in the morning fasting To make Saffron Water Take seven Quarts of white Wine and infuse in it all night one ounce of Saffron dried and in the morning distill it in a Limbeck or glass body with a head and put some white Sugar-candy finely beaten into the Receiver for it to drop on Mr. Stepkins Water for the Eyes Take four ounces of white Rose water and two drams of Tutia in powder shake them well together in a glass vial and drop of it a little into the Eyes evening and morning it is very good for any hot Rheum A precious Water to revive the Spirits Take four gallons of strong Ale five ounces of Aniseeds Liquorish scraped half a pound sweet Mints Angelica Betony Cowslip flowers Sage and Rosemary flowers sweet Marjoram of each three handfuls Pelitory of the wall one handful After it is for two or three dayes distill it in a Limbeck and in the water infuse one handful of the flowers aforesaid Cinamon and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce Juniper berries bruised one dram Red-rose buds rosted Apples and Dates sliced and stoned of each half a pound distill it again and sweeten it with some Sugar-candy and take of Ambergreece Pearle red Coral Harts-horn powdered and leaf Gold of each half a dram put them into a fine linnen bag and hang it by a thread in a glass The Bishop of Worcesters admirably curing Powder Take black tips of Crabs claws when the Sun enters into Cancer which is every year on the eleventh day of June pick and wash them clean and beat them into fine powder which finely searce then take Musk and Civet of each three grains Ambergreece twelve grains rub them in the bottom of the Mortar and then beat them and the powder of the Claws together then with a pound of this powder mix one ounce of the magistery of Pearle Then take ten skins of Adders or Snakes or Slow worm cut them in pieces and put them into a pipkin to a pint and a half of Spring water cover it close and set it on a gentle fire to simmer onely not to boil for ten or twelve hours in which time it will be turned into a Jelly and therewith make the said powder into balls If such skins are not to be gotten then take six ounces of shaved Harts-horn and boil it to a Jelly and therewith make the said powder into balls the horn must be of a red Deer kil'd in August when the moon is in Leo for that is best The Dose is seven or eight grains in beer or wine To make Spirit of Castoreum Take Calamints four ounces Orange peels two ounces Nep half a handful Walnut blossoms half an ounce Rosemary flowers and tops of Sage of each one handful Castoreum one ounce white Wine one quart distil them in a Limbeck This Water is good for swounding fits weak stomachs and rising of the Mother A Water for the Stone Take a quart of clean pickt Strawberries put them in a glass pour on them a quart of Aqua vitae let them stand and steep and take two or three spoonfuls of it morning and evening with fine Sugar or white Sugarcandy It will keep all the year Approved To make Dr. Stephens Water Take a gallon of Claret wine or Sack Cinamon Ginger Grains of Paradise Gallingall Nutmegs Anniseed and Fennel-seed of each three drams Sage Mint red Roses Pellitory of the Wall Wilde Marjoram Rosemary Wilde Time Cammomile Lavender of each one handful bruise the said spices small cut and bruise the Herbs and put all into the Wine in a Limbeck and after it hath stood twenty four hours distil it gently and keep the first water by it self and so the second For a Tetter Take water of red Tar and wash it therewith This is an approved remedy A special water for a Consumption Take a peck of garden shell Snails wash them in small Beer put them into a great Iron dripping-pan and set them on the hot fire of Charcoals and keep them constantly stirring till they make no noise at all then with a knife and cloth pick them out and wipe them clean then bruise them in a stone Mortar shells and all then take a quart of Earth Worms rip them up with a knife and scoure them with Salt and wash them clean and beat them in the Mortar then take a large clean Brass pot to distill them in put into it two handfulls of Angelica on them lay two handfuls of Celandine a quart of Rosemary flowers of Betony and Agrimony of each two handfuls Bears-foot Red dock leaves the bark of Barberries and Wood Sorrel of each one handful Rice half a handful Funugreek and Turnerick of each one ounce Saffron dryed and beaten into powder the weight of six pence Harts-horn and Cloves beaten of each three ounces when all these are in the Pot put the Snails and Worms upon them and then pour on them three gallon of strong Ale then set on the Limbeck and paste it close with Rye dough that no air come out or get in and so let it stand one and twenty hours and distill it with a moderate fire and receive the several Quarts in several Glasses close stopt The Patient must take every