one for the same TAke fine powder of Virga aurea and put one spoonfull of it into a new laid egge soft rosted and give it the Patient in a morning fasting and let him fast four hours after it and he will suddenly make water use this for ten or twelve daies and the Patient will void the Stone without any pain Prob. est To cure a Cough that comes by cold suddenly TAke aqua vitae and Sallet-oyl and loaf Sugar mingle them together when you go to bed take a quantity of it and in the morning when you arise also it will take away your cough and ease your lungs Proved To cure the Wind chollick TAke Sea-horse pisfle Harts horn and enula campana of each one dram finely powdered take as much of this in a morning fasting as will lie on a groat or somewhat more in a cup of Anniseed water Prob. est Consumption a noted Cure TAke a quarter of a pound of Jordan Almonds blanched and beat small adding thereto in the beating some Rosewater one or two spoonfuls then take the thigh of a rosted Capon flay off the skin beat it in a mortar alone then take fourteen Dates stoned skinned and picked and beat them alone then put them all in a pint of Rosewater with some Sugar and boyl them three walms then take Sinamon two drams Lignum and Aloes both powdered one dram put them in your Decoction and stirre them well together and put it up into some Viall and take the quantity of a Walnut at once in the morning fasting the first three mornings adde to it every time two grains of Bezor A Diet-drink for the same THe first week in May infuse in your usual drink Succory Devils bit Scabions water cresses Lungwort Polipodium Coltsfoot Pennyroyal Liverwort of each two handfuls bruised and put in a fine linnen cloth bag and so put it in your drink when it is new tunned to work therein and this you will finde very good drink no other drink for fourteen daies To make an Incision to take out a corrupt Coar TAke Rose alger and powder it fine and mix it with Hogs-grease and lay it on so broad as you will have the Coar come out A perfect cure for a Canker TAke a pint of white-wine Vinegar and take Strawbery leaves Colibine leaves red Sage leaves Woodbine Violet and red briar leaves of each a handfull and set your Vinegar upon a soft fire and put in your herbs and let them boyl till they be soft then strain your leaves hard out and keep it in a Viall for your use Another for the same TAke running water a pint Woodbine Bramble Colibine leaves of each a handfull and a little Rosemary boyl all these together till half the water be wasted then strain it and adde thereto two or three spoonfuls of Honey and a little of Roach-allum three or four spoonfuls of white-wine Vinegar and so wash the mouth with the herbs three or four times a day Chollick the cure TAke Gum hederue warm it that it may spread and spread it upon a piece of Scarlet as big as a shilling or broader and apply it to the navil Your best Gum is sweet clear and soft Prob. est For the Consumption Proved TAke Diascordium Flower of brimstone Conserve of red Roses and make this into little bals and lay one of them under your tongue when you go to bed and let it dissolve in your mouth also take Coltsfoot and white amber and Anniseeds altogether in a pipe mornings and evenings A good Remedy for the biting of a mad Dog TAke Nightshed Bettony and wilde Sage each of them a handfull and one pint of fair running water and stamp the herbs and strain them with the water and then put thereto a pennyworth of good Treakle and give it the Patient to drink three or four mornings together fasting and this will help him speedily Prob. est An excellent Diet-drink for any disease TAke a new earthen pot and fill it full of fair running water only wanting about a quart of being full and then adde thereto about a quart of white-wine and set the pot over a soft fire of coales and put into the pot a pound of good Licorish scraped clean and sliced and half a pound of Anniseeds bruised half a pound of Lignum vitae which you may have at the Turners and one ounce of the bark which is of the same tree which you may have at the Apothecaries adde thereto a small quantity of China and Saxifrage and a little Centory let all these boyl on the fire about two hours or untill you see a good part of the liquor consumed then strain it into another clean earthen vessell and stop it close and drink a good draught thereof morning and evening and at noon a while after dinner Prob. est A most excellent Wine made of Sage for to be drunk at all times if you wash your mouth therewith it will help the Tooth-ach and pains of the gums it is good for the Palsie and for the Cramp and for Lunatick persons it restoreth sinews shrunk it expelleth ill humors out of the body it is also good against the Plague and Pistilence TAke a good quantity of Sage both white and red and boyl it very well in Muskedine and then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and with a tunnell put it into a glass and stop it close and when the Patient will use it let him drink a good draught thereof morning and evening for a certain space and according to the grief wherewith he is troubled and this will perfectly heal all the diseases aforesaid Prob. est An excellent Medicine for the Dropsie TAke roots of kneeholm and Parsly roots and Fennell roots of each of them finely scraped and sliced a good handfull of Juniper Berries half a handfull and of Anniseed and Alexander seed each of them a spoonfull boyl all these together in three pints of clear posset-ale boyling to a quart then take a handfull of dead Bees and stamp them in a wooden dish and strain them into this posset-ale and so let the Patient drink every five hours a good draught thereof and this will help him in a short space A Medicine for a deaf and pained Ear. TAke earth-worms and fry them with Goose-grease and drop a little thereof warm into the ear grieved this used nine or ten times will cure Prob. est Another for the same and hath cured some which could not hear almost at all and were troubled therewith twenty years TAke a Hedgehog and flay him and rost him and let the Patient put some of the grease or fat that comes from him into his ear and he will recover his hearing in a short space Prob. est A comfortable powder to cause one to Digest his meat TAke Pellitory of Spain Centory Anniseeds Licorish grains of Paradise Ginger Cinomon of each of them a like quantity and beat them and searce them into fine powder and
see arise and when it is half cold strain it through a fine linnen cloth and put it into a Viall glass and stop it close and anoint the eyes with this when occasion serves and it will cure Prob. est A rare secret for a pearl or web in the Eye TAke nine worms which you shall finde in an old hollow tree or timber with many legs called Hogs-lice stamp them with the juice of Solendine or Bettony then strain it and drink it warm fasting eat not in two hours after it use this three mornings together Prob. est For sore Eyes TAke Wood bettony and beat it to powder and take as much as will lie on a six pence each morning till they be well An admirable and perfect cure for the Falling Sickness which I have proved often with good success TAke the dung of a Peacock and dry it in an oven and make it into fine powder and into one ounce and a half of it adde half a quarter of an ounce of Amber peretah known by the name of Scuchenelle at the Apothecaries and adde also three leaves of pure gold of leaf-gold your Amber peretah will easily dissolve and your way to dissolve the gold is thus Do not touch it with your hand but lay your powder aforesaid upon the gold and still with your fore-finger and your thumb be stirring it about till your gold doth dissolve under the powder mix about half a spoonfull of this powder with a little black-berry water when the fit is coming and it will cure the force