury it in the Ground, where there is a kind soft sweet Mould, and the Earth will draw to it the strong Scent, and the Venison will become sweet.   

Verjuice to Make: Gather Crabs as soon as the Kernel turns black, and lay them in a heap to sweat; then take off the Stalks, and separate the Rotten, or much bruised, if there be any, put them into a Trough, and stamp them with a Cannoneer, or grind them in a Mill: then put them in a hair Bag, of corpse Cloth, lay it in a Press, when full with the Mash of the Crabs, and by pressing down the Board upon it, squeeze out Juice, and put it into a Barrel; stop it close, and set it in a warm Place for ten or twelve Days, and it will become excellent Verjuice.   

vervain: There are many wonderful Virtues attributed to this Herb, or Plant: 'Tis Cephalick and Vulnerary, used for Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, also in Diseases of the Eyes, and the Stone, for Ails in the Breast, Bloodyflux, and Tertian-Ague; to heal Wounds, and cause easy and speedy Delivery in Women. It is outwardly used for Redness of the Eyes, Pains of the Teeth, Headache, Quinsy, Glandules of the Jaws, and Falling of the Fundament; for Pains of the Spleen, and cleansing Ulcers. The distilled Water of it applied outwardly to the Head, and four ounces taken inwardly with four drops of Spirit of Salt, are held to ease Pains in the Head, though proceeding from different Causes. Forestus relates, to his knowledge, That two Persons, when all other Applications failed, were cured of inveterate head-aches, with only applying this Herb green.   

Vinegar in Balls to Make: Take the Berries of the Bramble, when half ripe, and dry them, and when they are sufficiently so, make them into Powder, and with strong Whitewine-Vinegar make them into Balls as big as small Nuts; then dry them, and put them up into wooden Boxes, and when you have occasion to use them, take Wine, or for want of it, a little Water, or Stale-beer, and dissolve a Ball in it, or so much as you have occasion for, and it will immediately become a strong Vinegar.   

Vinegar Common: The usual Vinegar made with us is ordered in this manner, Take a middling sort of Beer, indifferently well hopped, put into it when it has worked well, and is grown fine, some Rapes, or Husks of Grapes, usually brought home for that purpose, mash them together in a Tub; then letting the Rapes settle, draw off the liquid part, put it into a Cask, and set it in the Sun as hot as may be, the Bung only covered with a Tile, or Slat-stone, and in about thirty or forty Days it will be a very curious Vinegar, and may pass in use as well as that made of Wine, if it be fined and kept from musting.   

Vinegar for Digestion▪ Take eight drams of Sea onions, a quart of Vinegar, as much Pepper as Onions, Mint, and Juniper-berries; let them infuse, and drink a spoonful at a time before Meals.   

Vinegar of divers Sorts: (1.) Take good Whitewine, and fill a Runlet full, leave it unstopped, and set it in the Sun, or in some hot Place, and it will soon turn, and become special Vinegar. (2.) If your occasion requires Vinegar in haste, put some Pepper, Salt, and sour Leaven mingled together, and a hot Steel, stop it up, and let the Sun, or some other warmth come to it. Or, for the more speedy way, put Whitewine, or Claret into an earthen Pot, stop the Mouth with a piece of Past, and put it into a brass Pan or Pot boiling with Water; let it be there about half an Hour, and it will grow sour.   

Vinegar of Elder: Gather Elder-flowers before they be too much blown, pick them clean from the great Stalks, and dry them in the Sun when it is not too hot; so put a handful of them to a quart of the best White-wine-Vinegar, and let it stand about twelve or fourteen Days, then strain it, and draw it off, and put it into your Vessel, letting a quart be put in very hot to make it ferment in the Cask, and so stop it close for use. It is very pleasing to the palate, good for those to use in Sauces, or otherways, that are troubled with Pains in their Heads; as also, by dipping a Cloth in it, or making a Poultis of Mallows and Chamomil, and applied to the Head, it wonderfully eases it of Pains caused by heat.   

Vinegar of Foul Wine: Boil it and scum it very clean, suffering it to continue over the Fire till one third is consumed; then put it in a Vessel, and put some Chervel to it, stop it close, and in a short time it will prove very good Vinegar. You may make Vinegar of any Flowers, Herbs, Fruits, or Roots, by putting them into the Vinegar, and infusing them till the Vinegar is tinctured, or grown strong with the taste and smell of them.   

Vinegar of Pepper: Fill a Bottle with the best Wine-Vinegar, then take a good quantity of Pepper, put it into a long Cloth sowed up like a Bag, and put it into the Vinegar for the space of Eight Days, with a string to it, that it may be drawn out at the end of that time.   

Vinegar of Roses: Take the Buds almost blown, of red Roses gathered dry, and the Whites and Stalks cut away, shred them, and dry them after in the Sun a considerable time, put them into a● earthen Vessel, and put to a pound of Roses two quarts of the best Whitewine-Vinegar; stop them up close, and let them infuse eight or nine Days: then draw off the Vinegar, press out what remains in the Roses, and bottle it up for use.   

Vinegar of Roses, another: Take red Roses, not quite blown, cut away the white Bottoms when the Leaves are plucked from the Stalk, about one pound, and dry them in the Sun; then put them in six quarts of White-wine-Vinegar, and set it in the Sun about forty Days: then strain it, and let the Infusion be repeated with fresh Roses; and so strain it out, and keep it for use.  
This is used mostly in Sauces, but it is indeed extraordinary good made up into a Syrup with Sugar, to cut Phlegm, gargoyle the Mouth, and to be used in cooling and astringent Medicines.   

Vinegar of Roses, another: Dry your Roses with Elder-flowers, than put them into a double Glass, or stone Bottle, set them in the Sun, or in a warm Oven, and put Whitewine-Vinegar to them, and so let them infuse for ten Days, and tie a Rag over the Mouth of the Bottle, that the Vinegar may strain through it.   

Vinegar of Treacle: Take one ounce and half of the Roats of great Celandine, the Roots of Angelica, Masterwort, Bithwort, Gentian, Valerian, Burnet, white Dittany, Elecampane, and Zedoary, of each a dram; the Leaves of Mousear, Sage, Scabious, Scordium, Dittany of Crect, and Blessed Thistle, of each a handful; great Plantain-root a dram and half; the Seeds and Bark of Citron, of each one dram and half; Saffron three drams,  one dram, Hartshorn a dram and half: tie up the Hartshorn, Dittany, and , in a fine Rag, and for five or six Days infuse it with the other Ingredients in five Pints of sharp Vinegar in a well stopped Glass by a moderate heat: strain out the Vinegar, then put into it to dissolve six drams of the best Treacle, and shake it often, and so do when you use it.  
The Dose is half a spoonful at a time in some convenient Liquor. It is of excellent use to prevent pestilential Fevers, the Plague, ill Airs, and noisome Vapours, being taken fasting in a Morning.   

Violets Simple: To make the simple Syrup of Violets, infuse the Flowers of blue Violets twice or thrice, till they by boiling have lost their Scent; then with a convenient quantity of Sugar boil up the Water to a Syrup.  
This assuageth sharp Humours, and Pleurisy, and is good for the Headache, and against the Heaviness of the Heart, and hinders disturbing Dreams.   

Violet's Syrup of: To make the compound Syrup of Violets, Take the blue Violet-flowers fresh gathered, the white ends clipped off, and free from Stalks, two ounces; the Seeds of Quinces and Mallows, of each one ounce; Jubebs and Sebestens, twenty of each: boil Gourds, or their Seeds in five pints of Water till one half be consumed; then take them out, and put the other things mentioned into it: and having strengthened it with their Scent and Taste, so that little or none remains in themselves, press them into the Liquid, and so with fine Sugar boil it up into a Syrup.  
This mitigates Catarrhs, and Hoarseness, and wonderfully helps Coughs, or Colds, and is good in most hot Diseases.   

Viper's Biting: As soon as any one is bitten, (for if the Poison be diffused through the Mass of Blood, the Experiment cannot be warranted) a hot Iron may, as hot as the Party can endure it, be held near the Wound till it has, as some term it, drawn out Poison, which sometimes like a yellowish Spot will stick to the surface of the Iron.   

Viper Biting, another: Take white Horehound and Plantain, of each half a handful; beat them into the nature of a Poultis, and apply it speedily to the Place afflicted '  the Poison spread in the Blood, and drink at the same time the Juice of them, which is very good against the Jaundice, and not only for the Biting of the Viper, but other venomous Creatures.   

Vipers-Grass: This is by many eaten with their Meat, having a kind of a taste and sweetness of a Parsnip. 'Tis applied with success against the Biting of any venomous Creature, also in pestilential Fevers, Giddiness, Melancholy, Palpitations of the Heart, Falling-sickness, Obstructions of the Bowels, and Diseases of the Womb; for the Jaundice and Dropsy, if taken at the beginning.  
In case of any kind of Fevers, Take of the Root of Scorzonera, and Angelica, of each six drams; of the Leaves of Woodsorrel, with the Roots, two handfuls; rasped Ivory, and Hartshorn, of each half an ounce; Licorice two drams: boil these in a sufficient quantity of Water wherein Barley has been boiled, to the consumption of a pint and a half; and having strained the Liquor, add of the Composition of Scordium-water, and of the cold Scordium-water of Saxony, of each three ounces, Syrup of Raspberries three ounces: mingle them well, and make an Apozem, of which take three or four ounces at pleasure, though the Fever be violent.   

Virginia Trout to Make: This, as it is usually done, is only the cutting off the Heads of pickled Herrings, and the Bodies being laid twenty four Hours in Water, wash them, and season them with Mace, Cinnamon, Cloves, Pepper, and a little red Saunders; then mince some Onion and Lemon-peel, season them with Mace, Cinnamon, Cloves, Pepper, and a little red Saunders; then mince some Onion and Lemon-peel, strip a few pickled Barberries, and sprinkle them on between each Layer of the Fish: and when they are thus ordered, put in a pint of Claret, and tie on a double wetted brown Paper on the Pot, and so set it in the Oven with Household-bread; and being drawn and cooled, they will look as red as Salmon, or Trout, taste curiously, and eat altogether as well.   

Ulcers in the Breast: Take Millepedes, otherways called Wood-lice, or Sows-lice, wash them clean, dry them with a Linen-cloth, and beat them very well in a glass, or marble Mortar, and press out the Juice that comes from them; and if the Mass be too dry, you may agitate with them a little Whitewine, or Ale, which penetrating and softening them, the Liquor may the better part with its Juice: Half a dram of which take in two spoonfuls of Whitewine fasting in a Morning.   

Ulcers to Cleanse: Take four ounces of Turpentine, and wash it in Scabeous-water, the Yolks of two Eggs, and an ounce of Barly-meal, Saffron, Sarcocol, Mastic, and Frankincense of each half a dram: bruise and mix them well together, and make them a Plaster, with the addition of clarified Rosin, Honey, and Oil of Roses.  
This being applied, not only cleanses Ulcers, but engenders in them new Flesh where it is wasted, and makes, after the Cure is past, the Skin smooth again.   

Ulcers External: Take the gross Stalks of red Colwort, dry them pretty well, then put them into an earthen refining Pot, or suchlike, and put them on a hot Fire, till they are reduced to Ashes, and apply those Ashes to the Ulcer, or take the green Bark of an Oak, chop or bruise it very small; pour upon it Limewater freshly made: let it infuse till the Liquor has a dusky colour; and with this Water wash the Ulcer twice a Day.   