morning fasting and not sleep after it two spoonfuls of the strongest water and four spoonfuls of the weakest at one time fasting two hours after it Syrup of Pearmains good against Melancholly Take one pound of the juyce of Pearmains boil it with a soft fire till half be consumed then put it in a glass and there let it stand till it be settled and put to it as much of the juyce of the leaves and roots of Borage Sugar half a pound sirup of Citrons three ounces let them boil together to the consistence of a sirup Tincture of Ambergreece Put into half a pint of pure spirit of Wine in a strong glass Ambergreece one ounce Musk two drams stop the glass close with a cork and bladder and set it in hot horse-dung twelve dayes then pour off the spirit gently and put as much new spirit on and do as before and pour it off clean after all this the Ambergreece will serve for ordinary uses One drop of this Tincture will perfume any thing besides it is a great Cordial Dr. Price and Mâ— Fenton the Chyrurgion their excellent Medicine for the Plague after Infection Take assoon as you finde your self sick as much Diascordium as the weight of a shilling with ten grains of the powder called Speciei de gemmis well mingled together and streight after this let the party drink a good draught of hot posset ale made with Carduus Benedictus Sorrel Scabiosa and Scordium within eight hours after the first taking of it the party must take the Diascordium and Posset again as aforesaid and in like sort the third time within eight hours after but not above three times nor the third time if the party mend after the first or second taking Doctor
gallon of Liquor one Lemon and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs it must boil till the scum rise black that you will have it quickly ready to drink squeeze into it a Lemon when you tun it It must be cold before you tun it up To make Syrup of Rasberries Take nine quarts of Rasberries clean pickt and gathered in a dry day and put to them four quarts of good Sack into an earthen pot then paste it up very close and set it in a Cellar for ten dayes then distill it in a Glass or Rose-still then take more Sack and put in Rasberries to it then when it hath taken out all the colour of the Raspiss strain it out and put in some fine Sugar to your taste and set it on the fire keeping it continually stirring till the scum doth rise then take it off the fire let it not boil skim it very clean and when it is cold put it to your distilled Raspis but colour it no more then to make it a pale Claret Wine This put into bottles or Glasses stopt very close To make Lemon Water Take twelve of the fairest Lemons slice them and put them into two pints of White Wine and put to them Cinamon two drams Gallingale two drams of Rose leaves Borage and Bugloss flowers of each one handfull of yellow Saunders one dram steep all these together twelve hours then distill them gently in a Glass Still until you have distilled one pint and an half of the Water and then adde to it three ounces of Sugar one grain of Ambergreese and you will have a most pleasing cleansing Cordiall water for many uses To make Gilly-flower Wine Take two ounces of dried Gilly-flowers and put them into a pottle of Sack and beat three ounces of Sugar-candy or fine Sugar and grinde some Ambergreece and put it in the bottle and shake it oft then run it through a gelly bag and give it for a great Cordial after a weeks standing or more You make Lavander Wine as you do this The Lady Spotswood Stomach water Take white Wine one pottle Rosemary and Cowslip flowers of each one handful as much Betony leaves Cinnamon and Cloves grosly beaten of both one ounce steep all these three dayes stirring it often then put to it Mithridate four ounces and stir it together and distill it in an ordinary Still Water of Time for the passion of the heart Take a quart of white Wine and a pint of Sack steep in it as much broad Thime as it will wet put to it of Galingale and Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Cloves Mace Ginger and grains of Paradise two drams steep these all night the next morning distill it in an ordinary Still drink it warm with sugar A Receipt to make damnable Hum. Take species de Gemmis Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Laetificans Galeni of each four drams Loaf Sugar beaten to powder half a pound small Aqua vitae three pints strong Angelica water one pint mix all these together and when you have drunk it to the Dregs you may fill it up again with the same quantity of waters The same powders will serve twice and after twice using it it must be made new again An admirable Water for sore Eyes Take Lapis Tutiae Aloes Hepatica fine hard Sugar of each three drams beat them very small and put them into a Glasse of three pints to which put red Rose-water and white Wine of each one pint