looseth tough fleame dissolueth and consumeth the same by the siege it auoideth it To make Conserue of Acornes or Gladen with the vertue of the same Chap. 32. TAke the roots of yellow Flowerdeluce which groweth in moist ground otherwise called a Flag root wash theÌ„ scrape theÌ„ seeth them and order them as ye do of Elicompana now last before rehearsed and so keep it This Conserue is good against all sicknesse of the braine and Sinewes and against all diseases of flewine Unto women it openeth natural course and tearmes And you must generally learne that in making Conserues fruites rootes are made with fire seething Moreouer the more Suger or honey is put into them so it bee not past three pound to one the coÌ„serue shal coÌ„tinue the better To make Conserue of Strawberies with vertue of the same Chap. 33. Take Strawberies one quart cleane picked and washed set them on the fire till they bee soft strain them put therto two times as much suger in powder as waight of the Strawberies let them seeth till the Suger bee incorporated with the Strawberies put it in a glasse or earthen pot well glased The vertue of the same The Conserue of Strawberies is good against a hot liuer burning of the stomacke and specialy in the feruent heat of an ague Thus make Conserue of Damsins and Prunes To make conserue of Cheries and Barbaries Chap. 34. LIkewise you must make Conserue of Cheries and also of Barbaries sauing that these require more Suger than the other doe which are not so sowre as they be Here is to be noted that of Conserue of fruites may be made Marmalade for when your Conserue is sufficiently sodden ready to be taken off then seeth it more on height and it will bee Marmalad Moreouer some make their Conserue Marmalade strops with cleane Suger some with cleane hony clarified some with suger honey together and after the opinion of some great Clearks honey is more wholsom though it bee not so toothsome as the Sugar To make al kind of Sirops Chap. 35 TAke Buglosse Borage white Endiue of each one handfull of Rosemarie Time Hysope winter Sauory of each halfe a handfull seeth them beeing first broken betweene your handes in three quartes of water vnto three pints then strein it and put in the liquor whole Cloues an ounce pouder of Sinamon halfe an ounce pouder of Ginger a quarter of an ounce one Nutmeg in pouder of Suger halfe a pound or more let them seeth vpon a soft fire wel stirred for burning too vntill it come to thicknesse of life honey then keepe it Galley pots If you put one pinte of Malmesey in the second seething it will be better When it is perfect haue sixe grains of fine Muske in powder stir it amongst your Sirope as yee put it into your Gallipot and couer it This Sirope will laste many yeares and is excellent against sowning and faintnesse of hart it comforteth the braine and sinewes if it bee vsed as much as a Hasel Nut at once at your pleasure A Violet Powder for woollen cloathes and Furres Chap. 36. TAke of Ireos two ounces of Calamus Aromaticus three quarters of an ounce of Cypres of Gallingale of Spikenall of Roseleaues dried of each a quarter of an ounce of Cloues of Spike of Lauander flowers of each halfe an ounce of Nigella Romana a quarter of an ounce of Beniamin of Storax Calamite of each halfe an ounce let them be all finely beaten and searced Then take two or three graines of Muske dissolue it in Rose-water and sprinkle the water vpon the powder and turne it vp and downe in the sprinkling till it haue drunke vp the water when it is drie keep it in bags of silke A sweet powder for Naperie and all Linnen cloathes Chap. 37. TAke of sweet Mariorum that which is hory is the sweeter when it hath in him seedes ripe cut the braÌ„ches so that the root may spring againe when this Mariorum is dried then rub out the seeds and keep them to sowe about Easter and the huskes and leaues that grow about the seeds take for your purpose rub them small for if you beate them to powder in a morter they will loose the most part of their sauour theÌ„ take of white Saunders or of grey Saunders but look that they be new of right sweet odour for if they be olde and haue no pleasant quicke odour they are nothing woorth Take I say of these sweet Saunders beaten into fine powder an ounce and put it into an ounce of your sweet Mariorum rubbed between your handes as before is said and if you put one or two graines of Muske thereunto for your wearing linnen it is the better sowe these vp in a silke bag together and lay it among your Linnen of such bagges haue a dozen or two which will continue many yeares and when you look to your Linneu then chafe each of the bags between your hands that they may yeeld out their sweet odour Moreouer in the Summer time gather red Roses in fair weather so soon as they be blown and opened lay them vpon a table a bed or fair floore of boords and now and