the Mallowes together with the iuyce of the Hollihock rootes and put in eyght or nine Figges and two vnces of Sugar a little leauened Breade and halfe a dish of sweet Butter then lay part of the same vppon a wollen cloth and as hote as may bee suffered lay the same to the side and rowle it verie fast with a strong rowler and euerie day once renew the same with a fresh plaister verie hote vntil such time as the partie be well Another plaister for the Spleene ¶ Take Wormwood Mallowes Cammomile and Melilot of each of these a good handfull boyle them in faire water till the liquor be halfe consumed then put vnto the same halfe a handful of Wheate branne or more and boyle it to the thicknes of a plaister then quilt it and as hote as you may suffer it lay it to your left side An aluarie for the Spleene ¶ Take a pinte of Ale clarified and put therein a crust of Breade then take the powder of Gentiana Spignard Gallingall of each two penny-woorth let them haue a boyling or a waulme then take it off the fire and drinke thereof morning and euening and it will cure the Spléene A restoritie for the liuer lungs and spleene ¶ Take two parts of Fennell and three parts of Honnie séeth them together till they be as thicke as a lectuarie and let the sicke vse this morning and euening For the stopping of the Spleene ¶ Take the Elder roote and seeth the same in white wine vntill the third part thereof and drinke of the same and it cureth the Spléene meruailously Another for the same ¶ Take the lunges of a Foxe and make it into powder and vse to drinke thereof and it will certainly cure the Spléene For the Spleene a good experiment ¶ Take two pounde of Bores greace and two pounde of ashes made of Ashen wood and one gallon of faire running water and séeth them all together til halfe be consumed thē straine them through a cloth and let it stand all night and in the morning fléete of the greace and cast away the water and mingle the greace well together and put it in a boxe and there-with-annoynt vpon the Spléene You must likewise giue the patient this drinke following Take the reotes of young Ashen plants and a good quantity of Wormwood and seeth them well together in a gallon of Wine till the one halfe be wasted and let the patient drinke thereof in the euening hote and in the morning cold and let the patient vse of this oyntment and drink of thys drinke the space of nine dayes and it will helpe him proued Another for the Spleene proued ¶ Take the inner rine of the Ashe trée stamp it and seeth it in Wine and it will doubtles helpe the Spléene For the heate of the liuer ¶ Take the inyce of sowre Apples and swéet Apples of each a pynt or more and two pound of Sugar and mingle these together and let it boyle on a soft fire till it be as thick as a sirop and vse of this a little euery day fasting beeing first made luke warme at the fire To purge the liuer of choller and salt sleame ¶ Take the waight of a gold Noble of Rubarbe and cut it in small péeces and a halfe penny-worth of Spignard and the weight of two groats of Scene in the codds lay all these in soke in nine spoonfuls of Whey by the space of twelue howres and so giue it to the patient For the liuer that is chafed ¶ Take and vse Saunders in thy pottage or broth drinke it and wash thy right side with cold vrine but first boyle it and scum it and put thereto Vinegar and lay it to thy right side but not hote for it will chafe the liuer For wasting of the liuer ¶ Take Water-cresses Red Fennell and Sorrell with a Chicken in a pot nine dayes and vse it Another for the heate of the liuer ¶ Take a quart of Barlie and put thereto a gallon of well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take the same water and put thereto asmuch good woorte with a penny-worth of Licoris beaten but not to powder and take a good handfull of Isope and a good handfull of Sage and boyle all these together till the one halfe thereof be wasted then straine them againe through another cleane cloth and that which commeth forth put it into a cleane vessell and let it stand a day and a night and drinke of the same first in the morning and last at night when you goe to bed For stoppings in the liuer and the milt ¶ Take and seeth Harts-tongue in water or Wine and drinke it or if the herbe bee eaten it is very good for the same Also to vnstop the pypes of the liuer and of the milt take Smallage and seeth the same with a like quantitie of Elder leaues then straine it and drinke the broth thereof Another for the same ¶ If you vse to drinke the iuyce of Chiccorie it openeth the oppilation of the liuer and milt caused of heate Or if you take the Wine that Silios hath beene sodden in and drinke thereof fasting it is a very good medicine against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and against the let of vrine Another for the same ¶ Take and drinke the Wine that wilde Time hath béene sodden in and you shall finde it very good against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and the hinderance of vrine as hath oft been proued ¶ Also if you take the iuyce of the bearbe called Witminte with Honny and the Wine that it hath been sodden in it is verie good to vnstop the conduit of the Milt and the liuer vrine Against the oppilation of the Liuer the Milte the vrine and the bladder vse the decoction of Cassia ligna or the sirrop that it is made with To vse also the iuyce of Night-shade made in sirrop with a little Sugar is very good for the liuer and the milte Also if you make sirrop of the iuyce of Fennell and the decoction of the hearbe called Dawke it is good against the stopping of the Liuer and the Milt and against the Dropsie For the liuer and the milt ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer or of the milt take Aloe Epatick with the iuyce of Smallage warme Or make a decoction of the rootes of Smallage Parssie Fenel Bomwoort and Spurge with two orammes of Mastick and vse this two or thrée times in the weeke till you be well Another for the liuer and the milt ¶ Also who so vseth often to eate the hearb Cheruell it causeth the stopping of the liuer and the milt to cease Or if the patient take the seedes thereof and make them into powder and afterward eyther eate or drinke of the same it will help him Also if the iuyce of Wolst-thistle be drunken with Wine it
powder and searce them through a searcer and drink them in white Wine or good Ale first and last and in all maner of sauces that you eat with your meat and this medicine shall cure the mother the stone and the chollick proued Another for the mother ¶ Take Mugwoort and hearb Sunonde Saudry and red Mints and siraine all these iuyees with red Wine and giue it to the woman that is pained with the mother to drink A good medicine for the mother comming of what cause so euer ¶ Take the rasing of Iuery and the rasing of an Hartes horne with the haire of a Hare dryed and made in powder and as much of Geats clawes burnt and poudered if they may be gotten or in stéed therof Shéepes clawes take all these and vse to eat of them in your pottage or otherwise in your drinks For the genitories ¶ For the paine and swelling of the genitories sée the well the root of Bruse and make a plaister therof and put swet to it and bind it fast therto with a band and it will cease the paine and swelling of the cods For the swelling of the cods ¶ For them that haue swolne cods with fleame so that they shine stampe Doues-foote with small greene Lettice and lay it plaister-wise thereto Another for the same ¶ Take Barly meale and Honey and fry them together and make a plaister thereof and let the party so gréeued lay it warme to the gréefe of the cods For swelling of a mans cods ¶ Take Rue and Wormwood and srampe them together and put therto hony and make therof a cold plaister and lay all about the cod and when you will take the plaister away then wash the cod with Vineger and he shall be whole For a man that is brused or that his cods be sore ¶ Take the wooll of a blacke Rams cod and put that wooll into oyle and powder of Comin and heate it hote and thereof make a plaister and as hote as the party can suffer it lay it to his cods and it will doo away the aking and make it whole within thrée or foure times dressing therwith For swelling of the cods ¶ Take Rose leaues Rose-water red Wine Camomell or Camomell flowers and Beane flower let them boyle together and make a plaister of it and lay it to the cods as hote as he may suffer it Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Walwoort Vineger and Honey put therto Barly flower and séeth them till they be thick and bind it to the sore all hot For a mans yard that is scalded ¶ Take Bruse Woort Veruaine hearb Robert Pimpernell of each of all these a good quantity and most of all of Pimpernell stamp them all together as small as you may then fry them with Butter and straine it through a cloth and put it in a bore and therwith annoynt your yard cold and of these hearbs make a plaister then lay it all about the yard cold dressing it euery day two or three times a day For a mans yard that is burnt ¶ Take a linnen cloth and burne it to powder and take oyle of Eggs and annoynt the sore and fill the gréefe with the sayd powder Also for a mans yard that is sore and full of holes take a good company of Dasies and stampe them and change them often Also take Linséed and burne it and make powder therof and doo it in a cloth and lay it to the sore For a sore in a mans yard ¶ Take Swinismore Hocke leaues Ambrose leaues Veruaine Peritory Cherfaile Mastick bruse these hearbs together in a morter and mingle them together with Mastick and Swines greace and oyle Oliue and boyle them and straine it through a cloth and with this Vnguent annoynt the sore yard so gréeued For the swelling of a mans yard ¶ Take Léekes and bray them in a morter and fry them in fresh greace of a Bore and make a plaister then lay it all about the yard and it shall asswage and heale it proued Another for the same ¶ Take Clay and beate it to powder and sifte it and take wine Vineger and seethe them together and make a plaister therof and it will take away the swelling therof For paine in the bladder ¶ Take fcure drams of Betony and foure rootes of Smallage sodden in water but first séethe the rootes till the water be halfe wasted then seeth the Betony therin and drink therof A decoction for to drink with Wine for them that make bloody water by fracture of any vaine within the body as in the lyuer raines and bladder ¶ Take of Knotgrasse Bursa pastoris of each a handfull the cups of Acornes of Camphire one lease of Cinamon a dram waight of Licoris cleane scraped and sliced one dram waight of water a quart of Suger two vnces all this must boyle to the consumption of the third part and then let it run through a faire cloth into a clean vessell and when it is cold put it into a glasse and in your drink vse therof eyther in Ale or Béere and it shall ease the bladder of payne For him that pisseth blood ¶ Take Ambrose Bursa pastoris Parsly séede stamp them and temper them with Goats milk and giue the party to drink and it will quickly help him For a man that pisseth blood ¶ Take of the earth that is on the Swallowes nest and put it into hot water and giue the sick for to drink and the bléeding shall staunch within a while For a man that may not hold his water ¶ Take the clawes of a Goate and burne them in the fier and make therof powder and let the sicke vse of this powder in pottage a spoonfull at once and he shall be whole For a man that may not pisse ¶ Take Mallowes a good quantity of Gromell and séethe them in Vineger a good while and then let the sick drink therof warme and he shall pisse soone after Another for the same ¶ Take Lanberd and make powder therof and then let the ficke drink therof with white Wine and he shall quickly pisse for this medicine hath béen proued For a hard womb and for to pisse ¶ Take Parfly séede Ache and Spurge of euery of them foure vnces stamp them to powder and put it either into wine or water and drink it morning and euening For to make a man to pisse well ¶ Take Peritory stamp it and fry it and lay it all hot to a mans yard Also make a plaister of the flower of Cockle and water and so lay it to the sicks yard Also Linseede béeing sodden well in hony and applyed to the place causeth the man to pisse well Prooued For a woman that may not hold her water ¶ For a woman that may not kéepe her water take Egrimony and Salt and stampe them together very small then séeth it in olde Wine vntill the third part thereof be consumed and then giue her thereof to drinke For a man or woman that
halfe a handfull of great Raisons with a handfull of Barlie make your broth of all these sodden in a pottle of water till it come to a quart or lesse and when your meat is verie well sodden stampe it your flesh must be either a Cock Chicken or a knockell of Veale and being so stamped very well together straine it and kéepe it and giue the patient therof morning and euening often and it will restore him although hée be neuer so low brought A salue to heale all manner of sores and especially for afresh wound ¶ Take of oyle Oliue and Turpentine a like much a prettie quantitie of Rosemary-leaues pricked boyle all these together and in boyling put thereto a spoonefull of faire water and let theÌ„ boyle together vntill the water be consumed as an oyntment and when it is boyled straine it hote and warme and let it stand in a vessell of earth and when ye shall occupie it heate it ouer the fire and against the fire dresse the sore so that the fire may dry the oyntment and if neede bee that there be no dead flesh lay lint in the salue and lay it hote against the sore and if it neede to be tented then tent it with a tent of the same oyntment hote and lay vpon the tent a plaister of hote cleauing salue and it will cure any wound or sore To make a salue to bring sores that rankle and ake into their owne kinde and cease the burning and aking ¶ Take the iuyce of Smallage of Plantine of each like much of Honny and the white of an Egge a like much and put thereto flower of boulted Wheate and stirre them well together vntill it be thicke and let it come néere no fire but all cold and raw lay it to the sore and it shall clense the wound and cease the aking and bring it to his kinde and heale it faire for this is a principall salue for sores A salue for a newe cut that will not leaue bleeding ¶ Take the blades of vnset Léekes stampe them and put thereto Honny and Wheate flower and stirre them well together vntill they be thicke and let it come neere no fire but all cold lay it to the wound and it will staunch the bléeding and it will driue out the brused blood and make it cleane and heale it A salue for all sores ¶ Take oyle Oliue a pint a halfe Turpentine asmuch Rozen a quarter of a pound vnwrought ware halfe a pound of sheepes tallow 4. pound then take two handfuls of Smallage 2. handfuls of Bugle 2. handfuls of Ragewoort 2. handfuls of Plantaine 2. handfuls of Orpine and cut all these herbs smal and séeth them in the foresaid geare aboue written let it boyle softly ouer the fire alwaies stirring it vntill it bee well medled trgether and when you thinke it well take it from the fire and straine it through a strainer of Canuas and so vse it A salue for a newe hurt ¶ Take Waxe and sheepes sewet but not so much of the sewet as waxe and a little Rozen and if you will heale it shortlie but in but a very little Rozen and set it ouer the fire togeather and as it riseth stirre it and then put therein a dish of water and when it is cold make it in roules Another for the same ¶ Take the whitest Virgin waxe that ye can get and melt it in a panne then put in a quantity of Butter and Honny and seeth them together and take a dish with faire water straine it into the water and worke it with your hands and then make it in a round ball and so you may keepe it and when you lay it to any sore you must first worke it in your hand and then strike it on a cloth and lay it to and this medicine wil both heale and draw the same A salue for wounds and all old sores ¶ Take halfe a pound of Saruese and some-what more of oyle Oliue which is Sallet oyle two ounces of Vineger a pretty quantitie and boyle it till it be blacke and make it vp in roules and so at your neede you may vse it A very good salue called Incarnatiue to bring flesh ¶ Take of the best Turpentine and wash it in very fayre water vntill it be very white and then put out the water froÌ„ it and compound it with the yolke of an Egge or two and put in the dust of Frankensence and Saffron very fine beaten and so worke them all together and keepe it to your vse when you shall neede it A notable healing salue ¶ Take pure Ware Rozen Bolae aâ—moniack sheepes sewet Déeres sewet of rach one pounde beate the Rozen and Armoniack into fine powder and searce it through a fine searcer then take Turpentine halfe a pound boyle all these together vpon a soft fire and stir them well all the while that they séeth but put not in the Turpentine vntil it be ready to take from the fire for it must haue but one walme and so imploy this salue to any sore wound and it will heale it in short time To make a drawing salue ¶ Take Deares sewet and melt it and put in as much oyle Oliue as much Rozen and Waxe boyle them together then let it stand and put in some Turpentine and so straine all through a linnen cloth and kéepe it to your vse Another for the same ¶ Take an vnce of Waxe two vnces of Shéepes sewet halfe an vnce of Olibanum halfe an vnce of Rozen two spoonefuls of Hony two handfuls of young Docke leaues and take and put them into three or foure old Dock leaues close wrapped together and so rost the young Docks therein and when the Docks be rosted put in your gums thereto A salue for an olde sore ¶ Take as many Bramble leaues as when they are shired come to a quarter of a pound of Sage and Valerian of each of them a quarter of a pound also as much of Waxe as much fresh butter halfe a pound of Rozen then put them into a skillet and boyle them altogether a good space and then straine it through a faire cloth and so kéepe the salue till that you haue néede thereof and this helpeth The making of a salue to cure wounds that be rankled and brused and to cease the swelling and aking ¶ Take the iuyce of Smallage and the iuice of pety Morrell and the iuyce of Plantaine leaues of each a like much then take Honey and the white of an Egge a like of each of the same as of the iuyce and meddle them all on the fire and put therto flower of bolted Wheat and stir them well together till it be some deale thicke and then let it come nye no fire but lay it to the wound all cold and it will clense the wound and cease the aking and brenning and bring them in his kind and heale him faire for euer and this is a principall salue for sores or
and two vnces of white Waxe and thrée vnces of Swines greace and an vnce of Quicksiluer that must be slacked with fasting spittle an vnce of great Salt as much of the one as of the other and of all these make an ointment and if the scabs or itch be vpon all the whole body as wel aboue the girdle as beneath then when thou goest to bed wash both thy hands and thy feet with warme water and supple them well therein by the fire and after dry them with a cloth of linnen then take vp with thy fingers of that oyntment and doo it in the palmes of thy hands and on the soles of thy féete and rub it well together that it may drinke in well â—…nd if it doo soke in well thou must put gloues on thy hands and socks on thy féete and thus doo euery night when thou doost goe to bed and if the scab or itch be aboue the girdle and not beneath theÌ„ anoynt but thy hands and if the scab be beneath the girdle then looke that you anoynt the soles of your féete and the scab or itch be in all thy body as well aboue the girdle as beneath then thou must anoynt both thy hands and thy féete as thou sittest by the fire and thou shalt be whole this hath béen prooued Another oyntment for a man that is scabbed ¶ Take fiue or sixe handfuls of Horehound and séeth it in running water till it be halfe sodden away and then wash the sicke therewith as hote as he may suffer it and then looke that you haue ready this oyntment made of these hearbs take the roote of the red Dockes and the roote of Selidon and then take Wormewood and Alleluia of each a like much and bray them well together and doo therto a good portion of May butter and stampe them well together and so let them stand seauen daies and then fry it and straine it as thou doost another oyntment and therewith annoynt the sicke when he is washed and hée shall be whole For the shingles a remedy ¶ Take Doues dirt that is musty and of Barly meale heaped halfe a pound and stampe them well together and doo therto halfe a pint of vineger and mingle them together and so lay it to the sore cold lay Cawle leaues ther-vpon and so let it lye thrée dayes vnremoued and on the third day if néede require lay therto a new plaister of the same and at the most he shall be whole within thrée plaisters Another for the shingles ¶ Take the blood of a Cats eare or of the taile and therewith anoynt the shingles and doo nothing else therto Also take Doues dung and Barly meale and stamp them together with Aysell and lay it to the shingles all cold For all manner of sinewes that are shrunken ¶ Take the head of a black Shéepe Camomell Lorrell leaues Sage of each a handfull and bray these hearbs in a morter then boyle them altogether in water till they be well sodden and let them stand till they be cold then draw it through a strayner and so vse it An oyntment for shrunken sinewes aches soueraigne ¶ Take eight Swallowes ready to flye out of the nest driue away the bréeders when you take them out and let them not touch the earth stampe them vntill the feathers can not be perceaued put to it Lauender cotten of the strings of Strawberies the tops of mother Time the tops of Rosemary of each a handfull take all their waight of May butter and a quart more stamp all the feathers that nothing can be perceaued in a stone morter then make it vp in balls and put it into an earthen pot for eight dayes close stopped that no ayre take them take it out and on a soft fire as may be séethe it so that it doo but simper then straine it and so reserue it to your vse For sinewes that be broken in two ¶ Take Wormes while they be knit and looke that they depart not and stamp them and lay them to the sore and it will knit the sinewes that be broken in two For to knit sinewes that be broken ¶ Take Archangell and cut it small in gobbets and lay it to the sore and take Milfoile and stamp it and lay it aboue it hard bound and let it lye so thrée dayes and at the thrée dayes end take it away and wash it with Wine and then make a new plaister of the same and at three dayes end put therto another and doo nothing else thereto Another for the same ¶ Take Peniriall and bray it and put salt inough to them and temper it with Hony and make a plaister thereof and lay it vpon the sinewes that be stiffe and it will make them to stretch Prooued An oyle to stretch sinewes that be shrunk ¶ Take a quart of Neates-foote oyle a pint of Neates gall halfe a pint of Rose-water as much Aqua vitae then put all these together into a Brasse panne then take a handfull of Lauender cotten as much of Bay-leaues a good quantity of Rosemary a good quantitie of Lauender Spike of Strawberry-leaues the strings and all then take thred and binde them all in seuerall brauches and put them into the pan or pot and sette them ouer the fire vpon cléere coles with the oyles altogether and so let theÌ„ boyle a good while and when it is boiled enough it will boyle but softly then take it off the fire and let it stande till it be almost colde then straine it out into a wide mouthed glasse bottle or pewter pot and stoppe it close it will not continue in a woodden thing and where the sinewes be shrunke take of this beeing warmed and annoynt the place there-with and chafe it well against the fire and vse this morning and euening and kéepe the place warme and by the grace of God you shall finde great ease For to staunch bâ—â—od ¶ Take Bole armoniacke and Turpentine and make a plaister and lay it to and it will helpe the same Also if you take the mosse of the Hasell trée and cast it into the wound and it will stanche the blood foorth-with and the longer that it is gathered the better it is Also take a good peece of Martilmas béefe out of the roote and heate it on the coales and as hote as may be suffered lay it to the place Another for the same ¶ Take a péece of leane salt béefe and let it be of that bignes that it may fill the wound and lay it in the fire in the hote ashes till it be hote through and beeing hote thrust it into the wound and binde it fast and it shal quickly stanch the bléeding Another to staunch blood ¶ Take Bursa pastoris stampe it and lay it to the vaine and it will quickly stanche bleeding Another for the same ¶ Take the mosse that groweth about the roote of the Ashe trée and hold it to thy nose and smell it and it will stanche the
much of white Copper is fine beaten a penny-worth of graines brused then let them boyle altogether three or foure walmes ouer the fire and let the skimme as it riseth be wel taken off with a feather and when it is colde put the same into an earthen pot or bottle so that it may be kept close from ayre and for a greene wound take of the thinnest and for an olde wounde of the thickest couer the sore rather with Veale or Mutton skimme them with Docke leaues when that you haue dressed them with thys aforesaid water To make water imperiall another way ¶ Take a handfull of Dragon of Scabions of Endiue a handfull of Pimpernell a handfull of Worme-wood of Rew a handfull a handfull of Tansie as much Fetherfoy asmuch of Daisie leaues as much of Cowslyps as much of Maydenhayre as much Sinckfoyle as much Dandelyon as much Time as much Bawme of each of these hearbes a handfull as I sayd before then take of Treakle a pound of Bole Armoniack foure ounces and when you haue all these hearbes together you must take and shread them a little but not too small then take the Treakle the Bole armoniack and mingle them and the hearbes together then put them in a stillitory and still them and it is made A very good remedy to take away Warts ¶ For to take away Warts take the séede of Briony with the leaues burne them and make Ashes of them and meddle the ashes with the iuyce of the same hearbe like an oyntment and annoynt your Warts often and they will fall away The dunge of an Eagle if it be often rubbed vpon the Warts dooth likewise doo away the same very quickly Another remedie for Warts ¶ Take the iuyce of hearbe Wart-wort and annoynt any Wart or Ring-worme there-with and it helpeth For to doe away Warts ¶ Take Elder berries and stampe them then wringe out the iuyce and with the same vse once or twise a day to annoint thy Warts and it will quickly doo them cleane away Thys experiment hath béene proued For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take and binde fast the Wenne then take Verdigreace Sulphur Sope oyle of Egges Allam and Honny and temper them together and lay thereto and it shall doo away the Wem and also for to heale it well and cleane within three or foure times dressing For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take a quantitie of vnslackt Lime and mixe the same very well with as much blacke Sope and annoynt any Wen therewith and the Wenne will fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt the place with oyle of Balme and it wil perfectly heale the same How to helpe one that is blasted ¶ Take the white of a Hennes Egge and put it in a brazen Morter then put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Copperis and grinde them well togeather till it bee as small as an oyntment with which annoynt the sore face and it will case the paine and take away the swelling and when it is welnye whole annoynt the place with a little Popilium and that will make the skinne faire and well againe An excellent remedy to helpe the rewme ¶ Rub the leafe of a Marygold betweene your fingers and put the same into your nose and let it stay there a little while and it will bring forth aboundance of humors out of the heade it will helpe the Rewme within a little while if you vse it This hath béene prooued Another speciall remedie for the Rewme ¶ Take a little sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oaken leaues then cut them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre as you can suffer the same holding the sticke betweene your teeth in thys manner hold your mouth ouer a dish or poringer and there wil great aboundance of humors auoyde out of your mouth But within a while washe in faire water the leaues on the sticke and then holde them in your mouth againe Doe thus for the space of an howre and vse it thrée or foure times a day for thrée or foure dayes together or vntill you haue auoyded so much watry humors as you thinke good This is the best and presentest remedy for the rewme that euer was heard of And hee that proues it shall finde it and excellent helpe A soueraigne water against melancholly and drinke to comfort the stomacke ¶ Take a pounde of Aqua vitae and put thereto a quart of Redrose water put into it as much Licoris sliced and scraped as you may hold in both your hands but if it be English Licoris you may take lesse put thereto as much Anniseede as you thinke will be sufficient to make it taste well thereof stew all these with a soft fire well couered with an earthen pot that the ayre doo not goe out to your iudgement till that a pinte thereof be consumed let it not boyle in any case but stewe softly this done take it from the sire and let it scand and coole and when it is cold draw it from the seede and Licoris and put it into the wicker glasse or bottle but bruse it that your water may be as cleere as you can and when neede requireth occupy it To make artificiall oyle of balme for woundes ¶ Take Balme Rewe Fetherfoy Sowthistle Nettles Briany leaues Bramble leaues Sage leaues Cinckfoyle of each of all these a handfull take all these simples and lay them in oyle Oliue one whole night and take the water that commeth of a Vine stalke and blacke Suailes gum Arabeck gum Edere of each of these one ounce you must take the seed of the Ashe trée and beate the seedes and the gummes very fine together Afterward you must put the oyle and the hearbs into the Still and throwe thereupon a quarter of a pound of the oyle of Roses and two ounces of Aqua vitae and so distill it with a soft fire but you must still it at the least twice or thrise Thys oyle will heale all wounds very soone A greene balme to incarnate wounds and to dry vp filthy vlcers ¶ Take of fine Aqua vitae Venice turpentine oyle of Roses of euery of them a pint boyle them with a soft fire of coles and after a waume or two put in of Verdigreace made in fine powder an ounce and a halfe and boyle it to a good perfect substance and so vse it to your sore wounds and filthy vlcers and it shall helpe them very shortly To make artificiall Balme ¶ Take of gum Elempine sixe ounces Aloes Mirrhe Castore Apponace of each two ounces Storax calamite Olibanum Mastick Cacabre of each foure ounces Munge Bedelii gum of the Fig trée of each two ounces and a halfe make euery one of them in powder by themselues that will be powdered The spices take of Lignum aloes three ounces Zilobalsami Carpobalsami Spignard Cloues Sinamon Calamus aromatici nut aromatici Nutmegs Galingall Setwell graines Cardomomus both of
