a swolne Face that is hurt by reason of some strange Scorching TAke the Juyce of Barba Jovis in English Singreene and rub your face with it twice or thrice a day You may doe the like with â—he Juyce of Purflaine but if your Face 〈…〉 â—oo much marred or hurt take forty or 〈◊〉 yolks of Egges and put them in a frying 〈…〉 upon a great fire and get some Oyle out of them wherewith you shall annoynt your â—â—â—e To make an aking Tooth fall out of himselfe TAke wheate flower and mixe it with the milke of the hearb called in Latine Herba Lactaria in French Tintamaille or Herbe Alerte in English Spurge that hath milke in it in Greeke Tithimales which is an Hearbe well enough knowne and thereof make as it were a paste or dow with the which you shall fill the hole of the Tooth and leave it in a certaine time and the tooth will fall out of it selfe And if you wash your mouth every moneth once with Wine wherein the roote of the said hearbe hath beene sodden you shall never have paine in your Teeth Also the decoction or powder of the flowers of a Pomegranate Tree being put in your mouth and betweene your Gums fasteneth Teeth To kill Lice and Nits in the Head TAke the powder or scraping of Harts horne and make the Patient to drinke it and there will no Lice nor Nits breed in his head but if you will straw the said powder upon his head all the Lice and Nits will dye To remedy or to helpe Blood-shotten eyes comming by any Rheume Fluxion or such other like cause TAke the tops or ends of Worme-wood which is an hearb well enough knowne and stampe it mixing it with the wâ—ite of an Egge and Rose-water and make thereof as it were a Plaister and spred it upon a linnen cloth which you may lay upon the eye wâ—ere the blood is or else upon both and doe this at night when you goe to bed and the next morning take it off and you shall see that tâ—is Plaister shall have drawne to it selfe all the bloud and all the rednesse that was in your Eyes and so you shall be quit of it For the Tooth-ache TAke the Rootes and Leaves of Chickweede and boyle them in water with the which you shall wash your mouth well and hold it in your mouth a certaine space and it will take away your paine To take away the Tooth-ache TAke Hysope and make thereof a decoction with Vineger and it being hot wash your mouth withall and the paine of the Teeth shall goe away The Hysope also being stampt and incorporated with Honey and a little Nitrina killeth the Wormes in a mans body Against the Crampe TAke and beat Brimstone and Vervine together and so binde it to your Arme or other place grieved and it shall helpe it for having the paine againe A Medicine to purge the Head TAke Masticke Peritory of Spaine tame Cressis Seede Cockle-seede Stavisacre both the kindes of neesing powder white and blacke Ginger Sinamond of each halfe a dram in fine-powder and mixed together and put it in a little bagge of fine linnen cloth and let the Patient hold one of these bagges in his mouth a good space but these bagges must first lye in Fuse a pretty while in Vineger and it will draw out Rheumes from the head wonderfully and when he hath done he must wash his mouth well with Wine or Ale A Medicine for a scald Head TAke Daysie Rootes and Ale and stampe them with as much May-butter as needs and annoynt the sore head therewith For the Head-Ache TAke a good handfull of Red-Rose leaves dryed and a good quantity of Cummin grossely bruised and a good handfull of Camomill grossely shred and a quantity of browne leavened Bread then mixe them and put it into a Linnen cloth then quilt it and set it into a hot Dish upon a Chafingdish and sprinckle the bagge with Rose-water and Vineger and turne it in the dish till it be as hot as may be suffered to be laid to the noddle of the Necke and let it be cold and so use another and keepe his head so hot as he may sweate For paine of the Head TAke Marjorom and presse out the Juyce of it and let the Patient take of it in his Nose For deafenesse in the Eares TAke the Juyce of Coleworts and mixe it with warme water and droppe it into thine Eares and it will helpe To make Honey of Roses called Mel Rosarum TAke foure pound foure ounces of Honey clarified and two pound of the Juyce of Red Roses and let them boyle together till it be like a Sirrope Another making thereof TAke a pottle and halfe a pinte of Honey well clarified with a pottle of white or red Wine two pound of Red-Rose leaves Boyle the Rose Leaves and Wine till halfe be wasted and then put in your Hony and let it boyle till it bee somewhat thicke and in colour like a Syrrope For the Pockes TAke the Juyce of Peny-Roiall and young Tansie and give the sicke party to drinke A true Medicine for the Jaundies TAke a handfull of Chery Leaves seeth them in a pinte of Milke and let them boyle well Then straine it and drinke a good draught thereof to Bedwards and in the morning fasting and the Jandies shall avoyd from you by siege or else drinke in the morning this following Take the wood of Bayberries pill the upper shell with the leaves from it and take the second shell that is yellow put thereof as much as a Walnut into a cloth and seeth it with a pinte of water let it be well boyled and let it coole and then driuke it this hath beene experimented For the Liver that is corrupted and wasted TAke a good quantity of Liverwort and bruise it a little and then seethe it in good strong Wort with a quantity of Ruberb and use this medicine and thou shalt be whole For heate in the Liver TAke the Juyce of sower Apples and sweet Apples of each a pound or more as much as you thinke best and two pounds of Sugar mingle these things together and let them boyle on a simple fire till it be thicke as a Syrrope and vse this course every day fasting with luke-warme water Remedies for the Collicke TAke Parcely Water-cresses Pellitory of the Wall unset Time of each a handfull a dish of sweet Butter let the Herbes be cleane washed and seethe them in a quart of running water let your water bee taken up against the streame and let them seethe till you make a Plaister thereof then temper them together with a handfull of Wheat branne and let the plaister bee layd to the Patients belly beneath the Navill and let him put in his pottage some Pellatory of the wall and when the Patient makes water straine it thorow a faire cloath and thereby ye shall know and perceive whether it doth him good or not and let him use this three or
halfe a pound Carab one ounce mixe all these in an Earthen dish on the fire with Oyle of Roses in forme of a Liquid Unguent and that yee shall lay upon the place grieved as hot as yee may suffer it and change it Morning and Evening and yee shall see it worke a marvailous effect Moreover when the Pelichie commeth forth a diseased let him bee folded in the same remedy very hot and in foure and twenty houres yee shall be holpe if yee be first well purged for this is a great secret which J have revealed This word Pelichy is as it were certaine spots like those which we call Gods tokens the which commonly come to those that have the Pestilent Feaver To make a maturative Plaister of great vertue This maturative doth open an Impostume without Instrument and paine And the order to make it is this TAke the yolkes of Egges two ounces white Salt finely ground one ounce Hens dung that is liquid and red like Honey one ounce Mixe all these well together without fire and when you will bring an Impostume to seperation and breake it lay on this Plaister Morning and Evening a little and in short time it will draw forth the Impostume and breake it and heale it without any other helpe Keepe this as a great secret for J have oftentimes made proofe thereof and it never failed A Plaister called Bessilicon TAke white Waxe Rozen Pine Cowes suet Stone-pitch Turpentine Olibany of each of these one ounce and of good Oyle as much as will serve the turne and make it into a Plaister Another Plaister for the same TAke Balme Bittony Pimpernell of each of them a handfull lay them in a Fuse in a pottle of white-wine Vinegar two dayes then let them be boyled strongly till the third part be consumed put thereto Rozen one pound white Waxe foure ounces Masticke one ounce Turpentine one pound and so make your Plaister The Mellilote Plaister TAke Mellilote tenne handfuls let it be small stamped and laid in Fuse foure dayes in a pottle of white Wine and then boyl it strongly till the third part bee consumed then let it coole and put thereto Rozen two pound Perosine one pound and Waxe one pound Deere suet one pound Masticke one ounce Frankensence foure ounces and so make your Plaister according to Art The Musilage Plaister TAke March Mallow rootes Fenecricke and Linseed of each one pound lay them in fuse in three quarts of water three dayes then boyle it over the fire a little and so straine it to a Musilage and then take thereof one pound and of Lytarge of Lead foure pound of good Oyle sixe pound put all over the fire in a great vessell and so let it boyle with a soft fire ever stirring it till it come to the forme of a Plaister accordingly Another Plaister for the same TAke the Juyce of Bittony Planten and Smalledge of each one pound Waxe Rozen and Turpentine of each one pound Pitch foure ounces and so make your worke and dissolve it to a Plaister A Plaister of Camphere TAke common Oyle one pound Waxe foure ounces Seruse one ounce Camphere one ounce and so make it into a Plaister it is a very soveraigne thing A Spiced Plaster TAke white Waxe one pound Perosine one pound Colophony foure ounces Rozen one pound Deere suet one pound Cloves and Mace foure ounces Saffron one ounce red Wine and water of each a quart boyle these altogether till they come to a Plaister A Plaister called