Walnut Tree powdered or three drams of Radish-seeds powdered taking them in fat Broth unsalted or in Posset Another which I have known used by Sir Kenelm Digby Take a Pint of Lukewarm water put into it six or eight spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and drink it off Lukewarm The Antimonial Cup made of well purified Regulus of Antimony cast in Moulds is a very useful thing in a Family when you have a mind to use it fill it with white Wine and put a Clove or two in it and a little Mace and let it stand all Night the next Morning drink the Wine and it will taste of nothing but Wine and will work safely first by a Vomit and then by stools also when it works drink Posset with a spoonful of Oyl of sweet Almonds in every Draught or sweet Sallet Oyl to facilitate the Vomiting If it be taken in the beginning of an Ague when they have had but a Fit or two it commonly carrieth it off being taken half an hour before the Fit The Virtue of this Cup will never diminish for it will have the same Operation an hundred year hence that it had when it was newly made And according as you would have it work either gentle or strong you may put the Wine in sooner or later at Night CHAP. XXIX Select GLISTERS A Glister for the Colick and Griping of the Guts TAke Roots of Mallows and Marsh-Mallows with the whole Plant of each an ounce and a half French Barly an ounce Flowers of Camomil and Elder flowers of each half an ounce boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water then strain it and add to a Pint of the Liquor three ounces of Linseed Oyl and an ounce of Cassia extracted Aloes half an ounce Nitre an ounce and a half mix them and give it duly warm It powerfully expels Wind loosens the Bowels and eases the Colick and Gripings Dr. Scroderus his Emollient Glister Take of the Emollient Herbs which are Leaves of Mallows Violet Leaves Beets Herb Mercury of each a handful Roots of Althaea an ounce Camomil flowers half an ounce five Figs sliced boil them in a sufficient quantity of fair water to a pint then strain it and put to it Cassia four drams Benedicta laxitiva one ounce Sal Gem a scruple Oyl of Olive or Oyl of Roses three ounces brown Sugar an ounce mix it and give it It loosens and mollifies the Bowels evacuates their Slime and Filth and cleanses them from Wind and Water and is good in Fevers A very good Common Glister Take of the Emollient Herbs of each a handful Camomil flowers half a handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce Linseeds two drams cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and boil them in Water to a Pint then strain it CHAP. XXX Select Remedies relating to WOMEN-KIND Containing Excellent and Approved Remedies for such Distempers as are particularly incident to Woman-kind Concerning the Retention or Stoppage of the Monthly Purgations THe Retention of them cometh of Opilation in the Matrix abundance of gross Blood or after great Evacuation or Fatness of the Womb They are Cause of many Evils as swollen Legs weak Backs Pains in the lower Parts of the Belly Drowsiness Retention of Urine a weak Stomack Loss of Appetite and want of Digestion Vomiting Shortness of Breath Loss of Complexion Vapors and Fits of the Mother and Spleen c. If the Retention come of thickness of the Blood it is good for the Patient to use the Bath afterwards set down If the Retention come of cold and Phlegmatick Humors then it is good for her to take twice a day four ounces of the Decoction of Alexanders Smallage roots Cinamon and a little Safron and fast four hours after it forbearing of eating Meats that breed gross and moist Humors and gross Blood as Beef Pork Veal Fish and the like Let your Diet be Fowls Birds Partridges Rabbits and the like or Mutton and drink white or Rhenish Wine or Mead or Metheglin using in your Broth the following Ingredients viz. Aniseeds sweet Fennel-seeds Commin-seeds Caraway-seeds Smallage-roots wild Thyme Rosemary Parsly-roots Spinage Madder Cinquefoil Harts-tongue Lupins Organs Valerian Savory Sothernwood Garlick is an excellent thing if you like it Balm Carduus Horehound Cinamon and such like using a few of either sorts of them they thin and subtilize the Blood and open the Passages that descend to the Matrix A Bath to provoke the Terms Take Mugwort Motherwort Mother of Thyme Bawm Fumitory Camomil Lavender Organy of each a handful Juniper Berries bruised an ounce and an half Madder roots Parsly roots Polipode and Valerian of each three ounces let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Water to make a Bath and let her sit in it as hot as can be endured and when she comes out of the Bath going to Bed let her take a Decoction of Bugloss and Borage or the Decoction of Madder in fair water with a little Syrup of Fumitory If you cannot have all these Herbs you may take only some Camomil-flowers and Peniroyal for the hot water alone will be effectual in this Case bathing in it A Physical Course for provoking the