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
them still them in a Rose still Husks Shells and all and with the water wash your eyes To cure a Wound though the Patient be never so far off Take a quart of pure Spring water and put into it some Roman Vitriol and let it dissolve then if you have any blood of the wound either in linnen or woollen or silk put the cloth so blooded in the water and rub the cloth once a day and if the wound be not mortal the blood will out if it be it will not Let the patient keep his Wound clean washing it with white Wine when ever you wash the cloth the party wounded shall sensibly finde ease let the cloth be constantly in the water To make Oyl of Swallows Take swallows as many as you can get ten or twelve at the least and put them quick into a Mortar and put to them Lavender Cotton Spike Cammomil Knot-grass Ribwort Balm Valerian Rosemary tops Woodbine tops strings of Vines French Mallows the tops of Alehoof Strawberry strings Tutsane Plantain Walnut leaves tops of young Bayes Hysop Violet leaves Sage of vertue fine Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Mother of Time of each of these a handful two of Cammomil and two of red Roses beat all these together and put thereto a quart of Neats-foot Oyl or May Butter stamp them all together and beat them with one or two ounces of Cloves and put them all together in an earthen pot stop it very close with a piece of dough round about so close that no air can come out set them nine days in a cellar and then take them out and boil them six or eight hours on the fire or else in a pan of water but first open your pot and put in half a pound of Wax white or yellow whether you will and a pint of Sallet Oyl and strain them through a Canvas cloth To make Lead Plaister Take two pound and four ounces of the best and greenest Sallet Oyl with a pound of good red Lead and a pound of white Lead beat them well into dust then take twelve Ounces of Castle-Sope incorporate all these well together in a well glassed and great earthen pot that the Sope may come upwards set it on a small fire of coals the space of one hour and a half alwayes stirring it with an iron ball or round Pommil then make your fire somewhat bigger until it be the colour of Oyl then drop a little on the board and if it cleave neither to your finger nor the board then it is enough then take the clothes and make them into what breadth or size you please in Searcloth let not your cloth be course but of a reasonable new Holland and when you have dipped them then rub them with a Slick-stone it will last two years and the elder the better as long as it will stick it is good The vertues of the Leaden Plaister 1. If it be laid to the Stomach it provoketh appetite and taketh away any grief in the same 2. If laid to the belly it is a present remedy for the ache 3. If laid to the Reins of the back it cureth and healeth the Bloody Flux the running of the Reins heat in the Liver or weakness of the Back 4. Itâ— healeth all bruises and Swellings it taketh away aches it breaketh Fellons Pushes and other Impostumes and healeth them 5. It draweth out any running Humour without breaking of the skin and being applied to the Fundament it healeth any disease there growing 6. The same laid to the head is good for the eyes 7. The same laid to the Belly of a Woman provoketh the Tearms and maketh apt for Conception For the Stone and Gravel Take and dry the roots of red Nettles make them into powder and drink a spoonful of the powder in a draught of white Wine something warm and it will break the Stone though it be never so great with speed use it every day until the Stone and Gravel be all broken and consumed A thing of small price and great vertue A drink to purge the body being very good for them that have the Scurvey or are inclined to it Take a pottle of fine running water and a pint of Rhennish Wine for a young body and for any elder take a quart set it on the fire put into it three or four slices of Horse Radish a great handful of Water Cresses and a handful of Brooklime both a little bruised slice in two or three Oranges outsides and insides let them boil all together better then half an hour then have ready a greater quantity of scurvey-grass bruised or a pint of the juyce of Scurvy-grass ready strained and put into the liquor and set over the fire again then there will arise a curd which being taken off put it into the drink when it is cold three or four Lemons more or less as best pleaseth the taste sweeten it with Sugar and drink a Wine draught in the morning and at four a clock in the afternoon and then walk and use some exercise after it The party that hath the scurvy and whose legs are much swelled may put into the drink some Juniper berries bruised half an ounce or thereabouts Dr. Bates his Medicine