a Barrow For one that is burned with a Match TAke the same Match and burn it to powder and strew the same powder upon the place and this will heal it in short space For burning with Gun-powder TAke Sheeps sewet and Sheeps dung and fry them both together and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith twice every day and do not wash the sore with any thing for the meditine vvil fall away of it self as it doth heale and do not change the medicine in any wise For burning with Wild-fire TAke the dregs of Wine and Vineger and an Egg both the white and yolk by even portions and mingle them well together and lay it to the sore untill it be whole To get out the fire of burning or scalding TAke the whites of new laid Eggs after the quantity of the sore and put them in a peuter dish and with a stone of Roch Allum labour it about till it come all to a froth then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter and lay it next the sore and then lay the froth upon the same a good thicknesse and so bind it with a cloth foure times dresse it evening and morning and the fire will be out Medicines to stop Bloud To stop Bloud in a Veine TAke a handfull of Leaves of the little Burrs that stick upon a mans Coat and are called Strachantes and bray these Leaves and lay them to the wound and it will stop the bloud To stop bloud in a wound suddainly TAke Paper Flax or Linnen cloth which is next thy hand and burn it and put it into the wound the ashes thereof hot and the bloud shall stop straight Or if you will stamp nettle roots and lay them to the wound it shall be no more To stop bloud if the Master-Veine be cut or the wound very large TAke red nettles or red Colwort Leafs stamp them with Hogs dung well tempered together and lay it on the wound and this will stench the bleeding quickly Or take dried Vervain made in Powder and put the Powder into the wound and it will help For a wound that is full of Bloud TAke red Nettles and stamp them with Vineger and lay them upon the wound and it will cleanse the wound and do away the bloud To stop bleeding at the Nose or in any other place upon the suddain IF it be a man that bleedeth take a Leather point and tye about his stones very hard and this wil stop the bleeding straight Or if his Arm or Leg be cut bind the other Arm or Leg very hard and the bloud will run to the other side that is most pained Medicines for the Morphew TAke Mustard made of white Vineger and let the Patient annoynt himself withall where the Morphew is nine nights and this will help him Or take and bray Sorrell and strain it clear then put to it as much sugar and honey as you do juice and boil them well together over the fire and then let them seeth till the sugar have the tast then put to it one ounce of Vineger and so dresse it and keep the medicine to eat Another for the same TAke an ounce of very good sope and a penyworth of Aqua vitae and put them both into a Morter and grind them well together then take a handfull of Eglantine and stamp it and strain it and put some of the juice to the soâ—e and Aqua vita and then take a course Canvas cloth and rub where the Morphew is and after annoynt the place with this medicine and be whole For the black Morphew THere be two kind of Morphews the white and the black the white is named Alborus and for remedy for the black Morphew take this rule that if the place be pricked and will not bleed then it is not cureable but if it will bleed take of Rapes and Rocket of each an ounce and an half and stamp it with Vineger and after that wash the place Or take of the earth of Africk and mix it with Vineger and wash the place oft therewith and it will heal thee A most excellent Water to comfort the Vitalls and preserve other parts of the body made by Doctor Stephens TAke a gallon of good Gascoygne Wine Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds Fennell seed a Dram Sage Mints red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary wild Time Camomile Lavender of each one handfull then bruise the spices and the herbs small and put all into the Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Lymbeck according to the art and the first water is of more strength then the second and both be the better by the standing in the Sun The vertues hereof Be to comfort the spirits vitall helps to the inward diseases of cold the Palsey the contraction of Sinews the conception of Women killeth the Wormâ— within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropfie comforteth the Stomach helpeth the stone in the Bladder and in the reins of the Back slackneth a stinking breath Whosoever useth this water ever anon and not too aften it preserveth him in good likeing and maketh him seem young very long with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life untill such extreme Age that he could neither go nor ride and kept him five years when other Phisitians judged it impossible for him to live one year To make Cinamon Water TAke Rhenish Wine a quart and Spanish wine a pint