all these are melted together then put in the chopt and pounded hearbs and let them boyle half a quarter of an hour then carefully stirre it a quarter of an hour after and when it is cold put it into pots close covered and set them in a horse dunghill a yard deep for one and twenty dayes then take them out and put all the ingredients into a Kettle and set it over the fire again and boyle them a walm or two then strain it and put thereto oyle of Spike two pound and stir it well and when you use it warm it a little in a Sawcer and rub it by the fire To counterfeit beyond-Sea-Azure â„ž Common Azure and beat it very well with Vinegar and annoint therewith a thinne plate of fine Silver and put the same over a vessell full of Urine set it over hot ashes and coales and let it be stirred untill it be like beyond-Sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus saith he had this out of an old written book To know good Azure and pure Lay some of it upon a hot burning Iron and if then it will not be burned nor any little stone is found therein then it is pure and perfect and not sophisticate and adulterate Mizaldus For an Ague When Jesus saw the Crosse whereon he should be crucified the Jewes said unto Jesus Art thou afraid or hast thou an Ague Jesus said I am neither afraid nor have an Ague Whosoever shall wear these words shall neither be afraid nor have an Ague Amen sweet Jesus Amen For a Tertian or double Tertian Ague â„ž A good quantity of Celandine one spoonfull of Salt and the bignesse of an Egg of Leven and as much Allicant or Spanish Sope stamp them well in a Morter and make a plaister of them and apply them to the Patients feet one hour before the accesse of the fit adde thereto four or five yolks of Eggs. â„ž Of Anniseed water the best you can get half a pound of oyle of Vitriol shake them well together and drink one or two spoonfuls hereof one hour before the accesse of the fit Probatum This Medicine is excellent to cure all kinds of Agues that are B For a short Breath TAke the roots of Hollyhockes lb. i. dry them into fine powder clarified Honey four pennyworth set these on the fire and stir them well together untill it come into the form of an Electuary whereof let the Patient take often â„ž Of choise Manna called Manna Granata two ounces flower of Cassia newly drawn half an ounce Penidios three ounces oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn half an ounce the Lungs of a Fox finely beaten to powder two ounces powder what is to be powdered then mix them all together and make an Electuary with Sirrup of Hysop An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath Take a pint of the best Honey you can get set it on the fire and scum it very clean then put into it a little Hysop bound in a bundle bruised a little let it boyle till the â—oney taste well of the Hysop then take it out and wring out all the Honey and put into it the weight of sixpence of Angelica root grated or cut very small as much of Elacampane root of Ginger the weight of two pence as much of grosse Pepper of Licorice eight penny weight cut very small of Anniseeds eighteen penny weight put these altogether after the Hysop is taken out and let it boyle a walm or two on the fire stirring it a little then take it off and put it into a glasse or pot and put thereto three spoonfuls of Aqua vitae and stir it well together and take it on a tufted Licorice stick at morning about ten and at four in the afternoon and when you goe to bed letting it melt down out of your mouths For a Bruise or Squat â„ž White Dasie roots leaves floures and all pownd them and strain the juyce of them into strong March Beer or Sack and give the Patient a good draught thereof Or seeth them in Ale and make a Posset thereof and let the Patient drink thereof as of the former and let him eat the leaves if he can and let him sweat after â„ž Of Comfry M. i. when it sprouteth forth the youngest leaves wring them with your hands and put them into fresh Butter out of the Churne unwasht into a Frying-pan and hold it a good way off the fire and so let it boyle together till it be green then strain it and keep it for your use Probatum A Restorative for the Backe Take of stale Ale two pound of Germander half a handfull of unset Hysop and of unset Thyme and of Clary ana M. i. a branch of Rosemary and a good quantity of English Saffron a dish of sweet Butter and a good peice of Sugar then boyle all together till half be consumed then strain it and let the Patient drink it morning and evening For Aches in the Backe â„ž Bores grease and Nerve oyle ana p. ae and as much Turpentine boyle them a little together and annoint the greived place downward therewith For Bleeding at the Nose Take a Toad and kill him and take three Bricks put them into fire and then take out one of them and put the Toad upon it then take out another and put him again on that and when he is almost cold take off the Toad and put the Brick into the fire then take the third Brick and doe so till the Toad be consumed to ashes then take the ashes and put them into a Taffata bag and when any one bleedeth apply the bag upon the heart and it will instantly stay the bleeding either of the Nose or any Wound For Burning or Scalding â„ž A spoonfull of Sallade oyle and the white of an Egg beat them well together and annoint the burnt place with it often then take a linnen rag and wet it in the oyle and lay it over the sore and keep it still wet till you find the fire be drawn out of the Wound then take away the rag and annoint the place with a feather and put Harts-tongue leaves to it and so bind it up and dresse it thrice a day for two or three dayes and after that but once a day and this will cool it without any scarre 2. â„ž The reddest Onyon you can get and take off the rinde and beat the Onyon with Bay Salt in a wooden dish till it be made very small then put it very thick upon the burned place and renew it three or four times and this will take out the fire and then you may apply any healing Medicine to it to skin it C For a Cough of the Lungs REcipe Of clear running water three pound of good Sugar half a pound with nine Figs sliced half a spoonfull of Anniseeds bruised a spoonfull of Licorice bruised of great Raisins having their stones taken out one handfull of Maiden-hair one penniworth boyle these together till one half be
consumed away then strain it thorough a fine linnen cloth and every morning take two spoonfuls of it luke-warm and you shall finde present remedy Probatum For purging of Colds Coughs and comforting the Lungs â„ž Rubarb two drachms Sena half an ounce Anniseeds one ounce steep them in a pint of white Wine and put to it one ounce of brown Sugar-candy set it over the fire to be kept stewing all night stop the pot very close that no water come out and in the morning when it is blood-warm strain it and take a pretty quantity of it and put two drops of oyle of Sulphur into it and drink it fasting and fast two or three houres after then take a little broth and keep you warm A Julep for a Cough â„ž A pottle of Spring water and put into it ten branches of Hysop and two of Rosemary Licorice clean scraped and thinne sliced two ounces of Anniseeds bruised two ounces French Barly which hath been cleansed in one water boyle these till half the water be consumed then strain it and put to it three drops of oyle of Sulphur take two spoonfuls of this when you begin to Cough this will loosen the flegm and cause you to bring it up easily Another Boyle three sprigs of Rosemary and as much Maiden Hysop in two pound of white Wine of Mace two flakes of Nut-Neg two or three slices Saffron six or eight blades burn the Wine and after sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy and drink a good draught warm mane vesperi and two or three spoonfuls in the afternoon For Canker in the mouth Mingle the juyce of Agrimony with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal it Probatum Richard Jones cured a young man which had the Canker both in his tongue and lips onely with good Romane Vitrioll dissolved in spring water and making it as milk warm from the Cow with a stick and a linnen cloth fastened to the end of it he washed his tongue mouth and lips herewith every morning and evening and cured him in short time But if it be in an old man let run too long that it eat still and Vitrioll Salves nor other waters will cure it there is no other way to save this man but to wash carefully his lips or mouth with a