said hereafter in the remedies âf the stomack The Mouth Remedies for its diseases To destroy a stinking breath TAke three handfuls of Cummiâ beat them in a mortar to powder then take a pottle ãâã wine and put the powder into it and let it âethe till it come to a quart then drink first ând last of this wine by the space of fifteen âayes as you may suffer it Probatum est To make a sweet breath Take the juice of Mintes or the wateâ Rue Cummin Coliander Liquorice Cinââmon alike four ounces seethe all these ãâã wine and give them to drânk that hath ãâã stinking breath and surely it shall be sâeet Another for the same Take the powder of Sage one ounce ãâã mary blossoms three ounces Cloves and Gilââ flowers five drams Cinnamon one dram and half Nutmegs one dram and a half Musâ little quantity then take as much as is suâââcient to make the said Compositions into Corporation like unto Marmelade and eaââ this fasting and at night a little quantity aâ time so shall your breath be sweet And you go into any suspicious place of the peââlence or any other corrupt air if you take â this next your heart it shall defend you froâ the jeopardy thereof For stench in the mouth Take Pulial Mountain make powder thereof and eat it fasting Another Take Costmary drink it every day fastinâ wash thy teeth every night when thou goâ to bed with Vinegar Another Take the juice of Gladin with old wine and wash thy mouth every morning and evening Another Take Mastick and Incense and seethe it in sweet wine and drink thereof early and late Another for the stench in the Nose Take the juice of Mintes and put it into âhy Nose Another Drink the juice of Rue and five leaved Grass Another Take the juice of Ivy mingled with wine ând oyle Olive Probat To take away stinking of the mouth Ye must wash his mouth with water and Viâegar and chew Mastick a good while and then âash thy mouth with the decoction of Anniâeeds Mintes and Cloves sodden in wine Ye must wash your mouth before and after meat âith warm water for to cleanse the mouth ând to purge the humours from the Gums âhich descend out of the head it is good evâry morning fasting to wash your mouth and to âub the Teeth with a Sage leave pills of Ciâron or with powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs forbear Lettice Raw fruit all tart meats and the chewing of hard things Also âll meats of evil digestion and vomiting The Breast Remedies for distempers thereof Remedies for diseases of the breast And first for hâarsness of the voice ye ãâã avoid all eagâr salt and sâarp things anâ sleeping by day too much watching greaâ cold much speaking and too lâud crying ãâã sweet things are good as apples sodden wiââ Sugar great raisins Figgs Almond milk whiââ pills Sugar candy and the juice of Liqueriââ For a hoarse voice Take the broth of red Coleworte aââ mingle it with sâven or eight Penidies and aâ ounce of Syrup of Maiden-hair and give unââ the patient whân he goeth to bed Another Take Diairis simple and eat a Lozenge oâ the same at morning and at night For hoarsness of long continuance Take Raisins Figgs Sugar Cinnamon anâ Cloves of every one a little seethe them iâ good wine of the which ye shall give to drinâ morning and evening two ounces at a tiââ âxcept he have a fever It is good to take âorning and evening a fpoonful of the Syrup of Juâubes mixt with a root of Liquerice in âanner of a Lohoch A Syrup for Cough rheums Catarres and other like diseases Take Althaea leaves seven handfuls stamp them in a mortar then take a pot that will hold seven pints boil in it these âhings followâng Liquerice two ounces Sage Rosemary Carduâs benedictus figgs raisins barly flower of each a handful succory leaves and roots a handful let all these boil one hour and a half then let it cool so that you may strain it then take the water and put in two or three pounds of French Mallowes setting it to boil on the fire again three hours or more then strain it as you did before then take the decoction and set it on the fire with asmuch hony or little less taking off the scum when it hath boiled a good space adâ to it one ounce or as much as you wilâ of Cinnamon Then take it immediately from the fire putting it forth and covering it close This secret is so excellent that if a man use it in winter warming it when he taketh it it is not possible for him to be vexed with Câugh rhâum Catarrhes and like diseases A Medicine for the Cough Take the yelk of an Egg and put it into an emptie Egg shell and put to it five grains weight of the powder oâ Saffron and roste the same very rear and to bedward sup it off warm being well stirred together it cureth the Cough or giveth much ease Against the Cough Take Anniseeds Licquerice of each an ounceâ Hysop one handful sugar candy four ounces strong beer three pints boil altogether till half be consuâed then strain forth the simples and give the patient every night when he goeth to bed four ounces warm For an old Cough Take Elicampane roots and boil them tender then pound it in a wooden mortar then rub it in through an hair sieve then take clarifââd hony and lay a course in the bottom of a stean then a course of sliced wardens then a course of the Elicampane and so again as long as you please And then put the stean into aâ oven and bake them two or three hours then take it two or three times a day a spoonful at a time Another for a Cough with a rheum Take Brown sugar candy and put it pounded into a calves bladder and lay it in spring water 24 hours then cut the bladder and eat t with a Liquerish stick as the Cough doth trouble you âpreâerve Wallnuts for a cough or Consumption âake a pound of Walnuts before they be ãâã and paâe them very thin then steep ãâã in water a night then boil them in runââ or standing water until they be so tender âou may put an hard rush through them ãâã stick in each end of every Walnut a ãâã Then lay them hot togethâr in a ââney Bason then take a pound and a half âugar and strew upon them hot and cover ãâã and let them lie covered all night withâhe warmth of the fire And the next day ãâã them up and put them into a pot A good Syrup for an old Cough and it mundiâeth the breast and the Lungs and for pain under âhe side coming of cold âake Liquerice scraped and bruised two âceâ Maiden hair one ounce of Hysop dried ãâã an ounce put all this into four pintâ of ââing water and let them stand in that waâââ ãâã one day and one night and then seethe ãâã till
half the Liquor be consumed then ãâã the Liquor from the herbs and put in ãâã Liquor pure English honey white ãâã and Penidies each of these eight ounces water five drams boil all this with an easie ãâã till it come to the thickness of a Syrup ãâã alwayes as the scum ariseth gather it off ãâã keep it to your use For wheesing in the Chest. Take a Toste of bakers bread and pour ãâã let oil on it upon either side as you woâââ butter a toste strew heaten Sugar on eitâââ side and use it first and last till you find eaââ For delivering from Phlegm Take Hyssop and parsely and stamp theâ temper them with wine or Ale and drink ãâã night and morning Another for wheesing of the Chest. Take spring water one quart put to it ãâã ounce of white Sugar candy and two ouncâ of Liquerice pared and cut small in shiveââ and half an ounce of pure Cinnamon a littââ bruised let them steep in the water all nighâ drink of it first and last until it be âpent Pââbat Remedies for the Cough Take Hyssop great raiâins and figgs of exâââ a handful Liquerice an ounce boil them ãâã water till the third part be wasted then giââ it him to drink twice a day in the morniââ two hours before meat and at night one hoââ before supper immediately after it is gooâ to eat a Lozenge of Diairis or Diapenidion Another remedie Take Sugar candy white pills of Diairis and âiagragant of every one an ounce Liquerice âwo drams make a powder and let him eat a âoonful thereof morning and evening and ârink after it three ounces of water of Hyssop âr of scabious with Sugar and without Sugar In stead of these waters ye may take the âroth of red cole worts without salt Another remedy Take Syrup of Liquerice and of Hyssop ând drink it evening and morning with a âtisan or of one of the same Syrups with a ââoonful of Ptisan is good Another Take powder of Diairis simple and Liqueââce of each a dram weight and with four âunces of Sugar make an Electuary to be âaten first and last after meat It is good to take Lohoc sanum with a stick âf Liquerice at the coughing and after âeat And there is another Loch called âoch de pino as good at all times as the âther is And it is good to anoint the brest âorning and evening with oil of Lilies sweet âlmonds and May butter without salt Remedie against the cough coming of a hot cause Take Syrup of violets and of Jubes and drink thereof morning and evening with a litle Ptisan sodden For the same It is good to take first and last a Lozenge of Diâtragagant and afterward to drink draught of good Ptisan A good receit against the Cough Take the root of Elicampane Horehound Hollihock of each alike much seethe theââ altogether in white wine with a dozen of sat Figgs and a little Liquârice drink of it a draught every day twice For the Cough and Murre Take Aqua vitae a sufficient quantitie temper it with Sugar candy A Medicine for hoarsness in the throat Take three or four figgs and cleave them in two every one and then put into them â prettie quantity of Ginger finely beaten into powder and then roste them upon a clean hearth or tile stone and then let the partie eat them as hot as possible he can This harâ holpen some that have been troubled with hoarsness four or five years together before To heal the Sârâfââa or disease called the King evâl Take barly âlowre liquid pitch wax and oââ âlive in equal quantitie boil it altogether with childs Urine and brought to a plaister and applyed Fiet To cure the Kings evil Mistris Athinson the wife of the man elseâhere mentioned at the same time as her Husâand was cured of a broken vein affirmed that âher certain knowledge the roots of Houndsâângue cut in the shape of dice and put into a âânen bagg of about two inches square unââl it be almost full and hang it about the neck âf the partie grieved to lie upon the pit of âe stomack and let it be renewed once in two ãâã three dayes as the vertue decaies It will âreak the disease if not broken if broken it ââll cure it especially if it run brown water white then with more difficultie Against shortness of winde Shortness of winde proceedeth oft-times of âhlegm that is tough and clammish hanging ââon the lungs or stopping the conduits of the ââme being in the hollowness of the brest or ãâã catarrhous humors that drop down into the âungs and thereby cometh straitness of drawââg of breath which is called of Physicians âyspnoea or Asthma And when the patient canââot bend his neck down for fear of suffocation âs called Orthopnoea for every one of these diââases there be very wholsom Medicines deâared before The receipt for Asthma Take an ounce of great raisins picked from the kernels two figgs the meat of a Date dry Hyssop maiden-hair Liquerice and the lungs ãâã a Fox washed in wine water of scabioâs of every one a dram Penidies two ounces with Syrup of Liquerice Let all be incorporated and make a Loch to eat a good whilâ after meat with a stick of Liquerice To cure Asthmatick persons Take Lowes aâas in Latine Porcelliones and burn them to white powder upon a little stone and make them into an Electuary with life honey is excellent against the disease called Asthma An oyntment for shortness of breath Take two ounces of oil of sweet Almonds one of May butter unsalted a little Saffron and of new wax and make an oyntment wherewith ye shall anoint the brest morning and evening To break a sore brest Take a Lily root and a piece of leaveâ sâethe it in milk until the lilly be very ãâã aâd plaister like and so as warm as the parââ can suffer it lay it morning and evening âo keep the brest from breaking if it be not too far gone Take clay that is without stones and knead ãâã with sharp vinegar the yâlks of two eggs a âittle English Saffron and work it into the clay ând so take asmuch as will cover the redneâ of ât you must use it cold some brâsts will have âo colour and such are not lightly saved from âreaking To heal the breast Take as many Mallowes as will into a charger ând chop them and seethe them in ruââiâg âater till they be tender pour the waâer from âhem and put them into a pottle of good Ale-drâggs and a peny loaf of leaven brââd âgâated with a quart of white wine let thâse âeethe together till you think it be thick ânough then put thereto half a quarter of a âound of Deares suet and lay it to the sore as âot as the party can suffer it morning and âvening and after that the heat be such as it âryeth this will help any sore in the breast or âny other places You must wash
Sugar beaten sâall as he weight of the receit amounteth unto till it thick like a Syrup then put to this Syrup as it cooleth all your powder well stirâing and incorporating the same altogether and so keep it for your use Pâohatum est Take the lungs of a Fox dryed the juice of Liquerice Maidenhair Fennel-seed of âach â like four ounces make it in Sugar sodden in water as much as will suffice some make it with the juice of Myrts and then it is comfortable for the stomack this is a present remedy for a Consumption For the Phlegm and Cough Take an handful of Coltfoot of Liquerice shaved and bruised two ounces an handful of Maidenhair of Anniseed three ounces Lât it be boiled in three pound of fouâtain âr Spring water till half be consumed strain it and then put into it three ounces of white Sugar Give thereof five spoonfuls for the space of eight dayes warmed For a Consumption Take Syrup of Limons half dram Syrup of Coltsfoot Syrup of Hyssop alike one ounce Syrup of Liquerice one ounce Floris Sulphuris half a scruple Spirit of the seed of Fennel four drops and mix it all together For the Consumption Take a handful of Rosemary tops a handful of red Sage a handful of Horehound a handful of Plantaine leaves a handful of Hyssope a handful of winter Savory a pint of English hony a pint of runing water half a pound of blew Figs half a pound of Raisins of the Sun a stick of Liquerice boil all these in a new pipkin with a cover to it cut them small and put them into the pipkin and let it boil softly unâil it be half consumed then take and strain it through a cloth very well then give the party four spoonfuls morning and evening Another excellent for the same Take a quarter of pure red rose-Rosewater put it in a pewter platter or bason set it over a Chasfing dish of coales take clean Anniseeds and bruise them a little in a Mortar put thereof into your Rosewater a good handful and put also of sliced Liquerice bruised and tore in ãâã three or four stick and as much of Par ãâã roots the pith taken out bruised and sliced ãâã put therein then last put in a good spoonâââ of the tender crops of Hysâope so let them ãâã from a quart to a pint still bruising them ãâã a spoon as they boil and when it is ââfficient boiled strain it into a glass and take ââereof warm in the evening a pretty draught ãâã two hours after and before meat fast two ãâã use this it hath done wonders c. âhe Sides Remedies for their distempers âeuâisie A thing most certain to remedy the greatest pleurisie possible TAke the delicatest Apple that may be had make an hole therein pull out the ãâã if it may be not breaking the Apple ãâã which hole put in OlibanuÌ of the best the ââantity of three or four grains and cover the ãâã of the Apple then put the Apple into ãâã embers there to soken till it be tender but it must not burn then break the apple ãâã the Olibanum into four or five pieces and give it the patient to eat and forthwith ãâã Impostume of the pleurisie breaketh and ãâã patient recovereth Pro certo oyl of scorâons anoynted often to the griefs vatet âwrodâ See that you apply withal thin Cakes made with the said oyl and the fleying ãâã dryest hot one after another one at once and anointing the grief before any cake ãâã laid on with the said oyl hot and thus the ãâã cakes oyl and hot ashes breaketh the Impostume of the Pleurisie For to cure an Iâpostume which groweth in the ãâã side of the ribes of the side when no other Meâicâââ will cure the same Take Pipins and bruse them and strayâ the juice thereof to the quantity of a prettâ draught and put thereto a dram of the juice ãâã the herb called bearfoot and give it to thâ grieved to drink and it shall presently helâ him Another good Medicine Take Aqua vitae and Capons grease of eacâ of them a prety quantity and boil them together then take a little black wool and ãâã it therein and lay it hot as may be suffered to the stomack of the party grieved and it will ease him very spedily To destroy an Impostume and anâ swelling Take the roots of Hollihock sod till they be very soft and the water halfe consumed and more then put into the same water the flower of Linseed fenugreck a like much seethe it until the water doe rope then put the said âollihock roots to it being well pounded and add a handfull of barly meal and fry them all âith boars grease and if you will you may âdd sheepes suet apply it hot Probatum est A Catâplasme Take the flowers of Camomil Melilote of âach one handful of the leaves of Rue Marârow Nepthe of each one pugil of the seeds ãâã Annise two drams of the Laurel berries âhree ounces boil it moderately pound it ãâã asmuch hoây as is sufficient and apply it Another Stamp Mallowes roots well sodden then ãâã butter hony and pigeons dung very well âixt et fiet For the stitch Anoint the place with oil of Melilot and apâly Melilot plaister to the place upon a piece of Leather and change it once a week An experienced good Medicine for a pleurisie Take Brooklime sheeps suet and a little fair âunning water and fry them together in a fryâng pan and make a plaister thereof and lay it âhe side of the patient and it will draw forth âll the corruption This hath been proved The Heart Remedies for its Distempers Remedies for weakness and feebleness of the heart GIve him that hath a feeble heart and ready to saint either for fever or extream heaâ the wâight of a French crown of Trochisk of Camhire with wine of Pomegranates and lay upon his left side Limon dipped in water of roses and vineger In stead of these Trâhisks ye may use a Electuary called Diamargariton frigidum every morning a lozenge And it is good to give him for the same feeblenes conserve of Roses violets water lilies mingled together and after to drink water of Sorrel and to smell Roses water lilies rose-water and vineger Other whiles and most often debility of heart chanceth of a cold and drie cause and is without fever with great fear and heaviness the remedy whereof is this Take an Electuary called Diamoschum and use every morning a Lozeng and drink after it a litâle good wine or Bugloss water and anoint the brest with oil of Spikenard Moreover use once in a week before meat the weight of half a crown of good triackle or Mithridate so it be well tempered with a little white wine and with a few maces For beating or trembling of the heart If it be without offence Take two drams ãâã the third part of Elect. de gemmis then ãâã two or three ounces of Bugloss and âawme mixed