Rosewater a pint and a half Cinamon bruised a pound and a half let these stand infused the space of four and twenty hours then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck of Glasse and receive the first Water by it self Also if ye be so disposed to make the same Water weaker take three pints of Rosewater and a pint and a half of Rhenish Wine and so distill the same and you shall have to the quality of the stuffe the quantity of the Water which is three pints but the first Water is the best and so reserve it to your use both morning and evening To make Cinamon Water another way TAke three quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and half a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receive to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the chiefest of all the other as is manifest by practise Medicines for the Palsie that take away the Speech TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves and if it be in winter take leaves and roots and all of each a like quantity beat them together and strain them with Ale and give it the sick to drink a spoonful or two at a time and it will bring the speech again For the Palsie TAke and stamp a
the joynts and Synews TAke five or six handfulls of Walworts and seeth them well in Wine then strain them with a little wax oyl of Spike and Aqua vitae make an ointment wherewith you must annoint the place morning and evening every day Medicines for the Gout appropriate in all causes TAste cow dung and seeth it in sweet Milk and lay a plaister thereof to the Gout Also the yolks of Eggs womans Milk Lynseed and Saffron all together in a plaister asswageth the diseases of the Gout and if you be disposed to break the skin and to let the humor issue out as by such means many a one is eased you shall make a little plaister of black Sope and Aquavitae which will blister it without pain Also very hare old cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gammon of Bacon and afterwards stamped with a little of the broth and made in manner of a plaister is a singular remedy for the diseases of the Gout and was first practised by Galen the Prince of all Phisitians For the Gout in the Feet TAke and stamp nettles and lay them to the Podagra Feet or Legs and this will joyn flesh to the bone that is risen but you must mingle it with salt for that drieth up evill humors in short time For the Gout cold TAke as much black sope as a Walnut and as much herb grace made in juice to the quantity of the Sope and as much of the juice of Salendine and mingle them all together then take sheeps Leather and on the fleshy side lay on the plaister and so lay it to the Gout three daies and it will help thee For the Gout TAke a pint and a half of good Ale and half a pound of black Sope and a handfull of bay Salt beaten small then mingle them all together till half be consumed then put four spoonfulls of Aqua vitae and let it boyl a little more then take a cloth and dip it in it and lay it to the griefe as hot as he can suffer it and be whole Or take a pint of good Ale and clarifie it on the fire and put therein a handfull of Bay Salt and stir it well a good while put thereto two spoonfuls of black Sope and before you lay on the medicine take a linnen cloth and rub it well a good while and then lay on the medicine To take away pain of the Gout TAke the fattest Brach you can get and scald him like a Pig and take out the guts and garbadge at one of the sides then take nettles and stamp them with two ounces of Brimstone four yolks of Eggs four ounces of Turpentine incorporate all together and put it in the whelps belly surely sowed up that no composition come out then rost him with a soft fire and keep the dripping that doth come from him and annoint the sore place therewith for this is excellent and will cease all manner of Convulsions of the Sinews or joynts and pain of the Cramp that may be felt in any man This medicine hath been tryed not only to heal the Gout but to drive it away for ever Another for the same TAke half a pint of strong Vineger and three Yolks of Eggs and put them to the Vineger with a quantity of black Sope and so let it stand three daies and three nights and then mingle them together like a plaister and lay it to the sore Or take and stamp Walwort small and seeth it with the lees of red Wine as thick as pap and lay it to the sore wheresoever it be if it be hot lay it on hot if it be cold lay it on cold and then annoynt it two daies after with Nerve Oyl upon the Sinews For the festring Gout that maketh holes TAke the juice of rib grasse and as much of the white of an Egg and Rie meal and mingle them together and stamp them and make a thick plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and let it lie still untill it fall away Or take Rie flower and mingle it with the juice of Walwort roots and make thereof two cakes and bake them and then take one and do away the crust and bind it to the sore as hot as you may suffer it and when that cake is cold