thereof give it the Patient for a time first and last and it will for ever cure it although it have reigned twenty years provided first you administer this drink following Take a good handfull of Camamill another of Wood-bettony half a handfull of Yarrow a few Marrygold flowers half a handfull of red Sage leaves green Elder leaves half a handfull of Licorish one ounce of Anniseeds one ounce Figges half a pound Raisins stoned half a pound boyl all these together in a pottle of fair running water to a pint and then put in two ounces of Sugar candy of the best after it is boyled and let it stand unstrained twelve hours then strain it and let the Patient drink thereof first and last a quarter of a pint at a time about one moneth and at times some of the former powder and with Gods blessing it will cure Prob. est This I have kept as a secret Another for the same TAke the brains of a Weezel and dry it to powder put it into some pure white-wine Vinegar and temper them well together with a knife and give it the Patient to drink first and last and it will help him Prob. est Also Galen saith that he knew many men in his time cured by drinking the powder of dead mens bones and in another place he saith that the skull of a dead man taken from the earth and washed very clean and dried in an oven and beaten to powder will also taken in their drink cure them although it have reigned many years but he saith it must be the skull of one that hath been slain or hanged and not of one that died by any sickness because maladies in the head in time of sickness will take away the vertue thereof Another for the same TAke Germander in May when it is blossom'd dry it in the shadow and make it into powder and when you will use it take the yeolk of an egge or two and stirre and break it with a spoonfull of the said powder then seeth it and give it the Patient to eat morning and evening eight daies let the Patient abstain from wine and carnall company of women and from all pulce beans or pease or any tares and from sallets and salt fish and from all other things that be hard of concoction and digestion This is a very pretious Receipt Another for the same TAke the blood liver and heart of a Mole and dry them to powder and let the Patient take one dram in a little pine water fasting and fast two hours after it use it six mornings together and it will cure For a woman that hath too much of her Flowers TAke the foot of a Hare burn it to powder and drink of it in red wine and Cinamon first and last nine daies and it will cure her A good drink to cause Fleam to be avoided TAke a good quantity of Hysope water a quart of good Muskedine three or four rases of good case Ginger pared clean and cut in small slices and twice as much Licorish scraped also then put thereto a good handfull of fine Sugar-candy bruised put them altogether in a big glass to stand and soak well and so let it stand for the space of twenty four hours together but shake it often in that time let the glass be well stopped and let the Patient drink this at his pleasure this hath cured such as could hardly speak for Fleam Pils good to stop the bloody Flux TAke Marmalet of Quinces two ounces and of Corall Cinamon Amber Shepherds purse Alchemet Acatia of each two drams powder them and searce them and mix them together into a mase for Pils take four of these Pils morning and evening Prob. est Another for the same TAke a quart of milk and set it on the fire and when it seethes put in a piece of Roch-allum then will arise a curd which when you have taken off drink the whey as hot as you can and if your stomack will bear it eat the curd also A pretious Medicine to cleanse the breast of Fleam TAke of white-wine and water of each one pint wine Vinegar ten spoonfuls English honey clarified with whites of egges six ounces Fennell Parsly roots and Licorish all mundified and then sliced of each one ounce Elâ—â— Campana powdred two drams Egrimony one ounce and a half and twelve figs cut in pieces Annise and Commine seed Hysope Thyme and Peniroyall of each one ounce and a half boyl all these together close covered till the one half be wasted or a third part and then strain it and drink thereof morning and evening till you be well For a Fistula the whole cure FIrst purge the humour offending then take the soles of old shoes dried burnt in a clean harth with oaken wood to a bright coal then lay it where it may consume to ashes alone then adde to the weight of the ashes of the sole and half so much weight of the powder of burnt Allum then grinde all these together on a Painters stone or in a mortar to fine subtill powder so put it close up for your use To tent the Fistula TAke of the Cream of morning milk of one Cow and set it by it self all night the next day cast away the greenish water from the bottom of that Cream then lay a spoonfull of the Cream on a trencher then mix so much of the powders therewith as will make the Cream
Sugarcandy and take it fasting till you be well A plaister for the distemper of the Liver TAke Oyl of Roses two ounces Wax three ounces Vnguentum Populion half an ounce melt them together on the fire well mixed then take it from the fire and put it in a mortar and adde thereto red Sanders steeped in rose-Rose-water one spoonfull and Camphire prepared one dram work all these together with pestel till they be wrought together when it is cold make a plaister thereof and lay it on the right side against the Liver Prob. est A Leglifium for a Gunshot BOyl up with St Johns wort Centory Bayes Wormwood and Rosemary of each one handfull and to a gallon of water adde a quart of Aqua vitae and use it in this manner As for a Fomentation heat it hot and dip red clothes of cotton into it and lay upon the wound as big as will lie on the wound or member as hot as the Patient can endure it and that will bring out and evacuate all that intused blood that is in the wound For the Cough of the Lungs or Tisick Proved TAke four ounces of double refined Sugar and two ounces of the flower of Brimstone half an ounce of Gum-dragon steep the Gum in Rose-water all night the next morning beat the Sugar very small and put the Sugar and flower of Brimstone into the Gum-dragon and Rosewater and work them well together till they come to a paste then make it into little cakes as big as a six pence then put them into a pewter dish and dry them in a window by the Sun or by the shelving of the fire and when they are so dry put them in Papers and lay them where they may have the ayr of the fire eat this at your pleasure An approved Medicine for one that is molten within by travel or any other labour TAke a quart of good Claret wine and seeth therein a good quantity of avence and make a posset with the same Wine and let the Patient drink three or four times thereof warm when he goeth to bed and it will cure him Prob. est For the Morphew TAke Mustard-seed and Salt and stamp them together with Vinegar and let the Patient anoint the place where the grief is and it will cure in a short space For the same TAke green Copras and put it to steep in fair running water and let it remain a day and a night and then strain it through a fine cloth and when occasion serveth anoint the place often where the Morphew is and it will cure Prob. est An excellent Medicine for a woman troubled with the Mother TAke Lovage and Elisanders of them an ounce roots and leaves of Smallidge one ounce and of the roots of Buglass Burâ—â—ge and Parsley Fennell and Succory of each of them one ounce of Maidenhair Harts-tongue wilde thyme and wilde marjerum of each of them 2 ounces of Cummin seed Coriander seed Carroway seed Smallidge seed and Dill seed of them 3 spoonfuls and a good quantity of Raisins of the Sun and bray them altogether and steep them in white-wine or ale for the space of twenty four hours together and then strain