then remooue theÌ„ least they mould and wax foisty When they are drie picke of the leaues that you may haue two peckes of them then straw them among and betweene the boughtes and foldings of your linnen with one handfull of drie Spike flowers to sixe handfull of drie Roses and lay your sweet bags amongst them Be sure that your linnen be euer through drie ere euer you lay them vp or els the Roses will waxe hore set your coâ—â—er in a drie ayre and in the winter time or in wet weather when ye perceiue your roses to wax moist then put them in a piâ—owhere or twaine that they fall not out and lay them vppon your bed betweene the couerlet and the blanket al night or els before the fire let them drie and strawe them againe Moreouer ye must alwaies haue a bag full of drie Roses in store kept in a drie ayre for if he loose his rednesse then looseth the Rose his sweetnesse Finally you must euerie yeare put awaye your old Roses and occupie new but help your sweet bags still many yeares To make a Pomeamber Chap. 38. TAke Bensamin one ounce of Storax Calamite halfe an ounce of Labdanum the eight part of an ounce beate them to powder and then put them into a brazen ladle with a litle Damaske or Rose water set them ouer the fire of coales til they be dissolued and be soft like waxe Then take them out and chase them between your hands as you doo wax then haue these powders ready finely Tearred of 〈◊〉 of Cloues of sweet Saunders grey or white of each of these three powders half a quarter of an ounce mixe these powders with the other and chase them wel together if they be too drie moisten them with some of the Rose water
twenty egs beate them and mixe them and distil them which water destroyeth chaffinges heates pimples wheales scurffes wheresoeuer they be To know whether a Woman shall euer conceiue or no. Chap. 66. TAke of the ruine of a Hare and hauing fraied and consumed it in hot water giue it the woman to drinke in the morning at her breakfast then let her stande in a hot bath And if there come a griefe or paine in her bellie she may conceiue if not she shall neuer conceiue To make a barren woman beare children Chap. 67. TAke of those litle Sea fishes called in Latine Polipi or Polipodes and roast them vpon the Embers without oile and let the woman eate of them and it shall profite and help very much hauing in the meane time the companie of a man To make women haua a quicke and speedie deliuerance of their children and without paine or at the least very litle Chap. 68. TAke leaues of Bittanie and stampe them or els make powder of them and giue the woman that laboureth to drinke of it with a litle water and shee shall bee deliuered incontinent without any great paine or labour To stop the running of the Raines fiue seuerall waies Chap. 69. TAke Venice Turpentine washt in red Rose-water foure ounces a Nutmeg Plantine seede a yellow Amber bead of each a like with like quantitie of Sinamon powder of Comsery rootes which being mingled rolle of the Turpentine in the powder make it into fine pilles as big as a beane and take them in a spoone with sirop of Rubarbe three in the morning and three two howers before supper and it will helpe it Another for the running of the Raines TAke Nutmegs half a pound and bruise them in a morter and knead them in dough and bake them which bread is very healthfull Another special way approoued TAke Hazell nuts well pilled or blanched two handfull Sinkfield and knotted grasse of each a handfull foure Camphir leaues stampe the hearbs and straine out the iuice into two pound of Muscadell then beate the Nut kernels as small as you can and put them in also take an Amber bead and beat it to powder very fine which being put in the wine to the rest stir them all together a good while then seeth it vntill it come to a pound and a litle more and drink the one halfe in the morning and the other at night making a verie light supper An other for the same Nip and Clarie fried with the yolks of three or foure Egs and taken euery morning is very good To strengthen the seed Chap. 70. TAke Succorie Endiue Plantin Violet flowers the leaues Clarie Sorrel of each half a handful with a peece of Mutton make a good broth and to eat it euening and morning is especiall good For the gnawing in a Womans Stomacke Chap. 71. TAke a good handfull of Spearemint and a handfull of Wormwood heat a Tilestone and lay these two things on it and make a litle bag and when the hearbes be hot put thē in the bag and so lay them to her stomacke To make a sweete Damaske powder foure maner of waies TAke two or three handful of dried Roseleaues two grains of Musk half an ounce of Cloues and beat these all to powder 2. Another way TAke sixe ounces of Orace foure ounces of Cloues two ounces of Storax Calamite an ounce of Labdanum with two ounces of yellow Saunders and a litle Muske 3. An other