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Dr. Lowers Recipt for the Dock Drink {10}
Take the common Smooth Dock roots Sliced and dryed in the air, Dandelion roots Sliced, of each a pound, Harts-tongue leaves four handfulls, Elder flowers three handfulls, Crude Antimony broken in grose pieces one pound, hang these in a thin bagg in four Gallons of Small ale when it is put in the vessell Mrs Sheppard
The Burgundy
Take of five Jesuites Bark in Powder Six Drams, Calamine aromaheus, Winter Ans Bark and Passamain each one dram; Orange Peel two drams; Juniper Ber ries the Leper Cardamoms and Pochineal each half a dram; Put all these into Five half pints of Mountain by a fire sede for a week, First Strain and then pap it through Cap paper into a Clean well Corkt Bottle for use Take of this four five or six Spoonfulls in Judnep Lowneph of Oprepion once twice or three times a day Sr John Lawson
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To make Lemon Biscakis
Take half a pound of Jordan Almonds Blanch and beat them with the white's of Six Eggs first beatten to a froth putt in a little at a time, beat them very fine, then put in a pound of double refine Sugar beat and Sifted, Four ounces of Flower dryed and Cold again, six yolks of Eggs, two large Lemons greated beat all together half an hour put them in Tinn pans, Sift a little Sugar over them, your oven must bee pretty quick tho you keep the door open whilst you Baick them Butter your Pans which should bee in the Shape of a Large Dripping Pan Larys Lopes
Or Radcliffs bitter Tincture for the Stomach The peels of 12 Linil Oranges thin slice'd Gentian, Zradony, and Virginia Snake weed of each a quarter of an ounce, two nutmegs thin Slice'd, half a dozen Fleaks of Large Maice, Cochineal and Safron of each two grams, Lett them infuse in a quart of best french Brandy Close stoped for a Month then Strain it off, and keep it for use
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The Cordial Bitter for Vapours or Lownep {11} of Spirits Take three Dozen of the rines of the best high Coulour'd Civil Oranges pare'd as thin as possible put them in a two Quart Bottle, Cochineal Bruis'd Maice, Nutmegs, Slice Bolastones, Virginia Snake Root of each a Quarter of an Ounce, Safforn half a Quartern, fill the Bottle with Brandy lett it stand three weeks, and then run it off through a flannell Bag, put it into small Bottels and lye it over with Leather, it will keep two years
Doctor Doavers Receipt for the Jaunders, 8 grains of Turbeith Minerall, after that take of Mixn lett Elixer of Vitrol, large quantityes 3 or 4 times a day, as strong as you can take it, from half a Spoonfull to a whole one in a large glass of Spring Water, note, this medicine will have no effect, if the jaunders proceeds from any Chronick disease, not that it will doe harm, but it will bee of no service
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To make Punch
Take the pairings of Six Lemons and as many Oranges all pare'd very thin. and putt them to Sleep in a Gallon of Brandy Close stopt for three or four days then, take twelve pints of Water & in it three pounds of fine Sugar and Clarify it with the Whites of three Eggs. lett it Boyl a Quarter of an hour then pour it out and lett it stand to bee Cold, then Strain the Pareings off from the Brandy and putt as much juice of Lemons as you think fitt, then putt it into a Vessell fitt for the Quantity dose Stop'd for Six weeks, then draw it off into Bottles the same. proportion for a great quantity
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A Plaster{12}
Stone pitch Buryung pitch Venice Turpintine veryins vase, of Feris powder of Franckumscnce, of Each an ounce , a gr ofan ounce of Mastick in powder a gr of an ounce of OLibinum powder and A Little bottle of Oyle of Rowdam, all these things are to be melted in an Earthen pott sett on a kettle of water over a fire that Is Gentelly Hott. (except the powders ) till all be Melted throwly, then putt in the Fereis powder mastick and Olibinum powder, Shining It till incorporated and when newr growing Cold drop in a ten drops of Oyle of Roadam Shining It till quite Cold fitt to made in Roles This plaster Is good for a Burn [or] Scold or Bruse or Cutt or Strain or white snelling Barbara Ingram