set the Glass in the Sun in the Moneth of July for the whole Moneth shaking it twice in a day for all that while then use it as followeth put one drop thereof into the Eye in the evening when the party is in bed and one drop in the morning an hour before the Patient riseth Continue the use of it till the Eyes be well The older the VVater the better it is Most approved A Snail Water for weak Children and old People Take a pottle of Snails and wash them well in two or three waters and then in small Beer bruise them sheâ— and all then put them into a gallon 〈◊〉 red Cowes Milk red Rose leaves dried the whites cut off Rosemary sweet Marjoram of each one handful and so distill them in a cold still and let it drop upon powder of white Sugarcandy in the receiver drink of it first and last and at four a clock in the afternoon a Wine glass full at a time Clary water for the Back Stomach c. Take three gallons of midling Beer put it in a great brasse Pot of four gallons and put to it ten handfuls of Clarey gathered in a dry day Raisins of the Sun stoned three pounds Anniseeds and Liquorish of each four ounces the whites and shells of twenty four eggs or half so many if there be not so much need in the back the shells small and mix them with the whites 〈…〉 the bottoms of three white lâ—â—ves put into the receiver one pound of white Sugarcandy or so much fine loaf Sugar beaten small and distill it through a Limbeck keep it close and be seldom without it for it reâ—â—eth very much the stomach and heart â—trengtheneth the back procureth Appetite and Digestion driveth away Melancholly sadness and heaviness of the heart c. Dr. Montfords Cordial Water Take Angelica leaves twelve handfuls six leaves of Carduus Benedictus Balm and Sage of each five handfuls the seeds of Angelica and sweet Fennil of each five ounces bruised scraped and bruised Liquorish twelve ounces Aromaticum Rosatum Diamoscus dulcis of each six drams the Hearbs being cut small the seeds and Liquorish bruised infuse them into two gallons of Canary Sack for twenty four hours then distill it with a gentle fire and draw off onely five pints of the spirits which mix with one pound of the best Sugar dissolved into a Syrup in half a pint of pure red rose-Rose-water Aqua mirabilis Sir Kenelm Digby's way Take Cubebs Gallingale 〈◊〉 Mellilot flowers Cloves 〈◊〉 Ginger Cinnamon of each one 〈◊〉 bruised small juyce of Celandine 〈◊〉 pint juyce of Spearmint half a 〈◊〉 juyce of Balm half a pint Sugar one pound flower of Cowslips Rosemary Borage Bugloss Marigolds of each two drams the best Sack three pints strong Angelica water one pint red Rose-water half a pint bruise the spices and flowers and steep them in the Sack and juyces one night the next morning distill it in an ordinary or glass still and first lay Harts-tongue leaves in the bottom of the Still The Vertues of the precedent water This Water preserveth the Lungs without grievances and helpeth them being wounded it suffereth not the blood to putrifie but multiplieth the same this water suffereth not the heart to burn nor melancholy nor the 〈◊〉 to be lifted up above nature it expelleth the Rhume preserveth the Stomach conserveth Youth and procureth a good colour it preserveth Memory it destrâ—yeth the Palsie if this be given to one a 〈◊〉 a spoonful of it
Tartar and put in that first stirring it well together then put it into a Gallon of Conduit-water and let it stand till night shift this with so much Oyl and Water morning and evening seven dayes together and be sure you shift it constantly and the day before you mean to melt it wring it hard by a little at a time and be sure the Oyl and water be all out of it wring the water well out of it with a Napkin every time you shift it then put in three pints of Rose-water let it stand close covered twelve hours then wring out that and put in a pint of fresh Rose-water into a high Gallipot with the feces then tie it close up and set it in a pot of water and let it boil two hours then take it out and strain it into an earthen pan let it stand till it is cold then cut a hole in it and let out the water then scrape away the bottom and dry it with a cloth and dry the pan melt it in a chafing-dish of coals or in the Gallipots beat it so long till it look very white and shining then with your hand fling it in fine Cakes upon white paper and let it lie till it be cold then put it into Gallipots This will be very good for two or three years To make Raisin Wine Take two pound of Raisins of the Sun shred a pound of good powdered Sugar the juyce of two Lemons one pill put these in an earthen pot with a top then take two gallons of water let it boil half an hour then take it hot from the fire and put it into the pot and cover it close for three or four dayes stirring it twice a day being strained put it into bottles and stop it very close in a