The true preserver and restorer of health being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies for all distempers incident to men, women, and children : selected from and experienced by the most famous physicians and chyrurgeons in Europe : together with Excellent directions for cookery ... : with the description of an ingenious and useful engin for dressing of meat and for distilling th[e] choicest cordial waters with-out wood coals, candle or oyl : published for the publick good / by G. Hartman.

For a Cough of the Lungs, or any stuffing or ob∣struction in the inward Parts; which hath often been approved, and found effectual by many.

Take a Cock, dress him, and cut him all to pieces, and bruise all the Bones of him; then take of Aniseed bruised four ounces, Muiliene, and Lungwort shred small, of each a handful; a Fennel-Root also shred small: put all these to boil in a pottle of spring-water for three hours close covered, and as the Liquor consu∣meth, supply it with a quart of Hysop-water, and at the latter end put into it two ounces of Liquoras bruised; then strain it out, and press the Ingredients a little; then put into the Li∣quor two ounces of brown Sugar-Candy in powder. Take of this Liquor half a pint at night instead of a Supper, as hot as you can drink it, and lie down upon your back for a quarter of an hour. Do the like in the Mor∣ning before you rise, and fast three hours af∣ter it.