very little oyle of Vitrioll to cauterize the veins and stop the malignant humours that comes from the brain and feeds it But this course must not be taken unlesse the Patient be in intoleâ—able pain and in a desperate case for doe it herewith never so little yet this oyle of Vitrioll will gnaw and bite and put the Patient to great pain that was opprest with great pain before unlesse you mitigate the pain by often continual dipping of a linnen cloth kept wet in spring water after a very little time that you have annointed the cankered veines and places with very little oyle of Vitrioll upon a feather as may be and so let him indure the pain as long as he well can that this may cauterize and sear up the veines the better that so he may be cured which otherwise will corrode and eat continually although he may purge and vomit also and so this at last will kill him For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs â„ž Coltsfoot Betony Burnet and red Rose leaves ana M. i. of Comfry roots scraped and sliced M. ii boyle all these in a gallon of Spring water till it be consumed to a pottle then strain it and set it over the fire again then take a pound of double refined Sugar and put it into it and let it boyle over a soft fire about a quarter of an hour then take it off and put it up and drink of it six spoonfuls morning and evening and at four in the afternoon 2. â„ž Of Saccharum Saturni one scruple in a quarter of a pint of Goats milk and give the Patient mane vesperi two or three weeks together and this will help them but first give the Patient some gentle diet-drink to purge them before you give the Saccharum and Milk Probatum For Collick and paines in the backe â„ž The tender tops of a Bucks horn which is Velvet headed and cut it in peices and put it into a new pot well covered and set it in an Oven where it may be dryed and made into powder of which give to the Patient with a little Pepper in good Wine a pretty draught and this will presently release the pain and give ease Probatum 2. â„ž The decoction of Hollyhockes mix it with Honey and Butter and drink thereof bloud warm Probatum For the Cramp â„ž The leaves or little sprigs of Rosemary and put them between every toe and if you are much troubled with the Cramp use it continually and this will cure it 2. Annoint the part cramped with Vnguentum Brioniae and this will help it Probatum For a Canker â„ž Burnt Salt burnt Eggshels burnt Copperas burnt Bones burnt Verdigrease Wormwood and Rue burnt ana p. ae make powder thereof and mingle them well together and strow the powder into the Canker and let no water come to it Another Take Hog-lice stamp them till they come to an oyle and annoint the place therewith For a Canker in the lips â„ž The juyce of Agrimony and mingle it with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal them Probat A Water for a Consumption R. Rose-water three pound of Muscadine three pound of new Milk a pottle of grosse Pepper one ounce of Cinnamon two ounces of sliced bread a penny loafe the yolks of three new laid Eggs of Sugar one pound Distill all these as long as any water will come take of this water with a little Pepper a draught fasting and you will find much good For the Cough â„ž Of the best Flores Sulphuris one ounce and half as much white Sugar Candie finely poudered mix them together and take as much hereof as will lye upon sixpence mix them well in the yolk of an egg and swallow it down then walk upon it untill you sweat and keep your self warm and use it four or five mornings together to take it and walk after it For a Cough or shortness of Breath â„ž Of Aqua vitae or Annise-seed water four ounces mix it with white Sugar Candie finely poudered two ounces boyl it in a peuter dish over a chafing-dish till it be dissolved and indifferent thick like an oyle and take a spoonful of this when you goe to bed for three or four nights together â„ž Elacampane roots cut into small peeces of Hysop Penniroyal and Liquorice ana M. ii seeth them in a gallon of pure spring water till it come to a pottle then strain it well and keep it in a clean pot or glasse close stopt and use this every day thrice First and last and one hour after dinner for seven or eight dayes For a Consumption â„ž Three sheeps hearts slit them and take out
in the same Wine and in another Wine and lay them in an earthen pan on straw or sticks laid a crosse and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn and so use them till they be so dry that you may pownd them then searce it and beat it again till it be as fine as flower then keep it for your use which you must take twice a day in the morning when you wake and at four in the afternoon as much as will lye on sixpence or eightpence take it in a spoonfull of warm Broth or mulled Sack or Mace Ale and drink a pretty draught of the Broth to wash it down if you take it in mulled Sack or Mace Ale take not above four spoonfuls use this for a moneth but be carefull of taking cold To make a Laxative Whey â„ž One pound and a half of clarified Whey Sena half an ounce four penny weight of Annise seeds of Hops half a handfull of Borrage and Buglosse ana half a handfull Fumitory p. i. seeth all these in the clarified Whey untill half be consumed drink of it two mornings together A good Laxative for a Child â„ž Of Violets three handfuls if you cannot get them as much of the leaves seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then take of Almonds one pound stamp them small and temper them with the water and make an Almond Milk of it and let the child eat and drink of the Milk and also if need require of the water by it self with a little Sugar To cause Loosenesse â„ž Coloquintida and mix it with Honey and Bulls Gall then apply this plaister-wise to the belly and this will doe it Also take Wool or Silk and dip it in the juyce of Sowbread roots and Wine and use it as you use a Suppository For a costive by burnt Choller â„ž Of Mallowes Mints Wormwood and Violet leaves ana half a handfull seeth these in the water of the sick and when they are well sodden presse out the water from the Hearbs and stamp the Hearbs in a Morter and fry them in May Butter or fresh Grease and make a plaister of it and apply it warm unto the belly and change it once a day For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs â„ž A quarter of a pint of good Sack of Elacampane roots half an ounce as much Licorice powder them very finely of the best refined Sugar half a pound boyle them together till they rope in nature of a Sirrup then take hereof the quantity of a big Filbert mane vesperi and after as often as the Cough tickles you 2. Take Virgin Honey and old Conserve of red Roses ana p. ae mingle them well together and take at morning and night three Pills as big as a Nutmeg and keep warm after it A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs â„ž A pottle of spring water put into it of Oak leaves M. ss of Colts foot of Butter burr roots and leaves ana M. i. of S. Johns wort Mousear Maiden hair ana p. i. 3 or 4 Harts tongue leaves a little Liverwort 6 branches of Maiden Hysop 3 or 4 branches of Rosemary pick and wash all these clean 16 Figs slit in two Set this over the fire and let it boyl softly till half be consumed then take it off the fire and strein it and put into it of loaf Sugar lb ss and when it is melted put unto it six of seven drops of oyle of Sulphur and put it into a glasse and shake it well and drinke every morning eight spoonfulls which you must drink leasurably that it may the better fall on the Lungs about four of the clock in the afternoon you must take as much this will both cleanse and heal the Lungs and stop the coughing M A cooling Almond Milk TAke Lettice Spinage Succory Violets langde Beefe Endive and red Fennel ana half a handful three spoonful of Anniseseeds five whole Maces and one Nutmeg cut into peices seeth all these in a pottle of running water to a quart then blanch your skins and beat them with the cold seeds and so draw it with this decoction and put into it Sugar and Manus Christi to sweeten it N A Water to restore Nature TAke of good new Milk three pound of red Wine-one pound the yolkes of four and twenty new laid Eggs having their whites taken out beat the Eggs well with the Wine and Milk and put thereto as much fine Manchet as will almost suck up the liquour distil this with a soft fire take two or three spoonfuls of this usually in your broth two or three times a day this is rather to be used