¶ STamp clote Bur roote one dram with the kernels of Pine apples and drinke it ¶ Decoct Pernincle with wyne drunke ¶ Drinke iuice of Bursa pastoris ¶ Drinke powder of Tormentill roots with wyne ¶ Drinke iuice of Knot grasse or the leaues boyled in wyne drunke ¶ Amyle or Starch being drunke profiteth For a fore throat by sicknesse ¶ DRinke iuice of Woodroue with good ale For the Squinnancy ¶ TAke Goats milke and in the beginning make a plaster of wheat bran the iuice of Smalage in meale of Fenigrak with newe Barrowes greace and the iuice of Planten and powder of Roses and apply it Take roots of Mallowes meale of Fenigréeke Flaxe séeds Dates great Raisins the stones taken out with wheat brun boyle them in water stamp them and make it with new Barrowes greace and a little heny into a plaster which is maruaylous riping and lay it to the Squinancy Take hony hogs bloud lard meale of Flaxe séede Fenygréek and the dung of Swallowes incorporate them make a plaster excellent to rype the Squinancy And note that the dung of all maner of Swallowes healeth the Squinancy Let the Impostume be opened with yron or a razer or this breaking plaster following ¶ TAke Bran salt and oyle stamp them incorporate them and make thereof a plaster and apply it This is vsed to clense and dry the same To procure vrine and to breake the Stone ¶ TAke water Crisses handfull Parcely halfe a handful red Fennel tops Mercury leaues roots of Ciprus bruised of eche a quarter of a handfull Raysins of the Sunne the stones taken out halfe a handfull chop them smal make pottage with mutton or veale and thick it with great Date meale beaten small season it with Pepper grosse adde to it Gromet seeds iij. d. waight beaten fine a little Saffron eate a messe thereof at morning noone and night a weeke together D. K. ¶ Boyle Virga Aurea in wyne and drink it and drink one spoonfull of the powder thereof foure houres before meat with a raw egge For the Collicke and the Stone ¶ TAke Stone crop Parcely leaues roots mother Time of eche a handfull boyle them in good stale Ale halfe an houre strayne it and put to it a good quantity of Graynes in powder and drinke it warme For the Stone A powder ¶ TAke Barberies a handfull dry them Pench stone Ash keyes dryed Parcely seed Seahull Saxifrage of eche a like much dry them beat them fearce them then lay a black flint stone in the fire till it be red hote quench it in a pynte of Malmsey and put in it a quantity of that powder about one spoonefull to as much Malmesey as your stomake will beare and kéepe the residue of the powder to vse at néed When the griefe is on the patient let him drinke no other drinke but posset ale or some other warme drink with part of that powder vntill it breake To breake the stone in the bladder ¶ TAke Oleum simplex Scorpionis and for an old man mix oyle of Violets with it and noynt the sides by ouer vnder and about the priuy members from ano vpwards For the Stone ¶ TAke the stone in an Ore gall as much as a Beaue Turmerick ij penyworth Bayes ounce Cloues Mace long Pepper of eche j. penyworth ij Acornes Swéete brier stones Groâ—nell seeds clote Bur séeds of eche a spoonful Hawe stones halfe a spoonfull pun all together into fine powder and mix them wel together put thereof into a reasonable draught of good ale in a glasse or cup so much as ye can take with your thumb ij fingers or more the more the better and drinke if off If you feele it very bitter drinke two or three spoonfuls of ale or other drinke after it which wil lay the bitternesse After you haue taken this receit if it do not throughtly helpe after xiiij dayes or iij wéeks take a good haÌ„dful of wild Time boyle it in a quart or white wine and in the time of boyling throw ij or â—ij pibble stones in the fire burne them to coales cast them red hote into the wine being bruised to pieces then straine and drink it fasting in the morning two houres after To clense the stomake ¶ TAke Isop Rose mary Time of eche two crops put them in a pynt of ale with Sugar let them boyled and drinke thereof two houres before meat To auoyd slegâ—â—e out of the stomake to be taken one spoonefull or two at any time ¶ TAke eight spoonefuls of Rose-water foure spoonefuls of Conduit water two spoonfuls of white viniger halfe a quarter of a pound of fine Sugar boyle them in a poringer on a chafingdish with coles scum it cleane drink it luke-warme For such as cast vp their meat by weaknesse of the stomake ¶ TAke the nether trust of a browne leafe teast it dry and leysurely then stéepe it in strong viniger a little while then take it out and spread on it pounder of Claues warm it agayne and tye it about the mouth of the stomake audit shall stay vomiting To comfort and strengthen a weake Stomake ¶ TAke malmesay one pynte mint water a pynt Synnamon and Ginger of echs an ounce bruse them and mix them together with halfe a quarterne of Suger let them stand all night and in the morning drinke it Mastris Barret A good sauce to procure Appetite ¶ Make sauce with Orange mynt vineger Comyn and Pepper For the Collike of the stomake ¶ Take wormewood a pound and a halfe peache leaues mother of fyme Red mynts Perritory on the wall of eche a handful Saxifrage penny-royal of eche half a handful Fennel seed a quarter of a pownd Gromel seed half a quarter of a pownd of Annis seede and Liquorâ—s of eche half a pownd bruse all the séeds together and put them into a gallon and a halfe of Sack and distil them in a Limbeck Mistris Barret For a Feuer in the stomake ¶ Take Comyn Annis fenel seeds red rose leaues wormwood mynts Auens vineger sowre bread fryed and layd in a bag luke warme to the stomaks renem it often with vineger Against dayly payne and repletion of the mouth of the stomake ¶ TAke Liquoris Sauery Serpâ—â—um Enula campana Reddish roote middle barke of Elder mynts Sags and Rue stampe them and steepe them in white wine and giue the Pacient early and late A Purgation against Paralipsim or coldnesse of the stomake ¶ TAke rootes of Fennell Parcely grasss Ireos Sperage Akorns Triangulus Reddish the barke of Tamarick of these rootes and herbes make a deceâ—tion in white wine being well made and collated take Sâ—â—namum Cleues Nutmegs Zebary Galingale long Pepper and Spikenard beats them all in powder and with the deceâ—tion aloâ—e said make a pig mentum with hony well clarified and vse it For a hote stomake ¶ CVt the gréene of the flowres of Violets and pun them small and put to
salt biefe the leaner the better no fat asmuch as will goe into the wound lay it in the hot ashes in the fire and let it roast till it be through hot and being so hot thrust it into the wound bind it fast it will soone staunch and neuer after breake vpon warrantise For pricking with a needle or thorne in a Sinew ¶ TAke bolted Wheats stowre â—eÌ„per it with wine boyle it till it be thicke make a plaster thereof and lay it to as hot as may be suffered it wil ease the Ache and heale vp the hole Regula THere be certaine places in man which being pricked in a â—â—new except he haue â—espe within seuen paies he shall die for there will come a â—â—ampe from the hurt place to the neck and draw his Iawes together that he shall not open his mouth which is called Spasme Therefore if a man be pricked in the sinew that accordeth to the same take good oyle Roset and chafe the hurt place as hot as may be suffred and powre thereof into the same hurt lay wooll vpon it and hind it vp and vse this till it be whole and none other for this is kindly for it aboue all others For to stop the fluxe of the belly ¶ MAke powder of the bloomes of Walnuts wheÌ„ they fal two drams with a hard rosted egge and oyle eaten three mornings fasting if that serue not take three drams with an egge For a Marmoll ¶ FIrst giue the patient this sirrup that is take Parcely Fenel Kneholme Sparage Scabios Enula campana Affodill rootes Dock rootes round and sharpe Ebulus Elder Camedrios Camepitis Endiue Sorrill hartstongue Cetrack Politricon Capillus Veneris Adiantus one dram Violets Scene