The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery.

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Title
The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery.
Author
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
Publication
[London? :: For B. Harris,
1675]
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Subject terms
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09711.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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Page 72

94. A Water for the Eyes, to make a Man see in forty days, who hath been blind seven Years before, if he be un∣der fifty Years of Age.

Take smalledge, Fennel, Rue, Betony, Vervain, Agrimony, Cinquefoyl, Pimpernel, Eye-bright, Celandine, sage, of each a quartern, wash them clean, and stamp them, do them in a fair Marshing-pan, put thereto a quart of good White-wine and the powder of thirty Pepper-corns, 6 spoonfuls of live Honey, and 10 spoonfuls of the U∣rin of a Man Child that is wholesome, mingle them well together, and boyl them till half be wasted, then take it down and strain it, and afterwards Clarifie it, and put it into a Glass Vessel well stopt, and put there∣of with a feather into the Eyes of the Blind, and let the Patient use this Medicine at night when he goeth to Bed, and within forty days he shall see. It is good for all manner of sore Eyes. Wild-Tansie-water i good for the Eye-sight, and eating of Fennel-seed i good for the same.

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