then take the burnt sacke and burn it again
with, the egges, and put into it a little
mace, and it will be in manner of a caudle,
and let the patient drinke this thrice a day
(that is to say) in the morning fasting, after
dinner, and when he goeth to bed, and this
will help him in a short space. For it hathe
beene well proved." A sort of thing, in
fact, which nobody would be remiss in
putting to good proof. Very good stuff to
recommend poor people to get themselves,
and sure enough to do them good. So is
this excellent good jelly to be made and
had for one that is in a consumption:—
" Take a cocke or capon that is new
killed, and scalde him and wash him cleane,
then take a legge of veale and cut away all
the fat from it, and let the cocke and veale
lye in water for the space of foure or five
houres, and seethe them together in a gallon
of faire running water, and as it doth seethe
still scum off the fat, untill you have left no
fat at all upon it, and let it seeth continually
over a soft fire untill halfe the broth bee
consumed: then put into it rackt rhennish wine
or else white wine, to the quantitie of a pottle,
and then let it boyle all together untill it bee
come to a quart, and then put therein the
whites of three or four new-laid egs, and then
clarifie it, and let it run thorow a ielly-bag, and
put into it an ounce of synnamon grosse beaten
and a pound of fine suger, and make a jelly
thereof, and let the patient eat thereof cold,
and hee shall receive much comfort thereby.
This also good for many other diseases."
A quart of jelly made out of a whole leg of
veal, a capon, and a pottle of hock or moselle
—to say nothing of the eggs thrown into it—
ought certainly to do a poor man good. Here
is a physic, expressly contrived by Master
Blower, to relieve the fatigues of working-
men:— "An approved medicine for one that
is molten with over much trauell or labour,
take a quart of good claret wine and seethe
therein a good quantitie of barley, and make
a posset with the same wine, and let the
patient drinke three or foure times thereof
warm (bedward) and it will help him."

Ralph Blower looked upon poor people as a
rather jolly set of dogs, but he was sorry to
think that their health should be sometimes
injured by high feeding, and he therefore
tells them of some remedies in case of
"surfeit;" for example, he says:—"Take a good
thick piece of white bred and toast it, and
then dip the same in aqua-vite very well,
and that being done, apply it to the stomache
of the partie grieved, as hotte as possible hee
may abide it, and let him be kept very
warme, and this will presently help him."

To him who has sore eyes, Ralph Blower,
greeting:—"Take rotten apples and distill
them in a common stillatory, and with the
water thereof wash your eyes often, and it
will both cleanse and cleare your sight."

It is well at the same time to know by
what things the eyes are damaged. They are
the eating of garlic, onions, and leeks; or too
much lettuce, travelling or moving about too
sudden after meat; hot wines, cold air, milk,
cheese; overmuch beholding of white and
colours; much sleep after meat; too frequent
blood-letting; coleworts; dust, fire, weeping
and watching. Things good for the sight
follow, and are "measurable sleep, red roses,
vervain, fennel, celandine, pimpernell, oculus
christi, rue, betony; to wash your eyes often
with faire running water; to look upon any
greene or pleasant colours—to look often in a
faire, pleasant and perfect glasse, and to wash
your hands and feet very often." As for the
washing of the body often, that was too much
to ask.

Among things good for the heart are
"saffron, cloves, muske, mirthe and
gladnesse." And among things "ill for the
heart," are "beans, pease, sadnesse, anger,
onions, evil-tidings, losse of friends," &c.
Prescriptions are given whereby "to open
the pipes of the heart, being stopped," and
also "to comfort the heart that is weak."
They are not stupidly conceived, inasmuch
as their base consists of "a pinte of sacke,
also a pinte of malmesie."

"A rule to know what things are good
and wholesome for the braines and what are
not. Good for the braines:—To eat sage, but
not overmuch at a time; to smell to camomill
or musk; to drink wine measurably; to
sleepe measurably; to hear but little noyse
of musicke or singers." Learn, therefore, all
people to absent themselves from operas and
oratorios, and " to eat mustard and pepper;
to keep the head warme; to wash the hands
often; to walke measurably; to wash ye temples
of the heade often with rose-water; to
smell to red roses.

"Bad for the braines:—To sleepe much
after meat; all manner of braines; gluttonie;
drunkennesse; corrupt ayres; overmuch
watching; overmuch colde; overmuch bathing;
late suppers; anger; heavinesse of
mind; to stand much bare-head; milke,
cheese, garlicke, onions; to eat overmuch or
hastily; overmuch heat in trauelling or
labouring; overmuch knocking or noyse; to
smell to a white rose."

Our forefathers and foremothers did not
go a-field for physic only to find plants.
Precious to them was the iuyce of an eel, a
hedghog's fat, goose-grease, the fat of mice,
cats, rabbits, moles and ducks, and doves;
precious the fat that lies under the manes of
horses. The gall of a goat or raven, the pith
of an ox's back, the milk of a red cow, or of a
cow all of one colour, a buck's-horn, the brain
of a weazel, the blood of a stock-dove, and the
"little bone that is in the knee-ioynt of the
hinder legge of a hare, which will speedily
helpe the crampe," all belong to Ralph
Blower's pharmacy, and are still sought as
remedies by many in our rural districts.—
"A herring that is well-pickled and split on
the belly- side, and warmed very hot, and