Polipody Electri of each foure ounces Flowres of Borage Maratrum Time Epithini Cuscuti Sticados Liquoris clensed of each one ounce Borage iuyce Affodill iuyce Fumytorie iuyce boyled with Siccory one pound Sugar foure pound Giue it the patient by nine dayes purged vt potionatus rediget and after anoynt the pustules places with iuyce of Affodils halfe a pound Lapacii acuti Rotundi iuyce of Celidoni of each fiue ounces Sulphuris viui quicke Lime Litarg auri of each two ounces Madder Citrine of each thrée ounces Aloes Caballine Tartarum of each one ounce Viridis aeris two ounces Picis natalis one pouÌ„d Olei communis two pound Auximgie Angrull porci sals one pouÌ„d Petrocilini 2. ounces Omnia incorporentur in maner of an oyntment and therewith anoynt the grieued parties by eight dayes and then let him enter into a bath in which the leaues and rootes of long and round Decks and Scabious wild and domesticall great Lawrell and little Lawrell Tithimall Rootes of Ebulus Elder rootes and leaues of Enula Campana shall be boyled of each thrée drame All which must bee stamped and boyled in water and make a bath and anoynt the patient dayly by fixe dayes and let him vse this for a competent season vntill he be cured For fret in the belly ¶ EAte Tansey Rew and Sothernwood For hardnes of the belly ¶ DRinke thrée spoonefuls of iuyce of Iuie leaues thrée times in a day For griping paine in the belly ¶ TAke Sothernwood and say it against the place of the contrarie side where the torment is and it will driue it out if it be layd to the nauell it will driue away the paine For ache in the backe ¶ Take Ache Egrymony Mouse-eare Saincle and Wormewood of each a like much stampe them smal with butter or barrowes greace and white wine frie it and make a playster of it and lay it to the backe as hot as may be suffered For ache in the bones ¶ TAke and old hoare Foxe bind him sure that he stirre not put him quicke into a brasse pot and put to him sixe or eight gallons of oyle Oliue set them on the fire and boyle it eastly fiftéene houres then let the fire coole then straine it through a cleane linnen cloth with that oyle anoynt the ache which profiteth greatly you may kéep it fortie yeeres or more wheÌ„ it is boyled you shal find of the Foxe neither haire skinne nor bones but onely the clawes and the oyle consumed to one gallon or a little more For ache a Cerecloth ¶ TAke Rosen half a pound Perrosen one quarter of a pound Deere suit two ounces Turpentine one ounce Cloues and Mace of each alike one ounce Saffron one ounce oyle of Roses two ounces boyle altogether and vse it For to cure the bloody Fluxe ¶ MAke pouder of Acornes cuppes and drinke it with red wine yolks of hard egges and cynamonâ— For bleeding at the nose or bloody Fluxe ¶ TAke a great Toade ptu it in a glasse and stoppe it fast then set it in a dunghill and all the great Teades thereabouts will draw to it then take them and put them inito an earthen pot and stoppe them saft and set that put on a strong fire till they be drie but come not to it till they be cold for the stinch then sow them in silke If it bee the bloody fluxe lay it to the right side If it bee for bléeding at the nose lay it to the stomacke warme But if it be great néed heat two Toades theron and dry them and lay them to your stomacke warme in silke as aforesaid c. A Caudle for the bloody Fluxe ¶ TAke a pint of red wine and the yolks of 5. newlaid egs a good quantitie of Synamom a little sugar the pill of a Pomegranate dryed and made in pouder a good quantitie boyle all together in a platter on a chafingdish till it be thieke and let the patient eate of it earely and late and as oft else in the day as his slomacke will serue him and it will stoppe it be the fluxe neuer so great A singular approued remedie for the bloody Fluxe ¶ TAke as much fine linnen cloth as will make a suppositorie being wrapped round together bottomwise wetit in the best Aqua vitae or Aqua compoÌ„ssita and let the patient conney it into the fundament and within thrée or feure times dressing by Gods helpe it will doe good Another ¶ TAke gads of stéele made redde hote in his drinke oftentimes quenched and drinke thereof Another ¶ TAke Sinkefoyle boyle it in wine and let the patient hold his mouth ouer it To remoue a botch from one place to another ¶ TAke Wormewood and Mugwort Rodion stamp them together and drinke the mice in aleâ— then take a quicke Oyster and lay it on the place that thou wouldest breake and thitherward it will draw it ¶ TAke Oculus Christi and Veruiu make a plaister of them and lay it from the botch two fingers breadth and eftsoones put it far and doe so till thou come to the place where thou wilt breake it ¶ TAke Colombind stamp it with the iuice wash the botch or boyle well and make a strike with the same iuice to the place where
of the féet against the fire at euen when he goeth to bed For Cough of flegme ¶ TAke Figs a pound a quarter of a pound of Liquoris a handfull of Isop stamp them and séethe them in water from a gallon to a pottell strayne it and doe thereto halfe a pound of Annice and clarified hony and drinke of it as of a principall remedy For a Cough of Rewme in the lungs ¶ TAke Origanum Isop the roote of Enula Campana of eche a good quantity boyle them in water and bray them well strayne it and put to it halte a pound of Annice and seethe it againe till it be thick then take it from the fire and put to it a quarter of a pound of Sugar and halfe a pinte of clarified Hony one ounce of powder of Ieat and so haue you a singular good remedy For the Cough rutling of the brest boyles and sores in the side for the Milt and stomacke ¶ TAke Horsehelme Groundswell Isop Centory Smallage Rue Holewort and Puliall of eche a like and doe thereto Pepper and Hony and eate of it early and late For the dry Cough ¶ TAke Anet Smalledge seedes a like much make it into powder temper it with wine and seethe it till it beginne to waxe thick then box it and vse it first and last For the olde Cough ¶ TAke white Horebound a good quantity Groundswell a lesser quantity and Wallwort the least quantity boyle them with water and fresh greace temper them wel together make a plaster thereof and lay it to the brest in one night it profiteth greatly and expelleth much euill corruption A notable Electuary for the same ¶ TAke iuice of Horehound Feuerfew Centory Horsemynt Betony roote and all and Fenel boyle them with powder of Pepper looke ye take like proportion of the iuices and of Hony clarified as much as all the rest séethe it till it be somewhat stiffe stir it fast and giue it nor too great a faire coole it boxe it vp and eate of it For the chine cough ¶ TAke womans milke and anoynt the childes brest about the heartspoone then take powder of Sauory and strow thereabout and bind it with a clout doe this thrée or foure dayes at euen and morne against the fire and keepe the childe from cold and from all sowre meate For the Crampe ¶ TAke an hearbe that groweth on the roote of Broome one handfull as much Lawrel leaues a quart of white wine as much oyle Oliue boyle it till the wine be wasted cleanse it and kéepe it well for it is full good for the Crampe being auoynted therewith ¶ Take Rue stamp and mix it with fresh Greace and kéepe it in a vessel nine daies well couered boyle it and scomme it and while it is hote put powder of Incense into it stir it and make it into an oyntment and anoint the griefe with it For the Cramp or conuulsion of sinewes ¶ TAke Olei Castorei one dram Olei Inniperij halfe a dram Olei Liliorum Olei Vulpini of each sixe ounces mingled all together anoynt at morne and euen the hinder part of the necke both the shoulder blades and downe all the spoone of the backe euen to the hips Adidem ¶ TAke Holy oyle oyle of violets and Barrowes greace and anoynt the griefe To cause good digestion and to destroy wind and to comfort the reynes and side TAke Annis Louage Smalage Canel Cardamonium Origanum Caroway Fennell SicermontanuÌ„ Sage Comin Calamint Time black