way TAke two ounces of Cloues foure ounces of Spruce foure ounces of Storax Calamite foure ounces of Roses three ounces of Beniamin 4. Another way TAke three ounces of Cypres foure ounces of Beniamin two ounces of Coliander or Labdanum three ounces of Storax Calamite two ounces of Roses beate all to powder To make Pepper soft with the vertue of the same YOu shall doo this after the same manner as is showed for greene Ginger in the 15. Chap. that is with sand and the like sirope season and keepe them Ginger and Pepper in Sirope comforteth a colde stomacke and helpeth much to good disgestion To keepe Barbaries TAke clarified Suger and boile it till it bee thicke which you shall perceiue if you take a litle betweene your fingers it will rope like birdlime then put in your Barbaries and let them boile with a soft fire vntill you perceiue they be tender then put them in a glasse and couer them and so keepe them For the ague in a womans breast Chap. 72. TAke Hemlock leaues and frie them in sweet butter and as hot as shee may suffer it lay it to her breast and lay a warme white cotten and it will driue it away in short time For breastes that be sore with milke Chap. 73. TAke Linseed oile and waxe melt them and wet a ragge therein and lay it to the breast warme which will drie vp the milke For a sore breast Chap. 74. TAke beane flower two handfull branne powder of Fengricke of each a handful white vinigre a pound three spoonful of honey and three yolkes of Egges seeth all till they bee thicke and lay it warme to the breast which will both breake it and heale it alwaies crushing out the matter when you shift it To keepe a womans breast from breaking Chap. 75. TAke Sage Marigolds with the blacke seed and the sharpest Netles of each halfe a handfull bruise them together and lay it to which will keepe it from breaking For the breastes broken or not TAke Oile of Roses beane flower and the yolk of an Egge with a litle Vinigre set it on the fire till it be luke warme then with a sether annoint the place For the vnnaturall heate of the Liuer Chap. 76. TAke Borage Buglosse Succorie Violets Fumitorie yoong hop buds Fenell buds of each a quarter of a handfull yoong Malowes and Mercurie of each halfe a handfull boile these in a pottle of whey and straine them For the Canker in the mouth Chap. 77. TAke halfe a pinte of Ale and a sprig of Rosemarie and seeth them together and scum your Ale and then put in a peece of Allum as much as a nut and a spoonefull of honey two spoonfull of Honey-suckle water To make the face faire and the breath sweete Chap. 78. TAke the flowers of Rosemarie boile them in white wine then wash your face with it and vse it for a drinke so shall you make your face faire and your breath sweete To make haire as yellow as gold Chap. 79. TAke the rine or scrapings of Rubarb steepe it in white wine or in cleane lie and after you haue washed your head with it you shall wette your haires with a sponge or some other cloath let them drie by the fire or in the Sun After this wet them and drie them againe for the oftner they doo it the fairer they will be without hurting your head any thing at all To driue away all venemous beastes from your house Chap. 10. TAke
but this precious wood wil both quickly and gently asswage the paine and griefe of the same if it be ministered accordingly in decoction namelie to them whom either the Pox hath tormented or els the Gowt with intollerable griefe ¶ A most certaine and approoued remedie against all manner of pestilence or plague be it it neuer so vehement Chap. 98. TAke an Onion and cut him ouerthwart theÌ„ make a litle hole in each peece the which you shall fill with fine Triacle and set the pâ—eces together againe as they were before after this wrap them in a wet linnen cloath putting it to roste couered in the Embers or ashes and when it is roasted inough presse out all the iuice of it and giue the Patient to drinke thereof a spoonfull immediately hee shall feele himselfe better and shall without faile be healed To make a sirop of Vinegre good for many things Chap. 99. TAke sharpe Vinigre a pound and a halfe Suger two pound and a halfe boile it til it be a sirrop It will digest choller Melantholie and Flewme It will make grosse humours thinne openeth obstructions prouokes vrine expelleth naughty humors is good against all pestilent Feuers cooleth and quencheth thirst and keeps the body loose To comfort the heart and take away Melancholy Chap. 100. TAke the iuice of Borage foure pounde the flowers of Borage halfe a pound let these stand infused in hot Embers fourteene howers then being strained clarified put to good Suger two pound and boile it to a sirop A sirop to cleanse the breast and the lunges the cough and Pleurisie Chap. 101. TAke Liquorice small shred and bruised an ounce Maiden haire halfe an ounce Hysope two drams water