is good for braine or memory For the weaknes of the braine ¶ Take and smell to muske and for default of stoppings of the nose when it wringeth the hart and vpper limmes and causeth them in a manner to sound take of the sume of the Muske beneath Also to comfort the braine vse both Cloues and Mace in your breths that they be sodden in and also in your nosthrils If the Patient haue the rume oâ—â—pose put the powder of Cardomonum and the oyle of Muske into an Egs-shell till it séeth and therewith annoynt the head For the fleame in the braine ¶ Take the iuice of red Docks with the iuice of Rue and put a little thereof into the nosthrils and vse this in a stue or verie warme place For him that hath lost his mind ¶ Take the iuice of Marigolds of Sage of Wormewood of each of them a spoonfull and take as much white Wine and put it thereto and let him drink it at euen and as much in the morning cold and vse it for fiue dayes Another for him that hath lost his mind ¶ Take and sheare off the haire of the mold of his head then take Archangell and stampe it and bind it to his head where it is shauen and let hun sléepe for a while and when he awaketh he shall be right méeke and sober inough For to keepe a good memorie ¶ Take Mugwoort and lay it in white Wine and then take it and distill it and vse to drinke of it fasting and it shall preserue the memory Also to take the iuice of Zipulus drinke it fasting causeth a good memory Another for memory ¶ Take and grind Musterséede with Vineger and rub it mightily on the plants of the féet and it dooth quicken the memory of such persons as haue béen long time sicke and will stir them vp from all kind of forgetfulnes of memory and maketh them mindfull of such busines that they take in hand Against forgetfulnes ¶ Take Rue red Mints oyle Oliue and with very strong Vineger let thy nosthrils be holden ouer the smoke thereof Also burne thine owne haire and mingle it with vineger and a little pitch and apply it to thy nosthrils for it wonderfully stirreth and quickneth the persons diseased with forgetfulnes Also take the lytes of a Hogge layde vnto thy head being shauen is very good Another for forgetfulnesse ¶ Take the gall of a Crane being made warme in a leaden vessell it dooth throughly stirre vp the diseased body if the nape of his necke be annoynted therewith Also take the smoake of Galbanum or of an Harts horne which is best of all for forgetfulues Also the skin of an Hare burnt and the ashes thereof drunke with Calamint healeth the disease of the Lytargy Another for the same ¶ Take Sauery and beat it and séeth it in Vineger and lay it in the forme of a plaister to the hinder part of the head it dooth méerely awaken those that are very heauy with sléepe nothing dooth more and better quicken forgetfulnes in men or women Also the fume of a Kidds skin dooth quicken forgetfull persons and those that be infected with the falling sicknes For the frensie in the head ¶ Take oyle of Roses oyle of Violets of euery of them xx poys and as much of the water of a Cowturd put it in a new vessell of earth and boyle it till all the water be boyled away then put out that and put in other into the same vessell as much of that water and boyle it thus seuen times and then put thereto halfe of the fourth part of the poys of Camphiere and meddle it well together and vse it on his head for the frensie when it is new shauen Another for the frensie of the head ¶ Take the iuice of Smallage veriuice or vineger oyle of Violets or Roses being put together in a vessell of glasse ouer the fire all hot lay it to the Patients head and so annoynt the head all ouer being shauen Another for the same ¶ Take and annoynt the head with vineger and with oyle of Roses put thereto and it is very good against lytargie or frensie and for vomit of blood the quantitie of foure drams taken with wine profiteth much For the frensie in the head ¶ Take the hot lights of a Goat and clap it to the head of the Patient that is vexed with the frensie and it taketh it away presently and so doth a sponge dipt in warme wine and put to the left pappe Also the roote that is called Neproyal boyled and layd to the head will draw forth all madnes An experiment for the frensie in the head ¶ Take a red stone that is found in a Swallow and let the Patient carry it about him fast tyed in a linnen cloth and put it vnder the left arme and it dooth heale all frensie lunatick persons Also a rosted mouse eaten is very good for frensie Also séeth Henbans in swéet wine and therewith wash the frensies eares temples and nosthrils and it proueketh sleepe For the meigrim in the head ¶ Take foure handfuls of red rose Flowers fresh in Sâ—mmer and in Winter thrée handfull of Camomell and as much of veruen and breake them small with your hande and boyle them in a pottell of white wine or Gascoyne if it may be had and if not in Rochell wine till it come to a quart and put them in thrée baggs broched flat like a playster and lay it where as the paine is as hot as the patient may suffer it and change them still hot and hot during a day and a night and longer if néed be Another for the meigrim ¶ Take halfe an vnce of Galingall and an vnce of Ginger Nutmegs halfe an vnce Cloues a quarter of an vnce Aniseede a peny waight Enula Campana a quarter of an vnce Licoris halfe and vnce Suger halfe an vnce and beat all these together and let the sick vse of this powder first and last a spoonful at once and within foure daies God willing he shall be whole Another for the meigrim in the head ¶ Take an vnce of Stauesaker and beat it to powder fine then take the third part of the powder and of the white of an Egge and a Nutmeg and a little Commin a quantity of flaxe small hacked beat them together and lay it plaister wise on his forehead when that he goeth to bed if he bléed he shal be quicklie whole if not lay it on the oftner vntill he bléed Another for the meigrim ¶ Take commin beat it as small as ye can that so done sift it through a fine cloth and take the finest therof put therto the quantity of the gall of an Oxe and beate them together till that they be thicke and then make a plaister therof and lay it to the nape of the necke and it shall help them For the same a medicine ¶ Take Daste roots leaues and all and beat them wring out the
very small and séeth them in oyle till the oyle be nigh wasted then lay the residus that is left on the hot coales and let the Patient take the smoke thereof at his mouth and nose and it will help him Also bind the powder of Eustorbium in a fine cloth and hold it so to his nose that he be constrained to neese Or else take and make an oyntment of Eustorbium of Pepper and of Castore with oyle of Muske or common oyle with these powders and iuyce of Gourds and annoynt and rubb the hinder part of the Patients head prooued For to purge the head and to clense it ¶ Take Pellitory of Spaine and chew a good quantitie of the roote in thy mouth thrée seuerall daies and it shall purge the head doo away the ache and fasten the gumms For to purge the head an experiment ¶ Take the séede of Stoni sacrae and beat it all to powder and when it is beaten small take a fine linnen cloth and put the powder therein and make therof a little ball the quantity of a Hasell nut and put it in thy mouth and role it to and fro betwixt thy téeth chawing and holding downe thy head the space of an houre and it will purge the head and thy gummes and kéepe thy téeth from aking this also clenseth all filthines out of the head and braine For to purge the head of what cause so euer ¶ Take a handfull of Betony a handfull of Camomell and a handfull of Veruaine leaues picked stampe them and seeth them in black Woort or in Ale and in the latter end of the sée thing put to it a little Comin brayed the pouder of Harts horne and the yolks of two Eggs and a little Saffron and stir them well about and lay a plaister thereof hote ouer all his forehead and temples Also if you put to it a little Vineger it is a remedy for to purge the head and for the Meigrim beside Another for to clense the head the brest and the stomack ¶ Take thrée handfull of Centory and séeth it in a gallon of water vnto a pottell and then clense it and put therto a pint of clarified hony and séeth it softly to a quart and drink therof two spoonfuls at once early in the morning and late in the euening For all manner of head ache ¶ Take Veruaine Betony Wormwood Celidony Wall-woort Rue and the bark of the Elder Hony and Pepper and all whole stampe them together and seeth them in water and drink it early and late prooued Another experiment for the same ¶ Take Rue Hayhoue Betony Veruaine Mintes Hilwoort red Fenell Wormwood Sothernwood of each a handfull wash them and shred them small then séethe them with water in an earthen pot and wash thy head with some of the water then mingle the hearbs with Wheat bran and make a plaister thereof and lay it on the mould of his head as hote as may be suffered then bind it too with a Kerchiefe and within fiue times dressing of the Patient he shall be whole Another experiment for all manner of head ache ¶ Take Rue Veruaine Wormwood Sage Walwoort Heyhoue red Fenell Planten the gréene of an Elder between the bark and the trée of each a handfull wash them and stamp them small put them in a new earthen pot with a pottle of red Wine and a pottle of stale Ale seeth it to the halfe put therunto a quarter of an vnce of Pepper beaten and straine it through a cloth and drink therof nine daies eight spoonfuls at once at eueuing hot and in the morning cold and wash the Patients head with the liquor and it will cure all manner of head ache Against the turne or daseling in the head ¶ Let thy head be washed with the water of the decoction of thrée leaued Grasse and lay a playster of the hearbe to the Patients forehead Also Mints laid to the head taketh away the paines that come of a cold cause Also Mistletow laid to the head draweth out the corrupt humors and the iuyce of Onions cast into the nosthrils cleanseth the head Also séethe Peniriall and lay it to the temples or poure Bawlme into the eares thrée or foure times in the Sunne and it will cure the Patient of daseling in the head Another for daseling or swimming in the head ¶ Take and make a plaister of Culuer-dung and Wheate branne temper them with the white of an Egge and lay it to the contrary part of the head to that which is payned Also the iuice of Iuie mingled with old Lard is good for the swimming in the head Also the pith of bread which was baken with Coriander seede laid to the head is good Against the rume in the head ¶ Take and make a Pomander of the powder of Cucubes Maces Labdanum and Gréeke Pitch it doth remoue from the braine all superfluous humers Maces and Cucubes chewed in the mouth doo the same A plaister made of Garlick and Cloues stoppeth that humor which causeth the rume Also Isop boyled in the embers and so laid to the head stoppeth the rume and a little bag full of Darnell Salt and Aniseede is very good A Gargell for the rume ¶ Take Vineger Musterd a good quantity of Pepper and boyle them all together then let the party so gréeued put a spoonfull in their mouth and walke vp and downe and when it waxeth cold spit it out and take an other and vse it for a time and for euery one spoonful you shall voyd fiue take it not in the frest this hath beene prooued For the rume an other experiment ¶ Take iuice of Colewoorts and draw it into the nosthrils and it purgeth the head Sorrell beaten with the oyle of Roses is good for the ache of the head For the rume in the eyes take Time and eate it and it driueth away the rume For the rume in the head an other proued ¶ Against cold rume and other passions and swimming of the head and such other quallities take thrée Pills of Cassia of Labdanum and Storax Confecta with the iuice of Wormwood wheÌ„ the cause commeth of the head this comforteth the braine also make a Fumigation of Cassia Ligna ouer hote coales and receiue the smoake thereof at thy mouth A quilt for the rume a speedy remedie proued often ¶ Take of Olibanum Bengeum Storax Calamita of each of these halfe a dram of Labdanum two drams of Nutmegs and Cloues of each halfe a dram of Commin a scruple Masticke halfe a dram of Maces half a scruple of Iugula Romana a dram of Bay berries a scruple of the flower of Roses of Camomell of Violets of each a dram of the flowers of Betony a scruple beat all these into grosse pouders and so let them be quilted with good red Scarlet flocks in a péece of black Sarcenâ—t and so be laid vpon the head to the nape of the necke and let it lye there the space of twenty houres and
then turne it and thus for the rume it is most excellent An experiment for wounds in the head ¶ For to cease the ache and swelling wounds that be sore in the head or in any other place so that the bones be not broken Take Mallowes Wormwood Betony Egrimony Hilwoort of each of these a handfull wash them and stamp them and put therto thrée vnces of wheat flower as much Hony and as much Barrow greace and stamp them together and put thereto red Wine and fry them and lay them warme to the sore but lay a red Cole leafe between the plaisters and the wound and it shall cease the ache and take away the swelling thereof For all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Wormwood Waybread Rue Wallwoort Sage the barke of the Elder trée thrée cornes of Pepper and temper them together in wine and drinke thereof each day a draught early and late till that the Patient be well Also take the gall of an Hare and temper it with as much hony and annoint therewith the temples Also Rue and Eysell and smere thy head therewith is wholsom Also Camomell is good for the burning Feauer that holdeth a man or woman in the head Also Feuell sodden in water swageth the ache in man or womans head when that the head is washed therwith Another for all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take the greace of an Hart and mingle it with Barly◠meale and Sorrell bind them and temper them all together and playster it to thy temples for this hath béene proued a right good medicine Also take the iuice of Primrose and the milke of a Cow and with a pen draw it vp into thy nosthrills and it shall purge the head and shall heale the partie so gréeued of the head ache For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of white Poppy and red Nettles and stamp them together and put to it a little Beane flower and lay it on a cloth and so bind it to the forehead and he shall sléepe quietlie To make one sleepe that slept not in a long time before ¶ Take white Poppy seede Aniséed of each a like quantity and beat them to fine powder then take Rose-water the white of an Egge and womans milke and mingle all these together but first beate the white of an Egge very much and take away the froth then take flocks as many as will lye ouer your forehead and wet them in the liquor aforesaid then sprinkle of the powder vpon it and then lay it in a pewter platter vpon a chasingdish of coles for to make it warme and so lay it to the forehead and the party shall take his rest and quiet sléepe For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of Elder and warme them betwéen two tiles and bind it to the nape of the necke and it will make him to sléepe Also take the leaues Scala caeli put them in a pot and séeth them well a good while and at euen wash well thy féet and legs vp to the knées with that water and no higher then goe to bed and thou shalt sléepe soundly For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take a quart of Almonds blended and halfe a pound of Hempséede thrée times washed in cleane water and sixtéene Dates stamp them together and put therto good stale Ale and take an vnce of Poppy séed brused and lay it in Ale thrée or foure houres and séeth them together and straine them and giue the sicke to eate of it and it shall make him sléepe For to make a man sleepe and for to come to quiet rest ¶ Take red Roses Violets the water of Mellilot Lettice of each a like quantity a handfull white Poppy white Henbane of each halfe a dram a little Dill séede for to comfort the braine bray all these together then put them in a soft linnen cloth twelue inches long thrée inches broad quilt it and tye it to his forehead Also take oyle of water Lillies Poppy Nightshade Rose-water Vineger and womans milk dip flaxe therin and bind it to his temples this hath béen often proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take the iuice of wild Cowcumbers and put it into the eares and it asswageth the paine Also put the wood of gréene Ashe in the fire and saue the liquor that commeth out at the end and put it into the eares it causeth the paine for to cease and amendeth the hearing Also beate the iuice of Wormwood and drop it into thy eares proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take and mingle the iuice of Betony with oyle of Roses and put it warme in the eares with a tent and stop them well Also take faire oyle Oliue and let it be blowne out of a mans mouth that is cleane and fasting into the eares of a sick man let this be doone thrée or foure times and let that side of the head be turned downward that the odour of the head may run out Also take Almonds and the kernels of Peaches let them be cleane pilled in hote water and make oyle of them and let the oyle be put into the eares of the Patient so gréeued For the paine in the eares ¶ Take oyle of Roses and a little Vineger and put it to the eare then make a bagg of Camomell and Mellilot and lay it thereunto Also Goose greace béeing taken with a little hony asswageth the paines of the eares Also oyle of Almonds is very good for the payne in the eares Also if there be water in the eares take a little Goose greace and the iuice of Onyons commixed together and so lay it to the eares proued For deafnes in the eare ¶ Take a péece of gréene Ashe and put it in she fire and take the droppings of that water and take the droppings of a fresh water Eele the oyle of bitter Almonds of euery one a equall portion warme it by the fier and let it drop two or thrée drops in the eare so gréeued then take black Ewes wooll and dip the wooll therein and put it into the same eare and it will help the Patient so gréeued by Gods grace Also take Betony and Horehound stamp them in a morter and wring out the iuice and let the Patient lye on that side and so poure it into his eare and let him take his rest this hath béene proued For deafnes in the head ¶ Take a Hedghog and rost it and take the droppings therof and put it to the Patients eares so gréeued and stop it with black wooll et fiet Somtime there chanceth deafnes by wind which is in the eare the which causeth tynkling in the head then take a little Aloes in hot water or in white Wine and distill it into the Patients eare then put a little Eustorbium in pouder into the parties nose so gréeued to make him for to néese and to auoyd as much filthy humors as you may Another for deafnes in
it be consumed away and in the time that it is a boyling fill it with the iuice of Lemons and when it is sodden take it off and let it coole and then take eight new laid Egs the whites of them and beat them fine and put fine Suger to it and so occupy it for Sun burning For red pimples in the face ¶ Take a little Roch Allom and breake it in small péeces then take the white of a new laid Egge and put it in a pan that is leaded within set it to the fire till you see it boile and stir it all the while with a little stick till you sée it wax hard take this and wash your face therewith Also take rose-Rose-water and water of wild Tansie and mingle them together and therwith wash thy face and thou shalt be whole For pimples in the face ¶ Take and wash your face wheÌ„ you goe to bed with warme water and let it dry in take the white of an Egge and put it into a Saucer and set it vpon a chasingdish of coles and put into it a péece of Allom beat it together with a spoone till it become thick then make a round ball and therwith anoynt the parties face where the pimples be For heate and blaines in the face ¶ Take the whites of two Egs and beat them with an Allom stone till they come to curd then take it and set it vpon a few embers and alwaies stir it as it doth gather to a curd then take it off and put it vpon a Painters stone and put thereon Vnguentum populeon halfe the portion and of Allom as much as your thomb so fine beaten as may be and this grind with all the other ingrediens a long while and put it in a glasse or pot and therewith annoynt thy face For a rich face ¶ Take thrée yolks of Eggs rawe as much in quantity of fresh butter or Capons greace without salt Camphire two peny worth red Rose-water halfe a pint two graines of Siuet and boile all these together in a dish then strain them through a clean cloth and so set it to kéele and take the vppermost and box it Also take Populeon Brimstone and fresh butter and à handfull of red Sage and stamp and strain them and then melt all together and put it in a boxe Also take white Copperas one vnce one pint of running water and boile them altogether to the halse and skim it clean and straine it and put it in a glasse and set it in the Sunne then wash thy face with a feather and annoint thy face therwith morning and euening till it be whole For a sauce flamed face ¶ To annoynt it by day take eight penny worth of Camphire and as much of Bores greace as a costard Aple and mingle them together finely till you can perceiue none of the Camphire then put it into a box and keepe it as close as you can from the ayre Also to annoynt the face by night take a quantitie of Deares suet and put therto a little Bores greace and a quantity of Brimstone and boile them together with a quantity of Copperas and a pint of Vineger or claret Wine and after they haue béen boyled vse to annoynt thy face therwith To make a good oyntment for a sauceflamed face ¶ Take an vnce of oyle of Bayes and an vnce of Quicksiluer and doo them in a bladder together with a spoonfull of fasting spittle and then rub them well together that nothing of the Quicksiluer be seene and then take of this oyntment when that it is made and anoynt the sauceflame face therwith and it will heale it well and faire on war rantise proued true Another oyntment for the sauceflame face ¶ Take the rootes of Louach and of Dock roots the tops of Nettles and Cellendine a like much the quantity of thrée vnces halfe a pound of the beanes of Parsley and bray them well in water and doo therto two pound of Bores greace and stamp them well together and let them stand still foure daies after set it ouer the fire till it séeth then straine it through a faire cleane cloth and then put therto fine Frankensence Myrrh and Mastick of each an vnce and let it boile eftsone with a easie fire and stir it well with a slyce and then let it kéele and when it is cold put thereon two vnces of Quicksiluer and mingle them together and therewith annoynt the saucefleame face and this will heale the same as it hath béen oft proued Another medicine for a saucefleame face ¶ Take the pâ—tty Morell and still thereof a quart of water and take a quarter of a pounde of Camphier and heate the water a little then put the Camphire therein and mingle theÌ„m verie well together then put it in a glasse and stop it well but you must bruse the Morell a little in a Morter before you still it afterward with thys water vse to annoynt the sausefleame face and it will heale the same Also with thys water you may heale anie manner of sausefleame face whatsoeuer as by experience hath often béen proued For heate or swelling in the face ¶ Take and boyle the leaues or the blossoms of Rosemarie eyther in white Wine or faire water and vse to wash thy face and hands therewith and it will preserue thée from all inconueniences and also make both thy hand and face verie smooth For wrincles in the face ¶ Take white Wine and a little Brionie and a drie Figge that is fatte and annoynt your face therewith then trauaile vpon the same till you sweat For a man that sweateth too much Take Linseede and Lettice and stampe them together and lay it to the stomack of the partie that vseth to sweat much and it will helpe him For to make the face fayre ¶ Take the flowers of Rosemarie and seeth them in white Wine with the which wash your face also if you drinke hereof it will make you haue a sweet breath Also to make the face white put the powder of Sepia in oyntment Citerium and annoynt the face Or make powder of the roote of Serpentine and of this bone and mingle the same with Rose-water and let it drie and then put it to the same water againe and let it likewise dry doe this foure or fiue times and then vse to annornt the face therewith For a chylde that is iaw-fallne or mold-fallne or rooffallne ¶ Take a handfull of Chickwéede and wrap it in a red Colwoort leafe or els a linnen cloth and rost it in the hote embers in the fire and it will become a gréene salue then lay thereof to the bone of the necke as hote as may be suffered and take soure leauen of white Bread and crum it on the molde of the childes head as a plaister and it will raise vp the bone or molde by the grace of God within nine howres For shortnesse of breath ¶ Take a gallon of Ale put therto a
penny-worth of Lycoris scraped and a halfe penny-worth of Annyseed a little Linséed and a handfull of Isope and asmuch Penneriall cleane washed let them séeth to fiue pints and drinke hereof morning and euening till you haue ease For a hoarce voyce ¶ Take the broth that red Colwoorts haue béene sodden in and mingle it with seauen or eyght Penydis and one ounce of sirrop of Maiden-haire and giue it the patient when hee goeth to bed Take Dyairis simple and a losing of the same at morning and also at night Another remedy for a hoarce voyce ¶ Take great Raisons Figges Sugar Cinamon and Cloues of each a small quantitie séeth them in good Wine and giue the patient to drinke thereof morning and euening two ounces at a time except hee haue a Feauer It is also good to take morning and euening a spoonfull of the strrop of Iniubes mixed with a roote of Licoris in manner of a Locsanum if with the saide hoarcenes there discende aboundance of water to the mouth Also it is good for to make an clectuarie of halfe Dyairis and halfe Diadrigantum and vse hereof first in the morning and last at night A very good medicine for to open the pypes and to make the voyce cleere ¶ Take a Figge and put it in the powder of Isope and eate euerie morning one at a time till you be well Thys will help you on warrantise For a sore throat or mouth ¶ Take Cinckfoile a good quantitie stampe it and boyle it in faire water in a posnet then hold thy mouth open ouer the fume thereof as hote as possible thou canst suffer it that it may enter into thy throat and still as it cooleth in thy mouth spitte it out and so take fresh and fresh A sirrop for a sore throat ¶ Take halfe a pynte of the iuyce of Mulberries a pynte of clarified Honny and a quarter of a pinte of good Claret Wine séeth them altogether till the liquor be cōsumed take also sage Suger Woodbine and Roses of each a handfull seeth them in faire water till the strength of the hearbes be sodden then take tenne or twelue spoonfulls of the fore-said strrop of Mulberries and put therein and with thys vse to gargell your throat luke-warme oftentimes and spit it out againe proued For a sore throate ¶ Take oyle of Camomile oyle of Violets and the oyle of Almonds and the greace of a Hen asmuch as of all the others first wash it well and picke it then mingle all together and annoynt the throat therewith Take the dunge of an Asse and the dunge of Swallowes and make it in powder and put the same in wine and gargel it in your mouth and throat as hote as may be suffered Take also the Swallowes in the nest and a pounde of the oyle of Cammomile and the oyle of Almonds as much of the one as of the other and lay it to the place For the swelling in the throate ¶ Take the greene barke of the Elder trée and a little Bay salte beate them well together till they be somwhat small thou lay the same to the swelling of the throat For the Quinsie in the throate ¶ Take Cinckfoile and seeth the same in running Water and put it in a pot with a narrow mouth and let the party gréeued hold his mouth ouer the mouth of the potte so that the fume may passe into his throat and when the water waxeth colde wash the throat well with the same both within and without and the disease will vanish away prooued Another for the same ¶ First let the partie thus diseased bee let blood on the left arme or in the liuer vaine three or foure ounces and let him gargase it with Wine-vinegar and water warmed together of each a like quantitie gargase it often times and spet it out and let him haue Methridatum in white Wine and let him sweat vpon it an howre or two And if the Quinsie be swolne already in his throat then let him vse this remedie following Take a Swallowes nest as you finde it with Birds or with Egges or without eyther of them and put to the same eyght handfulls of Mallowes with asmuch Water-cresses boyle them all together in milke vntill they become soft and till the milk be cleane consumed then beate it in a bowle vntill it come to a plaister then take asmuch as your fist of the same and while it is warme spread it like a plaister and binde it as hote as may be suffered about the place where the swelling is and so change it often til the paine be gone Another for the same ¶ Take hote Bread and put it in Honny and lay it to the place as hote as may be suffered and it will drinke it vp Take also the iuyce of Planten gargell it vp and downe thy throat and it will case the paine thereof Also take the berries of the Mulberrie tree and make iuyce thereof then seeth them in a little Oyle and Wine and put Vineger thereto and so gargle it Also an electuarie made of the iuyce of the same Berries with a quantitie of scummed Honny is good for the same and it may be kept tenne yéeres in séedes of Dianorum for the Quinsie For the Cough ¶ Take Isope great Raisens and Figges of each a little handfull and one eunce of Liceris boyle them in faire water till the third part be consumed then giue the partie gréeued for to drinke thereof twise a day in the morning two houres before meate and at night two howres before supper also it is good for to eate a losing of Diairis or Diapeaideon If you will haue it stronger put thereto the decoction of a little Colewoorts Annyseedes and Fennell seedes with the séedes of Nettles of each two drams Another for the cough ¶ Take Sage Rue red Fennell Isope Comin and the powder of Pepper of each like much by weight and seeth them well together in Honny and make thereof an electuarie and vse thereof a spoonefull in the euening and another in the morning till the cough be gone Another medicine against the cough ¶ Take the roote of Enula campana Horehound Holihock of eath of them a like much séeth thē all together in white wine with a dozen of fatte Figges and with a little Licoris and vse to drinke hereof a draught at a time euerie day twise For a dry cough ¶ Take Annyséedes Ashe séedes and Violets and beate them to powder and stampe them with euen portion then seeth them together in faire water till they waxe thicke then put the same into a bore and as you neede let the sicke eate first last of the same till he be well For the Cough or stoppings ¶ Take the powder of Isope the powder of Anny-seed the powder of Ginger the powder of Licoris and mingle thē with clarified Honny and eate dailie hereof till thou bee whole Also for the cough take a little Brimstone and make powder thereof