Pepper long Pepper Isop and Parcely of each halfe a dram Liquorice Ginger Pellitory of Spaine Nutmegs of each one dram Amomacum thrée drams Cloues Galingale and Saffron of eche halfe a dram and Sugar as much as all the rest by waight and vse this powder Dropsy in the wombe ¶ TAke Gourâ—s and Parcely séed of Alexâ—dria Brome flowers a like much boyle them wring out the water wheÌ„ it is sodden then take Charuel Tamerick the other Parcely and stamp them all together wring out the iuice and boyle it till it be halfe wasted put therein Cassia Fistula and put therof into the patients drinke and kéepe him warme Dropsy and Iaundes ¶ TAke a great bundle of Broome that is gréene and burne it to ashes then take Madder and make Lye with good wine and let it runne thorow the ashes all warme and put to Spike Sugar Candy and Galingale and let it stand a night This drinke will destroy the Dropsy vsed xxi dayes at morne and euen For Dropsy ¶ TAke Turmerick Iuory and the shell of Pomegarnet in powder boyle it in good Ale or wyne put thereto iuice of Celidony Hony and Spike when it is cold giue the sick to drinke thereof in the new Moone and leaue at the old Hote Dropsy in the wombe ¶ TAke iuice of Cresses and swéet wort a like much and the third part of cléere Hony temper them together straine if and giue to drinke ix dayes Cold Dropsy in legs and feet ¶ TAke young tendrells of Elder such as be black and bruise them with Eldern leaues and boyle them well in cleane water put it in a vessell and stew the legges and lay the herbs to them when thou goest to bed as hote as may besuffred early and late ¶ Drinke shine owne water and it profiteth For payne in the Eares and to restore hearing ¶ BVrne young braunches of greene Ash and take the water that droppeth from them an Egge shell full as much iuice of Leeke blades and of the dripping of Eeles boyle them together a little strayne it through a cloth and keepe it in a glasse put of it in the whole eare and lye on the sore eare and in nyne dressings it will be hole then take wooll vnderneath a blacke Sheepes belly wet it in that iuice and lay it to the eare For wormes in the Eares ¶ Take Hony from the Combe and doe it in the eare and lye downe on the other side and it will come out ¶ Iuice of mynts mixt with hote wine doe th elike dropped in ¶ Iuice of Aris-smart with hote wine doe th elike dropped in For aking of eares ¶ Take iuice of Swings â—â—eâ—â—es and put it in the eares ¶ Take iuice of Reddish and Oyle Oâ—â—e and put it in the eares ¶ Take iuice of red Mynts and put into the eares For water fallen into the Eares ¶ TAke iuice of Corpander and put it in the eare A water for sore eyes that if a man had lost his sight ten yeres if it be possible to be reconered it will helpe in ten dayes ¶ TAke Smalledge Rue Fâ—unell Varuen Egrimâ—ny Betony Auens Scabicus Haâ—â— strong Eufrase Pimpernell and Sape a like much distill them with a little vrine of a man child with fiue grayned of Franchincence drop a drop hereof euery night in the sore eye To cleare the sight and remoue the Web. ¶ TAke red Roses Smallage Rue Varuen Mayden hayre Endiue Singréene red Fennell Hollywort Celidony of â—che
and preserue the ioynt To draw out the Core and corruption A white salue ¶ TAke oyle of Roses boyle it ouer a soft fire wash the griefe first thrée or foure times with white wyne then put in a little Woodbine water and boyle it to a perfit oyntment then take a handfull of Wall-Gillofers and a handfull of Tâ—ntsaue and make iuice of all together and boyle it to a good salue for that vse To heale and close vp the wound after the other salue hath drawne A greene salue ¶ TAke Waxe halfe a pound May Butter a pound set them on the fire and try them then take Planten one handful Ribwort halfe a handfull Valerian two handfuls Broklem halfe a handfull Smallage half a handfull Orpin Toutsaue Bifolium Ground Iuy Elder flowers of eche a handfull cut them small and boyle all together with Waxe and Butter and make it vp to vse for that purpose There are foure maner of Fluxes 1 COlides sicknesse of the flomake comming of cholerick humours it maketh a man haue a great Fluxe great casting It slayeth within thrée dayes except it be preuented 2 LYenteria which is when the meat departeth vndefied 3 DYaria is a Fluxe durt mixed with bloud 4 DIscintula is where there floweth bloud and the shauing of the Guts together To stop Whites ¶ TAke Beregood and Rolemary dryed beat it in a powder mixe them and lay them to the Nauell To purge Flegme ¶ TAke pure white Tutbith gumme cleane scraped thin sliced and fine minst as may be one dram pure Ginger in like sort dressed two drams Sugar thrée drams make all in fine powder and put it into an Apple that the core is taken out the cap taken off and set a fayre tyle on hote ymbers and therupon â—ost the Apple and turne it often when it is rosted pare away the rynde and put that apple in white wyne and breake it in pieces and adde to it a little Ginger early in the morning and if ye take it at night ye must supearly D. K. To auoyd slegme ¶ TAke Rose-water eyght spoonfuls Conduit or spring water foure spoonfuls white viniger two spoonfuls Isop water two spoonefuls of fine white Sugar two spoonefuls boyle them on a soft swéet fire scum it cleane and vse it D. K. For Frenzy ¶ TAke of Wormewood Sage and Marygold of eche halfe a pynt white wine one pynt and a halfe brew them together and giue the sicke to drinke nine spoonefulls warme in the moring fasting fiftéene dayes together D. K. ¶ Take the herbe called Shepheards yard stampe it and lay it to the head shaued ¶ Madnesse of Frenzy of Choller maketh a man harmfull debatous ¶ Madnesse of Frenzy of Bloud maketh him playing finging and not harmefull ¶ Madnesse of Frenzy of Melancholly maketh him sad sullen and dreadfull of all things Fundament going out ¶ TAke Apostolicon and touch it hote and it shall goe in doe so once or twice as néed is and after bathe it with water that Perritory hath bin boyled in and the Fundament shall go to his place agayne ¶ Wash the Fundament that goeth out with thine owne water For bleeding at the Fundament ¶ TAke Alloes and Myrrh and make them into powder and with oyle of Almonds anoynt the sore and cust on the powder and put vp the Fundament with a Scarlet cloth and it will helpe ¶ Make Worts of Waybred and Sanicle and eate them For swelling of the Genitors ¶ TAke Beane meale and viniger temper them and apply it all about and let it not come necre the fire and if you haue greene leaues stampe them and temper them with hony ¶ Iuice of Wallwort and Eisell a like much and Fennel boyle them to thicknesse and apply it warme ¶ Powder of Comyn Barley meale and hony fryed applyed warme ¶ Take Wormewood stamp it and Beane meale powder of Comyn fry them and warme lay it to the B. This is good for all weakenes of the B. and when ye take away the playster wash the B. with warme viniger at eche time This is well approued ¶ Take Scabious â—atfelon and Auens as much as both grind them small and make thereof peliets dry them in an Ouen when your bread is drawne then make powder thereof and drinke thereof early and late and if thou mayst haue the iuice of these herbes it is the better For the Gowt ¶ TAke Broome flowers Penny Royall Pillitory on the wall a like much stamp them with May Butter put theÌ„ in an earthen pot set it twenty dayes in hote horse-dung close stopped then fry it with a part of shéepes fallow strayne it and vie it For the Gangreene ¶ STampe leaues of Coleworts and apply if or the drine of him that vseth to eate Cole worts ¶ Stampe blacke Elebor with viniger and apply it ¶ Stamp Nettles with salt and apply it ¶ The water and iuice of Knot grasse applyed ¶ Decoct Lupines in water and wash with it ¶ The iuice and roots of Pellitory applyed ¶ Reddish with viniger applyed ¶ Take stones of Rapsins stamp them and apply them A playster wherewith the L. R. was cured when all Chirurgions thought him incureable ¶ TAke vnwrought wax halfe a pound Rosen half