wash it in three or four waters and dry it one ounce of Cremer Tartary two Nutmegs Licoras the weight of fix pence make all into fine powder and mix them take every morning the weight of six pence in broth and fast two hours after and after this Receipt hath been taken let the party be purged once or twice WOUNDS For great Wounds in the head Take dry Wormwood or green green is the best and a new laid egge shell and all and beat them together very fine and make a Salve thereof and lay it to the place hurt very thick and let it lye four and twenty houres and if the party be much pained change it if but a little pained let it lye four and twenty hours more and then dresse it with other Salve as need requireth A Medicine for any Cut Wound or Sore Take of Rosen and Perrosen of each half a pound of Olibanum four ounces of Harts Suet four ounces of Mastick two ounces of Mirrh one ounce of Comfry half an ounce of White Wax four ounces let your Rosen Perrosen Olibanum Mastick and Mirrhe be made into fine powder and searsed each by themselves then take your Suet and Wax and dissolve them upon a soft fire when they be melted put in all your searsed powders alwayes stirring them till they be all melted then have ready a pottle of White-Wine hot in a faire pan and straine all your stuff through a Canvaâ— cloth into it then put in two ounces oâ— good Turpentine and then your Comfry beaten to fine powder alwayes stirring it till it be cold and then make in up in rolls and keep it for your use This Oyntment is very good for new Wound and for the Bloody Flux and the Wind Cholick being spread upon a cloth and laid to the Navel It is called Flos Vnguentorum The flower of Oyntments of which see more at large in Oyntments WIND To make one long winded Take half a pound of Almonds and lay them in cold water till they blanch of themselves then beat them very smal in a Mortar Licoras three ounces scrape off the bark or rind and beat it fine in a Mortar and take as muck Anniseeds two ounces of Sugar and beat them small as before and work them together and use it For the avoiding of Wind. Take the juice of red Fennel and make a posset of Ale therewith and drink thereof Another to expel Wind. Take of pure Sugar four ounces of Rose water as much as will moisten your Sugar put it in a possnet then have ready these Spices following White Pepper Black Pepper of each half adram pure Gallingale sliced and finely minced Ginger pared and minced fine of each of these one scruple and a half pure Turbit white and gummy clean scraped thin sliced and minced very fine two scruples skim your Rosewater and Sugar clean as may be and let them boil on a soft fire then put in all your Spices and stir them wel then take it from the fire and stir it till it be cold and thick then put it into a gally pot and reserve it to your use of this you may take at a time the quantity of a pennyworth or two pence For the Wind of the Stomack Take a handful of Tansie and a handful of Sorrel and beat them together and strain them and make a posset of White Wine and put in it the juice of the Herbs and drink it in the morning and fast after it a while VVORMES For a Ring-worm Take a Dog berry and with the juice thereof rub the Ring-worm and it will help it For the running Worm that eateth the flesh Take a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Herb grace a handful of Fetherfew a handful of Vervain a handful of Herb-Robert a bandful of Wild Bugloss boil these Herbs in half a pound of unwasht butter then strain it through a clean cloth and annoint the place with a feather and lay upon the wound Oak leaves with the smoothest side next the wound the leaves must be withered and so bind up your fores with linnen clothes dressing it twice a day after the same manner but remember your herbs bestamped before you boil them in your butter To kill the Canker and Worm that eateth the Teeth Take an egg that is layed on a thursday and empty it and fil it with salt and so set it on the fire until it may be made in powder and rub the Cankered teeth therewith and it both kills the Canker and destroyes the worms that eat the Teeth Probatum For Wormes in a Child to rid them away if they be almost past Remedy Take of Wormwood and of Walnut leaves of Rue and unset Leeks of each one handful and put to an Oxgall and fry them all over the fire and lay them on a cloth and lay them on the childs navel all night and that wil help them and on the morrow take half a pint of Malmsey and put into it four or five spoonfuls of Wormwood Water and as much Mint water and warm them toger ther and drink it one or two dayes and this will help without doubt Probatum For the Ring-worm Take a handful of Violet leaves an handful of Columbine leaves and a handful of Rosemary leaves stamp all these together and boil it in a quarter of a pound of unwasht butter and a little Deer Suet and when it is half boiled away strain it and put it over the fire again and let it boil two or three turnes then put it up for your use and strike a Plaister therewith and lay it on the ring-Ring-worm dressing it twice a day