two ounces marmelad of quinces one ounce citron pill half an ounce one mirobalan embelic half an ounce of rob de ribes coriander prepared one dram fennel seeds anniseeds and piony roots each half a dram red coral one dram Mastich one scruple with sirrup of citrons make it an Electuary whereof take the quantity of a nutmeg after supper and dinner For singing and noise in the ears which causeth deafness Take white Hellebore Castoreum each two drams costus a dram and an half rue and marjoram each one dram bitter almonds five drams Euphorbium half a dram let them be bruised and boyled in wine over a gentle fire an hour then strain it and drop thereof into the ears and let the patient receive the vapour of this decoction into the ears or For noise in the Ears Take oyle of Bayes three ounces strong vinegar one ounce and a half Castoreum in powder half an ounce juniper berryes one dram and an half let them boyl in a close vessel till the vine gar be consumed then strain it through a cloth and drop of it into the ears but in all administrations to these parts observe his rule Never admit above three or 4. drops at a time of any medicine to be applyed into the ears for a great quantity especially of any oleaginous matter is hurtfull therefore alwayes let your applications be very liquid that they may the easier pass in and out and not stick within to offend the head and apply all things warm only neither hot nor quite cold and alwayes when you use any new medicine or dressing be sure to cleanse the parts well that no filth remain of the old For grievous pains in the Ears Warme new Milk is good to be dropped into the Ears so is the white of an egge being beat first into an oyle o liquor and the oyle of sweet almonds and the oyle of the seeds of white poppy A Composition for pain in the Ears Take of new Brest Milk if it can be had two ounces of the whites of eggs beaten half an ounce goose grease a dram mix and work them together and drop into the ear a drop or two at a time warme oyle of earth wormes is very profitable for this grief a drop or two thereof being dropped into the Ear. For the same an excellent experiment Take a great Onion and make it hollow and put therein of Castoreum and Euphorbium each half a scruple opium six grains and fill it up with oyle of bitter almonds oyle of dill or such like and rost it under the embers then press out the juice and strain it and use it a drop or two at a time For a Catharre The defluction of humours from the head to the inferiour parts is generally called a Catharre Those that would be acquainted with it let them contrary to their use but go wet and cold in their heads and feet they may quickly have a companion that they cannot be so soon rid of again It is usually the forerunner of a Consumption destroying the lungs by the distillation of humours like as rain dropping into an house through the roof rots the wood and timber and whatever it falls upon within To cleanse and evacuate the humour in a Catharre Take of the whitest Agarick half a dram of rhabarb a dram manna a half an ounce ginger a scruple and a half diagrydium three grains bruise and infuse them all in waters of annis and fennel each three ounces boyle it gently and strain it and in 4. ounces of the liquor dissolve two spoonfulls of solutive sirrup of roses and one spoonfull of cinnamon water and give it the patient warme in the morning Pills to suppress the Rheume Take of the mass of pills Cochie and Mastichine each one scruple Agarick trochscated a scruple and a half Trochis alhandali 4. scruples with the infusion of gum dragon in cinnamon water make it into pills and rowle them in the powder of lignum aloes and take one at a time using them often and that the matter may be driven downwards from the superiour parts take a scruple of these pills going to bed or more or less according to the condition of the patient and in the morning take as much more drinking after in a draught of Maligo wine For stoppings of the Breast and difficulty of Breathing Take Licorice half an ounce elecampane five drams raisins stoned and fat figs each one ounce jujubes half an ounce make of these a decoction in the waters of scabious and hyssop each half a pound flowers of the sloe-tree and anniseed each three ounces in seaven ounces of strained liquor dissolve of manna five drams and adde to it a spoonfull of cinnamon water strain it all through a linnen cloth and let the patient take half of it in the morning fasting and the remainder the day following A Drink to strengthen the Heart and resist Poyson Take Cinnamon two drams cloves nutmegs mace _____ grains cardamoms each one dram zeadoary three drams citron pills galanga cubebs long pepper each half a dram bruise them grosly and infuse them 24. hours in a linnen bag in two quarts of the best wine adding one pound of pure fine sugar whereof let the patient drink every day a draught before dinner For trembling of the heart Take of the five opening roots each half an ounce cichory one ounce bark of Tamariske citron pills each one dram and an half tops of wormwood cardus benedict sage each one handfull of the cordial flowers each one dram bruise them and infuse them in wine and drink of it as occasion requires A cordial Electuary to comfort the heart Take two handfulls of Borrage leaves as much bugloss one handfull of endive rosemary time savory hyssop each half an handfull boyle these in three pints of fair water till half be consumed then strain it and adde one pound and an half of sine sugar a few cloves half an ounce of cinnamon and a quarter of an ounce of ginger finely beaten then to boyl it to the thickness of honey and take as much as a hazel nut in a morning when need requires For the Ptisick an approved secret Take a pint of Honey and put to it an ounce of flower of licoris a quarter of a pound of currans bruised an ounce of sweet fennel seeds bruised and a dram of the flower of elecampane stir all these together over the fire into the honey and so reserve it for use taking the quantity of a nut at a time An opening Drink helping shortnes of Breath Take two quarts of running water put into it two handfulls of unset hyssop and tops of rosemary scabious lung wort and maidenhair each a handfull 10. figs sliced a root or two of elecampane boyl it to a quart and sweeten it with sugar candy and drink it as occasion requires A Diet drink to cleanse the bloud open the Liver and Spleen and is excellent against the Scurvy Dropsie and