and put a little of the same vpon a borde or trencher and take a stick or coale of fire and put it in the Brimstone and let the partie greeued holde his nose ouer the fume of the Brimstone and it shall breake the force of the cough and stoppings Also this is good for the pose and the rewme in the head as hath oft beene pooued To make a powder for the Cough ¶ Take Sugar-candie Enula Campana rootes dryed but nothing so much Enula campana as Sugar-candie theÌ„ take two or three crops of dryed Isope and one race of Ginger and beate all these together and afterwarde vse to eate of these powders till thou be whole To make a sirrop for the Cough ¶ Take a pynt of Isope water halfe a pynt of clipped Rosemary a quarter of a pound of Sugar-candie three spoonfuls of Anniséedes brused thrée sponfuls of Licoris sliced séeth al these together vpon a soft fire vntill it come to a sirrop then straine it and take a spoonfull thereof morning and euening and let it goe softly downe by gowlpes For the perrillous Cough ¶ Take white Horehound and stampe it and wring out the iuyce and mingle the iuyce with Honny and seeth it and gyue the sicke to drinke hereof Take also a Garlike head and rost it then take away the pills and eate it Also take a Colwoort leafe and strike the inner side thereof with May butter and lay it to the sicke mans stomacke or belly euery morning and euening and giue him no Milke Butter nor Cheese nor any kinde of salte meate nor fatte pottage nor Nuts nor Apples but make the partie pottage with leaues and rost him an Onyon and let him eate it with a little Pepper and Honny put therein and vse it osten and it will helpe him Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Sage and the iuyce of Rue of each like much and a quantitie of Commin and asmuch of the powder of Pepper and seeth them all very well in clarified Honny and so make an electuarie thereof and let the partie greeued vse of thys medicine daily thrée spoonfuls at night three in the morning vntill he be whole A good medicine to helpe the cough speedily ¶ Take two or thrée Garlick heads well pilled stamp them and put them into Hogs-greace or suet and stamp them well together and at night when thou goest to bedde warme well the soles of your féete and annoynt them with the said confection as hote as may be suffered and also the small of your legs and put a warme cloth about your feete and within thrée nights he shal be holpen Also take Brimstone and put it into powder and put a little thereof into a new layde Egge soft rosted and mingle it well together then put thereto of Bengemin as much as a fitch pease lightly stamped drinke it in the morning at your breakfast and at night A remedie for the dry cough ¶ Take a pound of Licoris and scrape it cleane then stampe it in a morter and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto three quarts of the best woort that may be gotten one ounce of Sugar and a quarter of an ounce of Ginger in powder a pynt of clarified Honny and seeth them all together till they bee halfe wasted then straine it through a cleane cloth into a faire vessell and let the party gréeued vse thereof first and last at night hote and in the morning cold till he be whole Another for the dry cough ¶ Take Anny-séedes Smallage seedes and Violet séedes of each a like much beate them all together in powder temper them with wine as the quantitie gyueth then seeth theÌ„ well till they wexe thicke and so vse it Also if you take the seedes of Nettles and seeth them in Oyle and afterward annoynt your hands and your féete therewith it will doe away the cough Also take the strrop of Violets and of Iniubes and drinke thereof Also it is very good to take first in the morning and last at night a losing of Diadragagant and after ward to drinke a draught of good Pâ—isan and thys is a present remedie for the cough when it procéedeth of a hote cause A dyer for them that haue the cold cough ¶ Yée must abstaine from Vineger and all salt meats from fruits and raw hearbes from Fish Lemmons and all kinde of grosse meats and too much replexion Also ye must drinke no Wine betwéene meales nor sléepe in the day time especiallie after meate For the stopping of the pypes and for fleame a medicine proued ¶ Take a good bowle-full of Barlie and put to the same a gallon of cleane Well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take that water and put thereunto asmuch good Woort with a penny-worth of Licoris brused but not made into powder and a good handfull of Isope another of Sage and boyle them altogether till one halfe of the liquor bee boyled in then straine that liquor through a cloth and that that commeth through the cloth put into a close vessell and let it stand a day and then let the patient drinke thereof a spoonefull or two euerie morning and so much likewise euery euening vntill he be well This hath béene often prooued For straitnesse in the pypes ¶ For straitnesse in the pypes or in the breast take dry Isope rootes of Enula campana of each one handfull sticks of Licoris scraped and soft brused foure vnces and boyle altogether in a gallon of running water till halfe be wasted then straine it and to all the aboue said liquor hote put halfe a pint of clarified hony and drinke therof milk warme a good draught euery day first and last A medicine for to stay a vomit ¶ Take halfe a pinte of running water an vnce of Suger and a good race of Ginger pick it and scrape it cleane and shred it in good handsome péeces and so put it to the water and the Suger and boile them together from halfe a pint to a quarter of a pint and so giue it to the party to drink for it will stay the vomit in a very little space For them that may not digest their meat ¶ Take Horshoue and Hilwate of each of these a like much wash them cleane and stamp them and put therto the powder of Pepper and séeth them together in faire water and let the Patient drink therof luke warme first and last For a vomit a remedy ¶ For them that haue vomit and for them that haue not their breath at will and hath stopping in their breasts take a dram and a halfe of the powder of Betony with a Goblet full of water and drink it fasting Another for the same ¶ Against the vomit caused of weakenesse heate or odor chollerick mingle the pouder of the thrée leaued Grasse with the white of an Egg and rost them
on a tyle and giue it to the Patient to eate Also for the vomit caused of retentiue weaknes take the pouder of gum Arabick and pouder of Canell For a man that vomiteth too much ¶ Take Roses and boyle them with strong Vineger and make a plaister therof and lay it to his stomack all hot Also vomiting commeth somtimes without great violence and therby one getteth health wherfore ye néed not giue him any remedy for it is a good action of the naturall vertue of the stomack somtime vomiting commeth by a great violent mouing of the vertue expulsiue of the stomack For the euill things contayned in the same a remedy one may well help a man to vomit giuing him water warme with a little oyle to drinke or else to put thy singer in his mouth very lowe or a feather wet in oyle the better to vomit and to mundifie the stomack if so be the person haue a wide throat and that vomiting dooth not hurt him much as they be that haue but small and strait throats and long necks and leane for all these are euill to vomit Somtimes vomiting commeth by weaknes of the stomack caused of a hot and euill complection ye shall cure it after this manner take sirop of Roses Quinces Mirtles with water sodden and cold againe or else water of Pursian to quench the thirst Also it is good to annoynt the stomack before dinner and supper with an oyntment of the oyle of Roses and Quinces and the iuice of Mints and a little wax or els make a plaister of Mints Roses Wormwood and oyle of Roses lay to his stomack as hot as ye may For to make a man cast and perbreake ¶ Take two parts of the iuice of Fenell and one part of hony and séeth it till it be thick and drink therof morning and euening and it will cause a man for to cast or perbreake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of spurge and vse to drinke thereof and it will cause you to cast Also the iuice of Stoncrop put into white wine causeth a man for to cast presently For to comfort the Patient after his vomiting ¶ Take and giue the Patient in the morning an vnce of the sirop of Wormwood or Mints in stéed of which it is conuenient to take a losing of AromaticuÌ„ rosatum or Diagalanga Also take euening and morning three houres before meate two Cloues in powder with a spoonfull of the iuice of Mints or half a spoonfull of Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloues and Lignum aloes the weight of a crown two houres before meate For one that abhorreth his meate ¶ Somtime there chaunceth in the stomack a disease called Fastidium or abhorring of meat wherby the person against his will taketh in hate all maner of meats that is offered vnto him like as the whole man taketh pleasure and delight in the same The cause of his disease is replection of chollerick humors or flegmatick grosse and viscouse which are in the stomack and the Patient hath great thirst a dry tongue the mouth bitter and sometime dooth vomit yellow choller And if the vaines be full let the Patient be let blood on the right arme and giue him to eat and drink such things as are fit for a party so gréeued also you may giue him the iuice of Pomgranets For to prouoke an appetite ¶ Take Sage Parsly Pepper and Mints and stampe them and temper them with Vineger as you doo make sauce for â—â—shes it will cause appetite also flesh eaten with Vineger comforteth and giueth appetite If Vineger be vsed with a full stomacke it vnbindeth the wombe with an emptie stomacke bindeth it It is good for them that be weake with sicknes if it be taken in this manner tost bread and wet it in Vineger and with the tost rub the mouth and nosthrils and bind it on the pulsable vaines for it comforteth the Patient and the appetite but for the appetite onely it were better wet in the iuice of Mints Also to them that haue lost their appetite by sicknes two drams of the powder of Betony with foure Ciote roots in drink taketh away both sadnes and euill tast of meats Also take and confect Cardomomum with the iuice of Mints and vse for to wet your meat therin it prouoketh appetite Against the letting of the breath ¶ Take and lay Orpiment vpon hote embers and let the Patient stoope downe and receiue the smoke therof through a pipe or funnell Also take three drams of Orpiment with reare Egs or with wine or womans milk once or twice in the wéek Against paine of the breath called Asma caused of cold take the powder of Philixendula with the powder of Gentiana and vse it in his meat and drink Another for the same ¶ Against the paine of the breath if it be of a long continuance take the powder of Gentiana with Wine and Barly water or else with meats or with new bread Also take two drams of Galbanum with a rere Egge or with Barly water Also to take Figs and seeth them in wine is good against the letting of the breath and against cold rume or humors in the breast Also Pancakes made of Docks with meat or Eggs is very good for letting of the breath called Asma if you cate therof An oyntment for the shortnes of the breath ¶ Take two vnces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and one vnce of May butter vnsalted a little Saffron and new Waxe and make an oyntment therwith and annoynt the breast eucning and morning Also for him that lacketh wind ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and Borage séeth them together in a péece of Pork and make therof pottage and eat and drink of this broth with wine or with Whey that is good For armes being consumed and fallen away ¶ Take Deare suet and thine owne water being dissolued in a basen warme then therewith wash thy armes euery day morning and euening For the mary being cold and numd in the armes ¶ Take thrée spoonfull of Mace thrée spoonfull of Aqua vita and three spoonfull of Vrine and thrée spoonful of Capons greace and put them all in a Porrenger and warme them on the sire and wash your armes morning and euening Also if that you be sore in any part of the armes take Roch Allom and Madder and boyle them with Conduit water from a pottell to a pint and so wash your armes For aking of the hands and deadnes of the fingers ¶ Take a handfull of red Sage as much red Fennell as much red Nettles with a quantity of Bay leaues in pouder and long Pepper stamp all these together in a Morter then straine the same through a Canuas cloth with Aqua vita and with this liquor annoynt thy hands when you goe to bed For swelling of wounds in the hand ¶ Take Wormwood stampe it and straine it and boyle it with Vineger and put therto Wheat bran and
make a plaister and lay it to the sore hands For wormes or heat in the hands ¶ Take Chickwéed and bruse it a little and séeth it in running water till the halfe be wasted and wash your hands as hot as the party can suffer it for the space of sixe daies and it will driue away the heat or wormes in the hands For to make your hands white ¶ To make the hands white and soft take Affodill in clean water till it wax thick and put therto powder of Cantarium and stir them together then put thereto rawe Eggs and stir them well together and with this oyntment annoynt your hands and within three or foure daies vsing thereof they will be white and cleane For itching of the hands with wormes ¶ Take and annoynt the place that itcheth with the iuice of Mints or of Rue and it shall put away the wormes Or else take the berries of the lesse Morrell and therwith annoyist the wormes and the hands For to make nailes to grow ¶ Take Wheate flower and mingle the same with honey and lay it to the nailes and it will help them For nailes that doe fall off ¶ Take powder of Egrimony and lay it there as the nayle was and it shall put away the aking and it will make the nails for to grow For clouen nailes ¶ Take Virgin Wax and Turpentine and mingle them together and lay it on the naile and as it waxeth or groweth cut it away and it will heale For nailes that are rent from the flesh ¶ Take the lesser Violet and stamp it and fry it with Virgin waxe and Frankensence and make a plaister and lay it to the naile all whole Also anoint the fingers with the pouder of Brimston Arsnick and Vineger and in short time you shall find great ease For stinch vnder the arme holes ¶ First pluck away the haires of the arme holes and wash them with white Wine and Rose-water that Cassia ligna hath béen sodden in and vse it thrée or foure times For to destroy the heat of the stomack ¶ Take faire cleare water and boyle it well and skim it and put therin shiuers of brown Bread and let them lye therin an houre till the water be almost cold and drink therof two or thrée dayes the oftner a day the better and eat gréene Parsly and Galingall and it shall help thée For to auoid fleame out of the stomack ¶ Take the pouder of Pellitory of Spaine and the pouder of Comin powder of long Pepper pouder of Ginger Musterd Vineger and mingle them together and chafe them en the fier till they waxe thicke and then as hot as you can suffer it put part thereof in your mouth gargling it in your throat vp and down but let none enter into your stomack doo this diuers times spetting it out by the space of an hower and this is a Gargarisme prooued For the stomack that is hot and swolne ¶ Take the roote of Smallage stamp it and put it in swéet Wine or in other good wine all a day and a night and straine it through a faire linnen cloth and put it in a cleane vessell and vse to drink a little thereof euery day fasting take this eight or nine dayes For rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take long Pepper Graines Saffron Ginger Aniséed Licoris and Suger and séeth them al in good Ale till it be thick and giue it to the party to drink and he shall be whole A plaister for rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take Yarrow Milfoyle red Fenell red Mints Rue Borage Fetherfoy Cloteler Pellitory Egrimony of each of these a like much and the greace of a barow Hog that is a Sow kind and séeth them all together in good Ale and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the stomack as hot as it may be suffered two or thrée times and he shall be whole God willing the hetter the better for to be taken this hath béen proued For the gnawing of the stomack ¶ Take and séethe Betony in the iuice of Wormwood and let the party drinke it with warme water if his stomacke be not well Also drink wine that Nep hath béen sodden in next to the hart fasting very early For the stomack that aketh ¶ Take an hearb that is called Poleo and dry leaues and a handfull of Houseléeke and as much of this Poleo and put it in a vessell with faire water and let it boile on the fire till the third part of the water be sodden away and put therto stone Suger and a little honey and let the Patient drinke thereof sixe dayes fasting and he shall be whole For to force the stomack ¶ Take thrée parts of Cannell and one part of Mastick and one part of the parings of Pomgranets and halfe a part of Galingall and stamp all these together and temper it with hony that hath béen clarified on the fire and well scummed then vse as much of this as a Nut euery day during ten dayes together this hath béen proued For the wind chollick in the stomack ¶ Take a handfull of Time and wash it cleane and put it into a cup of Ale or Béere and let it stand all night then take thrée sticks of Licoris brused and let the party so gréeued drinke therof morning and euening Another for the same ¶ Take Onyons and put them into running water and change them into foure waters séething and when they are tender sod take them and wring them betwéen two trenchers and butter them and put theren grosse Pepper and so eate of them morning and euening vntill you doo find your selfe eased of your stomacke For fleame in the stomack ¶ Take red Nettles a good quantity a good quantity of clarified Butter and séethe them in faire running water till the hearbs be tender then take them vp and eate the hearbs and drinke the liquor proued For to make losings to comfort the stomack ¶ Take a pint of Rose-water a quantity of Rubarb grate it vpon a Grater twice as much Setwell as much Calomus aromaticus asmuch Spignard a little Sinamon asmuch Enula campana as much Ginger and a little cleane water put to these Spices one penny-worth of Sugar and let all séeth on the fire till it waxe verie thicke and be well sodden then vse hereof both morning and euening For all manner of euill in the stomack ¶ Take Ashe seedes Linséedes Comin of euery of them a like much giue these to the sick to drink with hot Woort or else with faire hot water For the Feauer in the stomack ¶ Conserue of Roses is very good for the Feauer in the stomack also it is good for all euils in the stomack that is ingendred of hot humors For the swelling in the stomack ¶ Take the rootes of Fennell and the rootes of Smallage of each of them a like quantitie then stampe them and straine out the iuyce and temper the same with good Wine and vse to drinke thereof first and last
drink the iuice of Veruaine Fenell seed and Amber For to make a drinke for womans paps that are rancled and be full of ache ¶ Take Groundsell and two times as much of Brouswort and wash them both and stamp them and temper them with stale Ale and straine it through a cloth and giue to the Patient thereof first in the morning and last at night For the euill swelling in a womans breast ¶ Take Oake apples and stamp them in powder and put them in oyle of Roses and lay it to the swelling or else take the iuice of pety Morrell and Dasies and the dregs of Vineger and a hard Egge sodden with the shell and Barly flower and so make therof a plaister and lay it on the sore For biles on a womans breasts ¶ Take the iuice of Morrell the oyle of an Egg and Beane flower make therof a plaister and lay it cold thereto For a woman that desireth to haue great plenty of milke in her breasts ¶ Let her take the iuice of Veruaine or Fenell and vse to drink oftentimes therof and she shall haue great plenty of milk Also if she drink the broth that Whitings haue béen sodden in it is very good for the same purpose For paines in the breast with ouer too much milke ¶ Take very clean water without any grauell in the same and mingle it with Vineger and the yolke of an Egge and a little Saffron then lay it vpon a cloth plaister wise and lay it to the breast and when it is dry take it away and lay another in the place Another for the same ¶ Take Vineger and honey hoyled together and spread it vpon a cloth then lay vpon it a little powder of Comin it will asswage the milke For the milke that is curded in a womans breast ¶ Take Wheat mingled with Rue and sodden in water and lay it to a womans hard breasts that be curded with milke and it will soften them Another for the same ¶ If the séeds of Lentiles be mingled with water of the Sea they be good for milk that is curded in womens breasts For the hart burning ¶ Take a crop of Fennell and chewe it in thy mouth and suck the iuice therof then spet it out and take another vse this very often and it will help him that is hart burnt For the paine at the hart ¶ Take Centuary séeth it in stale Ale and when it is well sodden stamp it in a morter and seeth it againe with the same liquor then clense it through a cloth with two spoonfuls of the iuice and thrée spoonfulls of Honey and then boyle it well together againe and put it in a boxe and giue it to the Patient euery day thrée spoonfuls fasting till he be whole and this shall doo away the glut from him and make him haue an appetite to his meate For weaknesse of the hart ¶ Take rose-Rose-water and mother of Pearle beaten small to powder and mingle it with Suger and giue it to the Patient to drink three or foure daies and he shall be whole For faintnes at the hart ¶ Take the filings of Gold and the powder of the bone of a Harts hart and mingle them with the iuice of Borage and Suger made in sirop for it is very good for sowning For all sicknesses about the hart ¶ Take Rosemary Isope Centory Betony and Iris and séeth them in faire water and straine the water and the iuice of the hearbs and put therto hony and boile it againe and scum it and put therto as much butter as hony in the séething and mingle them together and take it downe and couer it well and drink therof at euen hot and in the morning cold An Electuary for the hart ¶ Diantes this Electuary is good for the heauines in the hart and for féeblenes of complection in a mans stomacke for the Cardiakle and for the had lungs et alia causa For euils at the hart ¶ Take Hartwoort Galingall Harts tongue and Sauine stampe them and wring out the iuice and temper them with good Wine a good quantity of Roses and giue it to the party so gréeued to drinke first in the morning and last at night and he shall be whole God willing A sirop for the paine of the hart ¶ Take and stamp Betony and hearb Benet Horehound and Veruaine séeth them in faire water to the third part then put therto hony and make therof a sirop For all diseases in a mans hart ¶ Take Sage Mints by euen portion séeth them in white Wine and make a plaister thereof and lay it to his hart till he be whole take also the Wine that it was sodden in and giue it to the Patient to drink euening and morning and he shall haue good desire to his meat within sixe daies after at the furthest For to comfort the hart ¶ Take the powder of Setwall and put it in the sick mans meat it comforteth the hart and is very good for them that haue weake harts and be disposed to sowning Another for the same ¶ Temper the Patients Wine with water that Spicknard is sodden in and with the same water make a sirop and let the sick drink therof it is good against the disease of the hart and for sowning And for weakenes of the braine smell it at thy nose Also séeth the flowers of Rosemary leaues mingled with Rose-water and giue it to the Patient to drinke Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Rosemary leaues mingled with Rose-water and a little of the iuice of Panay and make sirop therof it will also be good if some of the bone in the hart of an Hart be put therunto and giuen to the Patient For all paines in the hart ¶ Take the powder of Galingall with the iuice of Borage and the seeds of Ireos with the milke of a Goate and drinke it warme it will asswage the paine of the hart Another for the same ¶ Take the pouder of Cannel with the pouder of the leaues of Ielliflowers it is very good against the passion and sowning of the hart being giuen to the party Against the passions of the hart ¶ Take and make sirop with the iuice of Borage and put therto of the powder of the Harts bone in the hart of a Hart. Also take Buglosse and eate it often eyther rawe or sodden it driueth out the noysome humors Also against the passion of the hart and sowning take sirop made with Cassia ligna and Roses and the bone of a Harts hart and giue it the sick to eate For feeblenes of the hart ¶ For them that are weake in the hart and doo take their breaths in manner of sighes take and giue them the iuice of Buglosse with hony and it shall help them Against the fainting of the hart ¶ Take and make Pils with a dram of Amber and an vnce of Lignum aloes and two drams of the bone of a Harts hart beat to powder and
