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.

Hyssop, its Virtue: The Qualities are piercing and at∣tenuating, opening and ab∣stersive, and therefore it hath power to heal and purifie. Being concocted with Figs, Ho∣ney, and Rue, of an equal quan∣tity in fair Water, is good for Inflammations of the Lungs, old Coughs, Difficulty of Breathing and Catarrhs. It kills Worms in the Belly, and being beaten with Salt and Cummin, it remedies the poiso∣nous Biting of Serpents, if immediately applied to the Wound with a mixture of Honey. It is profitable to those that are troubled with the Falling-sickness, the De∣coction of it being drunk in VVhitewine, as also to cause the voiding of Phlegm, espe∣cially when it chiefly oppresses the Stomach and Lungs, as also the phlegmatick Maladies of the Brain and Sinews; and not only purgeth, but also fortifieth them. It dri∣veth away Ventosities, and moveth Appetite; provokes Urin, and lessens the shaking of the Ague Fit, sharpens the Sight, and supporteth a good Colour. It is good for the Spleen and Dropsie, and is sin∣gularly good against the Quin∣sie in the Mouth and Throat, being gargarized with the De∣coction of it, and Figs in fair Water. The Oil made of the Leaves and Flowers help∣eth refrigerated or benumbed Sinews and Nerves, and strengthens them: And in brief so admirable are the Vir∣tues of this Plant, that it has begot a Saying, viz. He that eateth Hyssop, shall live long, &c.