Terms Take of the Powder of Hiera Picra simple of the Pills de tribus Fernelii of Agarick Trochiscated of each a scruple of Castor half a scruple of the Chymical Oyl of Thyme four drops make these up into Pills with Syrup of Mugwort let her take them immediately after her first sleep and sleep again upon them The next day following let her take the following Decoction Take Ale and white Wine of each a Pint and half unset Hysop Peniroyal Mugwort Germander of each a handful Madder Smallage Parsly and Fennel roots of each an ounce Juniper Berries and Cinamon bruised of each half an ounce boil them well and having strained the Decoction sweeten it with four ounces of Syrup of Mugwort Drink thereof twice a day in the Morning and at four in the Afternoon and four days before their accustomed time of flowing open the Vein in the Foot and bleed about three or four ounces to invite them downwards An Excellent Medicinal Wine to provoke the Terms by Dr. Mynsicht Take Tartar vitriolate Roots of Scorzonera of each an ounce and a half Filings of Steel from the Needle-makers an ounce Galingal the less Lignum Cassiae of each a dram Safron a scruple bruise them and put them in three pints of white Wine let it stand two or three or four days often shaking it then strain it This Wine opens all Obstructious of the Liver Spleen and Womb it provokes the Terms cures the green Sickness expels Wind discusses Swellings and Hydropical Humors cures the evil disposition in Virgins weakness of the Stomack and want of Appetite and ill Digestion Young People should take it five or six days before the New Moon but elder women as many days before the Full Moon The Dose is from four Spoonfuls to six or seven in the Morning fasting and to continue the
Ale-wort the first running to one gallon then when it is cold put into it a quart of Malmsey afterward bottle it or keep it close in a stean pot Drink of it in the Morning fasting and in the Evening two hours before Meat It preserveth from a Cough strengthens the Constitution and cureth a Consumption An Excellent purging Ale or Diet Drink to be used in the Spring and Fall to open Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Meseraâ—cal Veins cleanse the Blood purge Choler Flegm and Melancholy cure Itch and Scab Take Agrimony and Scabious of each a good handful four Madder-roots two red-Dock-roots Aniseeds one ounce Cinamon half an ounce Mace two drams three Nutmegs Liquoras two ounces and a half Hermodactils and Polipody of each three ounces Sena four ounces Sarsaparilla two ounces bruise the Spices cut the Roots and slice the Liquoras put them into a Bag and hang them in some five gallons of midling Ale and after three or four days drink a Draught every morning seven or eight days together Mochoacan Ale to purge the Dropsie Take four ounces of Mochoacan three ounces of Hermodactyls three ounces of Lignum vitae three Races of Ginger two Nutmegs cut all these in thin slices put them into a Canvas bag and hang them in two gallons of new tunn'd Ale before it hath work'd with a stone in the bottom of the Bag and after it hath done purging powr in Endive and Cichory-water of each a pint and after seven days drink such a proportion as may give you some four Stools a day every Morning fasting and if your Body be extraordinarily subject to any Infirmity either hereditary or by disordered Diet add such Herbs as are most pertinent to the Nature of your Disease This Purgation of Mechoacan is so wholsom and effectual that if it be drunk a fortnight at Spring and Michaelmas it will not only take away the Causes of the great Dropsie and all kind of Agues the Stone and Accidents of the Brain and infirmities of the Spleen but also restore the Complection to an excellent Habit and Colour defending the Body from a number of Inconveniences A Purging Ale by Dr. Butler Physitian to King James Take Sea and Garden Scurvi-grass of each a peck Sena and Polipody of the Oak of each four ounces Sarsaparilla six ounces Caraway seeds and Aniseeds of each half an ounce Liquoras two ounces Agrimony and Maidenhair of each two indifferent handfuls cut the Sarsaparilla scrape and slice the Liquoras then let them be altogether grosly beaten then put a Gad of Steel into the bottom of a Canvas Bag to make it sink and upon that all the former ingredients and hang it in a Vessel of a fit size and Tunn upon it four gallons of good Ale after four or five days you may drink of it and when it begins to grow stale draw it into Bottles and Cork it close and set it in a cool Cellar upon the Stones or in Sand. If you would have it more purging increase or double the proportion of Sena The Dock-Ale to clear the Blood and open the Obstructions of the Liver Take the same quantity of Ale and wipe half a peck of Dock-roots and slice them two good handful of Succory roots one good handful of common Sorrel roots slice all these and put them into a Bag and hang them in the Ale as the former when it hath hung a