them and let the Patient drink this first and last for a certain space this will cure Prob. est For a sharp humour in the Matrix after a miscarriage TAke a quart of posset-ale boyl therein Motherwort Mugwort Mother of thyme Camomill of each one handfull mader-root one ounce boyl these together till half be wasted and close covered be sure when it is boyled put in a pint of white-wine and drink a porringer full night and morning so soon as the Patient hath miscarried and this will cure Prob. est An excellent remedy for a Canker in the Mouth TAke a good quantity of red Sage and twelve crops of Rosemary and a like quantity of Honey-suckles white Dasies and Sinkfoyl and boyl them altogether in a pint of fair water untill it be half consumed then take a little Roch-allum and burn it to powder put half a spoonfull of Honey therein and then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and when it is cold put it into some glass or earthen thing that it may be stopped close and let the Patient wash his mouth therewith and it will cure To increase Milk in a womans breast TAke Crystall and beat it fine into powder mingle it with as much Fennell seed likewise beaten into fine powder and a little fine Sugar and let the woman drink thereof often warm with a little white-wine and this will restore her milk again although it be clean gone from her Prob. est An excellent good water to kill the canker and scurf in the Mouth TAke a good quantity of white-wine and Solendine red Sage Rosemary stripped and Hysope and Woodbine leaves of each of them one handfull and boyl them in white-wine untill one half be consumed then strain it and wring forth the juice clean and then take half an ounce of Allum a quarter of an ounce of white Copras and two or three spoonfuls of Honey and mingle it with the juice aforesaid and set it one the fire again and let it seeth a little while and take it off and strain it again and then put it into a Viall and when you will use it wash the grief two or three times a day either with a fine cloth upon the end of your finger or else upon a sticks end if the place cannot be come at other waies This hath holpen many Another for the same Approved TAke a quantity of running water and a handfull of Woodbine leaves Bramble leaves and Colibine leaves as many and a little Rosemary and boyl them together till the water be half consumed then put in two or three spoonfuls of Honey a piece of Roch allum three or four spoonfuls of Wine Vinegar and wash your mouth with the sodden hearbs three or four times a day this will cure Prob. est For Numness in the Joints LEt the Patient drink every morning fasting one ounce of Camphire in a draught of Bettony water wherein infuse a little Stechadoes this will cure in a moneths time To provoke womens Menstrues TAke so much of the powder of Aristolochy rotunda Myrrh and â—avine mixed as will he on a shilling in warm wâ—iâ—e-wine adde thereto one race of Ginger grated To stop their much flowing TAke the shels of new laid egges and pill off the inner filme boyl it one hour in water and drink that powder at twice in red wine when it is dried and beaten to powder and at every time of drinking let her go to the newest mole-hill and put away the earth with her foot and sit down on the place and make water in the hole so made and during the cure let her eat Ising-glass let her use this till she be well A singular good Oyl for all manner of bruises spleens and swellings in the legs or arms TAke a pint of pure Sallet-oyl
consumed then strain it and put into it one pennyworth of long Pepper Ginger half an ounce a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs boyl them altogether a little while beat your Ginger and Nutmegs to fine powder adde thereto also two penny-worth of Treakle four pennyworth of Methridatum and a quarter of a pint of good Angellica water keep this secret as your life If the party be infected take two spoonfuls warm and let him sweat well upon it if not one spoonfull every day is sufficient half in the morning the other at night this never failed any that took it For the Plurisie TAke a fair Pippin cut off the top and take out the core and fill it half full of the powder of Olibanum and then lay on the top again and roast it leisurely upon the embers see it do not burn and when it is enough roasted cut it in four parts with the Olibanum in it and give it to the Patient to eat and it will suddenly cause the Imposthume to break and it will cleanse it To make Oyl of Puppy which is good for any strain or bruise TAke a fat Spannell puppy if you can get one but let it be what puppy it will it must be fat and dress him as you dress a pig then take half a dose of yeolks of egges and two handfuls of Roman nettles cut very small three ounces of Venice Turpentine and three penny-worth of Saffron and beat them altogether and put them into the belly of the Puppy and sow it up and roast it and what droppeth from it save and it will become perfect oyl for the former uses A Poultis that will break a sore in twenty four hours TAke black-berry leaves and Mustard seed and beat them together till it be a Poultis Prob. est A Preparative to take before a Purgation the night before it is taken the dose is one dram in Diaprunis or posset-ale TAke Senna Turbith Diagredii of each three drams Epithimum Galingal of each one dram Salt gem six grains all fine searced and mixed and taken as aforesaid A Purgation which purgeth all aqueous humours TAke Rewbard Turbith Hermodactils Diagredii Senna Agarick Mechoacan Sugar of each two drams Cloves Fennell Ginger Anniseed Mastick of each one dram Saffron and Cinamon of each two scruples searce all these the dose is one dram in Succory water or Posset-ale To make Pils that purge the four humours TAke Mirabolaus and Rewbard of each four drams the juice of Egrimony and Worm-wood of each two ounces Hermodactils Agrick Coloquintida Aloes of each six drams Mastick red Rose leaves Salt gem Epithimum Annis and Ginger of each one dram searce them and mix them and compound them in a mortar with syrup of Roses to a mase for Pils the dose is one dram in five Pils taken in the pap of a roasted apple Pils of excellent vertue to purge all Flegmatick Feavers or Agues TAke Agarick Aloes Acorus Turbith of each one dram Esula half a dram Coloquintida one grain Salt gem Mastick Ginger Wormwood Lettice Raisins mundified Bdellium of each three drams let syrup of Roses be made up with these Pils the dose is two drams more or less according to the strength of the Patient if you adde these following they are good in tertian Agues Rubard two drams Spicknard half a dram Diagredii Mastick of each one dram mix these with those aforesaid the dose is half a dram more or less according to the strength of the Patient and the vehemency of the Feaver A Purgation that cleanseth the head brain and all the body of Melancholly TAke Senna six drams Ginger one ounce Bugloss one dram flowers thereof two drams infuse all in a close stopped ale-bottle of stone with a pint of whey of Goats milk boyl them in Balnea one hour and let it cool when it is boyled warm it in the morning and give it the Patient and it preserveth against all passions of the brain it also helps hearing smelling and seeing and strengtheneth all the body and doth unburthen the body of all humours that abound as choller fleam and melancholly this was the practice of Mathiolus Riolanus and Achaius For the Palsie TAke Rosemary Sage Herbmandlin of each a handfull Camomil-flowers three handfuls and with Sallet-oyl make oyl thereof as you make oyl of Roses and anoint the grieved parts therewith Purgations with Senna TAke Senna in some quantity with some Ginger in your broath for the pain of the head four drams may be given to children and to women with childe An Vnguent for the Piles BOyl in fresh butter