a pound Olibanum one ounce fine Litarge of gold a quarter of a pound white lead three quarters of a pound beaten to powder and finely searced a pynt of oyle of Neats féet set it on a fire in a small vessell with the Waxe and Rozen and when it is molten put thereto the other powders and stirre it fast with a sticke and then put a little thereof in a sawcer and if it be hard so tryed take it from the fire and anoynt a fayre boord with some Neats foot oyle and as you may handle it for heat work it as it were Cordwayners waxe and make it in rolles and make playsters of it with a chafingdish of coales spread it thin on lynnen or leather and lay the playster warme whereas the payne is and so renew it at morne and euening vntill you bee whole or till the ache be driuen to some other ioynt so follow with the playster as the payne remoueth and beware of cold and hote wynes A playster to cure the red Gowt or Gutta Rolatia ¶ TAke old Lard and put to it strong viniger by two dayes then stamp it and put to it the barke Lappacij acuti rootes boyled in water Quicksiluer sublimed and Quicksulpher wel incorporated together and make thereof an oyntment wherewith anoynt the face when thou goest to sléepe and in the morning wash the face and rub the face with the liquor A most excellent remedy for a cold Gowt that is Oleum Benedictum to heale Guttam Rosatiam ¶ TAke a fat Gander a fat Churle or male Cat new Waxe thrée quarters of a pound Nasturcium one handful Barrowes Greace beat them together and put it into the Gander boyle it and coole it and with that oyntment anoynt the griefe For
lepry and naughty scab 5 To preserue thée from lepry chewe Calamynt fasting and hold it in thy mouth and it profiteth 6 Let Lazers and Lepers eate of Calamynt and drinke it in whey of swéet milke 7 Stamp Selondine with viniger and apply it 8 Mixe thrée parts of the iuice with two parts of viniger and anoynt the scurfe 9 Darnell with Brimstone and viniger applyed cureth 10 Black Ellebore stamped with viniger applyed 11 White Ellebore boyled in wine with Louage Fennell and wash the griefe 12 Boyle Eloer leaues in strong wine and bathe 13 Elme gréene leaues stamped with viniger anoynted helpeth greatly 14 Figs milky iuice anoynted cureth and the same applyed with the yeolke of an Egge helpeth 15 Veronica or Finellen stamped and applyed profiteth 16 Mixe ashes of Garlick with hony and May butter and anoynt or anoynt with the iuice therof or stamp it with oyle and salt and apply it Lippe salue ¶ TAke Rose mary flowers Sallet oyle Rose water vnwrought waxe bruise the buds and boyle them all together but very little for feare of burning black and vse it For lice and nits in the body and apparrell ¶ AYre thy shirt ouer Qnicksiluer burnt vpon coales ¶ Strew Horsemynts in your chamber ¶ Take iuice of Rue and anoynt your body with it ¶ Take Gorst boyle it in water and sprinkle the house with it To driue away lice ¶ TAke Quicksilueer j. ounce Saxifrage two ounces Barrowes greace fix ounces meddle them together anoynt therewith the armeholes and the Nauell the bredth of a penny and they shall goe away or anoynt thée with iuice of Rue For scabs and lice ¶ TAke Quicksiluer and stay it with fasting spittle i. ounce meddle them with the white of an Egge and do it on a woollen clout and gird it about thy naked middle shaped like a girdle and then couer it with a lynnen cloth and gird it as aforesayd and weare it ix dayes and it shall slay all For the consumption of the Liuer ¶ TAke a pottle of Wort not strong Maydenhaire one haÌ„dful Liuerwort one handful Harts touÌ„g ix leaues parcely roots one handfull Fennell roots halfe a handfull the pith of both roots taken out bruise the roots a little wash them boyle them to halfe or thrée pynts imediately after the first boyling put to it Saunders one ounce and when it is almost sod put in a quantity of Canell bruited then strayne it through an Ipâ—cras bag softly and let the patient drink thereof euery morning fiue or sixe spoonesuis one houre before repast and as much at night before rest A playster to coole the Liuer ¶ TAke a piece of scarlet cut it like a liuer the iuice of Sorrell as much viniger and a little Rosewater the powder of Saunders boyle all together and lay it hote to the place of the liuer For to restore the Liuer ¶ TAke a quantity of wild Tansey stampe it and drinke it with wyne or aie ix dayes or more For to increase loue EAte the roots of Carets A water to clense the lungs and stomake ¶ TAke new Ale out of the fat one gallon a good quantify of Licoris cleane scraped and shaued as much Annis séeds as much Fennell séeds as much Coriander séeds dryed Centory one handfull lay them in to stéepe xxiiij houres in the Ale still it and drinke of it foure spoonfuls euery morning fasting A maruey lous and precious water ¶ TAke Galingale Cloues Quibibes Ginger Melilot Cardamomum Mace Nutmegs of eche one dram the iuice of Celidony halfe a pynt mixe all these made in powder with the iuice and a pynt of good Aqua vitae thrée pynis of good white wyne put all together in a Stillitory of glasse and let it stand all night and in the morning still it with an easy fire as can be It is of a secret vertue It dissolueth the selling of the lungs without grieuance If the lungs be wounded or perished it mightily comforteth them and suffieth not the blood to putrify He that vseth this water shall not need to be let bloud It suffreth not the heart to be burnt nor melancholy nor flegme to be lifted vp or to haue dominion aboue nature It expelleth the Rheume profiteth the flomake and conserueth a good colour and youth in his estate it also conserueth the visage and memory It destrsyeth the Palsey of the toung and lymmes If one spoonefull be giuen to one labouring at the poynt of death it reuiueth Of all waters arificiall it is the best In the Summer vse one spoontull once a wéeke fasting and in the Winter two spoonefuls For the Marmoll or Malum mortuum ¶ IT is an infirmity about the shinnes and armes which is called Malum mortuum they he old wan sores little matter gendring therein Other while it commeth of melancholy mixed with Salceplen if it come of melancholy it is séene by black pustels without itching If salciplen be mixed therewith the place waxeth wan with itch and biting If it be cleane melancholy let the matter bee digelled with Oximel Squilliticum and Sirupus de Fumitorij of rche a like If salciplen be mixed therewith let the matter bee digested with 2. parts of Oximell the 3. part of Exisaccary and the 4 part of Syrop of Fumitory let it be purged with 2. pat is of Iera ligridion and the 3. part of Iera Ruffini and the 4. part of Catarticum Imperiale and let it be tempred with Barly water and giue it in the morning The next day after be theremade a Stuphe of Calamynt Origonum Rue Mints Horehound Bay leaues and all kind of March Cresses Scabios Fumitory Specula foâ—tida And going out of the Stuphe giue the patient Triacle with iuice of Fumitory hote to drinke it if it be cleane melancholy And if it bee of Flegme meddled put thereto a good part of Rubea Trociscata If it be an vniuersall Malum mortuum let him blood of the vayne Hepatike And if it be about the shinnes thighs or armes let him blood on the veyne Sephone within and without a little and otherwhiles bee there put to Ventosites vpon the raynes And if he be too costiue and that néede be purge him before inunction with Carticum Imperiale or with a Glyster is more conuenient Remember that at what time the cure is to be done the patient must bee kept from colde as a woman lying in child-bed Winter and Summer with fire in the chamber For wind passing by the Matrix ¶ TAke Rue Pennyroyall Camomill of eche a handfull chop them as great as worts bruise Fennel seeds Annis séeds Comyn séeds mixâ— them then iry them with viniger and make bags and put the same in them and lay to her side as hote as may be suffred when one is cold lay to another Or take flowers of Camomill Millet Mugwort Isop Sage Feuerfew Maydwâ—de Bay leaues Horehound of eche haife a handful Annis séeds Fennes and Caroway féeds Bay berries