those Trochiâkes he may make a powder of Sanguis draconis Bole armony white amber and red coral drinking one dram with plantain water as is aforesaid Another Medicine to stanch the said flux Take two ounces of old conserve of Roses of the seed of plantain two drams Sanguis draconis Bole armony of every one a dram and a half white Cortal and red one dram make a confection with Syrup of Mirtles and give it to drink morning and evening two houres afore meat at every time âhe quantity ââ a mean chesnut An Irish Medicine to stay any flux Take a handful of Sage chop it small and put thereto the yelks of eggs and fry them with as little butter as may be and eat them as hot as you can and drink not of 4 hours and in four dayes after it helpeth For the bâoody flux Take âowder of Comphry and make tosts of wheat bread and put them in red wine aâd powder of Cinnamon therewith and also eat it alone To cure the bloody flux Take of Rubard grated one ounce harts-horn burnt and made into powder half a dram mix them with Conserves of red Roses of the last year and make thereof two or three boles and let him take it at once this scoureth away the cause of the flux and bindeth him presently after To cuâe any dangerous flux which is âf âorce to bring a man in danger of a consumption Take fine wheat flour boulted finely and tye it in a linnen cloath of the bigness of two eggs and boyl it in a pottle of running water with a handful of mother of time whân it is half boyled away then take up the flour whhich will be hard and in looking upon the flour you must take of a skim which will be on it then take some of the said flour and thicken a quantity of new milk boyled as a thin flour meat and drink it as ye see cause until you have recovered strength This will recover a man of the bloody flux even when he is tâought past help and also to rost an egge stone hard and âlit it and lay it hot to the fundament stayeth any monstrous flux and to wear napkins hot and to keep them as hot as one can well endure to the navel and fundament shiâting them as they grow cold is excellent in thâs case For the bloody flux Womans milk drunk nine dayes togetheâââsting cureth the bloody flux in any Another for the same Note that the powder of Misselden of the oak given in red wine helpeth that Flux ââhatum A sure experiment to cure the bloody flux when a man avoideth as it were black gobbets of flesh Take Cumphry Knotgrass sheppards purse Cinqufoil Plantain Ribwort strawberry leaves one handful the middle rinde of a black thorn of cinramon one half ounce broken in small pieces boyl all these in a pot of spring water with a wheat bread crust unto a quart and clarifie it and put nine spoonfuls of wine vinegar unto it with sugar and make a Iulep drink thereof morning and evening not drinking after of two hours Probatum The Bladder Remedies for its Distempers A medicine for the stone Take grommel seed paâsley seed red nettle Seed and saxiârage all these made in powder by even portions or else take the Juice of alâ these Herbes and of Lettuce and endive of all juices alike much and strain it through a Cloath and setâ it in a vessel on the fire And take halfe so much of honey as of the Juices and cast them all together and seeth them till they be thick and keep it safe as Treasure for this is a gracious Electuary for the stone Of the cure of the stone in the Reines and bladder To break the stone Take the kernells that are within sloes and drie them on a tilestone then make of them a powder by it selfe After that take the roots of Alisander parsly parietary and Hollihocke of every one alike much and seethe them all in white wine or in the broth of Chickens then strain them out into a clean vessel and when ye drink of it adde asmuch of the said powder as ye think convenient half a silver spoonful or more for without doubt it hath great effect in bringing out the gravel Another expert medicine There groweth in the galls of some open a certain yellow stone sometimes in bignes of a Wallnut somewhat long and brittle if ye take that stone and make of it a powder and eat it in your potâage the weight of one scruple or more according to your strength It is a singular Medicine for them that cannot piâs for stopping of the conduites Another singuâar Medicine Take the seed of Smalledge parsly Loâvage vage and Saxifrage the roots of Philipendula cherry stones gromel seed and broom seed of every one alike much make them in fine powder and when ye be diseased of the stone eat of this powder a spoonful at once in pottage or broth of Chickins and eat nothing after in two or three hours A goodly syrup to mundifie the reins Take the broth of a young chicken sodden till the bones fall assunder three pound Melon seed a little bruised an ounce parcely roots and Alisander roots three ounces Damask prunes Sebesten of each six in number great raisins half an ounce clean Liquerice âo drams water of Borage endive and hops of each three drams and with sufficient white sugar boyl them all unto the consumption of half and morâ and afterward strain them and make a goodly syrup This is a thing of excellent operation and an high secret in mundifying the reins and keep right diet the dose of it is one Cyath or a little cupfull in the morning early and sleep after it a little if yee would have the foresaid Syrup to purge more choler then put in a dram of fine Rubarb with a liter cassia A powder for the stone and Colick or either of them Imprimis Carawayseeds two ounces Gromel seeds two ounces Anniseeds two ounces Rubarb two ounces Liquerice four ounces Parslâ seeds two ounces Fennâl seeds two ounces dryed in an oven Elecampana roots dryed as the Rubarb else neither of them will beat to powder bruise all these very small and Put to them asmuch sugar as the quantity of them all and searce them through a sieve then every morning take an heaped spoonful and put in your broth or what you like best If you cannot away with the Gromel put the more into of the other seeds for that doth more prevail either against the stone or Colick This receipt hath often been proved to be good either for the stone or Colick Another for the stone and to break it Take ripe elder berries and distil then and drink the water with sugar and it shall break and come out in one night Probatum Some four ounces of the water will serve at a time For the stone which letteth a man to make water Take Southernwood stamp it small
it first and last It is comparable to gold A Medicine for the Plague Take a fair onion make a hole in it and take out the Inner core then take Dragon water triacle and pepper and bruise them a little and put them into the onion and rost the onion in the Embers and after bruise the onion and strain it with Malmesey and give it to the patient to drink And if it be taken before the heart is infected it s a present Remedy Probat For the canker in the body Take the roots of Dragon and cut them in small pieces and dry them into powder and seethe it in white wine very well and let the âick drink thereof three dayes together fasting and he shall be whole For the Canker Take an handful of woodbind and an handful of Sage stamp and strain them and seethe them to the third part with hony and Allome till it be thick and wash the Canker therewith To cure a Canker in the mouth Take Rock allome and burn it and make it into fine powder and scrape some Bole-armoniake into iâ and when you use it put drops of wine vineger unto it aâd anoint the place For the canker in the mouth the best way Take two âennyworth of pure coral asmuch as a wall-nut of roch allome and half asmuch of white Copperas and a pint of strong white wine vineger woodbind leaves and sage leaves of each ten one spoonful of bay-salt half a spoonful of English hony and a branch of Rosemary boil all together till half be wasted then strain and keep it in a glasse this water will remedy it in twice dressing When you wash your mouth put a little in a sawcer and âash the Canker therewith but let none go down A water to cure a Fistula Take Bolearmoniake Roman Vitriol allome of each two ounces boil these in eight pound of water till half be consumed with this you may wash any Fistula A diet drink for a Fistula Take Egrimony selfâheaâ sanicle Ladies Mantle Madder Hempe Mugwort Fetherfew wilde tansie brier tops one handâul Lignum giâacum lib. 1. Corticis ejusdem two ounces Inâuse al in twelve pound of water twelve hours then boil them to the third part post concoctionem ad Mellis optimi lib. 1. or cola A Medicine most excellent for the spitting of blood Take a raw Eggshell and cast away the inner skin thereof thân dry it in such order as may be finely powdered of which powder take two drams with three ounces of plantain water well mixed together Or if you will have this remedy more effectual then give it five days together in the morning two drams of the same powder dissâlved in this Syrup following Take Syrupi de rosis siccis Syrup de portulaca Syrup de Myrtis one ounce Misce. In like manner it s a fore Reââedy aswell in the cure as in the preservation for the patient to chew in his mouth every morning fasting one scruple of Rubarbe torrified For any sore which is poisoned with a contrary and unproper salve Make a posset of white wine and âay thâ curde thereof to the sore and it will take aâ the malice away so that another salve maâ work Also take new milk from the Cow and wash the sore therewith and it will do the like For any that is wounded to keep it from ranckling Take the juice of parsly and drink it and it shall not ranckle Te heal an Impostume in the body Dioscorides saith that Mintes stamped and drunk with Ale destroyeth all Impostumes in the body An ale salve to cure most sores Take a quart of the first running of Alewort boil it to a pint then put into it two ounces of fresh unsalted butter and so boil them to the thickness of hony And if it chance the sore to have dead flesh put in the salve an half peny worth of Allome Probat To remove pain and exceeding dolour in an Impostume or wound Apply the whites of Eggs or the whites and yelks together being well wrought together with oil of roses or else take the crums of wheat bread steeped in hot water and pressed out one pound yelks of Eggs in number two For Hemerods that come forth Take Wormwood and drink it fasting and make a plaster thereof and mingle with burnt garlick to powder and the sick shall be whole by Gods grace FINIS
diminishing the quantity of the said medicines it worketh not with the patient as it should it is convenient to give him a common Clyster Another remedy for the same pain Ye must lay thereon a linnen clothe moisted in Rose-water Plantaine-water Morrel-water Vinegar or else take the juice of Lettice and Roses and a little Vinegar and warm it together and dip therein a linnen cloth and lay it to the pain For an extream Headaâh Pound Euphorbium with Vinegar and if the grief be on the right side of the head then âay it on the left or on the right when the pain âs on the left side for it mitigates all pain very excellently but we must suffer the same to continue thereon no longer then the space of saying a Pater Noster and then wash it off Another Take nine or ten pieces of Zeduaria being smal cut it in parcels or else pound it somewhaâ grossely infuse thereon clear water and theâ put it into a glass and madesie clouts thereiâ of the breadth of two fingers and apply them on the forhead and temples of the same and the same being dryed moisten them again For burning Headach Take a handful of Houslick beat it with womans milk and with a little Rose-water ti'â it be like unto a poultis or pap and therewitâ anoint your head For shooting in the Head Pound Poppy-seed with yelks of eggs till ãâã be like paste and lay it on the grief Against continual Headach and singing of the Ears Beat Elder leaves and Rose-leaves with oâ of Ivy-leaves one amongst the other and depress the juice thereout tye these leaves oâ the head and with the juice thereof anoint thâ head For headach in the forepart Take Eldre leaves made hot between twâ stones and applied to the temples And for the better understanding of the sickness chancing in the head ye shall know that sometime it chanceth because of other diseased members as of the stomack or of the mother of the rheums of the Liver or of the Spleen and not of any cause of the head it self therefore ye ought to cure such sickness by helping of the same members as shall be shewed here following And ye may know that the headach câmâth of diseases of the stomack when the patient hath great pain in the stomack of the Mother when the woman feeleth great pain in her belly of the reins when there is a great pain in the back of the Spleen when he feeleth pain and heaviness under the left side of the Liver when the pain is on the right side about the Liver which is beneath the ribs Remedies appropriate to the head of what cause soever the pain is Take a handful of Betony an handful of Camomil and an handful of Vervine leaves picked stamp them and seethe them in black wort or in Ale for lack of it and in the latter end of the seething put to it a little Cummin braid the powder of a Harts-horne and the yelks of two eggs and Saffron a little stir them well about and lay a plaister hot over all his forehead and temples This is an excellent remedy also for the Megrim it shall piârce the better if ye add a little Vinegar Another Make a plaister of Bean flower Lineseed and oyl of Camomile or in lack of it Goosâ grease or Ducks greâse and rub the place with Aqua vitae and after lay the plaister hot upon it Another Take Wormwood brayed well and boyled in water and binde it to his temple upon the grief It will mitigate the pain and cause him to have a pleasant sleep Another Take a spâonful of Mâstardseed and another of Bay berries make them in powder and stampe them with a handful of earth wormâ split and scraped from their earth and a little oyle of Roses or of Camomile or Capcâs grease and lay it to the grief Also it is good to take the juice of Ivy-leaves mixt with oyl and Vinegar and so rub therewith your temples and your nostrils Pills for aâl pain of the head although inveterate Take Aloes epat washed three ounce Bryon Mâstic elect ana one ounce Diagrvâ hâee drams Let it âe consected with juice of Coleworts The dose from two Scruples even unto four It taketh away all pain of the head and rejoyââth and comforteth the memory To remedy all manner of Headach and Megrim Camomile Betony Vervine leaves of each an handful stamp them seethe them in white Wine or Ale adding therto pounded Cummin-seed a little three spoonful of Vinegar the yelkes of two Eggs and a little Saffron fiat Emplastrum apponaâur fronti c. sanabis A remedy teaching that one shall never feel Headach Take Pills of Aloes succotrine made in powder and mixt with the juice of Colewortâ the bigness of a Bean at a time For the Headach Take Wormwood and Camomile of each like much one handful and as much of Maiden-wort and a half penny wârth of Cummin and make it into powder and cast it tâgether and put it into a cloth of the breadth of a span and warm it against the fire and then lay it to his head c. For the Headach or Megrim Take Rosemary Lavender flowers winter Savory Camomile Bayes and Lavender with both new and old Mintes and Fennil seethe all these together in runing water and put thereto a good handful of Bay Salt then take some of the same liquor herbs and all and wash your seet twice therewith every morn and even for the sâace of four dayes and in so doing it will take away any pain of the head although it be never so extream or grievous This hath been proved Another Take Majerom-water and hold your nose over it and then draw your winde hard unto âou untill such time as the winde hath entred into your âose divers times and your head will cease aking speedily For Dizziness in the head Take Pilulae Cochiae one ounceâ temper it with twenty drops of oyl of Anniseeds and make seven pills of it and swallow them and keep warm in your Chamber till it have done working then eat any warm broth made of Veal Mutton or Chicken and comfortable Herbs After this purge so used this Electuaây following Take Betony-flowers and Rosemary-flowers three ounces powder of Carduus benedictuâ leaves powder of Marigold leaves one ounce boil them with one pound of beaten Sugar and half a pint of bugles-Bugles-water and Marjerom-water and Betony-water and Balm-water of each two ounce boil together over a gentle fire to the thickness of honey and use thereof as much as a Nut morning and evening till it be spent Probat Chew every morning Cloves fasting or whole Mace and use Coriander Comsits or the seeds prepared and use after meat Marmalade of Quinces to clâse the stomack and repress the vapors that fume up thence to the brain For the Headach and âo stop the rheum Dry Wheat-bran and beaten Henbane seed and put them in a bag and lay them
together For the same It is good to drink every morning three âânces of water of Bugloss wherein hath âeen sodden cloves And it is good to drink in a Morning four âunces of Julep made of half a pound of âawm water and three ounces of Sugar For the same It it good to drink every morning 3. ounces ãâã water of Bugloss wherein hath been sodden âoves And it is good to drink in a morning ãâã ounces of Juâep made of half a pound of âarm water and three ounces of Sugar The âonfection of Diajacinthy is singular and exââllent for trembling of the heart but it is for âoble men not for poor folk âor ach at the heart which are commonly a knot of worms Take unset leeks one handful chopped small ââd frie it with butter and bay salt and lay it ãâã the stomack upon a napkin Take a pinte of white wine English liquerice ãâã sugar boil it together in a pot close stoped take it fastingâ To help a mad body Take the Flowers of Rose-mary of Burragâ and of the roots of Buglosse of each a pound Saââron two drams of Quinces four ounces ãâã the best white wine a quart mix them together let them stand a day put them over thâ head fifteen days in an Horsmixon the mouââ of the glass not covered quite then distil it Then take of it first and last a dram at a timâ It is a precious secret it helpeth the treâbling of the heart For them that swound or are faint-hearted Take Rosemary Sage Betony and Marjerom of each an handful seethe them in a galloâ of fair water till a quart be consumed theâ take away the herbs and put to the said wateâ a pinte of good hony then scum it well theâ put in an ounce of Staechades tied in a fair linnen cloth Let it seethe a little then takâ out the Staechades and add an ounce of Cinnamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmeggs and asmuch in Ginger in powder drink it warm thrice every day six or seven dayes ââfiet A potion for sainting Take of the confection of Alchermes two drams of garden blew violet water and excellent red rose water of each two ounces and Syrup of violets two ounces and an half and Syrup of Lymons one ounce mingle them well together and take hereof four or five spoonfuls at a time when you see eause or when you please The Stomack Remedies for all pains of the stomack For weakness of the Stomack TAke Pilulae Stomachiae two or three hours before meat more or lesse according to ãâã quantitie of the fulness of the stomack ãâã after give him every morning two hours ãâã ore meat and one hour after supper at every me a Lozenge of an Electuary called Diaga ãâã ga or another called Diacinimum which ãâã consume ventosities and with their comâââtable heat drive away the cold and windy ââmplexion of the stomack For windiness of the stomack Take in a morning two hours before meat a ââzenge of Aromaticum rosat and if ye have ãâã aching stomack and cold take every morn ãâã a Lozenge of Dianisâ or Diacinimum and drink after it a spoonful of wine A present remedy for pain and ach in the stomack Maiden-hair bruised plaistered and laid to ãâã stomack sanat To help the pains of the stomack a rare secret Take every night last three drams of ãâã For a windie and cold stomack Take Aromaticum Garyophillat one ounce Electuar de aromatibus one ounceâ Et Diattrion piperion one ounce Mix it together and take it first and last â the quantity of three Nut kârnels For pain of the stomack Take two drams of Diacinnaâon of Dianist ãâã Diagalanga and drink it with a little gooâ wine an hour or two before meat drink a little Castor with good wine Another Drink two hours before meat three or ãâã ounces of the decoction of Mintes Anniââ seeds cummin and fine frankincense Also drink an Electuary caâled Arcuâaticum whereof receive one Lozenge every mârninâ fasting To comfort the stomack after vomiting It is good to give unto the patient everâ morning an ounce of Syrup of wormwood ãâã Mintes instead of which it is convenient ãâã take a Lozenge as Azromaticum rosatum or Diâgalanga For the same Take evening and morning three hours before meat two Cloves in powder with a spoonââl of the Juice of mintes or half a spoonful ãâã Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloves ãâã d lignum aloes to the weight of a crown with ãâã ine two hours before meat ân excellent purgation to avoid choler for men of all ages Take half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn dram of good Rubarb infused a night in wa ãâã of Endive with a little spikenard anâ an âunce of Syrup of violets mix all these things âith three ounces of Ptisan or whay and âârink it warm A Medicine for winde in the stomack Take a spoonful of hony and two spoonââls of rosewater and set them upon a Chaffing ãâã sh of coales and as the scum ariseth take it âith a feather till be clear Then take it off ââe fire then take a groaâs weight of long âepper asmuch of white asmuch of black ââd asmuch of cummin seed asmuch of ginger ââd beat all together in a Mortar not very ãâã all and put them into a box Then put in ãâã ony and rosewater unto them and mix them âogether with a knife and eat them after dinâer asmuch as a pease and you may keep it as ââng as you will and ever as it dryeth put âhereto more hony clarified with rose water To clear the stomack Take stale Ale and boil it and put it two branches of Hyssop to boil with it and drinâ first and last A notable sauce to procure an appetite in them whicâ be brought low to get them a stomack Take Vine leaves and stamp them aââ strain them and put in Sugar to the juice aââ Cinnamon powder with Sippets of mancheâ boil them as sorrel sops eat them with chicken or what you will It is excellent ãâã a fever or other sicknesses To make Pulvis ducis out of Master Cogans Caj ãâã of the weâkness of the stomack pag. 194. Pulvis Ducis as he saith is usually ââde of on ounce of Sugar and one ounce of Cinnamoâ finely powdred both and then mixed togegether And this Pulvis Ducis being mingled the quantitie of one dram with half a pint oâ Aqua vitae well tempered together and thrââ pints of rosewater and so let run twice oâ thrice through an Hyppocrates bagg anâ thereof take oft-times in the week one spoonful in the morning fasting especially in winteâ time is excellent good for a bad stomack of cold cause A drink for a bad stomack Brew Beer or Ale and when you tunne iâ before it work take a pound of wormwood and asmuch of the roots of red docks the pi ãâã taken out and washed and put them in a bagâ with a