two pound let these lie mixt foure and twentie howers then boile it till the third part be consumed which strained put in of good honey Suger pellet and white Suger of each foure ounces and Rose water three ounces For spitting either of lightes or lungs Chap. 102. TAke the iuice of Purslane and Plantine of each an ounce red Corrall a dram and bloodstone half a dram fine powdered mixt together vse it For wormes in yoong children Chap. 103. TAke drie Lupines and make flower of them which kneaded with hony lay it to the stomacke of the childe For the swelling of the Cods Chap. 104. TAke Rue stampt lay it to the grieuen place and thou shall haue present remedie For him that cannot holde his water Chap. 105. TAke the small end of Oken leaues and seeth them in Claret wine beeing well beaten lay it as hot as may bee suffered vpon the yard in a plaister fashion For the Head-ach Chap. 106. TAke the iuice of Mariorum and put it into the nosethrils and it will helpe you For griefe of the stomacke Chap. 107. TAke Masticke Cloues Nutmegs of each a dram Mace Sinamon of each half a dram fine powdered then take the bottom of a brown loafe tosted and dipt in Malmesey strawing of the said powder vpon it lay it to the stomacke and it is a present remedie For the itch Chap. 108. TAke vnwrought waxe fresh butter Rose Vinegre red Rosewater Brimstone fine beaten and Cloues all boyled together make an ointment A Gargill for a sore throat Chap. 109. TAke white wine conduit water of each a pound roch Allum half an ounce two spoonful of honey boyle all to a pounde and a halfe and vse it three or foure times a day A water for scabbes Vlcers and pushes Chap. 110. TAke Plantine water halfe a pound water of Oranges four ounces Sublimate powder an ounce put al in a double glasse or some other good vessell and let it boile with a gentle fire a quarter of an hower and take it off and keepe it in a cleane vessell which vse three or or foure sundrie times and it shall heale them To make a water to take out all spots out of cloath of gold veluet Chap. 111. TAke rawe red Arsnicke Martem Cudum of each of them a like quantitie and when they bee well brayed poure some faire water vppon them and putting the hearb Cinkfoyle to it seeth it vnto the halfe and then let it coole and set it in the Sunne two howers then wash your cloath in it and let it drie in the Sunne To take spottes of grease and oyle out of all sortes of cloath white or other Chap. 112. TAke the water that Pease haue bene sodde in and steep your cloath where the spot is in it and then wash it with clean riuer water and drie it in the Sunne To take all maner of spots out of silke Chap. 113. TAke the iuice of great and round Mushroms of a sharpe taste wet the spottes in it the space of two howers and then wash them with cleare water and then let them drie To take spottes out of cloath Chap. 114. TAke colde Lie and lees of white Wine made a litle hot and mixe them well together But you must take heede they bee not too hote and wash your cloath A soueraigne remedie for the cough Chap. 115. TAke Brimstone beaten in powder halfe an ounce and put it in a new laid Egge soft roste mingle it well together then put to it Beniamin the bignesse of a Zich Pease lightly stamped and drinke it in the morning at your breakfast Make as much againe at night when you goe to bed and you shall be whole at the second or third time But if the cough haue holden you long you must take it so much the oftener To keepe Poultrie from destroying with Weisels Chap. 116. RUbbe your Poultry with the iuice of Rue or Herb-grace and the Weisels shall doo them no hurt if they eate the lunges or lights of a Fox the Foxes wil not eat theÌ„ A briefe Treatise of Vrines aswell of mens vrines as of womens to iudge by the colours which betoken health which sickenes and which death Chap. 117. IT is shewed that in foure partes of the body dwelleth sicknesse and health that is in the wombe in the head in the liuer in the bladder In what maner thou maist know their properties and thereof thou maist learne If a mans Urine be white at morrow and red before meate and white after meate he is whole And if it be fat and thicke it is not good and if the Urine be meanly thicke it is good to like and if it be thicke as Asse pisse it betokeneth headach Urine that is two daies red and at the third day white betokeneth verie health Urine that is fat white and moiste betokeneth the Feuer quartaine Urine that is blooddie betokeneth that the bladder is hurt by some rotting that is within A litle Urine all fleshie betokeneth of the reines who pisseth blood without sicknesse hee hath some vaine broken in the reines Urine that is ponderous betokeneth that the bladder is hurt Urine that is somewhat bloody of sicknesse betokeneth great euil within the body namely in the bladder Urine that falleth by droppes aboue
