The widowes treasure plentifully furnished with sundry precious and approoued secretes in phisicke and chirurgery for the health and pleasure of mankinde : hereunto are adioyned, sundry pretie practises and conclusions of cookerie : with many profitable and holesome medicines for sundrie diseases in cattell.
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- The widowes treasure plentifully furnished with sundry precious and approoued secretes in phisicke and chirurgery for the health and pleasure of mankinde : hereunto are adioyned, sundry pretie practises and conclusions of cookerie : with many profitable and holesome medicines for sundrie diseases in cattell.
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- Partridge, John, fl. 1566-1573.
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- At London :: Printed by Edward Alde, for Edward White,
- 1588.
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- Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800.
- Veterinary prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"The widowes treasure plentifully furnished with sundry precious and approoued secretes in phisicke and chirurgery for the health and pleasure of mankinde : hereunto are adioyned, sundry pretie practises and conclusions of cookerie : with many profitable and holesome medicines for sundrie diseases in cattell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09123.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- ❧To the Curteous Reader,
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¶The Widowes Treasure.
- To make Sirrop of Roses or Violettes.
- To make Diatreon Piperion the best.
- Virtutes huius confectionis sequuntur.
- To make Rosa solis.
- Doctor Hatchers powder against the Stone.
- Maister Stranges plaister against the stone.
- To prouoke sleepe.
- A soueraigne medicine for the Collicke.
- To make Aqua composita.
- For Cough and Flew me in the stomacke.
- For the Sciatica.
- A soueraigne Oyntment for weaknesse in the backe.
- For Flewme or stopping in the Stomack.
- For Strangury or Stone in the Reynes of the backe.
- To make Oyle of Camomill.
- To make oyle of Roses.
- The maner how to washe the Oyle.
- To make the Oyntment of Roses.
- To make a Tysande.
- For the strangurye.
- A Clister for the Strangury.
- For the swelling of the Yearde or Coddes.
- ¶Doctor Bartlets Medicine for Aches with swelling.
- To make one to pisse.
- A singuler remedy for all diseases in the head of what cause soeuer.
- An approued remedye for the Toothache
- A woorthy purgation to auoide Choller.
- Against vnkindely heate of the Liuer.
- Mythridates medicine against cor∣rupt ayres.
- To increace Milke in Womens Brestes.
- An excellent sope for Scabbes and Itche.
- An approued medicine to driue away Lyce.
- For to stop the Flixe.
- For the blooddye Flixe.
- For any bruse.
- An ointment for the backe.
- For an Ague.
- For the Tooth ache.
- To keepe Venison fresh a long time.
- To keepe it from rotting after it is new flaine.
- To keep Peares.
- To kill Lyce.
- Against drunkennes,
- To make Linnen cloth or Yearne white.
- To remedy the feet that are sore with Trauailing.
- A notable experiment against the Phitiske of the Lunges.
- A good drinke for the pestilence.
- To make a perfect black Inke to write or limme withall.
- A very good Greene.
- An other Greene.
- An Emeralde Greene.
- For to make a colour like Golde.
- ¶ A notable receite to make Ipocras.
- A proper deuice to make lightes of an excellent sauour.
- To destroy Lyce.
- To make red Incke.
- Whether the Wine be mingled with Water or no.
- To heale lippes that are chapt with winde or colde.
- For kybed heeles.
- For scabbes in Children.
- To destroy Crablice.
- An order to make Wormewood water of the best sort as followeth.
- To make a good Posset Curde.
- A medicine for the mother.
- To make sirrope of Roses or flowers.
- To take away the Cough or Stitche.
- To make Iellye.
- How to dresse Orrenges.
- To preserue Damsons.
- To make drye Peares.
- For the shaking of the hand.
- To stay the bloody Flixe.
- To restore the blood againe.
- For running of the Raines.
- For the Ague.
- A drinke for the ague.
- A medicine for the Woormes in a childes belly or any other.
- A medicine for to get the Beetelwigges out of a mans eare.
- For a Legge that is swolne with a fall.
- For a wenne when it beginneth.
- For the Collicke.
- For the canker in the mouth or throte, or to wash your teeth that be hollow and stinketh.
- For the Gowt.
- To preserue Quinces.
- Marmalade of Quinces.
- A Borage Tart or Spinage.
- A medicine for the Plague
- A Whaye for Itche or brea∣king out.
- Against the fellon and Vncomes.
- Sirrop of Rosa solis good for sowning or any other diseases in the stomack.
- Aqua Rosa Solis.
- To make fine Cakes.
- To make an excellent Pomander.
- A precious oyntment for all manner of Aches.
- For the canker in the mouth.
- A precious drinke for the Pestilence, approued.
- A singuler medicine to resiste the pestilence.
