The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.

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The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
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London :: Printed for Nath. Brooke,
1659.
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Medicine, Popular.
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52209.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.

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THE TABLE.

A.
  • AChes to take away 38, 41, 72, 108, 110, 153, 156, 157, 184
  • Abortion to prevent 121
  • After-birth to bring away 159, 160
  • Ague of all sorts to cure 16, 32, 52 57, 127, 161
  • Ague in womens breast 110, 167
  • Ale to purge most excellent 2, 280, 281
  • Ambergreese tincture to make, and 〈…〉〈…〉
  • Amber pills for a Consumption 3.
  • Appetite to help ••••84
  • Appoplex to cure 236
  • Aqua mirabilis to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 290
  • Almond milk to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 82, 83, 108
B.
  • BIting of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 S••••ke 154
  • 〈…〉〈…〉 cool 94, 95
  • 〈…〉〈…〉 strngthen 66, 135, 184, 191, 89
  • 〈◊〉〈◊〉 most excellent, with its use 95 123, 125
  • elly-ake to cure 184
  • Belly hard to dissolve 155
  • Biles and Botches to cure 81 89, 112, 152 188
  • ...

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  • Bloud to cleanse 10, 148, 161
  • Biting of a mad Dog 41, 152, 154
  • Bloudy flux to help, 42, 106, 108, 130, 184
  • Bleeding at Nose to stanch 163
  • Bladder to cleanse 169, 237
  • Bones out of joynt to set 104, 153, 189
  • Breaths shortness to remedy 5
  • Breath stinking to cure 53, 111, 196, 276
  • Brain to strengthen 17, 86, 178, 196, 236
  • Burning to help 60, 77, 78, 95, 104, 125, 149, 162, 189
  • Breasts sore to cure 85, 90, 91, 109, 110, 117, 147
  • Bruises to cure 36, 38 90, 104, 122, 125 144, 156, 184, 188
  • Bursten to remedy 145
  • Balsam Luccatelloes to make, and its Ver∣tues 179
  • Bag restorative for the stomach 57
C.
  • CAnker to cure 36, 41, 152
  • Cock water 14
  • Cancer to prevent and cure 36, 110, 125
  • China broth in a Consumption 34
  • Choler to purge 49, 102, 176, 177, 233
  • Childe to bring again when born 159, 160
  • Consumption to cure 3, 9, 10, 14 22, 34, 42, 123, 186, 299, 278, 279, 295
  • Cold to help 27 88, 164 206
  • ...

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  • Cough to take away 55, 56▪ 59, 62, 63, 100, 164
  • Conception to help 88, 168, 184, 235, 276
  • Costiveness to remove 159
  • Chollick to cure 44, 63, 96, 99, 105, 125, 166, 170
  • Corns to take away 104, 146
  • Cramp to cure 141
  • Cordials most excellent 7, 14, 274, 275, 285, 290
  • Cordial water 2
  • Conserves of all sorts to make, and their Vertues 234, 235, 236
  • Mrs. Chaunce her Purge 165
  • Cordial waters for the sick
D.
  • DRink for the Scurvy Diet Drink for a Eisila 70
  • Diet Drink for one that hath no speech in sickness 71
  • Deakness to help 45, 105, 162
  • Dead flesh to prevent 152
  • Digstion to procure, 6, 15, 50, 125, 196, 244
  • Drpsie to cure, 11, 16, 42, 52, 64, 276, 295
  • ••••seases cured without taking any thing at the mouth 49
  • Drink for Rhume and Phlegm 57
  • Drink for a hot Feaver 98, 128
  • Drink to keep the mouth moist 132

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    E.
    • ELectuary for the stomach 5
    • Electury for the poison of the heart, 98
    • Eyes sore to cure 28, 147, 148, 189, 288
    • Eyes full of Rhume 18, 32, 110, 181
    • Eyes weak to strengthen 130, 184
    • Eyes having a Pin or Web 171, 172
    • Eyes redness to take away 171, 173, 181
    F.
    • FAce sweld to asswage 13
    • Faces redness and pimples to cure 41 53, 54, 55, 173, 180
    • Face bruised 144
    • Face fair to make 115, 180
    • Faintness to take away 86, 133, 283, 291
    • Falling-sickness to cure 49, 88, 142, 237
    • Feavers all sorts to remove 2, 12, 25, 61 98, 128, 132
    • Festers in the flesh to cure 41
    • Fellons to cure 41, 48, 102, 184
    • Fire to take out 189
    • Fistula to cure 70, 79, 117, 152,
    • Finger sore to heal 81
    • Flux or Looseness to stay 130
    • Freckles to take away 146
    • Fish to take by angling 108
    G.
    • Gscony Powder to make 187
    • Gout to cure 42, 50, 77 88, 140, 56
    • ...

