hath the Pipes stopped and so the Dropsie breedeth TAke two parts of Cinamon and the third part of Galingall and the same quantity of Ginger and put that Powder into a spoonfull of Hysope Water and drink it fasting and be whole Things evill for the Stomach ALl sweet things for they make the Stomach well old cheese honey marrow of bones not well sodden to eat e're thou art hungry to eat many sorts of meat at one sitting to drink e're thou be athirst to eat bread not well baked heavinesse anger dread thought raw flesh over-great travell all fried meats much bathing after meat too much casting to eat when thou art over-hot and all milk is naught save Goats milk For burning in the Stomach TAke Sorrell Cinque-foil Borage and Violet Leaves and stamp them together and strain them into Ale and make a posset thereof and drink it next your hart when you feel your self grieved and when the heat is gone make posset Ale of M … and that will restore you to heat again and bring you to good temper To make one Vomit TAke an Oken Leaf and lay it upon your tongue the rough side downward and hold close your mouth and this will make you Vomit Probatum est A precious Medicine for all Winds in the body the Strangullion and the Stone TAke the Root of a white Lilly that never bare flower and bruise it and seeth it in a pint of white Wine and put into it two spoonfulls of Anniseeds and Sugar and let it seeth till it be more then half sodden away and give it to the sick that is in pain and it shall soon ease him of the great pains A precious Powder for Digestion TAke Ginger Cinamon and Galingale of each one ounce of Anniseeds Caraway seeds and Fennell seeds half an ounce long Pepper Grains Maces Nutmegs of each two ounces of Set well one ounce make all these in fine Powder and put to them two pound and a half of fine Sugar and use this Powder before meat and after at your pleasure it is good to comfort the Stomach and against Wind. For the Stomach that cannot Digest nor have Appetite to Meat TAke and drink often Sorrell Water or Angelica Water or Betany Water or ground Ivy Water for all these are good for the same Medicines for the Liver An Ointment for the Liver that makâ—th good Digestion and keepeth the body from Putrifying TAke Oil of Roses and Oil of VVormwood of each two ounces and set them over the fire and when they begin to boil put thereto an ounce and a half of fine Mastick and when the Mastick is dissolved strain it while it is warm in the morning and make a plaister thereof and lay it to your side and be whole A Restorative for the Liver and the Lungs if they be rotten it will restore it again and do away the Gleme from the Heart and comfort the same TAke Fennell Roots and Parsly roots and pill away the Bark and pull out the pith and cast it away then mince them small and put into a brazen pot three quarts of water and set it on the fire and put the roots therein then take Figs and cut them small and pound them and put a quantity of Honey to it and let it boil a while then take it down and clarifie it through a cloth into a vessell of glasse and stop it fast that no air go out and let the sick drink of it hot in the morning and cold at night a good draught For one that hath his Liver cloven to his ribs TAke a shelfull of the juice of Betany and a quarter of a pint of white Wine and a spoonfull of honey and Pepper corns temper these together and drink thereof and it will help you For the heat of the Liver TAke Liver-Wort and five-leaved Grasse Succory Endive Buglosse and Borage and seeth all these in Whey and drink of this as often as you will and this will help you For one that is Liver brent TAke Sowthistle Dadelion and Rib-Wort and seeth them in water with Licorish untill the one half be wasted and drink of this at all times saving at meat For the stopping of the Liver TAke Ivy Berries and Egrimony Harts Tongue Liver-Wort and the bark of an Ash of all these a little quantity and put them to double as much Polypodion as of any one of the rest and make thereof pottage broth or syrupe If the Liver be opilated the face will swell and pain will be in the right side To preserve a man from stopping of the Liver TAke a Fig and grosse Pepp r with the crops of Time if it be eaten two hours before dinner and two hours before supper it preserveth a man from op lations of the Liver Also the Liver of a Hare dried and made into powder is good for all diseases of the Liver For the Liver TAke a good handfull of Liver-Wort that groweth upon the stones and another of Fumitory and as much of Harts Tongue and seeth them in Whey clarified and drink it every day twice If the Liver be hot because of too much bloud the Patient hath red urid hasty Pulse his Veins great full he feeleth his spittle mouth tongue sweeter then it was wont to be wherefore it is good to be let bloud of the Liver Veine on the right arm and to use Lettice or Sorrel Purslain and Hops in pottage and sometime to drink of the water Medicines for the Jaundise TAke Cows milk and white Wine of each a pint and distill them and keep the water that cometh thereof and give the sick to drink thereof two ounces in the morning two hours before meat and likewise after supper when he goeth to bed For the black Jaundise TAke Enula Cumpana roots and seeth them in milk then take the milk and strain it through a piece of cotton and give the sick to drink thereof This did help a gentlewoman that was sixteen years troubled with the Jaundise and could not be holpen For children take Turmerick and Ivory of each two Drams of Saffron two scruples seeth these in milk and give it to the children that have the black or yellow Jaundise Another for the Jaundise TAke Hempseed and bruise it and then boil it in good strong Ale or Beer and scum it very clean and let the sick drink of this drink and eat the sodden seed For the black Iaundise SEeth the inner bark of a Walnut tree in Ale or Beer and in the same drink quench steel being made red hot at least forty times and drink of this five or six ounces at a time hot evening and morning this is proved excellent good Also Goats dung or Fallow Deers dung strained into milk and given to the sick hath holpen the black Jaundise For the yellow Jaundise TAke Elecampane roots and the inner bark of a Barberie of each six ounces of Salendine roots eight ounces of English Saffron the weight of a groat
will work wonders in the Gout To comfort the joynts and Synews TAke five or six handfulls of Walworts and seeth them well in Wine then strain them with a little wax oyl of Spike and Aqua vitae make an ointment wherewith you must annoint the place morning and evening every day Medicines for the Gout appropriate in all causes TAste cow dung and seeth it in sweet Milk and lay a plaister thereof to the Gout Also the yolks of Eggs womans Milk Lynseed and Saffron all together in a plaister asswageth the diseases of the Gout and if you be disposed to break the skin and to let the humor issue out as by such means many a one is eased you shall make a little plaister of black Sope and Aqua vitae which will blister it without pain Also very hare old cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gammon of Bacon and afterwards stamped with a little of the broth and made in manner of a plaister is a singular remedy for the diseases of the Gout and was first practised by Galen the Prince of all Phisitians For the Gout in the Feet TAke and stamp nettles and lay them to the Podagra Feet or Legs and this will joyn flesh to the bone that is risen but you must mingle it with salt for that drieth up evill humors in short time For the Gout cold TAke as much black sope as a Walnut and as much herb grace made in juice to the quantity of the Sope and as much of the juice of Salendine and mingle them all together then take sheeps Leather and on the fleshy side lay on the plaister and so lay it to the Gout three daies and it will help thee For the Gout TAke a pint and a half of good Ale and half a pound of black Sope and a handfull of bay Salt beaten small then mingle them all together till half be consumed then put four spoonfulls of Aqua vitae and let it boyl a little more then take a cloth and dip it in it and lay it to the griefe as hot as he can suffer it and be whole Or take a pint of good Ale and clarifie it on the fire and put therein a handfull of Bay Salt and stir it well a good while put thereto two spoonfuls of black Sope and before you lay on the medicine take a linnen cloth and rub it well a good while and then lay on the medicine To take away pain of the Gout TAke the fattest Brach you can get and scald him like a Pig and take out the guts and garbadge at one of the sides then take nettles and stamp them with two ounces of Brimstone four yolks of Eggs four ounces of Turpentine incorporate all together and put it in the whelps belly surely sowed up that no composition come out then rost him with a soft fire and keep the dripping that doth come from him and annoint the sore place therewith for this is excellent and will cease all manner of Convulsions of the Sinews or joynts and pain of the Cramp that may be felt in any man This medicine hath been tryed not only to heal the Gout but to drive it away for ever Another for the same TAke half a pint of strong Vineger and three Yolks of Eggs and put them to the Vineger with a quantity of black Sope and so let it stand three daies and three nights and then mingle them together like a plaister and lay it to the sore Or take and stamp Walwort small and seeth it with the lees of red Wine as thick as pap and lay it to the sore wheresoever it be if it be hot lay it on hot if it be cold lay it on cold and then annoynt it two daies after with Nerve Oyl upon the Sinews For the festring Gout that maketh holes TAke the juice of rib grasse and as much of the white of an Egg and Rie meal and mingle them together and stamp them and make a thick plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and let it lie still untill it fall away Or take Rie flower and mingle it with the juice of Walwort roots and make thereof two cakes and bake them and then take one and do away the crust and bind it to the sore as hot as you may suffer it and when that cake is cold then take the other and lay it to the pain and this wil heal it For the Gout TAke Castle sope and scrape it into the barm of Ale but the Ale must not be sowre and stir the sope and the barm together and then lay it upon the ach and with a little cloth rowl it on and when it swells take red Fennell and seeth it and put to it butter and lay it to the swelling it must be butter unsalted and use this for it is very good An approved medicine for the Gout TAke a quantity of unwrought Wax and four times so much Boars Grease and as much black Sope as the Boars Grease then take the Boars Grease first and seeth it in a skillet and then clarifie it and melt the Wax by it self and put it to the grease and then put them together with the sope then take it from the fire and stir it a great while till it be like a salve then make a plaister of sheeps Leather and when your pain doth come lay on this plaister somewhat broader then the grief is and let it lie on twenty four hours before it be removed and you shall find great case in it This salve wil be good a whole year if it be kept close A speciall medicine for the Gout YOu shall buy at the Apothecaries Cantarides which is a great fly take of this a quantity and twice so much sowre bread the crums thereof stamped in a Morter with a little Vineger so that you may make thereof a plaister then stroke it upon a cloth and cut it the bredth of a penny and lay it to the place where the pain is for the space of six or seven hours then lift up the plaister with a knife and let it lie half an hour then again pull it off and a blister wil rise there then let out the water with a needle in the lowest place of the blister and softly thrust it with your finger and if the water be cold it will be somewhat yellow if the pain be new it will be white like the gelly of a Pig then take the leaf of an Oak tree and cut away the hardnesse thereof and prick it full of holes and lay it on untill it be whole as soon as the blister is broken the pain is gone but you must make the blister beneath the joynt For the Gout TAke six new laid Eggs and rost them hard and cut them asunder take out the yolks and where the yolks were while the Eggs be very hot put in myrrhe of Alexandria it is to be bought at the Apothecaries and lay one side of the Eggs upon
bone of a Hare and as long as you have the same about you next to your skin you shall not have the Cramp Another for the Cramp TAke two spoonfuls of May-butter and two spoonfuls of Ruejuyce and temper them together till they be a salve and anoint the place therewith Medicines for all kind of sores and wounds and first to draw a sore TAke and beat Oatmeal in a Morter small and then put it into milk and seeth it well together with a handful of Rose-flowers unstild if you may have them or else of them that are stilled and not burned and seeth them till they be like Pap together and then lay them warm to the sore as the Patient may suffer it evening and morning and this will dry it A good water for every sore TAke a quart of ashes made of an Ash and a pottle of vineger and a pound of Madder half a pound of Allom-glass and seeth all these together until they be half wasted then take it from the fire and let it stand and spurge then take the water that is clear above and put it into a Vial and put that water into a sore and this will heal it without any more cost A Plaister for that swelling which is called an Vncome TAke Rue and Smalledge of each an handful a good gobet of fat Bacon such as is very much smoaked or resty as they call it and dress the said Bacon in squares as big as your finger and beat all these together till it be dissolved and meet to spread upon leather or cloth and lay it to the sore and it will both draw it and heal it when it is broken A soveraine plaister for any Ach. TAke a quart of Malmsey and a spoonful of Sallet-oyl a good handful of Onyons pilled broken and bruised and an ounce of pepper finely beaten then seeth all these together till they be thick and spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the place where the pain is and this will take away the Ach. A Medicine or Oyntment called Flos Unguentorum TAke Rosin and per Rosin of each half a pound Virgin wax and Frankincense of each a quarter of a pound Mastick an ounce Harts tallow a quarter of a pound and Camphire two drams melt that which is to be molten and powder that which is to be made in powder and searce them fine and boyl them over the fire and then strain them through a Canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine then boyl the wine with all the other ingredients together till the wine be consumed then let it cool till it be but bloud-warm then put thereto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine evermore stiring it till it be thorow cold but ever beware your stuff be no hotter then bloud when you put in your Turpentine and Camphire for if it be it marreth all your stuff then when it is cold make it up in rolls and keep it for your use for the best medicine and precious salve that ever was or can be made To make Salus Populi which is good for Blanes and to skin all sores in three days and is good for him that feareth the Hemeroids TAke of Salendine two handfuls Allom one handful and grind them together like sauce then take Weathers tallow or Harts tallow a pound of oyl of Roses half a pound and melt them together and boyl the herbs therein until it sink down to the bottom and it wax somwhat black then strain it and keep it to your use This