Apostolicum TAke white Lead and red of each one pound Oyle foure pound stirre them altogether and boyle them with a soft fire to the forme of a Plaister according to Art A Drying Plaister TAke Oyle of Roses Deeres suet of each one pound Terra Sigillata Lapis Calaminaris Seruse of each one pound Sanguis Draconis three ounces and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine foure ounces Camphere halfe an ounce and so by Art make a Plaister A Plaister for the Gowt Arteticke TAke Oxium and Saffron of each one dram in fine powder tempered in the yolkes of three Egges hard boyled and oyle of Violets or Roses Plaister-wise applyed to the painfull place upon a little sheeps leather and let it lye on till it come off of it selfe Probatum est A Plaister to stake paine TAke crummes of white Bread foure ounces temper them with sweet Milke and the yolkes of foure Egges hard boyled and take of oyle of Roses three drams and in the making put thereto a little Turpentine and Saffron two drams in fine powder and so use it A Plaister against the coldnesse of the Nerves TAke Waxe two ounces Euforbium Castoris of each halfe an ounce Sheepes suet and Pitch of each one ounce Turpentine a dram and so make your worke according to Art A good cold drying Plaister TAke Oyle one pound Waxe ten ounces Seruse and Lytarge of Gold of each foure ounces boyled with a soft fire in a Furnace will turne to a Plaister A red Plaister TAke Waxe Deeres suet of each one ounce Lapis Calaminaris Bole-armony of each one dram Turpentine one ounce Camphere a dram mixe all these together and so make a Plaister A blacke Plaister TAke of Waxe and Oyle of each a pound Ceruse and Litarge of each five ounces Terra Sigillata one ounce boyle altogether till it be blacke and like a Plaister A blacke Plaister for old Sores TAke Litarge of Gold and Ceruse of each one ounce the Cinders of Jron Quilled story Fererie fixe drams Oyle of Roses foure ounces new Waxe one ounce strong Vineger two drams mixe them well together and so make it according to Art A Plaister to dissolve hard things TAke Gum Armoniack Serapine Bdelium Oppoponacie of each one ounce oyle of Spike five drams Turpentine two drams the mell of Fennicrick and Linseed of each one ounce the mell of Lupianes as much as needs and so make your Plaister Another blacke Plaister for the same TAke Oyle one pound Waxe and Ceruse of each halfe a pound and so make a Plaister according to Art A Plaister against old Sores TAke Oyle twelve ounces Litarge of Gold halfe a pound Vineger sixe ounces Ceruse Colophonie Perosine Pitch Goates Suet of each two ounces Dragons bloud Terra sigillata of each one ounce Waxe two ounces and a halfe and so with a soft fire make a Plaister it is an approved Remedy A cooling Plaister TAke Litarge of Lead one pound Oyle foure pound wine Vineger two pound and so boyle them to a Plaister and apply it A Plaister to draw an Impostume TAke Galbanum and Gum Armoniack of each one pound dissolved in Vineger and foure pound of Suger for foure dayes together and then boyled untill the Vineger bee consumed with a soft fire and so make your plaister A Plaister made for the Lord Marke de Wise TAke Virgin-wax two pound of Perosine so much Galbanum and Gum-armoniack of each halfe a pound Pitch foure ounces Deeres suet and Ceruse of
each halfe a pound Cloves and Mace foure ounces Saffron to the weight of twelve pence red Wine and water of each two pintes boyle all these things together till the liquor be wasted away and so make a Plaister thereof it is very good for to breake an Impostume The white Musilage Plaister TAke pure good Oyle eight pound Litarge of Lead five pound and a halfe Musilage of March mallow rootes of Fennicrick and Linseed two pound boyle all these together to the forme of a Plaister with a soft fire ever stirring it well then take and wash it in three or foure waters and it will be very white it is good to ripen and draw A Spiced Plaister for the same TAke Wax and Perosine of each one pound Cressine halfe a pound Colophonie two ounces Frankinsence and Goats suet of each foure ounces Cloves and Mace Oyle of Turpentine and Oyle of Spike of each one ounce Saffron halfe an ounce red Wine two pound dissolve them over a soft fire and so make your Plaister An excellent Plaister for old Sores TAke Litarge of Gold one pound Oyle of Roses two pound white Wine a pint Urine a pint Vineger half a pint Waxe Frankensence and Myrrhe of each two drams set them on the fire to boyle and so make your Plaister according to art A Sparadrope for the same TAke oyle of Roses a pound white Waxe three ounces Litarge of Gold foure ounces boyle all these in forme of a Plaister A very good drying Plaister TAke of Jacobs Plaister halfe a pound of Vnguentum Lapis Caluminaris one pound mixe them and so make a Plaister Oliver Wilsons Plaister TAke a pottle of Oyle Wax two pound and a quarter white Lead in powder 2. pound of Storax callamitick one ounce Bengawin one ounce Labdanum one ounce Mastick one ounce of Camphere foure drams dissolve them and so make a Plaister To make another Sparadrope TAke Oyle a quart white Lead one pound the grounds of Urine foure ounces of white Copperas two ounces white Wax three ounces Vineger a pint Camphere three penny-worth boyle all these together and so make a plaister To make the Mellilote Plaister TAke Rozin eight pound Wax two pound Sheepes suet one pound the juyce of Mellilote a gallon cleane strained let your Rozen and Sheepes suet be molten and cleane strained into a faire panne and then put to your juyce of Mellilote and set it over the fire and stirre it well together till it be like a plaister then take it off the fire and put unto it a pottle of red Wine by a little and a little ever stirring it till it bee almost cold and then labour it well in your â—ands for feare of heaving out the Wine and so make it up in rolles and keepe it for your use To make a Seare-cloath TAke Waxe one ounce and a dram of Euforbium and temper it with oyle Olive at the fire and make thereof a Seare-cloath to comfort the Sinewes To make a Plaister called Flowesse TAke Rozen and Perosine of each halfe â— pound Virgin-wax and Frankensence of each a quarter of a pound Mastick one ounce Harts-tallow a quarter of a pound Camphere two drams beat all these to a powder and boyle them together and straine it thorow a faire cloth into a pottle of white Wine and boyle them all againe together and letting it coole a little then put to it foure ounces of Turpentine and stirre them all together till it be cold and so make it in rowles according to Art Another Plaister for the same TAke two pound of Waxe two pound of Rozen foure pound of Perosine a quarter of a pound of Deeres suet two ounces of Cloves two ounces of Mace a quarter of an ounce of Saffron one pound and a halfe of Olibanon and a Gallon of red Wine and put all these into a faire Panne and set it over the fire foure or five houres till yee suppose that the Wine be sodden away and then take it off the fire and stirre it till it be cold and rowle it in balls and keepe itto use To make the Playster Occinicione TAke a quarter of a pound of Comin as much Waxe as much Pitch as much Rozen and of Saffron one ounce and a halfe of Masticke one quarterne Galbanum halfe a quarterne Turpentine one ounce Incense halfe an ounce Myrrhe but a quarter Sal-armoniac a little first take the Salt and let it lye in good Vineger and stamped in a Morter till it be well moystned all Night and more then take the Vineger and the Gums therein and set it on the fire till the Gummes be well melted then straine it and set it on the fire againe and let it seeth untill the Vineger the second part thereof be wasted and so that there be but the third part left then melt the Pitch and scumme it and put thereto the liquour that is left then melt the Waxe and put it to the Rozen and the Turpentine and then take the Masticke Incense and Myrrhe but looke that all the Gums be beaten into powder before that you cast it in and see that you stirre it apace when that they be well molten and medled looke that you have a faire Bason of hot water and sodainely cast it in then wring it out of the water then chafe it against the fire as if it were Waxe and annoynt your hands with oyle of Bay and looke yee have the Saffron in fine powder and the other that was not put in before and when you have put in all the eight Powders make it up in Rowles this is an excellent Plaister for divers occasions To make a Plaister Inplumhie TAke Oyle one pound Litarge halfe a pound and looke that the Litarge bee fine then set it on the fire and let it boyle untill it waxe browne but not so long that it waxe blacke then take it from the fire and make it in Balles and so keepe it A Plaister of Camphere TAke Camomill oyle halfe a pound white Waxe foure ounces Ceruse one pound Camphere halfe an ounce and so make your Plaister To make a noble Plaister that as soone as thâ— Plaister is warme and laid to the place thâ— paine will be gone and it is called a Spicâ— Plaister TAke Waxe two pound Deere Suet one pound Perosine foure pound Cloves and Mace two Ounces Saffron one ounce Rozen two pound Pitch foure ounces now melt that which is to be molten and powder and serse that which is to be powdered and sersed and melted altogether over a soft fire except your Cloves and Saffron and then take a quart of red Wine and by a little and a little poure it to the salve stirring it well together and when it is cleane molton straine it into a cleane Pan and then put to it your powder of Cloves Mace and Saffron casting it abroad upon the said Ingredience and stirring it well till it be cold then make it into rolles This is a very comfortable Plaister To
