The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

To distil a Cock, good for any weak Person.

Take a red or black Cock, and pluck him quick, and whip him alive with small twigs a pretty while, then cut off his head and gut him, and cut him in quarters, and wipe him very dry with a fair cloth; then take an earthen pot and lay four or five splints to keep it from the bottom of the pot; then lay in the four quarters upon the splints, and lay between every quarter some of these Roots and Fruit following, Fen∣nel roots, Parsley roots, Succory roots of each two or three, two or three slips of Rosemary, two or three Dates quar∣tered, half a handful of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out, six spoonfuls of Rhenish Wine, Malmesey or Muska∣dine, three or four whole Mace, cover the pot, and stop it close with paste, and set it in a pot or kittle of hot water, and let it boil softly with a temperate fire sour hours, then take it up and let it

run through a fair cloth without any forcing, then put it in a fair glasse or pot, and keep it close covered, and give to the Patient two or three spoonfuls at once, or in quantity as the stomack is a∣ble to take it, in some broth made of Mut∣ton or Veal, first in the morning, and as often in the day besides as he hath a sto∣mack to take it.