stoned with a spoonfull of red ãâã chopped small Apply it plasterwise two houres before the fit For a burning fever a medicine approved ââue Take six spoonfulls of fair running water and put it into a fair glass or other vessel anâ put thereto one spoonful of bay salt ãâã picked from filth and let the salt melt ãâã the said water then put to it a pretty quantity of Saffron finely beaten and let the patient drink thereof in the beginning of his hearâ and it will lay the heat and in short spacâ drive away the fever and the sooner if thâ siek be made soluble or loose bellyed and thiâ approved to be true Another for a burning fever Take a handful of Câllendine a handful of bay salt an hard âgge and a raw egge a râsted onion and a raw oniân stamped altogether and make two plasters and binde them to the soles of your feet and with two plasters you shall have remedy A medicine to precure sleep in a fever Take of the seeds of white pâppie two spoonfuls of the white seeds of Lâttice being tâe best one spoonful make them into powder and drink it going to bed in a draught of clarified Mâce ale warm and it will cause quiet sleep the ordinary use is two small spoonfuls to bedward Probat For the fever in Angine and for bloody matter Seeth parsly in white milk and pât the âot milk to cold butter and it will be a posset you must use that posset ale first and last a week together It cuâeth also such as âake bloody water To make a breath to cool one in a fever Taâe fair water and put thâreto French barly boyl until the watâr be red thân pour the red water from it and put into barly the hot water some Liquorice some cooling herb as Violet leaves and strawbeâry leaves and put in some Lettice seeds and let it boil until the barly be very soât then strayn the barly from it and let it cool and when it 's cold put in some vinegar and sugar and so drink it you must put in your vinegar and Sugar as you drink it For an Ague of long continuance Take of Seâa two ounces of Polypody oâ the oak half an ounce Bay-berries half an ouâce of Fenel seeds half an ounce of Aniseeds half an ounce of Liquerice half an ounce one red Dock root the pith taken ouâ of scurvy grass one handful and a half bruise all this together in a mortar then put them in a Linnen bag and hang them in a gallon of nâw ale three dayes then drink thereof near a pint at eight in the morning fasting and at four in the afternoon till all be out A remedy to cure the new Ague and to cleanse the stomack by vomit Take a dram of pure Tobaâco and open the the Leaâ if it be in roul and stâep the leaves of the said dram all night in half a pinte oâ white wine then strayn it and drink it next your heart and âast two hours after and you shal have youâ stomack well purged and cleansed of Phlegm and choler This will our Engââsh garden Tobacco do Probatum also either steeped green but especially the dry Leaves of it as with esseth Mr. Parkinsons Herbal For an Ague if it be given before the first fit Take Dandelion stamp and strayn it and ouâ Triacle or Mithridate to the juice and drink it on your good dayes two or three dayes as your good dayes do fall out and it will hâlp for it hath been proved many âimes An excellent plaster to put away the Ague fit either Quotidian or tertian Take a good spoonful of Bay salt asmuch ârankincense bruised both so small as you can and put to them the bigneâs of an âgge of the root of white Briony and half an handful of Smalledge let the Briony and Smalledge be both pounded together and put with them your bay salt and Frankincense and lay it to both your wrestâ of your arms a hand breadth so cold as may be two hours before the course of your fit being spread a good thickneââ on two faiâ clothes Let it be unremoved twentie four hours then renew it This helped a dozen at one time in my Lord Harringtous house A plaster to put away the new Ague Take the middle bark of a walnut tree well steepâd in rose vinâgar thân stamp it with a spoânful of bay salt and one spoonful of Olibanum and lay it on a cloth spread well and thick to the left hand wrest leâinâ it ly there four and twenty hours Probatum What to give one in the fever or Ague Give them one dram of Theriaca Andromacââ mix it with one ounce of Conserves of Red roses and with dragon water or water of Carduââ Benedictus two ounces with one ounce of Syrup of Limons and take of this mixture one spoonful in your extremity at a time Leâ blod if need require the sixth day of youâ sickness in the Hepatica vein six or seveâ ounces For a tertian Ague a soveraign drink proved Take vervine and Mouseare and Camomil one handful boyl them in a quart of Ale to a pint and strayn it into a pot and when your cold fit is upon your drink a good draught of it and in two drinkings it will help Prebatum For an ague Juice of Wormwood and sugar doth help the ague in short time A special medicine for the Ague Drink at the coming of the cold fit the distilled watâr of Germander and it helpeth surely To cure a fever Take spring water and boyl it either in silver or other clean skillet or in a pewter pot set in hot water and let it onely boil and no more and then cool it And let the patient make it his drink untill the fever be gone and if the party have a choice palate put in a little white sugarcandy to take away the taste of the water A diet drink for the Scorbutum or scurvy and to put away the malum habitum corporis Prâbatum Take seven gallons of good middle ale wort and put it into a pan with seven handfus of Scurvy grass or for want thereof take three handfuls of pepper three handfuls of water Cresses and three handfulls of Brooklime boyl these being fair washed and pulled in pieces in the water until six gallons remain then order it as you would order beer and tunne it up in a barrel having ready a fine linnen bag wherein put a stone or plum with three ounces of Sena and one ounce of fine Rubarbe cut in small slices with the powder of grains long pepper anniseeds fennel seeds and Liquorice scraped and bruised flat one half ounce of spicknard and galingal vera beaten small one two ounces of the wood and rinde of pure sassafras half an ounce or one ounce if the wood be not vâry good cut in smal pieces then sow them all in the bag and fasten a long double strong thread to the bagge and hang it so in
fourth day and the first and second time they are washed it will make all the scabs in the body break forth And at the third time you shall have it so dried up that you shall finde all neat and clean within and without This water maketh the flesh white It s good for the Pox the Gout many other infirmities and namely for that the sublimate is good to eat away all the evil and corupt flesh and all dead flesh and to heal wounds incurable Here followeth the making and description of divers Waters Balsoms or Balms and other rare and excellent Medicines with their use and wonderful operations and vertues To make the precious Quintessence of the learned Mathiolus as followeth TAke of Cinnamon two ounces of Ginger four drams of each sort of Saunders six drams of Cloves Galingale Nutmeggs of each two drams and a half of Mace and of of Cubebs of each one dram of both kinds of Cardamomum and of the seed of Nigella Komana of each three drams of zedoarie half oâe ounce of the seeds of Annis sweet Fânnel wilde Carrets and Basil of each two dâams of the roots of Angelica Liquerice great Valerian called setwall Calamus odoratus of each two drams of the Leaves of Setarie or clary time Neppe and pennyrial minâes wilde time sweet Marioram of each two dramâ of red roses of Flowers of Sage Betony Rosemary Stechados Buglos Borrage of each one half an ounce of the rinds of Citrons three drams of the powder of Amber Aromaticus rosatus Diamosâhi dulcis Diamargariton Diarhâdon Abbatis Electuarium de gemmis of each of these three drams Beat all these together to powder that are to beaten And steep them together in 12. pound of the best Aqua vitae made of excellent wine in a glass vessel but Doctor Stephens water is better then Aqua vitae letting all these things so steep there 15. dayes together keeping all the while the mouth of the glass vâry close stopped continually Afterward put on your Limbeck of glasâ still this there a balm oâ water temperately making very close the head of the still that no breath may get out And keep the stilled water in another fair glass vâssâl and put thereto of sweet Saunders cut small two ounces and put into it of the best Musk and Amber grease both knit in a fair thin cloth of each half one scruple of pure clear Syrup rosat one pound then shake all these together in the glasse till the Syrup and water in the glass be well tempered together then shut the glass very close with wax and paâchment and so let it rest in some close place 15. dayes together and after 15. dayes clear it into another glass and keep this for a noble Medicine and right excellent whose singular vertues are as followeth The use and vertues of the Quintessence devised by the famous Mathioluâ This Quintessence if your use to drink of it and especially if âhey which have cold bodies pestered with cold moist humours do daily drink one spoonful or two of this water It taketh away inward rottenness it preserveth nourisheth and repaireth and defendeth encreaseth and prolongeth liâe And doth not only nourish natural heat and keep it in his strength but also doth quicken and regenerate the vital spirit it warmeth the stomack and and the brain and sharpeneth the wit It purifieth the eye-sight and refresheth the memorie It healeth the rawnâss of the stomack and swelling that cometh of winde swimming of the head the falling sicknes faintness Melancholy passions beating and trembling âf the heart sounding slumbring and the pain of the belly and sides above the Navil about which the Liver and the spleen lyeth also one ounce weight hereof with a convenient quantity of fine Triacle or Mithridaâum mingled with it and put into a Clyster for those which have the colick which cometh of cold and winde and ministred presenâly healeth it And to be short it is being used of a mâst excellent remedy âgainst all cold diseases or griefes And marvellously preserveth the life and lustie estate of man known and approved a true and present remedy to restore the speech lost good for the mother whârewith women be often grieviously vexed and being given to a person that is even now ready to passe from this life it so long retaineth him in life that it shall seem miraculous to the beholders To make a precious oil wâerewith to cure the obstructions of the Liver and the spâeen which is of force to help the same when the said grief cannot be cured by any other meanâ or Medâcine Take the rust of an Anchor or Anchors of ships craped of which file asmâch quantity as you list and this ruââ being ground or beaten into very fine powder steep it in very shârâ white vineger in a balm of warm water in a glasse vessel so as long until you see the vinegar be turâed very red with the rust aforesaid Then pour the said vinegar the clearest from the grounds into another vessel and keep it diligently then pour more vinegar upon the said ground or residens steep it as before in your balm of warm water until it be red also then clear it as you did the first and likewise keep it And yet again steep more vineger upon the same grounds again and again steeping and in all such things continuing as you did before until you see that the vinegar will be no more stained red Then pour all your said red steeped vinegar into a glasse still and put your still into a furnace and cover it with hot ashes and still it until all the vinegar be stilled out as other stilled water will be and keep it then take the glass or still out of the furnace and break it and take the substance which lieth in the bottom and pound it small and put it into another glass vessel and put to it the common water fresh distilled and let that steep again in warm balm as before the space of two dayes then take all out and let it drop thoâow a Jelly bag and save all that Liquor in a pure vessel and keep it until it be grown unto a salt which salt again beaten into powdâr and put the same into a glass with a crooked neck which the common distillers called a Retort stâll it as you do a balsamis and with a very strong firâ you shall out of the same still an oil which oil will be in colour red which receiving keep diligently for you shall have hereof a rare and excellent Medicine The use and vertues of the said oil followeth This oil prevaileth against all manner of obstructions of the Liver and spleen And when these obstructions cannot be healed nor cured by any other means then will this oil heal and cure the same The manner how to administer the same to the patient First the grieved must be purged by the advice of a learned Physician with such a
it up also four or five drops thereof poured into a great quantity of warm water will make it have a pleasant smell to wash hands or other things To make a special Aqua composita to drink for a cold or suâfet in the stomack well proved Take a handful of Rosemary and a good root of Elecampana and an handful of Hyssoâ half an handful of time half a handful of Sagâ six good crops of red Mints and as many ãâã penyrial half a handful of Horeâound six crop of Marjerom two ounces of Liquerice weââ bruised asmuch Anniseed and take three galons of good strong Ale and take all the saiâ Herbs wringing asunder and put them into thâ Ale in a brasse pot well covered and close anâ let them stand till they begin to boil theâ take them from the fire and set upon it you Limbeck and stop it just with paste that therâ cometh no air out and so keep it forth with soft fire as Aqua vitae is made put more therâto half an handful of red Fennel half handful of Hartstongue and half an ounce ãâã Maces A marvellous Ba'm made by art most laudable Take fine turpentine one pound of oil of bay four ounces oâ galbanum four ounces of guââ arabick four ounces of pure Frankincense ãâã Miârh of gum Jvy and of Lignum aloes ãâã each four ounces of Galââgale zedoary oâ Gingeâ of the white Dittany of leaves of Conjoliââ minor of Nutmeggs of Cinnamon of each on dram of Musk and Ambergrease of each onâ dram all these bâat together pour upon ãâã pints of the best Aqua vitae distill it secunduâ arâem The vertues are thâse it breaketh and diâsolve ân the stâne in the kidneys causeth thâ patient to pisse which otherwise is letted ãâã a piece of flesh it helpeth consumption sciâtica or ach in the head fowl scurse wounds iâ the head It helpeth the plurifie Give on dram with water at a time helpeth any swelâng in any part of the body the coldness in ââe head it helpeth hot sickness aswell as cold Take a Borrage more and boil him in half pinte of wine and half a pint of rose-rosewater ãâã drunk fasting in the morning It com ãâã the heart and brain it healeth the âemorie and wit it purgeth the evil blood ââcovereth Phrensiness ãâã making of Venice Balsam and the vertues thereof Take a handful of the flowers of Dogsâângue of St. Iohn Worât the flowers a handââl white wine somewhat more then a quarter ãâã a pint of gum Elemie one ounce five penyâorth of saffron one penyworth of venice âurpântine one ounce of Candied oil or ãâã oil half a pinte If the flowers of the Herbs are not infused ãâã the oil then boil it in the white wine by ââemselves and then boil the gum Elemie in ââe oil by it self and then clarifie it and cast âway the dreggs and then boil it again all toâether and last of all put in the saffron and ãâã Turpentine when you are ready to take ãâã boiling a little and so clarifie it again ând when it is almost cold put it into a glass to ââe The best way is to infuse the flowers of the Herbs with red roses or Damask in sallet ââil for a year or less The gum Elemie will ââil in the oil a quarter of an hour and after ãâã boiling it together it will be a quarter of a ãâã hour the flowers are to be strained out âodden in wine or the oil The vertues of it are as followeth It will cure all diseases coming of cold eiâ pains or achs in the head or the deaâness iâ the eare the same Ballam ãâã waâmed and anointing the place gâieved and a warm cloath applied thereunto And for tâe ears to lip â little black wool in the same Balsom and ãâã then thârewith This is good for the gâavâ and pain in making of ãâã and the Coâ lick to take the same in a little Mutâoâ broath to the quantity of a great bâan and drink it every morâing fasting and anâ in thâ place grieved Moreover for all cold Ague drink but half an ounce in broath before the fit comes Again for pain or swelling of the Spleen or Milt and for the mother Anoinâ the leât side therewith well warââd and iâ will dissolve all hardness cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneyeâ and bladder It câreth all aches in what parâ of the body soever rubbing the place grieveâ with a Cloath first well warmed and then anoint it with the same Balsam being made warm and binde the place with a warm Cloath afterward It cureth all Lameness and shrinking of the sinews and all green wounds suddenly It hath more vertues then I have here written To make the most eâdellent water of Treacle or Mithridate which is a most precious remedie against all outward and inward poysons or pestilence Take of excellent venice Triacle or Mithridate one pound which put into three pounds of Ardent water rectified to be there digested in a furnace of Circulaâion And in a circulating vâssâl the fire all that while be verâ soft and slender which done pour it into a Cucurbite and put on the Alembick and distill the same so long in a balneo Mariae as ye may see the Liquor issue out clear and bright but when ye see the colour thereof become clear and yellowish then take away the receiver and keep that clear water by it self to be drank in such times of need as is asoresaid To draw out another Liquor from the sââis whence this Liquor was distilled superââctum Take the Cucurbite with the saecis from whence this liquor was distilled and lute the said still over then set it upon Ashes and make a hot fire and draw from it such liquor as will distill And receive the said liquor into a bladder which set under the nose oâ the Aleâbick and keep it and therewith anoint the skin or outward parts and they shall be preserved from the Contagion as aforesaid To make Cinnamon milk or liquor after another sort most precious for a restorative Take the waters of Bugloss Borrage Balme and of the lesser Cenâaury of each a pound and an half into the which put of Cinnamon welâ choyce of the best sort two pound well beaten to powder first which then steep in the said waters together in one glass vessel 15. dayes And after that distill it upon hot ashes first with a lent fire so long as any Liquor will issue clear and fair which clear liquor keep apart but when ye see certain drops issue like unto whey or milk then change the receiver and reserve therewith all that milk liquor by it selâ for it is most excellent of which if ye give unto any aged or weak person or to a woman in childbed thereof a spoonful or a spoonful and a half it doth wonderfully strengthen them A ba'm for a wound Take good white wine one pinte oil olive half a pinte St. Iohns