then take the other and lay it to the pain and this wil heal it For the Gout TAke Castle sope and scrape it into the barm of Ale but the Ale must not be sowre and stir the sope and the barm together and then lay it upon the ach and with a little cloth rowl it on and when it swells take red Fennell and seeth it and put to it butter and lay it to the swelling it must be butter unsalted and use this for it is very good An approved medicine for the Gout TAke a quantity of unwrought Wax and four times so much Boars Grease and as much black Sope as the Boars Grease then take the Boars Grease first and seeth it in a skillet and then clarifie it and melt the Wax by it self and put it to the grease and then put them together with the sope then take it firom the fire and stir it a great while till it be like a salve then make a plaister of sheeps Leather and when your pain doth come lay on this plaister somewhat broader then the grief is and let it lie on twenty four hours before it be removed and you shall find great ease in it This salve wil be good a whole year if it be kept close A speciall medicine for the Gout YOu shall buy at the Apothecaries Cantarides which is a great fly take of this a quantity and twice so much sowre bread the crums thereof stamped in a Morter with a little Vineger so that you may make thereof a plaister then stroke it upon a cloth and cut it the bredth of a penny and lay it to the place where the pain is for the space of six or seven hours then lift up the plaister with a knife and let it lie half an hour then again pull it off and a blister wil rise there then let out the water with a needle in the lowest place of the blister and softly thrust it with your finger and if the water be cold it will be somewhat yellow if the pain be new it will be white like the gelly of a Pig then take the leaf of an Oak tree and cut away the hardnesse thereof and prick it full of holes and lay it on untill it be whole as soon as the blister is broken the pain is gone but you must make the blister beneath the joynt For the Gout TAke six new laid Eggs and rost them hard and cut them asunder take out the yolks and where the yolks were while the Eggs be very hot put in myrrhe of Alexandria it is to be bought at the Apothecaries and lay one side of the Eggs upon another as you cut them and lay them in a row
you next to your skin you shall not have the Cramp Another for the Cramp TAke two spoonfuls of May-butter and two spoonfuls of Ruejuyce and temper them together till they be a salve and anoint the place therewith Medicines for all kind of sores and wounds and first to draw a sore TAke and beat Oatmeal in a Morter small and then put it into milk and seeth it well together with a handful of Rose-flowers unstild if you may have them or else of them that are stilled and not burned and seeth them till they be like Pap together and then lay them warm to the sore as the Patient may suffer it evening and morning and this will dry it A good water for every sore TAke a quart of ashes made of an Ash and a pottle of vineger and a pound of Madder half a pound of Allom-glass and seeth all these together until they be half wasted then take it from the fire and let it stand and spurge then take the water that is clear above and put it into a Vial and put that water into a sore and this will heal it without any more cost A Plaister for that swelling which is called an Vncome TAke Rue and Smalledge of each an handful a good gobet of fat Bacon such as is very much smoaked or resty as they call it and dress the said Bacon in squares as big as your finger and beat all these together till it be dissolved and meet to spread upon leather or cloth and lay it to the sore and it will both draw it and heal it when it is broken A soveraine plaister for any Ach. TAke a quart of Malmsey and a spoonful of Sallet-oyl a good handful of Onyons pilled broken and bruised and an-ounce of pepper finely beaten then seeth all these together till they be thick and spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the place where the pain is and this will take away the Ach. A Medicine or Oyntment called Flos Unguentorum TAke Rosin and per Rosin of each half a pound Virgin wax and Frankincense of each a quarter of a pound Mastick an ounce Harts tallow a quarter of a pound and Camphire two drams melt that which is to be molten and powder that which is to be made in powder and searce them fine and boyl them over the fire and then strain them through a Canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine then boyl the wine with all the other ingredients together till the wine be confumed then let it cool till it be but bloud-warm then put thereto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine evermore stiring it till it be thorow cold but ever beware your stuff be no hotter then bloud when you put in your Turpentine and Camphire for if it be it marreth all your stuff then when it is cold make it up in rolls and keep it for your use for the best