of Pellitory of the wal and all these things being washed clean seeth them in posset Ale and drink thereof when you go to bed and if you awake at midnight drink of it also A good Medicine to strengthen a weak Back Take a good handful of the pith of the back of a young Ox or Heifer slice â—t and take out the stuff in it and put it in a fair dish put thereunto one two or three of pure Dates the skin within side taken off and minced as fine as may be then boile them in two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water then look what quantity of Dates so the like of Raisons of the Sun and red Currants your Raisons must be minced smal and the stones taken out then boil your Raisons and Currants and Rose-water together till they be tender and put in some crumbs of Bread Cinnamon and Sugar and Saffron small beaten to powder then temper all these together in a fair dish and have ready Pastionel which is made of Sugar and yolks of Eggs fine flower and butter these work together into paste and roll it as thin as you can and make it into pieces the fashion of a Pease cod and bake them slenderly and reserve them to your use and when you list to eat of them take one and heat it by the fire side in the morning and eat it and another 〈◊〉 noon For the Back Take some Comfrey roots Knotgrasse Clary and Shepherds purse stamp them and strain them with a little Muskadine and put thereto the rest of a pint of Muskadine one Nutmeg grated and two yolks of Eggs and so drink of it cold To cleanse and comfort the Back and Reins Take a pottle of fair Spring-water and put thereinto halfe a pound of Eringo roots as new as you can get them and meerly of themselves as they grow without any candying or confectioning only bruise them very well before you put them into the pipkin of water then take three good sticks of Licoras and bruise them and put them into the same water let all these boil together over a temperate fire until half be consumed then take it off and every morning drink a pretty draught thereof for seventeen or eighteen dayes together A Conserve to strengthen the Back Take Eringo roots and conserve them as you do Damask white and red Roses in every respect the pith being taken out one pound and a half of Sugar is enough for every pound of Roots and three pints of water and stew them closely at the first as you do your Roses if you will add to them five or six graines of Ambergreece beaten to fine powder it will be much more cordial A good Drink against the heat of the Back Take Fennel Comfrey and Plantane of each a handful Anniseeds Fennel seeds and Licoras of each an ounce Mastick two drams Lapis dactilus two drams boile these in two quarts of new milk till half be consumed then strain it and drink of it morning and evening After this drink the space of an hour take on the top of a knife this Electuary Diatragacanth frigid one ounce of Sirrup of Violets one dram mix them together and take it as aforesaid For paine and heat in the Back Take Sage Rosemary Camomile and Maudlin of each one handful stamp them together and frye them in May butter and annoint the back with it warm Of the pain in the Back This pain proceedeth of Rheumes that fall into the sinews of the Muscles or of great labour and such like occasions Seeth Nep in your broth which draweth the noisome and grieved matter out of the neck and driveth away all pain in the shoulders and back bones Also silver Mountain seeds sod in water and drink thereof twice a week every time three or four ounces It is very good against all weakness of the back and raines BALM To make an excellent Balm Take a pottle of the best White wine three pints of Oyle of Saint Johns-wort of the blossomes of Saint Johns-wort Carduus Benedictus Sage Valerian of each two pound of Marjerom and Comfrey one pound chop them and stamp them small and put them into the Wine and Oyle then take new Wheat four ounces dry it well and bruise it and put it into the Wine and Oyle stir it well and seeth it four and twenty hours upon the embers close covered sometimes stirring it then boile it and stir it well and when you perceive the wine is almost consumed take it off and strain it then set it on a soft fire and take Venice Turpentine Mirrhe Incense and Mastick of each four ounces Ohbanum five ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce beat all these to fine powder and searse them through Lawn put in the Turpentine a little before the rest stirring it exceeding well then set it a little on the fire and off and on keeping it stirring till it be almost cold then put it in a glasse bottle for your use It is good for all manner of wounds BELLY For a swelling in the Belly Take Sassafras Hartstongue Betony Centory of each two handfuls Pelitory of Spain Cinnamon Ginger Cloves of each one ounce Licoras two ounces Spiknard one ounce put all these in a gillon of White wine and let it stand three dayes and then drink of it the space of eight dayes Another Take a quart of Spring-water and about some twenty leaves of a weed called Dithander and put thereinto some ten or twelve Cloves and boyl all these together till it come to a pint and drink thereof An Oyntment for a great belly whether it be by reason of an Ague or Wormes or the Spleen Take Romane Wormwood common Wormwood Garden Tansie Fetherfew Sowthernwood Unset Leeks Peach leaves Herb-grace of each one handful wash them and wring them then take a pound of Barrowes grease or May butter stamp all the Herbs in a Mortar very small then mingle them with the grease and make it up into balls as big as Tennis Balls then put them in a Cellar seven or eight daies till they be all hoary then break them into an Earthen pot and boil them on a soft fire till the juice be consumed then take it up and strain it and keep it for your use And when you use it warm some of it and annoint the belly before the fire morning and evening For a pain in the Bowels through hot Choler The party must be purged with Sirâ—ups which do cool and Glisters For a Purge take eight and twenty damask Pruins and five or six Figs seeth them in water and take of this Decoction three or four ounces temper Cassia therein and the Oyl of Sweet Almonds five or six ounces tempered with Sugar and drink the same at once It looseneth the body very gently and may be given to children newly born Likewise Manna decocted with sowre Dates Pruins and Sugar is good to give a stool BITING For the Biting of a Mad Dog Take Garlick Salt and
when you will use it take of it the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much marrow of an Ox leg mâ—â—t it together and mingle it well and morning and evening annoint as warm as can be suffered the hinder parts of the Childs thighes and legges and also his knees chafing it well with your wâ—rme hands and in a short time his limbs shall be exceedingly strengthned and be enabled by Gods blessing to go and walk To loosen the Belly of young Children Tye a Nutshel full of the Salve of Mallowes on the Navel and let it lye thereupon til it be soaked in Do this once twice or thrice till it be amended The Salve of Mallowes is thus made Take Mallow leaves and pound them then melt fresh Butter and boil the Mallow leaves therein till it be green then strain and use it Or give the child Sirrup of Violetâ— being heat or Sirrup of Damask Roses a quarter of an ounce at a time For the Lask of young Children Give to the child both morning and evening a spoonful of Plantane water to drink if the Child be old give it the more and give it no drink but such wherein Gold hath been three times quenched Also annoint the stomack with the Oyle of Mastick and Oyl of Mints towards his Navel downewards Also take the juice of broad Plantane and Wine Vineger of each a like quantity and mix therewith Barley meal till it be somewhat thick then cool it a little and spread it upon a woollen cloath and apply it upon the belly warm and when it is cold heat it again Also take a new laid egg and take a way the threeds as some call it the two white spots that are joyning to the yolk and beat it a good while then with meal make a Cake and bake it in a pan then beat it in a Mortar and put powder of Cinnamon unto it and bake it again and let the child eat thereof now and then COLICK For the Collick and Stone Take a handful of Stone crop Wild Time Garden Time Parsley Saxifrage Pellitory of the wall of each a handful four or five Rhadish roots a little of Philip Pimperlow scrape the roots and slice them and put all these into a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and let it stand twelve hours and then distil it with a soft fire and take five spoonfuls of this Water and put it into a good draught of Rhenish or White Wine then warm it milk warm and with the juice of a Lemmon and some Nutmeg and Sugar drink this fasting in the morning and fast four or five hours after and walk up and down take this every third day Probatum A good Medicine for the Wind Collick Take a flint stone and cast it into the fire until it be red hot then put it into a pot of drink and there will arise a great foame let the Patient drink thereof Another Take the Herb Eve and Holly without prickles dry them by the fire upon a paper and being well dryed make them into a powder and drink so much thereof at a time as will ly upon a Groâ—t in White Wine or Ale it is exceeding good For the Collick in the stomack Take a quantity of Conserves of Red Roses three Pepper cornes and beat them small also take the seeds of Uâ—â—set Time with Anniseeds beat them small and put them into the Conserve of Roses and mingle them well together then put it into a Gally pot and when your pain first cometh upon you take the quantity of a small Walnut and presently after as much Green Ginger as a Hasel Nat. For the Collick and Stone Take Parsley Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage Wild Time Eyebright of each two handfuls twenty Rhadish roots scraped and sliced steep all in a pottle of Red Cowes milk all night then distil them in the hottest of May and use it as followeth Take nine spoonfuls of the water and nine of Rhenish Wine the juice of a Lemmon half a Race of Ginger finely minced and sugar it as you please for a draught drink this thrice a week fasting and use presently moderate exercise A Preservative against the Collick and Stone Take a quantity of Parsley roots about two handfuls boil them in running water till they be soft then take out the pith and stamp them well and put them in a pottle of stale Ale then strain them from thence and drink thereof for the space of nine dayes at the least Another Take a quart of White Wine and boil it in an earthen pot and when it begins to boil put into it a handful of Mother Time and let it boil half a quarter of an hour then put unto it a head of Garlick stamped in a Mortar then boil them together a little space then strain it and give the Patient to drink and let him drink as much as he can when the grief is upon him but if it cease or break not then take about a penny worth of Honey unto halfe a pint of the Drink and by Gods grace it will help For the wind Collick Take a good quantity of Wormwood and tops of Rosemary as much and boile them in Sack and put them in a linnen cloth and lay it warme to the belly where the griefe is and by Gods grace it will help presently Another for the same Take a spoonful of the powder of Holland which is to be had at the Apothecaries and put it into a good quantity of stale drink and make it luke warme and so drink it Or else take the weight of a French Crowne thereof in some warm broth after the manner of a Purgation for it is not only good to break the wind presently but it will purge also and cause some stools Probatum To break the Wind Collick Take Wormwood and Tansie of each three branches seven or eight leaves of brown Sage stamp all these together and strain them into a quantity of Ale and then drink it luke warm twice if it be need For the Collick and Stone and burning Fever Take some leaves of the Herb called Dandillion and pound them small and strain them into stale Ale or Beer and so drink some three or four times It is not only good against the Collick and Stone but also against a hot burning Fever An approved good Medicine for the Collick and Stone Take Coriander Caraway Fennel Spicknard and Anniseeds of each one ounce and a half of Gromeâ— seeds and Licoras one ounce beat all these into fine powder and let the Patient drink a scruple in White Wine a little warmed and walk one hour after it fasting and do this every morning and evening and put thereto six drops of the juice of Juniper berries and you shall find it excellent in operation Probatum Another Take Parsley roots Marsh Mallow roots and red roots of each alike stamp them and put them into a pint of White Wine and strain it and let the Patient
fire till the skum arise then take off the skum and take it from the fire then put thereto the powder of Coltsfoot and make it as thick as Conserves of Roses which use at your pleasure A precious Water for a Consumption Take a quart of Rosewater as much of womans milk Goats milk or Cowes milk put unto it twenty yolks of Eggs and mix them well together and thereof distil a Water and give the Patient thereof to drink first and last with a Cake to eat made with Gold and Pearle A Water good for a Consumption or weaknesse Take a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and the yolks of twenty eggs beat them very wel together and put thereto a pint of good Red Wine and two Manchets sliced so mingle all these things together and put them in a plain Still and still it with a soft fire and now and then stir it or else it will have a crust on it the Water may be taken at any time three or four spoonfuls with some Sugar the oftner the better COUGH For the Cough be it never so extreme Take a quart of new milk and a pint of strong Ale and make a posset thereof then take off the curd then take a quarter of a pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned and two big sticks of Licoras and two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruise them and seeth all in the posset Ale until half be sodden away then take it from the fire and put therein so much sweet Butter as the bignesse of a Hasel Nut but let it not seeth after and let the party drink thereof evening 〈…〉 or eight spoonfuls at a time as hot as he can Probatum For the Cough Take a head of Garlick and prick it full of Cloves then take half a handful of three leaved grasse and as much Goats grease put the Garlick head therein and wrap it in russet paper and so roast it in the ashes till it be soft then beat it in a Mortar and straine it then drink it in some Ale or Beer it is good for the Cough A Tisan for the Cough Take a quart of good old Ale and set it on the fire and skim it clean then take half a dozen of good Fennel roots and scrape them and take out the pithes and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in the Ale then take a quantity of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it to the rest then take a handful of Anniseeds and sift them cleane and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth together a pretty while and take a handful of smal Raisons wash and pick them clean and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth a walme or two after then take a penny worth of Sugar candied and put into it when it is almost sodden from a quart to a pint and when it is full sodden to a pint take it off and strain it and drink it at times convenient and put to this Tisan Sugar Honey and Powder of Elicampane root of each a little and some great Raisons the stones taken out and Parsley roots and two or three Figs. For the Cough if it be of the Lungs Take half a pint of Aquavitae of Anniseedâ—â— half penny worth and as much English Licoras scrape it and slice it thin run the Anniseeds very well and fan the dust out of them and put them in together and let them boil on a soft fire till half be consumed then strain it out and wipe the pot and put it in again and put to it three ounces of brown Sugar candied and set it against the fire till it be melted then take it off and use as often as you will drink For the Cough or Cold. Take a quart of Ale and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary and boil it then put to it a spoonful of Sugar and as much butter as an egg and brew them together and let the Patient drink thereof to bedward and keep warm For the Cough Stamp two handfuls of Centory and seeth it in three quarts of Ale to the half then stamp it again and seeth it and put thereto a pint of honey and so take every morning thereof three spoonfuls Another The Cough is a Messenger of all Diseases of the Lights and Brest through the grosness drought moisture spittle and other excrements for the Cough is a motion of the Lights the which by the aire and moving vertue of the Muscels that are within the brest is meet and made for to cough up all that which hurteth the lights and the Rhume provoketh the Cough most of all There are often perillous Coughs through Rhume that falls down out of the head upon the lights and into the brest which is very ill to get out It is good to purge the head with Cochia Pills and to drink sometimes a draught of Barly Water in the morning and eat something after it Then take this Potion Take Syrrup of Endive Honey of Roses and Sirrup of Steches of each half an ounce Water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and half tempered together This Powder is approved to stay the Rhume Take Spica of the Indies one quarter of an ounce Cinnamon one quarter of an ounce of the Scull of a man that dyed through violence three quarters of an ounce take every time it cometh one dram after meat in Wine or any decoction Physicians do commend Barly Water mixt with Julip of Violets CORNES For to take away Cornes First cut away the Corne and root him out then drop into the hole a drop or two of a black Snail and put thereto the powder of Sandyfer and it will wear the Corn away Also cut your Cornes away and lay a little piece of the red Cerecloth upon the hole and in three months it will wear it clean away CRAMP For the Cramp Take the little bones of the Hares hinder legges which are in the knee joints if you touch the place grieved therewith it helpeth Also take Hollioaks Oyl of Violets and of Swines grease of each a little quantity and make an Ointment of them and annoint the place Another Take the Flank wool of a sheep carded in flakes and dipped in Sallet Oyle and wrap it about your leggs or where it taketh you and it will heat the Cramp and ease it DEAFNESSE For Deafnesse an excellent Medicine TAke the juice of Betony with the most part of Camomile wet in it a lock of wool and stop it in the deaf ear and Water stilled of the same Herbs to be powred into the ears is a help for deafness For the Hearing Take Oyle of Roses and White Wine Vineger of each alike and mingle them together and at night in bed put one drop into the ear and stop it with black wooll and lye on the other side DROPSIE A very good Drink to cure the Dropsie Take of Peperitis Roots otherwise called
be clean wiped also if you lay it to any place where the skin is not broken you may let it lye thereunto til by the moisture that it draweth from the sore place it falleth off and so from time to time you must do it til you find release of pain and being driven thin upon a cloth you must lay it that it may cover all the sore PALSIE For the Palsie TAke half a pound of sweet butter a pint of new Cow-dung and boil them both together till it come to a Salve then lay half of it upon a woollen cloth and lay it to the nape of the neck and when it is cold apply the other half warm Another Take White Wine and Sider and take a good deal of red Sage and boil them well to the one half and wash the Patient where he shaketh and if his Head shaketh wash the neck as hot as may be suffered and keep his neck warm and his joints at all times Against the Palsie Take a handful of Sage of Southern wood Spike of Lavender of each alike boile these in a gallon of running water and strain it into a stone pot when it is boiled away to a pint and half then every morning take three or four spoonfuls thereof luke warm and gargarise therewith and put it forth again Also take some of the same water warm and chafe the place with a spunge Of the Palsie This shaking is a continual strife of natural powers which are raised without ceasing It hapneth first by looking from a great height by sudden fear or sudden joy or much cold or great heat or much bleeding for remedy use three leaved grasse Cummin and Steches by Glister or otherwise of Oyls use Oyl of wild Cowâ—umbers Oyl of Dil of Clivers Artico which Herb is very good against the shaking Palsie PLAGUE or PESTILENCE For the Pestilence Take half a handful of Rue as much of Fetherfew and one handful of Marigolds a handful of Burnet a handful of Sorrel a quantity of Dragons either the root or the crop as the time of the year requireth and then take a pottle of running water and let them boil over the fiâ—e till half the water be consumed then take it from the fire and let it cool and when it is almost cold straine it through a fair linnen cloth and then let the sick body drink thereof and if it be too bitter put thereto a quantity of loaf Sugar or else powder of Licoras This hath been proved of a certain by great men and hath holpen almost an hundred Persons in divers places and where there were three persons in one house sick two of them drunk thereof and the third would not and he dyed and the two that took it lived and this was proved of a certain This Medicine must be given betimes before the Purples do appear and it will cease by the grace of God A Medicine against the Plague Take a handful of Sage vertue a handful of Hens grease a handful of Elder leaves a handful of red Bramble leaves and stamp them all together and strain them with a fine cloth into a quart of White Wine and then take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them all together and drink thereof a spoonful every day fasting for ten dayes together and for the first spoonful you shall be safe for four and twenty hours and after the ninth spoonful you shall be safe for all the yeare after And if it shall happen that any be strucken with the Plague before this Medicine be taken then take water of Scabious and water of Betony and a quantity of fine Treakle and put them together and drink it and it will put out all the Venom and if the Sore do appear then take leaves of Elder and make a Plaister thereof with Mustard seed stamped together and lay it to the Sore and it will draw out all the Venome and by Gods grace recover the party A precious Water good against all Poisons and Pestilences Take Turmentile Scabious Dittony Pimpernel of each a like quantity distil them all together and drink of it An approved Medicine for the Plague It taketh one like the Ague with cold as soon as it taketh them and complain of it take five seven or nine leaves of Garden Spurge nine is the most stamp them small in a dish and put to it warm milk or Posset Ale and let the sick body drink it and presently go to bed and sweat then take a great Onion and take out the core and put into it Mithridatum then lay on the top again and rost it very soft then beat it very small in a dish and put to it three spoonfuls of White Wine Vinegar and as much Sugar as will make it pleasant to take and as soon as the stomack is purged give him of the Onion as much as you can for that will draw out â—he Sore in four and twenty hours by Gods grace and keep the Patient very hot and warm and give him hot Broths and Drinks and keep him in a sweat four and twenty hours and after keep him very hot and when the Sore is come out roast an Onion with Treakle and Viegar and lay it to the Sore to draw it out and have a Chirurgion to launce it For the rest of your houshold give them every day Mithridatum and Treakle and take Centory and Madder and boil it in Beer and let them drink now and then thereof An excellent Drink against the Plague Small Pox or Meazels and for the cure and prevention thereof Take a pint of Dragon water three pints of the best Malmesey or Muskadine boil therein of Rue and Sage of each a handful and let it boil till one pint be boiled away then strain it and afterwards set it on the fire again and put thereto long Pepper Ginger and Nutmegs beaten to powder of each one ounce boil all these a little more and then take it from the fire and put therein of the best Mithridate one ounce of London Treakle two ounces and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica Water and use it as followeth If you think your self to be infected take one spoonful of this at a time morning and evening luke-warm but if not infected take it but once or twice a week at the most half a spoonful at a time in any Plague time and when they that are infected take this let them lye down and sweat two or three houres in the bed and when they be well dryed and warm kept let them drink none but warme Drinks or Caudles and so by Gods assistance they shall be well This Drink will keep good half a year if it be close kept A good Drink against the Plague Take of White Wine one quart and put therein the juice of these Herbs following of Elder leaves Rue leaves Wormewood and Scabious and put in a spoonful of good Treakle and the powder of a good Race of Ginger stir all
