Liquorish two drams boil all these in three pints of fair running water to a quart or less then take the weight of a French Crown of the Kernels of each of the three cold seeds and beat them with a few Almonds and white Rose-water and Sugar and make Almond Milk Dr. Atkins excellenâ—t Receipt of Almond Milk to cool and cleanse the Kidneys Take a pint and a quarter of Barley-water and in that boil Althea Iringus Gramen and Sparagus Roots each a French Crowns weight Strawberries and five leaved Grass both Leaves and Roots each a few boil them till the Barley-water be but a pint then strain out the Barley-water and take a French Crowns weight a piece of the four cold seeds and peel off the husks then beat the seeds with the Almonds and strain them forth together with the Barley-water and put to it a little Rose water and Sugar and make it an Almond Milk A Receipt for the Stone Take a gallon of new Milk Wilde Time Sassafras Pellitory of the Wall Philipendula roots Saxifrage of each one handful Parsley leaves two handfuls three or four Radish-roots and as many Parsley roots Anniseeds one ounce cut and slit the roots bruise the hearbs and seeds and put them to infuse in the milk a whole night the next morning distil it in a Rose distiliatory Take ten or twelve spoonfuls of the water and as much White or Rhenish Wine a little Sugar and a sliced Nutmeg It is very good every full and change of the Moon to take morning and evening to prevent sickness and at any time if need require For the green sickness Take Aloes and Rhubarb of each four ounces finely beaten and searsed prepared Steel four drams mix these together with Claret Wine and make them into twenty seven pills and take every morning in three of them using exercise till all be gone and drink after them at each time a glass of Claret wine For any sore Breasts or Paps Take a pottle of running water Sage two good handfuls small minced and a quantity of Oatmeal-greats small beaten boil all these to the thickness of white bread dough but let it not burn to then put to it three spoonfuls of honey and a little saffron stir it well together and boil it to a quart somewhat stiff This Pultess will break and heal it soon and draw away the pain without breaking It will cure any sore Breast or Pap if it be not a Canker or Fistula A Syrrup lasting many years good for Swounding and Faintness of Heart it comforteth the weak Brain and Sinews it may be used as much as half a nut at once at your pleasure Take Borage Bugloss white Endive one little handful of Rosemary-flowers Time Hysop Winter Savory of each one little handful break these between your hands and seethe them in three quarts of water to three pints then strain it and put to it a pint of good Malmsey one ounce of whole Cloves powder of cinamon half an ounce powder of Ginger a quarter of an ounce one Nutmeg in powder Sugar half a pound or more let them seethe upon a soft fire well stirred for burning to until it come to the thickness of Honey then take it up and let it cool and put it in pots or glasses at your pleasure Prescribed by Dr. Twine An approved Medicine for a woman in Labor to make come prove safe deliverance Take powder of Cinamon one dram powder of Amber half a dram finely beaten mingle it with eight spoonfuls of Claret Wine and so let her drink it To know how much Bezar Stone must be taken when one is heart sick Take Bezer Stone the weight of three Barley corns or five at a time once in six or ten hours and give it in a spoon with Carduus Bean-water Borage or Bugloss Ale or Beer Doctor Stevens excellent water wherewith he cured many Diseases following Take one gallon of Gascoign Wine Ginger Gallingal Cammomil Nutmegs Grains of Paradise Cloves Anniseeds Caroway seeds of each one dram then take Sage Mint red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary Penniroyal Montanum Cammomil Babin Harts-tongue Lavender Avance of each a handful bray the spices small and let it stand so twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first by it self for it is best then will there come a second water which is good but not so good as the first for it is fainter The vertues of this water is to comfort the Vital Spirit greatly and preserve the youth of man or woman and helps the inward diseases that come of cold helpeth the shaking of the Palsie and cureth contractions of Sinnews it strengthneth the Marrow in the bones it helpeth the conception of Women that are barren it killeth Worms in the body and cureth the cold Gout and Tooth-ache and it helpeth the Stone in the bladder and the pain in the Reins of the Back and will make one seem young a long time one spoonful of this Aqua vitae shall do more good to a man that is sick then four spoonfuls of any other and this Aqua vitae shall be