beat the Pils in Rose-water and giue two or thrée of the said Pils to the Patient when he goeth to bed Also to take the quantity of foure drams of Cucubes with the iuice of the root or the leaues of Parsneps is very good Also for them that be faint at the hart or be like to sown giue them Rose-water for to drinke and also bedew their faces therwith Also if the faintnes come from the braine or liuer or paine of the stomack caused of cold take two Wheat cornes of Musk in wine and it will help the same Against sowning Against sowning and faintnes of the hart take Rose-water that this hearb Bassell is sodden in and for the same take wine that the hearb is laid in all night Also against sowning take the powder of Roses and put it into a reare Egge Also take the powder of Ginger in your meats and it is good against sowning Against sowning make sirop with the iuice of Borage and Suger Also against sowning of the hart comming of cold take and séeth this hearb Cardomomum in sweet smelling wine with a little Rose-water and vse it For sowning ¶ For sowning and weaknes of the hart be it in Feauers or sicknesses or if it come of either cause stampe Mints with Vineger and a litle Wine if the Patient haue no Feauer then tost a shiuer till it be almost burnt and put it therein till it be well stéeped then put of it in his nose and rub his lips his tong gums teeth and the temples and let him chewe it and sucke the moistnes therof and swallow it For the paine of the lungs ¶ Take Figs and let them be sodden with Isop they clense the lungs and heale the old cough Also take the root of the wild Rape and séeth it with Licoris and the water that it is sodden in giuen to the Patient to drink is very good to clense the lungs Also take this hearb Southernwood and mingle it with Isop and sodden in wine or water make it swéet with Suger and so drunken is very good for al diseases of the lungs and the breast when sicknes commeth of cold annoynt the breast Another for the same ¶ If you take the broth of Creues it is good for paine in the lungs named Perpleumonia vr consuming of a man called Prosis because when a man hath a swelling about the lungs then he commeth to drinesse and consuming of that naturall moysture till he dyeth For the lyuer and lungs ¶ For the lyuer and the lungs wasting with ouer vnkind heats take water made of Borage and of red Fenell roots Ach Isop Endiue Betony Calamint Lettice Nutmegs Mace flowers of Camomel Cloues Aniseeds by euen portions one vnce of Licoris and Aniséeds halfe a pound make of all these hearbs and spices a water and it shall restore you meruailously and if you cannot get all these hearbs then take the more of Borage Also to restore his kind make a confection of the flowers of Borage and of red Roses with the foresaid spires and with Suger For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Spodium vt eborij in rose Corall Barly meale Triacendaly thrée peny worth mingle all these with the iuice of Endiue S. Mary berry and Housléeke Another for the same ¶ Take red Roses Sandalorum cum Iuery and water of Lillies an vnce stamp them small and put therto Barly meale and the iuice of Marigolds Vineger and the iuice of Wormwood and make a plaister therof and lay it to the lyuer For chafing of the lyuer and of the spleene ¶ Take yellow Rubarb Barly meale and Vineger and temper them together and make therof a plaister and lay that plaister to a mans right side let him blood in the vaine of the spléene and giue him to drinke in Winter Suger rosset and in Sommer Scabious For the chafing of the lyuer ¶ For the chafing of the lyuer and opilation of the milt caused of humor take Rubarb with warme water but it is better to mingle it with Trifera sarazenica and this you may vse with the iuice of Endiue and so giue it to the Patient Also take and annoynt the lyuer with the oyle of Roses for the chafing of the lyuer Against chafing or heat of the lyuer take and wet a cloth many times double and lay it to the lyuer Also the oyle of Violets is good against the chafing of the lyuer Prooued Against the chafing of the lyuer scrape the vppermost of the Gourd stamp the said scraping and wring out the iuice and put Vineger thereto wet a cloth therin and lay it to the lyuer outwardlie Also take Endiue and lay it in water and vse it in your brothes for the Patient so gréeued For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Fenell Endiue Succory Planten of each a like much and still them with red Wine or milke and vse it euerie morning nine spoonfuls at a time with a draught of Wine and Suger or else fiue spoonfuls therof alone For the lyuer wasting which causeth a scabbid face ¶ Take thrée gallons of sweet Woort and put thereto foure handfull of Lyuerwoort and foure handfuls of Violets two handfuls of Harts tongue foure handfuls of Marigolds foure handfuls of Matfelon and stamp all these together and boyle them a prety while in the Woort then take them vp and when they are cold strain them and put therto Barly meale vse this fasting at night the space of a moneth then take an oyntment that is made for a dry scab and therwith daily annoynt thy face and vsing of this drink aforesaid the party shall find help For the vnkinde heate of a mans liuer which causeth his collour to waxe yellow ¶ Take the water of Chiccorie and the water of Lettice and the water of the leaues small branches of a Moryer tree take the hearbs and stampe them all together as much of the one as of the other take the iuyce thereof and asmuch Sugar as will suffise boyle all these together till they be as thicke as a sirrop and put vnto the same a poys and a halfe of Rewbarbe and vse a quantitie of this sirrop in colde water euerie day fasting till he be whole For the liuer that is corrupted and wasted ¶ Take a quantitie of Liuerwoort and bruse it a little then séeth it in good strong Woort with a quantitie of Rewbarb and vse this medicine till thou be whole A drinke for the Splene ¶ Take Harts-tongue wilde Hoppe leaues and Borage with the flowers of Femitory and Parflie rootes seeth them in Whey and clarifie them with the white of an Egge strain it drinke thereof morning and euening and so continue a fortnight and it will helpe you many waies A playster for the Splene ¶ Take three or foure Hollihocke rootes two handfulls of Mallowes and seeth them well together then stampe the rootes by themselues and straine them with the same water wherein they were sodden then stampe
Plantaine Smalladge Hearbe bennet Sengreene Violet leaues and the leaues of Tutseine Marigolds and grinde all these together and wring out the iuyce and put it in a little Wheat-flower and Honny and the white of an Egge and meddle all these together and lay it vp-the sore all cold For swelling in the legges ¶ Take three spoonefuls of Rose-water and thrée spoonefuls of Fennell water and three spoonefulls of good Wine vinegar and put them together colde and skimme off the fome of it and then take a linnen cloth and dip it in and lay it to the sore place For a leg be it neuer so sore ¶ Take the most part of a Cow-turd and lay it vpon a cloth plaister-wise and lay it to the sore place and if there be a hole in the legge make a tent of the same and put it into the hole and lay the plaister thereto and let it lye till that it doo come off it selfe and you shall finde great ease For a sore legge ¶ Take the flowers of Cammomell a handfull of Sothernwood Mallowes Groundsel Sage a handfull of each of these beate them small in a morter and boyle them in milke and put in the séething thereof the seede of Fenicréeke in powder halfe an ounce Anniséedes Fennell séede in powder of each an ounce and a little May butter boyle all these together and when it is but warme put into it foure or fiue yolks of Eggs and mingle them all together and lay it to the sore legge and in the boyling put thereto a pinte of good red Wine and it will be the better Another for a sore legge proued ¶ Take Celondine Sage and Woodbind a handfull séethe them in a gallon of running water to a pottell and then straine it and séethe it againe and put thereto a pint of boney a handfull of the powder of Allom a penny-worth of Graines beaten in fine powder and skimme it till it be very cleare and then kéepe it in a glasse till such time as you shall haue néede to vse it then take a cloth and wet it therein and wash the sore therewith oftentimes For paine in the feete ¶ Against the paine of the féete if any hath béene brused or erushed take and eate the roote of the middle Mugwoort with honey and it will ease the paine thereof Also let the party annoynt his féete with the iuyce of Clary very often and it will helpe him For the swelling of the feete ¶ Against swelling and aches of the féete bruse the flowers of Plantaine with Salt and lay thereto Also stamp the leaues of Plantaine and lay thereon Also take the iuyce of an Onyon beeing mingled with the greace of a Hen in manner of an oyntment and annoynt your feete often therewith Also bathe your féete in the water that Elder leaues was sodden in For cornes in the toes ¶ Take of vnslaked Lime a little and quench it with strong Vineger and when you will occupie it pare the corne and mingle it with Rose water and lay it too Also take the gall of a Swine being dried but first wash it with hot water and strew the powder thereon Also take and cutte away the corne and drop into it a drop or two of a black Snayle and put thereto the powder of Sandfer and it taketh away the corne Also take Marigolds stamped and lay vpon the sore euening and morning and it profiteth or else pare your corne and lay thereto Turpentine and red Waxe boyled together and make a plaister therof and it helpeth the corne of the toe Rules for blood letting GAlien Ipocias and Auicenna and other Maysters of Phisicke accord and say that letting blood of the veine and that is called Fleobatomatum or it is ventosing caruing or cutting and letting blood of any of these wise is good for mans health of body for blood immingled with other humors that is too much or else corrupted by the cause of much sicknes it is therefore good to know which veines in a man should be let blood and for what sicknes The veine in the forehead is good for the frensie and aking of the head and for the Meigrim and for the Morphew and seab in the face for the Postumes in the eyes both hot and cold The veine in the hart is good for a mans minde and for the Rume that is within the forehead and for the watring eyes The veines in the temple is good for the Meigrim and for the head ache of the eyes and that hath long lasted for the sicknes of the eyes for ache in the eyes and for the great heate in the temples The veines behind the eares is good for the blaines and pimpels of the head for the Meigrim and ache of the head it helpeth mans minde it is good for Tooth-ache and for the gums and for all vices in the mouth and it purgeth the rume of the head The veines in the corner of the eyes next the nose is good for the Meigrim and for all the sicknes of the eyes and for the sight Cephica tum prius apta The veine in the toppe of the nose it purgeth the braine it is good for ache and flux of the eyes and for the ache of the nose The veine in the chéekes is good for the Meigrim and for spots or scabs in the head The veine in the mold is best for to bléed and for to wash thy head with the same blood The veines of the ouer-lippe and the nether be good for hot blaines in the mouth and for apostums and for hot euils in the mouth or gums The veine vnder the tongue is good for postumes and rumes of the head and gums and all maner of vice of the eyes mouth tongue tooth-aking blaines of the nese mouth gums and for the apostumes and swellings vnder the throat The veines vnder the chinne is good for the Kings euill and for Sauce-fleane for spots and blains in the face and other ache of the eyes the gums and for ache in the nose The veins of the neck before is good for the Squinancie and for all manner of apostumes and swellings that come from the head to the eares or to the gums that causeth the toothach whē the breath beginneth to be short The veine of the liuer that is called Basilica it is good for the Iaundise and for chafing of the lyuer and for all manner of dropsie and it is good for all euils in the breast and aking of the backe shoulders sides and slomack and for the Postume that is called Pleusis The head veine that is called Cephanica it is good for the Meigrim and for head ache and for madnes of the minde for ache and all other vices in the eyes téeth tongue the Squinancie and other euils that come to the throat The hart veine that is called Cardieca vt medium it is gentle Purgations for it draweth blood and humors of all the body but namely it is good for sicknes and Purgations of the
Cancer or Scorpio remember that you purge not in the change nor in any vnfortunate aspect of the Plannets vnto any other neither in the extreame heate or cold of the yeere Now if any man would know what commoditie purging or bleeding bringeth beeing rightly vsed and doone in such sort as it ought to be doone or what dyet and exercise shoulde bee vsed after bleeding and order obscrued in purging with the inconuenience and harme which may and doth dailie procéede of the negligence and vnskilfulnes in the contempt of the same For all diseases through the body and for all kind of Agues TAke Purslaine Gentill Bursa pastoris and stamp them all together and doo thereto Vinegar and binde it to the pulses it will greatly helpe you Also take the powder of Cloues and Pepper of each a like quantitie and eate fasting at one time as much as will lie vpon a sixe-pence and drinke not in on howre after Also let the partie so greeued with the Ague take halfe a pint of his owne water and a penny-worth of Pepper brused and put therein and let the parfie so greeued drinke thereof all an howre before that the fitte dooth come vpon him and let him lie downe and sweat as much as hée may Another for the Ague ¶ Take a pottle of thinne Ale and put thereto a handfull of Parsley as much redde Fennell as much Centorie as much Pimpernell and let the Ale be halfe consumed awaie and then take and drinke thereof Another for the Ague ¶ Take thrée Burre-rootes and wash them and straine them séethe them with halfe a pinte of Ale and so drinke therof luke-warme before the fitte dooth come Another for the same ¶ Take Endiue Sowthistle Dandelion Lettice Sorrel of each a like much and still them altogether and giue it to the partie so gréeued it is very good against the Ague Another experiment for the Ague ¶ Take foure handfuls of Groundswellie and stampe it small in a Morter and put thereto thrée spoonesuls of Vinegar and thrée spoonefuls of Bay-salt grinde them all together then put them in a pewter dish and set them on a Chafindish of coles and stirre them together till the liquor is almost dry then lay it to the wrists as hote as the partie can suffer it euery tune an howre before the fitte dooth come For the ague another medicine ¶ Take a handfull of redde Sage and a handfull of Redde Nettles and a handfull of Hearbe-grace and two spoonefuls of Bay-salt and a spoonefull of strong Vinegar and a peece of leauened bread and let all these be well beate together and bind it to the pulces of your wrists before that the fit doth come and it shall helpe you by the power of God proued For the hote ague a remedie ¶ Take the iuyce of Sengréene and the whites of 4. Egs and faire flower of Wheat and meddle it well together and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the patients sides thē take the water of Betony the water of Pimpernell Scabious water water of Turmentill the water of Radish of each of these a like much and meddle all these together and giue the patient to drinke all hote before that his fitte doth come Another for the same proued ¶ Take a pynt of the iuyce of Sorrell and put it into a pot of Milke when it beginneth to séeth vpon the sire then take it off the fire and let it stand and it will haue a curde vpon the same like vnto a posset-curde then take the curde off and let the patient drinke thereof a good draught at a time as hote as he can possible endure to drinke it and by Gods grace it will help him within two or thrée times seuerally drinking Thys Medicine hath beene proued Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Bursa pastoris and so much white Frankensence as will couer two shillings at thrice and asmuch Bay salt and bray them in a Morter and so lay them vpon a thinne cloth to the wrist and about the arme at night when you goe to bed an howre or two before that your fitte dooth come vpon you For the burning ague ¶ Take a handfull of Smalladge a handfull of Fetherfew a handfull of Redde sage stampe them all together and take thrée or foure spoonefuls of the parties water and asmuch Vineger and boile them altogether on the fire a little while take a quantitie of the same Hearbes and wringing the liquor out of them lay thē vpon a cloth and binde it hote vppon your temples and not vpon your fore-head then take the rest and binde it to the parties wristes as hote as he may suffer it before that the fitte commeth and within three or foure times dressing hée shall finde great ease and be helped of his Ague Another for the same ¶ Take a pottle of Water with halfe a pinte of Vinegar take also Endiue Suckorie Violet-leaues fine leaued grasse and Straw-berrie leaues of each of them a good quantitie and seeth them to a quart and put thereto halfe a pounde of Sugar and drinke thereof morning and euening For the quartaine ague ¶ Take Ribwoort Beet rootes and the leaues to the quantitie of three or foure handfuls washe the hearbes cleane then stampe them in a woodden dish with a woodden pestle straine the iuyce from the hearbes and drinke it Milke warme and this taketh away the humors of the stomacke and frō the hart within fiue or sixe times vsing it cureth and helpeth the sicke partie so gréeued with the ague prooued For the Ague comming with colde ¶ Take fiue crops of Rosemary and fiue cropps of Sage and fiue crops of Marigolds nine Bay leaues and a quart of strong Ale séethe all these together well and drinke it with Pepper being warme and vse it For feauer Agues in children ¶ Take the powder of Christall and lay it in soke in Wine and giue it to the Child to drink and the sucking Child shall be whole Also take Morsus diabolie the roote and the hearbe and hang it about the necke of the Child For all manner of aches a Seare-cloth ¶ Take Waxe Turpentine Rozin hard Pitch Bores greace powder of Commin powder of Bayes Frankensence oyle de vte de popilion and take all these things saue the peuder and set it ouer the fire and stir it fast till it be molten and set it downe and skim it not nor straine it not at all stir it fast till it be nye cold and then strew in thy powder with thy hand as thou wouldest strew flower into a Childs papp and when it is all in and welnie cold spread it with a slice vpon a péece of leather and when it is spread vpon the leather take a new linnen cloth and lay it vpon and couch it fast and at your néed vse it For a cold and ache of the lims ¶ Take a handfull of Suger a handfull of Endiue a handfull of the
thereto and it shall helpe them so greeued For the bone ache and to take it away ¶ Take Sperewort Oliues Crofoote hearbe Christopher Walwoort Henbane Hony-suckle-flowers Culrage Rosemarie Mallowes redde Woort-leaues red Onions and Ribwoort still all them by themselues and after meddle altogether saue onely the Sperewoort which must be medled with halfe a part of the other Waters meddle them before the heate of the fire with your hande and annoynt the place there-with oftentimes To knit a broken bone ¶ Take Auence Camphire Egrimonie and temper them with Vinegar and lay it to the bone Also take Daisies the crops of Hempe and redde Colewoorts and redde Nettles and Bramble-leaues Sothern-wood Tansie Pimpernell Betonie Buglosse Madder wash them and beate them small and drinke the iuyce thereof both morning and euening For all manner of bones that aketh ¶ Take a pinte of White-wine and the gall of an Ore boyle them well and skimme them cleare then take crummes of white Bread and put them thereto and make thereof a plaister and lay the same to the gréefe foure or fiue times and it shall helpe you For broken bones ¶ Take Crey-land that is burnt and grinde the same to powder and put thereto the iuyce of Daisies and the iuyce of Camphier and strew on the powder till it be thicke and lay it to the place plaister-wise and the broken bone shall knit againe verie shortlie and become whole To make an oyntment for burning of Gunpowder or for scalding with water ¶ Take a quarte of Bores greace and two handfulls of Groundswell and two or thrée heads of Housleeke and stampe the hearbes together and then put to it of newe shéepes dunge two handfuls and as much of Goose dunge and stampe altogether and fry them and being hote straine them through a cloth into an earthen pot and with the same liquor annoint the sore that is burnt with Gun-powder To take away a heate or burning with Gunpowder ¶ Take a good quantitie of House-leeke stampe it and wring out the iuyce then take the white of sixe Egges and beate them in a dish till they be thin and then take off the scum and put the rest together and wash the sores with a linnen cloth and after lay a wet cloth on the sore A remedy for burning or scalding or any hurt with an hand-gunne ¶ Take the dunge of Geese of one nights making and fresh Butter vnsalted or else clarified Sheepes suet frie the same in a frying panne a good while vntill your suet be almost consumed then put them in a course liunen cloth and straine them into a small vessell then take a feather and dip it in the liquor and annoynt the place where the patient is so burned or scalded and when you haue so doone wette a fine linnen cloth in the sayde liquour and couer the sore withall and vse to doe thys twice or thrice a day For burning or scalding ¶ Take halfe a pounde of Sheepes suet and as much of the erindels of Sheepes dunge and a quarter of a pound of the inner rindes of Elder-trees and fry them altogether and drawe it through a cloth into a pewter dish and it will be fast chafe it against the sore For burning a medicine proued ¶ Take the white of Hennes dunge and of shéepes dunge of grounde Iuie of House-leeke sheepes suet and boyle them all together and straine them and so annoynt the burning sore and take a Rose-campion leafe and lay it aloft vpon the place and a thinne cloth vpon that and it shall helpe it For burning a remedie ¶ Take a quantitie of Bores greace and put the same into a frying panne and wring out the greace reseruing the suet then take not fullie halfe so much Rape-oyle and put it thereto with two or thrée spoonefuls of cleere Vinegar and Water labouring them all very well together and so reserue it to your vse but stoppe it very close till such time as you neede and this shall helpe you For burning with sire ¶ Take blacke Varnish and all to annoynt the place with a feather and it will both stay the heate and heale it as faire as euer it was this you may vse till you be whole For burning or scalding ¶ Take a good handfull of auence and asmuch of Sheepes dunge and frye them well together in May butter and straine it and vse to annoynt the greeued place with the same colde twise a day and annoynt it first with gray or blacke Sope and it will helpe thee this oyntment must bee spred vpon a flaren cloth it you can get it Another for burning or scalding ¶ Take Oyle-oliue and beate the same with water till it were verie white and annoynt the sore place there-with For burning or scalding ¶ Take Snowe-water and that will asswage the heate and then take the white of an Egge and clippe the haires of a Cunnies skinne and dip them in the white of the Egge and lay it to the burnt place and it will heale it and it will cause the skinne to be more faire then all the other proued For all bruzes a Medicine ¶ Take Planten Drpin Camphire Holli-hocke and flower and make a plaister and lay it to the sore Also take the grounds of Ale or Beere and Wheate-branne and Chicke-weede and lay it to the greefe three or foure times a day vpon a redde cloth not too thinne For a bruze ¶ Take Pitch Rozen and wrought Waxe and Bores greace or Swines greace of each a like much boile all these together in a pan till it come to a salue and then strike it vppon a linnen cloth and lay it to the bruse and let it lie foure or fiue dayes thereto and you shall finde great ease Another medicine for a bruse ¶ Take halfe a pound of Shéeps sewet cleane tried and as much vnwrought War two vnces of Rezen and a spoonfull of Frankensence in fine powder and well searced then boyle them all together and skim it cleane with a feather and when it is boyled take it from the fire and when it is halfe cold then wet or dip a linnen cloth in the same so that euery part be through wet and lay it abreade till it be through cold and role it vp and it may be kept all the yeare and vse it as neede shall require for this is a precious Seare-cloth for all manner of ache or bruses Prooued Another for the same ¶ Take Mallowes Smallage bruse Wort Planten the more of Smallage and temper it with Shéeps sewet and make this salue in May and you may kéepe it all the yeare after and vse it as your néede doth require For all manner of botches ¶ Against botches mingle this hearbe Timbalaria with Sheeps dung and lay it thereto plaister wise and it shall ripen the botch quickly Another for the same ¶ Also to ripe botches confect fiue or sixe dramms of Electrium with Barly meale and the white of an Egge and lay it to the botch
and fine till they be as tough as waxe then take a quart of claristed Honny and cast the Dates therein till they bee dissolued then take halfe an ounce of long Pepper as much of Mace and Cloues and Nutmegs beaten in fiue powder then seeth the Dates and Honny ouer a soft fire then cast on the powder by little and little and stirre it very fast and let it seeth long till it wexe thicke then set it to ecole and put it in close Boxes and eate therefore first and last and it shall restore a man bee hee neuer so weake or lowe brought vse this some-times vppon a full stomacke and you shall not surfet proued by M. Baltazer Chirurgian ¶ An Electuarie most soueraine for all manner of diseases in the body proued by G. K. ¶ Take foure pound of Sugar and boyle it in a pint and a halfe of Malmesey and put thereto a pint of rose-Rose-water and a pint and a halfe of White-wine halfe a pinte of Aqua vitae and of running water a pint boyle all these together and when it is well sodden take of the powder of Enula campana an ounce and a halfe of Calamus aromaticus and Licoris of each halfe an ounce pepper thrée penny waight one halfe penny worth of Alisander seedes in powder sixe pence waight of conserue of Roses and Violets of each foure ounces boyle all these to a measurable thicknes then put thereto of folliater golde and all to cut it with a knife and mingle it with the aforesaide Electuarie and vse it as your need requireth and by Gods grace it will helpe you A restoritie for the weake and feeble ¶ Take a pinte of running Water and heate it ouer the fire and put in it a handful of Rose-mary let it boile to the halfe and then straine it then take a pint of White wine or Claret wine and a good peece of Sugar and powder of Ginger Sinamon a little Mace and Cloues and put them altogether thē lay sops in a dish and poure thereon the broth and giue it to the ficke and féeble persons fasting in the morning proued For a consumption proued ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Manus Christi one ounce of white fugar Candy and a penny worth of Anniseedes and halfe a pinte of Redde-rose water and a pint of Muscadine foure new layde Egges a quarter of Nutmegges halfe a quarter of Cap Dates and stone your Dates and wash them before that you doo put them in and boile them altogether and so vse them for this hath béene proued A Ielly prooued for a consumption ¶ Take a well fleshed Capon and scald him and draw him and put into his belly a handfull of Barly and as much Reysons Currons and Dates and put him in an earthen pot with a gallon of Claret wine then put therein some Sinamon and Ginger let it seeth till the flesh be fallen from the bones then beate him in a Morter and put him into an Ipocras bag and let the Ielly runne into a faire Vessell and giue the patient of that ielly euening morning and within the spending of three Capons by the grace of God the patient shal recouer much his health and to comfort his stomack giue him Rorax aromaticum made in losings at the Apoticaries A present remedy for the Sciatica ¶ Take a handfull of Violet leaues and wash them in good Ale then take an other pint of good Ale and set it on the fire in a skillet and then beate the Violet leaues very small and so boyle them in the Ale and then when it is halfe boyled take out the leaues and straine the iuyce into the afore-said Ale againe and boyle it very well vntill that it bee thicke and then take a péece of sheepes leather as broad as the place which is gréeued and pricke it full of heles and spread the same on the rough side of the leather and lay it to the place xxiiij howres and then change it and lay to it new and so vse it thrée dayes and you shall be well the oftner the better To make a water for the Sciatica ¶ Take a peece of Porke of a male Hogge which is leane and perboyle it in water vntill the blood be cleane out thē boyle it in strong Ale a good while and after that take it and distill it with a soft fire and then kéepe the water and wash the places so gréeued two or thrée times against the fire For a Sciatica another medicine ¶ Take an Oxe gall and red Allam Rosemarie-tops bay Salt Aqua vitae and Vinegar bray them well together and set them on the fire and alwaies stirre it but let it not seeth and so vse it as neede requireth Another for the same ¶ Take Auence Comin and asmuch white salt a handful of Red nettles and seeth them in pisse and when they be well boyled put thereto Aqua vitae and annoynt well the sore therewith thrée or foure times A medicine for the Sciatica ¶ Take Time Lauender Cotten the runnings or out-laces of Straw-berries of each a like quantitie a nest or two of young Swallowes aliue with the feathers and the gutts and stampe them very small and so fry them in May-butter that is swéete and newe boile them on the fire then straine it through a cloth and put it into a pot and so vse it at your pleasure For the Crampe ¶ The Crampe commeth commonly of contractions of nerues or els it commeth of too much fulnes of the body or too much leannesse and note well that in the Palsie the members be more longer then they should be by relaxation and in the cramp the members are shorter then they should be by shrinking of the nerues but the Crampe that commeth of wasting is seldome cured if the paine be great withal cease it with oyle of roses or of Camemile hote and of yolks of Egges and Saffron together and wet Bread in swéet hote Milke for this ceaseth the aking of the Nerues Also make a garter of an Hares skin but the liuer is said to be full good for the Crampe prooued For the Crampe a remedy ¶ Take oyle of Camemile and Fenegréeke and annoynt the place where the Crampe is and it helpeth Another for the same ¶ Séeth these hearbes Betony Worme-wood Veruaine and Time these are exceeding good for to wash the party so troubled with the Crampe if he make it in a bath Another for the same ¶ If you say these words thrée times when the Cramp commeth vpon you Bero baro battora it may hap to help you To make one to haue a good colour ¶ Take and drinke the iuyce of Isope fasting warme it and it will make you to haue a good cullour it is good for the sight it destroyeth wormes it is also good for the Romake the liuer and the lunges For the Canker a remedie ¶ Take lentils of the Water which be called Frogs féete or Emets meate it is of great
