of Bayes then let it boyl again a little then let your clothes be but of a reasonable size to dip them in it then you must have two sticks which must be hollow in the middle to strip the clothes through then lay them abroad until they be cold upon a board then rowl them up and keep them and when you use them lay them upon the place grieved and let them lie 12 hours then take it off and wipe it and lay the other side and let that lie as long A Plague Water to be taken three times for the first helpeth not Take a Gallon of White-wine Ale or Beer and to that quantity take a quarter of a pound of each of these Herbs following Rose-water a quarter of a pint Rue Sage Vervain Egrimony Bettony Celendine Carduus Angelica Pimpernel Scabious Valerian Wormwood Dragons Mugwort all these Herbs must you shred in gross together and steep in the aforesaid liquor the night before you distil it in a Rose-water still and then keep the first water by it self being the weaker and therefore fitter for Children it helpeth all Fevers Agues and Plagues being thus taken seven spoonfuls or thereabout of the strongest blood warm and give it to the party to drink in an Ague or Fever an hour before the fit come and so to sweat either by exercise or in your bed but your stomach must be empty and if it be taken for the Plague then put it into a little Diascordium or Mithridate A Defensive Plaister Take the white of an Egg and Bole Armoniack spread it on leather A Syrrup for a Cold. Take Colts foot Water Hyssop water and Honey put Liquorish Annise seeds and Elecampane put thereto the juice of Fennel and boyl them To stay the bleeding of a wound Take Charcoal red hot out of the fire and beat it to powder A Poultess Take Milk Oatmeal and red Rose leaves and a little Deers suet For the Running of the Reins Take Cups of Acrons and grate them and grate some Nutmeg put this in Beer and drink it For a Poultess Take Linseed and beat it to powder boyl it in Milk with Mallows and Sheeps suet For a Blast Take a good quantity of Vervin and boyl it in Milk and wash the blast therewith very well then bind the herb very close to it some few hours after wash it again the Milk being warmed and so bind it up again the oftner it is done the better and in a day or two it will be well if it be taken before it fester Another Take a good quantity of Vericon being green with as much Dill chop them together and boyl them in Boars grease as much as will cover them and for want thereof so much May butter and when they be boyled together let them stand 2 or 3 days and then boyl it a little and so strain it through a cloth A Balsamum Take in the latter end of September good store of Honey suckle berries and put them in a body of a glass Still stopped and set it in hot horse-dung 8 days distil it in Balneo then when you have drawn the water forth pour the water into the stuff again stop it close and put it into the dung 24 hours then set it in ashes and distil both water and oyl with a great fire as much as will come forth and at last separate the water from the oyl in Balneo To make an excellent oyl of Hypericon Take flowers leaves and seed of Hypericon as much as you list beat them together and infuse them in White-wine that they may be covered therewith and set them in the Sun for ten days then put thereto so much oyl-Olive as all the rest do weigh and let it stand ten days more in the Sun but look that you weigh the Oyl to know how much it is then put thereto for every pound of Oyl two ounces of Turpentine and 1 dram of Saffron and of Nutmegs and Cloves of each half an ounce of Myrrh and Rosin of each 1 ounce and of the root of Briony 2 ounces put them all in a Vessel of glass and mix them well together and set them in a Vessel of hot water and then set thereto a head of glass and Receiver well shut and boyl it so long until no more will distil from it which will be about 24 hours then take it out and strain it whilst it is hot and keep it in a Vessel of Glass and when you first use it heat it well and apply it upon a wound without using any tent at all this is excellent for a green wound especially if there be veins sinews or bones offended or cut it keepeth wounds from putrefaction it cleanseth them and easeth pain and doth incarnate and skin them it helpeth bruises pains aches or swelling in any part and is wonderful good against venom or poyson For the Falling sickness Take the roots of single Pionie grate them drink them and wear some of them about your neck For the kibed Heels Take a Turnip make a hole in the top of it take out some of the pith infuse into that hole oyl of Roses then stop close the hole roast the Turnip under the embers when it is soft apply it plaisterwise warm to the kibe bind it fast Lapis Prunellae A Medicine for sore Eyes Take one pound of Saltpeter boyl it in a Goldsmiths earthen pot with a very hot fire round about it let it boyl till it be very black and melted then take a quarter of an ounce or 6 pennyweight of Roch-allum and a quarter of an ounce of Brimstone break them and put them in the Saltpeter by little at once as it boyleth and let it burn till the flame go out of it self then pour it in a brass Ladle or into a Chafer and so let it stand till it be cold and when you will use it scrape it very fine with a knife and put a little of it to the sore eyes hold down the eye-lids till the pain be gone then let the water drop out of the eye This Medicine taketh away the Pearl Pin and Web in the eye and all sores and blood-shed it also helpeth the Toothach being put into the hollow Tooth with a little lint if the Tooth be not hollow rub it outward Finally it helpeth a stinking breath being eaten in the morning fasting For a Scald-head Take a handful of Grovers shreds and a handful of Dock-roots the pith taken out and boyl them in strong Ale until they be reasonable thick and annoint the head therewith For a Bloody Flux Take Rubarb and roast it then grind it to powder and take as much as will lie upon a six-pence and keep warm that day the next day eat conserve of Roses mixed with Coral and drink that day if you will posset Ale made of Cammomile For the Itch. Take a pound of Butter unwashed and unsalted 3 good handfuls of red Sage and as much Brimstone beaten into powder as a
a most excellent Medicine A Medicine for a Wen. Take black Soap and unquencht Lime of each a like quantity beat them very small together and spread in on a woollen cloth and lay it on the Wen and it will consume it away For breaking out of Childrens heads Take of White-wine and sweet Butter alike and boyl them together till it come to a Salve and so anoint the head therewith For to mundifie and gently to cleanse Vlcers and breed new flesh Take Rosin eight ounces Colophonia four ounces Era Oliva Ana one pound Adipis ovini Gum Ammoniaci Opoponaci Ana one ounce fine Aeruginis aeris boyl your Wax Colophoni and Rosin with the Oyl together then strain the Gums being first dissolved in Vinegar and boyl it with a gentle fire then take it off and put in your Verdigreece and fine powder and use it according to Art. A Fomentation Take the liquor wherein Neats-feet have been boyled with Butter and new Milk and use it in manner of a Fomentation For the Falling-sickness or Convulsions Take the dung of a Peacock make it into powder and give sâ— much of it to the Patient as wilâ— lie upon a shilling in Succory-water fasting For a Tetter proceeding of a salt-humour in the Breast and Paps Annoint the sore place with Tanners Owse For the bloody Flux Take the bone of a Gammon oâ— Bacon and set it up on end in the middle or a Charcoal fire and let it burn till it look like Chalk and that it will burn no longer then powder it and give the powder thereof unto the sick A Plaister for all manner of bruises Take one pound of mede wax and a quartern of Pitch half a quartern of Galbanum and one pound of Sheeps tallow shred them and seeth them softly and put to them a little White-wine or good Vinegar and take of Frankincense and Mastick of each half an ounce in powder and put it to and boyl them together and still them till it be well relented and spread this salve upon a mighty Canvas that will overspread the sore and lay it thereon hot till it be whole To make Flos Unguentorum Take Rosin Perrosin and half a pound of Virgin wax Frankincense a quarter of a pound of Mastick half an ounce of Sheeps tallow a quarter of a pound of Camphire two drams melt that that is to melt and powder that that is to powder and boil it over the fire and strain it through a cloth into a bottle of White-wine and boyl it altogether and then let it cool a little and then put thereto a quartern of Turpentine and stir all well together till it be cold and keep it well this Ointment is good for sores old and new it suffereth no corruption in the Wound nor no evil flesh to be gendered in it and it is good for head-ach and for all manner of Imposthumes in the head and for wind in the brain and for Imposthumes in the body and for boyling ears and cheeks and for sauce flegm in the face and for Sinews that be knit or stiff or sprung with travel it doth draw out a thorn or iron in what place soever it be and it is good for biting or stinging of venemous beasts it rotteth and healeth all manner of Botches without and it is good for a Fester and Canker and Noli me Tangere and it draweth out all manner of a king of the Liver and of the Spleen and of the Mervis and it is good for a king and swelling of