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.

68. A Cure for the Consumption.

For the comfort and ease of those who are in a Consumption, these means are useful: The Patient shall drink eve∣ry morning four hours before meat, a little draught of Milk of a she-Ass, or of a Bitch fresh milk'd, putting eve∣ry time therein one ounce of pounded ••oaf-Sugar; he shall take every hour Pre∣serve of Roses, or loaf-Sugar, or of the powder of small Cakes, called Diatraga∣canth: it is very good to drink every morning fasting a full glass of water, which is still'd in a bath (balneum Mariae,) made of all these Herbs, viz. of Colts-foot, Wall-wort, Venus-hair, Hysop, of each a like quantity, with snails without the shells, being washt very clean: the water of Snails stilled alone, is good also against this distemper, as well as for all other dry and lean persons: he shall use little Cakes made of two ounces of Pimpinella, pow∣dered with Sugar, which he shall take eve∣ry morning, being dissolved in three ounces of Pimpernella water: it is very wholesome to take in the morning of this following powder, a quarter of an ounce, and immediately after take two spoonfuls

of Surrup of Jujuben, or for want of that▪ take stilled water of Colts-foot, or of Barley-water (Ptisane.) This Powder is made in this manner.

Take of the four great cooling seeds together, one ounce and three quarters, Quince-kernels almost half an ounce, white Poppy seed somewhat more then half a•• ounce, Liquorish balls, pounded Hysop, Starch, Gum-Arabick, three sixteen parts of an ounce, Gum-Diatragacanth, Pe••••∣dice, as much as of all the rest together; this being each asunder well pounded, and reduced to Powder, must be well mi•••• together to a Powder.