Letters and Exercises of the Elizabethan Schoolmaster John Conybeare; Schoolmaster at Molton, Devon, 1580 and at Swimbridge, 1594 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 20. Medical Recipes. XL Recto. how to make Oximel. Oximel is where to one parte of Vineger is put double so much of honey, fower tymes as much of water, and then being boyled unto the third parte, and cleane skymmed with a feather, is used to be taken where in the stomacke is much fleaume or matter undigested, so that it bee not red choler. If the rootes of parsley be boyled in water and Oximel made thereof, hit wilbee the better. How to make mead. Mead is made with one parte of honey, and fower tymes so much of pure water, and boyled till no skymme do remayne, and is much commended of Galen, druncke in sommer for preserving of health. Ptisane. There is no auncient Phisicion that in his woorkes commendeth not Ptisane, which is none other but pure Barley brayd in a morter and sodden in water, and used for drincke. Rosemarie. Rosemarie hath vertue to heat, and therefore hit dissolveth humours congealed with colde. Take the flowers and put them in a lynnen cloth, and so boyle them in fayer cleane water to the halfe and coole hit, and drincke hit. Hit healpeth against palseys, falling sickenes, olde diseases of the breast, tormentes or fretting, hit provoketh urine and sweate. If thou have the cough drinke the water of the leaves boyled in whyte wyne, or els with Pepper and honey, and hit shall healp thee. If the rinde be sodden or burned, and the fume receaved at the mouth hit stoppeth the reaume which falleth out of the head 1 into the cheekes or throat which hath bene proved. The greene leaves brused doe stop the hemerhoides if they bee laied unto them. If thou have the fluxe boyle the leaves in strong aysell or vinegar, and bynde them in a linnen cloth, and binde hit2 to thie wombe, and anon thie flux shall withdrawe. Breake the leaves small to powder 8...