Part 6 (1/2)

_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 pa.s.sage of the water, _probatum_.

_To kill the Ring worme, and heat thereof_.

Take a quart of _White wine_ vineger, boyle therein of _Woodbine_ leaves, _Sage_, and _Plantaine_ of each one handfull, of white _Coperas_, one pound, of _Allum_ as much as an Egge; when it is boyled to halfe a pint, straine out the liquor, and therewith wash the soare as hard as you can suffer it.

_To make a Water for all Wounds and Cankers_.

Take a handfull of red _Sage_ leaves, a handfull of _Selandine_, as much _Woodbine_ leaves, then take a gallon of Conduict water, and put the hearbs in it, and let them boyle to a pottell, and then strayning the Hearbs through a strainer, take the liquor and set it over the fire againe, and take a pint of English _Honey_, a good handfull of _Roche Allum_, as much of white _Copperas_ tinne beaten, a penny worth of _Graines_ bruised, and let them boyle all together three or four warms, and then let the sc.u.m be taken off with a feather, and when it is cold put it in an earthen pot or bottell, so as it may be kept close; and for an old Wound take of the thinnest, and for a green Wound, of the thickest, and having dressed them with this Water, cover the soare either with _Veale_, or _Mutton_, and skin it with _Dock_ leaves.

_For a Swelling that cometh suddenly in mans Limbs._

Take _Harts_ tongue, _Cherfoyle_, and cut them small, and then take dreggs of _Ale_, and _Wheat_ Branne, and _Sheeps_ tallow molten, and doe all in a pot, and seeth them till they be thick, and then make a Plaister, and lay it to the swelling.

_Of Apric.o.c.ks_.

_To dry Apric.o.c.ks_.

Take them when they be ripe, stone them, and pare off their rindes very thin, then take halfe as much _Sugar_ as they weigh, finely beaten, and lay them with that _Sugar_ into a silver or earthen dish, laying first a lay of _Sugar_, and then of Fruit, and let them stand so all night, and in the morning the _Sugar_ will be all melted, then put them into a Skillet, and boyle them apace, sc.u.mming them well, and as soon as they grow tender take them off from the fire, and let them stand two dayes in the Syrupe, then take them out, and lay them on a fine plate, and so dry them in a Stove.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Aprec.o.c.ks]

_Clear Cakes of Quinces, or Apric.o.c.ks._

Take of the best _Sugar_ finely beaten and searced, one pound, to a pound of _Quinces_, or _Apric.o.c.ks_, set your _Sugar_ upon a chafin-dish of coales, and dry it above halfe an houre, then cooling it, stir into it a little _Musk_ and _Ambergreese_ finely beaten, and powdered, then pare your _Quinces_, and boyle them in faire water whole, till they be tender and not covering them for so they will be white; then take them, and sc.r.a.pe off all the _Quince_ to the coare, into a silver dish, and boyle it therein till it grow dry, which you shall perceive by the rising of it up, when it is thus well dryed, take it off, let it coole, and strew on the _Sugar_, letting some other to strew it, till it be all throughly wrought in, then lay it out on gla.s.ses, plates, or prints of Flowers, or letters, an inch thick, or lesse as you please.

_The best way to Preserve Apric.o.c.ks_