make a plaister and lay it to the sore hands For wormes or heat in the hands ¶ Take Chickwéed and bruse it a little and séeth it in running water till the halfe be wasted and wash your hands as hot as the party can suffer it for the space of sixe daies and it will driue away the heat or wormes in the hands For to make your hands white ¶ To make the hands white and soft take Affodill in clean water till it wax thick and put therto powder of Cantarium and stir them together then put thereto rawe Eggs and stir them well together and with this oyntment annoynt your hands and within three or foure daies vsing thereof they will be white and cleane For itching of the hands with wormes ¶ Take and annoynt the place that itcheth with the iuice of Mints or of Rue and it shall put away the wormes Or else take the berries of the lesse Morrell and therwith annoyist the wormes and the hands For to make nailes to grow ¶ Take Wheate flower and mingle the same with honey and lay it to the nailes and it will help them For nailes that doe fall off ¶ Take powder of Egrimony and lay it there as the nayle was and it shall put away the aking and it will make the nails for to grow For clouen nailes ¶ Take Virgin Wax and Turpentine and mingle them together and lay it on the naile and as it waxeth or groweth cut it away and it will heale For nailes that are rent from the flesh ¶ Take the lesser Violet and stamp it and fry it with Virgin waxe and Frankensence and make a plaister and lay it to the naile all whole Also anoint the fingers with the pouder of Brimston Arsnick and Vineger and in short time you shall find great ease For stinch vnder the arme holes ¶ First pluck away the haires of the arme holes and wash them with white Wine and Rose-water that Cassia ligna hath béen sodden in and vse it thrée or foure times For to destroy the heat of the stomack ¶ Take faire cleare water and boyle it well and skim it and put therin shiuers of brown Bread and let them lye therin an houre till the water be almost cold and drink therof two or thrée dayes the oftner a day the better and eat gréene Parsly and Galingall and it shall help thée For to auoid fleame out of the stomack ¶ Take the pouder of Pellitory of Spaine and the pouder of Comin powder of long Pepper pouder of Ginger Musterd Vineger and mingle them together and chafe them en the fier till they waxe thicke and then as hot as you can suffer it put part thereof in your mouth gargling it in your throat vp and down but let none enter into your stomack doo this diuers times spetting it out by the space of an hower and this is a Gargarisme prooued For the stomack that is hot and swolne ¶ Take the roote of Smallage stamp it and put it in swéet Wine or in other good wine all a day and a night and straine it through a faire linnen cloth and put it in a cleane vessell and vse to drink a little thereof euery day fasting take this eight or nine dayes For rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take long Pepper Graines Saffron Ginger Aniséed Licoris and Suger and séeth them al in good Ale till it be thick and giue it to the party to drink and he shall be whole A plaister for rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take Yarrow Milfoyle red Fenell red Mints Rue Borage Fetherfoy Cloteler Pellitory Egrimony of each of these a like much and the greace of a barow Hog that is a Sow kind and séeth them all together in good Ale and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the stomack as hot as it may be suffered two or thrée times and he shall be whole God willing the hetter the better for to be taken this hath béen proued For the gnawing of the stomack ¶ Take and séethe Betony in the iuice of Wormwood and let the party drinke it with warme water if his stomacke be not well Also drink wine that Nep hath béen sodden in next to the hart fasting very early For the stomack that aketh ¶ Take an hearb that is called Poleo and dry leaues and a handfull of Houseléeke and as much of this Poleo and put it in a vessell with faire water and let it boile on the fire till the third part of the water be sodden away and put therto stone Suger and a little honey and let the Patient drinke thereof sixe dayes fasting and he shall be whole For to force the stomack ¶ Take thrée parts of Cannell and one part of Mastick and one part of the parings of Pomgranets and halfe a part of Galingall and stamp all these together and temper it with hony that hath béen clarified on the fire and well scummed then vse as much of this as a Nut euery day during ten dayes together this hath béen proued For the wind chollick in the stomack ¶ Take a handfull of Time and wash it cleane and put it into a cup of Ale or Béere and let it stand all night then take thrée sticks of Licoris brused and let the party so gréeued drinke therof morning and euening Another for the same ¶ Take Onyons and put them into running water and change them into foure waters séething and when they are tender sod take them and wring them betwéen two trenchers and butter them and put theren grosse Pepper and so eate of them morning and euening vntill you doo find your selfe eased of your stomacke For fleame in the stomack ¶ Take red Nettles a good quantity a good quantity of clarified Butter and séethe them in faire running water till the hearbs be tender then take them vp and eate the hearbs and drinke the liquor proued For to make losings to comfort the stomack ¶ Take a pint of Rose-water a quantity of Rubarb grate it vpon a Grater twice as much Setwell as much Calomus aromaticus asmuch Spignard a little Sinamon asmuch Enula campana as much Ginger and a little cleane water put to these Spices one penny-worth of Sugar and let all séeth on the fire till it waxe verie thicke and be well sodden then vse hereof both morning and euening For all manner of euill in the stomack ¶ Take Ashe seedes Linséedes Comin of euery of them a like much giue these to the sick to drink with hot Woort or else with faire hot water For the Feauer in the stomack ¶ Conserue of Roses is very good for the Feauer in the stomack also it is good for all euils in the stomack that is ingendred of hot humors For the swelling in the stomack ¶ Take the rootes of Fennell and the rootes of Smallage of each of them a like quantitie then stampe them and straine out the iuyce and temper the same with good Wine and vse to drinke thereof first and last
the Mallowes together with the iuyce of the Hollihock rootes and put in eyght or nine Figges and two vnces of Sugar a little leauened Breade and halfe a dish of sweet Butter then lay part of the same vppon a wollen cloth and as hote as may bee suffered lay the same to the side and rowle it verie fast with a strong rowler and euerie day once renew the same with a fresh plaister verie hote vntil such time as the partie be well Another plaister for the Spleene ¶ Take Wormwood Mallowes Cammomile and Melilot of each of these a good handfull boyle them in faire water till the liquor be halfe consumed then put vnto the same halfe a handful of Wheate branne or more and boyle it to the thicknes of a plaister then quilt it and as hote as you may suffer it lay it to your left side An aluarie for the Spleene ¶ Take a pinte of Ale clarified and put therein a crust of Breade then take the powder of Gentiana Spignard Gallingall of each two penny-woorth let them haue a boyling or a waulme then take it off the fire and drinke thereof morning and euening and it will cure the Spléene A restoritie for the liuer lungs and spleene ¶ Take two parts of Fennell and three parts of Honnie séeth them together till they be as thicke as a lectuarie and let the sicke vse this morning and euening For the stopping of the Spleene ¶ Take the Elder roote and seeth the same in white wine vntill the third part thereof and drinke of the same and it cureth the Spléene meruailously Another for the same ¶ Take the lunges of a Foxe and make it into powder and vse to drinke thereof and it will certainly cure the Spléene For the Spleene a good experiment ¶ Take two pounde of Bores greace and two pounde of ashes made of Ashen wood and one gallon of faire running water and séeth them all together til halfe be consumed thē straine them through a cloth and let it stand all night and in the morning fléete of the greace and cast away the water and mingle the greace well together and put it in a boxe and there-with-annoynt vpon the Spléene You must likewise giue the patient this drinke following Take the reotes of young Ashen plants and a good quantity of Wormwood and seeth them well together in a gallon of Wine till the one halfe be wasted and let the patient drinke thereof in the euening hote and in the morning cold and let the patient vse of this oyntment and drink of thys drinke the space of nine dayes and it will helpe him proued Another for the Spleene proued ¶ Take the inner rine of the Ashe trée stamp it and seeth it in Wine and it will doubtles helpe the Spléene For the heate of the liuer ¶ Take the inyce of sowre Apples and swéet Apples of each a pynt or more and two pound of Sugar and mingle these together and let it boyle on a soft fire till it be as thick as a sirop and vse of this a little euery day fasting beeing first made luke warme at the fire To purge the liuer of choller and salt sleame ¶ Take the waight of a gold Noble of Rubarbe and cut it in small péeces and a halfe penny-worth of Spignard and the weight of two groats of Scene in the codds lay all these in soke in nine spoonfuls of Whey by the space of twelue howres and so giue it to the patient For the liuer that is chafed ¶ Take and vse Saunders in thy pottage or broth drinke it and wash thy right side with cold vrine but first boyle it and scum it and put thereto Vinegar and lay it to thy right side but not hote for it will chafe the liuer For wasting of the liuer ¶ Take Water-cresses Red Fennell and Sorrell with a Chicken in a pot nine dayes and vse it Another for the heate of the liuer ¶ Take a quart of Barlie and put thereto a gallon of well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take the same water and put thereto asmuch good woorte with a penny-worth of Licoris beaten but not to powder and take a good handfull of Isope and a good handfull of Sage and boyle all these together till the one halfe thereof be wasted then straine them againe through another cleane cloth and that which commeth forth put it into a cleane vessell and let it stand a day and a night and drinke of the same first in the morning and last at night when you goe to bed For stoppings in the liuer and the milt ¶ Take and seeth Harts-tongue in water or Wine and drinke it or if the herbe bee eaten it is very good for the same Also to vnstop the pypes of the liuer and of the milt take Smallage and seeth the same with a like quantitie of Elder leaues then straine it and drinke the broth thereof Another for the same ¶ If you vse to drinke the iuyce of Chiccorie it openeth the oppilation of the liuer and milt caused of heate Or if you take the Wine that Silios hath beene sodden in and drinke thereof fasting it is a very good medicine against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and against the let of vrine Another for the same ¶ Take and drinke the Wine that wilde Time hath béene sodden in and you shall finde it very good against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and the hinderance of vrine as hath oft been proued ¶ Also if you take the iuyce of the bearbe called Witminte with Honny and the Wine that it hath been sodden in it is verie good to vnstop the conduit of the Milt and the liuer vrine Against the oppilation of the Liuer the Milte the vrine and the bladder vse the decoction of Cassia ligna or the sirrop that it is made with To vse also the iuyce of Night-shade made in sirrop with a little Sugar is very good for the liuer and the milte Also if you make sirrop of the iuyce of Fennell and the decoction of the hearbe called Dawke it is good against the stopping of the Liuer and the Milt and against the Dropsie For the liuer and the milt ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer or of the milt take Aloe Epatick with the iuyce of Smallage warme Or make a decoction of the rootes of Smallage Parssie Fenel Bomwoort and Spurge with two orammes of Mastick and vse this two or thrée times in the weeke till you be well Another for the liuer and the milt ¶ Also who so vseth often to eate the hearb Cheruell it causeth the stopping of the liuer and the milt to cease Or if the patient take the seedes thereof and make them into powder and afterward eyther eate or drinke of the same it will help him Also if the iuyce of Wolst-thistle be drunken with Wine it
preserue the same in a glasse and giue the woman so greeued a quarter of a pynte at once first in the morning and last at night Another for the same ¶ Take Sauerie and stampe it and put thereto good Ale with a little Iet white Amber made into powder very small and giue the woman thereof to drinke with the Sauery also make a plaister of Sauerie of Isope and of Léekes fryed with fresh Butter and lay it to her bellie and to her raines and shee shall be whole For a woman that her wombe is hard ¶ Let the partie gréeued drink the iuyce of Waybread with old Wine and shee shall bee eased Another for the same ¶ Take Cinckfoyle that is to say fiue leaued Grasse and stampe it and straine it with hote Milke and giue the woman thereof to drinke and it will helpe her For a swolne or aking wombe ¶ Take the iuyce of Rue and let the patient drinke thereof with Wine or Ale and it will help her on warrantise Proued Also take Sothernwood Tansie Rew and eate theÌ„ with salt and shee shall be whole For to vnbinde the belly and the wombe ¶ Take Honny and séeth it till it waxe black and put thereto powder of salt and mingle them both together poure it vpon an euen stone or some other euen thing then beeing made an oyntment put thereof into the parties fundament and it will cause him to goe to stoole very well Sundry other medicines for to vnbind the belly ¶ Seeth the roote of Mulberry in water and drinke thereof and it will losen the wombe and the belly and driue out the wormes that be rough and short Also you may vse a Gargarisme of Vinegar water wherein Assa fedita hath beene sodden it abateth the swelling of the wombe or bellie Also if you lay the leaues of Hollihocke very hote vppon the wombe it helpeth the same Also you may vse the Wine that Rosemary and Comin hath been sodden in against the ache of the wombe Also to take Peares and dresse them in your meate comforteth the wombe and vnbindeth the same For to lose the belly and wombe ¶ Take the iuyce of the hearb called Britanica asmuch therof as you thinke necessarie for the strength of the patient and it will loose the wombe without any danger Also if you take Mallowes and seeth them and make pottage of them it looseth the wombe as hath oft beene proued Also the heads of Leeks being sodden in the oyle of sweet Almonds or of oyle Cockil called Zizanium loseth the wombe and keepeth it moist Against wormes in the belly ¶ Take and make pancake or frittures of meale with the leaues of small Tapsebarbe and eate thereof for they are very good against wormes in the belly Also the iuyce of Scabbious beeing drunke is very good for the same Also a plaister made of parcht Beanes with a little Vinegar Mints and Wormewood and layd to the nauell is good against the wormes in the wombe Likewise the iuyce of Plantaine being drunke killeth wormes in the wombe The iuyce of Mints and of Horehound beeing drunke doth the same For wormes in the belly ¶ Take Bettonie and Sauine and dry theÌ„ and make pouder of them and let the patient drinke thereof in hote water and assoone as the pouder is in the belly it will kill the wormes and bring them out on warrantise Proued Another for the same Take Sengréene Fetherfoy and Mints stampe them and drinke the iuyce thereof in warme Wine and it will kill the wormes and bring them out For wormes in the belly ¶ Against wormes in the belly take Garlick Pepper a little Parsly and the iuyce of Mints make of them sauce and wet your bread therein Also for wormes in the belly make Pilles of Galbanum and annoynt them with Honny and vse thereof Also for the wormes in the belly take Armoniack made in pouder with the iuyce of Wormewood and Arsmert and it will helpe the same Against the Fluxe of the belly ¶ Take small Reysons and vse to eate of them often with your meate it taketh away the belching and helpeth greatly to stop the fluxe in the belly Also for the fluxe in the bellie let the patient take the roote of Turmentile and stampe it and straine out the iuyce thereof and drinke thereof warme with the Water of Plantaine and it will helpe him Also if the partie gréeued take the rootes or beards of Léekes dryed on a hote Tyle-stone and receiue the smâ—ake thereof beneath it is good for to close the fluxe of the belly Also the iuyce of the crops of Bryers taken with a glister is very good for the same purpose Also the iuyce of Sloes giuen to the patient to drink in wine helpeth the paine thereof The powder of fiue leaued Grasse beeing put into the iuyce of Plantaine and giuen vnto the patient to drinke thereof fasting stoppeth the fluxe in the belly A verie good experiment to stop the fluxe of the belly ¶ Take the rootes of Fearne Roses wild Cresses Figge-tree leaues and flowers of Camomile of each a like much and beate them together and seeth them in raine water til the halfe be wasted and then receiue the smoake thereof beneath and wash your feete also in the same water For wormes in little chyldren ¶ Take the hearbe called Rodalia and stampe it and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the childs belly and it will helpe the same Prooued For the wormes in childrens bellyes ¶ Take a penny-worth of Aloes siccatrina and asmuch of Colla curtadia and make them both in fine powder and boyle these two powders on the fire with halfe a pounde of swéet Butter and so dresse the child three or foure times ouer the stomack and the belly against a good fire but remember first to straine this medicine through a fine cloth after it is boyled and theÌ„ vse the 〈◊〉 in manner as is afore-said A drinke for wormes in chyldren ¶ Take of Wheate flower asmuch as will couer a French crowne heaped three times and put it into a goblet then take of faire water almost a pynt and sette it to the fire and let it seeth and scumme it verie cleane then take of Penidis two vnces in powder and put it into the water and let it boyle well then take the same from the fire and poure thereof in the flower and stirre it alwaies in the pouring that it may be as thick as milk and no thinner then gyue the partie to drinke thereof warme a good draught at a time A playster for wormes in chyldren ¶ Take of Aloes siccatrina the quantitie of two Beanes beaten into verie small powder and put it into a spoone with as much of the iuyce of Wormewood as will make the same moist like vnto a salue then take a peece of red Leather asmuch in breadth as your three fingers and smere the oyntment thereon then warme it a little and lay it vpon the nauell
