2nd s. No 43., Oct. 25. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same 

 thing done to lis. Yet I cannot account why a thing 

 which requires so little exertion, and yet preserves the 

 mind from total vacuity, should have gone out." 



Did not Dr. Johnson also remiirk that, since the 

 disuse of smoking by the better sort of people, 

 suicides had been more frequent than before ? 



Crabbe has given a very happy description of 

 " A Smoker's Club," in The Borough, Letter x. 



In the audi alteram partem division of the sub- 

 ject, Cowper's denunciation of the "pernicious 

 weed " must find a place. Cuthbekt Bede, B.A. 



Among the works in praise or dispraise of 

 tobacco, your correspondent has omitted to men- 

 tion "Tobacco batter'd and the Pipes shatter'd," by 

 Joshua Sylvester ; and to be found in tlie same 

 small folio with his translation of Du Bartas. 

 Does he know also of Dr. Giles Everard's Panacea, 

 or Wonderful Virtues of Tobacco, 1658 ? 



Henhy T. RiLEr. 



" TUB LADIES CABINET OPENED. 



(2"*^ S. ii. 261.) 



In reply to a Query of your correspondent 

 John Bruce, I subjoin a copy of the title-page of 

 a copy of this work in my possession : 



"The Ladies Cabinet Opened: Wherein is found 

 hidden aeverall Experiments in Preserving jmd Con- 

 serving, Physicke, and Surgery, Cookery, and Hnswifery. 

 London, Printed by M. P. for Richard Meighen, next to 

 the Middle Temple in Fleetstreet. 1639. 4to." 



This copy appears to be quite perfect, but has 

 no prefatory address, the work itself commencing 

 on the next leaf to the title-page ; the first thing 

 described in the Cabinet being "A Lemmon 

 Sallet." The recipe for " Oil of Swallows " ap- 

 pears on page 19.- 



Another book, much in the same style, seems to 

 have been very popular in its time. Tlie title of 

 a copy before me runs thus : 



"The Queen's Closet Opened. Comprehending 

 several hundreds of Experienced Receipts, and Incompa- 

 rable Secrets, in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Can- 

 dying, Cooker}', &c., which were presented to the Queen 

 by the most Eminent Doctors in Physick, Chyrurgions, 

 Oculists, and divers Persons of Honour, whose names are 

 all fixed to their Receipts, many whereof were had in 

 Esteem, when She pleased to Descend to Private Recrea- 

 tions. Containing L The Quekn's Physical Cabinet, 

 or excellent Receipts in Ph3'sick, Chj'rurgery, &c. 2. 

 Tiin Queen's Delight, or the Art of Preserving, Con- 

 serving, Candying; As also. A Right Knowledge of 

 making Perfumes and Distilling the most Excellent 

 Waters. 3. The Compleat Cook; or Directions for 

 Dressing all sorts of Flesh, Fowl, and Fish, Ordering of 

 Sauces, and making of Pastry, according to the English, 

 French, Spanish, and Italian Mode. The last Edition 

 Corrected and Enlarged with many New and Late Ad- 

 ditions, London, Printed for Benjamin Crayle at the 



Lamb in Fleetstreet, next White-Fryers Gate. 1684. 

 12mo." 



There is a dedication " To the Ingenious and 

 Courteous Reader," signed " W. M." Let us 

 take a specimen of the medical practice of this 

 work : " A Medicine for the Plague which the 

 Lord Mayor had from the Queen : " 



" Take of Sage, Elder, and red Bramble leaves, of each 

 one little handful ; stamp them and strain them together 

 through a cloath with a quart of White-wine ; then take 

 a quantity of White-wine-vinegar, and mingle them to- 

 gether; and drink thereof morning and night a spoonful 

 at a time, nine days together and you shall be whole. 

 There is no medicine more excellent than this, when the 

 sore doth appeare, then to take a Cock-chick and pull it ; 

 and let the Rump be bare, and hold the Rump of the said 

 Chick to the sore, and it will gape and labour for life, and 

 in the end die ; then take another, and the third, and so 

 long as any one so dye ; for when the Poyson is quite 

 drawn out the Chick will live, the sore presentl}' will as- 

 swage and the party recover. Mr. Winlour proved thia 

 upon one of his own children ; the thirteenth Chick 

 dved, the fourteen (stc) lived, and the party cured." — 

 Page 29. 



Somewhat earlier than the period of the above 

 work there was one, apparently popular, having 

 gone through many editions, boasting for its au- 

 thor or gatherer no less a personage than a 

 " Master of Art," of Oxford. I will give a part of 

 the title : 



"A Right Profitable Booke, for all Diseases, called, 

 The Pathway to Health, &c. First gathered by Peter 

 Levens, Master of Art of Oxford, and Student in Phvsicke 

 and Surgery, and now newly corrected and augmented. 

 London, Printed bj' John Beale for Richard Bird, and are 

 to be sold at his house in S. Lawrence-lane, at the signe 

 of the Bible. 1632. 4to. Black letter." 



Let the ladies hear to what use he would apply 

 a " pure blacke cat." 



" For the Lytargie in the Head in the hinder part, which 

 maketh it for to shake. 



" Take a pure blacke cat, and flea her, and pull out her 

 bowels, and picke away the fat from the guttes, and put 

 them into the body againe, and fill the body full of 

 musterdseede, well steeped in the juice of Nep, and Sage, 

 and then sow the body up, and rost it upon a spit, till it 

 be so dry that it drop no more moisture, then take the 

 dripping that commeth therof, and put it in bladders, and 

 when you will occupy it, shave the Patient in the neck, 

 and anoint him by the fire in the joint next to the head, 

 and it shall help the grieved." 



You have "A precious water for the sight of 

 the eyes," " used by King Edward the sixt." For 

 this preparation various herbs are to be mixed 

 with a pint of good white wine, three spoonfuls of 

 hony, and " five spoonfuls of the water of a man- 

 child that is an innocent." 



Much in the same style is The English-Man's 

 T7'easure, by Thomas Vicary, Sergeant Chyrur- 

 gion to King Henry VIII., &c. &o., in which are 

 given forms for " Water of Philosophers," " A 

 Water that will make one to see, that did never 

 see," "Doctor Stevens Water," "An Ointment 