many members and for all members and it ceaseth the flux of Menstrua and of Emeroids and it is a special thing to make a fumed cloth to heal all manner of sores and it searcheth farthest inward of any Ointment An Ointment for all sorts of Aches Take Bettony Cammomile Celendine Rosemary and Rue of each of them a handful wash the herbs and press out the water and then chop or stamp them very small and then take fresh Butter unwashed and unsalted a quart and seeth it until half be wasted and clarified them scum it clean and put in of oyl of Olives 1 ounce a piece of Virgins Wax for to harden the Oyntment in the summer time and if you make it in the winter put into your Ointment a little quantity of foot-fennel instead of the Virgins Wax An excellent Syrrup to purge Take of Sena Alexandria one pound Polipodium of the Oak 4 ounces Sarsaparilla two ounces Damask Prunes 4 ounces Ginger seven drams Annise seeds one ounce Cummin-seed half an ounce Carraway seeds half an ounce Cinnamon 10 drams Aristolochia rotunda Peonia of each 5 drams Rubarb one ounce Garlick six drams Tamarisk two handfuls boyl all these in a gallon of fair water unto a pottle and when the liquor is boyled half away strain it forth and then put in your Rubarb and Agarick in a thin clean handkerchief and tie it up close and put into the said liquor and then put in two pound of fine Sugar and boyl it to the height of a syrrup and take of it the quantity of six spoonfuls or more or less as you find it worketh in you To make drink for all kind of Surfeits Take a quart of Aqua or small Aqua vitae and put in that a good handful of Cowslip flowers Sage-flowers a good handful and of Rosemary flowers a handful sweet Marjorum a little Pellitory of the wall a little Bettony and Balm of each a pretty handful Cinnamon half an ounce Nutmegs a quarter of an ounce Fennel seed Annise seed Coriander seed Carraway seed Grumwel seed Juniper berries of each a dram bruise your spices and seeds and put them into your aqua or aqua vitae with your herbs together and put to that 3 quarters of a pound of very fine Sugar stir them together and put them in a glass and let it stand nine days in the Sun and let it be stirred every day it is to be made in May steeped in a wide mouthed glass and strain'd out into a narrow mouth'd glass A Medicine for the Reins of the back Take Housleek and stamp and strain it then dip a fine linnen cloth into it and lay it to the reins of the back and that will heal it A Medicine for the Ach in the back Take Egrimony and Mugwort both leaves and roots and stamp it with old Bores grease and temper it with Honey and Eysell and lay it to the back For a Stitch. Take Roses and Cammomile of each a handful and oyl of Roses and oyl of Cammomile of both together a saucer full and a quantity of Barly flower boyl all these together in Milk and then take a linnen bag and put it therein and lay the plaister as hot as may be suffered where the stitch is To make a salve for wounds that be cankered and do burn Take the juice of Smallage of Morrel of Waberb of each alike then take the white of Eggs and mingle them together
sweating therefore let her muffle her self with double old cloth wherein is Wormwood Rue Fetherfew crums of sowr Bread and Vinegar and a little Rose-water beat all these together and put it into the muffler made new every day while you do keep him and let the sick party have of it bound in a cloth to smell on while he is in a sweat then after do it away and take a new and because he shall be faint and distempered after his sickness he shall eat no flesh nor drink wine the space of nine days but let him use these Conservatives for his health as Conserve of Bugloss Borrage and red Roses and especially he shall drink 3 or 4 days after he hath sweat morning and evening 3 ounces of the juice of Sorrel mixed with an ounce of Conserve of Sorrel and so use to eat and drink whatsoever is comfortable for the heart also if one take the quantity of a Pea of the said Electuary with some good Wine it shall keep him from the infection therefore when one is sick in the house of the plague then so soon as you can give all the whole houshould some of this Receipt to drink and his keeper also and it shall preserve them from the infection yet keep the whole from the sick as much as you can beware of the clothes and bed that the sick party did sweat in To make Balm Water Take 4 gallons of strong Ale stale half a pound of Liquorish two pound of Balm two ounces of Figs half a pound of Annise seeds 1 ounce of Nutmegs shred the Balm and Figs very small and let them stand steeping 4 and 20 hours and then put it in a still as you use Aqua vitae To make Doctor Stevens Water Take one gallon of good Gascoign Wine of Ginger Galingals Nutmegs Grains Annise seeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds Sage Mints red Roses garden-Thyme Pellitory Rosemary wild Thyme Pennyroyal Cammomil Lavender of each one handful bray your spices small and chop the herbs before named and put them with the spices into the Wine and let it stand 12 hours stirring it very often then still it in a Limbeck closed up with coarse paste so that no air enter keep the first water by it self it is good so long as it will burn An Ointment for any strain in the Joynts or any Sore Take 3 pound of fresh Butter unwashed and set it in an Oven after the bread be drawn out and let it stand 2 or 3 hours then take the clearest of the Butter and put it into a Posnet then take the tops of red Nettles as much as will be moistned with the Butter and chop them very small and put them into the Butter set it on the fire and boyl it softly 5 or 6 hours and when it is so boyled put thereto half a pint of pure oyl Olive and then boyl it very little and take it off and strain it into an earthen pot and keep it for your use If you think good instead of Nettles only you may take these herbs Cammomil Rosemary Lavender Tunhoof otherwise Alehoof Five-finger Vervain and Nettle tops For an Ague Take the inner bark of a Walnut tree a good quantity boyl it in Beer until the Beer look black and then take a good draught and put it into a pot then take six spoonfuls of sallet Oyl for an extream Ague brew it to and fro in two pots then drink it and let the party labour at any exercise until he sweat then let him lie down upon a bed very warm until he hath done sweating this do three times when the Ague cometh upon him A Powder against the wind in the Stomach Take Ginger Cinnamon and Gallingal of each 2 ounces Annise seeds Carraway and Fennel seeds of each 1 ounce long Pepper Grains Mace and Nutmegs of each half an ounce setwel half a dram make all in powder and put thereto 1 pound of white Sugar and use this after your meat or before at your pleasure at all times it comforteth the stomach marvellously carrieth away wind and causeth a good digestion For a Pin and a Web in the Eye Take the white of an Egg beat it to oyl put thereto a quarter of a spoonful of English Honey half a handful of Daisie leaves and in winter the roots half a handful of the inner rind of a young Hazle not above one years growth beat them together in a Mortar and put thereto 1 spoonful of Womans Milk and let it stand infused two or three hours and strain alâ— through a cloth and with a featheâ— drop it into the eye thrice a day For blood shotten and sore Eyes coming of heat Take Tutty of Alexandria oâ— Lapis Tutty 1 ounce beat it unto fine powder and temper it with a quart of White-wine put thereto 1 ounce of dried Rose leaves and boyl them all together with a soft fire until one half be consumed then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and keep it in a glass and use it evening and morning and put it into the sore eyes with a feather or your finger If the Tutty be prepared it is the better which is thus done steep the Tutty in Rosewater and let it lie half an hour then take it forth and lay it on a white paper to dry then take it when it is dry steep it and dry it again as before twice or thrice and then use it as before For an Ach in the Bones Take Southernwood Wormwood and Bay leaves of each one handful one Ox gall one pint of Neats foot oyl put all these together and let them stand 2 or 3 days and let them boyl upon a very soft fire then put in of Deers suet a good quantity strain them and put them into a pot and so annoint the Patient put to this a good quantity of Tar and as much Pitch as the bigness of a Walnut and of the juice of Pimpernel a good quantity For Children that are troubled with an extream Cough Take Hyssop water and Fennel water of each half a pint of sliced Liquorish and sugar of each a pretty quantity seeth them easily over a good fire strain it and let them take a little hereof an ounce and often you may dissolve pellets therein and you may annoint their chest with oyl of Almonds and a little Wax A Medicine for sore Eyes Take red Fennel and Celendine of each one handful stamp and strain them that done take five spoonfuls of Honey and white Copperas the quantity of 1 Pea Rose-water five spoonfuls boyl all these together in an earthen pot skim it well and clarifie it with the white of an Egg this is an excellent Medicine to clear the sight of the Eye if there be any thing in the Eye superfluous to hinder the sight but if there be nothing but heat it is nothing so good To help one that is inwardly bruised Take of Borrage and red Sage of each a handful stamp these together