them put to it Sugar Saffron and a little Triacle drinke it fasting at morning and euening without Triacle For angry scabs night ploâ—ks and watry wheales ¶ TAke Raâ—sins the stones taken out and Rue stamped together and apply it to ¶ Stamp Daysy leaues fry them with fresh Butter and anoynt the hands ¶ Stamp wild Tansey and Daysy flowers with cold running water and wash therewith ¶ Stamp sharp leaued Docks and Fumitory a like much make it to oyntment with May butter or Barrowes greace and Roche Alome and anoynt it ¶ Boyle a bandful of Nettles with Sinnamom Cloues of eche two drams and bathe thy hands with the fume thereof For wormes in hands and feete ¶ BOyle iuice of Wormwood in May butter and red docks and stirre it to a salue and anoynt ¶ Boyle Leuin in good ale dregs and apply it to scabs ¶ Boyle wheat bran with Rue in viniger and lay it to For stinging of an Adder ¶ GRynd Centory with Butter and giue the sick to drink It will heale man and beast ¶ Stampe Garlicke and lay to For byting with a Dogge ¶ INcorporate hony and Garlick and eate it For byting of a Spider RVb the place well with Flyes For biting or stinging of any venemous worme ¶ TAke Dragaunce one handfull Centory halfe a handfull halfe so much Rue two cloues of Garlick stamp them and wring out the iuice and anonyt the griefe If thou distill all these and drinke the water it doth destroy all venome within thee For shingles ¶ IF it gird a man haply he shall neuer be whole Take Culuer dung and Barly meale stampe them together and temper them with Eyzel and doe it to the griefe till it bee whole This euill will spring like wild fire but this is greater and redder and it euey springeth arow ¶ Apply to them the Patients owne bloud and he shall be cured For foule scuruy tetters and scabs ¶ WHeat bread soked in brine or pickle layd to the bread being new For bleche or swelling ¶ TAke Walnut leaues and Sotherne wood of eche a handful Succory Woodbine leaues white Archangell wyles Tansey Wormwood Gosting wéed red Archangell of eche a bandfull chop them all together and byle them in May vntter till there be a greent oyntment straine it and kéepe it to vse To kill a Ring-worme or tetter ¶ TAke Mercury and Daisy roots of eche a handful ij spoonfuls of creame stampe and straine them and put thereto sixe spoonfuls of water made of Mercury sublimatum and wash the tetter or ring-worme therewith A water to heale in fiue dayes all scabs as well inward as outward ¶ TAke Planten water a pynt Rosewater halfe a pynt water of flowers of Cythrons or Orenges or of the iuice of the fruits of them a quarter of a pynt put all into a Vyoll of glasse and put to it of quicksiluer beaten to powder one ounce let them boyle softly at the fire a quarter of an houre then coole it and put it in a glasse Wash the scabby place with it at night and let it alone to the next day without more washing the third day wash it agayne but not the fourth day At the first and second time you wash them it will make all the scabs in your body to breake out At the third tyme they shall so ory vp that you shall find all neat and cleane both within and without There is no remedy in the world more excellent then this nor easter to be made This water marketh a mans flesh white and death out all â—â—ill humours at the body For the falling sicknesse ¶ DRinke powder of Haris horue with wyne ¶ The first syme he falleth when thou séest it put off thine owne shooe and pisse in it rince it well and giue him to drinke of it and he shall no more fall nor haue that euill ¶ Also at his first falling slay a Hound and take out his hart and gall and being hote grynd it and giue it him to drink and he shall no more haue it ¶ Cocks stones gréene drunk helpeth but abstayne from wyne ix dayes ¶ Bores stones eaten or drunk with wyne proâ—â—teth ¶ Take a Fores brayne and giue it oft to children and they shall neuer be sick of that euill To prouoke sleepe ¶ TAke Lettice séede and Smallage séede stamp them and temper them with the white of an Egge and lay it to the forhead ¶ Take powder of Smallage Henhaue and Mynts tempered with oyle or greace and anoynt the temples c. ¶ Stamp Léeke séede and temper them with womans milk and the white of an egge bound to the temples For a scald head ¶ TAke hony a spoonfull wax and shéeps suit of ech a quarter as much of the after-byrth of a woman as an egge Rozen Pilch Sparmacoeti of eche halfe a quarter boyle them til they be molten wel incorporated then strike them on a cloth and make a plaster apply then take Rozen pitch the after-burden of a woman mingle them together ouer the fire and make a plaster and this to be layd to vj. or vij dayes and then take of the next plaster before Brimstone black Sope and the burden anoynt the head without it and put it in a cloth unoynt the head with it after the it is shaued when the skin riseth it wil be whole and if it be hard like the brawne of the thumb it is not whole and if it be very ill thick of scall you shall let it lye vij dayes but if it bee meane then but v. dayes a little scall iij. or iiij dayes and lay it on a moneth or fiue wéeks tyll the skin rise wrinkled and if it be ful in the skin like the brawn of the thumbe let it lye still A principall playster to doe away kernels ¶ TAke roots of Ferne roots of Affodil boile them in the best wine put to it a little quick brimston make a plaster and lay it to spéedily which will consume the griefe For Glandils or kernels ¶ TAke roots of nettles roots of Ebulus boyle them in viniger put to it vnslaked lyme and Auri Pigmentum make a plaster and apply it to the Kings Euill or Kernels ¶ Take the gréene of brasse iuice of Docks Peritory and inice of Léeks incorporate them and in that liquor wetatent and put it into the griefe vnder a plaster putting forth the corrupt matter A new kernell or scruphill is cured as followeth without cutting or rupture ¶ TAke Sinnamom Cloues Quicksiluer quick Brimston pitch Virgin wax the root of Enula campana Sowes greace for a woman Bores greace for a man boyle the root of Enula campana in water then with the Quicksiluer extinct Sage hogs greace pitch wax resolued set it ouer the fire then adde to the powder of the spices brimstone and stamping them all together let them be well incorporated and reserued to vse For to stop spitting of bloud
table somewhat hungry Exercise thy body with some long walke Vse Phlegbotomy safely Eate no milke but that is well sodden Beware of eating Apples this moueth To bathe is good but not to tarry long in it To wash thy féete often in cold water is commendable It is now good time to make Syrop of Damaske Roses Cōserues of red Roses Violets Borage and Buglos and to distill Rose water and to make oyle of Roses Wéede Corne and Gardens When the Sunne shineth make Hay Set Gilliflowres Carnations and Rosemary Sowe sallet herbes Lettice iiii daies before the ful Moone and Reddish iiii dayes after the full Moone in euery moneth from March to September Set no herbes hedges nor trées in Iune Iuly or August and haue an eye vnto Antes Emits and Snailes in your gardens Sowe Lettice at all times Sowe Reddish at all times Sowe Spinach and at all times Sowe Parceneps at all times Sowe Pumpions in the new Moone Sowe Cucumers in the old Moone Gather Towne Cresses Gather Peritory Gather Lang de bief Gather Dragons Gather Origanum Gather Calamint and Gather Mary golds the xvi day before the Sunne without knife If thou must néedes take Phisick take it early in the morning Vse thinne diet of thy meate Let no bloud but in extremitie Drinke clarified whay as in May. Take no great thirst for the poores of the brayne are open Obseruations in Iuly With this sithe my grasse I mowe COld herbes now wholesome bée But let no blood in any wise By running streame and shadow trée Thy booke thou mayest well exercise Sléepe not too much to cold Bathes go Refuse to vse Phlegbotomie This month abstaine from