said hereafter in the remedies âf the stomack The Mouth Remedies for its diseases To destroy a stinking breath TAke three handfuls of Cummiâ beat them in a mortar to powder then take a pottle ãâã wine and put the powder into it and let it âethe till it come to a quart then drink first ând last of this wine by the space of fifteen âayes as you may suffer it Probatum est To make a sweet breath Take the juice of Mintes or the wateâ Rue Cummin Coliander Liquorice Cinââmon alike four ounces seethe all these ãâã wine and give them to drânk that hath ãâã stinking breath and surely it shall be sâeet Another for the same Take the powder of Sage one ounce ãâã mary blossoms three ounces Cloves and Gilââ flowers five drams Cinnamon one dram and half Nutmegs one dram and a half Musâ little quantity then take as much as is suâââcient to make the said Compositions into Corporation like unto Marmelade and eaââ this fasting and at night a little quantity aâ time so shall your breath be sweet And you go into any suspicious place of the peââlence or any other corrupt air if you take â this next your heart it shall defend you froâ the jeopardy thereof For stench in the mouth Take Pulial Mountain make powder thereof and eat it fasting Another Take Costmary drink it every day fastinâ wash thy teeth every night when thou goâ to bed with Vinegar Another Take the juice of Gladin with old wine and wash thy mouth every morning and evening Another Take Mastick and Incense and seethe it in sweet wine and drink thereof early and late Another for the stench in the Nose Take the juice of Mintes and put it into âhy Nose Another Drink the juice of Rue and five leaved Grass Another Take the juice of Ivy mingled with wine ând oyle Olive Probat To take away stinking of the mouth Ye must wash his mouth with water and Viâegar and chew Mastick a good while and then âash thy mouth with the decoction of Anniâeeds Mintes and Cloves sodden in wine Ye must wash your mouth before and after meat âith warm water for to cleanse the mouth ând to purge the humours from the Gums âhich descend out of the head it is good evâry morning fasting to wash your mouth and to âub the Teeth with a Sage leave pills of Ciâron or with powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs forbear Lettice Raw fruit all tart meats and the chewing of hard things Also âll meats of evil digestion and vomiting The Breast Remedies for distempers thereof Remedies for diseases of the breast And first for hâarsness of the voice ye ãâã avoid all eagâr salt and sâarp things anâ sleeping by day too much watching greaâ cold much speaking and too lâud crying ãâã sweet things are good as apples sodden wiââ Sugar great raisins Figgs Almond milk whiââ pills Sugar candy and the juice of Liqueriââ For a hoarse voice Take the broth of red Coleworte aââ mingle it with sâven or eight Penidies and aâ ounce of Syrup of Maiden-hair and give unââ the patient whân he goeth to bed Another Take Diairis simple and eat a Lozenge oâ the same at morning and at night For hoarsness of long continuance Take Raisins Figgs Sugar Cinnamon anâ Cloves of every one a little seethe them iâ good wine of the which ye shall give to drinâ morning and evening two ounces at a tiââ âxcept he have a fever It is good to take âorning and evening a fpoonful of the Syrup of Juâubes mixt with a root of Liquerice in âanner of a Lohoch A Syrup for Cough rheums Catarres and other like diseases Take Althaea leaves seven handfuls stamp them in a mortar then take a pot that will hold seven pints boil in it these âhings followâng Liquerice two ounces Sage Rosemary Carduâs benedictus figgs raisins barly flower of each a handful succory leaves and roots a handful let all these boil one hour and a half then let it cool so that you may strain it then take the water and put in two or three pounds of French Mallowes setting it to boil on the fire again three hours or more then strain it as you did before then take the decoction and set it on the fire with asmuch hony or little less taking off the scum when it hath boiled a good space adâ to it one ounce or as much as you wilâ of Cinnamon Then take it immediately from the fire putting it forth and covering it close This secret is so excellent that if a man use it in winter warming it when he taketh it it is not possible for him to be vexed with Câugh rhâum Catarrhes and like diseases A Medicine for the Cough Take the yelk of an Egg and put it into an emptie Egg shell and put to it five grains weight of the powder oâ Saffron and roste the same very rear and to bedward sup it off warm being well stirred together it cureth the Cough or giveth much ease Against the Cough Take Anniseeds Licquerice of each an ounceâ Hysop one handful sugar candy four ounces strong beer three pints boil altogether till half be consuâed then strain forth the simples and give the patient every night when he goeth to bed four ounces warm For an old Cough Take Elicampane roots and boil them tender then pound it in a wooden mortar then rub it in through an hair sieve then take clarifââd hony and lay a course in the bottom of a stean then a course of sliced wardens then a course of the Elicampane and so again as long as you please And then put the stean into aâ oven and bake them two or three hours then take it two or three times a day a spoonful at a time Another for a Cough with a rheum Take Brown sugar candy and put it pounded into a calves bladder and lay it in spring water 24 hours then cut the bladder and eat t with a Liquerish stick as the Cough doth trouble you âpreâerve Wallnuts for a cough or Consumption âake a pound of Walnuts before they be ãâã and paâe them very thin then steep ãâã in water a night then boil them in runââ or standing water until they be so tender âou may put an hard rush through them ãâã stick in each end of every Walnut a ãâã Then lay them hot togethâr in a ââney Bason then take a pound and a half âugar and strew upon them hot and cover ãâã and let them lie covered all night withâhe warmth of the fire And the next day ãâã them up and put them into a pot A good Syrup for an old Cough and it mundiâeth the breast and the Lungs and for pain under âhe side coming of cold âake Liquerice scraped and bruised two âceâ Maiden hair one ounce of Hysop dried ãâã an ounce put all this into four pintâ of ââing water and let them stand in that waâââ ãâã one day and one night and then seethe ãâã till
stone to make it sink and hang the drink and drink it in the morning fast ãâã g and at four of the clock in the afterââon Probatum Another for the stomack ââke cakes like apple cakes or Pasties in ãâã or May and fill them full of wormwood ãâã bake them hard the paste must be of âeat meal undrest and brew a stand of strong ãâã beer And when it 's turned and given ãâã e âurging âakââhe âakes when they be ãâã d and cut them into quarters and put ââem into the barrel and stop it up close and âhen it 's settled and clear drink a bowl full draught in the morning fasting and so use ãâã heat in the stomack which maketh the throaâ sore ââke an handful of Columbine Leaves and a âândfull of Cuarrnts boyl them in a pinâe of ââw milk then take out the Currants and the âeaves and shred them together And eat ââe Currants and the leaves and then sup the âilk as hot as you can The Liver Remedies for its disâempers Against stopping of the Liver called opilaâiâ DRink every morning the Syrup of Oxyââ sqyllitick wiââ half a dâaughâ oâ mo ãâã of the decoction of the roots of Smallâ Fennel and Parsely Another for stopping of the Liver Take Venice Turpentine to the quantity a bean and put it into a spoon until it doe m ãâã and then put there to a liââle white sugar ãâã let them eat of it every day fasting Take a good haâdful of iver wort tââ groweth upon stones and another of fumitoââ with as much hearts tongue and drink the every day twice The liver of an hare dryed good for all diseases of the Liver also for tââ heat of the Liver seethe Barberries in wheââ and drink them Remedy If it come of gross blood give the patieâ Medicins that do pierce and are suâtil as is wiââ of Pome-granates Srup of Endive with tââ decoction of Cicers Then let him blood ãâã the Liver vein and everymorning eat a Lââzeng of Triasanâali Sometime the said opilation cometh of ââbundance of somâ humour viscouâ coâd and ãâã egmatick stopping the veins of the âiver ââd then the Urine as clear as water and then ââe patient must use the Syrup above written â viz. Oxymel scylliticum A Iulep for heat of the Liver Take half a pound of rose water one quarââr of waâer of Endive and five ounces of ââgar make a Julep of which you shall drink ââsting a good draught And if he will needs ârink between meals Let it be mingled with ââo parts of the waâer of the wâll and if ye ââill have it more cooling aâd unto it two âunces of vinâger or the juice of Pomegraâate In stead of the said medicine too costââ for poor folk you may make bâles of half ân ounce of Cassia and three drams of the âlectuary de succo rosarum and eat it three âours after midnight and steep it and so drink ââ mix the said boles with whay or Eâdive âater and drink it at five in the morning but âeep not after it A drink to cool the Liver Take an ounce of Sena Alexandrina a farâhing worth of Anniseeds and a sarthing worth âf Liquerice and a dram of Rubarbe de Spain ând make a powder of the sâme with half an âunce of Polypodie of the oak when the âowder is fine boil it in three pints of white âine before you do put it in make ready âhree roots that 's a Fennel root a parsly root a Mallow root washed fair and