Oyntment is hard and therefore when you will use of it put it in a spoon and melt it over the fire and understand it must not be put in old sores but there as it scaldeth the skin off and when there riseth any pimples white black blew or red this Salus Populi dryeth well and healeth well and destroyeth the wild fire A special Medicine for a Bruise TAke a great handful of Rue the white and Yolks of five Eggs half a pint of Honey and a handful of wheat flower temper all these together and make it thick and so lay it to the place that is bruised upon a fair cloth heated hot against the fire and let it ly twenty four hours and then lay on a fresh To asswage any Swelling where-ever it be TAke two handfuls of Penyrial and set it in the strongest Ale you can get til it be tender then take it and press it from the herbs and lay it unto the swelling as hot as he can suffer it and so use it two or three days and it will be good A marvellous Salve to heal and draw TAke Betony Plantane and Smallage the juyce of them one pound then take four ounces of Wax that cometh of the honey two ounces of incense white and clean two ounces of pitch two ounces of Rosin melt these by themselves upon a soft fire that done put the juyce of the herbs to it and boyl it together until the juyce be wasted and alwaies stir it then take it from the fire and strain it through a clean cloth then take two ounces of Turpentine and temper it with the rest and when it is cold keep it as gold To heal a wound TAke the flowers of herb John and put them in a glass and put thereto as much oyl Olive as will cover the herbs and then stop the glass close and put it in the Sun for the space of twenty days or more then it will be a fine coloured oyntment and very good for green wounds and when you will use it warm it a little at the fire and then wet your Lint therein and lay it to the wound and it will be whole A water to heal all manner of wounds in short space which is a thing that every man ought to have in his house seeing it is of so great vertue TAke a pound of new yellow wax or as much as you will and melt it in a clean pan and then pour it out into some other vessel wherein must be Malmsey Muscadel or good Claret-wine and then take the wax out and pour it again upon the wine and do so seven times then take the said wax and melt it on the fire and put into it a handful of Brick beaten into fine powder and stir it well together and then put it into a crook't-neckt glass such as Stillers call the Bag-pipe-glass you must clay it well about the midst of the glasses neck and let it distil first with a little fire and then more and last with a good great fire and then when all the things be cold put it out of your recipient and pour it into a Viol well stoped with wax and searcloth so that in no case the ayre go out no sun nor fire come to it for it is so fine of himself that it will vanish away straight and when you will occupy it you must wet and moyst the wound with a fine linnen cloth and so bind it to
a like quantity bray them well together and the first day lay them in white Wine the second day lay them in the Urine of a man-child the third day lay them in the Milk of a woman that feedeth a man-child the fourth day in clean Hony and then distill them with a clean fire softly and keep that water well for it is excellent For a hurt in a mans Eye that cometh with a stroke TAke Betany two handfulls and beat it small in a mortar and put thereto the white of an Egge and break it with the other in a mortar and take of the same liquor and put it into thine Eye and lay some upon the Eye and bind it fast and do so nine dayes and be whole Another for the same TAke Egremony and bray it and temper it with white Wine and an Egge and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the outside of thine Eye and if were almost out it would heal it without doubt For the Eyes that run full of water and be bleared TAke of the juice of Rue foure spoonfulls and two of Honey and mingle them together and when you go to bed put thereof into your Eyes and keep it in together and use this and it will help thee Or take two or three roots of red Fennell and the leaves also and a branch of Salendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten flat and if one be not great enough take two races put all these into half a pint of running water and cover it and use to put of this water into your Eyes when you go to bed and an houre before you rise in the morning when you take thereof strain it To save a mans sight a long time good TAke a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a fig or two three dayes in a week and this will save thy sight To draw Rheume back that falleth into the Eye TAke an Egge and rost it hard and slit it into two parts and lay it hot to the nape of the neck and thou shalt find ease presently A medicine for sore Eyes and for the Megrim in the head TAke the white of a new laid Egge clean taken from the yolk and a spoonfull of white Ginger and a spoonfull of strong white Vineger made of Malmsey or white Wine and a spoonfull of clean Rose water but first the white of the Egge must be well beaten and then to the oyl of the Egge put your other things above written and beat them all together then take Flax as much as will make two plaisters for either Temple one with a cloth and dip it into the medicâ—ne and bind upon every Temple one with a cloth and take heed the medicine do not touch your Eyes and do this three or four nights together and every morning the Eyes will cleave together with the Gumme but this medicine hath brought to sight them that were eight weeks stark blind For a Pearl and Wb in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger and grate it upon a whetstone and then beat fine a little white Coperas and put to it and when the Patient goeth to bed put some of it with a quill into his Eyes and when it hath been there a little while take ground Ivy beaten and strained with womans Milk and put three or foure drops into your Eyes evening and morning after the white Coperas hath been in your Eyes half an hour Probatum est A Medicine to clear the sight TAke clean Rose water a quantity in a sawcer and take clean Myrrhe as much as a nut and break it to powder small and bind it in a clean linnen cloth and let it lie in the Rosewater twelve hours and then the water will wax somewhat red of the Myrrhe then take of this water and put it into your Eye and this will clear the sight very well Probatum est To make a precious water for sore Eyes that be fair to look on and yet cannot see with them TAke Smallage and red Fennell Rue Betany Vervain Pimpernell Eyebright Sage and Salendine of every one of these a quartern and wash them clean and stamp them in a very fair vessell and take the powder of fifteen Pepper corns and a pint of good white Wine and three spoonfulls of good live Honey and fifteen spoonfulls of the water of a man child that is very young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little and then strain it through a clean cloth and keep it in a vessell or glasse well stopped and when you will occupie it put some of it into your Eyes with a feather and if it dry away in the glasse then put a little white Wine to it and this is good for all sore Eyes if thy Eyes be never so sore in fifteen dayes it will heal thee Probatum est For a Pearl and Web in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger beaten fine into powder searse it and seeth it a great while in good white Wine and put it into a faire vessell of Latten well stirred and let it stand in the vessell till it look green then put it into a glasse and when you have need of it use it with a little white Coperas at the dressing Or for the Web in the Eye take the gall of an Hare and clarified Honey by even portions and mingle them together and lay it on the Web and within three nights the Web shall break and save the sight Probatum est A Medicine for any that have the small Pox fallen into their Eyes TAke Pimpernell and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into your Eyes where the small Pox is with a feather morning and evening and this is a speciall good Medicine for a Pin a Web or a Pearle in the Eye For a Pin and a Web. TAke the Ivy leaves that grow upon an Ash tree wipe them clean with a cloth and stamp them and strain them with Womans milk if it be a man that hath a Pearl in the Eye strain it with the milk of a woman that nurseth a Girl if a woman have a Pearl then with the milk of a Boy and the sorer the Eye is the more of the juice you must take and lesse of the milk and drop this Medicine into thine Eye with a feather morning and Evening and twice in the afternoon This is proved For sore Eyes TAke the juice of Houseleek Womans milk Rose water or Woodbine water and the white of a new laid Egge well beaten the froth taken away and beat all these together and dip in Flax and lay it to your Eyes when you go to bed Probatum est For Eyes that are swoln TAke two spoonfulls of Womans milk one spoonfull of Rose water the pap of a rosted Apple and the yolk of a new laid Egge and boil all these together in a sawcer upon a chafing-dish of coals untill it
be thick and spread it upon a little cloth of the bignesse of the Eyes and lay it to lukewarm one day and a night or untill you see them something asswaged and then wash them with Womans milk Probatum est I have known a woman heal many blind people with this medecine following TAke Daysie roots Betany flowers Pimpernell and red Fennel stamp them and strain them with stale Ale and drink of this evening and morning and lay outwardly to thy Eyes Rose-water Womans milk and the white of an Egg with Tow being well beaten together the drink will be better if you pound and put the juice of Cheslocks a worm so called that is between the bark and the body of trees commonly and then the juice of the said worm put into the sore Eyes healeth them A medicine wherewith one was holpen that had a prong thrust into the white of his Eye TAke the right ground Ivy Salendinâ— the green of a Goose Tird Womans milk and put them together in a Glasse then when they be settled powr out the clearest and put it into thine Eyes and this will make thee whole A precious medecine for sore and dim Eyes TAke a handfull of Tyme a handfull of Vervain a handfull of Rose leaves a handfull of brown Fennell and when you have washed those herbs clean put them into a Stillitory and then put thereto a pint of white Wine and eight penniworth of pure white Coperas and distill the same and put it into a glasse and use to wash your Eyes therewith Probatum est Another for sore Eyes TAke red Rue Smallage Vervain Maiden-hair Ivy Sengreen Walwort and red Fennell of each a handfull wash them clean and lay them in good white Wine a day and a night and after put them all into a stillitory and still them for the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like Balm and keep it in a glasse and use it A speciall medecine for Eyes first to clarifie the sight and curable to all Passions to Eyes as hath been proved many times and if the Eyes be therewith washed or else one drop of cleer water put therein it cleareth the sight and is much profitable to strained Eyes it will destroy a Pearl overcometh the Megrim and healeth any Eye that is smitten with a stroke TAke red Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain Betany red Roses Grape leaves Appium Egrimony ground Ivy that groweth upon an oak and of all these take even portions and it must be put foure dayes and four nights in this manner following the first day and night in white Wine the second day and night in Water of a Manchild a Virgin the third day and night in Womans milk the fourth day and night in clean Honey and this done take all the herbs and put them into a stillitory and the water that cometh thereof ye shall put into a viall and use this as aforesaid and in this water put the fourth part of an ounce of Camphere beaten in a morter this is an excellent medicine To make a precious water for sore eyes and for all manner of sores as followeth TAke red Roses Smallage Rue Vervain Maidenhaire Eufrasia Eyebright Endive Sengreen Walwort red Fennel and Salendine of every one of these half a quartern wash them and lay them in good white Wine twenty four houres and then distil them and the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like balm keep it well in a viall or glasse for it is worth any Balm for any manner of evill or sore Eye and this hath been proved many times To make a water for sore Eyes which is excellent TAke the filing of Brasse of Iron Lead of Steel and of Gold and put it one day in the water of a clean Virgin to steep the second day put it in white Wine being hot the third day in the juice of Fennell the fourth day in the milk of an Ewe the fifth in red Wine the sixth day in three whites of Egges and then put it into a Stilletory and distill it with a soft fire and keep the water in a vessell this water is right excellent and precious for a mans sight and destroyeth the Leprosie A medicine for the Pearl and Flegme grown over the Eye TAke the Gall of an Hare and boil it with as much Honey as the Gall. Probatum est Medicines for the Ears For an Ear-wig or Worm in the Ear. TAke the Juice of Wormwood Rue and Sothernwood of each a like much and mingle them together and put it into the Ear and that will slay the Worm that is in any mans head within five nights at the furthest and lay some of the substance of the herbs plaister-wise To make one hear that is deaf TAke green Elm and lay it amidst the Fire and take the water that cometh out at the ends thereof a spoonfull and take a spoonfull of the juice of Sengreen and a spoonfull of Eels grease that is a kind of a black Eel of the gobbin next the navell and boil them together a little over the fire and then put the liquor into a glasse and put thereof into thine eares when thou art in bed and within a day thou shalt be whole but look that the liquor be milk-warm or take the juice of Betany and let it rest a good while and then take black Sope and the ju ce together and put it into thine Ears Another for the same TAke Camomill Melil ot Marjoram Calamint Hysop Wormwood Pennyroyall Stechados Mints of each a handfull boil them in running water one houre and dip a cloth therein and hold it hot to the Eare that the heat may enter into â—hy head and after stop thy Ears with cotton or black wooll that no cold may enter and this will help the hearing A water to help the hearing TAke and distill Sorrell or Wormwood in a common stilletory and take foure drops of either of the same waters whether you will and put â—nto the ear lukewarm For pain in the Ears or for default of hearing TAke the oyl of sweet Almonds and drop it into thine ear and it helpeth the pain speedily also milk sodden and put into a stone pot with a narrow mouth and the sore ear holden over the pot that the vapor of the milk may ascend into the eare this taketh away the pain and breaketh the imposthume of the head this is proved trrue Another for the same TAke the oil of a silver Eel with black wooâ—… of a Ram betwixt the hinder legs and the flank it helpeth presently the pain and will cause the Ear to run Also the oyl of a Weasle or Mole helpeth the hearing very well but you must make it in this sort when the Weasle or Mole is stripped of his skin then put the said Weasle or Mole into an earther Jug and stop the Jug very close and put the pot into seething water and let