quantity of Beets and a quantity o Mercury one ounce of Coriander seeds one ounce of Cummin seeds bruise the seeds and seeth them and the Herbs all together in a pottle of running water and let it seeth till halfe be consumed then strain it and take three spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and three spoonfuls of Honey and half a handful of Bay salt bruised so put it into a Glister pipe and use it For the Stone Take the inner bark of Elder and seeth it in Beer or Ale til it have a good strength of the Elder then strain it and drink it morning and evening and it will break the Stone A very good drink for the Stone Take a pint of White Wine and half a pint of Ale and make thereof with milk a pottle of posset drink and take away the curd very clean and boil in it two or three roots of Mallowes Marsh Mallowes are the best and some Licoras till a quarter be boiled away then drink half in the morning and the rest at night For the Stone or strongurion Take half an ounce of Anniseeds a quarter of an ounce of Licoras Calamus Aromaticus French Gallingal Mirrh Gum Arebeck Gum Traganthum Diatria Papira or Piperion Pine Apple kernels white Orris roots Storax Benjamin Cipresse and Labdanum of each a small quantity then beat them all together take also half an ounce of large Mace white Archangel Mead Parsley and Garden Parsley Camomile Mallowes Fennel and Spiere Mint of each halfe a handful then take three quarts of White Wine and put them together in a brasse pot or a Posnet and boil them a pretty while then take it off and strain it through a cloth and put it in earthen vessels and keep it cool it will drink the better and take six spoonfuls morning and evening for three dayes together when you find your self ill and do not foreslow the taking of it Probatum A Plaister to apply to the side for the Stone Take Mallowes Herb grace Pellitory of the wall the green tops of Fennel and Camomile of each two handfuls seeth them in water till they be tender then presse out the water from them then stamp them very small and put in Oyle of Lillies Oyl of Camomile Oyl of Dill Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oyle of Scorpions of each one ounce let them boil on a Chafingdish and coals a good while then put to it as much wheat flower as wil make it thick like a Plaister spread it between two cloths and apply it to the Patients side as hot as may be endured For the Stone Take the weight of a French Crown of Pulvis Hollandi drink it in a quantity of White Wine stirring it well in the cup that it may not curd drink it in the morning betimes or at what time the Patient pleaseth keeping himself warme in his chamber all that day for it will give him three or four stooles and drink some warm broth after it and use this once a Month. More belonging to the former Medicine Take once a week after the former eight spoonfuls of Deal Wine and eight spoon fuls distilled from the berry of the Hawes make it sweet with Sugar and slice half a Lemmon into it and some sliced Ginger For the Stone in the Kidneyes There is great pain in the raines of the back which draweth downwards stirring encreaseth the pain they are much inclined to vomiting the body is bound Urine raw and watrish often provoking to pisse but not without pain the Urine avoids with gravel sand and slime yea sometimes mixt with blood To know it from the Chollick first it s not so sharp as the paine of the Chollick Secondly The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above and stretcheth downwards and a little more towards the back Thirdly the pain is most of the Kidneyes fasting the Chollick otherwise All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone are good for the Kidnies but not for the Chollick Lastly there is found in the Urine gravel or sand and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts To restrain the growing of the Stone or Gravel Take Turbith one dram and an half Hermodactilus one dram Diagridy six graines Salt of India two grains Ginger half a scruple Annis and Mastick of each three grains Sugar Pellets one ounce white Sugar half an ounce steep them together in three ounces of Water of Smallage or Maidenhair all night and wring it out well and drink it if the matter be in the stomack then take a Vomit that it run not towards the Rains This Vomit may be made of reddish Orange seeds the middlemost rind of Elder and Nux Vomica SIRRUP To make a Sirrup for one that is short winded Take a good handful of Hisop a handful of Horehound and seeth them in a quart of running water to a pint then strain it through a fair cloth and put in Sugar to make it pleasant Use this morning and evening with a Licoras stick some three spoonfuls at a time To make Sirrup of Roses Your liquor must be ready to seeth then put therein as many Roses as will be well steeped in the same water and cover it close and when the Roses be throughly white then strain it and set it on the fire again and so you must use it thirteen times and to every pint of your water or liquor you must put into it a pound of Sugar and let it stand together for the space of one night steeping and skim it clean and seeth it over a quick fire a quarter of an hour then take the whites of egges and beat them well together then take the pot off the fire and put into it the whites of your egges and then set it on the fire again and let it seeth a good space then let it run through a Jelly bag til it will stand still upon your nayl To make a comfortable Sirrup Take a handful of Egrimony and seeth it in a pint of Water till half be confumed then take out the Egrimony and put in a good handful of Currans seeth them till they be ready to break then strain them and make a Sirrup of them then set it on a chafingdish and coales and put thereto a little white Saunders and drink it either hot or cold Sirrup of Sugar candied Take Sâ—gar candied and put it into a clear bladder and tye it but so as it may have some vent then put it into a bason of water so that the water come not over the top of the bladder and cover it with a pewter dish and let it stand all night and in the morning take of it with a Licoras stick Doctor Deodates Scorbuttical Sirrup Take of the juice of Garden Scurvigrass Brooklimes and Watercresses of each six ounces and after it hath stood till it be clear take sixteene ounces of the clearest and of the juice
throat or elsewhere TAke a handful of red Sage a handful of Cellendine and as much Woodbind leaves take a gallon of running water and put the Herbs into it and let it boil to a pottle then strain it and take the liquor and set it over the fire again then put thereto a pint of English Honey and a good handful of Roach Allome finely beaten a penny worth of graines grosly bruised and let them hoil all together three or four walmes and then skim it off with a feather and when it is cold put it in an earthen pot or bottle so as it may be kept close and for a green wound take of the thinnest of the water and for an old wound the thickest the Water first being well shaken together and after you have well cleansed the old sore with White-Wine then take fine lint and wet it in the water and oft times bathe the wound and with the lint cover the wound and if there be any holes in the wound fill them with lint made like a Tent and so cover the wound with a piece of bladder the more better to continue your lint with moisture and dresse your wound twice a day To make Barley Water Take a penny worth of Barley a penny worth of Raisons of the Sun a penny worth of Anniseeds a half penny worth of Licoras two quarts or more of water boil all together till halfe be consumed then strain it and when it is cold drink it your Licoras must be sliced into small pieces To make Doctor Stephens Water Take a gallon of good Gascoigne Wine then take Ginger Gallingal Cinnamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Mace Anniseeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds of each a dram then take red Mints red Rose leaves Garden Time Pellitory of the wall Smal Marjerom Rosemary Peniroyal Sage Wild Time Camomile Lavender Avens of each one handful then bruise them all in a Mortar and beat your Spices small and then put your Spices and Herbs into your Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it oftentimes and then still it in a Limbeck The first pint is the best the second is good The Vertue of this Water It comforteth the spirits and preserveth greatly the youth of man it helpeth the inward Diseases coming of cold it helpeth the shaking of the Palsie it cureth the distraction of the Sinewes and helpeth the Tooth ache it comforreth the stomack very much it cureth the Raines of the back the Canker and cold Dropsie it helpeth forth the Stone in the bladder also it helpeth a stinking breath and the Conception of a woman that is barren a spoonful of this Water to some is sufficient to others two or three once in ten dayes sufficeth A Water for a green Wound Take a gallon of fair running water a pottle of White Wine of Wormwood Motherwort Bramble buds Hawthorn buds Basil Mints Avens Egrimony Bovewort Wood Bugloss Woodbind Plantane Ribwort Daisie roots Betony Wild Angelica Sanicle White Bottles Scabious and Dandillion of each one handful and put them into the Wine and water and let them boil together till the half be consumed then strain out all the Herbs and boil the liquor with a quart of English Honey very softly till it be clean skimmed then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a glass and keep it for to wash any green wound which it will care although never so dangerous drinking also at a time three spoonfuls of it A Water to heal a Wound Take Woodbind leaves and Sage of each a handful boil them well together in a little water and put in a piece of Allome and a little Honey and wash the wound therewith laying a little lint to it and it wil heal it An excellent Water to wash any Sore withal and will be a means to gather skin Doctor Wheads Water Take brown Sage brown Fennel Rosemary Violet leaves Liverwort Harts-tongue Bryar leaves Plantane leaves Woodbind leaves five leaved grasse Egrimony Wild Tansie of each one handful take all these Herbs and boile them in an earthen pot with a pint of White Wine and three pints of running water till it comes to a quart then take the Herbs and strain them in a bason then take as much Allome as three Walnuts and put it in the water and let it boil up then take it and put it in a bason till it be almost cold then put in a quarter of a pint of live Honey and presently put it in bottles and stop it very close To make a cordial Water Take of the tender leaves of green Angelica four handfuls of the like leaves of Carduus Benedictus two handfuls of the like leaves of Balm and Sage of each one handful and an halfe let all be shred small Licoras bruised five ounces the seeds of Angelica two ounces the seeds of sweet Fennel three ounces let both be bruised well the Spices of Aromaticum Rosarum Diamoschum Dulce of each half an ounce infuse them all in six quarts of good Sack four and twenty hours then distil them in a Limbeck with a soft fire according to Art and draw forth of the best water a pottle whereunto after two dayes put half a pound of the finest Sugar dissolved in half a pint of good red Rose water in a fair pipkin on the fire when the Rose-water is hot with the Sugar then put in your hot water and let it stand over the fire till it be throughly hot then take it off and put it in glasses and keep it as excellent to comfort the spirits and against infection you may draw forth of good smaller water a quart A very precious Water made of Cinnamon Take one pound of good Cinnamon and bruise it a little and lay it a soaking four and twenty hours in four pints or four-pound of Rosewater a pint and half of Muskadine or white Wine then put it into a Limbeck glass to distil upon hot ashes or else in a pot of hot water This Water is good against the pain of the Spleen the pain in the head the Mother to provoke Urine to stay vomiting to expel all venemous colds You may take four pints of White Wine putting to it half a pound of Cinnamon and use it as aforesaid WEN A Medicine to put away a Wen or Curnel Take black Soap mixed with unslaked Lime made into powder lay it to the Wen or Curnel and by Gods grace it will help A Medicine for an unbroken Wen. Take the crumbs of Barley bread the bignesse of an egge and as much White Wine Vinegar as will make it into a soft paste and spread it upon a cloth then take an old wooden ladle and set it against the fire and it will sweat then take a feather and wipe the sweat off the ladle and annoint the Wen therewith then take a plaister of the paste and lay it on the Wen and dresse it three times a day after the Sun is risen and before the
wash it in three or four waters and dry it one ounce of Cremer Tartary two Nutmegs Licoras the weight of fix pence make all into fine powder and mix them take every morning the weight of six pence in broth and fast two hours after and after this Receipt hath been taken let the party be purged once or twice WOUNDS For great Wounds in the head Take dry Wormwood or green green is the best and a new laid egge shell and all and beat them together very fine and make a Salve thereof and lay it to the place hurt very thick and let it lye four and twenty houres and if the party be much pained change it if but a little pained let it lye four and twenty hours more and then dresse it with other Salve as need requireth A Medicine for any Cut Wound or Sore Take of Rosen and Perrosen of each half a pound of Olibanum four ounces of Harts Suet four ounces of Mastick two ounces of Mirrh one ounce of Comfry half an ounce of White Wax four ounces let your Rosen Perrosen Olibanum Mastick and Mirrhe be made into fine powder and searsed each by themselves then take your Suet and Wax and dissolve them upon a soft fire when they be melted put in all your searsed powders alwayes stirring them till they be all melted then have ready a pottle of White-Wine hot in a faire pan and straine all your stuff through a Canvaâ— cloth into it then put in two ounces oâ— good Turpentine and then your Comfry beaten to fine powder alwayes stirring it till it be cold and then make in up in rolls and keep it for your use This Oyntment is very good for new Wound and for the Bloody Flux and the Wind Cholick being spread upon a cloth and laid to the Navel It is called Flos Vnguentorum The flower of Oyntments of which see more at large in Oyntments WIND To make one long winded Take half a pound of Almonds and lay them in cold water till they blanch of themselves then beat them very smal in a Mortar Licoras three ounces scrape off the bark or rind and beat it fine in a Mortar and take as muck Anniseeds two ounces of Sugar and beat them small as before and work them together and use it For the avoiding of Wind. Take the juice of red Fennel and make a posset of Ale therewith and drink thereof Another to expel Wind. Take of pure Sugar four ounces of Rose water as much as will moisten your Sugar put it in a possnet then have ready these Spices following White Pepper Black Pepper of each half adram pure Gallingale sliced and finely minced Ginger pared and minced fine of each of these one scruple and a half pure Turbit white and gummy clean scraped thin sliced and minced very fine two scruples skim your Rosewater and Sugar clean as may be and let them boil on a soft fire then put in all your Spices and stir them wel then take it from the fire and stir it till it be cold and thick then put it into a gally pot and reserve it to your use of this you may take at a time the quantity of a pennyworth or two pence For the Wind of the Stomack Take a handful of Tansie and a handful of Sorrel and beat them together and strain them and make a posset of White Wine and put in it the juice of the Herbs and drink it in the morning and fast after it a while VVORMES For a Ring-worm Take a Dog berry and with the juice thereof rub the Ring-worm and it will help it For the running Worm that eateth the flesh Take a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Herb grace a handful of Fetherfew a handful of Vervain a handful of Herb-Robert a bandful of Wild Bugloss boil these Herbs in half a pound of unwasht butter then strain it through a clean cloth and annoint the place with a feather and lay upon the wound Oak leaves with the smoothest side next the wound the leaves must be withered and so bind up your fores with linnen clothes dressing it twice a day after the same manner but remember your herbs bestamped before you boil them in your butter To kill the Canker and Worm that eateth the Teeth Take an egg that is layed on a thursday and empty it and fil it with salt and so set it on the fire until it may be made in powder and rub the Cankered teeth therewith and it both kills the Canker and destroyes the worms that eat the Teeth Probatum For Wormes in a Child to rid them away if they be almost past Remedy Take of Wormwood and of Walnut leaves of Rue and unset Leeks of each one handful and put to an Oxgall and fry them all over the fire and lay them on a cloth and lay them on the childs navel all night and that wil help them and on the morrow take half a pint of Malmsey and put into it four or five spoonfuls of Wormwood Water and as much Mint water and warm them toger ther and drink it one or two dayes and this will help without doubt Probatum For the Ring-worm Take a handful of Violet leaves an handful of Columbine leaves and a handful of Rosemary leaves stamp all these together and boil it in a quarter of a pound of unwasht butter and a little Deer Suet and when it is half boiled away strain it and put it over the fire again and let it boil two or three turnes then put it up for your use and strike a Plaister therewith and lay it on the Ring-worm dressing it twice a day and washing it every two dayes with White Wine For the Wormes Take Curraline in powder as much as will lye on a groat in new Milk three mornings three dayes before the Full or New of the Moon It will help old folks and sucking children it is a groat an ounce For the Ring worm Take black Soap and almost as much Ginger in powder and mix them well together and annoint the place therewith four or five dayes together and this will cure any Tetter or Ring-worm WHITES For the Whites Take a quarter of a pound of Ising-glasse and boile it in a pottle of milk to a pint and half then put to it Nutmeg Cinnamon and Sugar and red Rose water and so make it to a Gelly WOOD BETONY The Vertues of Wood Betony It saveth mens bodies by the vertue it hath in it and by Gods help for who so beareth this Herb about him preserveth him from Evil Spirits and this Herb must be gathered in the Harvest time early in the morning before Sun rising Also he that drinketh of the juice of Betony it will break the stone and cast it with the Urine Also if it be drunk with hony it is good against the Dropsie Also it is good against the outrage of wicked blood Also the juice of Betony mingled with Rose-water put in the ear amendeth