Venus woe To him that kéepes her companie Now make hay fallow for wheate forget not to cary out soyle Gather such flowres and séedes as you will kéepe all the yeere Dry your flowres in the shadow till they be almost dry and then sunne them well that they mould not and so also dry your herbes Beware of bread made of fusty or pind corne Take no great thirst and vse moderate diet Auayd euill ayres Walke not abroad too early nor too late especially where sogs mists vapcurs or stinkes in stréetes be or lanes Kéepe close your chamber windowes shut all night and open all day in fayre weather but shut in mist In the euening perfume your chāber with perfumes of Beniamin Storar Masticke Frankincense or any of them Eate in the morning butter with bread and Rue Stéepe Rue in Wine or Ale all night and drinke it in the morning Feare GOD and serue him truely lead a cleane lyfe honestly Sowe white Succory in the full Moone Sowe Lettice at all seasons Sowe Reddish at all seasons Sowe Spinage at all seasons Sowe Parceneps at all seasons Vse moderate diet in meate for the Stomack will better digest drinke then meate Take no thirst in Iune Iuly or August for nothing ingendereth more feruent heate Agues and the Plague then it Now extreme thirsts heats and cold do suddenly come vpon them that are subiect to those diseases Obseruations in August Here I cut my corne full lowe LEt little sléepe and meate and wine And little or no venery Suffise abstayne from medicine Fly cold Bathes and Flegbotomy Good husband his thée to haue in thy Haruest and let him that best besturres him haue a Garland and be Lord of the Reapers Giue her that followeth him best preeminence to be Lady Deny none to giue them largesse Mowe thy Fearne Gather séedes of thine owne garden yéerely which are better then those thou shalt buy of others Sowe Lettice séedes to eate at Easter and to bring timely séedes Moderate diet is good Phisick Beware of surfet Take héed of taking great heate or sudden cold vpon thée Sléepe not much at noone Take no Ague now for the fits are extreme sharpe and long by reason of the Canicular daies Vse glisters and open a veine if strength will beare it Obseruations in September With this flaile I earne my bread SEptember yéelds fruites pleasantly Refraine eate not thy fill Take medecines vse phlegbotomy Now spice in meates not ill Make conserues of Barberies Make conserues of Quinces Sowe séedes of winter hearbes and set Artichocks In the newe Moone cut Quickset hedges of Roses and borders of hearbes Set Berry bushes that are yong Set Apples that are yong Set Peares that are yong Set Wardens that are yong It is good to set Strawberies It is good to set Violets It is good to set Gelliflowres It is good to set Carnations In the new of the Moone sow Parceneps Sowe Wheate and Rie Gather Crabbes for Vergis Gather Akornes and Béech mast for hogges Take the hony from the elder Bees keepe the yonger bées warme and dry and beware of Myce Antes Snailes Mothes and such like Sty the Bore Put the Ewe to the Ramme that they may take by S. Edwards time and come by mid-March Pluck thy hempe and clense thy séed Take Phisick Bathe and be let blood if néed bée Eate all ripe fruites that are not infected if thy stomacke be hot Obseruations in October Here I sowe my wheate so red GO hunt drinke wine that 's old and good Vse exercise for health Now must thou take good store of food Which hast good store of wealth Sowe wheate and clense thy féed corne in thy barne at home In the wane of the Moone it is good to set yong trées of Apples Peares Wardens Roses and Berry bushes In the wane of the Moone set Beanes and Rathe-pease and sowe Parceneps in warme Gardens Send out boyes to gather Acorns Set all kind of Nuts as thicke as they can stand in a pot or pale and after remoue them Gather winter fruit Bid the boy goe skar the Crowes Finish vp the Phisick you mind to take and rest till March. Vse good hot meates and drinkes Drinke holesome wines to nourish the blood Go dry shed lest the Rheume or Pose take thée Prouide warme clothing Now it is daungerous to take the quartaine Ague Obseruations in Nouember With this axe I kill my Swine OLd wines and swéete are holsome Let little bathing serue Count Venus now as lothsome If he alth thou wilt preserue In the new Moone remoue yong trées and set crab stockes in Nouember December Ianuary and February In the wane set Beanes Hastelers and Rathe pease sowe Parceneps Let none that can make Mault be idle Kill Biefe and Bacon to hang in the roofe Take no Phisick Bléed not nor bathe Vse good meates and drinkes Vse warme clothing Good exercise preserueth health Obseruations in December And here I brew both Ale and Wine NOw fire and hot meates haue thou must December loues warme potions Drinke wine beware of too much lust Goe warme and vse strong motions In the new moone the winde being West or Southerly the weather being not extreme hot nor frozen set or remoue trées of al fruits Roses and Berry bushes in the wane set Beans Hastlers
put your glasse into your Still vncouered let it stand till that be stilled then close vp your glasse and neuer set it in the sunne To graffe in the Shield is to be done in Iune and Iuly with the rynde To graffe in te Stochin is to be done in March and Aprill in the new Moone or a day or two before the change First pare the skinnes readie to put in the stocke before you cleaue the stocke straight put in your skins and clay them sure for if the sap of a Plumme trée take wind it then will not prosper Kinke of Tibolds Certaine obseruations ALL raw things annoy the stomacke All rosted things bee drie and all wines bee drie Eate not too much whereby enioy continuall health Eate but when néede is whereby enioy continuall health A good perfume to burne ¶ Take Storax Calamynta a quarter of an ounce as much Beniamin as much Lignum Aloes beate the wood in powder and then incorporate all the rest by beating together and make it in small Cakes to burne A pretie kind of bread to eate in the morning ¶ Take Sugar one pound fine wheat-flowre a pound eight egges beaten temper them well together with a few whole Aunisséedes clensed make it in Coffins bake it and eate it euerie morning For a web in a Horse eye ¶ Take Celidony and salt and stampe them and then put it in the Horse eye For a Horse foundred ¶ Take foure egges hard rosted and all hot lay to each foote one shel and al and stop it fast about with horse dung and so let him stand To make Vineger ¶ Take a quantitie of Bean flowre knead it with Vineger bake it and twise or thrise take it out of the ouen and moyst it well with Vineger til it haue drunken wel then put it in wine and it will turne to good Vineger and the like you must doe to make easell or Alleger For a Horse that hath the Cough ¶ Take two egges and bruse the shelles but breake not the yolks put them into one pint of Vergis al one night the next day take out the egges and put into the Vergis a penâ—â—y worth of Polipody of the oke and boyle it a good while And after wheÌ„ it is luke warme put in the egges shels and all and stirre them well together and giue it the Horse to drinke For Hogges murren ¶ Rootes of Polipody are good For squinancy of Hogges ¶ Harts-ease is good ¶ Rub thy hands with the roote of Dragons in May and take Adders in them and they shall not sting thée Ad extinguendum Argentum viuum ¶ 1 Argentum viuum extinguitur bene cuÌ„ salina cincere calid bene confricando 2 Melius tamen cum sulphure salina 3 Optime cum salina calce vi For the Farcy on a Horse ¶ Allumen mixtum cum Aceto galla equali pondere ad stringendum Farsam ne sana loca perambulet multum valet Obseruations for Diet. Diet for all the yeere Prime time Chickens Egs in mooneshew Diet for all the yeere Prime time Kids with vergis Roches Diet for all the yeere Prime time Borage Perches Diet for all the yeere Prime time Beetes Pikrelles Diet for all the yeere Prime time Yolks of egges All scale fish Diet for all the yeere Haruest time Capons Diet for all the yeere