certaine learned men which reckon that the hote breath or vapour that riseth up from the Bathe is much more mightier then the water of the bath is and it is true therefore it were well that they which have any Dropsie and especially a Tympanie should sit over such a place of the Bath that they might receive into the moyst diseased place the vapour of the bathe either by an holed stoole or by some other such like manner of thing well devised for that purpose If any poore man by the heate of the drynesse of the Bathe cannot sleepe enough let him eate Lettice or Purslaine or the seedes of Poppy called Chesbowle in some places of England or let him eate Suger and Poppy-seed together let this be done at night Hee may also if he cannot get the aforesaid things seethe Violet leaves and Mallowes and bathe the uttermost parts with that they are sodden in These are remedies for poore folke that are not able to have a Physitian with them to give them counsell Let the rich use such remedies as their Physitians shall counsell them If any poore man be vexed with any unsufferable thirst let him take a little Barley and seethe it long and put a little Suger unto it or let him take the juyce of an Orange or take a little of it with a little Suger If any poore man catch the Head-ache let him take a little Wormelade if he can get it or Coriander Comfits or if he can get none of these let him take the white of an Egge and beate it with Vineger and Rosewater or with the broath of Violets or Nightshade or with any of them and a little Vineger and lay them in a cloath unto the temples of his head and forehead If any poore man be burned too much let him take a Glister made with Mallowes Beetes and Violet leaves or let him seethe Prunes with Barley a good while and Raisins putting a way the stones and eate of them or let him use Suppositories sometimes made of rootes either of Beetes of Flower-de-Luce or of white Sope or of salt Bacon If any man sweat too much let him use colder meates than he used before with Vineger or Verjuyce and let them also eate Sheepes-feete and Calves-feete with Verjuyce or Vineger If any man have the burning of his water when he maketh it let him an houre after he is come out of the Bathe annoynt his Kidneyes with some cold Oyntment as is Infrigidus Galeni or if you cannot come by that let him seethe Violet leaves Poppy-heads Raisins Licorice and Mallowes together straine them and put some Suger in the broath and drinke of it a draught before Supper If any be troubled with the Rheume which he hath caught in the Bath let him parch or bristle at the fire Nigella Romana and hold it in a cloath to his Nose and let him set cups or boxing glasses to his shoulders without any scorching and let him drinke sodden water with Barley and with a little Suger If any man have any appetite to eate let him use the sirrups of Ribles or Barberies or the sirrup of unripe Grapes or use Verjuyce or Vineger to provoke appetite in due measure and now and then if ye can get it let him take a little Marmalade or of the sirrup of Mynts or Worm-wood Raman These have I written for poore folke Those that are rich by the advice of the Physitians may have other Remedies enough against the fore-named accidents that chance in the time of their bathing If thou be rid of thy disease by thy bathing offer unto Christ in thy pure members such offering of Thankesgiving as thou mayest spare and give him hearty thankes both in word minde and deed and sinne no more but walke in all kindnesse of life and honesty as farre as thou shalt be able to doe as long as thou shalt live hereafter But if thou be not healed the first time be patient and live vertuously till the next bathing time and then if it be to the glory of God and for the most profitable thou shalt the next bathing time be healed by the grace of God of whom commeth all health both of body and soule Some if they be not healed whilest they be in the bathing cry out both upon the Bath wâ—ich healeth many other of the same Diseases that they are sicke of and of the Physitian also that counselled them to goe to the Bathe such men must learne that they must not appoint God a time to heale them by the Bathe and that when as the Bath hath dryed up and washed by Sweating and made subtill through blowing the evill matter of the disease that it is one dayes worke or two to make good humours to occupie the place of such evill humours as have beene in them before Therefore let such be patient and for the space of a Moneth keepe the same dyet that they kept at the Bath and if God will they shall have their desire but not onely these but all others that are healed for a moneth at the least the longer the better must keepe the same dyet that they kept in the Bath as touching meate and drinke and if it be possible also from the use of all Women When as you goe homewards make but small Journeyes and beware of surfetting and of cold and when you are at home use measurable Exercise daily and honest mirth and pastime with honest company and beware of too much study or carefulnesse And give God thankes for all his Guifts Thus much for the Bath Of Herbes and Drugs Hereafter followeth divers Medicines Remedies and Cures to heale divers Diseases curable by the grace of God as also the Nature and property of certaine Herbes Plants and Drugs belonging thereunto PART IX And first of Marte Mylletare to stop the Flux of the body DIvers times the Flux of the Body proceedeth of superfluous heat contained in the Stomacke the which maketh a continuall solution inwardly as yee may see by Experience of those that are troubled therewith for so long as the cause is not taken away all their meat doth turne into the matter the which if it be so that is true which J doe say That the Fluxes are a distemperance of the body caused of hot and corrupt humours in the Stomacke and therefore if thou wilt cure it it were necessary to extinguish the heat and so take away the corruption the which thou shalt doe with the rednesse of Marte Mylletare as is hereafter following for that is the most soveraigne remedy that can be found First yee shall take twelve graines of Petra Philosophalla with half an ounce of Mel Rosarum and then take foure mornings together one scruple of Marte Mylletare with half an ounce of Suger Rosate and therewith thou shalt worke very strange effects Also for Perbreaking and for Flux seethe Roses in Vineger or Tamarindes or Galls and while it is hot wet therein Wooll and lay it
the space of sixe or seven houres Probatum est Another Take a pinte of Ale and put therein one penny-worth of long Pepper and foure or five field Daysie rootes and then seeth the same well together and then let the Patient drinke the same as hote as he may â—uffer it and walke till he sweat if he be able or else layd downe and covered very warme that he may sweat well Also Burre-leaves and Baysalt beaten together and bound about the wrist of the Patient is good for the same Another Take a quart of Red-wine and a quart of Milke and still them and give it to the Patient to drinke when the Axis come upon him but the milke must be taken as it commeth from the Cow For a cold Ague TAke a spoonefull of Vineger a spoonefull of Aqua Vitae and a little Treacle with long Pepper and warme this blood-warme and so let the sick person drinke it when the fit commeth and let him walke if he be able if not laid downe and made to sweate A Plaister to take the Ague or any other ache out of a Womans Brest in the time of her Child-bearing if it come TAke the yolke of an Egge and a little quantity of Wheate flower and a quantity of Honey as much as the yolke of the Egge and beat these together till it be like a Salve then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Brest that is grieved and it will heale it without doubt Probatum est To kill the Paulsie DRinke the roote of Valerian in powder and it will destroy the Palsey so that ye eate no Hogge flesh A remedy for the Dropsie SCrape an Elder roote very cleane and breake it in many pieces or shred it into white Wine and let it steepe therein then drinke the Wine and it will heale your Disease whole Against stopping of the Pipes TAke Hisope Mintes Rose-mary Daiâ—ies and Consond of each like quantity and seeth them with Ale in Lycorice and use it Morning and Evening Against Hoarsenesse TAke a good quantity of Verven and seeth it with Lycorice in faire water then straine the water and use no other drink with yonr meate untill you find remedy For the yellow Jaundise TAke the reddest Docke rootes that ye can get and being washed cleane put them into a vessell of good Ale and when it is stale let the diseased drinke no other drink to his meate but Ale and it shall helpe For Wormes in the Bellie AGainst the Wormes in the Bellie take Onyons and pill them cut or slice them small powre Spring-water over them Let it stand all Night and in the Morning drinke that water and it driveth away all wormes powre the same water upon the Earth where the Wormes are and within halfe an houre they will all creepe out of the Earth Another Likewise if one eate Garlicke Fasting it killeth and driveth out Wormes out of the Body Or else drinke distilled water of Knot-grasse or Shanie-grasse the same killeth wormes also how beit it worketh more in young then in old folkes Another Take Mares-milke and drinke it as hote as you can have it from the Mare in the morning fasting An approved Remedy for a Woman that hath her Throwes before her time SEeth a good handfull of whole Chervill in a quart of Claret Wine and when the Hearbes bee well sodden wring them into the Wine and clense it and make thereof an Hypocras with Sugar Cynamon and Ginger and give her thereof to drinke