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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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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    To flay Vomiting. TA KE afh-leaves, and boil them in vinegar and water, and apply them hot to the flomach ; do this often. v ’ ‘ : A Toaluce for a fore Bread, Leg, or Arm. T>OIL wheat-flour in ftrong-ale very well, and pretty thick; then take it off, and fcrape in fome boars-greafe ; let it not boil after the greafe is in % ftir it well, and apply it hot. A Salve for a JBlaJl, Burn, or Scald. *JjHAKE May butter frefh out of the churn, neither waflied nor falted, and put into it a good quan« tity of the green inner rind of elder, and put it in a pipkin, and fet that in a pot of boiling water \ let it infufe a day or two ; then Arain it out, and keep it in a pot for ufe. An excellent Remedy for Aguesy which has been often tried with very great Succefs. T AKE of black foap, gunpowder, Ainking tobacco and brandy, of each an equal quantity ; mix them well together, and three hours before the fit comes, apply to the patient’s wriA ; let this be kept on for a fortnight. To cure the Biting of a mad Dog. T^AKE two quarts of Arong ale, two pennyworth of treacle, two garlick-heads, a handful of cin» quefoil, fage, and rue; boil them all together to a quart, Arain it, and give the patient three or four fpoonfuls twice a day: take ditany, agrimony, and ruAy bacon, beaten well together, and apply to the fore, to keep it from feAering.