of each of them and put a row of Sugar oâ— a silver dish or bason and then lay in a row of plumbs and then cover it with Sugar and so lay it in tilâ— they be all in and then take two spoonfuls of clear wheat and make a hole in the middle of them and set it over a soft fire and look to 〈◊〉 carefully for fear the Sugar should burn and when the Sugar is all dissolved shake them together and stir them gently and then set theâ— down and cover them till they be cold and when they be cold sâ—â— them upon the coals again and then let them boil gently till they be ready and when they are ready take them down and take them every one by its stem and cover them with the skin as welâ— as you can and then put them alâ— one by one in a dish and if the syrrup be not boiled enough set it over and let it boil a little longer and when the plumbs be cold put them in a gally-pot or glass and pour the syrrup to them while it is a little warm you must not forget to take away the skin of the plumbs as it riseth How to make Pap of Barley Take Barley and boil it in fair water softly until it begin to break then put that liquor out then put as much hot liquor to it as you put forth and so let it boil till it be very soft then put it into a Cullender and strain it then take a handful of Almonds and grind them very well with your Barley and some of the liquor so season it with Sugar and a little Rose-water a little whole Mace and Cinnamon and boil them well together How to candy Oranges and Lemons Take the peels of your Oranges and Lemons the white cut away and lay them in water 5 or 6 days shifting them twice every day then seeth them till they be very tender then take them out of the water and let them lie until they be cold then cut them in small pieces square the bigness of a penny or less then take to every 3 two ounces of Sugar put to it a quantity of fair water and a less quantity of Rose-water and make a syrrup thereof then scum it very clean and put in your peels and let them boil for the space of an hour or longer if you find your liquor wanting you may put in more water at your pleasure then boil them a little space after with a little sharp fire stirring it always for burning then take it off the fire 3 or 4 times stirring them all the while and set them off again until they be candied How to make Cakes of Almonds Take 1 pound and a half of fine flower of Sugar 12 ounces beaten very fine mingle them well together then take half a pound of Almonds blanch them and grind them fine in a mortar then strain them with as much Sack as will mingle the flower Sugar and Almonds together make a paste bake them in an Oven not too hot How to make white Lemon-Cakes Take half a dozen of white Lemons the best you can get then cut and pare them leave none of the yellow behind then take away the sowre meat of it and reserve all the white and lay it in water 2 days then seeth it in fair water till it be soft then take it out and set it by till the water be gone from it then weigh it and take twice the weight in Sugar mince the white stuff very fine then take an earthen Pipkin and put therein some fair water and some Rose-water if you have a pound of Sugar you must have half a pint of water of both sorts alike let your water and sugar boil together then scum it and put in the stuff and so let them boil together always stirring it till it be thick it will shew very thin and when it is cold it will be thick enough To make Oyl of Violets Set the Violets in Sallet-oil and strain them then put in other fresh Violets and let them lie 20 daies then strain them again and put in other fresh Violets and let them stand all the Year To preserve Pomecitrons Take Pomecitrons and grate off the upper skin then slightly cut them in pieces as you think good lay them in water 24 hours then set over a posnet with fair water and when it boils put them in and so shift till you find the water not to be bitter then take them up and weigh them and to every pound of Pomecitron put a pound and a quarter of Sugar then take of your last water a pint and quarter set your water and sugar over the fire then take two whites of Eggs and beat them with a little fair water and when your sirrup begins to boil cast in the same that riseth from the Eggs and so let it boil then let it run through a clean fine cloth then put in a clean posnet and when your sirrup begins to boil put in your Pomecitron and let it boil softly 3 or 4 hours until you find your sirrup thick enough be sure you keep them alwaies under sirrup and never turn them take them up and put them into your glass and when they be cold cover them To Candy Ringus Roots Take your Ringus roots and boil them reasonable tender then pill them and pith them then lay them together then take so much sugar as they weigh and put it into a posnet with as much Rose-water as will melt it then put in your roots and so let it boil very softly until the Sugar be consumed into the roots then take them and turn them and shake them till the Sugar be dried up and then lay them a drying upon a lattice of wyer until they be cold in like sort you may candy any other Roots what you please To candy all kind of Fruitages as Oranges Lemons Citrons Lettice-stocks Sugar-candy such as the Comfit makers do candy the Fruits with Take 1 pound of refined sugar and put it into a posnet with as much water as will wet it and so boil it till it come to a candyâ— height then take all your fruit being preserved and dried then draw them through your hot sugar and then lay them on your hurdle and in 1 quarter of an hour they will be finely candied To candy all kind of Flowers in ways of Spanish Candy Take double refined Sugar put it into a posnet with as much Rose-water as will melt it and put into it the pap of half a roasted Apple and a grain 〈…〉 let it boil till it come to a candy height then put in your flowers being pick'd and so let it boil then cast them on a fine plate and cut it in waves with your Knife then you may spot it with gold and keep it To make Essings Take 1 peck of Oatmeal-grout the greatest you can get and the whitest pick it clean from the black and searce out all the smallest
them in a strong glass pour the distilled waters upon them and three pints of the best French white wine that can be had shake it every day 3 or 4 times long together for a month and then you may use it remember to keep it very close stopt This is verbatim as it was had from the Lord Kelley A Medicine very good for the Dropsie or the Scurvy and to clear the Blood. Take 4 gallons of Ale drawn from the tap into an earthen Stand when the Ale is two days old then you must put in of Brooklime of Water-cresses of Water-mints with red stalks of each four handfuls half a peck of Scurvy-grass let all these be clean picked and washed and dried with a cloth and shred with a knife and then put into a bag then put in the Ale and stop it close so that it have no vent stop it with Riâ— Paste the best Scurvy-grass groweth by the water side it must be 7 days after the things be in before you drink it Take two quarts of water and put in 4 ounces of Guiacum two ounces of Sarsaparilla one ounce of Saxifrage put it into a pipkin and infuse it upon the embers for 12 hours and then strain it and put it into the Ale assoon as it hath done working this being added makes the more Caudle For sore Eyes Take half a pint of red Rose-water put therein 4 penny-worth of Aloe succotrina as much Bolearmoniack in quantity let this lie 24 hours in steep then wash your eyes with it evenings and mornings with a Feather and it will help them A Sirrup to strengthen the stomach and the brain and to make a sweet breath Take Rinds while they be new one pound of running water the value of 5 wine pints then seeth it unto 3 pints then strain it and with one pound of Sugar seeth it to a syrrup and when you take it from the fire put to it four grains of Musk. For the burning in the back Take the juice of Plantain and Womans milk being of a Woman with Child put thereto a spoonful of Rose-water and wet a fine cloth in the same and so lay it to your Back where the heat is A very good Medicine to stay the Vomiting Take of Spear-Mints Worm-wood and red Rose leaves dried of each half a handful of Rye-bread grated a good handful boyl all these in red Rose-water and Vinegar till they be somewhat tender then put it into a linnen cloth and lay it to the stomach as hot as you can endure it heating it 2 or 3 times a day with such as it was boyled in For weakness in the Back Take Nep and Clary and the Marrow of an Oxes back chop them very small then take the yolks of 2 or 3 Eggs and strain them all together then fry them use this 6 or 7 times together and after it drink a good draught of Bastard or Muscadine To make a Cap for the pain and coldness of the Head. Take of Storax and Benjamine of both some 12 penny-worth and bruise it then quilt it in a brown paper and wear it behind on your head To make pectoral Rouls for a Cold. Take 4 ounces of Sugar finely beaten and half an ounce of fearced Liquorish 2 grains of Musk and the weight of two pence of the syrrup of Liquorish and so beat it up to a perfect paste with a little syrrup of Hore-hound and a little Gum-dragon being steeped in Rose-water then roul them in small Rouls and dry them and so you may keep them all the year For the Running of the Reins Take the pith of an Oxe that goeth down the back a pint of red Wine and strain them together through a cloth then boyl