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
Catalogue details

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.

    299/408 (page 279)
    a little together foftly till the alum is confumed ; when it is cold, keep it for ufe. ‘To make Lozenges for the Heart-burn. TAKE of white fugarcandy a pound, chalk three ounces, bole-armoniac five fcruples, crabs-eyes one ounce, red coral four fcruples, nutmegs one fcru- ple, pearl two fcruples *, let all thefe be beaten and lifted, and made all into a pafle with a little fpring- water •, roll it out, and cut your lozenges out with a thimble *, lay them to dry *, eat four or five at a time, as often as you pleafe. To make Syrup of Garlick. TAKE two heads of garlick, peel it clean, and boil it in a pint of water a pretty while ; then put away that water, and put a pint more to your gar- Jick, and boil it till the garlick is tender*, then draining it off, add a pound of double-refin’d fugar to it, and boil it in filver or tin till it is a thick fy- rup^ fcum it well, and keep it for ufe *, and take a fpoonful in a morning fading, another lad at night, for a iliort breath. To prevent After-pains. TAKE nine fingle peony-feeds powder’d, the fame A quantity of powder of borax, and a little nut¬ meg *, mix all thefe with a little white anifeed-water in a lpoon, and give it the woman ; and a little anifeed-water after it, as foon as poffible after die is laid in bed. To cute the Tooth-ach. TAKE half an ounce of conferve of rofemary over night, and half a dram of extradl of ru- dium in the morning ^ do this three dimes together; keep warm.