dry for
your use. These are rather Candied then Conserved _Cowslips_.
_To Preserve all kinde of Flowers in the Spanish
Candy in Wedges_.
Take _Violets_, _Cowslips_, or any other kinde of Flowers, pick
them, and temper them with the pap of two roasted _Apples_, and a
drop or two of _Verjuice_, and a graine of _Muske_, then take halfe a
pound of fine hard _Sugar_, boyle it to the height of _Manus Christi_,
then mix them together, and pour it on a wet Pye plate, then cut it
it in Wedges before it be through cold, gild it, and so you may
box it, and keep it all the year. It is a fine sort of Banquetting
stuffe, and newly used, your _Manus Christi_ must boyle a good
while and be kept with good stirring.
_A Medicine to break and heale sore breasts
of Women, used by Mid-wives, and
other skillfull Women in_
London.
Boyle _Oatmeale,_, of the smallest you can get, and red _Sage_ together,
in running or Conduict water, till it be thick enough to make
a Plaister and then put into it a fit proportion of _Honey_, and let it
boyle a little together, take it off the fire, and while it is yet boyling
hot, put thereto so much of the best _Venice Terpentine_ as will
make it thick enough to spread, then spreading it on some soft
leather, or a good thick linnen cloath, apply it to the brest, and
it will first break the soare; and after that being continued, will
also heale it up.
_A Medicine that hath recovered some from
the Dropsie whome the Physitian
hath given over_.
Take green _Broome_ and burne it in some clean place, that you
may save the ashes of it, take some ten or twelve spoonfulls of the
same Ashes, and boyle them in a pint of _White_ wine till the vertue
of it be in the wine, then coole it, and drayne the wine from the
dreggs, and make three draughts of the Wine, and drink one fasting
in the morning, another at three in the afternoone, another
late at night neer going to bed. Continue this, and by Gods grace
it will cure you.
_An especiall Medicine for all manner of Poyson_.
Take _Hemp seed_, dry it very well, and get off the husks, and
beat the _Hemp seed_ into fine powder, take _Mintes_ also, dry them,
and make them into powder, boyle a spoonfull of either of these
in halfe a pint of _Goats_ milk, a pretty while, then put the milk into
a cup to coole, and put into it a spoonfull of _Treacle_, and stir
them together till it be coole enough, then drink it in the morning
fasting, and eat nothing ti
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