better if it stand in the Sun all Summer long For the Falling Sickness Take half a peck of Peony roots cleanse rub wash and stamp them and as you stamp them put in Sherry Sack let them be beaten very small and then put to them a pottle of Sherry Sack stir all well together and let it stand close covered twenty four hours then pour of the clearest into bottles and take thereof a little draught every change of the Moon for three mornings one morning after another A Pultess to break a Bile or Imposthume Take Sorrel one handful twelve Figs quartered half a pint of Sorrel juyce boil and break these together till it be very tender and put to it some Wheat flower and when it is well boiled put to it a good piece of butter and lay it warm to the place twice a day till it be drawn enough A Remedy for Worms in Children Take one spoonful of juyce of Lemons powdered Saffron half a scruple and a little Sugar and give this same quantity to the Patient three mornings together For Worms Dr. Wetherborn Take Rhubarb one dram Wormwood half a dram Corralline one scruple Currans one good handful beat them all to a Conserve and mix it with Syrup of Violets to an Electuary and give a childe the quantity of a Walnut thereof every other morning fasting An Oyntment to heal any Bruise or Wound Take Sage Self-heal Smallage Sothernwood Plantain Time Ribwort Rue Parsley Marigold leaves Mercury Wormwood Betony Scabious Valerian Comfrey Lions-tongue Buck-horn of each one handful wash them clean and put them into a Sieve to drain all night and when they are dry chop them very small and put to them two pounds of unwashed Butter well beaten then boil it till half be consumed then strain it into the pot you mean to keep it in It is
and take the marrow thereof and anoint the nipple therewith To dry up Milk in a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Aqua vitae and a quantity of sweet Butter melt and temper them together and anoint the Breast therewith laying a brown paper betwixt them and so do as often as the paper drieth till the Milk be dried up this is also good to keep the Ague out of the Breast To make a woman have a nipple that hath none and would give suck Take a Wicker Bottle that hath a little mouth and fill it full of hot water and stop it close til the bottle be through hot then let out the water and set the mouth of the bottle close to the Nipple as long as there is any heat in the bottle it will cleave fast To heal the Nipple of a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Cream and put it into the juyce of Valerian stamped and strained and as much of the juyce of sea-green used in like sort boil all these together till it come to be as Butter then take it and put it into a box and anoint the Nipple therewith three or four times a day and lay a Walnut shell or some other hollow thing over it to keep the clothes from it till it be whole or else make a Posset Ale of Alom and lay the curd to the Nipple warm till the childe doth suck and then lay on again A Medicine for Worms in young Children Take a Plaister of white Leather or brown paper and spread it with Honey warm it a little against the fire but first strew some of the best Aloes Succotrinae thereon then lay it all over the Stomach of the Childe warm the like plaister is to be laid on the Childes Navil at the same time if you have no Honey mix the juyce of Plantain and lay it on the leather Dr. Forsters Infusion purging Choller Take Damask Roses two ounces or Rhubarb two drams and a half of Spikenard one scruple of Orcin one scruple cut all small and infuse in a quart of clarified whey all night in the morning strain gently and put to it one ounce of Syrup of Roses or Syrup of Violets Dr. Fosters Infusion purging Melancholly Take Fumitory Epithymum flowers or leaves of Borage and Bugloss of each a good half handful Polypody of the Oak one ounce Sena half an ounce Fennil-seed two drams Whey three pints infuse and boil to a quart whereunto adde two ounces of Syrup of Roses solutive the dose is half a pound you may quicken a draught with a dram of Electuary of Roses An opening purging Julip and cooling for Choller and hot Humors Take of Barley two little handfuls of Savory with the roots Maidenhair Liverwort Sorrel each half a good handful of roots of Grass of Fennil each half an ounce of the four cold seeds each two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Succory water unto sixteen ounces in which infuse half an ounce of Sena Tamarindes and Polypody of each three drams Jalap and Hermodactils of each two drams Fennil-seed Anniseed and Liquorish of each one dram Currans bruised half an ounce of Borage Bugloss and Rosemary flowers of each one dram infuse these warm then boil them until five ounces of the Succory Water be consumed then