with a pestle in a morter of white Marble or of brasse vntill it become like water then put to it the iuice with the white of the Egge incorporating well together This done take foure ounces of fine white suger well beaten to pouder and cast it into the morter by litle and litle vntill it be turned into the fourme of paste then take it out of the said Morter and bray it vpon the powder of Suger as it were meale or flower vntil al be like soft paste to the end you may turn it fashion it which way you wil whē you haue brought your paste to this forme spread it abroad with Sinamō vpō great or smal leaues as you shal think it good so shal you forme make what things you wil as is aforesaid with such fine knackes as may serue a Table taking heed that there stand no hot thing nigh vnto it At the end of the banquet they may breake all and eat the Platters Dishes glasses Cuppes and all such like for this paste is verie delicate and sauourous If you will make a thing of more ffnenesse than this make a Tart of Almondes stamped with sugre and Rose-water of like sort that Marchpanes be made of this shal you lay betweene two pastes of such vessels or fruites or some other thing as you think good To make fine blanch powder for roasted Quinces Chap. 8 TAke fine suger half a pound beaten in a hot morter to fine powder of white Ginger pared half an ounce of chosen Synamō a quarter of an ounce beaten ready to fine powder mixe them well together and if you will haue it most excellent cast two spoonful of Rose or Damask water in beating of the Suger To conserue Quinces in sirop condict alway ready to be serued in whole or in quarters Chap. 9. AFter your Quinces are coared and pared seeth them till they be tender soft then lay them out til they be colde in the meane time take of the same liquor two quartes or more according to the number of your Quinces which ye will keep put therein the cores some other small peeces seeth them in the liquor to make the sirop strong straine them and put into the liquor being two or three quartes one pint of Rose water and for euerie quart of liquor one halfe pound of Suger seeth them againe together on a soft fire of coles till the Suger be incorporated with the liquor then put in your Quinces let thē seeth softly til you perceiue that your sirop is as thicke as life honey then set them to coole and take them out lay them in a tray or platter till they be colde then take one ounce of bruised Sinamon and some whole Cloues put them with some of the Sinamon in the Sirop and when it is cold lay a larde of Quinces in your glasse called a gestelin glasse or an earthen pot well glased then straw a litle of your Sinamon vpō your Quinces then powre some sirop lay on another lard of Quinces and again of your spice and sirope and so foorth till you haue done couer them two fingers ouer with sirop aboue couer them close and within three of foure daies looke to them and when you finde the sirope shrunken downe put in more and so reserue them These are to be serued in with sirop See that the Quinces bee tenderly sodden and the sirop thicke and strong ynough Plums condict in sirop Chap. 10. TAke halfe a pound of Suger halfe a pinte of Rosewater and a pinte of faire Rainwater or of some other distilled water seeth the Suger and the two waters vpon a soft fire of coles till the one halfe be consumed then take it from the fire and when it leaueth boiling put therein halfe a pound of ripe Damasins or other plums set it again on the Embers and keep it in the like heat til the plums be soft by the space of an hower if need be then put into some Cloues bruised and when it is colde keep it in a glasse or in an earthen Gallipot the stronger the sirop is with Suger the better it will continue Some put into the sirop Sinamon Saunders Nutmegs Cloues a litle Ginger seeth them not hastilie for feare of much breaking To make fine Rice pottage Chap. 11. TAke halfe a pound of Jorden Almondes and halfe a pound of Rice and a gallon of running water and a handfull of Oke barke and let the barke be boyled in the running water and the Almondes beaten with the hulles and all on and so strained to make the Rice Porredge withall To make Marmalad of Quinces Chap. 12 AFfter that your Quinces are sodden ready to be kept condict as before in the chapter is written thē with some of the liquor wherin they were sodden but without any spice beat them and draw them as ye would doo a Tart then put some ouer the fire and seeth them softly and in the seething straw by litle and litle of powder of Suger the waight of the Quinces or more as your taste shall tell you stir it continually put thereto some pure Rosewater or bamask water let it seeth on height til it be walstanding which thing ye may know by taking some of it vpon a cold knife and let it coole if it be stiffe then take it off and boxe