A Book of Fruits and Flowers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about A Book of Fruits and Flowers.

A Book of Fruits and Flowers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about A Book of Fruits and Flowers.

For the Rheume in the gums or teeth.

Boyle Rosemary in faire water, with some ten or twelve Cloves, shut, and when it is boyled take as much Claret wine as there is water left, and mingle with it, and make it boyle but a little againe, then strayne it into some glasse, and wash the mouth there with morning and evening; this will take away the Rheume in short time; and if you boyle a little Mastick. therewith, it is the better.

For the Emroids.

Take Egremony and bruise it small, and then fry it with Sheep suet, and Honey, of each a like quantity, and lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the Fundament, and it will heale very faire and well.

An approved medicine for the Dropsey.

Take the Hearb called Bitter sweet, it grows in waters, and bears a purple flower, slice the stalks, and boyle a pretty deale of them in White-wine, drink thereof first and last, morning and evening, and it will cure the Dropsey.

A Powder for Wounds.

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.

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