Haruest time Hennes Diet for all the yeere Haruest time Pigeons Diet for all the yeere Haruest time Good wines Diet for all the yeere Haruest time Good drinks Diet for all the yeere SuÌ„mer time Light meates Melons Diet for all the yeere SuÌ„mer time Chickens w e vergis Gourds Diet for all the yeere SuÌ„mer time Yong Hares Cucumers Diet for all the yeere SuÌ„mer time Rabbets Peares Diet for all the yeere SuÌ„mer time Lettice Plume Diet for all the yeere SuÌ„mer time Purcelain the fish aforesaid Diet for all the yeere Winter time Béefe and Partriches Diet for all the yeere Winter time Porke and Phesants Diet for all the yeere Winter time Brawne and Hares Diet for all the yeere Winter time Harts and Riuer fowles Diet for all the yeere Winter time Hindes and Wine Diet for all the yeere Winter time Other venison and Good spices Good to comfort the braine Smelto Muske Quibibes Camomill drinke wine moderately cate Sage not too much couer thy head wash oft thy handes and féet walke measureably fleep reasonably delight to heare melodie singing eat mustard and pepper smel to red Roses wash thy temples with red Rose water Euil for the braine All braines of beasts and Too much watching Euil for the braine Gluttony and Too much walking Euil for the braine Drunkennesse and Milke Euil for the braine Late Supper and Chéese and Nuts Euil for the braine To sléep after meate and To eate before hunger Euil for the braine Corrupt Ayre and Bathing after meate Euil for the braine Anger and Ouyons Euil for the braine Heauines and Garlick Euil for the braine To vncouer the head and Great noyse Euil for the braine To eate softly and To smel to a white Rose Euil for the braine Too much heate and Much stirring Good for the eies Look oft on gold and Pimpernell Good for the eies Red Roses and Oculus Christi Good for the eies Veruin and PluÌ„ge cléere water in that eyes Good for the eies Rew and Looke on gréene colour Good for the eies Fenell and Measureable sléepe Good for the eies Eufrase and Wash hands and séet often Euil for the eyes Garlick and Lechery Euil for the eyes Onyons and Sleepe after noone Euil for the eyes Hunger and Much sleeping Euil for the eyes Leekes and Much waking Euil for the eyes Waking and Bloud letting Euil for the eyes Winde and Looking against the fire Euil for the eyes Hot ayre and Euill baked bread Euil for the eyes Cold ayre and Dust Euil for the eyes Gluttony and Wéeping Euil for the eyes Milke and Looking against the sun or Moone Euil for the eyes Chéese and Euil for the eyes Much to behold and Bright things Euil for the eyes Smoke and Red colour Euil for the eyes Coleworts and White colour Good for the stomacke Red mynts and Calamynt Good for the stomacke Red Roses and To vomit once a quarter Good for the stomacke Comyn and Great hunger Good for the stomacke Sugar and Euery day to stand after meate Good for the stomacke Sage and Good for the stomacke Wormewood and Oft walking after meate Good for the stomacke Galingale and Euery cold thing Good for the stomacke Nutmegs and Vineger Good for the stomacke Measureable sléep and Pepper Euil for the stomacke Nuts and Too much casting Euil for the stomacke Chéese old and Too much bathing after meate Euil for the stomacke Honey and Too much trauell Euil for the stomacke Marow not sod and To eate raw flesh Euil for the stomacke Heauines and Bread not baked Euil for the
bark be cleane taken away boulted in a fine cloth of the bran whereof make a powltis in cleane water with a spoonfull of butter thrice washed in water and hereof let the Patient often vse ¶ Also boyle the swéetest Apples you can get with newe porke let the Patient eate the Apple his brest and places anoynted against the fire with fresh butter Against horsenesse ¶ TAke Gum Arrabeck Dragagant Liquorice Anudi Cucumer séedes Gourd séedes Purcelane Pemdion Horsehoue Terrestris Canabi séeds Acholus roots Isop Mentastrum Violets boyle them together in white wine and let the Patient drinke thereof morne and euen c. For winde and stitch in the side ¶ TAke Camomill and Wormewood of eache one handfull gréene Broome two HaÌ„dfuls stamp them small together then make a bag that will goe from the Nauell to the Reynes put those things into the bag couched abroade that will lye ouer the wombe then take a good quantitie of Mallowes and boyle them in a pottle of rayne water or cléere running water till it be throughly boyled then plunge the same bag in that water till it be throughly hote then squese out that water and all hote lay it ouer the womb til it commeth to the reines and when it is cold heat it againe and renewe it often A paste for stinking breath ¶ TAke Wine and Honie a quantitie boyle them a little the put to it grated bread and stir it put to it Annis séeds Liquoris and Pepper in powder and make paste of it make it in cakes bake them of any fashion and eate of it ¶ Take two handfuls of Comyn in powder séethe it in good Wine from a pottel to halfe drinke it at euen hot and at morne as hot as you may suffer it at euen and morne a pinte 9. daies ¶ Take Puliall Montan one handfull wash it shred and stampe it put to it hafle an ounce of Comyn pun and meddle them well together with white wine one pottle boyled to halfe and giue the patient to drinke hot as hee may suffer it halfe a pinte a day once after meat and not before and once at euen hot and it shall be well in fiftéene dayes For one that is bursten ¶ TAke rootes of Comphrie with the leaues Setwall rootes and leaues Polipody roots Centory called Peterwort make it in powder and drinke it in Ale For to preserue one from bursting ¶ TAke Comphrie Nep Royall Egrimony pun them and make a posset with the iuice thereof and drinke it and somtime chip and fry them with Egges an eat it as a Tansey ¶ Take tender crops of Osmond in May dry them in the wind and not else where make it in powder saue it in a bladder Winter and Sommer and drinke thereof it will make the belly goe as if it were new burst Let the Patient be well and easely trussed to goe withall in the day and to lie in the night till he be whole which will be in 24. dayes if he will bee ruled He must lye vpright as much as he may and kéep his bed euery morning two houres after hee taketh his medicine and eate no white meates till he be whole nor strayne him any wayes For burning ¶ Take iuice of the leaues and berries of Iuy the oyle of Nuts of each 8. ounces Waxe two ounces boyle it to an oyntment and vse it For burning or scalding ¶ Take Nightshade Parcely Isop Tim-houe Sorrell Marigold and Setwall of each two handfuls stampe them and straine the iuice and put to it a pound of Spike a quarter of a pound of Déere-suit well clarified or fresh Butter or Shéepes suit boyle all together a little while then put it out and anoint the griefe it wil take out the fire in ten or twelue houres then lay ouer it the soft Long wort leafe but first wash the griefe with salt brine which will speedily take out the fire Another for the same ¶ TAke Sallet Oyle and running water boat them together and then lay a lawne ouer the griefe and anoynt it on the lawne without remooning till it be whole ¶ Take the black water remayning in the making of salue or oyntment of Tabacco and anoynt the griefe it killeth the malignant heat of any burning or scalding ¶ TAke running water a pottle as much white wine or viniger halfe a penyworth of Hony as much Allom as an Egge white Coprus a quarter of a pound Rosemary Rue Isope Time and red Sage of each braunch boyle chem to halfe straine it and reserue it to vse To destroy a Canker ¶ Take Chid sope and quicke Lyme make a plaister and lay it to the sore and be well ware that the Canker be there for it will certainely slay the Canker And when it is flayne lay to the sore a sword of Bacon and it will heale it This is called Veni mecum for it will not fayle if it be layd to the quicke flesh For Cankers in teates ¶ TAke Culuer dung Hony Virgin waxe flower of Barly Beanes and Lyneseeds séethe them in Viniger or Wine put thereto