strain it and adde the expression of four scruples of Rhubarb infused in three ounces of Manna and syrup of roses one ounce of the Christals of Tartar one dram mingle them the Dose is four or five ounces every morning Doctor Mores Powder or grosly prepared Drug to be taken in mornings and after Meals to mend Concoction comfort the Brain break Winde and make sweet Breath Take Liquorish cut small Anniseed Comfits with one skin of Sugar of each two ounces sweet Fennil seed Comfits with one skin of Sugar Corianders prepared and Caroway-seed of each one ounce of white Ginger Cinamon Calamus Aromaticus and Nutmegs of each one ounce cut very small of the Lozenges of Aromaticum Rosatum of Manus Christies with Chymica Oyl of Cinamon Cloves and Lozenges of Dâ—ambra cut into small pieces each half an ounce to be taken about a spoonful at the time aforesaid Lucatello's Balsam admirable for all Wounds Take Venice Turpentine one pound Oyl Olive three pints Sack six spoonfuls yellow Wax one pound natural Balsam half an ounce Oyl of Saint Johns-Wort red Sanders powdered of each one ounce wash the Venice Turpentine three times in red Rose-water then slice the Wax thin and set it on the fire in a big Skillet and when it is well molten put the Turpentine to it and stir them well together till they boil a little take it off the fire and let it cool till the next day then cut it into thick slices and pour all the water out of it then set it on the fire again and when it is molten stir it well and put it into the aforesaid Oyls Sack Balsam and Sanders and stir them well together that they may incorporate then â—et it boil again for a short space take it off the fire and stir it well for the space of two hours that it may become thick and when it is cold put it up in several Gallipots and when you use it apply it tented into a deep and hollow wound if it be onely a slit cut anoint the wound with it and binde it fast on with the cloth A Purge by Dr. Mayhern Take of the best Sena six drams of Rhubarb two drams Cream of Tartâ—r half a dram of sweet Fennil-seed as much and a little Cinamon infuse all these one night in half a pint of white Wine in the morning let it boil one walm or two strain it and put of the best Manna an ounce dissolve it over the fire then strain it again then put to it an ounce of Salatine syrup of Roses so drink it fast two hours after from meat and drink sleep and then drink nothing but thin broth An approved Medicine to beautifie the Face or to take away Pimples or Heat in the Face Take a fair earthen Pipkin and put into it a pottle of clean running water and an ounce of white Mercury beaten to white powder then set it on the fire and let it boil until one half be consumed and keep it close covered saving when you stir it then take the whites of six new laid egs beaten half an hour or more and put it into the liquor after it is taken from the fire you must put in also the juyce of Lemons being very good and half a pint of new Milk and a quarter of a pound of bitter Almonds blanched and beaten with half a pint of Damask Rose-water strain all these together through a strainer and let it stand three weeks before you use it and I will warrant you fair c. An excellent water for the Eyes that are red or full of Rhume Take young Hazle Nuts when they are so soft that you may thrust a pin through
of White Lillies two of Dragon leaves two of Rue two of Wormwood two of Mints one of Sweet Marjoram one of Pellitory of Spain one of Feaverfew one of Angelica one of Betony stamp well these herbs and put them into a great pottage pot and boil them in two quarts of running water till the water be consumed then put to it two quarts of Cowslip flowers that have been steeped in Oyl Olive four weeks and have been kept in the Sun all that time and two quarts of White Wine and also two quarts of Oyl Olive boil them together one or two hours till you think it almost dry then strain in the Oyl from the herbs and put it into a glass and blow the uppermost of the Oyl into the glass for the very bottom is not so good A Medicine for the Worms Take a little fresh Butter and Honey melt it and anoint therewith the childe from the Stomach to the Navil then take powder of Mirrhe and strew it upon the place so anointed cover it with a brown paper and binde a cloth over it and so anoint the childe three nights one after another This Mirrhe is also good to swallow in a morning for shortness of breath and to chew it in the mouth for Rhumes A Powder for the winde in the Body Take Anniseed Caroway-seed Jet Ambergreese red Coral dried Lemon or Orange peels new laid Egg shells dried Dates stones pillings of Goose-horns of Capons and Pigeons dried Horse radish-roots of each half a scruple in fine powder well mixed and take half a scruple