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    • Golden colour without Gold to make 114
    • Green sickness to cure 69, 85
    • Gravel to cleanse 185
    • Glisters for a hot Feaver 132
    • Glisters for the Winde, 30, 160.
    H.
    • HAir to grow thick 100, 270
    • Hair to take away 55
    • Hardness to dissolve 189
    • Heart to chear 52, 87, 235
    • Head lightness in Sickness 72
    • Head-ache to cure 41, 96, 120, 125, 235
    • Heads breaking out in Children 148
    • Hearts passion to take away. 98, 287
    • Heart-burn to cure 291
    • Hearing 4
    • Hearbs boild in Broth 65, 1••••
    • Humors watery to purge ••••, 184
    • Humors hot to cool ••••
    I.
    • JAundies black and yellow to cure 16, 73, 74, 105
    • 〈…〉〈…〉 to cure 42, 89, 112, 152, 184
    • 〈…〉〈…〉 to prevent 189
    • 〈…〉〈…〉 to heat 188
    • 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to keep from rust 113
    • Itch to cure 32, 77
    • Juyce of Liquorsh to make 307
    • Julip for a Feaver 61

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      K.
      • KIdneys ulceration to cure 50
      • Kidneys swoln to take away 56
      • Kidneys to cool and cleanse 83
      • Kings Evil to cure 117
      L.
      • LAbor in women to help 86, 119, 130
      • Letters of Secrets how to write 270
      • Letters of gold to make without gold 114
      • Letters of silver to make without silver, ib.
      • Liver to strengthen and cool 17, 68, 92, 93, 184, 268, 295
      • Looseness to help 80, 143
      • Lungs to cleanse 44, 47, 59, 62, 291
      • Lumly's drink for a Consumption 123
      M.
      • MAngie in a Dog to cure 120
      • Mead to make 284
      • Measles to cure 29, 107, 236
      • Melancholy to suppress 4, 23, 52, 164, 165, 177, 291, 293
      • Memory to preserve 291
      • Megrum to cure 119
      • Milk in women to increase 35, 113
      • Milk to dry up 174
      • Miscarriage in women to prevent 46, 121
      • Mothers rising to prevent 20, 63
      • Mouth to keep moist 132
      • Morphew to take away 146

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        N.
        • NAvels coming out to help 109
        • Nipple to skin when raw 174, 175
        • Nipple to make when none 175
        • Noses shining to cure 53
        • Noses redness to cure 54
        • Noli me tangere 52
        O.
        • OBstructions 10, 68, 236, 268, 295
        • Ointment for a hard belly 155
        • Oyl of Excester to make 75, 156
        • Oyl of Mustard-seed, and its use 77
        • Oyl of Eggs 75
        • Oyl for a shining Nose 54
        • Oyl of Fennel, and its use 77
        • Oyl of Rue to make, and its use ••••
        • Oyl of Cammomil to make, and its use ib.
        • Oyl of St. Johns-wort to make 131, 190
        • Oyl of Swallows to make 182
        • Oyntment grow to ake 36, 97. 117, 158
        • Oyntments and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 uses 189
        • 〈…〉〈…〉 to make 67
        P.
        • 〈…〉〈…〉 to cure 6, 16, 42, 52; 77, 88, 276, 291
        • Paracelsus Plaister to make, and Vertues 150, 152
        • Plaister called Leaden Plaister to make, and use 183, 184, 188
        • ...

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        • Plaster for the Stomach 129
        • Pains to asswage 153, 189
        • Phlegm to void 44, 49▪ 52, 57, 68, 102, 142
        • Plague to prevent and cure 2, 9, 12, 17, 24, 25, 30, 31, 33, 39, 40, 67, 78, 106, 107, 125, 142, 277, 281
        • Piles to cure 36, 42, 43, 101, 184
        • Powder of the Lady Kents 187, 274
        • Powder most excellent to make 19, 74
        • Small pox, excellent remedies 2, 12, 29, 107
        • And to prevent pitting 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
        • And to prevent Infection 140
        • Pricking with a needle or thorn 103
        • Purge for a Quartain Ague 161
        • Purging Ale 2
        • Purge for Children or old men 52
        • Pimples in the face 54
        • Pomatum to make 312
        • Purging Drink most excellent 68
        • Purge of Dr. Mayherne 180
        • Purples to cure 82
        • Pushes to break and heal 184
        • Pain in the stomach 121
        • Pills for a Consumption 3
        R.
        • REins to purge 68, 88, 237, 276
        • Rest to procure 233
        • Rhume to stay 32, 47, 57, 58, 100, 291
        • ...