thereto and it shall helpe them so greeued For the bone ache and to take it away ¶ Take Sperewort Oliues Crofoote hearbe Christopher Walwoort Henbane Hony-suckle-flowers Culrage Rosemarie Mallowes redde Woort-leaues red Onions and Ribwoort still all them by themselues and after meddle altogether saue onely the Sperewoort which must be medled with halfe a part of the other Waters meddle them before the heate of the fire with your hande and annoynt the place there-with oftentimes To knit a broken bone ¶ Take Auence Camphire Egrimonie and temper them with Vinegar and lay it to the bone Also take Daisies the crops of Hempe and redde Colewoorts and redde Nettles and Bramble-leaues Sothern-wood Tansie Pimpernell Betonie Buglosse Madder wash them and beate them small and drinke the iuyce thereof both morning and euening For all manner of bones that aketh ¶ Take a pinte of White-wine and the gall of an Ore boyle them well and skimme them cleare then take crummes of white Bread and put them thereto and make thereof a plaister and lay the same to the gréefe foure or fiue times and it shall helpe you For broken bones ¶ Take Crey-land that is burnt and grinde the same to powder and put thereto the iuyce of Daisies and the iuyce of Camphier and strew on the powder till it be thicke and lay it to the place plaister-wise and the broken bone shall knit againe verie shortlie and become whole To make an oyntment for burning of Gunpowder or for scalding with water ¶ Take a quarte of Bores greace and two handfulls of Groundswell and two or thrée heads of Housleeke and stampe the hearbes together and then put to it of newe shéepes dunge two handfuls and as much of Goose dunge and stampe altogether and fry them and being hote straine them through a cloth into an earthen pot and with the same liquor annoint the sore that is burnt with Gun-powder To take away a heate or burning with Gunpowder ¶ Take a good quantitie of House-leeke stampe it and wring out the iuyce then take the white of sixe Egges and beate them in a dish till they be thin and then take off the scum and put the rest together and wash the sores with a linnen cloth and after lay a wet cloth on the sore A remedy for burning or scalding or any hurt with an hand-gunne ¶ Take the dunge of Geese of one nights making and fresh Butter vnsalted or else clarified Sheepes suet frie the same in a frying panne a good while vntill your suet be almost consumed then put them in a course liunen cloth and straine them into a small vessell then take a feather and dip it in the liquor and annoynt the place where the patient is so burned or scalded and when you haue so doone wette a fine linnen cloth in the sayde liquour and couer the sore withall and vse to doe thys twice or thrice a day For burning or scalding ¶ Take halfe a pounde of Sheepes suet and as much of the erindels of Sheepes dunge and a quarter of a pound of the inner rindes of Elder-trees and fry them altogether and drawe it through a cloth into a pewter dish and it will be fast chafe it against the sore For burning a medicine proued ¶ Take the white of Hennes dunge and of shéepes dunge of grounde Iuie of House-leeke sheepes suet and boyle them all together and straine them and so annoynt the burning sore and take a Rose-campion leafe and lay it aloft vpon the place and a thinne cloth vpon that and it shall helpe it For burning a remedie ¶ Take a quantitie of Bores greace and put the same into a frying panne and wring out the greace reseruing the suet then take not fullie halfe so much Rape-oyle and put it thereto with two or thrée spoonefuls of cleere Vinegar and Water labouring them all very well together and so reserue it to your vse but stoppe it very close till such time as you neede and this shall helpe you For burning with sire ¶ Take blacke Varnish and all to annoynt the place with a feather and it will both stay the heate and heale it as faire as euer it was this you may vse till you be whole For burning or scalding ¶ Take a good handfull of auence and asmuch of Sheepes dunge and frye them well together in May butter and straine it and vse to annoynt the greeued place with the same colde twise a day and annoynt it first with gray or blacke Sope and it will helpe thee this oyntment must bee spred vpon a flaren cloth it you can get it Another for burning or scalding ¶ Take Oyle-oliue and beate the same with water till it were verie white and annoynt the sore place there-with For burning or scalding ¶ Take Snowe-water and that will asswage the heate and then take the white of an Egge and clippe the haires of a Cunnies skinne and dip them in the white of the Egge and lay it to the burnt place and it will heale it and it will cause the skinne to be more faire then all the other proued For all bruzes a Medicine ¶ Take Planten Drpin Camphire Holli-hocke and flower and make a plaister and lay it to the sore Also take the grounds of Ale or Beere and Wheate-branne and Chicke-weede and lay it to the greefe three or foure times a day vpon a redde cloth not too thinne For a bruze ¶ Take Pitch Rozen and wrought Waxe and Bores greace or Swines greace of each a like much boile all these together in a pan till it come to a salue and then strike it vppon a linnen cloth and lay it to the bruse and let it lie foure or fiue dayes thereto and you shall finde great ease Another medicine for a bruse ¶ Take halfe a pound of Shéeps sewet cleane tried and as much vnwrought War two vnces of Rezen and a spoonfull of Frankensence in fine powder and well searced then boyle them all together and skim it cleane with a feather and when it is boyled take it from the fire and when it is halfe cold then wet or dip a linnen cloth in the same so that euery part be through wet and lay it abreade till it be through cold and role it vp and it may be kept all the yeare and vse it as neede shall require for this is a precious Seare-cloth for all manner of ache or bruses Prooued Another for the same ¶ Take Mallowes Smallage bruse Wort Planten the more of Smallage and temper it with Shéeps sewet and make this salue in May and you may kéepe it all the yeare after and vse it as your néede doth require For all manner of botches ¶ Against botches mingle this hearbe Timbalaria with Sheeps dung and lay it thereto plaister wise and it shall ripen the botch quickly Another for the same ¶ Also to ripe botches confect fiue or sixe dramms of Electrium with Barly meale and the white of an Egge and lay it to the botch
and fine till they be as tough as waxe then take a quart of claristed Honny and cast the Dates therein till they bee dissolued then take halfe an ounce of long Pepper as much of Mace and Cloues and Nutmegs beaten in fiue powder then seeth the Dates and Honny ouer a soft fire then cast on the powder by little and little and stirre it very fast and let it seeth long till it wexe thicke then set it to ecole and put it in close Boxes and eate therefore first and last and it shall restore a man bee hee neuer so weake or lowe brought vse this some-times vppon a full stomacke and you shall not surfet proued by M. Baltazer Chirurgian ¶ An Electuarie most soueraine for all manner of diseases in the body proued by G. K. ¶ Take foure pound of Sugar and boyle it in a pint and a halfe of Malmesey and put thereto a pint of Rose-water and a pint and a halfe of White-wine halfe a pinte of Aqua vitae and of running water a pint boyle all these together and when it is well sodden take of the powder of Enula campana an ounce and a halfe of Calamus aromaticus and Licoris of each halfe an ounce pepper thrée penny waight one halfe penny worth of Alisander seedes in powder sixe pence waight of conserue of Roses and Violets of each foure ounces boyle all these to a measurable thicknes then put thereto of folliater golde and all to cut it with a knife and mingle it with the aforesaide Electuarie and vse it as your need requireth and by Gods grace it will helpe you A restoritie for the weake and feeble ¶ Take a pinte of running Water and heate it ouer the fire and put in it a handful of Rose-mary let it boile to the halfe and then straine it then take a pint of White wine or Claret wine and a good peece of Sugar and powder of Ginger Sinamon a little Mace and Cloues and put them altogether thē lay sops in a dish and poure thereon the broth and giue it to the ficke and féeble persons fasting in the morning proued For a consumption proued ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Manus Christi one ounce of white fugar Candy and a penny worth of Anniseedes and halfe a pinte of Redde-rose water and a pint of Muscadine foure new layde Egges a quarter of Nutmegges halfe a quarter of Cap Dates and stone your Dates and wash them before that you doo put them in and boile them altogether and so vse them for this hath béene proued A Ielly prooued for a consumption ¶ Take a well fleshed Capon and scald him and draw him and put into his belly a handfull of Barly and as much Reysons Currons and Dates and put him in an earthen pot with a gallon of Claret wine then put therein some Sinamon and Ginger let it seeth till the flesh be fallen from the bones then beate him in a Morter and put him into an Ipocras bag and let the Ielly runne into a faire Vessell and giue the patient of that ielly euening morning and within the spending of three Capons by the grace of God the patient shal recouer much his health and to comfort his stomack giue him Rorax aromaticum made in losings at the Apoticaries A present remedy for the Sciatica ¶ Take a handfull of Violet leaues and wash them in good Ale then take an other pint of good Ale and set it on the fire in a skillet and then beate the Violet leaues very small and so boyle them in the Ale and then when it is halfe boyled take out the leaues and straine the iuyce into the afore-said Ale againe and boyle it very well vntill that it bee thicke and then take a péece of sheepes leather as broad as the place which is gréeued and pricke it full of heles and spread the same on the rough side of the leather and lay it to the place xxiiij howres and then change it and lay to it new and so vse it thrée dayes and you shall be well the oftner the better To make a water for the Sciatica ¶ Take a peece of Porke of a male Hogge which is leane and perboyle it in water vntill the blood be cleane out thē boyle it in strong Ale a good while and after that take it and distill it with a soft fire and then kéepe the water and wash the places so gréeued two or thrée times against the fire For a Sciatica another medicine ¶ Take an Oxe gall and red Allam Rosemarie-tops bay Salt Aqua vitae and Vinegar bray them well together and set them on the fire and alwaies stirre it but let it not seeth and so vse it as neede requireth Another for the same ¶ Take Auence Comin and asmuch white salt a handful of Red nettles and seeth them in pisse and when they be well boyled put thereto Aqua vitae and annoynt well the sore therewith thrée or foure times A medicine for the Sciatica ¶ Take Time Lauender Cotten the runnings or out-laces of Straw-berries of each a like quantitie a nest or two of young Swallowes aliue with the feathers and the gutts and stampe them very small and so fry them in May-butter that is swéete and newe boile them on the fire then straine it through a cloth and put it into a pot and so vse it at your pleasure For the Crampe ¶ The Crampe commeth commonly of contractions of nerues or els it commeth of too much fulnes of the body or too much leannesse and note well that in the Palsie the members be more longer then they should be by relaxation and in the cramp the members are shorter then they should be by shrinking of the nerues but the Crampe that commeth of wasting is seldome cured if the paine be great withal cease it with oyle of roses or of Camemile hote and of yolks of Egges and Saffron together and wet Bread in swéet hote Milke for this ceaseth the aking of the Nerues Also make a garter of an Hares skin but the liuer is said to be full good for the Crampe prooued For the Crampe a remedy ¶ Take oyle of Camemile and Fenegréeke and annoynt the place where the Crampe is and it helpeth Another for the same ¶ Séeth these hearbes Betony Worme-wood Veruaine and Time these are exceeding good for to wash the party so troubled with the Crampe if he make it in a bath Another for the same ¶ If you say these words thrée times when the Cramp commeth vpon you Bero baro battora it may hap to help you To make one to haue a good colour ¶ Take and drinke the iuyce of Isope fasting warme it and it will make you to haue a good cullour it is good for the sight it destroyeth wormes it is also good for the Romake the liuer and the lunges For the Canker a remedie ¶ Take lentils of the Water which be called Frogs féete or Emets meate it is of great
of water and so let it stand 3. dayes and on the 4. day let it seeth ouer the fire till it waxe thick then take it off and straine it through a cloth and put thereto a little hote water for the thicknes and straine it as harde as you may betwéene your hands and take the third deale of that licour and put thereto two pounde of oyle Oliue and let them boyle well till they be some-what wasted put thereto a portion of waxe and of Turmentill and doo it to the other licour and let them seeth well till it waxe thick then doo it off the fire and let it keele and then put it in boxes This oyntment is good for great gréeuaunce of the stone and for the aking of the ribbes and all hard greeuaunce it maketh them nesh but the partie must bée annoynted against the fire for this hath been proued To make a good oyntment ¶ Take of Smallage and Mallowes and put thereto two pound of Bores greace one pound of May butter and oyle of Neates feete a good quantity stampe them well together then fry them and straine them into an earthen vessell A medicine for the palsie ¶ Take oyle Oliue and the slowers of Cowslips out them together and still them in a glasse in the sunne and then take two spoonefuls of the oyle that shall come of it with a spoonefull of Aqua vitae and warme it on the fire in a saucer so annoynt the place which is benumd or gréeued and the patient shall find very great remedy prooued A medicine for the Palsie ¶ Take a handful of Marigolds beate them and wring out the iuyce therof with a draught of Ale put to the same a spoonefull of as good Musterd that may be gotten warme this drinke thrée times and so giue it to the party so gréeued Another medicine for the palsie ¶ Take Cowslips wild Sage Lauender and stamp them small and worke them with swéet Ale and make them vp in balls and make holes in them and fill them full of swéet oyle and let them stand infuse nine dayes then take them temper them againe with swéet oyle and then fry them and straine them and so annoynt the party so gréeued with the palsie An electuary for the palsie ¶ Take Mints Sinamon Comin Rose leaues dryed Mastick Fenigreeke Valerian Ameos dorinici Zedoarye Cloues Saunders and Lignum aloes of euery one a dram Muske halfe a dram make an electuary with clarified hony and let either man or child that hath the palsie take halfe as much as a nut Also a bath made with these hearbs Sauery Marierum Time Sage Nep Smallage and Mints are very wholesome for the same A plaister for a man that is benumed in any member with cold or palsie ¶ Take Sauine Ru◠Sage Musterstéede and temper it with white Wine and make it as thick as it were a plaister and so let it stand in a vessell a day and a night and then lay it on a cloth thick and lay it to the member benumed For the pricking of a thorne or needle in a ioynt and the hole stopped ¶ Take fine bolted flower of Wheate and temper it with white Wine and boile it together till it be thicke with white Wine and lay it to the sore as hot as you may suffer it and it shall open the hole and draw out the venim and cease the aking and heale it againe this medicine is good to heale a bile or any Whitlow or Vncome For the pricking of a thorne ¶ Take Mather rootes and grind them small and boyle it with oyle Oliue and lay it therunto or els with the aforesaide oyle anoynt the sore place and it will doo thée good A preparatiue ¶ Take of Endiue Succory Harts-tung Borage of each a handfull of Persly roots Fennell roots Fumitory and the tops of young Hops of each a quarter of a handfull of Time Betony Germaunder of each foure crops great Raizons a handfull of Licoris a little brused halfe an vnce of Fenell séed seeth all these in a pot of faire water to the halfe then put ther to sixe spoonefuls of vineger and after one boyling straine them without pressing then take the clearest thereof and if you will make a sirrop thereof put to a pint of the broth a pound of Suger and in the boyling therof put therto a little Cinamon brused the weight of eight pence let him drinke of this foure good spoonfuls with sixe spoonfuls of Borage water warmed fasting in his bed and sweat after it To make an excellent Millilot plaister ¶ Take of gréene Millilot brused ten handfuls boyle it in a pottell of white Wine to the wasting of the halfe and straine it then put therto of Rozen a pound Waxe as much Shéepes tallow foure vnces Turpentine three vnces Mastick one vnce boyle all saue the Mastick vntill the wasting of the iuice more then halfe then bruse other sixe handfuls of Millilot and put to it while it is a boyling and stir it well while it hath a play or two then take it from the fire and straine it while it is hete through a course canuas bag and with wringing and iumping betweene two round staues till by little and little the stuffe gums and iuyce be come all out as much as you can get and when you may handle it put therto your vnces of Mastick finelie powdered and make it in rowles mingle your Mastick in the handling thereof To make the powder of life ¶ Take Spinage Columbine Camomell the séed of Femitory and Marigold of euery of these iuyces and séedes one handfull and dry them out of the Sunne and make thereof powder and giue it to drink either hot or cold for this hath béen proued a medicine full true The Philosophers stone so called for medicine to cure all diseases both within and without Fistules Canker Poxe Falling sicknes Woolfes S. Antonies fire and all incurable diseases proued ¶ Take Celondine leaues fast by the roots in May or Iune and seethe them in running water vntill such time as they doe come to pap and as pap take them forth and grind them on a stone very fine as Gréene-sauce and let it be no dryer then put them in a glasse with a Limbeck head a receauer but it must be stilled in Balneo likewise receaue the first water by it selfe and when it beginneth to drop somewhat slowly or to change then take that receauer away put another to it and then take that as long as it will stil then take that glasse away and kéepe it closely and sure for that is the fiery element and the first is the water then let your glasse coole and then set it in ashes in a dry Furnace and draw the last water by it selfe for that is the ayre and that that remaineth in the bottom is the earth which earth you must take out and grind it on a stone fine and let it stand vpon the stone
for to dissolue into water for so it will in time so that the stone stand in a moist place but you must remember to close your stone round about that the water passe not by when it is in moistnes set your stone hanging a little aside and make a little gutter for the water to run into the glasse in the which glasse it must be congealed vntill it come to earth therfore to stop your glasse that nothing doo goe out but that all may come to earth again and thus with that earth grind it and dissolue it and congele it two or thrée times for it is better and then this earth will doo great wonders all diseases it will run through and all wounds and cause the same for to heale surely and being drunke with your Aurum potabile and as much of that earth as a Hasell nut drunk and this will expulse all wicked humors out of thée that no ill can grow in the body if you so vse it but once a wéeke with the portion Also your first water must be stilled often and that remayneth still in the glasse must be put into the earth for that is earth if the Phisition doo well skill vpon the triplicities and who hath the great gouernance in man of the triplicities as for the earth Taurus Capricorne and Virgo and for the ayre Aquarius Libra and Gemeni and for the fire Leo Sagitarius Aries and for the water Cancer Scorpio and Pisces then who so can know the complexions in them and minister accordingly he shall doo great wonder with these medicines Quintisans and as for the earth being so vsed as aforesaid it will dissolue siluer of it selfe and also gold and also heale many incurable diseases in man or woman that haue long raigned and béene most vncurable for to be healed Laus deo To make Aurum potabile et Quintescena ¶ Take Tartar the best you can get and fine calcenate it very white then take a part about a pound and let it drinke foure pound of Aqua vitae rectified by little and little giue the Tartar to drink of the Aqua vitae this must be done in a glasse or Limbeck set vpon ashes with a little fire and euer kéepe it close and so being congeled in maner somwhat liquid then dissolue it with more Aqua vitae rectified and by and by it will dissolue and looke as it were Azure right in colour then take of this water ordained of God for to comfort his creatures put it in a vessell of glasse againe faire being dissolued cleane then take fine Duckat gold but beware of the same gold take an vnce first fined in a teste and then fine beaten in fine shéetes then take pure fine life hony foure spoonfuls and take a quarter of Gentiana fine searced to pouder the gold Gentiana and hony must be ground finely and put to the Quintescens halfe an vnce of fine mother pearle grind all strongly together vpon a Marble stone and put all into your water or Quintescens put all into your glasse and set it in stilling with a gentle fire and let it still vp and downe ten or twelue daies and then kéepe it close and safe for it is good let it still in most balnes in any case and then it is done Some doe vse to make oyle of gold in this manner they doo take vineger and put filing of gold in it or leafe gold so let it stand in the Sunne when it is hot twelue dayes and there will arise vpon the vineger as a scum the which you must gather with a feather and as you gather it you may put it into your Aurum potabile or els grind it with your hony pearle and Gentiana for this gold is better for this is one of the Philosophers great secrets hidden this is a vertuous Quintescens or water of life to heale all infirmities as leaprosies and as many as be in man that is hard for to heale and if a man be a dying and haue but one dram nature within him giue him but one spoonfull of it and if his time be not ordained of God it shall help him certainly and will procure him for to liue longer by Gods prouidence prouided for man Note this noble deuine plaister which hath a number of vertues in him as heereafter followeth ¶ Take Galbanum an vnce Aromatici thrée vnces Appoponaci an vnce new Wax twenty vnces oyle Oliue a pound Litarge of gold thirtéene vnces Olibane two vnces myrrh an vnce gréene Copperis as vnce Aristologia longa an vnce Mastick an vnce Bedely two vnces Orimandi calamita foure vnces make all these into pouder euery one seuerally by himselfe take a pot of earth and your Galbanum Armoniaci Appoponaci and put it in white vineger very strong and couer the pot till such time that all be molten in them after straine it through a strainer then put it in a cleane vessell and set it on a gentle fire and temperate and let them simper together vntill all your vineger be consumed then take your oyle Oliue and put it in the same pot and so stir them together on a gentle fire continually and when all is molten then put in your lytarge of gold made in powder and as you put it in you must be euer stirring of it that it may consume in the substance and thus you must vse it vntill it come to blacknes then put in your Bedely Olibanum Aristologia longa Myrth Mastick your Verdigreace Copperis and your Calamita let it be all in very fine pouder and when it is sod and well boiled it will be black and red and put a little on a stone or cloth and if it be hard then it is sodden well then let him séeth vntill such time as he be hard and so prescrue it then anoynt your hand with oyle Oliue and so take it forth then make it in roles as Past and put it in a péece of Geates skinne well and cleane made then put it in a vessell of Lead to kéepe made like a boxe close for this is the precious diuine plaister of all the world none like it it is a Kings iewell of health for it is good for all diseases both old and new and shall giue new flesh and good that he had no better before if a man be broken let him make a plaister and lay it to nine dayes it shall knit sure for euer againe by Gods grace The black plaister for all manner of griefes ¶ Take a pot of oyle Oliue a part of red Lead boyle these together and stir them with a slice of wood continually vntill it be black and somwhat thick then take it off the fire and put it in a peny worth of red Wax and a pound of Rozen and set it to the fire againe but you may not blase it and stir it then take it off and let it stand vntill it be cold and make it in a lump it is good