in three pounds of white wine and one pound of red rose water boil it till come almost to a Syrup this Julep is so acceptable to nature that it supplyeth the use of meat and drink To make Triacle water Take three pints of Carduus water and put into it an ounce of hartshorn and boil it till it câme to a quart then take gentian roots roots Elicampane roots Cyperus roots Rinde of Pomegranates of each a ounce beat them into grosse powder of the herbs oâ Carduus and Angelica one ounce of the flowers of rosemary Marigold Bur rage Bugloss of each of them half an ounce also one pound of Venice Triacle dissolved into six pints of whiâe wine and three pints of red rose water infuse all these things xxiiii hours together this still in a glasse still or another still that stills with water The vertue of this Triacâe water Take a spoonful or two at a time upon finding the stomack ill or upon fears or to drive away any thing from the heart to restore the spirits and speech and sowning and âainting ten grains in a spoonful of posset drink made of Ale going to bed is good against fears For a Surfet Take the grounds of strong Ale two gallons of the Lees of Sack two quarts a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds bruise them and put them together and distill the water then put into the water an ounce of Cinnamon a dozen bruised Cloves one Race of sliced Ginger a quarter of a pound of prunes dried fair but not washed 2. quarts of thunder baggs or corn rose leaves with the bottoms cut off Then sun it a Moneth and if the water be not of a deep Crimson then renew the Leaves and sun them a while longer take of these a spoonful at a time an hour after a second and an hour after a third To make a drink for all manner of Fevers and Impostumes and for sickness in mans body Take Hyssop Rosemary Violet Leaves Vervine Herb Iohn Mouseare Plantain Avence Sage and fetherfew of each an handful and wash them clean and put them into a Mortar and bruise them a little and put them into an earthen pot that was never occupied And put therein a gallon of good white wine and so let it stand all night covered and in the morning boil it till it come to a pottle and let it run through a hair sieve put it into a clean vessel covered and let the sick use these first and last nine dayes at evening warm and at morning cold every day and night half a pint and he shall be whole by the grace oâ God A note of a diet prescribed by three dutch Doctârs foâ a man past cure so judged Take Hermodactils two ounces Sarsaparillae four of sassafras 2. ounces Sene Alexandriae four ounces Liquerice one ounce Anniseeds one ounce long pepper half an ounce of the leaves of Scabious one great handful of Egrimony half asmuch of Betonie half a handful of water Cresses and brook lime one great handful of scurvy grasse of the Sea two great handfuls of good Nâtimegs one ounce Let all the wood be sliced and cut small and the herbs shred and all put into a bagg and hanged in a barrel with six gallons of new Ale to work with it and when it hath wrought stop it up and let it stand and settle eight dayes then drink continually of it and no other drink so long as it laââeâh your bâead must be Bakers bread with Coriander and Anniseeds your breakfast of the bread and blaunched Almonds and raisins of the sun and your diet drink your dinner dry rosted Veal Hen Chicken Mutton or rabbet your supper as your breakfast or some small repast of dry rosted ãâã or Rabber continue this six weeks and beware of cold and if you keep your chamber have merry Company this Diet will cure any desperate disease in the body that is to be cured and many times indeed those which be past câre Probat A Medicine for the sweat Take three pints of Ale one ounce of Sugar six Sage leaves boil all these together and scum them clean And put thârein a crâst of white bread or a few crums and seethe then a penâworth of powder of Maces and keep it warm in an carthen pot or in a pâwter pot and drink nine or ten âpoonfuls at your pleasure the twenty four hours and sometime drink Ale bloâd warm with a penywâight of powder imperial at a time Use Manus Christi at your pleasure if you feel your self sick or faint at your heart Then take a great weight of the queens preservatives with a spoonful of the sâdden Ale aforesaid or else Ale blood warm or else on a knives point once in twenty four hours Also eat no manner of spices but Mace onely and drink no manner of wine in the said twenty four hours take no manner of cold nor take not too many oâ clothes but competent To make the Queens preservative Take half an ounce of Triacle powder imperial two peny worth of powder Sedwall a peny worth mingle all these together and put it into a box and use it as aforesaid when need requireth and old people may eat the qâantity of a Nut to preserve them fasting in the morning For them that are poisoned a remedy Take the powder of Betony put in wine a âpoonfâl of powder to a draught of wine a ãâã boiled by the fire being drunk doth help them presently that have drunk poison before and whoso drink it in a morning fasting no poison can hurt him A Medicine diminishing all kinde of sickness if it be not unto death and prepareth the body for recovery of health Take of the best Triacle adding thereto a few drops of oleum Vitrioli and let it stand till thou use it then any lying sick not unto death give the weight of a French crown of the same Medicine and if he be not over weak give a little more Let him drink it hot with wine in the morning fasting four hours before he eat washing out of the cup also with wine which being also taken and well covered in his bed and wrapped about his bead and all covered onely his mouth there let him sweat four hours asmuch as its possible and not sleep in any wise these four hours Then change the sheetes and let them be very dry and warm then let him lie and not sweat before he rise or eat the space of three hours then let him eat some good thing and drink good old wine after his meat Then afterward the Physician may use either Medicine both purgative or corroborative as the necessity and occasion requireth This Medicine dimânisheth the cause of all sickness and prepareth the body in the way of health speedily and never fails the Physitian See that he sweat plentifully without sudden cold and use good diet afterward An oil of the Philosophers drawn out of Turpentâne Take of clear Turpentine eighteen ounces
with a mote 2â Eye with a pearl in it 2â Eye sight to restore ibid Eye with a pin or web in it 3â Ear that hath a noìse in it 31 4â Ear pained ibid Ear that hath an impostume in it 3â Falling sickness 11 12 13 1â Fainting 6â Feaver 81 82 83 8â Feaver to cool ibid. Fundament to cure 92 93 Flux 102 103 Flux humoral to stop ibid. 104 119 Flux cured by an Irish Medecine ibid. Flux that is desperate and bloody 105 106 Flowers to suppress 120 Flux red in women 123 Flux of the Matrix 120 118 French Pox 100 Gall diseased 75 76 Gonorrhoea 98 100 Green sickness 1â2 Gout 128 131 132 133 134 Head ach 1 3 5 6 7 8 9 Head ach extream ib. 4 Head ach for ever to cure 7 Head to purge 9 28 Head to expell cold out of it 9 Hearing hindered through pain of the head 33 Hearing 35 36 Hoarsness 50 Heart weak 64 Heart trembling 65 Heart beating ibid. Heart that hath an ach or troubled with worms ib. Impostume 62 Iaundies 77 Iaundies black ibid. Iulep for the Liver 73 âtching to kill 17 Kings evil 50 51 Liver diseased 72 73 Lues Venera 100 Legs swoln 113 Megrims 7 Mouth 43 Madness 66 Melancholy 78 Matrice 119 120 Matrice to cleanse 126 Mother 120 124 125 Menstruus overflowing 121 Menstruus to provoke 122 Miscarrying to prevent 26 Murre and cough 50 Milk coagulating in the brest 56 Nose that stinketh 41 43 Nature to restore 97 Nature to preserve from wasting 99 Oyl for an ach 135 Oyl for the Palsey 10 Oyntment for an ach in the back 97 Palseâ 10 Phegm 4â 58 59 Phtysick 57 58 61 63 Pox 100 Piss well 111 Powder to restore Nature and preserve it 97 Plâster for the Gout 131 Pulvis ducis for the stomach 70 Rheum 45 Rupture 92 93 Reines to restore that are sore 98 101 Running of the Rains 99 Rains to mundify 108 Sight to preserve 9 17 Sight dim 19 20 25 Sight decayed 26 Sight to get though blind 28 29 Sâitch in the side 63 Swooning 66 Stomack that is weak 67 Stomack troubled with winde ib. 69 Stomack cold 68 70 Stomack pained ibid. Stomack to comfort after vomiting 68 Stomack to cleer 69 Stone 77 106 108 Stonâ in the Reines 107 Stone to break 109 An oyntment for the back if the Stone come away painful 109 Stone to slip with a Pultis 110 113 114 Sir Traver Williams receit for the stone 114 Stone to prevent ibid. 115 Sâone in the kidnies 117 Sciatica 134 135 Spee hiess with the Palsey 10 Tooth ach 39 37 40 Teeth rotten and stinking 38 Tooth ach never to vex you more 39 Tâeth loose 40 Teeth to leave aching or faâl out 40 Teats of a woman impostumed 57 Termes to bring down 122 Voice hoarse 44 Voice hoarse of long continuanâe ibid. Vein broken to knit 69 Vrin that is sharp 111 Vâin that is hot and burning 112 Vrin that is foul or red 113 Vrin to provâke ibidem Vomiting 68 White and Weaknesse of nature 124 125 Wheesing in the Chest 48 Water for the sight 18 27 Water that is pretious for many sicknesses 10 Walnuts preserved for a cough a consumption 47 Windy Colick 91 Web in the eye 24 A Table of the Remedies for childrenâ Diseases For the Diseases of the head 139 For the diseases of the eyes 143 For the diseases of the ears 145 For the diseases of the Teeth and Mouth 146 For the diseases of the neck throat and breast 149 For the diseases of the Stomach 151 For the diseases of the Navel 156 For the diseases of the reins and bladder 158 For ruptures 159 For the small pox and measels 162 For agues and feavers ibid. For the diseases of the Cods 166 For the Shinglâs 166 For burning and scalding 169 For to kill and destroy lice Also the manner how to make divers sorts of most pretious Waters Balsomes Oyles with other rare and excellent Medicines with their uses Vertues and wonderful Operationâ page 175 to the end CHOICE and RARE EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICK AND CHIRURGERY The Head the remedies for its distempers Head-ach Here followeth the brief description of inward and outward diseases of the body with the most wholsom and expert Remedies for the Cure thereof And first of the sickness of the Head ANd it is to be noted that the cure or remedy must be appropriated according to the nature and cause of the grief which if it be not rightly considered it would be but vain to apply any Medicine and therefore the right judgement of an expert Physician is very requisite needful in such cases as you may plainly conceive for the multipliâity or diversity of causes in some diseases maketh the cure of more difficulty as also the methodical way of applying the same in observation of the circumstances of the Patients age constitution strength sex and the like which must of necessity be observed in the administring or prescribing of all medicines that should take effect perfectly to cure c. And now Headach chanceth oftentimes of divers and sundry causes as of blood choler flegm or melancholy or of ventosity and sometime of heat of the Sun or of too greaâ cold of the air If it come of blood the Cephalick vain oâ the right arm is to be cut or opened if the paiâ continue on the vain of the forehead on thaâ side the pain is then lay upon the place âyl oâ Roses Vineger and Rose-water or a bagge witâ Roses sprinckled with Rose-water And it is to be noted aswell in this cause aâ all other that if his belly be hard and bound first ye must give him an easie Clyster or else oâ Cassiâ newly drawn out of the Cane or some other easie Laxative to provoke the duty of thâ Womb else all applications of medicines wilâ be nothing worth at all If the Headach proceed of Choller there ãâã sharp pain and heat chiefly on the right side oâ the Head Ye must give him morning and evening ãâã drink Sârup of Violets with a mean draught ãâã Endive Water in a glass or of Cummin waâââ sâdden and cooled again And instead of the Syrups you may drink water of Endive Succâry Puâslain and Nenupâar mixed together ãâã one of them by himself two or three dayes at even and morn Then give a dram of Pilulae sine quibus at night to bedward or about midnight and the day following keep you iâ your chamber Instead of these Pills it is good every morn to take an hour before Sun a medicine to drink that shall be made of half an ounce of Succo Rosarum mixt with two ounces of Endive water Instead of the said Succo Rosarum ye may take half an ounce of Dia prunis Laxative and ye must take heed in giving such purgations that the patient be strong for if he be weak ye may give him but half of the said pills or of the other Laxatives And if in
warm to the nape of the neck To dry up and draw rheum out of the head A quilt made with Bay-salt dry Sage and Cummin is good for the rheum to draw it out and waste the humors and in like case is the leaves and flowers of Mustard-seed bruised and so laid to the crown of the head To purge the head and preserve the sight Drink Beer every morning a good draught fasting wherein the roots of Dog fennel or Motherwort is steeped the roots somewhat bruised and it will presently work in your eyes and head To expel a cold stomack or head and to expel a Consumption or either of them Take a pint of white wine Vinegar and half a pound of the best fine hard Sugar mix them and a head of Garlick trimmed clean bruised to mash then put them altogether into a pipkin and boil them softly till half be wasted and take thereof morning and evening a small quantity It will help the cold and expel a consumption An oyl to cure the cold Palsie and shaking Palsie Take a young cub Fox case him and gut him and chop him in peices and boil him in three gallons of water with a great handful of Her be-grace bruised and ever as the first scum ariseth scum it of and cast it away and all the rest of the scum and fat which riseth scum into a fair glass as long as you can get any and cover the glass close and anoint the place with the said ointment where the Palsie beginneth and you shall be cured And to anoint the shaâing Palsie cureth it in a short time For quaking hands Take Fennel Rue and Wheat-bran seethe them in water and wash thâ hands therewith also to wash thy hands in Claret wine is excellent for the same being often proved For them which aâe speechlesâ with the Palsie Take sharp Mustard and give it to drink in Ale or Beer warm also Primrose roots cut in slices and a slice lâid under the tongue will help in the like case A precious water against many sicknesses Take Nutmeg Cloves Cresses-seed Cubebâ Maces Grains Ginger and Cinnamon of each alike much and beat thâm to powder and put them in white wine a Limbeck and distill them with a soft fire This water drunk fasting helpeth all cold sicknesses putteth away all diseases in the eyes and redness and watering It helpeth the Spleen the Liver the Fistuâa in the body the Palsie the cold Gouâ the Palsie with many other diseases and much comforteth the stomack For the falling Sicknessâ Take a good handful of single Piony stamp them in a pottle of white wine having in it some Saffron within a cloth then give three spoonful of this three dayes before the change of the Moon and three dayes after the change the day of the change being not reckoned for one Take three spoonfuls of this three morâings and three nights press well the juice ouâ of the roots Hang a Piony root as neer the heart as you can Another Take the weight of half a crown in silver or half an ounce of red Fox Gloves and the like weight of Southernwood let them lie twelve hours a steep in a pint of Ale then strain it and give it blood warm fiâst and last do so for three daâes together about the time of the Moon your fit comâth If it be for a chiâde â pint may be given at four dâaughts it maketh the party sick but it cureth For the Falling sickness or disease neer unto it Take one once of Piony root dryed and finely beaten and put it in a pint of Ale âr Beer or both boil it and drink it morn and evening anâ it will help you It is proved For the Falling sickness Take three nails made in the Vigil of Saint Iohn Baptist commonly called Midsummer eve drive them in the ground so deep that they be not seen in the place where the sick party fell naming the parties name whiles it is in doing It will drive away the disease which Misaldus credibly reported A powder against the Falling sickness Take of Christal prepared one dram Of red Coral prepared two scrupleâ Of Pearl prepared one scruple Of Oâiental Smaragd prepared half a dram The half part of which is one dose in the water of our Ladies thistle Caeâar accounted this for a great secreâ and with which men that were somewhat aged as also those which have been long subject to this disease after purgation were cured Zacutus Lufitanus wiânesseth and reporteth de Prax. Med. adm lib. observat 20. that he hath seen many and also of great age having this disease of the Falling sickness having tryed many remedies as well of an hidden as manifest quality which nothing profited or availed them onely with the syrup made of the green leaves of Tobacco and hony to have been cured taking of the same three ounces three hours after supper for fourty dayes if greeâ Tobaccâ ãâã wanting dry of good note or the best may be used instead thereof Another excellent Remedy for the salling evil Take a good handfuâ of Piony roots and a handful of Misselto that groweth upon a blackâhorn and a handful of Polypodium otherwise called in English Oakefearn and two good âandful of Selendine if it be possible it may âe had and stamp them very well and then âet them to steep either in Ale or Beer for the âpace of two hours or more and then put it inâo your earthen pot where it maybe kept close ârom any air and let the party grieved drink a âood draught thereof every morning fasting ând last in the evening and let him use it for âhe space of fourteen or fifteen dayes and by Gods help it will cure him in short space Against the Epilepsie of Children Take Coriander prepared Mâstard-seed Nutmegs of each half a dram Piony-seed seven ârams Diptamni two drams make thereof a âowder and let it be given in the morn with âot wine Another expert against the Epiâepsie Take red Coâal the forepart of the skull of a man of grains of Piony of each one âram mix it and make a powder thereof of which powder must be given at three times at morn noon and night with some broth or âome water appropriated and if it help not at once then renew it in the same manner and âose as before It is found that many things have a natural vertue against the faâliâg eviâ not of any quality elemental but by a siâgular property or rather an influence from heaven which almighty God hath given unto things here on earth as by these and other Saphiâes Smargdes red Coâal Piony Misseltoe of the Oak âaken in the Moneth oâ March and the Moon dâcrâasing Time Savin Dill and the stone found in tâe belly of â young Swallow and others these or one oâ them hangâd about the neck of the child saveth and prâserveth it from the said sickness Take âhe root of Piony and make it inâo powder and âive it the