Ulcer in the Mouth: To remedy this, Take a pound and a half of white Sugar, the Juice of Pomegranates clarified a pint: mix these well over a gentle Fire, and bring them to the consistence of a Syrup, and gargoyle the Mouth with it, also the Throat, as far as may be, very often, and it will bring away the Corruption, and Cause the Sore to heal: It is astringent, and also strengthens the Stomach.   

Ulcers, another: Take one dram of Corrosive Sublimate, reduce it to fine Powder, and dissolve it in a quart of fair Water, suffering it to lie there four or five Days in a light Digestion; then drop in it as much Sal-armoniack, or as much Oil of Tartar per Deliquium as will precipitate it all; then filter it carefully, and keep it close stopped for use, viz. To dip Pledgets into it, and apply them to the ulcerous Part once, twice, or thrice a Day, as you see occasion.   

Vlcus Vteri: Take Asphaltum, or the true and choice Bitumen Judaicum, reduce it to a curious fine Powder, and take of it about a dram at a time in any proper Vehicle, once or twice a Day, as you see occasion.   

Vmble-Pasty: To make a Pastry, or Pie, after the newest fashion, Cut the Umbleses in small pieces, and do the like by fat Bacon: mix them together, and season them with Pepper, Salt, and Nutmeg, fill your Pastry, or Pie, with the Materials, having a little stripped Thyme, and shred pieces of Lemon scattered among them; then cover them with slices of Butter and Bacon very thin, and close it: let it soak well in the Oven, and when it is drawn, beat up Butter with Claret, Lemon, and stripped Thyme, and serve it up hot.   

Vmble-Pye: Make a Laying of minced Beef-suet in the bottom of your Coffin, or Slices of interlarded Bacon; cut the Umbleses in pieces as big as small Dice, and your Bacon in like form, season it with Nutmeg, Pepper, and Salt, and fill your Pie with it, and close it up with slices of Bacon and Butter: when it is enough, pour in at the place you have left vacant, Butter and Claret beat up together, and so serve it up at the Table whilst it is hot. Be sure it be well baked, or it is altogether spoiled.   

Unguent for St. Anthony's- Fire: Take Vervine, Pimpernel, & Bettony, of each a handful; bruise them, and put them into three pints of Whitewine; boil them in a fined Vessel, if possible, then strain them, and set the Decoction over a gentle Fire again in a glazed Vessel: then take washed Turpentine three ounces, Rosin one pound, new white Wax four ounces: when these are melted, and well mixed, add to them Mastick-powder one ounce, and the Milk of a Woman that has born a Male-Child two ounces: make these into an Unguent, or Ointment, over a gentle Fire, and anoint the Party afflicted with this hot Distemper, often bathing it in, and it will repel the Heat: It is also very necessarily used for Fistula's, Cankers, and hot Swell in the Joints and Sinews.   

Vnguentum Aegyptiacum: Take Verdigrease five drams, good Honey fourteen scruples, strong Vinegar seven scruples: boil them together till they incorporate to the thickness of an Unguent, and be of a purple colour.  
This forcibly cleanses inveterate Ulcers, and consumes proud, spongy, and dead Flesh.   

Vnguentum Album: Take Ceruse four ounces, Litharge half an ounce: let them steep a while in Rose-water, than put them into a Mortar, and by degrees pour in so much Rose-water as they can conveniently soak up, continually stirring them till they are form into an Unguent; then add a little Whitewine-Vinegar, and of Camphire one dram and a half.  
This Ointment is very cooling, it assuageth Pains occasioned by Heat and Inflammations, heals Excoriations, and takes away Scabs, and the Itch.   

Vnguentum Apostolorum: Take Turpentine, white Wax, Bees-wax, and Rosin, of each sixteen scruples; Opopanax, and Verdigrease, of each two scruples; Amoniacum sixteen scruples, long Aristolochia, and great Incense, of each six scruples; Myrrh, and Galbanum, of each three scruples; Bdellium six scruples, Litharge nine scruples; Olive-oil two pound: mix the lethargy with two ounces of the Oil, and let them stand five Hours; then boil it gently till it be as thick as Honey, keeping it continually stirring, and take it from the Fire, putting in the Wax and Rosin, being dissolved with the Oils: then whilst it is cooling, put in the rest of the Gums dissolved in the Vinegar, boiled and incorporated with the Turpentine, than the Aristolochia, Myrrh, and a little Frankincense finely powdered, and sprinkled on the rest; then make the whole Composition into an Ointment, the Verdigrease being put in last.  
This, by detersion, purgeth and cleanseth Wounds, and dangerous Ulcers, also Fistula's, wasteth dead Flesh, and increaseth the new.   

Vnguentum Aureum: Take yellow Wax six ounces, the best Olive-oil two pound, Turpentine two ounces, Rosin and Colophonia one ounce and half, Olibanum, and Mastic, of each one ounce; Saffron a scruple: dissolve Wax in the Oil, and so putting in the rest finely bruised, make an Unguent; and when they are all well incorporated, take the whole Mass from it, and put in the Turpentine, stirring it about that it may dissolve and imbody with the rest.  
This is excellent in fresh Wounds, and makes them speedily heal.   

Vnguentum of St. Cosme and Damian: Take Bettony, Pimpernel, and Vervine, of each a handful; stamp them, and put them into five pints of Whitewine, boil them together in a tin Vessel to the consumption of a third part; then strain out the Liquid part, and set it over a gentle Fire again in a glass Vessel; then take Turpentine washed six ounces, clarified Rosin a pound, new white Bees-wax four ounces: and when they are melted together in the same Glass, or Pot, add to them an ounce of the Powder of Mastic, of a Woman's Milk, who has newly born a Male-Child, and another a Female-Child, of each two ounces; make them into an Unguent, by incorporation, over the Fire.  
This wonderfully availeth for Wounds, or Bruises in the Sinews, as also Cankers, Fistula's, and St. Anthony's Fire, the grieved Places being bathed with it hot.   

Vnguentum Enulatum: To make this, Take the Roots of Elecampane sod in Vinegar, and bruised, one pound; Hogs-lard, and Olive-oil, of each three ounces; new Bees-wax one ounce, Quicksilver extinct, and Turpentine washed, of each two ounces; common Salt beaten half an ounce: mix the Lard, Wax, and Oil well together, by melting over a gentle Fire, then add the Elecampane, Quicksilver, and Salt and then the Turpentine, [take care to kill the Quicksilver with a little Grease, and Turpentine,] and so mix them well to the thickness of an Ointment.  
It is an excellent Ointment for Scabs, Itch, Scurf, Breakings-out, Botches, or the like.   

Vnguentum, Populeon: Take the Buds of Poplar freshly gathered one pound, macerate them in three pound of Hogs-lard prepared, for the space of two Months; then take of the Leaves of red Poppey, and those of Mandrake, Henbane, and the tender Crops of Black-berry, Bramble, Nightshade, Lettuce, Stonecrop, Housleek, great Burrs, and Penny-grass, of each three ounces; White-wine a pint: bruise them, and mix them with the Buds of Poplar, and set them in a warm Place eight Days: then add a pint of strong Vinegar, and boil them tiil it be consumed, which may be known by casting a little of it on the Fire; then strain it, and keep it close for use.  
This Unguent is good to assuage the Burning of the Fever following the Ague, Heat afflicting the Brain, Parts of the Head and Kidneys, by anointing those Parts with it where the Grief is predominant; and the Temples being anointed with it, mightily provokes Sleep,   

Vnguentum Vulpinum: Take a Fox, and draw out the Entrails, and take Sage, Rosemary, Juniper-leaves, and Berries, Dill, wild Marjoram, Lavender, and Chamomil, of each half a pound, stamped and well bruised in a stone Martar; and the Fox being cut in pieces, put him with the Herbs into a Vessel of eight gallons, add two quarts of Olive-oil, and a pint of Neats-foot-oil, Calves and Deers-suet, Badgers-grease, and Goose-grease, of each a pound and a half; Water, with Salt dissolved in it pretty strong, three quarts, and as much Malmsey, or Mallaga: boil them till the Water and Wine appear as consumed, and that the Flesh and Bones of the Beast be separated asunder: then press it hard through a Linen-cloth.  
This is a sovereign Ointment for all manner of Aches, and to restore the Limbs and Joints lamed through the Pains of the Gout.   

Unicorn Stone: This is of very great Virtue. It is mostly found in Germany, Moravia, Saxony, and Silesia, in subterraneous Caverns, where Nature has laid it up for the use and benefit of Man. It is drying and binding, and stops all manner of Fluxes of the Belly, Gonorrhoea's, Bleeding at the Nose, Hepatick Flux, and all other Fluxes of the Blood, by strengthening the Stomach, Heart, and vital Spirits. It is also profitable against the Apoplexy, Vertigo, Falling-sickness, and divers other Diseases incident to the Head and Brain, the levigated Powder being given to a dram, or four scruples, in any convenient Liquid. It is also good against the Pestilence and Plague, and all manner of malignant Fevers; likewise the Measles, Smallpox, Purple, or Spotted-fever, etc. It is also held powerfully to resist Poison, whether inwardly or outwardly injurious, the Biting of Serpents, or any other venomous Creature, by causing a gentle Sweat, and driving the Poison from the Heart. It is good against Faintings and Swoonings, and Passions of the Heart, Heartburning, and Palpitation, the Disease of the Viscera, by absorbing the acid Humours, when daily taken from half a dram to a dram, for a certain time, in some proper Cordial-water, or Wine.   

Voiding Blood: Take two drams of Henbane seed, and as much of white Poppy-seed: mix them, after they are well beaten, with an ounce of the Conserve of red Roses, and of that take fasting, as near as you can, the quantity of a Walnut. Or,  
Take Plantane-leaves a considerable quantity, bruise them, and press out the Juice, do the like by about six ounces of Comfrey-roots, sweeten it with a little fine Sugar, and drink it up, and you will soon find a restraint of Bleeding, though it come from several Parts.   

Vomiting in Children: To stay this, when excessive and dangerous, many times caused by Worms in the Stomach, Take dried Rue, and Frankincense, of each a dram; heat them to a fine Powder, and give it them in a Glass of Rhenish, or Wormwood-Wine.   

Vomiting to Provoke: Take the Rind of the Root of an Elder-tree, bruise it, and steep it in Whitewine all Night, so that the Wine may be very strong of it; drink off the Wine only lukewarm the next Morning fasting, and it will gently cleanse the Stomach and Belly.   

Vomiting to Provoke, another: Take a pound of the green Husks of Walnuts, a pound and a half of the Roots of Garden-Radishes, a pound of the green Leaves, six ounces of Asarabacca, and four ounces of Radish-seed; pour on them three pints of Whitewine-Vinegar, and let them digest a Day or two: then distil it in a glass Vessel in hot Water.  
Two spoonfuls of this will cause a strong Body to vomit; therefore those that are weaker, may take only a spoonful, or one and a half, to prevent any overstraining that it may occasion.   

Vomiting to Stay: Take Spearmint-water four ounces, Syrup of Quinces two ounces, and Cinnamon-water two drams. Take of this two or three spoonfuls at a time.   

Vomiting to Stay, another: Take about half an ounce of Cloves, bruise them grossly, put them into a pint of Ale, with half an ounce of Lemon, or Citron-peel, boil them over a gentle Fire to the consumption of a third part: and then drink it cold, when strained, adding a spoonful or two of the Juice of Sage.   