Consumptions Take Egrimony speed well liverwort scurvy grass water cresses each a good handfull of monks rhabarb and red madder half a pound horse radish liquorice sassafras each 4. ounces sena 7. ounces sweet fenel seeds an ounce 4. nutmegs pick and wash the herbs and roots and bruise them and put them in a bag in three gallons of Ale letting it work in the Ale and at 4. dayes old drink a pint of it every morning and at 4. in the afternoon An excellent potion for the Plague in the Guts and all Feavers and distempers of Melancholly and adust Choler Take Sena 6. drams rhabarb two drams cremor tartari half a dram sweet fennel seeds a dram a little cinnamon infuse them all night in half a pint of white wine in the morning set it on the fire till a boyl and then strain it and dissolve in it over the fire an ounce of manna then strain it again and adde to it an ounce of solutive sirrup of roses and so drink it and about two hours after drink some thin broth For a Canker or any heat in the Mouth Take of red Sage and Rue each an handfull of sorel and groundsel each half an handfull cut the herbs small and stamp them in a wooden mortar then take roach allom the quantity of a walnut white coperas as much as a hazel nut and burn them together take also as much coperas and allom unburnt stamp this with the herbs very small then boyl them in a pint of running water with three spoonfulls of English hony till half be consumed then let it run through a strainer into an earthen veslel when it is cold put it in a glass and when you use it you must gargle with it hot 3. times aday you may lay some of the herbs that remain in the strainor to the forest places if you see cause For the htat of the Vrin. Take the rinds of Hazel sleep them in ale or beer and drink it for your first and last draught every day and at any other time of you please Another for the same Distill Purslain in a common still and drink of that water a quarter of a pint every morning sweetned with white sugar candy For a Strain causing one of spet bloud Take a pint of good Sack and set it on the fire and put into it a good piece of fine sugar let it so stand till it be ready to burn burn it not then brue into it the yolks of 4. new laid eggs strain it bruing it continually till it be like a cawdle then drink a draught thereof first and last both morning and night Sirrup of Comphrey is likewise very good for the same purpose Another for a Strain The powder of Corral and powder of rock amber beads each half a dram make them up into past with a little gum dragon conserve of red roses this you must eat morning and evening and be ware of violent stirring wine women and meats with pepper For a Flux Put one ounce of whole Pepper into a quart of new milk boyl it unto a pint and drink half a pint thereof every morning and fast three hours after it For the Pin or Web or any other Rheum in the Eyes Take two new laid Eggs make a hole in the crowns put the whites into a sawcer then put away the yolks and take one of the shells and wash it with fair water and put half the white into it then put in as much white coperas as a peace and so much roch allome then fill the egshell up with the rest of the white the hole of the crown of the egge must be no bigger then a two pence that you may put it up with a little white dow then wrap it in wet paper and rake it up in warm embers till it be very hard and if it be an hour in rosting it is the better then strain it very hard through a strong cloth drop one drop of this water into your eye lying on your back morning and night and also at 4. of the clock if need be Another for the Eyes Take of Hogs grease very new 2. ounces steep it in rose water six hours then wash it twelve several times in good-whitewine wherein lapis caluminaris hath been quenched 11. times let the grease sleep six hours in the last of the wine then take Tutia well prepar'd and finely powder'd one ounce of the stone Hematitis well washed a scruple of aloes well washed and made into powder twelve grains powder of pearle three grains mix all this in your grease with a little fennel water till it come to a perfect salve put as much as an ordinary pins head into the corners of both eyes next the nose and anoint the eyelids therewith when you are in bed For Rheume in the Eyes Take white Archangel flowers and put them into sallet oyle and heat them upon a chasing dish with coals and lay them to the nape of the neck as hot as you can suffer them For blear'd and watry Eyes Take a quarter of a pint of the purest running water and put it into a vial of glass and put thereto 2. drams of the best white coperas being first beaten into very fine powder then put thereto three or 4. spoonfulls of red fennel water or for want thereof as many of the newest sprigs of red fennel growing next the root this being done lute up your vial close and set it in a skillet of fair water and warme it so till it begin to boyle then take it out and so keep it for your use let the patient morning and evening have a drop dropped into the eye For a pin or Web in the Eye Take Nightshade Balme red nettles and vervain each a like quantity and a good handfull of bay salt and beat them altogether and if the right eye be sore lay it to the left wrist and so on the contrary If you make it in May or June it will keep all the year For Heat in the Eyes Take the white of a new laid Egge beat it very well then let it stand and settle and take a spoonfull of the clearest thereof and as much breast milk and so much red rose water as both of them mingle them together put them into a glass and when you use it warme a little thereof bloud warme and dip two rags folded three or four times double being very fine and bind on the eyes when you go to bed and in the day time wash therewith your eyes as often as you please A Water for sore Eyes Take six drams of Tutty made into fine powder as much aloes in powder as much fine sugar a pint and a half oâ— whitewine as much white rose water put all these into a pottle glass stop it very close and sun it a month shaking it very well twice or thrice a day and so keep iâ— for your use An Electuary for a Consumption Take Elecampane roots one pound
wash and scrape them clean cut them i◠little square pieces then take of radishe◠one quarter of a pound slice them thi◠and as many wardens as the weight o◠both these slice them thin likewsie mingle them altogether laying them in laine◠in a pipkin and put between every lain◠of them some honey lute up the pipki◠close with past bake it in an oven with houshold bread A pint of Honey may be enough for this when it is cold beat it to a pulp in a stone mortar and take it at night an◠mornings as an Electuary A Julip for a Consumption or any weak body Take a Capon that is fleshy and not fat dress him clean cnt him into about ten pieces wash him in white wine cut every piece by it self put into every piece a small skewer that the flesh may not touch the bottome then put them into a jugge with a narrow mouth that will hold three pints or a pottle then put to it twenty raisins of the sun stoned 4. dates quartered two large maces a sprig of rosemary stop it up close with a cork then lute it with paste and tye a cloth over that also that no aire get in then set the jugg in a pottle of water set bricks about it that it may not stir so let it boil six hours at the least keep the pot full of water to the neck of the jug which may be done by having other water ready heated to fillit then take it out of the pot and when it hath cooled half an hour pour out the julip if there be any fat in the top take it off put to this ten grains of amber grease in powder stir them together and so put it up in your glass and take three spoonfulls of this at a time warme◠when you go to bed if the