against a Consumption Take Liverwort two handfuls Succory six Endiffe Borage Colts-foot of each six handfuls shred these finely put them in a gallon of new Milk let them steep all night in the morning distil them in a glass still then take three spoonfuls of red Rose-water three spoonfuls of this water with half a pint of red Cows Milk and as much Sugar of Roses as will sweeten it To make Gascony Powder Take the black tips of Crabs claws gotten when the Sun is in Cancer pick out from within them all the fish beat them to as fine a powder as you can then searse it through a very fine searse take an ounce of this powder and put to it half an ounce of the Magestical of Pearl and as much of the Magestical of Coral mix them well together then put a little Rose-water in a glass in which you must hang a little Saffron in a bag and a little Musk and Ambergrece in another let them hang in Rose-water two or three dayes till the vertue of them be gone into the water then put your powder either into a Silver Porringer or a white earthen one and put as much of the Rose-water as will moisten your powder then dry it in the Porringer by a gentle fire and so wet your powder three or four times and as often dry it after this make a Gelly as followeth Take a Viper alive in May or June cut off his head and tail above the Navil pull off his skin and with a clean cloth rub it dry and so you may hang them up and take two of those skins and slice them small with a little Harts-horn and make a Gelly of them you need not make much then when your powder is dry wet it
Price doth commend much thereof to be taken for the kinde of cure for the Plague after one is infected and Mr. Fenton the excellent Chyrurgeon who hath much experience in the cure of the Plague doth highly commend it as a thing in his own experience proved very good The use of a root called Sedour is to be chewed in the mouth still when one is in the company of such persons as are thought to be infected with the contagition this Root is to be bought at the Apothecaries A Drink for the Plague or Pestilent Feaver proved by the Countess of Arundel in the Year 1603. Take a pint of Malmsey and burn it and put thereto a spoonful of grains being bruised and take four spoonfuls of the same in a porringer and put therein a spoonful of Jean Treacle â—nd give the Patient to drink as hot as he can suffer it and let him drink a draught of the Malmsey after it and so sweat if he be vehemently infected he will bring the Medicine up again but you must apply the same very often day and night till he brook it for so long as he doth bring it up again there is danger in him but if he once brook it there is no doubt of his recovery by the Grace of God provided then when the party infected hath taken the aforesaid Mediâ—cine and sweateth if he bring it up again then you must give him the aforesaid quantity of Malmsey and grains but no treacle for it will be too hot for him being in a sweat This Medicine is proved and the party hath recovered and the sheets have been found full of blue marks and no sore hath come forth this being taken in the beginning of the sickness Also this Medicine saved 38. Commons of Windsor the last great Plague 1593. was proved upon many poor people and they recovered A Syrup for a Cold. Take Penniroyal half an ounce raisins of the Sun stoned one ounce half so much Liquorish bruised boil them in a pint of running water till half be consumed then strain it out hard and with sugar boil it to a pretty thick Syrup and take it with a liquorish stick Often proved An excellent Receipt for a precious water Take a pottle of the second water of Aqua Composita of Balm Betony Pellitory of the Wall sweet Marjoram the flowers of Cowslip Rosemary and Sage of each one handful the seeds of Annise Caroway Coriander Fennil and Gromel and Juniper berries of each one spoonful three or four Nutmegs Cinamon one ounce two or three large Mace bruise all these and let them lye ten dayes in steep in the Aqua Composita set the glass in the Sun and stir it well every morning then strain it and put to it three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar one grain of Ambergreese and two grains of Musk. To make an excellent Syrup of Citrons or Lemons without fire Take Citrons or Lemons as many as you will pare off their rindes then slice them very thin then put into a silver or glass bason a thick lay of fine sugar and upon that the slices of Citrons or Lemons and lay after lay of sugar and the other till the bason be near full let it stand all night covered with a paper the next day pour of the Liquor into a glass through a Tiffany strainer be sure you put sugar enough to them at the first and it will keep a whole year good if it be set well up A Salve for the eyes made by Sir Edward Spencer Take new Hogs