The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers ..., II. the physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery : together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body : and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling, 3. the compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode ...
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
37. To take away Freckles and Morphew.
Wash your Face in the wane of the Moon with a Sponge, Morning and Eve∣ning with the Distilled water of Elder-leaves, letting it dry into the Skin; you must Distill your Water in May: This I had from a Traveller, who hath Cured himself thereby.