them a little with a good quantity of Cinnamon and a Nutmeg and a large Mace a quantity of Ambergreece drink this first and last daily For Sun-burn Take the juice of a Lemmon and a little Bay-salt and wash your hands with it and let them dry of themselves wash them again and you shall find all the spots and stains gone For a Pin and Web and redness in the Eye Take a pint of white Roseâ—water half a pint of White-winâ— as much of Lapis Calaminaris as Walnut bruised put all these in glass and set them in the Sun oâ— week and shake the glass everâ— day then take it out of the Sun and use it as you shall need A special Medicine to preserve the Sight Take of brown Fennel Honey suckles of the hedge of wild Dalâ— sie-roots picked and washed anâ— dried of Peal-wort of Eye-brighâ— of red Roses the white clippeâ— away of each of these a handfuâ— dry gathered then steep all thesâ— herbs in a quart or 3 pints of thâ— best White-wine in an earthenâ—pot and so let it lie in steep 2 or â— days close covered stirring it â— times a day and so still it with â— gentle fire making two distilâ—lings and so keep it for your useâ— A proved Medicine for the Yellow Jaundies Take a pint of Muscadine a pretty quantity of the inner bark of a Barbery tree 3 spoonfuls of the greenest goose dung you can get and take away all the white spots of it lay them in steep all night on the morrow strain it and put to it one grated Nutmeg one penny-worth of Saffron dried and very finely beaten and give it to drink in the morning To make Pectoral Rouls Take one pound of fine Sugar of Liquorish and Annise seed two spoonfuls Elecampane 1 spoonful of Amber and Coral of each a quarter of a spoonful all this must be very finely beaten and searced and then the quantity that is set down must be taken mix all these powders together well then take the white of an Egg and beat it with a pretty quantity of Musk then take a brazen mortar very well scoureâ— and a spoonful or two of the Powâ—ders and drop some of the Egg 〈◊〉 it so beat them to a paste the make them in little rouls and laâ— them on a place to dry A plaister for a sore Breast Take crums of white bread thâ— tops of Mint chopped small anâ— boyl them in strong Ale and makâ— it like a poultess and when it 〈◊〉 almost boyled put in the powdeâ— or Ginger and oyl of Tyme so spread it upon a cloth it wilâ— both draw and heal A Medicine for the dead Palsie and for them that have lost their speech Take Borage leaves Marrigold leaves or flowers of each a good handful boyl it in a good Ale Posset the Patient must drink a good draught of it in the morning and sweat if it be in the arms or legs they must be chafed for an hour or two when they be grieved and at meals they must drink of no other drink till their speech come to them again and in winter if the herbs be not to be had the seeds will serve An approved Medicine for an Ach or Swelling Take the flowers of Cammomil and Rose leaves
of each of them a like quantity and seeth them in White-wine and make a Plaister thereof and let it be laid as hot as may be suffered to the place grieved and this will ease a pain and asswage the swelling An approved Medicine for a stinking Breath Take a good quantity of Rosemary leaves and flowers and boyl them in White-wine and with a little Cinnamon and Benjamin beaten in powder being put thereto let the Patient use to wash his mouth very often therewith and this will presently help him A good Broth for one that is weak Take part of a Neck of Lamb and a pretty running Fowl and set them on the fire in fair spring water and when it boyleth scum it well so done put in two large Mace and a few Raisins of the Sun stoned and a little Fennel root and a Parsly root and let them boyl if the party be grieved with heat or cold in the stomach if heat put in two handful of barley boyled before in two waters and some Violet leaves Sorrel Succory and a little Egrimony if cold put in Rosemary Thyme a little Marrigold leaves Borrage and Bugloss and boyl this from 4 pints to less than one A Receipt for Purging D. T. Take the leaves of new Sene 6 ounces of chosen Rubarb one ounce and half leaves of Sage and Dock roots of each one ounce of Barberries half an ounce Cinnamon and Nutmeg of each an ounce Annise-seeds and Fennel seeds of each six drachms of Tamarisk half an ounce Cloves and Mace of each half a drachm beat them into a gross powder and hang them in a linnen bag in six gallons of new Ale so drink it fasting in the morning and at night To comfort the stomach and help windiness and Rheum Take of Ginger one penny-worth Cloves 4 penny-worth Mace seven penny-worth Nutmeg 4 penny-worth Cinnamon 4 penny-worth and Galingal two penni-worth of each an ounce of Cubebs Corral and Amber of each 2 drachms of Fennel seeds Dill seed and Carraway seed of each one ounce of Liquorish and Annise seeds of each an ounce all beaten into fine powder 1 pound and a half of fine beaten Sugar which must be set on a soft sire and being dissolved the powders being well mixed therewith till it be stiff then put thereunto half a pint of red Rose-water and mix them well together and put it into a gally pot and take thereof first in the morning and last in the evening as much as a good Hasel Nut with a spoonful or two of red Wine To make a Callice for a weak person Take a good Chicken and a piece of the neck end of Lamb or Veal not so much as the Chicken and set them on the fire and when they boil and are well scummed cast in a large mace and the pieces of the bottom of a manchet and half a handful of French barly boiled in 3 waters before and put it to the Broth and take such herbs as the party requireth and put them in when the broth hath boiled half an hour so boil it from 3 and a half to 1 then cast it through a strainer and scum off all the fat so let it cool then take 20 good Jordan almonds or more if they be small and grind them in a mortar with some of the broth or if you think your broth too strong grind them with some fair water and strain them with the broth then set it upon a few coals and season it with some Sugar not too much and when it is almost boiled take out the thickest and beat it all to pieces in the mortar and put it in again and it will do well so there be not too much of the others flesh For the Gout Take 6 drams of Ciriacostine fasting in the morning and fast 2 hours after it you may roul it up in a Wafer and take it as Pills or in Sack as you conceive is most agreeable for the stomach this proportion is sufficient for a Woman take 8 drams for a man and take it every second day until you find remedy for it it is a gentle purge that works only upon winds and water The Poultess for the Gout Take a penny loaf of whitebread and slice it and put it in fair water 2 Eggs beaten together a handful of red Rose leaves 2 pennyworth of Saffron dryed to powder then take the bread out of the water and boyl it in a quantity of good milk with the rest of the ingredients and apply it to the place grieved as warm as you can well endure For them that cannot hear Put into their ears good dried Suet. A Soveraign water good for many Cures and the health of bodies Take a gallon of good Gascoign Wine White or Claret then take Ginger Galingal Cardomon Cinamon Nutmegs Grains Cloves Annise seeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds of each of them 3 drams then take Sage Mint red Rose leaves Thyme Pellitory Rosemary wild Thyme wild Marjoram Organy Pennymountain Pennyroyal Cammomil Lavendar Avens of each of them a handful then beat the spices small and the herbs and put all into the Wine and let it stand for the space of 12 hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first water by it self for it is best then will there come a second water which is good but not so good as the first the Virtues of this Water be these It comforteth the Spirit Vital and preserveth greatly the Spirit Vital and preserves the youth of man and helpeth all inward diseases coming of cold and against shaking of the Palsie It cureth the contract of sinews and helpeth the conception of the barren it killeth the worms in the belly it killeth the Gout it helpeth the tooth-ach it comforteth the stomach very much it cureth the cold Dropsie it breaketh the stone in the back and in the reins of the back it cureth the Canker it helpeth shortly the stinking breath and whosoever useth this water oft it preserveth them in good liking this water will be better if it stand in the Sun all the Summer and you must draw of the first water but a pint and of the second as far as it will run until the whole gallon of wine and herbs be all done out but the last water is very small and not half so good as the first if you do draw above a pint of the best water you must have all things more as is aforesaid To stench the bleeding of a wound Take a Hounds turd and lay it on a hot coal and bind it thereto and that shall stench bleeding or else bruise a long worm and make powder of it and cast it on the wound or take the ear of a Hare and make powder thereof and cast that on the wound and that will stench bleeding For spitting of blood after a fall or bruise Take Bettany Vervain Nose-bleed and 5 leaved grass of each alike and stamp them in a mortar and wring out