to bed and lye in the same cloathes and never change them in three dayes He may eat and drink what he lift so his Drink be warm For all manner of Aches and the Sciatica Take a handful of Herb-grace and bray it smal in a Mortar then take one ounce of Frankinsence and one ounce of Commin and beat them to Powder severally then take one pound of black soap and seeth it on the fire till it be melted then put in the aforesaid things and let them boile together till it be thick then take and spread it like a Plaister upon a cloath and lay it to the Grief as hot as may be suffered and so let it continue twelve houres then take it away and if the place be blistered lay that to it no more but prick the blisters with a needle and if it be not blistered then lay on a fresh plaister and let it ly twelve hours more and keep the place grieved and the Patient very warm Probatum est For any Ache whatsoever Take two great Onions and make holes in the tops and put into each one dram of Camphire so much of Frankinsense as a Walnut one pennyworth of English Saffron roast the Onion in the fire then pill it and strain it to an Oyle and put thereto so much of the marrow of a dead horses haunch bone and mingle it well together and annoint the place pained therewith A precious Remedy for any extreme Ache. Take a Whelp that sucketh the fatter the better and drowne him in water then take out his guts clean and fill his belly with black Soap and put him on a spit and roast him well and take the dropping thereof and put it in a Vessel and then lay the Patient in a sweat and annoint him therewith and cover him warm with clothes that he may sweat well then make a fire of Charkcoals in a pan and lay thereon a good handful of Sage and let him take the aire thereof in a close room and do this five times For all manner of Aches in Bones Joints or Sciatica Take Balme and Cinqfoil but most of all Betony Nep and Fetherfew stamp them and drink the juice with Ale or Wine Prebatum A very good Plaister for any Ache or swelling in the Joints Take of Stipticum Paracelsi and Calcithers of each alike spread it upon Leather and make a Plaister thereof then annoint the place grieved with Oyl of Roses and after lay on the Plaister Mr. Smart For an old Ache or Sciatica Take Harts-horn and chop it in reasonable smal pieces then put it in a Pipkin cover is with water and stop it close and set it in an Oven with Bread and when it is baked take out the Pipkin and when it is cold it will be a Jelly then warm some of it and annoint the grieved place with a warm hand and chafe it in often For an Ache. Take Aqua composita and Neatsfoot Oyle warm them and annoint the place therewith and lay warm cloaths thereon Another Take Paâ—sly and Wormwood of each a handful and seethe them in a quart of Ale with a quantity of sweet Butter and wash the place therewith and bind the Herbs to the place as hot as may be suffered Another Take Smallage stampt and put it into Aqua vitae and strain it and put thereto Boars grease and straine them together and annoint the place therewith morning and evening For an Ache or the Sciatica Take Neats foot Oyle and Aqua composita and annoint the place therewith then take wool newly taken from the Sheep and put thereon with warme cloathes Another Take the juice of Smallage Sorrel and of Woodbind leaves of each alike then take Honey and the white of an egg of each alike and mingle it together till it be thick and lay it on cold without any boiling at all Another Take as fat a Goose as you can get and when she is ready drest then take a couple of the fattest young sucking Cats you can get and flay them and cut them into gobbets and put them into the belly of the Goose and so roast it as long as it will drop then take the liquor and annoint the place pained therewith and bathe it wel before the fire as hot as you can suffer it and dip a brown paper therein and lay it hot thereunto with warm cloaths bound fast to it all night Do this for the space of three or four nights together AGUES For a Quartain Ague Take a quart of Ale one ounce of Cene half an ounce of Licoras half an ounce of Anniseeds a few Raisons of the Sun boil these together till your Ale be more then halfe consumed then give it to the Patient to drink as warme as he may when his Fit is upon him and go to bed and keep him warm This is to be used three several times if his Fit go not away at the first Probatum For an Ague Take the Root of a blew Lilly and scrape it clean and slice it lay it in soak all night in Ale and in the morning stamp it and strain it and give it the Patient luke warm to drink an hour before the Fit cometh For the Feaver Cake Take Barley meal or else the flower of wheat and make a cake and bake it and then take the juice of Hemlocks and annoint the belly with it Also you may take Oyle of Exceter or Sallet Oil and fry a few Oats therein and lay it to the Patients stomack as hot as he can suffer it Probatum For a hot Burning Ague Take Succory roots and leaves Parsley roots Endive leaves Borrage leaves and Sorrel leaves seethe all these together in a pottle of running water and when it is well sodden strain the water from the Herbs then put to it a good piece of Sugar to make it pleasant and two spoonful of Vineger that it may be somewhat sharp you may also put in Buglos An excellent Medicine for an Ague Take a handful of good Bay Salt and put it into a Mortar and bray it very small then put thereto as many of the biggest Cobwebs that you can get as the quantity of four fingers and beat them a good while then put into them a good handful of Smallage clean picked and so beat them all together very well into one substance then take it out of the Mortar and put thereunto two ounces of the best Venice Turpentine unwashed and temper them well together and two hours before the Ague fit cometh divide it into two parts and bind it equally to both wrists on the place where the Pulse beateth and roll it up well with a linnen cloth that it stir not from the place and tack it fast with a needle and thred and so let it lye four and twenty hours and it will alter the Fit of the Ague and drive it away but if not try the second time and no doubt but it will help A little fresh butter will get off
the Medicine from the wrists A good Medicine to remove or avoid a Burning Fever Take of Dragon Water of Angelica Water of Red rose Water of each three spoonfuls three grains of Bezar Stone the quantity of a Nutmeg of Mithridatum or else a spoonful of Jean Treakle half a penny worth of English Saffron Mingle all these together and take it fasting and sweat after it and use this two or three mornings together For the Ague Take one penny worth of Gore Turpentine of Rye Leaven the quantity of a Hasel Nut being somewhat stale a little course Mastick and a little bay salt both beaten small one handful of Smallage and a few Cobwebs shred smal mingle all these with the Turpentine and spread the same upon a plece of white Sheeps leather on the rough side being pricked full of holes and three hours before you think your Fit will come bind it to your wrists and let it continue nine dayes or more Another Take a pottle of Ale seethe it and skum it then put to it the tops of Centory Mints Sage Wormewood and Hysop of each a handful boil all in the Ale till half be consumed then take the Herbs out with a spoon then put a quantity of Sugar into the Ale to allay the bitternesse of it and so let it boil a little while again then strain it through a fair cloath that done put thereto as much Treakle as the bignesse of a bean and then keep it in a fair glasse and let the Patient drink thereof first and last and drink not after for the space of an hour For all Feavers and Agues of sucking Children Take powder of Christal and steep it in wine and give it the Nurse to drink also take the root of Morsus Diabili with the Herb and hang it about the Childs neck For an Ague Take Bur-roots and red Nettle crops and seethe them in stale Ale and clarifient let the Patient drink it a little before the cold fit cometh and when he beg nâ—eth to swear give him a posset of Ale made with Marigolds and Fennel being clarified and it helpeth in four or five Fits Another Take of Smallage and Fetherfew of each a handful stamp them and straine them and take half so much as the juice thereof of small Ale being mixt together drink it in bed before the Fit cometh and cover your self warm Another Take Endive Sowthistle Dandillion Lettice Sorrel of each alike stil them altogether and the water thereof is very good for an Ague Another Take Soot and yolks of Eggs and bay Salt and Pepper being mingled wel together and lay it to both the wrists and drink warm Ale Another Take three cloves of Garlick and bruise them a penny worth of Aqua vitae and half a pint of Ale seethe them together and drink it before the Fit cometh as hot as you may Another Box leaves dryed and made into powder and Sheeps trecklings put in soak in strong Ale and drunk is very good An approved Medicine for an Ague Take a red Fennel root and cut it very smal and take six and fifty cornes of Pepper beaten very small and mingle them together and bind them to your wrists half an hour before your Fit cometh AQUA COMPOSITA How to make a Special Aqua Composita to take for a Surfet or cold stomack Take a handful of Rosemary a good root of Enula campane a handful of Hysop half a handful of Thime six good crops of Sage as much Mint and as much Penniroyal half a handful of Horehound two ounces of Liquorice well bruised and as much Anniseeds Then take two gallons of the best strong Ale and take all the Herbs aforesaid and wring them asunder and put them into an Earthen pot wel covered and let them stand a day and a night from thence put all into a brasse pot and set it on the fire and let it stand till it boil then take it from the fire and set your Limbeck on the pot and stop it close with paste that there come no air out of it and still it out with a soft fire There is to be added to it by a new counsel one handful of red Fennel A Receipt of G. K. to make Aqua composita Take of the best strong stale Ale three gallons of Licoras clean scraped and bruised half a pound of Aniseeds clean dressed and bruised one pound Of each smal cut one ounce Fennel seed Carraway seed Sassafras seed Piony seed Winter savory seed Seed of Anodinum Seed of Ameos Of each one ounce Ginger Nutmegs Gallingal Great Gallingal Bruised of each half an ounce Cloves Long Pepper Cubebes Callamint aromaticus Of each two ounces Cinnamon bruised Ivy roots sliced Enula campana roots dried and thin sliced Roots of Tussilage Of Bay berries bruised first blanched one ounce Of each a quarter of an ounce Setwal Spiknard Mace Lignum Aloes Of each a handful Roots of Angelica sliced and of the seeds bruised Ligna Cassia sliced Juniper berries bruised or the Wood thin sliced Red Rose flowers Flowers of Sticardue Saint Johns wort The Herb Canapitis Diptamnus Cretius Pimpernel Phillipendola Scabious Betony Egrimony Plantane Oamomile flowers of each an ounce The Wood or Tree called Tamariscus The roots of Sassaparilla bruised The roots of Orpine The Roots of Gentian sliced two drams one ounce Of the Gum of Mirrh Of Olibanum Of Mastick Of Alkanite Of Sugar four ounces The order of drawing this Aqua Composita Half your Cinnamon your Lignum Adloâ—s the roots and seeds of Angelica must be reserved out of the Brasse pot and knit in a linnen bag and laid in the Receiver whereinto your Liquor must run and by and by the Alkanite must be put into the Receiver Also receive out of your brasse pot all your Herbs and Flowers until the last draught come your other Spices Seeds Roots and Gums must be put with your Ale into your brass pot then set on your Limbeck and close it fast with paste and keep the head therof always cool with cold water and draw it so long as it wil run good which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire if it burn it is good if not take off your Limbeck charily and powre out all your stuffe that is in your linnen bags in the Receiver and all the rest of your flowers and herbs and put to them a gallon and a half of fresh Ale and set on your Limbeck again and draw it as before and the Cinnamon and the Sugar that is left must be put into the Receiver again and when all is drawn out put your first draught and your last together and keep it for your use The best way to make Mrs. Bells Aqua-composita Take six gallons of the best strong Ale the Ale wort must be so strong that it will bear an Egge and the Ale must be at least a week old then take two pound of Anniseeds two pound of Licoras scraped and bruised
Fennel seeds Coriander seeds Carraway seeds Parsley seeds and Gromel seeds of each a good handful and for any other Seeds or Spices use your discretion then take of Lavender Rosemary Sage Hisop Savory Sweet Marjerom Standing Time Mother-Time Running Time Burrage Buglos Succory Endive Lettice Violet-leaves Strawberry-leaves Mugwort Red Fennel Peniroyal Red Mints Herb-grace Germander Avens Wormwood Bay-leaves Nep Clary Horehound Comfrey Marigold leaves Mercury Sowthistle Sorrel Plantane Ribwort Angelica Carduus Benedictus Wood-Betany Scabious Balme Liver-wort Long-wort Saint Johns-wort Saint Peters-worts Parsley Dandillion Basil Lavender Spike Bloodwort Egrimony Burnet Garden Gallingale roots Setwal-roots Polipodium of the Oak Pimpernel Clivers Shepherds-flowers Knot grasse Cinqfoil Long debeeff Sparragus Water-cresses Spinage of each of these two handfuls two or three heads of House-leek Put all the Seeds Herbs and Roots to the Ale and let them lye a steeping all night then still them in a Limbeck and draw of it so long as it runneth good which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire if it burn it is good or else not To make another Aqua-composita Take a brass pot of four gallons and rub it very clean within side then take three Gallons of good strong Ale and a gallon of Wine lees so that your pot be not full by three fingers with your Herbs and Spices as followeth Take a pound of Anniseeds well bruised and half a pound of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it into the pot then take a handful of Rosemary a handful of Hisop a good root of Enulacampana and scrape it well and slice it half a handful of Unset Time half a handful of Mints a handful of red Fennel a handful of red Sage six good crops of Marjerom and as much Peniroyal a quater of a handful of Hartstongue half a handful of Horehound gather not the Herbs till the dew be off them then wring all your Herbs asunder and put your Spices and all in your pot and let them stand all night then set your pot upon a fire of Charcoals and set on your Limbeck upon the pot and stop your pot round about with paste so that no air come forth then make a little fire under the pot and put cold water in the top of the Limbeck and be sure you keep it alwayes full with cold water and as soon as it begins to drop into the Receiver abate the fire a little and keep it so that it drop not too fast nor too soft for if it drop too fast it will be too hot of the fire and if too soft it will be too weak you can draw but a quart of the best and a quart of the second Another way Take three gallons of Claret-wine with some Lees amongst it for want of Wine take very strong Ale then take two pound of Anniseeds bruised and four pound of Licoras clean scraped and bruised one pound of great Raisons stoned Parsley and Fennel roots of each a good handful scraped and the pith taken out with a root of Angelica then stop it very close and let it stand three dayes and three nights then still it in a Limbeck and keep the best by it self and you must put as much Sugar candied into the glasse as is worth a shilling and hang two grains of Musk in a cloth in it AQUA VITAE To make Aqua Vita for a cold stomack Take Rosemary and Hisop of each a handful Sage and Horehound of each half a handful one root of Enula campane Marjerom and red Mints of each six crops Licoras and Anniseeds well bruised of each two ounces then take three gallons of strong Ale grounds and set all these on a fire in a pan til it begin to seethe then take it from the fire and put it in a brasse pot and set on your Limbeck stopping it close with paste and keeping a soft fire under it To make Aqua-vitae to avoid Flegme Take of Peniroyal a handful of Strawberry leaves two handfuls and Pimpernels three handfuls and add these to the former Receipt AQUA MIRABILIS How to make a precious Water called Aqua Mirabilis Take Gallingale Cloves Squills Ginger Melilot Cardomons Mace and Nutmegs of each one dram of the juice of Cellendine half a pint mingle all these made into powder with the said juice and a pint of Aqua-vitae and three pints of good White-wine and put all these into a Stillatory of glasse and let it stand all night and on the morrow still it with an easie fire This Water is good for by a secret nature it dissolveth the grief of the Lungs without any pain it purgeth Melancholy it expelleth the stopping of the Urine and it marvellously profiteth the stomack conserveth Youth in his own state long and preserveth memory destroyeth the Palsie it being given a man or woman labouring for life one spoonful relieveth him Of all Artificial Waters I think none better In Summer use one spoonful thereof in Winter two BACK A good Medicine to strengthen the Back Take Oaken leaves and buds Knot-grass Comfrey and Clary of each alike and still them this must be taken every morning two spoonfuls but let it be a fortnight old or else the fire wil not be out of it Another Take Comfrey Knot-grass and the flowers of Archangel boile them in a little milk of a browne Cow and drink of it every morning it is very good For the Rains of the Back and Stomack Take of Fern that groweth on a house and Camomile of each a handful two or three slips of Unset Hysop bruise 〈◊〉 these together and seeth 〈◊〉 them in a quart of Rhenish or White-wine with a handful of Currants till it come to a pint and after it is sodden put into it an ounce and a half of white Sugar candied and let it melt of it self then strain it through a fair cloath and give it the Patient to drink warm morning and evening To strengthen the Back Take a handful of Knot-grasse a handful of Archangel flowers nine branches of Gromel and stamp it with a pint of Ewe milk and warm it bloud warm and let the Patient drink it an hour before he riseth for nine dayes together For the Raines of the Back Take your own water and boil it well and scum it well then take a quarter of an ounce of Oile of Bayes and an ounce of Oyle of Roses and boil it from a pottle to a pint or a quart and annoint therewith the rains of the back and also the Spleen vain in the foot For the pain of the Back and heat of the Back Take Rose-water and put thereunto Sanders and Rose leaves and lay them in steep in your Rose-water one whole night and it being drunk will take away the heat and greatly comfort the Reins or wash the back therewith To cleanse the Back and purge the Raines Take one Fennel root and two Parsley roots and pick out the piths of them and put thereto one handful
two Fennel roots two Parsley roots three Dates a handful of Currants and boile them altogether from a pottle to a pint then take two spoonfuls of Hasel Nut kernels and eight blanched Almonds stamped together with the Nuts and strain them into the broth and so drink it morning and evening For avoiding gravel in the Body Take a couple of eggs and boil them hard then take the shels only and stamp them very small then take six Dates stones and one Nutmeg and stamp them likewise then take of Cene as much as the two former things do weigh then searse it through a very fine Searse then take the weight of four pence or six pence and drink it in a quantity of White Wine Ale or Beere in the morning as long as the things do last and it will break it away with hot broth within one hour after A Medicine for a weak Body Take a Legg of Veal and wash it very clean and put it into a gallon of fair spring water set it over the fire and skumme it very cleane and then put in a quarter of a pound of the best red Currants you can get and half a handful of the Roots of Orpine the skin being clean pick'd off and some grated bread to thicken let it boil softly over the fire till it cometh to a pottle and then put in half an ounce of Coral very finely beaten and half an ounce of Cinnamon finely beaten and let it be stirred when the Spices be put in and this you must drink three times a day being boiled three or four walmes after the Spices be put in You must drink it in the morning fasting and an hour before Dinner and an hour before Supper It must be very warm when you drink it and in the morning fast two hours after you have taken it This is good for a weak back for the Mother and for the Whites and for the running of the Rains To comfort the Spirits of one that is weak Every two or three hours give the Patient a spoonful of Syrrup De Corticibus Citri and therein three or four drops of Aqua Coelestis A very good Glister for a weak body that is troubled with the Cholick Take a piece of a knuckle of Veal set it on the fire in a convenient quantity of water one Fennel root scraped and the pith taken out one Parsley root scraped the pith taken out Camomile Penniroyal Burrage and Bugloss of each a handful Raisons of the Sun stoned three pieces of large Mace and a piece of Cinnamon bruised a little one Nutmeg quartered Let these boil till it hath a good taste of the meat then strain out a pint of this Broth in a Bason and put to it four spoonfuls of Oyle of Rew the yolk of one new laid egge three penny worth of Sugar candied stir all these well and give it with a Glister-pipe blood warm about eight of the Clock in the morning and four in the afternoon BRAINES A Gargarism to purge the Braines By Dr. Deodate Take six spoonfuls of Wine Vineger and twelve spoonfuls of water and two spoonfuls of Honey clarifie them together and add thereto one spoonful of Mustard BREST To heal a sore Brest when it is broken Boil Lillies in new milk and lay it on to break it and when it is broken tent it with a Mallow stalk and lay on it a Plaister of Mallowes boiled in Sheeps tallow These are to be used if you cannot keep it from breaking For a womans Brest not broken Take Oyle of Roses Bean flower the yolk of an Egg a little Vineger temper all these together then set it afore the fire that it may be a little warm and then with a feather strike it upon the Brest morning and evening or any time of the day when she feels the pricking A Drink for a sore Brest or Wound Take of Avens Plantane Ribwort Bugloss Primrose leaves Cuckoe Sorrel Bramble leaves and a yellow flower like to Dandillion but somewhat less Daisies roots and all Sanacle Wormwood Strawberry leaves Herb Robert Egrimony Cinqfoil of each a good handful not too much wormwood for making it bitter boil all these in a pottle of White-wine and make it somewhat sweet with Honey then strain it and wring out all the juice as neer as you can then drink a good draught thereof in the morning and at night till it is done and lay to the sore a Primrose leaf or a Plantane And when the brest is sore or hard take Polipodium Plantane and great Raisons beat them smal and lay it all about the Brest upon a cloth For an Ague in the Brest Take Groundsel Daisie leaves and roots course Wheat chessel make a Poultice thereof with the parties owne water and lay it warm to the Brest A Drink to purifie the Brests from Rheume Take Hysop Figs and Honey boile them in Wine from a pottle to a quart drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold For a sore Brest or to dry up a womans milk or to asswage the hard swelling if it lye not too long Take stale strong Ale or Beer grounds a small peece of Allome and a little Honey and boil them together then take a piece of woollen cloth and cut two holes in it for the two nipples and dip it in the liquor and lay it to the brests very hot lay a piece of black wool upon the nipples For stopping in the Brest Take Rew and seethe it in Verjuice and so drink it For a heat and swelling in a Womans Brest Take the whites of two new laid eggs and beat them very well also take a handful of Violet leaves and pound them very fine and put them to the whites of the Eggs and take as much wheat-flower as will make it as thick as a Plaister and temper it well altogether and spread it upon a cloth and lay it upon the brest and it will ease the pain and take away the swelling Also Snow-water and Sallet Oyle c. Probatum If a woman want milk in her Brests The cause may be of heat or drowth or of some cold quality of the brest that the blood which should alter into milk be dryed out Again the want of milk may be for want of meat or use of such meats as may dry the blood or by bad digestion of the stomack c. use a good Diet and eat green Marjerom in the morning fasting BRUISE For a Bruise Take running water a gallon Ferne roots scraped clean and sod in the water till it be halfe consumed and then stamp them and strain them and then put it between a linnen cloth and lay it to the bruise or squat as hot as may be suffered and it will help you may wash the place pained with the liquor so that the skin be not broken A soveraign Medicine for bruised blood congevled in the body Take Lyons Claw that is Predalian or our Ladies Mantle and Sage and Parsley