Pilewort and Elder leaves or buds till it be a Salve make it yellow with Saffron and use it An excellent healing and cooling Plaister TAke Wax and Deer suet of each four ounces Lapis Caluminaris two ounces May butter two ounces Camphire one dram Oyl of Roses eight ounces mix them and melt them together and make your liquid Plaister A Plaister of Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline all green which cureth green wounds and old ulcers TAke Linseed oyl one pint Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline both green in May and June of each three handfuls strip forth their stalks and bruise them then boyl them in the Oyl adde thereto white-wine let them all boyl till the herbs be very soft then strain them out and put the liquor to the fire again adde thereto Rosin and Wax bruised eight ounces boyl them till all be melted still stirring it then take it off presently mix therewith Venice Turpentine six ounces liquid Storax one ounce and so it is made A gentle Purge for Melancholly and to comfort the spirits TAke the juice of old Pippins and Burradge water of each as much as will make a draught heat it seething hot then infuse therein all night Senna four drams Manna and syrup of Roses of each one ounce Anniseed bruised four drams next morning strain it and drink it warm For the Rickets a disease common to Children TAke Egremony Scabions Coltsfoot Charnill Tamaris of each one handfull one pennyworth of Maidenhair a smal handfull of unset Hysop six tops of Spermint six leaves of Harts-tongue a little Liverwort and opening roots as Fennell Parsley Succory Spergrace scrape them clean and take the pith out of them sprinkle them with wine Vinegar when you have so done slice them and about half an hour after put them to the rest of the herbs and adde licorish half an ounce Anniseed a quarter of an ounce Raisins of the sun stoned and Currants and Figs of each two ounces boyl all these in a pottle of running water untill it come to a quart and let the childe drink thereof twice a day morning and evening constant and for a time at four a clock in the afternoon if the child be hot you may boyl in it two ounces of French barley A Beer for the same TAke Tamaris two handfuls Brooklime and Scurvy-grass and Watercresses of each four handfuls Egrimony Scabions Bettony of the
a pint of water boyl them altogether six or seven walms adde to them in the boyling white Ginger powdered two drams Elna Campana one dram a little Saffron powdered drink thereof first and last at meals infuse therein Saxifrage For the green Sickness TAke a handfull of Cowslip-flowers dry them and beat them to powder and let the Patient drink one spoonfull of this powder in six or seven spoonfuls of Malmsie fourteen mornings fasting A Swelling the cure TAke May butter and wax a like quantity boyl them together with a little Aqua vitae dip double clothes therein and lay it to the grief very hot and it will draw out the water and presently swage the swelling Proved A Dianthos which will help all feebleness of the body the tisick the grief of the heart and of the Liver after long Sickness TAke Cloves Gallingall Ginger Spike Nut-megs of each two drams and a half Cara-way Anniseed Cardamonium of each two drams Licorish red Roses Violets and Rosemary-flowers of each four drams Honey cleansed and Rose-water a pritty quantity let those things which be to be powdered be beaten very fine and searced then mix them with the Honey and Rosewater and let it simper on the fire to a Confection the dose is three drams use this as a secret Prob. est A powder for Winde and Spleen TAke the rind of an Orenge Coliander seed Caraway seed Anniseed Fennell seed and Parsley seed of each one spoonfull dry all these and beat them to powder and searce it then mix them with fine Sugar take thereof in the morning fasting at noon before dinner and after dinner and before supper and after supper going to bed in a little Anniseed water and you will finde much good A rare Sear-cloth or Plaister for a sore breast or any other sore or sprain or ach which I have often had experience of TAke half a pound of Virgins wax and half a pint of Oyl of Roses and half a pint of Oyl-olive melt them altogether upon a soft fire of Char-coal then let it cool in a pan till it be half cold then take half a pound of white-lead and beat it fine and put it into the Oyl abovesaid and to the wax and stirre them together on the fire and cause them softly to boyl half an hour then take two ounces of Frankincense and two ounces of Myrrh and two ounces of Gum Olibanum and two ounces of Mastick beat them to powder very fine and put them into the abovesaid Oyl and Wax and cause them to boyl another half hour stil stirring it till it be black then adde a quarter of an ounce of Camphire when you have taken it from the fire so dip in your clothes for sear-cloths or work it up for plaisters for your use Proved often for what is abovesaid A white tost steeped in white-wine Vinegar applied to a strain is a speedy remedy for that grief For the Tooth-ach TAke a piece of the root of Crowfoot and put it into the hollow tooth if there be any if none be hollow apply it often to the tooth that aketh and that will cure Again take the powder of red Corall put it into the tooth that akes and it will soon fall out Again Take Organy that grows close to the ground and tastes like Aqua vitae bruise it and lay it to the tooth Also bruise bursa pastoris and do the same To make Teeth white and to fasten the Gums and to comfort the roots and to make the breath sweet TAke Vinegar of Squils and dip a piece of linnen cloth into it and rub the teeth and gums therewith For Lues Venera or French-Pox FIrst prepare the body with purgations as this Pulvis Arthreticus the dose is one dram augment as you see good not exceeding above a dram and half but a dram and a quarter is a good dose or a dram of that and half a dram of Jallop And then use this Diet-drink with Lignum vitae for every pint of water an ounce of Lignum vitae and put in some Carduus Benedictus let them drink half a pint at a time morning and evening let their diet be chicken or such meat And then next use Turbith Mellerares begin at three grains use it to a dram but no further till you make a Salavation or Flux at the mouth And then make a lotion for the mouth to wash that daily let the Salavation continue three weeks or a moneth till you be sure the ulcer be clean To stay Vomiting TAke Mints Shepheards purse Plantine and Knotgrass and Comfry of each one handfull shred them small and boyl them in a quart of red Wine or Claret drink of this Wine and plaister the herbs to the stomack in a double cloth A Vomit for any disease TAke and Elder bough and scrape off all the outmost rind clean then take some of the inside rind and stamp it and strain it into strong Ale which is old and drink it lukewarm this will soon cause the Patient to vomit To stay Vomiting TAke Mints Shepheards-purse and Comfry of each one handfull chopped small boyl them in a quart of red Wine or Claret drink of the Wine and lay the herbs plaister-wise to the stomack in a double cloth Prob. est To force one to make Water which is stept in Sickness INfuse and mix ten drops of oyl of Juniper in two ounces of Parsley water and drink it blood-warm it will cure at once or twice taking A Water to inject or serindge into the secrets of men or women TAke water and white-wine of each one quart Woodbine leaves and flowers of each two handfuls Sage Rosemary and Water-cresses of each half a handfull cut small boyl all these together half an hour then put in Allum powdered four drams and two small spoonfuls of honey and boyl them about two walms and keep it for your use To cause one to make Water TAke Saffron in powder and pure ball sope as much of one as another mingle it together spread it upon the fleshy side of white leather make thereof plaisters and lay upon the navill of the Patient and give him to drink as much of the powder of the herb golden rod as will lie on a six pence in a glassfull of Renish wine or white-wine An excellent salve for a deep Wound or cut which requireth tenting TAke the yeolk of a new laid egge and honey the quantity of a Wallnut the same quantity of pure Turpentine beat them altogether and lay them to the wound with fine lint and this will cure it in a short space Another for a green Wound TAke wheat-flower and milk and temper them well together seeth them till they be thick then take the white of a new laid egge and beat it well with the aforesaid stuff and it will keep it from rankling and heal it An excellent Medicine for a green Wound being applied plaister-wise or to make a sear-cloth for any Ach and it is