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        • Rickets to cure 126, 127
        • Rupture to cure 129
        • Running of the Reins to cure 184
        • Restorative broth 42
        S.
        • SAffron water to make 18
        • Scabs to dry up 42
        • Sciatica to cure 101, 156
        • Salve the chiefest, and its vertues 41
        • Scurvy to cure 149, 185
        • Scalding to cure 60, 77, 78, 95, 104, 125 149, 162
        • Shingles to cure 153
        • Sinews to strengthen 86, 88, 95, 152, 189 276
        • Stinging of an Adder or Wasp. 154
        • Stepkins Water for the Eyes 18
        • Syrup of Ale for the Whit 95
        • Syrup for swounding and the Brain 86
        • Syrup of Cordinal 10
        • Syrup for a Cold 27
        • Syrup of T••••••ips to make, and use 9, 19
        • Syrup of Citron peels to make 9; 28
        • S••••up of Pearmains to make 23
        • Syrup of Lemons to make 28
        • yrup of Hysop to make 206
        • Syrup of Gilly-flowers 205
        • Skin to bring 189
        • Silver Letters without silver to make 114
        • ...

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        • Serpents bitings to cure 131
        • Sleep to procure 60, 101
        • Snail water to make, and its vertues 294
        • Spitting of Blood of remedy 234
        • Sprains to cure 131
        • Speech in Sickness to move 71, 72
        • Splinters and thorns to draw forth 41
        • Spirits to revive 18, 88, 276, 293
        • Spleen distempers to rectifie 16, 41, 66, 68, 123, 164, 165, 236, 268, 291
        • Sounding fits to cure 20, 86, 133, 283
        • Sounding fits after Childe-birth 118
        • Sores of all sorts to cure 111, 117, 152, 188
        • Stopping of the Stomach 5. 49, 63, 168, 161, 235, 236, 268
        • Stomach cold to warm 15, 17, 35
        • Stomach hot to cool 234
        • Stomach week to strengthen 20, 57, 121, 128, 179, 283, 286, 295
        • Stone in the Kidnies to cure 7, 8, 99
        • Spirit of Castoreum 20
        • Stone in the Bladder 8, 21, 33, 45, 48▪ 50, 52, 59▪ 84, 88, 94, 163, 166▪ 168, 170, 185, 191, 376▪
        • Stone in the Kidneyes 57
        • Strangury to help 168, 191
        • Strains to remedy 122
        • Stitches to cure 65, 96, 112, 125
        • Sweating to prevent 16
        • ...

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        • Sweating to provoke 67
        • Swallow to help 51
        • Swelling to swage 36, 42, 104, 108, 157, 184, 188, 189
        • Surfeits to cure 107, 125, 292
        T.
        • TAste to restore 61
        • Terril's Salve 40
        • Tetter to cure 22, 174
        • Tearms to provoke 184
        • Teeth to make come without pain 47
        • Teeth to preserve 192
        • Tooth-ache to cure 88, 192
        • Thorns to draw out 41
        • Throws after birth to ease 118
        • Thrush in the mouth to remedy 3
        • Throat sore to cure 44, 233
        • Tumors to allay 42
        • Tissick to help 77
        • Timpany to remedy 65
        • Tincture of Amber greese 24
        V.
        • VEnom to drive from the heart 2
        • Vlcers to fill with flesh 189
        • Vomiting to stay 133
        • Vine sharp to cure 162
        • Vrine to provoke 68 99
        • Vvula to draw up 52
        • Vomit for an Ague 57

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          W.
          • WAter for an Ague 161
          • Water to hold 91
          • Water very precious 18, 27
          • Dr. Stephens his Water 18, 21
          • Whites and heat in the back 94, 95
          • Water Cordial 8
          • Wormwood Cakes 15
          • Water of Life 16
          • Warts to take away 145
          • Wen to cure 144
          • Winde to expel 30, 35, 77, 86, 122. 125, 160, 196, 282, 283
          • Worms to kill and avoid 16, 49, 76, 88, 89, 116, 123, 176, 276
          • Wounds to heal 38, 41, 90, 95, 103, 112, 115, 122, 125, 131, 152, 163, 179, 181, 188, 189, 36, 42
          • Wrench to cure 18
          • Women with Childe to preserve them from Abortion 121
          • Woman in labour a medicine for safe deli∣verance 86
          Y.
          • YOuth to preserve 88 279, 291
          FINIS.
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