thereof every morning in a spoonful of Beer or white Wine To make Oyl of Eggs. Take twelve yolks of eggs and put them in a pot over the fire and let them stand till you perceive them to grow black then put them in a press and press out the oyl This oyl is good for all manner of burnings and scaldings whatsoever To make Oyl of Mustard seed Take two pounds of Mustard seed and four pounds of Oyl Olive grinde them together and let them so stand nine dayes and then stir it well and keep in boxes This Oyl is good for the Palsie Gout Itch c. To make Oyl of Fennel Take a good quantity of Fennel and put it betwen two iron Plates and make them very hot in the fire then press out the liquor This Oyl will keep a great while it is good for the Tissick and for Burnings or Scaldings To make Oyl of Rue Cut Rue leaves small and put them into a pot with some Oyl Olive and let them stand twelve dayes then boil them till they be wasted to the third part then strain it and keep it close This Oyl is good to keep away all causes of Pestilences in man woman or childe To make Oyl of Cammomile Stamp a good quantity of Cammomile flowers in a Mortar put them in a pot with some Oyl Olive and let them stand twelve dayes then boil it a little on the fire then take it off and press it out hard and put the juyce into glasses and put to them more Cammomile flowers stamped small and let them stand for your use A Sovereign Medicine for a Fistula Take pure Rosin one pound Sheep Suet the bigness of a great Egg or somewhat more in Winter and set them on a fire in a pot till it be ready to boil then pour it in a pan of cold water and work it with your hands rubbed with butter till it become so small as packthred scrape it on a cloth and spread it thin then cut it out small and narrow and when you use it roul it up small like tents The Powder Take an Ox-horn and steep it nine dayes in water shift every day into fresh water then take it out and fill it full of black Soap and fry it over the fire in a Frying-pan and the horn will melt away and burn to powder dip the end of ten tents in this powder The Water Take Allum and white Copperas of each half a pound beat them into fine powder and mix them well together and put them in an earthen pot and let them boil on a soft fire till they be hard and will boil no longer then beat them to powder Two spoonfuls will make a gallon of water and one spoonful will make a pottle but let the water seethe first then take it off and at first sprinkle a little of the powder lest it flame up and after the rest wet a fair cloth and dress the sore twice a day If green Copperas be used two pound must be put to one pound of Allum When the sore is dressed it must be tented as aforesaid if need require and lay on a cloth still wet in the said water As the water comes hot from the fire put in one spoonful of the said powder by degrees A special Medicine for a Looseness Burn three Nutmegs to ashes in the flame of a wax candle and when they are thorowly burnt rub them to powder and mix it with the like quantity of Bean flower and Cinamon finely beaten and searsed then make up into a paste with the white of an Egg and a little red Wine and make the paste into small round pills fit for swallowing and dry them hard in a clean fire and when you take them drink a little red wine after it For an Vncomb or sore Finger Shred one handful of Smallage very small and put to it one spoonful of Honey the yolk of an Egg and a little Wheat flower to make it thick then spread it on a cloth and lay it to the sore twice a day For the same in young Children or any other in the beginning Take Celandine and bruise it well between your hands and binde to your Navil and the soles of your feet hang it once in twenty four hours till they be well A Medicine for the Purples proved Take Purple Silk and shred it as small as you can and put it into a spoon and put a little Ale or Beer unto it lukewarm and so take it and drink after it a little and so do five mornings together and fast an hour after it Dr. Twines Almond Milk Take a pot of water when it is boiled and stood to be clear then boil therein Violet leaves Strawberries the whole herb with the root of each a pretty handful Sorrel a good root all well washed a crust of white bread raisins of the Sun stoned two ounces boil all these from a pottle to a quart and with fifty Almonds blanched and thirty Pompion Kernels all well beaten draw an Almond Milk sweetned with good â—ugar to your liking and drink a good draught thereof morning and evening towards the quantity of a pint Dr. Blacksmiths Almond Milk Take of the roots of Ruscus Gramen Sparagus and Succory each three drams Barley prepared half a handful of the leaves of Mallows Violets five leaved Grass Strawberries Borage Bugloss Maiden-hair of each half a handful sliced