warme at times needfull And it shall expulse the paine Approved A Powder for the Strangury TAke Ivie Berries dryed over the Fire between two stones and Alisander seedes of each a like quantity and make a Powder thereof to be used in a draught of good Ale For the Collicke and Stone TAke unset Leekes unset Time and Parcely and make pottage of it with Mutton it is also good for the Mother For a Megrim in the Head TAke a cloath and warme it very hot and chase the nape of your necke and your temples a mornings For the Tooth-ache TAke nine Pepper-cornes and five Cornes of Bay-salt and some English honey and breake your Pepper-cornes and beate them all in an Oyster shell then make little balls of lint and dippe them in the Honey and lay it unto your tooth or rub your teeth with Allome beaten For a sore Brest TAke a Red-rose cake and white Wine in a dish and set it on a Chafingdish of coales and turne the cake up and downe in the dish and lay it to the brest as hot as may bee suffered and use this three or foure times till it be whole For a sore eye that burneth and is watrie TAke Hemlockes and distill them and take the watet and lay it to your eyes and take a little Lint and dippe it in the water and so lay it unto your eyes as you lye upright in your bed Another Take ground Ivie beaten câ—reth the Web in the Eye putting it in once a day For to stoppe the Bloody Fluxe TAke a pinte of Milke and a pinte of water and let them boyle together over the Fire untill it come all to a pinte and let the Patient drinke it Morning and Evening A Remedy for a Fellon THis infirmity doth come of a venemous matter and other while it commeth of an interiall cause or of an exteriall the interiall cause commeth of some evill humour the exteriall cause doth come of some venemous stinging of an evill humour eate Treacle and make a Plaister of Treacle and lay it upon the place or take the white of a rawe Egge and put in salt to it and beate it well together and make a Plaister thereof Another Take Rew and Soape Soote and Boares greace and stampe them together and lay it to the Fellon A Medicine well proved for the Megrim TAke the Juyce of Night-shade and as much Vineger with crummes of leavened Bread and the white of two Egges a quantity of Bolearmoniac a quantity of Sage and Dragons tayle All these are to be made Plaister-wise upon Flaxe and lay it upon your griefe also Village to be stilled is very good For to heale a sors Eye hurt with the small Pockes TAke the Marrow of the pinions of a Goose-wing cold a quantity of Honey new taken out of the Combe in the hive and mingle it together and lay it on the Patients Eye-lidde and it will heale it For a sore Eye with a Pinne or a Web. TAke white Allom and Running-water and boyle it together in an Egge-shell till it be halfe consumed For a sore Eye that â—tcheth and pricketh TAke Running water a quart and put in white Copperas a Rose-mary sprigge and a spoonefull of Hony and let it boyle to a pinte and then drop a little into the Eye and keepe it after from Rubbing or touching For a Sciatica or Ache in the Bones TAke of Rew and red Nettles of each a a handfull Commin blacke Sope and Frankensence of each a
so you boyle them a good while and so drink the Broth or Milke as you like best they are exceeding strengthning and will do you great good if it please God to give blessing to it A Medicinâ— for one that is broken TAke a quantity of Comfrey a quantity of Knee-home a quantity of Knotted grasse a quantity of Ribervorum and a quantity of Polipody stampe them altogether and straine them in Ale and then give the patient the same to drinke cold and trusse him up with some bolster and let his dyet be but competent eschewing all slippery meats as Butter and such like provided alwayes that the pâ—tient keepe his bed sixe or seven dayes lying upon his Backe and sometimes hold his belly with his hand For the shrinking of the Sineâ—â—s TAke the marrowe of a Horse-bone and the crops of Elders and as much of Sage and chop them together and boyle them in the Marrow and then straine out the Hearbes and put to the liquor one spoonfull of Honey two spoonefuls of Aquâ— Compositâ— and a quantity of Pepper and boyle it againe and keepe it for your use For the staying of the fluxâ— TAke a new layd Egge and take off a little of the top of it and powre out a little of the white and fill up the Egge with Aqua-composita and stirre it together and rost it and sup up the Egge in the morning fasting till you be well use this A Medicine for a sore Thrâ—at TAke a pinte of Milke halfe a handfull of Collumbine leaves halfe a handfull of Gasell a dozen leaves of Sinkefoyle and two Jewes-eares and boyle them and so the partie must use it Evening and morning and gargale it in his throate For weakenesse in the Backâ— TAke Clary and Dates and the pith of an Oxe and put them together and then put to them Creame and Egges and grated bread and fry them together and strew Suger on it and eate it in the Morning fasting and you must put some white Sanders in it also when you temper it together For the Carbunckle or Impostume in the Head TAke Worme-wood Origanum Mayron by even portions and seeth them in sweet Wine and after that wring out the juyce and lay it to the Eares of the sicke with two spunges as hot as hee may suffer it use this two oâ— three times and he shall be whole To take away Pock-holes or any spot in the face TAke white Rose-water and wet a fine cloth therein and set it all night to freeze and then lay it upon your face till it be dry also take three Puppies the reddest you can get and quarter them take out the Garbage then distill them in quart of new milke of a red Cow and with this water wash your face For faintnesse in the Stomacke or the Morphew TAke a quantity of Amber beaten to powder and a quantitie of English Saffron in powder likewise and put it into white Wine and drinke it seaven or eight times A good Fumigation for the French Poxe confirmed TAke Synaper two ounces of Frankensence of Liquid Storax a dram and a halfe and mingle them the manner how to minister this suffumigation is this You must set your Patient naked under a straight Canopie and you must lay upon the Coales the first part of your aforesaid Receipt and the Patient must enforce himselfe to receivâ— the smoake keeping the fire betweene hiâ— Legges till he begin to sweate and so doing the space of foure dayes till his Teeth begâ—n to ake Pilles against Morbo TAke of all the Mirabulines three drams of Troskes of Colloquintida of Masticke of Digredium two drams of Nigula of Organy of Cummin two drams of blacke Elibore one dram of Spike of Euphorium of Hâ—rts-horne burnt of Sall-gemme halfe a dram of Mayden haire of the Coddes of Sâ—ney of Pollytricon of Galitricon of the flowers of Rosemary of Harts-horne of Epithiam one dram of Coryanders of Anniseed of Polipodium sixe drams of good Treacle sixe drams of Agaricke in Traskes and of washed Aloes tennâ— drams of the Spices of Hierâ— De octo Râ—bijs of the spices of Diarodam Albatis eight drams Make a paste of Pilles with the juyce of Femitory and honey of Roses one drâ—m To make your Drinke TAkâ— twenty ounces of Pock-wood being turned of a Turner very small which put into an Earthen Pot of two Gallons and put thereto eight pound of Running water the best you can get and let it stand in soake foure and twenty houres the Pot being covered then take and stop the Pot with Paste so close that no ayre may goe out you must keepe the â—treâ—gth in it and that is your chiefest helpe â—nd with the point of your Knife make a hole in the Paste and therein put a peg of wood which is to give it ayre at times in the boyling for breaking of the pot and thus let it boyle on a soft fire of Coales the space of sixe houres in which time it will be consumed to a pottle and that will serve you for your Drinke to take Morning and Evening for foure dayes against which time you must make more After the first seething seeth the same Wood againe with the like quantity of water and time likewise and that is for your common Drinke to serve at all times till you make new To make your Bisket TAke foure and twenty pound of the purest Wheat-flower which you can get and put thereto one pound of fine Sugar and so make your Bisket which will serve for your turne all the time of your Dyet A Receipt and a Soveraigne Dyet for the French Poxâ— Proved FIrst prepare a Chamber which make so close that no ayre â—â—ter into it and defend all ill savours out of it and therein to bee twelve dayes together before you doe begin your Dyet every day forbearing of eating of Flesh and drinking leese On the thirteenth day you must begin your Dyet and then to take a Purgation of Gassia Fistula or of Scamonia to make your Body empty keeping your Bed sweating temperately without any provoking which sweating is your greatest Remedy in the which your Sweate you shall drinke of your second drinke as often and as much as you list and of your first drinke you must drinke every Morning at five a clocke and Evening at eight a clocke eight ounces at a gulpe warme saving on the daye you take your Pugation On which dayes drinke all of your second Drinke desiring alwayes to be merry and light-harted in using often to smell to dryed Orenges hot Bread Vinâ—ger of Roses Mustard and Apples and after this manner you must keepe your Chamber thirty dayes together and never to take Ayre and at fifteene dayes you must take another Purgation like to the first and that day to drinke all of your second Drinke and in like manner another Purgation the thirtieth day on which day you may take Broth of a Chicken or of Mutton and by little and little take the Ayre