- The vertue of Motherwoorte.
- An excellent medicine againste Impostumes Plurifie, Coughes, and all diseases in the Brest.
- A medicine for the Collick.
- For the same.
- A present remedy against the plague.
- For the cough.
- To delay heate.
- To breake Flegme.
- A preparatiue before you purge the Stomacke.
- To purge the stomacke.
- An excellent purger from all partes of the body.
- To make the haire of the bearde to growe.
- For a cut or sore bruse.
- For a weake Backe.
- The plaister for the back.
- Maister Roses medicine againste the stone, and to cause one to make water.
- For the heate in the Raines, and to auoide the blistring of the mouth.
- For one that is deafe.
- Against the Pyles
- For the passion of the harte.
- For the Itche.
- For a Fellon.
- To destroy an Impostume.
- For the Rewme and Cough of the Lunges.
- For a Canker or disease of the Gummes or Throate.
- A Gargell for a furred mouth.
- To heale the Canker vpon the Yarde.
- For a Stitche or winde Collicke.
- Haire to grow.
- Against Spottes and Pimples in the Face.
- For a hot burning in the stomacke growen of Choller, which causeth the Feuer.
- For a saustem face.
- For an Ache.
- For heate in the face.
- For the same.
- For the same.
- To vomit vp Cholor.
- For a Fellon.
- To stop the whites in women.
- For the stuffing of the Lightes and Lunges.
- For the heate in the back approued, D. Huicke.
- To drye vp the Rewme.
- To keepe the eyes cleere, coole, and from rednes and to kill the Itche.
- Against the Collick and Stone in maner of a plaister.
- A Clister to be giuen to a Childe or wo∣man in childe bed.
- A Clister.
- To breake the Stone.
- Against toothache.
- A medicine to strengthen the backe.
- For the heate in the backe.
- For the Collick and Stone.
- To staunche blood.
- To take away spottes from the handes or sunburninges.
- Against stuffing of the Lunges.
- A water to wash the yard, for one that had the running lately of the Reines.
- For Sinewes that be shrunke, in maner of an ointment.
- For sore eyes that smart or Itche.
- Against the Sciatica.
- ¶An oyntment for Aches, bruses, Lamenes, Stitches, Gowtes hardnes of the Splene, Ague, Cankers, and for paine in the eares.
- To cause one to pisse.
- A soueraine medicine for an ache in the shoulder.
- To staunche blood at the nose.
- Idem.
- For an Ague.
- To binde to the handes being parcell of the same Medicine.
- For one that consumeth, to be eaten in the morning.
- For a cold stomacke.
- For the swelling of the hart, and brea∣king of Flegme.
- Against an Ague, the Plague, and good to comfort nature.
- For the winde Collicke.
- To skoure the inward partes, and for the rising of the Lunges.
- For an Ague.
- For one that is deafe.
- Idem.
- For the bloody Flixe.
- An excellent medicine for the greene Sicknes.
- To prouoke Vrine speedily.
- For heate in the Liuer.
- To preserue nature to eate a morninges.
- To make a Clister.
- For one that is weake, and to comfort the stomack.
- Idem.
- Idem.
- To restore nature, and helpeth a weake back.
- To stay running of the raines.
- A precious ointment or Oyle.
- Probatum est. For stued Mutton.
- To dresse a Hare or Cunny in broth with a pudding in their bellyes.
- Mutton.
- To boyle chickins with Endiue and Succorye or Lettice, or any other colde hearbes.
- For small Lampernes.
- To potche Egges in broth.
- To bake Breme, Trout, Mullets, Pike or any fishe.
- For soppes on the fish dayes.
- For Spinage.
- Sodde Egges.
- For Oxe tunges boyled.
- Spinage.
- for Egges.
- A drench to plume vp a horsse, and to expell colde, to cleare him of the Glaunders and to open the pipes.
- A drench for a cough.
- To make a good powder to giue a Horsse in his prouender, or to giue him to drink for the cough, and other diseases.
- To cause a horse to haue a good hoofe.
- For a horsse that is stung with an Adder or Snake, a present remedy.
- An excelient medicine for a sore horsebacke, if he be neuer so sore brused, if there be a Fistula it healeth it or any dead Flesh.
- A present remdeye for the Cow-flixe.
- For faint cattel as well Cow, Oxe, Bull or steere.
- An excellent drenche for cattell to be giuen them, either at the spring time or fall of the Leafe.
- For Cattes that are sick or hurt.
- A souerain drink for all maner of Cattell that you suspect to be Lung sicke.
- Most precious and approued drinches for all cattell, but specially Kine and Oxen.
- An other excellent drench.
- The vertue of Angelica or Healeall.
- To drye and heale vp all sores.
- Approued against the Plague.