make thereof a playster and lay it to the sore and it will ease you For a hardnes in the body ¶ Against the hardnes of the body take a good quantitie of Lilly rootes with an hearbe called Brancha vrsina and the roote of Mallowes and Holly-hock and temper them altogether in Wine and Oyle twelue dayes and then straine it and in stratning put thereto waxe and oyle and make an oyntment therof and therewith annoynt the hard-bound body Against heate in the bodie ¶ Take and eate ripe Berries and drinke the iuyce thereof it is very good for them that haue ouer-much heate for it cooleth them and an electuary made of these Berries is verie good for them that is gréeued with ouermuch heate in the body Also take the distilled water of Oxe dunge it is very good and profitable for the same A medicine for the Blacke Iaundies ¶ Take Gentiana long Pepper Calomus aromaticus Anence Reysons Currons white Sope of Spaine of each of these one ounce and two spoonefuls of Musterd-séed and boyls all them in a quart of Wine till the third part be wasted Another for the same ¶ Take Angell towchis and grinde them small but first wash them as cleane as ye may then put thereto a quantitie of Neates-foote oyle and a quantitie of Vineger drinke this medicine cold thrée times and it will cause you to cast out all the sicknes in your body presently Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Sage Parsely Gromwell of each a like much and make pottage thereof with a péece of good Porke and eate no other meate that day prooued For the yellow Iaundies and greene sicknes ¶ Take of Iuorie made into small powder halfe an ounce of Turmericke thrée quarters of an ounce as much of Saffron as the weight of a groate compounde all these well together and vse to drinke of thys potion first in the morning and last in the euening with a draught of good stale Ale but if you take it for the blacke Iaundies you must first purge melancholy and for she gréene Iaundies without purging and this medicine will helpe both as hath béene proued For the yellow Iaundies ¶ Take a great white Onion and make a hole where the blads goeth out to the bignes of a Chesnut and then take Treacle of Iane asmuch as will fill the hole then take halfe an ounce of English-Hony being beaten so compound the Treacle and Saffron together and put it into the Onion and sette them against the fire and rost it well that it doo not burne and when it is rosted straine it through a cloth and giue the iuyce thereof to the sicke thrée dayes together and it shall help them Another for the same ¶ Take a redde Docke roote and scrape it and lay it in a quart of strong Ale all night Another for the same ¶ If the patient drinke the Sope of Spaine and the shauings of Iuory it is very good for the yellow Iaundies being either olde or young To expell the venim of the Iaundies ¶ Take of running water a pint of Endiue and Succory of each halfe a handfull let them boyle till the halfe be wasted then straine it and put thereto of Rubarbe one dramme and a halfe and of Spignard a halfe-penny weight fine beaten of Sugar three ounces and let it boyle a little and then take it off and let it stande close couered all night and the next day earlie strains it and giue the sicke to driuke thereof fasting and abstaine from meate two howres after For the Iaundies in young children ¶ Take of Rubarbe of Turmericke the waight of tenne pence of white sugar Candy as much of Spignard the waight of three pence make all these in fine powder and mixe it together and thrée dayes together take thereof in white Wine or Rennish Wine Another for the same ¶ Take Turmerick Saffron a penny waight the shauing of Iuory foure pence weight the shauing of Harts-horne as much a spoonefull of the iuyce of Capilly veneris made into powder and drinke it in Wine and put thereto a pretty quantitie of Sugar and it helpeth the same For an Impostume ¶ An Impostume is a swelling or aking out of kind and it is either of a corrupt humor that must be broken out or else of superfluitie of a humor that should nourish that limme First there must bee giuen a Purgation after that repercussions a maturatiue The remedie ¶ Take Holly-hock Licoris Lintséede dry Figges Lillierootes and Iiniper berries séeth them long in water after doe away the licoris the Iiniper berries and bray well the other then put thereto Barly meale Lintseed Fenegréek and boile al these together well and annoynt it first with fresh Butter and this ripeth postumes within without and it is good in an harde and dry impostume though it waxe as hard as a stone repercutions to smite inward the matter againe shoulde not be vsed in children nor in old men neither where matter is wooddish or seruent nor where the water is much now and then in the burning of sicknes in the nigreforiis as gréeueth when the postume or botch commeth of nobler lim or member then it is on then shal he be riped there and not driuen away frō destinary dread of the better member the which abréeding of the postume and of the venimous matter thereof repercutions must be taken in time ere that the matter be ful seged and ere it be corrupt and rotten and that is good commonly with the iuyce of cold hearbs as petty morrell purslaine of the wood and vmbelicus veneris with oyle of roses and a little aysell a little Bole armoniack and cold oyntments as Popilion or vnguentum album or the colde oyntment Iusquinianus and Poppy and lead and seeth greene Plantaine and Vinegar and the white of an Egge To breake an impostume ¶ Take a Lilly roote and an Onion and boyle them in cleane water till they be soft and then stampe them fry them with Swines greace and lay it to the impostume as hote as the patient may suffer it To ripen an impostume ¶ Take Worme-wood Mallowes Mugwoort of each a good handfull stampe them and mingle them with a quarter of a pounde of Swines greace and fry them and put to it a handfull of Wheaten branne and a little White wine of Honey foure ounces boyle them till they be thicke and lay it hote to the sore place For an Itch or breaking out ¶ Take an ounce of Quick-siluer two ounces of Baies and mingle them well together vntill that you can see no Quicksiluer and put it into a boxe and annoynt the patience once in 24 howres and it shall kill the itch Another for the same ¶ Take Frankensence and bray it small in a Morter and meddle it with Oyle de Bay and there-with annoynt thee all ouer and it will destroy the itch For all itches ¶ If the itch be in the heate of the wriste then let
the breath of the séething pot may enter into the other potte and wring these kirnels receiue that oyle and keepe it in a glasse and this is good for diuers purposes To make oyle of Mustard-seede ¶ Take foure pound of Mustard-séede and foure pounde of oyle grinde them together and let them stande so nine dayes then stir it and keepe it in boxes thys oyle is good for the palsie the goute the stitch and also for the Podagra To make oyle of Fennell ¶ Take a quantitie of Fennell betwéene two Tile stones or plates of yron make them very hote and presse out the lycour and this oyle will keepe a great while for it is good for Tissick dry scab and for burning or scalding To make Oyle of Rew. ¶ Take rew leaues and cut them small then put them in a pot with common oyle the space of nine or twelue dayes then séeth them till they be wasted to the third part then straine it and this oyle is very good for to restraine from all manner of priuie causes of pestilence which are remaining within a man woman or child To make oyle of Iuie ¶ Take Iuie leaues and bruse them and put them in wine and oyle in the same manner as you doo Lorrell berries and so make thys oyle of Iuie berries Another for the same ¶ Take Iuie berries with the leaues and séeth them after the same manner as you doo the Lorrell berries euen so doo by the Iuie berries To make oyle of Cammemile ¶ Take the flowers of Cammemile and stampe them in a Morter and put thereto oyle Oliue and let it lie in the iuyce twelue dayes and let it seeth ouer the fire then let it boyle a little and take it off and presse out the iuyce and put it into small glasses and put thereto the flowers of Camemile beeing stamped small and let it stand 16. dayes and so this oyle is made To make oyle of Roses ¶ Take red Rose leaues a good quantitie and stamp them in a Morter and put thereto oyle Oliue and let it stande in the Sunne twelue dayes and then put it in a glasse and binde fast the glasse about with ropes of Hay and set it in a panne full of water and let it boyle softly two howres and then let it keele then put it in small glasses and put thereto the leaues of redde Roses all whole and stop it fast and set it in the sunne for sixteene dayes and so vse it at your neede To make oyle of Olibanum ¶ Take Bawme flowers a bushell and picke away the buds and beat them and put thereto fresh butter and a quarte of swines greace and a pottle of oyle Oliue put it in an earthen pot or panne of three gallons and stop the mouth fast with dowe and set it in the ground and take a tile and doe it vppon the mouth that nothing doe come thereto and let it stand fortie dayes vnder the ground and at the fortie dayes end see that you be not fasting then take a pan with a ladell and put it therein and set it ouer the fire and giue it thrée waumes vpon the fire till it be greene then take it from the fire and straine it into a pewter Bason and doo it in an carthen vessell where you will kéepe it This is the true making of oyle of Olibanum and it is moist in working it is good for all manner of sores but especially for the morimall and Canker and for Noli me tangere or for any other sore proued by many Maisters of Chirurgery To make the oyle of Exceter ¶ Take two pounde of Cowslip flowers in May and put them in oyle Oliue and then put them in an Earthen pot close vntill the month of Iune then take these hearbes following Lorrell Ambrose calamint pellitorie of Spaine Sage Peritory Scabions Lauender hearbe Iohn Lilly roetes Rosemarie of each a handfull bray all these in a Morter then take the Cowslips out of the oyle and bray them as you doe the other hearbes then put them in a pan and boyle them together softly till all the water be cleane sodden away for if the water bee in the bottome let it seeth till it be wasted and then straine them through a cloth with cleane hands and when your oyle is kindly wrought then put it in pots or glasses and stop it from the ayre This oyle is good for all aches except the Gout To make an oyle for many greefes ¶ Take Mirrhe Aloes exaticum Spignard Sandragon Incense Sarazens flesh Bedilium Balme séede gum Aromatick Siracell Mastick Saffron gum Arabek Storax liquida of each of these two ounces Labdanum Castor of each 2. ounces Muske and Turpentine as much make powder of all that wil be powdered and meddle them with Turpentine and still them in a glasse as you doo Rosewater and keepe it in a very strong glasse This oyle kéepeth the substance of mans lims and the sinewes and keepeth dead folkes from rotting béeing medled with the oyle of Roses and annoynt all thy back from the hart of the fore-head to the raynes and it maketh a leane body fat and if the backe be annoynted before the axis it helpeth the Feauers and for him that may not speake it is good for the rising of the Mother for the falling euill for to be put in his eares and in his nose Also it is good for them that be sorry without a cause and for them that be drunke with Wine and it is comfortable for all diseases be they hote or cold prooued To make a greene oyntment ¶ Take a pounde of Swines greace an ounce of Verdigreace halfe an ounce of Salgeme and make thereof an oyntment and it may bee kept forty Winters and this oyntment is good for the Canker and for running holes and for to heale all wounds old and new it fretteth away dead flesh and bringeth new and put of this into a wound it shall not fester and this oyntment is good for the rising of the yard or morimal and there is no oyntment that worketh so especially as this doth To make a greene oyntment ¶ Take one pound of Sage of Bayes halfe a pound of rew halfe a pound of Worme wood as much and choppe them very small altogether take thrée pound of sheepes sewet beate the hearbes and the sewet together till they be all one then take three pints of Sallet oyle the herbes the sewet mingle them together and let it stand two dayes and then sette it on the fire and stir it together till the hearbs be somewhat hard thē straine them and preserue them to their vse that haue néed thereof To make a precious oyntment called Deweto ¶ Take the rasing of Harts-horne 2. pound of Fenegreke 1. pound of oyle Oliue 4. pound sheepes tallow 1. pounde and 2. ounces of Galbanum 2. ounces of the gum of Iuie and two ounces of Perrossen and bray them together and doo thereto a portion of white Wine or
for a new wound or to staunch blood poure a little of it in a dish and if it stick fast vnto the dishes side then it is inough and preserue it to your vse as neede requireth The making of the flower of all plaisters and salues called Flos vnguentorum per G. K. ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen halfe a pound of Perossen a quarter of a pound of Frankensence a quarter of a pound of virgin Wax an vnce of Mastick a quarter of a pound of Dears sewet a quarter of a pound of Shéepes sewet two drams of Camphire a quarter of a pound of Venice Turpentine and melt that may be molten and make powder of that which may be beaten to powder and searce your powder through a fine searcer and to compound this treate or plaister with all your Waxe Shéepes sewet and Deares sewet must be first molten on a soft fire then your Olibanum Mastick with your Rozen and Perossen and your Frankensence and Myrrh and last of all your Turpentine of Venice and as you put these gums in you must euer be stirring it with a little sticke that it doe not grow to the kettle side with a soft fire the gums being throughly molten take the kettle from the fire still stirring of it let your Myrrh and your Turpentine be put in the last for that must not abide on the fire long after it is put in then take a pottle of good white Wine and let your strainer be of canuas ready for to straine the sayd gums withall and let there be no holes in the canuas strayner then take a faire Bason or Péece and put it in a quart or thrée pints of your white Wine and then let it runne through into the white Wine and so let it coole for the space of two houres and then worke it and make it vp in roles and let the roles lye continually still in the white Wine for it will be 〈◊〉 as Allablaster and yée may kéepe it this seauen yeares in full effect and goodnes and especiallie for all new woundes and aches béeing spread vpon new canuasse and apply it to the gréefe and these be the vertues of this Flores vnguentorum Also this noble Salue or plaister amongst all other is most clensing and wel sounding the flesh that it healeth more in one weeke then in any other it wil suffer no corruption to be ingendred in man or woman nor no euill flesh to grow for all these diseases aboue named it is the most strange medicine that euer was sound as in experience it hath béen full many times proued and tryed The golden plaister that healeth all bruses of vaines or sinewes proued ¶ Take Colofony Pitch Rozen and Oyle thrée vnces of liquid Pitch an vnce of Olibanum an vnce of Auri vnguenti a like of each of Wine as much as suffiseth and make thereof a plaister and lay it too and kéepe it to your vse To make Gratia dei ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen and boile it in a pan vntill the fome or scum be come of it then take a quarter of a pound of vnwrought Wax and put it into the Rozen and boyle them together as is aforesaid then take an vnce of Sheepes sewet and as much of Turpentine and oyle Oliue a spoonefull and put them all together into the same pan amongst the Rozen and Wax aforesaid and boyle them all together vntill the fome begin aboue and when the fome beginneth to waxe blacke then take it off the fire and clense it through a faire linnen cloth into a pan of water then work it with your hands and put it out as you doo Birdlime for the space of a quarter of an houre and now and then wet your hands in the waâ—… when it cleaueth to the salue and then make it into roles To make Gratia dei minor ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Pimpernell that beareth the white flower of each thrée handfuls and bray them séeth them in white Wine till it be halfe sodden then poure out the Wine through a cloth and set it ouer the fire put thereto Perrosin a pound Mastick a pound Virgin wax and take womans milk that nourisheth a man child a quantity mingle them together boyling with a slice till it be well melt then take it off the fire put in halfe a pound of Turpentine stir it well together till it be cold then kéepe it till ye néede it is good for all new wounds and olde for the Webbe in the eye it suffereth no dead flesh to remaine within the wounde Also for stinging of venimous beasts and also for all maner of impostumes and for all sores To make a plaister that will heale a wounde ¶ Take a pound of the iuyce of Betony as much of Plantine the iuyce of Smallage as much Bursa pastoris as much and foure pound of Waxe and Perrossen a quarter of a pounde of Incense boyle all these together with the iuyces of these 4. hearbes till they be almost thick and then put therein a quarter of a pound of Turpentine oyle Oliue thrée pound and so vse it as a plaister at neede A methridate against poysons and pestilence which for a trueth was prooued vpon foure Irish Gentlemen poysoned with Rats-bane cast into a pan of Milke in Fraunce who were so swolne that they were ready to burst ¶ Take of the rootes of Turmentile two drammes of all the kinde of Saunders of euery of them a dram white Dittanie newe gathered and dryed a dramme of the top of a Harts horne or a Spitrack of precious stones the fragments of orient pearle Bole armoniack Aristologia rotunda of each a dram Peniriall Mirrh and sewet of each two drams Tarra limnia of the purest two drammes the seedes of Cytrons and Saffron of each a scruple Vnicorns horne and iacints of each halfe a dramme The licour to make this Electuary is Rosewater and the water of Borage flowers distilled boyle your Sugar and waters to a perfection and in the cooling put in your powders searced and so reserue it as a most precious treasure that is also a present remedy to driue out the Measels shingles small poxe the plague pushes and hath holpe them whose sores were gone in and brought them out againe and recouered the parties and it defendeth all venim To make pilles against poyson of a meruailous vertue as hath been proued ¶ Take Imperatrice Bistorta Turmentilla Valeriana Dittamo Bianco Carlina Gentiana Aristologia rotunda Agarico Electo Salgem of each a like quantity beate them in fine powder then take the iuyce of Garlike and of Onions as much as will make it into a paste Also put into the iuyce one dram of Saffron then let the sayd paste be mixt dry in the shadow and then beate it into powder againe and mixe it with the foresayd iuyce in good force and kéepe it in a vessell of lead vntill thou hast neede and when thou wilt vse it take thereof 4. drammes and make
beate it fine and mingle it with the same powder and so keepe it close that no winde come at it vsing it first and last with posset drinke made with White wine or strong Ale and when you cate your pottage or other broth put some in it if you bee sore pained and if you haue any stone it will come away by shiuers and if it doe so when you think that your water beginneth to cleare again take this drinke following and it will clense your bladder and it will leaue no corruption therein The drinke ¶ Take Rose-mary and wilde Time and séeth them in running water with as much Sugar as will make it sweete from a quart to a pint vse the quantitie of your hearbes according to your discretion so that it may sauour well of them and so vse it nine mornings sixe or seauen spoonefuls at a time For the Tissicke well proued ¶ Take a handfull of Fennell rootes as much Parsley rootes as many Alisander rootes halfe a handfull of Borrage rootes and pull out the pith of all the sayde rootes then take halfe a handfull of Penny-riall as much of Violet leaues and as much of Cinckfoyle as much Succory Endiue Hollihockleaues Mallow leaues and redde garden Mints of all these a like quantitie as of those next before halfe a handfull of Licoris stickes scraped brused and beaten to fine powder a gallon of fayre running water boyle therein all these simples and boile these séedes following with them that is thrée spoonesuls of Annyseedes as much Fennell seede as much Coliander seede and Comin seede a good handfull of Dandelion rootes and so boyle altogether from a gallon to a pottle and let the patient drinke thereof first and last and it will quickly help him Another for the Tissicke ¶ Take a quart of running water with a handful of Isope two ounces of Annyseedes asmuch Licoris beaten both togeather halfe an ounce of Fennell seede beate all these togeather very sine with a quarterne of white Sugar and so boyle them altogether vnto a pint and then straine them and so let the partie drinke thereof first and last and it will doo him good For a Tissicke or colde another ¶ Take two ounces of Licoris scraped and brused of Figs three ounces of Egrimony Hore-hounde Enula campana of each a handfull and boyle them altogether in a gallon of Water vntill the halfe be wasted then straine the hearbes from the iuyce and vse it early and late for this hath béene proued Also for the dry Tissick take and stamp Fennell rootes and drinke the iuyce thereof with white Wine For the Tissicke another experiment ¶ Take Radish rootes make them cleane and cutte them thin and cast them into an Ouen and bake them then beate them into powder so small as you can then drinke thereof euerie morning fasting and at night when you goe to bedde and wet your meate in the same powder as you weuld doo in salte and it will doo you very great ease shortly To make the mother of Treakle ¶ Take a pint of Honny put thereto the iuyce of red Fennell séeth it on the fire vntill it come to a pinte then take it of and put thereto a penny-woorth of Sinamon in powder two raises of Ginger a Nutmeg and a little Mace and stirre them well together and when it is cold put it into a boxe and gather your Fennell in May. Also to make Treakle for all manner of poyson take one ounce of Betony in powder 4. ounces of Centory in powder and 2. ounces of the powder of Rew medle these together and temper them with clarified Honny and kéepe it in a glasse The golden treate that healeth all bruses ¶ Take Colosony pitch and Rozen and two ounces of oyle three ounces of liquid Pitch 1. ounce of Olibanū Auti vnguenti Allam of each two ounces of Wine as much as suffiseth and boyle all these together and so receiue them to your vse as you neede and it helpeth For to make a white treate called Apostolicen ¶ Take oyle Oliue litarge of Leade Golde and Siluer stampe it and put it in the oyle through a cloth and stirre it till it be harde and this is a good treate for to heale all manner of woundes be they newe or old thys kinde of treate hath often béene proued good To make a treat called Emanuell ¶ Take Veruaine Bittany Pimpernell Centorie the more Gratia dei of each one handfull hearbe Iohn Auence Celondine Acus muscata alaluia Plantaine Spurge Egrimonie of each one handfull grinde all in a morter and put thē in a gallon of Wine and boyle them in a pan till the third part be wasted then straine it through a Canuas cloth and set it oner the fire and put thereto Waxe foure ounces Pitch asmuch Rozen as much Olibanum two ounces Mastick two ounces Mirrhe two ounces Aloes two ounces Turpentine two ounces Sheepes sewet halfe a pound boate them all in powder and boyle them all together saue the Turpentine the which must be put in last of all then straine the same through a cloth and keepe it till you haue neede thereof and this is a speciall healer of all wounds and sores bruses and broken bones and Apostumes that be broken also it hath a special vertue to draw clense and reengender good flesh it healeth and doth away all kinde of aches whatsoeuer all Cankers and Festers it healeth Morimals it passeth all other oyntments and if you will haue it soft put thereto a quantitie of oyle of Roses so much as you thinke good Proued A good entreat called the greene treat of Iane. ¶ Take a pint of the iuice of Smallage a pint of the iuice of Waybright as much of Plantaine put them together in a vessell and put to it a quarter of a pound of Wax and as much of Frankensence or Rozen made into powder make your Wax into small péeces and boile them altogether and euer stir them and to know when it is boyled inongh drop a drop vpon a Bason and if there be any moisture in it when it is cold then put to it a pound of Turpentine and stir them till they be well medled together then strain it and put into it a quart of white Wine and let it stand while it be cold and so vse it Another intreat called Gratia dei ¶ Take Wax May butter or other butter without salt of each one vnce then take of Frankensence two vnces melt them together and straine them and this is the making of this entreat which is called Gratia dei A good entreat for wounds ¶ Take Betony Pimpernell and Veruaine of each a handfull boile them in a pottell of very good white Wine vntill it be halfe consumed then straine it through a course canuas then put the liquor ouer the fire againe and in the boyling put to it halfe a pound of Rozen a pound of Frankensence in powder and alwayes stir it that the powder goe not to
as golde Another to make the hayre yellow ¶ Take the rinde or barke of Rubarbe and take the scrapings thereof and steepe it in white wine or cleere Lye and after that you haue washed your head therewith you shall wet your haire with a Sponge or some cloth kept for that purpose then let your haire dry against the fire or sunne and the oftner that you vse it the better it will proue as I haue often tryed For to stay hayre from falling ¶ Take and make strong standing Lye and take a great company of Isope rootes and burne them to ashes and mingle the ashes and the Lie together and therewith wash your head and it will keepe the haire from falling of and vse this often it is well proued Also if you take the ashes of little Frogs being burnt it staieth the falling of the haire and the ashes of Goats dung mingled with oyle doth increase haire Another for the falling of hayre ¶ Take the ashes of Culuer-dung in lie and wash the heade therewith Also Walnut leaues beaten with Beares suet restoreth the haire that it plucked away Also the leaues and middle rind of an Oke sodden in water and the head washed therewith is very good for this purpose For to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Frankensence and Barrowes greace boyle them together in a pan of earth and with this oyntment rub the head where the lyce is and it will kill them Another to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Stauesaker and beat it to powder and mingle it with blacke Sope and annoynt the head therewith and it will be quicklie cleane For the Nits in the head ¶ Take the gall of a Calfe and smere the head therwith and it will kill the Nits For woormes in the hayre ¶ Take and rub Calamint on the head and it will sley the woormes in the haire For to doe away hayre ¶ Take the head of Nettles and stampe them and temper it with Eysell and annoynt the head therewith but first shaue or pul away the haire for it is better After this you must sweat and when that you are hote then annoynt your head therwith and doe this three daies and there will growe no more haire in that place Also take the gumme of Arabick and annoynt the place where the haire groweth and it shall quicklie fall awaie For to take away hayre ¶ Take the shells of two Egges beate them small and still them with a good fire and with that water annoynt the place Or els take hard Cats dunge dry it and beate it to powder and temper it with strong Vineger then wash the place with the same where you would haue no haire to grow An experiment for to take away haire ¶ Take the blood of a Snaile without a shell and it hindereth greatly the growing vp of haire Also take Labdanum the gum of an Iuie tree Emmets Egges Arsenick and Vinegar and binde it to the place where you will haue no haire to grow Another for to take away hayre ¶ Take the iuyce of Fumitory and mixe it with gum Arabick then lay it on the place of the haires first plucked out by the rootes and it will neuer permit any more haire to grow in that place Also if you annoynt your heade with the iuyce of a Gloworme stamped it hath the same vertue For the scurffe in the head ¶ Take of the decoction of Mallow rootes and wash your head often therewith and it will cause the scurffe to fall away Also the decoction of the middle rinde of an Elme the head beeing washed therewith doth mightily driue out the scurffe Another for the scurffe in the head ¶ Take Vinegar and boyle it in wine lees a little and annoynt all ouer the scurffe but first clense it and it will mightily heale and dry it Also take the branch of a greene Fig trée with the leaues and stampe them in water it will heale the scurffe being washed therewith If the scurffe be newe vse this medicine daily with Vineger and annoynt the head therewith this hath beene proued For wheales or pushes in the head ¶ Take and wash your head with Vineger or with water wherein Camomell hath beene sodden Also the leaues of Violets stampt with honny doth lightly heale the same Also towne Cresses stampt with Goose greace dooth spéedily heale the pushes or wheales that be in the head For a scald head ¶ Take a penny-worth of Lampe oyle and halfe a pynte of faire water and boyle it well together and when it is cold put thereto halfe a penny-worth of Quicksiluer and temper it wel together and annoynt the head therewith For a scald head ¶ Take the liuer of a Thornebacke and séeth it by it selfe then take six roots of Enula campana and séeth thē by the space of thrée howers in cleane water of Houseléeke three handfulls stampe them and mingle them altogeather and strayne them through a linnen cloth and make an oyntment of them and annoint the head therewith and if the haire be gone take a handfull of wooll and burne it to powder and annoint therewith the head that is pilde and the haire shall growe as thicke as euer it was before Another for a scald head ¶ Take Groundsell and Barrowes greace and chopps the Groundsell small and boyle it with a softe fier with the Barrowes greace and so clip off the haire and ther-withall annoynt the scald head For to heale a white scald in the head ¶ Take Houndstung and Borage rootes of each a like quantitie wash them faire and cleane then shred them chop them small in péeces séeth them in vineger about halfe a pint more then put in a little sweete Butter neuer salted and let them boyle together till they be softe then strayne them through a cleane cloth and it will be a pleasant salue then take a feather and annoynt the Patients head withall but you must vse to wash the scald head with Cow pisse or else with faire water and this will heale the white scald head Another for to heale the white scald ¶ Take gréene coperis rosen waxe shéepes suet hony and beat them small together and boyle them well and it will be a very faire salue and this will heale any white scald proued For the brayne an experiment ¶ Take the Sirope of red Roses with the powder of Lygnum Aloes and the bone in the Harts hart cloues the leaues of red Roses or the Cakes thereof and séethe them all together with Snger and giue the patient thereof to drink fasting morning and euening For the brayne another ¶ Take the smoke of Lignum Aloes and it comforteth the cold braine and all weake parts of the braine and the head For to restore the braine ¶ Take and make powder of Betony and vse it in thy pottage and it will restore the braine Also take and chew Mace in your mouth Also put into thy nose the roote or iuice of Galingall and it
