_Shewing the best way of making Diet for the Sick._
_To make a Broth for a Sick body._
Take a leg of veal, and set it a boiling in a gallon of fair water,
scum it clean, and when you have so done put in three quarters of a
pound of currans, half a pound of prunes, a handful of borrage, as
much mint, and as much harts-tongue; let them seeth together till
all the strength be sodden out of the flesh, then strain it as clean
as you can. If you think the party be in any heat, put in violet
leaves and succory.
_To stew a Cock against a Consumption._
Cut him in six pieces, and wash him clean, then take prunes,
currans, dates, raisins, sugar, three or four leaves of gold,
cinamon, ginger, nutmeg, and some maiden hair, cut very small; put
all these foresaid things into a flaggon with a pint of muskadine,
and boil them in a great brass pot of half a bushel; stop the mouth
of the flaggon with a piece of paste, and let it boil the space of
twelve hours; being well stewed, strain the liquor, and give it to
the party to drink cold, two or three spoonfuls in the morning
fasting, and it shall help him. _This is an approved Medicine._
_Otherways._
Take a good fleshy cock, draw him and cut him to pieces, wash away
the blood clean, and take away the lights that lie at his back, wash
it in white-wine, and no water, then put the pieces in a flaggon,
and put to it two or three blades of large mace, a leaf of gold,
ambergriece, some dates, and raisins of the Sun; close up the
flaggon with a piece of paste, and set it in a pot a boiling six
hours; keep the pot filled up continually, with hot water; being
boil'd strain it, and when it is cold give of it to the weak party
the bigness of a hazelnut.
_Stewed Pullets against a Consumption._
Take two pullets being finely cleansed, cut them to pieces, and put
them in a narrow mouthed pitcher pot well glazed, stop the mouth of
it with a piece of paste and set it a boiling in a good deep brass
pot or vessel of water, boil it eight hours, keep it continually
boiling, and still filled up with warm water; being well stewed,
strain it, and blow off the fat; when you give it to the party, give
it warm with the yolk of an egg, dissolved with the juyce of an
orange.
_To distill a Pig good against a Consumption._
Take a pig, flay it and cast away the guts; then take the liver,
lungs, and all the entrails, and wipe all with a clean cloth; then
put it into a Still with a pound of dates, the stones taken out, and
sliced into thin slices, a pound of sugar, and an ounce of large
mace. If the party be hot in the stomach, then take these cool
herbs, as violet leaves, strawberry leaves, and half a handful of
bugloss, still them with a soft fire as you do roses, and let the
party take of it every morning and evening in any drink or broth he
pleases.
You may sometimes add raisins and cloves.
_To make Broth good against a Consumption._
Take a cock and a knuckle of veal, being well soaked from the blood,
boil them in an earthen pipkin of five quarts, with raisins of the
sun, a few prunes, succory, lang de-beef roots, fennil roots,
parsley, a little anniseed, a pint of white-wine, hyssop, violet
leaves, strawberry-leaves, bind all the foresaid roots, and herbs,
a little quantity of each in a bundle, boil it leisurely, scum it,
and when it is boil'd strain it through a strainer of strong canvas,
when you use it, drink it as often as you please blood-warm.
Sometimes in the broth, or of any of the meats aforesaid, use mace,
raisins of the sun, a little balm, endive, fennel and parsley roots.
Sometimes sorrel, violet leaves, spinage, endive, succory, sage,
a little hyssop, raisins of the sun, prunes, a little saffron, and
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 Consumption.
_Other drink for a Consumption._
Take a gallon of running water of ale measure, put to it an ounce of
cinamon, an ounce of cloves, an ounce of mace, and a dram of
acter-roots, boil this liquor till it come to three quarts, and let
the party daily drink of it till he mends.
_To make an excellent Broth or Drink for a Sick Body._
Take a good fleshy capon, take the flesh from the bones, or chop it
in pieces very small, and not wash it; then put them in a rose still
with slics of lemon-peel, wood-sorrel, or other herbs according to
the _Physitians_ direction; being distilled, give it to the weak
party to drink.
Or soak them in malmsey and some capon broth before you distill
them.
_To make a strong Broth for a Sick Party._
Roast a leg of mutton, save the gravy, and being roasted prick it,
and press out the gravy with a wooden press; put all the gravy into
a silver porrenger or piece, with the juyce of an orange and sugar,
warm it on the coals, and give it the weak party.
Thus you may do a roast or boil'd capon, partridge, pheasant, or
chicken, take the flesh from the bones, and stamp it in a stone or
wooden mortar, with some crumbs of fine manchet, strained with capon
broth, or without bread, and put the yolk of an egg, juyce of
orange, lemon, or grape verjuyce and sugar.
_To make China Broth._
Take an ounce of China thin slic't, put it in a pipkin of fair
water, with a little veal or chicken, stopped close in pipkin, let
it stand 4 and twenty hours on the embers but not boil; then put to
it colts foot, scabious-maiden-hair, violet leaves half a handful,
candied eringo, and 2 or 3 marsh mallows, boil them on a soft fire
till the third part be wasted, then put in a crust of manchet,
a little mace, a few raisins of the sun stoned, and let it boil a
while longer. Take of this broth every morning half a pint for a
month, then leave it a month, & use it again.
_China Broth otherways._
Take 2 ounces of China root thin sliced, and half an ounce of long
pepper bruised; then take of balm, tyme, sage, marjoram, nepe, and
smalk, of each two slices, clary, a hanful of cowslips, a pint of
cowslip water, and 3 blades of mace; put all into a new and well
glazed pipkin of 4 quarts, & as much fair water as will fill the
pipkin, close it up with paste and let it on the embers to warm, but
not to boil; let it stand thus soaking 4 and twenty hours; then take
it off, and put to it a good big cock chickens, calves foot,
a knuckle of mutton, and a little salt; stew all with a gentle fire
to a pottle, scum it very clean & being boil'd strain the clearest
from the dregs & drink of it every morning half a pint blood-warm.
_To make Almond Milk against a hot Disease._
Boil half a pound of French barley in 3 several waters, keep the
last water to make your milk of, then stamp half a pound of almonds
with a little of the same water to keep them from oyling; being
finely beaten, strain it whith the rest of the barley water, put
some hard sugar to it, boil it a little, and give it the party warm.
_An excellent Restorative for a weak back._
Take clary, dates, the pith of an oxe, and chop them together, put
some cream to them, eggs, grated bread, and a little white saunders,
temper them all well together fry them, and eat it in the morning
fasting.
Otherways, take the leaves of clary and nepe, fry them with yolks of
eggs, and eat them to break fast.
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