clean bruise these three roots and boil them in white wine from three pintes to a pinte upon a still fire and be sâre to stir it about and let not the flame nor smoak come to it This purgeth the Liver and spleen then strain it through a clean cloth and drink in the morning fasting in the second day of M or the first day of Sagittariâs And when ye drink it take a brown toste and wet it in vineger and smâll to it fiet A good râcâipt for the dâopsie Take the salt of Wormwood three daies iâ a moneth a spoonful at a time and you shall feel the dropsie water fall into your leggs every time you may take it away by setting your leggs up to the knees in hot water To purge dropsie water abuâdantly for the shedding oâ nature called Gonorrhaaea verbatim out of Master Cogan Pag. 5. in Flower deluce Take a new laid Egg pouring out the white put into the yelk so much of the root of Flower deluce as was of the white after set the same Egg into the Embers which being sufficiently warmed sup off fasting in the morning And the patient shall after send forth aâuâdance of water and so be eased of the dropsie Or else you may take a dram or two oâ the dry root made into powder and drunk in wâay clarified âor its good also to pârâe the dropsie water And if you put a little Cinnaâon to the juice of Floweâ-deluce in the ââg yelk its a very good medicine for the ââdding of nature as hath been often proved For the Dropsie or Tympany Take the flower of Dane wort and of the âââves and distill them in a stillatory and ââânk four or five spoonful at a time with the ãâã er of Herb grace in six or seven spoonfuls ãâã white wine one spoonful of the water of âââb grace will serve This is the excellentest ââdicine one can give for this will void the ãâã er out of the belly by usage Probât by ãâã er for which propertie of daneworte Gerards Herball The Gall. Against diseases of the Gall. He gall is placed in the hollowness of the Liver to receive the superfluity of cho ãâã and to send it to the bowels to be avoid ãâã âith the grosse excrements to the intent to ãâã se the blood of the said choler To the ãâã ch cometh opilations in the parties about ãâã he liver or beneath it in it self nâxt the ãâã els causing great pain by reason whereof ãâã choler turneth again into the liver and ãâã e is mingled with the blood and spread ãâã ad into the veines of all the body and ãâã deth a disease named Iaundise Ictiritia If the Jaundise happen in an Ague befo ãâã the seventh day It is great danger of his liâe but if it appâar on the sixth day being a daâ judicial or critick of the âgu oâ after it is very good sign And thân ye must succoâ Nature with refreshing and diââsting the chââler with Syrup of violets given in the morââing Syrup of Endive with watâr of Cicho ãâã Aftâr this purge choler and then give hiâ a Lozenge of Triasandâl with Ruâarbe evâââ morning two hours before meat and d ãâã a little water of Endive and Cichory afore ãâã said Lozenge Moreover it is good to hath the Liver ãâã wash the patients eyes with vineger and ãâã mans milk anâ drink a Ptisan made of b ãâã I querice prunes and roots of Fennel ãâã
ãâã purged two times prepaâing fiâst the matteâ to digestion with Syrup of Staecados and duobus radicibus with the one half of vvaters of Sage primeroses and Marjerom in manner of spiced âulep with Cinnamon taken five continuaâ mornings tvvo hours after ye eat any otheâ meat And after that ye must receive a draââ of pills called Arthâeticae or Hormodactyl or oâ both together equal portions or take half ãâã ounce of Diacarthami tvvo hours after night and of Diaturbith of every tvvo drams vvitâ a little Syrup of Hyssop The rest of the said curation shall be accomplished with the applying of divers locaâ remedies whereof there be sundry sorts herâ declared ye ought to rub the place that is sorâ with oyl of roses and a little vinegar and after sprinkle upon the same fine powder oâ Myrtles Another plaster also as hereafter followeth A plaster for the gout Take the Emplaster called Melilot two ounces of Populeon an ounce and an half red roses myrtles and Flowers of Camomile of every one a dram make a plaster and lay upon the gouty ioynt Another Take oyl of roses crums of bread yelks of Eggs and cowes milk with a little Saffron seethe them a little together afterward spread them upon clouts and lay upon the sore Another Make Lye of the Ashes of Rosemary or of oak or of bean-stalks and boyl it in sage molâin prime rose Camomile and Melilor and receive the fume upon the sore place or wet clouts in the said decoction and lay them upon the pain All the said Remedies are very good to asswage the pain of the gout after the which done it is good to goe about the comforting of the joynts and sinews and to that intent apply oyl of Camomile and of Althea or Holihock oyl of a Fox oyl of earth wormes oyl of primerose turpentine wherewithal or with one or two of them ye may anoynt the sore place and comfort both the joynts and sinewes marvellously also this oyntment that followeth is singular good for the same purpose Tâke five or six handfuls of Walwort and seethe them wel in wine then strayn them and with a little wax oil of spick and Aqua vitâ make an oyntment wherewith ye must anoynt the place morning and evening every day Medicines for the gout appropriate in all cases Take Cowes dung and seethe it in sweet milk and lay a plaster to the gout hot aâso the yelks of eggs womans milk linsâed and Saffron altogether in a plaster swageth the diseases of the gout And if ye be disposed to break the skin and so let the humors issue as by such many one is easâd ye shall make a plaster of bâack sope and Aqua vitae which will blister it withâut any great pain Also very old hard cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gamon of bacon and afterward stamped with a little of the brâth and made in manner of a plaster is a singular remedy for diseases of the gout and was first practised by Galen the prince of all Physicians A Medicine to ease the gout and to bring down any swelling in feet leg âr arm Take a quart of milk fâom the Cow and crum into it a peny white Loaf and put into ãâã asmuch Dears suet as a pullets egge and boyl ât to the thickness of a pultis and spread it wâll and thick on a cloath so broad as will cover the gâie and renew it once in twenty four hours and if your paân cease not use it so as long again and it will cure the grief and draw out streaks oâ blood This medicine cured one in such extremity and pain of the gout when he continually crved and could neither go nor ride and never grieved since so perfectly was he cured For lâgs swollen of any manner of disease Take pellââory and seethe it well in white Wine and wash the legâ in the water and lay the Herbs about the Lâgs plasterwâsâ and it will asswage within five hours Pâobatum est For the gout Take half a peck of snails a quart of bay salt and put them in a bowl and bruise them together then take them and put them in a bag and let them drop in any thing so you preserve the oyl To cure and ease the gout Apply to the gouty place a pultiss made of barly and brooklemp hot in the time of extremity and let it lye twenty four hours A pultis of barly to asswage swelling in the legs to moâlifie the hardness Boil in a gallon of water one quart of hulled barly very tender and put therein a good Allume stone and being tender drain the water from it and to bedward lay it on a cloth a good thickness and lay it over the swelling reasonable warm leeting it lie twenty four hours and uâe it three or four dayeâ togetheâ Probat For the Gout Take Caro Costinum an ounce and dissolve ãâã in white wine and drink it about half a pint and use the partie as after a purge and thâ effect is wrought by purging approved by many Gent. A medicine for the Sciatica For a man take the urine of a man childâ and let it stand in some vessel for nine dayeâ and then separate the clear urine from thâ thick and put it into a vessel and put to thâ clear urine a good quantity of the juice ãâã Cullerage male Culrage which hath spotteâ leaves of a black colour and boil it togetheâ till half be consumed and it will be an oyntment with which anoint the patient by thâ fire and he shall be cured which hath been often tryed And for a woman take the urine of a femalâ childe and of the âuice of Culrage withouâ spots and do as for the man An experienced medicine for the Sciatica Take Jvy Mugwort Wallwort and the Inner rinde of an Elder tree and seethe them in fair water with a good quantity of salt and bath the sore place well therewith three or four times a day for the space of nine dayes âogether and doubtless this will cure it An excellent oil for an ache onely to be made in the moneth of May oil of Rosemary Flowers Take a thin glass of a pottle and fill the glass âull of Rosemary Flowers very finely and purely picked put no liquor at all thereto but the pure Flowers onely and stop the glass very close that no air get therein then set the said glasâ in the sun against a wall out of the winde and there let it stand all the said moneth of May In the end of May you shall âind the said Flowers dissolved into a very sâeet oil which oil clarifie it into another glasâârom the grounds And this said oil stop close and keep it diligently for its an excellent and proved remedy against any manner of ache in the Joynts or otherwise A powder for the Sciatica Take Betony Ceâtaury one two ounces Ditâanie rue one 6 ounce make all these into fine powder searced and kept in