in Hectick Fevers then in other diseases because they are alwayes hot in the palmes of their hands and in the soles of their feet both after sleep and after meat which shew the consumption of the solid and fleshy parts of the body To restore Nature consumed Steep the yolkes of two new laid Eggs in six ounces of Vinegar six houres then take them out and with four Dates and a pint of Muskadine or Alicant make a Cawdle therewith as followeth Take of Rosewater one pound a pint of Muskadine boyle therein a dishful of the Pithes of an Oxe back clean pickt a large sawcer full of good Currans clean washt four yolkes of Eggs six Dates a stick of Cinnamon and a good Nutmeg make a Cawdle of this with Sugar and having so done strain it and drink thereof at morning fasting and at four in the afternoon it is singular good for a weak back and decaying of nature P For the French Pox. REcipe Of Lignum vitae lb i. of Sarsaparilla â„¥ v. of Sena Alexandrina â„¥ iv of Sassafras â„¥ iv of Bole Armon â„¥ i. of Chalk â„¥ i. of Hermodactilis â„¥ ii of French Barlie â„¥ ii bruised of long Pepper a half penniworth of Saffron one penniworth of London Triacle â„¥ i. Boil all these in four gallons of spring water till half be consumed when it is to be boyled put in the long Pepper Saffron London Triacle Bole Armoniack and the Hermodactilis What is to be pounded pound and what to be bruised bruise let it boil a good while after those Ingredients are put into the pot close stopped Then strain it and with the dregs you may make a smaller drinke for the Patient to drinke at meat or when he is dry but of the fomer drinke he must drinke â„¥ iiii thrice a day Viz. at eight of the clock in the morning at noon and at 10 at night He must eat dryed Bisket and great Raisins and his meat must be mutton dry roasted without Salt The party must also take this ensuing Purge twice before he drinke the drinke viz. six penniworth of Pulvis Sanctus with â„¥ i. of Sirrup of Roses solutive well mixed in lb ss of white Wine drinke it blood warm fasting two houres and then take some warm broth Another Two or three doses of Doctor Vanhocks Rosa
Enula campana Angelâ—â—a Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced therâ—take of the best white wine eight pints put them all into an earthen pot well leaded let them stand two dayes close covered and stirre them once in the day then still them in a Limbeck with a temperate fire it will be two dayes and a night in the still keep the first pint by it self of which you may take a spoonful at a time of the next quart take twice so much of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time Lute the still well that no aire come forth and keep it in close glasses For a Child that hath the Ague Take the Hearb called Hartshorn stamp it then mingle it with bay Salt and three or four houres before the fit come apply it spread upon a linnen cloth to the Childs wrists and when the fit is past apply a fresh one before the next fit and in a few fits God willing she shall be cured For a burning Fever Take red mints two handfull boyle them in a quart of running water to the consumption of half strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar and as much Honey boyle it to the height of a Sirrup Take of Endive two handfuls boyle it in a quart of water to the consumption of half take two spoonfulls of this and one of the Sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time you please For the Jaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Caelidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one penny-worth a rase of Turmarick bruise all and bind them in a fine peece of Laun and let it infuse in the Wine a night drink a part thereof in the morning one other part at noon and the rest at night To bring down the Flowers Take of Alligant or Muskadine or Clarret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the wine after it take it evening and morning To stay the Flowers Take Amber Corrall Pearl Jeat of each alike grind them to a fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of sour bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Enula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May. For a Stitch. Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half be consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quart clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in fix pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb. Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in
Sugar 5. Give Dates stones beaten to powder in warm Wine fasting â„ž Of the best Treacle one drachm in four ounces of Carduus benedictus water give the Patient hereof three mornings or nights to drink bloud warm and it will take away the fumes of the head in the disease of the Flux If the fumes of the head be not asswaged let the Patient take four ounces of Carduus water and the yolk of a new laid Egg and a little Salt mix these and drink it this is also good for an Ague An Ointment for the Flux â„ž Two pound of May Butter or a gallon of Cream if of May Butter take Lunaria sanicle Salomons Seal Mouseare Plantain Adders-tongue ana one handfull stamp these small and put them into the May Butter and boyle them half an hour with a soft fire scumming it with a feather If you use Cream boyle it till it come to an oyle which oyle as it riseth take off with a spoon and put your Hearbs into it as into the May Butter when it hath boyled strain your Hearbs thorough a thinne cloth and let it stand till it be cold after which set it over the fire again till it begin to boil then put it up in pots This is also good for burning scalding or Aches but especially for the Flux for which when you use it observe this direction Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Ointments and melt it by the fire and stroke down the reines of the back till it be dryed in use this for seven dayes and nights together if your Flux continue For all Fluxes of bloud and other Fluxes pains in the Back or Liver and for inward effects â„ž Cinnamon Cassia lignea Opium ana two drachms Mirrh Pepper and Galbanum ana one drachm stamp them and mix them with a little clarified Honey and make it into a lump or masse give thereof at night two round pills about the bignesse of a Pea in the pap of a roasted Apple and let not the party drink for two houres after and if his pain and greif be never so great it will ease him within one hour or two and perhaps cause him to sleep soundly you may give it two or three nights together if the Patient be strong but if they be very weak give it every other night three or four times but if he be in extream pain give it when you list If the stomack be full of meat or flegm it will work lesse effectually Probatum A powder for the Flux â„ž Half ripe Blackberries dry them and make them into powder give the Patient a draught thereof in a little Tent or old red Wine in the morning and evening for five dayes if the Flux continue A Glister â„ž A quart of new Milk from the Cow and put three or four gads of Steel into the fire red hot and quench them in the Milk till half the Milk be consumed then take the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet and stamp it into the Milk and mix it well together and put it in a boulter bag warm this you may use four or five times if need require For Morphew or Scurf of face or Skin â„ž Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces mix it well with as much black Sope that stinketh and tie the same in a linnen cloth and let the same hang in a pin of strong wine Vinegar or red Rose Vinegar for the space of nine dayes then wash any kind of Scurfe or Morphew either in face or body dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar and rubbing the face or body therewith and let it dry by it self also drink the water of Strawberries distilled or tincture of Strawberries it certainly killeth Morphew or Scurfe Probat To blanch the Face â„ž The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels and a quantity of fine pure Sugar still these and keep the water to wash your face with every night To smooth the Skin Mixe Capons grease with a quantitie of Sugar let it stand for a few dayes close covered and it will turn to a cleer oyle with which annoint your face Morphew and Freckles Annoint the face with the bloud of a Hare or Bull this will take away Morphew and Freckles and smooth the skin G. For the Gout or Ache in the joynts knobs or knots in the flesh Probat