and washing it every two dayes with White Wine For the Wormes Take Curraline in powder as much as will lye on a groat in new Milk three mornings three dayes before the Full or New of the Moon It will help old folks and sucking children it is a groat an ounce For the Ring worm Take black Soap and almost as much Ginger in powder and mix them well together and annoint the place therewith four or five dayes together and this will cure any Tetter or Ring-worm WHITES For the Whites Take a quarter of a pound of Ising-glasse and boile it in a pottle of milk to a pint and half then put to it Nutmeg Cinnamon and Sugar and red Rose water and so make it to a Gelly WOOD BETONY The Vertues of Wood Betony It saveth mens bodies by the vertue it hath in it and by Gods help for who so beareth this Herb about him preserveth him from Evil Spirits and this Herb must be gathered in the Harvest time early in the morning before Sun rising Also he that drinketh of the juice of Betony it will break the stone and cast it with the Urine Also if it be drunk with hony it is good against the Dropsie Also it is good against the outrage of wicked blood Also the juice of Betony mingled with Rose-water put in the ear amendeth
sleep be seasonable for as you should not watch when you should fleep so you should not sleep when you should be awâ—ke and therefore esâ—hue noon-sleeps and too long morning-sleeps as great enemies to health for whatsoever is not according to the course of Nature is contrary to Nature and so will by little and little weaken Nature and in the end overthrow it Now we see it natural to all living and sensitive creatures to observe this rule To sleep in the night time and in the day to be provident to supply their wants and therefore they who do contrary to this rule are contrary to the course of nature and wrong themselves howbeit they are not at present sensible of it And without doubt these two which are both contrary to Natures rule viz. unseasonable sleeping or watching and unreasonable eating and drinking are the great causes which deprive us of Health and shorten our lives as those especially who are rich find it by experience who stay out of bed very late and lye long in the morning a bad custom but as you tender health sleep not in the mornings too long unlesse honest occasions or an ill disposition of body causeth much watching in the beginning of the night then it is needful that you make amends by sleeping so much the longer in the morning neither should you sleep at noone for sleeping after dinner if it is constantly used causeth superfluous moisture of the braine and causeth cold Diseases of the braine as Palsies c. puffeth up the Spleene with wind prepareth the body for Agues Imposthumes c. Yet in some extraordinary cases sleeping after dinner may and ought to be used 1. If you have not slept well in the night nor in the morning 2. If you be faint with excessive heat of the Season 3. Old people because of their weaknesse may sleep after dinner or any other time when they can 4. Those who have slender and dry bodies receive great benefit by sleeping after dinner for it moistneth their bodies and refresheth their spirits But those who have full gross bodies or who are of a sanguine or phlegmatick complexion let them beware of sleeping after dinner Now those who would sleep at noon must observe these things following 1. That they sleep not immediately after Dinner but an hour after or half an hour at least 2. That they sleep not lying but rather sitting with the body upright 3. That they-sleep not over long not above half an hour or an hour at most 4. That they sleep not in a place too hot especially in the Summer time but rather enclining to cold the most convenient place for any to sleep in at any time is that which is not too hot nor too cold not too close nor too open and above all it must not be dampish for that is very hurtful to the body especially to the head you must have a care to keep your head and neck wel from the cold when you sleep When you sleep lye upon your right side and not upon your left side unlesse it be to ease your body when you are wearied with lying upon your right side lye upon your left side as little as you can for to lye upon the left side hindreth concoction encreaseth the Diseases of the Spleene causeth troublesome Dreames c. So likewise to lye upon your back when you sleep is very unwholsome it causeth troublesome sleeps it causeth the Night-mare it occasioneth the Lethargy Palsies Cramp it heateth the Raines it is very bad for those who are troubled with the Stone or are inclined to it Now if you would know how long you ought to sleep observe this rule That you should sleep until you find the concoction of the stomack and liver be finished the spirits well refreshed and you find a lightsomnesse in the whole body especially in the stomack and head But if you find heavinesse in the body head and eyes or stomack or if you have ill savoured belchings or c. they signifie that you have not yet slept enough Again the time of your sleep must be determined according to your strength