To destroy Rheum that it fall not into the eyes Take raw beef a fair slice as broad as your and and lay it in a pewter platter and put to asmuch aqua vitae as will cover the beef and ât it on a chaffing dish of coles let it boil in âqua vitae until it be ready as though it should âe eaten then take it out of the Aqua vitae ând lay it to the neck of the grieved partie ând there let it remain and use it and it will âive the Rheum that doth offend the eyes âroved Master Davies water for the clearing of the eye sight being much decayed Take two great handfuls of eye bright when is well sprunge up and in full flowring and ââe handful of Balm and still them together ând scum the water nine dayes then use every morning to wash your eyes and eye-browes therewith and use so quarterly nine dayes tother and it will cause you in short space to read without spectacles if you have used spectacles before time Probat To draw a mote out of the eye Take white sope and scrape a little of it into a Sawcer and dry it by the fire very dry and then put it into a little fair water but make it not too thin put it into the sore eye with a feather and its good for man or beast Probat A cure for the sight decayed Take 3. pintes of barly flower finely boulted make paste thereof with fair water or with distilled water of Tormentil and make your paste stiff and roul it like venison pastie and fill it full of the leaves flowers and Wyers of Tormentil and put thereto one peny of life-hony and close it and bake it with Cakes and when it s baked break it in small pieces and put it in a steane pot of ale of three gallons and drink no other drink neither at meat nor any other times for the space of two moneths and this shall restore the sight if possible Proâat A powder to clear âhe sight much decayed and near gone Take of the powder of eye-bright made of the leaves and Flowers stripped together and âo fine powder four ounces of Mace one âince mingle them and take thereof the âight of three pence before meat water to preserve the eye-sight which hath been commended to be the best in the world Take Hepatis hircini sani recentis 4. ounces lâmi Aromatici melli one half ounce succi a one scrâple Aquae Celidoniae six drams ue feniculi aquae Verbenae aquae Euphragiae of ch 4. drams Piâeris longi Nucis Moschat iGarioâorum of each grains fifteen Croci grains two âis Rerismarini aliquantulum contusi Pugillum âis Sarcocolle Aloes Hepatice one scruple of e gall of a Hen and of a Capon of each âee drams hony of roses one dram mingle em and distill them in a glass still first bruiâg them and putting to them one quarter of ounce of the best refined Sugar Some three four drops in each eye at a time is thought âficient it s also a fine smelling water with a âtle smell not very easily perceived nor âelling far off It s not much matter whether ãâã Liver of the Kid be of a he Kid or a âe Kid but of the two the he Kid is âought to be the better A preservative for the eye sight Make comfits of Turnepseeds and eat a âre of them after dinner and supper as âny immediately after the said meats It was âected that nine or ten of the said Comfits âould be eaten after meales they are to be âled in Sugar To purge the head and preserve the sight Drink beer every morning a good draughââasting wherein the roots of dog fennell oâ Motherwood is steeped the roots somwhat bruisâd and it will presently work in your eyeâ and head Probat For all Infirmities in the eyes Take ground Jvy called Cill gee by the ground alias Ale-hoof Celendine and Daysies the Flowers leaves and roots of each one oâ these herbs and a like quantity of theâ stamped and strained and a little Sugar anâ red rose water put thereto and dropped witâ a feather into the eyes it taketh away all ââflamation and spots scabs scales Itch smaââing or any grief whatsoever in the eyes yââ although the sight were almost gone A gâod water for sore eyes Take a pint of running water half an haââful of Singrene Leaves and a little of unicoââ horn and boil it all together and pour out â water and wash the eyes therewith Proved A precious Medicine for the eyes then which no better be for though a man had been ten years within eleven dâyes he shall be stored to his sight again of very truth Take smallach brown fennile verviâ ãâã âetonie avence pimpernel strawbeââ wisâ Filago Eufrace Câlendine Sage of eââ alike much and lay them all a night to sleep in a childs urine that is a virgin and after put ât into a morter and put seven corns of pepâer and stamp it small and temper it with the sâme ârine aforesaid and then strain it and keep it in boxes and anoint the eyes in the morning and Evening For sight of the eyes lost how to restore the same and to clear the eyes and to help the dimnâss of tâem Take Eye-bright water made of all the whole Eye-bright and anoint the eyes ofteâ and eat often the powder thereof and drink the water use it long sanat To cleanse the eyes and do away the pearl Take the red Roses and Maiden-âair and Rue Vervine Eusrace Endive and Singâeân Hill-worte red Fennel âf each alike three ounces and wash them clâan and lay âhem in white wine all day and all night and aâââr distil them And the first will be like gold and the second like silver and the third like Eawm this is for the eyes a worthy water and a good c. To restore their eyes that are as though they did see and yet see not The decoction of Tormentil daily drunk three Moneths and no other dâink and the same Tormentil every night laid plaâster wise on the eyes doth it pro certo To kill the pin or webbe in the eye Take leaves of Celendine and stamp theâ well and strain them and with a feather ãâã one drop of the same Juice into the eye of the patient and it will presently help A very good Medicine to kill a pearl or webâe the eye Take a good quantity of three leaved graââ that beareth the honey suckles and bruiseâ well in a Mortar or else in a wooden dish and then strain it let the party grieved put some of the same Juice into his eye and by using this twice or thrice a day for the space of siâ or seven dayes together it will help him A good Medicine for eyes that be blood-shot and red Take Housleek and stamp it well then take a new laid egg and make a hole in the one end of it and draw out all the meat of it and put
painful aches of the ears For to make a man hear Take a red Onion and pick out the top and fill it full of fair hot Hens grease and lay the top on again and rost it in the Embers till it be tender and then quish out the oyl into the ears of the sick man or woman and then stop the ears with black wooll An approved Medicine for deafness Take sweet Sallet oyl half a pound add to it Wormwood Sorrel Anniseeds Perwinkle of each alike one dram dry all to powder the powder of the old Râses one ounce as much of Coloquintida boiled well in the said oyl strain it and use it three drops at a time in the ear warm Another approved Take oyl of Castory and of bitter Almonds and of Roses let them be boiled in Aqua vitâ till the Aqua vitae be wasted or consumed and so distil a drop at a time into the ear For deafness and for an Impostume of the ear to break it a rare secre Take the juice of young Elder buds and the inner rinde thereof either of them and use it helpeth For a man that may not well hear Take the block of an Ash and lay it to the fire and gather the water that cometh out oâ both ends of the block and the juice of Jubarbe and white wine the grease of Eel of all these alike much and seethe them well together and put it into his ears till he be whole c. The Teeth Remedies for all their diseases Remedy for the Toothach PAain of the Teeth as Galen saith among other pains that are not mortal is the most âruel and grievous of them all It may come divers wayes of a cold or hot cause If it come of a hot cause the Gums are red and very hot wherefore it is very good to hold in his mouth water of Camphire or to seethe a little Camphire in Vinegar and hold in his mouth also take Henbane roots and seethe them in Vinegar and Rosewater and hold in his mouth If it come of cold causes since in such casâs oft times there distilleth abundance of water into the mouth purge it with Piulae cochiae afterwards keep in your mouth warm wine wherein hath been sodden Pellitory Mintes and Rew. Another Take the middle barke of Elder Salt and Pepper of each alike much and stampe them together and lay it to the sore teeth Item Gum of Ivy with a little Lint dipped ân Vinegar or Aqua vitae applyed is very good For rotten and stinking Teeth Stampe a quantity of Sage with as muââ Salt and make thereof pretty pasties bââ them in an Oven until âhey wax black aâ with the pouder thereof wash well your teeââ both mornings and evenings Take the inner riâde of Elder and the innâ rinde of the Withwinde and the inner rinââ of Woodbinde then shred it small and pouââ it small then pound into it pouder of Pepââ and a little salt and pound it again then put iâ into a linnen cloth and binde it fast a piece â bigge as a Damson hold it between the forâ teeth let the moisture run out when it doââ stint running then take another ball so made and hold it between your teeth doing the likâ and at the third or fourth ball it will help if ââ come of rheum but if it come of blood yoâ must let them bleed The decoction of Colocynth with sârong Vinegar taketh away the pain of the teeth To draw Teeth take the brains of an Hare and seethe them in red wine and therewith anoint the Teeth that you would have ouâ and they will fall out without pain Iâem The Gum of Ivy tempered with wax and put to a pained tooth will draw it out without pain To draw a tooth without pain rub it and none other with powder of the Gum of Ivy. A water to keep the teeth from stinking Take long Pepper Mintes Purslane Aristology roâunda salve green seethe all together in wine and use to wash thy teeth and it will âeep them both white and sweet For the Toothach Take a spoonful of Aqua vitae and a spoonâul of Triackle half a spoonful of Pepper in fine powder boil all these together upon a Chaffing-dish of coles and then put it into a box and put it into the Tooth where the pain is Fill the hollow Tooth with the gum of Ivy it will take away the Tooth-ach Touch the Tooth that aketh with the root of water Crowfoot ' incontinent it taketh âway the pain and breaketh the tooth In â vehement ach put a little of the juice of ground Ivy in thine ear on that side as thy ach is it will a little grieve thee but incontânent thy Teeth shall cease aching Put the powder of red Coral in the hole of thy Tooth and it will fall out by the root Put Henbane seed upon coles and receive the smoak thereof into thy teeth by holding tây mouth over it It killeth the worms and asâwageth the pain this hath beân proved That thy Teeth never ake take the powder that cometh of filing of an Harts horn and let it seethe in water in a new earthen pot and so put it into thy mouth where thy grief is A medicine that the Tooâhach shall never vex you morâ Take twenty leaves of Ivy a little long Peppeâ and boil them with a handful of Salt in old wine and then put the liquor when it is well boiled into your mouth on that side that is vexed with the ach and you shall prove that the ach shall be destroyed in sempiternum A most expert and true Medicine for the pain of the Teeth and presently easeth the pain Take Lupines dryed let it be a little rubbed in your hands after put it into strong Vinegâr and boiled a little then strain it and press it out of which wash the mouth and gums for it is wonderful For a Tooth that is loose Take Gum of Ivy and red Vinegard and boil them together in a Pewter Sawcer till they be molten together wet therein a clouâ and put down the Tooth therewith c. To help the Tooâhach of any sort Ivy berries sodden in white wine or in Vinegar this water being strained To fasten Teeth and to purge the head The roots of Pellitory of Spain chewed in the mouth fiet pro certo To make a Tooth âeave aking or to fall out Stampe Neppe and put it into a cloth and lay it on the Tooth and it wilâ either leave âking or fall out The Nose The Remedies for its diseases Remedies for stinking of the Nose TAke Cloves Ginger and Calaminte of each a like and seethe them in white ãâã and therewith wash thy Nose after put â powder of Piretrum to provoke you to ãâã and if there be repletion of Phlegm in âe head first ye must purge it with pills of âochiae or of Hieâa Picra also if the stinking âome fâom the stomack fiâst help the stomââk as shall be
stone to make it sink and hang the drink and drink it in the morning fast ãâã g and at four of the clock in the afterââon Probatum Another for the stomack ââke cakes like apple cakes or Pasties in ãâã or May and fill them full of wormwood ãâã bake them hard the paste must be of âeat meal undrest and brew a stand of strong ãâã beer And when it 's turned and given ãâã e âurging âakââhe âakes when they be ãâã d and cut them into quarters and put ââem into the barrel and stop it up close and âhen it 's settled and clear drink a bowl full draught in the morning fasting and so use ãâã heat in the stomack which maketh the throaâ sore ââke an handful of Columbine Leaves and a âândfull of Cuarrnts boyl them in a pinâe of ââw milk then take out the Currants and the âeaves and shred them together And eat ââe Currants and the leaves and then sup the âilk as hot as you can The Liver Remedies for its disâempers Against stopping of the Liver called opilaâiâ DRink every morning the Syrup of Oxyââ sqyllitick wiââ half a dâaughâ oâ mo ãâã of the decoction of the roots of Smallâ Fennel and Parsely Another for stopping of the Liver Take Venice Turpentine to the quantity a bean and put it into a spoon until it doe m ãâã and then put there to a liââle white sugar ãâã let them eat of it every day fasting Take a good haâdful of iver wort tââ groweth upon stones and another of fumitoââ with as much hearts tongue and drink the every day twice The liver of an hare dryed good for all diseases of the Liver also for tââ heat of the Liver seethe Barberries in wheââ and drink them Remedy If it come of gross blood give the patieâ Medicins that do pierce and are suâtil as is wiââ of Pome-granates Srup of Endive with tââ decoction of Cicers Then let him blood ãâã the Liver vein and everymorning eat a Lââzeng of Triasanâali Sometime the said opilation cometh of ââbundance of somâ humour viscouâ coâd and ãâã egmatick stopping the veins of the âiver ââd then the Urine as clear as water and then ââe patient must use the Syrup above written â viz. Oxymel scylliticum A Iulep for heat of the Liver Take half a pound of rose water one quarââr of waâer of Endive and five ounces of ââgar make a Julep of which you shall drink ââsting a good draught And if he will needs ârink between meals Let it be mingled with ââo parts of the waâer of the wâll and if ye ââill have it more cooling aâd unto it two âunces of vinâger or the juice of Pomegraâate In stead of the said medicine too costââ for poor folk you may make bâles of half ân ounce of Cassia and three drams of the âlectuary de succo rosarum and eat it three âours after midnight and steep it and so drink ââ mix the said boles with whay or Eâdive âater and drink it at five in the morning but âeep not after it A drink to cool the Liver Take an ounce of Sena Alexandrina a farâhing worth of Anniseeds and a sarthing worth âf Liquerice and a dram of Rubarbe de Spain ând make a powder of the sâme with half an âunce of Polypodie of the oak when the âowder is fine boil it in three pints of white âine before you do put it in make ready âhree roots that 's a Fennel root a parsly root a Mallow root washed fair and clean bruise these three roots and boil them in white wine from three pintes to a pinte upon a still fire and be sâre to stir it about and let not the flame nor smoak come to it This purgeth the Liver and spleen then strain it through a clean cloth and drink in the morning fasting in the second day of M or the first day of Sagittariâs And when ye drink it take a brown toste and wet it in vineger and smâll to it fiet A good râcâipt for the dâopsie Take the salt of Wormwood three daies iâ a moneth a spoonful at a time and you shall feel the dropsie water fall into your leggs every time you may take it away by setting your leggs up to the knees in hot water To purge dropsie water abuâdantly for the shedding oâ nature called Gonorrhaaea verbatim out of Master Cogan Pag. 5. in Flower deluce Take a new laid Egg pouring out the white put into the yelk so much of the root of Flower deluce as was of the white after set the same Egg into the Embers which being sufficiently warmed sup off fasting in the morning And the patient shall after send forth aâuâdance of water and so be eased of the dropsie Or else you may take a dram or two oâ the dry root made into powder and drunk in wâay clarified âor its good also to pârâe the dropsie water And if you put a little Cinnaâon to the juice of Floweâ-deluce in the ââg yelk its a very good medicine for the ââdding of nature as hath been often proved For the Dropsie or Tympany Take the flower of Dane wort and of the âââves and distill them in a stillatory and ââânk four or five spoonful at a time with the ãâã er of Herb grace in six or seven spoonfuls ãâã white wine one spoonful of the water of âââb grace will serve This is the excellentest ââdicine one can give for this will void the ãâã er out of the belly by usage Probât by ãâã er for which propertie of daneworte Gerards Herball The Gall. Against diseases of the Gall. He gall is placed in the hollowness of the Liver to receive the superfluity of cho ãâã and to send it to the bowels to be avoid ãâã âith the grosse excrements to the intent to ãâã se the blood of the said choler To the ãâã ch cometh opilations in the parties about ãâã he liver or beneath it in it self nâxt the ãâã els causing great pain by reason whereof ãâã choler turneth again into the liver and ãâã e is mingled with the blood and spread ãâã ad into the veines of all the body and ãâã deth a disease named Iaundise Ictiritia If the Jaundise happen in an Ague befo ãâã the seventh day It is great danger of his liâe but if it appâar on the sixth day being a daâ judicial or critick of the âgu oâ after it is very good sign And thân ye must succoâ Nature with refreshing and diââsting the chââler with Syrup of violets given in the morââing Syrup of Endive with watâr of Cicho ãâã Aftâr this purge choler and then give hiâ a Lozenge of Triasandâl with Ruâarbe evâââ morning two hours before meat and d ãâã a little water of Endive and Cichory afore ãâã said Lozenge Moreover it is good to hath the Liver ãâã wash the patients eyes with vineger and ãâã mans milk anâ drink a Ptisan made of b ãâã I querice prunes and roots of Fennel ãâã