REcipe Of May Butter four ounces of Cummin seed beaten into fine pouder half a pound of black sope four ounces of Rue M. i of clarified Mutton M. ss stamp these in a morter together and put to it an Oxe gall and a spoonfull of Bay salt and fry them together till it be thick then lay it on a woollen cloth and apply it hot to the ach as may be suffered and let it lye a whole week unremoved Then lay on another as long a time and so lay on a third plaister as long which will be three weeks in the whole time and this will give ease For Gout or Bone-ach Take of the best Aqua vitae one penniworth and another of oyle of Bayes mix them well together and annoint the place grieved therewith by the fire warm the ointment by the fire and then chafe the place till it be dryed in then cloth it up warm Probat For the Gout or Joynt-ach â„ž The juyce of Sage of Aqua vitae of oyle of Bayes of Vinegar and Mustard and of Oxe gall ana p. ae put altogether inâ—o 〈◊〉 bladder and chase it up and down with your hand for tâ—e space of an hour and half and keep it for your use and annoint the grieved place with it morning and evening Fâ—r the Gout Stamp well lb iii. of Wallwort then melt ten pound of May Butter and put it thereto and let it stand nine dayes together then boyle them half and hour over a soft fire then strein it and annoint the grieved place For Gout or Bone-ach Annoint the place grieved with very good Aqua composita by the fire and let the same drinke in doe this three or four times and whilst it is wet cast upon it pouder of Olibanum and sow a cloth thereon and let it lye on for four dayes Probat H Hermes Tree FIrst grinde to an Amalgame one ounce of Mercurie with one ounce of clear Spring-water then put a round viall glasse half full of Rose water or cleer spring water then put therein your aforesaid Amalgame then drop therein one drop of the best Aqua fortis that can be gotten and after a quarter of an hour another drop and so every quarter of an hour one drop till you have dropt therein ten or twelve drops then with a very gentle heat on sand or hot embers vapour the water away softly and a brave tree of silver shall grow in the galsse to your admiration I A Plaister to help any Stitch or Imposthume wheresoever REcipe The roots of Hollihocks washed clean and cut in peeces M. i. seeth them in fair water untill the roots bee
tender then take out the roots and put into the water of Fenugreek and Linseed ana M i. being first stamped or bruised and seeth them together in the water untill the water rope like birdlime then stamp the Hollihock roots before boyled and put them to the Fenugreek and Linseed with a handfull of Barlie meal and fry them together and if need be put to some Sheeps suet and lay a plaister thereof to the sore as hot as may be suffered Let it lye twelve hours at least and then lay another to it and within nine plaisters it will work the full effect It dissolveth the Plurisie also in applying of three Plaister For an Imposthume of the Stomack Whosoever shall dayly take in a draught of Ale or Beer a spoonful of the pouder of Matselon or Scabios it will destroy any Imposthume within him Probat A good Oyle to bring in joynts which have been out seven years to give strength to veins and sinnews and to keep them brought in in their places You must first bathe the place throughly that is out for three or four dayes with Oyle of Cammomil then against the Patient goeth to bed you must have two Neats feet or so many of them as may cover the dislocation with the peelings round about then lay the insides of the feet in thick and broad flakes to the place as hot as the party can indure it and in the morning remove them and after with it annoint the place and the flakes aforesaid with Oyle of Cammomil and then apply fresh peelings This for certain hath brought in joynt that which hath been out of joynt six years and giveth strength to the veins and sinnews and will keep the joynts iâ— their first place and the effect will appear in three or four dressings For the Black Jaundies Spread Wheat-straw abroad upon a clean floor in a close house and put in Geese and watch them when they dung take their dung up with a knife and scrape away the white about the dung untill you have a good quantity of it then dry this in an Oven make pouder thereof and drinke of it morning and evening warmed in Ale and it will cure both the black and yellow Jaundies 2. Dry the gall of a Raven and grate it into powder and take a quantity of it in a spoon temper it with Beer or Ale and drinke this fasting three mornings together Or take nine or ten seeds of Hemp doe away the husks and bruise them and put them in Ale and drinke this fasting for eight or nine dayes For the black Jaundies â„ž Of Hearb Ambrose Betony Mugwort ana M. i. three or four Dock roots clean pickt washt and scraped stamp all these together in a Morter till they be beaten indifferent small then take Spicknard Turmerick and Gallingal ana p. ae stamp them in a Morter likewise then put the Hearbs into a clean cloth by themselves and tie them fast with strings and hang them in a gallon or two of good Ale newly ready to be tunned up and after three or four dayes drink a good draught thereof every morning next to your heart and fast after it three houres and doe so the like when you goe to bed To make Hartshorn Jelly â„ž Two ounces of Hartshorn being small rasped and a pint of fair water one Nutmeg sliced one race of Ginger a branch of Rosemary boyle all these together in an earthen Pipkin over a soft fire till it be very clammy then strain it into a Bason and put to it Rosewater and Sugar For 〈◊〉 yellow Jaundies â„ž Celandine English Saffron and powder of Ivory seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof eight or nine dayes mane vesperi 2. â„ž The Urine of the Patient and drink it with the juyce of Horehound 3. Seeth the juyce of Cammomill Morrell and Mouseare in white Wine twice and drink of it fasting For the yellow Jaundies â„ž The pap of a roasted Pippin and put as much powder of Saffron as will lye on a penny and twice as much Harts-horn finely scraped mingle them well together and give the Patient three mornings together the quantity of a Nutmeg and as much at going to bed 2. â„ž Of the inner rind of Barberry bark and Goose dung that feeds on grasse and wash the white of it and a little Saffron steep these in Ale and let the Patient drink it in the morning fasting 3. â„ž Of red Nettle-tops M. i. seeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same four or five mornings together 4. â„ž Alicant or hard Spanish Sope and a little stale Ale in a Cup rub the Sope against the bottome of the Cup till the Ale be white then shave a little Ivory and let the Patient drink of this first and last till he be recovered Also take Celandine leaves and put them into your Stockings next to your feet 5. Put a good handfull of Celandine leaves into a quart of white Wine boyle them to a pint in the winter use the roots and drink thereof morning and evening 6. Cut out the core of a good big Apple put into the place some sweet Butter a little Turmerick and English Saffron cover it with the top you cut off rost it tender and let the sick eat of this three or four mornings together 7. â„ž One pennyworth of Turmerick of the middle rind of the Barberry bark M. ii of Celandine M. i. seeth the Celandine and the bark in Ale-worâ—â— putting to it a gallon of new Ale at the tunning and when it hath stood two nights draw it at the spicket and warm it with a gad of fine Steel and put to it the powder of the Turmerick and drink of it first and last 8. â„ž The juyce of Liverwort and the scrapings of Ivory and of Saffron as much as you shall think fit of French Sope as much as a Chestnut bind them all in the corner of a linnen cloth and swinge them up and down in fair water till all the vertue be gone into the water and give the Patient to drink of it L. For a lame Leg. REcipe Aqua composita and oyle of Roses anae p. ae mix them together well and annoint the greived place with it morning and evening but let the Patient first be well rub'd with a warm cloth Probatum For the same â„ž Oyle of Exter oyle Olive and Aqua vitae and Beastâ— gall ana p. ae Mix them all well together and annoint the lame leg therewith twice every morning and evening for the space of a fortnight but alwayes use to rub the place first very well with warm clothes For chopt Lips Rub them with your sweat behind your eares and this will make them smooth and well coloured A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs and Consumption â„ž Of Earth-wormes two pound in a May morning those with black heads are best you may gather enough put these in white Wine for three or four houres then slit and wash them