Vomiting to Stay, another: Take bruised Cinnamon two ounces, rectified Spirit of Wine a quart; infuse them four Days in a large Vessel very close stopped, shake it twice or thrice a Day, and dissolve apart half a pound of Sugar-candy in a quart of Rose-water, and so mingle the Liquors together, and put to them four grains of Musk, and half a scruple of Ambergrease.  
This mightily relieves the Stomach when oppressed with Cold, or Phlegm, and consequently stays Vomiting. It is also good to stay the Looseness, ease the Pains of the Colic, and other griping Pains.   

Urinal White as Clay: This denotes an ill Digestion, a bad Stomach, and a bad Liver, and if in it there appears any shining Beams, it denotes an Impostume in the Milt, or if the Urinal be white as Whey, thick and little in quantity, it betokeneth the Flux. To Remedy this,  
Take Grommol, Saxifrage, Parsley, and Sage; then boil them in stolen Ale, and drink the Liquid part Morning and Evening. You may use them also in your Pottage, shred in the nature of Potherbs.   

Urinal to Stop: If the Party cannot contain the Urinal, Take the Roots of Male-peony, yellow Amber, red Coral, and choice , of each a sufficient quantity; reduce them to a fine Powder, mix them well, and let the Patient take from ten to twenty grains twice a Day. Or this, viz. Take a spoonful at a time in any convenient Liquid.   

Urinal Stopped: Take the Roots of wild Garlic, by some called Crowgarlick, wipe them clean but do not wash them: bruise them very well in a stone or glass Mortar; strain out the Juice, and putting it into a glass of Whitewine, drink it off upon an empty Stomach, taking it once or twice a Day, and you will find great Benefit thereby.   

Urinal Stopped, another: Take Oil of Walnuts, put it into a Frying-pan, then put into it some Chervel picked well from the Stalks, and apply it pretty warm  to the Navel; or, if need be, to the Os pubis, or Share-bone. For want of Walnut-oil, you may do it with Hogs-lard.   

Urinal Stopped, another: Dissolve a little of the best Spanish Soap in half a pint of Whitewine, and pass it through a woollen Filter, or Strainer; put to it by infusion five or six grains of Saffron, divide it into two Doses, and take one two Hours after the other, especially if the first does not operate well: but if it does, you may stay a longer time. This, by the way, is taken for Urinal that is not very obstinate.   

Urinal Stopped, another: Take the Powder of a Stag's Pizle a dram, Crabs-eyes calcined the like quantity; the Juice of Garlic, or strong Onions half an ounce; Burdock-root finely sliced a quarter of an ounce; Powder of Steel half a dram; Bay-berries well bruised an ounce, Hartshorn Shave a quarter of an ounce, and two drams of the Shave of Ivory: boil or infuse these over a gentle Fire in a pint of Rhenish Wine, strain out the liquid part, and let the Party drink half a pint as hot as Milk new taken from the Cow, Morning and Evening, or oftener, if the Stoppage be great, and it will remove in a little time the Obstruction, and cause a free Passage of Urinal, etc.   

Vsquebaugh: To make this the right Irish way, who were the first Inventors that we can hear of: Take two gallons of rectified Spirit, half a pound of Spanish Licorice, a quarter of a pound of Raisins of the Sun, three ounces of Dates sliced, the Tops of Thyme and Baum, of each a pugil; the Tops, or Flowers of Rosemary two ounces, Cinnamon and Mace well bruised, of each an ounce; Anniseeds & Corianderseeds bruised likewise, of each two ounces; Citron, or Lemon, and Orange-peel finely scraped, of each half an ounce: let these infuse in a warm place forty eight hours, with often shaking together, and somewhat, if it may be, increasing the heat; then let them stand in a cool place for the space of a Week, sweeten it with Sugar-candy, and so draw off the Liquor, and press out the Liquid part that remains in the Ingredients. For a weaker sort; put other Spirits to them, and do as before.  
This is not only pleasant to drink, but moderately taken greatly preserves the Lungs against cold Distillations of Rheums, and other Defects that afflict them, and incline them to Consumption. It lengthens the Breath, cheers the Heart, and keeps out ill Airs occa●…oned by Damps and Fogs, etc.   

Vteri Prolapsus: Apply to the Navel a pretty large Cupping-glass, but suffer it not to continue too long on, a quarter of an Hour being the longest, for fear of injury, especially to the Navel String.   

Wula Falling: Take Corianderseeds, and Rue, in Powder, boil them in Mint-water, and sweetening it with a little Sugar, often gargarize the Mouth, and it will be remedied.   

Wula Relaxed: Take bluish Pease, or, for want of them white ones, chew them so long till you reduce them to the consistence of a Poultis, and lay 'em warm on the Crown of the Head to the breadth and thickness of a Crown piece, shifting it for fresh ones when you rise, and go to Bed.   

WAlnut-Water: Take green Walnuts before they have any hard Shells in them, two pound, Rue, and Carduus, of each a handful; Roman Wormwood, and Baum, of each half a handful: bruise all these together, and infuse them in a gallon of Mallaga, draw off the Water in a cold Still, and keep it close stopped for use.  
An ounce of it at a time Morning and Evening, expels Vapours, keeps out infectious Airs, restores Appetite, and causes good Digestion; creates a fresh and lively Countenance, and removes Pains in the Stomach.   

Walnut-Water, another: Take Walnuts with the green Husks on, before they come to a hard Shell, one pound and a half, Roots of Radishes the like quantity, green Asarabacca six ounces, the Seeds of Radishes four ounces: bruise and infuse them in three pints of Whitewine-Vinegar for three Days, and then distil them in a leaden Still till all the moisture be exhausted.  
Take an ounce or two of this Water fasting in a Morning, and it fortifies against the Infections of evil Airs, raw Damps, or Fogs, and purifies the Blood.   

Walnuts to Preserve: Take green Walnuts before they have contracted a hard Shell under them, pierce them with a Needle, and boil them in three or four Waters to take out the bitterness; and when they are tender, to twelve pints of the last Liquor put twelve pints of ordinary Sugar; boil it up, and clarify it with Whites of Eggs: then strain it, and boil it to a Syrup; and sticking some Cloves, Mace, and Cinnamon, in the Nuts, put them into the Syrup when cold.  
These Preserved Walnuts are very Cordial, Pectoral, and Stomachical: they strengthen it, and cause a good Digestion, and are excellent in Fluxes, and Loosenesses; also, an Antidote against the Plague, and all poisonous and pestilential Diseases.   

Warts: Take May-Butter, melt it in a moderate Heat, mix it well with as much Oil of Tartar, per deliquium, as will cause a sensible, but not considerable strong Taste, and\ make it into an Ointment; and with it often anoint the Warts as hot as you can well endure it, and they will either sink, or peel off.   

Warts Bloody: For these, Cut off the Warts, or Knobs of the black Elder, and Mallows, of each three ounces; of the Syrup of Comfrey one ounce: let the Party take four spoonfuls immediately, and so continue to do four or five times a Day.   

Warts to Remove: Wash the Warts often with the hot Blood of a Pig, suffering it to dry on them; then wash it off with Lie of Wood-ashes, and lay on a Plaster of Elder-bark mixed with Oil of Turpentine.   

Wash: If you would have your Skin of a sweet and fragrant Scent, Supple, and of a lively Colour, Take Baum, and Hyssop, of each a handful; the Boom of Peaches, and Garden Musk, (a Herb so called;) infuse them with an ounce of Frankincense beaten to Powder, and four drams of the Oil of Spicknard in two gallons of fair Water, over a moderate Fire: strain them, and wash yourself with it, or make a Bath of it; and it will not only render you amiable and charming, but contribute to the settling a healthful Constitution.   

Water for Bruises: Take two handfuls of Scabious-flowers, of Smallage, Bay-leaves, Pennyroyal, and Chamomil, of each a handful; the Powder of Myrrh half an ounce, Hartshorn two ounces: bruise the Herbs, and put them to infuse in two quarts of Mallaga; then distil them, and let the Party drink two ounces of it Morning and Evening.  
It is excellent good for internal Bruises, or Hurts; also, for Spitting of Blood, and Inflammations.   

Water for Cankers: If you are troubled with a Canker in the Mouth, etc. Take Sage, the Bark of Elder-Tree, Comfrey, Sorrel, and Endive, of each two handfuls: stamp, and strain them, when infused twelve Hours in two quarts of Whitewine, gargoyle your Mouth with it, or anoint or wash the Place with it elsewhere, and it will make it at a stay, and in a little time heal it.   

Water for the Headache: Take Roses, Bettony, and Elder-flowers, Sage, Chamomil, and Marjoram, of each four handfuls; Lavender, and Wheat-bran, of each two handfuls: boil them in about two gallons of fair Water. With this bath your Forehead and Temples, and put your Feet info it, as into a Bath, as hot as may be, and then repose yourself after it, keeping warm, taking inwardly a quarter of a pint of Mint and Bettony-water. And in so doing twice or thrice, the Pain in the Head will cease, and the Brain be much comforted.   

Water for Heat: For Hear or Pimples in the Face, or hot Inflammations in the Eyes, take this recommended Water. Take white and red Rose-water, of each a pint; Tutty-stone in Powder, Aloes Epatick, fine Sugar, and Rosemary flowers, of each an ounce; put them in a double Glass, and place them in Balneo Mariae five or six Days, yet frequently, in the mean space, move and shake them together; then with the Water wash your Face, Eyes, and other Parts inflamed or breaking out with Heat, and it will, by a constant use, remove it, and make the Skin beautiful,   

Water to cool the Liver: Take Barberry-leaves, and Woodsorrel, of each two handfuls; Plantane-roots, and Leaves, a handful; Mellon-seeds, borage, and Comfryflowers, of each an ounce: bruise them well, and infuse them in a gallon of Spring-water; distil them in that Water, and drink a quarter of a pint of it fasting, with the Syrup of Limon, Citron, or Violets, and walk about a while after the taking thereof.   

Water for the Plague: Take a pound of Celandine, Rosemary, Baum, Mugwort, Rue, Pimpernel that is found amongst the Corn, Dragons, Mugwort, Scabious, Agrimony, Bettony, Angelica, Pellitory of Spain, Carduus, Marigold-leaves and Flowers, Borrage-leaves and Flowers, Rosa-solis, Fetherfew, Pellitory of the Wall, red Sage, Setwell, Mother of Thyme, Devilsbit, and Tormentil, of each a good handful, with a few Sprigs of Rue, and Walnut-leaves, or green Walnuts bruised: bruise them well, and let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of White-wine three Days, and as many Nights, keeping the Pot they are in very close, yet often shaking it, that the Ingredients may move in the Wine; then distil the Wine & Herbs, and set the Water that is drawn off close stopped in glass Bottles, where the Sun may come to them.  
The best time of distilling this Water is in May, if the Materials, by reason of the forwardness of the Spring, may be had so early. Ten spoonfuls of it may be taken Bloodwarm, to prevent the Plague: and this must be done when the first Symptoms of it appear. And upon taking it, walk about till you sweat again, for the space of an Hour, not eating or drinking after it for the space of two Hours, or more; and then go to Bed upon it. If it chance to cause you to Vomit, it is a sign it has taken the better Effect.  
This is also good against Agues, or any infectious Diseases of the Stomach, being taken before the Fit, or Infection too far seizes.   