and constitution as those who are weak and sickly or aged and children must take longer time of rest then those who are strong or young for whom seven or eight hours sleep is enough And those who have dry cholerick or melancholick bodies need longer sleep then the phlegmatick or sanguine or those who have grosse fat bodies for it very much refresheth and moistneth dry bodies to whom there is nothing more hurtful then too much watchfulness But too long sleep to phlegmatick grosse bodies is very hurtful It is a custome to warme the bed before we go to bed which should not be used by those who are healthful and strong unlesse fresh sheets be layed upon the bed for it weakneth their bodies and maketh them tender But it is good for them who are aged or are weak by Nature or lead a tender course of life for such cannot well endure a cold bed it may wrong them much weak or tender Natures are by very small occasions overcome and put out of their right courses I conclude concerning sleeping and watching with this That immoderate and unseasonable Sleeping weakeneth the natural heat filleth the body with bad humours and enclineth the body to cold phlegmatick Diseases dulleth the spirits and wit And immoderate Watching dryeth the body too much it turneth a sanguine constitution to be cholerick and it turneth a phlegmatick constitution to be melancholick it overdryeth the braine it wasteth the spirits it weakneth the digestive faculty enclineth the body to consumptions c. Of Exercise The stirring of the body by walking riding some pastime c. If it be moderate and in fit time it encreaseth natural heat refresheth and quickneth the spirits maketh the body lightsome and nimble helpeth concoction furthereth the expulsion of the Excrements and bad humours c. In any stirring industrious course of life for the most part they live longer and healthier then those who use a sitting restful life But you must have a care that you use not too much stirring or motion of the body to weary your selfe too much for this will consume the natural moisture and waste the spirits encline the body to a Consumption c. Those who would use any kind of Exercise only for their Healths sake let them not do it upon a full stomack or immediately after eating for the most part of Physicians do agree in this that wee should not go about any exercise of the Body until the first and second digestion is compleated when the stomack is light and almost empty It will be good also to disburden your selves of the excrements of the belly and of urine before you begin your Exercise lest the Excrements by the violence of the heat of the Exercise be drawn into the veines or c. whereby the blood may be corrupted Obstructions caused c. And if
when you will use it take of it the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much marrow of an Ox leg mâ—â—t it together and mingle it well and morning and evening annoint as warm as can be suffered the hinder parts of the Childs thighes and legges and also his knees chafing it well with your wâ—rme hands and in a short time his limbs shall be exceedingly strengthned and be enabled by Gods blessing to go and walk To loosen the Belly of young Children Tye a Nutshel full of the Salve of Mallowes on the Navel and let it lye thereupon til it be soaked in Do this once twice or thrice till it be amended The Salve of Mallowes is thus made Take Mallow leaves and pound them then melt fresh Butter and boil the Mallow leaves therein till it be green then strain and use it Or give the child Sirrup of Violetâ— being heat or Sirrup of Damask Roses a quarter of an ounce at a time For the Lask of young Children Give to the child both morning and evening a spoonful of Plantane water to drink if the Child be old give it the more and give it no drink but such wherein Gold hath been three times quenched Also annoint the stomack with the Oyle of Mastick and Oyl of Mints towards his Navel downewards Also take the juice of broad Plantane and Wine Vineger of each a like quantity and mix therewith Barley meal till it be somewhat thick then cool it a little and spread it upon a woollen cloath and apply it upon the belly warm and when it is cold heat it again Also take a new laid egg and take a way the threeds as some call it the two white spots that are joyning to the yolk and beat it a good while then with meal make a Cake and bake it in a pan then beat it in a Mortar and put powder of Cinnamon unto it and bake it again and let the child eat thereof now and then COLICK For the Collick and Stone Take a handful of Stone crop Wild Time Garden Time Parsley Saxifrage Pellitory of the wall of each a handful four or five Rhadish roots a little of Philip Pimperlow scrape the roots and slice them and put all these into a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and let it stand twelve hours and then distil it with a soft fire and take five spoonfuls of this Water and put it into a good draught of Rhenish or White Wine then warm it milk warm and with the juice of a Lemmon and some Nutmeg and Sugar drink this fasting in the morning and fast