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The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. Each recipe is given here in its original form, with a link underneath to the modern redaction, should you wish to replicate it. This is the first time that Hannah Glasse's book has been made available in its entirety on the internet. Enjoy...
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Hanna Glasse's Twenty-second Chapter
CHAP. XXII.
Cures for Bites of Dog and How to Keep free from Buggs.
A certain cure for the bite of a mad dog.
LET the patient be blooded at the arm nine or ten ounces. Take the of the herb, called in Latin, lichen cinereus tareſtis ; in English, aſh coloued ground liver-wort, cleaned, dried, and powdered, half an ounce. Of black pepper powdered, two drams. Mix theſe well together, and divide the powder into four doſes, one of which muſt be taken every morning faſting, and four mornings ſuxxeſſively, in half a pint of cow's milk warm. After theſe four doſes are taken, the patient muſt go into the cold bath, or a cold ſpring or river every morning faſting for a month. He muſt be dipt all over, but not to ſtay in (with his head above water) longer than half a minutee, if the water be very cold. After this he muſt go in three times a week for a fortnight longer.
N. B. The lichen is a very common herb, and grows generally in ſandy and barren ſoils all over England. The right time to gather it is in the months of October and November.
Dr. Mead.
Another for the bite of a mad dog.
FOR the bite of a mad dog, for either man or beaſt, take ſix ounces of rue clean picked and bruiſed : four ounces of garlick peeled and bruiſed, four ounces of Venice treacle, and four ounces of filed pewter or ſcraped tin. Boil theſe in two quarts of the beſt ale, in a pan covered cloſe over a gentle fire, for the ſpace of an hour, then ſtrain the ingredients from the liquor. Give eight or nine ſpoonfuls of it warm to a man, or a woman, three mornings faſting. Eight or nine ſpoonfuls is ſufficient for the ſtrongeſt ; a leſſer quantity to thoſe younger, or a weaker conſtitution, as you may judge of their ſtrength. Ten or twelve ſponfuls for a horſe or a bullock ; three, four, or five to a ſheep, hog, or dog. This muſt be given within nine days after the bite ; if ſeldom fails in man or beaſt. If you bind ſome of the ingredients on the wound, it will be ſo much the better.
Receipt againſt the plague.
TAKE of rue, ſage, mint, roſemary, wormwood, and lavender, a handful of each ; infuſe them together in a gallon of white wine vinegar, put the whole into a ſtone-pot cloſely covered up, upon warm wood-aſhes, for four days : after which draw off (or ſtrain through a fine flannel) the liquid, and put it into bottles well corked ; and into every quart bottle put a quarter of an ounce of amphire. With this preparation waſh your mouth, and rub your loins and your temples every day ; ſnuff a little up your noſtrils when you go into the air, and carry about your a bit of ſpunge dipped in the ſame, in order to ſmell to upon all occaſions, eſpecially when you are near any place or perſon that is infected. They write, that four malefactors (who had robbed the infected houſes, and murdered the people during the courſe of the plague) owned, when they came to the gallows, that they had preſerved themſelves from the contation by uſing the above medicine only ; and that they went the hole time form houſe to houſe without any fear of the diſtemper.
How to keep clear from bugs.
FIRST take out of your room allſilver and gold lace, then ſet the charis about the room, ſhut up your windows and doors, tack a blanket over each window, and before the chimney, and over the doors of the room, ſet open all cloſets and cupboard doors, all your drawers and boxes, hang the reſt of your bedding on the chairbacks, lay the feather-bed on the table, then ſet a large broad earthen pan in the middle of the room, and in that ſet a chaffing diſh that ſtands on feet, full of charcoal well lighted. If your room is very bad, a pound of rolled brinſtone ; if only a few, half a pound. Lay it on the charcoal, and get out of the room as quick as poſſibly you can, or it will take away your breath. Shut your door cloſe, with the blanket over it, and be ſure to ſet it ſo as nothing can catch fire. If you have any India pepper, throw it in with the brimſtone. You muſt take care to have the door open whilſt you lay in the brimſtone, that you may get out as ſoon as poſſible. Don't open the doo under ſix hours, and then you muſt be very careful how you go in to open the windows ; therefore let the doors ſtand open an hour before you open the windows. The nbruſh and ſweep your room very clean, waſh it well with boiling lee, or boiling water, with a little unſlacked lime in it, get a pint of ſpirits of wine, a pint of ſpirits of turpentine, and an ounce of camphire ; ſhake all well together, and with a bunch of feathers waſh your bedſtead very well, and ſprinkle the reſt over the feather-bed, and about the wainſcot and room.
If you find great ſwarms about the room, and ſome not dead, do this over again ; and you will be quite clear. Every ſpring and fall, waſh your bedſtead with half a pint, and you will never have a bugg ; but if you find any come in with new goods, or boxes, &c. only waſh your bedſtead, and ſprinkle all over your bedding and bed, and you will be clear ; but be ſure to do it as ſoon as you find one. If your room is very bad, it will be well to paint the room after the brimſtone is burnt in it.
This never fails, if rightly done.
An effectual way to clear the bedſtead of buggs.
TAKE quickſilver, and mix it well in a mortar with the white of an egg till the quickſilver is all well mixt, and there is no blubbers ; then beat up ſome white of an egg very fine, and mix with the quickſilver till it is like a fine ointment, then with a feather anoint the bedſtead all over in every creek and corner, and about the lacing and binding, where you think there is any. Do this two or three times : it is a certain cure, and will not ſpoil any thing.
Directions to the houſe-maid.
ALWAYS when you ſweep a room, throw a little wet ſand all over it, and that will gather up all the ſtew and duſt, prevent it from riſing, clean the boards, and ſave the bedding, pictures, and all other furniture from duſt and dirt.
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