the juice of them and put to the juice as much Goats milk and let them seeth together and let him that is hurt drink of it 7 days together till the waxing of the Moon and let him drink also Osmory and Comfry with stale Ale and he shall be whole For to heal him that spitteth Blood. Take the juice of Bettony and temper that with good milk and give the sick to drink four days and he shall be whole For to know whether one that hath the Flux shall live or die Take a penny weight of Tresoile seed and give him to drink in Wine or water and do this 3 days and if it cease he shall live with the help of Medicine if not he shall die For to stench the bleeding of a Vein Take Rue and seeth it in water and after stamp it in a Mortar and lay it on the Vein then take Lambs wooll that was never washed and lay that thereon and that shall stench bleeding For a Vein that is evil smitten Take Beans and peel away the lack and seeth them well in Vinegar and lay them on the Vein hot in manner of a Plaister For one that pisseth Blood. Take and seeth Garlick in water till the third part be wasted away let him drink of the water and he shall be whole For a woman travailing with Child Take and give her Tittany to drink in the morning and she shall be delivered without peril or else give her Hysop with water that is hot and she shall be delivered of the child although the child be dead and rotten and anon when she is delivered give her the same without Wine or bind the herb Argentine to her nostrils and she shall be soon delivered or else Polipody and stamp it and lay that on the womans foot in manner of a Plaister and she shall be delivered quick or dead or else give her Savory with hot water and she shall be delivered Against surfeiting and digesting Take the bottom of a wheat loaf and toste it at the fire till it be brown and hard and then take a good quantity of Aqua vitae and put upon the same roasted and put it in a single linnen cloth and lay it at the breast of the Patient all night and with the help of God he shall recover and he shall vomit or purge soon after A water to comfort weak Eyes and to preserve the sight Take a gallon and a half of old wheat fair and clean picked from all manner of soil and then still it in an ordinary Still with a soft fire and the water that comes of it must be put in a glass then take half a pound of white Sugar-candy and bruise it in a mortar to powder and after 3 days when the water hath been in a glass then put in the powdered Candy then take an ounce of Lapis Tutia prepared and put it into the glass to the rest of the stuff then take an ounce of Camphire and break it between your fingers small and put it into the glass then stop the glass close and the longer it stands the better it will be For tender Eyes or for Children Take a little piece of white Sugar-candy as much as a Chesnut and put it into 3 or 4 spoonfuls of White-wine to steep then take it out again and dry it and when it is dry bruise it in a clean Mortar that tastes of no spice then put it upon a white Paper and so hold it to the fire that it may be thorow dry and then search it thorow a little sieve For hot and red Eyes Take slugs such as when you touch them will turn like the pummel of swords 12 or 16 shake them first in a clean cloth and then in another and not wash them then stamp them and put 3 or 4 spoonfuls of Ale to them and strain it through a dry cloth and give it the party morning and evening first and last For Corns Take fair water half a pint Mercury sublimate a pennyworth Allum as much as a Bean boil all these together in a glass Still till a spoonful be wasted and always warm it when you use it this water is also good for any Itch Tetter Ring-worm or Wart Searcloth for a Sore or Sprane or any swelling Take Vervain 7 ounces of Sires 7 ounces of Camphire 3 drams of oyl of Roses ten ounces let the Wax and this Oyl boyl till the Wax be melted then put in your Sires finely beaten stirring it on the fire till it look brown then put in the Camphire finely beaten and let it boyl 2 or 3 walms and then dip in your clothes A Poultess for a Swelling Take a good handful of Violet leaves and as much Grundsel of Chickweed and Mallows half a handful cut all these with a knife and so seeth them well in Conduit water and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted and so roul it sure and lay it to the swel'd place and shift it twice a day To make a strong water good for a Canker or any old Sore or to eat any lump of flesh that groweth Take of Celendine a handful of red Sage a handful and of Wood-bind leaves a handful shred all these together very small and steep them in a quart of White-wine and a pint of water letting it stand all night and on the morrow strain it and put therein of Borax and Camphire of each nine penny-worth and of Mercury four penâ—yworth and set them on a soft fire boyling softly for the space of an hour and when you will use it warm a little of it dip in it a cloth and lay it on the Sore or dip it in any Cotton To heal any Bruise Sore or Swelling Take two pound of Wax and two pound of Rosin and two pound and a half of butter and four spoonfuls of Flower and two good spoonfuls of Honey put in your Wax Rosin and your Butter altogether boyl all these together and clarifie it then put in two ounces of Carmerick and when it hath thus boyled a quarter of an hour put a little water in a dish and put it in and let it stand till it be cold and when you will use it you may melt it on a soft fire and put in your clothes and make a Searcloth and you may spread it Plaister-wise to heal any wound A Medicine for any wound old or new Take a pint of Sallet Oyl and 4 ounces of Bees Wax and two ounces of Stone pitch and two ounces of Rosin and two ounces of Venice Turpentine and one pennyworth of Frankincense and a handful of Rosemary tops and a handful of Tutsan leaves and a handful of Plantain leaves these herbs must be stamped and the juice of them put to the things aforesaid and let them boyl together about a quarter of an hour or thereabouts this being done put it into an earthen pot and when it is cold you may use it as you have occasion and keep it a year
it and if the Wound bleed wipe it and make it clean washing it with White-wine or water then lay the said juice upon the wound and the herb whereof you take the juice upon it then make your band and let it abide on a whole day and you shall see a wonderful effect A Bag to smell unto for Melancholy or to cause one to sleep Take dry Rose leaves keep them close in a glass which will keep them sweet then take powder of Mints powder of Cloves in a gross powder and put the same to the Rose leaves then put all these together in a bag and take that to bed with you and it will cause you to sleep and it is good to smell unto at other times For spitting of Blood. Take the juice of Bettony tempered with Goats Milk and drink thereof three or four mornings together An Ointment for all sores cuts swellings and heat Take a good quantity of Smallage and Mallows and put thereto 2 pounds of Bores grease 1 pound of Butter and Oyl of Neats foot a quantity stamp them well together then fry them and strain them into an earthen pot and keep it for your use Salve for a new Hurt Take the whitest Virgins wax you can get and melt it in a pan then put in a quantity of Butter and Honey and seeth them together then strain them into a dish of fair water and work it in your hands and make it in a round Ball and so keep it and when you will use it work some of it between your hands and strike it upon a cloth and lay it upon the sore and it will draw and heal it Against the biting of a mad Dog and the rage or madness that followeth a man after he is bitten Take the blossoms or flowers of wild Thistles dried in the shade and beaten to powder give him to drink of that powder in White-wine half a Walnut shell full and in thrice taking it he shall be healed Against the grief in the Lungs and spitting of blood Take the Herb called of the Apothecary Vngula Caballina in English Colts foot incorporated well with the lard of a Hog chopped and a new laid Egg boyl it together in a pan and give it to the patient to eat doing this nine mornings you shall see a marvellous thing this is also good to make a man fat Against spitting of Blood by reason of some vein broken in the breast Take Mice dung beaten into powder as much as will lie upon a groat and put it in a half a glassful of the juice of Plantane with a little sugar and so give the patient to drink thereof in the morning before breakfast and at nighâ— before he go to bed continuinâ— the same it will make him wholâ— and sound For to cleanse the Head. Take Pellitory of Spain and chew the roots three days a good quantity and it will purge the head and do away the Ach and fasten the teeth in the gums A good remedy against the Pleurisie Open a white loaf in the middle new baked and spread it will with Treacle on both the halfs on the crum side and heat it at the fire then lay one of the halfs on the place of the disease and the other half on the other side of the body directly against it and so bind them that they loose not nor stir leaving them so a day and a night or until the Imposthume break which I have sometimes seen in two hours or less then take away the bread and immediately the Patient will begin to spit and void the putrefaction of the Imposthume and after he hath slept a â—ittle you shall give him meat and with the help of God he shall shortly heal For a Pin or Web in the Eye Take two or three Lice out of ones head and put them alive into the eye that is grieved and so close it up and most assuredly the Lice will suck out the Web