fortnight or three weeks it may be drunk you may put in Cloves Gilly-flowers or Cowslips as the time of the year is when you make it and when you have drawn this from the Raisins and bottled it up heat two quarts of water more put it to the Ingredients and let it stand as aforesaid This will be good but smaller then the other the water must be boiled as the other To make Rasberry Wine Take a Gallon of good Rhennish Wine put into it as much Rasberries very ripe as will make it strong put it in an earthen pot and let it stand two days then pour your Wine from your Rasberries and put into every bottle two ounces of Sugar Stop it up and keep it by you The best way to preserve Cherries Take the best Cherries you can get and cut the stalks something short then for every pound of these Cherries take two pound of other Cherries and put them of their stalks and stones put to them ten spoonfuls of fair water and then set them on the fire to boil very fast till you see that the colour of the syrup be like pale claret Wine then take it off the fire and drain them from the Cherries into a pan to preserve in Take to every pound of cherries a quarter of sugar of which take half and dissolve it with the cherry-water drained from the Cherries and keep them boiling very fast till they will gelly in a spoon and as you see the syrup thin take off the sugar that you kept finely beaten and put it to the Cherries in the boiling the faster they boil the better they will be preserved and let them stand in a pan till they be almost cold A Tincture of Ambergreese Take Ambergreese one ounce Musk two drams spirit of Wine half a pint or as much as will cover the Ingredients two or three fingers breadth put all into a glass stop it close with a cork and bladder set it in Horse dung ten or twelve dayes then pour off gently the Spirit of Wine and keep it in a Glasse close stopt then put more spirit of Wine on the Ambergreece and do as before then pour it off after all this the Ambergreese will serve for ordinary uses A drop of this will perfume any thing and in Cordials it is very good To make Vsquebath the best way Take two quarts of the best Aqua vitae four ounces of scraped liquorish and half a pound of sliced Raisins of the Sun Anniseeds four ounces Dates and Figs of each half a pound sliced Nutmeg Cinnamon Ginger of each half an ounce put these to the Aqua vitae stop it very close and set it in a cold place ten dayes stirring it twice a day with a stick then strain or sweeten it with Sugareandy after it is strained let it stand till it be clear then put into the glass Musk and Ambergreece two grains is sufficient for this quantity To preserve Cherries with a quarter of their weight in Sugar four pound of Cherries one pound of Sugar beat your Sugar and strew a little in the bottom of your skillet then pull off the stalks and stones of your Cherries and cut them cross the bottom with a knife let the juyce of the Cherries run upon the Sugar for there must be no other liquor but the juyce of the Cherries cover your Cherries over with one half of your Sugar boil them very quick when they are half boiâ—ed but in the remainder of your Sugar when they are almost enough put in the rest of the Sugar you must let them boil till they part in sunder like Marmalade stirring them continually so put them up hot into your warm Marmalade glasses To make Gelly of Pippins Take pippins and pare them and quarter them and put as much water to them as will cover them and let them boil till all the vertue of the Pippins are out then strain them and take to a pint of that liquor a pound of Sugar and cut long threads of Orange peels and boil in it then take a Lemon and pareâ—â— and slice it very thin and boil it 〈◊〉 ten or quor a little thin take them out and lay them in the bottom of your glass and when it is boiled to a gelly pour it on the Lemons in the glass You must boil the Oranges in two or three waters before you boil it in the gelly To make Apricock Cakes Take the fairest Apricocks you can get and parboil them very tender then take off the pulp and their weight of Sugar and boil the Sugar and Apricocks together very fast stir them ever lest they burn to and when you can see the bottom of the Skillet it is enough then put them into Cards sowed round and dust them with fine Sugar and when they are cold stone them then turn them and fill them up with some more of the same stuff but you must let them stand for three or four dayes before you turn them off the first place and when you finde they begin to candy take them out of the Cards dust them with Sugar again so do even when you turn them To Preserve Barberries the best way First stone