Water for the Stone: Take Saxifrage, Pellitory of the Wall, Mother-Thyme, green Sage, Radish-roots sliced, of each of them a handful: steep the Roots & Herbs a Night in Milk, and the next Morning distil them.  
Two spoonfuls drank fasting, with as much White-wine, is good also to provoke Urinal, and prevent Stoppages.   

Water for Ulcers: To cleanse Ulcers, use this Water as the most Excellent, viz. Take red Rose-water, and Plantane-water, of each a pint; the Juices of Housleek, Nightshade, and Pimpernel, of each two ounces; red Roses half a handful; Myrtle and Cyprus-nuts, of each half an ounce; the Rind of a Pomegranet three drams; St. John's-wort half a handful, Flowers of Mulleyn a pugil, Myrrh and Frankincense, of each a scruple; Honey of Roses four ounces: distil them when beaten, mixed, and well infused: and of this Water take a pint, and dissolve it in six ounces of the Conserve of Roses, and one ounce of the Syrup of dried Roses, with twelve drops of the Oil of Sulphur: when it has infused a while, press out the Liquid part, and wash and bathe the grieved Place with it often, and it will heal it.   

Weakness after Delivery: Take Syrup of Violets half an ounce, and as much of Citron-syrup; add to these two drams of the Powder of Rhubarb, and an ounce of Treacle-water, with as much Diascordium dissolved in it as will lie on a Groat; and to these add half a pint of Hyssop-water: let the Party take an ounce at a time, and after it some Broth, or warm Posset-drink; the Woman likewise taking great care of herself after it, for fear of catching cold, by her too timely rising, or stirring: for then the Cold has opportunity to penetrate and settle in the open Parts of the Joints, causing Numbness and Pains in the Limbs; and sometimes by such violent Intrusions, ferments the Blood to a Fever. And if any such thing unfortunately happen, Take the Powder of Elecampane an ounce, the Conserve of red Roses two ounces, Pomgranet-seed powdered an ounce: decoct them in White-wine, and drink it warm.   

Weakness to Help: Take the Powder of Vipers an ounce, Diaphoretick-Antimony half an ounce, clear yellow Amber two drams, Sugar the weight of all that have been mentioned before, and fine Starch the like quantity: make them into a Past with Spirit of Wine, and then into small Cakes, of which one may be a sufficient Dose.  
This is successfully used to strengthen the Blood, and to strengthen those that have been, or are weakened with Sickness.   

Weakness of Stomach: Take Baum and Mint, boil them in Whitewine with some Rosemary-tops or Flowers, and Peeling-off of a Lemon, and drink a quarter of a pint of the Decoction half an Hour before Meals. Or for this, Wormwood and Gentian infused in your Drink, is very much available.   

Web in the Eye: To remove this Offence of the Sight, Take Shell-snails, and burn them to Powder, beat it fine, and sift it; add to it the Powder of Cuttlebone: put these into Alomwater wherein Honey is dissolved, and shake them about: when the Water is thick with the powder, drop some of it into the Eye with a Feather, keeping the Lids closed a while, and turn your Eye to and fro that it may fret off the Film, or Skin that hinders the Sight: and in often so doing, it will wear it away.   

Wen to Cure: Take a Limestone, and slack it in small Soap-lees; then mix it with a little Soap, spread it as a Plaster, and lay it to the Wen, and anoint it often with the Lees the Lime was slaked in, and it will sink and destroy it.   

Whitepot to Make: Take two quarts of Cream, or new Milk, put in half an ounce of Mace, a piece of Cinnamon, and half a Nutmeg sliced; chip off the Crust from a Penny White-loaf, slice it very thin, and lay the Slices in the bottom of a Dish, cover them with Marrow, and put the Yolks of a dozen Eggs to the Cream, or Milk, well beaten with Rose-water, and sweeten it with Sugar: then take out the Spices, fill up a broad Basin, in which the Bread and Marrow is laid; bake it, but not in too hot an Oven: and when it is enough, scrape white Sugar over it, and serve it up.   

Whitewine that has lost Colour: To recover this, Rack it from the Lees, and if it be a faint tawny Wine, put in Coniack-lees, putting the Wine upon them, rolling them over, and beating them: and in the space of ten or twelve Days rack it off, and it will be of a white Colour, and drink very brisk.   

Whitewine to mend its Colour: Take three or four gallons of new Milk, or less, according to the quantity of your Wine, put it into the Hogshead, and roll it to a good mixture: then letting it settle, open your Bung, and put in three or four ounces of Isinglass, and as much Loaf-sugar; then fill up the Hogshead, and roll it three or four times over: and so bring it by that means to a colour and fineness.   

Whitewine to Mend: If your Whitewine have an ill Taste, draw it half off, and to either of the halves put two gallons of Morning's-Milk, a handful of Rice, and as much Bay-salt; mix or beat them well together with a Paddle-staff for half an Hour, then fill up the Hogshead, and roll it well, and turn it over in the Lees; and so you may broach it in two Days, and it will drink very pleasantly.   

Wine, called Blessed Wine: To make this, Take Crocus-Metallorum in Powder one ounce, Mace in Powder, or grossly bruised, one dram, Spanish Wine a pint and a half: infuse the Crocus and Mace in the Wine a considerable time, and then pour off the Liquid.  
This is a very good Vomit, and more frequently used than any other; and among others it is used with great success in curing the Dropsy, Jaundice, Physic, and Diseases in the Head; also, in the beginning of Fevers, and before the coming out of the Smallpox. It must consequently in these Cases do a great deal of good by freeing the Parts from the peccant Humours.  
The Dose is half an ounce, an ounce, or an ounce and a half at a time: but the Age and Strength of the Patient is in these Cases to be considered. And the best times to take Purges is in the Afternoon, having first eaten a light Dinner.   

Wine of Cherries: Take out the Stalks, and the Stones of your Cherries, bruise them with your Hands clean washed, or a wooden Ladle; and after twelve Hours fermenting together, strain them through a Napkin, press out the Juice into an earthen Stein; and after you have taken off the Scum and Froth, cover it close: and when it is settled, pour it off by inclination to ferment in your Cask with Sugar, and this will give it a deep Colour: then bottle it up, tie down the Corks to prevent flying out; and in ten or twelve Pays you may drink it.  
This is a great cooler, cheers the Heart, and revives decaying Nature; is good against Fits, and violent Pains in the Head. But Note, This is meant of the best red Cherries.   

Wine of Currans: Take a pound of Currans, pick them clean, and wash them well, and putting them in an earthen Vessel pretty deep, pour on them about six pints of fair Water very hot, in which three spoonfuls of new Ale-yeast has been dissolved; then stop it up close about sixty Hours, that it may work and ferment: and as soon as you find it to your liking, let it run through a Strainer to leave behind the exhausted Currants and Yeast, and so bottle it up, and it will be exceeding quick, and pleasing in Taste.  
This is not only pleasant to drink, but advantageous to the Body sundry Ways: for it cools the Liver, cleanses the Blood, and is take with good success in all hot Diseases.   

Wine Lowering: Take an ounce of Roach-alom, and powder it, draw from the Hogshead four gallons, then strew the Powder of Allom in it, and beat in well for half an Hour, then fill it up, and set it on broach: and by this means, within three Days, if you be careful not to let it take vent, you will find it a curious Wine.   

Wine Medicinal: Take the best old Mallaga a quart, Rhenish-wine a pint, Baum, Rue, red Sage, Maiden hair, and the Leaves of Germander, of each an ounce bruise and boil them gentry in Wine till a third Part be consumed; then add Pepper, Ginger, and Nutmeg, of each three drams: beat them well, then put to them an ounce of Venice-Treacle, and a quarter of a pint of Angelica and Saffron-waters: and having well boiled them, strain out the Liquid part, and drink half a quarter of a pint Morning and Evening, or oftener, if you see occasion and it is excellent good against the Infections of the Plague, Measles, Small pox and Spotted-fever; also, to prevent the Infections by ill Airs afflicting the Lungs by Coughs, Catarrhs, etc.   

Wines to Back: The best time to do it is when the Wind sits full North, the Wether clear and temperate, in the increase of the Moon, and when she is under the Earth, and not in the full height,   

Wine Roping: To alter this, Take a course Linen-cloth, and place it before your Boar when you have set it abroach; then put in your Linen, and rock it in a dry Cask: then put in five or six ounces of powdered Alom, and jumble them well together; and so upon settling, it will be fined down, and become a very clear and pleasant Wine.   

Wine to Scent well: Take two ounces of Brimstone, and half an ounce of Calamus, mix them well together in a pint and a half of Borrage-water, melt the Brimstone in a Pan and add the rest to it, and dip in so many Linnen-cloaths as will soak it up, and put them into the Hogshead: then take out your Ashes, and rack your Wine, and so put into it a pint of Rosewater, and roll it well half an hour, it being stopped down close: after which, let it lie still two Days; and by this means, this, or any other Gascoin, or red Wine, will have a very pleasant Scent.   

Wine of Squils': Take the Roots of white Mountain-squills seasonably gathered, slice them, and lay them a drying for a Month, and put a pound of them into a glass, and poor on them four quarts of good old Whitewine: infuse them for the space of forty Days, and then take out the Squills.  
This is likewise a gentle Vomit, but most commonly used with Vinum-Benedictum, or the Blessed Wine; so that an ounce of it may be taken with half an ounce of the other.   

Wines Vicious to Meliorate: Take a pint of clarified Honey, a pound of Water wherein Raisins have been steeped, half a pint, and a quarter of a pint of Claret, or Whitewine, as to what you propose it to: boil them over a gentle Fire till a third part be consumed, scum it continually in the boiling, and put it pretty hot into the Wine, and let it stand with the Bung out; then put in a Bag of Spices, and it will't fine either new or old Wine that are fouled or decayed, and give them a curious Smell, or Taste; if when it has rested five or six Days you add white Mustardseed bruised hang it in a Canvas-bag.   

Woman in Labour: Take of Cinnamon finely powdered one dram, Amber likewise finely powdered half a dram; mingle them in a quarter of a pint of Claret, and let the Party drink it.  
This is accounted a most approved Medicine to help a Woman in the time of her Travel, and cause an easy and safe Labour.   

Womb to Cleanse: Take a large old Onion, the whitest that may be, cut it in pieces, and boil it in a pint of Water very soft; strain and press it, and take about a quarter of a pint of the Decoction at a time, putting thereto an ounce of the fresh Oil of walnuts, and the expected Effects will be completed by it.   

Worm in the Head: If any Worm, or Earwig, has crept into the Head whilst you sleep, to destroy, or bring it away, Take three or four Cloves of Garlic, stamp them in a Mortar, or any other convenienient Utensil: then lay them in clean Water to soak a while, and so wring out the Juice with a clean Cloth, and put a few drops of the Liquor into the Ear; and it will either kill the Worm, and work it out with the Wax, or cause it to come out at the Nose. It is also good for Noises, and Dizziness in the Head, and brings away the Fur and Scurf that many times causes Obstruction in the Hearing, and much lessens it.   

Worms: Take Rhubarb a dram, Wormwood half a dram, Coralline a scruple, Currans four ounces: beat them to a Conserve, and mix it with Syrup of Violets till it becomes an Electuary, and give the quantity of a Nutmeg in a Morning fasting, dissolved in a little warm Ale, or Wine.  
This is noted by Dr. Wetherborn to be of excellent use to kill Worms in Children.   