make a speciall Plaister for all manner of cold Aches TAke Perosine foure pound Rozen and Waxe of each two pound Galbanum as much Olibanon as much Masticke and Myrrhe of each two ounces red Wine foure pound put in your Masticke Myrrhe and Wine in the cooling it hath beene often times proved and when you need it spread it on a Leather and let it lye on a day or two before you change it To make a Plaister that Sir William Farrington let a Squire that was his Prisoner goe for quit without ransome TAke one pound of Litarge of Gold and make thereof small powder and serse it well then take a quart of oyle of Roses and a pinte of white Wine and halfe a pinte of old Urine very well clarified and halfe a pinte of Vineger and boyle all these on the fire but put in the Urine last this Plaister will heale a Marmole or a Canker and a Fester as also Wounds and all other sores if thou put thereto one ounce of Waxe Ollibanon and Myrrhe of each a dram Probatum est To make Coulman Plaister TAke oyle Olive foure pound red Lead and white of each one pound boyle them together till it waxe blacke and then put thereto Pitch one pound and make it into rolles for your use To make the Mellitote Plaister TAke the Juyce of Mellilot and Camomill of each one pound of Waxe one pound Rozen three pound Sheepes suet a pound and a halfe white Wine two pound and a halfe and so make them all in a Plaister according to Art for it is good To make the Deaguloune Plaister TAke Oyle two pound strong Vineger one pound and a halfe Litarge of Gold one pound Verdigreace one ounce boyle them together till they be red and so make it into rolles for your use A Plaister for all manner of Sores and especially for all greene Sores TAke of fine Suger and Burnet of each of them alike much and bruise them in a Morter and wash the Wound with the juyce of the same then take the Hearbes finely beaten and mingle with them and the juyce a quantity of English Honey and unwrought Waxe so boyle them together till it be allof one colour then take them from the fire and let them stand a while then put it into a Bason of faire water and so worke it out into rowles and lay it on Plaisters once or twice a day Another for the same approved TAke the Hearb Sellendine and Houseleeke of each equall quantity then bruise them in a Morter and take the juyce of them and put it into the wound and annoynt the same therewith that done fill the wound with part of the bruised hearbe and so bind it up and in short time it will heale the sore as by proofe hath beene seene A Plaister for the Stitch. ANoynt your side with the oyle of Mellilote then make a Plaister of the same Mellilote upon a piece of Leather and change it but once a weeke A Playster for the Plurisie STampe well in a Morter foure ounces of the roots of wild Mallowes well sodden put to it an ounce of Butter and an ounce and a halfe of Honey of Pigeons dung two drams mingle all together and lay it very hot upon the paine and soone after the corruption will breake out A Plaister for the Collick and Stone TAke Peritory Camomill ground-Ivie leaves Cummin stampe them and boyle them in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and put it about the Reines of the back as hot as may be suffered and see that it lye close round about behind and before and you will find great ease in it A Plaister for the Head-ache and for hot Agues TAke red Mintes Leavened Bread of Wheate and white Vineger make thereof a Plaister and lay it to your Fore-head for it helpeth diseases in the Head and also hot Agues A hot drawing Plaister called Flowis TAke Rozen Perosine of each halfe a pound white Wax four ounces and Frankensence foure ounces and Mastick one ounce Deere suet foure ounces Turpentine foure ounces Camphere two drams white Wine a Pottle and so make a Plaister and give him time to draw A Plaister called the vertue of our Lord. TAke oyle Olive one pound white Waxe two drams Galbanum Ermony and Opponacke two ounces Litarge halfe a pound Almonds one dram Verdigreace one ounce Aristoligiam Longuam one dram Myrrhe and Mastcke of each one ounce Lawrell bayes two Drams Incense white one Dram Make the Plaister in this manner take and temper the Galbanum Opponack and Ermony in good Vineger two dayes naturall and the other things to bee provided each by himselfe then take the Wax and melt is with the Oyle in a Kettle and the Gummes dissolved in Vineger in another vessell upon the fire till the Vineger be sodden away then straine it upon the said Oyle as strongly as you can stirre it well and then put in the Verdigreace the Astrologium and the other Gummes that were not put in before then it is made It healeth all wounds new or old and it doth heale more then all other Plaisters or Oyntments doth A Plaister for weaknesse in the Backe TAke the juyces of Comfrey Plantane and Knotgrasse mingled with Bole-armoniack and made in a plaister spread upon a piece of sheeps leather and layd to the backe A Plaister for any Ache lamenesse or Sciatica TAke a pound of the leanest part of a Leg of Mutton put to it a quart of the grounds of Muskadine or sweet Sacke and one pound of Oyle de Bay mince your Mutton very fine and boyle them together into the forme of a plaister and so apply it to the place as hot as you can suffer it D. R. A Plaister for a sore Brest that must be broken TAke one handfull of Groundsill a pinte of sweete Milke and a handfull of Oate-meale and seethe them together Make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the brest as hot as the Patient may suffer it and at every Dressing put to more Milke this use no longer then it breakes A Plaister to heale it TAke one pound of Bores-grease and three Garlick heads stampe them in a morter till they bee fine put them both into a box and put thereto of Beane flower the quantity of two Egges beat them well together and so lay them to the Brest To make another Seare-cloath TAke Rozen and Perosine of each foure ounces Wax two ounces Ollibanum so much Masticke half an ounce Turpentine two ounces dissolve them on the fire and so make your Seare-cloath OF UNGUENTS PART VI. The making of Oyntments and first of Vnguentum Aegyptiacum TAke Honey a pint Vineger a pint Allom half a pound Verdigreace foure ounces in fine powder boyle all these together till they bee red for if you boyle it too much it will be blacke and if you boyle it too little it will be greene therefore when it is boyled enough it will be perfectly red and so make your Unguent
of the sand or gravell in the bladder for it will breake the Stone within him Jtem this water being drunke sustaineth and lightneth all the members of man of what Disease soever he be grieved with 10. To make water of Sage the tenth Water TAke Sage and Pollyon of each a like quantity and breake them in a morter and put them in a Stillatorie and distill Water sthereof this waterdrunke fasting eateth away all manner of sicknesse Item this wate r sodden with Castory and drunke fasting of all Medicines in the world it prolongeth most a mans life Item if a man be fore-spoken doe this nine dayes and he shall be whole but it must be taken with warme water Item this water being drunke fasting draweth away all evill in the stomacke or wombe Item it is good against the Scabbes and causeth a man to have good blood and good colour in the face Item this water being drunke hote in the morning or in the day healeth any manner oâ— evill in a man within three dayes if the Patient be in any wise curable To make Aqua Vitae TAke Isope Rosemary Violet Verven Bitony Hearbe-Iohn Mouseare Planten Avence Sage and Fetherfoy of each a handfull and washing them put them in a gallon of white Wine and so let it stand all night cleane covered and then on the morrow distill it and keepe the water well This water is good for the Megrim in the Head and for the Impostume in the head and for the Dropsie in the Head and for the Fever in the head and for all manner of Aches and sicknesse in the Head To make Aqua Magistralis TAke the rootes of Pyonie the rootes of Turpentine the crops of Fennell of Egrimonie Honysuccle Celondine Rewe Chickweed Pimpernell Phillippendula the tender leaves of the Vine Eufraâ—e Sowthistle Red-roses Strawbery leaves and Verven of each alike quantity and bray them in a Morter and put them in good white Wine nine dayes and then put thereto a pinte of womans milke that doth nurse a Man-child and as much Urine of a man-child of a yeare old and as much pured Hony and put them all together and let them stand three dayes so and then distill them in a Stillatorie and keepe well this water in a Glasse vessell that no Ayre come thereto and if you will occupie this water wash thine eyes therewith and use it and if ever man be holpen of the disease of the Eyes this will helpe him in short time A precious Water for Eyes that seeme faire and yet be blind TAke Smalledge red Fennell Rew Verven Byttony Egrimony Sinck-â—oile Eufrase Sage Pimpernell and Selondine of each a quarterne and wash them cleane and stampe them small and put them in a brasse Pan and powder of Tuttie of Pepper of Ceruse and a pinte of white wine and put it to the Hearbes and two or three spoonfuls of Hony and seven spoonfuls of the water of a Man-child and temper them together and boyle them over the fire a little and straine it thorow a cloth and put it into a Glasse and stop it well till you will occupy it and when you will use it put it into thine eyes with a Feather and if it waxe thicke temper it with white wine and then use it often A Water that will helpe onâ— that is troubled with sore eyes being debarred of sight TAke of Rosemary Smalledge Rewe Verven Mather Eufrase Endive Houseleeke Fulwort red Fennell and Selandine of each a like half a quarterne and wash them cleane