it will fall out A Water for the Teeth TAke and distill the Water of Mother wort and hold it in thy Mouth a good while and it will kill the Pain of the Teeth and the stinking thereof Also Water of Vervain or Hysope Water will do the like For the Tooth-ach TAke Henbane-seed and the Powder of Amber of each a like much and lay them on a glowing tile and make a Pipe that thy Breath may go through to the sore Tooth and this will kill the Worms and put away the Tooth-ach For a Canker and Tooth-ach TAke Smalladge and Sorrell Leaves Alum and Glasse and make thereof a Powder and lay it to the Sore wheresoever it be and for the Tooth that is hollow and aketh take the Flowers and Leavos of Pellitory and stamp it with Salt and fill the hollow Tooth therewith and be whole For the Tooth-ach Take Ivy Berries and seeth them well in Vineger and when they be well sodden sip some of the liquor as hot as you may suffer it and hold it in your Mouth till it be cold and then cast it out and take new and do so three or four times and it will ease you For the Tooth-ach TAke and rost an Egge hard and put therein a Spoonfull of Salt and two Spoonfulls of Vineger or good Aleger and temper them well together till they be a Pap then strain it and with a little fine Cloth put some thereof into your Mouth and when you have spit out the corruption refresh the same with more and it will take away the Pain shortly To make Childrens Teeth come TAke the Brains of a Hare and seeth them and anoint the Gummes therewith and take the Brains of a Hen likewise and rub the Gummes therewith and this shall make the Teeth grow without akng To fasten the Teeth TAke and seeth the Roots of Vervain in old Wine and wash thy Teeth therewith and this will make them fast For Worms in the Teeth TAke Henbane seed and lay it upon a flat Stone and set it upon a Chafingdish of Coals and let the smoke go into your Mouth and this will will kill the Worm shortly For the Tooth-ach TAke the inner Rine of an Eldar Tree and bruise it a little and put thereto a little Pepper and make it in Balls and lay it to your Teeth and be whole THe cause of these impediments may come either by an humor descending out of the Head to the Teeth or Gummes or by corâ—oding or eating of Worms or corruption of Blood lying and being upon and betwixt the Teeth or it may come by drinking of hot Wines eating of hot Spices or hot Apples Pears Cherries and such like and it may come of a hot Liver or Stomach and ever beware of pulling out of thy Teeth for pull out one and pull out more but if it be hollow pull it out for it will rot still more and more do what thou canst Medicines for the Gummes For the Gummes that be gnawn and fretted with Humors TAke Cloves and seeth them in Rose water then dry them and make Powder thereof with Rose water or Roses for that is best then dry it again in the Sun do this three or four times and then temper the Powder again with Rose water or with the Juice of Roses and anoint thy Gummes therewith A Water for a Canker in the Gumms TAke half a Pint of white Wine and a quarter of a Pint of Water and put thereto an Ounce of burnt Alum and take a quantity of five leaved Grasse otherwise called Cinque-Foyl and put all these into a clean earthen Pot and set it over the Fire and let it seeth to the half and scum it clean then strain the Liquor into some Vessell and keep it in a Glasse till thou have need to occupy it Another for the same TAke Herb Grasse and wash it clean and dry it with a Linnen Cloth and stamp it in a Morter and put thereto strong red Vineger then strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth three times folded of an Ell broad wet it in the same Medicine and lay it to the Sore within the Mouth and if it be a very great Canker take Alum and beat it very small in a Morter and put it to the said Medicine to the value of a handfull of Herb Grasse and this will heal thee To make a Gumme hard to hold the Teeth TAke clean Rose water and daily wash thy Gummes and Teeth therewith and it will fasten thy Gummes to thy Teeth For rotting of thy Gummes TAke the Water of great Sage and wash thy Mouth and Gummes therewith and it will help the rotting of thy Teeth and the shaking of them if thou use it often in a day and hold it in thy Mouth Medicines for the Face For a sawcy stain'd Face like a Leper YOU must give him a Purgation as is said in the pain of the Head coming of Choller then dip Cloths in Alum water which must be made as followeth take a pound of Alum Glasse the juice of Purslain of Plantine and Verjuice of Grapes or Crabs of each a Pint with the whites twenty one Egges well beaten together then mingle them altogether and distill it in a Stillitory this Water is for the Pimples Scurfes Chafings Wheals and Heats dip your Cloth therein often and lay to the rednesse THe cause of these Impediments doth come of a venemous matter ascending out of the Stomach meeting with Rheum that would descend from the Head and meeting both together do cause the Vapors to break out in the Face For a Copper Face TAke Litarge of Silver and Brimstone of each a like much and seeth them in Vineger and then wet a Linnen Cloth therein and lay it to the Sore putting a little Rose water to it A Diet for a Copper Face ABstain from all Salt things Spices Fried Meats and Rosted Meats from drinking of Wine for it is very ill also Onyons Mustard and Garlick be very bad instead of which you must take Purslain Sorrell Lettice and Hops Borage otherwise Succory or Endive in your pottage Also it is necessary to be laxative and sleeping to lay your head high For a red Face TAke Sowthistles Borage Purslain Sorrell Barley Parsly Roots and Licoras and boil all together in running Water and drink it first and last For Worms in the Face TAke of Rosine three parts and the fourth of unwrought VVax one spoonfull of Honey half a spoonfull of May Butter try them all together on the fire then strain it through a fair Cloth into a dish of fair Water and when it is so cold that you may stir it with your hand work it well against the Fire as you do an Electuary and in working thereof put in as much white Coperas as a Nut as you do occupy it made into Powder then strike it on a Cloth as you do other plaisters and lay it to the Face and within three dayes you shall know whether there be
seeth all these in a pint of white Wine strain it and drink thereof foure spoonfulls morning and evening warm 〈…〉 Medicines for the Side For Wind in the Side TAke the leaves of Holly and dry them and make powder thereof but do not burn them and give the Patient thereof to drink in Beer or Ale and it will ease immediatly Proved by my Lady Coplin For a Stich in the Side TAke the urine of him that is sick Wormwood and Cummin and seeth them well together and by the fire therewith anoint thy side and after with the oil of Bay Also Endive Water water of Divells-bit water of Mallows and water of Carduus benedictus are all good for the Stitch. For a Stich in the left Side TAke a quantity of Cummin and steep it in a pottle of Malmsey then take and fry them together in a Pan and put it into a linnen bag and lay it hot to your side and it will help you Another for the same TAke and stamp Wormwood Mints and Camomill Mallows red Roses Sage Cummin and white Bread Crums and boil all these in red Wine or in stale Ale and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the side This is proved To know when one hath a Stitch whether it be of the Wind or the Plurisie TAke Wormwood and lay it on a tile-stone before the fire and when it is neare hot sprinkle it with good Malmsey and put it in a linnen cloth and lay it to when you feel the Stitch if it be but a Wind it will take it away in two hours but if it be the Plurisie it will augment the pain and then seek other remedy For a Stitch at the Hart. TAke and distill Endive Water and when the fire is out of it drink thereof one ounce at a time for this will help all Stitches of the Heart if you will use it Medicines for the Pleurisie TAke Broom Flowers Scabias and Carduus Benedictus of every one a like portion mingle them together and let the Patient every morning and evening take a good draught and annoint the ribs with oyl of Broom Flowers for this is good Another singular remedy for the same TAke three ounces of the water of Lady-thistle called Carduus Benedictus one spoonfull of white Wine and fix inner whites of Eggs well braid mingle them together and lay them plaister-wise upon the ribs as hot as you may suffer it Another for the same TAke two good handfulls of Horse-dung two races of Ginger in powder then wrap the dung and the Ginger together in a linnen cloth then put them in a pot to boyle with a quart of white Wine untill the third part be consumed and drink thereof evening and morning and after you have drunk the said Wine cover you well and sweat A Regiment for the Pleurisie THe Patient ought not to drink wine nor eat flesh but must be content to drink Tysants Barley water and weak drink and to eat Barley hulked and milk of Almonds clarified rosted Apples and great Raisins as long as the Fever doth last And to help him to spit it is good to use often white pills of Diadragaganton Sugar Candy and other things mentioned in the Remedies of the Cough For the Pleuresie THe common practice is to let the Patient blood and to administer to him Tysants and to give the syrup of Violets in the which is dissolved Cassia newly drawn half an ounce of Manna elect 1.3 give this to the Patient after he is let blood this hath holpen many Also this is very good for the Pleurisie Take a hollow Apple and put therein a good quantity of Olybanum and put the Apple in the hot embers and so let it stand till it be rosted and then give it to the Patient this hath helpt many without letting blood A Pleurisie cometh of cold humors and if it be not far past give the Patient Malmsey wherin hath been sodden Camomil to drink this hath helpt many without letting blood Medicines for the Lungs An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs TAke the Lungs of a Fox and wash them clean in fair water and lay them in Vineger two daies and then hang them up to dry the shortest way is to dry them in an Oven and then take a few crops of Hysope Elecampana roots and a few crops of Hoarhound and a good quantity of Anniseeds and a good quantity of Licoras and one ounce of Sugar-Candy and bray all together and searse it and then you may chuse whether you will eat the Powder in apples in pottage or in meat To make a Water that is restorative for a man that if his Lungs be wasted will restore them again and gather Nature again TAke Fennell roots and Parsley roots and wash them clean and pill of the utter bark of the roots and the hard roots that is within them and cast it away and make them small then take a brazen pot and put therein three quarts of water and put the roots therein and seeth it over the fire then take Figs and mince them small and Licoras small and put them together and make them boil well then take Sorrell and stamp it and put it thereto and let it boil well and then take it down and strain it through a cloth into some Vessell of earth and stop it well and fast that the breath go not out and let the sick drink thereof hot evening and morning cold For the Cough of the Lungs TAke a handfull of Figs and seeth them in Ale or Beer untill they be somewhat tender then slit them asunder and put them in a linnen bag and so lay them on your Stomach warm and when they be cold warm them again in the same liquor To comfort the Lungs TAke and distill our Lady Thistle and drink the water thereof twice a day and it will comfort the Lungs Also the Water of Chervell doth the like To open the Lungs TAke Hysope VVater and drink thereof twice a day evening and morning at each time one ounce and a half or two ounces and it will help you For the Impostumation of the Lungs TAke and drink VVater of Camomill twice a day at each time an ounce and it will help thee Fennell water will do the like Approved For heat or drought in the Lungs DRink water of great Plantain twice a day and it will kill the heat of the Lungs Water of blue Violets doth the like Medicines for the Heart For trembling of the Heart without a Fever TAke the maw of an old Cock drie it and make powder thereof and drink the same powder in red Wine or sweet Wine for it is very good put a little Saffron thereto For the Heart that beateth or trembleth in mans body and cometh of thought BRay Corall in a mortar of brasse as small as you can then searse it and mingle it with Sugar very fine beaten use to take of this powder first in the morning and last
sore with great expedition There was a man the which was sore grieved with the Stone who was holpen with this drink following Take the blossoms of Haws and distyl them then take the water thereof and seeth it and put therein Grommel-seed Saxifrage-seed and Parsly-seed of each an ounce of Goats blood Hares blood and Fox blood of each of them seven Drams seeth all these in a quart of the water in a close pot of Pewter or earth in a Kettle of water the space of six hours then strain it and drink thereof every day This is an excellen thing To deliver the Stone a Medicine that never fails TAke the roots of red Nettles and wash them clean in many waters and then bray them small and lay them in red Wine twelve hours then give else sick thereof to drink six spoonfuls of the liquor and let him rest on a bed 3 hours and then give him twelue spoonfuls and 3 hours after give him twenty spoonfuls and anon he shall make water and deliver the Stone Or take white Thorn buds in May and distyl them and take a pinte of the same water and half a pinte of Malmsey and boyl it a little at the fire but if you put in a little Honey withal it will be the better and then drink it to bed-ward Proved by Master GAGE To break the Stone TAke a quantity of a Jet-stone and two races of Ginger and the shells of Egs hatched under a Hen when the Chickens be out but first take away the filme of the shels and put them altogether in a Morter with the piece of a stone that cometh out of an Ox gall or with Parsley-seed if you cannot get the stone and make Powder of all these together and drink of it with warm Ale in a spoon as often as you shall think good and it will break the Stone and ease you of the Collick and cause you to make water easily An excellent Medicine for the Stone TAke Selgreen Planten Fetherfew and Tansey and pound them all apart and keep every Liquor by it self in a Glass then take of each of them a like quantity and boyl it with Bean-flower and Honey to make it Plaister-wise and then take a double swadling-band of linnen cloth and spread the Plaister thereupon and so lay it to the pain and round about the back and use it so a fortnight or three weeks for this is a special good Medicine and well approved Another for the same TAke a Goat and keep him three dayes fasting then put him in a Tub full of holes and the fourth day give him nothing but Grommel Parsley Alexander Salendine Saxifrage Hawberries and Water-cresses and make him to lick prepared Salt and give it him with Wine to drink and so keep him with that food a whole week in the foresaid Tub and all the water he maketh you must through the holes of the Tub receive it into some vessel then take this water and put thereto Holly Berries Ivy Berries and Hawthorn Berries of each half a handful of Juniper Berries of flowers of Starewort of Cras-foot of each half a handful of the seeds of Parsley Saxifrage Elysander Radish Philipendula Nettles the Berries of Kneeholm Asparagus Fennel-seed and Anni-seed of each half an ounce of the roots of Kneeholm of Asparagus and Water-cresses of each of them four ounces of Grommel-seed and Smallage-seed eight ounces Bruise all these seeds small and chop the herbs and put them into the foresaid Goats water the space of twelve dayes into some warm place stirring them every day two or three