vitae given at severall times is very good in this disease Another â„ž Of Diaphaenicon â„¥ ii as much è succo rosarum drink this in the morning at six or seven a clock with â„¥ iv of white wine bloodwarm for three four or five dayes It is an excellent purge and will give you six or eight stools within two hours Probat A Posset good in all cold Agues or Pestilentiall Diseases Make a Posset with small Beer with a quart of milk as clear as you can then take of Goats rye M. i. when you have taken off the curd from the Posset put the Goats rye into iâ— and let it boyl a good while then put three or four branches of Scordium into it then take it from the fire and cover it a while then strein it and give the Patient neer a pint of it at a draught warm an hour before his sit comes then let hâ—â— lye still one hour to sweat or two or longer if he can indure it use this for three times but let the Patient be carefull he take no cold The Plague Water â„ž Harts horne rasped â„¥ i. one root of Saxifrage the stems and seeds of red Sage Rue Elder leaves and berries red Bramble leaves one root of Angelica or the leaves thereof Tormentill the roots and Leaves ana M. i. two Oranges English snake-weed the roots and leaves Virginia snake-weed a small quantity which is much better then ours of Goats rue ana M. i. Butterburr leaves and roots and Pimpernel ana M. ss Scordium six branches Marigold Flours and Borage flours and Rosemary flours ana M. i. White Ginger Ê’ ii dryed Figs eight old Ivie Berries black two spoonfuls Walnuts fortie stamp them all in a morter and steep them twelve hours in White wine lb ii and white Wine Vinegar lb ss then strein it through a fine strong linnen cloth and adde unto it â„¥ i. of Bole Armoniack finely poudered and a little Pomecitrine rinds one penniworth and distil it in a dry Still and take morning and evening one spoonfull This is good for any Fever ague small Poxe Measels or any Infection If it purgeth as it will if there be any infection you must give the Patient two spoonfuls of this till it hath done his working An Antidote against the Pestilence by Dr. B. â„ž Three pints of good Muscadine of Rue M. i. of brown Sage as much bruise and boyl the Hearbs in the Muscadine till a third part be consumed then put to of Ginger â„¥ ss of Nutmegs thirty two a penniworth of long Pepper grossely bruised into the Wine and let it boil one walm then take it off and strein it then put into it a penniworth of Mithridate two penniworth of London Triacle and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water drinke one spoonfull of this every morning fasting one hour after but if the partie be infected then let him drinke two spoonfuls and sweat upon it For the shaking Palsie Take of Cloves two or three ounces as much of Nutmegs pouder them small and mixe them with oyle of Lavender to make them sit for a plaister spread it on Leather and lay it to the nape of the neck and wrists of the hands Or as I have proved Take three penniworth of London Triacle a pennie pot of Neat oyle a pennie pot of Sherrie Sack mix these three things together well and eat a spoonfull or two every morning fasting and at any time of the day after this once or twice a day if you please take a spoonfull or eat it upon new white bread This will help the shaking Palsie and trembling of the heart and make a man cheerful and merrie Probatum I had the shaking Palsie by working in Mercurie no man more and this in fourteen dayes cured me God be praised Another Steep Mugwort in Rosewater wash the hands therewith and it will cure their shaking and trembling To restore lost Speech Lay a thin peece of raw Beef to the forehead of them that have lost their voice and let it lye one all night To restore speech to an Apoplectick Beat the Kernels of Peach stones together into pouder and give the Patient a good draught thereof in Rennish Wine A Restorative Electuary Take of great Raisins cleansed from their stones lb ii of Licorice scraped and bruised â„¥ i. put these in lb ii ss of cleer water seeth them well and strein them and put into their streining of Mirabolans Hebal Citrine and Indic cleered from their stones ana â„¥ ii of Emblick and Bellerick anaÊ’ ii boyl them presse and strain them then put thereto of pure Sugar lb i. and when they are boyled up to the thickness of a Sirrup adde in the end of choice Cinnamon â„¥ ss Cloves and Galingal anaÊ’ ii of Nutmegs num ii of Fennel and Annise-seed anaÊ’ i. Make it into an Electuarie and put it up into a clean Box agreeable to the complexion of the Patient that shall use it as for the spleen in a Tamarisk or Ash boxe or Juniper for flegmatick persons and so accordingly of others In this Electuary are Medicines for principal Members viz. the Heart the Head Stomack Liver Spleen and Generative parts It is first hot then moist after cold and last dry This Medicine was invented by Arnoldus de villa nova for hindering old age conservation of health prolongation of life it not onely comforteth but purgeth superfluities remaining from the nourishment past keepeth back gray haâ—res strengthneth the stomack and giveth a good colour to the whole body A Restorative good in all diseases Take Elder flours the Eâ—e of S. John Baptist at Midsummer according to the Planet which is Jupiter or according to the Sun diall at twelve a clock Dry these in the East stamp and pouder them then take Borage water and put into it seven or nine grains of the Pissle of a Deer dryed and grated to pouder with a spoonfull of the pouder of the flouers aforesaid Infuse them for 12 houres in three or four ounces of the water for the Patient to drinke for 15. dayes together It restoreth old age and strengthneth the back In fine this is miraculous for all diseases For the Rickets Take of cream two pound and boil it to an oyle or take of unsalted Butter lb ii take three or four good handfulls of Cammomil miâ—ce it small and put it into the oyle or Butter and let it boil on a soft fire till the hearbs become crispe and that it be very bitter then strein it and annoint the childs sides downwards and the bottome of the belly and thighes morning and evening Also to give the child thrice a day half a dosen spoonfuls of Harts-tongue water in which you have steped seven or eight Cloves and some bâ—own Sugar Candie to sweeten it If the child mend not with this â„ž Of shoomakers shreds two or three M. boil them in fair water and take off the oyle and annoint the child as before prescribed If the child
Brackish this is a safe and admirable Medicine 2. â„ž The braines of a Magpy newly killed and put it into a wine Glasse of white Wine and stir it well till it be throughly mixed and then drink it and this will presently cause Urine and ease the pain For the Spleen Seeth the rindes and keyes of an Ash tree very tender and well in white Wine and drink a good draught thereof for six or seven mornings together it doth much ease the Patient when you drink this annoint the Spleen with Dialthea every morning and evening applying Emplastrum de Meliloto pro Splene to the place Probat Another Put of oyle of Gold one drachm into half a pound of Anniseseed-water shake it well together every time you take of it and take a spoonful at a time and it will help you Probat Heat a pair of Tongs six times red hot and quench them in white Wine drink this nine mornings together and this will help the Spleen For Swelling of Armes Legs and Feet â„ž Linseed Wheat Bran Brooklime Chickweed and Groundsel ana one handful seeth them in a pottle of white Wine altogether till it be thick then lay a plaister thereof to the swollen place as hot as you can suffer it and it will help it with three or four plaister For Sinewes and Nerves cut asunder â„ž Of Earth-wormes one handful put them in a cloth and cleanse them well from the earth that done take Sack half a pound and of Sallade oyle half a pound mix them together and infuse the Wormes in this untill they be suffocated then stop the pot very close and lute it well and set the pot in hot horse dung for eight and forty houres till the Wormes be rotten then take them out and presse them and adde thereto of common Oyle half an ounce of Venice Turpentine two drachms then relute