for a new wound or to staunch blood poure a little of it in a dish and if it stick fast vnto the dishes side then it is inough and preserue it to your vse as neede requireth The making of the flower of all plaisters and salues called Flos vnguentorum per G. K. ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen halfe a pound of Perossen a quarter of a pound of Frankensence a quarter of a pound of virgin Wax an vnce of Mastick a quarter of a pound of Dears sewet a quarter of a pound of Shéepes sewet two drams of Camphire a quarter of a pound of Venice Turpentine and melt that may be molten and make powder of that which may be beaten to powder and searce your powder through a fine searcer and to compound this treate or plaister with all your Waxe Shéepes sewet and Deares sewet must be first molten on a soft fire then your Olibanum Mastick with your Rozen and Perossen and your Frankensence and Myrrh and last of all your Turpentine of Venice and as you put these gums in you must euer be stirring it with a little sticke that it doe not grow to the kettle side with a soft fire the gums being throughly molten take the kettle from the fire still stirring of it let your Myrrh and your Turpentine be put in the last for that must not abide on the fire long after it is put in then take a pottle of good white Wine and let your strainer be of canuas ready for to straine the sayd gums withall and let there be no holes in the canuas strayner then take a faire Bason or Péece and put it in a quart or thrée pints of your white Wine and then let it runne through into the white Wine and so let it coole for the space of two houres and then worke it and make it vp in roles and let the roles lye continually still in the white Wine for it will be 〈◊〉 as Allablaster and yée may kéepe it this seauen yeares in full effect and goodnes and especiallie for all new woundes and aches béeing spread vpon new canuasse and apply it to the gréefe and these be the vertues of this Flores vnguentorum Also this noble Salue or plaister amongst all other is most clensing and wel sounding the flesh that it healeth more in one weeke then in any other it wil suffer no corruption to be ingendred in man or woman nor no euill flesh to grow for all these diseases aboue named it is the most strange medicine that euer was sound as in experience it hath béen full many times proued and tryed The golden plaister that healeth all bruses of vaines or sinewes proued ¶ Take Colofony Pitch Rozen and Oyle thrée vnces of liquid Pitch an vnce of Olibanum an vnce of Auri vnguenti a like of each of Wine as much as suffiseth and make thereof a plaister and lay it too and kéepe it to your vse To make Gratia dei ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen and boile it in a pan vntill the fome or scum be come of it then take a quarter of a pound of vnwrought Wax and put it into the Rozen and boyle them together as is aforesaid then take an vnce of Sheepes sewet and as much of Turpentine and oyle Oliue a spoonefull and put them all together into the same pan amongst the Rozen and Wax aforesaid and boyle them all together vntill the fome begin aboue and when the fome beginneth to waxe blacke then take it off the fire and clense it through a faire linnen cloth into a pan of water then work it with your hands and put it out as you doo Birdlime for the space of a quarter of an houre and now and then wet your hands in the waâ—… when it cleaueth to the salue and then make it into roles To make Gratia dei minor ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Pimpernell that beareth the white flower of each thrée handfuls and bray them séeth them in white Wine till it be halfe sodden then poure out the Wine through a cloth and set it ouer the fire put thereto Perrosin a pound Mastick a pound Virgin wax and take womans milk that nourisheth a man child a quantity mingle them together boyling with a slice till it be well melt then take it off the fire put in halfe a pound of Turpentine stir it well together till it be cold then kéepe it till ye néede it is good for all new wounds and olde for the Webbe in the eye it suffereth no dead flesh to remaine within the wounde Also for stinging of venimous beasts and also for all maner of impostumes and for all sores To make a plaister that will heale a wounde ¶ Take a pound of the iuyce of Betony as much of Plantine the iuyce of Smallage as much Bursa pastoris as much and foure pound of Waxe and Perrossen a quarter of a pounde of Incense boyle all these together with the iuyces of these 4. hearbes till they be almost thick and then put therein a quarter of a pound of Turpentine oyle Oliue thrée pound and so vse it as a plaister at neede A methridate against poysons and pestilence which for a trueth was prooued vpon foure Irish Gentlemen poysoned with Rats-bane cast into a pan of Milke in Fraunce who were so swolne that they were ready to burst ¶ Take of the rootes of Turmentile two drammes of all the kinde of Saunders of euery of them a dram white Dittanie newe gathered and dryed a dramme of the top of a Harts horne or a Spitrack of precious stones the fragments of orient pearle Bole armoniack Aristologia rotunda of each a dram Peniriall Mirrh and sewet of each two drams Tarra limnia of the purest two drammes the seedes of Cytrons and Saffron of each a scruple Vnicorns horne and iacints of each halfe a dramme The licour to make this Electuary is Rosewater and the water of Borage flowers distilled boyle your Sugar and waters to a perfection and in the cooling put in your powders searced and so reserue it as a most precious treasure that is also a present remedy to driue out the Measels shingles small poxe the plague pushes and hath holpe them whose sores were gone in and brought them out againe and recouered the parties and it defendeth all venim To make pilles against poyson of a meruailous vertue as hath been proued ¶ Take Imperatrice Bistorta Turmentilla Valeriana Dittamo Bianco Carlina Gentiana Aristologia rotunda Agarico Electo Salgem of each a like quantity beate them in fine powder then take the iuyce of Garlike and of Onions as much as will make it into a paste Also put into the iuyce one dram of Saffron then let the sayd paste be mixt dry in the shadow and then beate it into powder againe and mixe it with the foresayd iuyce in good force and kéepe it in a vessell of lead vntill thou hast neede and when thou wilt vse it take thereof 4. drammes and make
halfe a handfull of great Raisons with a handfull of Barlie make your broth of all these sodden in a pottle of water till it come to a quart or lesse and when your meat is verie well sodden stampe it your flesh must be either a Cock Chicken or a knockell of Veale and being so stamped very well together straine it and kéepe it and giue the patient therof morning and euening often and it will restore him although hée be neuer so low brought A salue to heale all manner of sores and especially for afresh wound ¶ Take of oyle Oliue and Turpentine a like much a prettie quantitie of Rosemary-leaues pricked boyle all these together and in boyling put thereto a spoonefull of faire water and let theÌ„ boyle together vntill the water be consumed as an oyntment and when it is boyled straine it hote and warme and let it stand in a vessell of earth and when ye shall occupie it heate it ouer the fire and against the fire dresse the sore so that the fire may dry the oyntment and if neede bee that there be no dead flesh lay lint in the salue and lay it hote against the sore and if it neede to be tented then tent it with a tent of the same oyntment hote and lay vpon the tent a plaister of hote cleauing salue and it will cure any wound or sore To make a salue to bring sores that rankle and ake into their owne kinde and cease the burning and aking ¶ Take the iuyce of Smallage of Plantine of each like much of Honny and the white of an Egge a like much and put thereto flower of boulted Wheate and stirre them well together vntill it be thicke and let it come néere no fire but all cold and raw lay it to the sore and it shall clense the wound and cease the aking and bring it to his kinde and heale it faire for this is a principall salue for sores A salue for a newe cut that will not leaue bleeding ¶ Take the blades of vnset Léekes stampe them and put thereto Honny and Wheate flower and stirre them well together vntill they be thicke and let it come neere no fire but all cold lay it to the wound and it will staunch the bléeding and it will driue out the brused blood and make it cleane and heale it A salue for all sores ¶ Take oyle Oliue a pint a halfe Turpentine asmuch Rozen a quarter of a pound vnwrought ware halfe a pound of sheepes tallow 4. pound then take two handfuls of Smallage 2. handfuls of Bugle 2. handfuls of Ragewoort 2. handfuls of Plantaine 2. handfuls of Orpine and cut all these herbs smal and séeth them in the foresaid geare aboue written let it boyle softly ouer the fire alwaies stirring it vntill it bee well medled trgether and when you thinke it well take it from the fire and straine it through a strainer of Canuas and so vse it A salue for a newe hurt ¶ Take Waxe and sheepes sewet but not so much of the sewet as waxe and a little Rozen and if you will heale it shortlie but in but a very little Rozen and set it ouer the fire togeather and as it riseth stirre it and then put therein a dish of water and when it is cold make it in roules Another for the same ¶ Take the whitest Virgin waxe that ye can get and melt it in a panne then put in a quantity of Butter and Honny and seeth them together and take a dish with faire water straine it into the water and worke it with your hands and then make it in a round ball and so you may keepe it and when you lay it to any sore you must first worke it in your hand and then strike it on a cloth and lay it to and this medicine wil both heale and draw the same A salue for wounds and all old sores ¶ Take halfe a pound of Saruese and some-what more of oyle Oliue which is Sallet oyle two ounces of Vineger a pretty quantitie and boyle it till it be blacke and make it vp in roules and so at your neede you may vse it A very good salue called Incarnatiue to bring flesh ¶ Take of the best Turpentine and wash it in very fayre water vntill it be very white and then put out the water froÌ„ it and compound it with the yolke of an Egge or two and put in the dust of Frankensence and Saffron very fine beaten and so worke them all together and keepe it to your vse when you shall neede it A notable healing salue ¶ Take pure Ware Rozen Bolae aâ—moniack sheepes sewet Déeres sewet of rach one pounde beate the Rozen and Armoniack into fine powder and searce it through a fine searcer then take Turpentine halfe a pound boyle all these together vpon a soft fire and stir them well all the while that they séeth but put not in the Turpentine vntil it be ready to take from the fire for it must haue but one walme and so imploy this salue to any sore wound and it will heale it in short time To make a drawing salue ¶ Take Deares sewet and melt it and put in as much oyle Oliue as much Rozen and Waxe boyle them together then let it stand and put in some Turpentine and so straine all through a linnen cloth and kéepe it to your vse Another for the same ¶ Take an vnce of Waxe two vnces of Shéepes sewet halfe an vnce of Olibanum halfe an vnce of Rozen two spoonefuls of Hony two handfuls of young Docke leaues and take and put them into three or foure old Dock leaues close wrapped together and so rost the young Docks therein and when the Docks be rosted put in your gums thereto A salue for an olde sore ¶ Take as many Bramble leaues as when they are shired come to a quarter of a pound of Sage and Valerian of each of them a quarter of a pound also as much of Waxe as much fresh butter halfe a pound of Rozen then put them into a skillet and boyle them altogether a good space and then straine it through a faire cloth and so kéepe the salue till that you haue néede thereof and this helpeth The making of a salue to cure wounds that be rankled and brused and to cease the swelling and aking ¶ Take the iuyce of Smallage and the iuice of pety Morrell and the iuyce of Plantaine leaues of each a like much then take Honey and the white of an Egge a like of each of the same as of the iuyce and meddle them all on the fire and put therto flower of bolted Wheat and stir them well together till it be some deale thicke and then let it come nye no fire but lay it to the wound all cold and it will clense the wound and cease the aking and brenning and bring them in his kind and heale him faire for euer and this is a principall salue for sores or
beate it fine and mingle it with the same powder and so keepe it close that no winde come at it vsing it first and last with posset drinke made with White wine or strong Ale and when you cate your pottage or other broth put some in it if you bee sore pained and if you haue any stone it will come away by shiuers and if it doe so when you think that your water beginneth to cleare again take this drinke following and it will clense your bladder and it will leaue no corruption therein The drinke ¶ Take Rose-mary and wilde Time and séeth them in running water with as much Sugar as will make it sweete from a quart to a pint vse the quantitie of your hearbes according to your discretion so that it may sauour well of them and so vse it nine mornings sixe or seauen spoonefuls at a time For the Tissicke well proued ¶ Take a handfull of Fennell rootes as much Parsley rootes as many Alisander rootes halfe a handfull of Borrage rootes and pull out the pith of all the sayde rootes then take halfe a handfull of Penny-riall as much of Violet leaues and as much of Cinckfoyle as much Succory Endiue Hollihockleaues Mallow leaues and redde garden Mints of all these a like quantitie as of those next before halfe a handfull of Licoris stickes scraped brused and beaten to fine powder a gallon of fayre running water boyle therein all these simples and boile these séedes following with them that is thrée spoonesuls of Annyseedes as much Fennell seede as much Coliander seede and Comin seede a good handfull of Dandelion rootes and so boyle altogether from a gallon to a pottle and let the patient drinke thereof first and last and it will quickly help him Another for the Tissicke ¶ Take a quart of running water with a handful of Isope two ounces of Annyseedes asmuch Licoris beaten both togeather halfe an ounce of Fennell seede beate all these togeather very sine with a quarterne of white Sugar and so boyle them altogether vnto a pint and then straine them and so let the partie drinke thereof first and last and it will doo him good For a Tissicke or colde another ¶ Take two ounces of Licoris scraped and brused of Figs three ounces of Egrimony Hore-hounde Enula campana of each a handfull and boyle them altogether in a gallon of Water vntill the halfe be wasted then straine the hearbes from the iuyce and vse it early and late for this hath béene proued Also for the dry Tissick take and stamp Fennell rootes and drinke the iuyce thereof with white Wine For the Tissicke another experiment ¶ Take Radish rootes make them cleane and cutte them thin and cast them into an Ouen and bake them then beate them into powder so small as you can then drinke thereof euerie morning fasting and at night when you goe to bedde and wet your meate in the same powder as you weuld doo in salte and it will doo you very great ease shortly To make the mother of Treakle ¶ Take a pint of Honny put thereto the iuyce of red Fennell séeth it on the fire vntill it come to a pinte then take it of and put thereto a penny-woorth of Sinamon in powder two raises of Ginger a Nutmeg and a little Mace and stirre them well together and when it is cold put it into a boxe and gather your Fennell in May. Also to make Treakle for all manner of poyson take one ounce of Betony in powder 4. ounces of Centory in powder and 2. ounces of the powder of Rew medle these together and temper them with clarified Honny and kéepe it in a glasse The golden treate that healeth all bruses ¶ Take Colosony pitch and Rozen and two ounces of oyle three ounces of liquid Pitch 1. ounce of Olibanū Auti vnguenti Allam of each two ounces of Wine as much as suffiseth and boyle all these together and so receiue them to your vse as you neede and it helpeth For to make a white treate called Apostolicen ¶ Take oyle Oliue litarge of Leade Golde and Siluer stampe it and put it in the oyle through a cloth and stirre it till it be harde and this is a good treate for to heale all manner of woundes be they newe or old thys kinde of treate hath often béene proued good To make a treat called Emanuell ¶ Take Veruaine Bittany Pimpernell Centorie the more Gratia dei of each one handfull hearbe Iohn Auence Celondine Acus muscata alaluia Plantaine Spurge Egrimonie of each one handfull grinde all in a morter and put thē in a gallon of Wine and boyle them in a pan till the third part be wasted then straine it through a Canuas cloth and set it oner the fire and put thereto Waxe foure ounces Pitch asmuch Rozen as much Olibanum two ounces Mastick two ounces Mirrhe two ounces Aloes two ounces Turpentine two ounces Sheepes sewet halfe a pound boate them all in powder and boyle them all together saue the Turpentine the which must be put in last of all then straine the same through a cloth and keepe it till you haue neede thereof and this is a speciall healer of all wounds and sores bruses and broken bones and Apostumes that be broken also it hath a special vertue to draw clense and reengender good flesh it healeth and doth away all kinde of aches whatsoeuer all Cankers and Festers it healeth Morimals it passeth all other oyntments and if you will haue it soft put thereto a quantitie of oyle of Roses so much as you thinke good Proued A good entreat called the greene treat of Iane. ¶ Take a pint of the iuice of Smallage a pint of the iuice of Waybright as much of Plantaine put them together in a vessell and put to it a quarter of a pound of Wax and as much of Frankensence or Rozen made into powder make your Wax into small péeces and boile them altogether and euer stir them and to know when it is boyled inongh drop a drop vpon a Bason and if there be any moisture in it when it is cold then put to it a pound of Turpentine and stir them till they be well medled together then strain it and put into it a quart of white Wine and let it stand while it be cold and so vse it Another intreat called Gratia dei ¶ Take Wax May butter or other butter without salt of each one vnce then take of Frankensence two vnces melt them together and straine them and this is the making of this entreat which is called Gratia dei A good entreat for wounds ¶ Take Betony Pimpernell and Veruaine of each a handfull boile them in a pottell of very good white Wine vntill it be halfe consumed then straine it through a course canuas then put the liquor ouer the fire againe and in the boyling put to it halfe a pound of Rozen a pound of Frankensence in powder and alwayes stir it that the powder goe not to