times then put them together into a Styll and hang in the mouth of the Styll a little Musk Cynamon and Cloves because of the loathsomness of the Goats water and so distyl the water and give the Patient that hath the Stone three ounces at a time this is the most Soverain water can be found for it melteth and voideth the Stone without pain This holp a Scholler at Eaton-Colledge whom all the Physitians gave over as one incurable Of the Stone THe Stone is engendered by reason of a great heat that is about the Reins straightness of the Conduit and abundance of gross and slimy humors or Brentcholer which by the said excess of heat is as one would say baked or dryed as Clay in the Furnace and so at last becometh a hard stone Therefore it is chiefly to be noted that without the mending of the foresaid causes all that you do minister to break the Stone is either hurtful to the Patient or else small effect therefore it is good to keep a sober diet And note that alwaies whatsoever they be are nought in this case All kind of Pulses as Pease Beanes and such like all gross flesh and water-fowls and fowls of great bodies and all Fruits except ripe Prunes are nought and all Shell-fish except Grevise and Shrimps also all Pepper and hot spices and all meats salt or sower but especially beware of hard Cheese for that is oftentimes the onely cause of the Stone and you must not lie on your back and you must keep your Reins cold and let your back be untrussed in summer An approved Medicine for the Stone and Strangury TAke most of Licoras then Anniseeds Colianedr Grommel Fennel Parsley and Alicander-seeds then dry all these seeds and pound them severally by themselves and note that Licoras Anni-seeds and Grommel-seeds be Restoratives and when they are all in Powder mix thereto powder of Syne to the quantity of one half of one parcel of the scowrers also mix thereto white Sugar-candy to the quantity of your Licoras with a Nutmeg or two use this powder fasting in clear Ale in your Broths and all suspected meats Remedies for a Mans Yard IF this Impediment be of any interial cause use to drink Milk or else drink oft a good portion of the water of Hawes and inject into the Yard the water of Comphry if the Impediment be betwivt the head and skin of the Yard wash the head of the Yard divers times with white Wine and after that use the powder of a rotten Post or any siccative Medicines is good or else Populion or Vnguentum ei Epsiacon is good For the Erection of the Yard above Nature TAke first and anoint the Yard and Codds with oyl of Juniper and the oyl of Campheret is good and so is Agnus Castus braid and made in a Plaister and laid upon the Stones This Impediment doth come of the inflamation of the Reins of the back or of inflamations of the Veines of the Yard and Stones or of too much use of Venerious acts To heal a mans Yard that is sore TAke Turpentine and the yolk of an Egg of each a like much well beaten together with Saffron and anoint the sore Yard therewith Or take and seeth the powder of Lynseed in sweet Milk till it be thick and lay it to the Yard Plaister-wise and anoint it with the juyce of Morrel and Plantane and be
whole For the swellings in a mans Yard TAke Leeks with the tails and wash them clean and stamp them and fry them in Barrows-grease and make a Plaister and lay it all about the yard and be whole Or take Betony and seeth it in Wine and stamp it and make a Plaister and lay it to the Cods and it will asswage the swelling of them this is well proved For pain in ae mans Yard through Gravel or Champise as followeth TAke Pellitory and Boares-grease and fry them together well and make two Plaisters thereof and lay one between the Navel and the Yard and the other on the Reines of the back and anon thou shalt deliver water and gravel which before thou mightst not do but by drops this will help thee without doubt To make a water for a sore Yard TAke and put Allom in fair water and seeth it till it wax tough then put it in a pewter Box this will cleanse a sore and make it fair For burnign with a Harlot IF a man be burnt with a Harlot and do meddle with another woman within one day she shal be burned If one be burned let him wash his secrets two or three times with white Wine or Sack and water but if the matter have continued long go to some expert Chyrurgion to have help or else thy Guts will burn and fall out of thy belly For a mans Stones that hang down long TAke the fatness of a Conney and anoynt thy Cods and Stones therewith and then wrap thy Sones in a Conny-skin do this nine times and labour not in nine dayes and be whole For him that cannot make water TAke Rue Grommel and Parsley and stamp them and mingle them with white Wine and give the sick thereof to drink warm Or take the juyce of Cinquefoil and drink it with Posset ale and it will make you make water anon For one that cannot make water TAke the stones and Kernels of Peches and Medlers as much of the one as of the other and make them into Powder very fine and scarse them this done take fine Sugar the weight of all this and mingle all this together and let the Patient drink thereof with good white Wine and he shall be whole incontinent To make one make water TAke six or seven Berries of Ivy and stamp them and strain them with Ale and give the sick to drink therof and he shall make water straight To make one make water TAke a pinte of good Ale and put therein of Honey even as it cometh out of the Hive with Bees wax and all and strain it with the Ale then give it the Patient to drink and within one quarter of an hour he shall make water with this was one holpen that lay three dayes and never made water To make one make water TAke a pinte of white Wine and a good spooonful of Sivil Soap finely scraped and the yolks of two Eggs well put from the whites beat all these together with the Wine and then strain it and warm it luke-warm and drink hereof as often as you shall feel pain and this will help you for it is well proved A Medicine for the Scyatica THis Infirmity cometh of hard lying on the Huckle-bones or lying upon the ground or upon a forme or such like it may come by a stripe or by a fall and it will run from the Huckle-bone to the knee and from the knee to the anckle and from the anckle to the little toe and then it is past cure and otherwhiles this Gowt will have a reflexion ro the Reines of the back and to the Flank and it may come of a gross Flegmetique humour The chiefest remedy is to anoint the place with oyl of Turpentine and Aqua vitae compounded together and use to anoint the place often against the fire and a scarcloth of pitch is good For the Scyatica TAke oyl of Olive May butter gall of a Bul and red Onyons and boyle these together and lay it to the hips where the paine is this is a good Medicine Or take a red cloth and Anoynt it with Clarified Honey and thereupon strew the powder of Cummyn and as hot as you may Bind it to the sore and be whole For the Scyatica in the Hip. TAke a Pottle of wine Lees and wine dregs and sower bread and Cow-dung and boyl these well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the paine as hot as you may suffer it and this will heal you For the Scyatica Passion TAke a Gallon of Urine and seeth it well and scum it well untill it be cleer and then take it downe and let it stand untill it be cold and then put the cleer therof into a faire Pot and put away the dregs and then take the same cleer Urine and put it over the fire and put therein a quart of black dew Snails and boyl them together until the Snails be wasted then strain it through a hair sive and keep the same liquor in an earthen pot and aniont the hipp and the legg therwith before a hot fire and let the liquor be warm For all manner of Gouts and consumed members and for the Scyatica passion TAke a pound of Riote of red docks that men make brogys of and wash them clean and dry them in the sun untill the water be away then cut them small and bray them in a morter and boyl them in a quart of strong vineger untill half be wasted and then with the same anoint the aking place and it will amend then keep it in a vial of glass or els it will dry away This Medicine is very excellent for the diseases abovewritten for it hath been very well proved Medicines for the fundament A Remedy for falling out of the Fundament FIrst beware of taking cold in that place and beware of costiveness and keep your arse and buttocks warm and sit not upon the cold earth nor upon stones nor upon no hard thing but take something under the buttocks not only for falling out of the Longation or arsgut for all other infirmities that may be engendred in the Longation For the figge in the fundament THis Impediment is a Impostumation or lump of flesh growing in the Longation and it doth come of melancholy humors the which doth descend to the Longation or fundament and for remedy purge the matter with confection of hamock or with the pills of Lapides Lazule or with Vera Rufini then take of the powder of a dogs head burned and mix it with the juyce of pimpernel and make tents and put into the fundament For him that his fundament goeth out TAke bay leaves and boyl them in a pot of water and as hot as you can suffer it you must sit over it to the intent the fume of the water may go up into the body and with your finger put it up by little and little and when it is hot heat an Oaken board and sit on it as hot
the other is not ready take a little of the Lard of a Barrow For one that is burned with a Match TAke the same Match and burn it to powder and strew the same powder upon the place and this will heal it in short space For burning with Gun-powder TAke Sheeps sewet and Sheeps dung and fry them both together and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith twice every day and do not wash the sore with any thing for the medicine vvil fall away of it self as it doth heale and do not change the medicine in any wise For burning with Wild-fire TAke the dregs of Wine and Vineger and an Egg both the white and yolk by even portions and mingle them well together and lay it to the sore untill it be whole To get out the fire of burning or scalding TAke the whites of new laid Eggs after the quantity of the sore and put them in a peuter dish and with a stone of Roch Allum labour it about till it come all to a froth then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter and lay it next the sore and then lay the froth upon the same a good thicknesse and so bind it with a cloth foure times dresse it evening and morning and the fire will be out Medicines to stop Bloud To stop Bloud in a Veine TAke a handfull of Leaves of the little Burrs that stick upon a mans Coat and are called Strachantes and bray these Leaves and lay them to the wound and it will stop the bloud To stop bloud in a wound suddainly TAke Paper Flax or Linnen cloth which is next thy hand and burn it and put it into the wound the ashes thereof hot and the bloud shall stop straight Or if you will stamp nettle roots and lay them to the wound it shall be no more To stop bloud if the Master-Veine be cut or the wound very large TAke red nettles or red Colwort Leafs stamp them with Hogs dung well tempered together and lay it on the wound and this will stench the bleeding quickly Or take dried Vervain made in Powder and put the Powder into the wound and it will help For a wound that is full of Bloud TAke red Nettles and stamp them with Vineger and lay them upon the wound and it will cleanse the wound and do away the bloud To stop bleeding at the Nose or in any other place upon the suddain IF it be a man that bleedeth take a Leather point and tye about his stones very hard and this wil stop the bleeding straight Or if his Arm or Leg be cut bind the other Arm or Leg very hard and the bloud will run to the other side that is most pained Medicines for the Morphew TAke Mustard made of white Vineger and let the Patient annoynt himself withall where the Morphew is nine nights and this will help him Or take and bray Sorrell and strain it clear then put to it as much sugar and honey as you do juice and boil them well together over the fire and then let them seeth till the sugar have the tast then put to it one ounce of Vineger and so dresse it and keep the medicine to eat Another for the same TAke an ounce of very good sope and a penyworth of Aqua vitae and put them both into a Morter and grind them well together then take a handfull of Eglantine and stamp it and strain it and put some of the juice to the sope and Aqua vitae and then take a course Canvas cloth and rub where the Morphew is and after annoynt the place with this medicine and be whole For the black Morphew THere be two kind of Morphews the white and the black the white is named Alborus and for remedy for the black Morphew take this rule that if the place be pricked and will not bleed then it is not cureable but if it will bleed take of Rapes and Rocket of each an ounce and an half and stamp it with Vineger and after that wash the place Or take of the earth of Africk and mix it with Vineger and wash the place oft therewith and it will heal thee A most excellent Water to comfort the Vitalls and preserve other parts of the body made by Doctor Stephens TAke a gallon of good Gascoygne Wine Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds Fennell seed a Dram Sage Mints red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary wild Time Camomile Lavender of each one handfull then bruise the spices and the herbs small and put all into the Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Lymbeck according to the art and the first water is of more strength then the second and both be the better by the standing in the Sun The vertues hereof Be to comfort the spirits vitall helps to the inward diseases of cold the Palsey the contraction of Sinews the conception of Women killeth the Worms within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropsie comforteth the Stomach helpeth the stone in the Bladder and in the reins of the Back slackneth a stinking breath Whosoever useth this water ever anon and not toe after it preserveth him in good likeing and maketh him seem young very long with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life untill such extreme Age that he could neither go nor ride and kept him five years when other Phisitians judged it impossible for him to live one year To make Cinamon Water TAke Rhenish Wine a quart and Spanish wine a pint Rosewater a pint and a half Cinamon bruised a pound and a half let these stand infused the space of four and twenty hours then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck of Glasse and receive the first Water by it self Also if ye be so disposed to make the same Water weaker take three pints of Rosewater and a pint and a half of Rhenish Wine and so distill the same and you shall have to the quality of the stuffe the quantity of the Water which is three pints but the first Water is the best and so reserve it to your use both morning and evening To make Cinamon Water another way TAke three quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and half a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receive to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the chiefest of all the other as is manifest by practise Medicines for the Palsie that take away the Speech TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves and if it be in winter take leaves and roots and all of each a like quantity beat them together and strain them with Ale and give it the sick to drink a spoonful or two at a time and it