reserve the Liquour this is called oil of Eggs a very precious thing in the aforesaid cure Irem the juice of Lilies five parts and vineger one part hony a little maketh an excellent Medicine not onely for this intent but for all other kindes of hot and running Ulcers Whatsoever you use must be laid to bloodwarm Also for avoiding of a scar keep that place moist with medicine An approved Medicine for a burning or for a childe that falls into the fire and burns any part of it Take Hens dung or Capons dung and ground Ivy and stamp them together then take sheepes suet and fry the dung and Herbs withall and strain it and where the burning is ânoint it two or three times a day till it be whole and keep the Salve in a box to use it at âeed Probat For a burn or a scaâd Take Mousear a good handful of Primâose leaves an handful Fearn roots an handful âound these together and boil them in thick âream till it come to a butter then strain it ând so anoint the place Another for the same Take the yellow Moss or scurse of an Ashbough and put into cream and boil it to butter Of consumption or leannesse When a child consumeth or waxeth lean without any cause apparant there is a bathe commended of Authors to wash the childe many timâs is made thus Take the head and feet of a weather seethe them till the bones fall asandâr use to bath the childe in this Liquor after anoint him with this ointment following Take butter without salt oil of Roses and of Violets of each an ounce the fat of raw pork half an ounce wax a quarter of an ounce make an ointment wherewith the childe must be rubbed every day twice this shall with good feeding increase his strength by the grace of God Lice To destroy Lice MAke a Lavatory to wash scour the body twice a day thus take brine and strong lyâ oâ aâhes of each a like portion wormwood a hânâful âeethe them a while and after wash the body with the same liquor A goodly Medicine to kill them Take the grounds or dregs of oil Aloes wormwood and the gall âf a Bull or of an ox make an ointment which is singular good for the same purpose Item Stavisacre Brimstone and vinegar is exceeding good It is good to give the patient often in his drink powder of an hartshorn brent Stavisacre with oil is a marvellous wholsom thing in this case An expert Medicine to drive away Lice Take the grounds and dregs of oil or in lack of it fresh swines grâase a sufficient quantity wherein ye shall chaâe an ounce of quicksilver till it be all sunk into the grease then take powder of Stavisacre searce and mingle all together make a girdle of woollen list meet for the midle of the patient and all to anoint it over with the said Medicine then let him wear it continually next his skin for it is a singâlar remedy to chasâ away the vermin The onely odour of quicksilver killeth lice For scabbinesse and Itch. Take water of Betony two good handfuls daisie leaves Alehoof otherwise called Judmur or ground ivy of each one handful the red Dock roots two or three stamp them all together aâd gâinde them well then mingle them with fresh grease and again stamp them Let them so stand eight dayes to putrifie till it be hoar then fây them and strain them out and keep for the same intent This ointment hath gâeat effect both in young and old and that without repercussion or driving back of the matter which should be a perilous thing for a young childâ The water Betony alone is a gâeat Medicine to quench all unkindly heats without danger or the seething of it in clear well water to anoint the Members Another remedy for scabs and Itch. Take the roots of Docks and fry them in fresh gâease then put to a quantity of Brimstone in powder and use to rub the places twice or thrice a day Brimstone powdred and supped in a rear Egg healeth the scabs which thing is also very good to destroy worms A gâodly sweet sope for scabs and itch Take white sope half a pound and steep it in sufficient rosewater till it be well soked then âake two drams of Mercury sublimed disolve it in a little rosewater labour the sope and the Rose water well together and afterward put in a little muâk or civet and keep it Tâis sope is exceeding good to âure a great scab or itch and without peril but in a Childe shall suffice to make it weaker of Mercury Anoâher approved Medicine for scabbiness and Itâh Take Fumitory dock roots scabious and the roots of Walwort stamp them all and set them in fresh grease to putrifie thân fry them and strain them in which Liquor you shall put turpentine a little quantity brimstone and fâankincense very finely powdered and sifted a portion and with sufficient wax make an ointment on a soft fire this is a singular remedy for the same purpose And if need be to make a bath of Fumitory centaury Featherfew Tansie wormwood Sage alone if ye see the cause of the itch or the scab to be worms in the âkin for a bitter decoction shall destroy them and dây up the moisture of the sores Ad scabiem tam siâcum quam humidum praesens Auxilium Take the roots of Elecampane and of dockâ ana and scrape them clean and wash theâ cut them into small slices and seethe them in vineger until they be soft then pound thâm very small as is possible Then take thâreof a pound and of Barrowes grease of common Sivil oil ana three ounce Of new wax one ouâce Of quicksilver mortified of Turpentine washed ana two ounces Of common salt half an ounce Melt your oil your âarrowes grease and your wax together then put in your roots prepared and after your Quâcksilver then strain it and in the end put in the Turpântine and salt made in powder but it were more safe to leave out the quicksilver and to puâ instead thereof three ounces of the juice of Limons both be good but the former more vehement A clear and white water that will heal in five dayes at the most all manner of scabs aswell inward as outward Take plantain water two glassful rose water one glassful of the water of the flowers of Citrons or Oâanges half a glassful or less put all together into a clear pan or Vial of glass and put to it one ounce of Mercury sublimated beaten into fine powder and beat it well with fasting spittle and put to the aforesaid waterâ then let it boil fair and softly a quaâtâr of an hour take it from the fire and let it cool then put it into some Vial and wash the scabbie places at night with it and let it dry of it self And let them alone so the next day without washing them and wash them again the third day but not the
it up also four or five drops thereof poured into a great quantity of warm water will make it have a pleasant smell to wash hands or other things To make a special Aqua composita to drink for a cold or suâfet in the stomack well proved Take a handful of Rosemary and a good root of Elecampana and an handful of Hyssoâ half an handful of time half a handful of Sagâ six good crops of red Mints and as many ãâã penyrial half a handful of Horeâound six crop of Marjerom two ounces of Liquerice weââ bruised asmuch Anniseed and take three galons of good strong Ale and take all the saiâ Herbs wringing asunder and put them into thâ Ale in a brasse pot well covered and close anâ let them stand till they begin to boil theâ take them from the fire and set upon it you Limbeck and stop it just with paste that therâ cometh no air out and so keep it forth with soft fire as Aqua vitae is made put more therâto half an handful of red Fennel half handful of Hartstongue and half an ounce ãâã Maces A marvellous Ba'm made by art most laudable Take fine turpentine one pound of oil of bay four ounces oâ galbanum four ounces of guââ arabick four ounces of pure Frankincense ãâã Miârh of gum Jvy and of Lignum aloes ãâã each four ounces of Galââgale zedoary oâ Gingeâ of the white Dittany of leaves of Conjoliââ minor of Nutmeggs of Cinnamon of each on dram of Musk and Ambergrease of each onâ dram all these bâat together pour upon ãâã pints of the best Aqua vitae distill it secunduâ arâem The vertues are thâse it breaketh and diâsolve ân the stâne in the kidneys causeth thâ patient to pisse which otherwise is letted ãâã a piece of flesh it helpeth consumption sciâtica or ach in the head fowl scurse wounds iâ the head It helpeth the plurifie Give on dram with water at a time helpeth any swelâng in any part of the body the coldness in ââe head it helpeth hot sickness aswell as cold Take a Borrage more and boil him in half pinte of wine and half a pint of rosewater ãâã drunk fasting in the morning It com ãâã the heart and brain it healeth the âemorie and wit it purgeth the evil blood ââcovereth Phrensiness ãâã making of Venice Balsam and the vertues thereof Take a handful of the flowers of Dogsâângue of St. Iohn Worât the flowers a handââl white wine somewhat more then a quarter ãâã a pint of gum Elemie one ounce five penyâorth of saffron one penyworth of venice âurpântine one ounce of Candied oil or ãâã oil half a pinte If the flowers of the Herbs are not infused ãâã the oil then boil it in the white wine by ââemselves and then boil the gum Elemie in ââe oil by it self and then clarifie it and cast âway the dreggs and then boil it again all toâether and last of all put in the saffron and ãâã Turpentine when you are ready to take ãâã boiling a little and so clarifie it again ând when it is almost cold put it into a glass to ââe The best way is to infuse the flowers of the Herbs with red roses or Damask in sallet ââil for a year or less The gum Elemie will ââil in the oil a quarter of an hour and after ãâã boiling it together it will be a quarter of a ãâã hour the flowers are to be strained out âodden in wine or the oil The vertues of it are as followeth It will cure all diseases coming of cold eiâ pains or achs in the