if when the fever is past the Jauâdize ta ãâã still the patient must drink water of ãâã râll and fennel with the Syrup of oxysaââh ãâã composit Jaundise sometimes cometh withoââ a fever and may be healed thus drink ev ãâã morning four ounces of the decoction of Ho ãâã hound made in white wine Ye may let ãâã drink seven or eight dayes together in ãâã morning a good draâght of the decoction Politrichon or maidânhair The decoction of woodbinâe or the water of it distilled a common still is a soveraign medicine ââr said disease Another singuâar Remedie Take cowes milk and white wine of ãâã a pinte and distill them in a still keep ãâã water a moneth and then give it the ãâã âhree ounces in the morning two hours before ââat and likewise after supper when he goâth to bed A ââmedy for the Iaundise and strangury and dyssury and straitness of breath and to break the stone in the bladder Aâianâhes otherwise called Gallitricum in Engâish Maidenhair or maidenweed the leavâs âre iâe Coliander sodden in pure water or in âine and therewith make a Syrup with Sugar ând when ye seethe it put in the root âf Fennel march the branches and leaves of ãâã âme or Borwoât and give it with wiâe ând thou shalt see the marvellous cures in âhese disâasâs A perfect help of the black Iaundise The powder of shell snayles eaten and ârunken killeth the black Jaundise pro certo For the yellow Iaundise Take one handful of Chickweed and stamp ãâã and strain it into a draught of Ale and use ãâã three dayes fasting and last Probat The Spleen For dis eâses of the Spleen IN oppilations caused of a hot humourâ must give the patiâât four or five mârninâ fasting Syrup of Endive water and Heartâ tongue then a purgation made thus A âurgation to avoid Melanchoây Take an ounce of Succo Rosarum and thrââ ounces of the decoction of the roots of Câââparus and Harâstongue and âake a dâink tââ which ye may minister in a good day to takâ purgations for Melancholy Drink Syâup of Staechados or Heartstongueâ or oxymâl diureticum wâth water of the dâcoction of Hâââstongue Eâithyme sâallagâ roots parcely rootâ Tamariscus and mintes âr else onâly with the decoction of hearâs tongâe and roots of Capers And theâ after purge from such Melancholy humââ with an ounce of Diacaâholicon and twâ drams of Diaâena dissolved in three ounce of the said decoction or water of wormwood or Heartstongue And aftâr this ye must anoinâ the side of the spleen with oil of âlies oâ of Dill or anoint the said side with Dialtheâ An expeât medicine for all diseases of the spleen Take the leaves and cods âf Sena the barkâ of an Ash tree scraped and cut Maidenhair Hartstongue and Liquerice seethe them all iâ clear whay and after they be strained drink of it twice or thrice till he be amended For the spleen that is great and aking Take the barke of the clefts of âhe ash aâd cleanse them and bruise them well in a morâaâ and seethe them well in white wine from a pottle to a quart and of that liquoâ milk warm dâink at morning and at evening the quantâty of seven spoonfuls and thou shalt be whole For diseases oâ the Spleen Ye must give Syrups and purgations aâ is âforâsaid and to be let blood of the vein Salâarâlla and after diveâs times to apply Venâoses upon the spleen without scaâââyâng Aââârward ye must lay ân it a lift wât in good âineger an keep it there so long as heât reâaineth in the said lift and warm it three or âour times Afterward anoint the spleân with Dialâhea and so continue four or five dayes and other four or five dayes lay upon the plaister made of two âunces of gum Armoâiack dissâlved in vineger and spâead upon Leather And if by the aforesaid tâings the patient be not eased the Doctors of Physick âaâ that he must receive the Medicines again ât the least once every moneth for half a yâar âogether An approved Medicine for the Spleen Eat Capers and drink after them the water ân a smiths cole trough sanat pro certo An approved Medicine to take away an agââ though a Quartain Take of Bay-salt a spoonfull of the blackest sope asmuch pepper finely beaten nângâe those in the yelk of an new laid Egg adding thereto of Aqua vitae with some raisins of the sun stoned with a spoonfull of red Sage chopped small apply it plasterwise to the wrests before the fit For the Spleen Doctor Butler of Cambridge did use to prescribe ten raisins oâ the fun torrified oâ parched upon a clean Tyle stone by the fire until they did swell and then to be eaten fasting A diet drink for the Liver and Spleen Take a handfull of red Dock roots and make them clean and a handfull of Tamarisk boil them together in a quart of clear posset Ale and drink it morning fasting and after walk or use some other exercise for one hour or more Doctor Simons Medicine proved both for the Agââ and Quartane Take Southernwood and minse it small and put sallet oil into a sawcer and put the herb to it and let it be an hour or two in it then let them simper a little upon the fire then take it and anoint the wrests and soles of the feet and the nape of the neck and down between the shouldârs and this must be done before the âit comes in three times doing they shall be âhole For the Fever Take a pinte of stale ale oâ Malmesey and âoil in it powder of Sage and powder of âinger and drink it a little before the shakâng For the Quartan proved by Doctor Simons âaâe a red dâck root and slice it and lay it iââalmesy four and twenty houres and drink it âvery day fasting For the Ague Take a posset made of milk and clarified âith a good deal of Camomil that the strenâth âay be in the posset ale and then let the sick âriâk of it An approved Medicine for the Ague âake three spoonfuls of Aqua composita and six ââoonfuls of Malmesey and put therâ to a quanââtâ of long pepper beaten and asmuch gâaines ãâã it as you would dâes a cup of ale with âânger aâd Nuâmeg and when the coââ is upon ââe sick give him a good draught to drink For a fever quartan Take a handfull of Maydenhair and choice Mirrhe one ounce drink with water and in the same water mix a little Triacle and give to the patient with a fasting stomack and so continue and he shall be certainly cured For the Ague Take a handfull of Rue a âed onion beââ them small together with the glare of an Egge and lay it to the wrist An approved medicine to take away an Aguâ Take of bay-salt a spoonful of the blackest sope asmuch pepper finely beaten mingle these in the yelk of a new laid egge adding thereto of Aqua vitae with some raisinâ of the sun
leave off the trusse until three weeks aâter he is perfectly whole For the Fundament coming out Take Aloes Mirrbe ana one ounce terendâ terantur subtiliter and cribrentur And anoiât the Fundament with the oil of Almonds and lay of tâis powder thârââpân and witâ a skarlet ââotâ hot put up the funâament this used will hâlp with Gods gâace âo a mans Fundament when it comes out â true Medicine Take red nettles and stamp them well and put them into an earâhen pât and puâ to them a portion of wine and seethe it well and give it the patient to dâink A special good Medicine proved to heal a rupture or broken man Probat First puâge him with easie purgâtions and let him keep good and straight diet ââll âhe matter be up within his body Then take the juice of Polypodie of the oak of daysies compâry Avens and Beâony in the winter take the juice of the rootâ and all of each one handful stamp them and strain them without other Liquâr And put the same juice into a quart of stale Ale and drink a quantitie thereof evening and morning blood warm for nine dayes keeping good diet and sure trussing you may put Sugar candy to it if you will Probat Against ruptures or burstings Take the Herb and root of Cranesbill dry it make it into very fine powdâr and give one spoonful every morning fasting every night when he goeth to bed in red wine or claret wine for xxi dayes together It cureth miraculously but in aged persons to mix with it the powder of red sâails those that that are without shells dried in an oven This medicine never faileth although the rupture be great and of continuance It likewise profiteth much those that are wounded in their bodies The decoction of the herbs made with wine prevaileth mightily in healing inward wounds All this hath been well proved If ye know the pain of the belly cometh through winde apply upon it a great ventose without incision for by that means the pain will surely go away or diminish If not it sheweth that it is caused of some other humor as Phlegm or choler A purgation for Colâck coming of Phlegm Take five drams of Diaphaenicon three ounces of Wormwood water and make a drink the which received fasting four or five hours before meat is very profitable For pain of the Colick coming of Choler If the said pain come of choler which is known by the application of hot things the pain increaseth ye must make a Clyster of violets or give him half an ounce of succo rosarum with Ptisan Endive water or wine And the next morning let him drink a Ptisan of the decoction of prunes and violet Flowers and anoint the belly with oil of violets or wet a linnen cloth in cold water and lay it thereupon and if the pain ââme of cold ye must anoint his belly with of bayes and goose grease For the winde Colick ât is good to drink the Syrup of Elecamââ to wear a plaister upon the belly made ââony Wormwood and Aloes Pilulae Coââ are very good for the said disease especiâââ when the Clâster doth not suffice to âge the cause of the same Also Diamuscum ãâã Diacinnamum are very good Electuaries if âake one of them a Lozenge fasting 2 hours âore meat Likewise it is good to take âhridate with a little white wine or with decoction of Camomile four or five hours ãâã dinner if his belly be naturally lax or â by some suppository or Clyster ãâã Back and Reins The Remedies of their distempers A purgation for Choler coming of Phlegm ââke five drams of Diaphaenicon three ounces Wormwood water and make a drink the ââch received fasting four or five hours afore ât is very profitable âscour câeanse and cool the reins of the Back âake half a pound of brown Sugar candy and one pint of Endive water and anotheâ pint of red rose water boil all thâse togetheâ from a quart to a pint and until it come to thick Syrup which then put into a fair gâasâ and keep it to thy use This Syrup cleanseth the Reins and cookââ the heat thâreof It must be taken fastiââ chiefly and last towaâds bed yet it may be use as occasion sârveth For a pain in the back Take a quart of wâite wine and a quarâ of running water Then take of the crâp ãâã Râsemary asmuch as both the haâds can claââ seethe them till half be consuâed tâen takâ Sugar gâains as ye think good and drink ãâã first and last For ache in the back Take a good onion or two and rost theâ in the Embers then stamp them and straââ out the juice and mix it with asmuch Malmeâ as juice and drink thâreof blood warm firââ and last Probat Another Take Egrimony and Mugwort both leavââ and roots and stamp them small then mingâ them with good Dears suât then smear ãâã anoint the place therewith very warm and ââter binde it up A good ointment for the back and restorative for the same Take the mosel of a Hart or Stagge and make powder of it and boil it in white wine with Bursa Pastoris knot grasse plantain and Comphry and when it s well boiled strain it and let it cool and it will be a Jelly And if you will eat of it put to it Sugar Cinnamon and Saffron for its a great restorative so eaten also with the Jelly aforesaid anoint a weak back on either side the back bone and chafe it well in but do not anoint the back bone with the hand use it thrice a week to bedward till you be well Probat For the weakness of the small of the back Take one handful of Baulme one handful of Clarie wash them not they must be gathered in the heat of the day dry them in an oven and make them into power the powder will be green if it be done right then lay a new layed egg into the fire Let it be not half rosted then put into it asmuch of the powder as will lie upon the point of a broad knife and so eat it A powder to knit and restore nature well proved Take the roots of Tormentil the best of them are red when they are broken take of the powder of these roots two parts and the third parâ of fine Galingale in powder and of the powder of red mintes asmuch as of the Galingale and mingle them and use of this powder in your broths and meats and Sawces Pro Gonorrhaea Take Aqu. Calendulae extractae ex foljis florum et bibe singulis diebus Cochlearia tria sanus evades To restore a man that wasteth and for soreness of the reins Take sperma caeti and powder of mints and use to drink this with a spoonful of red roseâ water and make it luke warm the sperma caeti will relent anon for this is a soveraign Medicâne For heat in the back Take the white of an Egg a little red rose water and
a little Nutmeg beat it well together and drink it mornings It s an admirable thing to cool it For feeble reins Take Burre roots and stamp them and boil thâm in stale Ale and drink thereof at evening hot and at morning cold To preserve nature from wasting Take acorns and steep them three dayes in wiâe vinâger and dry them and let him drink the powder the cup is as good if not better then the Acorn its self so they may be both together For the running of the reins Take an handful of Cumphry a handful of Clary and so much of Mousear boil them in a quart of red wine with powder of Cinnaâon Saundârs and Sugar and drink a good âraught of thiâ fasting For the running of the Reins Take white wine rose-rosewater Plantain âater of each alike much in Quantitie one ââarter of a pint two Nutmegs grated two âenny worth of Cinnamon pounded and asâuch of Bolearmony as a Nut beaten âinal the âhite of an Egg beaten to oil and put togeââer and for three dayes use it not but every ãâã shake it together in a glass and then take â morning and evening provided that you ãâã a Syring now and then either with white âne or else rose water together or several ând this is a special remedy for the running of ãâã reins often times proved To knit a broken Vein One Master Atkinson having a broken vein his back could not be cured by any Doctor ãâã home to die having a continued issue of ãâã The Person of the parish advised him take a spoonful of the juice of Plaâtain âing which he did three or four times and was cured and is well and verifies this in Jâly 1652. For the help of the disease called the French pox Take two peny worth of white wine and ãâã peny worth of honey one peny worth oâ Roâh aâlame these three sorts to be boiled toââther and the same to be placed where ãâã griâf doth lie or most offend A Diet drink âo cure Lues venerea or any desperââ disease in mans bodie Take seven gallons of spring water in ârom pât and put into it Sarâaparilla flicâ and bruised three ounceâ set it on the ãâã and let it infuse or boil very gently two houââ thân pât into it fâur ounces of chosen ãâã leaves and cods and half an ounce of ãâã beaten to powder and half an ounce Stychadâs and asmuch of Epithymum of choâââ liquârice scraped sliced and bruised flat tâ ouâces of Camomile flowers one oânce ãâã them into a pot and let them boil all together one hour or more then take it from the ãâã ââd strain it into an earthen pot and ãâã and till it be cold then pure it and ãâã bottles and drink thereof morning and eââing a reasonable good draught Aâ morbum Gallihidropicum cetera Acci e vini albi pounds 96 alias gallons ãâã lib. ss gyâyrrhiz iib. 2. Seaâ ãâã âib â Certâciâ guiaci lib. 2. Coloâââ one ounce coque in balneo Mariae per 24. horas iâ non ââaporet exprime Colaturae ad Mitâridatum optimum one ounce per duâs dies bibat ââantum potest nihil comedat per quatuâr ãâã postea comedat semel in die postea comedat ãâã in die Perficitur cura in duodecem diebus Pain of the reins is called Nephretica passio And cometh of some stone or gravel and it is most like unto the Colick in cuâe but in âourses they be clean contrary âor the Colick beginneth of the lower paâts on the right sâde and goeth up to the higher parts on the ãâã side oâ the belly and it lieth rather more âârward then backward but Neâhâetica Passio beginneth contrariwise above descending downward and ever lieth more toward the back Aâso Nephretica is painâuller a sore meat and the Colick is more grievous after And ofteâ the Colick chanceth suddenly but Nephââtica contrary for commonly it cometh by little and little and evermore before one shall feâl pain of the back with difficultie of urine Item there is more difference for the Colick sheweth dryâess as it were coloured but Nephretica is clear and white like water afterward waxeth thick and then appeareth in the bottom of the vâssel like red sand or gravel Remedy âor pain of the reins You must use things aperitive to cause you to make water but afore ye ought to loose the belly in taking an ounce of Cassia an hour before meat but if your belly be hard or bouâd you must take a Clyster before you take the said Cassia In stead thereof you may take Cowes milk with two yelks of Eggs in manner of a Clyster the Clyster must be great in quantitie Drink water of Pellitory of Cresses or of roots aperitive the which waters are good to purge the gravel and stone Likewise a very good Electuary for the ââme Philantropos or Lithontripon if one take â dram or two after operation of a Clyster of Caâsia or a pill of ante Cibum and after to drink one of the sâid waters or else a little white wine warmed If ye will make a Julep take water oââintes and of Baâm of each half a pound Sugar a quartern and make a Julep of the which one may drink evening and morning after meaâ a draâght Every morning is good to take a Lozenge of the Elect. that followeth A nobâe Eâectuary for the fluxe Take powder of Diagalanga a dram and a half of red corall and Masticke of each a scruple Trâchiskes of Terra sâgillata half a dâam the barkes of Citrons confite and quinces of each one three drames sugar dissolved in water of Mintes four ounces make an Electuary Oâls of Wormewood Mint and of Narde and Masticke are very holsom to anoynt withall the belly and the stomack for the said flux And the things declared of the flux Lienteria be very good in this case taking ever after meat a morsel of Marmalade Red wine is very good in this flux to drink at meat with the water of a smith and likewise all spices are good in this case Medicines to restrain the flux of what cause sâever it be Take the Peisel of an hart and dry it into powder and drink it the water of Oakbuds or the very acorns dryed and made in powder and drunk in âed wine is very good Remedie fâr the flux humoral called Diarhaea The said flux ought not to be restrained a sore the fourteenth day iâ nature be not vâry much infeââled And sometime it cometh of hot causes as of color and then the patient must drink beâore his meat Syrup of Ribes Syrup of roses or syrup of Quinces and very smithes water After ye have purged the principal matter oâ the disease the second Intention shall be by and by to stop the said Issue To stop the said flux Take trochiskes of white Amber and make them in powder and give a dram every morning and anon after drink an ounce or two oâ plantain water Instead of
and temper it with small Ale and use to drink it every morning fasting and it shall break the stone When you have used this drink eight or nine times together then put a little Galbanum into the end of your yard and that will draw out the stone An oyntment for the back if the stone come painfully from you Take red dock roots and May butter and beat them together in a morter very well and fry a little in a fryingpan and then strayn them and anoynt the back A Pultis to cause the stone to slip when it s broken Make a Pultis of oatmeal and white wine vinegar and after its made put to it a convenient quantity of Aqua composita and apply it to the place where you feel the stone to lie and it will cause the stone to slip forward or downward A medicine to avoid the stone in the bladder Take a pinte of white wine and put it in a pan and boil it and put thereto asmuch powdâr of Nutmegs and drink it with Ale evening and morning and you shall be whole Probat For the stone Take Coliander seed Parsley seed Broom seed Allexander seed the seed of Asnen keyes Hasel nut keyes red bramble berries Ivy berries of each of them alike quantitie and dry them beat them to fine powder altogether and searce them fine Let the partie make a posser of white wine as clear as may be and put in asmuch of this powder as will go into an hasel nutshel and take it three or four mornings together fasting and if you please you may seethe your powder in your posset drink and so take it probat Also the Syrup of Althea commonly called the Syrup of Mallowes and put in posset drink and drink it and it will cause water presently Probat A Soveraign Medicine for them that cannot pisse well proved by the Lady of Northumberland Take Alexander seeds and Parsly seed of each alike much and beat them tâgether in a Mortar and seethe it in Malmesey and seethe withall unset time and parsly Leaves and seethe it from a pottle to a quart and strain it drink it warm To make one make water presently Take the inner skin or pill oâ the Gizem âf a Dove dry it to powder and give it to drink with white wine I think the skin of one Gizern is scarce enough To procure a man to pisse well Take the kernels of Ash keyes dryed and made into fine powder and drink a scruple of the powder fasting in seven spoonfuls of white wine warm To procure urine that is stopped Take Borrage rooâs mundified and sliced and boil them in clarified posset Ale made with Ale and white wine and drink a good draught thereof with a little Sugar at any time in your infirmity Probat A special receipt to help sharpness of urine Make Posset drink of a pint of milk and a pint of Ale then take three roots of Housleek and pick the leaves stamp and strain them and put the juice into the posset drink Let it boil a walm or two then drink it warm at any time of the day morning and evening but not at meales and as oft as you think good An Injection for burning of urine Take of fountain water four pound Passul exacinat five ounces foliorum Plan-taginis five handful foliorum fragariae Poligoni rosarum one pulgil quatuor seminum frigid majorum mundatorum one ounce Aluminis three ounces boil them and add two pound of the decoction Mellis rosati colati six ounces I doubt the Allume is of the most for smarting which if it be somewhat lesâe may be put in next the Mel rosarum I think the lesse to be with the most but that is a good wholsome cleansing healing and mitigating thing so that there can be no hurt with it but the waste of it A powder for the heat of urine Take Seminis Portulacâ one ounce Endiviâ Seminis Lactucae Scariolae acetosae one half dram Seminum communium frigidor majorum one ounce Papaveris albi half one ounce Sacchari ad duplum fâat traâea And a little before dinner and supper eat a spoonful of this powder for this purpose but if the patient have a shaking ague withall then the coldness of the powder is apt to draw on the ãâã and to make his fits come often as hath been proved Fâr them which make very foul or red water Take the juice of Ribwort and drink it warm with Ale once or twice a day also for man that pisseth blood seethe garlick in water till two parts be wasted and let him drink âf that water and he shall be whole To provoke urine and a asswage the belly Dry Pellitory into powder and drink a ââoonful of the powder in white wine first and âast and it shall asswage you you may take âeslâ sometimes as now and then half a spoonful with a Messe of pottage or broth A receipt for the stone Drink the distilled water of bean fâowers at ââl times when you feel heat in your back âhich will bring away all gravell and loose âones it s not good to use it too often lest ââ should break the stones too fast â good Medicine for one that cannot pisse by reason of the stone Take Snayls that carry shells a good handââ lay them in the fire and they will creep âur of their shells then take the shels and beat âhem to powder and let the party drink the âowder in some posset ale or such like drink For the stone Take white Saxifrage roots Parsly Pierstone the Kernels of Ashen keyes of each an handful of Ringus roots two handfulâ bruise them well in a Mortar and then boil them with siâ gallons of Ale or beerwort so long as wort is usually boiled then put all into a vâssel and when it shall be stale enough drink every morning next your heart half an ale pint This being very often or every day taken you shalâ never be troubled with the stone though you had been much troubled with it before A receipt for the stone used by Sir Trever Williams Take the quantity of a Walnut of the best Leaven and half so much of bay salt put them together in a pinte of milk and stir them with a spoon until they dissolve Then let them stand covered all night then strain it and drink it in the morning fast one hour after and for that space keep your self walking To prevent the stone Take a peny pot worth of white wine and put into it the quantity of a small nut of the finest castle sope scraped very small and then warm it a little by the fire and then drink it and walk after it one hour take this two dayes in a week or in a moneth as you finde your self by your water To make a water for the stone In the Moneth of May or in the beginning of June when oxen go to grasse you shall take of their dung not too frâsh nor too