Worms they will rise white like Wheals under the plaister then cast more Coperas on your said plaister and so dresse him and he shall be whole To make the Face fair TAke the Flowers of Rosemary and boil them in white Wine then wash thy Face therewith and use to drink of the same Or take Burnet water and Wash thy Face therewith and let it dry by it self also Water of Bean Flowers doth better A Medicine for a white Scurf in the Face TAke of Vineger a Pinte and dissolve in it one Ounce of Champhire and let it stand there in fourteen dayes being very well stopped and then wash the diseased place This holp a Gentlewoman which had a long time a Scurf rising in her Face as though she had been a Leper For Chapped Lips TAke and anoint them with Vnguentum album consecratum and if there be any corrupt blood or matter you must wash the place with Water of Plantain wherein hath been sod a little Alum before you put in the same ointment also it is good to wash the place with Plantain Water and Barley Water together To put away Freckles in the Face Take and anoint thy Face with the Blood of a Hare or of a Bull and this shall destroy the Freckles within five nights dressing if you use it A singular Medicine for Worms in the Face TAke the Leaves and Roots of Leeks and the Juice of them all together and take thereof a Pint and a half and put it into a glasse with an Ounce of Powder of Pellitory and a scruple of Verdigreace and stir them all together and every day bath the Worm and Whelks With Cotton moistened in the said Juice and stir it often in the said glasse also it is good for Worms in any other Members and breeding in the sicknesse called in France the Kings Evil. To put away Freckles in the Face TAke and lay a raw Egge that is new laid in white Wine Vineger all night and on the morrow stamp the Egg small and then put thereto as much Powder of Mustard-seed as the Egge was and mingle it with the Egge and when thou goest to bed anoint thy Face therewith and on the morrow mingle Barley Meal and hot Water together then cast away the VVater and wash thy Face therewith nine dayes or take Salendine stamp it and temper it with white Wine and lay it to the Face or take a good quantity of Pellitory of Spain and white VVine and let it stand a while and then wash thy Face therewith and it will heal thee For Blains in the Face TAke Salt and the Roots of Plantain and Verjuice and stamp them well together and wash the Face therewith and this will heal thee For a foul Blast in the Face TAke red Honey-Suckle for the Man and white for the VVoman and take the juice thereof and annoint therewith thy Face and it will heal thee For a sawcy Flegme Face TAke the Roots of Enula Campana and seeth it in a pot of Vineger untill the Vineger be well sod away then stamp it in a Mortar and put thereto Quick-silver and Brimstone and Swines Greace and make therewith a plaister ointment and anoint thy Face therewith and if you make a plaister lay thereto the some stuffe This is proved Or toke Oil of Tartar and anoint thy Face therewith or any Canker or Ringworm or Tetter Leprosie for this will make it whole For a red Face full of Pimples TAke and distill Water of Salendine and dissolve Camphire in it as is afore written with Vineger and with this wash thy Face this did make a maid whole in twenty dayes that had a marvellous great heat in her Face Also there was a Farmers Wife in Berk-shire which had her Face full of white Scales and was cured with this that followeth she took Honey Suckle Leaves and distilled them and washed her Face often with the Water and it never came again Also there was a Woman which had such a grief in her Face that if she had been by the Fire but a little while and then gone abroad into the Aire her Face would have risen full of red spotts as though she had been drunk which was helpt with this which followeth She took Frankincense and Saffron and then made them to Powder and then cast this Powder upon a Chafingdish of Coals and received the Smoke with open Mouth and using it often was helped To take away Freckles in the Face TAke Pellitory and seeth it with Wine and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the Freckles and this will take it away or take the Gall of a Cock and mingle it with the Flower of Cocle of each a like quantity and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the Freckles or take when you kill a Bull and save the Blood thereof anoint the place therewith that hath the Freckles and it will take them away To take away the small Pox that they shall not be seen TAke the Juice of Fennell and heat it luke-warm and anoint the place therewith three or four dayes divers times for this is an approved Medicine for the small Pox. To make the Face fair TAke white Lillies green Cocle and green honey Suckles of every one a like much and then distill them in a Stilletory and take the Water thereof and wash therewith thy Face and within fifteen dayes thou shalt be fair Medicines for the Throat THE Causes of these Impediments do come of Rheume descending from the Head or by Opilation or such like therefore first purge Flegme and Rheume For a sore Throat that is inflamed TAke two spoonfulls and a half of Honey two good spoonfulls of Treacle of Alum as much as a Pullets Egge of sweet Butter two good spoonfulls five Sprigges of Rosemary a quarter of a spoonfull of Pepper and for an old body the more Pepper For dry Hoarsenesse in the Throat TAke the Root of Parslie and the Root of Fennell a like much and three penny weight of Enula Campana and one pound of Figges and a quarter of a pound of Licoras seeth all these together in a Gallon of running Water to three quarts and put therein a little Hysop and strain it then boil it and take the white of ten or twelve Egges and put therein and let it boil together till it turn clear then take Sug r Roset and put thereto as much as a Hens Egge then take it from the Fire and cleanse it through a fair Cloth and drink thereof Morn and Evening For a Canker in the Throat TAke a Pint of good stale Ale and a good handfull of Sage and a good stone of Alum as much as an Egge and boil them together well and then with a Cloth wash thy Throat and garle it in thy Throat and be whole Or take Sage Woodbine Rue Hysop or Penyryall of each a quarter of a handfull and boil them in good Wine Vineger or strong Ale with a little Roch Alum and a
of this evening and morning and drink nothing but red Wine after it this did help a man that had the Flux a great while on him Or take an old Apple and pull out the Core then put into the Apple a ball of Virgin-wax then roast it in the Embers and eat it this will stop the Fux Probatum To avoid bruised Blood TAke Nepp and drink the juyce thereof with Wine or Ale eight or nine times and that will cause it to avoid downwards although he had it twenty times A gentle Purgation to be taken at all times without fear TAke two ounces of Syrrp of De radibus Manna one ounce mingle these with five ounces of the water of Bugloss and he shall have a Lask without peril Or take a little clarify'd Butter and put it in Ale luke-warm and give the Patient to drink thereof and it will make him go to stool Medicines for the Stone A Medicine for the Stone tryed by Master Hide of Narbury TAke four handfuls of Prosper six handful of Parsley and Parsley-roots two handful of Grommel or for want of that some Grommel-seed the quantity of an Egg-shel full two handful of Philipendula three handful of Betony four handful Mousear one handful Centuary with Mast begotten between the two Lady-days two handful of Cherry-stones three handful of Brierheps threescore inner-skins of Pigeons gissarens let them be washed and hanged upon a thred till they be dry so as they may be knocked to powder as also the Heps and Cherry-stones must be dryed in an Oven or before the fire the other herbs in the Summer the Heps Cherry-stones and Gissarens must be knocked to powder every one severally by themselves the other herbs must be rubbed to powder then blend them altogether and sift them through a fine sive and take every morning and evening a quantity of half a Nutmeg of the same powder and put it in a spoon and blend a little Beer or Ale and sup it and drink after it and use this till you find ease An excellent Medicine for them that have the Stone THere grows in the Gall of some Oxen a certain yellow stone somtimes in bigness of a Walnut somwhat long and brittle if you take that Stone and make it to powder and eat of it in your pottage the weight of a scruple or more at a time according to your strength it is a singular thing for them that cannot make water and for stopping of the Conduits For the Stone and Strangullion TAke a handful of Chickweed and as much fresh Butter as a Walnut and half so much black soap and stamp them altogether in a morter and then fry them and lay them plaisterwise to thy Navel and this will make thee void the Stone without any pain And for the Strangullion take the bone that is in the pistle of a Weasel and dry it and make powder thereof and use to drink it with Ale or Beer and be whole For the Stone that never faileth TAke Barley Malt and pick it very clean and then grind it and make thereof good Wort and put into the said Wort a good quantity of Cherry stone kernels and Gum that groweth on Cherry trees and boyl the Wort and the Gum together until half the Wort be consumed then strain it and put it in a fair Vessel and use to drink thereof morning and evening and be whole on warrant Another for the same TAke the Urine of a Boar and give it the patient to drink and it shall drive out the Stone wheresoever it be This medicine did a Lady use for the best medicine that ever she knew Another for the same TAke the blood of a Fox and anosnt the side that is sore and the Stone will break to powder and go away if you use it Or take the blood of a Fox with white Wine and it will break the stone hastily To break the Stone in the Bladder TAke a great Flint stone and lay it in the fire until it be as hot as fire and then put it into stale Ale and drink thereof at evening and at morning and it will break A soveraine Medicine for the Stone TAke the blood of a Fox and anoint thy Yard therewith and this will break the Stone in the Bladder and to try the goodness thereof put some small stone into the Fox bloud and it will break it Or take a great root of Radish and pare him and cut him into fifty round pieces and put them into a dish and put thereto honey enough and let it stand all night and on the morrow eat nine pieces and the next day eight and then seven and so abating one every day till all be eaten and this will break the Stone A proved Medicine for the Stone TAke true black Jet and beat it to powder and searse it then take Bees stings and all and dry them in an Oven and make powder thereof and drink it and the Jet together and if you put the seed of Burrows made into powder to it it will be the better And for lack of Bees and Bur-seed you may use to drink the Jet alone This medicine is well proved and if you use it it will help you A Medicine for the Stone oftentimes proved TAke green Samphire as it groweth and make powder thereof and let him that is troubled with the Stone drink every week of it whether he feel pain or no and in short time it will rid him clean of the Stone this powder is best to be drunk with white Wine For the Stone TAke the Acorns that grow on an Oak and dry them and make powder thereof and drink it in the morning fasting with Rhenish wine and sugar and this will break the Stone A most approved Medicine for the Collick and Stone by the most learned Phisitian Doctor Gynello TAke a quantity of wood Betony and dry it to powder and a quantity of the roots of Elicampana and dry them into powder and boyl them with a little sugar plate in a quart of red wine unto a pint and drink it hot in the morning fasting before the sun be up and in the evening after the sun is down use this three times and it will help thee God willing A special Medicine for the Stone of Doctor Leâ—ckner his Experiment as followeth TAke the green weed that cometh from the Sea amongst the Oysters and wash it very clean and dry it as dry as you can and make it into fine powder and drink it fasting with Malmsey and it will break the greatest Stone that is For the Stone THe best thing that is to dissolve the Stone in man or womans body is the oyl of Christal being dulcified and given to the Patient a Dram at once in white Wine or Reâ—ish Wine a good draught for if you lay a stone in the Vrine which the Patient voided afterwards it will dissolve him in twelve hours and the same oyl will also heal any green wound or
as you can suffer it and it wil help you For the falling out of the fundament TAke a red Nettle and bray it well and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto a good portion of white wine and seeth it until it be half wasted and of the liquor give the patient to drink first and last warm and lay the herbs to the fundament as hot as he may suffer it and use this and be whole Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids THe Emerods or the Piles the which be the vains in the extreame parts of the Longation to whom doth happen divers times 2 sundry passions the first is like paps and tetts and they will bleed and they be the very Emerods the other be like wartes and they will itch water and smart and they be called the Piles and in the same place doth breede other infirmities as is aforesaid The cause of this Impediment doth â—ome of malicious humours in the Maw and Entrails or it may come of a cholerick humor For the Piles or Hemeroids TAke a pint or a quart of Linseed-Oyl and put into it as many Cray-fish alive as it will hold then boyl them a quarter of an hour then strain the oyl from them and let them be very well beaten in their shells in a Mortar and then put them into the oyl again and let them boyl as formerly then strain them hard from the oyl and cast them away then fill the oyl with as many of the young tops or tender buds of Elder or the young fresh leaves and let them boyl in them till they begin to be crips like fryed Parsly then strain that very hard from the Elder and reserve that for an excellent medicine to anoint the Piles or moistning a little Cotton keep it close trussed up and it will quickly help them It is also a soverain medicine for any Burning or Scalding For the Emrods TAke an onyon and cut off the top thereof and take out the hart of the onyon and fill up the place with the juyce of unset leeks and then rift it in the fire and with the juyce thereof anoint the sore and lay all hot thereto Or take bran of wheat and fry it in sheeps tallow and put it in a bagg or pocket and lay it to the sore or let the sick sit thereon and this will help you For the Piles TAke Scabias and boyl it in water until the water be consumed almost and let him that is sore hold his fundament over the fume of the said water as hot as he can suffer it and be whole For the Piles TAke aqua vitae cold and wash the piles therewith and take cotton linnen and burn it and lay the powder thereof to the piles upon a linnen cotton cloth as often as you be greived Or take wormwood and grind it in a morter small and then fry it in Oyl Olive and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it and this will cease the bleeding and aking For the Emeraoids that have pappes TAke and bind about the Pap a red silk thred and cut away the pap above the head and leave the thred fast and lay a plaister of Wormwood upon the same and this will heal it Probatum est For the Piles TAke a quart of White Wine and the tops of Elder buds and Honey and boyl them well together then strain them and wash the place therewith and this will heal you in short space For the Hemeroids TAke the juyce of red Nettle leaves and a little Deer suet and heat them together