41 S DIRCGTI05S rOR MAKING STRUF8, &0. 



4. As for barks, we have but few come to our hands to b« 

 done, and of those the few that I can remember, are orange.s, 

 lemons, citrons, and the outer barks of walnuts which grow, 

 without-side the shell, for the shells themselves would make 

 but scurvy preserves; these be they I can remember, if there 

 be any more put them into the number. 



The way of pre8erving these is not all one in authors 

 for some are bitter, some are hot : such as are bitter, say 

 authors, must be soaked in warm water, oftentimes chang- 

 ing till the bitter taste be fled ; but I like not this way, and 

 my reason is this, because I doubt when their bitterness is 

 gone so is their virtue also ; I shall then prescribe one com- 

 mon way, the same with the former, viz. first boil thera 

 whole till they be soft, then make a syrup with sugar and 

 the liquor you boil them in, and keep the barks in the syrup. 



6. They are kept in glasses or in glazed pots. 



ft. The preserved flowers will keep a year, if you can for- 

 bear eating of them ; the roots and barks much longer. 



7. This art was plainly and first invented for delicacy, yet 

 came afterwards to be of excellent use in physic ; for 



1st Hereby medicines are made pleasant for sick and 

 squeamish stomachs, which would else loath them. 

 2dly. Hereby they are preserved from decaying a long time. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 OfLohockt. 

 i. That which the Arabians call lohocks, and the Greeks 

 eclegmia, the Latins call linctus, and in plain English signi- 

 fies nothing else bat a thing to be licked up. 



2. Their firdt invention was to prevent and remedy afflic- 

 tions of the breast and lungs, to cleanse the lungs of phlegm, 

 and make it fit to be cast out. 



5. They are in body thicker tbnn a syrup, and not so thick 

 as an electuary. 



4. The manner of taking them is often to take a little with 

 liquorice stick, and let it go down at leisure. 



5. They are easily thus made : Make a decoction of peo- 

 toral herbs, and the treatise will furnish you with enough, 

 and when you have strained it with twice its weight of honey 

 or sugar, boil it to a lohock ; if you are molestea with much 



Ehlegm, honey is much better than sugar, and if you add a 

 ttle vinegar to it you will do well ; if not, I hold sugar to 

 be better than honey. 

 0. It is kept in pots, and may be kept a year and longer. 

 7. It is excellent for roughness of the wind-pipe, innam- 

 mations and ulcers of the lungs, difficulty of )raathin|B 

 asthma% coughs, and distillations of huxnoTurs. 