your pot and set it on a soft fire for three or four houres For Bruises or streined Sinewes 1. Annoint the place greived with Aqua composita and Neat-foot oyle luke-warm laying hot clothes thereon 2. Stamp live Earth-wormes and apply them to Sinewes cut For shrinking of Sinewes â„ž Two Swallowes nests that are ready to fly of Lavender Cotton the tops of young Thyme the strings that run out of Strawberries Cammomil and Hollihock leaves ana one handful stamp the Swallowes quick and the Hearbs together till no feathers be seen then put thereto of May Butter one pound or two and stamp it again to a salve and let it stand again close for seven dayes then seeth it the space of two houres with a quick fire stirring it still then strain it thorough a course cloth and annoint the joynts therewith or any other place where the Sinewes are shrunk and use often to stretch out the joynts and splint For Sinewes shrunk and to supple impotent Limbs â„ž Rosemary Thyme Parsly Hysop Bayes Sage Lavender Spike Lavender Cotton Balm Cammomil Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Yarrow red Nettles Lovage Hearb Robert Plantain Rag-wort Vervain Adders-tongue Daises Nightshade Comfry Orpine Strawberry strings Violet leaves Walwort Amber leaves Southernwood Knot-grasse Vine tops Valerian Honisuckle leaves Polipodium of the Oak Dill Mallowes Perwinckle Rue of these one handful slice them a little and stamp them very small in a Morter with powder of Cloves bruised small put thereto oyle Olive and Neats-foot oyle so much that they may swim mixing them together set it on the fire till all the strength of the Hearbs be boyled out and take heed it doe not burn then strain out the Hearbs and clarifie it over the fire then put to it a little Wax to harden it withall this Ointment should be made between May and Bartholomewtide Probat To cure an old Sore â„ž Of fresh Butter one pound put it into a pot in the moneth of Aprill then take of Violets of Rosemary red Sage Buglosse Wormwood Broom Hysop Pennygrasse Vervain Selfeheal Hypericon and Speedwell ana one handful gather them as they be ready and put them into the pot with the Butter and set them into the Sun until Michaelmas then take it out of the pot and beat it in a Morter then make it up plaister-wise and reserve it for your use For the Scurvy Chop small the knotted place of a Pine Tree and boyle it well in Aâ—e or â—eer that the steem may come out and drink of it and it will cure the Scurvy This was Colonel Hamiltons Secret To cool the Skin and heal a Sore â„ž Of oyle Olive one pound and a half Wax six ounces of Minium two ounces Litharge of Gold two ounces Ceruse one ounce and a half Camphire one ounce and a half first boyle your Oyle and Wax till it be melted then take it from the fire and put in all the aforesaid things being beaten very small and searced and stir them together till they be cold and as occasion serveth annoint the sore place To help paines in the Stomack â„ž Four graines of Mastick Swallow them every night to bedwards this preserveth the Stomack from all paines and cureth the same An Ointment for the Stomack â„ž Capons Grease five pound Origanum Wormwood the tops of Rosemary Stomack Mints ana M. i. and a few Buds of red Roses pickt chop the â—earbs very small and pownd them in a stone Morter afterward boyle them in the Capons Grease till you see the goodness of the Hearbs boyled out then strain them and put so many more Hearbs as aforesaid and let them lye all night then boyle them all again till the vertue of the Hearbs be boyled out then strain them and take of Cloves and Mace ana â„¥ i. beaten very small and let it boyle a walm or two keeping it still stirring that it may not grow black then take it from the fire and put it into a pan or broad dish and stirre it till it be almost cold and put into it a pint of Aqua vitae and a quart of the distillation of Vine leaves this is good for any thing that lieth heavy upon the stomack being annointed therewith T For the pricking of a Thorn REcipe Of Violet leaves one handful of Mallow leaves one handful stamp them together and take a quantity of Bores Grease and of Wheat Bran one handful set it on the fire in clean water and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the greif To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh Moisten the tongue of a Fox and make it soft with Vinegar if it be dry put this on the thorn or any place where you would have any thing drawn out and it will doe it 2. Black Sope laid to it will also doe it For the Tooth-ach Take of OpiumÊ’ i. distill it in â„¥ ii of the best Aqua vitae and hold a spoonful of this in your mouth and it will ease you Probatum To keep Teeth White and kill the Worms Take a little Salt in the morning fasting and hold it under your tongue till it
a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superfluous humours for Aches in the joynts sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the abovenamed and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put thereto five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar rosate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tatia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will not come to a powder Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a penny-worth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Jutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put
or oyle of Olives three ounces Salt one drachm They yolk of an Egg or two Mixe all these together in a morter and so give it warm in the morning or two hours before supper and if you add unto this one ounce of Diacatholicon it will be the better Raisins laxative how to make them â„ž White-Wine three pints and a half Senuae half a pound Fine white sugar one pound Currants two pound You must infuse the Senuae in the wine in a pot close stopt and let if stand in a warm place four and twenty hours then strein it and add to the straining the Currants being clean pickt and washt and lastly the Sugar boyle all together on an easie fire untill the wine be consumed having care that you do alwaies stirr it about in the boyling for feare of burning then take them from the fire and put them up into a clean galley pot you may eat one spoonfull or two of them a little before dinner at any time A good Oyntment to kâ—ep one Sollible The gaule of an Oxe Oyle of Violets of either one ounce Sheeps tallow six drachms Boyle them together on a soft fire untill they be incorporated then take it from the fire and adde thereto Alloes cicatrine one ounce Bay-Salt half an ounce The Alloes and Salt must be both made into fine powder before you put them into the oyle then stirr them together untill it be cold and when you are disposed to have a stoole then annoint your fundament therewith both within side and without and if you annoint your navell therewith it will work the better Good pills to kâ—ep one soluble and they do also resist the Pestilence â„ž Alloes Cicatrine one ounce Chosen Myrrh three drachms Saffâ—on one drachm and half Amber Greece six graines Sirrup of Lemons or Citrons so much as shall be sufficient to make the masse You must grinde the Aloes Myrrhe and Saffron into small powder severally by themselves then incorporate them together with the sirrup you may give half a drachme or two scruples thereof in the evening half an hour before supper twâ—se or thrise in a week Rases would have you to take half a drachme or two scruples of these Pills every day without using any otheâ— preservative at all and he hath great reason so to esteem of them for Galen Avicen and all ancient Writers in Physick do hold opinion that Aloes doth not onely comfort but purge the stomack from all raw and chollerick humors and doth also purge and open the veâ—nes called Miserayick and resisteth putrefactâ—on Myrrh doth altogether resist neither will it suffer putrefaction in the stomack Saffron doth comfort the heart and hath also a proâ—riety in it to carry any medicine that is given therewith unto the heart but to conclude these Pills will purge all superfluous humors in the stomack and principall members and preserveth the bloud form corruption CHAP. VIII I Must here give you to understand that the infection doth oftentimes lie hidden within us without any manifest sign or knowledge thereof at the first and therefore were it good for sanguine bodies and such as do abound with bloud in the summer season to draw six or eight ounces of bloud out of