it while it is warme and set it in a warme or drie aire if you will gilde your Marmalad doo as afore is spoken of a Marchpane The best making of a Marmalade is when the Quinces haue laine long and are through rupe and very yellow as in Lent season And for as much as Quinces are binding and therefore not good for some sicke folkes costiffe it is necessary to put a good many of ripe Apples of good verdure as Renet Pippin Lording Russeting Pomeriall Rex pomorum or any other Apple that is pleasant raw among them being first drawne from a Tart and then soadden among the other matter of Quinces Thus shall you make your Marmalade somewhat souple and also incrrase the quantity and vertue of the same especially if it be wel dashed with sweet water To make Marmalad of Damsins or Prunes Chap 13. TAke Damsins which are ripe boile them on the fire with a litle faire water vntill they be soft Then drawe them through a course Boulter as ye make a Tart set it on the fire again seeth it on height with sufficient Suger as you do your Quinces dash it with sweet water c. and boxe it If you will make it of Prunes euen likewise doo put some Apples also to it as you did to your Quinces This wise you may make Marmalade of Wardens Peares Apples and Medlars Seruice Checkers or Strawberies euery one by himself or els mix it together as you think good To make Succade of peeles of Oranges and Limmons Chap. 14. FIrst take of your peeles by quarters and seeth them in faire water frō
all agues This water mast be vsed from the moneth of Nouember to the moneth of Aprill and you must take but halfe a spooneful at once nor oftener than ounce a weeke The manner to make this water ye must haue a glasse a cubit high and fill it with Aquavite made with wine and stop it well then put it in hors-dong so that it bee not moist nor too wet least the glasse breake and you must leaue the necke of the glasse without in the ayre that glasse through the heate of the dung will boile sore so that the water will ascend to the necke of the same and discend againe to the bottome through the aire and so let it stand thirty daies then taâ—e out the glasse and put these thinges following in the water and stoppe the mouth that it breathe not out and so leaue it in eight daies Last of all put the glasse in Balneo Marie with sand setting on a head with a receiuer well stopped and make a soft fire and gather the first water that drops cleare but when yee see the second water turne into redde collour change the Receiuer for then commeth the seconde Water and that will keepe well in a glasse well stopped The spices that goe to this water bee these with the hearbes Cardonum Cloues nutmegs Ginger Galingale Zedoaire long Pepper Spikenarde Lawrell berries Smallage seedes Mugwoort seedes Fenell seedes Annis seeds flowers of Basill Elder flowers red Roses and white lignum Aloes Cubibes Cardomum Calamus Aromaticus Maces Germander Frankensence TurmeÌ„til Juniper Egremonie Sentorie Fumitorie Pimpernel Dandelion Eufrage Endife seeds of Sorrell yellow Saunders Fetherfoy Aloes Epaticke of each two ounces Rubarbe two drams drie Figges Reasins Dates without stones sweet Almondes of each two ounces Aqua-uite to the quantity of them all and foure times as much Suger as they be all that is for one pounds of Engredience foure pounde of Suger two pound of honey This water is called the mother of all waters A perfect way to cure the loathsome disease of the French Pockes paines in the ioints lamenesse of limmes palenesse of collour lothsome scabbes or any other filthy disease proceeding of superfluous or euil humours as also to asswage ouer grosse and foggie fat bellies and that without danger Chap. 95. FIrst it is needfull to prouide for the sicke bodie a close and cleane chamber out of all grose aire and cleane warme garmentes both for body and legges and at rising and going to bed a fire of Charecoales for wood is not wholsome for smoking also they must not be troubled with any thing to bring them out of patience for that corrupteth the blood which must be new altered also the sicke bodie muste eate but litle meate and that kind of meate as shall hereafter be prescribed and at such times as shall be appointed and let the sicke body vse plaieng on some Instrumentes or heare some plaieng or tell merie tales and haue no companie of women for that is a most dangerous poison for the health of any person in that case Secondly you must prepare two brasse pots or els yron one being foure gallons the other sixe gallons one for strong drink the other for small drinke also ye must haue close couers to them of bâ—asse or yron you must also prepare good earthen vessels with close couers to keepe your drinke in of both sortes by themselues also you must haue a Strainer of a searce cloath to straine your drinke after it is decoct InstrumeÌ„ts to take out