any sore eyes And this medicine neuer fayleth but restoreth the sight ¶ Take a stone called Calamint and make it red hote nine times and quench it foure times in Rose water and fiue times in white Wine then take this stone that is thus quenched and make of it small powder in a brasen morter then take Frankensence as much as of the powder of the stone and make it also to powder and looke that you haue of them two euen portiens as much as you will then take Rose water and water of Rue and water of Fennell of each of these three two portions of the water of Strawberries and the water of Veruaine and the water of Enstras of each of these three three portions and put all these waters together in a cleane vessell and then looke how many vnces thou hast of thy powder to vnces of the aforesaid waters that be mingled Grinde the powder of Calamint and of Frankensence on a Marble stone as you would grinde Vermillion but you must grinde each one by it selfe then take fresh Swines greace of a Barrow-hog and wring the same verie well through a cleane cloth and looke that you haue asmuch weight of cold greace as of the mingled waters take then the powder of Calament and boyle it with the greace and with the mingled waters ouer a soft fire of Char-coles without anie smoake And when thou hast boyled these well together put vnto the same the powder of Frankensence and then boile them all together till the smoake of the boylings cease and then take it from the sire and let it coole but from the time that you sette it first to the fire for to seeth be alwaies stirring it verie busily till it be cold and thick Then take Camphire pare it in small péeces then take of thy oyntment euen as much and grind them together by parcels on a Marble stone and when they be well mingled together then put it in a boxe with one vnce of Calamint and one vnce of Frankensence Enfrance thrée pennie worth and thrée peny worth of Camphire and he that hath any gréeuance or sicknes in his eyes at night sitting on his bed let him take of this oyntment with his finger as much as a Wheat corne and hold it in his eye vntill it be relented and then dip his finger with the oyntment softly betwéen the lids of his eyes and then let him lye downe and sléepe and on the morrow when he riseth wash the eye with Rose-water or with Enfrance water or with Fenell water or with Rue water these waters be good therefore but ere thou wash the eyes therewith heate the water a little ouer the fier but looke that you wash not with fasting spittle nor with no other thing but with one of these waters before saide and thou shalt be whole this hath béene surely prooued For the Impostumes in the head ¶ Against the Impostume of the eyes and web of the same put the iuice of Hony-suckle often therin or mingle it with pure hony and straine it and it wasteth the Impostume and the web maruailously and it was thus proued One tooke a Cock and a Whelp and pricked their eyes with a crooked Iron or néedle so that they séemed that their eyes were out and then hee brused this hearbe and put it in their eyes and they became faire and cleare as they were before at the which he did maruaile and proued it many times vpon diuers persons For wormes in the eye lids ¶ Take Salt and burne it in a cloute and temper it with hony and with a feather annoynt the eye lids when the party goeth to bed For wormes in the eye lyds ¶ Take Bay-salt and burne it in the fire and then stampe it and doo thereto clarified hony and the water of Allom and a little Copperas and annoynt the eye lidds when thou goest to bed and this medicine shall kill the wormes that be in the eye liddes prooued For stinking at the nose ¶ Take Cloues Ginger and Calamint of each a like much and séethe them in white Wine and therewith wash thy nose After that put in the powder Piritrum to prouoke one to néese if there be replection fleam in the head first you must purge the head with Pylls of Cochie or of Hiera picra Also if the stinking of the nose come from the stomacke first purge the stomake et fiet For the polix of the nose ¶ Against the polix of the nose make a suppository or tent of a plaister called Apostolicon and put powder of Copperas theron and put it into thy nose or make that tent of cotton and wet it in Salt-water and lay of the said powder thereon and put it in thy nose The said powder is also good to fret the proud flesh of superfluitie of blood of the nose but first burne it then put it in olde Parchment and make powder thereof and take Mastick and then make a tent of Bursa pastoris with part of a stone called Emachitas and put it in thy nose For the polix of the nose ¶ To take and put the iuice of Iuy into thy nosthrils is very good The gum of Iuy made in an oyntment called Dialthera hath power to chase and to consume Also against the polix make a tent of Apostolicon and the powder of burnt brasse and lay it to the nose et fiet For the pose in the head ¶ Against the rume or pose mingle the powder of Comin-séede and Bay berries and put them all hote in a bag and lay them so to the head for the pose For the nosthrill a medicine ¶ For the highnes of the nosthrils and rednes caused in flux of humors take the broth that Olibanum is sodden in but first in the morning Pils of Olibanum and at night to bedward the said broth these Pylls comforteth digestion and purgeth the stomack For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take and mingle the powder of Betony with as much salt and put as much as you can take betwéene two fingers and a thomb in the nesthrils and the blood will staunch also take and wet cotton in the iuice of Bursa pastoris and cast powder of Antimonium vpon it and the bléeding will frent For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take a dram of Bolae armoniacke washed and mixe it in Rose-water and Planten water and drinke it then bind the extreame parts as hard as you may and after make a tent of gréene Nettles and put into his nose Moreouer if so be that the Patient doo hold in his hand Egrimony the roote and all and drink the iuice of Knotgrasse the blood will staunch For bleeding at the nose ¶ Against the bléeding of the nose that commeth by ebulition or boyling of the blood in the lyuer and vaines in Sommer make Beanes wet in the iuice of rose-Rose-water and lay them to the forehead or temples it hath been proued Another for the same ¶ Take Peruincle and chewe it in the
third part of Allom rub the téeth with a cloth dipped in the same and it maketh the téeth white and clenseth the gums To make the teeth cleane ¶ Take Rosemary Sage and a quarter of Allom and Honey and boile them together in faire running water and when it hath béen well boyled straine out the faire water and kéepe it in a glasse and vse it somtime to wash your mouth and the teeth therwith and it will make them clean Also wash the teeth with the decoction of our Lady thistle root and thy téeth shall be fastened and also kept cleane and thy gums béeing sore about the teeth shal be made whole Also the roote of Horehound drunke or chewed of a man fasting dooth quickly heale the gummes and maketh the téeth cleane Also Strawbury leaues taketh and clenseth the téeth and gums a sure and tried experiment For the gummes ¶ Against swelling of the gums wash them first with Vineger and Allom confect together but first set Ventoses or bores with scarification on the neck or shoulder or set the Ventoses in the hinder part of the head and scarifie it thrée daies then lay Horseleaches to the gums and wash the gums with Vineger wherein Allom Nutgalls and Roses hath béene sodden in and with the same vineger wash thy mouth thrée or foure days twice or thrice a day and it will ease thée Also against the rottennes of the gums take Cingstile and rub the cheeke therwith and it taketh away the rotting of the gums For the gummes that bleed ¶ Against the bléeding of the gums take powder of Corall and of Anthero that is in the middest of the Rose and lay it vpon the gummes or confect it with Honey and annoynt the gums therwith The pouder of Corall put to the gums healeth them Also for the gums that rotteth rub them with Myrrhe and it will help them Also the fume of Myrrhe receiued at the mouth comforteth and purgeth the braine For the gummes that are gnawne ¶ Take and séethe Cloues in water of Roses and then dry them and make therof powder then temper the powder with Rose-water or with Roses and that is best and then dry it againe in the Sunne and doo so thrée or foure times and then temper the powder againe with Rose-water or with the iuice of Roses and annoynt the gummes therewith and lay the powder on them For Blisters in the mouth and swelling of the lyps ¶ Against the blisters in the mouth and swelling of the lips take and séeth the leaues of Mastick in Vineger and with the same make a Gargorisme thereof Also against fleaing or rawnesse of the mouth comming of Feauers and against small blisters and swelling séeth yolks of Egges in water and then fry them till oyle come out of them and with the oyle confect the powder of Pennets of Dragagant and Amidon and annoynt the gréefe this powder Confect with sirop of Roses or Violets is also very good therefore For chapping of the lyps ¶ For the chapping of the lippes take Pennets and delay them in water of Dragagant and annoynt the lips therewith Also for lippes that bee broken with the wind take the oyle of Almonds and Propolio boyle them ouer the fire and let it be fomwhat hard and therewith annoynt thy lips so chapped with wind Also for new clifts or chapping of the lips lay the pouder of Canell in the clifts and kéepe well thy lippes together and bind a cloth thereto For swelling of the cheeke that commeth of the tooth ache ¶ Take the iuice of the séede of Nettles and the white of an Egge Frankensence and Wheat flower and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the sore chéeke and it will doo away the swelling thereof For the great heat in the mouth ¶ Take a pint of water and as much as a Nut of white Allom and as much of Sage and a spoonfull of hony and boile all these together and wash thy mouth with it For the canker in the mouth ¶ Take a pint of white wine and as much running water and the crops of Sage two spoonfull of life honey and as much Allom as an Egge boyle all these together and skim it well clarifie it till the Allom be consumed and when it is somewhat cold put it in a glasse and vse it Also take the root of Selendine and séeth it in white wine and when it is well sod take the pot down and let the sicke hold ouer his mouth and let the breath goe into the body and it shall kill the canker For the canker in the mouth ¶ Take the iuice of Woodbind and the iuice of red Woorts Hony powder of Camomell and powder of wild Sage burnt also take red Wine a pint a quarter of a pint of honey and as much Allom as a Doues Egge and séeth them till the third part thereof be wasted proued Another for the same ¶ Take Vineger Allom Musterd Rue Auence Isope hearb Robert and seeth and straine them through a cloth as hot as you may suffer it and wash your mouth oftentimes therwith and it will heale the canker For the canker in the mouth and for stinking breath ¶ Take a handfull of Woodbind as much Planten and bray them small then take a pint of Eysell and another of water and a quantity of hony another of Allom kéepe all these waters together in a glasse and wash well thy mouth therewith and holde it in thy mouth and it shall destroy all cankers and slinking breath and saue the téeth from rotting A very good medicine for a canker or sore mouth ¶ Take a handfull of Woodbind as much Planten and halfe a handfull of Lauender cotten as much Sage an vnce of white roch Allom and thrée spoonfull of hony bray all these in Vineger let these be moderatly warmed and put into a still with the hearbs and softly distilled and after meales wash your mouth therwith thrée or foure times a day Proued Against clifts and sores in the mouth stéepe Dragagant in Rose-water and wring it in a cloth with a glewy substance that commeth out mingle the powder of Amidum and with a feather wet therin annoynt the sore mouth therwith and it will heale quickly Also for a man that cannot well eate take Ambrose Peniriall Aunce Ach Organum Rue swill these together with water and drinke the water morning and euening till thou be whole Proued For euill in the mouth or throat ¶ Take the leaues of the white Vine and boyle them in faire water and when it is well boyled hold thy mouth ouer that the ayre may goe into thy mouth and then sup of the water and hold it in thy mouth till it be cold and then put it out and take more and doo so seauen or eight times a day and vse this two dayes together Also doe in lyke manuer with the fiue leaued Grasse and vse it seauen or eyght times in a day and thrée dayes together but it
must be sodden somwhat more then the leafe of the Vine in fayre water and it will heale the Patient this hath béen often times proued For vnsauery mouthes ¶ Take the iuice of Endiue with Suger and if the iuice be thick or troubled clarifie it and so may all other iuices in this wise Séeth the iuice of Endiue a little and let it stand and that which is thick will goe to the bottom then take the thin liquor and straine it often through a cloth and wring it and with that iuice in the bottom make Syrop with Suger if you will make it thinner put the white of an Egge therto For stinke in the mouth ¶ Take and make Pils of Cassia lingua and eat of them and they be good for the stinke of the mouth Also for the stinke of the mouth caused of rottennes of the gums and téeth take and wash the mouth with water that garden Mints be sodden in and rub the téeth with the Mints or else with the powder thereof Also chew Muske and it will doo away the stinke of the mouth Also take the iuice of Vorueine and bruse it and put it in thy mouth and hold it a good while close in thy mouth and it will take away the slinke Proued To take away the stinking of the mouth ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with water and Vineger and chew Mastick a good while and then wash thy mouth with the decoction of Aniséeds Mints Cloues sodden in Wine If the stinking of the mouth come of a rotten tooth the best is for to haue it drawne out Also you must wash your mouth before meat and after with warme water For to clense the mouth and to purge the humors from the mouth which descend out of the head it is good euery morning fasting to wash your mouth and to rub your teeth with a Sage leafe Pils of citron or with powder made with Cloues or Nutmegs You must forbeare all meates of euill digestion and rawe fruites For a stinking breath ¶ Take oyle Doret Turpentine Hony oyle Oliue Virgin wax as much of the one as of the other and boyle them all together and make an oyntment therof and vse it euery day in the Patients nosthrills and let it be put into the nose euerie day with tents made of lynt scraped of fine linnen cloath and hee shall be whole For a stinking breath ¶ Take the iuice of Hilwoort or else take Butter and the iuice of Featherfoy and temper them with Honey and euery day giue the Patient a spoonfull Another for the same ¶ Take two handfuls of Comin and stampe it to powder and boyle it in Wine and drinke the Syrope thereof morning and euening warme the space of fiftéene dayes and thou shalt amend this hath been proued For a good breath ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with the water that the shels of Citeron haue béen sodden in and thou shalt haue a good breath Also these confections make the breath swéet the electuarie of Aromatikes and the pils of Citrons Against letting of the breth caused of cold humors take and drink the hearb Dawke or the liquor that dry Figs haue béen sodden in and it will make the breath sweet and wholsom Also take red Mints and Rue wring the iuice in the sick bodies nosthrils when he goeth to bed For the tongue ¶ Against the sharpnes and drynesse of the tongue put this gum in water which is called gum Arabike till the water be slymie and with that slyme moist the tongue or bind the gum in a thin cloth and put it in water till it begin to melt and with she same cloth rub thy tongue and it will take away the paine thereof Also for the roughnesse of the tongue put the séedes of Quinces or the curnells in a fine cloth and wash thy tongue therwith also Psillium or the séede thereof For drynesse of the tongue and for thirst ¶ Against drinesse of the tongue of the Feauer Ague put the séede of Fleawoort and bind it in a fine linnen cloth and then put it in cold water and therwith wash and rub thy tongue and scrape it with a knife Also for thirst put the séede of Fleawoort in a bag and lay it on the tongue For thirst in the tongue ¶ Against thirst in the tongue giue Ptysan or Dragagant and it will be dissolued in a night or make syrope with water that Barly and Dragagant is sod in and it is conueniable for Feauer Agues or if Dragagant be holden vnder the tongue For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Take and vse great strong ground Musterd the powder of Piones well scalled pouder of Sage Nutmegs and Suger doo these powders in the Musterd and eate euery day at meales therof and it will take away the palsie of the tongue Also Musterd seede sodden in oyle or wine is very good against the palsie Also take the powder of Casterium and hold it vnder the tongue till it be molten or dissolued For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Against the palsie of the tongue that is when the tongue is full of holes and the Patient cannot speake because the sinewes of the tongue is full of humors as it appeareth often in Feauer Agues for the same chew the séed of Cresses and hold it vnder the tongue proued For him that hath lost his speech ¶ Take Sage Pimpernel stamp them well annoint his tong vnderneath with the iuice therof els take the iuice of Sage and Pimpernell and doo it in his mouth Also take Ach Mints red Betony and lay them into Goats milke drinke it morning and euening Also take thrée vnces of Betony and swéet milke of a Goat temper them together and drinke it thrée daies together this for the palsie is most pretious To restore speech that is lost sodenly ¶ Take Peniriall and temper it with Eysell and giue the sicke to drinke it lay also a playster of this to his nosthrills so gréeued For a man that sleepeth and cannot speake ¶ Take Galbanum and set it ouer the fire with a candle and make it smoke and put the smoke to his nose and thou shalt cause him for to speake Also take the iuice of Sage and Printrose and doo it in his mouth and he shall speake by Gods grace Also take the iuice of greene Morrell berries and clarifie it wel and drink therof and thou shalt speake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Sothernwood and temper it with wine and drinke it when thou goest to bed Another for the same ¶ Take the crops of Rue and the crops of Verueine of each a like much and drink the iuice therof when thou goest to bed For Sunne burning ¶ Take the iuice of Lemons with a little bay-salt and wash your face therewith and let it dry in and doo so thrée or foure times and it will helpe you Also take halfe a pot full of raine water and fill it vp with Veriuice and séeth it till
smal with halfe a roote of Fennell cut likewise very small boyle all these together till halfe be consumed then vse to drinke heereof morning and euening reasonable hote For the partie that is incombred in the brest with any kind of fleame or glart ¶ Take the powder of Betonie and drinke it with warme water it voideth and purgeth the fleame wondrously and doth awaie the glart or fleame For paine in the breast ¶ Take and gather a good quantity of ripe Slowes grinde them small in a morter then put them in an earthen potte and sill it full of new Ale and so drinke thereof Another for the same ¶ Take Isope Parsly and Sage stampe them and lay thē to the breast of the patient verie hote Take also the marrowe of a Calfe Fenegreke Linséedes bray them small in a morter and mingle the powder with the yolkes of Egges then temper all these together with fresh greace or Oyle and lay it to the sore as hote as you may suffer it For the breast that is incombred ¶ Take Isope and seeth it in a pottle of Wine till it come to a quarte and let the patient vse thereof first in the morning colde and last in the euening hote Another for the same ¶ Take three pottles of running water of a Well that springs and boyle it to a pottell then take halfe a pint of Hony and one pounde of the powder of Anniseedes a pounde of the powder of Licoris one penny-worth of Sugar and cast all these into the liquor and let them boyle well then put it into a vessel and stop the mouth thereof close that the ayre goe not out and let the patient drinke thereof in the morning but not fasting at night and he shall be whole For the breast and the lunges ¶ Take a quantity of clarified Hony and boyle it and when it is boyled put thereto an vnce of the powder of Enula campana and one vnce of the powder of Licoris and let them boyle till they be somwhat thick then take it from the fire and when it is cold put thereto an vnce of the powder of Ginger and stirre it well together and vse this first and last For a man that is stopped in his breast or pypes ¶ Take Enula campana Isope and Licoris dry them wel then beat them in a morter as fine as flower then take Ginger Anniséeds Sinamon and Galingall beate them also and when thou hast done take a quantity of Hony boile it wel and seum it cleane then take the Enula campana the Isope and the Licoris and boyle them wel together in the Hony afterward take the Ginger Anniseedes Galingall and Sinamon put them al in Hony and let them seeth together then put it in a dish then take Sugar and put vpon it while it is hote and eate a quantity thereof morning and euening but drinke not till two howers after and it will helpe thee Also if you take and séeth Rue in Vinegar and drinke thereof it will likewise helpe you For swelling of the breasts ¶ Take Wormwood Sage and Calamint of each a like much and stampe them well put thereto a quantitie of Vinegar and temper them well together then take white Breade and toste it till it be browne and grind it small then boile them together and stir it that it burne not to and lay thereof to the patients breast as hote as may be suffered Another for the same ¶ Also if a plaister be made of Chesnuts with Barly meale and Vinegar or Wine and layd to the pappes it will asswage both the swelling and the paine thereof For all manner of euills and paine in the breast or the ribbes ¶ Take and bruse Mugwoort with Vinegar and lay it to the breast and it will be whole in thrée dayes Also take the water that guin Arabick and Mirth hath been sodden in and wash the breast therewith Also take the electuary called Diapenidion made into pennets it is verie good for the same purpose as hath oft been proued Also for drought in the breasts and the members in it and for them that be Costisse so that the breast be not stopped nor the brath short lay Psilium in water a certaine space and then poure out the water and take the same séedes with other cleane water that is cold and vse it to the patient Also take and make a plaister of Knotgrasse and Butter and lay it to the sore breast and it helpeth the same For vaines broken in the breast ¶ Take the roote of Camphire and secth it and when it is sodden slice it with a knife then hange it in the Sunne to dry thys may be kept thrée yeeres in goodnes and vertue and if a vaine be broken in the breast or guttes it will resound and knit it and reioyne it meruailously if that the powder thereof be taken greene with Wine or water or if you fry the roote greene like a fritture with Egges or Meale and so cate thereof For impostumes in the breast ¶ Take and fill a bagge with meale of Fenegreke and séeth it in water that Lysmachie and Hollihock hath been sodden in and lay it often to the impostume of the breast Another for the same ¶ Take the water that Licoris hath béene sodden in or the iuyce thereof and it is very good being vsed against the impostumes of the breasts or ribbes called the Plurisie For blood of the breasts ¶ Take two drammes of Leekes seede and Mirth it stancheth the blood that commeth out of the breast by spetting although it be griefe to the teeth and throat For the Canker in a womans pappes ¶ Take picked Garlicke and Rye-meale or Barly-meale and bray them together wish Vinegar till they become as thick as a plaister then lay it to the sore till it bee white then take Pimpernell and beate it small and put thereto Life-honny and lay the plaister to the sore pappe and it will heale it faire Or else take the fenne of a white Goose and the iuyce of Ellidonie and bray them well together and lay it to the pappe and it wil kill the Canker and heale it soundly Another for the same ¶ Take Wormwood and the white of an Egge and skinne it then temper it with oyle of Violets and let her blood on the vaines about the paps For the fester in the breast ¶ Take the iuice of the roote of Foxe gloues and temper it with mans vrine and wring it through a cloth and wash the sore oftentimes therwith and it will cure it To make a woman to haue soft breasts ¶ Let the party that desireth to haue soft breasts drinke in Ale Nettle séede and Salt and it shall quickly help her For a woman that hath her breasts rancled ¶ Take Lint séede and bray it with the white of an Egge and lay it on her breasts and then take the iuice of Ache and of Rye meale and lay it on her breasts and let her
and binde it fast letting it lye there vnremoued the space of three dayes and then take it away for it will helpe the child on warrantise as hath oft been proued For a stitch in a mans side ¶ Take a reasonable peece of white leauened Breade and toste the same on both sides and then spread it on the one uÌ„de with the best Treacle you can get and couer it with a fine linnen cloth and so lay it warme to the sore side where the payne is and it will helpe you God willing Thys medicine cost fiue pound the learning Another for the same ¶ Take Oates and fry them with Vinegar then put them in a cloth and lay them verie hote to the parties side and it will helpe the Stitch. Proued For broken sides ¶ Take and stampe the rootes of Mallowes and put thereto the blood of a Goate and frie it together and lay it hote to the side renue it but once in three dayes For sore sides within or without ¶ Take Alisanders Parsly Louage Red-fennell Smallage Burnet and Gromell and seeth them in white Wine till the one halfe be consumed or wasted then straine it and let the patient drinke thereof first and last in the euening colde and in the morning hote An oyntment for sore sides ¶ Take a handfull of Mallowes a handfull of Groundsell a handfull of Sowthistle as much of Nightshade a quantity of Varuaine and Dill these hearbs must be stamped as small as may bee and tempered well with May butter or Sheepes suet ouer the fire and so make it an oyntment and annoynt the bodie or side that is stiffe by the fire the oftner the better proued For the Impostume in a mans side ¶ Take Wormewood Mint Calamint hearbe Bennet Mallowes Cheruell Sage Rosemary flowers pounde them together and put thereto Commin and crummes of leauened Bread and boyle them in Wine or pisse and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the side For the Impostume in the sides ¶ Take Rue and drinke it often-times Also stampe Figs with oyle Oliue or with greace and plaister it to the sore side Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Scabious and halfe a pounde of the powder of Corrall and mingle them together and drink therof a good draught and it shall breake the impostume of the side Another for the same ¶ Take March Radish Rue Wormwood Centory Sauine stampe all these together and drinke it fasting and thou shalt breake the impostume inwardly and auoyd it outwardly For ache in the side or ribbes ¶ Take and annoynt the sides and ribbes with the iuyce of Knotgrasse and with the oyle of Roses and it will helpe them For ache vnder the sides ¶ Drinke Sage with Wine a little warmed and it will ease the ache vnder the sides and of the wombe and it is good for the Dropsie or the Palsie Also Cheruile drunk with wine easeth greatly the paine in the sides For all diseases in the sides ¶ Take Woorts and make balles thereof beeing sodden and grinde them to powder and brew them in a newe earthen pot and after that gather them together with Hony and smere them well together and make a plaister for the sore side For womens sides that be sore ¶ Take Hilwate Alisander Parsly Louage red Fennell Radish Enula campana and seeth all these hearbs together in white Wine from a pottle to a quart and let the patient drinke thereof morning and euening till the paine be gone For the plurisie and for such as are vsed to be let blood to saue them from letting of blood and to dissolue all ill blood ¶ Take Rye-bread and cut it in small shiuers set it in the wind for to dry and when ye shall be pained with the Spléene put the Bread in the strongest Vinegar that you can get and let it steepe therein foure howrâ—s till it is well soked then sette it on the fire and seeth it together and make a plaister therof and lay it on the side whereas the greefe is as hote as the party may suffer it and it shall dissolue ill blood and take away the paine in their ordure thys hath beene proued for the Plurisie A notable plaister for the Plurisie ¶ Take the rootes of wilde Mallowes the greace of a hog the greace of a Fexe and of a Goose or a Ducke of each a like much but not aboue an ouce of eyther of fresh Butter halfe an vnce of Terrebanthium halfe an vnce of the fatte of Veale sixe drammes of the oyle of Dyll halfe an vnce of the mary of a Deere halfe an vnce the powder of the seedes of Flaxe Vinegar and Bay berries of each three drammes and eyght Figs beate all in a morter then put all in a pan putting Flaxe therin to binde it together and stirre it with a stick vpon the coales then take the whole or part thereof and spread it vppon Leather and couer it with silke and bast it with thread like a quilt and so apply the plaister to the place so greeued as close as may be and by Gods grace you shall find great ease Proued For the ache in a mans back ¶ Take Burre rootes and make them cleane and stampe them and temper them with stale Ale and boyle it well and straine it drinke thereof in the morning cold at night hote For the paines in the back of either man or woman ¶ Take Walwoort and seeth it and presse out the Water and â—ray it in a morter then fry it with Shéepes tallow put thereto cleane bran and plaister it to the backe either of man or woman and it shall helpe them by Gods grace For the raines of the backe ¶ Take two newe layd Eggs and put away the white and fill the shell with the iuyce of Clarie beate it well and straine it and stir well the yolkes and the iuice together ouer a fewe coles for the time it is boyling and then take one and eat it and vse this nine dayes fasting and it shall strength your raines and comfort nature although the Patient be right feeble it hath béene prooued For a sore back ¶ Take Mallowes and séeth them in faire water and lay it vpon a red cloth to the sore as hot as ye may suffer it Another for the same ¶ Take kernels of Hasell nuts and the dung of the house Pidgion and May butter stampe them together and it shall make any sore for to breake and to heale and for the great paine in the back often prooued For the raines of the back ¶ Take two gallons of strong pisse and still it and take a handfull of sappy Sage and Hemlocks Mallows Rue Egrimony Scabious and still all these together to a pint and when it is stilled put therto foure spoonfuls of oyle Oliue this is made principally for the raines of the back For the raines a good drinke ¶ Take the iuice of Betony of Wine an vnce and of the Betony a