head or the deaâness iâ the eare the same Ballam ãâã waâmed and anointing the place gâieved and a warm cloath applied thereunto And for tâe ears to lip â little black wool in the same Balsom and ãâã then thârewith This is good for the gâavâ and pain in making of ãâã and the Coâ lick to take the same in a little Mutâoâ broath to the quantity of a great bâan and drink it every morâing fasting and anâ in thâ place grieved Moreover for all cold Ague drink but half an ounce in broath before the fit comes Again for pain or swelling of the Spleen or Milt and for the mother Anoinâ the leât side therewith well warââd and iâ will dissolve all hardness cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneyeâ and bladder It câreth all aches in what parâ of the body soever rubbing the place grieveâ with a Cloath first well warmed and then anoint it with the same Balsam being made warm and binde the place with a warm Cloath afterward It cureth all Lameness and shrinking of the sinews and all green wounds suddenly It hath more vertues then I have here written To make the most eâdellent water of Treacle or Mithridate which is a most precious remedie against all outward and inward poysons or pestilence Take of excellent venice Triacle or Mithridate one pound which put into three pounds of Ardent water rectified to be there digested in a furnace of Circulaâion And in a circulating vâssâl the fire all that while be verâ soft and slender which done pour it into a Cucurbite and put on the Alembick and distill the same so long in a balneo Mariae as ye may see the Liquor issue out clear and bright but when ye see the colour thereof become clear and yellowish then take away the receiver and keep that clear water by it self to be drank in such times of need as is asoresaid To draw out another Liquor from the sââis whence this Liquor was distilled superââctum Take the Cucurbite with the saecis from whence this liquor was distilled and lute the said still over then set it upon Ashes and make a hot fire and draw from it such liquor as will distill And receive the said liquor into a bladder which set under the nose oâ the Aleâbick and keep it and therewith anoint the skin or outward parts and they shall be preserved from the Contagion as aforesaid To make Cinnamon milk or liquor after another sort most precious for a restorative Take the waters of Bugloss Borrage Balme and of the lesser Cenâaury of each a pound and an half into the which put of Cinnamon welâ choyce of the best sort two pound well beaten to powder first which then steep in the said waters together in one glass vessel 15. dayes And after that distill it upon hot ashes first with a lent fire so long as any Liquor will issue clear and fair which clear liquor keep apart but when ye see certain drops issue like unto whey or milk then change the receiver and reserve therewith all that milk liquor by it selâ for it is most excellent of which if ye give unto any aged or weak person or to a woman in childbed thereof a spoonful or a spoonful and a half it doth wonderfully strengthen them A ba'm for a wound Take good white wine one pinte oil olive half a pinte St. Iohns
in three pounds of white wine and one pound of red rose water boil it till come almost to a Syrup this Julep is so acceptable to nature that it supplyeth the use of meat and drink To make Triacle water Take three pints of Carduus water and put into it an ounce of hartshorn and boil it till it câme to a quart then take gentian roots roots Elicampane roots Cyperus roots Rinde of Pomegranates of each a ounce beat them into grosse powder of the herbs oâ Carduus and Angelica one ounce of the flowers of rosemary Marigold Bur rage Bugloss of each of them half an ounce also one pound of Venice Triacle dissolved into six pints of whiâe wine and three pints of red rose water infuse all these things xxiiii hours together this still in a glasse still or another still that stills with water The vertue of this Triacâe water Take a spoonful or two at a time upon finding the stomack ill or upon fears or to drive away any thing from the heart to restore the spirits and speech and sowning and âainting ten grains in a spoonful of posset drink made of Ale going to bed is good against fears For a Surfet Take the grounds of strong Ale two gallons of the Lees of Sack two quarts a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds bruise them and put them together and distill the water then put into the water an ounce of Cinnamon a dozen bruised Cloves one Race of sliced Ginger a quarter of a pound of prunes dried fair but not washed 2. quarts of thunder baggs or corn rose leaves with the bottoms cut off Then sun it a Moneth and if the water be not of a deep Crimson then renew the Leaves and sun them a while longer take of these a spoonful at a time an hour after a second and an hour after a third To make a drink for all manner of Fevers and Impostumes and for sickness in mans body Take Hyssop Rosemary Violet Leaves Vervine Herb Iohn Mouseare Plantain Avence Sage and fetherfew of each an handful and wash them clean and put them into a Mortar and bruise them a little and put them into an earthen pot that was never occupied And put therein a gallon of good white wine and so let it stand all night covered and in the morning boil it till it come to a pottle and let it run through a hair sieve put it into a clean vessel covered and let the sick use these first and last nine dayes at evening warm and at morning cold every day and night half a pint and he shall be whole by the grace oâ God A note of a diet prescribed by three dutch Doctârs foâ a man past cure so judged Take Hermodactils two ounces Sarsaparillae four of sassafras 2. ounces Sene Alexandriae four ounces Liquerice one ounce Anniseeds one ounce long pepper half an ounce of the leaves of Scabious one great handful of Egrimony half asmuch of Betonie half a handful of water Cresses and brook lime one great handful of scurvy grasse of the Sea two great handfuls of good Nâtimegs one ounce Let all the wood be sliced and cut small and the herbs shred and all put into a bagg and hanged in a barrel with six gallons of new Ale to work with it and when it hath wrought stop it up and let it stand and settle eight dayes then drink continually of it and no other drink so long as it laââeâh your bâead must be Bakers bread with Coriander and Anniseeds your breakfast of the bread and blaunched Almonds and raisins of the sun and your diet drink your dinner dry rosted Veal Hen Chicken Mutton or rabbet your supper as your breakfast or some small repast of dry rosted ãâã or Rabber continue this six weeks and beware of cold and if you keep your chamber have merry Company this Diet will cure any desperate disease in the body that is to be cured and many times indeed those which be past câre Probat A Medicine for the sweat Take three pints of Ale one ounce of Sugar six Sage leaves boil all these together and scum them clean And put thârein a crâst of white bread or a few crums and seethe then a penâworth of powder of Maces and keep it warm in an carthen pot or in a pâwter pot and drink nine or ten âpoonfuls at your pleasure the twenty four hours and sometime drink Ale bloâd warm with a penywâight of powder imperial at a time Use Manus Christi at your pleasure if you feel your self sick or faint at your heart Then take a great weight of the queens preservatives with a spoonful of the sâdden Ale aforesaid or else Ale blood warm or else on a knives point once in twenty four hours Also eat no manner of spices but Mace onely and drink no manner of wine in the said twenty four hours take no manner of cold nor take not too many oâ clothes but competent To make the Queens preservative Take half an ounce of Triacle powder imperial two peny worth of powder Sedwall a peny worth mingle all these together and put it into a box and use it as aforesaid when need requireth and old people may eat the qâantity of a Nut to preserve them fasting in the morning For them that are poisoned a remedy Take the powder of Betony put in wine a âpoonfâl of powder to a draught of wine a ãâã boiled by the fire being drunk doth help them presently that have drunk poison before and whoso drink it in a morning fasting no poison can hurt him A Medicine diminishing all kinde of sickness if it be not unto death and prepareth the body for recovery of health Take of the best Triacle adding thereto a few drops of oleum Vitrioli and let it stand till thou use it then any lying sick not unto death give the weight of a French crown of the same Medicine and if he be not over weak give a little more Let him drink it hot with wine in the morning fasting four hours before he eat washing out of the cup also with wine which being also taken and well covered in his bed and wrapped about his bead and all covered onely his mouth there let him sweat four hours asmuch as its possible and not sleep in any wise these four hours Then change the sheetes and let them be very dry and warm then let him lie and not sweat before he rise or eat the space of three hours then let him eat some good thing and drink good old wine after his meat Then afterward the Physician may use either Medicine both purgative or corroborative as the necessity and occasion requireth This Medicine dimânisheth the cause of all sickness and prepareth the body in the way of health speedily and never fails the Physitian See that he sweat plentifully without sudden cold and use good diet afterward An oil of the Philosophers drawn out of Turpentâne Take of clear Turpentine eighteen ounces