in a Sawcer till it be somwhat green and anoint the place with it For the Hemeroids an approved Medicine TAke a gray Cat and cut her Throat and save her blood then flea her and rost her and save the grease then fry the grease and the blood together and lay it to the sore thrice as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will help him An excellent Medicine for the Hemeroids or Piles TAke and stamp Dandelion and Daysies together and strain out the juyce thereof into good Ale and drink thereof and it will help thee A Glister TAke of Endive of Succory of Violet Leafs of each a handfull of Cummin seeds and Anniseeds being bruised small of each a little boyl them in sufficient water as will boyl them tender then strain the herbs from the liquor and take three parts of the water and one part of milk putting into it a little salt a spoonfull of Honey and as much Oyl Olive if you wil make it stronger you may put in an ounce of Cassia Fistula extract Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe THe Brooklime Horehound herb John Sheeps Tallow Swines Grease and a Horse turd that is new made beat it all together and lay it to the sore For aking of the Bones of the Thighes TAke a pint of white Wine and the Gaul of an Oxe and boyl them well and scum them clean then take crums of white Bread and put thereto and make it in a plaister and lay to the sore two or three times and be whole To knit the synews and veins of the Thighes or elswhere when they be broke TAke great worms of the earth and put them in sallet oyl and with a little Spodonesos that Pedlers have to sell work them together and lay them to the wound and let it lie nine daies and remove it not and it will knit both Sinews and Veins together This is proved To make an ointment to asswage the swelling and to keep Synews from shrinking TAke clean Barrows Grease and a good quantity of Sage and boyl them together upon a chafingdish of coals and when the Sage is dry strain it through a cloth and annoint the place therewith For Thighes that be swollen TAke Hens dung or Pigeons dung and Sheeps tallow and Chickweed and Smalladge and beat all together and fry it with lees of Malmsey and so lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the swelling For Synews that be shrunk in the Thighes or elswhere TAke young Swallows out of the nest to the number of twelve then take Rosemary Lavender-Cotton and Strawbery leaves strings and all of each a handfull and bray the Swallows in a Morter guts feathers and all with the herbs till they be small and then fry it again in a Frying Pan with May butter and then strain it and when you will occupie it chafe it against the fire Medecines for an ach or swelling in the Knee TAke Rew and Lovage and stamp them together and put thereto honey and lay it to the sore Or take Lovage Smalladge and Sheeps tallow and lees of white Wine and boyl all together and lay it to the sore on a cloth Or take Milk and Oatmeal and dry Rose leaves and seeth them together and lay them to the sore hot and be whole For an Ach that doth come of an old bruise TAke a pottle of
Running Water and a pint of Bay Salt and boil them till half be wasted then thick it up with Bran and lay it to the sore Or take and seeth the juice of Nightshade in Butter and Oil and scum off the froth and keep the same for a precious Jewell to use when you have need Or take and seeth Oatmeal in white Wine and lay it plaisterwise to the sore Knee and it wil help thee shortly For the Gout in the Knee TAke the milk of a Cow of one colour and wheaten flower and seeth it untill it be thick like a plaister and put thereto the juice of Smallage and lay it to the Gout and be whole Medicines for Legs Medicines for the Legs that be swollen TAke Wormwood Sothernwood and Rue of each a like much and stamp them together and fry them with fair Honey till it llegin to wax dry and as hot as you may suffer it lay it to the Legs or Hands and this will asswage the swelling A Psaister for swollen Legs or when you have no feeling in them TAke a pound of Pitch and half a pound of Wax and half a pound of Dears sewet or Sheep sewet and boil all these together then strain them through a linnen cloth and so make a plaister of white Leather of the bignesse of the fore place and let it lie to the sore three or four daies and then if it be not whole make another plaister and lay it again and so dresse it till it be whole for this will bring the feeling again and mollifie the humor and asswage the swelling For a sore Leg. TAke unwrought Wax and a little sheeps Tallow and seeth them together with a little white Coperas and strike it on a cloth and so lay it to the sore Or take Elder Leaves those that grow one side the leaf longer then the other on the stalk then the other doth these be very good for a sore Leg both to heal and these be leafs best for mankind A Pultis for a sore Leg which is swollen red and doth prick and ake TAke Housleek Maslows Lilly roots and Smallage dry red Rose Leafs of each a good handfull Oatmeal two handfulls Lineseed Vinecreet seed of each a handfull good Ale dregs and Vineger of each a pint or more white Wine a pottle more or lesse seeth the foresaid stuffe very softly and make thereof a Pultis and lay it to the Leg. A Medicine for a Leg that is swollen and is not red but will pit after ones finger TAke Chickweed and Pellitory of each an handfull and instead of Vineger take dregs of Wine and put thereto Sheeps tallow a pound chopped and Cows milk at your pleasure and seeth them as before written untill it be soft and bind it to the swollen Leg. Another for the same TAke a quart of red Wine and crums of Rie bread and seeth them together till it be like a plaister as hot as you can suffer it lay it to the sore Leg upon a fair cloth and when that is done take another and so till you have taken four and this will help you To heal a sore Leg coming of an old cause TAke flowers of Camomill or Camomill and a good handfull of Mallows of Wormwood of Grunsell and Sage of every one half a handfull and beat all small in a Morter and seeth it in Milk and put thereto in the seething Vincreeck seed in powder half a handfull of Anniseeds and Fennell seeds one ounce a little May-butter four or five yolks of Eggs and seeth all together and the same Eggs in the latter end of the seething and so let it seeth till you come to a thicknesse You may in the latter end of the seething put in a pint of red Wine to comfort the Synews take the Camomill and Mallows of each a handfull beaten in a Morter with Oatmeal and Milk sodden together and let it boil to a thicknesse For a Veine or Synew sprung in the Leg or elswhere TAke Dill Vervain Mallows and the crops of red Nettles and seeth all these in running Water and after chop them small and lay them hot to the Leg as he can suffer it The best Medecine for aking of bones in the Legs or Joynts or elswhere TAke a quarter of a pound of Dill and beat it to powder and put thereto a quart of good white Wine and let it seeth till half be wasted away then put thereto a pint of Oyl Olive and let them seeth together and then strain it and keep it to annoint the sore place withall and this will cease the pain anon this is called Oleum Vnamico keep it well in a glasse for this is proved For a swollen Leg. TAke Oatmeal and seeth it in Milk as you would make pottage therewith and put thereto a handfull of Mallows chopped small and the juice of Sengreen and sheeps sewet and let it boyl together till it be thick and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore Leg and be whole For a red swelling in the Foot TAke and seeth Beane meal and Barley meal with water right thick and well and make a plaister and lay it to the swelling Or take Turpentine and Vineger Honey white Wine and Bran and seeth all these together well untill they be thick and then lay it to the swelling Or take else Parsley Sage and Rue and stamp with Lard of fat Bacon and gray snails and lay it to the sore and it will gather to a head Or take Rose leafs and Lineseed Milk and Oatmeal and fry all these together and lay it to the sore For an ach in the Feet or if his limbs were taken from him TAke wool Oyl or rather other Oyl and put thereto a good quantity of Aqua vitae and beat it together and chafe it against the fire and all to rub the sore and dead place and in short time it wil be whole For great aking of Bones in the Feet or elswhere the best Medicine TAke Baldare one ounce and put it in your pottage and eat thereof for this is very good for aking of Bones and also to restore a man that is in a Consumption in short time if you will use it To cool a hot sore Leg and to abate the swelling TAke red Coal Leaves Sage and Smallage well stamped medled together with sowre dough and Honey and lay it to the sore Or take horse Dung newly made and wring out the juice thereof and annoint the sore therewith a good while and then take Violet Leafes and Housleek and stamp them and strain them and put to that juice sweet Cream and annoint the sore therewith and it will destroy the great heat For a swelling in any place TAke Hogs Dung Pigeons Dung and Sheeps Tallow Chickweed and Smallage and put all these together in Lees of Malmsey or in Malmsey or for lack of this in his own water and when it is wel boyled lay it hot to the sore swelling and this
another as you cut them and lay them in a row between two dishes and thereof will come a water and be in the dish then take it out and put it in a glasse and then dresse new till you have some quantity of the Water for six Eggs will not make above a spoonfull at once This is a proved medicine to drive away the pain of the Gout when it cometh For the Gout TAke the milk of a Cow of one color and small Planten Leaves and flower of clean Wheat-meal and boyl them together and make a plaister and lay it to the sore and this will help thee in short space A speciall medicine for the Gout TAke a young Whelp in the moneth of May and strip him out of his skin and dresse him clean then take a quantity of Water-frogs and put them in his belly when his guts be out and sow up his belly then rost him and take the dripping in an Iron Vessell and when it is cold put it in a glasse and therewithall annoynt the disease and you shall be whole by Gods grace For the Gout a proved medicine TAke Civill sope and two penniworth of Camphire a sawcer full of womans Milk of a man child then put the Sope and Camphire into the milk til it be thick then put it into a clean box or vessell and let it stand twenty four hours and then annoynt the Patient therewith cold and ever lay the medicine above the sore to draw it downwards This was proved upon Sir John Wilton and many others For the Gout TAke Cows horn coming of a red or brinded Cow a good quantity and make it warm in a frying pan and put thereunto half a spoonfull of the powder of a rotten post or pole of Older wood and stir them together and bind them on the place aggrieved hot or bloud-warm and lap it with a woollen cloth next to the medicine and a linnen cloth over all to keep in the medicine wash off this medicine when you take it off with Farrow Cow milk warmed Another for the Gout TAke four ounces of the Oyl of Lineseed four ounces of Oyl of Worms and the like quantity of the best Treacle and mix them well together and annoynt the place aggrieved and also spread it on a linnen cloth and bind it on all night For the Gout VAlerian Coltsfoot Oyl of Shomakers patches Deers sewet and as much of Neats foot Oyle as the other two melt the Oyls and Deers sewet and then put in the two herbs being chopped small and boil them all together with a gentle fire half an hour and then strain them through a course cloth and keep this oyntment in a box Annoynt the place aggrieved with this oyntment and lay it on a plaister of the Oyl of Shomakers patches only spread upon thin brown paper warmed Medicines for the Dropsie TAke a portion of water Cresses and Sage the greatest part of Mugwort Hysope red Fennel of every one of these a like portion wash all these clean and let the water run from them then take the same herbs and put them in Past of a great pie and the same Pie to be baked in an oven and when it is baked take it out and all hot put it into a pot of ale clear drawn after the portion of your herbs Also you must cover your pot to the intent the strength of the herbs come not out but remain in your pot still and work in the Ale to make it so much the stronger then draw off the said Ale daily and let the sick drink thereof at all times when you will day or night when he desireth to drink and wit bin nine daies he shall be whole An excellent medicine for the Dropsie made for Queen Elizabeth by Doctor Adrian and Doctor Lasye TAke Polypodium Spicknard Squant Ginger Marjoram Galingall Setwell of every one one penny weight Seeny the leaves and cods so much as all the rest grosly broken into powder and so put them into a bag and hang it with a packthread in an earthen pot of two gallons of Ale and every four daies cover the Ale with new Barm and drink no other drink the space of a whole week and this shall purge all ill humors in the body this drink will not let the bloud putrifie neither flegme to have domination nor choler to burn nor melancholy to have exaltation it doth multiply bloud and helpeth all evill it purgeth the rheume and mightily helpeth it it defendeth the Stomach and nourisheth it profiteth and preserveth youth and engendreth good colour comforteth the sight and nourisheth the mind For the Dropsie that swelleth TAke and eat water Cresses and Raysons and this shal make the malady come down to the Legs and Toes then when it is in the Legs or Feet take the green bark of Older in Winter and the Crops in Summer and Oatmeal and lay it to thy Legs being sodden in fair water and this will heal thee For a swelling in a mans body TAke Betany and Sentory of each a like much and make Powder of them and put of the powder in your drink and in your pottage and it will bring the swelling out of your body into Legs and Feet then take Salendine and bruise him in a Morter and lay him to the soles of your feet and it will take away all the swellings of the Body through the soles of your Feet by water running and it is called a Dropsie Medicnes for a Canker TAke Walwort and Waybred Self-green Housleek and Smallage of each a like much stamp them together in a leaden Morter and strain them through a cloth and mingle the juice with wheat flower and honey and the white of an Egg and stir all these and lay it to the sore For a Canker Fistula Wart new sores old sores or wounds TAke a galâ—â—n and an half of running Water and a peck of ashes made of green ashen wood and sift them clean and make thereof a gallon of Lie and put thereto a gallon of Tanwoose and a pound of Madder and seeth all these to a gallon and let your Pan be so great that it be little more then half full and when it riseth in the seething stir it with a ladle that it run not over then let it stand three or four hours till it be clear and then let all that is clear strain through a good clean cloth and then wet a ragged cloth and with a long Lint lay it to the sore and this will heal the diseases aforesaid Medicines for burning or scalding TAke unslaked Lime as much as you think good and slake it in common Oyle and then take it out as dry as you can and incorporate it with Oyl of Roses and it will be as it were an oyntment which you shal annoynt the place with and in eight or ten daies it will be whole and not leave any mark or scarr upon the skin and when the party is first burned or scalded because