spoonfull and the powder of Pepper mingle these together and drink it for three dayes fasting For the wasting of the kidneyes and for paines of the back ¶ Take a handfull of Planten a handfull of Parsly a handfull of Betony a handfull of water Betony a handfull of Sorrell a dosen crops of Rosemary séeth these in three pints of Ale till it be wasted and strain them and put therto a pint of Sack and a good péece of Suger and burne it well together and so giue it to the party all hot euening and morning proued For the whites or the running in the raines ¶ Take white washed Turpentine and make it vp in balls like Pyls then take Cinamon Ginger and rowle the balls in it and take them as you would doo Pylls morning and euening Prooued For the whites ¶ For the whites or weaknes in the back take an earthen vessell and put it in a quart pot of faire water wherin you must quench two or thrée gads of sréele being red hot then stéepe therin an vnce of Lettice séeds foure and twenty houres then strain the same and séeth it halfe away and scum it very cleane and keepe it in a couered cup and drinke this morning and euening with powder of Iuory Another for the same ¶ Take Archangell and séeth it in drinke and drink it morning and euening it is very good the red for the woman and the white for the man For all manner of aches in the back ¶ Take Egrimony Mugwoort both the leaues and rootes and stamp them with Swines greace and Vineger and séethe them and lay it to the back Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Peniriall and put therto Vineger and oyle Oliue that is gréene and lay it to thy backe plaister wise For him that hath lost his complexion from the back ¶ Take Linséed and stamp it smal and temper it with Goats milk and straine it all warme and drink it thrée or foure times fasting and thy complexion will come againe For the paines in the back ¶ Take Vnguentum rosarum and chafe your backe morning and euening and lay to this plaister following take Fethersoy Tansie Housleeke of each a handfull shreded and stamped fine then fry them well together with a saucer full of hony and two vnces of Deues dung of the newest you can get when it is thick like a plaister put it in the end of a small sléeue and so lay it to your back all warme For all manner af ache in the back ¶ Take Smallage Egrimony Mouseare and stamp them all together but wash them well first and temper them with Ginger and fry them well in Bores greace and make a playster and as hote as the sicke may suffer lay it on the ache and he shall haue ease Another for the same ¶ Take Lilly rootes Camomell Anniséedes and stampe them all together and fry them in Bores greace and put a little Wine therete and in manner of a plaister lay it on a cloth and bind it fast to the backe or raines all hot and after thrée or foure daies remoue it with renuing of the plaister therto with more fresh For the running of the raines ¶ Take Pellitory of the wall and stampe it and straine it and drink it with Malmsie or white Wine or Ale and doo this often till that thou be all whole Also if the Patient make a Tansie of Clary and eate thereof is very good for the same disease as hath béene proued For womens termes ¶ Take Selondine and let a woman put it in her hose vnder the soles of her féete and it will help her Also Mollet leaues and the red flowers of Hollihocks is very good for this purpose Also the great leaues of Burres béeing sodden in strong Ale and the same afterward drunk is very good For wasting of nature ¶ Take a pint of Malmsie and put therto a peny woorth of Sinamon and another of cleane Mace and boyle them ouer the fier with Wine but first make powder of your spices then take Treakle as much as a Damson and put therto and stir altogether and let the sick drink therof hot at all times and it shall auoide all fleame and wind in the interior parts of man to restore his nature prooued For all Impostumes in the body ¶ Take Centory Rosemary Wormwood Horthound and make it in sirop with white Wine and let the sick take therof and it shall cause the Impostume to goe downe and when it is broken let him vse to drink of the same sirop warme For to destroy all Impostumes either in man or woman ¶ Take the root of Hollihock and wash it cleane and séeth it till it be tender and then put the water into a vessell and then take Linséed and Fenegreke of each of them a like much and sée that thou haue as much of them two as the root that is sodden then séeth them in the same water till it rope as it were Birdlime then stamp the root and doo therto Barly meale and mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the sore plaister wise as hote as you may suffer it and within nine daies ye shall be whole Also take Turmentile and let the Patient drinke often of the iuice therof and it shall cure him prooued An experiment to take away the mother ¶ Take a great deale of Mugwoort and as you gather it sliue the leaues downward then wash them cleane and boyle them in running water till they be soft and when the party goeth to bed let him or her wash themselues therewith from the nauell downward both flanks and members and also the mother so hote as is possible to be suffered remember the parties that they wash not vpward at any time and within thrée daies washing the parties eyther hee or shée shall be whole God willing Prooued Another medicine for the mother ¶ Take a handfull of Mother-time a handfull of Motherwoort a handfull of Isop a handfull of Sage séeth all these in a gallon of faire water vntill it be halfe consumed then mash it vpon halfe a peck of Malt so let it stand an houre then take the woort of it as you doo for drink and put yéest to it and being thus made let the party drink it morning and euening A drink for the paine of the mother ¶ Take a dram of Methridatum and dissolue it in an vnce and a halfe of water of Wormwood and giue it to the woman for to drinke before that she goeth to meat foure houres and let her not drink a good while afterward proued A most excellent medicine for the mother the chollick and stone ¶ Take Fenell séed Coriander seed Carroways séed Parsly séed Galingall séed Gromwell seed an vnce of each of these also an vnce of leaues and cods of Scene a quarter of an vnce of Spignall a quarter of an vnce of Time take al these and make them into
vertue if it be stamped and the iuyce medled with Porkes greace and lay it plaister-wise on the Canker it sleieth and healeth mightily Another remedy for the Canker ¶ Take as much Allam as a Nut halfe a glasse full of Honie and a pint of Red wine and seeth them together till it come to the third part then straine it through a cloth and wash the sores there-with Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of vnset Leekes with the rootes and a small quantitie of Yarrow ten or twentie branches therof and boile them in white-wine vntill they be all very softe and then straine them and clarifie them and let the patient drinke of it morning and euening blood warme For to kill the Canker in a mans bodie ¶ Take the roote of Dragons and breake it in small peeces and dry it and make it in powder and take nine pennie waight of the powder and put it in Wine and séeth it well and then let the sicke drinke thereof warme a good draught fasting in the morning for thrée daies together Another for the same ¶ Take two handfulls of Sage and as much Wood-binde leaues with the rootes of a wilde Vine this beeing stamped and strained take a little Honny with a peece of Alam beeing warmed and so wash the sore place where the Canker is For the Canker another remedie ¶ Take Christall and make it in fine powder and the powder of Harts-horne burnt with asmuch of the rinde of a Poungranet and the iuyce of Night-shade and giue all these to the partie eyther man woman or child For the Chollick and the stone ¶ Take a handfull of Sapifrags a handfull of Pellitorie of the Wall a handfull of vnset Isope a handfull of vnset Time and seeth all these hearbes well together with a quarte of good Malmesey to a pint and the powder of whole Egge-shels and as much of the powder of Hasell-nut shells when you haue put the liquor from the hearbes then put in the powder to the same and let the patient drinke thereof warme in the morning fasting and it will helpe him For the collick a remedy ¶ Take white Time Parsley bruse them and strayne them with stale Ale and set it to the fire and make it warme and put thereto a good quantity of Graines and so drinke it Also take Broome seede that is gréene and giue it to the party to drinke being dried and made in powder and when the paine is vpon him vse it A medicine for the collick ¶ Take a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a handfull of white salt and séethe them then dippe in two or thrée handfuls of blacke Shéeps wooll and bind the same from the nauell to the bottome of your belly as warme as you can suffer it For the collica passio ¶ Take the roote of Quintfoyle and long Pepper grind them small in powder and drinke it in good Ale Also take Time and Saffron stampe them together and put thereto a little good Ale and straine it through a cloth and then giue it to the Patient to drinke and it shall ease him forthwith Also make a plaister of the hearbe Philopendula being sodden with the afore-said hearbes For the collica passio ¶ Take the crums of cleane wheaten bread and white Vineger and the pouder of Comin boile all them together and make a plaister therof and as hot as the sicke may suffer it lay it néere to the belly and he shall soone be eased of his paine Also take Turmentile and Treakle de bayes and eate it and drinke of the water of Elderne flowers stilled Another for the same ¶ Take vnset Léekes and cut away the faces and all then take the white of the Léeke and bray it small with May butter and fry it lay it very hot to the nauell being bound with a cloth For the collick and the stone ¶ Take the gréene pith of an Elder stalke that is betwéene the barke and the stalke and stamp it small and drinke it with good stale Ale and it shall breake winde For a man that is costife ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and séethe them with Pork and make therof pottage and let the party eate therof and drink Whay and it shall make him sollible Also take the iuyce of Walwoort and mingle it with honey and drink it For the dropsie proued ¶ Take two pound of sage Ryall and two pound of water Carsen and two pound of Isope take these hearbes and bray them in a morter and wring out the iuyce thereof and then take Wheate flower and blend it with the iuyce and make a loafe thereof and bake it in an Ouen and all hot breake him into two or three gallons of good stale Ale and let there be no dregs therein and so let it stand all night and stop it close and let the sicke drinke thereof at all times and he shall be whole Also take Borage and Langdebéefe and Parsly and Scabiâ—us and of water Cresses as much as of the other hearbes a handfull of Smerewoort and vse this pottage with that drink and he shall be whole Another for the dropsie proued ¶ Take foure penny waight of Scamony and two penny waight of Rubarb sixe penny waight of Scene and a penny waight of Setwell and a penny waight of Spignard and a penny waight of the pouder of Camomell and an vnce of Suger and bray all these spices in a morter of brasse and mingle therwith the Suger then let the sicke vse this medicine thrée daies fasting a good spoonfull at once and it will make him for to haue a good stomack and doo away all euils For the Dropsie if it be curable or no. ¶ Take Barly meale and the iuyce of Spinage and of Marigolds and make thereof a plaister and lay it three times vnto a mans liuer and if the plaister be dry soone hée is curable and if it dry not hee is vncurable For the Dropsie another proued ¶ Take a handfull of the tender crops of Broome and stampe them and straine them in a quart of stale Ale and boyle it till it be halfe wasted then put thereto some Sinamon and Ginger and set the patient vpright in a chaire so that his feete touch not the grounde by two foote and a halfe then put vnder his feete a panne of coales and lay ouerthwart the pan a payre of tonges or two and lay thereon geene Broome and let him sette the soles of his feete thereon and giue him of the drinke blood warme and so let him sweat well when he goeth to bed and by Gods grace it will helpe him For a Dormitorie ¶ Take a quarter of a pounde of Almonds blended and a halfe pound of Hempseede three times washed in cleane water and sixe Dates and stampe them altogether and put thereto good stale Ale and take an ounce and a halfe of Poppy seede brused and let it lie in Ale three or foure howres and then séeth them together and
straine them and giue the sick to cate thereof warme and it shall quickly make him sleep by Gods grace To draw a Bile from one place to another ¶ Take Oculus Christi and Veruaine and make a plaister of them and let the same be layde from the Byle two singers broade and when it hath line a good while renew it and so remoue it still from place to place vntill it bee layde in the place where you would haue it breake To drawe out arrowes out of a mans body ¶ Take Polipodion and grinde it with fresh greace that is olde and bind the same vpon the place and it will soone drawâ— it out be it arrow or thorne or any other euill thing To draw out an arrow head ¶ For to draw an arrow head out of a mans flesh take red Spere roote temper the same and seeth it with Honny and then lay it on a cloth and lay it to the wound and it shall draw it out by the grace of God quickly For a Dart in a mans body ¶ Take a Worme that is called Piâ—cher that is as great as a Beane and is cleane blew or sender it hath many small féete and is white vnder the belly and when a man toucheth it it will be as round as a button take thys Worme and rubbe it well against the Dart till it be all broken and doo this euery day three or foure times and at euery time take thrée or foure Wormes For all manner of falling euills ¶ Take the blood of his little finger that is ficke and write these thrée verses following and hang it about his neck Iasper fert mirram thus melchior balthazar aurum hec quicum secum porta tria nomina regum soluiter a morbo domini pictate caduca and it shall helpe the party so gréeued For the falling euill ¶ Take the powder of Osmond and the roote of pilny and and take the powder of Mortegan and drinke all these with stale Ale and let them say theyr prayers and as soone as the party falleth downe take the gall of a Dogge and giue the sick to drinke with good Ale that is stale and by Gods grace he shal neuer haue the falling euill any more proued For to cure the falling euill in foure dayes ¶ Take Swallowes and beate them feathers guts and all Castorry Vineger and some Iermander distilled first in water and some Cardus benedictus water and then still all and giue the sicke to drink therof Also take the roote of Piony and make it in powder and put it into pappe for a child and let him or them lick it with a little Suger and they that be of age may eate the more quantity therof Also the black séede of Piony is good therfore For the falling euill ¶ The filling of gold being taken in meate and drinke is good against that euill and if the Patients backe be annoynted with the oyle of Iiniper in the very chine and so is a dram of Castoreum very good therfore Also take the powder of Gentiana with the iuice of wilde Sage is good for the falling euill The manner and vse to be obserued and kept in the time of curing of a fistula ¶ First you must search the vlcer with your tonte to know the depth and the length thereof that you may knowe of what fise to make your tente and annoynt the sore onlie with Populion and your tent also and dippe the ende therof in the powder following for two daies once a day dresse it with your powder and other two daies with nothing but Populion to remooue the aker and thus inlarge your tent till the worke be knowne vnto you so long as it casteth a blocky maulte gory stinking or bloodie water still vse your powder vntill it come grosse thick and white and then apply mundisters or clensers and the vlcer clensed then vse incarnatiues as the gréene balme before written other that followe alwaies rather shortening your tent and making of it lesse till you be assured of the victory for sigilation sealing or sinking of the water that hereafter shall follow termed mother and the congelour The powder for the Fistusta ¶ Take two ounces of greene Copperas and burne it in a Goldsmithes potte called a crusible Mercurij subblimati an ounce grinde them small on a Marble stone till that it bee very fine powder and vse it when neede requireth A skinning water for the Fistula ¶ Take strong Vinegar that is white for that is best a quart of Litarge of gold finely beaten finely searced a pound mingle them together and let them infuse in a glasse thrée or foure daies stirring them together twice in a day then let it settle a day and take the cleared thereof and put it into a viall or glasse and so you haue the mother The congelour in a Fistula ¶ Take faire water a pint salte genne two ounces common salt a good spoonefull boyle all till the salts bee dissolued then put the cleerest thereof into a glasse and this is the congelour The vse of the congelour ¶ Take of the mother thrée parts of the congelour 2. parts and a little more put them together and it will be an oyntment or a thick creame lay it on the place that you would haue skinned or the créeping tetter and it shall doo wonderfully for the long vlcers that lack nothing but skinning and it will skin in very short time For the Fistula ¶ In what place soeuer it be take the inyce of Turmentil and drop it into the hole and it helpeth and so doth a tent dipped in the sayd iuyce layd to the Fistula Also take gréene Betonie with salt and make a tent and put to it a plaister of the same and it will heale it Another for the same ¶ Take of the powder of Copperis with two parts of beane meale and confect them with french sope and shape a tent therof and put it into the hole of the Fistula it will clense it in such manner that if there be any bones corrupt or broken that they may be taken out and it will consume the euill moistures To stop a very great flixe ¶ Take halfe a pound of Almonds and blanch them and stampe them very small in a Morter and then take twelue yolkes of newe layde Egges rosted harde and put them into a Morter and bray altogether and then take a pint of strong red vinegar for that is best and put it into the same stuffe and mingle theÌ„ well together and then put all into a faire pot of earth and stampe it well then take thereof fiue or sixe spoonefulls at once but first warme it and then drinke three or foure times vpon a day if neede be Another for the same ¶ Take the roote of a great Docke that beareth the Burre and the leaues of Oake and ground-Iuie and make a bath of them and put thy féete therein vp to the ankles but no higher and let
thy feete stand long therein as hote as yee may suffer it and then keepe them warme A medicine for to stope the flixe or laxe ¶ Take three Nutmegs and rost them take of Sinamon thrée ounces three new layd Egges and rost them very harde till they be blew then take the yolke from the white as much of Bole armoniack as a Doues Egge then beate the spices verie fine that doone take altogether and beate them then put them in a quart of strong Ale sturring all these together then straine them and seeth the same till it come to a pint then giue the partie so grieued to drinke thereof first and last Also take Alligant and thicken it with Rice flower as you would make pappe then spread it vpon a peece of redde leather as broade as your hand and for a child lay it beneath the nauel somewhat warme and it helpeth For the flixe or laxe ¶ Take Redde-rose buddes and clippe off the whites from the leaues and dry them and make powder of them and giue it to the partie so grieued in a cawdell and at three times drinking it shall ease him And if the partie be weake to make him a Tansie of Camphier Planten and Archangell a little at a time asmuch as an Egge You may gather these hearbes in Sommer to serue in Winter To helpe the bloody flixe ¶ Take two handfull of Plantaine leaues and séeth them in faire water and let it seeth till it bee sodden to the one halfe then take the same water and straine it through a cloth with out any wringing thereof then with the same water make rice pottage and let the patient eate thereof a good messe and it will stop the bloody flie Another for the same ¶ Take Henne crossen and the crops of Wood-bine and stampe them and temper them with warme Redde-wine and giue the sicke thereof to drinke and let him eate for thrée dayes together each day fine Léekes with bread that is hote and drink no drinke but Red-wine warme and he shall be whole and let the sicke haue a stoole with a siedge and make there-vnder a little Char-cole fire and let it be closed round about with a cloth that no ayre may enter proued For to fret away dead flesh ¶ Take Hennes bones and burne them and the shelles of tenne Egges stampe them and make powder of them and lay it to the dead flesh and it will fret it away Another for the same ¶ Take gréene Copperis and burne it and as much burnt Allam and asmuch Verdigreace and grind them altogether and vse thereof as you neede and it helpeth proued To abate proude flesh ¶ Take Honny and clarifie it and skimme it with a seather and take the white of and take a quantitie of Verdigreace till it be gréene and lay thereto To rayse vp flesh ¶ Take red nettles and bray them small and put thereto thrée or foure cornes of Salt and mixe it with Butter and lay it to the sore and it will make the flesh to grow and to be more fairer then euer it was before To take the fire out of any sore ¶ Take a quantitie of Rose-water Sallet-oyle an Ore gall Housléeke the iuyce of each a like quantitie and so beate theÌ„ altogether till that they be all one and so annoint the place and it will take away the fire For the Gout a most precious medicine ¶ Take a good handfull of Rewe as much of Plantaine and asmuch of Redde Sage and stampe them as small as you can then take halfe a pound of black Sope and a penny-worth of the Treacle of Iane and meddle all these together then put them in a close vessell and when the paine beginnes to come make thereof a plaÃster and lay it thereto and hee or shée shall be eased within an hower prooued For the red Goute ¶ This experiment is prooued best Take Quicksiluer Brimstone thrée parts and two of Quicksiluer quenched with fresh greace and the iuyce of Earth-bind and a little of swines gall and meddle altogether and put it into boxes and when neede requireth annoynt the place and you shall be whole For the Gout that is bolning ¶ Take Beane leaues sodden in water then meddle it with Swines greace and lay it to the sore place and it doth awaie all the boluing Also for the same you may take a Foxe and make oyle thereof and therewith annoynt the patient For the Gout that is in the bones ¶ Take three tostes of Rie-bread and tost them well and then lay on a dishfull of Garlicke and stampe them and lay it on the Gout as hote as may bee suffered Also Walwort sodden in Wine till it be well thicked and the sore annointed with the same is very good Also Nettles stampt and layd vpon the Gout helpeth it An oyntment for the Goute ¶ Take an olde fat Cat and flea her and draw foorth her guttes and bray the Cat and put her altogether in a fat Ganders belly and put thereto halfe a pound of Pepper Mustard-séede and Parsly seede of each foure ounces Worme-wood and Garlicke a good quantitie Bole armoniack sixe peny waight then rost it and the greace that droppeth from the same keepe it and annoynt the Patient withall and by the grace of God the ache will goe away for being throughly annoynted therewith it presently helpeth him For the Gout a remedy ¶ Take a handfull of Rue as much Canell as much Turpentine of red Sage of each of these a like much stamp them all as small as you can then take halfe a pound of black Sope and mingle all these together and put them in a close vessell and when the paine beginneth for to come make a plaister thereof and lay it thereto and the party so gréeued shall haue ease within one houre For the Goute in the toes ¶ Take the roote of Fragon Matselon and the roote of Launceroy stampe them and drinke them with White-wine euery day a pottle fasting For the Greene-sicknes ¶ Take Betonie Harts-tongue Liuerwoort of each a good handfull a Fennell roote washe them and bruse them and put them in a skillet with a quart of Ale two spoonefuls of Alisander seedes and foure good sticks of Licoris let all be brused and boyle all in the Ale till it bee halfe wasted then straine it and make it sweete with Sugar and put into it a little Maces and Nutmegs and vse to drinke thereof warme morning and euening thrée or foure spoonefuls and like-wise when your fit doth come vpon you Another for the same ¶ Take the keyes of an Ashen trée being dryed and made into powder and take of Red-Fennel Red-sage and Marierum and Betony and seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then straine them and drinke thereof a good draught with Sugar morning and euening luke warme For gnawing and aking in ioynts ¶ Take hearbe Bennet Sheepes suet and Oyle Oliue frie them together then take it off the fire and