medicine and precious salve that ever was or can be made To make Salus Populi which is good for Blanes and to skin all sores in three days and is good for him that feareth the Hemeroids TAke of Salendine two handfuls Allom one handful and grind them together like sauce then take Weathers tallow or Harts tallow a pound of oyl of Roses half a pound and melt them together and boyl the herbs therein until it sink down to the bottom and it wax somwhat black then strain it and keep it to your use This Oyntment is hard and therefore when you will use of it put it in a spoon and melt it over the fire and understand it must not be put in old sores but there as it scaldeth the skin off and when there riseth any pimples white black blew or red this Salus Populi dryeth well and healeth well and destroyeth the wild stre A special Medicine for a Bruise TAke a great handful of Rue the white and Yolks of five Eggs half a pint of Honey and a handful of wheat flower temper all these together and make it thick and so lay it to the place that is bruised upon a fair cloth heated hot against the fire and let it ly twenty four hours and then lay on a fresh To asswage any Swelling where-ever it be TAke two handfuls of Penyrial and set it in the strongest Ale you can get til it be tender then take it and press it from the herbs and lay it unto the swelling as hot as he can suffer it and so use it two or three days and it will be good A marvellous Salve to heal and draw TAke Betony Plantane and Smallage the juyce of them one pound then take four ounces of Wax that cometh of the honey two ounces of incense white and clean two ounces of pitch two ounces of Rosin melt these by themselves upon a soft fire that done put the juyce of the herbs to it and boyl it together until the juyce be wasted and alwaies stir it then take it from the fire and strain it through a clean cloth then take two ounces of Turpentine and temper it with the rest and when it is cold keep it as gold To heal a wound TAke the flowers of herb John and put them in a glass and put thereto as much oyl Olive as will cover the herbs and then stop the glass close and put it in the Sun for the space of twenty days or more then it will be a fine coloured oyntment and very good for green wounds and when you will use it warm it a little at the fire and then wet your Lint therein and lay it to the wound and it will be whole A water to heal all manner of wounds in short space which is a thing that every man ought to have in his house seeing it is of so great vertue TAke a pound of new yellow wax or as much as you will and melt it in a clean pan and then pour it out into some other vessel wherein must be Malmsey Muscadel or good Claret-wine and then take the wax out and pour it again upon the wine I and do so seven times then take the said wax and melt it on the fire and put into it a handful of Brick beaten into fine powder and stir it well together and then put it into a crook't-neckt glass such as Stillers call the Bag-pipe-glass you must clay it well about the midst of the glasses neck and let it distil first with a little fire and then more and last with a good great fire and then when all the things be cold put it out of your recipient and pour it into a Viol well stoped with wax and searcloth so that in no case the ayre go out no sun nor fire come to it for it is so fine of himself that it will vanish away straight and when you will occupy it you must wet and moyst the wound with a fine linnen cloth and so bind it to the wound To heal a wound in ten days TAke Camphire and
or woman ten grains and temper it well with conserve of Barberries or any other conserve and after it doth work let them drink still between times a good draaught of Posset-drink For the Tooth-ach TAke the green Bark of the Elder-tree after you have scraped off the upper gray Bark being gathered in the Spring let it be gently dryed in the shade so as it may be powdered whereof take a quarter of an ounce Bay-salt well dryed Pellitory of Spain and Euphorbium of each the weight of six-pence let all of them be beaten together into very fine Powder and there of ty up so much in a little thin Lawn Tiffine or Sarcenet as will make the quantity of an ordinary Button which you must let the Party hold between his teeth laying it on the pained Tooth and so hanging down the head let the Rhume run out of the mouth till the pain cease With this onely Medicine M. Clark in Sheer-lane got forty pound in a year having many coming to him in the mornings and paying ten groats each of them and so departing holpen Or take the Powder of Spanish-flies and lay them on a piece of sower Leven well moystened with sharp Vinegar and press them well into the Leven being the bigness of a Shilling and so lay them under each ear and when they are fast bound let them lie still the space of six or eight hours in which time it must raise a Blister which when you take it off you must dip and let it run as long as you can laying on it a Colewort-leaf until it