Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    And strong Vinegar done upon iron or upon the cold ground boileth and seetheth anon. Also Vinegar stauncheth parbreaking [vomiting] and wambling, if the mouth and the other part of the throat be washed therewith, and thrown out again ; and helpeth deaf ears, and openeth the hearing and the ways ; and sharpeth the sight of eyes. And drasts [dregs] of Vinegar helpeth against the biting of a wode hound, and of the crocodile. Barthokmezv {Berthelet), bk. xviii. § i88. How to make white of red Vinegar:—Fetch your Vinegar at St. Katharine, a groat a gallon—[add a pottle of elder flowers to six gallons of Vinegar. Renew every year with fresh flowers and Vinegar ( Good Huswife's Treasury, bk. vi.)]. Even now I strike his body to wound : Behold, now his blood springs out on the ground. (Stage-direction : A little bladder of Vinegar pricked.) Lamentable Tragedy of Cambyses; so Return from Parnassus, i. 2, I WILL sell her For twopence a quart. Vinegar! Vinegar in a wheelbarrow ! Randolp/?, Hey for Honesty, etc., iv. 3. Is your patent for making Vinegar confirm'd } Ckap??ian, The Ball, ii. 2. Vineyard. Measure for Measure, iv. i, 29, etc. F. Vine. A Vineyard is busily tilled and kept, and oft visited and overseen of the earth-tillers, and keepers of vines, that they be not appaired [damaged] neither destroyed with beasts, and a wait is there set in an high place to keep the Vineyard, that the fruit be not destroyed, and is left in winter^ without keeper or waiter. The smell of the Vineyard that bloometh is contrary to all venomous things, and therefore adders and serpents flee, and toads also, and may not sustain and suffer the noble savour thereof. Foxes lurk and hide themself under vine-leaves, and gnaw