drink very often in Winter warm in Summer cold and let them beware of drinking much strong Beer Ale or Wine for they are hot and great driers up of Milk and so are all Spices and to much Salt or salt meat To keep Iron from Rusting Take Lead filed very small and put so much Oyl Olive upon it as will cover it in a pot then make your Iron very clean first and anoint the Iron with the said Oyl after it hath stood nine dayes and it will never rust To make Golden Colour without Gold Take the juyce of Saffron flowers when they are fresh on the ground but if you cannot get them then take Saffron dried and powdered and put to it Yellow and Glistering Auripigment that is scaly and with the Gall of a Hare or Pike fish which is better mix them together then put them in a glass Vial close stopped which set in a warm Dunghil for certain dayes then take it out and keep it for your use To make Golden Letters without Gold Take Auripigment one ounce fine Crystal one ounce beat them to powder severally then mix them and then temper them with the whites of eggs and so write with it To make Silver Letters without Silver Take Tin one ounce Quicksilver two ounces melt them together then beat them well with Gum water and so write with it To make the Face Fair. Take fresh Bean blossoms and distill them in a Limbeck and with the water wash your face A wound Drink Take Southernwood Wormwood Bugle Mugwort White bottle Sanicle Plantane Dandelion Chinquefoil Ribwort Wood Betony Clary roots Avens called Herb Bennet Hawthorn buds Agrimony Oak leaves and buds Bramble buds wilde Angelica Mints Scabious Strawberry leaves Violet leaves Comfrey of each twenty handfuls gather them in May and dry them in a room without much fire turn them often that they may not become musty and when they are dry put them up in Canvas bags severally Then take of these several herbs so dried of each three handfuls and put them into two quarts of running water and one quart of white Wine boil them to three pints strain the liquor from the herbs and put thereto one pint of Honey which boil again taking away the froth then strain it and keep it in a glass bottle close stopped and take thereof in the morning fasting and at night last two or three spoonfuls at one time This water wil not continue good above three or or four weeks at the most It cureth old sores green wounds Impostumes Fistulas and stencheth bleeding Tent no wound but search and cleanse it in a tent and cover the place with a clean cloth During the cure the Patient must keep a spare diet and abstain from Wine and strong Drink For Worms in Children Take three pound of Prunes Sena one ounce and a half sweet Fennel-seed one ounce and a half Rhubarb half an ounce tie all these in a bag with a stone to it and put them into a great quantity of water then put the Prunes on the top and let it stew six or seven hours till the liquor be even with the Prunes so drink of the liquor two or three spoonfuls and eat of the Prunes in the morning fasting and at four a clock in the afternoon A Green Salve Take one pound of Butter Bees-wax five ounces Rosin one pound and a half Frankincense four ounces Oyl of Bayes two ounces Deer suet one ounce and a half Verdigreese one ounce and a half boil the butter a little then boil the Wax in it and stir it now and then take it off the fire put in the Oyl of Bayes set it on the fire again then put in the Deer suet and let it boil one walm for if it have more it will turn black and when it is off the fire put in the Verdigreese powdered then strain it into pots and keep it for your use A Receipt for the Kings Evil Fistula sore Breasts Legs or other sores Take Samnil Agrimony Avens wilde Bugle red Dandelion Wood Betony Ribwort Wilde Clary roots and leaves Mugwort Plantain Wormwood and Bugle beaten and bruised of each two handfuls boil them in six quarts of White Wine until their vertue be extracted very softly then with your hand squeeze all the juyce out of them into the Wine then strain the liquor out and set it on the fire and clarifie it with so much Honey as will make it dainty pleasant and not sharp then let it boil a little more and when it is cold put it in bottles close stopped and it will last a year whereof give the Patient six spoonfuls at a time in the morning fasting and at four a clock in the afternoon To ease Womens Childe-bed throws that are taken with cold a week or two after their Delivery Take one or two spoonfuls of Oyl of sweet Almonds newly drawn either in Posset drink or in a Caudle warm morning and evening it will help For Womens swounding fits after delivery of Childe Take the powder of White Amber as much as will lie on a three pence and give it in Mace Ale warm An approved Medicine to speed a Womans