week Bottle it up An Excellent purging Ale prescribed by D. Wright with the Minium Plaister for any Ach or swelling Take two gallons of Wort not throughly boiled and three handful of Dock-roots sliced boil them therein till a pottle be consumed then add thereto Liverwort Endive Succory Fumitory Scabious Agrimony of each three handful and boil them in the same Liquor till another pottle be exhausted then when it is cold strain it and put this Liquor to three gallons of Wort boiled perfectly well let them both be of one and the same temper when they are mixed then hang therein in a Bag with a Gad of new Steel the following Ingredients Dry Scurvigrass three days by the Fire or in an Oven upon Sieves in a temperate heat that it may dry leisurely when it is reasonable dry shred a pound of it then take three ounces and a half of Sena one ounce of Jalap one ounce of Rhubarb three ounces and a half of Garaway seeds a handful of Orange peels half a handful of Citron peels half an ounce of Sassafras and a dram of Nutmegs slice what is to be sliced and then bruise them together grosly and hang with the Gad of steel in the Bag as aforesaid adding to them two handful of wheat-bran this for four gallons of Ale or Beer prepared according to the former direction The Minium Plaister to be used with this Ale if occasion be Take half a pound of red Lead finely searced a pound and half of Oyl of Roses and half a pound of yellow wax slice the wax and melt it gently with the Oyl when it is melted put in the Red Lead and stir it continually upon a gentle heat until it begin to be brown and then until it be cold When you would mix it with Diachylon take equal proportions of that and the Red Lead A purging Ale for the green Sickness Take of Sena half a pound Polipody four ounces Epithmium two ounces Agarick and Rhubarb of each one ounce sweet Fennel-seed and Aniseed of each an ounce and half Sarsaparilla five ounces Sassafras one ounce Liquoras half an ounce make a Bag for three gallons of new Ale and about two or three days after it hath done working drink of it both Evening and Morning without intermission the quantity of five ounces and about two or three days after the ending of it let blood in the Arm then rest a day after which take the Steel-wine for a Fortnight after that rest two or three days and lastly take the Pills de Tribus Fernelii Dose half a dram more or less as you find cause at least half an hour before Supper thrice in a week A purging Ale or Beer very good against Melancholy Flegm Choler and all terrestrial Humors to purifie the Blood and quit the Scurvy c. Take the Juices of Sea and Garden Scurvy-grass Tops of Hops Apples Fumitory Agrimony Cicory Borage Baume Scabious Liverwort and Mugwort all stamped together four ounces Roots of Polipody of the Oak two ounces the Roots of Asparagus Borage Bugloss Sorel Cicory Red Dock Elecampane and Grass-roots of each half an ounce the inward Rinds of the young Sprouts of Ash the Rinds of Capers and Tamarisk of each three drams Liquoras and Epithimum of each a dram and half Maidenhair and Agrimony of each two good handfuls Broom Flowers Violets Borage Bugloss of each a good half handful the four greater and four lesser cold Seeds of each four drams Sena six or eight ounces Rhubarb one ounce Mechoacan one ounce and half Fennel-seed Aniseed and
scorching and itching Humor that waters and itches which cured a Gentlewomans Arm which did abound with very ill disposed waterish Humors Take Fumitory four handfuls Langue de beif and Scurvey grass of each one handful Madder two ounces Harts-tongue one ounce Rhubarb sliced and Sena of each half an ounce sweet Fennel-seed bruised one ounce Roots of Elecampane and red Dock both bruised and Currans wash'd and bruised of each half a pound boil them all in two Gallons of Ale to a Gallon then strain it and drink a pint thereof in two draughts every Morning fasting at two hours distance taking the last draught three hours before Dinner Note That it is much better to boil it in clarified Whey An Ointment which she used with the Drink Take Sheeps Suet well tried one pound boil it in a pint of Plantane water and a pint of the Juice of Housleek over a gentle fire till a pint is consumed or more and out a pint remaining let it stand till it is cold then take off the Fat that is upon it and with the Liquor bath the Parts with a Spunge and having well bathed it anoint it with the Fat you took off and continue it till you are well as also the Drink A most Excellent Drink for prevention of the Stone and Gravel whether in the Reins or Bladder and for many other Diseases much Experienced by a famous Physitian in France who using it three times a year viz. just before Easter in the heat of Summer and at Michaelmass preserved himself by it to the Age of 122 years in perfect health Take two quarts of Oats the clearest and soundest you can get wash them well in several waters and rub them between your hands then drain them