in the eye and will cure it and come forth without any hurt A Remedy to be used in a fit of the Stone when the water stops Take the fresh shells of Snails the newest will look of a reddish colour and are best take out the Snails and dry the shells with a moderate heat in an oven after the bread is drawn likewise take Bees and dry them so and beat them severally into powder then take twice so much of the Bees powder as the Snails and mix them well together keep it close covered in a glass and when you use it take as much of this powder as will lie upon a six-pence and put into a quarter of a pint of the distilled water of Bean flowers and drink it fasting or upon an empty stomach and eat nor drink nothing for 2 or 3 hours after This is good to cause the party to make urine bring away the gravel or stone that causeth the stopping hath done very much good A Syrrup for the pain in the Stomach Take 2 good handfuls of young Rue boyl it in a quart of good White-wine Vinegar till it be half consumed so soon as it is through cold strain it and put to every pint of the liquor a pound and a quarter of loaf-sugar and boil it till it come to a Syrrup when you use it take a good spoonful of this in the morning fasting and eat nor drink nothing for 2 or 3 hours after It is good for pain in the stomach that proceeds of windy vapours and is excellent good for the Lungs and obstructions of the Breast Receipts for bruises approved by the Lady of Arundel Take black Jet beat it to powder and let the Patient drink it every morning in beer till it be well Another for the same Take the sprigs of Oak trees and put them in paper roast them and break them and drink as much of the powder as will lie upon a six-pence every morning untill the Patient be well To cause easie labour Take 10 or 12 days before her looking 6 ounces of brown sugar-candy beaten to powder a quarter of a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned 2 ounces of Dates unstoned sliced half an ounce of Annise seeds bruised a quarter of an ounce of Cowslip flowers one dram of Rosemary flowers put them in a fine lawn bag with a flint stone that it may sink into a pottle of White-wine let it steep 24 hours and after take of it in the morning and at 4 in the afternoon and in the evening the quantity of a wine glass full A Cordial for the Sea. Take 1 ounce of syrrup of Clove-Gilliflowers 1 dram of Confectio Alchermes an ounce and a half of Borrage water and the like of Mint-water 1 ounce of Mr. Mountfords water and as much of Cinnamon water temper all these together in a Cordial and take a spoonful at a time when you are at Sea. A Plaister to strengthen the Back Take 8 yolks of Eggs new laid 1 ounce of Frankincense beaten
strong Wine-vinegar half a dozen of Egg-shells and all beaten very small one handful of white Salt put all these together into an earthen pot stir and mingle them together exceeding well then as much Bean-flower or wheat-flower as will thicken it plaister-wise then with your hand strike it on the grieved place once a day and by Gods help it will ease any sore that cometh by means of striking wrinching bruising or other kind of swelling that proceedeth of evil humours Balm water for a Surfeit Take two gallons of strong Ale and 1 quart of Sack take 4 pound of young Balm leaves and shred them then take 1 pound of Annise-seeds and as much Liquorish beaten to powder put them all into the Ale and Sack to steep 12 hours put it into a Limbeck and so still it it is good for a surfeit of choler for to comfort the heart and for an Ague A Restorative Water in sickness the Patient being weak Take 3 pints of very good new milk and put thereto one pint of very good red Wine the yolks of 21 Eggs and beat them together that done put in as much fine Manchet as shall suck up the Milk and Wine then put the same into a fair Stillory and still it with a soaking fire and take a spoonful of this water in your Pottage or drink and this in 1 or 2 Months will prevent the Consumption To make a Caudle to prevent the Lask Take half a pound of unblanched Almonds stamp them and strain it in a quart of Ale and set it on the fire then take the yolks of four Eggs and make it for a Caudle and so season it with a good quantity of Cinnamon and Sugar and eat it every morning at breakfast For one that cannot make water and to break the Stone Pare a Reddish root and slice it thin put it into a pint of White-wine and let it infuse 6 or 7 hours then strain it and set it on the fire and put thereto 1 Parsley root and one spoonful of Parsley seed and half a handful of Pellitory of the wall and seeth it until half be wasted and give it luke-warm to drink A Diet against Melancholy Take Sene 8 ounces Rubarb six drams Polipody of the Oak Sâ—rsaparilla and Madder roots of each four ounces Annife-seeds Fennel seeds Epithymum of each 1 ounce Mace Cloves and Nutmegs of each 2 ounces Egrimony Scabious and red Dock roots of each 1 handful make them all small and put it into a long narrow bag or boulter hang it in a vessel of Ale that containeth 6 gallons when it is a week old drink it morning and evening for the space of one fortnight keep you all that time warm and a good diet A Syrrup to open the Liver Take Lungwort Maidenhair Egrimony Scabious of each one handful Chamepitis Hysop of each a dozen drops Endive and Succory of each 3 or 4 leaves of young Fennel and Parsley of each one root one stick of Liquorish one spoonful of Barberries clean washed one spoonful of Annise seeds 20 Raisins of the Sun stoned boyl all these in a pottle of Water to a quart then strain it and put thereto of the best Sugar one quarter of a pound Conserve of violets one ounce and so boyl it as long as any scum arise then strain it again and use this very warm For one that cannot make water Take the seeds of Parsley of red Fennel of Saxifrage of Carraways of the kernel of Hip berries of each a like quantity put in some powder of Jet mingle these being beaten to powder well together and drink it in stale Ale lukewarm To make Aqua Composita Take of Annise-seeds and Liquorish bruised of each half a pound Thyme and Fennel of each half a handful Calamint 2 handfuls Coriander and Carraway seeds bruised of each two ounces Rosemary and Sage of each half a handful infuse these a whole night in 3 gallons of red Wine or strong Ale then still it in a Limbeck with a soft fire An Ointment for a Swelling Take of Marsh Mallows of wormwood of Smallage of each one handful boyl it with one pound of the grease of a barrow Hog until it be very green then strain it and keep it very close Lady Pawlet A Plaister for the Back Take half a pint of Oyl of Roses four ounces of white Lead ground into fine powder put your oyl into a clean Posnet and set it on the fire and when it is warm put in your white Lead ever stiring it then put into it of your Wax one quart stir it until it be black then take it from the fire and in the cooling put thereto two pennyworth of Camphire of white sanders and yellow sanders of each the weight of four pence fine Bole Terra sigillata of each 2 penniweight in fine powder all still stirring it till it be almost cold and so make it up in rouls use it as need requires for all weakness wasting or heat in the Kidneys Cranash To make Oyl of Swallows Take one handful of Mother-Thyme of Lavender-cotten and Strawberry leaves of each alike four Swallows feathers and all together well bruised 3 ounces of Sallet oyl beat the herbs and the Swallows feathers all together until they be so small that you can see no feathers then put in the oyl stir them well together and seeth them in a posnet and strain them through a Canvas cloth and so keep it for your use For a Thorn Fellon or Prick Take the juice of Fetherfew of Smallage of each one saucer full put to it as much of Wheat flower as will make it somewhat thick and put to it of good black sope the quantity of a Walnut mingle them together and lay them to the sore A Drink for one that hath a Rupture Take the Comfit otherwise called Bonesel a pretty handful of Woodbitten as much Bread Plantain and leaves of Cammock somewhat more than a handful of Vervain as much as of the Cammock of Dasie roots a small quantity of Elder tops or young buds the least quantity stamp all these together and put unto them being stamped one pint of pure White-wine then strain it and drink of it morning and evening one hour or more before breakfast or supper a good draught blood-warm If it be a sucking Child let the Nurse drink posset Ale of the aforesaid drink and let the Child suck immediately if he be an old body let him take it lying in his bed 9 days if it may be conveniently or otherwise to use no straining For a Lask or Flux Take one quart of red Wine as much running water one ounce of Cinnamon seeth these half away and give the Patient six spoonfuls to drink morning and evening if you think it be too harsh put in a piece of Sugar A Lotion Water for the Canker Take one gallon of pure Water four handfuls of Woodbine of Marigolds and Tetful of each two handfuls of Celendine Rue Sage