violence you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs juice of Wood-betony and Egrimony and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes If that do not help it take wheat flowers the juice of Mallowes Mints Smallage and the Oyl of an egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to For hardnesse that hath been long in the Eye Take a Scruple of Alloes and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire then put of it in the eye Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister and lay it upon the eye Or take Roses Sage Rew and Cellendine of each alike mixt with a little salt and distil it and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye In stead of that water it is good to take the juice of Vervain Rue and a little Rose water For the Pin or Web. Take tops and crops of Herb Christopher stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May stamp them very small then take a good quantity of May Butter and stamp them together in a vessel and strain it out and set it in the Sun and put of these into your eyes it must stand a month in the Sun For a hurt in the Eye that cometh by a stroke Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plantane and put thereto the white of an egg and womans milk of a male child and Oyle of Roses and put it in your eye going to bed use this three or four times in a day Or take Egrimony and bray it and temper it with White Wine and an egg and make a Plaister and lay to the outside of the eye For a Pearl at the beginning Take a Race of good Ginger pare it clean and rub it on a Whetstone and make powder of it and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine then strain it through a fair cloth and put it into a glasse or Viol and after nine daies you may use it when you go to bed lying upright and likewise in the morning Do this six or seven times For eyes that are full of Rheume and bleared Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls and two of honey mix them together and when you go to bed put some in your eye Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel a branch of Cellendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten if one serve not take two put all these into half a pint of water cover it and put of it in your eye when you go to bed and an hour before you rise strayning it when you use it To preserve the sight long Take a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week To clear the sight Take the white of an egg made as clear as water and a spoonful of clarified Honey and some fine Sugar and mix them together and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor and rub the eye-lids therewith within and without For sore Eyes and Megrim in the Head Take the whites of new laid eggs and beat them to Oyl then take a spoonful of Rose water as much fine Sugar and as much strong Vineger made of Malmesey or White Wine put them to the Oyl and beat them together then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister dip it in the Medicine and bind on each Temple one with a cloth but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes Do this three or four nights and every morning the eyes will cleave together with Gum. For the Megrim in the eyes Take new milk and seeth it and put it into a bason and cover it with a platter and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes Or take three drams of the juice of Rue and put in your eyes and ears and stop your ears and lye down on that side For a Pearl and Web. Take Veinfrage Ivie Daisies Sickwort red Fennel Seagreene Pimpernel May butter bruise them in a Mortar and let them lye in the froth five â—ayes then make an easie fire and set 〈◊〉 over till it be melted then straine it through a fair cloth and put is into a Vial and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn It will destroy the Web and when your eye cleaveth together wash it with Rose water Another Take the leaves of Sage Hysop oculus Christâ— puiled downward drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice stamped with the Herbs and straine it in some Beeâ— and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together Or take the juice of Avens Southernwood and put this juice into Fenâ—â—â— water and put it in your eye For Eyes that be fair to look on and naught to see with Take Smallage Fennel Rue Vervaiâ— Betony Pimpernel Eyebright Sagâ— and Cellendine of each alike wash theâ—â— clean and stamp them then take thâ— powder of fifteen Pepper cornes and 〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine three spoonfuls of good Honey and fifteen spoonfuls of the Urine of a man child that is young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little then strain it and keep it in a vessel or glasse and put of it into your Eyes and if it dry up in the glasse put to it a little White Wine This is good for all kind of sore eyes in fifteen daies it helpeth For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take the strained juice of Pimpernel and drop into your Eye morning and evening This is good also for the Pin and Web or Pearle in the eye For a Pin and Web. Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees wipe them clean with a cloth â—hen stamp and strain them with womans â—ilk of a Girle for a man of a boy for 〈◊〉 woman the sorer the eyes be take the â—ore juice and the less milk Drop this â—â—to your eye with a feather evening and â—orning and twice in the afternoon For sore Eyes that cometh of a hot cause at of a Rheume Take Elder leaves and chase them between your hands and lay them to the nape of the neck For Bloodshotten Eyes Take a toast of leavened Bread House-leek and womans milk a spoonful oâ— Rosewater the pap of an Apple roasteâ— the yolk of a new layd egg and boilâ— them take the toast and lay it in reâ— Wine not mingled and let it lyâ— halfe an hour till it be soaked they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces for each eye one and the cloth must be between the eye and the toaâ— and dresse it thus when you go tâ— bed For Watering Eyes and darknesse sight Take May Butter and Honey of 〈◊〉 alike and boil them together and 〈◊〉 in the white of an egge and when it
and lay it warm to the eyes Also if deflux cause much pain take unwashed sheeps wool burn it to ashes in a close stopped pot bruise it as small as may be and mix it with the white of an egge and lay it on your forehead and temples This asswageth the Catarrhe very quickly and abateth the pain A Plaister for the Temples or sore Eyes Take Alloes Mirrhe Mirtle leaves Acatia of each one dram Mastick and Frankinsence of each half a dram beaten small together and make it to a Plaister with the white of an egg Likewise he ought to purge with Pills of Cochia which be sharpned with the Trocisies of Alhandaly Also with the Confection of Hierâ— and such like Oyle of linnen being made thus is very good for sore Eyes viz. set it a fire with a candle and lay the linnen upon an even piece of iron tin or silver and put it out quickly and you shall find a drop of Oyle the which take up with a feather This healeth marvellously well the Imposthume of the eyes taketh away the pain and is good for a Fistula and Wounds in the Eyes FACE To take away the Scars or Pockholes or redness in the Face TAke a good quantity of Lemmons and slice them rinds and all and distil them laying them on fair sticks that they touch not the bottom of the Still and with the Water that cometh thereof annoint the face and it will soon take away the rednesse and scars of the face For a sawcie Face Take a pottle of White Wine and a quarter of a pound of Cinnamon cleane rubbed and winnowed then seeth it in the White Wine till it be half sodden away and then put it into a pot and drink it evening and morning till the Patient be cured Probatum An approved good Medicine to cool and repel the redness of the face that proceedeth of heat Take a quantity of running water and a quantity of Brimstone and as much Allome beaten small together put them with the water into a glasse fast stopped and so let it stand every morning and evening take a little out into a sawcer and with a linnen rag wash your face therewith and so let it dry in with wiping For Spots in the Face For a mans or a womans face that seemeth as they were drunken take Water-cresses and cut them small and put them in a small earthen pot and put fair Spring water thereto and let them boil together and drink of that water morning and evening To make the Face fair Take the flowers of Beanes and distil them and wash the face with the water Some say that the Urine of the party grieved is very good to wash the face and to keep it from blemishing If the face be washed with the water that Rice is sodden in it taketh away the Pimples and cleanseth the face For heat in the face Seeth white Copperas in running water and let it stand till it be cold and then put in a little Camphire and every morning and evening take a little of that water in a sawcer and with a little cloth dipt in it wash and bathe your face therewith and let it dry in of it self A Drink for the Heat or Rednesse in the Face Take four handfuls of Wild Tansie and boil it in two Gallons of small wort let it stand until it be almost cold then put to it a little Barme and let it work and when it is ripe put it in a close vessel and so let it stand three or four dayes then you must drink of it every day twice so long as you use it An excellent Water for the same Take twelve Lemmons and pare them to the very juice four new laid egges shells whites and yolks beaten all together six spoonfuls of pure English Honey Temper all together and distil them with a very soft fire and receive the water thereof in a glasse for your use putting thereto a little Mercury to make it keep and continue An excellent Lac Virginis to make the Face Neck or any part of the Body fair and white Take of Alumen Plumosi half an ounce of Camphire one ounce of Roach Allome one ounce and a dram Sal gemmi half an ounce white Frankinsence two ounces Oyle of Tartar one ounce and a half make all these into most fine powder and mix it with one quart of Rose-water then set it in the Sun and let it stand there nine dayes often stirring it then take Littarge of Silver half a pound beat it fine and fearse it then boil it in one pint of White Wine Vinegar until one third part be consumed ever stirring it with a stick while it boileth then distil it by a Filter or let it run through a thick Jelly bag then keep it by it self in a glass Vial and when you will use these Waters take a drop of the one and a drop of the other in your hand and it will be like milk which is called Lac Virginis wash your face or any part of your body therewith It is most precious for the same Probatum Dr. Walmesley For the Pimples in the Face Take Wheat-flower mingled with honey and vinegar lay it upon them and it cleanseth them To dry up any Pimples or heat in the Face Take Virgin Wax one ounce and a half May Butter three ounces meâ—â— them then put to them Cerus half an ounce Bole Armoniack a scruple a little Rose water to wash it after these are melted together annoint the Pimples with it twice a day FELLON To ripen a Fellon or Boil Take Rue Sage and the fat of rusty Bacon of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and lay it on a linnen cloth warm to the Grief Another Take an Onion roasted put thereto Honey and Wheat flower and so beat it all together and lay it to the sore To kill a Fellon Take an egg and roast it hard and take the yolk thereof and take an Onion and roast it soft and beat the yolk and the Onion together and lay it to the sore and it will kill the Fellon A Soveraign Salve to heal the Fellon Take of the Soot of a house that is on the Beams and break it to powder and take the yolk of an egg and bray them together then lay it on a clean cloth and lay it on the sore and this will heal it An excellent Poultice to take away the anguish of a Fellon and to break it speedily Take milk and put therein crumbs of White Bread and boil them together very tender to a Poultice then take it from the fire and put therein the yolk of an egg and have ready some white Lilly roots wrapped up in a brown paper and roasted very tender first bruise the roots into a pap then mingle them well with the other things and so apply it warme to the griefe and when it is broken use healing Salve For a Fellon Take Verjuice and crumbs of browne bread
and kernels of gray Soap and seeth all together till it be somewhat thick then spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the Fellon and it will both kill the Fellon and heal it For a Fellon in the Joint Take Bay salt and beat it then take the yolk of an Egg and beat them together and lay it to the joint Another for a Fellon Take twelve Snailes in the Garden and beat them shels and all until they come to be a Salve then lay them to the fore and it will both kill draw and heal Also bruise Raisons and lay them to the fore Another Take the biggest and fowlest Spider you can finde and a quantity of black Soap and one clove of Garlick and bray them all together and lay it to the Fellon as neer as you can where you think it will break and so let it lye four and twenty hours then take it off and heal it with some other Salve Also take Sage Rue Bay salt Snailes and Bacon and beat them together and then lay it to the Fellon and it will help Also make a Poultice of Bean flower or of Wheat flower and honey and apply it every morning and evening FISTULA Against a Fistula or hollow Vlcer First mingle the milk of Wortwort with fresh Hogs grease and boil them together a little and incorporate them and put thereto powder of Mirrhe and annoint a Tent therewith and put it into the hole of the Ulcer For a Fistula Take the seeds of red Coleworts the feed of Tansie and Cabbage of each a like quantity and of the great Madder and make it into Pills and give thereof to the Patient thrice a day and keep a Colewort leaf upon the Sore To heal a Fistula or Vlcer Take Figs and stamp them with Shoomakeâ—s Wax and lay it to the sore on leaâ—â—er and it will heal FLESH To kill dead flesh Take a pint of Malmesey and a pint of Aquavitae and flower pound Parsley and straine the juice into it and drink it And take Allome and Withy leaves and boil them together in running water and wash the wound therewith To try whether there be dead flesh in a Wound or no. Take posset curd made of strong Ale lay it to the wound and if it look yellow then there is dead flesh A Water to abate proud flesh and to clear a corrupted wound Take a quart of Ale or strong Beer and a handful of Sage and a piece of Allome as much as a Walnut and let it seeth till it come to a pint and therewith wash the wound To clear a Sore or Wound of dead flesh Clarifie some Honey and put it into the sore and lay a Plaister over it and in two or three dressings it will cleer the Sore and take out the dead flesh To take out dead Flesh Take of Honey of Oyl Olive and of Wheat-flower of each a spoonful and the yolk of an egg and mix them well together and spread it on a cloth and so lay it on the sore and it will draw and cleanse it FLUX For the white Flux Take the powder of the flowers of Pomegranats and drink it in red Wine For the red Flux Take Sperma Caeti and drink it and truss up your self with a piece of black Cotton To stop the Flux Make a Caudle of Oatmeal and put to it scraped chalk brown Pepper finely beaten then boil them together and let the Patient drink thereof three or four times and it will help For the Bloody Flux Take four or five eggs and roast them hard until they be blue then take a pint of Red Wine and mix the yolks of the egges with it then seeth it and after it is sodden put an ounce of Cinnamon into it and let the Patient drink thereof two or three times in a day and it will help Another Take Camock roots make them in fire powder and drink them in posset Ale or put it into a cake as you do Spice and eat it Another Take linnen cloth and make it like a Pill and steep it in Aquavitae and convey it into the Fundament and in three or four dressings it helpeth For the Bloody Flux or Scouring Take a great Apple and cut out the core and put therein pure Virgin Wax then wet a paper and lap it therein theâ— rake it up in the Embers and let it roâ—â— till it be soft then eat of it as your stomack will give leave PHLEGME To loose Phlegme Take an ounce of Ingibus Sirrup one ounce of Sirrup of Violets half an ounce of Sirrup of Roses and half an ounce of Hisop A Drink to avoid Phlegme Take an Onion and core it and put therein a little Mithridatum and bruised Pepper and then roast it soft then take a pint of White Wine and seeth it with a little white Sugar and then straine it with the Onion and give it the Patient to drink A Powder to break Phlegme Take of fine Ginger the weight of eight pence of Elicampane roots the weight of four groats Anniseeds and Licoras of each the weight of seven groats and of Sugar candied four ounces make all these into powder and eat â—t dry morning and evening FORGETFULNESSE Against Forgetfulnesse Apply Rue and red Mints with Oyl of Roses and very strong Vineger to the nostrils and it helpeth Also burn thine own hair and mingle it with Vineger and a little pitch and apply it to the nostrils GOUT For the Gout TAke Snailes with shells on theâ—â— backs Barrel Soap leaven Bayâ— salt and Honey and pound them all to gether and lay it to the grieved place Sundry Medicines for the Gout Take the grease of a fat Cat of a Goose of a Gray of a Fox and the marrow of a Harts horn Ivy Sage Rue Virgins Wax Frankinsence the yolks of roasted eggs and Snailes put them all in an earthen pot with a hole in the bottom for that purpose and close it above with paste that no aire issue out and put under the same pot another whole pot and close them together and put the neathermost in the ground and compasse it about with fire and there will distil a wonderful good Oyntment out of the uppermost pot which will be good for the cold Gout Another Oyntment of great force for the Gout Take the juice of the wild Coweâ—mber roots green Grapes and Pellitory the leaves and Berries of Ivy Juniper berries Euforbium Castorium the fat of a Graye of a Goose of a Heron of a Fox of a Beare then take a fat Cat and pull off her skin and take out her guts and fill her with all the aforesaid things and let it roast well upon a spit and save the dripping and resolve a little Wax therein and use it Also a dog killed of thirty dayes old and annoint the grief with the blood of the dog it is very good Also take a fat Cat and flea her and pull the flesh from the bones stamp it well and put it into
the stopping of the Liver Lungs and Spleen and to comfort the Stomack Take two or three roots of Succory and Parsley Sage of Jerusalem Folefoot Violet leaves Scabious Egrimony and Scurvigrasse of each half a handful Conserve of Red Roses one ounce of Saffron one penny worth and a Date or two sliced and the pill taken away put all these into a Pullets belly ready drest and sow up the open places but put not in the roots boil it in sufficient water till the flesh be sodden from the bones and when it is half sodden put in the roots steeped before in Wine Vinegar put in also three or four large Mace blades of Raisons of the Sun one handful stoned and a few Currans and when it is sodden as aforesaid strain it and drink every morning a good draught thereof fasting For all Griefs of the Liver Take the leaves flowers and roots of Betony in Drink Conserve Electuary Sirrup or Potion or Powder is singular good for all Diseases of the stomack Liver Melt Kidnies Bladder the Obstruction of the Matrix the consumption of the Lungs Coughs Dropsies continual Feavers boile the leaves and flowers in Honey water to have present Remedy Also seeth the Herbs and Flowers of Camomile in Wine and drink it to help stopping of the Liver and Melt to purge Choler to expel Terms to help the torments of the small guts for Griefes of the Kidnyes or Bladder for difficulty of Breathing Sighing Wheezing to warm a cold stomack and to drive away any inward grief For the Liver and to comfort the Stomack Take a branch or two of Ciprus otherwise called French Wormwood and a little Barme and boile them in Ale and Drink it fasting LIPS For chopt Lips Take new Wax Mastick and white Frankinsence with Oyle of Roses all made into an Oyntment and annoint the lips and it will cure them presently LUNGS A Preservation for the Lungs Take a pint of Wormwood Water and Liverwort almost a handful and of Longwort a handful Sugar one ounce boile them all together till one part of four be sodden away and let the patient drink thereof three spoonefulls in the morning fasting and last at night alwaies warmed Probatum LEGGS For a sore Legge or old vlcer Take Littarge of gold two pound of Galbanum one ounce Verdigrease foure ounces Bdelium one ounce Mastick one ounce and half Opoponax and Aristologia of each one ounce old Oyl Olive one pound and half You must drie the gummes that they may be powdred and frie them with your Oyle then straine it and put thereto your Littarge Verdigrease and Aristologia one after another alwayes stirring it lest the Littarge sink to the bottome and so let it simber over the fire easily then put to it three peniworth of turpentine and of wax three ounces and so make it up for your use in a Plaister It hath cured the Lord Wharton and divers others with two or three dressings when no Chirurgian could find a Cure for them For a sore Leg. Take stone lime and slake it and put it in running water and put thereto of Quicksilver white lead and Bores grease of each one penny worth mingle all together and so annoint it To kill the Itch of the same and to skin it Take a gallon of good Ale and boil it to a pint and then a linnen cloth and wet it therein and wash the sore withal Another Take of Ale Allom of each one half penny worth and boil it together and melt a quantity of fresh Butter therein and annoint it therewith A Plaister for festered Legs being long sore Take March and Wild Tansie Plantane Morrel Honey and the white of an egg and the milk of a Cow of one colour and Barley flower bray the Herbs in a Morter and mingle all together and lay it on the sore A Plaister for sore Eyes broken or not Take a pint of Sallet Oyl one pound of unwrought Wax half a pound of white Lead boile all these together in a brasse pan with a soft fire till it be as thick as pitch stirring it with a stick then dip in it a piece of Lockrum and make thereof a Plaister MEGRIM For the Megrim TAke a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Betony and a handful of Archangel seeth them all together in a quart of good Ale and a pint of White Wine Vinegar the space of half an hour and lay it to your forehead as hot as you may suffer it and the longer you keep it thereto it is the better Another Take halfe a handful of the leaves of Rosemary and seeth them in Vinegar till they be soure then lay them upon a linnen cloth and cast thereon a little Rosewater and lay it to your sorehead as hot as you may suffer it A Plaister for the Megrim Take the Oyl of an egge and some Cummin seed and Frankinsence and wheaten flower and two Nutmegs beaten all small and mingled with the Oyl of the egg and make a Plaister thereof as big as a groat and lay it to the temples of the head MOTHER For the Mother and green Sickness Take great Garden wormes and slit them and wash them clean and then lay them in White Wine half an hour then take them out and lay them in an Oven to dry and when they are throughly dryed beat them into fine powder and drink it in White Wine in the morning fasting and fast two hours after it MOUTH For a sore Mouth Take the waters of the tops and leaves of red Brambles Rosemary Sage and Woodbind leaves all severally distilled of each a like quantity and put them all together into a great glass thâ—n put as much Allom small beaten into the same as will make it sharp and so keep it to use as occasion serveth either for a Canker in the mouth ranknesse of the Gums or any other sorenesse Another Take Treakle English Honey and burnt Allome of each alke then take tops of Rosemary red Sage Honey suckle leaves Bramble leaves and Fennel of each a handful stamp and strain the Herbs and take the juice and boil with the other things til it be somewhat thick then rub your mouth therewith For a sore Mouth or Throat Take Rue and red Sage of each one handful Groundsel and Sorrel of each a little cut them small and then stamp them then take as much Allome as a Walnut and as much Copperas as a small Nut and burn them to powder in a frying pan then take a like quantity of each of them unburnt and beat them small then take a pint of running water and put them all in it and boil it halfe away then take it from the fire and strain it then put to it three spoonful of English Honey and so keep it in a glasse and warm a little of it every time you use it dipping a cloth in it upon a little stick and so wash the mouth twice a day or more as you see occasion NOSE For
