Item Information | The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M. | Early English Books Online | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

Of Feuers in Generall.

Of he quoti∣dian.

Of the single Tertian▪

Of the acciden∣tall Feuer.

Of the Feuer hetticke.

For the quar∣tan or for any Feuer.

Of thirst in Fe∣uers.

For any ague sore.

For the quar∣taine Feuer.

Of the pesti∣lent Feuer.

A preseratiue against the plague.

Fr infection of the plagu.

For the Pesti∣le.

Another.

A preseruation g first the e∣ce.

How to draw a plague botch to any place you will.

A Cordiall for any infection at the heart. ☜

Against too vi∣olnt sweating.

For the Head-ache. ☜

For th Frenzy.

F the lethar∣gy.

To prouoke sleepe.

For the swim∣ming of the head.

For the palsie.

For a new cough.

For an old cough.

For the falling sicknesse.

For the falling euill.

OF An Oyle to helpe hearing.

For the Rhum.

For a stinking breath.

A vomit for an ill breath.

For the Tooth∣ache.

Another.

A drie for a le in the eye.

Fr pe in .

Fo sore eyes.

For waterie eyes.

For a .

A swelled mouth.

For the Quin∣sie.

Against drun∣kennes.

To quicken the wit.

For the Kings euill.

Addition to the particular sicknesses and first of the head and the parts thereof & the lungs.

Another.

For the head ke and to slay bleeding at the nose.

To draw out bones broken in the head.

For the falling of the mould of the head.

For the Squy∣nancy.

For the tooth¦ake.

To make teeth white.

To draw teeth wi t yro.

For teeth tht are yellow.

For teeth that are loose.

For any venom in the eare.

For a stinking breath which commeth from the stomacke.

for stinking .

For a canker in the nose.

A red water for any canker.

To cleare the eyes.

Another for the sight.

For sore eyes.

For sicke eyes.

Fr eyes.

For the pin and webb in the eye.

A poudr for the pin and webb in the eye.

A pretious water for the eyes.

To make haire to grow

Another.

For a pimpled or red saucy face.

For the rhume

For hoarsenes in the throate.

For a dange∣rous cough.

For the dry cough.

For the tisicke.

For griefes in the stomacke.

For spitting of blood.

For vomiting:

To force one to vomite.

For the Iliaca passio.

Additions, to the diseases of the stomack. For the sto∣macke.

For the Illica passio.

For paine in the breast.

For the Mo∣ther.

Obstructions of the liuer.

Against the heat of the Liuer.

For the Plurisy.

A playster for a stitch.

Heate in the Liuer.

For the Con∣sumption.

To staunch bod.

For the yellow iundis.

For the yellow .

For a desperate yelow iaunisse

For the blacke Iaundisse.

Additions, To the dieases of the liuer For wasting of the Liuer.

A restoratiue for the Liuer.

To heale a ring worme cōming of the heate from the liuer.

To staunch blood.

For geat dan∣ger in bleeding

For a stitch.

A bath for the Dropsie.

For the dropsy.

Paine in the Spleene.

For paine in the side.

For fatnes and short breath

Additions, To the diseases of the Spleene.

For the Spleen, For the stopping of the Spleene.

For the hardne of the Spleene.

Diseases of the heart.

For the passion of the heart. heart sicke∣nesse.

For fatnes a about the hart.

For the wind Collicke.

The Wind Col∣licke

For the Laske.

For the bloody fluxe.

To stay a laske.

For the Fluxe.

For the worst Fluxe.

For costiuents.

For wormes.

Additions, the diseases

asie .

two .

Against .

the winde .

For the .

For the Rup∣ture.

For the stone.

The collicke and stone.

A pouder for the collicke and stone.

Another.

For the stone in the reynes.

For the stone in the bladder.

A pouder fo the stone in the bladder.

A bath for the stone.

A water for the stone.

Difficulty of Vrine.

For hot vrine.

For the stran∣gullion.

For pissing in bed.

For the rup∣ture.

Additions, To the diseases of the reines & bladder.

For he that can not hold his water.

For the Gono∣rea or seding of seed.

For weakenesse in the backe.

For heat in the Rines. For comforting and strength∣ning of the backe.

For the Heme∣roides.

For the piles or Hemeroids.

For the falling of the funda∣ment▪

For the Heme∣roids.

For the greene sicknesse.

To increase a womans milke.

To dry vp milke.

A pultus for sore breasts in women.

For ease in child bearing.

Child dead in the wobe.

Apursle to conceie.

Additions, To .

To wo∣men owers. Against the flowers.

For the matrix.

A generaling for a in .

To dluer the ded .

To increase milke.

For a woman that is n brought in bed, and oundeth much.

To prouoke sleepe.

For sre brests.

For Morphew of both kinds.

To breed haire.

For the Gout.

For the Ciatica

For any payne o swelling, or the stinging of Venemous beasts.

For swellings in the leg or feete.

A water to wash a sore with.

A pultis for a sore.

For any olde sore.

For any scabs or itch.

For the Lepro∣sie.

To take away pimples.

Priuy parts burnt.

For any bur∣ning.

For any scal∣ding.

A pultis to dry a sore.

To eate away dead flesh.

A water to heale wounds.

To heale any wound.

For sinewes▪ cut or shrunke.

To breake any .

Additions, ☞ To generall of Sur¦gey, . For buning, or , with .

For burnings o scaldings on the ce.

An oyntment for burning.

Vlcers & Sores. A salue for any old sore

To take away dead flesh.

A water for a .

A blacke plai¦ste to heale old sres and kil inflamati∣on.

An oyntment to .

For the sting∣ing o any ∣der or vene∣mous thing.

For any veno∣ming.

For a ring∣worme.

For the itch.

For the dryed Sabbe.

To kill the Itch .

To take away the of the mal Poxe.

For the French or Spanish pox.

To put out the French or Spa∣nish Poxe.

To make the scabs of the French Pox to fall away.

A deffensitiue for a greene wound.

A salue for a greene wound.

A water to heal an greene wound, cut, or ore.

T staunch bd, & draw toge∣ther

A oyle for shinking of sinewes.

For a wound in the gus.

For pricking with a thorn.

To gather flesh in wounds.

Additions, for ach or swel∣lings. For the Cyaty∣ca.

A yellow cloth for a paine or sl∣ling.

For bruises swelled.

For swelled leg.

For any ache.

☞ A playster for any paine in the ioynts.

Additions, To in the Bones. For bones out o ioynt, or sin∣newes sprung or strained.

A bath for bro∣ken ioynts.

☜ A general bath for clearing the skin, and com∣forting the bo∣dy.

A soueraine help for broken bone.

For any Feuer.

To expel heate in a Feuer.

The royall me∣dicine for Fe∣uers.

Another.

OF Oyle of Swal∣lowes.

To make oyle of Camomile.

To make oyle of Lauender.

To make smooth hands.

To make Dr. Steuens water.

A restoratiue of Rosasolis.

Additions, to the Oyles. To make oyle of Roes or Vi∣olts.

To make oyle of Nutmegges.

To make per¦fect oyle of Spike.

To make oyle of Masticke.

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