Delivery in difficult Travel and to send out the after-burthen safely Take Cinnamon two drams and a half one dram and a half of white Amber Myrrhe two scruples Castoreum one scruple Borax half a scruple Saffron five grains powder and mix them whereof give one dram at a time in white Wine and Sugar and sweat after it This hath been often tried with much good success An approved Medicine for the Megrum Take one spoonful and a half of the white of an Egg beaten very clear White Wine Vinegar one spoonful of Pepper and Frankincense of each two drams powdered and one spoonful of Honey mix them with so much Wheat flour as will make it into paste whereof make two plaisters and lay them to the temples of the head and change it duly every morning and evening For to ease Head pain Take red Rose leaves dried mix them with Wheat flowers Vinegar Oyl of Roses and some Housleek boil them till they be thick spread it on a linnen cloth and lay it to the Forehead and Temples and it will ease the pain To cure a Sheck Dog that hath the Mangie Take four ounces of Tar mix it with someâ—fresh greese so as it may run then put to it some Brimstone powder half a spoonful of Gun powder pouder'd and two spoonfuls of Honey mix them well and therewith anoint the Dog in the Summer time tie him in the hot Sun that the oyntment may soke into him in the Winter time lay him on thick fresh Hay and there keep him that the heat of his body may heat and melt it Thrice dressing will cure him Dr. Goffes Receipt to preserve a Woman with childe from miscarrying and abortion Take a fillet of Beef half rosted hot from the fire then take half a pint of Muscadine Sugar Cinamon Ginger Cloves
Mace Grains of Paradise and Nutmegs of each half a dram and make thereof a Sawce then divide the Beef into two pâ—eces and wet them in the Sawce and binde the one piece to the bottom of the womans belly and the other to the reins of the back as hot as may be suffered and keep them on twenty four hours at the least and longer if need be thereof For any pain in the Stomach Cut a piece of new Scarlet in the shape of a Heart put it in a pewter dish and wet it with the strongest Cinamon or Wormwood water then set it on a Chafing-dish of Coals and cover it close and when it is dry wet it again which do so often until the sent of the hot water be strong in it â—nd lay it very hot to the Stomach and renew it once or twice in a week For the Winde in the Veins Take powder of Liquorish Caroway-seed and Sugarcandy beaten small of each an equal quantity to your taste to which put Rhubarb in powder a third part or more with as much Cream of Tartar pulverised put it in a box and keep it in your pocket and eat as much of it as will lie on a six pence twice or thrice in a day for a week together This will gently purge you cool the blood and expel the Winde out of the Veins This hath holpen those that have not been able to go An excellent Sear-cloth for a Bruise Strain or Wound Take one pint of Oyl Olive Red Lead eight ounces Virgins Wax four ounces Oyntment of Populeon four ounces the Oyls of Roses and Cammomile of each one ounce set the Oyl on the fire then melt the Wax in it then put in the Populeon and Oyls and when all are molten put in the red lead stir them well together and let it boil till it be black then dip in your clothes and apply them to the places ill-affected Mr. Lumley Chyrurgeon His Pippin drink for a Consumption Take the thick paring of six pippins boil them in three pints of Spring-water to a quart then sweeten it with Sugar-candy whereof drink the quantity of a Wine glass when you go to bed In a Feaver it is very good with a little Syrup of Lemons An approved Medicine for the Spleen Drink for three mornings together pure Whey as it comes naturally from the Curd the first morning two pints the second morning three pints the third morning four pints The best exercise after it is gentle riding A rare Balsam Take Venice Turpentine one pound wash it four times with fair water and as many times in Damask Rose water till it be as white as snow then take an earthen pot of a gallon make a hole in the bottom of it which stop with a cork and a rag and tie a string about the cork into which pot put five pints of pure Oyl Olive and three pints of Spring water boil this half a quarter of an hour then melt eight ounces of yellow Wax in a skillet which put to the Turpentine in the pot take it off the fire and stir them together with a spoon till they be wellâ—mingled then pluck the cork out of the earthen pot and let out all the water in a platter and the Oyl and the Turpentine into the Wax in a large Bason and set them over the fire stirring them well then pour all out into a large earthen pan and when it is through cold melt it again on the fire so that it wilâ— slip