The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.

Plaister of Mastick: Take three ounces of Ma∣stick, Bole-Armoniack washed in red Wine one ounce and half, red Roses six drams, Myrtle-berries, and Ivory, of each half an ounce, Turpen∣tine, Colophony, Tacamaha∣ca, and Labdanum, of each two ounces; Oil of Myrtle four ounces; Bees-wax a pound. The things that are to be powdered, powder a∣part, melt the Wax and the Oil together, and take it from the Fire, and add the Tur∣pentine, and afterward the Roses, and Bole-Armoniack, the Ivory being finely pow∣dered;

order the Mastick in like manner, and so being well mixed in a Mortar, that is pretty hot, make them into a Plaister.

This layed to the Stomach, very much strengthens it; as also stays Vomitings and De∣fluxions.