and lay them in white Wine a day and a Night and then distill them in a Stillatorie the first water will be like Gold the second like Silver and the third will be like Balme and that is good for all sores of the eyes To make another Aqua Vitae TAke Nutmegs Gallingale Spikenard of Spaine of each two penny-worth and of Cloves Graines Ginger of each one penny-worth two penny worth of Annys take and bray them all in a brasse Morter and then take a handfull of wild Sage and of the other Sage Rosemary Isope Savery puliall royal puliall of the Mountaine Sothernwood Hore-hound Worme-wood and Egrimony Bettony Jvie leaves of each a like handfull and two pennyworth of Quibebes and bruise all these in a Morter then take three Gallons of good red Wine and put it into a brazen pot and then put the Spices and Hearbes therein and set the Stillatory above and close it well and take faire Paste and put it about the brinkes hard with thy hand and make it cleave well and sadly thereto and when it doth begin to waxe hot put cold water above in the Stillatorie and when it doth waxe hot let the water runne out at the Conduite and put in new cold water and so doe as oft as yee shall thinke good but looke that the fire be not too great for if it be then will the water come up and if there come up smoake of the Stillatorie with the Water then is the fire too much and if it be not then it is well tempered The making of Waters in colours and first of greene Waters TAke white Wine a pinte the water of Roses and Planten of each sixe ounces Orpiment one ounce Verdigrease halfe an ounce c. Another greene Water TAke the waters of Honey-suckles Planten and Roses of each halfe a pinte Orpiment Allome Ceruse and Verdigrease of each two drams white Wine Juyce of Planten of each halfe an ounce and it is done Waters for old Vlcers TAke white Wine and running Water of each a pinte Frankensence and Allome of each one ounce Decocted in Balme for three houres space and it is done A good Drinke for the Gummorium Passio TAke Bursa Pastoris Planten of each two handfuls take the Juyce thereof in a pinte of good Ale and drinke it three times in a day for three dayes A Water for old Vlcers in the Armes TAke Smiths water a quart burnt Allome one pound Salarmoniac one ounce Galls two ounces Tartary Copperas of each one ounce distill all these with shreds so keepe the water to your use A Water for a Canker TAke Bugle Fennell and Rosa-Solis of each a like and take as much in quantity of Honey suckle flowers as of all the other hearbes and let them be cleane picked and so distilled in a Stillatorie and keepe it close for it is a precious water A Femitorie Water IS to be drunke in the Morning at Noone and at night it is much worth against Dropsies and Sweating sicknesse it purgeth Fleame and Choller and Melancholy and it bringeth forth heate and dry Sicknesse and it is good for the paine of the Head to wash it and drinke it A Water of Rosemariâ— IT hath more vertues in it then a man can tell one is if a man have an Arrow or Jron within him wet a tent and put into the wound and drinke the same water and it shall avoyd out and it helpeth all Wounds inward and
to consume and the powder put within and without abateth swolne cheekes Oxificicentia Phenicon Dactilis Indie Tamarindus They that bee good be neither too moyst nor too hard and be somewhat blacke and somewhat sower the Rind nor the Seed must not be used in Medicines It hath vertue to purge Choller to clense the Blood and to abate unkind heat Os de cordâ— Cervi is the bone of the Harts heart on the left side it is good to purge Melancholy blood and Cardiacle and Sinicapos or Sincapos with the juyce of Borage and Os Sexi will make the Teeth white Dog-Fennell the root is good for the Strangury Oissury and stopping of the Liver and Spleene Pine apples the Kernels doe moysten and open and is good for the disease in the Brest or Cough or Eticke or Consumption and to increase good blood Damsons bee cold and moyst in the third degree gather them when they be ripe and cleave them in the Sun and spring them with Vineger above and then yee may keepe them two yeare in a vessell Their vertue is to coolâ— a man and make his Guts light and therefore they be good in Fevers against the costivenesse that commeth of drynesse or of Cholerick humours in the Guts when they be ripe to cut and when they be dry soke them in water and eate the Prune and drinke the water Psilium is cold and moyst in the third degree his vertue is to make soft and light and to coole a mans body and to draw together Purslene is good both raw and sodden to abate unkind heat in Cholerick men Pitch-liquid hath vertue to dissolve and consume Ponticum is good for the stopping of the Liver and Spleene that commeth of cold Storax hath vertue both to comfort and consume and to fasten Teeth and comfort the Gummes Squilla is a Sea-Onion and that is found by himselfe is deadly his vertue is to purge and to dissolve but the outer and inner parts must be cast away for they bee deadly and that which is in the middest may bee put in Medicines and it hath more vertue raw than sodden Seeds within the berries of Elder is good to purge Flegme Stavisacre hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and purge Flegme and Litargie and to put away heavinesse from the heart if it be taken and put in the nose Sâ—apium is good and hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and laxe and heale it is good for fallings downe of the Mother with suffumigation or supositor and for the tearmes of the secondine or dead Child Saracoll if it be right it is good it hath vertue to straine together and to sooder Drinke Calamint sodden in Wine for coldnesse of the stomack and for stopping of the Liver and Spleen the Reynes and Bladder and Illiacâ— passio Saterion his root is green and hath vertue to unloose mans nature Saligem his vertue is to dissolve and consume Scabius while hee is greene hath vertue to dissolve consume and cleanse Dragons take the roote and cleave it and dry it in the Sun yee may keepe it two yeares mingle the powder of Dragons with Sope and wet a Tent therein and put it deepe into a fester and it will clense and enlarge it and if there be a bone in it it will draw it out or else loose it that yee may take it out lightly Sene is to purge Melancholy and Epilencie and Fever quartaine and Emerodes for the Spleene and Liver take Cardiacle sodden in water and put to Sage and make a Syrope or the Juyce of Borage and Suger is very good Terra sigillata terra sarasincia terra argenta is all one manner of earth his vertue is to constraine together Turbith if it be hollow small and of an Ash-colour and gummie it is good It hath vertue to dissolve and draw humours from the uttermost part of a mans body and namely Fleame for the Gout and Illiaca and Podegra and Chiragra give him foure scruples of Turbith mingled with some other Medicine and it will doe the like Taplia or faiters Hearbe his vertue is to purge above and beneath both greene and dry for it is never given by himselfe he that stampeth it let him hide his face and eyes that he see not also keepe close his Testacles or else they will swell With this Hearbe beggers doe make themselves seeme to have the Dropsie upon them Tartar is the Lees of Wine and hath vertue to dissolve and dryeth away filth and to abate a mans fatnesse Terbentine a fugimation thereof is good for the subfumigation of the Mother Virga Pastoris or Shepheards rod hath vertue to straine together to coole and to fill that is empty and is good for the Fluxe Bryona or wild Neppe is hot and dry the roote thereof maketh a woman to have her tearmes and delivereth a dead Child or secondine Flower-de-Luce the Root of it washt and scraped cleane being dryed and finely beaten and put into a pint of new Milke made hote upon the fire and given the patient to drinke it helpeth the Greene sicknesse D. B. Ginger comforteth the heart and maketh good digestion Sugar is temperate hot and moyst his vertue is to moysten and nourish and to loose if it be mingled with cold things to coole The excellent vertues of Cardus Benedictus IT is very good for the Head-ache and the Megrim For the use of the juyce and powder of the Leaves preserveth and keepeth a man from the Head-ach and healeth it being present it quickneth the sight if the Juyce of it be layd on the Eyes The Powder stanches blood that flowes out of the Nose or commeth out of the Lungs the broath of it taken with Wine maketh an appetite It is good for any Ache in the body it strengtheneth the members of the body and fasteneth loose sinewes and weak It is also good for the Dropsie it breaketh also the Stone and breaketh an Impostume it preserveth one from the Pestilence if the powder be taken in water foure and twenty houres before a man come to the Infected place It is good for the dizzinesse of the Head It helpeth the memory It helpeth thicke hearing It is good for short winds and the diseases of the Lungs Some write that it strengtheneth the Teeth others write â—hat it bringeth down Flowers and provoketh sleepe and helpeth the Falling sicknesse It is also good for falls and bruises the Leaves provoke sleepe the Powder is good against all poyson the same put into the Guts by a Glyster It helpeth the Collicke and other diseases of the Guts and the wounds of t he same They write also that the water of Cardus Benedictus helpeth rednesse and the itching of the Eyes and the Juyce doth the same for Burnings and for Carbunckles There is nothing better for the Canker and old festering sores the Leaves are good for Fomentations and to be sitten over being sodden in water that the Vapour may come to the diseased places also it is good