Walnut boyl these well together and strain it and put in half an ounce of Ginger beaten small For sore Eyes Take new Hens-dung out of the nest and put it into an Oven almost cold let it lie there all night and take the white of it and beat it being dried and take as much of the powder of Ginger finely beaten and put to that half in like quantity of Sugar-candy all which all which must be beaten very well and searced then put it into the sore eyes every night and in the morning and wash it out with water A Water for sore Eyes Take a pint of fair running water of wild Dasies and 3 leaved grace of each a good handful wash the herbs very clean in a Cullender and put them into a clean skillet of water let them boyl very well over the fire until the water look green then take a little piece of Allum and put into the water and when it is boyling then tast of the water and when it sticks to the mouth take as much honey as will make it very sweet then after it hath boyled a little while take it off the fire strain it and drop a little every night into the eyes An approved application against any Surfeit Take the bottom of a Muncornloaf cut it about an inch thick and as broad as the palm of your hand toast it very well then take of Sallade Oyl and Claret-wine of each a like quantity as much as will wet the toast well throughly warm it hot then put the toast into it when the toast is well soaked strew the powder of Cloves and Mace hereupon thick then apply it to the stomach of the Patient as warm as he can endure it it will purge upwards and downwards as often as you apply a fresh toast made as aforesaid that may be applied so often as any one findeth their stomach ill at ease although then it will not purge except in case of surfeit A Medicine against the Plague Take of the root called Set-well the quantity of half a Walnut and grate it of Treacle green one good spoonful of fair water 3 spoonfuls make all these more than lukewarm and so drink them off in bed and sweat six or seven hours and in your sweat drink small Posset Ale made of small drink as you need but not till an hour and half after the taking of the Potion and it will bring forth the Plague sore If you cast the Medicine you may take it the second third or fourth time by the whole half or less measure as your stomach will bear it if any do take it and thereupon happen presently amendment or a rising or sore you may think it to be the sickness for the nature of the Medicine is to prevent the Plague and in others to expell the Sore if it be not taken too late in which case the stomch will not brook it easily and after two or 3 times taking if you minister it to any let it be at their first sickness lest if their disease be other they may receive 〈◊〉 thereby Jelly of Frogs Take the Jelly of Frogs in March and still it in a Glass-still it is a good medicine to stop blood and for the heat and redness of the face and good to cure green wounds For the Tooth-ach Take Spearmints and ground-Ivy of each a handful and a good spoonful of Bay-salt stamp all these very well together and boyl them in a pint of the strongest Vinegar that you can get let these boyl all together until they come to a quarter of a pint then strain it and put it into a glass and stop it very close when your teeth do ake take a spoonful of it blood warm and hold it in your mouth on that side the pain is To make the Teeth stand fast Take Roots of Vervain in cold wine and wash the Teeth therewith For the perillous Cough Take white Hore-hound stamp it wring out the juice and mingle it with honey and seeth it and give it to the sick to drink or else Sack and Garlick seed and roast it in the fire and take away the peelings and eat the rest with Honey or else take Sage Rue Cummin and powder of Pepper and seeth all these together in honey and make thereof an Electuary and take thereof a spoonful in the morning and another at night For a man that hath no tast in Meat or Drink Take a pottle of clear water and a good handful of Dandilion and put it in an earthen pot and seeth it till it come to a quart and then take out the herbs and put in a good quantity of white Sugar till you think it be somewhat pleasant and then put it into a Vessel wherein it may cool and then take 20 or 30 Almonds blanch them and beat them in a mortar and when the water is cold put it to the Almonds and strain it through a clean Cipris bag without compulsion and if it be thick let it run through again and so keep it in a vessel and drink of it often at all times as you please To preserve a man from the Plague Take Aloe Apaticum and Aloe Succatrine fine Cinnamon and Myrth of each of them 3 drams Cloves Mace Lignum Aloe Mastick Bole Armoniack of each of them half a dram let all these things be well stamped in a Mortar then mingle them together and after keep them in some close vessel and take of it every morning 2 penny weight in half a glass full of White-wine with a little water and drink it in the morning at the dawning of the day and so may you by the grace of God go safely into all infection of the air and Plague For a Tetter or Ring-worm Take Mercury a quarter of an ounce Camphire 1 penny weight make them into powder and rub them in a fair Porrenger then take and mix them with the water of the Wine 4 or 5 spoonfuls stir them well together then put as much more water to that then strain it through a cloth and take Poppey seeds one quarter of an ounce beat that in a stone Mortar with a spoonful of water of the wine putting a little and a little till you have spent the quantity of a pint then put to it half an ounce of the Milk of Cokernut so mix them well together with your Receipt and strain them as you make Almond Milk through a fair cloth then keep it in a glass for your use To keep ones body loose whensoever you need Take two ounces of syrrup of Roses 1 ounces of Sene one penny-worth of Annise seeds one stick of Liquorish one pint of Posternwater seeth them all together till it seeth to half a pint then strain them forth then boyl the two ounces of syrrup of Roses and drink it warm For a red Face Take Brimstone that is whole and Cinnamon of either of them an even proportion by weight beat them into small powder searce
grains of this powder exhibited in a specifical vehicle to the proportion of 1 spoonful about 7 of the clock at night with the like Dose exhibited the next morning was within 3 days space perfectly recovered and went abroad 2. A Child aged about fourteen years being suddenly surprized with dangerous Fits and trembling of the heart with 12 grains of this Powder exhibited in a spoonful of Aqua Theriacalis was that very day recovered 3. A Stationers Child aged about five years being suddenly taken so ill that the Parents feared the life of their Child with ten grains of this Powder exhibited in a spoonful of Cordial spirit being laid down and well covered we suspected it would prove to be the small Pox became within 2 or 3 hours somewhat chearful and with this medicine continued once a day the Pox broke forth and the Child mended 4. A Boy aged about sixteen being taken with sudden qualms about his stomach and heart with ten grains of this Powder exhibited in a spoonful of Doctor Mountfords water upon his fit and the like quantity exhibited again when he went to bed was the next day recovered 5. A Child about three years old being troubled with grievous torments and gripings in the belly with wind with 9 grains of this Powder exhibited with ten drops of special Oyl against the Cholick in a spoonful of stomach Water was eased in few hours 6. A Child about 7 years old being troubled with Convulsion-Fits with ten grains of this powder mixed with spirit of Castor in a few spoonfuls of black Cherry water annointing the two neck veins near the ears with a few drops of oyl of Amber and Cloves was suddenly recovered of his Fit. 7. A Gentlewoman near forty years old being oppressed with crude and flatuous humours so that her friends thought her departing was with twelve grains of this powder and two drops of a Cordial Oyl exhibited in a spoonful of Cordial water being had to bed within three days recovered and followed her Domestick business 8. A Youth about twenty years old much oppressed with wind and crudities of the stomach with 12 grains of this powder exhibited in 2 drops of specifical Cholick oyl as in the fifth experiment with a Cordial water was speedily recovered 9. A young Maid about Eighteen years old troubled with fits of the Mother and Convulsive fits with twelve grains of this powder given her in a few spoonfuls of Piony water gathered and distilled in due season with a drop of oyl of Cinnamon and two of Amber mingled together being held upright before a warm fire within four hours recovered out of her fit and went up to her chamber though her teeth were set in her head and small appearance of life but that only her feet were warm was discovered in her 10. A Gentlewoman aged about fifty being very much troubled with flatuous and crude humours oppressing the stomach with sixteen grains of Gascon powder and with 3 drops of oyl of Oranges duly prepared exhibited in an ounce of Aqua Theriacalis being well shaken and mingled together being exhibited at two several times that is at night when she went to bed disposing for rest and betimes the next morning found much ease and comfort and gained some quiet rest that night and shortly recovered 11. A young Woman aged about four and twenty not without some suspicion of the Plague having a rumor long while arising on her groin with 3 several Doses of Gascons Powder exhibited at 3 evenings when she disposed for rest by 12 grains for every dose in a spoonful of Treacle water drinking every morning a spoonful of spirit of Saffron for those 3 days together was perfectly recovered and followed her domestick business These and many other