stinking Nostrils TAke the juice of lake Mints and the juice of Rue each a like quantity and put it into the Nostrels when you go to bed and it will help NAVEL For the Navel coming out Take beaten Mastick and mix it with the white of an egg to a paste and spread some of it upon a cloth then thrust downe the Navel and apply it thereto and when it is dry renew it again NIPPLE For a chopt Nipple Take a white Lilly leaf out of his Oyl and apply it it s very good OYLES To make Oyle of Mallowes for Imposthumes and Ripenings and to mitigate Aches TAke of Garden Mallowes two handfuls stamp them small and put to them a quart of Oyle Olive and let it stand nine dayes then boil them till it wax green then strain it and keep it in a box for your use This keepeth open draweth and assw ageth the paines of Imposthumes and mollifieth it being laid hot with moist wool then take a fine linnen cloth and dip it in the Oyntment and lay it warme to the sore and bind it fast Also Mallowes made in a Plaister ripeneth greatly and mitigath the pain of Imposthumes and especially in ripening of womens breasts To make Oyle of Poplar buds Take of Poplar buds half a pound clean picked and stamp them small and weigh them and look what they weigh put the like weight of pure Hogs grease and half the weight more then stamp them together in a stone Mortar to one substance and then put it in an earthen pot and cover it close that no air come to it and let it stand so six dayes till it be hoary then take it forth and put it in a clean pan and let it boil on a soft fire alwayes stirring it till the Herbs be parcht then strain it and keep it for your use It will allay all the heat about a mans body and procure sleep In like manner make Oyl of Marsh Mallowes To make Saint Johns Oyle Take the flowers of Saint Johns wort and pick away the green husks very clean and take a quart oâ— the purest Sallet Oyl and put it in an earthen pipkin and put in it as many of the flowers as will make it thick then set it on hot embers and there let it boil very softly and when you think the strength is boiled out strain out the flowers very hard and if they be boiled enough they wil be as harsh as herbs fâ—ied in a frying pan with butter and when you have strained out all very clean put in as many fresh flowers as you did before and let them boil in the like manner and so shift it till your Oyl look as red as a Ruby then strain out all the flowers and put it in a glasse and keep it close stopped This Oyl is very good for any greene Wound or any bruise in any part of a mans body you must take heed you do not over boil it and it is good for any ache A very good Oyle or Balsom for any green Wound Take a quart of White Wine four pound of Oyle Olive two pound of Turpentine the leavs and flowers or seeds of Saint Johns wort two great handfuls and bruise them and put them with the other things into a great double glasse and set it in the Sun eight or ten dayes then boil the same glasse in a kettle of water with some straw in the bottom which done strain the liquor from the Herbs then put into the liquor the like quantity of Herbs flowers and seeds as you did before but no more Wine not Oyl use it as you did before and then you have a great Secret To make Oyl of Hypericon Take of the best Oyle Olive three pound of the best Turpentine three pound white Frankinsence half a pound Wheat sweet and clean picked Hiperico and Saint Johns wort of each halfe a pound Valerian four ounces Carduus Benedictus four ounces of White Wine or Sack a quart take the Herbs and cut them small then put them into a tinned pot that hath as narrow a mouth as may be then powre in the Wine and let them stand in sleep six hours then powre in your Oyl and stop up your pot very close that no aire can get forth set the same on a soft fire of coales without smoak or flame let it boil very softly stirring it now and then with a wooden slice and having stirred it stop it up again and so let it boil till the Wine be consumed which you shall know in this manner by dropping the Oyl into the hot coales the which Wine being not consumed will hisse in dropping on the coals and being consumed it will not hisse but burn very clear And so the Wine being consumed take it from the fire and straine the liquor through a thick canvass cloth then make clean your pot and put the liquor that ran through the canvass therein and set it on the fire again then put in your Turpentine and Frankinsence the Frankinsence must be beaten and searsed and let them boil very softly stirring it with your slice the space of a quarter of an hour then take it from the fire and strain it through another strainer This Oyle must be put into a Glasse bottle and the mouth stopt very close How to cure with this Oyl First you must wet a fine linnen cloth in White Wine and wash the wound with the Wine being warme and the bloud and corruption being cleansed fill the wound with the Oyl as warm as the Patient can suffer it then lay a linnen cloth wet in the Oyle upon the Wound and upon that another cloth wet in the White Wine and so dresse it morning and evening If the Wound be deep take a Sirenge and spurt in the Wine to cleanse it And thus may you cure deep Wounds without any Tent. The Wound being come to a Plaister to skin it take of the said Oyl one ounce of Turpentine one ounce of Virgins Wax one ounce boil them together till the Turpentine and Wax be melted and thereof make a Plaister to skin the Wound and keep it in a pot very close stopped for your future use To make Oyle of Adderstongue Take a quantity of Adderstongue chop it smal and in the chopping of it sprinkle on it some White Wine then put the Adderstongue into a quantity of Sallet Oyle according to the quantity of your Adderstongue and boile it very well then strain out the Herbs and put in fresh Herbs so prepared as aforesaid and boil it again Thus do three several times and keep it for your use OYNTMEMTS An Oyntment for a Bruise Take a gallon of sweet Butter unsalted well washed in the month of May and a handful of Broom flowers and bruise them in a Mortar set the Butter and them over the fire and boil them well and strain them into a Gally pot This is good for a woman in her Child-bed and it is good for a sore Brest
before it be broken A very good Oyntment Take Rosasolis Sallet Oyl and Neats Foot Oyl and boil them all together over the fire To make the green Oyntment Take one pound of Sheeps suet and melt it and skim it and put thereto one ounce of Verdigrease and half an ounce of Sal gemmi in fine powder and stir it well together then take it from the fire and put it into a clean box and keep it for it may be kept many years It is good for Cankers and to heal old Wounds and to fret away dead flesh and it will keep a Wound from festering It is good for Morphew and for Scabs and there is no Oyntment that worketh so strongly as this doth Probatum To make another green Oyntment Take of Sage Rue of each a pound of Wormewood Bay leaves of each half a pound of Mellilot Herbs and flowers of Camomile flowers of Spike Rosemary red Rose leaves Saint Johns wort and Dill of each one good handful of Marsh Mallowes two handfuls chop these Herbs and Flowers as small as may be and stamp them and weigh them and put thereto the weight of pure sheeps suet chop it small and mince your Herbs and it together and stamp it in a stone Mortar to one substance that there be no suet seen but all green put it in some fair pot or pan and put thereto a pottle and a pint of Oyl Olive and work all these together in the pan with your hand to one substance and cover it close with some clay or paste about the edges that no air come in nor out and let it stand so seven daies then undo it and take it forth and put it a clean pan and set it on a soft fire alwayes stirring it till the Herbs begin to wax parched and then strain it into some â—air pan and then put into it these Oyls following Oyle of Roses Oyl of Camomile Oyl of White Lillies Oyl of Spike and Oyl of Violets of each one ounce stir them all together and resurve them to your use The Infirmities that this Oyntment is good for are these for Stiches Bruises Aches Palsies shrinking of Sinewes Gouts and Sciaticaes the Ache of the Back Lamenesse Plurisies the Cough the soles of the feet being annointed for extreme pain in the head make a cap for the crown of the Head of linnen cloth and lay in it the wool of a quick Sheep plucked from the flanks and cods pick out all the moates and make it cleane and card it then straine it with this Oyntment and baste it and lay it some what warm to your Head It is good for the Cholick and for the Spleen and for the cold Dropsie of the Liver If you will have it to be more pleasant of sent and more nourishing add thereunto of the Gums of Labdanum one ounce and a half bruised fine to powder of the Gum called Storax Cremitie three quarters of an ounce beaten well to fine powder mingle the other stuffe and this together and strain it and keep it to your use An Oyntment for the heat of the Raines or elsewhere in the Body Take Oyl of Roses six ounces of clear white Wax two ounces scraped as fine as may be dissolve these together on the fire and skim them as clean as may be then have a dish ful of Rose water and three spoonfuls of Rose Vineger mixt together strain your other stuff into it and labour it a long time in the liquor and last of all have ready Camphire a dram in fine powder and work it till it be cold This is a good Oyntment for the back head or eyes An Oyntment for a Bruise or Ach. Take of Dill Vervaine Mugwort Henbane the tops of Camomile Lavender of every one a like quantity then take May butter and shred the Herbs small and put them in the May Butter and stamp it well in the Butter then let it stand a fortnight and then fry it well but take heed you burne it not and then strain it and keep it to your use A very good Oyntment for all Aches and shrinking of Sinewes for blasting of the Face and for greene Wounds Take of Mellilot white Dothet Adderstongue Valerian of each three handfuls May butter well clarified in the Sun four pound your Herbs must be shred small and then stamped very wel by themselves and after stamped againe with your clarified butter and so let it stand six or seven dayes then boil it over a temperate fire until the Butter be green stirring it alwayes till it be taken from the fire then strain it and keep it to your use The white Dothet doth grow in moorish grounds where Rosasolis growes and groweth very neer the ground like a Plantane but a more yellowish greene leaf it beareth a blue flower on a tall stem and smal no Herbal maketh mention of this Dothet An Oyntment for any Swelling or Sore It is good for many things Take three good handfuls of Rosemary and as much of Hisop stripped Rosen as much as a Walnut and one pound of fresh May butter boil them all together until it be green then strain it into pots A very good Oyntment for any Ache. Take two pound of fresh new butter and clarifie it till it be clear then take a handful of the youngest Bay leaves of Camomile red Sage and Herb grace of each two handfuls chop the Herbs then boil them in the clarified butter a pretty while till it be green then straine it and keep it for your use and when you use it let the place pained be well chafed therewith against the fire You must also put in it with the rest a handful of Smallage An Oyntment for a Wrench or Strain Take the white of an egg and a spoonful of Honey and beat it to an Oyle then boil Bove wort with Sallet Oyl or Butter to an Oyl and mingle it together An excellent green Oyntment for a strain or Bruise Take a handful of Camomile of Bay leaves four handfuls of Smallage foure handfuls and a half of red Sage four handfuls of Herb grace three handfuls chop the Herbs and stamp them then take five pound of fresh Ewes Butter and boil it and when it riseth take it from the fire and let it stand then take off the skum cleane and then put in the Herbs together keeping it stirring and when it is well boiled take it off and let it stand till it be cold then strain it into an earthen pot well glaz'd and keep it to your use it will continue a year or two An Oyntment for Legs that itch with heat or to cool or heal any Sore running of a hot humour Take a handful of Houseleek stamp it very small and migle it with thick Cream and annoint the sore therewith A Soveraign Oyntment to strengthen Sinewes and good for Lameness Take half a pound of Swines grease half a pint of Sack Camomile and Betony of each a handful as much Sage half
a handful or Bay leaves halfe an ounce of Cloves chop the Herbs small and beat the Spice small and let it boil all night on the Embers then strain it out and use it An Oyntment for all Aches Lamenesse of Sinewes Stitches Bruises Plurisies or Gout Take Sage and Rue cleane picked of each a pound of Bay leaves and Wormwood of each half a pound of Rosemary three handfuls Camomile flowers one good handful Dill and Spike of each a handful of sheeps Suet the skin picked off three pound of sweet Sallet Oyl three pints and a half the Herbs must be chopt smal and the Suet minced as fine as may be then beat the Herbs and Suet together into one substance put it into an earthen pan and put thereto your Sallet Oyl and work it with your hands until it be well mingled together then cover it with a dish and close it with paste and and so let it stand six or seven dayes then take it forth and put it into a broad pan and put thereto one ounce of Mace smal beaten then boil it with a soft fire and stir it well till the leaves be parched put into it three ounces of Oyl of Licoras two ounces of Oyl of Spike then strain it and put it into a glasse for your use An Oyntment for any Ache or Bruise Take the leg bones of a male Deer and break them so as the marrow may bee taken out and put it in a Posnet then put to it a pretty quantity of Daisie roots and the lâ—ke of Elder buds or leaves as much Camomile and a little Balm all clean picked then put in the marrow and let them boil a pretty while then strain it and keep it for your use An Oyntment for a Strain Take a pound of Rosemary leaves and flowers one pound of running Mallows leaves and flowers and a good handful of Camomilâ— but wash them not gather them when the dew is off the ground chop them very small and stamp them with a wooden pestle put to them a quart of May Butter well clarifiâ—d in the Sun stamp them all together til they be all wel mingled then put them in an earthen pot and stop it close and let it stand nine dayes and then feeth it on the fire and stir it wel for burning and when it is greene strain it through a Canvasse cloth and keep it for your use A greene Oyntment to be made in May an approved good one for divers things Take young Bay leaves and Wormwood of each halfe a pound red Sage and Rue of each a pound all must be gathered in the heat of the day pick them clean but wash them not beat them very small in a great Mortar like greene sawce then take three pound of new Sheeps suet clean picked and shred smal beat all these together til they be wel incorporated then put to them a pottle of the best Oyl Olive work it wel with your hands til it become all of one substance and colour put it into a new earthen pan and let it stand there close covered in some cool place eight dayes then boil it on small coals almost a whole day stirring it wel and after it hath boiled four hours or more put to it four ounces of the best Oyl of Spike and to know when it is throughly boiled take a drop thereof in a sawcer and if it be a fair green colour take it off and strain it through a new piece of course canvass and put it up in Gally pots it wil last seven years It cureth all Straines Swellings Aches Kibes Cramps Scaldings Burnings of all sorts all outward pains or griefs easeth the Sciatica and Gout with all kinds of swellings in the face or throat An Oyntment for an Ache. Take Camomile Bayes Mary gold Dill and Mallow leaves of each a like chop them and boil them in fresh butter or Sallet Oyle and so strain it forth and when you use it warm it and so annoint the place To make Flos Unguentorum the flower of all other Oyntments Take of Rosen and Perosen Virgin Wax and Frankinsence of each a quarter of a pound of Mastick one ounce Harts Tallow or Deers Suet one ounce of Camphire two drams Olibanum four ounces the Rosen Perosen Frankinsence Mastick and Olibanum must be beat apart in a Mortar into very fine powder and searsed then melt your Wax and Deers Suet being first cut in small pieces together stirring them very well with a clean stick for fear of burning to then put in your powder of Rosen when they be throughly melted shaking it in by little and little and likewise your powder of Perosen Frankinsence and Mastick one after another stirring it continually together till all the Powder be melted in no wise suffering it to boil but so soon as you perceive it to be throughly melted take it off and strain it through a strong course cloth into a pottle of White Wine boiled seething hot so long as any thing may bee gotten through the cloth and so stir it till it be no warmer then bloud warm then put thereunto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine and your Camphire stil stirring it and when it is cold make it up into rolls of a reasonable size and put it up in parchment to keep and so you may keep it a long time if you keep it dry if you find any knots in it in the rolling of it up by reason of the negligent stirring of it take them out And for a Fistula put therein four ounces of Mirrhe In the Mortar before you do grind the Camphire you must grind three or four Almonds and take them out with a feather and stamp your Camphire therein and grind it very small and take it out with a feather c. The Effects of this Oyntment It is good for old and new Wounds for amongst all others it is most cleansing and wil ingender good flesh and it healeth more in a night then any other in a month and suffereth no corruption in a wound nor any ill flesh to be ingendred It is good for a Festure and Canker It draweth all manner of ache out of the Liver Spleen and Reins of the back It breaks Imposthumes it is good for the Head ach for the singing in the brain and for all manner of Imposthumes in the head or body for blowing in the ears or for sinews that be strained or shrunk It draweth out any thorne or broken bone or any evil thing that is in a wound it is good for the stinging or biting of any venemous beast it rotteth all manner of Botches and healeth the same without fear it is good for the _____ of the Members the Flux the Menstrous if it be laid to a womans Navil it helpeth the Emrods and is very good to make a Cerecloth for the Gout all Aches and Pestilent Botches If you lay this Plaister to a little Sore or Wound one Plaister wil serve twice if it
it half an hour and when it is almost boiled put into it a quarter of a pint of Aquavitae and so keep it to your use Another When they come forth and swel much bathe them with the water that Mallowes Fenicrick and Onions have boiled in very warm and after the bathing apply unto it this Plaister following Take the finest and inner part of a roasted Onion beat it in a wooden dish with May Butter and a little powder of Saffron and annoint the Sore To heal the Piles and Emrods Take the leaves of green Elder and boil them in a pint of water and four spoonfuls of White Wine then take a piece of cloth three fingers broad and take the leaves so boiled as hot as you can suffer them and so apply it a good while then rub it with a little May butter Probatum For the Piles or Emrods Mrs. Wing Take Oystershels as thick as you can get them and the newest and burn them in the fire till they be red hot then take the inner white of those shels and beat them in a Mortar very smal then sift them through a piece of Lawne then take some Linseed Oyl in a sawcer and warm it and annoint the Piles first with that Oyle then strew the powder thick upon the Piles then take a cleane rag and dip it in the Oyl and lay it upon the Piles and dresse it so twice every day this is a sure and an approved Medicine and faileth not to help Probatum PLAISTER To make the Black Plaister Take a pint of Oyl Olive and halfe a pound of red Lead and boil them together and stir them with a slice of wood continually until it be black then take it from the fire and put in a pennyworth of red _____ and a quarter of a pound of Rosen and set it on the fire againe the fire may not blaze and stir it then powre a little of it on the side of a dish and if it stick to the dish it is enough then let it stand until it be cold and then make it up in rolls for your use It is good for any ache new wound that bleedeth or an old Sore and to stanch blood An excellent Plaister Take Harts suet four ounces Rosen and Perosen of each half a pound white Wax and Frankinsence of each foure ounces first melt the Suet and Wax together and then powder the Gums and put thereunto and when they have relented together strain them through a canvass cloth into another vessel and put thereunto a pottle of White Wine and set it on the fire again and boile them to the consuming of the Wine clean away stirring it with a staff then take it from the fire and when it is almost cold put to it four ounces of Turpentine well washed in White Wine two drams of Camphire well powdered then make up your Rolls and lap them in Parchment This Plaister is good for Wounds both new and old for Bruises and for Aches and it doth mundifie Ulcers and old Sores without pain and comforteth the members that it lyeth on It is good both for Fistulaes and Cankers that are ulcerate A drying Plaister Take Oyl of Roses eight ounces white and red Lead of each three ounces Cerus six drams Littarge of Gold Sanguis Draconis and Bole Armoniack of each one ounce Camphire one dram make all these into fine powder and mix it with the Oyle and set it on a soft fire alwayes stirring it and let it boil til it be Plaister like This Plaister is good to dry all Sores in the legs An excellent Plaister for any Sore old or new Take the yolk of an egg as much ordinary Turpentine and as much Herb grace chopt and stamped mingle all these well together and spread them on a cloth and lay them to the Sore A Plaister for all manner of Swellings in any place Take Parsley Herb Christopher and crumbs of sowre bread beat them small together and boil them in White Wine and make thereof a Plaister and lay it to warm To make Parracelsus Plaister Take Gum Galbanum and Opoponax of each one ounce Amoniacum and Bdelium of each two ounces beat them smal and put them in an earthen Pipkin glazed and powre on them as much White Wine Vinegar as will serve to steep the Gums in so let them stand one day and one night the next morning boil them in the same Vinegar on a gentle fire of coals and when they be throughly melted pour them out hot into a bag and wring them well and cast away that which remaines in the bag then take the liquor so strained and let it boil in a pot till the Vinegar be consumed clean away and in boiling you must stir it continually lest the Gums burn to the bottom Then take Oyl Olive one quart new Wax halfe a pound put them into an earthen pot glazed such a one as is of sufficient bigness and set it over a fire of Cozls and let it melt softly then put into it one pound of Littargy finely beaten into powder stirring them continually with a wooden slice and when they be all well mixed together and of the colour of tawny then take it from the fire then take of the aforesaid Gums that were first boiled the quantity of a nut and put thereto and so by little and little put in all the Gums and being well mixed together then set it over the fire again take heed withal lest the matter be over heated and run into the fire for it is very hot of it self then put into it these things following Take of the two kinds of Astrology rotunda Calaminaris Mirrh and Frankinsence of each of them one ounce beat them into powder then put them into the said matter and powre upon the same one ounce of Oyle of Bayes and last of all put into it four ounces of the best Turpentine then boil all together and stir it continually and when you would know whether it be sodden enough or no put a little thereof into cold water if it be not soft that it will not cleave unto your fingers it is enough but if it cleave it is not enough but let it boil until it is enough then take it from the fire and pour it into a Bason of cold water then annoint your hands with Oyl of Roses and work it well with your hands two or three hours and make it into Rolls and keep it It is good for old and new Sores it draweth and cleanseth it wil not suffer any Sore to putrifie but if there be dead flesh in the Sore before it be laid on it will not take it away It is good for sinewes cut or pricked with thornes it will draw out of Wounds Iron Wood or Lead and it is good for the biting of venemous Beasts it is also good for Biles Fistulaes Cankers Shingles and for Saint Anthonies fire Sir Thomas Porter hath found by often experience a speedy help
