two ounces marmelad of quinces one ounce citron pill half an ounce one mirobalan embelic half an ounce of rob de ribes coriander prepared one dram fennel seeds anniseeds and piony roots each half a dram red coral one dram Mastich one scruple with sirrup of citrons make it an Electuary whereof take the quantity of a nutmeg after supper and dinner For singing and noise in the ears which causeth deafness Take white Hellebore Castoreum each two drams costus a dram and an half rue and marjoram each one dram bitter almonds five drams Euphorbium half a dram let them be bruised and boyled in wine over a gentle fire an hour then strain it and drop thereof into the ears and let the patient receive the vapour of this decoction into the ears or For noise in the Ears Take oyle of Bayes three ounces strong vinegar one ounce and a half Castoreum in powder half an ounce juniper berryes one dram and an half let them boyl in a close vessel till the vine gar be consumed then strain it through a cloth and drop of it into the ears but in all administrations to these parts observe his rule Never admit above three or 4. drops at a time of any medicine to be applyed into the ears for a great quantity especially of any oleaginous matter is hurtfull therefore alwayes let your applications be very liquid that they may the easier pass in and out and not stick within to offend the head and apply all things warm only neither hot nor quite cold and alwayes when you use any new medicine or dressing be sure to cleanse the parts well that no filth remain of the old For grievous pains in the Ears Warme new Milk is good to be dropped into the Ears so is the white of an egge being beat first into an oyle o liquor and the oyle of sweet almonds and the oyle of the seeds of white poppy A Composition for pain in the Ears Take of new Brest Milk if it can be had two ounces of the whites of eggs beaten half an ounce goose grease a dram mix and work them together and drop into the ear a drop or two at a time warme oyle of earth wormes is very profitable for this grief a drop or two thereof being dropped into the Ear. For the same an excellent experiment Take a great Onion and make it hollow and put therein of Castoreum and Euphorbium each half a scruple opium six grains and fill it up with oyle of bitter almonds oyle of dill or such like and rost it under the embers then press out the juice and strain it and use it a drop or two at a time For a Catharre The defluction of humours from the head to the inferiour parts is generally called a Catharre Those that would be acquainted with it let them contrary to their use but go wet and cold in their heads and feet they may quickly have a companion that they cannot be so soon rid of again It is usually the forerunner of a Consumption destroying the lungs by the distillation of humours like as rain dropping into an house through the roof rots the wood and timber and whatever it falls upon within To cleanse and evacuate the humour in a Catharre Take of the whitest Agarick half a dram of rhabarb a dram manna a half an ounce ginger a scruple and a half diagrydium three grains bruise and infuse them all in waters of annis and fennel each three ounces boyle it gently and strain it and in 4. ounces of the liquor dissolve two spoonfulls of solutive sirrup of roses and one spoonfull of cinnamon water and give it the patient warme in the morning Pills to suppress the Rheume Take of the mass of pills Cochie and Mastichine each one scruple Agarick trochscated a scruple and a half Trochis alhandali 4. scruples with the infusion of gum dragon in cinnamon water make it into pills and rowle them in the powder of lignum aloes and take one at a time using them often and that the matter may be driven downwards from the superiour parts take a scruple of these pills going to bed or more or less according to the condition of the patient and in the morning take as much more drinking after in a draught of Maligo wine For stoppings of the Breast and difficulty of Breathing Take Licorice half an ounce elecampane five drams raisins stoned and fat figs each one ounce jujubes half an ounce make of these a decoction in the waters of scabious and hyssop each half a pound flowers of the sloe-tree and anniseed each three ounces in seaven ounces of strained liquor dissolve of manna five drams and adde to it a spoonfull of cinnamon water strain it all through a linnen cloth and let the patient take half of it in the morning fasting and the remainder the day following A Drink to strengthen the Heart and resist Poyson Take Cinnamon two drams cloves nutmegs mace _____ grains cardamoms each one dram zeadoary three drams citron pills galanga cubebs long pepper each half a dram bruise them grosly and infuse them 24. hours in a linnen bag in two