Rams tallow make a plaister and apply it For a Canker in the mouth ¶ TAke the roote of Flower be iuce wash it and slice it and a few leaues of Peny coyall stéepe them in conduit water and wash the griefe therewith To purge Choller ¶ TAke Diagredij one dram beat it grosse put the powder of Aromaticum Rosarum Gabrielis to it halfe a scruple Ginger fine sliced halfe a spoonefull Sugar as you lift take a fayre Apple cut of the cap take out the core lay a tyle vpon embers rost the Apple and when it is rost pare the Apple and put into white wine and take it early in the morning D. K. For the Collicke and to cause disgestion and for gryping paynes of the belly ¶ TAke herbe Iohn Caâ—â—â—mill Wormewood of eche one handfull the yeolkes of two egges hard rosted shred theÌ„ together not ouermuch fry them with salt Butter then take a tréene dish and fill it with warme ymbers and lay the fryed herbes vpon the embers sprinkling the embers with wine vineger and lay a lynnen cloth ouer the dish and knit it fast in the bottome and lay it close vnto the payne G. K. For swelling of the coddes ¶ TAke powder of Comyn Barley meale and Hony fry them and make a plaster thereof and bind it to the code For Cornes in any place ¶ TAke crops of a Nettle brouse them and lay them to the Cornes ¶ Cut them till they bleede and then apply to it ashes of Tabacco burnt For the perilous Cough ¶ TAke Sage Rue Comyn and Pepper boyle them in Hony and eate of tearely and late a spoonefull ¶ Take Horehound and Hony and eate of it three dayes and thrée nights For Gough of cold ¶ VVAsh his feete euery euen with hot water then set his soles against the fire then stamp Garlick and a little HorehouÌ„d straine them and anoynt the soles
and at night lay one vpon note coales in a chasing dithâ—and let it â—moake if the fire go out renue it ¶ Water of the vpper busks of Waâ—â—â—ts distilled in September being drunke is a sure remedy against the Piague Against Poyson and the Pestilence ¶ TAke two dry Walnuts two dry Figs twenty leaues of Rue and a graine of salt eate thereof lasting nothing venemous shall hurt thee that day For the Pestuence ¶ WAsh a Lilly root cleane and boyle it in white wine till it be halte wasted and giue it the sick to drinke Hee shall break ouâ—ful of bladders as if he were burnt or scalded which will dry 〈◊〉 For them that haue the small Poxe ¶ KEepe them warme in all parts but the necke and head and there let them haue ayre enough and when they begin to come forth get of Doctor Ludfords water and kéepe it continually dropping in their eyes which water will keepe them out of their eyes then take Beefe and powder it with dry Salt two dayes and two nights then boyle a péecâ— of that Béefs well scummed take the fat of that broth and a quautity of running water and beat both together till it come to an oyle and so soone as the Poxe come forth anoynt the face therewith continually with a feather day and night and when the Poxe are throughly rips let them out with a gold needle when they begin to dry let them not hang too lang but put them off seftly else the scabs will make prints which shall be seene For poyson of Serpents or Vipers ¶ DRinke Dragons Rue and Betony ¶ Drinke iuice of Sinquefoyle ¶ Eate Garlicke ¶ Boyle Rue Betony and Fennell in butter and drinke it To withstand poysoning ¶ EAte a Walnut with a Fig and Rue sasting Against Poyson and Plague ¶ WAter of gréene Walnuts distilled about Midsummer 2. or 3. ounces drâ—â—â— cooleth resisteth poison the plague ¶ Pare a way the vttermost of the bark of the Walnut and make powder of the rest steep it all night in water strayne it and drinke it fasting to cast out poyson For the small Poxe a loueraigne medicine ¶ FIrst giue the patient sodden milke mixed with Saffron or with Mithredatum when they be perfitly come forth and begin to break in no case let them come into the ayre then distil of good apples sliced viniger and milk with a little Camphire and anoynt the face therewith G. K. For to make the Poxe come forth ¶ GIue the patient Barly water to drinke made swéet with Sugar G. K. To know if the sick of the Pox shall liue or die ¶ WHo that falleth sick of that disease and the Pox appeare not till the sixt day and do come forth the fourth day after then the patient is like to dye G. K. To make the Poxe come forth ¶ TAke 〈◊〉 fat Fig◠〈◊〉 Dragagant ij drams Fennel séed brused halfe a quarter of an ounce brused Saffred halfe a dram boyle all in a quart of water till thy third part be consumed then strain it and drink it warm early and late G. K. To take away the pits of the Poxr ¶ TAke milk and viniger of eche a pynt of appies pared and sliced thin 3. handfuls incorporate theÌ„ with a little Comphrie then stir it and wash the face 3. times a day let it dry ¶ The creame of womans milke anoynted is good also ¶ Powdered Béese broth not too fresh nor too salt is good also G. K. To purge melancholy ¶ TAke Séeny cleane picked one dram Epithimi mirabolani Hermodactili albi of eche halfe a dram Sugar one dram make all into fine powder adde to it powder of Gynger and Synnamom of eche halfe a dram make this in powder and put it into an apple the top cut off and the core taken out rest it and eate it To purge choler ¶ TAke Diagredij halfe a dram beat it gresse then put to it the powder of the roote Arromaticum Rosarum Gabrielis halfe a scruple and Sugar as you list rost it in an apple as before and vse it For running of the reynes and Gomora passio ¶ DRinke séeds of Lettice with ale or water ¶ Vse powder of Mastick Olibauum Storax and Cardamonium ¶ Dry Mynts in an ouen and drink the powder ¶ Anoynt the yard clothes with iuice of Morel Compbire ¶ Carry about thée séed of Sorrell gathered by a chast boy For him that hath lost his kinde ¶ TAke a red Onyon and a Hen sod in a pot eate it and drink it thrée dayes ¶ Or take seede of Fennell Parcely Caroway Cardamonium Lignum Cloues Galingale Cauel of ech a peÌ„ny waight Rubarb two drams of Allome as much Mastick one dram stamp them in a brazen morter and take a faire scoured bason and put a good portion therein melt it then take the soresayd things and put therto let it boyle till it be thick as thou maist hold it in thy hand then boxe it vp and vse it first and last This will restore thee againe though thou wert neuer so cold ¶ Or suck a woman euery day till thou be restored Running of the Reynes ¶ TAke Liuerwort Longwort Harts toung of eche halfe a handful a little Buglos as much Succory as much Endine Violets Sorrell Fiuefinger of eche a little boyle all in a quart of running water to halfe blaunched Almonds two penyworth stamp them with the pith of a Bullock then put it to the liquor with the herbs and wring them and take out the iuice then strayne it beat it and seizon it with long Pâ—ppâ—r a pennyworth Nutmegs Graines halfe a penny worth some large Mace and Sugar to make it pleasant and drinke it often warme ¶ Take Saunders white and yellow two ounces Sinnamom one ounce Mastick one ounce Sang. Draconis halfe an ounce one Nutmeg conserue of Roses two ounces mix all together with Turpentine and take it in often For a scall ¶ TAke Primrose roots stampe them fry them with fresh Butter and Tar and plaster-wise lay it to the griefe For a childs head hauing a white scall ¶ TAke Arse-smart a good quantity stamp it small put to it the like quantity of Hogs Lard stamp them incorporat theÌ„ together set it on a soft swaet fire alwayes stirring it with a little water in it for burning to and let it boyle til the leaues begin to parch then straine it of that liquor take two ounces and adde therto of Storaxliquid one ounce mix them together and therewith anoynt the griefe euery euening or euery morning which you will and lay a cloth on it D. K. For the Purples ¶ TAke Purple wort if ye can it is a cloueÌ„ grasse which bath a blew hart in the midst of it and if you cannot get that then take Angelica Betony Scabios of eche a branch as big as both your thumbs stampe them séethe them in posset ale straine