be whole and this will also help For the Mother TAke Sneesing-powder the weight of sixpence Castorium the weight of two-pence mingle them together then moysten the Powder well with oyl of Amber and taking a little on the end of ones little finger stroak it into the nose when the Party hath her Fit and it will cause her sneese and cease the Fit Also for the preventing the Fit THe Party should use twice in a week at her going to bed to take two good Pills of Assa-fetida Or else Take of the Briony root dry the weight of six-pence and boyl it in a pinte of white Wine and then strain it and put some sugar to it and make three draughts of it taking it three times in a week each other morning and you shall find it a singular Remedy For the Spleen LEt the Party purge twice in a week with a Dram or the weight of six-pence of Pulvis Sanctus and the next week let them cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Hemeroid-veins in the Fundament and afterward use this drink following for the space of seven or eight dayes Take the Inner Bark of the Ash-tree two ounces the Polipody-root or Fearn-root that groweth on the sides of watery ditches one ounce Tamerickt wo good handfuls Liqueorish half an ounce Anniseeed one ounce Let these be boyled in three quarts of small Beer till it come to a pottle whereof let then Party drink morning and at night going to bed a quarter of a pinte very warm And for Diet let them generally forbear Fish Baked-meats Smoak-dryed-meats and new Beer use to eat good store of Capers and Broom-buds for Sallets And after this course you should cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Veins in the Fundament called the Hemeroid veins For a Tertian Fever TAke young Plantane with the root young Vervane with the root Cinkefoyl with the root of each of them three roots with the herb of red Fennel red Sage Rosemary of each three slips Let these be boyled in a pinte and a half of Posset-ale or whey till that come to a pint and in the latter end of the boyling put into that a dram of the salte of wormewod and then let that be strained Whereof the patient must make three good drafts three howers before the fit be exspected each hower a draft as hot as he can drink it and at the second day of taking that the cure is done This cureth the fever that cometh every other day To dry up milk in the brests USe nothing but the plaister of Diachilon spread upon thin leather and let it ly on three or four days and it faileth not For sore Nipples TAke of the rosin of the Firre tree and when that is finely powdered strew that upon the sore nipples and then cover them with little cups fitted hollow for to cover the nipples like a thimble with a little brim unto it and it will skin it This powder also being finely beaten and with a quill blowen into the eye will take away the pin and web or any excrescens on the surface of the eye For one that is Costive in Childbed THere is nothing safer nor better then to give the party two ounces of the oyle of sweet almondes Or if the party cannot take that you may give her a suppositer of Cassel sope which is alway to be had for the manner of the cutting the sope you may do that by the holding a Cytern wyer fast at both ends and then sawing it through it without breaking out of the sides as it will do if you cut with a knife For to Clense and stay the whites TAke of the purest rosin or gum of Lignum vitae otherwise called the gum of Guaicum rub it gently in a Morter so as it may be in a fine powder and thereof mingle as much as the weight of six pence in a draught of milk and sugar taking that cold and so use that twice in a week for two weekes together and that will give two or three stooles clense and knit the weakness of the back perfectly For a Whitelow on the finger TAke a snaile out of his shell and chop it very small and bind that to it and dress it twice in a day and that will quickly help it For a cut hand or finger TAke some green hysop and stamp that well in a morter with some sugar and so binde that to the wound To stay the bleeding of the nose TAke nettles stamp them and juice them which you may take cold a good spooneful or two holding that in your mouth as long as you can and then take some more fresh and also stamp them and lay them al over your forehead being a little moistned or sprinkled with vineger Also thus YOu should in the moneth of March take two or three cloths as big as handkerchiefs and wet them very well in the spawn of froggs and hang them up to dry in a stove and then dip them very well again and dry them and do so three or four times and when at last they be wel dryed reserve them And when you have occasion to use them you may tear off a peece and spriknle it with a little vineger and lay it on cold upon the forehaed and if that do not stay it the party must presently be let blood before he grow too weak For a Cough TAke Turnips and put them into an Earthen glased pot and cover it with a cover of the same or a peuter dish and paste that close