good to be taken inwardly upon the point of a knife for the Lungs TAke a quart of Ale and two pennyworth of fresh butter one pennyworth of good honey boyl all together till half be wasted keep it close covered while it is boyling Use this as a treasure Another plaister for a green Wound or for a Wound that is over-healed and sore underneath TAke a good quantity of Barly-meal and the white of an egge and honey and mingle them well together and lay it plaister-wise to the wound and it will cure immediatly For one that is brought low in sickness TAke Egrimony Bettony red Sage Fennell roots the inside Liverwort Indive and Succory of each of these one handfull boyl them in four pints of milk till half be consumed then strain it and let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint at a time morning and evening lukewarm For Weakness in the back TAke Clary Dates the pith of an Ox Cream and Egges and bread grated mingle them all together and fry them mix with them white Sanders strew Sugar upon them and give it to the Patient fasting in the morning A salve for a green Wound TAke a pound of Rosin half a pound of Wax four ounces of old Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease boyl them all together upon a soft fire and strain them for your use A good remedy for one that cannot make Water TAke three or four hive Bees kill them and dry them upon a hot slate then bruise them to fine powder then put the powder into a quart of Ale and give to the Patient a pritty quantity at a time Prob. est To heal Wounds and sores and also to draw TAke Rosin Frankincense of each four ounces white wax and Olibanum of each three ounces Harts-suet and Mastick of each one ounce Venice Turpentine half an ounce white-wine a pint melt the Rosin Frankincense and Suet together then strain it into a pan and adde to it then the white Wax the Olibanum and the Mastick powdered and the Wine then boyl all together till the Wine be consumed then take it from the fire and stirre it till it be almost cold then put in the Turpentine and make it up in a roul and keep it in parchment or leather A Water to heal all sores and ulcers TAke a pound of Roch-allum four ounces of green Copras beat them and set them on the fire untill they be melted then let them dry again then beat them into fine powder then set a pottle of spring-water over the fire till it boyleth fast then take it off and when it ceaseth boyling cast your powder abroad on the water so long as the water shall rise till it appear black in the bottom then it is perfect wherein dip a cloth and lay it double to the ulcer or wound first laying on the wound some of the powder and roul it up A Medicine to kill all manner of Worms in the body TAke Plantine leaves and roots and groundsel of each a like quantity stamp and strain it and give it the Patient to drink mixed with a pint of good Malmsie warm together give this to the Patient for the space of three or four daies together and this will kill worms in the maw or elsewhere Another for the same which will speedily kill the Worms TAke Aqua Composita that is made of herbs and wash the Patients breast therewith then take a little powder of myrrh and beat it very small and searce it fine and strew that also upon the breast after it hath been well washed and then lay on a warm cloth upon the breast and set it remain twenty four hours together This hath been proved For Winde and shooting in the head TAke Egrimony and Cinamon bray them and put them in Ale and lay it it to the temples of your head and as the pain removes so remove your medicine An unguent to heal a green Wound at the first dressing TAke Aloes siccatrine fine powdered and the powder of perrosin of each a like quantity mix them and grind them with the white of an egge and lay it on a pleget of lint and apply to the wound A plaister to cure and heal a Wound TAke Letherage of Gold one pound Oyl of Roses two pound white-wine Vinegar and old Urine of each half a pound let them boyl till the Vinegar and Urine be consumed adde to it in the boyling Wax two ounces Frankincense one ounce mix it well and apply it Prob. est For a Woman in Travell TAke a Date-stone and grate it into fine powder and give it the Patient with white-wine and God willing she shall be dclivered without danger Prob. est Thus have I discharged my Conscience to my Countrey not hiding any thing from them which hath been imparted unto me I have given you the generall Method of Physick and Chyrurgery with three hundred rare Receipts suitable for to cure any Disease incident to the body of man which secrets have most of them been kept from the sight of the world still to keep creatures in blindness and to advance their own interest which in this Treatise I have endeavoured to take off and that the poor may not perish for want of help by reason of their poverty here is a Garden to which they may go and cure any Disease curable with small cost FINIS Courteous Reader THese Books following are Printed and sold by Simon Miller at the Star in 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dissolve the humour and digest it by the serosity of the blood Approved A Medicine to cure the Ague either in old or young TAke as much milk as will make you a quart of posset-ale and then take the young tops of Rosemary Marygolds Plantine and young Bay leaves of each two drams cut them small and boyl them in the posset-ale untill all the strength be out then drink a great draught thereof ever before the fit cometh and sweat upon it do this three times and it will cure Approved by many Another approved Medicine for an Ague and Feaver TAke of Dragon water and of aqua composita to the quantity of a quarter of a pint of each and put therein a pennyworth of London Treakle and half a quarter of an ounce of gross beaten Pepper warm all these together and continue stirring it with a knife and give it the Patient to drink as hot as he may suffer it a little before the fit cometh and let him lie down and sweat very well This hath cured many Another for the same TAke an Oxe-gall and as much aqua composita and put unto it a quarter of an ounce of pepper a little bruised and adde to it two pennyworth of Treakle and anoint the hands and wrists and stomack with the things aforesaid being all mingled together let this be done half an hour before the fit cometh and applied as hot as the Patient can suffer it and let him sweat well upon it and it will speedily cure him Prob. est An excellent Plaister for the same TAke red Rose water Venice Turpentine and Frankincense of each of them two pennyworth and mingle them well together then take a piece of white sheeps leather sit for both the wrists and strike the same upon them and apply them hot to both the wrists of the party grieved and let the same remain till it fall off of its own accord This hath cured those that have been troubled therewith two years who have taken the disease in forreign Countries For the tooth-Ach TAke a little