p. xxxviii 1. 20 Lloyd’s Lives of Excellent Personages that suffered
    for ...  Allegiance to the Soveraigne in the late Intestine Wars,
    ed. 1668.

p. xliv 1. 10 “remedy for Biting of a Mad Dog.”  There is a similar
    receipt in Arcana Fairfaxiana, ed.  G. Waddell, 1890, a
    collection of old medical receipts, etc. of the Fairfax and
    Cholmely families.  “A Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog Published for
    ye Benefit of Mankind in the Newspapers of 1741 by a Person of
    Note....  N.B.  This Medicine has stood a tryal of 50 years
    Experience, and was never known to fail.”

p. liii 1. 30 Culpeper’s English Physitian, 1653.

p. liii 1. 30 N. Culpeper.  Herball.

p. liii 1. 30 John Gerard. The Historie of Plants, 1547.

p. liii 1. 31 Wm. Coles. Adam in Eden and The Art of Simpling. 1657
    and 1656.

To the Reader.

p. 3 1. 20 “that old Saw in the Regiment of Health.” The Regyment, or
    a Dyetary of Helth.  By Andrew Borde, 1542. (Reprinted by the Early
    English Text Soc.)

Receipts.

p. 5, etc.  “Metheglin is esteemed to be a very wholsom Drink; and
    doubtless it is so, since all the world consents that Honey is a
    precious Substance, being the Choice & Collection which the Bees
    make of the most pure, most delectable, & most odoriferous Parts of
    Plants, more particularly of their Flowers & Fruits.  Metheglin is
    therefore esteemed to be an excellent Pectoral, good against
    Consumption, Phthisick and Asthma; it is cleansing & diuretick,
    good against the Stone & Gravel; it is restorative and
    strengthening; it comforts and strengthens the Noble parts, &
    affords good Nourishment, being made Use of by the Healthy, as well
    as by the Sick.

“My worthy Master, that Incomparable Sir Kenelm Digby, being a great
    lover of this Drink, was so curious in his Researches, that he made
    a large Collection of the choicest & best Receipts thereof.”

Hartman, Select Receipts, p. 1.

Concerning the difference between Mead and Metheglin, Borde (Regyment
    of Helth) says:—­

“Of Meade:  Meade is made of honny & water boyled both togyther; yf it
    be fyred and pure, it preserveth helth; but it is not good for them
    the whiche have the Ilyache or the Colycke.

“Of Metheglyn:  Metheglyn is made of honny and water, & herbes, boyled
    and sodden togyther:  yf it be fyred and stale, it is better in the
    regyment of helth than meade.”

But the distinction seems to have been forgotten in the hundred odd
    years between the publication of Borde’s book and Digby’s.

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