inââlerable pain is called suffocation because ãâã it is choaked ovârcharged with some evil â superfluous matter as by stopping of due âgâtions or too much abstenence of Venus âhereby often chanceth shortness of breath ââin of the head swooning trembling of the ââart contraction of members and otherwhiles ââth without remedy A drink for pain of the mother Take one dram of Mithridate and dissolve in an ounce and a half of water of wormwooâ and give it her to drink afore she go to meâ four hours Another to provoke the flux of the Matrice See the Marigolds nept and savine in good alâ and drink it with a good quantity of Saffrâ and a little honey and sugar Item fifteen blaâ seeds of Piony drunken in wine with safirâ purgeth the Matrice of humors and other fâteen of the red seeds stancheth it again or aâother Flux of âhe mother These Heâbs aâ good to purge the Matrice Rue Piony Savinâ Betony nept Valerian Maydenhair Horâ hound Savary Parsley Gromel Alisader Marigolds Smalledge and Time The Terms or flowers their Rââmedies Fâr suppression or retaining of the flowers or Mââstruus If the blood be too gross and thick you muâ every month give her the syrup of sumitoââ with the decoction of borage and bugloss aââ âther bath her self with fresh water hot And âhen she goeth out of the bath into the bed âe must receive the aforâsaid Syrup and deââtion of the Herb called Rubea tinctorum or ââadder sâdden in clear water In stead of Syâps ye may take the very juice or decoction the Herbs And if the womans blood be slimie cold ând Phlegmatick then she must drink Syrup of ââechados and of oxymel diuretick and afterâârds take the pills called Faetidae and of Aquae âârick and every morning after she must ââke a dram of Trochiskes of Mârrhe with two âânces of the decoction of Iuniper berries âd thereupon drink two ounces of water of ââgwort Moreover it is a proved expert Medicine â give the first day of the new Moon a ââim of powder made of Borax which theââldsmiths do occupie with asmuch Cinnamon ââd a little water of smallage It is good to help and provoke the said purtion by such things as open which must be âen at such time of the Moon as the said woâân were wont to have the same â the overflowing of the menstruus and for the retaining of the same To provoke the termes a most expert ââdicine and secret A certain herb called ââriân not that with coâs and stones in the âât but that which hath a root like the hand â man with fingers and the root of one ââ drieth and groweth in the end of the ââr the other a green root Take three leaves otherwise one or two otherwise threâ green roots of that Herb dayly and give it foâ nine dayes in broth or rosted or fryed without broth as you will and it shall effâct anâ give of the dry roots in the same and theâ shall cease c. A most approved Experiment to provoke the Menstruiss Take of tryphera magna the quantity of great Nut and put to it the Sal gem the quantity of a filbird nut let them be mixed anâ tempered with white wine or eat it with Rueâ For the dropsie and to provoke the flowers aââ urine Cantharides the head and other things tâken away burnt and brought to a powdeâ the dose is a dram with white Wine in thâ evening Probatum est Item a gum called Serapine mixed with tââ juice of Savine or Centory and it causeth a deaâ childe to issue forth To bring down womens termes Bruise the roots of Celendine and wear the in your socks next to your bare feet and will cause them to break and come down witâ in four dayes or lesse in plentiful manner which then presently take away A medicine for the green sickness and to causeââ flowers Take Nep unset Hyssop Lavender Cotteâ ângelica leaves mother of time French Malâwes Germander Fetherfew of each a good ândful boil them in two gallons of spring âater to one gallon then strain it then put to two good sticks of Liquerice scraped and âuised flat and one pint of pure clarified âây then boil it again four or five walmes ââd drink thereof fasting and one hour before âpper and use exercise A medicine to stop over much abundance of Flowers Take Shepherds purse knotgrass and red âchangel a little quantity pound them aâder and not all together then take the juice each of them and put one spoonful of ââe juice of every one of them into six spoonâââ of stale Ale for Ale is better then Beer this case and drink it of and use this drink âorning and evening To make this Electuary take red Coral in ââe powder two ounces a half white Coral fine powder two ounces Sanguis Draconis fine powder three ounces put to it two âânces of conserve of red roses and mingle ââem well together of this Electuary first take ââe quantity of three beanes morning and ââening to bedward and within one quarter of hour after take of the drink aforesaid cold warm will hinder the force of it this is a ââble Electuary and drink in that case For the red Flux in women Take a dram of Persicum Philonium in a sufficient quantity of plantain water to carry down as a Vehiculum which is the Physicianâ word to carry things down drink this fasting and anoint the Navel and the belly about the Navel and all the back over with Vnguentum Comitâssae make two plasters the one for thâ belly about the Navel and the other for thâ other for the whole back parts and applâ them thereto and wear them nights and dayââ for a good while you must take the Phy oniuâ Persicum divers dayes together in manneâ aforesaid for four or five dayes together and stay to see what good you finde if you havâ not found it stay before and if it be nââ stopped then you must take it again and ãâã the ointment and plaster still until it stoâ and if this will not help it and stop it nâthing will do it as one Master Berâington ââ confidently assure out of his own practise For the whites proved Take a pint of spring water and stone theâ in half a pound of prunes and put therâ with them two spoonfuls of sugar and ââ mornings together drink three or four spoââfuls of the water and fast an hour after For rising of the Mâther Take some knops of Amber otherwise led Succinum and cast them upon a chafâ dish of coalâ until they make a great smotââ and then hold your mouth open over chaffing dish and receive the fume ãâã as you can and cast a good linnen cloth abâ your head and face to keep in the fume that as little go by as may be A specia mediâine for the mother or winde or spleen which riseth about the heart Take Fenugreek Liquerice Fennel seeds Anniseeds Alisander seeds
coââander seeds prepared Parcâly seed one ounce and beat them together then take Cinnamon half an ounce and saffron one scruple and beat them to powder altogether and temper with clarified hony or sugar making thereof an Electuary and eat of it morning and evening Probat A medicine for the whites and weakness of nature Take the whites of four Eggs dryed and made into powder two Nutmegs âhe weight of six pence in Cinnamon the weight of two pence in Mace the weight of ten pence in âed Saunders make all these into fine powder and take of this powder asmuch as will lie on a six pence in a rear egg or with Muscadine or mace ale and sometimes broath every mornâng for a moneâhs space together for your diât forbâar milk butter roots and Herbs claret and wâite wine and especially pigeons flesh To cure the Mother Take Gr.ii. of Musk in conserve of Gilliflowers ând it must be taken inward It will melt in âour mouth A good Medicine for one that feareth to miscaâ with childe Take yarrow and stamp it and strain thâ juice and three spoonfuls of new milk warâ from the cow mingle them together anâ sweeten with sugar To make a caudle to strengthen one that is with childe and is weak Make a caudle with whites of Eggs and â yâlks and boil in it a stick of Cinnamon whicâ rose leaves and white Archangel flowers anâ harâshorn boil all these together and so drinâ it To make a woman have a quick delivery and smaââ pain Take leaves of Betony stamp them anâ strain them or else make powder of them anâ give the woman to drink in a little water To cleanse the matrix after the Childbirth Take a quart of Claret Wine and burn iâ and set it on the fire again and as it boileth pââ into it 2. or 3. spoonful of Embers then straââ it from the ashes this do two or three timeâ then powder it with powder of Sugar and sucâ Syrups as are fit for the womans body if sââ be hot and costive Syrup of Violets but if sââ be Laxative not that but Syrup of cowslips ãâã good to give her in broth oyl of sweet Aâmonds To drive away the after pain of a woman Take mother time picked clean from the stalke and shred small the quantity of a spoonful and put to it asmuch salt as the quanâity of a hasell Nut and put it in a draught of broth or caudle and give it the Woman to drink immediately after shee 's delivered the sooner the better the Herbs must be raw A medicine to fetch away a dead childs after burden Take a handful or two of Mugwort stampt ââ chopt which you please then take a quantity of barly meal and mingle it with a little fair water set over the fire and boil till it be âo thick to spread on a cloth then put into it some barrowes grease asmuch as an Egg and so ãâã and spread it on a cloth and lay it beneath the Navel of the woman and not above in any âââe and assoon as it hath brought away anââhing take it away for it maketh that way as ââng as it s on and will bring away that which ââ should not bring if it lie on after thats gone which you would have away A present remedy for a woman that travaileth with childe Take Hyssop Vervine and Betony of each ââe handful stamp them well and temper âhem with stale Ale then strain it and wring âut the juice and give a good draught thereof ãâã her to drink and she shall be delivered with speed and the childe saved and she both foââts proved To deliver a woman of a dead childe Take Camomil and give it in clear posseâ drink is good to ease tâe pain colick or griping pain of the body stamp it and strain it inâ to white Wine and give it a woman that hath a dead childe within her and it will cause heâ presently to be delivered The Gout Remedies for the Gout THe pain in the joynts of a mans body as in the hands and feet is generally calleâ Arthritis or gout which proceedeth sometime of debiliây of the sinewes being lasât and unable to consume the humours that continually Flow unto them And for the most part they are deriveâ from the member Mandant that is to say thâ brain for he is very grosse and engendretâ every humour in himself by reason whereoâ much of the said humours are derived intâ the Nuke and muscles of the back and from thence they descend into the feet or to thâ Hucklebone or else into the hands Remedy And since all the said kindes come or are caused of one beginning and for the better expedition in that we will be brief ye shall first take away the superfluous moisture of the brain which is the root and fountain of all the said diseases and that ye may do four manner of wayes The first observance is of diet inclining to dryness and to avoid all fulness of meat and drink and not to sleep in any wise after meat And ye must beware that ye eat no vaporous meats nor thin Wine nor dâink much after supper And if perchance the pain be very sharp it shall be wholsome to abstain from all kinds of wine and âo use himself to small drink which thing if he cannot do let him drink Claret wine mixed with a good quantity of water The second is to purge the brain once a moneth with the one half of Pills of Cochia ând another half of Pills of Assajareth and in âime of harvest and of summer with Pills ãâã quibus and Pil. imperial Whereof ye shall give one dram the night before the full Moon ând the day following ye may give him to eat little broth of Cicers with a little quantity of raisins of the sun The third is to repress âhe sumes that ascend into the brain after âeat which thing may be done by eating a ââttle dredge made of Aniseed and Coriander The fourth is to perfume the brain with cerâain things comfortative as for example thus Take fine fâankincense Sandrach and Mastick âf every one an ounce of Lignum Aloes a dââm make them all in grosse powder and perfumâ therewith stupes made of Flax or oâ Cotten and lay upon the head And when yeâ have by this meanes well and duly comforted the brain and defended the original cause oâ the said disease ye shall proceed to take away the matter conjoynt that is descended into the sinevves and ye shall begin thus First ye must preserve the body from in â gendring of humours in taking every morning next your heart a conserve made of Alcherineâ and of Flowers of Rosemary mingled with â little Nutmeg and Mastick and if ye be ãâã povver ye may drink a good draught oâ Ipocras or other spiced drink after meatâ ãâã dinner and at supper Secondly ye shall understand that whosoever doth intend to be holpen of the Gout he must every year
ãâã purged two times prepaâing fiâst the matteâ to digestion with Syrup of Staecados and duobus radicibus with the one half of vvaters of Sage primeroses and Marjerom in manner of spiced âulep with Cinnamon taken five continuaâ mornings tvvo hours after ye eat any otheâ meat And after that ye must receive a draââ of pills called Arthâeticae or Hormodactyl or oâ both together equal portions or take half ãâã ounce of Diacarthami tvvo hours after night and of Diaturbith of every tvvo drams vvitâ a little Syrup of Hyssop The rest of the said curation shall be accomplished with the applying of divers locaâ remedies whereof there be sundry sorts herâ declared ye ought to rub the place that is sorâ with oyl of roses and a little vinegar and after sprinkle upon the same fine powder oâ Myrtles Another plaster also as hereafter followeth A plaster for the gout Take the Emplaster called Melilot two ounces of Populeon an ounce and an half red roses myrtles and Flowers of Camomile of every one a dram make a plaster and lay upon the gouty ioynt Another Take oyl of roses crums of bread yelks of Eggs and cowes milk with a little Saffron seethe them a little together afterward spread them upon clouts and lay upon the sore Another Make Lye of the Ashes of Rosemary or of oak or of bean-stalks and boyl it in sage molâin prime rose Camomile and Melilor and receive the fume upon the sore place or wet clouts in the said decoction and lay them upon the pain All the said Remedies are very good to asswage the pain of the gout after the which done it is good to goe about the comforting of the joynts and sinews and to that intent apply oyl of Camomile and of Althea or Holihock oyl of a Fox oyl of earth wormes oyl of primerose turpentine wherewithal or with one or two of them ye may anoynt the sore place and comfort both the joynts and sinewes marvellously also this oyntment that followeth is singular good for the same purpose Tâke five or six handfuls of Walwort and seethe them wel in wine then strayn them and with a little wax oil of spick and Aqua vitâ make an oyntment wherewith ye must anoynt the place morning and evening every day Medicines for the gout appropriate in all cases Take Cowes dung and seethe it in sweet milk and lay a plaster to the gout hot aâso the yelks of eggs womans milk linsâed and Saffron altogether in a plaster swageth the diseases of the gout And if ye be disposed to break the skin and so let the humors issue as by such many one is easâd ye shall make a plaster of bâack sope and Aqua vitae which will blister it withâut any great pain Also very old hard cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gamon of bacon and afterward stamped with a little of the brâth and made in manner of a plaster is a singular remedy for diseases of the gout and was first practised by Galen the prince of all Physicians A Medicine to ease the gout and to bring down any swelling in feet leg âr arm Take a quart of milk fâom the Cow and crum into it a peny white Loaf and put into ãâã asmuch Dears suet as a pullets egge and boyl ât to the thickness of a pultis and spread it wâll and thick on a cloath so broad as will cover the gâie and renew it once in twenty four hours and if your paân cease not use it so as long again and it will cure the grief and draw out streaks oâ blood This medicine cured one in such extremity and pain of the gout when he continually crved and could neither go nor ride and never grieved since so perfectly was he cured For lâgs swollen of any manner of disease Take pellââory and seethe it well in white Wine and wash the legâ in the water and lay the Herbs about the Lâgs plasterwâsâ and it will asswage within five hours Pâobatum est For the gout Take half a peck of snails a quart of bay salt and put them in a bowl and bruise them together then take them and put them in a bag and let them drop in any thing so you preserve the oyl To cure and ease the gout Apply to the gouty place a pultiss made of barly and brooklemp hot in the time of extremity and let it lye twenty four hours A pultis of barly to asswage swelling in the legs to moâlifie the hardness Boil in a gallon of water one quart of hulled barly very tender and put therein a good Allume stone and being tender drain the water from it and to bedward lay it on a cloth a good thickness and lay it over the swelling reasonable warm leeting it lie twenty four hours and uâe it three or four dayeâ togetheâ Probat For the Gout Take Caro Costinum an ounce and dissolve ãâã in white wine and drink it about half a pint and use the partie as after a purge and thâ effect is wrought by purging approved by many Gent. A medicine for the Sciatica For a man take the urine of a man childâ and let it stand in some vessel for nine dayeâ and then separate the clear urine from thâ thick and put it into a vessel and put to thâ clear urine a good quantity of the juice ãâã Cullerage male Culrage which hath spotteâ leaves of a black colour and boil it togetheâ till half be consumed and it will be an oyntment with which anoint the patient by thâ fire and he shall be cured which hath been often tryed And for a woman take the urine of a femalâ childe and of the âuice of Culrage withouâ spots and do as for the man An experienced medicine for the Sciatica Take Jvy Mugwort Wallwort and the Inner rinde of an Elder tree and seethe them in fair water with a good quantity of salt and bath the sore place well therewith three or four times a day for the space of nine dayes âogether and doubtless this will cure it An excellent oil for an ache onely to be made in the moneth of May oil of Rosemary Flowers Take a thin glass of a pottle and fill the glass âull of Rosemary Flowers very finely and purely picked put no liquor at all thereto but the pure Flowers onely and stop the glass very close that no air get therein then set the said glasâ in the sun against a wall out of the winde and there let it stand all the said moneth of May In the end of May you shall âind the said Flowers dissolved into a very sâeet oil which oil clarifie it into another glasâârom the grounds And this said oil stop close and keep it diligently for its an excellent and proved remedy against any manner of ache in the Joynts or otherwise A powder for the Sciatica Take Betony Ceâtaury one two ounces Ditâanie rue one 6 ounce make all these into fine powder searced and kept in