diminishing the quantity of the said medicines it worketh not with the patient as it should it is convenient to give him a common Clyster Another remedy for the same pain Ye must lay thereon a linnen clothe moisted in Rose-water Plantaine-water Morrel-water Vinegar or else take the juice of Lettice and Roses and a little Vinegar and warm it together and dip therein a linnen cloth and lay it to the pain For an extream Headaâh Pound Euphorbium with Vinegar and if the grief be on the right side of the head then âay it on the left or on the right when the pain âs on the left side for it mitigates all pain very excellently but we must suffer the same to continue thereon no longer then the space of saying a Pater Noster and then wash it off Another Take nine or ten pieces of Zeduaria being smal cut it in parcels or else pound it somewhaâ grossely infuse thereon clear water and theâ put it into a glass and madesie clouts thereiâ of the breadth of two fingers and apply them on the forhead and temples of the same and the same being dryed moisten them again For burning Headach Take a handful of Houslick beat it with womans milk and with a little Rose-water ti'â it be like unto a poultis or pap and therewitâ anoint your head For shooting in the Head Pound Poppy-seed with yelks of eggs till ãâã be like paste and lay it on the grief Against continual Headach and singing of the Ears Beat Elder leaves and Rose-leaves with oâ of Ivy-leaves one amongst the other and depress the juice thereout tye these leaves oâ the head and with the juice thereof anoint thâ head For headach in the forepart Take Eldre leaves made hot between twâ stones and applied to the temples And for the better understanding of the sickness chancing in the head ye shall know that sometime it chanceth because of other diseased members as of the stomack or of the mother of the rheums of the Liver or of the Spleen and not of any cause of the head it self therefore ye ought to cure such sickness by helping of the same members as shall be shewed here following And ye may know that the headach câmâth of diseases of the stomack when the patient hath great pain in the stomack of the Mother when the woman feeleth great pain in her belly of the reins when there is a great pain in the back of the Spleen when he feeleth pain and heaviness under the left side of the Liver when the pain is on the right side about the Liver which is beneath the ribs Remedies appropriate to the head of what cause soever the pain is Take a handful of Betony an handful of Camomil and an handful of Vervine leaves picked stamp them and seethe them in black wort or in Ale for lack of it and in the latter end of the seething put to it a little Cummin braid the powder of a Harts-horne and the yelks of two eggs and Saffron a little stir them well about and lay a plaister hot over all his forehead and temples This is an excellent remedy also for the Megrim it shall piârce the better if ye add a little Vinegar Another Make a plaister of Bean flower Lineseed and oyl of Camomile or in lack of it Goosâ grease or Ducks greâse and rub the place with Aqua vitae and after lay the plaister hot upon it Another Take Wormwood brayed well and boyled in water and binde it to his temple upon the grief It will mitigate the pain and cause him to have a pleasant sleep Another Take a spâonful of Mâstardseed and another of Bay berries make them in powder and stampe them with a handful of earth wormâ split and scraped from their earth and a little oyle of Roses or of Camomile or Capcâs grease and lay it to the grief Also it is good to take the juice of Ivy-leaves mixt with oyl and Vinegar and so rub therewith your temples and your nostrils Pills for aâl pain of the head although inveterate Take Aloes epat washed three ounce Bryon Mâstic elect ana one ounce Diagrvâ hâee drams Let it âe consected with juice of Coleworts The dose from two Scruples even unto four It taketh away all pain of the head and rejoyââth and comforteth the memory To remedy all manner of Headach and Megrim Camomile Betony Vervine leaves of each an handful stamp them seethe them in white Wine or Ale adding therto pounded Cummin-seed a little three spoonful of Vinegar the yelkes of two Eggs and a little Saffron fiat Emplastrum apponaâur fronti c. sanabis A remedy teaching that one shall never feel Headach Take Pills of Aloes succotrine made in powder and mixt with the juice of Colewortâ the bigness of a Bean at a time For the Headach Take Wormwood and Camomile of each like much one handful and as much of Maiden-wort and a half penny wârth of Cummin and make it into powder and cast it tâgether and put it into a cloth of the breadth of a span and warm it against the fire and then lay it to his head c. For the Headach or Megrim Take Rosemary Lavender flowers winter Savory Camomile Bayes and Lavender with both new and old Mintes and Fennil seethe all these together in runing water and put thereto a good handful of Bay Salt then take some of the same liquor herbs and all and wash your seet twice therewith every morn and even for the sâace of four dayes and in so doing it will take away any pain of the head although it be never so extream or grievous This hath been proved Another Take Majerom-water and hold your nose over it and then draw your winde hard unto âou untill such time as the winde hath entred into your âose divers times and your head will cease aking speedily For Dizziness in the head Take Pilulae Cochiae one ounceâ temper it with twenty drops of oyl of Anniseeds and make seven pills of it and swallow them and keep warm in your Chamber till it have done working then eat any warm broth made of Veal Mutton or Chicken and comfortable Herbs After this purge so used this Electuaây following Take Betony-flowers and Rosemary-flowers three ounces powder of Carduus benedictuâ leaves powder of Marigold leaves one ounce boil them with one pound of beaten Sugar and half a pint of Bugles-water and Marjerom-water and Betony-water and Balm-water of each two ounce boil together over a gentle fire to the thickness of honey and use thereof as much as a Nut morning and evening till it be spent Probat Chew every morning Cloves fasting or whole Mace and use Coriander Comsits or the seeds prepared and use after meat Marmalade of Quinces to clâse the stomack and repress the vapors that fume up thence to the brain For the Headach and âo stop the rheum Dry Wheat-bran and beaten Henbane seed and put them in a bag and lay them
child to lick in a little pap and Sugar They that are of age may eat of it a good quantity at once and likewise of the black seeds of the same Piony Item the purple Violets that creepeth oâ the ground in gardens with a long stalk and iâ called in English Hearâsâase drunk in water oâ in water and hony helpeth this disâase in â young childe moreover the muskle of the Oak rased and given in milk and water and hony is good Also ye may still a water of the flowers of Linde it is a tree call in Latine Tilia take the same flowers and distill a water and let the patient drink thereof now and then a spoonful it is a good remedy Item the root of the Sea-thistle called Erigum in Latin eaten in broth or drunken ãâã exceeding good Some wâite that Cichory is a singular remedâ for the same disease it is meant by wilde Cichory growing in corns The flowers of Roseâary âade a Conserve hath the same effect in curing this disâase I could declare many other râmâdies commended of Authors but these are sufficieât For the Falling sickness Take the skul of a dead man which is cleanly takân out of the grave pulverizate very sâall add also hereunto five or six Piony kernels well pounded take hereof in the morn one dâam with wine and it is for this disease one of the best remedies An excellent Medicine sor the Apopâexia and Falling sickness Take Aqua vitae perfectly rectified without flegm one pint oyl of Vitriol one spoonful mix thâm and let the patient drink thereof every morn one spoonâul and he shall be holpen although he have had it ten years and ââll every hour And for Apoplexia ye shall give it in the said ordâr but if he cannot drink it so ye shall give it as you think good so that he have it in his body and prâsently he shall amend although he have had iâ a long while and were lame over all his body c. For the Falling Evil. Take the secundum of a boy child dryed to powder in an Oven and the forepart of a dead mans skulâ wash'â in water of Betony and the seed or root of Piony dryed into powder and of Galingale all into several portions to the quantity of a spoonful of each moâe or less in the distilled water of Cowslipe flowers according to the strength of the patient and give to drink drink three dayes together and then rest three dayes and then drink it three dayes together again then rest three dayes and so till he have took it nine dayes The Eyes The Remedies for its distempers A Medicine to take all gummy matter or filth out oâ the Eyes TAke Housleek otherwise called Singreeen and stamp it well and strain it through a fine linnen cloth and with the juice thereof wash the eyes often and it will both clear the sight and purge the eyes from all manner of filth and matter A powder for weeping and running eyes Take red Coral one dram Tutia half an ounce and burn them in a vessel of earth then put into it fine Pearl half a dram and beat it small into fine powder in a stone morter and search it through silk and put of it into the eye morning and evening and close up the eye till t is dry This is a great secret and is excellent for a pearl and dimness of sight For