cotton and dip it in the essence of Cloves which you may have at the Apothecaries and thrust it into the hollowness of the tooth and it will appease the pain presently and you will be well Prob. est To cause a good Appetite TAke Centory and boyl it in fair water and put into it one ounce of Sugar-candy Sugar and Anniseeds of each a like quantity boyl these well together and let the Patient drink thereof lukewarm every morning for six mornings together three spoonfuls at a time this will help although the party be never so farre spent A good Plaister to ease pain or a crick in the Back TAke white Archangell flowers and leaves a good quantity and of Comfry leaves and roots of Plantine one ounce bursa pastoris one ounce beat them altogether very well and put unto them a spoonfull of honey and fry them in a pan and divide it into four parts and make of every part a Plaister and lay it on the back of the Patient in four nights when he goeth to bed Prob. est A Remedy for one that is bound in his Belly TAke a good quantity of Hempseed and seeth it in fair running water and then strain it through a fair linnen cloth and let the Patient drink a good draught when he goeth to bed and it will make him laxitive Another for the same TAke a chicken and a pretty quantity of Cassula fustula and seeth them together in fair running water and let the Patient drink the broth and it will make him laxitive without pain A marvellous good Water to break the stone in the Bladder TAke two pints of the juice of Saxifrage the juice of Gromell and of the juice of Parsly each of them a pint and put thereto a quantity of eight or nine ounces of the best Vineger that is made of pleasant Wine and distill all these together and then put the distilled water into some glass or other vessel with a narrow mouth and let the Patient take one ounce at a time three times in a day morning noon and at night a little before he go to bed Prob. est Another drink to take after the stone is broken to avoid it in slivers TAke Rosemary and wilde thyme of each a handfull and seethe them in a quart of rain water untill the one half be consumed and then put in as much Sugar as will make it sweet and let the Patient drink often thereof every day untill he see his water being thick grow thin A good Medicine to staunch Bleeding at the Nose TAke a linnen cloth and wet it well in Vineger and wrap it about the members of him that bleedeth and his bleeding will soon cease Another for the same TAke Centory green Rue and red Fennel of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and strain them into ale and let the Patient drink thereof lukewarm and this will stop the bleeding of any wound cut or bruise A good Medicine against spitting of Blood TAke the juice of Betony and temper it well with Goats milk and give it the Patient to drink three daies together Prob. est Another for the same TAke Betony Mints Smallidge and Rue of each a like quantity and seeth them all together in new milk and let the Patient drink it as hot as he can suffer it Prob. est A singular good Oyl for all manner of Bruises Spleens Swellings in the legs or arms TAke a pint or somewhat more of pure Sallet Oyl and bruise a good quantity of Cammomill and put therein and put it into a glass and set it into some place where the Sun cometh that it may stand safe for ten or twelve daies but when it hath stood five daies then take it and strain it through a fine linnen cloth and set it again into his place aforesaid the remainder of the time aforesaid and then strain it again and set it the third time and let it stand till it be clean purified from any drugs and then put it into a clean glass and stop it close untill you have use for it and then anoint the place grieved two or three times a day chafing it before the fire and it will help you This Oyl stopped close will continue good twelve years A good Medicine for a Bruise or Cut. TAke roots of Loveage Alchoof Parsly and Anniseeds and beat them very fine in a mortar then take Barrows grease and boyl them together and then strain them and put to them as much unwrought wax as contains a Walnut and half as much rosin and then boyl them all together again and having so done strain it through a fine linnen cloth into a pan of water and let it stand till it be almost cold then take it and work it well in your hands till it be something short then put it into a piece of leather and keep it for your use A Drink to heal all manner
black and thick then make your tents of one inch long and no longer although the Fistula be never so deep and roul the tents well in the Medicine and tent your wound therewith twice in a day and it will work out in small pushes and wheals from the bottom cover the sore with a red Colwort leaf and when it is well digested heal it up with plaisters fir for it A vulnary potion for the Fistula TAke a quart of spring water and boyl therein Cloves bruised Pimpernell Egrimony red Colwort Valerian Mousear Dovefoot and wilde Tanzy washed and chopped of each one handfull boyl all in a pipkin close covered till half be wasted then adde to it two spoonfuls of Honey and one quart of white-wine then let it boyl one walm or two and strain it hard forth and keep it in a close Viall and drink of it morning and evening and at three in the afternoon in Summer cold and in Winter hot untill the Potion cometh out of the orefice of the Fistula which must be alway kept open with a Gentian tent A plaister to cure the Fistula TAke Latherage of Gold one pound oyl of Roses two pound white-wine Vinegar and old Urine of each half a pound boyl these till the Vinegar and Urine be consumed adde thereto in the boyling Wax two ounces Frankincense one ounce mix it and so use it A Lotion to wash or seering into the Fistula TAke Bolearmoniack four ounces Camphire one ounce white Vitrioll four ounces powder all these boil the Copras and Camphire in a close stopped pipkin till they be melted still stirring them till they grow hard then powder them and the Bolearmoniack together very fine and when you use it take a pottle of running water put it to the fire till it begin to boyl then take it from the fire and put therein three spoonfuls of the powder as much as the spoon will hold put all into a double Viall and shake it twice every day for fourteen daies before you use it let it stand and settle very clear and apply it as hot as the Patient can endure it if it be for a sore wet a double cloth four times double and apply it if for a Fistula use the searing morning and evening till you be well if you would have it stronger put into it one ounce of burned allum powdered This is approved either for Fistula or Pustels Cankers Scabs in the head or body and also green wounds Unto your Lotion for Fistula you may adde Strawberries Plantine red mader sharp dock of each one handfull let your Cloves be twelve in number and if you will six ounces of honey if the Patient vomit up his Lotion three daies together at the first taking there is fear of his cure but if he vomit not no fear of the cure let him drink it fourteen daies in his drinking thereof put in some Ginger to allay the winde of the hearbs An Implaister of Tapsus Barbatus which cureth all Cankers Fistulas Plague-sores hot Bruises Botches or Fellones TAke the juice of Smallidge and Cardus young Wormwood Mullin Walwort Pimpernell Dovefoot Plantine Egrimony Mugwort Sage Daises Night-shade and Fluellin of each one dram Woodbine four handfuls stamp them and strain them put to as much Honey in measure as you have in juices then boyl them together in a new red pipkin close covered let them boyl softly still stirring it till it come to the thickness of Honey then take it from the fire and keep it in a new earthen pot close covered And when you make a Plaister for any the things aforesaid Take of this Honey four ounces