patient be to◠hot put less or leave quite out the ambe◠grease An electuary for the Consumption of the Lungs Take a pint of Hony set it on th◠fire and skim it clear put thereto two or three ounces of searc'd licoris as much anniseeds well dryed half a grain o◠long pepper the lungs of a Fox beate◠and searc'd two or three leaves of Col◠foor cut like Tobacco and a quarter o◠an ounce of the root of burdock boil th◠till it grow somewhat gluttinous tak◠hereof on a knives point morning an◠night in your bed and other times yo◠please letting it go leisurely down For a Cough or shortness of breathing Take a quart of running water boyl◠therein a handfull of unset Hyssop till 〈◊〉 come to a pint strain it and put thereto 〈◊〉 quarter of an ounce of licorice sliced half a handfull of raisins of the sun sliced two figs two dates sweet-fennel seeds and anniseeds half an ounce boyl these till almost half be consumed then let it run through a strainer and sweeten the liquor with white sugar candy to your liking so drink of it four spoonfulls at a time bloud-warm in the morning a quarter of an hour before you rise and at night when you are in bed lie on your back and let it go leisurely down A Sirrup for a Consumption and the Cough Take two hanefulls of Elecampane slice it thin boyl it in fair water half an hour shifting it two or three times then take two or three handfuls of coltsfoot two or three hand fulls of liverwort one of hartstongue and two handfulls of egremony one of maidenhair a quarter of a handfull of maiden hyssop an ounce of China roots sliced two ounces of licorice sliced a spoonfull of anniseeds a good handfull of raisins of the sun stoned 4. or 5. figs sliced two spoonfulls of French barley bruised and boiled in two or three several waters put all these into a pottle of running water boi◠them untill more then half be consumed and strain the liquor from the drugs and put in your elcampane boiled before and a pound and a half of sugar boil it to a sirrup and keep it in a galley pot for your use Another for the like Nettle seed and Elecampane dried and beaten small and make them into an Electuary with honey and give the patient every morning A China broth for the Consumption Take three quarts of fair running water put it in a pipkin and set it over the fire till it be ready to seeth then take it off and put into it a small handfull of China and another of Sassafras chips then stop it up close and let it infuse upon embers 24. hours then take a middle sized Cock chicken and flea off the skin and cut it open in the back and take out the garbage and beat it with a pestle let it touch no water but put it into the China liquor and put to it six or seven leaves of colts foot and a little maidenhair thirty raisins of the sun stoned and a little stick of mace then let these boyl together till half be consumed let it be strained again very hard set it on the fire boyl it and skim it again make it sweet with sugar and lemons or sower as rhe patient likes it and let him take of this a good draught morning and evening and at four of the clocke in the afternon if he please For the Chin Cough Take a handfull of Rue and stamp it then mingle it with English honey and make it into a kind of Conserve give it mornings and evenings and afternoons and nights to bedward as much at a time as a damosin Another Roast an Egge rare dress it and put as much flower of brimstone into it as will lie upon a twopence mix it well together and let the patient sup it every morning fasting A Broth for the Spleen Take of Couch or grass roots succory roots and fennel roots of each half an ounce of the bark of caper and bark of tamarisk each two drams currans and capers washed from the salt each three drams boyl these in the belly of a chicken with a branch of time and put in the bottome of a white loaf in the boiling For a Flux Take bark of an Oak from the tanners grind it to powder and searce it put it into new milk and byl them very well together eat of this pap every morning and what other time you please Another being also good for a weak back Take Bread that hath been baked half a year at the least grate it put it into a quart of new milk with a good stick of cinnamon and a good piece of isinglass boyl it to a pint and thereof morning and evening you may eat what you please For a weak back or the whites Take an ounce of Cinnamon one ounce of white comphrey roots one ounce of polipodium of the oke three ounces of white sugar candy make all these into powders then mingle them together and take so much at a time thereof as will lie upon a sixpenny piece every morning for the space of
five dayes and so likewise in the afternoon and drink a draught of red wine an hour after every taking this may be taken longer if there be cause A Plaister for swelling of the Stones Take a pretty quantity of Cows dung and seeth the same in milk then make a plaister thereof and lay it meetly hot upon the swelling Another Take Comminseed Anniseed and Fenegreek of each a like portion seeth them in ale and stamp them and temper them with fresh May butter or a little oyle of olive and so apply it to the sore Another for swelling in the Stones in the beginning of the grief If there be much inflammation in the Cods you may make an ointment of plantain the white the yolk of an egge and apply it to the grief twice or thrice in a day when the pain is intollerable and the party of good age and of a strong complexion if the premises will not help make a plaister after this sort viz. Take Henbane leaves a good handfull mallow leaves a handfull and a half seeth them well in clear water then stamp them and stir them and with a little of the broth bean flower barley flower oyle of roses and camomile sufficient make it up and put it on the swelling lukewarme henbane is good as Avicen saith to dissolve the hardness of the Stones by a secret quality Take new Milk and white bread grate it mallows and red rose leaves of each a handfull then chop them and boil them together till it be thick then put in honey and common turpentine spread it on a cloth and apply it to the sore Another Take a quart of fair water half a pint of oatmeal two handfulls of smalledge half a handfull of red nettles boil all these well together being first chopt and put in about a quarter of a pound of sheeps suet minced stir them well on the fire and apply part thereof as hot as the patient can suffer it For an Ague in the Breast as also to dry up the Milk Take good Aquavite linseed oyle warm them in a dish upon a chafingdish with coals dip therein two cloths cut fit for the Breasts and lay them on the Breasts as hot as can be endured lay also a little lump of flax two under each arme being well dryed and warme and so dress the Breasts therewith both morning and evening For a Swel'd Face Take Rosemary leaves mince them boil them with milk and oatmeal to a pultice then put thereto a spoonfull of honey apply it as oft as there is cause and as hot as the patient can suffer it For any ordinary Soreness Take a pint of Ale yest as much groundsel as comes to 2. or 3. handfulls and as much houshold leven as the