together then set them into the bakers oven with the houshold bread and then they wil be wel stewed And then press out the juyce and make it into a syrup with sugar and take of it often in a day a spoonful at once letting it melt down your throat by degrees and that wil recover you from your cough For the wormes in Children TAke gum Dragaint a dram put to it a quarter of a pint of Rosewater let it stand twenty four howers stirring of it often and with this muscilage moisten some fine powdered sugar working them together into a paste of which paste take the quantity of twenty grains and mix with it nine or ten graines of the powder of Mercurius dulcis and make that into a little cake and let it dry in a Stove and give it to children of five six or seven and to elder you may give twelve graines The Composition of the Emplastrum Diachilon to dry up milke in the brests TAke Linseed oyl two pintes and a half Litharge of Lead in fine powder two pound mix the oyl and the Litarge together and let them boyl til they be knit and com to a reasonable stifnes then put in twelve ounces of the muscilage made with Marshmallow roots Fennigreek seed and Linseed then boyle it til al the muscilages moisture be boyled away then put in half a pound of wax rosin one pound melt them with the rest which being done put into the same in the cooling cerufe one pound stir them up together and then make them up into roules and reserve them When you put in your muscilage put it in a spoonful at once til you have put it al in lest it make the medicine run over For any red inflammation or that which is called saint Anthonies fire which usually doth come in the Legs and somtime in other Places TAke one ounce of the Lapis Medicamentosus and boyle it in a quart of fair water til half a pint be wasted and then let it stand together all night next morning you should dip a linnen cloth in it warm and lay it on the place til it be dry and then lay on another and you shall keep wet clothes to it til it be wel which usualy is two or three dayes For a Tetter or Ringworm TAke ordinary white copperas four ounces powder it fine and put to it a pinte of the sharpest wine vineger and shake them wel together til the copperas be dissolved and so wetting linnen cloths in it apply it to the place FINIS
place of thy Head For the Rheume in the Head TAke and seeth Pimpernell in Wine and drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold this will help thee Or take and stew Onions in Water in a close pot and bath thy Head thy mouth and thy nose therewith and it will help thee For the weaknesse of the Brain TAke a handfull of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Hysop Betany the leaves and roots and the seeds and roots of Pyony wash all these said herbs and put them into a pottle of fair Water and let them seeth together untill the one half be wasted then take out the herbs and put to the said water almost half a pint of Honey clarified and let it boil well together with a dram of Stecados knit in a linnen cloth and let it boil till the sweetnesse of the Honey be boiled out then take out the Stecados and put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon three Nutmegs well bruised and put them to the same liquor and seeth them together a good while then strain it through a linnen cloth and so use to drink it morning and evening and it shall comfort thy Brain For hair that faileth on thy Head TAke and bray Lineseed and mingle it with oyl-Olive and when it is well beaten together anoint thy Head therewith three or four times and this will heal thee or take oyl of Tartar and warm it and then rub your Head with it or any place that is scald eight or nine dayes and the hair will come again An excellent medicine TAke a farthing worth of Pellitory of Spain and a quarter of Stavesacre seed and beat both together and then drink a draught of Malmsey and put a spoonfull of this powder into your mouth rolling it up and down till your mouth be hot and full of flegme and then spit it all out then take a stool and set before you and lay a cushion under your knees and set a bason under your mouth and gape as wide as you can and then the flegme will void from you out of all the members of your Head and if it come too fast hold over your Head to the bason and let it go use this once in a year and you shall be the better for it a long time A remedy for the Head TAke the juice of Ivy leaves mixt with Oyl and Vineger and rub therewith your temples and your nosthrills For lightnesse in the Head TAke small tents of linnen cloth and dip them in Cinamon water and put them into thy nosthrills and thou shalt be help't presently To purge the Head of evill humors TAke the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew a piece thereof on either side of thy mouth between thy Gumms and close thy mouth fast till the water cometh down then let the water go forth but hold the root still a quarter of an houre For pain in the Head TAke the juice of Ivy that groweth upon trees