as golde Another to make the hayre yellow ¶ Take the rinde or barke of Rubarbe and take the scrapings thereof and steepe it in white wine or cleere Lye and after that you haue washed your head therewith you shall wet your haire with a Sponge or some cloth kept for that purpose then let your haire dry against the fire or sunne and the oftner that you vse it the better it will proue as I haue often tryed For to stay hayre from falling ¶ Take and make strong standing Lye and take a great company of Isope rootes and burne them to ashes and mingle the ashes and the Lie together and therewith wash your head and it will keepe the haire from falling of and vse this often it is well proued Also if you take the ashes of little Frogs being burnt it staieth the falling of the haire and the ashes of Goats dung mingled with oyle doth increase haire Another for the falling of hayre ¶ Take the ashes of Culuer-dung in lie and wash the heade therewith Also Walnut leaues beaten with Beares suet restoreth the haire that it plucked away Also the leaues and middle rind of an Oke sodden in water and the head washed therewith is very good for this purpose For to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Frankensence and Barrowes greace boyle them together in a pan of earth and with this oyntment rub the head where the lyce is and it will kill them Another to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Stauesaker and beat it to powder and mingle it with blacke Sope and annoynt the head therewith and it will be quicklie cleane For the Nits in the head ¶ Take the gall of a Calfe and smere the head therwith and it will kill the Nits For woormes in the hayre ¶ Take and rub Calamint on the head and it will sley the woormes in the haire For to doe away hayre ¶ Take the head of Nettles and stampe them and temper it with Eysell and annoynt the head therewith but first shaue or pul away the haire for it is better After this you must sweat and when that you are hote then annoynt your head therwith and doe this three daies and there will growe no more haire in that place Also take the gumme of Arabick and annoynt the place where the haire groweth and it shall quicklie fall awaie For to take away hayre ¶ Take the shells of two Egges beate them small and still them with a good fire and with that water annoynt the place Or els take hard Cats dunge dry it and beate it to powder and temper it with strong Vineger then wash the place with the same where you would haue no haire to grow An experiment for to take away haire ¶ Take the blood of a Snaile without a shell and it hindereth greatly the growing vp of haire Also take Labdanum the gum of an Iuie tree Emmets Egges Arsenick and Vinegar and binde it to the place where you will haue no haire to grow Another for to take away hayre ¶ Take the iuyce of Fumitory and mixe it with gum Arabick then lay it on the place of the haires first plucked out by the rootes and it will neuer permit any more haire to grow in that place Also if you annoynt your heade with the iuyce of a Gloworme stamped it hath the same vertue For the scurffe in the head ¶ Take of the decoction of Mallow rootes and wash your head often therewith and it will cause the scurffe to fall away Also the decoction of the middle rinde of an Elme the head beeing washed therewith doth mightily driue out the scurffe Another for the scurffe in the head ¶ Take Vinegar and boyle it in wine lees a little and annoynt all ouer the scurffe but first clense it and it will mightily heale and dry it Also take the branch of a greene Fig trée with the leaues and stampe them in water it will heale the scurffe being washed therewith If the scurffe be newe vse this medicine daily with Vineger and annoynt the head therewith this hath beene proued For wheales or pushes in the head ¶ Take and wash your head with Vineger or with water wherein Camomell hath beene sodden Also the leaues of Violets stampt with honny doth lightly heale the same Also towne Cresses stampt with Goose greace dooth spéedily heale the pushes or wheales that be in the head For a scald head ¶ Take a penny-worth of Lampe oyle and halfe a pynte of faire water and boyle it well together and when it is cold put thereto halfe a penny-worth of Quicksiluer and temper it wel together and annoynt the head therewith For a scald head ¶ Take the liuer of a Thornebacke and séeth it by it selfe then take six roots of Enula campana and séeth thē by the space of thrée howers in cleane water of Houseléeke three handfulls stampe them and mingle them altogeather and strayne them through a linnen cloth and make an oyntment of them and annoint the head therewith and if the haire be gone take a handfull of wooll and burne it to powder and annoint therewith the head that is pilde and the haire shall growe as thicke as euer it was before Another for a scald head ¶ Take Groundsell and Barrowes greace and chopps the Groundsell small and boyle it with a softe fier with the Barrowes greace and so clip off the haire and ther-withall annoynt the scald head For to heale a white scald in the head ¶ Take Houndstung and Borage rootes of each a like quantitie wash them faire and cleane then shred them chop them small in péeces séeth them in vineger about halfe a pint more then put in a little sweete Butter neuer salted and let them boyle together till they be softe then strayne them through a cleane cloth and it will be a pleasant salue then take a feather and annoynt the Patients head withall but you must vse to wash the scald head with Cow pisse or else with faire water and this will heale the white scald head Another for to heale the white scald ¶ Take gréene coperis rosen waxe shéepes suet hony and beat them small together and boyle them well and it will be a very faire salue and this will heale any white scald proued For the brayne an experiment ¶ Take the Sirope of red Roses with the powder of Lygnum Aloes and the bone in the Harts hart cloues the leaues of red Roses or the Cakes thereof and séethe them all together with Snger and giue the patient thereof to drink fasting morning and euening For the brayne another ¶ Take the smoke of Lignum Aloes and it comforteth the cold braine and all weake parts of the braine and the head For to restore the braine ¶ Take and make powder of Betony and vse it in thy pottage and it will restore the braine Also take and chew Mace in your mouth Also put into thy nose the roote or iuice of Galingall and it
the head ¶ Take Secados Bay berries Betony Bay leaues of each of them a handfull séeth them in white Wine to the halfe and for an old man in Maimsie then put it in a vessell that hath a narrow mouth and hold your eares ouer it béeing vnstopped as hote as you may suffer it beeing not too hote nor too cold also thrée drops of the oyle of Almonds dooth the same For woormes in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Woorm-wood Rue So wthistle put it in the patients eare and he shall be whole Take the iuyce of Elder and drop it into the eare of the patient gréeued Or take the iuyce of Cockle and mingle it with the iuyce of Arssmart and put it into the eares so gréeued For ach and wormes in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Henbane and put it into thine eares and it will take away the ach and kill the woormes Also take the powder of wilde Gourds and the iuyce of Arssmart and put it into thine eares Also for the wormes in the eares take Centory and Léekes the iuyce of thē both and put it into the eares and stop it with black wooll of a Sheepe that groweth betwéen the legges and it will help the patient For woormes in the eares ¶ Take oyle of Roses oyle Oliue oyle of Exeter Aqua composita of each of them a like quantitie and compound your Aqua vitae with other oyles on the fire then take Rue and the egges of Ants beate them small and compounde them altogether being well boyled and then put it into the eares dropping it in thrée or foure times and he shall find ease To cause a man to heare well ¶ Take and make a rounde loafe and fill it full of Sage and bake it and when it is baked then breake or cut the loafe in the midst and binde it to the eares as hote as you may suffer it let this be vsed three or foure times and it will cause the patient so gréeued for to heare well For the running in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Elder drop it in the eare of the partie gréeued and it clenseth the matter and the filth thereof Also the iuyce of Violets vsed is verie good for the running of the eares Also take the gall of a Weather and Honny of both a like portion mingle them and put them into the eares For the running in the eares ¶ Take the gall of a Goate womans milke mingled with Honny and Mirrh and it will help you Also boyle the iuyce of Sengreene and put it in a hollow Onyon in the fire then put of the same iuyce strained into thine eare and lay the Onyon likewise ouer thine eare in manner of a plaister Also the vrine of a man child being poured into the eare dryeth the humors and taketh away the running of the eares For the impostume behind the head ¶ Take Beanes and mingle thē with meale and the iuyce of Fenegreke and it helpeth the patient so gréeued with the impostume behind the eare but it must be laid plaister wise Another for the same ¶ Take Milke and Allom and make a posset and when the Allom hath turnd the milke lay the posset curd to the impostume and it will breake it Also to destroy an imposiume in what place soeuer take the roote of Hollock and wash it cleane then seeth it till it be tender then put out the water and put to the roote Linséede and Fenegreke and Barly meale mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the impostume plaister-wise and it will cure the same For all manner of sore eyes ¶ Take Fennell Rue Verueine Enfrance Endiue Betony and red Roses lay all these a day a night in white wine the second day still them with a soft fire then kéepe it in a glasse this water is as good as Bawme for all manner of euill eyes Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Rue Verueine Enfrance Betony Endiue Sengréene Hill-woort Peneriall redde Roses Maiden haire of each a like much also foure ounces of oyle Oliue stamp them and put them in a vessell of glasse and still them in a stillatory and as it stilleth part it in thrée parts the first water you must keepe by it selfe for it is as precious as siluer the second as gold the third as Bawme all these waters must be kept in verie cleane glasses close stopped and so vse any of them A precious water for the sight of the eyes made by King Edward the sixt ¶ Take Smallage red Fennell Rue Verneine Betonie Egremony Pimpernell Enfrance Sage Selondine of each a like quuntity first wash them cleane then stampe them and put them in a faire brasen pan with the powder of xv Pepper cornes faire serced into a pynt of good white wine then put thē into the hearbs with three spoonfuls of Honny and fiue spoonfuls of the water of a man child that is an innocent mingle all together and boile them ouer the fire and when it is sod straine it through a fine linnen cloth and put it into a glasse and stoppe it well and close till you will vse it and when you néed put a little thereof into the sore eyes with a feather but if it wexe dry then temper it with white wine and it profiteth much all manner of sore eyes this water was vsed by King Edward the sixt For the pin and the web and the fellon in the eye ¶ Take the gall of a Hare and Honny of each a like much mingle them together and take a feather and put a little into thine eyes and it will heale thē within two or thrée dayes and saue the sight on warrantise thys hath béene often proued For the pin and the web in the eye ¶ Take a quart or a pynt of Strawberries when they bee ripe and put thereto asmuch white Wine as Strawberries then put them in a cleane vessell and let them stand nine dayes hote stirre them very well euery day twice or thrice and the tenth day put it in a bag of Canuas and let it goe through hote you must not wring it hote let it goe through of it selfe thē take the cléere and put it in a viall of glasse then take Calamint that is a stene and put it in the fire til it be red hote and thē quench it in white Wine nine seuerall times and when thou hast done thus take the same stone and beate it to small powder in a brasen morter if you haue a pinte of Water then put therein one ounce of the said powder and mingle them well together and keepe it well for this is a precious water for the pinne and she webbe in the eye Another for the same ¶ Take Enstras a good quantitie and stampe it well and wring out the iuyce through a cloth and vse it Or take Bores greace Capons greace Goose greace and melt them together in a pan stir them well
any sore eyes And this medicine neuer fayleth but restoreth the sight ¶ Take a stone called Calamint and make it red hote nine times and quench it foure times in Rose water and fiue times in white Wine then take this stone that is thus quenched and make of it small powder in a brasen morter then take Frankensence as much as of the powder of the stone and make it also to powder and looke that you haue of them two euen portiens as much as you will then take Rose water and water of Rue and water of Fennell of each of these three two portions of the water of Strawberries and the water of Veruaine and the water of Enstras of each of these three three portions and put all these waters together in a cleane vessell and then looke how many vnces thou hast of thy powder to vnces of the aforesaid waters that be mingled Grinde the powder of Calamint and of Frankensence on a Marble stone as you would grinde Vermillion but you must grinde each one by it selfe then take fresh Swines greace of a Barrow-hog and wring the same verie well through a cleane cloth and looke that you haue asmuch weight of cold greace as of the mingled waters take then the powder of Calament and boyle it with the greace and with the mingled waters ouer a soft fire of Char-coles without anie smoake And when thou hast boyled these well together put vnto the same the powder of Frankensence and then boile them all together till the smoake of the boylings cease and then take it from the sire and let it coole but from the time that you sette it first to the fire for to seeth be alwaies stirring it verie busily till it be cold and thick Then take Camphire pare it in small péeces then take of thy oyntment euen as much and grind them together by parcels on a Marble stone and when they be well mingled together then put it in a boxe with one vnce of Calamint and one vnce of Frankensence Enfrance thrée pennie worth and thrée peny worth of Camphire and he that hath any gréeuance or sicknes in his eyes at night sitting on his bed let him take of this oyntment with his finger as much as a Wheat corne and hold it in his eye vntill it be relented and then dip his finger with the oyntment softly betwéen the lids of his eyes and then let him lye downe and sléepe and on the morrow when he riseth wash the eye with Rose-water or with Enfrance water or with Fenell water or with Rue water these waters be good therefore but ere thou wash the eyes therewith heate the water a little ouer the fier but looke that you wash not with fasting spittle nor with no other thing but with one of these waters before saide and thou shalt be whole this hath béene surely prooued For the Impostumes in the head ¶ Against the Impostume of the eyes and web of the same put the iuice of Hony-suckle often therin or mingle it with pure hony and straine it and it wasteth the Impostume and the web maruailously and it was thus proued One tooke a Cock and a Whelp and pricked their eyes with a crooked Iron or néedle so that they séemed that their eyes were out and then hee brused this hearbe and put it in their eyes and they became faire and cleare as they were before at the which he did maruaile and proued it many times vpon diuers persons For wormes in the eye lids ¶ Take Salt and burne it in a cloute and temper it with hony and with a feather annoynt the eye lids when the party goeth to bed For wormes in the eye lyds ¶ Take Bay-salt and burne it in the fire and then stampe it and doo thereto clarified hony and the water of Allom and a little Copperas and annoynt the eye lidds when thou goest to bed and this medicine shall kill the wormes that be in the eye liddes prooued For stinking at the nose ¶ Take Cloues Ginger and Calamint of each a like much and séethe them in white Wine and therewith wash thy nose After that put in the powder Piritrum to prouoke one to néese if there be replection fleam in the head first you must purge the head with Pylls of Cochie or of Hiera picra Also if the stinking of the nose come from the stomacke first purge the stomake et fiet For the polix of the nose ¶ Against the polix of the nose make a suppository or tent of a plaister called Apostolicon and put powder of Copperas theron and put it into thy nose or make that tent of cotton and wet it in Salt-water and lay of the said powder thereon and put it in thy nose The said powder is also good to fret the proud flesh of superfluitie of blood of the nose but first burne it then put it in olde Parchment and make powder thereof and take Mastick and then make a tent of Bursa pastoris with part of a stone called Emachitas and put it in thy nose For the polix of the nose ¶ To take and put the iuice of Iuy into thy nosthrils is very good The gum of Iuy made in an oyntment called Dialthera hath power to chase and to consume Also against the polix make a tent of Apostolicon and the powder of burnt brasse and lay it to the nose et fiet For the pose in the head ¶ Against the rume or pose mingle the powder of Comin-séede and Bay berries and put them all hote in a bag and lay them so to the head for the pose For the nosthrill a medicine ¶ For the highnes of the nosthrils and rednes caused in flux of humors take the broth that Olibanum is sodden in but first in the morning Pils of Olibanum and at night to bedward the said broth these Pylls comforteth digestion and purgeth the stomack For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take and mingle the powder of Betony with as much salt and put as much as you can take betwéene two fingers and a thomb in the nesthrils and the blood will staunch also take and wet cotton in the iuice of Bursa pastoris and cast powder of Antimonium vpon it and the bléeding will frent For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take a dram of Bolae armoniacke washed and mixe it in Rose-water and Planten water and drinke it then bind the extreame parts as hard as you may and after make a tent of gréene Nettles and put into his nose Moreouer if so be that the Patient doo hold in his hand Egrimony the roote and all and drink the iuice of Knotgrasse the blood will staunch For bleeding at the nose ¶ Against the bléeding of the nose that commeth by ebulition or boyling of the blood in the lyuer and vaines in Sommer make Beanes wet in the iuice of Rose-water and lay them to the forehead or temples it hath been proued Another for the same ¶ Take Peruincle and chewe it in the