quantity of an egge set the yest upon the fire and then crum the leven into it and let it boil a little while then put in the herbs and the roots of them and let it be boyled thick and lay some of it on a cloth every morning and this will both draw and break and heal For a Fistula Take a handfull of Sage wash it pick and shred it boil it in a pint of milk till it be tender then take a pennyworth of flax seed beat it to powder and when the sage is tender thicken the milk with the flaxseed when it is bruised put thereto a pennyworth of oyle of roses use this two or three dayes twice aday For a Felon or Boyl Take half a pint of new Milk and put some grated bread into it boil them together then put thereto a handfull of smalledge and as much southernwood being chopped fine so boyl them to a pultice when it is boiled stir into it almost a spoonfull of castle soap scraped Sirrup of Sider Take of French Barley one spoonfull boil it in several waters of madder root asperagus root red dock root each two drams thin sliced Ceterach epithimum each half an ounce polipody six drams maidenhair two pugills the tops of hops a quarter of a handfull egremony and fumitory each half a handfull sweet fennel seeds anniseeds each one dram bruised mechoacan one dram and a half the juices of 4 handfulls of scurvy grass of two handfulls of watercresses infuse all these in 3. pints of sider made of pippins pearmains one night in the morning boil them over a gentle fire untill a pint or thereabouts of the liquor be left strain it thorow a linen strainer into a bason Take three ounces of this decoction and infuse into it being warm half an ounce of the best Rha. thin sliced and two scruples of chosen cinnamon bruised 24. hours in a silver cup well covered the next morning strain out the liquor from the Rha. put into the rest of the former decoction This decoction being mixed with the infusion and juices put into a skillet with a pound of powder sugar and the white of an egge well beaten and mixed with some of the liquor this don set it on a fire of hot coals when it boils up take it from the fire and strain it through a cotten strainer then the skillet being clean washed again put in your liquor and let it boil over a gentle fire unto the consistence and height of a sirrup The dose or quantity to take of this Sirrup may be one ounce and a half every morning and it will be the more effectual if you adde one scruple of Cremor Tartari For a Burn or Scald Take three handfulls of the green rind of elder as much green goose dung beat these and boil them a pretty while in a pound of fresh butter strain it out very hard and keep it in an earthen pot stir it till it be almost cold and when you use it melt thereof and anoint the sore with a feather and lay a primrose leaf next the sore Another Take Barrows grease sengreen chop them and bil them altogether then strain it and use it For the Mother Take a great red Onon and cut a round hole therein and fill it with black soap and roast it in embers till it be soft and apply it to the navel as hot as may be For the same Give the patient a good draught of fair water and wheat flower mingled together and burn partridge feathers before them in a chafing dish with coals A pretious ointment good for all kind of Sciaticaes dry itches strains of sinews or veins for any scalding with gunpowder shingles blisters venoms Take Organy mints thyme hyssop spike leaves and flowers wormwood feather few orpen sage vervain costmary betony mary golds stems and flowers of each of these a good handfull and of valerian two good handfulls take the tenderest part of these leaves from the hard-stalks stamp them very small and seeth them in a clean pan with two pound of barrows grease finely tryed and 4. ounces of deers suet stir it diligently the space of an hour then strain it into a clear pan let it stand all night
next morning let out the water underneath the ointment taking none but the purest of it set it on the fire again melt it skim it clear put thereto 4. ounces of deers suet then take it of let it stand all night as before then warme it a little then pour it out on a clean board cleanse the bottom of it very clean so you may keep it for your use 7. years A Glister Take posset-drink a pint and a half boil therein Mallows violet leaves and lettice of each half a handfull camomile flowers and a little anniseeds bruised let it boil half away strain out the liquor very well and put thereto sirrup of roses and sirrup of violets of each two spoonfulls course sugar three spoonfulls so make a Glister Another Take Mallows beets mercury violet leaves pellitory of the wall and course wheat bran of every one a handfull of camomile flowers or the leaf it self half a good handfull of fennel seeds bruised two spoonfulls boil them in a quart of fair water till more then half be consumed then strain it well and dissolve therein 4. spoonfulls of sallet oyle or for want thereof as much butter and two ounces of course sugar but if the party be troubled with wind you may adde thereto a spoonfull of bay-berries bruised and sheeps feet sodden with the wool on Another Take three quarters of a wine pint of Milk warme from the Cow keep it in the same temper by setting it in a skillet of hot water till you have dissolved therein two ounces of diacatholicon and two ounces of red sugar and put it into a bag c. Another Glister Take a pint of Milk a quart of beer and make clear posset drink thereof take off the curd then put therein of annis-seeds and sweet fennelseeds each two ounces boil these to half a pint or somewhat more strain it out very hard and put thereto two ounces of brown sugar candy and a little bay salt with two spoonfulls of oil of olive Another Take an ale-quart of Barley water made with cool herbs and raisins as you make it usually to drink set it on the fire then flea a small cock chicken being still warme and draw it break all the bones so put it into that water with a handfull of endive as much violet leaves a succory root and a parsley root one ounce of fennel seeds bruised boil all these to half a pint then strain it out hard and beat into it the yolks of two new laid eggs one ounce of sugar candy and two spoonfulls of oyle of sweet almonds and so apply it All these Glisters to be taken in the body neither too hot nor yet too cold as milk from the cow and unless in cases of necessity they are to be given about 4. of the clock in the afternoon and about two hours after the patient is to drink a draught of mace ale when it hath done working they must go warme and early to bed after a light supper For aches bruises gouts stiches lameness cramps c. Take Sage Rue of each one pound of wormwood and bayes each half a Pound sheeps suet clean picked three Pound all these must be stamped together till none of the suet be seen but all one then put thereto of oyle olive pure and sweet a pottle and work it well together and after put it into a fine bason and cover it and let it stand eight dayes and then take it out being mouldy as it is break it into a brass pan making a soft fire under it alwayes stirring it till the herbs