the wound To heal a wound in ten days TAke Camphire and stamp it with Boars-grease put it into the wound and this will heal it in ten days without fail To make that flesh shall not grow too much in a wound TAke the Lightes or Lungs of a Sheep hot and lay it upon the wound and the flesh shall rise equal with the skin A Diet for him that is wounded TAke heed you eat no Cheese Butter Eggs nor Fish of the Sea nor Fruit but fine and light meats as Capons Chickens Rabbets Pheasants and Partridge Lamb Lark and such like Medicines for the Itch in man or woman THis I do advise every man for this matter to ordain and prepare a sharp pair of nailes to scratch claw rent and tear the skin and the flesh that the corrupt blood may run out and then use purgations stoves and sweats and beware you reverberate not the cause inward with any oyntment nor claw not thy skin with filthy fingers but wash thy hands to bed-ward For a Scab on man or woman TAke Mallows and Wormwood and boyl them well together and with the said water and herbs warm as thou mayst suffer it all to wash thy Body and this will heal thee in short time For the Itch in the hands that come of worms TAke the seed of Henbane and cast it on a Chafing-dish of coals but first wash thy hands and then hold them over the fire as hot as you may suffer it a good while and then put thy hands into a Bason of cold water and thou shalt see the wormes creep out into the water do this three or four times and be whole To destroy all manner of Scabs dry or moyst TAke the juyce of Scabias and Vineger and one part of Garlick and seeth altogether till it do turn to an oyntment and anoint the Scabs therewith and be whole For the dry Scab THis infirmity commeth to man after his complexion by superabundant humors or by lying with an infectious person having the said infirmity or by aridity or dryness of choller or melancholy the which doth engender a dry Scab which is the worst among all the kind of Scabs The Remedy TAke Mercury mortifyed with Fasting-spittle three ounces incorporate it with the oyl of Bayes and anoint thy body therewith Or take Mercury mortifyed three ounces of the powder of Brimstone two ounces of the powder of Elicampana two ounces Confect it together with Barrows-grease and anoint thy body oft Medicines for the Falling-sickness that doth not foam in the mouth but by Vrine and Egestion or both at once defileth himself THe cause of this infirmity many Authors in divers matters be of sundry opinions but for this matter I do say that forasmuch as it is one of the kinds of the Falling-sickness it doth take his Original of a Rheumetick humour opilating the cels of the Brain the Brain so opilated and stopped the Patient lyeth pittifully unto the time that Nature hath removed the Cause A Remedy FOr this matter a great circumspection must be had first in the diet of the Patient for the Patient not onely in this kind of Falling-sickness but in all other kinds must abstain from white meats Beef Hares-flesh and Venison also they must beware of climbing up to high places they must eat no Sallets Onyons nor Garlick Raisons Gibboles or Scalions or such like things The Patient must beware of eating of Water-fowles and fatness of fish as Eels Conger and Salmon and such like and then use the seeds and roots of Piony as well in meats as drinks and so wear the seeds about thy neck and purge thy head and do as it is specifyed in the Chapter named Epilepsia next following THere be three kinds of Falling-sickness which men be infected with to wit Epilepsia who in their falling foam at the mouth and this is the common kind of the Falling-sickness They which have the Analepsia shall when they fall defile themselves and not foam at the mouth They which have Tatalepsia whether they be taken open-ey'd or half closed for the time they shall see nothing For the Falling Sickness TAke Rue and Wormwood of each of them a handful and make it powder and blow some of it into his nose that doth fall and he shall presently rise Medicines for Warts THis Infirmity doth come of gross evil humors to remedy which Take a pair of Cissers and cut off the heads of the Warts and then rub them with Garlick and Bay salt and stamp both together do this six or seven times and lay over them a plaister of lead To take away Warts TAke the juyce of red cole-stocks and lay it on the Warts and this will heal them Or take a white Snail without a house and anoint thy Warts withal and they will go away Or take Egrimony and Verjuyce and put them together and lay it to the Warts three nights being stamped and it shall drive them away and heal them Medicines to make one sleep TAke of the Oyl of Violets an ounce of Opium half an ounce incorporate these together with womans milk and with a fine linnen cloth lay it upon thy Temples Or take leaves of Henbane stamp it and lay it to thy Temples Or else use to eat Lettice seeds white Poppy seeds of Mandragon seeds and of Sander of each three drams but above all things mirth is best to bedward To make one sleep TAke ground Ivy and Sengreen of each a like quantity and stamp them and temper them with womans milk and lay it to thy Temples and this will make thee sleep well Medicines for an Ague for a Fever Tertian TAke the buds or leaves of Willows red Sage and Fetherfew of each an handful seeth them in a quart of Milk till the herbs be well sodden then crush the herbs and wring them in a cloth and lay them to your pulse as warme as you can suffer it and this will help the Ague Another for the same THe Medicines which do help a Fever causon will help a fever tertian first purge choler and three or four hours before the fit doth come I do thus I cause a man to ly in his doublet and a woman in her wastcoat then do I cause them to put on a pair of gloves and with two garters I do bind the wrists of their arms and do lay their arms and hands into the bed and do cast on clothes and do bring them into a sweat before the fit doth come three or four hours and out of a goose quill one put into another they do take their drink because they shall take no aire into the bed then do I give them first an Altery and suffer them to drink as much possit Ale as they will and when the burning doth begin I do withdraw the clothes and this I do three courses and have made many hundreds whole so and on their good daies I do not suffer them to go into the Aire For the quartane
Ague TAke a spoonfull of mustard and as much Treacle as a bean and let the sick drink thereof with vineger and he shall be whole Or take his own urine and scum it cleane then take the juyce of Camomil the juyce of sage or the powder of them both and the powder of Galingale and Licoras and let them boyl together a little while and drink thereof often fasting For the ague Mr Willoughbies Medicine TAke a handfull of the herbs called Shephards purle and halfe a handfull of Houseleeke and as much sinkfoyl and the like of Groundsel and beat them with two spoonfuls of bay-salt then divide it into four parts and lay two parts to the wrists of the hands one halfe hour before the fit doth come and when you feel it come take knot grass and stamp it and straine it with a pint of stale Ale and let the sick drink it luke-warm he must ly down as soone as the herbs be bound to his arm For the byting of a mad Dog TAke mints and a clove of garlick and salt and stamp them together and make a plaster thereof and lay to the bitten place and this will heal it Another for the same TAke Egremony Plantane and the white of an egg and bean them well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore place and this will heal it For the biting of all kind of venemous beasts and other things TAke the juyce of Vervaine and drink it and with this many have been holpen Also the black that is of the Crabs feet well beaten into powder do very well help the same being drunk For the biting of a mad Dog TAke a quantity of Vervaine as much of Rue and as much of Plantane with Treacle and stamp it and strain it with good wine or stale Ale and give it unto the Patient Also take any of those herbs and stamp them with Bay-salt and bind it fast to the wound and it will draw out the venome Dr Wood and Dr Nichols are of this opinion To kill a Tetter or Ring-worm TAke Fetherfew and stamp it and strain it with Vinegar and rub the Tetter therewith and this will kill it in short time For a Ring-worm TAke Juniper berries _____ ounces and stamp them and seeth them in a sufficient quantity of water until half be consumed then strain it and put to the said water swines grease clean tryed three ounces of Turpentine half an ounce seeth all these over the fire again a little time then take it off and when it is cold put the said water away and to the rest put of Brimstone finely powdered one ounce and so make an oyntment this is very good Medicines to take away Wens TAke Snails to the number of forty and seeth them in a pint of running water as you do Perywinckles and let them rest in the water until they be cold and then scum off the fat with wool or with a linnen cloth and lay it to the Wen and in short time it will be whole and gone Or take a stone or two of fine Jet and make the same in powder and put it in Ale or Pottage and give him to drink that hath a Wen and this will asswage it in short time For stinging of an Adder TAke Garlick pill it and fry it in oyl Olive or in May butter or in any other thing without salt but May butter is best and lay it unto the place that was stung and change it twice a day and this will kill the Venome and make the place whole For an Adder that is crept into a Mans Body TAke green Rue and temper it with mans urine be it man or beast that hath the worm crept into him and give it him to drink For him that hath Eaten or Drunken Poyson TAke the bark of a Walnut Tree and put away the innermost Rind and stamp it in a Morter as small as you can and lay it in Ale and in the morning strain it and give the Patient to drink thereof fasting and this will make him cast out all the Venome in short time To avoid poysoning with wicked meats and to keep thee from Drunkenness TAke the seed of Lettice and drink it fasting with clear runing water or take Betony and dry it and make Powder thereof and use this every morning fasting in a little stale Ale and this will keep thee from Drunkenness and save thee from poysoning For biting or stinging of any venemous Beast TAke one handful of Plantane and one handful of Rosemary and stamp them together then mingle it with a little sower Leaven and fry it with a little Butter sweet and when it is a little through warm then lay it plaister-wise unto the sore place but first you must bath the place well with warm Vineger Probatum For Man or Woman that is poysoned TAke Rue and Worm-wood and stamp it and drink the juyce thereof and eat Hasel-nuts for they be very good for the same Or take Goats-milk and mince and seeth them together with Treacle and drink it hot three dayes and be whole For the wind in the Stomack TAke Cummin-seed Fennel-seeds and Anniseeds and make them in Powder seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof first and last five dayes and you shall find great ease therein Medicines for the Plague or Pestilence Against the Plague TAke three ounces of the liquor of the inner rind of an Ash-tree and styll it with three ounces of white Wine and give the Patient to drink of it every three hours and within four and twenty hours he shall be whole by the Grace of God A Medicine that was sent by the Queens Majesty to my Lord Major of London for the Plague TAke a handful of Sage vertue a handful of Herb grace a handful of Elder-leaves and a handful of red Bramble-leaves and stamp them together and strain them in a cloth with a quart of white Wine and a quantity of white Vinegar and take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them together and drink thereof evening and morning a spoonful nine dayes together after the first spoonful they shall be made safe for four and twenty dayes and after the ninth spoonful for a whole year by the grace of God And if it happen one to be sick of the Plague before he hath drunk of this Medicine Then take the water of Scabias a spoonful of Betony water a quantity of Treacle put it altogether and it will put out the venome And if it fortune the Botch to appear then take Bramble-leaves Elder-leaves and Mustard-seed and stamp them together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out the venome and heal the Patient Another for the same AMong the excellent and approved Medicines for the Pestilence there is none more worthy or available When the sore appeareth then take a Cock-pullet and pluck oft the feathers of the tayle or hinder part till the rump be bare
then hold the bare of the said Pullet to the sore and the chicken will gape and labour for life and in the end he will dy then take another Pullet and do the like and so another as the Pullets do dy for when the poyson is drawn out the last chicken that is offered thereto will live the sore presently is asswaged and the party recovereth it is necessary to use the Medicine to drive away venome from the heart This is proved very true To make Plague water TAke a pound of Rosemary a pound of Salendine a pound of Sage and a pound of Balm a pound of Mugwort one pound of Rue one pound of Wormwood one pound of Dragon one pound of Scabias one pound of Pimpernel that grows among the corne one pound of Angelica and one pound of Betony put all these herbs together in a great pot with a narrow mouth and let them soak in white Wine three dayes and three nights closely stopped and then take the herbs out and styll them and keep the water in a fair glass and if any be sick of the Plague give him the value of ten spoonfuls blood-warm so soon as he doth feel himself sick and then let him walk if he be able if not lead him by the armes and keep him from eating and drinking one hour after and then let him go to bed and if he vomit it is the better for him and if it be possible that he take it before he sleep he shall escape by Gods grace and the elder the water is the better it is This water is good for the quartane Ague or any disease lying in the stomack taking it before the fit doth come and this water must be stylled in the month of May Contra vim mortis non est Medicamen in hortis To make Doctor Josephus Water TAke a pint of Water and a spoonful of French Barley half a handful of red Rose leaves two or three drops of the Oyl of Brimstone and a quarter of a pound of the finest refined Sugar the water and Barley to seeth together and then the scum to be taken off and so the other to be let cool so with the Rose leaves to stand all night and then to be well brewed all together but first the leaves and Barley strained from the Water For the Convulsion TAke one ounce of an Elke-hoof and half an ounce of English Liqueris two piana small roots two or three Fenel roots as many Parsly roots three or four roots of unset Hyssop a little quantity Herbegrass which is Rue a quart of small beer but boyl it till it come to a pinte then strain it and sweeten it with Syrop of Hyssop and give it the Party before and after the Fit For the moist Rhume in the Head TAke conserve of Roses two ounces Metridate two drams Bolearminak one dram of Olibinum one dram and an half Mastick half a dram beat these together with Syrop of Violets into the form electuary whereof take twice going to bed and in the morning the quantity of a Nutmeg Another for the same ROsemary flowers Elder flowers Bittony flowers Sage flowers of each two good handfuls Scurvy grass three handfuls China-roots three ounces an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two ounces of Coriander-seeds half a pound Fumitur three handfuls Epithimum Agramony Hartstongue of each two handfuls Harts-horn-shaving one ounce of Stringoroots