the Sight â marvellous good water to recover the Eye sight âhe same being ãâã by any cause whatsoever Take three drams of Tutia made into âhall powder anâ like quantity of Aloes âpaticum and three drams of fine Sugar ãâã ounces of Rosewater and as much white âine mingle all these together and put them to a glass and stop it close and set it to and in the Sun by the space of a moneth ââârring it together once every day Then ke the quantity of six drops at a time of the me water and drop it into your eyes both orn and even and so continue for a short ace and it will cause your sight to come aâin and be as clear and as perfect as ever it as before This hath been proved by one hat recovered his sight having lost it a moâth before it was ministred unto himself most singular good Medicine to keep the Eyes clear cool and from redness and to kill the Itching of them Take a good handful of Housleck and two andfuls of Plantaine and stampe them well âgether and strain them then let the juice and and settle for a little space and when it âwell settled power out the clearest from the âsidue and put thereto half as much red ose water as is of the juice and half a quarter ãâã white Sugar candy beaten to fine powder and then take a piece as big as a Walnut or somewhat more of Lapis Calaminaris and let it slake ten or twelve times in the same water and let the patient take four or five drops aâ he lyeth upright in his bed thereof and put iâ into his eyes and it will help him This hatâ been proved For running eyes of a cold Take Tutiae ten drams Coralli rubri mirabolaâ citrini succoââ aloes alike two drams piperis haâ a dram fiat pulv and put often into the eye Here is a precious water for the sight and for thââ that be fair clear blind Take Smallach red Fennel Rue Vervinâ Betony Cinqfoile Pimpernel Euârace Sagâ Selendine of each a quarâern of a pound anâ wash them clean and stampe them and dâ them in a clean brazen pan and take fiââeââ Pepper corns and bruise them all to powdeâ and cast them to the Heâbs and a pint of gooâ white wine and three spoonful of life hony and five spoonfuls of a man-childs urine that ãâã innocent and boil them altogether on thâ fire a little and strain them A Medicine for them that may not well see and if the eyes be red Take the white Ginger and rub it on â Whetstone in a clean basin and take thereââ as much Salt as thou hadst of the powder anâ temper them with white wine and let it stanâ ân the bason all a day and a night then do that clear that standeth above into a clean glass ând anoint thine eyes a liâtle therewith when âhou goest to bed with a soft feather and do so often and forsooth he shall be hole on warranâise For them that the Eye-lids be over-turned beneath Take Arnement and hony and the white of âggs of all alike much and temper them together then take hurden of Flax and wet âhem in water and wring out the water clean ând lay these three things on the Hurds plaisterwise And if evil blood be within thy eyes ât shall drive it out and heal them De ophthaâmia There happeneth sometime debility and âulness of sight which must be holpen accorâing to the divers causes thereof as followeth Take Fennil Vervine Celidone Rue Eye-âright and Roses of every one of them alike
the place beâng broken with white wine at every dressing To heal any kinde of ach or sore brest Pare off a cap of the root of white Bryonie ând make a hole in the root as hollow as you âan and cover the root close with the cap you âut off or with a piece of a tile-stone and cover âll again with earth letting it still grow and three dayes after open the said root and the hole will be full of water then take that water and put it in a glass and anoint the place where the grief is and use it A plaister for a sore brest Take wheat meal and pure life honey and claâified bores grease of each like portions boil them a little and make a plaister and lay thereto Probat A medicine to skin a womans sore breât which is âaw Take a pint of sweet thick cream and put it into a pan with three spoonfuls of the juice of brown fennel boil it to an oil and therewith anoint the sore brests morning and evening till it be whole Probat To help the hardness in women brests Wheat flower honey oil olive and the juice abundantly of yellow Gilly flower together with the juice of rue Sanat For the aking of a womans brest Take Cinquefoil or five leaved grass and stamp them with swines grease and make thereof a plaister and lay it to well brayed together and it will take away the aking Another for the same Take and boil Rue and put there to flower âf wheat and make thereof a Plaister and lay hereto ââr womens brests or swelling that cometh by cold in child birth Take and lay Chickweed upon a Tyleâone and rose leaves upon Chickâeed upon the rose leaves again so that hâre be of them two or three leaves then âârinkle it with vineger and boil all these âpon the tyle-stone And when it s well boilâd take another Tyle and lay upon thaâ and âut it asunder and lay to the swelling and it âill take away the pain ân approved Medicine for them that haâe cold in their brests Take oil of Camomil and Aqua composiââ âingle them together against the fire chafe ââe breast well withall that it may enter into ââe Stomack and veines This hath holpeââany âpproved Medicine for a sore brest that is broken Take Malâowes and boil them with sheeps âllow till they be very tender then strain it ââd keep it in boxes and if the brest have âeed to be tented take a piece of the stalk of ââe Mallowes that are ââdden and tent it withââl this is proved For bolning of a womans brest Take apples of the oak and stamp them with oil and lay it to the bolning For a very sore brest Take Hartshorn or a Buls horn for need and grate it into a pint of good white wine and give the woman to drink thereof and leâ her sleep upon the same Medicine and it shall cease For coagulation of milk in a womans brest Take Egâmiony Vervine Fennel and bray it altogether and lay it thereon and be whole c. A Soveraign Medicine for a sore brest Take a pottle of smiths water the elder it is the better if it smell a little so much the better also you must take a quarter of a pound of old alume and white salt asmuch as ye can hold on the two fingers from the second joynt forth two handfuls of Sage two Heads of housleek put all these into the water and seethe it till it come to a quart then let it stand with the Herbs in it and wash the sorâ breast well with the Herbs and the wateâ twice a day and at every time ye wash it lay upon the sore or sores green Sage leaves till it be whole this hath been proved and hâaled a breast so sore as it was thought uncurable Ye must warm the water and Herbâ every âime ye dress the brest A medicine for the womanâ brests if the sore ãâã of Milâ Take Mallows as ye get to be holden in a âharger and cut them small and seethe them ân a Gallon of running water and when they âesodden soft put thereto a potile of the âroânds âf Ale and a quart of white wine ând two penny white loaves cutting off the ârusts leavened make it thick and put into it âeers Sueâ or Sheeps Sueâ and lay it upon a âlew cloth or linen cloth and lay it warm to âhe sore brest every day as long as its sore ând it shall be healed by the grace of God A plaister for a postume on womens Teats Take Linseed and seethe it well and long ãâã fair running water then take fresh Sheeâs âallow and fry the Linseed therein and eâân as hot as ye may suffer it lay it thereon Remedies for the Pthisick Pthisis is an ulceration of the lungs by âhich all the body falleth into Consumption ãâã such casâ that it wasteth all save the slâin yââay know him that hath a Pthisick for ârom ãâã to day he waxeh ever leaner and dryer ând his hair falleth and hath ever cougâ and âitteth sometimes matter and bloody strings âithall And if that which he spitteth be âut into a bason of water it falleth into the bottom for it is so heavy A remedy Take two oânces of Pimpernel in powder and thereof make an Electuary with Sugar and use it every morning two drams with Pimpernel water three ounces Water of Snails distilled is proved good to them that be Pthsicke every morning in drink and for all them that are dry and lean Another First take a quantity of running water and boil it half away The ingredients that you are to put into the composition are two ounces of Anniseeds one ounce of Coliander seeds one ounce of Liquerice sliced one ounce of Sugar candy one handful of Coltsfoot half a pound of Raisins of the Sun one quarter of a pound of âiggs and one handful of Liverwort a handful of Maidenhair a quantity of Hartstongue and two penniworth of Dates The composition made and put into the water boiled halâ a way take it and strain it and scum it sweeten it and drink it For the cough and consumptâon of the lungs Take Fox Lungs fresh killed pull them from the Windepipes and the straines which hange by the same then wash the lungs in Sack or white wine lââewarm three or four times until they be clean from the blood thân dry them in a pot in an Oven after the baâcâ drawn forth so well dried beat them to powder Take Anniseeds Fennel seeds Maiden hairâ of each like quantity of weight to your Fox lungs beat all these together to fine powder and see the sâme well mingled take also a like weight of Liquorice as the Fox lungs or somâ deal more and lay it in water fourteen hourâ first clean scraped and a little bruised then seethe your Liquorice in the same water until half be consumed and so strain the Liquor from the Liquorice and with the liquor seeth as much fine