begin to become cracking and hard and then take it off and set it a little while to cool then strain ir and when it is strained put into it an ounce of oyle of spike and anoint the geies therewith warme For the falling sickness Take that part of a womans Scull that groweth on the hinder part of the head it is whiterthen the rest of the scull beat it very fine and give the party in sirrup of violets as much as a pease at a time To draw the ague from any sore or in the leggs Take Wormwood and henbane each a handful shred them into a quart of milk put in a handfull of red rose leaves and as much beaten oatmeal as will make it a pultice a good quantity of swines grease and when it is well boiled apply it to the sore very hot For an old sore that runneth with thin substance Take a pint of running water and a pint of whitewine vinegar boil therein a new piece of hollan thus bath with this liquor a place a hands breath above the sore and lay the cloth on the same place and this you must do morning and evening untill the cure be wrought For swelling of the knees or any other place that cometh of wind Take a quantity of Sack put therein some rosemary and a little pepper grosly beaten put them all into a stone jugg stop it close and let it boil softly until half be consumed then bath the place therewith that is grieved as hot as may be then dip a linnen rag and bind it on the place two or three times aday keep it warme To dissolve any knob or hard swelling in the face or elsewhere Take of the whitest Frankinsence and the white of an egge beat them to a salve in a stone mortar spread a plaister therewith and so apply it to the place grieved Unguentum aureum A prectious oyntment for all manner of aches and bruises and also for the gout 1. Violet leaves and flowers 2. Primrose leaves and flowers 3. Cowslip leaves and flowers 4. Elder leaves and flowers 5. White Lilly flowers 6. St. Johns Wort. 7. Rag-wort 8. Mug-wort 9. Sage 10. Neppe 11. Smalledge 12. Margerome 13. Lavender 14. Southernwood 15. Rosemary 16. Rose leaves blown 17. Rue 18. Lavender-Cotten 19. Featherfue 20. Tansie 21. Lovage 22. Mynts 23. Camomil 24. Thyme 25. Clarye 26. Oak of Jerusalem 27. Penniroyal 28. Safron of the willow 29. Hyssop 30. Balme 31. White Mynts 32. Marygolds 33. Piony leaves 34. Bay leaves 35. Dill. Take of each of the above named herbs and beat them in a mortar and put them in a pan with a pottle of sweet sallet oyle and a quart of white wine then set it over the fire and let it boil softly untill the wine be consumed stirring it all the while then take it from the fire and let it cool then strain it through a linnen cloth and keep it in a glass and when you anoint herewith you must chafe it in by the fire and apply next to the place the bladder of a hog that the cloth drink not up the oyle For a Ringworm in the neck Take hounds dung that is white and dry stamp it put it in an earthen pot with wine untill it be thick spread a plaister therewith an lay it on the sore and let the patient bloud under the tongue For the Sciatica or other
ach Take a quart of the oyle of Trotters and put thereto three handfulls of neppe two handfulls of camomil boil them all on a soft fire till it be very green then strain out the herbs and put into it an ounce of ginger finely beaten and searced and stir it together as it cooleth chafe the place that is grieved against the fire with this ointment both morning and evening For a Scarre felstered with bloud Taka Liturgy of gold 4. ounces oyle olive young swines grease each of them two ounces green coperas a quarter of an ounce ceruce half an ounce seeth them altogether on the fire continually stirring them with an ashen stick the bark pilled off put it being in the boiling three ounces of white wax when it â—â— boiled to a pure white take it off stâ—â— stirring it till it be cold then anoint youâ— hands with oyle and work it up by rollâ— wrap it in an oyled paper and keep it in â— close box A green salve to heal any sore Take Beares grease white washed and well drained half a pound of the leaves and flowers of S. Iohns wort of knot-grass of each of these a handfull of ashen leaves to handfulls beat them first very small and then mingling them with the grease beat them again and boil them stirring them a good space then put in two ounces of yellow wax and a spoonfull of turpentine so let them boil a little c. A Salve for a new wound Take Elecampane english to bacco the great orpin Jacobs ladder each half a handfull beat these in a mortar very fine then put to them above half a pound of barrows grease beat them well together untill the grease be very green and then set them on a soft fire a good space stirâ—ing it continually then put to them yellow wax and rozen of each one onnce â—urpentine a spoonfull camphire and alâ—oes of each a little quantity boil them â—ltogether then take them off and strain them c. A medicine for the Ague to apply to the Wrists Take leaves of red Sage as much rue and about twenty leaves of stock gilliâ—lowers cut all these very small upon a trencher then take two pieces of calves deather about 4. fingers breadth c. and spread the same with venice turpentine and upon the turpentine spread the aforesaid herbs and upon the herbs you must scrape a nutmeg so lay it to the wrists an hour before the fit and when you perceive the fit to be coming let the party eat a toste sopped in aquavite and pepper An approved mediciue for the Grâ—â— Sickness Take one ounce of the filings of steâ—â— and lay it in soak 4. dayes in the best wiâ—â— vinegar then set it before the fire to drâ—â— and then beat it to powder and searce â—â— very small then take two ounces of aniseeds and beat them and searce theâ— small and one ounce of fine sugar beateâ— and searced then mingle them together and put into it a spoonfull of fine powder of red coral there must be twice aâ— much of these anniseeds and sugar aâ— there is steel to be done by weight They must take it in a morning fasting as much as will lie upon a kniveâ— point at three times and as much morâ— two hours before supper and use modeâ— rate exercise after it till they sweat andâ— when they have done all then take â—â— purge Purging-Diet Ale for the Dropsie Scurvy to open the Liver and Spleen Take Dock roots madder roots horse radish roots smalledge roots poâ—pody of the oak sarsaparilla caper tamarisk roots of each 2. ounces of agrimony maidenhair ceterack tamerisk â—curv ygrass brooklime water-cresses green wormwood each one good handâ—ull sena six ounces hermodactills and mechoachan thabarb agarick each one â—unce anniseeds sweet fennel seeds â—oots of fassafras and licorice each one â—unce cinamon ginger mace each â—alf an ounce prepare these and put â—hem into a thin bolter bag with two â—adds of steel and hang in 4. gallons of new ale letting them work together with a pint of the juice of sea scurvy grass and as much of water-cresses They are to drink morning and evening large draughts so as to work 3. or 4. times daily also morning and evening to take two or three pills of steel Bleed the patient first at the liver right arme vein and let out