and oyl of Roses and mingle them together with Wine and anoint your Head therewith and this will make it leave aking Probatum For the Eyes FIrst if it do come of Rheume or corrupt blood purge Rheume and blood if it do come otherwise be let blood in a vein called Mediana and use locall waters as waters to mundifie the place and then use Salves sanative For a white that doth grow over the black of the Eye FIst purge the Rheum with Anacardine and Sternutations or Gargarices and then make a plaister made with the white of two Egs beat it well together and then put to it a little Honey and after that put to it Flax or Tow and to bedward lay it over the Eyes and let it lie all night and in the morning wash thine Eyes with cold water and a fine cloth do this three nights one after another and be whole For a bloodshotten Eye TAke the white of two new laid Egges and beat them to a watrish spome then put Tow unto it and three nights together lay it to thine Eye and bind it fast and renew it every night and wear a green cloth before thine Eye For a blast in the Eye MEddle not with it with medicines but wear before thine Eye a piece of black Sarsenet and eat neither Garlick nor Onions nor drink no Wines nor strong Ale and it will away A water to clear the sight TAke Fennell Vervain Roses Salendine and Rue of each two ounces and distill them and wash thine Eyes therewith for it is good for all manner of sore Eyes For blear Eyes TAke the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with water made of the white of an Egg and put it into thine Eyes and it shall put the blood and aking away A water to clarifie the dimnesse of the sight TAke the juice of Fennell and Salendine Rue and Eyebright of each two ounces Honey an ounce and a half Aloes Tyme and Sarcocell of each half an ounce the caul of a Capon Chicken or Cock two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Saffron of each a dram Sugar Candy six drams put all into a limbeck of glasse and distill it and of this water put into your Eyes and if you could get the liver of a Hee-Goat and mix with the said things in the distillation that water will be of much greater vertue and almost without comparison Another for the same TAke the green Walnuts husks and all from the trees with a few Walnut leaves and distill thereof a water to drop into your eyes A singer powder that drieth and taketh away the rednesse of the Eyes TAke Tutty prepared an ounce Antimonie half an ounce Pearles two drams red Corall a dram and a half pound all these together very fine and keep them in a box of Tyn and use when thou hast need A Regiment for them that have sore Eyes TAke heed that you alwayes keep your body loose and abstain from fire smoke wind dust and over hot and cold aire and from weeping and long reading of small letters from over long watching over much drinking of Wine and eating late for all these are noysome to the Eyes also all vaporous things as Onions Leeks Garlick Mustard Pease and Beans are very dangerous forbear day sleep and behold green things clear and precious To clear the sight or for rednesse of the Eyes TAke Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it with white Wine and let it so stand a day and a night then take off the thinnest ryne and wet your Eyes with a feather to bedward For a Pin and Web in the Eye IF there be a Pin and Web in the Eye or other blemish in the ball of the Eye take water of Pimpernell Vervain or Salendine To make a good water for sore Eyes TAke Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain torn Mintill Betany red Roses Endive Sowthistles call'd Chicken meat Pimpernell red Salendine Filago the leaves of Piony the leaves of white Vine March Egremony Sinkfoil called Woodbine
a point of a knife and lay it to the nape of your neck just upon the bone that sticketh out most and as long as it will ly on let it but in two or three days it helpeth some You may let it ly on as long as you please a quarter of a yeer and if it falleth off before your eyes be well you may wipe off the moisture of it and apply others as you shall see occasion Probatum To Cure a Catarack A Catarack is curable by making an Issue in the Nape of the Neck This is the manner how you shall discern a Catarack it will seem to be like many motes or little Flyes between them and the light and in the beginning beginneth to take away the true sight of the Eye and then it groweth into a Film which is counted uncurable when it covers the whole sight or bale of the Ey though at first it is curable although there is nothing to be seen on the out-side of the Ey as a purl or such like so that it is not to be helped being within the Ey though many books write of it without the handy Operation of some skilful Chyrurgion puting some filver Needle into one corner of the Ey and twisting the film about the Needle coucheth it under the sight of the Eye where it will afterward waste but it requires an Artist that is well skill'd in the couching a Catarack For a Consumption TAke the