The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].

  • Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.
Date:
1739
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of ... recipts ... in cookery [etc.] ... to which is added a collection ... of receipts of medicines ... / by E--- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For a fore, warm fome of the water, and wafh the fore well with it for half an hour; then lay a plaifter on the fore of fome gentle thing, and lay a cloth over the plaifter, 4 or 5 doubles wet with this wa¬ ter *, and as it dries, wet it again, and it will heal it. For a flux or loofenefs, take 2 fpoonfuls of it cold, in the morning, and 2 at night as you go to bed * do this 7 or 8 days together for a man or woman ; but if for a child, one Ipoonful at a time is enough ; and if very young, half a Ipoonful at a time. It will keep 20 years, and no one who has not expe¬ rienc’d it, knows the virtues of it. A Milk -water for a cancerous Breajl. npAKE fix quarts of new milk, and four hand- fuls of cranes-bill, that fort of it that has little buds on it, and is long in the ftalk, and four hundred of wood-lice diftil this in a cold ffill with a gentle fire ; then take one ounce of crabs-eyes, and half an ounce of white fugar-candy, both in fine powder; mix them together, and take a dram of the powder in a quarter of a pint of the milk-water in the morn¬ ing, at twelve at noon, and at night. Continue taking this three or four months. It is an excellent medicine. Cock-water for a Confumption. ^AKE an old red cock from a barn-door pull him alive, then kill him and quarter him, and with clean cloths wipe the blood from him ; then put the quarters into a cold ft ill, and part of a leg of veal, and put to them two quarts of old Malaga lack, a handful of thyme, as much fweet-marjoram and rofemary, two handfuls of pimpernel, four of dates {ton’d and flic’d, one pound of currants, as many raifins of the fun fton’d, a pound of fugar- candy finely beaten- when all is in, pafte up the ftill; let it ftand all night, the next morning ftill it, and mix the water together, and fweeten it to your tafte with white fugar-candy. Drink 3 or 4 fpoon- K. 4 fuls