Wort Hypericon of every one half a handful shred them small and boil in the oil and wine to the consumption of the wine and then strain it and set it over the fire again putting Frankincense and Mirâhe in fine powder alwayes stirâing in putting in the powder And in the end put to it Turpentine and then strain it again into some glasse alwayes remembring for every pound of of oil one ounce of Turpentine This cureth wounds without tenting at all A medicine for all manner of ulcers and sores very pleasant called Lycion The making of virkin lycion is the juice of Capri foli Lycion cureth the canker in the Matrice and in the skin and bones Lycion is a principal medicine boiled with hoây unto the thickness of hony It may be made thus Take the juice and set it in the sun for to dry that it may be powder and this powder of Lycion serveth dark eyes for it is called Luciâum ocu'o It profiteth also Chirurgery that is thus Take the juice of Caprisolij by it self and put thereto asmuch clarfied hony and seerhe it unto the wasting of the hony let it be kept unto the time of your use and this availeth unto all fraudulent ulcers of the Leggs in such time of the year if the herb be so dried that the juice will not be pressed out thân may the Leaves be infused in good white wine or red and then may the juiee be pressed our for to know that Caprifolii ought not to be washed with water but with this white wine and especially when there ought to be made Licium for the câre of the eyes Also Leaves of Caprifoli bruised by themselves with all his substance without medling of any other thing put it upon an ulcer of a Legg dâsperate and stiâking and puting out foul blood it cureth them marvellously and this was proved in the Legg of a great man having a pustule in cuâing of which all Medicines failed and with this onely was cured For to make Mermale Take Camomile Betony Sage hey how sothernweed Mugwort wormwood water cresses Mallowes Holihock Horâound red nettle Laurel leaves of each a good handful and half and wash them and pick them clean and stââp them small and put there to May butter and temper them well together then put thereto a pint of oil olâffe and mâddle them well together and then put them in an eaâthen pot and cover it well and set it in a moist place the space oâ seven dayes then put it in a clean pan and set it over the fire and let it fry well and stir it well with a slice that it cleave not to the bottom and then strain it and set it over the fire again and put thereto two ounce of virgin wax and four of weathers tallow melted and boil them a little then put thereto four ounces of fine Frankincense fine powdred and stir it well together till it be well medled and take it down and strain it and let it cool then karn and let the water and turn and cleanse it on the othâr side and warm it and a little skumme it with a feather and do it in boxes this ointment is precious for joints or for sinewes and for many other diseases Diaflosmus Diaflosmus is thus made Take juice of smallage and wormwood Mollein Walwort Speldearge crowfoot Melilote dowfoot Weybred Mugwort Avence Daisies Woodbind Burris hony suckles of every of the juice of these Herbs take two ounceâ sâve onely of woodbinde thereof take three ounces clarified hony two pound and four ounces then mix your hony your juice together and set it on an easie fire and boil and stir them so long till it be welââgh as thick as hony that is mâlting then take it from the fire and put it in an earthen pot and keep it to your use for now it is called Capsimel hony of Molloin But when ye will use of this most precious Medicine in Surgery Take of this Capsimel four ounces and of wheat meal three ounces put these together and set them upon an easie fire and all to stir it that it cleave not to the pans bottom And when it is through hot take it off then take oil of clare or of roses virgin wax of each three ounces and mix them together and then put all together and mix them well together and when it begins to cool then put to it 2. ounces of Turpentine and stir it very well together and then it is called Diaflosmus Idem est quod Flosmus anc Molleyn Take of this byster and spread on stupes of clean Linnen cloth without slyms or on carpe and lay it to a fistula in the Fundament or to a Canker marmole fester plague wolfe or noli me tangere and it healeth not only this but every most horrible sore as bruises rucomes swellings and all others A balm of great vertue Take of Turpentine four ounce of frankincense half an ounce of Lignum aloes two drams of Mastick of Cloves Galingale of Cinnamon Zedoaria of Nutmeggs and of Cubebs of each two drams of gum Elemie one ounce and a half This Bawâ marvellously worketh In that it putteth away both wayes in applying of it both within and without the body and many other incurable diseases as the Canker and the fistula c. A very precious Aqua vitae Take Cinnamon half an ounce Lignum aloes five dramâ Cubebs Cloves three drams and a half galingale three drams yellow Saunders three drams and a half red rose leaves dryed four drams and a half Nutmeg and Mace a dram Musk half a dram Amber greese ten grains Syrup of the bark of Citrons one pound Syrup of Quinces half an pound Aquâ vitae three pottles powder those things which are to be powdred and put all together into an earthen pot well leaded And let them stand and infuse the space of a Moneth stirring them twice or thrice a day then strain them and keep it close in a glasse well stopped This water restoreth Memory lost strengtheneth the senses and comforteth the stomack The Sublimated vine of Master Callus Physitian to the Emperour Charls the fifth is most admirrable for the use thereof caused him to live 129 years without any disease and is made thus Take Cubebs Cinnamon Cloves mace and Ginger Nutmeggs and Galingula one three ounces of Rhaberbe half an ounce Angelica two drams Mastick four ounces Sage lib. 1. two ounces first steep them in lib. two ounces six of Aqua vitae which was six times distilled then distill them all together This wine comforteth the brain and memory expelleth melancholy and breaketh the stone provoketh appetite and reviveth weak spirits and causeth a man to wax young and lustie It may be taken twice a week and not above one spoonful at a time A special Iulep made of white wine and sugar and rose-rosewater which comforteth and refresheth the body much causing the spirits to wax lively Put two pounds of Sugar
of sweet yellow wax twelve ounces of the ashes of the vine tree six ounces these put all together into a Retortartly luted and fenced which after the setting into the ashes distill according to art maintaining a stronger and stronger heat unto the end of the work which you shall perceive by the neck of the Retort within wax curded which is a marvellous signe the distillation is performed It healeth wounds in four times dropping in the person that cannot pisse two drams helpeth presently It helpeth the stitch in the side and many other griefes c. For to make the white plaster Take two pound and four ounces of oil Oliffe of the best of good red lead one pound of white lead one pound very well beaten into dust then take 12. ounces of Spanish sope and incorporate these all together into an earthen pot well closed and when they are well incorporated that the sope cometh upwards put it upon a small fiâe of coles continuing the fire for the space of an hour and an half still stirring it with an iron or the end of a stick Then make the fire a little bigger until the redness be turned into a grey colour but you must not âeave stirring it until the water be turnâd into oil somewhat darker then drop it on a wooden trencher if it cleave not unto the fingâr or trencher then make it up in rols it will last twenty years the older the better The vertue of this plaster The same being laid to the mouth of the stomack helpeth digestion taketh away the offence and grief that riseth in the stomack It helpeth the Colick in the belly being applyed thereto It s good for the flux if it be applyed to the reins of the back It easeth the heat of the kidneys and weakness of the back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away aches it doth break âellons pushes and other pushes and impostumes and healeth them draweth out any running humour withouâ breaking the skin and applyed to the fundament helpeth any diseases there growing its good for the falling of the willow or palate being laid to the crown of the head It also easeth the head-ach being applyed to the temples or forehead It s good against the rheum that falleth into the eyes being applyed to the belly of a woman it helpeth conception A plaster proved on Sir William Farrington Knight of a grievous Marmole that was on his Legg and could not be remedied it was so horrible of stink till a French man healed it with this following Take one pound of Litarge of gold make powder of it as you can âearse it then take one quarter of oil of Roses and a pint of white wine and half a pint of urine well clarified and half a pint of vineger and temper all these together on the fire but put in the urine last then make a plaster of it and lay to the Marmole and it will heal Marmole Canker fester wound all other sores and if you put thereto one ounce of Virgin wax Libanum and one ounce of Mirrhe it will be the more fine and the more precious Probatum A plaster called plaster Emanuel chief for impostumes and other malodies it hath more vertues then man can tell I healeth wounds anon Take Litarge one pound and one dram of gum Armoniak a dram of Galbanum Mirrhe two drams Verdigreece one dram Frankincense one dram Bdellion one dram Mastick half a dram Opoponax half a dram Arisâolâgie three ounces of old oil olive one pound and an half Take the gums and beat thâm âmall and fry them in a skillet on the fire and cleanse them And then do thereto thy Litarge and thy verdigreece and do in these things by and by one after another alwayes stir it well and last put in the Aristologie and so boil it unto a plaster this plaster may soon heal Marmole on the legs and all manner of diseases and impostumes this plaster cometh of God and not of man An approved Medicine against the plague against Carbuncles hot impostumes and such like it will break them expel the poison causeth health Take Ivy Berries dryed in the shadow and after dryed and made into powder and drink them with plantain water It hath helpt the plague in two dayes Probat The partie must sweat in bed and must change the linnen being aired every four and twenty hours It hath holpen the plague in one day and a night An approved Syrup by the Lady Harrington Take a pint of vineger and more then a pint of running water one pound of Sugar and let it seethe till the Sugar be melted Then take a good quantity of Succory and put it to the vineger and water and let it seethe from a pint to half a pint For Venom or poison Triacle in all causes especially Andromachus Triacle with the Snakes flesh in it And the root of Affodil having in it vertue to quicken and strengthen doth cherish the heart by defending it from poison and keeping it in strength A Medicine for the plague or for any Ague Take the best Mithridate half an ounce or one ounce London triacle one ounce Jeane triacle one ounce powder of Saffron one scruple Florum sulphuris or white brimstone in fine powder half an ounce Mix all these well together with the distilled water of Wormwood to the form of an Electuary and give the patient to drink five spoonfuls of the Wormwood water with the Quantity of three Nuts of the aforesaid Electuary bloodwarm in bed and it certainly cureth the Ague or plague by sweat and driveth out the botch and saveth his life which is infected Probat To ripen and break the botch Take the black roots of Crowfoot pound them and lay on a Cloath to the risen If the place be white it is deadly but this plaister will presently c. Against all pesti ent sicknesses or plague and to break the botch and to cure c. Take the âuice of scabious in Ale and give it to the patient warm with a little Triacle and take the root of Scabious stamped with swines grease and spread it on a cloath cold as thick as you can and lay it to the plague sore or any other impostume It must not be changed in twenty four hours Scabious which is also called Divels bit is best for the plague sore To help assuredly divers diseases thats to say to preserve the body from all diseases being drank first and to kill Impostumes to make good colour to resist the plague and to help it to heal the Pâisick it breaketh the stone in the reins it hâlpeth the spleân it purgeth the belly It maketh good colour and expelleth all corrupt blood It healeth wounds in the belly it cleareth the sight Take one pint of Gentian and two parts of Centaury stamp them together and put white wine to them Let them soke five dayes then distill them keep the water distilled in a close vessel use
the place beâng broken with white wine at every dressing To heal any kinde of ach or sore brest Pare off a cap of the root of white Bryonie ând make a hole in the root as hollow as you âan and cover the root close with the cap you âut off or with a piece of a tile-stone and cover âll again with earth letting it still grow and three dayes after open the said root and the hole will be full of water then take that water and put it in a glass and anoint the place where the grief is and use it A plaister for a sore brest Take wheat meal and pure life honey and claâified bores grease of each like portions boil them a little and make a plaister and lay thereto Probat A medicine to skin a womans sore breât which is âaw Take a pint of sweet thick cream and put it into a pan with three spoonfuls of the juice of brown fennel boil it to an oil and therewith anoint the sore brests morning and evening till it be whole Probat To help the hardness in women brests Wheat flower honey oil olive and the juice abundantly of yellow Gilly flower together with the juice of rue Sanat For the aking of a womans brest Take Cinquefoil or five leaved grass and stamp them with swines grease and make thereof a plaister and lay it to well brayed together and it will take away the aking Another for the same Take and boil Rue and put there to flower âf wheat and make thereof a Plaister and lay hereto ââr womens brests or swelling that cometh by cold in child birth Take and lay Chickweed upon a Tyleâone and rose leaves upon Chickâeed upon the rose leaves again so that hâre be of them two or three leaves then âârinkle it with vineger and boil all these âpon the tyle-stone And when it s well boilâd take another Tyle and lay upon thaâ and âut it asunder and lay to the swelling and it âill take away the pain ân approved Medicine for them that haâe cold in their brests Take oil of Camomil and Aqua composiââ âingle them together against the fire chafe ââe breast well withall that it may enter into ââe Stomack and veines This hath holpeââany âpproved Medicine for a sore brest that is broken Take Malâowes and boil them with sheeps âllow till they be very tender then strain it ââd keep it in boxes and if the brest have âeed to be tented take a piece of the stalk of ââe Mallowes that are ââdden and tent it withââl this is proved For bolning of a womans brest Take apples of the oak and stamp them with oil and lay it to the bolning For a very sore brest Take Hartshorn or a Buls horn for need and grate it into a pint of good white wine and give the woman to drink thereof and leâ her sleep upon the same Medicine and it shall cease For coagulation of milk in a womans brest Take Egâmiony Vervine Fennel and bray it altogether and lay it thereon and be whole c. A Soveraign Medicine for a sore brest Take a pottle of smiths water the elder it is the better if it smell a little so much the better also you must take a quarter of a pound of old alume and white salt asmuch as ye can hold on the two fingers from the second joynt forth two handfuls of Sage two Heads of housleek put all these into the water and seethe it till it come to a quart then let it stand with the Herbs in it and wash the sorâ breast well with the Herbs and the wateâ twice a day and at every time ye wash it lay upon the sore or sores green Sage leaves till it be whole this hath been proved and hâaled a breast so sore as it was thought uncurable Ye must warm the water and Herbâ every âime ye dress the brest A medicine for the womanâ brests if the sore ãâã of Milâ Take Mallows as ye get to be holden in a âharger and cut them small and seethe them ân a Gallon of running water and when they âesodden soft put thereto a potile of the âroânds âf Ale and a quart of white wine ând two penny white loaves cutting off the ârusts leavened make it thick and put into it âeers Sueâ or Sheeps Sueâ and lay it upon a âlew cloth or linen cloth and lay it warm to âhe sore brest every day as long as its sore ând it shall be healed by the grace of God A plaister for a postume on womens Teats Take Linseed and seethe it well and long ãâã fair running water then take fresh Sheeâs âallow and fry the Linseed therein and eâân as hot as ye may suffer it lay it thereon Remedies for the Pthisick Pthisis is an ulceration of the lungs by âhich all the body falleth into Consumption ãâã such casâ that it wasteth all save the slâin yââay know him that hath a Pthisick for ârom ãâã to day he waxeh ever leaner and dryer ând his hair falleth and hath ever cougâ and âitteth sometimes matter and bloody strings âithall And if that which he spitteth be âut into a bason of water it falleth into the bottom for it is so heavy A remedy Take two oânces of Pimpernel in powder and thereof make an Electuary with Sugar and use it every morning two drams with Pimpernel water three ounces Water of Snails distilled is proved good to them that be Pthsicke every morning in drink and for all them that are dry and lean Another First take a quantity of running water and boil it half away The ingredients that you are to put into the composition are two ounces of Anniseeds one ounce of Coliander seeds one ounce of Liquerice sliced one ounce of Sugar candy one handful of Coltsfoot half a pound of Raisins of the Sun one quarter of a pound of âiggs and one handful of Liverwort a handful of Maidenhair a quantity of Hartstongue and two penniworth of Dates The composition made and put into the water boiled halâ a way take it and strain it and scum it sweeten it and drink it For the cough and consumptâon of the lungs Take Fox Lungs fresh killed pull them from the Windepipes and the straines which hange by the same then wash the lungs in Sack or white wine lââewarm three or four times until they be clean from the blood thân dry them in a pot in an Oven after the baâcâ drawn forth so well dried beat them to powder Take Anniseeds Fennel seeds Maiden hairâ of each like quantity of weight to your Fox lungs beat all these together to fine powder and see the sâme well mingled take also a like weight of Liquorice as the Fox lungs or somâ deal more and lay it in water fourteen hourâ first clean scraped and a little bruised then seethe your Liquorice in the same water until half be consumed and so strain the Liquor from the Liquorice and with the liquor seeth as much fine