it away with Vinegar Another for the Morphew ¶ Take blacke Sope and put it in a cleane Cloth and put it in your owne vrine and there-with annoint the Morphew Also let the partie gréeued drinke morning and euening water of Femitory and water of Borage mingled together in like portions and within foure-teene dayes it will helpe him clean Also take greene Copperas and put it in cleane water and let it stand a day and then clense the water and then annoynt the Morphew with the water A mechcine for the Marmole ¶ Take Broome flowers and dry them and beate them to powder and temper the powder with oyle made of Mints and a little Vinegar there-with and annoynt the sore there-with Take great Wall nuts as they grow huskes and all and bray them in a Morter and temper it with oyle Oliue and fry it in a pan and put thereto a quantitie of pitch in the frying thereof and straine it through a linnen cloth and there-with annoynt the sore and lay Plantaine leaues about the back towarde the sore and euery morning wash the sore with Madder water For to heale a Marmole ¶ Take a pinte of clarified Honny and a quart of running water and a great quantitie of Sage and seeth them together as well as thou canst and wash the wound with the licour and lay a Sage leafe on the wound Another for the same ¶ Take oyle Oliue and annoynt the sore there-with and lay thereon a Plantine leafe and euery morning wash the sore with Madder water For to cure a Marmole ¶ Take fresh Seame and the kernels of ripe Nutts and stampe them small as may be and blende them together with Aqua vitae and Honny and make them thick as a plaister and lay it on a linnen cloth and put to the Marmole and as often as yee shall change the plaister ye shall find it full of red wormes and therfore kéepe this medicine thereto fresh and fresh til such time as the wormes be cleane out but looke that you claw not your legges to make them bleede A maturatiue to ripen a botch or a bile ¶ Take sower dow and white of old Swines greace and beate them together and put thereto salte and the powder of Comin and mingle them well together and make a plaister thereof this ripeth and breaketh impostumes but my Maister did put thereto powder of Fenegréeke and the yolke of an Eg at one time if there be much for failing of the hart How to make Neruaile for all akings ¶ Take two pound of wild mersh and a pounde of Ambrosen and a pound of Camemile a pound of Betony and a pound of Sage a pound of Mints and a pound of Hawhew a pound of Southernewood a pound of Mugwort and a pound of wormwood a pound of Mallowes and a pound of Holly-hock a pound of Hore-hound and a pound of red Nettles a pound of Lorrell leaues and a pound of Liuerwort then take all these hearbes and stampe thē in a morter small and doo thereto three or foure pound of May butter and a quart of oyle Oliue and stampe thē together then doe them in an earthen pot and couer it wel and set the pot in a moist place and let it stand nine dayes and the tenth day take it out of the pot and put it in a pan and set it on the fire to séeth and stirre it that it doo not cleane to the pan and when it hath well boiled take it from the fire and straine it through a cloath a little and a little into a faire vessell thē take that licour and put it in a cleane pan and sette it ouer the fire and doo thereto a quarter of a pound of shéepes tallow melted and asmuch Frankensence well broken in powder and stirre them well together till it be molten and then take if from the fire and let it stand and coole and make thereon a hole and let out the water thereof and turne it on the other side and doe awaie the foulenes thereof then take it and doo it in the panne againe and set it ouer the fire till that it be molten and then doo therto a pint of the greace of a Gray if you may haue it then with a feather scum it cleane and put it in boxes and this is the kindly making of Neruaile and this oyntment is hote To make Neruaile to helpe all sinnewes and to put them in theyr strength ¶ Take Ambrosen Camemile hearbe Iohn hearbe Water hearbe Robert Eglantine the leaues of Crosse wood Fenegreke Laurell leaues as much thereof as of all the other breake them and lay them in white Wine and let them lye so fourteene dayes then take a pottle of greace a quarte of May butter and of oyle Oliue and boile them together and straine them and let them coole and so vse it to the shrunck sinewes Heere followeth the making of diuers kindes of oyles and it showes which be hote which be cold according to the opinion of Ipocras and Gallen Oyle of Roses ¶ Take and fill a glasse full of Rose leaues and put thereto one pound of oyle Oliue and stop it well and set it in the sunne stirring it euery day once for the space of xv dayes then straine it through a cloth and put it vpon cold water and stirre it with Hasell wood but take the barke off and this is moist and colde Oyle of yolkes of Egges ¶ Take yolkes of Egges and put them in a pot ouer the fire and let them so stand ouer the heate of the fire till you perceiue they are become black then put them in a presse presse out the oyle and this oyle is good for all manner of burnings or scaldings what soeuer Oyle of Henbane ¶ Take the séede of Henbane and fry it in oyle and presse it through a cloth and afterward put the same for your vse into some glasse for this oyle is good for all maner of swellings and burnings in the ioynts Oyle of Mandrakes ¶ Take and cut them in diuers péeces and séeth them in a double vessell of glasse and set them in the Sunne and let it standnine dayes then set them on a small fire till they be thiek and keepe that oyle for it is good for all festures Oyle of Lorrell ¶ Take Lorrell leaues and bray them in a Morter and let it stand two or thrée dayes and then seeth them and straine thē through a cloth and that which heaueth aboue is the oyle Also take Lorrell Berries when they be gréene and seeth them in oyle and straine them and it is good oyle Also take Lorrell berries when they be ripe and seeth them with Lorrell leaues and thereof thou shalt haue the best Oyle and this oyle is good for diuers cold causes Another sort of oyle very necessary for diuers purposes ¶ Take Almonds or Nuts blaunched into a pot ful of holes in the bottome and set that pot vpon a séething potte that
bléeding thereof To staunch blood when a Maister vaine is cut ¶ Take rawe Béefe that neuer had any salt cast thereon and lay it on a gredion ouer fresh coales well kindled and lay the Béefe thereon still turning the same till it be well broiled and then lay it to the sore and it will stanch the blood and for the nose if it be put into a cloth and smelt to it helpeth To staunch blood ¶ Take an hearbe that is called Lunaha and stamp it and lay it to the wound or take the gréene leaues thereof and lay them on the wound and it shall staunch and if a man may not haue thys hearbe let him burne the feathers of a Cocks necke and take the ashes of them and lay on the wound and the blood shall soone be staunehed For swelling that commeth suddainly in a mans limmes ¶ Take Harts-tongue Cherfoyle and cut them small and then take dregs of Ale and wheate branne and shéepes tallow molte and doe all in a pot and séeth them till that they be thick and then make a plaister and lay it to the swelling Another for the same ¶ Take faire Water and salte and stirre them well together and therein wet a cloth and lay it to the swelling For to make one slender ¶ Take Fennell and séeth it in water a very good quantitie and wring out the iuyce thereof when it is sod and drinke it first and last and it shall helpe the patient For to breake the stone a medicine ¶ Take halfe a handfull of Pellitory of the wall halfe a dozen Parfly rootes halfe a handfull of vnsette Time a quantitie of Pennyriall and seeth all these in a pottle of Rennishe Wine or white wine and let it séeth to a quart or a pint which you will then take a Nutmegge rosted and dry it by the fire and deuide it in foure parts and drinke the same warme after it is strained as much at a time as you thinke good Another for the same ¶ Take the rootes of Parsly Pellitory and red Nettles of each a like quantitie wash them cleane and mince theÌ„ smal and lay them in White wine twenty foure howres and still them together and drinke it with two pound of rootes put to a quart of White wine For the stone a remedy ¶ Take Reysons vnset Léekes Sappifrage Samphire Auence Beane-cods still each one by it selfe and fine them in the Sunne and take of each a like much and put thereto as much Malmesie as of the waters and still them altogether againe and fine it in the Sunne and when the patient is gréeued and at no time else let â—un drinke thereof thrée spoonefuls at a time and that will be sufficient enough at once and heate it luke warme and put in a little powder of Giues and drinke it and lay him downe to sweat Also takâ— Sapifrage and still the same with water and make thereof a firrop as though it were with Roses and put thereto a quantitie of Sugar and eate it and it will breake the stone meruailously Another medicine for the stone ¶ Take a cake of Rye and bake it then take Onions and roste them very soft then take your cake out of the ouen slit it a sunder in the middest the vpper side froÌ„ the nether then take your Ouions and pill them and shread them vpon the cake and lay the one péece to the bottome of your belly and the other part to the raines of your back and it will helpe you A very good powder for the stone ¶ Take Smallage seede Louach séede Fennell séede Sapifrage seede Caraway séede Gremell seede Broome seed parslie féede Philopendula the roote thereof dryed Veruaine and the kernels of Cherristones of euery of these a like much by weight then beate them in a brassen Morter all to powder and then let the sick vse of this in White wine at euening and morning and also let him vse of this powder in his pottage for it is very good for the stone An excellent good Medicine for the stone and to breake it ¶ Take Allisander Louach Smallage Water cresses and Gromet of each a like much and boyle them in a Gallon of faire water till the halfe thereof be wasted and doo thereto a good deale of Sugar or of Licoris and then straine it through a cloth and doo it in a cleane vessell well stopped and let the sick drinke thereof morning and euening and this will breake the stone in the raines or bladder and make him for to come foorth without faile A good medicine for the stone ¶ Take March seede Anniseede and Commin séed Parsly seede and Fennell séede and Water Cresses seede or els the powder made of the hearbe then take all these seedes and doe them in good Vinegar and so let them stande two dayes and a night then dry these séedes in an Ouen and then make them to powder in a brassen Morter and let the sick vse of this powder in his pottage and in his drinke as is aforesaide and thys will make a man to make water well A good plaister proued for the strangury ¶ Take Holly-hocks Violets and Mercurie the leaues of these hearbes or the séedes of them also the rind of the Elder trée and leydwort of each of these a handfull and beate them small and seeth them in water till halfe be consumed then doe thereto a little oyle Oliue and all hote make thereof a plaister and lay it to the sore and raines And also in Sommer you must make him a drinke in this manner take Sapifrage and the leaues of Elders fiue leaued grasse and seeth them in a pottle of stale Ale till the one halfe thereof be consumed then straine it and keepe it cleane and let the sicke drinke thereof first in the morning and last at night and if you lacke these hearbes because of Winter then take the rootes of fiue leaued grasse and dry them and make thereof powder and then take Dister shels and burne them and make powder of them and mingle them together and so let the sicke vse thereof in his pottage and drinke and it shall helpe him A very good medicine shewing how to make a powder for the stone and strangulion ¶ Take blacke Bramble berries while they bee red Iuieberries the inner pith of the Ashe keyes the stones of Eglantine berries clouen rubbed from the hayre Nutte keyes the rootes of Philopendula of all these a like quantity Acorne kirnels the stones of Sloes of each a like quantity dry all these in platters in an Ouen till they may bee well beaten to powder then take Gromell seede Sapisrage seede Alisander seed Coliander seede Persly seede Commin seede Fennell seede Anniseede of each of these a like quantitie asmuch as is before written and dryed in like sort then beate all these to fine powder and take Licoris of the best that you can get fayre scraped as much in quantitie as of all the other and
from it and put to it halfe as much yolks of Eggs as is of the Turpentine and mingle them well together and minister it when ye néede put not this in your treane bore for it will soke through you may keepe it in a bladder For a wound in the head a good Mundicatiffe ¶ Take hony of Roses two vnces oyle of Roses an vnce meddle them together and put it warme into the wound with Lint and a plaister vpon it it is a good Mundicatiffe For the ache in a wound ¶ Take the rootes of Briauy and pare the vtter side and beate them in a morter and in faire running water and straine it and warme it and lay it hot to the wound or ache as the partie may suffer it first wash the wound faire and then lay it to the wound To make a water for a cut or wound ¶ Take a pottle of faire running water and séeth it on the fire and let it séeth a while then take two peny worth of white Copperis as much of Bole armoniack and foure peny worth of Camphire and beat them altogether in powder and put them all together into the water and let them séethe a little while and then take it off the fire and when it is colde put it into a Glasse drosse and all and when it is occupied poure out a little into a sawcer of the cléerest water and none of the bottome or drosse and set it vpon the coles and wash the wound as hote as he may suffer it and then take a little linnen cloth and double it thrée or foure times double and wet it in the water and lay it to the wound as hote as the patient may suffer the same and binde it fast For a cut or wound ¶ Take a gallon of running water and put thereto a pinte of Honny and a quarter of a pound of Roch-allom beaten in very fine powder and let them séeth together and scum thē cleane and put thereto a handfull of Wood-bine leaues and a handfull of Sage leaues a handfull of Selondine and séeth them altogether till the halfe be consumed then take it from the fire and straine it through a Canuas cloth into another cleane vessell and then put thereto a penny-worth of graines and let them séeth a while together and then put it in a faire glasse when it is cold thys is a principall medicine For to heale wounds and to knit and heale broken bones ¶ Take Betony Bugle Sauigle Pimpernell Milfoile Strawberry leaues Orpin Sage Mouseare Emerose Tansie Sothernwood hearbe Robert hearbe Water Egrimony Plantaine Solcirkle Auence Madder Daisies Camphire Osmond the crop of the red Colewort the crop of the red bryer the red Nettle crop of the crops of Hempe take of each a like much saue of the Madder by waight then take these hearbes and stampe them small and take May butter made of rawe Creame Ewe milke with dew water of May and if that you can get no Ewe milke take the Butter of Cowe milke of the yellowest colour that can be found for it is far better then the white and take a quart of Butter halfe a quarterne of Mede waxe and melt the Butter and the Waxe together and when they be molten let the Butter and waxe run through a cloth for then is the Butter clarified from the Waxe and shread the Butter and the Curds a sunder or else it will neuer do so wel and then let thy Butter kéele and when it is colde then take and put thereto thrée pound of thy hearbes and halfe a pounde of Butter and cast them in a Morter and stampe them small till you can sée nothing of the Eutter and then doo it in a newe earthen pot and close it fast that no ayre come forth and when all is in the pot make it sure that no wormes may gette in nor that no ayre as I said before gette out then set it in a moist place and so let it stand for nine dayes at the least and then it wil be hoare aboue then take it out of the pot do it in a faire panne and set it on the fire and fry them well together and stirre it well and when it is hote enough take it from the fire and wring it through a cloth and let it stand till it be cold and then kerne it and let out the water and then doo it into the pan and melt it againe then doo it vp in boxes and kéepe the same to your vse Also to make an oyntment sanatiffe for wounds ¶ Take of the same hearbes before expressed and worke them as thou didst the salue but whereas thou tookest Butter to thy salue take faire Barrowes greace melt it and when it is cold put it to thy oyntment and whereas thou tookest to thy salue Madder put thereto Cammemile and put thy hearbs thereto take to that oyntment of Auence as much waight as of all the other hearbes before named and then shall this oyntment bee according to the salue the one to worke within and the other to worke without for this salue and oyntment is cheefest accounted of among Phisitions for all woundes both to cleanse and to heale very faire and perfectly and to knit broken bones surely To heale all olde wounds ¶ Take Plantaine water distilled and put halfe a pinte thereof to an ounce of Mercurie sublimatum and so stir them very well togeather vntill it be dissolued in the Plantaine water and then wash the sore or wound well therewith and after wet a cloth in the same water and couer it cleane ouer the sore or wound and vse this once euery day vntill it bee whole and doe so from day to day A red water for sores and wounds either olde or newe ¶ Take a pottle of running water a pecke of ashes of Ash wood that is old and a pottle of Tan-iuyce that leather neuer came into and a pound of Mother a pound of Allam and beate them all in fine powder and put it into your Tan-iuyce nine dayes and then whē you haue so doone take a pottle of the one and a pottle of the other and put thereto ten ounces of greene Copperis and one ounce of Ginger beaten all into fine powder and put them all together and so séeth them to a quarte then take them off and straine them and put them in a faire vessell and poure out the thinne from the thicke and lay a wet cloth thereon and lay it to the wounde or sore eyther olde or new and wash them well therewith A water imperiall for all wounds and Cankers ¶ Take a handfull of red Sage leaues and a handfull of Selondine as much of Woodbine leaues take a gallon of conduit water and put the hearbes in it and let them boyle to a pottle and then straine the hearbs through a strainer and take the licour sette it ouer the fire againe and take a pint of English honny a good handfull of Roch-allam as
the great and small Cucubes rootes of Cipres Mustacastaline which is the coddes of the Muske of each two ounces Rewpenticon 2. drams flowers of rosemary 2. ounces Iuniper berries Enula campana of each dried an ounce Bay-berries halfe an ounce beat all together in grosse powders then take of the séed of fennell perfly tansie Carret Coriander and Caroway séed of each one ounce wormwood sage dried basill Rosemary Margerum Penniriall Mints Secades Egrimonie a like quantitie of each then take Figges of Algarie Dates the stones taken away Reysons of the sunne Almonds of each foure ounces then take oyle of Turpentine 2. pynts oyle of Mastick oyle Bennet oyle of Castore oyle of Tartor oyle of Dyll oyle of Exceter of each halfe a pint oyle of Spike oyle of Nard of each foure ounces pure Aqua composita the waight of all the former stuffe and first boyle them in the bodies of two Limbecks of glasse fast luted with the crownes of theyr couers downeward in Balnaeo mariae that is a Cawdron of water a day a night then take off theyr caps and set them aright and distill it with an easie fire in these two Limbecks all your stuffe being deuided into euen portions as before lute them strongly and distill them with a sofe fire sixe howres then in the rest increase your fire by little and little til the water be passed then shall you sée white oyle and last of all yellow oyle kéepe euery of them by themselues the fourth is in the bottome keepe the as an excellent remedy for all wounds it helpeth suddainly without suffering the wound to putrifie or cast matter but confoundeth it and helpeth it straight The vertue of this Balme It is most excellent for Gowtes Palsies Cramps wounds akings sinewes cut hurt or shrunke the falling sicknesse Apoplexia the turning of the braine the biting of dogs or any other venimous things for the Timpany to annoynt the belly and the first water is good for all wounds and all retten and filthy vlcers as hath beene prooued The receit of the water of health by G. K. ¶ Take red Rose flowers Cammomile flowers Lauender flowers Buglosse flowers Isope flowers Rosemary flowers sage flowers secados flowers balme flowers time wild time peniriall Margerū winter sauery pimpernell S. Iohn woort Philopendula eyebright horehound dittany bittany scabies turmentill planten auence maidenhaire mints rue sapifrage Harts-tung Ensras Brasill Canepithy Piony Iuniper berries Bay leaues or berries take of all these flowers a maine handfull if they be gotten if not then take thrée gallons of mighty strong Ale or thrée gallens of Gascoigne wine then take these spices Anniséede two pound Licoris two pound Fenell séede two vnces Cinamon two vnces Caraway seede two vnces Galingall two vnces Setwell two vnces Angelica two vnces Ciperus two vnces Ginger Nutmegs of each one vnce Enula campana one vnce Calamus aromaticus one vnce Ireus one vnce Lignum aloes two vnces Cloues one vnce Cucubes one vnce Graines one vnce long Pepper one vnce Spignard one vnce Mace one vnce Amis amonium one vnce Suger half a pound Alkenet two vnces Olibanum Mastick Basill séede Marierum seed of all these halfe an vnce and doo by the drawing of this water of health in all respects as by your Aqua composita your flowers and hearbs must be dried and shred on a chopping boord a good handfull of each at the least and your Aniséede must be well beated and dusted and your Licoris must be scraped and sliced cleane and then all the rest of your other spices and seeds must be beaten fine in a brasen morter each to his quantity Also you may put therto thrée grains of ciuell Musk for it will make it to drink the more plesanter and for diuers infirmities this water is good as to breake wind in the belly for them that cannot relish or disgest their meats and for diuers other cold causes this water will make a man to liue long and to kéepe and preserue a man long in health and to make a man to looke young againe For to make pety Balme ¶ Take fine meat oyle a pint and put it in a clean pan and séeth it well ouer the fire then doo thy hands in cold water and let it drop thereon and it will creame and when it leaueth creaming doo it to the fire againe and let it séethe well and doo so thrée or foure times with your hands then take halfe an vnce of Masticke as much of Frankensence as much of Rozen a quarter of an vnce of Verdigreace make all these into powder by themselues then doo them into the oyle and let them séethe well together and stir it well and skim it cleane then let it coole then doo it in a pewter vessell and this is a good balme For to make aqua vitae perfectissima per G. K. ¶ Take the roote of Sapifrage Persly Alisander Fenell Time Isope Peniriall Rosemary Lauender Primrose Mints Rue Betony Sauein Sage Auence Calamint of each of these hearbs halfe a quarterne then take Galingall Pepper long Pepper Cloues Nutmegs of each of these one vnce of Canell Mace Cucubes of each of these two vnces Setwell Pellitory of Spaine Lignum aloes of each halfe an vnce stamp thy hearbs and pouder thy spices and doo them in a gallon of good red Wine and mingle thy hearbs and spices together in the Wine and let them stand all a night in stéepe and on the morrow distill them into a Limbeck this water hath many faire vertues and it comforteth man or woman and kéepeth them from all maladies that be cold Also it is hot at the first distilling and at the third distilling it helpeth man or woman in their kindly heates Also it comforteth a cold stomack and destroyeth both scabbe and scall Also it healeth all olde sores if it be kindly vsed it is good for the deafnes of the eares by putting a little therof into thy eare it driueth away the stinking of the breath Also it is good for the falling euill for the palsie in the tung for that palsie maketh a man sodainly dombe Also it healeth the palsie of other members that trembleth Also for biting or stinging of Scorpions or Adders or other venemous beasts for no venim can come néere vnto it Also it is good for the toothache of cold rewme and for a cold feauer being drunk before the axis it is good for to wash the emerods and old sores called Noli me tangere and for the Collica passio and who so drinketh it for the vanity of the head it also healeth the saucefleume in the face Also it purgeth the stomack of all corruptions and for stone and for all gowtes it destroyeth the gnawing within the belly and suffereth no wind to bréed in mans body To make Aqua vitae for cold causes ¶ Take good Gascoigne wine and distill it in a glasse or Serpentine and that water that burneth doo it by it selfe and
if it be moist it will be of more vertue Also take of Ginger Canell Mace Cucubes Nutmegs Graines long Pepper of each of these thrée vnces and bray them in a morter and searce them and put these powders into the water that burneth and still it oft and so reserue it to your vse morning and euening first and last and this is called the most soueraine water and mighty against all manner of cold causes that ingendereth within man or woman and this will helpe you for diuers infirmities that is within man this hath béen prooued often A soueraine water vsed by Doctor Steaphens Phisition with the which he did many great cures and a little before his death he declared the same to the Archbishop of Canterbury and now to the benefit and commodity of all people that be well disposed ¶ Take two gallons of good Gascoigne wine or Clarret wine that is good or else two gallons of mighty strong Ale and of euery of these spices a dram take of Ginger Galingall Cinamon or Canell Nutmegs Graines Cloues Anniséeds Fennell séed Caraway séeds Calamus aromaticus Cucubes Ireos Maces Spignard Enula campana Canepithis of each of these a good handfull Iuniper berries one vnce and of euery one of these hearbs following a handfull Sage red Roses red Mints garden Time wild Time Pellitory Camomell Lauender Wormwood Betony Plantaine Ribwoort Bayes red Iilliflowers wild Marierum Rosemary Organum Rue the flowers of Secados Peniriall Hilwoort Auence Cowslip leaues Primrose leaues and flowers of screbby grasse Strawbery leaues Tutson beate all these spices and stamp all these hearbs and put them in the liquor aforesaide and put a little Muske therin and let it stand twelue houres infused and stir it oftentimes then still this water in a Limbeck close stopt that no ayre come out of the pot and with a small sire kéepe about it that it come not too fast forth and kéepe the first water by it selfe for that is best Also the second pint by it selfe for that is also good but not as the first is Also you shall receaue a third pint of that water of these thrée gallens but your vnce of Alkenet must be for the two last waters to cullour it red withall which must be in the receauer with some Suger and some Cinamon and you may kéepe this water these seauen yeares and it will be in his full strength and operation The receite of the water called Aqua mirabilis et pretiosa made by Doctor VVillowby Phisition ¶ Take of Galingall Cloues Maces Cucubes Ginger Cardomomum Nutmegs Millilot Saffron Egrimony water foure vnces and beat all these into powder the quantity of a dram and somwhat more then take of the iuice of Selondine and a pint of M. George Kebels water of the best and the first put of the same water beeing well mingled in a stillatory of glasse and let it be stopped well and close and so let it stand for the space of foure and twenty houres and then distill them with a soft fire for the space of a naturall day The vertue of this water aforesaid ¶ This water is of secret nature it is excéeding good for the stomacke it dissolueth the lungs without any gréeuance and the same lungs beeing wounded and putrified it mightilie helpeth them and comforteth them and it suffereth not the body to putrifie Also he shall neuer néede to be let blood and this water suffereth not the body to be brent with choller nor yet with melancholly nor slemot to be lift vp and haue dominion aboue water and this water mightily expelleth the rume and profiteth much the stomack it ingendreth good colour and keepeth and conserueth the visage and memory Also it is good for the palsie if the said water be giuen to man or woman labouring towards death one spoonfull it relenteth them of all waters artificiall there is no better Also vse in Sommer once a wéeke a spoonfull of this water fasting and in Winter time two spoonefuls it is good for women that haue the gréene sicknesse and for diuers other causes per Doctorem Willowbie The receite of Cinamon ¶ Take rennish wine a quart or spanish wine a pint Rose-water a pint and a halfe Cinamon brused a pound and a halfe let these stand infused the space of foure and twenty houres then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbecke of glasse and receaue the first water by it selfe Also if ye be so disposed to make the same water weaker take thrée pints of Rosewater and a pint and a halfe of rennish wine and so distill the same and you shall haue to the quallity of the stuffe the quantity of the water which is thrée pintes but the first is the best and so reserue it to your vse both morning and euening To make Cinamon water another way ¶ Take thrée quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and halfe a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lye infused the space of foure and twenty houres and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receaue to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the cheefest of all the other as is manifest practise Aqua composito for a surfet ¶ Take Rosemary Fenell Isope Time Sage Horehound of each of these a handfull Peniriall Mints Marierum of each sixe crops a roote of Enula campana of Licoris Aniseed brused of each two vnces put all these to three gallons of mighty strong Ale and put it into a brasse pot ouer an easse fire and set the Limbeck vpon it and stop it close with dow or Past that no ayre doo goe out and so kéepe it stilling with a soft fire and so preserue it to your vse as néede requireth To make water of life ¶ Take Balme leaues and stalkes Burnet leaues and flowers a handfull of Rosemary Turmentile leaues and roots Rosa solis a handfull red Roses a handfull Carnations a handfull Isope a handfull a handfull of Time red strings that grow vpon Sauery a handfull red Fenell leaues and rootes a handfull red Mints a handfull put all these hearbs into a pot of earth glased and put therto as much white Wine as will couer the hearbs and let them soke therein eight or nine dayes then take an vnce of Cinamon as much of Ginger as much of Nutmegs Cloues and Saffron a like quantity of Aniséeds a pound great Raisons a pound Suger a pound halfe a pound of Dates the hinder part of an olde Coney a good fleshy running Capon the flesh and sinewes of a legge of Mutton foure young Pigeons a dozen of Larks the yelâ—…s of twelue Eggs a loafe of white bread cut in sippets Muskadell or Bastard thrée gallonsâ— or as much in quantity as suffiseth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck and thereto put of Methridatum two or three vnces or els with as much perfect Treakle and