the Basilica vein in the right arme which is a good meanes to prevent a further danger as Avicen witnesseth but for full and plethorick bodies it were best to purge themselves once in seven or eight daies with some easie and gentle purgation as hereafter I will shew you but for leane and spare bodies once in fourteen dayes will be enough at most for wisely saith Rondoletius that it is not onely the venemous and contagious ayre which we receive that doth kill us but it is the present communicating of that contagion with some superfluous humours in our bodies as in his treatise De Pâ—ste appeareth therfore now will I shew you how to purge the body Pills good to purge â„ž Alloes Cicatrine ten drachms Agarick of the whitest â„¥ iiii Myrrh Mastick of either two drachms Saffron two scruples Make these into fine powder then compound them together in a morter with so much Oximell simplex Sirrup of Lemons or of Staecados as shall be sufficient you may give one drachm or a drachm and half of these Pills half an hour before supper but for a cholerick body you must leave out two drachms of the Agarick in making of the receipt and in place thereof add two drachms of Rubarb and for the melancholie two drachms of Epithimum and give the same quantity in weight A good purging potion â„ž Raisins the stones being pickt out and washt of either one ounce Polipode of the Oak Elecampane root dried roots of wild small Sorrel Succory roots cleansed of either half an ounce Leaves of Burrage Bugloss Burnet Scabios Morsus diaboli of either a little handfull Floures of Burrage Bugloss Rosemary Violets Broom of either a little handfull Seeds of Fennell sowr Citrons of either two scruples Shaving of Harts horn half a drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of faire water untill half be consumed then strain it Take of the decoction aforesaid three ounces Rubarb two drachms and half Cinnamon half a drachm Slice them both and put them with the liquor in a close cup and so let it stand to infuse in a warm place twelve hours then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of the Sirrup of Maiden-haire and so drink it warm in the morning about six of the clock and refrain from meat drink or sleep two hours after it this is good in lean and spare bodies you may for the phlegmatick body add in the infusion one drachm of Aggarick Trosciscated A purging powder for such as cannot take Pills â„ž Alloes Ciccatrine one ounce Myrrh Cinnamon of either two drachms Saffron one scruple Make them all in fine powder and give one drachm in a draught of White-wine Floures stopt how to provok them For that women which have not their naturall course on them are most prone to receive and take the infection I have here set down good Pills which I have alwaies found excellent not onely for that purpose but will also resist the danger of infection â„ž Alloes Ciccatirne one ounce Roots of Gentian Aristolochia rotunda Dittander Saffron of either half a drachm Roots of garden Madder Methridate of either one drachm Cause them all to be ground in small powder then mix it with the Methridate and some sirrup of Artemesia or Mugwort give one drachm of these Pills every morning twelve dayes together or untill her tearms break Issues commended against the Plague IN plethorick and full bodies I have found nothing more safer in the time of the Plague then to make them an artificiall Issue either in the leg or arm for never hitherto have I knâ—wn any one which hath had an Issue or Ulcer running on him that hath been infected with the plague Palmarius and Forestus doe both affirm it to be
confection of Alkermes of each half an ounce of Diamargariton frigidum and Calidum of each two drachms of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each one drachm of all these make an Electuary and give it evening and morning by it self or with Dodder or Endive water the dose is one drachm pro tempore uno An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse â„ž four scruples of Gentian made into fine powder of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each two scruples make these into a fine powder and give a spoonfull thereof with white Wine or the like at once Another Medicine â„ž Three or four spoonfuls of flemish Madder boyle it in two quarts of white Wine with a peice of Sugar to the consumption of half of it strain it and let the Maiden drink thereof morning and evening a good draught warm and walk or use some exercise to heat the body but take no cold use this for eleven or twelve dayes together A singular purging Potion against the green Sicknesse and all opilations of the Liver and causeth young Maids to look fresh and fair and cherry-cheek'd and will bring down their Courses the stopping whereof causeth this greif and it is good against all manner of itch scabs breaking out and manginesse of the body purifying the blood from all corruption â„ž Of the roots of Monkes Rubarb that is red Dock and of red Madder ana half a pound of Sena four ounces of Anniseseed and Licorice of each two ounces of Scabious and Agrimony of each one handfull slice the roots of Rubarb and bruise the Anniseseed and Licorice break the hearbs small and put them all into a pot with four gallons of strong Ale and infuse them all the space of three dayes then drink of this drink for your ordinary drink for three weeks at the least the longer the better and make new as need requireth it cureth the Dropsie and yellow Jaundies also if you put in of Cammomill one handfull For the green Sicknesse or Jaundies â„ž Of white Briony root sliced half an ounce boyle it in a pint of Ale gently a quarter of an hour and drink a good draught thereof and sweat and in your sweat drink it all or as much as you can the next day make new and drink again but without sweating and use some exercise to keep the body warm use this last order twelve dayes together use good Cordials and Restoratives with sirrup and conserve of Fumitory For the green Sicknesse and Jaundies Boyle of Rue and Sage of each a bundle in a quart or three pints of Ale with one scruple of Saffron To cure this disease the Electuary of Steel is excellent if the body be first purged for it doth open all obstructions but the Patient must use some exercise after the taking it to stirre up naturall heat the better the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared â„ž Of the filings of the best Iron or Steel as much as you please grinde it subtilly and finely upon a Porphiry or red Marble stone with Vinegar then dry it at the Sun or at the fire and grinde it again with Vinegar as at the first and doe thus seven times one after another and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you The Electuary of Steel is made up thus â„ž Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce Cinnamon Nutmegs condited of each three drachms of chosen Rubarb two drachms of the species of Aromaticum rosatum half a drachm of chosen Honey and of fine white Sugar of each one pound and one ounce mingle these all together over a soft fire and make it up into an Electuary After the taking of this Electuary let the Patient in all cases use some bodily exercises being first universally purged for this Electuary is most excellent against all obstructions of the Liver Spleen or other disease and for the green Sicknesse For the green Sicknesse or green Jaundies The green Sicknesse or Jaundies cometh of yellow choller mixed with corrupt or putrified flegm and corruption of bloud debility of nature and faintnesse of heart it happeneth also when the Liver is weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into bloud but the digestion is raw and crude so that the whole body is filled with water and flegm instead of good bloud it is cheifly found in young Maidens who desire to abate their fresh colours and as they conceive to be fine and fair and foolishly feed upon trash which altereth the colour and state of their bodies as of unripe Apples Peares Plums Cherries and raw Fruits and Hearbs or Meale Wheat Barly raw Milk Chalk Lime and the like and they that have this disease are very pale and greenish if they chance to cut their finger no bloud but water will follow they feele great pain in their head with continuall beating are faint short-breathed and their naturall Flowers are stopped and stayed to the prevention and cure whereof the body must first be well and orderly purged as by the Medicines before prescribed FINIS