Worms in the Teeth: If you find, when you put hot things in your Mouth, something to stir in your Teeth, or Gums, Take black Pepper a quarter of an ounce, beat it to Powder, and sift it finely; then put it into a quarter of a pint of White-wine, and boil it over a gentle Fire: then take some of it, and hold it as hot as may be in your Mouth, and it will make those that can, crawl out, and kill those that are imprisoned, whereby the Pain and Defect, thereby occasioned, will presently cease.   

Worms in Children: Take the green Husks of Walnuts, Rue, and Baum, beat them very fine, put as much Sugar to them as will make them into a Conserve; and to make them the more palatable, let it be taken in two or three spoonfuls of Canary, to the quantity of a large Hazelnut at a time.   

Wormwood: This Excellent Herb is under the Dominion and Government of Mars. Its Virtues are very singular, viz.  
It is good for Inflammations of the Liver, and Stomach, and profitable for those that are sick of the Dropsy, the Leaves being made into a Confection with Sugar. It is of a restringent quality, bitter, and sharp, altogether being hot; it is comforttable, and drying; and therefore it purgeth downwards, and driveth into the Urinal and Excrement all choleric Humours; it principally comforteth and fortifieth the Heart and Stomach, being infused in Wine. The Tops of it, and Roots of Dandelion decocted in Water, are powerful Expellers of the Humours that occasion the Jaundice. The Juice of Wormwood, wherein the Kernels of Peaches are bruised and infused, kill the Worms in any Part of the Body. The Conserve of it taken fasting, preserves from Drunkenness, sharpens Appetite, and is a sovereign Remedy, for those that are troubled with Stuff or Stoppage of the Stomach, if the Juice thereof be drank with Whitewine, or Vinegar: mixed with Milk and Honey, it is good to rub those that are afflicted with the squinsy. The Fume of the Decoction, the Mouth, or Ears held over it, easeth their Pains; and being infused in Wine of Raisins, it easeth the Pains and Pricking of the Eyes, they being washed with it. Being mixed with Oil of Roses, and a Stomach that has been long weakened, anointed therewith, it mightily strenghthens it. With Figs, Vinegar, and Darnel-Meal, it is good, applied outwardly and inwardly, against the Dropsy and Spleen. Dried and powdered, it defends  from Moths and Worms.  
For a continued Dropsy, Take two pounds of the Tops of Wormwood, make it into a Conserve with as much Sugar, and let the Party take half an ounce at a time, three or four time a Day.   

Wormwood-water: Take two gallons of new Ale, but well settled, and very clear, a pound of Anniseeds, and half a pound of Licorice; bruise them together very sine; then take two handfuls of the tender Tops of Roman Wormwood, and put them with the other Ingradients into the Ale: let them infuse twelve Hours, and then distil them in an Alembick. The Water will be stronger, if instead of Ale you put Low-Wines, or Spirits, drawn off decayed Fruit of Grocery-Ware, and Molossus.   

Wormwood-wine: To make this, Take small Rochel, or Campaign-Wine, put into it a few drops of the extracted Oil of Wormwood; mix it well together by brewing: then let it fret, and contract a Body  Hours, and it will procure by drinking it, a lost Appetite, and much enliven Nature.   

Wormwood-wine, Physical: Take of Wormwood well dried, and seasonably gathered a handful, to a gallon of Wine, and put into that, according, to proportion, what quantity you please: let it infuse in a close stopped Vessel till the Wine is tinged sufficiently of the Wormwood.  
This Wine is successfully taken to heat and cleanse the Stomach. It is good in the Dropsy, and excellent in the procuring a lost Appetite.   

Wound-bleeding: To stay the Bleeding of any Wound, Take the tender Tops of Nettles, bruise them between your Fingers till they have lost their stinging quality; then stamp them together with a little white Sugar, and lay them on the Wound. Or this,  
Take fifteen of the smalllest Earthworms, and a handful of the inner Bark of the Elder, half a quartern of red Wine, and as much salad-oil, viz. Oil of Olive, a good handful of the Herb called Mouse-ear, and a piece of fine Sugar, as much new Wax, with a very little Salt: bruise them, and stamp them well together; and having well incorporated them over a gentle Fire, apply them as a Poultis, or Plaster, to the Part from whence the Effusion of Blood-proceeds.   

Wounds Green: Take Oil of St. John's-wort two ounces, Venice-Turpentine the like quantity, set them over a gentle Fire, and put to them a little Balsam of Kiel; incorporate them, and keep them as an excellent Balsam for green Wounds of any nature whatsoever.   

Wounds to Incarnate: Take the Meal of Orbus, Tutty, Opopanax, and round Aristolochia, of each two drams and a half; Hog-fenel half an ounce, Blood-wort Leaves dried and powdered a quarter of an ounce, Flower-de lize five drams, Myrrh three drams; the greater and lesser Centaury, of each two drams: by drying, bearing, and finely sifting make this into a Powder, and mix it with Ointments, or Plasters, suitable to the purpose, to make Flesh grow up in the Wounds where it has been destroyed, or wasted.   

Wound-powder: Take Dragons-blood, Aloes, Frankincense, Quicklime, and Copperas, of each a like; incorporate them, and being finely powdered with some Cobwebs, and Whites of Egg, apply it to the bleeding Wound, and it will easily stay the Flux of Blood, prevent Putrefaction, and contribute much to the cleansing and healing of it.   

Wound-salve: Take a quarter of a pound of clarified Butter, Virgins-wax half a pound, Turpentine four ounces, and two or three Yolks of Eggs: beat them to Froth, and put to them four ounces of red Rose-water, and two drams of Sugar-candy powdered and dissolved in the Rose-water: mix these with as much Flower as will make them into a thickness over a gentle Fire, keeping them stirring till they become a Plaster: apply this to green Wounds, or others, that have not been of too long standing, and it hastens the Cure.   

Wrinkles to Smooth: Take the Oil of Swallows an ounce, the like quantity of the Oil of Mandrake, half an ounce of the Oil of Pomegranate, and half an ounce of Ews-Milk: incorporate them to the thickness of an ordinary Pomatum over a gentle Fire; then add four ounces of the Cream of Almonds, spread it thin on a Forehead-cloth, or Fillitring, and lay it to the Forehead, or other Part, keeping it up tight and smooth: and in so often doing, the Wrinkles will disappear, especially in a great measure. It also smooths a rough Skin in any Part.   

YArd Imposthumated: If a Man's Yard be Imposthumated, let blood, but not over much, either in the Foot or Arm: dissolve Aloes in White-wine, and dip a Linen Cloth in it; then bind it about the Yard, and often wash it with the Liquid, and if there be any ventosity, or windiness of the Belly, use a Fomentation of the Decoction of Aristolochia-rotunda; or if the Testicles be affected with the Imposthumation, Take Bean-flower, Barly-meal, the Leaves of Henbane, of each a like quantity; put to them Oil of Roses, mix them well together, by braying in a Mortar, and apply them as a Cataplasm, often renewing it as the moisture dries up, and wash the Testicles with Rose and Spear-mint-water.  
If any descending of the Bowels happen upon, these or the like Occasion. Take Acacia, and some Cyprus-Nuts, dried Rue, Bay-berries, Nut-Galls, & , of each a quarter of an ounce; bruise them in a Mortar, and sift them into a fine Powder: make them into a Plaster with Bees-wax and a little Hog's Lard; put up the descending Bowels, and apply it to the bottom of the Belly, drinking each morning White-wine wherein Cyprus Nuts have been decocted.   

Yard Swelling: Take the Fat of a Loin of Mutton, about the Kidneys, mix it with the Powder of Pumice-stone, and a little Salt finely burned and beaten to Powder; make a kind of a Plaster, and put it round the Yard, where the Swelling is most apparent, and after that, wash it with the Decoction of Marsh-Mallows, and by so doing twice or thrice, the Swelling will cease.   

Yarrow: This Herb grows in the Fields, and hath many long Leaves spread on the Ground, and finely jagged and divided into many small Parts: its Flowers are white, and some of them sometimes inclining to red, and stayed in Knots, among divers green Stalks arising from the Leaves; some call it Nose-bleed, others Milfoil: it flowereth about the latter end of August. An Ointment may be made of it, which is excellent in curing Wounds, and is proper for such as have Inflammations. It stops the Terms, being drunk in White-wine, when decocted therein; as also the Bloody Flux. The Ointment of it is a good Healer of Ulcers and Fistula's, especially such as abound with Moisture. The Hair being anointed with it, it stays its falling off, especially washing the Head before with the Concoction of it. Inwardly taken, it strengthens the retentive Faculties of the Stomach; it helps the Running of the Reins, and such as cannot hold their Urin. The Leaves chewed in the Mouth, ease the Pains in the Teeth, and is briefly an Herb of a very drying and binding Quality.   

Yawning: Where the Party is too much addicted to this, which occasions unseemly Proportions and Features in the Face, Take the Juice of Housleek, and the Powder of a Frogs Skin in a Glass of Whey fasting, in a morning; or they may be taken in any other convenient Liquor, if you think convenient.   

Yellow Colour: If the Face, of any part of the Body be of yellowish Tawny Colour, by Sickness or Defect in Nature, to remove it, and restore a whiteness, Take the Roots of Turnips and Acorns, wash them and distil them in an Alembick, and a very fine Water will come from them; of this Water let the Party drink sweetened with Sugar ever morning for a Month or two together, and wash the Skin or Part, over, with the Water of Fumitory and distilled Eggs, and so the yellowness, or other unpleasing Colour, will disappear, and give place to a better.   

Yellow Colour to make: Take the yellow Chives in White Lilies, Saffron, and Tartar, steep them in Gum-water, or Buckthorn-berries; when they are dried, heat them in Water till they swell, and then press them out, and these afford a pleasant Colour, which with a little Gum Arabic dissolved in it, you may likewise write with, and the Letter being burnished on blue Paper, will appear like Gold, especially if a Shell of Gold be mixed and dissolved with them.   

Yellow jaundice: Take Artemisia, and of Scolopendria, of each a handful, Wormwood the third part of a handful, boil them in new White-wine, or any that is not sharp till the third part of Three pints be consumed, putting in the Wormwood last; then strain out the Liquid part, pressing it very hard, and having sweetened it with Sugar, let the Party afflicted drink about a quarter of a pint every morning for Nine days successively, by renewing the quantity, and it will prove of great Advantage.   

Yellow jaundice: another. Take Ivy growing round, or twisting an old Oak, when it is flowered, boil the Flowers, Leaves, and tender Bark of the top Branches in Whitewine, of a medium, between sour and sweet; infuse half a dram of Saffron in a pint, and let the Party drink it hot morning and evening for a Week or more, if occasion requite it: or, if there be a hardness of the Liver occasioned by this Disease.  
Take an ounce and a half of the Oil of Roses, of the Juice of Wormwood, Oleum Nardinum, and Mastic, of each half an ounce; of the powder of Squinantum, Spodium, Cassia Lignea, and Cauda Equina, of each two drams: make them into an Ointment with Bees-wax, as much as is sufficient to do it, and anoint the Parts nearest to the Liver often with it, as warm as may be, having first bathed the Place with warm Vinegar; your hand, when you bathe it in, being anointed with Oil of Mastic. If the Distemper be far gone, decoct Rhubarb in Beer or Wine, and drink it morning and night, keeping yourself warm in a Bed, or in a stirring Posture, which is better, for an hour or two after; and in so often doing, the Humours will be dispersed, and Nature thus helped, cast out the Crudities that occasion the Distemper.   

