xxviii. INTRODUCTION. 



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Isarm than good- Surgeons at this time make 

 very little use of them ; and in the course of this 

 "work, many herbs will be named, the bruised 

 leaves of which are better than all the plaisters 



in the world. 



Conserves should be made of rue^ mint, scurvy- 

 grass/ wood-sorrel, and Roman wormwood. As 

 to the four first, the leaves are to be picked 

 off from the stalks, and beaten up with three 

 times the weight of sugar. The tops of the 

 young shoots of the latter arc to be cut off, and 

 they are to be beat up in the same manner. In 

 the course of this work, many plants will be 

 named, the green tops of which contain their 

 virtue, these may all be made into conserves in 

 the same manner, or as many of them added 

 to those here named, as shall be thought pro- 

 per. 



Conserves of the flowers of rosemary, mal- 

 lows, archangel, and lavender, are to be made 

 ulso in the same manner, and of red rose buds. 

 These last are to be picked from the husk, and 

 the white heels are to be cut off. They are all 

 to be beat up with three times their weight of 

 sugar ; and in the same manner may be made 

 conserves of cowslip flowers, and of those of 

 xnany other plants mentioned in the following 

 pages. 



The outer rinds of Seville oranges and lemons, 

 arc also to be made into conserves in the same 

 manner, beating them first to a pulp, and then 

 adding the sugar; and to these must be added the 

 conserve of hips and sloes, which arc to be made 

 in a particular manner. The hips are io be 

 gathered v^hen fully ripe, afterwards set by in 

 a cellar, till they grow very soft ; then they are 

 to be laid upon the back of a large hair sieve. 