four or five hours after and walk up and down take this every third day Probatum A good Medicine for the Wind Collick Take a flint stone and cast it into the fire until it be red hot then put it into a pot of drink and there will arise a great foame let the Patient drink thereof Another Take the Herb Eve and Holly without prickles dry them by the fire upon a paper and being well dryed make them into a powder and drink so much thereof at a time as will ly upon a Groâ—t in White Wine or Ale it is exceeding good For the Collick in the stomack Take a quantity of Conserves of Red Roses three Pepper cornes and beat them small also take the seeds of Uâ—â—set Time with Anniseeds beat them small and put them into the Conserve of Roses and mingle them well together then put it into a Gally pot and when your pain first cometh upon you take the quantity of a small Walnut and presently after as much Green Ginger as a Hasel Nat. For the Collick and Stone Take Parsley Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage Wild Time Eyebright of each two handfuls twenty Rhadish roots scraped and sliced steep all in a pottle of Red Cowes milk all night then distil them in the hottest of May and use it as followeth Take nine spoonfuls of the water and nine of Rhenish Wine the juice of a Lemmon half a Race of Ginger finely minced and sugar it as you please for a draught drink this thrice a week fasting and use presently moderate exercise A Preservative against the Collick and Stone Take a quantity of Parsley roots about two handfuls boil them in running water till they be soft then take out the pith and stamp them well and put them in a pottle of stale Ale then strain them from thence and drink thereof for the space of nine dayes at the least Another Take a quart of White Wine and boil it in an earthen pot and when it begins to boil put into it a handful of Mother Time and let it boil half a quarter of an hour then put unto it a head of Garlick stamped in a Mortar then boil them together a little space then strain it and give the Patient to drink and let him drink as much as he can when the grief is upon him but if it cease or break not then take about a penny worth of Honey unto halfe a pint of the Drink and by Gods grace it will help For the wind Collick Take a good quantity of Wormwood and tops of Rosemary as much and boile them in Sack and put them in a linnen cloth and lay it warme to the belly where the griefe is and by Gods grace it will help presently Another for the same Take a spoonful of the powder of Holland which is to be had at the Apothecaries and put it into a good quantity of stale drink and make it luke warme and so drink it Or else take the weight of a French Crowne thereof in some warm broth after the manner of a Purgation for it is not only good to break the wind presently but it will purge also and cause some stools Probatum To break the Wind Collick Take Wormwood and Tansie of each three branches seven or eight leaves of brown Sage stamp all these together and strain them into a quantity of Ale and then drink it luke warm twice if it be need For the Collick and Stone and burning Fever Take some leaves of the Herb called Dandillion and pound them small and strain them into stale Ale or Beer and so drink some three or four times It is not only good against the Collick and Stone but also against a hot burning Fever An approved good Medicine for the Collick and Stone Take Coriander Caraway Fennel Spicknard and Anniseeds of each one ounce and a half of Gromeâ— seeds and Licoras one ounce beat all these into fine powder and let the Patient drink a scruple in White Wine a little warmed and walk one hour after it fasting and do this every morning and evening and put thereto six drops of the juice of Juniper berries and you shall find it excellent in operation Probatum Another Take Parsley roots Marsh Mallow roots and red roots of each alike stamp them and put them into a pint of White Wine and strain it and let the Patient
violence you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs juice of Wood-betony and Egrimony and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes If that do not help it take wheat flowers the juice of Mallowes Mints Smallage and the Oyl of an egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to For hardnesse that hath been long in the Eye Take a Scruple of Alloes and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire then put of it in the eye Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister and lay it upon the eye Or take Roses Sage Rew and Cellendine of each alike mixt with a little salt and distil it and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye In stead of that water it is good to take the juice of Vervain Rue and a little Rose water For the Pin or Web. Take tops and crops of Herb Christopher stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May stamp them very small then take a good quantity of May Butter and stamp them together in a vessel and strain it out and set it in the Sun and put of these into your eyes it must stand a month in