Yew Berries: These are excellent good for Pains in the Bowels, Obstructions of the Stomach, and in Fluxes of the Belly, if boiled with White-wine and a little Mace, and being strained, the liquid part drunk fasting.   

Yexing to Remedy: Take the Juice of Quinces, and boil of them and Honey each one pound and half, put to them a pint and a half of Vinegar, and boil them up together; then put in Ginger three ounces, of white Pepper one ounce, and boil them again till they may be made into an Electuary; and take a quarter of an ounce at a time as often as you see occasion: or you may bruise Rue, infuse it in White-wine with Cumin-seeds, and drink it, sweetened with a little Honey. This remedies likewise the Hickup, and is good against the Chincough.   

Youth to Preserve: Take Oil and Myrrh, of each half an ounce; Oil of Roses a like quantity, Oil of Sweet Almonds two ounces: mix these well together, and anoint the Face and Hands with them, warmed in a Saucer over a gentle fire: or,  
Take the Waters of Fumitory mixed with that which is distilled from a young Pig, of each a quarter of a pint; add then the Decoction of Rosemary in Whitewine, half a pint: and with this wash every Morning when it is gently heated; also gargoyle your Mouth with it, and it will not only fasten your Teeth, and keep them from aching, but preserve them from rotting, and keep them clean, and very white.    

APPENDIX.  

TERMS of ART, and Hard Words, that may be met with in this Work, Explained.  

A  
ABstergent, wiping.  
Acrimony, is a Quality that is biting upon the Tongue.  
Acid, is a thing very sharp, viz. Liquids', Herbs, etc.  
Agglutinate, to glue together.  
Alexipharmick, resisting Poison.  
Alternately, by Turns.  
Anodyne, gives ease.  
Aperitive, opening.  
Aqueous, watery.  
Aromatic, odoriferous, or Spicy smells.  
Asthma, Difficulty of Breath.  
Attenuate, to thin.  
Attractive, Drawing.  
Astringent, Binding.   

B  
BItuminous, of the Nature of Pitch.  
Bulbous, Round Rooted.   

C  
calify, to heat.  
Capillary, Hairy.  
Cardiack, Cordial.  
Caries, Rottenness.  
Carminative, expelling Wind.  
Cataplasm, a Poultis.  
Cephalick, proper for the Head.  
Cholera A pleasant Evacuation of Choler upward and downward.  
Compress, a Linen Cloth often folded.  
Concreted, Thickened.  
Consolidates, makes sound or whole.  
Corroborate, to Strengthen.  
Cosmetick, Beautifying.   

D.  
DIabetes, a vast Evacuation of Urin.  
Diaphoretic, Sweeting.  
Decant, to pour gently of, and leave the settling behind.  
Decoction, a boiling of the Liquor to any thing.  
Digest, to Dissolve.  
Dilate, to open wide.  
Diluted, made thin.  
Discuss, drive away.  
Detergent, cleansing.  
Detersive, cleansing.  
Diuretic, force Urine.   

E  
EBullition, boiling.  
Effusion, shedding.  
Emollient, softening.  
Empyema, a Collection of Matter in the Breast.  
Epatick, proper to the Liver.  
Epithem, an outward Application to the Stomach, Heart, or Liver.  
Erosion, a Gnawing.  
Errhine, a Medicine drawn up the Nostrils.  
Excrescent, growing up.  
Exhilerate, to make merry,  
Expectorate, to bring up the Matter from the Lungs.   

F.  
FIbres, Strings.  
Filtrate, to strain through a Paper.  
Faeces, dregs.  
Frontals, an Application to the Forehead.  
Fungous, any thing spongy.   

H.  
HUmect, to moisten.  
Hysterick, Vaporous.   

I.  
INcarnes, Breeds Flesh.  
Indurate, to wash hard.  
Inspissated, thickened.   

L.  
LEnitive, mild or gentle.  
Levigate, to make Smooth.  
Ligature, a binding of Linen-cloth.  
Linctus, a Medicine for the Lungs.  
Lithontriptick, a breaking the Stone.  
Lotion, a particular Bath.  
Lubricating, Smoothening.  
Luxations, Members out of Joint.   

M.  
MEmbranous, Fibrous.  
Millepedes, Hog-lice.  
Mucilaginous, Slimey.   

N.  
NArcotick, occasioning Sleep.  
Nephritick, belonging to the Reins.  
Nerve, a porous substance.   

O.  
OBlong, longer than Broad.  
Obtuse, Blunt.  
Oedamatous, Phlegmatic.   

P.  
PAlpitation, a Beating of the Heart.  
Paralytic, subject to Palsy.  
Paregorick, disposing to Sleep.  
Perennial, lasting.  
Pulmonick, proper for the Lungs.   

R.  
REfrigerate, to cool.  
Repercuss, to beat back.  
Repress, to beat down.  
Resinous, of the nature of Rosin.  
Rupture, a Burstenness of the Belly.   

S.  
SCirrhus, a hard Tumour.  
Sextiary, somewhat above a pint.  
Siccity, Dryness.  
Soporifick, gives Rest.  
Specific, a particular Remedy for some peculiar Distemper.  
Splenetic, proper for Spleen.  
Spontaneously, freely of its own accord.  
Stagnating, standing still.  
Stomachick, proper for the Stomach.  
Styptic, Astringent.  
Sublimated, raised to the Neck of a Vessel.  
Succulent, Juicy.  
Sudorific, procuring Sweat.  
Suppurating, bringing to Matter.   

T.  
TAblets, little pieces cut out like Lozenges.  
Thoracick, proper for the Breast.  
Torrification, Roasting.  
Tumour, a Swelling.   

V  
VEgetable, an Herb.  
Vehicle, some proper Water to take a Powder, or the like in.  
Viscous, slimy, tough, clammy.  
Uterine, proper for the Womb.  
Vulnerary Potion, a Drink for healing Wounds.    

A Catalogue of such Instruments and Utensils as are requisite in Pivate Houses, for the use of those that are desirous to compound Medicines, etc.  
A Great Marble Mortar, and another of Brass. A Rowler to roll Lozenges. Spatula's of different sizes. Copper Pan's to make Decoctions. An iron Ladle to prepare Lead. A Grinding-Stone, and Mullet. A Pulping-Sieve, a Hair-Sieve covered, Hippocras-Bags, and little Cotten-Blankets for straining. Scales and Weights. Presses. Rasps to rasp Hartshorn, Woods, Quinces, etc. A square wooden Frame, with a Nail at each corner to hold the Strainer. An incision Knife. A levatory Probe. Syringes to make Injection. Forceps to draw Teeth, and a Lancet. Cupping-Glasses, Gallypots, Boxes, and Glasses to keep Oils, Syrups, Waters, etc. Cauteries to make Issues. Pipes, with Fenestals. Needles fit for Sutures, Ligatures, Bands, Swaths of Linen and woollen. Powders and Waters to stay Bleeding. Pledgets, Compressers, and Bolsters. A Bathing-Tub, or Chair. An Alembick, and small Still; with Receivers.  
These will pretty well suffice any private Practitioner; and if necessity requires any tiling more, you may furnish yourself at leisure.   

Meat and Drink observed for the contributing to Health, and the Preservation of it.  
NOurishment is a necessary Part for the Preservation of Health: for as they are temperate, or intemperate; so good or evil Juices have their Effects in the Body of Men and Women, as the Food we eat is of hard or easy Concoction, or Digestion. The Temperate is such Meats, as being taken in due order, cause no Distemper, as Bread well made of Wheat. The Intemperate are those, that by some quality do alter the State of our Bodies; as for example, Wine, Mustard, Garlick, Leeks, Onions, etc. do heat: and so does Pottage made with hot Herbs, as Hyssop, Thyme, etc. Bread made of Barley, Grapes; and Pottage made with cool Herbs, as Lettuce, Sorrel, etc. do cool.  
Some kind of Nourishments breed Phlegm, some Choler, some Melancholy, and some Excrements only. Those that principally generate good Blood, are these, viz. Red Wine, Milk, Eggs, the Flesh of Hens, Capons, and Birds, are to be preferred before any other sorts of Flesh, either Kid, or Veal, because they generate better Juice. Black and thick Wines breed ill Juice: th● like does Beef, Goats-flesh; but worst of all, that of Bulls, Brawn, and Ram-flesh. Bread that is made of yellow and sweet Wheat, well dressed, is best for Nourishment.  
All manner of Pease breed Wind, and increase Melancholy. Beans that are green, are cold and moist, and generate crude Blood and Wind: Dried Beans are cold, and dry; so that the Flowers thereof are much used in Cataplasms that are to dry and cool, as in hot Impostumes of the Paps. Rice is a great Hinder, and therefore used in Clysters to stop Lasks: it generates thick Juice, and Obstructions in the Veins, if it be much eaten. All Fish do of themselves yield a cold and moist Nourishment, and much Phlegm; yet let the quality of Meat be never so good, too much in quantity, or unseasonably taken, will cause the Nourishment to prove Evil: for Gluttony, and Intemperance are the greatest Maintainers of the Physicians. Therefore, if we regard our Healths, we should eat and drink to live, and not live to eat and drink; and certain it is, that those who regard their Healths, aught to be moderate in both: and therefore it is the best way to eat little at a time, that there be always a good Appetite and Digestion; likewise to keep due order and time in our Meats and Drinks. Good Wine is nourishing; as also the Liquors of our own Country growth that have Age and Clearness.   

Labour and Rest, how thy contribute to Health.  
MOderate Labour, or Exercise, where the whole Body is actively employed, contributes much to Health, by stirring the Humours, and sweeting out what is noxious or offensive: but the Body continuing in idleness, gathers much Phlegm and Excrements, which would be dissipated by Exercise; for it helps the natural Heat, quickens the Spirits, makes the Senses the better perform their several Offices, opens the Pores of the Body, and by perspiration wastes the Excrement that other ways would afflict it: finally, it comforteth all the Spirit and Members, that they may the better undergo their Function. In Exercise, consider first the time, which is the fittest before Meat; secondly, the manner of the Exercise, which is general, or particular, as playing at Ball, or Leaping particularly, as when one Part only is exercised, as the Legs by walking, the Arms by another Motion; the Belly is stirred by riding, and the Lungs by much Discourse, or loud calling. Now as there are many Conveniencies by Exercise used in due quality and time, so are there many inconveniencies and dangers proceeding from Rest and Idleness; as Crudities, Obstructions, Stone in the Reins, and Bladder, Gouts, and Apoplexy, and sundry others: and it not only dulleth the principal Instruments of our Body, but also of our Mind.   