quarts of the best wine adding one pound of pure fine sugar whereof let the patient drink every day a draught before dinner For trembling of the heart Take of the five opening roots each half an ounce cichory one ounce bark of Tamariske citron pills each one dram and an half tops of wormwood cardus benedict sage each one handfull of the cordial flowers each one dram bruise them and infuse them in wine and drink of it as occasion requires A cordial Electuary to comfort the heart Take two handfulls of Borrage leaves as much bugloss one handfull of endive rosemary time savory hyssop each half an handfull boyle these in three pints of fair water till half be consumed then strain it and adde one pound and an half of sine sugar a few cloves half an ounce of cinnamon and a quarter of an ounce of ginger finely beaten then to boyl it to the thickness of honey and take as much as a hazel nut in a morning when need requires For the Ptisick an approved secret Take a pint of Honey and put to it an ounce of flower of licoris a quarter of a pound of currans bruised an ounce of sweet fennel seeds bruised and a dram of the flower of elecampane stir all these together over the fire into the honey and so reserve it for use taking the quantity of a nut at a time An opening Drink helping shortnes of Breath Take two quarts of running water put into it two handfulls of unset hyssop and tops of rosemary scabious lung wort and maidenhair each a handfull 10. figs sliced a root or two of elecampane boyl it to a quart and sweeten it with sugar candy and drink it as occasion requires A Diet drink to cleanse the bloud open the Liver and Spleen and is excellent against the Scurvy Dropsie and
ounces melt that which is to be melted and pound that which is to be pounded and sift it fine and boil them over the fire and then strain them through a canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine then boil them all with the other ingredients together then let it cool to bloud warm then put to them a quarter of a pound of turpentine stirring it till it be thorough cold and make it up in rolls and keep it to your use as the best and most precious salve that can be made The Virtues This medicine is good for all manner of diseases that are written hereafter viz. for old wounds and it is most cleansing and well soken and gendreth flesh and healeth more in a week than any other in a month and suffereth no corruption in a wound nor no evill flesh to be gendred therein it 's good for the head-ach and singings in the brain for all manner of impostumes for sounding in the ears and sinews sprung or cut and draweth out a broken bone or thorn or any other thing that is in a wound it is good for biting or stinging of a venemous beast and it healeth all manner of botches without it is good for a fester canker noli me tangere it draweth out all ach of the liver spleen or reins healeth the emrods and is a good cearcloth for gouts and pestilent diseases Another flos Vnguentorum Take Rozen per rozen each a pound and half olibanum dears suet white wax of each 4. ounces mastich and mirtle each an ounce venice turpentine two ounces whitewine a pottle your wax and suet being finely shred must be first molten upon a soft fire then put in your rozen and per rozen and stir them well till they be melted then strain the stuff into a hot pan then have ready your olibanum mastich and mirrhe ground small and finely searced and let it all melt together your white wine being somthing warm pour in by little and little then take it from the fire and put in your turpentine and stir it and last of all your camphire being in powder and stir it till it be cold then make it up in rolls and keep it in red leather to your use The manner how to cut the Plaisters to cure these Diseases are For the Navel three inches square To stop the Flux of the Belly For the Reins six inches long and four inches broad For the Flux of the Reins For the stomach four inches broad and six deep For the wind or pain in the stomach For shortness of Breath or Tissick Take eight or nine heads of Garlick according to the constitution of the party peel and cut off the ends of each clove and put them into a pipkin with a quarter of a pound of butter unsalted boil it till the Garlick turn red then run it through such a thing as a milk strainer then put it into a pipkin again with a quarter of a pound of butter more unsalted and the best honey one pound boil it till the skim is well risen then take it off and skim it and strow in an ounce of the powder of Elecampane roots then let it boil three or 4. Walms take it off the fire and stirre in the powder of six penniworth of Saffron from the first to the last you must stirre it while it is boiling except the time while the skim of the Honey is rising eat