for a Dropsie approved by the Lady Hobby who was cured her self by it Take Carawayes Smallage Time Hysop Watercresses Penniroyal Nettle tops Calamint Elecampane-roots of each one little handful Horse radish two pounds boil them in six quarts of running water until half be consumed then strain it boil it a new with a pottle of Canary Sack Liquorish twelve ounces sweet Fennel-seed one ounce bruised and a quarter of an ounce of Cumin-seed bruised boil all these above half an hour then strain it and keep it for your use nine spoonfuls in the morning fasting and as much at three or four a clock in the afternoon use it for some time together This the Lady Hobby proved by her self Dr. Adrian Gilberts most Sovereign Cordial Water Take Spearmint Broom-mint Mother of Time the Blossome tops of Garden Time red Penniroyal Scabious Celandine Wood Sorrel Wood Betony Angelica leaves and stalkes set Wall Leaves Peony leaves Egrimony Tormentil sweet Marjoram red Sage Rue Rossolis Angelica roots Elecampany roots set Wall Roots green Peniroyal Comfrey Blossoms and Leaves Juniper-berries of each a pound Balm Carduus Benedictus Dragon Feaverfew Wormwood of each two pounds steep all these in the lees of strong pure venient Claret Wine for nine dayes every day twice turning them to mingle them well in the Lees then distil them in a Limbeck with a red clear head with two pounds of shaved Harts horn and Ivory twelve ounces draw as long of it as you may in several pottle glasses the first is accounted the best and uncompounded and the perfectest against the Plague spotted Feavers small Pocks ordinary Feavers divers times experienced by my self either to prevent or in the time of these sicknesses If you will compound it because the water hath an ill taste then take the first gallon of the water and mix it with a pottle of the best Malaga sack and put into them three pounds of Raisins solis stoned Figs one pound and a half the flowers of Clove-gilly-flowers Cowslips and Marigolds blue Violets of each two pounds red Rose buds one pound Ambergreece Bezoar stone clarified Sugar Aniseeds Liquorish and what else you please These are Adrian Gilberts Receipts having had experience of them most constantly sure The uncompounded Water is the more excellent and if in time of infection one take two spoonfuls of it in good Bear or white Wine he may safely walk from danger by the leave of God If any of the former diseases attache any person then he must take four ounces of the first water and mix therewith either the syrups of Violets Clove-gilly-flowers or Angelica as the disease is one spoonful of the Syrup is sufficient for four ounces of the water so take it in three times For a swoln Face Take Oyl of Elder and Plaintain-water of each one ounce beat them well together until they be exactly incorporated and therewith anoint the tumefied place twice or thrice in a day until the swelling be chased away Cock water for a Consumption Take a running Cock pull him alive then kill him cut him abroad by the back take out the entrails and wipe him clean then quarter him and break his bones then put him into a Rose-water still with a pottle of Sack Currans and Raisins of the sun stoned and Figs sliced of each one pound Dates stoned and cut small half a pound Rosemary flowers Wilde Time Spearmint of each one handful Organs or Wilde Marjoram Bugloss pimpinel of each two handfuls and a bottle of new milk from a red cow Distill these with a soft fire put into the Receiver a quarter of a pound of brown Sugar-candy beaten small four grains of Ambergreece fourty grains of prepared pearl and half a book of leaf gold cut very small you must mingle the strong water with the small and let the patient take two spoonfuls of it in the morning and as much at going to bed A precious Cordial for a sick body Take three spoonfuls of Mint water and as much of Muskadine and Wormwood water two or three spoonfuls of fine Sugar and two or three drops of Cinamon spirit beat these well together with two or three spoonfuls of Clove-gilly-flowers spirit and give the Patient now and then one spoonfull thereof especially when he or she goeth to bed Wormwood Cakes good for a cold Stomach and to help Digestion Take pure searced Sugar two ounces and wet it with the Spirit of Wormwood then take a little Gum Tragiganth and steep it all night in Rose water then take some of this and the wet sugar and beat them together in an Alablaster Mortar till it come to a paste like dough if you please put a little Musk to it then make it up in little cakes of the breadth of a groat or three pence lay them upon plates and dry them gently in an Oven and keep them in a dry place for your use and upon occasion hold one of them in your mouth to melt and swallow the dissolved juyce thereof for the infirmities aforesaid To make water of Life Take Balm leaves and stalks Burnet leaves and flowers Rosemary red Sage Taragon Tormentil leaves Rossolis red Roses Carnation Hysop Thyme red strings that grow upon Savory red Fennel leaves and roots red