Sleeping, and Waking, how they contribute to a healthful Constitution.  
SLeep is a Rest and Quietness of the Body in its 〈◊〉 and a Cessation of the animal Spirits and Faculty 〈…〉 Sense and Motion: It fortifieth the Strength, 〈…〉 Digestion; corrects the Passions of the Mind, and is caused when the Brain is possessed with Vapours that ascend, which by the Brain's Coldness are turned into Humours, and these close the Conduits of the Nerves; for when we are waking, the Animal Faculties, as Sense, Motion, and all are at Work; but when we sleep, the natural Functions are better performed, because the Heat goes into the Bowels, whereby is made Digestion: but this is meant by Sleep in the night; but sleeping in the day is hurtful: for the Sun draws the Heat and Spirits unto the outward Parts of the Body, and being many times suddenly wakened by Noises, etc. the Concoction begun is not perfected, but it fills the Stomach with Crudities and sour Belchings, and the Brain is filled with gross Vapours, and Excrementitious Humidities, and is the Cause of divers Sicknesses, as Catarrhs, etc. and in the night, not to exceed 8 hours sleeping is the most healthful, because a longer time hinders the Evacuation of the Execrements both upward and downward, and the Natural Heat, which is not idle, draws from them some ill Vapours into the Veins and principal Parts of the Body, there to become some Matter for a Disease.  
Also in our lying down to sleep, we must observe to do it on the right side, that the Digestion may be more easy in the bottom of the Stomach, which is hotter, and about an hour after, if you be waking, you may turn on the Left side, that the Liver with its Lobes may embrace the Ventricles, and as a Fire under a Furnace, hasten the Digestion; but lie as little as may be on the Back or Face; for Excess of the first often causes Inflammations of the Reins and Stone, Palsy, Convulsions, and the usual Diseases proceeding from the Spinal Marrow: The latter causes Defluxions and Rheums. Nor sleep too soon after Meat. Note, That painful Sleep in Sickness is a bad Sign; but easy Sleep, a good sign of Recovery.  
To be over wakeful and watching, corrupts the Brain, debilitates the Senses, moves Crudities, and altars the Spirits, breeds heaviness of the Head, and wasting and falling away of the Flesh.   

A Bill of Fare, of such Varieties as are in season for every Month in the Year, of all sorts of necessary and convenient Provisions, in Decency and Order.  

JANUARY.  

BRawn and Mustard. Boiled Capons in stewed Broth, or white Broth. Two Turkeys in Stafaldo. A Hash of twelve Partridges, and a Shoulder of Mutton. Two Bran Geese boiled. A Farced boiled Meat with Snites or Ducks. A Marrow Pudding baked. A Surloin of Roast-beef. Minced Pies, ten in a dish, or any other Number as you please. A Loin of Veal. A Venison Pastry. A roasted Pig. Two Roasted Geese. Two Capons, one larded, and Custards.   

Second Course.  
Oranges and Lemons. A side of Lamb roasted. A soused Pig. Two Couple of Rabbits, one Couple Larded. A Duck and Mallard, one Larded. Six Teals, three Larded. Six Woodcocks, three Larded. A Warden-Pye, or Dish of Quails. Dried Neats-Tongues. Six Pigeons, three Larded. A soused Capon. Pickled Mushrooms. Pickled Oysters and Anchovies in a Dish. Twelve Snites, six Larded. An Orangado Pie, or a Tart Royal, of dried and wet Suckets. Sturgeon. A Turkey, or Goose-pie. Jellies of five or six sorts, Lay Tarts of divers. Colours. A Plate of Sweet Meats.    

FEBRUARY.  

Collops and Eggs. Brawn and Mustard. Four Rabbits hashed. A Grand fricassee. A Grand Salad and a Chine of Roast Pork.   

Second Course.  
A Lamb Roasted whole. Three Widgeons. A Pippin Pye. A Jowl of Sturgeon. A Bacon Tart. A Cold Turkey-pie. Jellies, and a Tart-Royal.    

MARCH.  

Brawn and Mustard. A fresh Neats-Tongue and Udder in Staffaldo. Three Ducks in Staffaldo. A Roasted Loin of Pork. A Venison-Pasty. A Steak-Pye.   

Second Course.  
A side of Lamb, six Teal, three Larded, A Lamb-stone-Pye. Two Hundred of Asparagus. A Warden-Pye. Marinated Flounder. Jellies, Gingerbread, and Tarts Royal.    

APRIL.  

A Bisker, cold Lamb. A roasted Haunch of Venison. A Goslin. A Turkey. Chicken, Custards and Almonds.   

Second Course.  
A Side of Lamb in Joints. Eight Turtle-Doves. A cold Neats-Tongue Pye. Eight Pigeons, four of them Larded. Lobsters, and a Collar of Beef. Tansies.    

MAY.  

Scotch Pottage, or Skink. Scorch Collops or Mutton. A Loin of Veal. An Olive, or Pallate-Pye. Three Capons, one of them Larded. Custards.   

Second Course.  
A Lamb whole. A Tart Royal, or Quince-Pye. A Gammon of Bacon-Pye. A Jowl of Sturgeon. An Artichoke-Pye hot, and Bolonia Sausages. Tansies.    

JUNE.  

A Shoulder of Mutton hasht. A Chine of Beef. A Venison-Pasty cold. A cold Hash. A Leg of Mutton roasted. Four Turkeys. Chickens, and a Steak-Pye.   

Second Course.  
A Jane, or Kid. Rabbits. Shovelers. A Sweetbread Pye. Olives, or Pewits. Pigeons.    

JULY.  

Muskmellons. Pottage. Boiled Pigeons. A Hash of Caponets. A Grand Salad. A Fawn. A Custard.   

Second Course.  
French Beans, or Green Pease. Four Gulls, two Larded. A Codling-Tart, green. Portugal Eggs of both sorts. Selsey-Cockles broiled.    

AUGUST.  

Scotch Collops of Veal. A boiled Breast of Mutton. A fricassee of Pigeons. A stewed Calves Head. Four Goslings. Four Caponets.   

Second Course.  
Twelve Dotterels, six of them Larded. Tarts Royal of Fruit Wheat Ears. A Heath-Pout-Pye. Marinated Smelts, a Gammon of Bacon, and Selsey-Cockles.    

SEPTEMBER.  

An Olio. A Breast of Veal in Staffaldo. Twelve Partridges Hasht. A Grand Salad. A Cauldron Pie and Custards.   

Second Course.  
Rabbit. Two Herns, one Larded. A Florentine of Tongues. Eight Pigeons roasted, four of them Larded. Four Pheasants. Pouts, two, Larded. A Cold Hare-Pye. Selsey-Cockles broiled.    

OCTOBER.  

Boiled Duck. A Hash of a Loin of Veal. Roast-Veal. Two Bran Geese. A Tart-Royal. Custards.   

Second Course.  
Pheasant. Pouts and Pigeons. Twelve Knots. A Potato-Pye. A Turbut and Selsey Cockles.    

NOVEMBER.  

A Shoulder of Mutton stuffed with Oysters. A Loin of Veal, a Roasted Goose, and a Venison Pastry.   

Second Course.  
A Larded Hern, and one not Larded. A Soused Turbot. Two Pheasants, one Larded. A Collar of Beef. A soused Mullet and Base. Jellies and Tarts of Fruit in season.    

DECEMBER.  

Stewed Broth of Mutton, and Marrowbones. A Lambs-Head, and White-broth. A Chine of Roast-beef, minced Pies. A Turkey stuck with Cloves. Two roasted Capons, one Larded.   

Second Course.  
A young Kid or Lamb roasted whole. A Dish of Partridges. Bolonia Sausages. A Dish of Anchovies garnished with Mushrooms and pickled Barberries. A Dish of Caveer and Pickled Oysters. A Quince-Pye, and a Dish of Woodcocks; and if on Christmas-day, Plumb-Porridge, and Minced Pies.     


Terms of CARVING now in Use.  
LEach that Brawn. Break that Deer. Lift that Swan. Break that Goose. Sauce that Capon. Spoil that Hen. Frust that Chicken. Unbrace that Mallard. Unlace that Coney. Dismember that Hern. Disfigure that Peacock. Display that Crane. Untach that Curlue. Unjoint that Bittern. Alloy that Pheasant. Wing that Quail. Mince that Plover. Wing that Partridge. Thigh that Pigeon. Border that Pastry. Thigh that Woodcock: And the Word in Carving proper to all manner of Small Birds is to Thigh them.   

To Dismember a Hern.  
Having taken off both the Legs, lace it down the Breast with your Knife, and raise up the flesh; then take it quite off with the Opinion, and so stick the Head in the Breast, and set the Pinnions on the contrary side of the Carcase, and the Legs on the other side, so that the Ends of the Bones may meet across over it, and the other Wings cross over the top of it.   

To Unbrace a Mallard,  
Is, to raise up the Pinion and Leg, but not to take them off; then raise the Merrythought, and lace it down on either side the Breast with your Knife, bending it to and fro.   

To Sauce a Capon.  
Lift up the Right Leg and Wing, and so array forth, and lay him in the Dish as if he were to fly.   

To Allay a Pheasant.  
Raise the Leg and Wings as it were a Hen, and put no Sauce but Salt.   

To Wing a Partridge.  
Raise his Legs and Wings, and if you mince him, sauce him with Wine, Powder of Ginger, and Salt, and so setting him on a Chafing-Dish of Coals to warm, serve him up.   

To Wing a Quail.  
Raise his Legs, and Sauce it with Salt.   

To Display a Crane.  
Unfold the Legs, and cut off the Wings by the Joints; then take up the Wings and Legs and Sauce them with Powder of Ginger, Mustard, Vinegar, and Salt.   

To Dismember a Hern.  
Raise the Legs and Wings, and Sauce him with Mustard, Vinegar, Powder of Ginger, and Salt.   

To Unjoint a Bittern.  
Raise the Legs and Wings, and Sauce it with Salt only.   

To Untach a Curlew.  
Raise the Legs and Wings as a Hen, and put nothing but Salt to it.   

To Unlace a Coney.  
Lay it on the Back, and cut away the Vents; then raise the Wings and the Sides, and lay the Bulk and the Chine together; Sauce them with Vinegar and Powder of Ginger.   

To Mince a Plover.  
Raise the Legs and Wings, and put only Salt.   

To Thigh a Woodcock.  
Raise his Legs, and dight his Brains; but in the ordering of a Snite you must raise the Legs, Wings, and Shoulders: And so in the Case of other sort of Small Fowl. But as to some Larger, take the following Directions.   

Swan to Lift.  
Slit her downright in the middle of the Breast, and so clean through the back from the neck to the Rump, and cleanly and handsomely part her in two halfs, that you break not, nor tear the Meat: Lay the two halves with the slit side downward in a fair Charger; throw Salt about it, and let your Sauce be Cauldron, served up in a Saucer.   

To Rear a Goose.  
Break the Goose contrary to the former way, viz. Take off her Legs very fair from the Body, cut off the Belly-piece round and close to the lower end of the Breast, lace her down with your Knife on each side, your Thumbs breadth from the bone, in the middle of the Breast; then take off the Pinion on each side, and the Flesh which you first laced, raise it quite up from the Bone, and take it from the Carcase with the Pinion; then cut up the Bone which lies before in the Breast, called the Merrythought, the Skin and the Flesh being upon it; then cut from the Breast another slice of Flesh quite through; take from the Bone, and turn the Carcase, and cut it asunder, the Backbone above the Loins, and take the Rump bone-end, and lay it in the Dish with the Skinny side upwards, lay it at the fore-end of the Merrythought with the Skinny side upwards, and before that the Apron of the Goose; then lay your Pinions on each side contrary, and in like manner place the Legs behind them, that the bone-end of the Legs may stand up cross in the middle of the Dish, and the Wing-Pinions on the outside of them; put under the Wing-Pinions, on each side, the long slices of flesh that you took from the Breastbone, and let them meet under the Leg-bones, and let the other ends lie cut in the dish between the Legs and the Pinions: pour your Sauce of Mustard, Apples, and Sugar, well mixed, under the dish, and sprinkling on Salt, you may serve it up with Gravy Sauce, or what others you are furnished withal in the foregoing Treatise.   