against the stone and stopping of the flowers A good Drinke to strengthen the heart and all the members if a man drinke halfe an Egge shell full of it morning and evening with as much good wine TAke the best Aqua Vitae that you can get and take a piece of fine Gold and make it glowing hot ten times and squench it again the more you squench it the stronger waxeth the water and better Then put it into the same Aqua Vitae and halfe a quarter of an ounce of Saffron and a quarter of an ounce of Cynamon both beaten let them stand foure dayes well stopped and stirre it every day once but when you will take it then let it stand still unstirred that it may be cleare This water warmeth a cold stomacke giveth strength to all the members specially to aged folkes that have beene over long sicke whose strength is consumed for it comforteth and strengthneth the heart out of measure A speciall Medicine to cause sleepe TAke a spoonefull of Oyle of Roses a spoonefull of Rose-water and halfe a spoonefull of red Vineger and temper them all together then with a fine linnen cloth annoynt the Patients head A discourse as concerning Cornes in the feet or else-where with their remedies THis Callowes matter is a certaine hot humour the which nature would discharge her selfe of and when that humour is driven forth of nature it goeth into the lower parts into the end of the Toes for in that part of the Toes that skin is called Epidarma is hard and will not suffer it to passe or exalate and there many times it engendreth a Tumor in the skin with great hardnesse and many times that Tumor doth increase and cause such paine that it doth not onely hinder their going but hinder them from their sleepe in the Night and this kind of Tumor is called commonly Callo or Cornes in English and J thought it good to call them Crest because they are alwayes growing and is of great importance among Chirurgions for an infinite number of persons are troubled therewith and therefore J will shew thee our secret to helpe them quickly and with great ease which secret was never knowne of any First ye shall pare them with a sharpe Knife unto the bottome and there ye shall find a certaine thing like matter ye shall pare it untill bloud doth appeare then touch it with the Oyle of Sulphure and then dresse it with Balsamo Artificio once a day untill it be whole Keepe this as a secret Of Medicines Remedies and Cures of divers Diseases of severall kinds As also the making of Powders and Plaisters c. PART X. The cause of our Sciatica and how yee helpe it SCiatica is a Disease so called because it commeth in that place of the Body called Scio and it is caused of an evill quality and grosse Humors that are strayed in that place because they cannot passe downe And this is seene by experience dayly for where that paine is there is alteration and the cure thereof is with Glysters Vomits Purgations and Unctions because the Glysters doth evacuate those places next unto it and so easeth the Humour the Vomit cleanseth the stomacke the Purgation doth evacuate the body downwards the Unctions dissolve the winde and by these meanes thou mayest helpe the Sciatica as J have done many times to my great credit and satisfaction of my Patient For Hoarsnesse AGainst Hoarsnesse goe into the Hot-house and when thou hast halfe Bathed drinke a good draught of warme water this is often proved Another Garlick sodden and eaten maketh a cleare voyce and driveth away Hoarsenesse and the old Cough If a man stand in feare of the Palsie LEt him eat every Morning two or three graines of Mustar-seedes and two Pepper cornes the same is assured for the same disâ—ase by many A Medicine for the Goute TAke a pinte of white Wine a quart of running water a quantity of Barley flower and let them boyle together then put thereto halfe a pound of blacke Soape and let all seethe till it be thicke then put thereto the yolkes of foure Egges and when yee will use it spred it on a cloth Plaister-wise hot Stubbes Medicine for the Goute TAke a quart of red Wine Lees a quarter of a pound of Beane flower half aquarter of a pound of Commine fine beaten a spoonefull of Bole-Armoniacke halfe an ounce of Camphere which must be put in at twice and boyle them all together till they be somewhat thicke then make it Plaister-wise and lay it to the paine Another Plaister for the Goute TAke Occy cronium Galbanum and Melitonum of each one a penny-worth and distill them take a pound of stone Pitch and another pound of fine Rozen one halfe ounce of Camphere one quarterne of Deeres Suet halfe a quater of a pound of Commin and boyle them on a soft fire together and thereof make a Plaister upon a piece of Leather using it as the other Another for the same TAke the Gall of an Oxe and Aqua Composita of each a like quantity as much of Oyle of Exeter as of both the other and labour them all together in a pot with a sticke the space of halfe an houre When you have so done annoynt your palme therewith then wet a linnen cloth therein and as hot as you can suffer it bind it to the sore For a pricke of a Thorne or any other thing TAke Honey and a good quantity of Chalke and of the Gall of a Beast and boyle them together and make a Plaister of it and as hot as you can suffer it lay it thereunto Let the Chalke be scraped very small Approved A Remedy for burning and Scalding TAke the white Wooll of the belly of an Hare and if it be raw lay it thereto and it will never away till such time it be whole Another Take a Thistle called St. Mary Thistle stampe it and strain it and take thereof two spoonfuls and put to this three spoonfuls of Creame mixe them together and annoynt the Patient therewith To kill a Tetter or Ring-worme TAke the root of a red Dock the roote is very red and slice it and lay it in Vineger a Night and after lay it upon the Tetter and tye it with a cloth hard and it will kill the Tetter Approved For a winde or a Collicke in the belly TAke a Rose Cake and toast it at the fire with Vineger throwen upon it and lay it as hot to your belly as you may suffer it Another Take Mustard Figges and Vineger stamped together and lay it to the belly of the diseased cold in manner of a Plaister and it shall helpe Against the Shingles ANnoynt the Shingles with the juyce of Mynts and it will heale them To heale a wound in ten dayes as by proofe hath beene seene STampe Camphere with Barrowes greace and put it into the wound and it will heale it Approved For ache in the Backe TAke Egremont and Mugwort both
est Remedies to provoke Menstruum Mulieris TAke powder of Peeter Bittony Yarrowseed in white Wine and drinke it Another Take Mugwort Selondine Marigold Verven Nippe of each nine crops three dayes before the change and three dayes before the full of the Moone Another Take Germander and the rootes of red Madder and seethe it in Ale and give it her to drinke or else take Radishes Et semen pionae red Sanders and Suger and use it as aforesaid Another Take Cotula Fetuda the which is like Camomill but it stinketh and make a fomentation thereof Another Take the Juyce of Mercury and Honey and flower of Cockle as much as will incorporate it and make thereof little balls and give her one or two of them and she shall have Menstruum also it shall after dispose her to conceive for it hath seldome failed and is well proved Another Take the blacke seed of Pionie and bruise them one by one to the number of nine and picke of the blacke huskes and in a Morter breake them to powder eate and drink the said powder at times afore said in the second Medicine Pro eadem Another Take the rootes of Gladion and Arsmart and seethe them in good white Wine or Vineger and when they be well sodden take them from the fire and let the woman sit over it so that the ayre may strike up and none goe away for this is proved Another Take Bittonie Puliall Royall Centory of each a handfull seethe them with Wine or water till the two parts be wasted and then clense it thorow a cloth and drinke it Another Take Balme Margerom Isope and Marigolds a handfull seethe them from a pottle to a quart upon a soft fire and so take it and drinke it every morning fasting and if it be bitter put thereto Suger and use it Remedies to stop Menstruum Mulieris TAke the blackest holly-hocks that yee can get and take the flowers thereof and make them in powder and drinke them and wash the place with the water of Lovage Another Take the water of Oake leaves distilled halfe a pinte of Rose-water and Syrrupe of Quinces sixe ounces and let her drinke thereof first and last Another Take Horse-dung and seethe it in good Vineger and put it into little bagges of linnen cloth and lay the one upon the Reines of the backe and the other betweene the Navill and the privie place as warme as shee may suffer it and let her drinke it every Morning and Evening with a little Synamon till shee be whole Another Take the rootes of Gladium and seeth them well in Wine or water and receive the fume thereof It never failed To stop white Menstruum and red TAke the Juyce of Planten and of Bursa Pastoris and two whites of Egges well beaten among the Juyce and put thereto Bole-armoniack one ounce and of Terra sigillata one ounce and a portion of Beane flower and make it thicke upon the fire and draw thereof a Plaister upon thin cloth and lay it to her Backe and Navill Another for the white TAke the inner rinde of the Sloe tree Sumatch Balestianes the rinde of the Pomegranate Planten Knot-grasse the inner rinde of the red Bryer and a little French-Bolearmoniack and boyle all these in red Wine till halfe be consumed and let her drinke it fasting Et restringet fluxum Menstruum Another Take the foote and Legge of a Hare and bake it to powder haire and all and drinke it and it