wheat-meal two ounces boyl altogether one walm or two still stirring it for fear of burning then take it from the fire and put to it presently Venice Turpentine two ounces mix it well with the rest and when it is almost cold pour the whites of two egges well beaten thereto mix them together till it be cold and so it is made The Plaister is called Diaflosmos A Lotion to wash or seringe the grief withall before you apply the Plaister dress it twice a day either by bathe or searing hot TAke Night-shade Smallidge Egrimony Fluelline Sage Cardus of each one handfull Honey two ounces Plantine water and white-wine of each one pint boyl all these hearbs small cut till their substance be forth with the Honey Allum Wine and water and so strain it for your use A perfect Remedy for the Flux TAke a good handfull of Beans dry them in an oven or upon a tilestone and let them be so hard as the huls will skale off them and then bray them to fine powder and searce them then take a plot of good red wine and set it upon the fire and put the powder into the wine and stirre it well least it should grow to the pan wherein you boyl it and so do till it be so thick that you may cut it in slices when it is cold and let the Patient take two or three slices thereof blood warm every morning and evening for a certain space and this will cure Prob. est Falling sickness the cure FIrst every full Moon and change purge one day and vomit another then kill a Jay and dress him fill his body full of Commin and Anniseeds bruised then put the Jay so dressed into an oven after bread is drawn forth untill he be so dry that you must beat his body and sides and all into fine powder then take of this powder one dram in any thing what you please morning and evening till you be well as in broth or such like only with it make two plaisters as you do of Mastick of Sanguis Draconis spread it with a hot knife and lay them to the temple veins Fistula the cure TAke Vervine and dry it upon a tile and make powder thereof and make clean the sore with a linnen cloth and fill the wound full with the powder For the Gout TAke Arsmart and wet it in fair running water and lay it to the place grieved and when you take it away then bury it in a moist place in the ground and as that wasts the grief will wast also Another for the same TAke Mallows and Sengreen beat them and boyl them in water then strain them put oatmeal grots soked in Vinegar and sheeps-suet untried then boyl it to a poultess Proved Another for the same TAke Archangell red stamp it in a mortar with Vinegar and bind it to the place grieved and if it go not away mix a little Opium with it and it will not fail A good cooling Clyster to apply where it needs TAke a pottle of running water and Succory leaves and Sorrill and Strawberry leaves and Violet leaves and Mallows of each one handfull one pennyworth of French-barley sweet Fennell seed and the four cold seeds of each one pennyworth boyl all these to a pint and strain it and adde one ounce of Syrup of Roses and a piece of butter
wood of each two handfuls Ash-bark and Ivy-bark of each two ounces and half an ounce of Anniseed Licorish one ounce boyl all these in four gallons of wort till half be consumed and let the child drink of this at any time Another for the same TAke a quarter of an ounce of Licorish as much Anniseed a quarter of a pound of Raisins five Figges one pennyworth of blew Currants Coltsfoot Calemint Fennell roots Parsley roots Marygold flowers Tamaris Pellitory of the wall Liverwort Lungwort of each a handfull boyl all these in a pottle of running water to a quart and use to give it the child fasting and at night and to anoint the body use Vnguentum de dolfe anoint the back bone belly and left side and breast at night going to bed and have a care of the childe catching cold Pils of great vertue for the running of the Reins TAke Bole Terra sigilata Sanguis Draconis of each one dram Conserves of red Roses three ounces make it up into a mash for Pils the dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg morning and evening Another for the same FIrst purge well with new drawn Cassia one ounce in a draught of white-wine and then take Pearl Coral Cresses seed and Mader of each four ounces Comfry roots dried and powdered and Acorns powdered the cups of them of each of them four drams make all these with Venice Turpentine into a mash for Pils the dose seven Pils as big as a pea morning and evening Another present help for the same TAke a good quantity of Oatmeal and beat it very small and put it into a quart of new milk and seeth it and put therein a good quantity of Sugar and when it is well boyled strain it and give it the Patient to eat For a consumption in the Reins TAke a handfull or two of Clary leaves and prick them and four or five yeolks of Hen egges newly laid and take Saffron and dry it upon a little stone or some such thing and grind it very small and put all these together and fry them in fresh butter and let the Patient eat of this fasting A Medicine against the Stone in the back or bladder or for the weakness of the back which is called the Reins running TAke Venice Turpentine and wash it in Rose-water either red or damask untill it look white then divide it into small bals as you may easily swallow the full quantity of three bazel nuts then roul them in Sugar to make them the more easie then swallow them in the morning fasting and fast three or four hours after them take these three or four several mornings and in your water will appear much gravel A good Medicine to provoke Sleep to the Sick TAke a good quantity of womens breast milk and put thereto as much in quantity of Aqua vilae stir them well together and moisten the temples of the head and the nosthrils of the Patient well therewith with a fine cloth or feather and it will do them much good A good drawing Salve TAke a good quantity of Rosin bruised small and a pritty quantity of good Wax and a good quantity of Honey mingle them altogether and set the same upon a soft fire still stirring it till it be melted into a perfect Salve For a Stitch in the side TAke Acorns and dry them and beat them into fine powder and mingle that powder with a little powder of Cinamon and Ginger and give it the party grieved to drink in Ale Wine or Beer and this will cure Prob. est Another for the same TAke Sage and Burnet of each a like quantity and dry them upon a tilestone and make the same into fine powder and give it to the Patient to drink in Beer or Ale at meals and at other times for the space of three or four daies together and this will cure Prob. est For the Sciatica TAke Ivy Mugwort Walwort and the inner rind of an Elder-tree and seeth them in fair water with a good quantity of Salt and bathe the sore place well therewith for nine daies together three or four times a day and this will cure Another for the same TAke a pint of Neatsfoot-oyl a pint of Aqua vitae and a handfull of roasted Onions and stamp them together and then strain them and it will be an Oyl anoint well the place grieved morning and evening before a good fire as hot as you can suffer it and chafe it well Prob. est To provoke Sleep TAke the seeds of Lettice and Smallidg of each a like quantity and make a powder thereof and put the same into a quantity of white-wine and give it to the Patient lukewarm and it will cause him to sleep presently Prob. est For the Spleen TAke a good quantity of Bettony and seeth it in either Wine Ale or Beer it will do much good it is also good for the milt and liver A pretious water for the Spleen TAke Balm Turpentine Scabions Bettony and Pimpernel of each a good quantity distill them together and let the Patient drink often of this water and this will help him it is also good against the Pestilence and for those that are troubled with the Mother and for the marrow of the