To cut up a Turkey or Bustard.  
Raise the Legs up very fair, and open the Joint with the Point of your Knife, but take them not off: then lace the Breast down on both sides, and open the Breast-pinion, but take it not off; then raise the Merrythought between the Breastbone and the top of it: then lace the flesh on both sides the Breastbone, and raising up the flesh called the Brawn, turn it outward on both sides, but break it not, nor take it off: cut off the Wing-Pinions at the Joints next the Body, and stick on each side the Pinion where the Brawn was turned out; but cut off the sharp end of the Pinion, and take the middle piece that will just fit the Place.  
This way you may Carve up a Capon, or Pheasant; but in the Capon cut not off the Pinion: but in the place where you put the Pinion of your Turkey or Bustard, you must put the Gizzard of your Turkey, on each side half.    


Sewing of FISH.  

First Course.  
MUsculade, Minews in Sew, of Salmon, or Porpos, baked Herrings with Sugar, Green Fish, Pike, Lamprey, Porpos roasted, baked Gurnet and Lamprey.   

Second Course.  
Jellies red and white, Dates confectioned, Conger, Salmon, Dorey, Birt, Turbut, Trout, Holibut: For Standard, Base, Mullet, Chevin, Soles, Lamprey roasted, Tench in Jelly.   

Third Course.  
Fresh Sturgeon, Bream, Perch in Jelly, a Jowl of Salmon, Sturgeon, Welks, Wafers, Apples and Pears roasted with Sugar-Candy, Figs of Molisk, Raisins, Dates with minced Ginger and Ippocras.    

Fish Carved.  
In this Case you must look to the Peason, Furmity, Tail and Liver, and see if there be a Salt Porpos, Sole, Turrentine, and do after the form of Venison. Haked Herring, lay it whole on a Trencher or Plate, and then White-Herring in a dish; open the back and take the bone out and Roe, and have your Mustard at hand. Of Salt Fish, Green Fish, Salt Salmon, or Conger, pair away the skin. Salt Fish, Mackarel, Marling, Stockfish and Hake, with Butter; and take away the bones and skins. As for a Pike, lay the belly on a Plate or Trencher, with sufficiency of Pike Sauce, a salt Lamprey, gobbing it in seven or eight pieces, and so present it.  
A Place to be ordered this Way. Put out the Water, cross it with your Knife, and cast on Salt and Wine. Base, Gurnet, Mullet, Roach, Chevin, Perch, Sole, Whiteing, Haddock, and Coddling, raise either of them by the back, take out the bones, and cleanse the belly.  
As for Carp, Bream, Sole, or Trout, order the back and belly together: but for Conger. Salmon, Sturgeon, Houndfish, Turbut, Thornback and Halibut, cut them in the dishes, the Porpos about the Tench; in his Sauce cut two Eels and Lampreys roasted, pull off the skins and take out the bones, and put to them Vinegar and Powder of Ginger. A Crab must be broke asunder in a dish, then make the shell clean, and put in the stuff again; temper it with Vinegar, and Ginger-powder, then cover it with bread and heat it. As for a Jowl of Sturgeon, cut it in thin slices, and lay it round about the dish, serving up Oil and Vinegar in Saucers.  
Fresh Lamprey Baked; open the Pastry, then take White-bread and cut it thin, and lay it in a dish with a spoon, and take a Gallentine and lay it on the bread with Red-wine, and Powder of Cinnamon; then cut a Gobbin of Lamprey, mince it thin, and lay it in the Gallentine, and set it on the fire to heat. Fresh Herrings, with Salt and Wine. Shrimps well pickled. Flounder, Gudgeons, Minews, and Muscles, Eels and Lamprey, Sprats, are good in Sew. Musculade in Words, Oysters in Gravy, Minews in Porpos, Salmon in Jelley, white and red; Cream of Almonds. Dates in Comfits. Pears and Quinces in Syrup with Parsly-roots. Mortus of Hound-fish raise standing.   

Sauce for Fish.  
Mustard for Salt Conger, Herrings, Salmon, Sparling, Salt-Eel and Ling. Vinegar with Salt Porpos, Turrentine, Salt Thirlepole, Sturgeon, Salt Whale, Lamprey, with Galentine. Verjuice with Roach, Dace, Bream, Mullet, Flounder, Salt Crabs. Chevin with Powder of Cinnamon and Ginger. Green Sauce with Green Fish, and Holibut Cottle. But fresh Turbot will serve well with Mustard.    

The Most Acceptable Pieces to be presented at the Table to Friends or Strangers.  
IN Boiled Chickens present the Breast, and next to that, the Leg; for in all boiled Fowl, the Leg is better accounted than the Wing, though in roasted one's the contrary; especially if Wildfowl. In Pullet's, Turkeys, Capons, Geese, Duck, Mallard, Dotterel, Pheasant, and such like, the Merrythought is most acceptable; and the Wing next, or the Leg; and the next part is that laced down on the Breastbone, in Roasted Fowl.  
In Butcher's Meat, present the Inside of the Sirloin of Beef; and in other pieces that which is curiously striped with fat and lean: and so in boiled Beef. In a Loin of Veal, choose the Nut-piece or Kidney-piece. In a Leg of Mutton, the little round bone that is on the inside, above the handle; for this is greatly in esteem among the Curious. I heard of a Hungry Gentleman who came from Hunting to the Remainder of a Leg of Mutton, who would not eat because he thought Clownish greasy Fellows had had the handling of it, since they had not the Understanding to choose that bone before all the other parts of it.  
In a Shoulder of Mutton, present that between the handle and flap. In a roasted Pig, the under Jaw and Ear, especially to Women; next those, the Neck-piece. In a Hare, Coney, or Leverit, the Middle-piece, or the Tail-piece, called the Huntsman's Piece. In Fish, the Jowl, or that Part next the Head, or in Shellfish the Claw of a Lobster or Crab.  
If Fish, or sliced Flesh be in Paste, touch it with your Fork, Knife, or Spoon, raise it handsomely, and lay on a Plate the best you find, with a piece of the Lid. As for Tarts, Custards, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, you must present them, cut or whole, as their bigness is, on the point of your Knife.   

Napkins to Lay in a pleasant Sight at a Table, after the Forms of sundry Creatures, etc.  

TO do this in the Form of a Cock, fold the Napkin in the middle, so that the two Selvages may come together; then pleat it at its full length in small and close Pleats, as hard as possible you can friese it; but in that be sure to keep it as close as may be: then open it again, within a finger's breadth of the middle, and join the Pleats together again, put in a good handsome round Loaf under the middle in the fold, put the edges of the Napkin on the Loaf, and then pull out the Head and Beak of the Cock out of the middle of the Napkin, which you must raise on high, and make him a Comb, Wattles, and a Beard, of some red Stuff, and for the end of the Beak, you may make it of a large Quill, which may be fashioned like a Cock's Beak, with a little Gum-Dragon steeped in Orange-flower-water: then pull out and fashion him a Tail out of the other end of the Fold, raise it as high as may be.   

Like a Hen and Chickens: Pleat your Napkin like the former, but instead of putting your Selvages on the bread, you must make many little Heads of Chickens, as if they were coming out from under the Wings of the Hen,   

Like a Hare: Pleat your Napkins in the same manner as you did that of the Cock; then open them, and lay long Loaves under the Plate in the middle; then draw a Scut out of the Fold, and four feet out of the four corners of the Napkin, and put in a small Loaf at one end under the Fold, and so form out the head, ears, and neck.   

Like a Pig: Pleat your Napkin overthwart in very small pleats, and pinch it, and then put in a large long Loaf between the middle near the end, and at the other end another Loaf for the head; then fashion the head, ears, and tail: as for the feet, you may make them out of the four corners, and a tail out of the middle of the Napkin.   

Like a Turkey: First fold your Napkin as for the Cock, and put a large Loaf under it, and make a Comb of a bit of red Taffeta that may hang down on its Beat, and stick the head, and throat with small flowers of different Colours; then pull out a Tail at the other end of the Fold, and the Wings from both sides.   

Like a Carp: Make a Band about half a foot wide at one end of your Napkin, and make it so that the Hemm may join to the end of the Band that is indifferently large; then pleat it at its length, and pinch or freeze the band, but leave the breadth of your four fingers without freezing all the rest, to within four or six fingers breadth of the end, which you must leave unfreezed to make a Tail; then open the band, and put in a round Loaf to fashion the head, and a long Loaf for the fashion of the body: So you may fashion a Pike, and many other pretty Devices, that will be very taking and pleasant at an Entertainment.    

How to keep Alive and fatten divers sorts of Choice Wild Fowl, etc.  
TO bring up a Hern the best way, is to take it out of the Nest before it can fly, and put it into a large Barn where there are many cross Beams; let it have a conveniency of Water, and feed it with raw flesh cut into convenient pieces, either of Beef or Liver, or Dog's flesh, but no Swine's flesh, keeping the place sweet and clean; for they much delight in it; and in this manner you may bring up and fatten Pullet's, Gulls, Bitterns, and the like.  
To feed Partridges, Pheasants, Quail, and Wheat-ears, do it with good Wheat and Water, giving it them Morning, Night, and Noon; but if you would have them extraordinary Crammed Fowl, then take the finest dressed Wheat-meal, mix it with Milk, and make it into Pasts; and ever as you knead it, sprinkle in the Grains or Corns of Wheat, then make several Crams, and dip them in Water, and give every Fowl according to his bigness, that his Gorge may be well filled, and so in Fourteen Days they will be Fat beyond Measure, and thus you may do by Turtle Doves, or Pigeons.  
To feed Godwits, Knots, Grey Plover, and Curlews, Take Chiltered Wheat, the finest sort, and give them Water thrice a Day, Morning, Noon, and Night, which will be very effectual, do as you did by the former,  
To feed Blackbirds, Thrush, Feldfair, or any small Birds whatever, being taken Old and Wild; It is good to have some of their Kind Tame among them, and then putting them into great Cages of Three or four Yards Square, to have divers Troughs placed therein, some filled with Haws, some with Hemp, and Rape seed, and others with Water; the Tame teaching the Wild to Eat, and the Wild finding such alteration of Food, they will in Twelve or Fourteen Days grow exceeding Fat, and fit for the Kitchen.  
Ducklings are Fatted with Pulse or Grain, and store of Water. Goslings, with Skeg-oats, boiled and given them thrice a Day. Geese, by putting them into Pens which are close and dark, and there feed them thrice a Day with store of Oats, and Split Beans, and give them Water and Barly-meal mixed together. For Chickens, when the Hen has forsaken them, make a Past of Wheat-meal, and Milk, and wet it often in Milk when it is rolled up, and let not the Crams be too big, for fear of Choking them. To Fatten Capons, make Crams of Barley-meal and Milk, and keeping them up in a Coop, give them their full Gorge, Three times a Day, and so that they may easily go down, let them be dipped in Milk. For Turkeys, having Cooped them up, place Two Troughs, one full of Water and Barley, and the other full of Old dried Malt, and they will be very Fat in a Month.   
FINIS.