third part of Allom rub the téeth with a cloth dipped in the same and it maketh the téeth white and clenseth the gums To make the teeth cleane ¶ Take Rosemary Sage and a quarter of Allom and Honey and boile them together in faire running water and when it hath béen well boyled straine out the faire water and kéepe it in a glasse and vse it somtime to wash your mouth and the teeth therwith and it will make them clean Also wash the teeth with the decoction of our Lady thistle root and thy téeth shall be fastened and also kept cleane and thy gums béeing sore about the teeth shal be made whole Also the roote of Horehound drunke or chewed of a man fasting dooth quickly heale the gummes and maketh the téeth cleane Also Strawbury leaues taketh and clenseth the téeth and gums a sure and tried experiment For the gummes ¶ Against swelling of the gums wash them first with Vineger and Allom confect together but first set Ventoses or bores with scarification on the neck or shoulder or set the Ventoses in the hinder part of the head and scarifie it thrée daies then lay Horseleaches to the gums and wash the gums with Vineger wherein Allom Nutgalls and Roses hath béene sodden in and with the same vineger wash thy mouth thrée or foure days twice or thrice a day and it will ease thée Also against the rottennes of the gums take Cingstile and rub the cheeke therwith and it taketh away the rotting of the gums For the gummes that bleed ¶ Against the bléeding of the gums take powder of Corall and of Anthero that is in the middest of the Rose and lay it vpon the gummes or confect it with Honey and annoynt the gums therwith The pouder of Corall put to the gums healeth them Also for the gums that rotteth rub them with Myrrhe and it will help them Also the fume of Myrrhe receiued at the mouth comforteth and purgeth the braine For the gummes that are gnawne ¶ Take and séethe Cloues in water of Roses and then dry them and make therof powder then temper the powder with Rose-water or with Roses and that is best and then dry it againe in the Sunne and doo so thrée or foure times and then temper the powder againe with Rose-water or with the iuice of Roses and annoynt the gummes therewith and lay the powder on them For Blisters in the mouth and swelling of the lyps ¶ Against the blisters in the mouth and swelling of the lips take and séeth the leaues of Mastick in Vineger and with the same make a Gargorisme thereof Also against fleaing or rawnesse of the mouth comming of Feauers and against small blisters and swelling séeth yolks of Egges in water and then fry them till oyle come out of them and with the oyle confect the powder of Pennets of Dragagant and Amidon and annoynt the gréefe this powder Confect with sirop of Roses or Violets is also very good therefore For chapping of the lyps ¶ For the chapping of the lippes take Pennets and delay them in water of Dragagant and annoynt the lips therewith Also for lippes that bee broken with the wind take the oyle of Almonds and Propolio boyle them ouer the fire and let it be fomwhat hard and therewith annoynt thy lips so chapped with wind Also for new clifts or chapping of the lips lay the pouder of Canell in the clifts and kéepe well thy lippes together and bind a cloth thereto For swelling of the cheeke that commeth of the tooth ache ¶ Take the iuice of the séede of Nettles and the white of an Egge Frankensence and Wheat flower and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the sore chéeke and it will doo away the swelling thereof For the great heat in the mouth ¶ Take a pint of water and as much as a Nut of white Allom and as much of Sage and a spoonfull of hony and boile all these together and wash thy mouth with it For the canker in the mouth ¶ Take a pint of white wine and as much running water and the crops of Sage two spoonfull of life honey and as much Allom as an Egge boyle all these together and skim it well clarifie it till the Allom be consumed and when it is somewhat cold put it in a glasse and vse it Also take the root of Selendine and séeth it in white wine and when it is well sod take the pot down and let the sicke hold ouer his mouth and let the breath goe into the body and it shall kill the canker For the canker in the mouth ¶ Take the iuice of Woodbind and the iuice of red Woorts Hony powder of Camomell and powder of wild Sage burnt also take red Wine a pint a quarter of a pint of honey and as much Allom as a Doues Egge and séeth them till the third part thereof be wasted proued Another for the same ¶ Take Vineger Allom Musterd Rue Auence Isope hearb Robert and seeth and straine them through a cloth as hot as you may suffer it and wash your mouth oftentimes therwith and it will heale the canker For the canker in the mouth and for stinking breath ¶ Take a handfull of Woodbind as much Planten and bray them small then take a pint of Eysell and another of water and a quantity of hony another of Allom kéepe all these waters together in a glasse and wash well thy mouth therewith and holde it in thy mouth and it shall destroy all cankers and slinking breath and saue the téeth from rotting A very good medicine for a canker or sore mouth ¶ Take a handfull of Woodbind as much Planten and halfe a handfull of Lauender cotten as much Sage an vnce of white roch Allom and thrée spoonfull of hony bray all these in Vineger let these be moderatly warmed and put into a still with the hearbs and softly distilled and after meales wash your mouth therwith thrée or foure times a day Proued Against clifts and sores in the mouth stéepe Dragagant in Rose-water and wring it in a cloth with a glewy substance that commeth out mingle the powder of Amidum and with a feather wet therin annoynt the sore mouth therwith and it will heale quickly Also for a man that cannot well eate take Ambrose Peniriall Aunce Ach Organum Rue swill these together with water and drinke the water morning and euening till thou be whole Proued For euill in the mouth or throat ¶ Take the leaues of the white Vine and boyle them in faire water and when it is well boyled hold thy mouth ouer that the ayre may goe into thy mouth and then sup of the water and hold it in thy mouth till it be cold and then put it out and take more and doo so seauen or eight times a day and vse this two dayes together Also doe in lyke manuer with the fiue leaued Grasse and vse it seauen or eyght times in a day and thrée dayes together but it
it be consumed away and in the time that it is a boyling fill it with the iuice of Lemons and when it is sodden take it off and let it coole and then take eight new laid Egs the whites of them and beat them fine and put fine Suger to it and so occupy it for Sun burning For red pimples in the face ¶ Take a little Roch Allom and breake it in small péeces then take the white of a new laid Egge and put it in a pan that is leaded within set it to the fire till you see it boile and stir it all the while with a little stick till you sée it wax hard take this and wash your face therewith Also take Rose-water and water of wild Tansie and mingle them together and therwith wash thy face and thou shalt be whole For pimples in the face ¶ Take and wash your face wheÌ„ you goe to bed with warme water and let it dry in take the white of an Egge and put it into a Saucer and set it vpon a chasingdish of coles and put into it a péece of Allom beat it together with a spoone till it become thick then make a round ball and therwith anoynt the parties face where the pimples be For heate and blaines in the face ¶ Take the whites of two Egs and beat them with an Allom stone till they come to curd then take it and set it vpon a few embers and alwaies stir it as it doth gather to a curd then take it off and put it vpon a Painters stone and put thereon Vnguentum populeon halfe the portion and of Allom as much as your thomb so fine beaten as may be and this grind with all the other ingrediens a long while and put it in a glasse or pot and therewith annoynt thy face For a rich face ¶ Take thrée yolks of Eggs rawe as much in quantity of fresh butter or Capons greace without salt Camphire two peny worth red Rose-water halfe a pint two graines of Siuet and boile all these together in a dish then strain them through a clean cloth and so set it to kéele and take the vppermost and box it Also take Populeon Brimstone and fresh butter and à handfull of red Sage and stamp and strain them and then melt all together and put it in a boxe Also take white Copperas one vnce one pint of running water and boile them altogether to the halse and skim it clean and straine it and put it in a glasse and set it in the Sunne then wash thy face with a feather and annoint thy face therwith morning and euening till it be whole For a sauce flamed face ¶ To annoynt it by day take eight penny worth of Camphire and as much of Bores greace as a costard Aple and mingle them together finely till you can perceiue none of the Camphire then put it into a box and keepe it as close as you can from the ayre Also to annoynt the face by night take a quantitie of Deares suet and put therto a little Bores greace and a quantity of Brimstone and boile them together with a quantity of Copperas and a pint of Vineger or claret Wine and after they haue béen boyled vse to annoynt thy face therwith To make a good oyntment for a sauceflamed face ¶ Take an vnce of oyle of Bayes and an vnce of Quicksiluer and doo them in a bladder together with a spoonfull of fasting spittle and then rub them well together that nothing of the Quicksiluer be seene and then take of this oyntment when that it is made and anoynt the sauceflame face therwith and it will heale it well and faire on war rantise proued true Another oyntment for the sauceflame face ¶ Take the rootes of Louach and of Dock roots the tops of Nettles and Cellendine a like much the quantity of thrée vnces halfe a pound of the beanes of Parsley and bray them well in water and doo therto two pound of Bores greace and stamp them well together and let them stand still foure daies after set it ouer the fire till it séeth then straine it through a faire cleane cloth and then put therto fine Frankensence Myrrh and Mastick of each an vnce and let it boile eftsone with a easie fire and stir it well with a slyce and then let it kéele and when it is cold put thereon two vnces of Quicksiluer and mingle them together and therewith annoynt the saucefleame face and this will heale the same as it hath béen oft proued Another medicine for a saucefleame face ¶ Take the pâ—tty Morell and still thereof a quart of water and take a quarter of a pounde of Camphier and heate the water a little then put the Camphire therein and mingle theÌ„m verie well together then put it in a glasse and stop it well but you must bruse the Morell a little in a Morter before you still it afterward with thys water vse to annoynt the sausefleame face and it will heale the same Also with thys water you may heale anie manner of sausefleame face whatsoeuer as by experience hath often béen proued For heate or swelling in the face ¶ Take and boyle the leaues or the blossoms of Rosemarie eyther in white Wine or faire water and vse to wash thy face and hands therewith and it will preserue thée from all inconueniences and also make both thy hand and face verie smooth For wrincles in the face ¶ Take white Wine and a little Brionie and a drie Figge that is fatte and annoynt your face therewith then trauaile vpon the same till you sweat For a man that sweateth too much Take Linseede and Lettice and stampe them together and lay it to the stomack of the partie that vseth to sweat much and it will helpe him For to make the face fayre ¶ Take the flowers of Rosemarie and seeth them in white Wine with the which wash your face also if you drinke hereof it will make you haue a sweet breath Also to make the face white put the powder of Sepia in oyntment Citerium and annoynt the face Or make powder of the roote of Serpentine and of this bone and mingle the same with Rose-water and let it drie and then put it to the same water againe and let it likewise dry doe this foure or fiue times and then vse to annornt the face therewith For a chylde that is iaw-fallne or mold-fallne or rooffallne ¶ Take a handfull of Chickwéede and wrap it in a red Colwoort leafe or els a linnen cloth and rost it in the hote embers in the fire and it will become a gréene salue then lay thereof to the bone of the necke as hote as may be suffered and take soure leauen of white Bread and crum it on the molde of the childes head as a plaister and it will raise vp the bone or molde by the grace of God within nine howres For shortnesse of breath ¶ Take a gallon of Ale put therto a
smal with halfe a roote of Fennell cut likewise very small boyle all these together till halfe be consumed then vse to drinke heereof morning and euening reasonable hote For the partie that is incombred in the brest with any kind of fleame or glart ¶ Take the powder of Betonie and drinke it with warme water it voideth and purgeth the fleame wondrously and doth awaie the glart or fleame For paine in the breast ¶ Take and gather a good quantity of ripe Slowes grinde them small in a morter then put them in an earthen potte and sill it full of new Ale and so drinke thereof Another for the same ¶ Take Isope Parsly and Sage stampe them and lay thē to the breast of the patient verie hote Take also the marrowe of a Calfe Fenegreke Linséedes bray them small in a morter and mingle the powder with the yolkes of Egges then temper all these together with fresh greace or Oyle and lay it to the sore as hote as you may suffer it For the breast that is incombred ¶ Take Isope and seeth it in a pottle of Wine till it come to a quarte and let the patient vse thereof first in the morning colde and last in the euening hote Another for the same ¶ Take three pottles of running water of a Well that springs and boyle it to a pottell then take halfe a pint of Hony and one pounde of the powder of Anniseedes a pounde of the powder of Licoris one penny-worth of Sugar and cast all these into the liquor and let them boyle well then put it into a vessel and stop the mouth thereof close that the ayre goe not out and let the patient drinke thereof in the morning but not fasting at night and he shall be whole For the breast and the lunges ¶ Take a quantity of clarified Hony and boyle it and when it is boyled put thereto an vnce of the powder of Enula campana and one vnce of the powder of Licoris and let them boyle till they be somwhat thick then take it from the fire and when it is cold put thereto an vnce of the powder of Ginger and stirre it well together and vse this first and last For a man that is stopped in his breast or pypes ¶ Take Enula campana Isope and Licoris dry them wel then beat them in a morter as fine as flower then take Ginger Anniséeds Sinamon and Galingall beate them also and when thou hast done take a quantity of Hony boile it wel and seum it cleane then take the Enula campana the Isope and the Licoris and boyle them wel together in the Hony afterward take the Ginger Anniseedes Galingall and Sinamon put them al in Hony and let them seeth together then put it in a dish then take Sugar and put vpon it while it is hote and eate a quantity thereof morning and euening but drinke not till two howers after and it will helpe thee Also if you take and séeth Rue in Vinegar and drinke thereof it will likewise helpe you For swelling of the breasts ¶ Take Wormwood Sage and Calamint of each a like much and stampe them well put thereto a quantitie of Vinegar and temper them well together then take white Breade and toste it till it be browne and grind it small then boile them together and stir it that it burne not to and lay thereof to the patients breast as hote as may be suffered Another for the same ¶ Also if a plaister be made of Chesnuts with Barly meale and Vinegar or Wine and layd to the pappes it will asswage both the swelling and the paine thereof For all manner of euills and paine in the breast or the ribbes ¶ Take and bruse Mugwoort with Vinegar and lay it to the breast and it will be whole in thrée dayes Also take the water that guin Arabick and Mirth hath been sodden in and wash the breast therewith Also take the electuary called Diapenidion made into pennets it is verie good for the same purpose as hath oft been proued Also for drought in the breasts and the members in it and for them that be Costisse so that the breast be not stopped nor the brath short lay Psilium in water a certaine space and then poure out the water and take the same séedes with other cleane water that is cold and vse it to the patient Also take and make a plaister of Knotgrasse and Butter and lay it to the sore breast and it helpeth the same For vaines broken in the breast ¶ Take the roote of Camphire and secth it and when it is sodden slice it with a knife then hange it in the Sunne to dry thys may be kept thrée yeeres in goodnes and vertue and if a vaine be broken in the breast or guttes it will resound and knit it and reioyne it meruailously if that the powder thereof be taken greene with Wine or water or if you fry the roote greene like a fritture with Egges or Meale and so cate thereof For impostumes in the breast ¶ Take and fill a bagge with meale of Fenegreke and séeth it in water that Lysmachie and Hollihock hath been sodden in and lay it often to the impostume of the breast Another for the same ¶ Take the water that Licoris hath béene sodden in or the iuyce thereof and it is very good being vsed against the impostumes of the breasts or ribbes called the Plurisie For blood of the breasts ¶ Take two drammes of Leekes seede and Mirth it stancheth the blood that commeth out of the breast by spetting although it be griefe to the teeth and throat For the Canker in a womans pappes ¶ Take picked Garlicke and Rye-meale or Barly-meale and bray them together wish Vinegar till they become as thick as a plaister then lay it to the sore till it bee white then take Pimpernell and beate it small and put thereto Life-honny and lay the plaister to the sore pappe and it will heale it faire Or else take the fenne of a white Goose and the iuyce of Ellidonie and bray them well together and lay it to the pappe and it wil kill the Canker and heale it soundly Another for the same ¶ Take Wormwood and the white of an Egge and skinne it then temper it with oyle of Violets and let her blood on the vaines about the paps For the fester in the breast ¶ Take the iuice of the roote of Foxe gloues and temper it with mans vrine and wring it through a cloth and wash the sore oftentimes therwith and it will cure it To make a woman to haue soft breasts ¶ Let the party that desireth to haue soft breasts drinke in Ale Nettle séede and Salt and it shall quickly help her For a woman that hath her breasts rancled ¶ Take Lint séede and bray it with the white of an Egge and lay it on her breasts and then take the iuice of Ache and of Rye meale and lay it on her breasts and let her
spoonfull and the powder of Pepper mingle these together and drink it for three dayes fasting For the wasting of the kidneyes and for paines of the back ¶ Take a handfull of Planten a handfull of Parsly a handfull of Betony a handfull of water Betony a handfull of Sorrell a dosen crops of Rosemary séeth these in three pints of Ale till it be wasted and strain them and put therto a pint of Sack and a good péece of Suger and burne it well together and so giue it to the party all hot euening and morning proued For the whites or the running in the raines ¶ Take white washed Turpentine and make it vp in balls like Pyls then take Cinamon Ginger and rowle the balls in it and take them as you would doo Pylls morning and euening Prooued For the whites ¶ For the whites or weaknes in the back take an earthen vessell and put it in a quart pot of faire water wherin you must quench two or thrée gads of sréele being red hot then stéepe therin an vnce of Lettice séeds foure and twenty houres then strain the same and séeth it halfe away and scum it very cleane and keepe it in a couered cup and drinke this morning and euening with powder of Iuory Another for the same ¶ Take Archangell and séeth it in drinke and drink it morning and euening it is very good the red for the woman and the white for the man For all manner of aches in the back ¶ Take Egrimony Mugwoort both the leaues and rootes and stamp them with Swines greace and Vineger and séethe them and lay it to the back Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Peniriall and put therto Vineger and oyle Oliue that is gréene and lay it to thy backe plaister wise For him that hath lost his complexion from the back ¶ Take Linséed and stamp it smal and temper it with Goats milk and straine it all warme and drink it thrée or foure times fasting and thy complexion will come againe For the paines in the back ¶ Take Vnguentum rosarum and chafe your backe morning and euening and lay to this plaister following take Fethersoy Tansie Housleeke of each a handfull shreded and stamped fine then fry them well together with a saucer full of hony and two vnces of Deues dung of the newest you can get when it is thick like a plaister put it in the end of a small sléeue and so lay it to your back all warme For all manner af ache in the back ¶ Take Smallage Egrimony Mouseare and stamp them all together but wash them well first and temper them with Ginger and fry them well in Bores greace and make a playster and as hote as the sicke may suffer lay it on the ache and he shall haue ease Another for the same ¶ Take Lilly rootes Camomell Anniséedes and stampe them all together and fry them in Bores greace and put a little Wine therete and in manner of a plaister lay it on a cloth and bind it fast to the backe or raines all hot and after thrée or foure daies remoue it with renuing of the plaister therto with more fresh For the running of the raines ¶ Take Pellitory of the wall and stampe it and straine it and drink it with Malmsie or white Wine or Ale and doo this often till that thou be all whole Also if the Patient make a Tansie of Clary and eate thereof is very good for the same disease as hath béene proued For womens termes ¶ Take Selondine and let a woman put it in her hose vnder the soles of her féete and it will help her Also Mollet leaues and the red flowers of Hollihocks is very good for this purpose Also the great leaues of Burres béeing sodden in strong Ale and the same afterward drunk is very good For wasting of nature ¶ Take a pint of Malmsie and put therto a peny woorth of Sinamon and another of cleane Mace and boyle them ouer the fier with Wine but first make powder of your spices then take Treakle as much as a Damson and put therto and stir altogether and let the sick drink therof hot at all times and it shall auoide all fleame and wind in the interior parts of man to restore his nature prooued For all Impostumes in the body ¶ Take Centory Rosemary Wormwood Horthound and make it in sirop with white Wine and let the sick take therof and it shall cause the Impostume to goe downe and when it is broken let him vse to drink of the same sirop warme For to destroy all Impostumes either in man or woman ¶ Take the root of Hollihock and wash it cleane and séeth it till it be tender and then put the water into a vessell and then take Linséed and Fenegreke of each of them a like much and sée that thou haue as much of them two as the root that is sodden then séeth them in the same water till it rope as it were Birdlime then stamp the root and doo therto Barly meale and mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the sore plaister wise as hote as you may suffer it and within nine daies ye shall be whole Also take Turmentile and let the Patient drinke often of the iuice therof and it shall cure him prooued An experiment to take away the mother ¶ Take a great deale of Mugwoort and as you gather it sliue the leaues downward then wash them cleane and boyle them in running water till they be soft and when the party goeth to bed let him or her wash themselues therewith from the nauell downward both flanks and members and also the mother so hote as is possible to be suffered remember the parties that they wash not vpward at any time and within thrée daies washing the parties eyther hee or shée shall be whole God willing Prooued Another medicine for the mother ¶ Take a handfull of Mother-time a handfull of Motherwoort a handfull of Isop a handfull of Sage séeth all these in a gallon of faire water vntill it be halfe consumed then mash it vpon halfe a peck of Malt so let it stand an houre then take the woort of it as you doo for drink and put yéest to it and being thus made let the party drink it morning and euening A drink for the paine of the mother ¶ Take a dram of Methridatum and dissolue it in an vnce and a halfe of water of Wormwood and giue it to the woman for to drinke before that she goeth to meat foure houres and let her not drink a good while afterward proued A most excellent medicine for the mother the chollick and stone ¶ Take Fenell séed Coriander seed Carroways séed Parsly séed Galingall séed Gromwell seed an vnce of each of these also an vnce of leaues and cods of Scene a quarter of an vnce of Spignall a quarter of an vnce of Time take al these and make them into