seven ounces of bloud c. To purge the Spleen Take Ceterack liverwort miden hair of each a handfull polipody of tâ—â— oak six ounces sena bark of capers â—â— marisk ash and bay each one ounâ—â— and roots of fennel licorice and smâ—â— ledge as much seeds of sweet fenneâ— and nettles each two drams boil aâ— these in two quarts of the juice of scunâ—â— grass and watercresses till all be verâ— thick keeping it clean skimmedâ— then strain it and infuse in it over a gentâ— fire of rabarb thin sliced one ouncâ— ginger sliced two scruples safron a dramâ— strain it very hard and set it over the firâ— again and put into it half a pound oâ— prunes clean washed with a pound and â— half of sugar and a branch of rosemaâ—â— being stewed take 4. or 5. spoonfullâ— and 3. or 4. prunes in the morning and at going to bed Agreen salve for any kind of ach sore strain bruise or wound Take two pound of Mutton and Beeâ— suet tryed together and two pound of yellow rosen two pints of neats-foot â—oyle and as much verdigrease bruised as â—will cover it and put them altogether into a brass kettle and set them over a cleer fire to boil a good pretty while and stir it till it be well melted and turn green then â—ut the clearest of it out into a pipkin and so it will keep a year or two if you will have it to draw a sore you must put a little more rozen into it if it be to anoint any part that is bruised or streined or any â—ch then you must chafe it in with your hand against the fire and lay a warm cloth upon it c. Probatum The yellow Salve good for any Sore Take Turpentine and Rozen each two ounces and bruise them very small and put them into an earthen red pipkin of bees wax one ounce cut it very small of neats-foot oyle two ounces set them all on hot embers stir them so as they may incorporate skim it very clean and take heed they boil not A Drink for the Rickets Take a handfull of the bark of Ivy â—â— much of the bark of ash a good handfâ—â— of tamarisk put it into two gallons â—â— beer and when it is a fortnight old lâ—â— the child drink it with meat and at â—â— times for six weeks or two months sprinâ— and fall To this quantity of drink slice aâ— ounce of Rhabard and put it in with thâ— bark A Direction for the Plague Take three pints of malmsey or â—â— Muscadell and boil therein sage and ruâ— each a handfull till a pint be wasted theâ— strain
it and set it over the fire again anâ— put to it three penniworth of long pepper and half an ounce of ginger and â— quarter of an ounce of nutmegs all beâ—en together so let it boil a little altogether then put therein 4. penniworth oâ— mithridate two penniworth of treaclâ— and a quarter of a pint of the best angâ—lica water Keep this carefully and take of it morning and evening a spoonfull or two if you be already infected and swear upon it if not then take once aday one spoonfull half in the morning and half in the evening all the plague time this is if God please sufficient for there was never man woman or child that it deceived It is not only good for the common Plague called the Stiches but for the small Pox Measles Surfets and other the like diseases The Snail Water Take a peck of garden Snails and wash them in a great bowl of beer Then make your chimney very clean and pour out half a bushel of charcole on the fire when they are kindled throughly then with a shovel make a hole and pour in the Snails scutter some of the fire amongst them and so let them roste as long as you hear them make a noise then take them out and with a knise and a course cloth pick them and wipe all the green froth from them very clean then put them into a stone mortar and bruise them shells and all take also a quart oâ— earth wormes slice them and scour them with salt then wash them and beaâ— them to pieces in a stone mortar then the pot being made very clean upon which you set your Limbeck put them into it and about two handfulls of angelica laid in the bottom and two handfulls of selendine upon that then put in a quart of rosemary flowers and also put in of rosemary flowers and also put in of egrimony bearsfoot dock roots of the bark of barbara tree woodsorrel and betony of each two handfulls rue half a handfull fenegreek turmerick each an ounce saffron well dryed and beaten to powder the weight of six pence then pour in three gallons of the strongest ale you can get great measure and cover your pot and let it stand so all night in the place where you mean to put fire under it in the morning then put to them three ounces of cloves beaten to powder before you put fire to it and put thereto six ounces of harts-horn grated or filed to powder before you weigh it you must not stir it after the harts horn is put into it least it go down to the bottom then set on the limbeck and receive your water in pints or it may be distilled in balneo the first water is the strongest and it must be received by it self the last is the smallest and may be amended by putting in of the strongest when it is used The water must be given to the patient in the morning who must fast two hours after it and not sleep but use moderate exercise upon it or it may be given bet wixt meals two hours before each meal he must take two spoonfuls of the strongest with 4. spoonfulls of ale or white wine and when you give the smallest sort you may give as much water as drink A Purge yet comfortable both for the Spleen and Liver Take a knuckle of Veal and cut away all the flesh and fat then break all the bones and wash them very clean put it into a pipkin to a gallon of water set it a seething scum it so long as any thing will arise then put to it a quarter of a pound of raisins of the sun stoned and half as many currans two fennel roots three parsley roots one succory root half a handfull of burrage as much succory and endive a like quantity of violet leaves and straw berry leaves half a handfull of liverwort as much scabius let all these boil together till half of the broth be consumed then take it off the fire put into it half an ounce of the best sena a quarter of an ounce of epithimum half an ounce of tamarisk then set it on hot embers and let it infuse three hours then take it and strain it into a bason and take it for your use this will serve 4. dayes to take warm at seven of the clock in the morning and at 4. in the afternoon For any pain in the Ears Take a quart of new Milk and put therein a good quantity of cloves bruised as will make it strong then set it on the fire in a clean skillet and let it boil till it hath taken all the strength out of the cloves then take it boiling hot off the fire and put it into a narrow mouthed pot and hold it to the Ear of the party that the sume may go into the head and if it be cold heat it again use this for an hour together or more as you shall find cause Te heal a Fistula or any old Canker or Sore Take a gallon of Smiths water strained through a cloth then take half a grain of white coperas and 4. penniworth of camphire boil them together till the third part of the water be consumed cleanse it into a bottle or glass if it be a fistula cleanse it with a squirt and so wash it to the bottom dip a cloth