Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Take a peck of green _Beane_ cods, well cleaved, and without
dew or rain, and two good handfulls of _Saxifrage_, lay the same into
a Still, one row of _Bean_ cods, another of _Saxifrage_, and so Distill
another quart of water after this manner, and then Distill another
proportion of _Bean_ codds alone, and use to drink oft these two
Waters; if the Patient be most troubled with heat of the Reins,
then it is good to use the _Bean_ codd water stilled alone more often,
and the other upon comming downe of the sharp gravell or
stone.
[Illustration: Beanes]
_Unguentum Sanativum_.
Take of _Terpentine_ one pound, _Wax_ six ounces, Oyle of _Cammomile_
halfe a pint, put all these together in a pan, and put to them
a handfull of _Cammomile_, bruised, or cut very small, boyle them
upon a soft fire till they be well melted, and no more; then take
it from the fire, and strayne it into a clean pan, and so let it coole
all night, and in the morning put it up for your use. This Oyntment
is good for any cut, wound, or breaking of the flesh, it eateth
away dead flesh, and ranklings, and doth heale againe quickly.
_A Serecloath for all Aches_.
Take _Rossen_ one pound, _Perrossen_ a quarter of a pound, as _Mastick_
and _Deer sewet_ the like, _Turpentine_ two ounces, _Cloves_ bruised,
one ounce, _Mace_ bruised, two ounces, _Saffron_ two drams, boyle
all these together in Oyle of _Cammomile_, and keep it for your use.
_An Oyntment to be made at any time of the
yeare, and is approved good, and hath
helped old Paines, Griefes, and
Aches._
Take _Steers Gall, Sallet Oyle_ and _Aqua vita_ of each five spoon-fulls,
boyle them together a little, and therewith annoint the place
pained, by the fire, and lay a warm cloath on it.
_An Oyntment for the Sciatica_.
Roaste a handfull or two of _Onions_, and take _Neats-foot_ Oyle,
and _Aqua vita_, of each a pint, stamp, or rather boyle all these together
to an Oyle, or Oyntment, and straine it into a gally pot,
and therewith annoynt the place grieved as hot as you can endure
it, morning and evening.
_A Water to drive away any Infection._
Take _Draggons, Angelica, Rue, Wormwood_, of each a handfull,
chop them pretty small, and steep them in a quart of _White-wine_,
twenty four hours, then distill them in a Still, and reserve the water
in a glasse close stopped; give to the sick Patient six or seaven
spoonfuls thereof at a time fasting, and let him fast an houre and
an halfe after, and keep himselfe very warme in his bed, or
otherwise.
_An excellent Conservative for the stomach,
helping digestion, warming the braine,
and drying the Rheumes_.
Take two ounces of good old Conserve of red _Roses_, of chosen
_Methridate_ two drams, mingle them well together, and eat thereof
to bed-ward, the quantity of a hazell nut; this doth expell all
windinesse of the stomach, expelleth raw humours and venomous
vapours, causeth good digestion, dryeth the Rheume, strengthneth
the memory and sight.
_An Oyntmnt for any wound or sore_.
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