take White Wine dregs and of good Ale as much more your Mallowes being shred put it into your dregs and put in some Deers Suet and Sheeps Tallow melted and crumbs of brown bread boil all these together till it be thick alwayes stirring it to keep it from burning then lay it warm every dressing upon a woollen cloth it dissolveth hardnesse and swelling The Lady Farnchams Poultice Another Poultice to mollifie and dissolve Take the crumbs of white bread seeth them in milk and put to it Oyl of Camomile and a little Saffron then take it from the fire then put to it the yolks of two new laid egges and so make of it a Poultice and lay it to the sore An approved good Poultice to lay to an Ache or Pain Take a good handful of Mallowes another of Smallage a handful of Linseed as much of Oatmeal grets pounded together a pottle of well water halfe a pint of milk and Deeres Suet as much as an egge or else so much of Sheeps Tallow then boil all these together till it be thick then lay it to the Patient where the pain is being spread upon a linnen cloth A very good Poultice for Wind gotten into joints Take Wormwood and Dill dryed and beaten to fine powder of each one handful of Sheeps dung three handfuls of Camomile flowers half a handful of Cummin seeds two ounces seeth them all in Lye and let it boil together until it be very thick then spread it upon leather and lay it upon the place grieved warm but first annoint it with Oyle of Rue Mr. Smart A Poultice for a Bruise or Strain Take Claret Wine Balme and Rose-leaves boil them together till they be thick then lay them to the Sore as hot as the Patient can suffer it A Water to wash the place before you apply the Poultice Take Mallowes and Smallage of each a handful boil them in a quart of Vineger to a pint then wash the place pained as hot as you can suffer it An excellent Poultice for the Ague in a Womans brest or Legs Take Houseleek Smallage and Mallowes of each two handfuls shred them small then take a handful of Linseed and bruise it finely in a Mortar take also a handful of Oatmeal or wheaten bran some Roses of a Rose cake every leaf pulled from another Sheeps Tallow one pound shred it well then put all these into a gallon of running water and boil them together till they become thick then put thereto a quart of Cowes milk and let it boil stall till it be as thick as a Plaister â—tirring it often then when the leng or brest is washed with the water also â— said spread the Poultice on a cloth all abroad and lay it to the leg or brest aâ— hot as may be suffered and let it lye so till it be dry and hard and then renew it but if the leg or brest be not very hot and red it shall not need A Poultice for any Swelling Take of Violet leaves and Groundsel of each a handful of Mallowes and Chickweed of each halfe a handful shred them smal and let them seeth wel in running water and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted and spread it on a cloth and so lay it on the place pained and bind it fast and shift it twice a day till it be cured PURGE The Manna Purge Take half an ounce of the best Cene lay it in soak in a pint and a half of Posset Ale on the Embers in a close covered pot two hours then put it into a posnet and put to it a Parsley root or two one Fennel root two spoonfuls of Anniseeds a stick or two of Licoras scraped and bruised a few Raisons stoned boil all together to half then strain it and put into it one ounce of Manna and four penny weight of Rubarb being grated and put in a clout and laid in soak in the aforesaid liquor with the Manna one hour when the Manna is melted wring the Rubarb strain it and put to it three spoonfuls of the Sirrup of Roses and drink it blood warm in the morning and eat a mess of Mutton pottage after it To Purge the Moon being in Scorpio Cancer or Pisces Michocanum two drams which is two six penny weights grate at with a Grater and pound it smal steep it in a penny pot of White Wine all night and in the morning about six of the Clock warm it milk warm and drink it off and half an hour after take eight or ten spoonfuls of Mutton broth with a few Raisons or Currans in it and it will work downewards and purge away moist humours causing Phlegme to breed in the body Of Catapusia being small seeds you must take two and twenty or four and twenty of them in quantity and take off the outer hulls and beat the inner graines small in a Mortar or pewter dish then mingle it with a little Ale or White Wine which is best warm it a little and take it as abovesaid and it wil void as the other And if you should at any time have any continuing Lask by occasion of Medicine or otherwise seeth a little Rice without any salt or butter and eat it with a little Cinnamon and it shall presently stop it Another to purge Phlegme Take a handful of Groundsel wash it clean and boil it in a pint of Ale skim it then put in half a handful of Raisons or Currans and two ounces of Sugar candied boil all together again to half a pint or lesse then strain it and drink it milk warme fasting at six a Clock and fast till eleven then take some Mutton broth Another Take Encampane roots and make Conserves of it use it in this manner first wash the roots clean then slice them in pieces as big as your little finger seeth them in fair water until they be tender then take them up and pound them and strain them through a haire sieve then set them over the fire and put to them the double or trebble weight of Sugar and when it is perfectly incorporated or mingled take it off and keep it in a Gally pot The time to gather the roots is when the leafe falleth away A Dyet Drink to Purge withal Take Anniseeds Licoras Cene Hermodactilus of each one ounce of Sassaparilla five ounces scrape away the outside of it and bruise it a little and cut it the length of an inch then bruise your Licoras and put your Anniseeds to it and put them in a pot to steep in two gallons of Conduit or running water four and twenty hours then boil them until a third part be consumed then put in your Cene and half an hour after put in your Hermodactilus the outside being pared away and slice them as you do a Race of Ginger and withn an hour after take it from the fire and let it rest in the pot two hours then strain it in a bag as you strain Hypocras so let your first
draught in the morning be luke-warm fasting and at Dinner and at Supper what you think good for you must drink no other Drink till that be spent A Purging Ale Take of the juice of Scurvigrass foure pound of Watercresses two pound of Brooklime one pound of Water Mints half a pound of dry Wormwood four handfuls of the roots of Madder four ounces of the roots of Monks Rubarb three ounces roots of Horse Rhadish one ounce and a half the roots of Saxifrage one ounce of Cene four ounces of Juniper berries half an ounce of Anniseeds Coriander seeds and Ginger of each six drams Another Take a pint of the Whey of Goats milk of Cene half an ounce of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds well dusted and lightly bruised of each of weight of four pence let them stand one hour or one hour and half on warm embers in insuling the next morning to a draught hereof put a spoonful of Sirrup of Roses and as this agreeth with you so take it three or four dayes together or every other day Another Take a pottle of the same Whey boile therein of Betony Colts foot and Hisop of each one handful and drink there of as you have occasion A very easie Purgation Take halfe a pint of Malmesey or somewhat more and half a quarter of an ounce of Cene and two Races of Ginger sliced then put them both into the Malmesey and stir it well a good while and let it stand all night and then strain it and drink it and keep your Chamber and you shall have four or five stools Another Take clarified Whey and put into it a handful of Violet leaves and half a handful of Polipodium of the Oak called Oak fernes and drink a good draught of it luke-warm and wash after it To procure Looseness Seeth Mallows and red Nettles in fair water and let the party sit over the hot fume thereof A Purge Take Aron or Wakerobbin one dram of the powder thereof with two drams of Sugar is good to cut gross humours to purge the stomack of Phlegme and Melancholy Or else the root either green or dry one dram thereof being taken in drink with as much Treakle is a very special good Purgation To purge Phlegme and Melancholy Fetherfew dryed into fine powder and two drams thereof taken with Honey or sweet Wine purgeth by the stool Phlegm Melancholy and Sadness Also take Peniroyal with Honey and Aloes to purge Melancholy and for the Cramp To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Phlegm and Melancholy Drink the Seeds of Hollioaks Also Cene the cods and leaves in powder one dram doth purge Phlegm and Melancholy To purge Phlegme and Choler The great Garden Dock leaves drunk in Wine purgeth Phlegme Choler and Water A Purging Drink Take two gallons of new small Ale and put unto it a good handful of English Madder a handful of Dock roots bruised two handfuls of Scurvigrasse a handful of Scabious two ounces of Cene two ounces of Anniseeds two or three sticks of Licoras finely scraped and all those things bruised then put them into the new Ale and let them work therein so let it stand two or three dayes and then drink thereof morning and evening PAINE For pain in the Joints Take a pennoworth of Aquavitae Oyl of Exeter three ounces of Sage of Herb grace Clerk Robert of each a handful stamp them small in a Mortar then take your Aquavitae and straine them together a good while then take a spoonful thereof and annoint the Sore place against the fire For the pain under the side Take the toast of a Wheaten loaf and butter it and toast it again and butter it twice more then toast it againe and butter it with Soap and hold it against the fire till it lather then lay it to the side where the pain is For paine in the side that cometh of Wind. Take one handful of Cummin seeds as much of Anniseeds two handfuls of Rue seeth these together in running water from a pottle to a quart put to it half a pint of White Wine Vinegar before it be cold dip a Spunge in it and wring some of the liquor out of it and lay it to the Patients side as hot as may be suffered and when it beginneth to wax cold take a new POISON For the Poison of a Toad or other Poison Take a handful of Plantane and a handful of Parsley and stamp and strain them into a little raw Cream and mingle it well together and annoint the place grieved therewith PISSING For pissing a bed Take a Boares pisle and dry it and make powder of it and drink it in Ale or Beer POCKS A Medicine for the Small Pocks Take two handfuls of Salt and put it into a pint and halfe of water and stir it well together then set it upon the fire and let it boil well and in the boiling you must skim it so that there be not any skim seen and when the Small Pocks are come well forth and that the Swelling doth assuage you must take a fine cloth and both them with this Brine being warme three times a day And when they begin to grow brown use this Oyntment take a piece of Bacon and roast it upon a spit and set a dish of fair water under it putting thereto some Rose water and let the Bacon drop into it as it doth roast and when it is roasted take the dripping and the water and work it well together and it will be a very white Oyntment then put it into a Gally pot and twice a day annoint the places with a feather but in any case lay not on too much for that will make them moist and make them stay on the longer Another to take away the Redness Take fair water in a Posnet and put thereto half a pound of Butter then set it on the fire and let it boil softly and skim off all the froth very clean then take it off the fire and let it stand till it be throughly cold then powre the water from it and put it in clean water and set it upon the fire again skimming it very clean and do this nine times together but every time your butter must be cold before you put it into a new water and the last time being very cold take it clean away from the water and put Rosewater to it and work them very well together and put it up into a Gally pot and with a feather twice or thrice a day annoint the rednesse of the face and if these Medicines be used as they should be it will take away the rednesse and make the face not to have any holes in it For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take red Rose water white Sugar candied beaten very fine and brest milk and temper these very well together and with a feather dresse the eyes and it will keep them from the Small Pocks If it be for a man you must take the
except Nature wil remedy of it self In May rise early and walk in the fields with a light breakfast and use Physick upon occasion In June if Physick take it early in the morning with small dyet clarified whey with cold Herbs is very good In July use cold herbs cold meats no Physick no extreme exercises use Rivers rather then Bathes In August use moderate Dyet beware of surfetting or cold after heat for fear of Plurisies sleep not in the day In September use Physick if need require and bathe or bleed and use fruits if they be sound and ripe In October use hot meats and drinks to nourish blood and beware of cold for fear of Agues In November use hot meats and drinks and wholsome Wine provide warm clothing and go dry foot In December use none but Kitchen Physick and warm clothing use merry company and good Hospitality SALVE To make an especial good Salve TAke Sallet Oyl one ounce fresh and unwasht Butter one ounce Sheeps Suet one ounce Virgin Wax one ounce Rosen beaten to very fine powder four ounces Mastick four drams beaten very fine Olibanum one ounce beaten to very fine powder honey half an ounce boil them all together till they come to six ounces and then put it into a Gally pot and put thereto some reasonable quantity of Venice Turpentine To make a very good Balsom Take bal fa pint of the best Aqua vitae a quart of the best Wine Vineger foure ounces of Storax Mirrh one ounce Galbanum one ounce Gum Dragon one pound eight graines of Musk as much of Ambergreece three pound of the best Sallet Oâ—le old and sweet half a pound of Oyâ—e of Lawrel of the best Oyl of Spâ—ke one ounce Oyle of Hypericon and Oyl of Juniper berries of each two ounces Oyl of Peter one ounce half a pound of Virgin Wax four ounces of red Saunders and a quarter of an ounce of Saffron An approved Salve for any Greene Wound Take a pound of Butter half a pound of Sheeps Suet a penny worth of Rosen of Frankinsence and Turpentine of each two penny worth boil all together a good while except the Turpentine for that must be put in afterwards and boil but little then strain it into a Bason of fair water and then strain it out for your use A white Salve to heal a cut or green Wound Take a quantity of Mutton Suet and almost half as much Rosen shred the Suet very small and melt it on a soft fire and when it is well melted beat the Rosen and put it in and let it boil together stirring it continually till it be cold To make an excellent Salve Take the roots of Marsh Mallowes wash and pick them clean then slit them and take out the inner part of the pith and cast it away and take the outer part that is faire and white and cut them into small pieces bruise them in a Mortar and take of them half a pound and put it in a new earthen pan and then put thereto Linseed and Fenicreek of each two ounces a little bruised in a Mortar then take Malmesey and White Wine of each a pint and stir all these together and let them infuse two or three dayes then set them on a soft fire and stir it well till it wax thick and like a skum then take it off and straine it through a new canvass and thus have you ready the Mustellage for Plaister Tâ—en take fine Oyl of Roses a quart and wash it well with White Wine and Rose water then take the Oyl clean from the water and Wine and set it on the fire in a brasse pan alwayes stirring it and put thereto Littarge of Gold and Silver of each eight ounces Cerus six ounces red Coral Bole Armoniack and Sanguis Draconis of each two ounces and let them be finely powdered and searsed then put them into the Oyl over the fire alwayes stirring it and let not the fire be too big for burning of the stuff and when it begins to wax thick put in ten ounces of the aforesaid Mustellage by a little at ounce or else it will boil over the pan and when it is boiled enough you shall perceive by the hardnesse or softnesse of it dropping a little of it on a sawcer or cold stone then take it off and when it is cold make them in Rolls and lap them in parchment and keep them for your use This Plainter resolveth humors in swolne legs To make a Salve for all manner of Wounds Take the juice of Smallage and Plantane of each alike honey and the white of an egge alike put Wheat flower to them and stir them till they be thick and let it come to no fire at all and so lay it to the Sore and by Gods grace it will heal it A good Salve for greene Wounds or old Sores Take half a pound of Sheeps Suet as much Barrowes grease as much Wax as much Rosen and a pint of Sallet Oyl set them all on a soft fire and when they be melted put in the Rosen finely beaten boil them all together and skim them then put in two pennyworth of Verdigrease and last of all two ounces of Turpentine and so let them boil a walm or two more then take it up and keep it for your use if it be an old Sore put four pennyworth of Verdigrease and three ounces of Turpentine SCIATICA For the Sciatica First take as fat a Goose as you can get and when she is ready drest then take a couple of the fattest young sucking Cats you can get and flea them and cut them into gobbets and put them in the belly of the Goose and so roast it as long as it will drop then take the liquor and annoint the place pained with it and bathe it before the fire as hot as you can suffer it and dip a brown paper therein and lay it hot to the place with warme cloathes to keep it fast to all night Do thus for the space of three or four nights together For the cold Sciatica orbenumnesse of the Thighs or Legs Take a pint of Aqua vitae a pint of Wine Vinegar a quarter of a pound of Oyl of Bayes the juice of four or five handfuls of Sage a Sawcer full of good Mustard the Gall of an Ox bladder and chafe them in the bladder an hour or more that the Oyl may be well mingled with the rest and anoint the place therewith against a good fire and let the Patient go warm into bed and sweat Probatum A Soveraigne Medicine for the Sciatica Take half a pint of Aqua vitae halfe a pint of White Wine Vinegar and one Oxe Gall almost a handful of Bay salt and a handful of the tops of Rosemary and shred them very small and put them in a little Pipkin all together and let it be ready to boil up and then take it off and chafe the place pained with it with your hand so long as the
you intend to preserves give them their Lees all in one day then that night 〈◊〉 them all upright and be careful to keep them right If they 〈…〉 in any 〈◊〉 they will 〈…〉 and spoil 〈◊〉 and August are most dangerous to keep the said Wines sweet For Sack that hath Flying Lees in it Draw it out into a fresh Butt with flesh Lees and make a good Parel with the whites of eight egges and beat them with a handful of Bay salt and put it into the 〈◊〉 and if it be any whit 〈◊〉 put thereto two gallons of new milk and 〈◊〉 the Wine wel then lay it upright stop it close and in two dayes Broach it A Note of all kind of Wines that prick with their perfect Remedies Imprimis For every Pipe take half a pound of Whiting to flavour your Wine Long-Pepper one ounce Cinnamon half an ounce the eightâ—â— part of an ounce of Orras as much Cloves a little Anniseeds the which must be bearch to powder and put them into a bag and hang it in the Wine with a piece of Lead to sink it two dayes and then take it out and see if it do not change let it hang one day long or then put four or five gallons of Bastard Sirrup which must be 〈…〉 into it How to make Sack white being otherwise coloured Take two pound of white 〈◊〉 and two gallons of milk boiled together the space of two hours then take it from the fire let it be cold and â—â—aff it and put it into at Butt that is clean and sweet then beat the Starch and milk together with two handfuls of white Salt and put into the Butt and beat it with a staff and it will fine and white To help Claret that is tawny Rack it and take halfe a pound of Turnsil two gallons of Red Wine one of Allegant two ounces of Red-wood small ground mingle them together and put them into the Hogshead and stop it close and in three dayes it shall have a most perfect colour For Sack that 〈◊〉 to be long Take three pennyworth of Roath Allome burn it then beat it small then take a pâ—nt of Burrage water and wring into it the juice of four Lemmons then beat the Allom and liquor together till it be 〈◊〉 and put it into the Sack and beat the Butt well and stop it close and in three dayes it shall be perfect For Malaga that pricketh Overdraw the Pipe two Gallons then put in the Pipe half a peck of Limestones and chalk and three pennyworth of Roach Allome burn it and strew it in the Pipe with a handful of white Salt and beat that gently and this only shal help it To give your Muskadine Malmsey Sack or Bastard a pleasant sweet taste and sent although it be very faulty Take a â—â—arter of a pound of Coriander seed Cloves Nutmegs of each half an ounce two pennyworth of Orras one pennyworth of Callamus Musk Manus Christi of each one grain beat them all well and put them into a bag then put a pint of Rosewater into a dish upon a Chasingdish of coâ—â—â— and when it is hot let the outside of the bag drunk it up then first put into the Butt or Pipe one gallon of Spanish Cute and roll it well then hang the bag into the Pipe neer to the bottom one day and night then draw it up towards the middle and let it hang there two dayes then draw it within a foot of the top for two dayes more then take it out and stop it close then roll it gently and in two dayes broach it To make good Hyppolgas Some make it of Sack so me of White Wine some of Rhemish Wine Take to every gallon of White or Rhenish Wine two pound of Sugar the worst is good enough three ounces of Cinnamon two ounces of Ginger one ounce of Lung Pepper three ounces of Licoras half a graine of Musk a half a pâ—nt of Damask Rose-water two pennyworth of Orras one pennyworth of Callamâ—s 〈…〉 of Auni-seeds The use and preparative of Hyppocras You must beat all the said things like gross Pepper save the Musk and Rose-water which use thus Take the Musk and with the back of a silver spoon bruise it in a little of the Rose water then mingle it with the rost of the Rose-water and shake it well together then if you will you may boile the Spices with two gallons of the same Wine you purpose to make it of and when it is cold strain it into the 〈◊〉 of your Wine and boile it 〈◊〉 an 〈◊〉 ever stirring it then after put in your Rose-water and Must when it is bloud warm then stop it close and roll it well together then take Raisons of the Sun and Figs of each half a 〈◊〉 put them 〈…〉 and hang it in them doâ—e of the Butt till the Wine be out and as the Wine shrinketh let that bag downe Or you may put the same into the Hippocras bag and hang at aforesaid then put the Rose-water and 〈◊〉 by it self into that Wine and roll it gently and this is the easier and quicker way but the other will be sooner and readier to broach Note that if it should want of pleasantnesse put to every gallon a pint of Spanish Cute and that will help it and make it perfect The Knowledge and Choice of Wines with their Marks of their Gountries Muskadine See that your Muskadine be sweet and strong and of colour like Amber as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Bastard See that your Malansey be perfect and pleasant at the first well 〈◊〉 swoâ—â— fine quick and strong But let your Bastard be only quick and 〈◊〉 White Wine Must be fair and short and though that want colour if it be quick and not full it is not to be refused for it is easily helped Clarret See that your Clarret be very well coloured fair fine and 〈◊〉 for if they be long at the first meddle not with them for they will not hold for burnings Red Wine Your Red Wine you must use as you do your White and Clarret Shâ—rry Sacks 〈…〉 are white at the first and you 〈…〉 them by their work upon their Bâ—ng where you shall see the picture of a Cock burned and the longer they lye the better they are Graves Wine Great Royst out â—â— the best take of them to Mich 〈…〉 Potty Royston is the next take of 〈…〉 the Cask is hooped with half Hoops and the mark of the Bung is like three O's with a stroak through the middle the first being greater then the other two having a little 〈…〉 the top to the middle 〈…〉 three Daimonds Spain In Spain there is Bastard Sacks Hollocks and Spanish Cute that is the best to keep for all the year Gascoyne Wine There goeth four Hogsheads to the Tun and every Hogshead is sixty and three gallons and observe how 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Gallon 〈…〉 and so 〈◊〉 pound the 〈◊〉 is worth Wines of 〈◊〉 Are good for all