in the water being warmed and lay upon it roul above and beneath the place that it go no further if it be not an open sore or a canker only wash it and dip a cloth and lay it on warm and dress it thrice aday and by Gods grace it will heal it A General Cordial for the Catharh and Consumption The particulars are these Avens mousear verven S. Johns wort red sage plantain hyssop herb John violet leaves betony in the wood rosemary smalledge seed an ounce two ounces of elecampane roots sliced thin worm wood marygold and the leaves balm of the finest spearmint Take of each of these herbs a pound weight and infuse them in nine gallons of strong ale a day and a night then draw it through a limbeck and you shall have an excellent water which when you purpose to drink of it put in some sugar It is good generally for any disease of the head and body and much strengthening the stomach drink it at all times as you will drink strong water and God bless it to you Amen For Swelling in the Knees Take Rue and Burrage and stamp them together with hony and so apply it to the Knees A purging Diet-drink good against the Scurvy Dropsie and also to restore and strengthen the body to be used spring and fall Take Sassafras lignum rhodium and mace each half an ounce china roots one ounce licorice six ounces anniseeds 4. ounces Roman wormwood sage rosemary betony balm mugwort tormentil roots Lady mantle egrimony clotsfoot sanacle mouseare scabius herb Robert ragwort marsh mallow roots and columbine roots of each of these one
ounces melt that which is to be melted and pound that which is to be pounded and sift it fine and boil them over the fire and then strain them through a canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine then boil them all with the other ingredients together then let it cool to bloud warm then put to them a quarter of a pound of turpentine stirring it till it be thorough cold and make it up in rolls and keep it to your use as the best and most precious salve that can be made The Virtues This medicine is good for all manner of diseases that are written hereafter viz. for old wounds and it is most cleansing and well soken and gendreth flesh and healeth more in a week than any other in a month and suffereth no corruption in a wound nor no evill flesh to be gendred therein it 's good for the head-ach and singings in the brain for all manner of impostumes for sounding in the ears and sinews sprung or cut and draweth out a broken bone or thorn or any other thing that is in a wound it is good for biting or stinging of a venemous beast and it healeth all manner of botches without it is good for a fester canker noli me tangere it draweth out all ach of the liver spleen or reins healeth the emrods and is a good cearcloth for gouts and pestilent diseases Another flos Vnguentorum Take Rozen per rozen each a pound and half olibanum dears suet white wax of each 4. ounces mastich and mirtle each an ounce venice turpentine two ounces whitewine a pottle your wax and suet being finely shred must be first molten upon a soft fire then put in your rozen and per rozen and stir them well till they be melted then strain the stuff into a hot pan then have ready your olibanum mastich and mirrhe ground small and finely searced and let it all melt together your white wine being somthing warm pour in by little and little then take it from the fire and put in your turpentine and stir it and last of all your camphire being in powder and stir it till it be cold then make it up in rolls and keep it in red leather to your use The manner how to cut the Plaisters to cure these Diseases are For the Navel three inches square To stop the Flux of the Belly For the Reins six inches long and four inches broad For the Flux of the Reins For the stomach four inches broad and six deep For the wind or pain in the stomach For shortness of Breath or Tissick Take eight or nine heads of Garlick according to the constitution of the party peel and cut off the ends of each clove and put them into a pipkin with a quarter of a pound of butter unsalted boil it till the Garlick turn red then run it through such a thing as a milk strainer then put it into a pipkin again with a quarter of a pound of butter more unsalted and the best honey one pound boil it till the skim is well risen then take it off and skim it and strow in an ounce of the powder of Elecampane roots then let it boil three or 4. Walms take it off the fire and stirre in the powder of six penniworth of Saffron from the first to the last you must stirre it while it is boiling except the time while the skim of the Honey is rising eat the quantity of a small nutmeg every morning Scabs in Childrens heads Take fresh Butter and boil in it Sute of a chimney where there is no seacole burned till it be black and therewith anoint the head 't will heal it though there be holes that you may turn your finger in the head For a swelling or bruise Take elder stampt and fryed with chamber lye and fresh butter and laid all over taketh away the swelling or bruise For the Lungs and Gonorhea Take Craw fishes boiled in milk and eaten and the milk drank first and last and in the afternoon sweetned with sugar For a perilous Cough Take Sage Rue Comin and powder of pepper and seeth them in honey and make of them an Electuary and use then also a spoonfull evening and morning Stinging of an Adder or Snake Take and drink the distilled water of dragons or if you have none thereof the juice also stamp dragons and lay to the place c. To procure easie delivery Take Hyssop Vervain and Betony each one handfull stamp them very small and strain them in good stale Ale and let the patient drink a good draught and it will help her presently without danger To heal a Scald or Burn Take Barley meal with the juice of red fennel make a Plaister thereof and lay it on the sore and it will draw out the corruption and heal it To stay a Flux of Bloud Take Willow leaves and bark boil it in wine and drink it For the noise in the ears or Tongue swelled Boil Figgs in water and let the patient drink thereof To purge the Head with Sena Take Sena pul one ounce ginger one ounce twelve Cloves fennel seeds two ounces cinnamon and tartar each an ounce and a half pul omnes take therein white wine a dram after supper For Itch Scabs and the like Take and decoct Fumitory in Ale a quart then infuse in it sena an ounce and a half raisins of the sun stoned anniseeds bruised and a little ginger drink it with sirrup of roses Balsome for wounds swellings venomous bitings and apostamations old sores and fretting ulcers c. Take oyle of Olive a quart S. Johns wort betony centory and self-heal each 2. handfulls stamp them mingle them well and so let it still in a glass all summer and strain the oyle from the herbs and so use it adde to it tobacco flowers To heal watering Eyes Take red Rose water two ounces and put it into a bowl-glass then take male frankinsence put it on the point of a knife into a candle of virgins wax untill it begin to melt then still dip it in the water at least a hundred times untill it turn thick like balme distrain it through a sine linen cloth anoint your eyes therewith To expell Rheume in the face Take the white of an Egge beat to an oyle and skimmed then temper it with the wool of a Coneys skin to a plaister warm it on coals and apply it to the temples and the grieved place and bind it on fast with a cloth For the Collick or griping in the belly Take seed of Carduus benedictus stamped and drunk in posset ale or any other drink doth help the grief Passion of the Heart Take juice of Bugloss two ounces cleanse and purifie it at the fire mix it with white sugar candy two ounces and let the patient drink it every night going to bed ten nights together To purge Choler Take sirrup Violarum cum agaric infused in Barley water or broth of a hen Apurge for the Kings evil