first take a little fire and on the same put powder of Frankensence and let the heate goe vp into the sore For the Piles ¶ Take Mollet leaues and séeth them in faire water till they be soft then take May butter and make an oyntment of the same then vse thereof for the Piles for it is a Medicine verie well and often prooued For the Emerods Take Inde Sope and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the pyles or emerods or to the Fistula till such time as they doo fall awaie of themselues For the Emerods ¶ Take newe Milke and a little fine flower and séeth them together and make a plaister of the same and burne an Oyster shell and make it into powder then strewe it thicke vpon the plaister and as hote as yee may lay it to the place Also let the partie that hath them blowe his nose vpon a cloth and strewe Soote vpon the same and as hote as he may suffer it lay it vnto the place and it will helpe the same For the emerods ¶ The Emerods be fiue vaines that come to the fundament that voideth mellanchollie blood may not be stopped too soone it is good for this disease to bléede in the liuer vaine on the arme and vnder the ancle and let him drinke morning euening the iuyce of Milfoyle mingled with warme Wine and plaister the hearbe to the fundament if the matter be plentious then hee must be purged before that yee close vp all for feare of a Dropsie or a breaking out Also take the roote of Flonny and make powder of it and take the yolke of an Egge and wheat meale and mingle the powder and them together then fry them well with greace or oyle and vse the same nine or tenne times and the partie shall be whole For the Emerodes ¶ Take the crops of Elders and stampe them and lay them to the place Also Leekes salt is good and if they rise againe lay them to againe Also take the roote of wilde Pellitory and grinde it and put thereto the powder of Arsenick and lay it to the place proued Also Vinegar Allom and Deeres suet of each a like much being boiled together is verie good For the paine of the emerods ¶ Take Housléeke and Sheepes dunge and stampe them both together in a morter verie small then take of sheepes suet and chop it very small and put it in a panne and let it séeth vpon the fire then put in the Housleeke and the shéeps dunge and boyle all together and when it is well boyled take it off and straine it through a linnen cloth into a deepe dishe and then annoynt the patient there-with as hote as hee may well endure this hath been proued For the Emerodes ¶ Take a stoole with a séege let it be closed to the ground and then take a panne with Charcole and set it vnder the stoole and as hote as may be suffered sit thereon then take Frankensence beaten into powder and cast a good quantitie thereof into the fire and sit on the stoole as close as you can and when the smoke is gone cast in more powder in the fire and sitte thereon in this order as long as ye may Another for the same ¶ Take an Onyon and cutte away the top of a reasonable breadth then pull out the hart thereof and take powder of pepper and put therein a good quantitie and set on the top againe and take a great linnen cloth and wet it in water and wringe it well with your hand and wrap the Onyon therein and lay it in the fire till it be soft and then take it out and put it in another cloth and lay it as hote as may bee suffered to your fundament and when it is colde lay another on the place and so haue alwaies readie fiue or sixe to serue your turne or as manie as you thinke needfull Another for the same ¶ Take an Egge and rost it harde and lay it to the fundament and when it is colde take another as you did by the Onyons and if you put Verdegreace in your Onyons some think it better then Pepper likewise you may cut the Egges in the midst and take out the yolkes and put in Verdegreace and so lay them to the sore Another for the same ¶ Take Neates-foote Oyle and a little Harts-suet and annoynt the sore well therewith and then take a Tyle-stone and heate it in the fire as hote as ye may well sitte thereon and if you haue no Tile-stone then take a stoole and heate it verie hote and so sitte thereon and if the place bleede take a quantitie of Bole armoniack and asmuch of the Harts-suct and so vse them both together Another for the same ¶ Take the gumme that commeth of the Iuie tree and annoynt the sore well therewith and take a Tile-stone or a stoole as I said before sit vpon the same verie hote but if you bleed take a good quantitie of Mouseare and a little Betony stamp them together and drinke the iuyce thereof with a little stale Ale first three or foure mornings together last at night when you goe to bed Another for the emerods proued ¶ First take a good quantitie of Shoomakers péeces and burne them on a Tyle-stone verie small so that powder may be made thereof then take a little quantitie of Allom and burne it likewise and make powder thereof then mixe them together and put thereunto the liquor of a Swines-gall and if it happen that the Swines-gall be dryed vppe by reason of long keeping then lay it in faire water all night and it will returne againe into a ruddy collour if you can get no Swines-gall then take a little of the Oyle that Corriours vse to dresse their Leather and mixe it with your powder so that it may be somwhat thick like a plaister and if you thinke it smart too much take more liquor and lesse Allom and if you thinke it bite not sore enough then put more Allom thereto and when this medicine is thus made annoynt the sore therewith and if there bee any pappes comming out of the Tuell when the sore is annoynted take a peece of the skinne of the gall and lay the inner side of the skin vpon the paps and it shall ease them greatlie but if the sore be within the Tuell take and annoynt it within with your finger as farre as you can and it will helpe the same For to destroy the emerods ¶ Take olde shooes and burne them to powder then take a saucerfull of Honnie and then take asmuch oyle Oliue that is olde and temper them till they be thicke and lay this medicine to the sore place either for the Piles or Emerods For the emerodes ¶ Take redde Worts and séeth them in a pot then take the pot and set the same vnder a close Chayre and sitte ouer it and wrap your clothes so close that no ayre come forth and sit so
Cancer or Scorpio remember that you purge not in the change nor in any vnfortunate aspect of the Plannets vnto any other neither in the extreame heate or cold of the yeere Now if any man would know what commoditie purging or bleeding bringeth beeing rightly vsed and doone in such sort as it ought to be doone or what dyet and exercise shoulde bee vsed after bleeding and order obscrued in purging with the inconuenience and harme which may and doth dailie procéede of the negligence and vnskilfulnes in the contempt of the same For all diseases through the body and for all kind of Agues TAke Purslaine Gentill Bursa pastoris and stamp them all together and doo thereto Vinegar and binde it to the pulses it will greatly helpe you Also take the powder of Cloues and Pepper of each a like quantitie and eate fasting at one time as much as will lie vpon a sixe-pence and drinke not in on howre after Also let the partie so greeued with the Ague take halfe a pint of his owne water and a penny-worth of Pepper brused and put therein and let the parfie so greeued drinke thereof all an howre before that the fitte dooth come vpon him and let him lie downe and sweat as much as hée may Another for the Ague ¶ Take a pottle of thinne Ale and put thereto a handfull of Parsley as much redde Fennell as much Centorie as much Pimpernell and let the Ale be halfe consumed awaie and then take and drinke thereof Another for the Ague ¶ Take thrée Burre-rootes and wash them and straine them séethe them with halfe a pinte of Ale and so drinke therof luke-warme before the fitte dooth come Another for the same ¶ Take Endiue Sowthistle Dandelion Lettice Sorrel of each a like much and still them altogether and giue it to the partie so gréeued it is very good against the Ague Another experiment for the Ague ¶ Take foure handfuls of Groundswellie and stampe it small in a Morter and put thereto thrée spoonesuls of Vinegar and thrée spoonefuls of Bay-salt grinde them all together then put them in a pewter dish and set them on a Chafindish of coles and stirre them together till the liquor is almost dry then lay it to the wrists as hote as the partie can suffer it euery tune an howre before the fitte dooth come For the ague another medicine ¶ Take a handfull of redde Sage and a handfull of Redde Nettles and a handfull of Hearbe-grace and two spoonefuls of Bay-salt and a spoonefull of strong Vinegar and a peece of leauened bread and let all these be well beate together and bind it to the pulces of your wrists before that the fit doth come and it shall helpe you by the power of God proued For the hote ague a remedie ¶ Take the iuyce of Sengréene and the whites of 4. Egs and faire flower of Wheat and meddle it well together and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the patients sides thē take the water of Betony the water of Pimpernell Scabious water water of Turmentill the water of Radish of each of these a like much and meddle all these together and giue the patient to drinke all hote before that his fitte doth come Another for the same proued ¶ Take a pynt of the iuyce of Sorrell and put it into a pot of Milke when it beginneth to séeth vpon the sire then take it off the fire and let it stand and it will haue a curde vpon the same like vnto a posset-curde then take the curde off and let the patient drinke thereof a good draught at a time as hote as he can possible endure to drinke it and by Gods grace it will help him within two or thrée times seuerally drinking Thys Medicine hath beene proued Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Bursa pastoris and so much white Frankensence as will couer two shillings at thrice and asmuch Bay salt and bray them in a Morter and so lay them vpon a thinne cloth to the wrist and about the arme at night when you goe to bed an howre or two before that your fitte dooth come vpon you For the burning ague ¶ Take a handfull of Smalladge a handfull of Fetherfew a handfull of Redde sage stampe them all together and take thrée or foure spoonefuls of the parties water and asmuch Vineger and boile them altogether on the fire a little while take a quantitie of the same Hearbes and wringing the liquor out of them lay thē vpon a cloth and binde it hote vppon your temples and not vpon your fore-head then take the rest and binde it to the parties wristes as hote as he may suffer it before that the fitte commeth and within three or foure times dressing hée shall finde great ease and be helped of his Ague Another for the same ¶ Take a pottle of Water with halfe a pinte of Vinegar take also Endiue Suckorie Violet-leaues fine leaued grasse and Straw-berrie leaues of each of them a good quantitie and seeth them to a quart and put thereto halfe a pounde of Sugar and drinke thereof morning and euening For the quartaine ague ¶ Take Ribwoort Beet rootes and the leaues to the quantitie of three or foure handfuls washe the hearbes cleane then stampe them in a woodden dish with a woodden pestle straine the iuyce from the hearbes and drinke it Milke warme and this taketh away the humors of the stomacke and frō the hart within fiue or sixe times vsing it cureth and helpeth the sicke partie so gréeued with the ague prooued For the Ague comming with colde ¶ Take fiue crops of Rosemary and fiue cropps of Sage and fiue crops of Marigolds nine Bay leaues and a quart of strong Ale séethe all these together well and drinke it with Pepper being warme and vse it For feauer Agues in children ¶ Take the powder of Christall and lay it in soke in Wine and giue it to the Child to drink and the sucking Child shall be whole Also take Morsus diabolie the roote and the hearbe and hang it about the necke of the Child For all manner of aches a Seare-cloth ¶ Take Waxe Turpentine Rozin hard Pitch Bores greace powder of Commin powder of Bayes Frankensence oyle de vte de popilion and take all these things saue the peuder and set it ouer the fire and stir it fast till it be molten and set it downe and skim it not nor straine it not at all stir it fast till it be nye cold and then strew in thy powder with thy hand as thou wouldest strew flower into a Childs papp and when it is all in and welnie cold spread it with a slice vpon a péece of leather and when it is spread vpon the leather take a new linnen cloth and lay it vpon and couch it fast and at your néed vse it For a cold and ache of the lims ¶ Take a handfull of Suger a handfull of Endiue a handfull of the
red flowers of Archangell and a quantity of Dandelion and seethe the same in Mutton and cate the Mutton and drinke the Broth and you shall finde ease Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Balme a handfull of Rosemary a handfull of Mallowes a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Walflowers and all manner of swéet herbes that ye can finde and seeth them in a tankerd of water with halfe a pecke of wheaten branne and when it is sodden straine the hearbes through a cloth as you would doo a bucke and set it on the fier and with other water straine it and so bath you and sweate and you shall be whole God willing For aking of the ioynts ¶ Take March Mallowes and sweete milke Linséedes powder of Comin the whites of Egges Saffron and white greace and fry all these together and lay it to the aking of the toynts this hath been proued For ache in any place an oyntment ¶ Take and chafe a Stere till he scummer then take that dung and fry it with Shéepes sewet or else with Sallet oyle and it will come to a fine oyntment and then annoynt the place therewith proued Also take the oyle of Mace and annoynt the ache with-all and it will helpe you For ache in the bone or ioynt ¶ Take a pricked Harts skinne sliuer or draw him and cut it in small péeces bones flesh and all take that and wash it clcane that no blood be therein then take cleane water and set it ouer the fire and as it séethes scum away the fat and saue it and let it seeth till that no fat will ceme of him and then cast away the flesh and put it in a boxe and annoynt the greace where the ache is and it shall be whole and doo this thrée or foure times A medicine for all aches ¶ Take halfe a pinte of Wooll oyle a quarter of a pinte of Neates-foote oyle and halfe a pound of Barrowes greace first set the Barrowes greace vpon the fire and skum it cleane put in your Neates-foot oyle and beate them all thrée together being on the fire then scum it cleane and put in your Wooll oyle and beate them all together then boyle them together and take them off the fire and vse it at your neede A medicine for all aches in the bones ¶ Take the gall of an Ore and set it on the fire and seeth it and scumme it till it be very cleane and put it into a glasse and stoppe it close then take Neates-foote oyle and gather it very fine and put it into a glasse also and stop it close then take Aqua vitae in an other glasse and stop it close then take of the oyle and waters aforesaid of each euen portioned two times so much portion of the Aqua vitae and put them together in one vessell so warme it and annoynt your gréefe and it shall helpe you God willing Another medicine for the ache ¶ Take Swans greace Goose greace Heus or Capons greace of each of these a quantity but the more of Swanns greace then of all the rest and when they are mingled together then take a pinte of Malmesie and a handfull of Lauender spike Rosemary as much and let your Malmesie seethe till it be almost wasted and then put all together with a little Bores greace and so boyle them and vse them for your ache and it shall ease you For him that is fallen broken ¶ Take a Trusse and trusse the party so straight as he can and it will very much helpe him Also take the iuyce of Madder the iuyce of redde Nettles the iuyce of Hemp the iuyce of Bugle the iuyce of Camphire the iuyce of Cawle of each of these two Sawcerfuls of Wine foure Sawcerfuls of Honey three Sawcerfuls boyle them all together and skimme them well and then take it downe and dunke thereof daily first and last sixe spoonefuls at once the space of fouretéene dayes A plaister for a man that is broken ¶ Take of Bugle of Cawle of each a like much stampe them small with a little of the haire of a Hares skin then take an vnce of Wax and melt it with a spoonfull of butter and put to your Bugle and Cawle and the haire and stampe it with a little Bole armoniack and fry them all together and stir it and make therof a plaister and lay it on a péece of leather and lay it straight vpon the place of your sore and so serue it three or foure dayes and so giuen the space of twelue dayes For a man or a child that is welnie broken and to heale them ¶ First make sixe pellets in this manner take the roote of Polipodij and the roote of Betony the crop and roote of Daisies of euery one an vnce and make powder thereof then take Bole armoniacke an vnce and a halfe of Honey clarified an vnce of these make a plaister and if it be too thinne put more powder thereto and if it be too thicke put thereto more Honey and take and rowle it and make pellets thereof as many as yee may make thereof then take more of the roote of Polipodij and the roote of Betony and the crops and rootes of Daisies of each two vnces and punne them as you doo Gréene-sawce and put that iuyce into a quart or more of Ale that is stale and boile it to a pinte and straine it through a cloth then boyle it againe with Suger thrée penny-woorth and when the Suger is molt then put it in a glasse and euery day eate a pellet thereof morning and euening last and drinke euery time the quantity of three spoonrfull of your drinke in the glasse then if your drinke be doone you must make more but you must vnderstand that the sicke man must lye vpright sixe dayes and that he be bound wisely and faire and that hée eate laxatiue meates for strayning of the humours and it shall heale him mightily and surelie prooued If a man childe bee newe broken this will cure him ¶ Take the roote of Camphiere and the leafe of Osmond and the young roote of Elme leaues Auence and leaues of Madder and the leaues of Castire of each of all these a like much these must be sodde altogether in newe Ale with a good quantitie of clarified Honny and skimme it and put it into a pot and euery day drinke thereof fasting and also at euening and binde it vp very straight For broken bones in what place soeuer they bee ¶ Take a newe tyle and maile him in the fire and make it all to pouder then tye it in the fire againe till it be redde let it kéele and take that pouder the iuyce of Daisies and the iuyce of Camphire by euen portions and melt al together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the bone that is broken and euerie day renew it thereto Item take Daifie and Camphier and Egrimonie and temper them with Vinegar and lay thē