precede Phlebottomiae or else the cold blood will remain Lastly It s good sometimes to be let blood that the blood may be led or drawn from one place to another BONES How to use Fractured Bones four kinds of Factures First when it is broken in length Next when it is broken overthwart Thirdly when it is oblick and crooked Fourthly when it is girded and broken and shivered in divers pieces either legs or armes Albusences and others later Writers make the difference of Fractures not according to the bone fractured but after the place affected as if the Nose be broken brain-pan jawes ribs back-bone armes legs or other parts which be not differences of Fractures but of the place affected according to nature Four Directions in the Cure of Fractures according to the place fractured First to respect that the bones be put again in their former place Secondly to be reduced to their natural and so conserved and kept without motion or hurt Thirdly That the bone broken may be ingendred and conglutinated together by ingendring of Callus Fourthly To correct the Accidents that do come after the Fracture of the bones How the Bones out of joint ought to be put together Be sure of help to hold the party at need for the Legg or Arm let him sit in a Chair and with annointing draw it out till the place be met as tenderly as you may having respect to the party grieved his complexion and nature How Bones may be conserved after they be set in their natural place Look well to your rolling First it is very good to take the white of an egge and Oyle of Roses mixt together and wet therein the linnen Cloathes which may cover the place broken and somewhat more of the other and roll it not hard for it may cause dolour and flux of humours How the Rollers must be used The first Roller upon the Fracture three or four times and so to the second part upwards the third Roller leek downward and it must be half as low as the first these Rollers should be wet in water and wine before you use them If the pain be vehement then the member would be wrapped about with fine wooll well carded or else with stuff wet in Oxicrotium A defensive Medicine Take Unguentum Populeum two ounces Bole Armoniack one ounce mix these together with Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger If the place appear blistered Take half a pint of running water and set it on the fire and put in fine Wax a little Oyl of Roses and sine Barly meal seethe them altogether but not very thick then make thereof a Plaister or Cere-cloth strike it upon the cloth upon the bottom of a Pewter dish over a Chafingdish and coals and lay it luke-warm to the arm or leg a night and a day and it will asswage the humour of boyning For the Wound of Broken Bones Take luke-warm Mell Rosarum and Oyle of Roses and a stamp of flax dipped in the Whites of Eggs and so bind it upon the sore Also apply about the place Bole Armoniack Sanguis Draconis and Olibanum beaten with a little Oyl of Roses Barley meal and Vineger round about the sore and so comfort the Patient A Defensive against Boyning of a broken Bone in the Leg. Make your Plaister of Oyle of Roses and Oyle of Mirtle melted together with a little wax and when it is cold put to it Bole Armoniack and Pompuleon of each one ounce of Wine two ounces and lay it a handful broad upon the hurt and let it lye A Poultice for any Boyning inward Take a pint of new Cowes milk a pint of Rye-bread crumbs a handful of French Poppy leaves shred small two ounces of Oyle of Roses three yolks of new laid eggs and as much Saffron as the weight of a Groat First boil the milk the crumbs and the Poppy together a good while and then put in the rest and spread it upon a faire linnen cloth To asswage the swelling upon any broken Bone or out of joint Take Unguentum Pompuleum one ounce Bole Armoniack one ounce mix them together with a little Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger For the Bone ache Take the leaves and flowers of Henbane and put them in an earthen pot with May butter and close the pot and set it in a dunghil three months then annoint the grieved place therewith BODY To distil a Cock good for any weak Person Take a red or black Cock and pluck him quick and whip him alive with small twigs a pretty while then cut off his head and gut him and cut him in quarters and wipe him very dry with a fair cloth then take an earthen pot and lay four or five splints to keep it from the bottom of the pot then lay in the four quarters upon the splints and lay between every quarter some of these Roots and Fruit following Fennel roots Parsley roots Succory roots of each two or three two or three slips of Rosemary two or three Dates quartered half a handful of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out six spoonfuls of Rhenish Wine Malmesey or Muskadine three or four whole Mace cover the pot and stop it close with paste and set it in a pot or kittle of hot water and let it boil softly with a temperate fire sour hours then take it up and let it run through a fair cloth without any forcing then put it in a fair glasse or pot and keep it close covered and give to the Patient two or three spoonfuls at once or in quantity as the stomack is able to take it in some broth made of Mutton or Veal first in the morning and as often in the day besides as he hath a stomack to take it To preserve the Body Take a pottle of fair water and six Calves feet and put therein Betony Long-wort Liver-wort Knot-grasse Clary Balm with a quantity of Mace Cinnamon and Ginger and six Dates let all these be sodden together till it come to a Jelly and then take a quart of White-wine or very pure claret and put therein and eat it at your pleasure Another Take the marrow of Venison a pint of running water three leaves of Clary three leaves of Comfrey one handful of Archange a handful of Charnel theree Dates a handful of smal Raisons seeth altogether till it come to half a pint then strain it and put thereto a pint of white Bastard and a quantity of Manus Christi Another Take a pint of Muskadine and put thereto Hemp-seed and blanched Almonds and Cap Dates two or three whole Mace and a Nutmeg and three crops of Rosemary and a little Saffron and red Rose-water and boil them all together till half be boiled away and after they be boiled put thereto Mithridatum about the quantity of a hasel Nut but let it not seethe after and let the party drink thereof at his going to bed at night Another Take a pottle of water and a Chickken and
of each one handful of Auni-seeds Fennel seeds Hysop seeds and the root of Elicampane about two ounces seethe them in two pound of water until the third part be consumed drink this and it loseth all congealed blood in the body and expelleth it in the Urine An excellent Balme to cure any bruise though Bones be broken therein and it is very good to cure wounds Take of Scala Coeli one pound Rosemary flowers four ounces Pomgranat rinds two ounces Sallet Oyle two pound White Wine halfe a pint bruise the Scala Coeli and the Pomgranate rinds and in the Oyle and the Wine with the Rosemary flowers infuse them ten dayes in the Sun after that boil them till the Wine be consumed then strain it and unto the Oyl being strained put these things following Mastick Olibanum of each four ounces Aloes one ounce Cassia four ounces Venice Turpentine twelve ounces Verdigrease one ounce boil these in the Oyle until the Gummes be dissolved then straine it and keep it to use and remember that in the end of the boiling the Verdigrease be put in and let the Turpentine be put in last not letting it boil after but only with the heat dissolve it self For any Bruises Aches or any such like pain Take Rosemary tops Toutswaine leaves Plantane leaves of each two handfuls Stone pitch and Turpentine of each one pound a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of Wax two ounces of Olibanum the Herbs must be beaten very small in a Mortar and then boile them together in a Pipkin six or seven hours till it come to be as stiff as Soap and when it is so boiled it must be strained through a linnen cloth and so put up in to Gally pots the Olibanum must not be put in till the other be boiled sufficiently For a Bruise or Strain or Green Wound Take half a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of White-lead two ounces of Cerus First set the Oyl on the fire in an earthen pan and when it is ready to boil put in the White-lead being in fine powder so let it boil a quarter of an hour then put in your Cerus being beaten small and stir it while it seethes then drop a drop in cold water and if it will roll it is boiled enough then powre it all into a Bason of cold water and when it is cold enough to touch annoint your hands and roll it up in little rolls An excellent Remedy for Bruises and Aches which come of cold Take young Bay-leaves and Wormewood of each a quarter of a pound a pound and a half of Suet of a Loyne of Mutton a quart of Oyle Olive of Oyle of Spike two ounces shred your Herbs smal and your Suet then put them in a stone pot and powre the Oyles upon them and cover it very close and so let it stand close covered two dayes then boil it till the Liquor be very green that the goodnesse is out of the Herbs then strain it and reserve it for your use Another Take a pound of Butter out of the Charn-milk and set it on the fire and clarifie it then take a handful and a half of red Sage as much Camomile as much Herb-grace and half as much Smallage some young Bay-leaves chop all the Herbs small and put them into the clarified butter and boile them on a soft fire stirring it until it be green then strain it and keep the Liquor for your use For a Bruise or Strain Take the grounds of Ale or Beere Wheat Bran and Chickweed and lay it to the grief three or four times a day upon a red cloth For a Bruise or Sore unripened Take Oatmeal and seethe it in sweet Cowes milk until it be as thick as pap and put it into a pan with a quantity of Sheeps suet and boile them well and then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the grief as hot as you can suffer it BREATH A good Medicine for a stinking Breath Take two handfuls of Cumin seeds and seeth them in good Wine from a pottle to a pint and then drink of it fifteen days together morning and evening Of a stinking Breath how it cometh This Infirmity proceedeth First when the Gums are putrified Secondly from hallow teeth Thirdly Stinking humors that fall downe from the head to the Pannicles of the mouth and make the spettle to stink Fourthly Stinking slime of the stomack Fifthly the corruption of the Lights Sixthly Stinking matter and purulency Seventhly stopping in the Nose or some exulceration of the same If it be from any of these causes proceeding from the Head then it is of heat then purge the head and wash the mouth often with Plantane water Also take green Oaken leaves and dry them and beat them to powder and take one dram sod in Wine BURNING An excellent Medicine for Burning or Scalding Take Sage and seeth it in running water and wash the wound with the water as hot as you can suffer it and it will take away the heat immediately then take Sage and Hartstongue leaves and Sheeps dung and fry it with Sheeps suet and annoint the place therewith with a feather and let it lye still then take Sheeps dung and dry it to powder and strew it twice a day and annoint it twice a day but take heed of picking any of it away left there be holes in the skin ever after And to asswage the stiffness when you can abide it no longer then bathe it a little in Sage water but the less bathing the sooner it will be whole For a scalding or burning with fire Take black Soap about the bignesse of the sore and spread it upon a linnen cloth like a Plaister and so lay it upon the sore and within half a day it will draw out the fire and then lay healing Salve to it The Oyle of Cream and Snow water is good to wash the place so hurt For Burning or Scalding Take the whites of two Eggs and one yolk and beat them well together and scum off the froth then melt three spoonfuls of Barrowes grease and take three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage and put thereto and stir it well together till it be cold then make thereof a Salve To heal a Burning or Scalding Take the fat of dryed Bacon and hold it between a pair of Tongs red hot and let it drop into a pot of faire water and of the dropping make your Plaister For Burning in the fire Take the second pill of a young Elme tree and lay it in fair water the space of twelve hours or more then fill out the water and warm it on the fire and annoint the Patient therewith and let it drink in the water and when it is dry then take new with the juice of Plantane as much of the one as of the other and then annoint it therewith after the first water To make Oyle of Cream for Burning or Scalding Take a quart or a pint of new
Head through Melancholy It is described thus It is not so great as the former but with a drynesse and sadnesse the heat is more evident in the left side of the face then in the right it causeth disquietness and unnatural sleep it causeth fearful faintheartedness and carefulness the colour of the face is red and blue with a soure taste in the mouth if the Patient be old and if it be about Autumne then the signes are more sure Glisters are good in this case Of the paine in the Head caused by cold The signes are wearisomness of all parts as if the body were beaten and broken to pieces the paine is not extreme without any swelling or thirst sleepinesse much spitting at the mouth and moisture at the nose palenesse of colour and somewhat sullen the eyes run and the mouth out of taste In such cases use warm and dry Medicines and purging is very needful in this Infirmity Also this Wine following is excellent for this purpose Take Rosemary two handfuls Nutmegs one ounce dryed Betony two ounces Cloves two drams being cut very small put thereto eight quarts of good Rhenish Wine let it stand three dayes then for a weak stomack drink a good draught at the beginning of meals but for the Head ache at the latter end This Wine is very good for a cold and moist braine and hurtful for young folks and hot complections The Dyet must be strong Wine but very little left it disturb the Head once in eight dayes wash the head with the decoction of Camomile Marjerome and Steches and before meales rub the head with warme cloaths and after meales take a little Marmalade to hinder the vapour in ascending to the head But because the Laxative Medicines through their own power do not expel all humours for which they be given without such things as convey their operation towards some certain members which one desireth to purge therefore take this Oximil following and if you put thereto Nutmegs Piony seeds or Cubebs then doth it only purge the head and no other part of the body and if you put thereto Tamariscus and Caper roots then it purgeth the Melt and so for all the rest but because we speak now only of the head these are the Simples or Herbs that do conduct the Medicines thereto viz. Nutmegs Cubebs and Piony Penniroyal Marjerom Balsome wood and Seeds Frankinsence Beaver Codd Labdanum Mellilot Squils Spicknard Hisop and Pepper Oximel that is called at the Apothecaries Compositum or Diareticum Take Fennel roots and roots of Smallage of each two ounces the seeds of Parsley of Butchers broom Sparage Smallage and Fennel of each one ounce take out the pith or core of the roots chop them and seeth them in a quart of water till they be mellow then strain them through a cloth and add the Decoction of three ounces of sharp Vinegar twelve ounces of Honey let them seeth to a Sirrup it doth attenuate all tough slimes it driveth them out of the members opens the obstructions of the Liver Melt and the Kidnies and expelleth them A very good Medicine for Paine or Wind in the Head which much hindreth the Hearing Take one Clove of Garlick pill it and make three or four holes in it then dip it in fine English Honey and put it in your ear and lye on the other side and put in black wool after it and continue this eight dayes and it will expel the pain expulse the Humour at the nose and restore the Hearing For a White Scurf or Scabbed Head Take White wort Cellendine Ground Ivy. Mercury Wormwood and an Herb called Dead mens Bells growing in Woods like Leek blades of each of these alike and stamp them and mingle them with fresh grease And burne green Ash to ashes and mix it with fresh grease and annoint the place eherewith To heal a Scald Head Take Lye that is made with the bark of an Ashen tree and wash the head therewith and annoint it with Quicksilver killed in Barrowes grease and fasting spittle Another Take yolks of eggs and put thereunto as much Turpentine then fry them in Swines grease and stir them well together in the frying to a Salve and so lay it to the sore head Another Take the roots of the small reeds that grow in ditches burn them to ashes and apply the ashes wet in Vinegar to the sore Head This healeth the sore and maketh hair to grow The bark of an Ashen tree being well boiled in water with the Lye thereof sometimes wash the Head to cleanse it whiles the other Medicines be applyed to the same Another Take black Snailes and stamp them very well and in stamping them there will be an Oyle come from them and with the same Oyle annoint the sore head For a sore Head First wash the head with pisse and then annoint it with the dripping of a wild Duck being roasted guts and all HOARSNESSE Against Hoarsnesse Put Sugar and the powder of Hisop in figs and roast them on the coals and eat them and it will open the pipes JAUNDIES A good Medicine for the Black Jaundies TAke the Berries of Ivy that groweth upon a tree and of the whole leaves of Ground Ivy and Mugwort and put them in a woollen cloth and then put it into an Oven when the Bread is drawne out and when it is dry make powder thereof and take Saffron and powder of Gallingale and use all these in pottage and eat thereof Another for the Black Jaundies Take the gall of a Raven grated into powder take some of it in a spoonful of Ale or Beer temper it together and drink it in the morning fasting A Medicine for the yellow Jaundies Take a little Athanatia and eat it in the morning fasting three mornings will be enough It is much like Mithridatum Another Take a handful of red Nettle crops and feeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same three or four daies together in the morning fasting IMPOSTHUMES For an Imposthume Take powder of Cene Alexandria one ounce Ginger Cinnamon Mace Coliander seeds Anniseeds and Licoras of each the weight of eight pence of Sugar two ounces of Spurge seeds blanched twelve beat them all smal to powder and put them into a quart of Claret and let it be brewed out of one pot into another oftentimes in a day by the space of three dayes before you use it then let it run through a Jelly bag then take half a pint of the said Drink and when you shall have need to use it warm it at the fire and drink it after your first sleep and so ly still till it work and offer to come and then go to a close stool til it be clean come away and then make a Plaister of red Mints red Fennel Wormwood and Sage of each a handful and a good handful of Cummin seed and beat them small together put thereto a good sawcer full of Wine Vineger and set them all on the fire in