four ounces Citron-seeds Musked half an ounce let these be boyled in a gallon and an half of Whey and let them first be infused two dayes in a gallon of white Wine then put the ingredience with the Wine to the Whey and let them be boyled gently the space of two hours and so next day drink thereof half a pint in the morning and so in the afternoon as long as it lasteth An approved Medicine for sore Eyes TAke six ounces of Lapis Callimnaris and heat that in a wooden fire and blow it red hot and then quench it in a pinte of pure white Wine in a Bowl or any other clean vessel nine times and then strain it out by it self through a fine linnen cloth and then take a handful of Houslick unwashed and stamp it in a clean Morter and strain it through a fine cloth then put the quench'd Wine and that both together and strain them again through a fine cloth and then take a feather and drop it in your eyes three or four drops at a time every morning and evening and by the grace of God you will find help in a very short time Probatum est A Medicine for Children that have the wormes approved by Mistris Isabel Dee in Moscoe TAke Wormseed and boyl it in Beer and then sweeten it with clarifyed Honey and let them drink of it every morning fasting For a pain in the stomack by a Cold. TAke two or three Turnips and wrap them in brown Paper weted and put them in Ember-ashes for two hours as ready for to eat and then scruze the juyce out of them betwixt two Trenchers and then mix it with Loaf-sugar with Cynamon and Nutmeg powdered and made like a Syrop and then drink four ounces of it at night when you go to bed Probatum est Mistris Fryerirs medicine for sore Eyes TAke a pine of white Wine two drams of Camphire out as small as may be half an ounce Omphacium that is pure oyl of green Grapes or for want of that your purest Sallet-oyl put the Camphire and the Oyl into a Basin let them stand covered two hours then put in your white Wine to them then take the stones called Lapides Culumanaris and heat three of them fire hot then put them so hot into the Wine covering your Basin very close while they are a cooling in the water heat three more fire hot take the other out and put in the hot ones and so heat them by course five or six times till the Wine is very hot and the Camphire well dessolved then take the clearest of it and the top when it is cold and reserve it in glasses For your use put two or three drops into the sore ey three times a day For a Fellon or a Whitlow FIrst take a quarter of a pinte of Milk and as much Leaven as an egg and let it boyl till it commeth to be as thick as a Poultess then take a penny-worth of oyl of Roses and mix with it and which is above half a spoonful and so apply it to the grieved place as hot as you can twice a day lay it too as you do a Poultess This is proved For one that is Bursten or a Child that hath been Bursten six years TAke oyl of Nip or Nep and anoynt the Party therewith and morning and evening take of the herbs and bind one boyl'd in Butter or dip Wool in the aforesaid Oyl this use six weeks until you be whole This proved For to keep a Child from having Convulsion fits TAke oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn beaten up
with white Sugar-candy and give the Child so soon as it is born as much as a good big Pea or Nut This proved For a Child still born that was not long dead in the womb or if there be any life in it though not in appearance TAke of the blood of the String and sueeze out a drop as you cut the Navel string into a spoon and give it the Child in a little fair water and if life be in it it recovers in an hour or less Proved For to bring them down on a Woman in Child-bed though never so weak TAke half a Dosin of Piana seeds and beat them a little till the black hull come off and then beat this small and give her in a spoonful of Cardus-posset-drink sweeten it with a little sugar then give her a good draught of the Posset to drink as hot as she can and let her lie close and it will cause her to sweat and it will be a meanes to bring them and to drive an Ague away if she take it but three times every two hours Proved To make a Cordial to give one in a burning Fever or Ague in the time of their burning when it is at the height TAke some gross Mace oyl a quarter of a pint and sweeten it with an ounce or two penny-worth of the Syrop of Clove-gilli-flowers and give it him to drink And you may make another on this wise Take the juyce of an Orange and as much red Rose-water and sweeten it with white Sugar-candy it will refresh the Spirits and cool and alay their drought Probotum est To make a Glister for one that is troubled with a sharp humour that causeth blood to proceed instead of Ordour TAke a pint and an half of Milk and boyl it into a pint with a handful of red Rose leaves and sweeten it with powdered Sugar and give it him and let him keep it as long as he can Probatum For an Itch that is vehement TAke of your Soap and Brimstone a like quantity and as much English honey and boyl these together till it be like an oyntment and then anoynt your wrists with it warm by the fire and lap clouts about them warm and anoint under your Arm-holes and under your Hams and in the bent of your Arms and do not shift you in a month nor pull off your clouts from off your wrists all the while and you shall be whole without any purge though your hands were all scabby Probatum For a Consumption TAke as much flour of Brimstone as you can take upon a Sixpence and pour three drops of Blood-warm Milk into a Spoon and mix it by degrees and till it be like Batter and your Spoon being full put to it good store of Sugar then drink the rest of the pinte of Milk blood-warm also sweetned with Sugar well this you may use as long as you please and at any time in the year for them that find a wheasing and shortness of breath it is very good you must fast an hour after it Proved A Medicine to ripen any Boyl or sore or a Push TAke a Spoonful of Molish-honey clarified Wheat-flower a Spoonful a yolk of an Egg-mix these altogether and apply it warm as blood morning and evening as thick as your finger till it break apply it It is very good to ripen a Plague-sore For the Spleen LEt the Party purge twice in a week with a Dram or the weight of Six pence of Pulvis Sanctus and the next week cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Emerod veins in the Fundament afterward use this Drink following for the space of seven or eight days TAke the inward bark of an Ash-tree two ounces of Polopodi-root or Fern that groweth on the sides of watry ditches one ounce Tamartock two good handfuls Liconish half an ounce Anniseed an ounce Let these be boyled in three quarts of small Beer till it come to two quarts whereof let the Party drink every morning and at night going to bed-ward a quarter of a pinte very warm And for Diet LEt them generally forbear Fish Bak'd-meats smoak'd-meats and new Beer use to eat good store of Broom-buds Capers for Sallets and after this course you shall cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Emerod veins in the Fundament An excellent Medicine for a Scald or Burn and chiefly for the Emerods TAke a pinte or a quart of Linced-oyl and put into it as many Crafish alive as it will hold then boyl them a quarter of an hour then strain the oyl from them and let them be very well beaten in their shels in a Morter then put them into the oyl again and let them boyl as formerly then strain them from the oyl as you can then fill your oyl as full of tops of Elder or young buds of Elder or the young fresh leaves and let it boyl in them till they be crisp'd like fry'd Parsly then strain it very hard from the Elder and reserve it for an excellent Medicine For the Whites to cleanse and stay them TAke of Purits Rossin or Gum of Lignum vita otherwise called of gum Guaicom rub it gently in a Morter so as it may be in a fine powder and thereof mingle as much as the weight of six pence in a draught of Milk and Sugar and take it cold so use it twice in a week for two weeks together and it will give you two stools or three cleanse and knit the weakness of the back For a Whitlow TAke a Snail out of his Shell and chop it very small and bind it to it and dress it twice in a day and it will quickly heal it For a cut of a finger or hand TAke some green Hysop and stamp it well in a Morter with some Sugar and so bind it on the hand For a Tetter or Ring-worm TAke ordinary white Coperas four ounces powdered fine and put to it a pinte of sharp white Wine vineger and shake them well together till the Coperas be well dissolved so weting linnen cloths in it and apply it to the place grieved For one that is costive in Child-bed there is no safer thing nor better TAke two ounces oyl of sweet Almonds or if the Party cannot take it you may make a Supository of Castle-soap cut with a wyre 〈…〉 For the Scyatica an approved Medicine TAke red seeded Nettles and whip the grieved party so far as his pain goeth till it be all over bubbled and so let him ly to sleep and the next day he shall be whole by the help of God though he were so bad he could not stir off the bed in five or six weeks out of your bed you must lash them gently not too hard and if it should come again use it again and if it come again use it again and be whole alwaies after For an extraordinary flux of Rheum in the Eys that hath been TAke stone pitch and spread it upon leather as broad as the palm
of your hand and as round and prick it full of holes with a point of a knife and lay it to the nape of your neck just upon the bone that sticketh out most and as long as it will ly on let it but in two or three days it helpeth some You may let it ly on as long as you please a quarter of a yeer and if it falleth off before your eyes be well you may wipe off the moisture of it and apply others as you shall see occasion Probatum To Cure a Catarack A Catarack is curable by making an Issue in the Nape of the Neck This is the manner how you shall discern a Catarack it will seem to be like many motes or little Flyes between them and the light and in the beginning beginneth to take away the true sight of the Eye and then it groweth into a Film which is counted uncurable when it covers the whole sight or bale of the Ey though at first it is curable although there is nothing to be seen on the out-side of the Ey as a purl or such like so that it is not to be helped being within the Ey though many books write of it without the handy Operation of some skilful Chyrurgion puting some silver Needle into one corner of the Ey and twisting the film about the Needle coucheth it under the sight of the Eye where it will afterward waste but it requires an Artist that is well skill'd in the couching a Catarack For a Consumption TAke the heart and lungs of a Calf new killed a Capon let these be bruised in a stone morter and boyled with an hundred Snails till the broth be as thick as pottage then put to it Harts tongue Maiden hair Hysope Scabias Sage of each an handful with China roots sliced and beaten two ounces of the juyce of Coltsfoot roots ten ounces the blood of a Pig newly killed and Conserve of red Roses one pound these being well mixed let them be distilled in Balneo with a very gentle fire and reserve it Another TAke a young Cock pull him alive and then slit him in the middle then wipe him with a clean cloth then take sops of white bread soaked in a quart of Burrage water put the sops in a common Still and lay the Cock with his bones broken upon the sopping putting thereto raisins of the Sun stoned and unwashed with a quantity of Dates this being distilled take thereof constantly a pretty quantity A Julip of D. Trench for the Mother fits Proved IN the time of yeer distil black Cherry water Pyon flower water Couslip water Rue or Herbgrace water then take of the waters of Couslip and black Cherry of each an ounce Aqua Histericae half an ounce Cinamon water one dram Sirup of Clove Gillyflowers three drams Take of these two spoonfuls at a time as often as you please Histerica is Castor To make the Salt of Coral TAke of the broken pieces of the reddest Coral you can get at the Druggist half a pound or as much as you please then put upon it of good wine Vineger distilled a gallon and presently you shall see it work up and down upon the Coral then set it in a great glass on the top of a warm Stove and let it stand three or four dayes then if you taste of the Vineger although it were sharp before it will have no strength but taste sweetish which is a signe it hath taken into the Vineger as much as it can then you may pour that off from the Coral and put on more Vineger and do as before till all your Coral be dissolved then put all your Vineger together and put it into a large flat pan well glased and lay into the Vineger in the pan two or three white lists half a yard long and let one half of them ly in the Vineger in the pan and the other half hang out and you shall see those lists which must first be very clean washed before you lay them into the Vineger by drops draw out all the Vineger in the pan which you must receive with setting an other large pan or pot under the ends of the Lists that hang out of the pan that they ly in And when you have so filtred your foresaid Vineger very clear from the dross of the Coral which you shall see remain at the bottom of the first pan you put your Vinegar into then you must set your clear Vinegar into the Oven being a little hotter then when Houshold bread is drawn but it must be put into a large clean Tinne Bason or Silver for it will pierce through any earthen vessel and so it must be breathed away gently till all the Vineger be gone and leave the Salt of Coral in the bottom being very gently dryed Then must you have in a readiness a pottle or two of plain distilled water and upon your formerly dryed salt of Coral if there be a quarter of a pound put a quart of distilled water and set it in warmth till it be melted like Sugar in it then lay in your clean washed lists of cloth into it being put into a flat Pan as formerly and let it run through those lists by drops to purify the salt and when all the water is come from the dross which will remain in the Pan the lists were put into then put your clear water into the Oven and let it breath away gently till it leave the salt of Coral dry and then disolve it in distilled water again and proceed with it as before and then it will be pure and prepared for your use whose vertues are many and some approved by practise as followeth The vertues of the salt of Coral IT is to be given to children of any age in Fevers the weight of twenty grains and gently covered to move sweat Also to women in child-bed that are in any Fever the weight of thirty grains Also in apparision of any small Pâ—x or the Measels it is never taken without good success It strengtheneth the Liver and helpeth it to make good blood being taken twice in a week in a little Posset-ale and continued so for the space of a moneth Also it helpeth children of Convulsions For Convulsion Fits TAke white Coperas dissolve it in a little warm distilled water and then with clean lists layed into it fylter it from his dross dand gently vapor away the water till it be ry then dissolve it again fylter it and lay it again in a Oven as before and it is prepared Hereof you may give unto a sucking child three grains in a spoonful of Posset-drink once or twice and it seldom or never faileth but cureth An excellent Vomit TAke the leaves of Assara-bacca being gathered in the beginning of June and run a threed through the leaves and let them hang thereon till thâ—y be dry in the shade so that you may powder them to fine Powder in a Morter and then searse them and keep the Powder