heart and lungs of a Calf new killed a Capon let these be bruised in a stone morter and boyled with an hundred Snails till the broth be as thick as pottage then put to it Harts tongue Maiden hair Hysope Scabias Sage of each an handful with China roots sliced and beaten two ounces of the juyce of Coltsfoot roots ten ounces the blood of a Pig newly killed and Conserve of red Roses one pound these being well mixed let them be distilled in Balneo with a very gentle fire and reserve it Another TAke a young Cock pull him alive and then slit him in the middle then wipe him with a clean cloth then take sops of white bread soaked in a quart of Burrage water put the sops in a common Still and lay the Cock with his bones broken upon the sopping putting thereto raisins of the Sun stoned and unwashed with a quantity of Dates this being distilled take thereof constantly a pretty quantity A Julip of D. Trench for the Mother fits Proved IN the time of yeer distil black Cherry water Pyon flower water Couslip water Rue or Herbgrace water then take of the waters of Couslip and black Cherry of each an ounce Aqua Histericae half an ounce Cinamon water one dram Sirup of Clove Gillyflowers three drams Take of these two spoonfuls at a time as often as you please Histerica is Castor To make the Salt of Coral TAke of the broken pieces of the reddest Coral you can get at the Druggist half a pound or as much as you please then put upon it of good wine Vineger distilled a gallon and presently you shall see it work up and down upon the Coral then set it in a great glass on the top of a warm Stove and let it stand three or four dayes then if you taste of the Vineger although it were sharp before it will have no strength but taste sweetish which is a signe it hath taken into the Vineger as much as it can then you may pour that off from the Coral and put on more Vineger and do as before till all your Coral be dissolved then put all your Vineger together and put it into a large flat pan well glased and lay into the Vineger in the pan two or three white lists half a yard long and let one half of them ly in the Vineger in the pan and the other half hang out and you shall see those lists which must first be very clean washed before you lay them into the Vineger by drops draw out all the Vineger in the pan which you must receive with setting an other large pan or pot under the ends of the Lists that hang out of the pan that they ly in And when you have so filtred your foresaid Vineger very clear from the dross of the Coral which you shall see remain at the bottom of the first pan you put your Vinegar into then you must set your clear Vinegar into the Oven being a little hotter then when Houshold bread is drawn but it must be put into a large clean Tinne Bason or Silver for it will pierce through any earthen vessel and so it must be breathed away gently till all the Vineger be gone and leave the Salt of Coral in the bottom being very gently dryed Then must you have in a readiness a pottle or two of plain distilled water and upon your formerly dryed salt of Coral if there be a quarter of a pound put a quart of distilled water and set it in warmth till it be melted like Sugar in it then lay in your clean washed lifts of cloth into it being put into a flat Pan as formerly and let it run through those lists by drops to purify the salt and when all the water is come from the dross which will remain in the Pan the lists were put into then put your clear water into the Oven and let it breath away gently till it leave the salt of Coral dry and then disolve it in distilled water again and proceed with it as before and then it will be pure and prepared for your use whose vertues are many and some approved by practise as followeth The vertues of the salt of Coral IT is to be given to children of any age in Fevers the weight of twenty grains and gently covered to move sweat Also to women in child-bed that are in any Fever the weight of thirty grairs Also in apparision of any small Pox or the Measels it is never taken without good success It strengtheneth the Liver and helpeth it to make good blood being taken twice in a week in a little Posset-ale and continued so for the space of a moneth Also it helpeth children of Convulsions For Convulsion Fits TAke white Coperas dissolve it in a little warm distilled water and then with clean lists layed into it fylter it from his dross and gently vapor away the water till it be â—…ry then dissolve it again fylter it and lay it again in a Oven as before and it is prepared Hereof you may give unto a sucking child three grains in a spoonful of Posset-drink once or twice and it seldom or never faileth but cureth An excellent Vomit TAke the leaves of Assara-bacca being gathered in the beginning of June and run a threed through the leaves and let them hang thereon till they be dry in the shade so that you may powder them to fine Powder in a Morter and then searse them and keep the Powder in a Glass close stopped Hereof you may give to a man