and boil them in five quarts of Fountain-water with a good handful of Dandelion-roots well wash'd and stamp'd in a stone Mortar let them boil an hour then strain it and put into the Liquor four ounces of Honey and half an ounce of Sal prunella let it boil a quarter of an hour then pour it into an Earthen Vessel and let it cool then put it into Bottles Take of this two Beer-glasses full in the Morning fasting taking the last Glass two hours before Dinner and another in the Afternoon and continue it for a fortnight without observing any Diet or keeping House It is much recommended to be very wholsom it cleanses the Reins is good against the Stone and Gravel purifieth and strengthens the Lungs cures all Fevers and Agues even Tertian and Quartains opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen helps all sorts of Colicks and pain in the side the Scurvey Dropsie Heaviness and Weariness of the Body revives the Senses clears the Sight sharpens the Appetite and causes rest in the Night strengthens Nature and preserves Health It may be taken at any time without danger A Diet-Drink against Melancholy Take Sena two ounces Fumitory Hops and Borage of each a pound boil them in two Gallons of Spring-water to one gallon then strain it and sweeten it with Sugarcandy or Honey and after a weeks time drink a draught of it in the Morning fasting and another about four in the Afternoon Another for the same Take a pint of Aqua vitae and a quart of Rose water four ounces of Liquoras bruised three ounces of Aniseed bruised boil all together with a gentle fire to a pint then strain it and take frequently thereof in the Morning fasting My Lord Brunkard's Diet-Drink for the Scurvey and Dropsie Take of Lignum vitae and Sarsaparilla of each eight ounces Sassafras one ounce Rosemary Marjoram Ground-Ivy Thyme Bark of the Roots of Capers Sea and Garden-Wormwood of each a handful an Orange Peel stuck with Cloves and of quartered Nutmegs put them all in a Bag and hang them in half a Barrel of six shilling Beer drink thereof when you are thirsty the staler it is the better A Rare and Excellent Drink of great Virtues for the Cure of several Distempers learnt of a Gentleman who at his Death confessed he had done many wonderful Cures with it Take half a pound of quick Lime new from the Kiln powr upon it a Gallon of fair water let it stand eight hours then pour off the Clear and strain it through a Sieve with a grey Paper in it put into this Liquor one pound of blew Currans beaten Liquoras bruised Aniseeds bruised Sassafras of each four ounces Mace two drams let these infuse in the Water twelve hours then strain it again and put it in Bottles for Use This Drinks Cures all manner of Obstructions inward and outward Vlcers strengthens Nature purifieth the Blood and is good for the Scurvey and Dropsie it cures Consumption and shortness of Breath it is excellent against the Stone and Gravel Strangury and retention of Vrine it creates an Appetite and causes a good Digestion it kills Worms and is an admirable Remedy against the cold Palsie Drink of it three times a day half a pint at a time with a little Syrup of Ground-Ivy CHAP. XIV Select Syrups A very good Syrup against cold Diseases of the Head Brain and Sinews as the Palsie Apoplexy Falling Sickness Cramp and Water distilling out of the Head lying in Bed TAke of the Flowers of Stechados four ounces Thyme Calamint Organum Sage Flowers of Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and half Seeds of Rue Piony and Fennel of each three ounces boil them in five quarts of running water till half is consumed then strain it and boil it up to a Syrup with Sugar and Honey of each two pound then take Ginger Cinamon Calamus Aromaticus and Nutmeg of each two ounces bruise them and tie them up in a course thin Cloth of loose and open Threds and hang it in the Syrup A very good Syrup against the Scurvey and to sweeten and attemper the Blood Take of the Juices of Scurvigrass Brook-lime Fumitory Water-cresses of Bugloss and of Pippins or Permains of each half an ounce of the Bark of Roots of Capers and Polipode of the Oak of each half an ounce Epithymum Bawm Agrimony Maidenhair Broom-flowers and Borage-flowers of each half an ounce shred the Herbs small and bruise the Roots and boil them all to a pint and half then strain it and boil it to a Syrup with a sufficient quantity of Sugar Use it with White or Rhenish Wine An Excellent Syrup to clear and open the Breast and Lungs often Approved Take Liquoras small sliced ten ounces Maidenhair five ounces Hysop two ounces put all these into a Pottle-pot and powr thereon a quart of Spring-water set the Pot into a Kettle or Pot of hot water on the Fire and keep it almost boiling hot for fourteen hours and as the Water consumes in the Kettle fill it up again with hot water then strain it and put the Liquor in a clean Posnet and put to it clear Honey Sugar and Sugarcandy of each ten ounces put into it the White of an Egg beaten