For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.

Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.