Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Take _Orpiment_, and _Verdigreese_, of each an ounce, of _Vitriall_
burned till it be red, two ounces, beat each of them by it selfe in
a brasen Morter, as small as flower, then mingle them all together,
that they appear all as one, and keep it in bagges of leather,
well bound, for it will last seaven years with the same vertue, and
it is called _Powder peerlesse_, it hath no peer for working in
_Chyrurgery_, for put of this powder in a wound where is dead flesh,
and lay scrap't lint about it, and a Plainer of Disklosions next upon it,
and it will heale it.
_An approved Medicine for the Green sicknesse_.
Take a quart of _Clarret_ wine, one pound of _Currants_, and a
handfull of young _Rosemary_ crops, and halfe an ounce of _Mace_,
seeth these to a pint, and let the Patient drink thereof three
spoonfulls at a time, morning and evening, and eat some of the
_Currants_ also after.
_A Medicine for a Pleurisie, Stitch, or Winde,
offending in any part of the Body._
Gather the young shutes of _Oake_, after the fall of a _Wood_, and
picking out the tenderest and softest of them, especially those
which look redest, bind them up together in a wet paper, and
roste them in hot embers, as you doe a _Warden_, whereby they will
dry to powder, of which powder let the Patient take a spoonfull
in a little Posset _Ale_, or _Beer_, warmed, in the morning, fasting after
it two hours, or more, if he be able, doing the like about three
after noon, and two hours after supper, four or five dayes together,
which thus done in the beginning of the Disease, is by often
experiments found to cure such windy paines in the side, stomach,
or other parts of the body; you may dry them also in a dish,
in an Oven after the bread is drawn; you shall doe well to
gather enough of them in the Spring, and make good store of the
powder then, to keep for all the year following.
_An approved Medicine for the Gout in the feet_.
Take an _Oxes_ paunch new killed, and warm out of the belly, about
the latter end of _May_, or beginning of _June_, make two holes
therein, and put in your feet, and lay store of warm cloaths about
it, to keep it warm so long as can be. Use this three or four dayes
together, for three weeks or a moneth, whether you have the fit
or paine of the _Gout_, at that time or no, so you have had it at any
time before. This hath cured divers persons, that they have never
been troubled with it againe.
_For one that cannot make water_.
Take the white strings of _Filmy_ roots, of _Primroses_ wash them
very clean, and boyle of them halfe a handfull, in a pint of _Beer_ or
_White-wine_, till halfe be consumed, then straine it through a clean
cloath, and drink thereof a quarter of a pint, somewhat warme,
morning and evening, for three dayes, it will purge away all viscous
or obstructions stopping the passage of the water, _probatum_.
_To kill the Ring worme, and heat thereof_.
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