coââander seeds prepared Parcâly seed one ounce and beat them together then take Cinnamon half an ounce and saffron one scruple and beat them to powder altogether and temper with clarified hony or sugar making thereof an Electuary and eat of it morning and evening Probat A medicine for the whites and weakness of nature Take the whites of four Eggs dryed and made into powder two Nutmegs âhe weight of six pence in Cinnamon the weight of two pence in Mace the weight of ten pence in âed Saunders make all these into fine powder and take of this powder asmuch as will lie on a six pence in a rear egg or with Muscadine or mace ale and sometimes broath every mornâng for a moneâhs space together for your diât forbâar milk butter roots and Herbs claret and wâite wine and especially pigeons flesh To cure the Mother Take Gr.ii. of Musk in conserve of Gilliflowers ând it must be taken inward It will melt in âour mouth A good Medicine for one that feareth to miscaâ with childe Take yarrow and stamp it and strain thâ juice and three spoonfuls of new milk warâ from the cow mingle them together anâ sweeten with sugar To make a caudle to strengthen one that is with childe and is weak Make a caudle with whites of Eggs and â yâlks and boil in it a stick of Cinnamon whicâ rose leaves and white Archangel flowers anâ harâshorn boil all these together and so drinâ it To make a woman have a quick delivery and smaââ pain Take leaves of Betony stamp them anâ strain them or else make powder of them anâ give the woman to drink in a little water To cleanse the matrix after the Childbirth Take a quart of Claret Wine and burn iâ and set it on the fire again and as it boileth pââ into it 2. or 3. spoonful of Embers then straââ it from the ashes this do two or three timeâ then powder it with powder of Sugar and sucâ Syrups as are fit for the womans body if sââ be hot and costive Syrup of Violets but if sââ be Laxative not that but Syrup of cowslips ãâã good to give her in broth oyl of sweet Aâmonds To drive away the after pain of a woman Take mother time picked clean from the stalke and shred small the quantity of a spoonful and put to it asmuch salt as the quanâity of a hasell Nut and put it in a draught of broth or caudle and give it the Woman to drink immediately after shee 's delivered the sooner the better the Herbs must be raw A medicine to fetch away a dead childs after burden Take a handful or two of Mugwort stampt ââ chopt which you please then take a quantity of barly meal and mingle it with a little fair water set over the fire and boil till it be âo thick to spread on a cloth then put into it some barrowes grease asmuch as an Egg and so ãâã and spread it on a cloth and lay it beneath the Navel of the woman and not above in any âââe and assoon as it hath brought away anââhing take it away for it maketh that way as ââng as it s on and will bring away that which ââ should not bring if it lie on after thats gone which you would have away A present remedy for a woman that travaileth with childe Take Hyssop Vervine and Betony of each ââe handful stamp them well and temper âhem with stale Ale then strain it and wring âut the juice and give a good draught thereof ãâã her to drink and she shall be delivered with speed and the childe saved and she both foââts proved To deliver a woman of a dead childe Take Camomil and give it in clear posseâ drink is good to ease tâe pain colick or griping pain of the body stamp it and strain it inâ to white Wine and give it a woman that hath a dead childe within her and it will cause heâ presently to be delivered The Gout Remedies for the Gout THe pain in the joynts of a mans body as in the hands and feet is generally calleâ Arthritis or gout which proceedeth sometime of debiliây of the sinewes being lasât and unable to consume the humours that continually Flow unto them And for the most part they are deriveâ from the member Mandant that is to say thâ brain for he is very grosse and engendretâ every humour in himself by reason whereoâ much of the said humours are derived intâ the Nuke and muscles of the back and from thence they descend into the feet or to thâ Hucklebone or else into the hands Remedy And since all the said kindes come or are caused of one beginning and for the better expedition in that we will be brief ye shall first take away the superfluous moisture of the brain which is the root and fountain of all the said diseases and that ye may do four manner of wayes The first observance is of diet inclining to dryness and to avoid all fulness of meat and drink and not to sleep in any wise after meat And ye must beware that ye eat no vaporous meats nor thin Wine nor dâink much after supper And if perchance the pain be very sharp it shall be wholsome to abstain from all kinds of wine and âo use himself to small drink which thing if he cannot do let him drink Claret wine mixed with a good quantity of water The second is to purge the brain once a moneth with the one half of Pills of Cochia ând another half of Pills of Assajareth and in âime of harvest and of summer with Pills ãâã quibus and Pil. imperial Whereof ye shall give one dram the night before the full Moon ând the day following ye may give him to eat little broth of Cicers with a little quantity of raisins of the sun The third is to repress âhe sumes that ascend into the brain after âeat which thing may be done by eating a ââttle dredge made of Aniseed and Coriander The fourth is to perfume the brain with cerâain things comfortative as for example thus Take fine fâankincense Sandrach and Mastick âf every one an ounce of Lignum Aloes a dââm make them all in grosse powder and perfumâ therewith stupes made of Flax or oâ Cotten and lay upon the head And when yeâ have by this meanes well and duly comforted the brain and defended the original cause oâ the said disease ye shall proceed to take away the matter conjoynt that is descended into the sinevves and ye shall begin thus First ye must preserve the body from in â gendring of humours in taking every morning next your heart a conserve made of Alcherineâ and of Flowers of Rosemary mingled with â little Nutmeg and Mastick and if ye be ãâã povver ye may drink a good draught oâ Ipocras or other spiced drink after meatâ ãâã dinner and at supper Secondly ye shall understand that whosoever doth intend to be holpen of the Gout he must every year
present help To keep the small pox out of the throat Take Diaprunis the quantity of a good Nutââgg and dissolve it in broth and give it âââo the partie grieved in the morning fasting For chafing of the skin In the beginning ye shall anoint the places ââth fresh Capons grease then if it will not ââal make an ointment and lay to the place An ointment Take the root of Flower-deluce dried of ãâã roses dried Galingale and Mastick of each ââke quantity beat them into most subtil ââwder then with oil of Roses or of Linâââd make a soft ointment Item bean flower barly flower and the ââwer of fitches tempered with a little oil of âes maketh a soveraign ointment for the ââme intent Of small Pox and Measils The best and most help in this case is not ãâã meddle with any kinde of Medicines but ãâã nature âork her operation notwithstandinâ if they be too slow in coming out it shall bâ good for you to give the childe to drink sâââden milk and saffron and so keep him close anâ warm but in no case to administer any thinâ that might represse the swelling of the skin ãâã to cool the heat that is within the Members If the wheales be outragious and great ãâã decoction of water Betony is approved goââ in the said disease Likewise the ointment made mention of in the cure of scabs is âââceeding wholsome after the sores are ripââ moreover it is good to drop into the patienâ eye five or six times a day a little rose Fennel water to comfort the sight left it hurt by continual running of the matter Tââ water must be ministred in the Summer coââ and in the winter luke warm The same roâââwater is good to gargle in the mouth if tââ childe be then pained in the throat And lââ the conduits of the nose should be stoppedâ is expedient to let him smell often to a spun wet in the juice of savory strong vineger anâ little rose-water Fevers in Children their cure To take away the spots and scars of the small poxes and measils THe blood of a Bull or of a hare is much commended of Authors to be anointed âot upon the scars and also the liquour that âââeth out of sheepes clawes or goats clawes âoâ in the fire Fevers If the Fever use to take the childe with a âââat shaking and after hot whether it be ââtidian or Tertian it shall be singular good âo give it in drink the black seeds of Piony ââde in fine powder searced and mingled with â little sugar Also take plaintain fetherfew ãâã Vervine and bath the childe in it once or ââice a day binding to the pulses of the hand ââd seet a plaster of the same Herbs stamped ââd provoke the childe to sweat afore the fit âometh Some counâel in a hot Fever if be a ââak patient to take dry roses and powder ââem then temper the powder with the juice ãâã Endive or Purcelain rose water and barly ââwer and make a plaster to the stomack Item an ointment for his temples arms and ââggs made of oil of roses and Populeon of ââch alike much A good Medicine fâr the ague in Children Take Planâain with the root wash it thâ seeth it in faiâ running water to a thiâd paââ whereof âe shall give it a dâaught if it be ãâã age to drink with suffiâient Sugar and lay tââ sâdden Herbs as hot as may be suffered the pulses of the hands and feet this mâââ be dâne a liâtle afore the fit after cover with clothes