dead flesh and to search a sore and a syring to cleanse any sore being deep with the same drinke Also you must haue a woodden vessell to bathe the sicke body in at such times as hereafter shall be appointed Also you must prepare cleane cloathes to drie the sicke body after a sweat being warmed well first other Instruments you shall need none but only your wood raped small or turned and the bark of the wood pounded in a Morter and the drugs also small and your water which you shall decoct the same must be of a good Conduit or runnin brook verie clean without any kind of filth Chalk water is good Thirdly for your strong drink ye must take your pot of foure gallons and set it on a fire of coales with foure gallons of the faire running water then put into the same one pound and a halfe of your wood small raped or turned at the Turners but when you doo buy your wood see it be not olde and lacke moisture this triall is best take a litle cole burning and lay it on the blocke before it be raped and if it be good it will boyle vp on euery side of the coale like Myrthe Then put thereto one ounce or a litle more of the barke of the same wood made in small powder then take a quarter of a pound of Cummin seeded put whole into the same and one half quarter of an ounce of Radix and Rubarbe and then stop your pot fast and lay paste about the couer and so fast that no aire come out then seeth it on a soft fire but euer keepe it boyling let it boyle at the least eight houres then set it by and vnstop it not vntill it be cold then take your Searce and strain it into a fair carthen potte and couer it close The sicke bodie muste drinke of this but one draughte luke warme in the morning and one other at night Fourthlie you must take your pot of sixe Gallons and put in it sixe Gallons of running water and one pound of the wood raped and a quarter of Cummin seedes and decoct it in all kinde of thing euen as the other being close stopped and when it is colde straine it into an earthen vessell or vessels and that must the partie drinke at meale and at all other times when he list to drinke and spare not but draw it by Fiftly the sick body must be kept very warm and not rise out of bed before eight of the clocke and then eate a dozen or twenty Reisins of the Sun no bread but a draught of strong drinke warm and about eleuen of the clock let the sick bodie eate a litle meat as may suffise nature what meat it shal be here after shewed then let the sicke body walke somewhiles in his chaÌ„ber or read some booke or play on instrumentes to keep him from sleeping then at six of the clocke at night a dozen Reisins of the Sun nothing els but a draught of strong drink warmed Sixtly giue to the Patient to eate these meats following Chicken Partridge Fesant Hen Capon Rabbet Conie Veale Mutton none other nor any salt nor leauened breade nor Rie bread and very seldom roasted but boyled in water no broth nor porredge nor any kind of sauce if the sick body haue roste let it be but euery third meale and no kinde of fish milke or fruites Reisins excepted Seuenthly once in three daies for
the first 9. daies in the morning let the sick body drinke a good draught of the strong drinke somewhat warme then lay very many cloathes on him till he sweat for the space of two howres then ease some of the cloathes and haue warmed linnen cloathes rub al the body drie ere he rise if hee haue any sores that bee deepe wash the sore with strong drinke and with a searce and dip a litle cloath in the strong drink and lay it to the sore whether it be sore or knobs Eightlie after nine or ten daies be past once in three daies let the sicke body bee bathed on this sort Set faire running water on the fire and put thereto a great deale of ground Juie leaues and redde Sage and Fennell also and by a good fire when the sicke bodie is going to bed put the water and hearbes in a vessell of wood and let the sicke body stand upright in it by the fire and take up the hearbes and rush the body of the sicke Patient downwards and then drie him with warme cloathes vse this three weekes and by the grace of God the sicke bodie shall be made whole whatsoeuer hee bee then if the partie be verie weake after nine or ten of the first daies let him eat euerie day at foure of the clocke in the after noone a new layd Egge potched in faire water and as much new bread as will suffice nature and a litle cleane wine Use this diet with good regard as before is prescribed and by the grace of God they shall bee perfectly cured of the diseases aboue mentioned The maner to make another kinde of Diet drinke of stronger operation for the same diseases which by the practise only of one man hath done very great good aswell in the Citie of London as in diuers partes of the Realme Chap. 96. TAke of the best Guaicum most heauie and full of Gum foure pound let it be well