greese tried and clarified two ounces steep it six hours in red Rose water after wash it in the best white Wine wherein Lapis Calaminaris hath been twelve times quenched it will take a pottle of white Wine for the Lapis Calaminaris will waste it by often quenching a piece of the Lapis as big as a Turkey Egg will serve when the grease is well washed adde to it one ounce of Lapis Tutia prepared of Lapis Hematites well washed two scruples Aloes Succotrina twelve grains Pearle four grains all these must be prepared and made into fine powder put to it some red Fennel water and make it into a Salve If the eyes be very ill put into each corner of them as much as a pins head of this Salve and if the eyes be exceeding sore anoint therewith onely the Eye-lids As the Salve drieth put to it red Fennel water to keep it moist For the Small Pox or Measles Take an ounce of Treacle half an ounce of set Wall cut small a penni-worth of Saffron ground small mix them and take thereof in a morning upon a knives point as much as you can take up at twice or thrice three mornings together A very good Glyster for the winde Take Mallow leaves Cammomile Mercury Pelitory of the Wall Mugwort and Penniroyal of each a small handful Melilot and Cammomile flowers of each half a handful of the seeds of Annise Caroway Cummin and Fennel of each one quarter of an ounce Bay-berries and Juniper berries of each three drams boil all these in three pints of clear posset ale to twelve ounces and use it warm The Kings Medicine for the Plague Take a little handful of Herb-grace as much of Sage the like quantity of Elder leaves as much of red Bramble-leaves stamp them altogether and strain them through a fair linnen cloth with a quart of white wine and a quantity of white wine Vinegar and a quantity of white Ginger and mingle all together after the first day you shall be safe four and twenty dayes after the ninth day a whole year by the grace of God and if it fortune that one be strucken with the Plague before he hath drunk the Medicine then take the aforesaid with a spoonful of Scabiosa and a spoonful of Betony water and a quantity of fine Treacle and put them together and cause the Patient to drink it and it will put out all Venome and if it fortune that the botch appear take the leaves of red Brambles Elder leaves and mustard seed stamp them together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out all the Venome and the person shall be whole by the Grace of God A Medicine for the Plague that the Lord Major had from the Queen Take of Sage Elder and red Bramble leaves of each one little handful stamp and strain them together through a cloth with a quart of White Wine then take a quantity of white wine vinegar and mingle all these together and drink thereof morning and night a spoonful at a time nine dayes together and you shall be whole There is no Medicine more excellent then this when the sore doth appear then to take a Cock Chick and Pullet and let the Rump be bare and hold the Rump of the said Chick to the sore and it will gape and labour for life and in the end dye then take another and the third and so long as
embers and keep it for your use How to make Hair grow Take half a pound of Aqua Mellis in the Spring time of the year warm a little of it every morning when you rise in a Sawcer and tie a little spunge to a fine box comb and dip it in the water and therewith moisten the roots of the Hair in combing it and it will grow long thick and curled in a very short time To write Letters of secrets that they cannot be read without the directions following Take fine Allum beat it small and put a reasonable quantity of it into water then write with the said water The work cannot be read but by steeping your paper into fair running water You may likewise write with Vinegar or the juyce of Lemon or Onion if you would read the same you must hold it before the fire How to keep Wine from sowering Tie a piece of very salt Bacon on the inside of your barrel so as it touch not the Wine which will preserve Wine from sowering To take out spots of Greese or Oyl Take bones of sheeps feet burn them almost to ashes then bruise them to powder and put of it on the spot and lay it in the sun when it shineth hottest when the powder becomes black lay on fresh in the place till it fetch out the spots which will be done in a very short time To make hair grow black though any color Take a little Aqua Fortis put therein a groat or six pence as to the quantity of the aforesaid water then set both to dissolve before the fire then dip a small spunge in the said water and wet your beard or hair therewith but touch not the skin King Edwards Perfume Take twelve spoonfulls of right red Rose-water the weight of six pence in fine powder of Sugar and boil it on hot Embers and Coals softly and the house