The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet WHat things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths page 1 Orders for the third moneth page 2 From the fourth moneth page 3 From the fifth sixth and seventh moneth ibid In the eighth moneth page 4 In the ninth moneth page 5 A Liniment page 6 The Fomentation ibid The Bath page 7 Suffumigations of the Genitals to facilitate delivery ibid What meat is most usefull page 8 What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in ibid What is to be done at the Birth ibid How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished page 9 To whom the seat may agree and be fit ibid What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the Birth ibid What to be done when the Infant is come into the world page 10 If the Secondines break not readily page 11 What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-Birth be retained ibid Another approved Remedie for drawing them forth page 12 Another Receipt ibid. To draw forth a dead child ibid How the bellies of Child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned page 13 What things are to be applyed to the naturall or Secret Parts ibid The Fomentation ibid Another page 14 An Ointment ibid. A Girdle for the Belly ibid. The order from â—he seventh day after the woman is brought to bed page 15 On the eighth day ibid. On the ninth day ibid. A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk ibid. When and whath Bath they must use page 16 Another page 17 Against the gripings of the belly in Children ibid. Outward Remâ—dies for the same ibid. Inward helps in their meats ibid. A Drink ibid. The government of the Nurse page 18 The Care of the Infant page 19 A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children as by whose meanes
to be suppled with hot water CHAP. XXVII For the Imposthume of the Breasts A Plaister of marsh-Mallowes Mallowes Wormwood Mugwort and Swines greace made up according to art is very profitable when the swelling is come unto the height lay Nut kernels bruised to peices unto it And if the Imposthume break not let it be launced with a Launcet or Pen-knife and squeeze it a little least by the suddain evacuation a worse mischeevious Imposthume may come upon it and when it is broken put in a linnen cloth twice or thrice a day smeared with the yolk of an Egg and Turpentine which strengtheneth exceedingly And if the Imposthume chance to passe into a Fistula put into it a root of black Hellebor dipped in Oyle or Honey or sprinkle powder of the colt-Bur upon it for with these is every Fistula purged and destroyed so as it be not between the bones wherefore these Medicines are so long to be administred untill it dye and be dried up and afterward the Ulcer be cured Some few additionall Observations concerning the passages in ths former Treatise CHAP. XXVIII What is to be administred unto the Child after it is born for the first thing it taketh ARnoldus de villa nova a most learned Phisitian writeth that if you give unto a Child half a scruple of Corrall finely powdered with womans milk first before it taketh any other thing after it is born that it shall never be troubled with the falling Sicknesse Also I know persons of good quality in this our Country of England I presume instructed by some able Phisitians who give unto all their own children and advise all other women where they are desired to be assistant at the birth to exhibite unto the children new born the first thing they take a little Salt well mingled in a spoonfull of Saxifrage or Hysop water to prevent the trouble of frets and other diseases in children following their birth Conceiving also as they suppose they have some ground for their action from the fourth verse of the sixteenth Chapter of Ezekiel where the Lord reckoning up the Midwives duties about children at that time of their nativity thus speaketh And as for thy nativity in the day thou wast born thy navill was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee thou wast not salted at all nor swadled at all CHAP. XXIX For Infants troubled with wind and flegm MAny Midwives advise the Nurses to give them a little pure Sugar-candie finely bruised in Saxifrage water or Scabious water in a spoon well mingled together CHAP. XXX A most excellent Medicine to cause children to teeth easily TAke of pure Capons greace very well clarified the quantity of a Nutmeg and twice as much of pure Honey mingle and incorporate them well together and three or four times in a day annoint the Childs gummes when they are teething and they will break flesh easily and prevent torments and Agues and other greifs which usually accompany their coming forth CHAP. XXXI For Agues in Children TAke a spoonfull of good oyle of Populeon and put thereunto two spoonfuls of good oyle of Roses mingle and incorporate them well together and then warm it before the fire annoint the Childs bowing places his armes legs soles of his feet and also his forehead and temples twice a day chafing the ointment well in CHAP. XXXII For Worms in Children TAke of Mirrh and Aloes very finely powdered of each a penny-worth and with a few drops of Chymicall oyle of Wormwood or Savine with a little Turpentine make these up into a plaister and lay it to the Childes Navill CHAP. XXXIII For Heart-Wormes HEberstreit Skonkius Hollerius and other Phisitians affirme they have seen them in persons dissected One in a Prince another in a Citizen of Florence and our London Phisitians of late yeares have seen two in London as appeares in Doctor Mayes book of Mr Pennant of Saint Giles in the Feilds who dyed having a Worm like a Serpent in his heart The Cure Skonkius out of Stocherus affirmeth by certain experiment that the juyce of Raddish Garlick and Mustard killeth these Wormes which breeding in the chest of the heart cause swoundings Epilepsies and many times death CHAP. XXXIV To cause a young Child to goe to stoole CHafe the Childs navill with May Butter before the fire then take some black Wooll that groweth between a Sheeps legs and dip it in the May Butter and then dry it and lay it unto the navill and it will procure a stoole This is also good for one in yeares who can take no inward Medicine Another certain Experiment Take a good big green Mallow strig and strip off the outward skin and annoint the strig well with fresh Butter and put it up into the Childes Fundament and let it stay a while there and in very short space it will procure a stoole Courteous Reader I pray accept kindly of these few Additions THis Treatise might have been inlarged farther out by addition of other Experiments but my Freind being of the same opinion concerning Medicines that Seneca the Philosopher was of Bookes Non refert quanta sed quam bona medicamina hath confined them to their own limits onely with a few necessary Observations inserted M. A. FINIS Choise and select Medicines collected by a Phisitian for his own private use and Alphabetically digested by him and from him communicated for publick use A For the Ach in the bones REcipe A pennyworth of good Aqua vitae and as much of oyle of Bayes and mix them well together warm in a Sawcer and annoint the place grieved and chafe it well in but not by the fire when it is well dryed in wrap it up well For all Aches and lame Members â„ž Rye and Rosemary ana M. ii put them into common oyle and Malmsie ana one quart let these things seeth half an hour together then let the same Member bâ— bathed therewith being first chafed with a cloth very well and after bathing wrap it up in a Lambs skin the woll side inward doe this to bedward for the space of three weeks together this helped a man which could neither stand nor goe Probatum An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes shrunken Sinewes straines in man or beast it is incomparable and will keep fourty yeares but it must be made onely in May. â„ž Mallowes Groundsell Strawberry leaves Lavender-cotton Birch leaves Chickweed Comfry Parsly Sage leaves Bay leaves Rue Balm Plantain Sorrell wild Briony Betony Wound wort Carduus Succory Majoram Lungwort Cammomill Adders tongue Oxe eye ana M. iii. Chop these hearbs very small and beat them in a Morter then take Rosin four pound May Butter clarified in the Sun eight and thirty pound Sallade oyle a gallon Turpentine four pound Frankincense two pound Melt the Rosin and Frankincense together first then put therein the May Butter and the rest aforesaid and twelve pound of Hogs grease and half a pound of Verdigrease and when