out then pour out the water in the bottom and melt it again on the fire stirring all well together and so put it up into Galli-pots for your use and you have a most excellent Balsam made by decoction whose effects follow The Vertues of it 1. It is good for any inward wound squirted warm into it and outwardly to it on fine Lint and anointing the place It also preserveth the wound from inflamation and putrefaction 2. It heals any bruise or cut being first anointed therewith and then a piece of lint dipped in it and laid to the place 3. It cures all burnings and scaldings 4. It helps the Head-ache anointing the Nostrils and Temples therewith 5. It expelleth the winde Cholick or stitch in the side being anointed and applied four mornings with warm cloths and every morning bathing it before the fire a quarter of an hour 6. It helps a Surfet taking one ounce thereof in warm Sack 7. It preserveth from the Plague onely by anointing the Lip and Nostrils therewith before the party goeth abroad in the morning 8. It is good against Cancers and Worms applied as before for a cut 9. It helps digestion and keepeth from Vermin if the Navil or Stomach be anointed therewith before the party goeth to bed The Operator that made it healed himself being sorely scalded To cure the Rickets in Children Approved Take a quart of new Milk put into it one handful of Sanicle boil it half away and give it to the Patient Childe to drink in the morning for a breakfast and let it not eat any thing for an hour or two after it and at night take a quart of Milk and one handful of red Mints boil it half away as before and let the Childe eat it last at night This continue for a moneth or longer as occasion is This quantity of Milk so made will serve for twice An Vnguent to anoint the Ricketted Childes Breast Take fresh butter Sanicle red Mints of each one pound stamp the Herbs very small then mix it with the butter to a perfect Unguent and therewith anoint the childes breast every morning and evening before the fire you must anoint it from arm to arm that it may open the breast and also anoint the gullet bones that they may open for in this disease they will seem to close To anoint the Ricketted Childes Limbs and to recover it in a short time though the Childe be so lame as to go upon Crutches Take a peck of Garden Snails and bruise them put them into a course Canvas Bag and hang it up and set a dish under it to receive the liquor that droppeth from them wherewith anoint the Childe in every Joynt which you perceive to be weak before the fire every morning and evening This I have known made a Childe that was extream weak to go alone using it onely a weeks time A Plaister for an Ague Take strong Leaf Tobacco six drams Currans a small handful and as much Bores Grease as will make it into a salve by beating and stamping together in a Mortar of stone when it is beaten to a salve take two pieces of sheeps leather and spread the salve an inch thick on both of them and lay them upon the veins of both wrists twenty four hours before the fit cometh This will cure either a quartane or Tertian Ague A dainty cecling Drink for a hot Feaver Take French Barley one ounce boil it first in a quart of fair water a
〈…〉 to cure 6 16 42 52 77 88 276 291 Paracelsus Plaister to make and Vertues 150 152 Plaister called Leaden Plaister to make and use 183 184 188 Plaster for the Stomach 129 Pains to asswage 153 189 Phlegm to void 44 49 52 57 68 102 142 Plague to prevent and cure 2 9 12 17 24 25 30 31 33 39 40 67 78 106 107 125 142 277 281 Piles to cure 36 42 43 101 184 Powder of the Lady Kents 187 274 Powder most excellent to make 19 74 Small pox excellent remedies 2 12 29 107 And to prevent pitting 135 136 137 138 139 140 And to prevent Infection 140 Pricking with a needle or thorn 103 Purge for a Quartain Ague 161 Purging Ale 2 Purge for Children or old men 52 Pimples in the face 54 Pomatum to make 312 Purging Drink most excellent 68 Purge of Dr. Mayherne 180 Purples to cure 82 Pushes to break and heal 184 Pain in the stomach 121 Pills for a Consumption 3 R. REins to purge 68 88 237 276 Rest to procure 233 Rhume to stay 32 47 57 58 100 291 Rickets to cure 126 127 Rupture to cure 129 Running of the Reins to cure 184 Restorative broth 42 S. SAffron water to make 18 Scabs to dry up 42 Sciatica to cure 101 156 Salve the chiefest and its vertues 41 Scurvy to cure 149 185 Scalding to cure 60 77 78 95 104 125 149 162 Shingles to cure 153 Sinews to strengthen 86 88 95 152 189 276 Stinging of an Adder or Wasp 154 Stepkins Water for the Eyes 18 Syrup of Ale for the Whitâ— 95 Syrup for swounding and the Brain 86 Syrup of Cordinal 10 Syrup for a Cold 27 Syrup of Tâ—â—â—ips to make and use 9 19 Syrup of Citron peels to make 9 28 Sâ—â—up of Pearmains to make 23 Syrup of Lemons to make 28 â—yrup of Hysop to make 206 Syrup of Gilly-flowers 205 Skin to bring 189 Silver Letters without silver to make 114 Serpents bitings to cure 131 Sleep to procure 60 101 Snail water to make and its vertues 294 Spitting of Blood of remedy 234 Sprains to cure 131 Speech in Sickness to move 71 72 Splinters and thorns to draw forth 41 Spirits to revive 18 88 276 293 Spleen distempers to rectifie 16 41 66 68 123 164 165 236 268 291 Sounding fits to cure 20 86 133 283 Sounding fits after Childe-birth 118 Sores of all sorts to cure 111 117 152 188 Stopping of the Stomach 5. 