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the yolk of an egg, strained with verjuyce or white-wine.
_Otherways._
Fennil-roots, colts foot, agrimony, betony, large mace, white sander
slic't in thin slices the weight of six pence, made with a chicken
and a crust of manchet, take it morning and evening.
_Otherways._
Violet leaves, wild tansie, succory-roots, large mace, raisins, and
damask prunes boil'd with a chicken and a crust of bread.
Sometimes broth made of a chop of mutton, veal, or chicken, French
barley, raisins, currans, capers, succory root, parsley roots,
fennil-roots, balm, borrage, bugloss, endive, tamarisk, harts-horn,
ivory, yellow sanders, and fumitory, put to these all (or some) in a
moderate quantity.
Otherways, a sprig of rosemary, violet-leaves, tyme, mace, succory,
raisins, and a crust of bread.
_To make a Paste for a Consumption._
Take the brawn of a roasted capon, the brawn of two partridges, two
rails, two quails, and twelve sparrows all roasted; take the brawns
from the bones, and beat them in a stone mortar with two ounces, of
the pith of roast veal, a quarter of a pound of pistaches, half a
dram of ambergriece, a grain of musk, and a pound of white
sugar-candy beaten fine; beat all these in a mortar to a perfect
paste, now and then putting in a spoonful of goats milk, also two or
three grains of bezoar; when you have beaten all to a perfect paste,
make it into little round cakes, and bake them on a sheet of white
paper.
_To make a Jelly for a Consumption of the Lungs._
Take half a pound of ising glass, as much harts-horn, an ounce of
cinamon, an ounce of nutmegs, a few cloves, a pound of sugar,
a stick of liquoras, four blades of large mace, a pound of prunes,
an ounce of ginger, a little red sanders, and as much rubarb as will
lie on a six pence, boil the foresaid in a gallon of water, and a
pint of claret till a pint be wasted or boil'd away, boil them on a
soft fire close covered, and slice all your spices very thin.
_ An excellent Water for a Consumption._
Take a pint of new milk, and a pint of good red wine, the yolks of
twenty four new laid eggs raw, and dissolved in the foresaid
liquors; then have as much fine slic't manchet as will drink up all
this liquor, put it into a fair rose-still with a soft fire, and
being distilled, take this water in all drinks and pottages the sick
party shall eat, or the quantity of a spoonful at a draught in beer,
in one month it will recover any C
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