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.

Dandelyon, or Denti de Leon, or Lyons Tooth: Its Quality is Cleansing and Opening; by which means it is effectual in removing the Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen and Gall, and such Diseases as arise from them, as Hypochondriacal Passions, and the Jaundice, &c. open∣ing the Passage of Urine in Men and Women of all Ages, cleansing Aposthumes, and the inward urinary Passages, and then by a temperate and dry∣ing quality heals them: In this case, you may boil the Leaves in White-wine; or shred small, put them into Broth. It is good likewise in a Consumption, boiled in Broth, or the Juice of the Root drank in Canary, or in the bad Disposition of the body call'd Cachexia: it procures Rest and Sleep, when the Body is disorder'd by A∣gues. The distilled Water is good in Pestilential Fevers, and to wash old Sores.