restraineth the same The vertue of Fearne THe Root is good to be drunke and laid to Plaister-wise for the Wounds that are made with Reedes and in like manner the roote of the Reede drunke and laid Plaister-wise to the sore where Fearne sticketh The Powder is good to be strowed upon moyst Sores which are hard to be covered with skin and ill to be healed the Juyce pressed out of the Fearne roote laid to with Rose-water or other cold water is good for all manner of burning or scalding perfectly and sure To take away heate and inflamation of a Member TAke the waters of Planten and Purslaine of each two ounces and the water of a little hearbe called Verniculaâ—is two ounces Litarge and Ceruse in fine powder of each foure drams and Camphere three graines mixe all these together and so use them A Locion for a sore Mouth TAke running water a pinte Vineger halfe a pinte Honey foure ounces Bay leaves one ounce Galingale one dram Let all these be decocted to the forme of a Syrope A preparative TAke Syrope of Violets Endiffe and of Femitory of each two ounces and of common Decoction foure ounces To make Vergent milke by D. Yaxley TAke Litarge of Leade one pound with Vineger a pinte laid in fuse three dayes and then drawne with woollen shreds and so keepe it in a Viall by it selfe close then take foure ounces of Conduit-water and one ounce of Allome and one dram of Camphere and melt all over the Fire and keepe the water by it selfe in another Viall and when you will use it put both these waters together of each a like quantity and it will be like milke It taketh away the spottes and Freckles in the Face if it be often applyed thereto A comfortable Powder for the Heart TAke Synamon Ginger of each three ounces graines of Paradice long Pepper of each two drams Saffron one dram Suger foure ounces and so make your Powder A Remedy that breaketh the Stone TAke a pound of Grâ—mmell a pound of Saxifrage seed and a pound of Coriander with a quarter of a pound of Soras white and red and grinde all these in a Morter very small and so keepe it using to eate thereof in your Pottage every day a spoonefull Another Take Time Damsons Beane-Cods Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage a like quantities and sleepe them one night in white Wine then distill them and use to drinke thereof Another remedy for the Stone and to cause the voydance of Vrine TAke Pellitorie of the Wall Sothernwood and seeth them in Water or white Wine with a quantity of Sheepes Suet till it bee tender then put the hearbes and tallow in a linnen bag and lay it warme to the bottome of the belly using this you shall finde remedy A proved Medicine to avoid the Vrine that hath beene long stopped TAke Radish rootes one if it be of bignesse and strong is sufficient and scrape it very cleane and lay it in white Wine a night in steepe then straine the Wine and give the Patient to drinke and he shall voyd water A very good water for the stone proved THe water of Strawberries with the leaves distilled and so used by draughts as other drinke To breake the Stone DRy the stones of a Cock a yeare old and â—eate them into fine powder and give the diseased thereof to drinke in white Wine but if he have the Charward then give it to drink with good water Doctor Argentines Medicine for the Stone TAke the
Brimstone two ounces boyle these in a pottle of white wine Vineger and wash your body therewith three or foure times Or take a quantity of Brimstone and a quantity of Allome and burne them on a fire-shovell over the fire beat them very small and boyle them with Bores-greace and so annoint the Itch. To kill Lice or Itch. TAke Quicksilver two penniworth and kill it with fasting-spittle in a dish beating it well together and put thereto foure penny-worth of Oyle of Bayes and so annoint the place this receipt will kill both Itch and Lice in the head or body To cure the Crampe MAke a Ring of an Oxe or Cowes horn or of a Sea-horse tooth or of the Pizle of a Sea-horse and weare it It is proved For a paine or swelling in the Privie parts TAke white wine Vineger and Cow-dung boyle them to a Poultis and when it is ready put thereto oyle of Roses and if the griefe proceed of a cold cause put thereto some Camomill flowers applyed very hot Another Take Commin-seeds beaten into to powder Barly-meale and Honey of each a like quantity then fry them together with a little Sheeps suet heat it and bind it as a plaister to the Cods Remedies for Burning or Scalding TAke five or sixe spoonefuls of Sallet oyle and as much of Running water beat them together till they bee well incorporated then anoynt the place therewith and lay thereon a Doek leafe it will both coole and heale Another Take of the herbe Periwinckle fry it in a pan with fresh Butter fresh Greace and Sheepes dung newly made when it is well fryed straine it through a cloath and it will be like Salve then spred it on a Linnen cloth as broad as the sore is and apply it thereto It will cure it though it were scalded and burnt to the bone if it be taken in time renewing the plaister Morning and evening Remedies for the Piles TAke Martlemasse beefe dry it and beat it to powder then put it into a chafingdish of coales and set it in a chaire and sit over it Another Burne two or three Brickes red hote put them into a Pan in a close Stove and sprinckle Vineger upon them letting the party sit close over it that hee may receive the fume thereof into his fundament doing this three or foure times if need require will helpe it A Remedy for the Cappes TAke the oyle of sweet Almonds one ounce and anoynt the place therewith or any of these things following is good the powder of the rinde of Pomegranets the Marrow of a Calfe or a Hart the fat of a Capon Goose or Ducke and such like To kill a Tettâ—r or Ringworme TRose dâ— Arsmeg is good and if it come of Blood exhaust two or 3. ounces of blood or more if need require and that Age time and strength will permit and if it bee Lupte cut off the heads of them and rub them with Salt and Garlick stampt together and then lay over them a plate of Lead Approved remedies for the Shingles TAke Rose-water Planten-water and white Wine of each of them halfe a pinte put all these together and wash the place often therewith Or else take of red Wormes that come out of the Earth and bray them in a morter and put to them a little Vineger and so make plaisters c. Or else take flowers of Camomill Rose-leaves and Violets the weight of each of them one ounce of Myrtles and Sumack of each of them an ounce and a halfe seethe all these in white Wine and make a plaister and lay it to the place or else make aâ— oyntment of Ceruse J have taken Hous-leâ—k and have stampt it with a little Camphere and put to it white Wine and have layd it to the place and have healed the Patient also the Oyle of Roses or the Oyle of Violets is good for this impediment mixt together with thâ— whites of Egges and the juyce of Planten For the Colliâ—ke and gripings in the Belly GIve the patient Jeane Treacle and powâ—er of Cloves well sodden in good Wine anâ—â—â—t them drinke it very warne Or take the root oâ— Lilly and Horehound and seethe it in Wine and give the patient Probatum est A Plaister for tâ—e same TAke Lynseed and stâ—mp it and Dock leaves and seethe them well in water and make a plaister and lay it to the griefe very warme For a Scurffe in the Body THis Infirmity doth come of a Cholericke and Melancholick humour For this cure J take two ounces of Bores grease then J doe put in one ounce of the powder of Oyster shels burnt and of the powder of Brimstone and three ounces of Mercury mortified with fasting spittle compound all these together and annoynt the body three or foure times and take an easie Purgâ—tion A Remedy for a wild running Scab TAke Mercury mortified with fasting spittle three ounces incorporate it with oyle of Bayes and anoynt the body or else take Mercury mortified three ounceâ— and of the Powder of Brimstone two ounces the powder of Enula Campana two ounces confect these together with Barrowes grease and anoynâ— often therewith For a Timpany TAke a pinte of Broome Ashes eyther of greene or dry and a quarter of an ounce of Sinamon bruised sift the Ashes and let a pinte thereof and the bruised Sinamon lye in steepe all night in a pottle of White Wine then let it run through a gelly bag twice or thrice till it run cleere put in some Sugar and a tost unto it drinke thereof thrice a day in the Morning fasting and an houre before Supper and an houre after Supper For one that is in a Consumption TAke foure ounces of Shavings of Harts-horne one ounce of the Shavings of Ivory put it in a Pipkin with a Gallon of faire water let it stand on the fire twelve houres in fusing and boyling softly close covered then take twenty Egges in their Shells crack their Shells and put them in a dish with Salt and let them stand an houre and purge themselves then pull them from their shells washing them till they be cleane then put them in the Pipkin to the Harts-horne and let it boyle two houres then put in a good handfull of Raisons of the Sun stoned halfe an ounce of â—iquorice scraped and sliced and a blade or two of Mace boyle all these till it come to a quart of Liquor then put in halfe a pinte of white Wine sixe spoonfuls of Rose-water two penny-worth of Saffron powdered boyle all a little while then straine it or run it through a gelly bag if you please you may sweeten it as you like it put a little Salt in it when it is cold it will be a Jelly you may take it cold or warme three or foure spoonfuls at a time in the Morning fasting at foure of the clock in the afternoone and when you go to bed If you doe think this too troublesome you may boyle the Egges in Broth or Milke