a pan and so stir them till they are almost dry and then put them into a bag and lay the same to your stomack so that your stomack be not full of meat JULIP A most excellent Julip to refresh and cool any body distempered with heat or drougth in Agues or hot Diseases Take of Barley water a quart and put it into a fair bottle of glasse and let drop into the same some Oyl of Vitrioâ— or for want of that Oyl of Sulphur and then shake it well all together to disperse the Oyl and when you have perfectly tempered it then take two very good Pomgranats and cut them in two and squeece all the juice of them into it through some Colender or Strainer to keep out the kernels or husks or for want of Pomgranats as much Sirrup of Violets or Sirrup of Lemmons as the juice of two Pomgranats may be then take six penny worth of white Sugar candied and beat it very small and put it also in the Barley water and let it dissolve therein and drink thereof as need requires It is the best Julip that ever was made by the Art of man ITCH To take away or kill the hot Itch. Take Brimstone and as much Allom with a spooneful of white lead beat them small into powder then take a quantity of Cream and put the powder therein and beat them well together and therewith annoint the place that itches For an Itch. Take a pint of Borus two penny worth of Quicksilver and four penny worth of Frankinsence put these together and stir them with your finger and so annoint the hands and feet KIDNEYES Of the Kidneyes THe Kidneyes are fastned very strongly to the Back bone and that on the left side is right under the Melt and that on the right side a little higher so that sometimes it doth touch a great part of the liver and they have sundry veins from the liver whereby they draw blood with water and also some part of the gall unto them separating the same blood from the water and keeping so much of the blood as sufficeth for sustenance and vents through the Conduits whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descending into the Bladder The Diseases of the Kidneyes are divers as Imposthumes Ulcers c. which appears by pissing of Blood or like blood as if flesh were washed in it which Diseases arise either of heat cold or gravel c. The signes of cold Diseases are these There is no great pain nor heat nor thirst neither is the water high colourred but much in quantity because it is not wasted through unnatural heat which Agues Winter and the Gravel augmenteth for these Diseases a good Diet must be kept all grosse and slimie meats being avoided and likewise all cold Herbs exercise presently after meat is very hurtful Pain of the Kidneyes through Wind which spreadeth it self abroad and the pain is more after one hath eaten then before and is augmented through windy things when the meat is half digested therefore all windy things are to be avoided and annoint the back with Oyl of Rue and Oyl of Lillies likewise Conserve of Betony and the confected roots of Pimpernel Erinringo roots and Callamint is very good Pain in the Kidnyes through heat is when the Patient hath great thirst and a bad stomack maketh very little Urine and high coloured and sometimes there is fat swimming upon it and the rather in young cholerick hot men this is most dangerous for through the heat which is mixed with a tough thick phlegmatick matter the stone of the Kidney may grow therefore the Liver Veine must be opened and Glisters administred whereby the gots may be cleansed use cool Herbs and purge with Manna and Succo Rosarum Also use Saxifrage Parslye Cantharides roots of Fennel Butchers broom c. which are of a secret quality to convey the Medicine to the Kidnyes Also Sirrups of Water Lillies and of Vinegar and all things that cool the Liver and Spleen KNEES For pain in the Knees Take a Sheeps head newly killed and slit it and put into it a good handful of Plantane as much Camomile and so much Sage and so much Rosemary boil all well together until it be very tender then take out the bones very clean and chop all the flesh and herbs well together then put in a handful of Oatmeal grâ—ts and so boil it again until the Oatmeal be very tender and so lay it to the Knees as hot as you may suffer it and so use it as you see cause For ache in the Knees Take Rue and Lovage of each alike stamp them and mix them with Honey and fry them together and lay a Plaister thereof warm to the sore For swelling in the Knees and Legs Take Lilly roots and red Cole of each alike seeth them in clean running water and strain the Herbs then take the milk of a Cow and Wheat meal and temper it with the aforesaid Herbs and let it over the fire and stir it well till it be thick and then lay it on with a cloth For Aches and Swelling in the Knees Take a quart of Malmsey of Time one handful and boil it together and when it is half boiled put in a piece of sweet butter and let it boil together from a quart to a pint and when you go to bed bathe your knees therewith and let a cloth be wet therein four or five times double very warm and lay it so warme to your knees six or feven times LAMENESSE For such as be stiff in their Limbs or Lame TAke five black Sheeps heads a lapful of Arsemart as much Mallows as much Balm two good handfuls of Herb grace four handfuls of Fetherfew as much Lavender Spike two handfuls of Wormwood two handfuls of Savage one handful of Smallage and two handfuls of Rosemary all these will be as much as will fill a good sheet put them all into a Lead into running water a great deal and pull off the stalks of the Herbs and let them seeth a whole day you must not skin the sheeps heads but cleave them in sunder and let the wool be on still cutting off the hornes and seeth the Heads until the bones fall asunder then take out the bones and skim off the fat and keep it to annoint the Patient withal and the Patient must sit in the water up to the brests and wash and bathe himself therein and when he hath so done by the space of an hour or as long as he can endure it then lay him in a hot sheet into his bed and there let him sweat and so keep him close from the aire two or three dayes A Soveraigne Medicine for Lamenesse in the Joints to supple any sore and to bring it into Joint which hath been long out and for aches Take four or five young Swallowes out of the Nest being Flege and put them into a stone Mortar and stamp them feathers and all then take Lavender Cotton Wild Strawberry
for bones out of Joint so that laying on two or three of these Plaisters hath healed in fifteen dayes Armes out of Joint when you do lay up this Salve keep it in an Oyly paper PLURISIE A good Medicine to ripen a Plurisie Take a fair Costard and cut off the crowne and pick out the core but make no hole through and then put in all these powders of Bores tooth the weight of four pence of the Powder of Rubarb grated fine as may be the weight of three pence of Cinamon the weight of a penny of the powder of white Sugar candied the weight of two pence put all these into the Apple and cover him again and lay him on a tile on the Embers and roast him till he be soft as may be then cut it in sunder and give the sick party in the morning half of it to eat and fast two hours after it then eat some good broth and take the other part of the Apple the next day so that both the dayes are good to take a Medicine on An approved Medicine for the Plurisie Take a quantity of Horse dung which is kept in the Stable strain it with Ale then put to it a good quantity of Treakle and some Ginger and let the Patient drink thereof morning and evening luke-warm as much as he can endure A Plaister for the same Probatum Take a good handful of Brooklime and shred it very smal and boil it in fair water till it be very tender then take a quantity of Sheeps suet and wheaten bran and boil them together till it be thick and so lay it to his side where the pain is as hot as may be endured For the Plurisie Take a quart of White Wine put to it two handfuls of Cummin as much Oaten bran newly bolted bruise the Cummin and boil all to a Poultice and put it in two bags hot lay one to the side pained and when it cooleth lay to the other and so continue changing them three or four hours Or take Earth-wormes and fry them in Vinegar and spread them and lay them to the pained side Another The Plurisie cometh of cold humours therefore beware you take not much cold or any cold thing Malmesey sod with Camomile is very good A sweet Apple roasted and eaten with powder of Licoras and Sugar candied is good to be eaten in the morning and at night A sweet Apple also is best with Olibanum Also a Plaister of Pitch is very good laid to the side Another Annoint the place where the paine is with the Oyl of Linseed For the Plurisie Take four Spanish Balls newly gathered from a Horse stamp them and strain them with a pint of White Wine and as much beer put to that a penny worth of Treakle being first melted and give the party to drink thereof twice a day and not to eat nor drink one hour before nor after if you be sure it is the Plurisie let him blood within three dayes but if he be longer before he be let blood be sure you let him blood on that arm on that side where the pain is Also if when after blood letting he fall worse again this Drink is a very good Medicine for that Sicknesse taken by overmuch labour or lying on the ground There must be laid also to the side that the stitch is on for the Plurisie this following Take a pint of new milk make batter of it with wheaten flower as thick as you do Fritters put to it three spoonful of Honey and a groats worth of Saffron boil it to a Poultice and spread half and then grate it over with Nutmegs and lay it warm to the side and when it hath been on twelve hours then lay to the other half and make more if you see cause Also if you boil a piece of leaven as big as a good Apple in Vinegar the quantity of four spoonfuls and as much Rose-water and a few Rose leaves to a Poultice spread it and grate it thrice over with Nutmegs and lay to the pained side It is also very good for the Plurisie or for any pain in the side If you take two handfuls of Horse-dung two Races of Ginger powdered boil them in a quart of White Wine being bound in a cloth boil it to the one half then drink a good draught morning and evening and after you have drunk it cover your self warm and sweat this way is also very good If the party be costive give him gentle Purgations as Cassia Fistula or use Suppositories or Glisters For this Sicknesse Tessers are good and the water of Mallowes Violets Borage or Bugloss Sugar candied also Take also of the Water of Broom flowers Scabious and Carduus Benedictus of each three spoonfuls put in Sugar candied and let the party drink so much morning and evening and annoint the side with Oyl of Broom flowers To know whether one have the Plurisie or no. Hold in thy breath as long as possibly thou canst do and then if thou canst not let thy breath pass from thee without coughing assuredly thou either hast it or art in danger of having it forthwith For the cure of the Plurisie Thou must be let blood forthwith then take the quantity of a Walnut of Carduus Balsom and eat it upon a knifes point and take again presently the like quantity of the same Balsom and melt it in a sawcer at the fire and with a soft clean linnen cloth dipped in the Balsom wash and bathe thy left side well as hot as thou art able to suffer it then warme the said cloth and lay it double over the place pained and bind it on and ly down to rest and by Gods blessing thou shalt find it a present Cure For a hot Plurisie When any get a pricking pain about the ribs with a Cough and an Ague then use this Glister Take sixteen ounces of Broth wherein a Lambs head or Calvs feet have been sodden put therein one ounce of Sugar the yolk of one egg two ounces of Sallet Oyle salt one dram and halfe temper them well together and use it PRICKING For the pricking of a thorn Swelling or Ancomb Take Birdlime and spread it on a piece of Glovers leather on the Allome side and lay it on as far as the swelling goeth and let it lye four and twenty hours and then renew it again Another for the pricking of a thorn or needle in any joint Take fine boulted flower and temper it with White Wine and boil it together till it be thick then lay it on the Sore as hot as may be suffered and it will open the hole and draw out the anguish help the aking and heal it for want of White Wine take Ale or Beer It is good to heal a Boil or Whitlow POULTICE To make a Poultice for Wounds or Swellings Take a good quantity of Marsh Mallowes or of other if you cannot get them and boil them in clean water then cut them small and
palenesse with full vaines stuffing of the head or nose swelling of the eyes pain in the throat motion to vomit swelling of the Almonds the Remedy is to use dry and warm Herbs as Sage Fennâ—â— Mints Rosemary Marjerom Time c. and after meat use something to close the stomack as prepared Coriander toasted Bread c. and walk in a morning fasting Hot Rheume the signes thereof are these viz. the face is red mixt with a pale or black colour great heat in the nose with itchings when the mouth and the throat is full of bitterness and sharpnesse and if the head be hot in feeling it s thus to be cured he must be let blood and use this Gargarism Take Sirrup of Jaunbes of Violets and Poppy seeds of each alike temper them with Barley water Or take Jaunbes Sebestians Violets white Poppy seeds and Quince kernels decocted in Barley water use it in the evening after meat it is passing good Also take Sirrup of Poppy seeds Sirrup of Mulberries of Roses and well water of each three ounces of Wine of Pomgranats one ounce make it warm and gargle therewith RICKETS For the Rickets in Children Cut the middle gristle of both the ears and with the blood annoint the belly and the Navel with a little Cotton wool then boil Harstongue and Liverwort in Milk or Broth for their usual Dyet Another Take Bay berries bruised and sweet Marjerom of each a handful and boil it in Beer with three or four blades of Mace and so drink it often Another When the former will not help take Fennel seeds and Dill seeds of each alike but most of Dill boile them in Beer and strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink often Probatum RUPTURE A Plaister to keep up the Rupture Take Knotgrass and Shepherds Purse of each one handful of Comfrey and Solomons seale of each half a handful beat them into an Oyl and thereof make your Plaister This Oyl will be preserved all the year in a Gally pot A Drink for the Rupture Take long Plantane Yarrow and Knotgrass of the redest colour of each a great handful Daisie roots Dovefâ—ot Mousear and Borage of each a small handful wash them very clean and shred them grosse then take three quarts of milk and two quarts of White Wine set the milk on the fire and when it doth seeth put in the Wine and as the Curd ariseth take it away and being clean put in the Herbs and let them boil gently a quarter of an hour then take it off and straine it and preserve it in Glasses and let the Patient drink thereof in the morning fasting and so in the evening almost a pint at a draught and do so one week Another Take Comfrey roots Daisie roots and Pollipodium of the Oak make them into fine powder and drink thereof every morning the weight of six pence the space of a fortnight fasting an houre after it For the Rupture in Children Take Frankinsence half an ounce Aloes a quarter of an ounce beat it small and mix it with the white of an egg unto an Oyntment and therewith annoint the child upon his Rupture morning and evening Also take the root of Aron halfe a pound in powder and give thereof unto the child every day for nine dayes together one dram with water of Parfoliata and tye the Rupture with a Boulster close upon it and unto it RESTORATIVE A Restorative Take Treakle Sallet Oyl Sugar candied Cinamon powder made with Licoras and Sugar of each a penny worth mingle all these together and take a quantity thereof as much as a Nut both morning and evening Another Take a quantity of Ale or Beer and put therein over night three or four sprigs of Rew and drink thereof evening and morning for a good space and it will keep your stomack in good order A restoring Medicine for any decay of the inner parts Take Live Honey and put thereto tops of Balme Cowslip flowers Borage flowers Bugloss flowers and tops of Gilly flowers and set this remain in the Honey the space of a Month stopping the pot very close that no aire come in let it stand all the said time in some warm place either in the. Sun or by the fire side then distil it in a glass Still with a little water and drink thereof every morning a good draught A Restorative made of an Herb called Rosâ—solis This Herb groweth in the Meadows in low Marish grounds and in no other places it is of Horseflesh colour and groweth very long and flat to the ground with a main long stalk growing in the midst of six branches springing out of the roots round about the stalk with a hoar colour and a main breadth and length and I do warn you in any wise not to touch this Herb when you gather it with your hands for then the vertue is gone you must gather it by the stalk and so pluck it out of the ground and put it in a glasse or pewter pot the leaves of this Herb are full of strength and vertue Take of this Herb as much as will fill a pottle pot but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua vitae and put them both together in a large vessel and let it stand being chopped just three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day strain it through a clean cloth into a glasse or pewter pot and put to it half a pound of Licoras beaten to fine powder and half a pound of Dates take out the stones of them and cut them into fine slices and mingle all these together and stop the glass or pewter pot close that no Aire come into it and drink of it at night to bedward half a spoonful with Ale and as much in the morning fasting for there is not the weakest man or body in the world that wanteth nature or strength or that is cast into any Consumption but it will restore them again and cause them to be strong and lusty and have a marvellous hungry stomack and that very shortly for he that useth this Medicine three times shal find a great change and comfort in it and as he feeleth himself so he may use it It cured one Mr. Stubbs who dwelt in Westminster and was in a great Consumption and very neer unto death being sick continually for eighteen weeks and all the Physicians in London had forsaken him and these things were sent him to drink from an outlandish man and in three times drinking of it he walked upon his feet RULES for Health A very good Rule for Mans Health to be used in every Month of the Year written 1607. In January use no Physick but warme clothing cat warm meats and drink White Wine fasting it is wholsom In February forbear Physick and letting of blood take no cold for fear of Agues which are easily gotten In March forbear grosse feeding purge by Potions Bathing or Blood-letting In April Physick is good upon occasion
Patient shall be able to endure it and do it very warm against the fire and then take Nerve Oyle and annoâ—â—â— it and then take a Scarlet cloth and bind it up or cover it warm and this do morning and evening CERECLOTH To make a Cerecloth Take Virgin Wax Deers Suet Rosen Pitch and Barrowes grease of each alike and boil them together until they be half consumed then do it abroad upon a linnen cloth somewhat thin and lay it to the place grieved as hot as may be suffered A singular Cereeloth for all Bruises Aches and Wounds whatsoever Take a pint of Sallet Oyle of the best you can get and half a pound of red Lead and as much Rosen as a Walnut boil all together upon a soft fire till it be somewhat black stirring it continually and when it is cold rowle it up and keep it for your use You may keep it seven years and it will be exceeding good if you keep it from the hear of the fire Probatum To make a Cerecloth for an Ache. Take Olibanum and Sallet Oyle with Wax Rosen and Stone Pitch and boil them together A Cerecloth for all Members that be out of Joint-or any consuming member and grieved with cold moistness that consumeth it bringeth the Member again to his natural place Take six ounces of Wax three ounces of Rosen two ounces of Mastick Armoniacum Galbanum and Olibanum of each one ounce of Fenicreek Wormwood Camomile and Cummin of each of these in powder one ounce Oyl of Castorum and Oyle of Camomile flower of each one ounce of Vinegar five ounces melt the Rosen and Wax and the Oyles together and then put in the Galbanum and Armoniack steeped in Vineger and strained and so put in the powder last of all stirring it together and thereof make your Cerecloth To make a good Cerecloth Take one pound of Galbanum finely beaten to powder and searsed as much fine Rosen beaten and searsed as much Pitch of Sheeps Suet four ounces of Cummin two ounces Labdanum one ounce of Cloves one ounce of Mace one ounce of Saffron half an ounce SORE For a new cut or Sore Take Brimstone and scrape it fine and mingle it with May butter and annoint a Tent or a little lint throughly and put it into the Sore or Cut and it helpeth To dry up and to heal a Sore Take the burned Ashes of a Rhadish and strew it upon the Sore and it will dry and heal To break a Sore that is swoln Take Spurge and shred it small and boil it in Whey and thicken it with Oatmeal and lay it warme to the Sore it is also good for a womans brest Also for the breaking of a Sore or Boil take Coriander seeds made into fiâ—e powder and mix it with Honey and this being implaistered upon a Boil or a Carbunkle will in a short time destroy it Or take a little of a Calves curd STONE A Water for the Stone Take Ashen Keyes Stitchwort Saxifrage Mother-time Broom flowers Hawes Hips Bramble leaves Pollipodium of the Oak Pellitory on the wall put all these together of each alike and Still them then to every pottle of water put half a pound of Anniseeds and so let them stand four and twenty hours then put them into the Still again and still them all together then drink of it as you need and if it happen that the gravel come too fast and will not avoid then stil Ivy berries and Parsley and drink two spoonfuls of it and it will avoid the stone if it be never so great A present Remedy to avoid the Stone Take a handful of Pellitory on the wall a handful of Parsley and a handful of Parsley seeds a little bruised boil these things in a quart of White Wine until a third part be wasted then strain it and wring into it the juice of a Lemmon or two then with this Wine and some milk make a Posset as clear as you can and drink thereof a good draught twice or thrice a day but not with meat nor when the stomack is empty from meat When the Stone is avoided and the pain ceased to preserve you from the like again make a Broth and break fast three dayes every week thus Take a Chicken or a piece of Veal three young Mallowes Marsh Mallows are the best if you know them one handful of Violet leaves or of Mercury or of Pellitory of the wall one handful of Apothecary Barley scalded half a handful of great Raisons stoned boil these in water until the meat be enough then take of this broth without thickning or seasoning with a little Sugar three hours before dinner For the Stone and to provoke Vrine Take a quantity of Normandy glasse being clean without rust or canker burn it in the fire a good space then beat it in a Mortar then take an old Cambrick cloth and sift it very fine and give the Patient a spoonful or two of the same powder to drink in Malmesey being pained and it will help by Gods grace Probatum An approved Medicine for the Stone Take a gallon of new milk from the Cow that is all red and thereinto put one handful of Pellitory of the wall wild Time Saxifrage and Parsley of each a handful two or three Rhadish roots sliced steep all these in milk one night together and in the morning distil them with a moderate fire then take of that Water six spoonfuls and six spoonfuls of Rhenish or White Wine and a little Sugar and some slices of Nutmegs make it luke-warm and drink it fasting and fast after it three houres using temperate exercises Take this two or three dayes together every fortnight or oftner if need require The best time to distil this Water is towards the end of May. For the Stone Take two or three unset Leeks and stamp them and strain them and drink it in Malmesey in the morning strain as much as the Patient will drink at twice after this to bedward take some Sack and Sallet Oyle and beat it and drink it hot that will make the Stone slide A present Remedy for the Stone in the back or Bladder Take Saxifrage Philippendula Peniroyal and Parsley seeds and stamp them together and strain them into a cleane Vessel and let the Patient drink thereof with racked Rhenish Wine Probatum A Medicine for the Stone Take Ivy berries and stamp them wel and put it is White Wine and give the Patient to drink thereof and let the Patient make Water through a cloth and you shall see the avoiding of Stones and Gravel For the Stone Take Foxes bloud and Hares blood of both alike quantity and dry them in an Oven then beat it to powder and seeth it in a little White Wine and drink it as warm as you can suffer it To make a Glister for the Stone Take a good handful of Mallowes as much of Camomile and as much Pellitory of the wall three or four crops of Herb-grace a