the Sun For a hurt in the Eye that cometh by a stroke Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plantane and put thereto the white of an egg and womans milk of a male child and Oyle of Roses and put it in your eye going to bed use this three or four times in a day Or take Egrimony and bray it and temper it with White Wine and an egg and make a Plaister and lay to the outside of the eye For a Pearl at the beginning Take a Race of good Ginger pare it clean and rub it on a Whetstone and make powder of it and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine then strain it through a fair cloth and put it into a glasse or Viol and after nine daies you may use it when you go to bed lying upright and likewise in the morning Do this six or seven times For eyes that are full of Rheume and bleared Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls and two of honey mix them together and when you go to bed put some in your eye Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel a branch of Cellendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten if one serve not take two put all these into half a pint of water cover it and put of it in your eye when you go to bed and an hour before you rise strayning it when you use it To preserve the sight long Take a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week To clear the sight Take the white of an egg made as clear as water and a spoonful of clarified Honey and some fine Sugar and mix them together and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor and rub the eye-lids therewith within and without For sore Eyes and Megrim in the Head Take the whites of new laid eggs and beat them to Oyl then take a spoonful of Rose water as much fine Sugar and as much strong Vineger made of Malmesey or White Wine put them to the Oyl and beat them together then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister dip it in the Medicine and bind on each Temple one with a cloth but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes Do this three or four nights and every morning the eyes will cleave together with Gum. For the Megrim in the eyes Take new milk and seeth it and put it into a bason and cover it with a platter and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes Or take three drams of the juice of Rue and put in your eyes and ears and stop your ears and lye down on that side For a Pearl and Web. Take Veinfrage Ivie Daisies Sickwort red Fennel Seagreene Pimpernel May butter bruise them in a Mortar and let them lye in the froth five â—ayes then make an easie fire and set 〈◊〉 over till it be melted then straine it through a fair cloth and put is into a Vial and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn It will destroy the Web and when your eye cleaveth together wash it with Rose water Another Take the leaves of Sage Hysop oculus Christâ— puiled downward drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice stamped with the Herbs and straine it in some Beeâ— and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together Or take the juice of Avens Southernwood and put this juice into Fenâ—â—â— water and put it in your eye For Eyes that be fair to look on and naught to see with Take Smallage Fennel Rue Vervaiâ— Betony Pimpernel Eyebright Sagâ— and Cellendine of each alike wash theâ—â— clean and stamp them then take thâ— powder of fifteen Pepper cornes and 〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine three spoonfuls of good Honey and fifteen spoonfuls of the Urine of a man child that is young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little then strain it and keep it in a vessel or glasse and put of it into your Eyes and if it dry up in the glasse put to it a little White Wine This is good for all kind of sore eyes in fifteen daies it helpeth For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take the strained juice of Pimpernel and drop into your Eye morning and evening This is good also for the Pin and Web or Pearle in the eye For a Pin and Web. Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees wipe them clean with a cloth â—hen stamp and strain them with womans â—ilk of a Girle for a man of a boy for 〈◊〉 woman the sorer the eyes be take the â—ore juice and the less milk Drop this â—â—to your eye with a feather evening and â—orning and twice in the afternoon For sore Eyes that cometh of a hot cause at of a Rheume Take Elder leaves and chase them between your hands and lay them to the nape of the neck For Bloodshotten Eyes Take a toast of leavened Bread House-leek and womans milk a spoonful oâ— Rosewater the pap of an Apple roasteâ— the yolk of a new layd egg and boilâ— them take the toast and lay it in reâ— Wine not mingled and let it lyâ— halfe an hour till it be soaked they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces for each eye one and the cloth must be between the eye and the toaâ— and dresse it thus when you go tâ— bed For Watering Eyes and darknesse sight Take May Butter and Honey of 〈◊〉 alike and boil them together and 〈◊〉 in the white of an egge and when it