The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.

116. Against Sterility or Barrenness.

Let the Barren Woman, (four days af∣ter her Monthly Flux) drink the juyce of Sage, with a little Salt, continuing the same a long time.

Or, take the Female of a Hart that is with young; kill her, and draw out her belly, the Fruit with its windings; take out the Fruit, and let the windings (Se∣cundinae) be dried in an Oven, out of which Bread hath been newly drawn: then break into morsels that part of the wind∣ings which was next to the Fruit, to a Powder.

Give her this Powder to drink three mornings a little after midnight; with three or four spoonfuls of Wine; let her not rise in four hours after she hath taken this.

This following Potion is of great virtue.

Take young sprigs of wild Vine-leaves, of Agrimony, St. Johns Herb, Thousand-leaves, Gamander, Goats-leaf, Harts-tongue, Pimpernel, field-Cypress, Violets green, of each an handful; one hundred

Pepper-corns, Commin-seed half an ounce, A••gelica, fine Cinnamon, Galiga, Ginger, Cloves, Nutmegs, Spike, of each a quarter of an ounce: pound all these together, and let them soak two days in white-wine; boyl them to two third parts, then strain the wine, and mingle therewith as much scum'd honey as is necessary: make ••hereof a Syrup; let the Woman take of this in the morning and at night a spoon∣ful, with Wine, or distilled water of the Herb Balm