Mints of each one handful bruise these herbs and put them in a great earthen pot and pour on them as much white Wine as will cover them stop them close and let them steep for eight or nine dayes then put to it Cinamon Ginger Angelica seeds Cloves and Nutmegs of each one ounce a little Saffron Sugar one pound Raisins Solis stoned one pound Dates stoned and sliced half a pound the loins and legs of an old Coney fleshy running Capon the red flesh of the sinnews of a leg of Mutton four young Chickens twelve Larks the yolks of twelve Eggs a loaf of white bread cut in sops and two or three ounces of Mithridate or Treacle and as much Bastard or Muscadine as will cover them all Distill all with a moderate fire and keep the first and second waters by themselves and when there comes no more by distilling put more Wine into the Pot upon the same stuff and distil it again and you shall have another good water This water must be kept in a double glass close stopt very carefully it is good against many Infirmities as the Dropsie Palsie Ague Sweating Spleen Worms Yellow and Black Jaundies it strengtheneth the Spirits Brain Heart Liver and Stomach Take two or three spoonfulss when need is by it self or with Ale Beer or Wine mingled with sugar Dr. Atkinsons excellent Perfume against the Plague Take Angelica roots and dry them a very little in an Oven or by the fire and then bruise them very soft and lay them in Wine Vinegar to steep being close covered three or four days and then heat a brick hot and lay the same thereon every morning this is excellent to air the house or any clothes or to breath over
altogether then beat the yolks of six new laid eggs and put them into the Wine on the fire then take the Cock-treading of twelve eggs and the white of one egg and beat them to an Oyl take off the white froth from it and put this Oyl into the Wine and brew all well together with as much powder sugar as will make it of an indifferent sweetness whereof let the said woman take four spoonfuls at a time when she feeleth any pain to begin in her back or belly To make Childrens Teeth come without Pain Proved Take the head of a hare boild or rosted and with the brains thereof mingle honey and butter and therewith anoint the childes gums as often as you please Dr. Mays Juice of Liquorish to stay Rheum and preserve the Lungs Take six little handfuls of the tops of Hysop Rosemary flowers one little handful of the leaves of Coltsfoot four little handfuls stamp and take the juyce of them and put to it a pint of Hysop-water or running water unto all these put four ounces of Liquorish finely beaten and searsed then set it on the fire and boil it till it be as thick as cream then strain it through a fine strainer and set it again to the fire and stir it continually till it boil and put into it boiling four ounces of Yellow Sugar-candy let it boil till it rise from the bottom which stirring and when you may handle it make it up in Cakes and Roles as you please To kill a Felon quickly Take a little Rue and Sage stamp them small put to it Oyl of the white of an Egg and a little Honey and lay it to the sore A Remedy for the pain in the Stomach Take a pottle of white Wine eight ounces of Currans and four ounces of Elicampane-roots sliced a sprig of Marjoram and Spearmint boil all these together till the Currans be soft adding to it one spoonful of sweet Fennel-seed bruised Drink of the liquor every morning fasting at four a Clock in the afternoon and when you go to bed the quantity of six spoonfuls While you drink this apply to your stomach one spoonful of Conserve of Roses two penniworth of Mithridate Cinnamon Cloves and Nutmegs of each one spoonful and a penniworth of Saffron mix these together with Rose-water and Wine Vinegar and put them in a Linnen Bag and warm it and lay it to the Stomach To cure Diseases without taking any thing at the Mouth Take one pound of Aloes Hepatica Myrrhe four ounces both beaten very fine Aqua vitae and Rose-water of each one pinte after one nights infusion distil them in Sand twenty four hours very softly and in the end make a great fire and there will come a Balsome wherewith if you rub the Stomach with a warm cloath dipped therein it will purge Phlegm and Choler and all Worms which infect the brain and breed the Falling sickness it expelleth corrupruptions of the Stomach it helps digestion and appetite it expurgeth all dross in the bottom of the Stomach it cureth the Gout being mixed and well beaten with Aqua Vitae and applied warm to the Gouty place and left long on it To break the Stone Take Cammock roots dry them in an Oven beat them to powder searse it and put as much thereof as will lie on a groat into half a pint of White Wine half a sliced Lemon a top or two of Rosemary and some Sugar let them lie in steep all night in the morning stir them well together and drink