The family-Dictionary: or, houshold companion. [electronic resource] : Containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in Dressing Flesh, Fowl, Fish, Herbs, Roots, &c. Seasoning, making Sauces, Bills of Fare, Art of Carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of Pastry, and Things made of Meal, Flower, whether bak'd, boil'd, or fried, &c. III. Making of Conserves, Candies, Preserves, Confects, Lozenges, Jellies, Creams, Pickles, &c. IV. The Making all kinds of Potable Liquors, as Ales, Meads, Metheglin, English Wines of Cherries, Currans, Goosberries, Rasberries, &c. Cyder, Cyder-Royal, Usquebaugh. V. The Making of all sorts of Perfumes, Sweet Balls, Ponders, admirable Washes, Beautifying Waters, Essences, Pomatums. VI. The Virtues and Uses of the most usual Herbs and Plants, their Roots, Barks, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, used in Physick. Vii. The preparations of several choice medicines, Physical, and Chirurgical, as Cordial Waters, Spirits, Tinctures, Elixirs, Syrups, Pouders, Electuaries, Pills, Oils, Ointments; Cerecloths, and Emplasters. Fitted for a Family Use, in Curing most Diseases incident to Men, Women, and Children. By William Salmon, Professor of Physick.