Take Lignum Vitae 4. ounces infuse it on embers in 4. quarts of spring water 24. hours then adde to it Polipodian 4. ounces sena two ounces anniseeds and sweet fennel seeds each an ounce and a half burrage bugloss and For gloves each one handfull boil it away to the half then give 4. or 5. spoonfulâ— to a child every morning for eight daieâ— together sweetned with sugar For the Dropsie Take Broom Betony Balme each three handfulls put it into three gallons of ale-wort when it is ready to be stopt up let it stand a week and then drink it constantly a week together or a fortnight A Medicine for the Dropsie Take horse Radish roots sliced long wayes thin two ounces sweet fennel seeds bruised two ounces smalledge and fennel roots sliced each an ounce the tops of time winter savory sweet marjoram water cresses nettles each one handfull boil these in three pints of water and three pints of wine a quart of canary and a pint of muscadine close covered till half be consumed so remove it from the fire and let it settle 3. hours then strain it and into every draught put in one ounce of sirrup of the five roots it must be taken thrice aday in the morning and at three in the afternoon and fast an hour after it if the patient have the scurvy also adde to the draughts two spoonfulls of the juice of scurvy grass when the patient is ready to drink it The Oyntment for the Dropsie Take wal wort and Elder leaves sweet marjoram and water cresses penniroyal each one handfull cut and bruised and set them to seeth in a quart of sweet sallet oyle half an hour then let them stand in the vessel three dayes then again heat them and strain it hard out and put in as many more of the said herbs and seeth them as before and strain it do so the third time and keep them as an excellent oyntment let the swollen body be anointed herewith once in three dayes and that in the morning by a gooâ— fire stroaking it downwards an hoâ— together For a sore Breast in great anguish Take dung of Geese the newest you can get and a little leaven and a little time stamp them together and lay theâ— to the Breast For a Bruise Take red Nettles and a quantity 〈◊〉 bay salt bruise them together and laâ— them to the sore or bruise this is to laâ— to incontinently after one is bruised anâ— often changing it will take away the paâ— and heal the bruise To stay bleeding at Nose Take the bone of a Carps head keeâ— it till it be dry then beat it to powder and take a little of the bloud of the party and beat it to powder then mingle it together and put it in a little ale or beer anâ— let them drink it one or twice For the same Let the party drink wine Vinegar pint For a cold Stomach and hot Liver Take half a pint of white wine as much Fumitory water let them have one walme together and sweeten it with sirâ—up of violets take of it as you see cause For the Falling sickness Take Piony roots in ale pul drink it morning and evening take the jay powder in portage and drink ale before it An Oyntment for the spleen or a sprain or for wind or stitch in the side and good for a bruise An old Judge going from his horse back broke a vein and spit bloud and pist bloud and this oyntment cured him by anointing him Take S. John's wort two handfulls sweet marjoram sweet basil mints or speremints of the flowers of lavender spike and red rose leaves of each one handfull maudlin and wild time each half an handfull compound them well together in a stone mortar then put into them a pint of the best sallet oyle in a vessel close stopt and set it in a place where it may have moderate heat 14 dayes then strain it and put into it half a pint of malmsey nutmegs half an ounce large mace an ounce and a half and pretty quantity of cinnamon boil aâ— these together till the liquor be nigh hall spent and strain it out For pain in the Head Chew mace in your mouth and holâ— it that the fume may ascend and smell to spikenard For the same Take Vervain vinegar and honey mingle them well together and drink 〈◊〉 oftentimes fasting For the Megrim Seeth a little quantity of Aloes and mastick in whitewine and drink thereof Against Drunkenness Take before you drink twelve spoonfulls of Betony water and after drink as â—uch as you will For the falling sickness and Lethargy Take oyle of Castor to anoint the â—ead For a worm in the stomach Take Neppe stamp it and mingle it with white wine and give it the patient when he is grieved For scalding burning itch scabs scald head or any heat Take Butter unwasht melt it scalding not then pour it into fair spring water and with a spoon labour it and wash it untill the butter grow cold then gather the butter together and pour out that water and put fresh water to the butter till you find your butter very white then work your water out of the butter then work in the powder of brimstone finely beaten untill your butter be stiff and looks yellow with it then take camphire and the feed of pompeons clean picked and husked grind the camphire and them together and work it to the butter if you will skin any burn or seald with it adde to it the powder of a rotten post else not For the Piles approved Take a little piece of Scarlet and burn it and beat it to powder and searce it and put to it a little honey and anoint the part with a little piece of scarlet likewise take horehound and hagtaper in powder fasting 4. or 5. morning together For a Chin Cough Take the burre of an Eglantine tree and dry it to powder and drink it in posset drink Leaden Plaister Take two pound and 4. ounces of oyle of olive the best good red lead one pound white lead one ponnd beaten into dust spanish soap three ounces incorporate them in an earthen pot and when the soap cometh upward put it upon a small fire of coals continuing it an hour and a half stirring it with an iron stick then drop of it upon a trencher if it cleave not it is enough spread it on clothes or lay it on a board till it cools then roll it up it will last twenty years the older the better The Virtue of this Plaister The same laid on the stomach provokes appetite and takes away any grief in the stomach it s a present remedy for the Collick being laid on the belly and upon the back it 's good for the bloudy Flux Gonorr and all weakness in the back for women with child to wear all the time they are with child if they find any weakness it healeth all swellings bruisings and aches it breaks felons pushes and other