will smell as though it were full of Roses but you must burn the sweet Cipress wood before to take away the gross air Queen Elizabeths Perfume Take eight spoonfulls of Compound water the weight of two pence in fine powder of sugar and boil it on hot Embers and Coals softly and half an ounce of sweet Marjoram dried in the Sun the weight of two pence of the powder of Benjamin This Perfume is very sweet and good for the time Mr. Ferene of the New Exchange Perfumer to the Queen his rare Dentifrice so much approved of at Court First take eight ounces of Irios roots also four ounces of Pomistone and eight ounces of Cutel bone also eight ounces of mother of Pearle and eight ounces of Corral and a pound of brown sugar-candy and a pound of Brick if you desire to make them red but he did oftner make them white and then instead of the Brick did take a pound of fine Alablaster all this being throughly beaten and sifted through a fine searse the powder is then ready prepared to make up in a paste which must be done as follows To make the said Powder into Paste Take a little Gum Dragant and lay it in steep twelve hours in Orange flower water or Damask Rose-water and when it is dissolved take the sweet Guâ—â— and grinde it on a Marble-stone wiâ—â— the aforesaid powder and mixing some crums of white bread it will come into a Paste the which you may make Dentifrices of what shape or fashion you please but long rolls is the most commodious for your use The Receipt of the Lady Kents powder presented by her Ladyship to the Queen Take white Amber Crabs eyes red Corral Harts-horn and Pearl all prepared several of each a like proportion tear and mingle them then take Harts-horn gelly that hath some Saffron put into a bag dissolve into it while the gelly is warm then let the gelly cool and therewith make a paste of the powders which being made up into little balls you must dry gently by the fire side Pearl is prepared by dissolving it with the juyce of Lemons Amber prepared by beating it to powder so also Crabs-eyes and Corral Harts-horn prepared by burning it in the fire and taking the shires of it especially the pith wholly rejected A Cordial Water of Sir Walter Raleigh Take a gallon of Strawberries and put them into a pint of Aqua vitae let them stand so four or five dayes strain them gently out and sweeten the water as you please with fine Sugar or else with perfume The Lady Malets Cordial Water Take a pound of fine Sugar beaten and put to it a quart of running water pour it three or four times through a bag then put a pint of Damask Rose-water which you must alwayes pour still through the bag then four penniworth of Angelica water four pence in Clove-water four pence of Rosa solis one pint of Cinnamon-water or three pints and half of Aqua vitae as you finde it in taste put all these together three or four times through the bag or strainer and then take half an ounce of good Muskallis and cut them grosly and put them into a glass and fill them with the water c. A Sovereign Water of Dr. Stephens which he long times used wherewith he did many Cures he kept it secretly till a little before his Death and then he gave it to the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury in writing being as followeth viz. Take a Gallon of good Gascoine VVine and take Ginger Gallingale Cinamon Nutmegs Cloves Grains Ani-seeds Fennil-seed of every of them a dram then take Caraway-seed of red Mints Roses Thime Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary wilde Thime Camomil the leaves if you cannot get the flowers of small Lavender of each a handfull then bray the spices small and bray the Hearbs and put all into the Wine and let it stand so twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first water for iâ— is best then put the second water by it self for it is good but not of such vertues c. The Vertues of this Water It comforts the Spirits Vitall and helps all inward Diseases that come of cold it is good against the shaking of the Palsie it cures the Contraction of the Sinnews helps the conception of women if they be barren it kills the VVorms in the Belly and Stomach it cures the cold Dropsie and helps the Stone in the Bladder and in the Reins of the back it helps shortly the stinking breath and whosoever useth this water morning and evening and not too often it preserveth him in good liking and will make him seem young very long and comforteth nature marvellously with this water did Dr. Stephens preserve his life till extream age would not let him go or stand and he continued five years when all the Physicians judged he would not live a year longer nor did he use any other Medicine but this c. A Plague Water to be taken one spoonful every four hours with one sweat every time Take Scabious
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