it off and walk thereupon a good while Use this three or four mornings together and it will make the Stone break and void away in gravel but if the Kidneys be ulcerated then use the Medicine following viz. To help Vlceration in the Kidneys Take two drams of China-root sliced small Golden Rod Maiden-hair Pauls Betony Mousear Agrimony Comfrey Scabious Bugle red Bramble leaves Pelitory of the Wall Marsh Mallows and Plantain of each half a handful then take one spoonful of French Barley a stick of Liquorish sliced small one handful of Raisins of the Sun stoned boil all these softly in a pottle of running water to a quart then take it from the fire and put to it two ounces of Conserve of red Roses stir them together and let it run through a fine cloth and keep it close stopt in a glass and drink thereof blood-warm every morning and evening twelve spoonfuls at a time for two three or four weeks more or less as you see occasion and finde ease or pain A Special Medicine for one that cannot swallow although no inward Medicine can be taken for it Take the soiling of a Dog that is hard and white powder it and mingle it well with English Honey spread it thick upon a linnen cloth and hold it to the fire and lay it all over the Throat down to the Channel bone use fresh morning and evening binde it hard to and by Gods grace it will help To draw up the Vvula Take a new laid Egg and roste it till it be blue and then crush it between a cloth and lay it to the crown of the head and once in twelve hours lay new till it be drawn up A Purge for Children or Old men Take one spoonful of Spirit of Tartar prepared with Sugarcandy and Rose water put it in a little broth and give it either of them it purgeth gently it comforts the heart and expelleth Phlegm and Melancholly For a Noli me tangere Take the Herb called Turnsol cut it in small pieces and put it in a bottle and pour so much Aqua vitae on it as will cover it four fingers stop the bottle and set it in the Sun ten dayes and in the night in the Chimney corner but not too near the fire then pour of the Aqua vitae and keep it close then calcine the dregs remaining in the bottle between two calcining pots well luted which will be done in a day then put the calcined ashes into the said Aqua vitae and they will all dissolve Keep this as a great Treasure and give one spoonful thereof to the party fasting in white Wine and wet a cloth in the said Liquor and binde it on the sore place and without fail it will dry it up It helpeth also those that are troubled with the Gravel and Stone given as aforesaid with white Wine and it is very excellent for those that have the Dropsie Palsie or are taken with a Quartane Ague To make the Face fair and for a stinking Breath Take the flowers of Rosemary and seethe them in white Wine with which wash your face if you drink thereof it will make you have a sweet breath For heat in the Face redness and shining of the Nose Take a fair linnen cloth and in the morning lay it over the grass and draw it over till it be wet with dew then wring it out into a fair dish and wet the face therewith as oft as you
reviveth him in 〈…〉 use one spoonful à week fasting in the winter two spoonfuls A Water for fainting of the Heart Take Bugloss and red Rose-water of each one pint Milk half a pint Anniseeds and Cinnamon grosly bruised of each half an ounce Maiden-hair two handfuls Harts tongue one handful both shred mix all together and distill it in an ordinary still drink of it morning and evening with a little sugar A Surfeit Water Take half a bushel of red Corn Poppy put it into a large dish cover it with brown paper and lay another dâ—sh upon it set it in an Oven after brown bread is baked divers times till it be dry which put into a pottle of good Aqua vitae to which put Raisins of the sun stoned half a pound six figs sliced three Nutmegs sliced two flakes of Mace bruised two races of Ginger slâ—ced one stick of Cinnamon bruised Liquorish sliced one ounce Anniseed Fennill-seed and Cardamums bruised of each one dram put all these into abroad glasse body and lay first some Poppy in the bottom then some of the other Ingredients then Poppy again and so till the glasse be full then put in the Aqua vitae and let it infuse till it be strong of the spices and very red with the Poppy close covered of the which take two or three spoonfulls upon a Surfeit and when all the liquor is spent put more Aqua vitae to it and it will have the same effect the second time but no more after D. Butlers Cordial Water against Melancholly c. Most approved Take the flowers of Cowslips Marigolds Pinks Glove-gilly-flowers single stock Gilly-flowers of each four handfulls the flowers of Rosemary and Damask Roses of each three handfulls Borage and Bugloss flowers and Balm leaves of each two 〈◊〉 put them in a quart of Canary Wine into a great Bottle or jugg