the quantity of a small nutmeg every morning Scabs in Childrens heads Take fresh Butter and boil in it Sute of a chimney where there is no seacole burned till it be black and therewith anoint the head 't will heal it though there be holes that you may turn your finger in the head For a swelling or bruise Take elder stampt and fryed with chamber lye and fresh butter and laid all over taketh away the swelling or bruise For the Lungs and Gonorhea Take Craw fishes boiled in milk and eaten and the milk drank first and last and in the afternoon sweetned with sugar For a perilous Cough Take Sage Rue Comin and powder of pepper and seeth them in honey and make of them an Electuary and use then also a spoonfull evening and morning Stinging of an Adder or Snake Take and drink the distilled water of dragons or if you have none thereof the juice also stamp dragons and lay to the place c. To procure easie delivery Take Hyssop Vervain and Betony each one handfull stamp them very small and strain them in good stale Ale and let the patient drink a good draught and it will help her presently without danger To heal a Scald or Burn Take Barley meal with the juice of red fennel make a Plaister thereof and lay it on the sore and it will draw out the corruption and heal it To stay a Flux of Bloud Take Willow leaves and bark boil it in wine and drink it For the noise in the ears or Tongue swelled Boil Figgs in water and let the patient drink thereof To purge the Head with Sena Take Sena pul one ounce ginger one ounce twelve Cloves fennel seeds two ounces cinnamon and tartar each an ounce and a half pul omnes take therein white wine a dram after supper For Itch Scabs and the like Take and decoct Fumitory in Ale a quart then infuse in it sena an ounce and a half raisins of the sun stoned anniseeds bruised and a little ginger drink it with sirrup of roses Balsome for wounds swellings venomous bitings and apostamations old sores and fretting ulcers c. Take oyle of Olive a quart S. Johns wort betony centory and self-heal each 2. handfulls stamp them mingle them well and so let it still in a glass all summer and strain the oyle from the herbs and so use it adde to it tobacco flowers To heal watering Eyes Take red Rose water two ounces and put it into a bowl-glass then take male frankinsence put it on the point of a knife into a candle of virgins wax untill it begin to melt then still dip it in the water at least a hundred times untill it turn thick like balme distrain it through a sine linen cloth anoint your eyes therewith To expell Rheume in the face Take the white of an Egge beat to an oyle and skimmed then temper it with the wool of a Coneys skin to a plaister warm it on coals and apply it to the temples and the grieved place and bind it on fast with a cloth For the Collick or griping in the belly Take seed of Carduus benedictus stamped and drunk in posset ale or any other drink doth help the grief Passion of the Heart Take juice of Bugloss two ounces cleanse and purifie it at the fire mix it with white sugar candy two ounces and let the patient drink it every night going to bed ten nights together To purge Choler Take sirrup Violarum cum agaric infused in Barley water or broth of a hen Apurge for the Kings evil
between the Gumms stayes it For the dead Palsie Take 4. penniweight of the Horn that groweth in the inside of a horses Knee dryed and beat to powder give it with two spoonfulls of the juice of the green leaves of blew periwinkles in a fit and let them drink a draught of hot sack after it do this every other day for three dayes and tie the string of this perewinkle on the dead member and shift it every other day these strings cure the cramp being tyed on the grieved place For the Gout Stiches and to open obstructions most excellent Take half a pound of red Saunders and steep it in a pint and a half of white wine let it steep all night the next morning strain it and drink it do this two or three dayes together then forbear it as long after take it again in half a score times taking it hath cured those of the Gout which for three years together have not been able to go it doth work upwards and downwards 3. or 4. times and will for a little time make them sick but is most harmless For a Plurisce of wind Take Horse dung camomile and parsley fryed with butter and vinegar and apply it as hot as may be suffered divers times or wet rye meal with the sick parties water and make a cake of it slit the cake in the middle and spread with London treacle and apply it to the side For the Wind Mother or Convulsions Take Coral Amber and Jeat each alike weight beat them into fine powder take the quantity of an hazel nut and put it into a spoon with some cawdle or broth take two or three spoonfulls eat not in two or three hours after A sover