A choice manual, or Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery: collected, & practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying &c.

To make a Callice for a weak person.

Take a good Chicken, and a piece of the neck end of Lamb or Veal, not so much as the Chicken, and set them on the fire, and when they boil and are well scummed, cast in a large mace, and the pieces of the bottom of a manchet, and half a handful of French barly boiled in 3 waters before, and put it to the Broth, and take such herbs as the party requireth, and put them in when the broth hath boiled half an hour, so boil it from 3 and a half to 1, then cast it through a strain∣er, and scum off all the fat, so let it cool, then take 20 good Jordan almonds, or more if they be small, and grind them in a mortar with some of the broth, or if you think your broth too strong, grind

them with some fair water, and strain them with the broth, then set it upon a few coals and season it with some Sugar, not too much, and when it is almost boiled, take out the thickest, and beat it all to pieces in the mortar, and put it in again, and it will do well, so there be not too much of the others flesh.