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.

Ground-Pine: This is excellent to strengthen the Nerves; and to open the Parts: it also provokes the Courses, expells the dead Child in the VVomb, and the After-birth; but not safe to be taken by VVomen during their going with Child; be∣cause it works so powerfully, that it endangers Miscarriage. If it be boiled in White-wine, or powder'd, and made into small Pills with Hermodactyls and Venice-Turpentine, it is given in Dropsies: and out∣wardly applied, it cures Ul∣cers, by cleansing and filling them with good Flesh.

Take of this and VVorm∣wood, of each two hand∣fuls; Scurvygrass five times as much, Sage of the Moun∣tain six handfuls, sliced Oran∣ges six; make a Paste of, Bar∣ley-meal and Rye an equal quantity; make it into the fashion of a Pye, and equal these in it small shred; then take them out and shred them with the Crust over again, and so put all into a Bag, hanging it in about five gal∣lons of Ale, not too strong nor too small, about six days, and then drink it twice or thrice a day, about half a pint at a time. This has been

proved for the Scurvy, and afflicting Pains of the Gout.