The oil of nettles is exceediââ good to anoint the members in a cold shakiââ ague Codds The cure of their Diââstempers in Children Of the swelling of the Codds TAke a quart of good Ale and set it on ãâã fire to seethe with the crums of broâ bread strongly leavened and a handful Cummin or more in powder make a plasâââ with all this and sufficient bean flower and âââply it to the grief as hot as may be sâffered Another Take Cowes dung and seethe it in miââ then make a plaster and lay it meetly hot ãâã on the swelling Another Take Cummin Anniseeds and Fenugreâk of each a like portion seethe them in Ale and âtamp them then temper thâm with fresh May âutter or else oil olive and apply to the sore Another Take Camomil Holihock Linseed and Fenuââreek seethe them in water and grinde all toâââher then make a plaster with a handful of âean flower Another in the beginning of the grief If there be much inflammation or heat in the âodds ye may make an ointment of plantain âhe white and yelk of an Egg and a portion of ãâã of Roses stir them well about and apply it ãâã the grief twice or thrice a day when the âin is intolerable and the childe of age or of âârong complexion if the premisses will not âelp ye shall make a plaster after this sort Take Henbane leaves a handful and an half ââllow leaves an handful seethe them well in âear water then stamp and stirre them and âith a little of the broth bean flower barly âower oil of roses and Camomil sufficient âake it up and set it on the swelling luke âarm Henbanes is exceeding good to resolve âhe hardness of the stones by a secret quaââtie notwithstanding iâ it come of winde it ââall be better to use the said plasters that are âade of Cummin Shingles their Cure Of the Erisipelas or Shingles THe remedies for burning are also good in this case Take at the Apothecaries oâ unguent Galeni an ounce and half oil of roseâ two ounces unguent Populeon one ounce thâ juice of plantain and nightshade one ounce oâ more the whites of three Eggs beat them all together and ye shall have a good ointmenâ for the same purpose Item the dung of a Swan or goose with the white and yelk of an Egg is good Item doveâ dung stamped in salt oil or other is a singulaâ remedy for the same purpose Of burning and scalding When ye see a member burnt or scalded Take a good quantity of time which is madâ of water and salt not too exceeding eager oâ strong but of a mean sharpness and with â clout or spunge âath the member in it cold at least blood warm three or four hourâ together the longer the better for it shalâ asswage much of the pain open the pores cause also the fire to vapour and give a greaâ comfort to the weak member then anoint thâ place with one of these Medâcines Take oil of roses one part sweet cream twâ parts hony half a part make an ointment anâ use it Item a soveraign Medicine for burninâ and scalding is thus made take a dozen or more of hard rosted Eggs and put the yelks in a pot on the fire by themselves without liquor stir them and bray them with a strong hand till there arise as it were a froth or spume of oil to the mouth of the vessel then presse the yelks and
Wort Hypericon of every one half a handful shred them small and boil in the oil and wine to the consumption of the wine and then strain it and set it over the fire again putting Frankincense and Mirâhe in fine powder alwayes stirâing in putting in the powder And in the end put to it Turpentine and then strain it again into some glasse alwayes remembring for every pound of of oil one ounce of Turpentine This cureth wounds without tenting at all A medicine for all manner of ulcers and sores very pleasant called Lycion The making of virkin lycion is the juice of Capri foli Lycion cureth the canker in the Matrice and in the skin and bones Lycion is a principal medicine boiled with hoây unto the thickness of hony It may be made thus Take the juice and set it in the sun for to dry that it may be powder and this powder of Lycion serveth dark eyes for it is called Luciâum ocu'o It profiteth also Chirurgery that is thus Take the juice of Caprisolij by it self and put thereto asmuch clarfied hony and seerhe it unto the wasting of the hony let it be kept unto the time of your use and this availeth unto all fraudulent ulcers of the Leggs in such time of the year if the herb be so dried that the juice will not be pressed out thân may the Leaves be infused in good white wine or red and then may the juiee be pressed our for to know that Caprifolii ought not to be washed with water but with this white wine and especially when there ought to be made Licium for the câre of the eyes Also Leaves of Caprifoli bruised by themselves with all his substance without medling of any other thing put it upon an ulcer of a Legg dâsperate and stiâking and puting out foul blood it cureth them marvellously and this was proved in the Legg of a great man having a pustule in cuâing of which all Medicines failed and with this onely was cured For to make Mermale Take Camomile Betony Sage hey how sothernweed Mugwort wormwood water cresses Mallowes Holihock Horâound red nettle Laurel leaves of each a good handful and half and wash them and pick them clean and stââp them small and put there to May butter and temper them well together then put thereto a pint of oil olâffe and mâddle them well together and then put them in an eaâthen pot and cover it well and set it in a moist place the space oâ seven dayes then put it in a clean pan and set it over the fire and let it fry well and stir it well with a slice that it cleave not to the bottom and then strain it and set it over the fire again and put thereto two ounce of virgin wax and four of weathers tallow melted and boil them a little then put thereto four ounces of fine Frankincense fine powdred and stir it well together till it be well medled and take it down and strain it and let it cool then karn and let the water and turn and cleanse it on the othâr side and warm it and a little skumme it with a feather and do it in boxes this ointment is precious for joints or for sinewes and for many other diseases Diaflosmus Diaflosmus is thus made Take juice of smallage and wormwood Mollein Walwort Speldearge crowfoot Melilote dowfoot Weybred Mugwort Avence Daisies Woodbind Burris hony suckles of every of the juice of these Herbs take two ounceâ sâve onely of woodbinde thereof take three ounces clarified hony two pound and four ounces then mix your hony your juice together and set it on an easie fire and boil and stir them so long till it be welââgh as thick as hony that is mâlting then take it from the fire and put it in an earthen pot and keep it to your use for now it is called Capsimel hony of Molloin But when ye will use of this most precious Medicine in Surgery Take of this Capsimel four ounces and of wheat meal three ounces put these together and set them upon an easie fire and all to stir it that it cleave not to the pans bottom And when it is through hot take it off then take oil of clare or of roses virgin wax of each three ounces and mix them together and then put all together and mix them well together and when it begins to cool then put to it 2. ounces of Turpentine and stir it very well together and then it is called Diaflosmus Idem est quod Flosmus anc Molleyn Take of this byster and spread on stupes of clean Linnen cloth without slyms or on carpe and lay it to a fistula in the Fundament or to a Canker marmole fester plague wolfe or noli me tangere and it healeth not only this but every most horrible sore as bruises rucomes swellings and all others A balm of great vertue Take of Turpentine four ounce of frankincense half an ounce of Lignum aloes two drams of Mastick of Cloves Galingale of Cinnamon Zedoaria of Nutmeggs and of Cubebs of each two drams of gum Elemie one ounce and a half This Bawâ marvellously worketh In that it putteth away both wayes in applying of it both within and without the body and many other incurable diseases as the Canker and the fistula c. A very precious Aqua vitae Take Cinnamon half an ounce Lignum aloes five dramâ Cubebs Cloves three drams and a half galingale three drams yellow Saunders three drams and a half red rose leaves dryed four drams and a half Nutmeg and Mace a dram Musk half a dram Amber greese ten grains Syrup of the bark of Citrons one pound Syrup of Quinces half an pound Aquâ vitae three pottles powder those things which are to be powdred and put all together into an earthen pot well leaded And let them stand and infuse the space of a Moneth stirring them twice or thrice a day then strain them and keep it close in a glasse well stopped This water restoreth Memory lost strengtheneth the senses and comforteth the stomack The Sublimated vine of Master Callus Physitian to the Emperour Charls the fifth is most admirrable for the use thereof caused him to live 129 years without any disease and is made thus Take Cubebs Cinnamon Cloves mace and Ginger Nutmeggs and Galingula one three ounces of Rhaberbe half an ounce Angelica two drams Mastick four ounces Sage lib. 1. two ounces first steep them in lib. two ounces six of Aqua vitae which was six times distilled then distill them all together This wine comforteth the brain and memory expelleth melancholy and breaketh the stone provoketh appetite and reviveth weak spirits and causeth a man to wax young and lustie It may be taken twice a week and not above one spoonful at a time A special Iulep made of white wine and sugar and rosewater which comforteth and refresheth the body much causing the spirits to wax lively Put two pounds of Sugar