raseâ— with a Rape or turned into fine chippes by a Turner and of the same barkes two pound of Cardus benedictus which is called the blessed Thistle half a pound of Maiden hair Cotrach the flowers of wild and garden Buglosse Ana one pound sweet Tassia sixe ounces Annis-seed one ounce and a halfe white Suger sixe pound cast all these unto a wine vessell cleane and apt for the same purpose vpon which poure of the cleanest and best white wine that may be got in quantitie one hundred and fiftie pound couer this vessell close three daies theÌ„ strain it through an baire cloath then keepe it in a cleane vessell for the Pacient at dinner and supper but not to drinke it in the morning and euening Besides the drinking of this Guaicum at dinner supper the pacient may between the times as one bower before or after dinner or supper drinke foure or fiue ounces Also your aforesaid receits may be put in clean new white or Claret wine being fiued and made in the prescribed maner Furthermore the Pacient that hath the Pox Dropsie or Gowt may drink among this worthy medicine following the dosse or quantitie is two ounces or more according to the age and complexion of the Patient Take Maiden-haire clean fresh Hops if Fumitorie Sitrach called Asplenum Sene of Alexand. of each three drams great Centaurie roots Liquorice Polipodie wilde and garden Buglosse each foure ounces Annis-seeves Nigella Romana the flowers of Buglosse the three Sanders Cinamon each five ounces put this into twentie foure pound of the Guaâ—cum water sodden after the description in the Compoundes following then put it in a close vessell and stoppe the mouth and when that is done set the said vessell in an other seething kettle vpon the fire so let it stande and seeth for twentie vowers faire and softlie then straine it and keepe it in a cleane close Vessell for the vse aforesaid But if the Pacient be full of humors then do thus take Sene Alexander two pound Succa Rosarum solatiua six pound white Suger seuen pound Rubarbe elected three ounces finely cut Turbit of the best one ounce put these in a clean stone pot with a narrow mouth poure into this pot xxiiii pounde of the common Guaicum water made in manner in the compounds following stop pour pots mouth seeth it in the foresaid manner vppon a soft fire xxiiii howers vntil it come to a thin sirop called Jelup then straine it and keepe this precious purging drink for mornings the dose one ounce and a halfe according to the age complexion and strength the Pacient must also eat bread three ounces well baked like Bisket and the flesh of Chicken Hen Capon Partridge Fesant small birds of the wood rosted excell sodden meates and if the common drinke be too strong then the Pacient may youre thereunto some smal clean Wine or Beere Let the Patient bee merrie kept in a faire cleane chamber with sweet perfumes not much feeding but litle and fine with cleane warm apparell and a fire of Char-coles eschewing Venerie wines fruites fish grosse 〈◊〉 â—ottage and white meats care anger cold much heat and by Gods helpe yee shall haue present remedie whether it be for the poxe or to cleanse the raines or for them that bee ouer fat or foggie people full of grose humours gotten with ease and feeding to rebate and asswage their fogginesse without hurt but rather renew them as it were and make them seeme yoong It helpeth also the Gowte Dropsie Sciatica Canker and Cympanie and many other lothsome diseases that proceed from ouer great aboundance of grose humours also for extreame paine in the iointes The maner to choose the best Guaicum or Lignum vitae Chap. 97. OF this wood Guaicum there are three kindes the first is blacke within in the heart pale coloured hauing in it russet lines verie hard and heauie The other black within but white without hauing verie small lines is harde and heauie and not so great as the first The third is all right white within and without hauing very small lines and the hart of this wood is the best the arme of the tree is better than the body the boughes neereâ— the fruites haue more vertue warmnesse and drinesse than the lower parts of the tree which are groser and more earthly of nature and the more vncteous the wood is it is the better the sap is not so good as the heart neither the bark as good as the sappe But the white 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sweet most excellent in operation and is Lignum sanctum the holy wood The barke of the straight yoong branches or boughes being heauie and white moist and without liues harde compacted be the best barkes for the Pore All these wooddes called Guaiacâ— have a Rosin or matter like Beniamin or pleasant grim within the wood which is the spirite or liuely helping humour in decoction for the Porzin the sinewes veines muskles head hands feet and the bones No sicknes is so sharp and cruell to nature