close stopped with a Cork sometimes stirring the flowers and wine together adding to 〈◊〉 Anniseeds bruised one dram two â—utmegs sliced English Saffron two penniworth after some time infusion distill them in a cold Still with a hot fire hanging at the Nose of the Still Ambergreese and Musk of each one grain then to the distilled water pat White Sugar candy finely beaten six ounces and put the glass wherein they are into hot water for one hour Take of this water at one time three spoonfuls thrice a week or when you are ill it cureth all melancholly fumes and infinitely comforts the spirits The admirable and most famous Snail Water Take a peck of garden shell Snails wash them well in small Beer and put them in an hot Oven till they have done making a noise then take them out and wipe them well from the green froth that is upon them and bruise them shells and all in a stone Mortar then take a quart of earth worms scowre them with salt slit them and wash them well with water from their filth and in a stone Mortar beat them to pieces then lay in the bottom of your distilled pot Angelica two handfuls and two handfulls of Celandine upon them to which put two quarts of Rosemary flowers Bears foot Agrimony red Dock Roots Bark of Barberries Betony wood sorrel of each two handfuls Rue one handful then lay the Snails and Worms on the top of the Hearbs and Flowers then pour on three Gallons of the strongest Ale and let it stand all night in the morning put in three ounces of Cloves beaten six penniworth of beaten Saffron and on the top of them six ounces of shaved Harts-horn then set on the Limbeck and close it with paste and so receive the water by pints which will be nine in all the first is the strongest whereof take in the morning two spoonfuls in four spoonfuls of small Beer and the like in the afternoon you must keep a good Diet and use moderate â—â—ercise to warm the blood This Water is good 〈…〉 Obstructions whatsoever It 〈◊〉 a Consumation and Dropsie the stopping of the Stomach and Liver It may be 〈◊〉 with Milk for weak people and 〈◊〉 with Harts-tongue and Elecamâ—ane A singular Mint Water Take a still full of Mints put Balm and Penniroyal of each one good handful steep them in Sack or Lees of Sack twenty four hours stop it close and stir it now and then Distill it in an ordinary still with a very quick fire and keep the still with wet clothes put into the Receiver as much sugar as will sweeten it and so double distill it Distillings A most excellent Aqua Coelestis taught by Mr. Philips Apothecary TAke of Cinnamon one dram Ginger half a dram the three sorts of Saunders of each of them three quarters of an ounce Mace and Cubebs of each of them one dram Cardamon the bigger and lesser of each three drams Setwell-roots half an ounce Anniseed Fennil-seed Basil-seed of each two drams Angelica roots Gillyflowers Thime Calamint Liquorish Calamus Masterwort Penniroyal Mint Mother of Thime Marjoram of each two drams red Rose-seed the flowers of Sage and Betony of each a dram and a half Cloves Galingal Nutmegs of each two drams the flowers of Stechados Rosemary Borage and Bugloss flowers of each a dram and half Citron Rindes three drams bruise them all and put in their Cordial Powders Diamber Aromâ—â—â—cam Diamuscum Diachoden the spices made with Pearle of each three drams infuse all these in twelve pints of Aqua vitae in a glass close stopped for fifteen dayes often shaking it then let it be put in a â—â—â—â—beck close stopped and let it 〈◊〉 distiâ—â—ed gently when you have 〈…〉 in a cloth two drams of 〈…〉 â—alf a dram of Ambergreese and 〈…〉 twelve grains of gold and so 〈◊〉 it to your use Hypocras taught by Dr. Twine for Winde in the Stomach Take Pepper Grains Ginger of each half an ounce Cinnamon Cloves Nutmegs Mace of each one ounce grosly beaten Rosemary Agrimony both shred of each a few crops red rose leaves a pretty quantity as an indifferent gripe a pound of Sugar beaten lay these to steep in a gallon of good Rhennish or White Wine in a close vessel stirring it two or three times a day the space of three or four dayes together then strain it through an Hypocras strainer and drink a draught of it before meat half an hour and sometimes after to help digestion Marigold flowers distilled good for the pain of the Head Take Marigold flowers and distill them then take a fine cloth and wet 〈◊〉 the aforesaid distilled water and so lay it to the forehead of the Patient and being so applied let him sleep if he can this with Gods help will cease the pain A water good for Sun-burning Take water drawn off the Vine dropping the flowers of white Thorn Bean-flowers Water Lilly-flowers Garden Lilly-flowers Elder-flowers and Tansie flowers Althea flowers the whites of Eggs French Barley The Lady Giffords Cordial Water Take four quarts of Aâ—â—a Vitae Borrage and Poppy-water 〈◊〉 each a pint two