agin water for old Vlcers Take two penniworth of pure white coperas put it into a pint of cleer spring water set it on a soft fire that it may only simmer take off the scum with a feather so soon as the coperas is dissolved take it off and put it into a glass or stone bottle the longer it is kept the better it will be Vse this defensive Plaister Bole Armonick the white of an egg and white wine vinegar to keep the orifice open put into the wound gentian wood A Purge Take Manna one ounce and a half dissolve it in clarified whay and drink it in the morning fasting use it two or three dayes as you see cause For heat in the Back Take juice of Lemons and vinegar and dip a cloth in it and apply it to the Back oftentimes For the Head-ach Take oyle of Wormwood strong vinegar and rose water and mingle them together and boil them and lay them as hot as you may suffer it To dry up a Sore that issues with water Take Ale or Beer boil in it sage till it be strong then put in a quantity of allom and honey and bath the part ill affected and lay of the sage leaves that were boiled on the sore place For the Mother Take about Michaelmas time the ripest and rankest nettle seeds you can get dry them in the sun or in an oven and so keep them close in a paper and when the patient feels the Mother to rise take a spoon heaped of these seeds beat in a mortar in white wine or beer and let them drink it For the Piles Take white Starch pul and put on the Piles or a great onion rost it spread it flat and spread it over with mithridate and apply it warm For the Rickets Take sallet Oyle one pint camomile with the flowers three handfulls strip it from the stalks boil one handfull first in the oyle and take it up then the second and the third then put the camomil into two bags and anoint the sides stroaking it downward with the oyle then lay on the bags warm anoint it twice aday where the knots are and lay speedwell in their drink continually then take a purge of Rha. five or six grains pul in posset use it nine dayes together then cease a fortnight and use it again An Oyntment for the Rickets Take Rosemary Bay leaves Camomile tops of lavender alehoof unset hyssop each one handfull shred together and beat in a mortar and boiled together in a pound of fresh butter an hour then strain it out and with this anoint the child his sides knees and down to his feet evening and morning a quarter of an hour this must be made in May. Take cloves of Fox-fern root alias osmond bruised and boiled in milk take it in the morning fasting and and fast an hour after it or make the root into powder and give it in beer A Sirrup for the Rickets Take running water one quart Maidenhair sage of Jerusalem coltsfoor each one ounce licorice sliced anniseeds bruised each an ounce and a half Fox-fern root sliced one ounce liverwort one handfull twenty figgs sliced boil all these to the half then strain it put to it fine sugar one pound and a half peatle prepared three ounces boil altogether then strain it and give the child one spoonfull first and last Pills to stay vomiting and cleanse the stomach Take Alloes siccatrina adde to it nutmeg grated two or three drops of sallet oyle as much aquavite and a little sirrup of roses when 't is dissolved together put a drop of oyle upon your fingers make it into pills whereof take two in a morning To make the Palsie oyle to anoint twice aday for any benummedness Take Neats foot oyle rosemary tops sweet marjoram two handfulls lavender tops or leaves before it shoot to blow two handfulls red sage one handfull chop them small and put them to the oyle and let it boil apace till the herbs be changed and the ointment of a fair green colour then strain it out and keep it in a glass stopt for use it will last seven years in its full force and virtue adde to it camomile wormwood time and hyslop For the Stone in the Kidneys and them that make bloudy water Take milk and make a clear posset wherein boil a handfull of plantain a stick or two of licorice a slice or two of comphrey root drink them off first and last and sometimes drink the juice of plantain either by it self or in beer Take also pills of Turpentine washt in plantain water and made up in pills with gum arabick and rapt up in sugar and swallowed For a Burn or Scald Take Thorn-apple leaves stamp them or cut them small and boil them in Hogges lard to any oyntment Probatum For the Falling sickness Take a Jay pull off the feathers then take out the gutts and fill it full with cominseeds and anniseeds and then bake it till it is dry to beat to powder with the head on and leggs drink this in porrage or ale Flos Vnguentorum Take Rozen per rozen each a pound and a half virgins wax and frankinsence each a pound and a quarter mastich one ounce harts tallow or deers suet 4. pound camphire two