and it will ripen the same For to breake the botch ¶ Take Bramble leaues Elder leaues and Musterd séed and stampe them all together and then take of it and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out all the venome Another for the same ¶ Take one spoonfull of Honey the iuyce of Spurge two spoonfuls and a halfe of Wheaten flower a good quantity and one spoonfull of Turpentine temper all these together and lay it to the botch and it helpeth For byting of a Serpent ¶ Against byting of a Serpent or venemous Beast take two drams of the powder of Egrimony with two measures of Wine that is called Ciates and it will cast out the venome Another for the same ¶ Take Centory and stampe it with his owne water and giue the sick to drinke it is as good for Beast as men for the biting of an Adder Also beare Veruaine about thée and the Serpent as some report shall haue no power to hurt thee Another for the byting of a Serpent ¶ Take and seethe two or thrée handfull of Veruaine and wash the place therwith and stamp the leaues and lay therto and it will abate the swelling therof and bray this hear be Veruaine with Honey and lay it often therto and it will resounder and heale it faire againe Also the iuyce of Cinkfoyle being drunk putteth out all venome so dooth the iuyce of Plantaine For the byting of a mad dogge ¶ Take of the séede of Boxe and stampe it and temper it with water and giue it to the party so gréeued and it helpeth them God willing Also take Sauery and temper it with bread and lay it thervnto and it hath the same vertue Also stampe long Plantaine and lay it to the gréeued place and will cure the sore Proued Another for the same ¶ Take Walnuts and stampe them with salt and an Onion they be good for the biting of a mad doggs béeing layed thereto Also Betony that is gréene being laide thereto helpeth the biting of a mad dogge in very short space For biting of venomous Beasts ¶ Take Garlicke and bray it and lay it to the place so bitten and it will in short time cure the same Also if Garlick be eaten it putteth foorth the venome in the body and clenseth the same Also take the powder of Aristialogia roâ—unda with the iuice of Mints Also if the roote of Brusewoort be brused and laide thereto it healeth the biting of venomous Beasts For a man or woman that is in a consumption ¶ Take a brasse pot and fill it with water and set it on the fire and put a great carthen pot within that pot and then put in these parcels following Take a Cock and pull him aliue then slea off his skin then beate him in peeces take Dates a pound slit out the stones and lay a layer ouer them in the bottoms of the pot and then lay a péece of the Cocke and vpon that some more of the Dates then take Succory Endiue and Parsly roots and so euery layer one vpon an other and put in fine gold and some pearle and couer the pot as close as may be with corse dowe and so let him distill a good while and so reserue it to your vse till such time as you haue néede thereof For a weake person in a consumption ¶ Take a quart of red Rose-water and a pottell of the strapings of the milk of a Cowe 2. d. of fine Manchets the yolkes of thirty Egs halfe a pound of Raisons of the sunne Cinamon one vnce Nutmegs one vnce Mace halfe an vnce Cloues a quarter of on vnce of long Pepper halfe an vnce your bread must be fine grated and your Raisons stoned and your Dates scraped and all your other spices beaten all together then put in your Eggs and milke so stirred together and then last of all your Rose-water and so distill it in a Limbeck of glasse and so reserue it to your vse and as neede requireth to vse it For to restore health in a consumption ¶ Take a handfull of Yarrow and slampe it and straine it into a dish and put thereto the yolke of an Egge and a little Suger fine beaten and with this iuice being heate luke warm temper therwith as much of Wheat flower as will make Past then the Past being well wrought make thereof little cakes as bigge and as thick as an old testorne and bake them vpon a a little shard and being baked let the Patient eate one of the cakes euery day thrée times or as much as he or she can cate and by the prouidence of God it shall make them strong and mighty this hath béen proued For a consumption in the raines ¶ Take Clary leaues and prick them and fry them with two or thrée yolkes of Egs and put thereto Saffron dried vpon a stone and grind it small and put all together and fry them with fresh butter and eate it warme next your hart and it will helpe you God willing For one that is in a consumption ¶ Take a great number of young Nettles that springeth at the roote and wash them cleane and stampe them and straine them till you haue a pinte of the iuice therof then put them in a faire skillet and set it ouer the fire and let it séethe till it waxe some-what redde then take it from the fire and put thereto a quart of Malmesey and brew them together a good space then take the yolkes of sixe newe layde Egges and beate them together then brew it againe and put therto as much sugar as wil make it sweet then let the partie so groeued take euery night and morning a reasonable draught thereof blood-warme and by the grace of GOD it shall ease the partie so greeued in verie short space ¶ To helpe to restore him that is in a consumption ¶ Take a Cocke which is neither fat nor leane and wring his necke and hang him vp by the legges and let him beat him selfe to death with his winges and when hee is colde flea him and take out the bowels then cut off his neeke and legges and sée that his body within he well dryâ—d with a cloth and quarter him and at foure stills still the quarters beeing first well hacked and chopped and the water that shall come out of the Cock béeing stilled you must giue the patient in his brothes or drinks beeing blood-warme and within short time by Gods grace it will restore him or her But remember that the partie gréeued doo neither eate nor drinke in all the time any meats or brothes dressed with hote spices or sharpe sauces A notable restoritie and electuarie for a man that is wasted or consumed called the electuary of life practized by M. Baltazar ¶ Take two pounde of Dates and wash them cleane in Ale or Beere then cut them and take out the stones and the white skinnes and cut them small and bray them very small
it away with Vinegar Another for the Morphew ¶ Take blacke Sope and put it in a cleane Cloth and put it in your owne vrine and there-with annoint the Morphew Also let the partie gréeued drinke morning and euening water of Femitory and water of Borage mingled together in like portions and within foure-teene dayes it will helpe him clean Also take greene Copperas and put it in cleane water and let it stand a day and then clense the water and then annoynt the Morphew with the water A mechcine for the Marmole ¶ Take Broome flowers and dry them and beate them to powder and temper the powder with oyle made of Mints and a little Vinegar there-with and annoynt the sore there-with Take great Wall nuts as they grow huskes and all and bray them in a Morter and temper it with oyle Oliue and fry it in a pan and put thereto a quantitie of pitch in the frying thereof and straine it through a linnen cloth and there-with annoynt the sore and lay Plantaine leaues about the back towarde the sore and euery morning wash the sore with Madder water For to heale a Marmole ¶ Take a pinte of clarified Honny and a quart of running water and a great quantitie of Sage and seeth them together as well as thou canst and wash the wound with the licour and lay a Sage leafe on the wound Another for the same ¶ Take oyle Oliue and annoynt the sore there-with and lay thereon a Plantine leafe and euery morning wash the sore with Madder water For to cure a Marmole ¶ Take fresh Seame and the kernels of ripe Nutts and stampe them small as may be and blende them together with Aqua vitae and Honny and make them thick as a plaister and lay it on a linnen cloth and put to the Marmole and as often as yee shall change the plaister ye shall find it full of red wormes and therfore kéepe this medicine thereto fresh and fresh til such time as the wormes be cleane out but looke that you claw not your legges to make them bleede A maturatiue to ripen a botch or a bile ¶ Take sower dow and white of old Swines greace and beate them together and put thereto salte and the powder of Comin and mingle them well together and make a plaister thereof this ripeth and breaketh impostumes but my Maister did put thereto powder of Fenegréeke and the yolke of an Eg at one time if there be much for failing of the hart How to make Neruaile for all akings ¶ Take two pound of wild mersh and a pounde of Ambrosen and a pound of Camemile a pound of Betony and a pound of Sage a pound of Mints and a pound of Hawhew a pound of Southernewood a pound of Mugwort and a pound of wormwood a pound of Mallowes and a pound of Holly-hock a pound of Hore-hound and a pound of red Nettles a pound of Lorrell leaues and a pound of Liuerwort then take all these hearbes and stampe thē in a morter small and doo thereto three or foure pound of May butter and a quart of oyle Oliue and stampe thē together then doe them in an earthen pot and couer it wel and set the pot in a moist place and let it stand nine dayes and the tenth day take it out of the pot and put it in a pan and set it on the fire to séeth and stirre it that it doo not cleane to the pan and when it hath well boiled take it from the fire and straine it through a cloath a little and a little into a faire vessell thē take that licour and put it in a cleane pan and sette it ouer the fire and doo thereto a quarter of a pound of shéepes tallow melted and asmuch Frankensence well broken in powder and stirre them well together till it be molten and then take if from the fire and let it stand and coole and make thereon a hole and let out the water thereof and turne it on the other side and doe awaie the foulenes thereof then take it and doo it in the panne againe and set it ouer the fire till that it be molten and then doo therto a pint of the greace of a Gray if you may haue it then with a feather scum it cleane and put it in boxes and this is the kindly making of Neruaile and this oyntment is hote To make Neruaile to helpe all sinnewes and to put them in theyr strength ¶ Take Ambrosen Camemile hearbe Iohn hearbe Water hearbe Robert Eglantine the leaues of Crosse wood Fenegreke Laurell leaues as much thereof as of all the other breake them and lay them in white Wine and let them lye so fourteene dayes then take a pottle of greace a quarte of May butter and of oyle Oliue and boile them together and straine them and let them coole and so vse it to the shrunck sinewes Heere followeth the making of diuers kindes of oyles and it showes which be hote which be cold according to the opinion of Ipocras and Gallen Oyle of Roses ¶ Take and fill a glasse full of Rose leaues and put thereto one pound of oyle Oliue and stop it well and set it in the sunne stirring it euery day once for the space of xv dayes then straine it through a cloth and put it vpon cold water and stirre it with Hasell wood but take the barke off and this is moist and colde Oyle of yolkes of Egges ¶ Take yolkes of Egges and put them in a pot ouer the fire and let them so stand ouer the heate of the fire till you perceiue they are become black then put them in a presse presse out the oyle and this oyle is good for all manner of burnings or scaldings what soeuer Oyle of Henbane ¶ Take the séede of Henbane and fry it in oyle and presse it through a cloth and afterward put the same for your vse into some glasse for this oyle is good for all maner of swellings and burnings in the ioynts Oyle of Mandrakes ¶ Take and cut them in diuers péeces and séeth them in a double vessell of glasse and set them in the Sunne and let it standnine dayes then set them on a small fire till they be thiek and keepe that oyle for it is good for all festures Oyle of Lorrell ¶ Take Lorrell leaues and bray them in a Morter and let it stand two or thrée dayes and then seeth them and straine thē through a cloth and that which heaueth aboue is the oyle Also take Lorrell Berries when they be gréene and seeth them in oyle and straine them and it is good oyle Also take Lorrell berries when they be ripe and seeth them with Lorrell leaues and thereof thou shalt haue the best Oyle and this oyle is good for diuers cold causes Another sort of oyle very necessary for diuers purposes ¶ Take Almonds or Nuts blaunched into a pot ful of holes in the bottome and set that pot vpon a séething potte that
and two vnces of white Waxe and thrée vnces of Swines greace and an vnce of Quicksiluer that must be slacked with fasting spittle an vnce of great Salt as much of the one as of the other and of all these make an ointment and if the scabs or itch be vpon all the whole body as wel aboue the girdle as beneath then when thou goest to bed wash both thy hands and thy feet with warme water and supple them well therein by the fire and after dry them with a cloth of linnen then take vp with thy fingers of that oyntment and doo it in the palmes of thy hands and on the soles of thy féete and rub it well together that it may drinke in well â—…nd if it doo soke in well thou must put gloues on thy hands and socks on thy féete and thus doo euery night when thou doost goe to bed and if the scab or itch be aboue the girdle and not beneath theÌ„ anoynt but thy hands and if the scab be beneath the girdle then looke that you anoynt the soles of your féete and the scab or itch be in all thy body as well aboue the girdle as beneath then thou must anoynt both thy hands and thy féete as thou sittest by the fire and thou shalt be whole this hath béen prooued Another oyntment for a man that is scabbed ¶ Take fiue or sixe handfuls of Horehound and séeth it in running water till it be halfe sodden away and then wash the sicke therewith as hote as he may suffer it and then looke that you haue ready this oyntment made of these hearbs take the roote of the red Dockes and the roote of Selidon and then take Wormewood and Alleluia of each a like much and bray them well together and doo therto a good portion of May butter and stampe them well together and so let them stand seauen daies and then fry it and straine it as thou doost another oyntment and therewith annoynt the sicke when he is washed and hée shall be whole For the shingles a remedy ¶ Take Doues dirt that is musty and of Barly meale heaped halfe a pound and stampe them well together and doo therto halfe a pint of vineger and mingle them together and so lay it to the sore cold lay Cawle leaues ther-vpon and so let it lye thrée dayes vnremoued and on the third day if néede require lay therto a new plaister of the same and at the most he shall be whole within thrée plaisters Another for the shingles ¶ Take the blood of a Cats eare or of the taile and therewith anoynt the shingles and doo nothing else therto Also take Doues dung and Barly meale and stamp them together with Aysell and lay it to the shingles all cold For all manner of sinewes that are shrunken ¶ Take the head of a black Shéepe Camomell Lorrell leaues Sage of each a handfull and bray these hearbs in a morter then boyle them altogether in water till they be well sodden and let them stand till they be cold then draw it through a strayner and so vse it An oyntment for shrunken sinewes aches soueraigne ¶ Take eight Swallowes ready to flye out of the nest driue away the bréeders when you take them out and let them not touch the earth stampe them vntill the feathers can not be perceaued put to it Lauender cotten of the strings of Strawberies the tops of mother Time the tops of Rosemary of each a handfull take all their waight of May butter and a quart more stamp all the feathers that nothing can be perceaued in a stone morter then make it vp in balls and put it into an earthen pot for eight dayes close stopped that no ayre take them take it out and on a soft fire as may be séethe it so that it doo but simper then straine it and so reserue it to your vse For sinewes that be broken in two ¶ Take Wormes while they be knit and looke that they depart not and stamp them and lay them to the sore and it will knit the sinewes that be broken in two For to knit sinewes that be broken ¶ Take Archangell and cut it small in gobbets and lay it to the sore and take Milfoile and stamp it and lay it aboue it hard bound and let it lye so thrée dayes and at the thrée dayes end take it away and wash it with Wine and then make a new plaister of the same and at three dayes end put therto another and doo nothing else thereto Another for the same ¶ Take Peniriall and bray it and put salt inough to them and temper it with Hony and make a plaister thereof and lay it vpon the sinewes that be stiffe and it will make them to stretch Prooued An oyle to stretch sinewes that be shrunk ¶ Take a quart of Neates-foote oyle a pint of Neates gall halfe a pint of Rose-water as much Aqua vitae then put all these together into a Brasse panne then take a handfull of Lauender cotten as much of Bay-leaues a good quantity of Rosemary a good quantitie of Lauender Spike of Strawberry-leaues the strings and all then take thred and binde them all in seuerall brauches and put them into the pan or pot and sette them ouer the fire vpon cléere coles with the oyles altogether and so let theÌ„ boyle a good while and when it is boiled enough it will boyle but softly then take it off the fire and let it stande till it be almost colde then straine it out into a wide mouthed glasse bottle or pewter pot and stoppe it close it will not continue in a woodden thing and where the sinewes be shrunke take of this beeing warmed and annoynt the place there-with and chafe it well against the fire and vse this morning and euening and kéepe the place warme and by the grace of God you shall finde great ease For to staunch bâ—â—od ¶ Take Bole armoniacke and Turpentine and make a plaister and lay it to and it will helpe the same Also if you take the mosse of the Hasell trée and cast it into the wound and it will stanche the blood foorth-with and the longer that it is gathered the better it is Also take a good peece of Martilmas béefe out of the roote and heate it on the coales and as hote as may be suffered lay it to the place Another for the same ¶ Take a péece of leane salt béefe and let it be of that bignes that it may fill the wound and lay it in the fire in the hote ashes till it be hote through and beeing hote thrust it into the wound and binde it fast and it shal quickly stanch the bléeding Another to staunch blood ¶ Take Bursa pastoris stampe it and lay it to the vaine and it will quickly stanche bleeding Another for the same ¶ Take the mosse that groweth about the roote of the Ashe trée and hold it to thy nose and smell it and it will stanche the
the bottome and when it is taken from the fire put to it halfe a pound of Turpentine and a dram of oyle of Spike and stirre it till be colde Prooued A greene treat for a greene wound which is especiall good ¶ Take Rozen made in fine powder foure vnces of Shéeps sewet one vnce halfe a pound of Turpentine Wax and Frankensence of each one vnce Ve rdigreace ten pence waight Oyle sixe vnces beate your Frankensence and Vel digreace and put to all your stuffe ouer the fire in a vessell but your Turpentine and Verdigreace let them botle euer stirring them till they be all relented then take it from the fire and stir it well and then put in your Turpentine euer stirring it till it be relented then put in your Verdigreace and mixe it well with the other and strain it and kéep it to your vse and it wil help you The making of this treat which will endure an hundred yeare and it is good for all ache in the bones and for the sinewes ¶ Take a pottell of neate oyle and fry it with Madocks as many as he may for they be dry and hard then wring out the oyle and doo them away then doo theron two pound of shéeps tallow that is new and melt it and halfe a pound of Waxe as much Rozen and Frankensence and break them small and doo them into the oyle for to be melted then take sixe handfuls of Hocks and of Celondine foure handfuls and foure handfuls of Enula campana and of Plantain eight handfuls and of the root of Enula campana cleane picked two pound and so bray them small as morter then too to these hearbs roots a pottell of good white Wine and so let it stand a day and a night then straine out the liquor and doo it into the oyle before that they séeth them and set it ouer the fire and let it seeth the space of foure houres then take it off the fire and doo it in a clean bowle and so let it stand till it be all cold and then take it vp and doo away the water and the slime and if it be too hard doo in more oyle and if it be to nesh doo therto more Wax and Rezen and of Frankensence and seethe it againe then doo it in boxes and kéepe it well for this is a precious treat or oyntment for all manner of ache in the bones The making of a treat the which is called Oxicrochsie ¶ Take a quarter of a pound of mede Waxe as much of pure Rozen as much of black Pitch as much of Saffron an vnce and a halfe of Mastick and halfe a quarter of a pound of Frankensence as much Myrrh and a quarter of a pound of Arpinake halfe a quarter of a pound of Galbanum as much of Turmentile then take all the gums and make them to small pouder and breake thy Waxe and Galbanum to small péeces then set them in good vineger all a night and on the morrow set it ouer the fire and let it seethe till that the vineger be wasted somwhat also straine it well through a cleane cloth into a vessell with white Wine or with water and when it is cold take it vp and then hold it against the fire but looke that thou haue thy Saffron ground then hold it as thou wouldest hold Waxe and a little and little temper the Saffron thereon and meddle them wel against the fire til the Saffron be melted in the gums but thou must annoynt thy hands with oyle of Laurell that it cleaue not to thy hands and doo it where thou wilt and this treat is good for all sores and bruses in any limb of a man it destroyeth hard apostumes and it is good for broken bones and for the surgery of salerne who vsed this medicine for smal wounds that were euill healed and this will open a sore and will heale him well and faire againe prooued For to make Vnguentum albanum ¶ Take a pint of oyle Oliue and put thereto halfe a quarterne of Waxe and set it ouer the fire till the Waxe be molten but make it into smal péeces then take half a pound of Ceruse and an vnce of Mastick and one vnce of Olibanum and a little Camphire take and grind all these small and cast it into the oyle and stir it well together till it be nigh cold then take the white of foure Egs made into gleare and put therto a saucer ful of vineger and stir all this well together and too it in boxes and this oyntment is good for to anoint all sores without the wound but doo it not in the wound for this is a good cold oyntment To make vnguentum album another way ¶ Take a pinte of oyle Oliue and halfe a pound of Diaclome Anniséede a prety quantity and put them together and put thereto a pound of Seruse small grounded and then boyle them altogether a little and stirre them alway till it be cold et fac vnguentum For to make vnguentum popilcon ¶ Take thrée or foure pound of Poppy séede and two or three pound of hearb Walter one pound of Henbane and one pound of pety Morrell and one pound of Orpine and one pound of Singrene and one pound of Endiue one pound of Plantain and one pound of Violets and one pound of water Cresses one pound of Mandrake and one pound of Peniwort take all these and stamp them in a morter and doo therto thrée or foure pound of Barrowes greace molten and bind them well together and then set them in an earthen pot well closed in a moist place and so let it stand nine daies and on the tenth day set them on the fire and doo therto a quart of white Wine and let them seethe well together and then wring them through a strainer a little and a little till it be cold and when it is cold doo it in boxes and this oyntment is good for many sores For to make vnguentum geptiacum ¶ Take a farthing worth of Honey a spoonfull and a halfe of Vineger of gréene Copperas a small quantity a péece of Allom and if you will make it easily put therunto Ale or els womans milk and this oyntment is good for all sores and wounds both new and old For to make vnguentum ruptorum a corsie ¶ Take Cantarides and make it into powder and as much of vnslaked lime and of blacke Sope as of all the other and make all these in maner of a plaister and lay it to the sore as brode as thou wilt haue it broken and no broder For to make vnguentum versilinum ¶ Take an vnce of Litarge halfe a pound of Masticke halfe a pound of Ceruse an vnce of Camphire halfe an vnce of the stone called Calamint and make these to small powder and doo therto halfe a pound of mede Waxe small broken and then doo therto a pint of the iuice of Emerose and put all this in a pan and set