49 63 168 161 235 236 268 Stomach cold to warm 15 17 35 Stomach hot to cool 234 Stomach week to strengthen 20 57 121 128 179 283 286 295 Stone in the Kidnies to cure 7 8 99 Spirit of Castoreum 20 Stone in the Bladder 8 21 33 45 48 50 52 59 84 88 94 163 166 168 170 185 191 376 Stone in the Kidneyes 57 Strangury to help 168 191 Strains to remedy 122 Stitches to cure 65 96 112 125 Sweating to prevent 16 Sweating to provoke 67 Swallow to help 51 Swelling to swage 36 42 104 108 157 184 188 189 Surfeits to cure 107 125 292 T. TAste to restore 61 Terril's Salve 40 Tetter to cure 22 174 Tearms to provoke 184 Teeth to make come without pain 47 Teeth to preserve 192 Tooth-ache to cure 88 192 Thorns to draw out 41 Throws after birth to ease 118 Thrush in the mouth to remedy 3â— Throat sore to cure 44 233 Tumors to allay 42 Tissick to help 77 Timpany to remedy 65 Tincture of Amber greese 24 V. VEnom to drive from the heart 2 Vlcers to fill with flesh 189 Vomiting to stay 133 Vâ—ine sharp to cure 162 Vrine to provoke 68 99 Vvula to draw up 52 Vomit for an Ague 57 W. WAter for an Ague 161 Water to hold 91 Water very precious 18 27 Dr. Stephens his Water 18 21 Whites and heat in the back 94 95 Water Cordial 8 Wormwood Cakes 15 Water of Life 16 Warts to take away 145 Wen to cure 144 Winde to expel 30 35 77 86 122. 125 160 196 282 283 Worms to kill and avoid 16 49 76 88 89 116 123 176 276 Wounds to heal 38 41 90 95 103 112 115 122 125 131 152 163 179 181 188 189 36 42 Wrench to cure 18 Women with Childe to preserve them from Abortion 121 Woman in labour a medicine for safe deliverance 86 Y. YOuth to preserve 88 279 291 FINIS The Table to a QUEENS DELIGHT A. A Pricocks to preserve when they are green Page 204 Apricocks to preserve when they are ripe 203 Apricocks to dry 210 232 Apricock Cakes 213 Apricocks to make of them Jumbals 222 Artichokes to preserve 201 Almond Bisket to make 208 Ale purging a bag 280 Ale strengthening and healthful by Sir J. Bacon 281 Aqua Mirabilis Sir Kenelm Digbie's way 290 Aqua Mirabilis the vertues 291 Ambergreese the Tincture 216 B. BArberries the best way to preserve them 220 C. CHerries to preserve them bigger then they grow naturally 228 Cherries the ordinary way of preserving them 245 Cherries to preserve them with a quarter of their weight in Sugar 217 Cakes to make 255 Cakes to make after the maner of the Princess the Lady Elizabeth Daughter to King Charles the first 257 Cakes of Plums 258 Cakes of Rasberries 252 Cakes of Sugar to make 250 Collops to make like Bacon of Marsâ—â—pane 263 Clove-gilly-flowers to make a Syrup of them 203 Conserve for a Cough or a Consumption 199 Conserve fâ—r any Fruits 200 Conserve of Roses boild 209 Conserve of Roses unboild 210 Conserve of Red Roses after the Italian manner with the vertues 233 Conserve of Violets after the Italian manner with the vertues 233 Conserve of Borage after the Italian manner with the vertues 234 Conserve of Rosemary after the Italian manner with the vertues 234 Conserve of Betony after the Italian manner with the vertues 235 Conserve of sage 235 Conserve of the Flowers of Lavander 236 Conserve of Marjoram with the Vertues 236 Conserve of Piony after the Italian manner with the vertues 237 Candy Cherries 241 Candy Cherries the Italian way 244 Candy Oranges 241 Candy Orange Roâ—ts 242 Candy Orange Peels after the Italian manner with the vertues 243 Candy Lemons 241 Candy Citrons 241 Candy Citrons after the Spanish way 243 Candy Rosemary flowers in the sun 237 Candy Pippins 239 Candy Pears 239 Candy Apricâ—cks 239 Candy Plums 239 Candy Rockandy flowers 239 Candy Spanish flowers 240 Candy Grapes 241 Candy Barberries 241 Candy Suckets 241 Candy Angelica 241 Candy Chycory râ—ots after the Italian manner with the vertues 244 D. DAmsins to preserve them 299 Dentifrice by Mr. Ferene of the New Exchange Perfumer to the Queen highly approved of at the Court 273 Distilled Marigold flowers 298 ELecampane to preserve 201 F. FRuits to preserve green 198 Fruits to dry after they are preserved to candy them 200 Fruits artificial 263 Fox skins to dry 268 French Tart to make 254 G. GRapes to preserve 196 202 H. HYpocras made by Dr. Twine for the Winde in