Experiments have I with good success tried and with Gods blessing recovered divers several Patients This Powder is good against small Pox Measles spotted or purple Fever exhibited in specifical waters fit for their several diseases It is good in swoonings and passions of the heart arising from malignant vapours or old causes as also in the Plague or Pestilent Fevers always observing to keep the persons upright warm and well covered after their taking it The Dose of this powder in Children is from eight to twelve grains in persons more aged from twelve to fourteen grains but exhibit the Dose twice or thrice if need require In the Plague you may use a greater quantity with such medicines as are prescribed in the Child-bearers Cabinet and it will not be amiss to mingle it with some Aqua Theriacalis The Composition of the Oyl called Oleum Magistrale said to be invented by one named Aparithus a Spaniard being special good to cleanse and consolidate wounds especially in the Head. Take a quart of the best White-wine you can get of pure Oyl of Olives three pound then put thereto these flowers and herbs following of the flowers and leaves of Hypericon half a pound of Carduus Benedictus of Valerian of the leaf Sage of each a quarter of a pound if it be possible take the leaves and flowers of every one of these then let them all steep 24 hours in the aforesaid Wine and Oyl the next day boyl them in a pot well nealed or in a copper vessel over a soft fire until such time as the Wine be all consumed stirring it always with a spattle after you have thus done take it from the fire and strain it and put to the straining a pound and a half of good Venice Turpentine then boyl it again upon a soft fire the space of a quarter of an hour then put thereunto of Olibanum five ounces of Myrrh 3 ounces of Sanguis Draconis one ounce and so let it boyl till the Incense and Myrrh be melted then take it off and let it stand until it be cold then put it into a glass bottle and set it 8 or 10 days in the Sun and keep it for your use This Oyl the older it is the better it is it must be applied to the Patient wounded as hot as may be endured first washing the wound with White-wine boyled with a handful of Incense to comfort and wiping it clean with a linnen cloth before you dress it which must be if it come by any bruisings or bitings twice a day that is about eight of the clock in the morning in winter and at summer about nine in the morning and about four in the afternoon but if they be green wounds you shall not need to change it again until the next day neither need the Patient to observe any precise diet ADDITIONS A rare Searcloth with the Virtues TAke of oyl Olive one pound and a half red Lead one pound and a half of white Lead one pound Castle-soap 4 ounces put your oyl Olive in a Pipkin and put thereto your Oyl of Bays and your Castle soap seeth these over a gentle fire of embers till it be well mingled and melted together then strew a little
cool place it will keep good two or three years The Vertues are these The virtue of the said Balm is in all perfection good to cure all that is here under-written and the said oil is good to cure any wounds either inward or outward proved Being inward squirted into the said wounds warm and outward being applied with fine lint or linnen and anointing all the parts thereabouts 1. It doth not only take away the pain but it doth also keep it from inflammation and draweth forth also all broken bones or any thing else that may putrifie or fester if the Brains Heart Guts Liver be not touched it will heal in four or five times dressing if no other thing be applied thereunto 2. It healeth any burning or scalding by fire or water or by any other means it healeth any A most excellent Powder much used by a Person of Quality lately deceased with the Virtues Take Pearl Magistrale prepared Coral red and white prepared Amber prepared Harts-horn of each half an ounce Contra Yarva one ounce mingle them well together then take three ounces of the black claws of Crabs before they be sodden they must be taken in June or July the Sun being in Cancer mingle all well together then put to it four ounces of white sugar candy powdered and mingle with the sugar-candy Ambergreece Musk Citron-seed skinned ana ten grains beat the seeds Sugar-candy and Ambergreece by themselves very fine in a stone mortar all the rest must be passed through a fine Searce then make a strong gelly of Harts-horn being boiled with White-wine and infuse therein Saffron powdered two drams and with this Jelly perfume the powder being all mixt into a paste so make it up into little balls and set them in a warm Oven to dry and then put them up to your use the closer they be kept the better The Vertue of this powder is most excellent 1. For to bring out the Small-Pox or if they be come out take ten grains in Dragon-water each three hours for nine hours 2. For the Plague take ten grains in Dragon-water each three hours for nine hours and sweat and keep your self warm 3. For a Hectick take for nineteen days together six grains every morning in Borrage water 4. For a Consumption in Agrimony-water take six grains for 14 days together 5. For the Cough of the Lungs six grains in half Bettony and half Hysop-water for fourteen days 6. For an Ague or Fever for three days every third day take seven grains every three hours for nine hours in Carduus-water 7. For poison twelve grains boiled in a little Milk. 8. For a Woman that is sick after Labour take seven grains every three hours for nine hours in Agrimony water 9. There is no Unicorns horn comparable to it in contagious times it is good to take five grains every morning in a little Sack. 10. For the passion of the heart and Convulsion fits seven grains in Borrage-water and it is a great preserver of health working only as a Cordial and you may safely take ten twelve fourteen or sixteen or eighteen or twenty grains at once for a full Dose 11. And if it be a great Fever Small-Pox Plague Poyson or for a Woman in Labour put into every Dose three grains of Bezoar-Oriental How to strengthen the Back and to make one lusty Take half a pint of Malmsey and a handful of the pith of an Ox back but take the pith out from the skin then take four or five stalks of Artichoaks and take the pith out of them but first cut the stalks into pieces so long as your finger and then parboil them well and then put it to the other things and boil it gently to a Jelly and when you have done so let it be cold and then eat it upon the point of a knife morning and evening and at any time of the day so much as you shall think fitting and if you would have it pleasant make it sweet with white Sugar-candy but not with Sugar For one that cannot make his Water Take Thyme and stop it in Wine-vinegar one night or more then take of this three spoonfuls blood-warm after that you have eaten at morning noon and night How to help a stinking Breath that cometh from the Stomach Take two handfuls of Cummin seeds and beat them to powder and seeth it in a pottle of White-wine until half be boiled away and then give the party a good draught thereof first and last morning and evening as hot as he can suffer it and in fifteen or sixteen days it will help For the Sciatica or the Gout my Lord of Sussex Medicine called Flesh-Unguetors Take of Rosin half a pound of Perofin half a pound of Virgins-Wax four ounces of Olibanum four ounces of Mastick half an ounce of sheeps tallow or of Harts-tallow two ounces of Camphire three drams and of Turpentine three ounces The way to make it First beat all your Gums aforesaid every one by themselves then take your Tallow and your Wax and set them together on the fire that done put in your Rosin then your Olibanum and last of all your Mastick and when all is relented together over a soft fire of Coals then strain it through a thin Canvas cloth into a pottle of White-wine and then let them all boil together again until half the Wine be wasted and sod away then take it from the fire and let it cool then afterward when it is almost cold anoint your hands with the oil of sweet Almonds and work it up in rowls like wax rowls and in the time of the working thereof cast in your Camphire beaten in fine powder by it self alone this observed that before you put in your Camphire into the Mortar for to be beaten into powder you must always beat in the same Mortar two or three Almonds for else your Camphire will not be made into powder The ordering of the same Medicine First you must spread it upon a fine linnen cloth plaisterwise and so lay it upon every joynt where the pain is but before the laying of your Plaister you must anoint all your Joynts with the oil of Roses and the stuff of your Plaister must be half an inch thick and according unto the property of the same you must let it stick and cling where you lay it for the space of 9 or 10 days together notwithstanding it doth put you to some pain or itch in the mean time yet you must in any wise let it lie on still for it will both draw out the sinews by little small pimples and also heal it again and this one plaister must serve during all the time of your disease without any manner of renewing Prob. of witness by my Lord of Suffolk A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE ADDITIONS B. LUcanelions Balsom admirable for Wounds and many other things pag. 211 The Vertues 212. 213. 214. 215 Dr. Turcables green Balsom with its Vertue 224. 225. 226 How to