from it and put to it halfe as much yolks of Eggs as is of the Turpentine and mingle them well together and minister it when ye néede put not this in your treane bore for it will soke through you may keepe it in a bladder For a wound in the head a good Mundicatiffe ¶ Take hony of Roses two vnces oyle of Roses an vnce meddle them together and put it warme into the wound with Lint and a plaister vpon it it is a good Mundicatiffe For the ache in a wound ¶ Take the rootes of Briauy and pare the vtter side and beate them in a morter and in faire running water and straine it and warme it and lay it hot to the wound or ache as the partie may suffer it first wash the wound faire and then lay it to the wound To make a water for a cut or wound ¶ Take a pottle of faire running water and séeth it on the fire and let it séeth a while then take two peny worth of white Copperis as much of Bole armoniack and foure peny worth of Camphire and beat them altogether in powder and put them all together into the water and let them séethe a little while and then take it off the fire and when it is colde put it into a Glasse drosse and all and when it is occupied poure out a little into a sawcer of the cléerest water and none of the bottome or drosse and set it vpon the coles and wash the wound as hote as he may suffer it and then take a little linnen cloth and double it thrée or foure times double and wet it in the water and lay it to the wound as hote as the patient may suffer the same and binde it fast For a cut or wound ¶ Take a gallon of running water and put thereto a pinte of Honny and a quarter of a pound of Roch-allom beaten in very fine powder and let them séeth together and scum thē cleane and put thereto a handfull of Wood-bine leaues and a handfull of Sage leaues a handfull of Selondine and séeth them altogether till the halfe be consumed then take it from the fire and straine it through a Canuas cloth into another cleane vessell and then put thereto a penny-worth of graines and let them séeth a while together and then put it in a faire glasse when it is cold thys is a principall medicine For to heale wounds and to knit and heale broken bones ¶ Take Betony Bugle Sauigle Pimpernell Milfoile Strawberry leaues Orpin Sage Mouseare Emerose Tansie Sothernwood hearbe Robert hearbe Water Egrimony Plantaine Solcirkle Auence Madder Daisies Camphire Osmond the crop of the red Colewort the crop of the red bryer the red Nettle crop of the crops of Hempe take of each a like much saue of the Madder by waight then take these hearbes and stampe them small and take May butter made of rawe Creame Ewe milke with dew water of May and if that you can get no Ewe milke take the Butter of Cowe milke of the yellowest colour that can be found for it is far better then the white and take a quart of Butter halfe a quarterne of Mede waxe and melt the Butter and the Waxe together and when they be molten let the Butter and waxe run through a cloth for then is the Butter clarified from the Waxe and shread the Butter and the Curds a sunder or else it will neuer do so wel and then let thy Butter kéele and when it is colde then take and put thereto thrée pound of thy hearbes and halfe a pounde of Butter and cast them in a Morter and stampe them small till you can sée nothing of the Eutter and then doo it in a newe earthen pot and close it fast that no ayre come forth and when all is in the pot make it sure that no wormes may gette in nor that no ayre as I said before gette out then set it in a moist place and so let it stand for nine dayes at the least and then it wil be hoare aboue then take it out of the pot do it in a faire panne and set it on the fire and fry them well together and stirre it well and when it is hote enough take it from the fire and wring it through a cloth and let it stand till it be cold and then kerne it and let out the water and then doo it into the pan and melt it againe then doo it vp in boxes and kéepe the same to your vse Also to make an oyntment sanatiffe for wounds ¶ Take of the same hearbes before expressed and worke them as thou didst the salue but whereas thou tookest Butter to thy salue take faire Barrowes greace melt it and when it is cold put it to thy oyntment and whereas thou tookest to thy salue Madder put thereto Cammemile and put thy hearbs thereto take to that oyntment of Auence as much waight as of all the other hearbes before named and then shall this oyntment bee according to the salue the one to worke within and the other to worke without for this salue and oyntment is cheefest accounted of among Phisitions for all woundes both to cleanse and to heale very faire and perfectly and to knit broken bones surely To heale all olde wounds ¶ Take Plantaine water distilled and put halfe a pinte thereof to an ounce of Mercurie sublimatum and so stir them very well togeather vntill it be dissolued in the Plantaine water and then wash the sore or wound well therewith and after wet a cloth in the same water and couer it cleane ouer the sore or wound and vse this once euery day vntill it bee whole and doe so from day to day A red water for sores and wounds either olde or newe ¶ Take a pottle of running water a pecke of ashes of Ash wood that is old and a pottle of Tan-iuyce that leather neuer came into and a pound of Mother a pound of Allam and beate them all in fine powder and put it into your Tan-iuyce nine dayes and then whē you haue so doone take a pottle of the one and a pottle of the other and put thereto ten ounces of greene Copperis and one ounce of Ginger beaten all into fine powder and put them all together and so séeth them to a quarte then take them off and straine them and put them in a faire vessell and poure out the thinne from the thicke and lay a wet cloth thereon and lay it to the wounde or sore eyther olde or new and wash them well therewith A water imperiall for all wounds and Cankers ¶ Take a handfull of red Sage leaues and a handfull of Selondine as much of Woodbine leaues take a gallon of conduit water and put the hearbes in it and let them boyle to a pottle and then straine the hearbs through a strainer and take the licour sette it ouer the fire againe and take a pint of English honny a good handfull of Roch-allam as
much of white Copper is fine beaten a penny-worth of graines brused then let them boyle altogether three or foure walmes ouer the fire and let the skimme as it riseth be wel taken off with a feather and when it is colde put the same into an earthen pot or bottle so that it may be kept close from ayre and for a greene wound take of the thinnest and for an olde wounde of the thickest couer the sore rather with Veale or Mutton skimme them with Docke leaues when that you haue dressed them with thys aforesaid water To make water imperiall another way ¶ Take a handfull of Dragon of Scabions of Endiue a handfull of Pimpernell a handfull of Worme-wood of Rew a handfull a handfull of Tansie as much Fetherfoy asmuch of Daisie leaues as much of Cowslyps as much of Maydenhayre as much Sinckfoyle as much Dandelyon as much Time as much Bawme of each of these hearbes a handfull as I sayd before then take of Treakle a pound of Bole Armoniack foure ounces and when you haue all these hearbes together you must take and shread them a little but not too small then take the Treakle the Bole armoniack and mingle them and the hearbes together then put them in a stillitory and still them and it is made A very good remedy to take away Warts ¶ For to take away Warts take the séede of Briony with the leaues burne them and make Ashes of them and meddle the ashes with the iuyce of the same hearbe like an oyntment and annoynt your Warts often and they will fall away The dunge of an Eagle if it be often rubbed vpon the Warts dooth likewise doo away the same very quickly Another remedie for Warts ¶ Take the iuyce of hearbe Wart-wort and annoynt any Wart or Ring-worme there-with and it helpeth For to doe away Warts ¶ Take Elder berries and stampe them then wringe out the iuyce and with the same vse once or twise a day to annoint thy Warts and it will quickly doo them cleane away Thys experiment hath béene proued For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take and binde fast the Wenne then take Verdigreace Sulphur Sope oyle of Egges Allam and Honny and temper them together and lay thereto and it shall doo away the Wem and also for to heale it well and cleane within three or foure times dressing For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take a quantitie of vnslackt Lime and mixe the same very well with as much blacke Sope and annoynt any Wen therewith and the Wenne will fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt the place with oyle of Balme and it wil perfectly heale the same How to helpe one that is blasted ¶ Take the white of a Hennes Egge and put it in a brazen Morter then put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Copperis and grinde them well togeather till it bee as small as an oyntment with which annoynt the sore face and it will case the paine and take away the swelling and when it is welnye whole annoynt the place with a little Popilium and that will make the skinne faire and well againe An excellent remedy to helpe the rewme ¶ Rub the leafe of a Marygold betweene your fingers and put the same into your nose and let it stay there a little while and it will bring forth aboundance of humors out of the heade it will helpe the Rewme within a little while if you vse it This hath béene prooued Another speciall remedie for the Rewme ¶ Take a little sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oaken leaues then cut them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre as you can suffer the same holding the sticke betweene your teeth in thys manner hold your mouth ouer a dish or poringer and there wil great aboundance of humors auoyde out of your mouth But within a while washe in faire water the leaues on the sticke and then holde them in your mouth againe Doe thus for the space of an howre and vse it thrée or foure times a day for thrée or foure dayes together or vntill you haue auoyded so much watry humors as you thinke good This is the best and presentest remedy for the rewme that euer was heard of And hee that proues it shall finde it and excellent helpe A soueraigne water against melancholly and drinke to comfort the stomacke ¶ Take a pounde of Aqua vitae and put thereto a quart of Redrose water put into it as much Licoris sliced and scraped as you may hold in both your hands but if it be English Licoris you may take lesse put thereto as much Anniseede as you thinke will be sufficient to make it taste well thereof stew all these with a soft fire well couered with an earthen pot that the ayre doo not goe out to your iudgement till that a pinte thereof be consumed let it not boyle in any case but stewe softly this done take it from the sire and let it scand and coole and when it is cold draw it from the seede and Licoris and put it into the wicker glasse or bottle but bruse it that your water may be as cleere as you can and when neede requireth occupy it To make artificiall oyle of balme for woundes ¶ Take Balme Rewe Fetherfoy Sowthistle Nettles Briany leaues Bramble leaues Sage leaues Cinckfoyle of each of all these a handfull take all these simples and lay them in oyle Oliue one whole night and take the water that commeth of a Vine stalke and blacke Suailes gum Arabeck gum Edere of each of these one ounce you must take the seed of the Ashe trée and beate the seedes and the gummes very fine together Afterward you must put the oyle and the hearbs into the Still and throwe thereupon a quarter of a pound of the oyle of Roses and two ounces of Aqua vitae and so distill it with a soft fire but you must still it at the least twice or thrise Thys oyle will heale all wounds very soone A greene balme to incarnate wounds and to dry vp filthy vlcers ¶ Take of fine Aqua vitae Venice turpentine oyle of Roses of euery of them a pint boyle them with a soft fire of coles and after a waume or two put in of Verdigreace made in fine powder an ounce and a halfe and boyle it to a good perfect substance and so vse it to your sore wounds and filthy vlcers and it shall helpe them very shortly To make artificiall Balme ¶ Take of gum Elempine sixe ounces Aloes Mirrhe Castore Apponace of each two ounces Storax calamite Olibanum Mastick Cacabre of each foure ounces Munge Bedelii gum of the Fig trée of each two ounces and a halfe make euery one of them in powder by themselues that will be powdered The spices take of Lignum aloes three ounces Zilobalsami Carpobalsami Spignard Cloues Sinamon Calamus aromatici nut aromatici Nutmegs Galingall Setwell graines Cardomomus both of
the great and small Cucubes rootes of Cipres Mustacastaline which is the coddes of the Muske of each two ounces Rewpenticon 2. drams flowers of rosemary 2. ounces Iuniper berries Enula campana of each dried an ounce Bay-berries halfe an ounce beat all together in grosse powders then take of the séed of fennell perfly tansie Carret Coriander and Caroway séed of each one ounce wormwood sage dried basill Rosemary Margerum Penniriall Mints Secades Egrimonie a like quantitie of each then take Figges of Algarie Dates the stones taken away Reysons of the sunne Almonds of each foure ounces then take oyle of Turpentine 2. pynts oyle of Mastick oyle Bennet oyle of Castore oyle of Tartor oyle of Dyll oyle of Exceter of each halfe a pint oyle of Spike oyle of Nard of each foure ounces pure Aqua composita the waight of all the former stuffe and first boyle them in the bodies of two Limbecks of glasse fast luted with the crownes of theyr couers downeward in Balnaeo mariae that is a Cawdron of water a day a night then take off theyr caps and set them aright and distill it with an easie fire in these two Limbecks all your stuffe being deuided into euen portions as before lute them strongly and distill them with a sofe fire sixe howres then in the rest increase your fire by little and little til the water be passed then shall you sée white oyle and last of all yellow oyle kéepe euery of them by themselues the fourth is in the bottome keepe the as an excellent remedy for all wounds it helpeth suddainly without suffering the wound to putrifie or cast matter but confoundeth it and helpeth it straight The vertue of this Balme It is most excellent for Gowtes Palsies Cramps wounds akings sinewes cut hurt or shrunke the falling sicknesse Apoplexia the turning of the braine the biting of dogs or any other venimous things for the Timpany to annoynt the belly and the first water is good for all wounds and all retten and filthy vlcers as hath beene prooued The receit of the water of health by G. K. ¶ Take red Rose flowers Cammomile flowers Lauender flowers Buglosse flowers Isope flowers Rosemary flowers sage flowers secados flowers balme flowers time wild time peniriall Margerū winter sauery pimpernell S. Iohn woort Philopendula eyebright horehound dittany bittany scabies turmentill planten auence maidenhaire mints rue sapifrage Harts-tung Ensras Brasill Canepithy Piony Iuniper berries Bay leaues or berries take of all these flowers a maine handfull if they be gotten if not then take thrée gallons of mighty strong Ale or thrée gallens of Gascoigne wine then take these spices Anniséede two pound Licoris two pound Fenell séede two vnces Cinamon two vnces Caraway seede two vnces Galingall two vnces Setwell two vnces Angelica two vnces Ciperus two vnces Ginger Nutmegs of each one vnce Enula campana one vnce Calamus aromaticus one vnce Ireus one vnce Lignum aloes two vnces Cloues one vnce Cucubes one vnce Graines one vnce long Pepper one vnce Spignard one vnce Mace one vnce Amis amonium one vnce Suger half a pound Alkenet two vnces Olibanum Mastick Basill séede Marierum seed of all these halfe an vnce and doo by the drawing of this water of health in all respects as by your Aqua composita your flowers and hearbs must be dried and shred on a chopping boord a good handfull of each at the least and your Aniséede must be well beated and dusted and your Licoris must be scraped and sliced cleane and then all the rest of your other spices and seeds must be beaten fine in a brasen morter each to his quantity Also you may put therto thrée grains of ciuell Musk for it will make it to drink the more plesanter and for diuers infirmities this water is good as to breake wind in the belly for them that cannot relish or disgest their meats and for diuers other cold causes this water will make a man to liue long and to kéepe and preserue a man long in health and to make a man to looke young againe For to make pety Balme ¶ Take fine meat oyle a pint and put it in a clean pan and séeth it well ouer the fire then doo thy hands in cold water and let it drop thereon and it will creame and when it leaueth creaming doo it to the fire againe and let it séethe well and doo so thrée or foure times with your hands then take halfe an vnce of Masticke as much of Frankensence as much of Rozen a quarter of an vnce of Verdigreace make all these into powder by themselues then doo them into the oyle and let them séethe well together and stir it well and skim it cleane then let it coole then doo it in a pewter vessell and this is a good balme For to make aqua vitae perfectissima per G. K. ¶ Take the roote of Sapifrage Persly Alisander Fenell Time Isope Peniriall Rosemary Lauender Primrose Mints Rue Betony Sauein Sage Auence Calamint of each of these hearbs halfe a quarterne then take Galingall Pepper long Pepper Cloues Nutmegs of each of these one vnce of Canell Mace Cucubes of each of these two vnces Setwell Pellitory of Spaine Lignum aloes of each halfe an vnce stamp thy hearbs and pouder thy spices and doo them in a gallon of good red Wine and mingle thy hearbs and spices together in the Wine and let them stand all a night in stéepe and on the morrow distill them into a Limbeck this water hath many faire vertues and it comforteth man or woman and kéepeth them from all maladies that be cold Also it is hot at the first distilling and at the third distilling it helpeth man or woman in their kindly heates Also it comforteth a cold stomack and destroyeth both scabbe and scall Also it healeth all olde sores if it be kindly vsed it is good for the deafnes of the eares by putting a little therof into thy eare it driueth away the stinking of the breath Also it is good for the falling euill for the palsie in the tung for that palsie maketh a man sodainly dombe Also it healeth the palsie of other members that trembleth Also for biting or stinging of Scorpions or Adders or other venemous beasts for no venim can come néere vnto it Also it is good for the toothache of cold rewme and for a cold feauer being drunk before the axis it is good for to wash the emerods and old sores called Noli me tangere and for the Collica passio and who so drinketh it for the vanity of the head it also healeth the saucefleume in the face Also it purgeth the stomack of all corruptions and for stone and for all gowtes it destroyeth the gnawing within the belly and suffereth no wind to bréed in mans body To make Aqua vitae for cold causes ¶ Take good Gascoigne wine and distill it in a glasse or Serpentine and that water that burneth doo it by it selfe and