bones and for to comfort the Liver Prob. est A Salve to draw and heal TAke half a pound of Turpentine a quarter of a pound of Rosin as much Bees wax as Rosin and adde as much Hogs suet or May butter as will make it soft which is about two ounces This is approved A Medicine approved for the Spleen TAke a quart of Claret wine a pint of Oyl-olive two good handfuls of Camomill shred small boyl these together till half be consumed and with this anoint the hardness of the Spleen morning and evening and it will dissolve For one that Speaks in his sleep TAke Southernwood and lay it in white-wine and let the Patient drink thereof morning and evening For the Sciatica TAke the gall of a Bull and a quart of wort boyl it to a pint then put in a pint of Vinegar powder of Frankincense one ounce Honey half a pound of Commin in powder half a pound boyl them together till they be thick and spread it upon leather apply it hot lay a linnen cloth between the skin and the Plaister the Plaister will serve many times Proved For all manner of sores old or new Called The gift of God TAke Bettony Vervin Pimpernell Bugloss Smallidge Plantine Scabions Egrimony of each a like quantity stamp them together and boil them in a gallon of white-wine to the third part then strain them and adde to them a quantity of Sheeps suer and half a pound of wax half a pound of Rosin half a pound of Pitch one pound of Olibanum and boyl it again till by reason and art thou dost think it sufficient An excellent Salve or Sear cloth Which being laid to the stomack will provoke Appetite and take away the pain
it will help Prob. est Another for the same although it be a Sciatica TAke Neats-foot oyl and Aqua composita and mingle them both together and let the Patient anoint the place where the pain is and take new plucked wool from the sheeps back and lay it upon the grief and wrap it well with warm clothes and this will help him Another for the same and good for all manner of Aches and Bruises in the Bones TAke a good quantity of Wallwort and a certain quantity of Balm and Smallidge and stamp them all together then take a pound of May butter and temper them very well together then make them up in round bals and let them lie the space of eight daies after and then stamp them again as you did before then take it and fry it and put it into an earthen dish or pot and so use it and this will help a bruise though never so black Prob. est A pretious Plaister for all manner of Aches for as soon as the Plaister is warm on the flesh the pain is gone excellent for the Gout TAke unwrought wax two pound Deer suet half a pound perroson four pound mace and cloves of each two ounces and a half saffron one ounce rosin two pound pitch four ounces powder the Spices and melt those things which are to be melted powder your saffron with the Spices and searce them set your things which are to melt on a soft fire and when it is boyling pour in by little and little at a time a pottle of red wine stirring it well into the salve and when it is well melted strain it into a clean pan and then put in your powder of Cloves Mace and Saffron casting it abroad upon your ingredients stirring them well together and let them stand till they be cold then anoint your hands with oyl and grease and while it is warm make it up into good big rowls draw it with your hands till it be coloured like wax and wrap every rowl into a piece of oyled paper and keep it for your use Prob. est An excellent oyntment for all Aches Rickets Stiches bruised Shoulders and all Colds TAke of Sage and Rew of each one pound of Wormwood and Bayleaves of each half a pound one handfull of Rosemary chop these herbs as smal as may be adde thereunto the like weight of sheeps suet clean picked from the skin and cut smal bring these unto one substance and adde thereunto oyl-olive a pottle and a pint and work them together with your hands to one substance then cover them close that no ayr come to them for the space of nine daies then set it on a fire and boyl them softly alway stirring them till the herbs be purged then strain them and keep them for your use Another most approved Medicine for the same TAke half a pound of Mutton suet of the near and one pint of white-wine Vineger and one piece of rosell as big as an egge and one handfull of Elder leaves and one handfull of Camamill and shred them very small and boyl these altogether while they are boyl'd half away and with this make a Plaister and lay to the grief and it will cure approvedly A pretious Oyntment good for the Ach in the Bones or to take the Ague out of any part of the Body TAke Wormwood and Rue Vervine Dill and herb John and Balm of each a like quantity cut them very small and then boyl them in Mutton suet and fresh May butter of each a like quantity till it come to the substance of an oyntment strain it and keep it for your use Another for the same TAke a quantity of Rosin and a quarter of a pound of Mutton suet and a quantity of Bees wax and a quantity of Saffron and a quantity of Boneset and a quantity of Roman nettles and boyl them like a salve Another for the same or numbness in the Joynts TAke a linnen cloth and wet it in Dragon water and apply it very warm morning and evening or drink six spoonfuls of Dragon water and one dram of Methredatum three mornings together and sweat every morning two hours Cureth A pretious Vnguent for the same or Sciatica or to expell wind or to ease pain in the Back or stone in the Kidneys anoint the place therewith first rub it well with a dry cloth TAke an Oxe gall flit it in the bottom and let it run out into a pipkin and adde thereto one pound of Neats-foot oyl and ground Ivy Rue Camamill and Thyme of each one handfull pound them in a mortar together adde thereto one ounce of aqua vitae boyl them all at a soft fire threequarters of an hour stirre it often in the boyling and then strain it and so it is made An excellent remedy for the cure of that Disease so hardly to be cured viz. the Ague TAke two ounces of bay salt and two ounces of Frankincense and one handfull of Smallidge beat them together and lay them to the wrists of both your hands and to the bows of your arms let this be done two hours before the fit cometh Prob est For a burning Ague TAke one handfull of Strawbery leaves and one handfull of Violet leaves one handfull of Sorrel leaves and so stamp them and strain them into posset-ale and drink it as hot as you can suffer it when your fit is coming upon you Prob. est An excellent Medicine for an Ague or burning Fever It hath cured some which were thought past cure TAke two handfuls of Plantine and as much Ribleaf which is like Plantine but somewhat longer a pottle of running water but take it up against the stream two penny worth of Liquorish fine scraped and boyl them altogether till the liquor come to a pint then put it into as much Sugar-candy as you think fit to sweeten it and then strain it and let the Patient drink of this at all times refusing all other drink as near as he can till the Feaver leaveth him Prob. est A pretious Vnguent for an Ague bruise or sprain TAke Rue Yarrow Dill Self-heal Vervain Mugwort Comfry Adders tongue red Sage Fennell red Nettles red Dock leaves Valerian Carduus Benedictus of each two handfuls bruise all these together in a mortar and then boyl them in one pound and a half of May butter for a quarter of an hour still stirring it then strain out the herbs and add to the liquor oyl of Dill and oyl of exceter of each one dram let them be set upon the fire again and let it boyl one wallop and when it is cold anoint the place grieved therewith The Ague fallen into the legs which cause them to swell The Cure TAke Plantine Marygold Houndstongue St Johns wort Bettony red Fenill Southistle Dandelion Smallidge Plumtree leaves of each of them a handfull shred them small and adde to them wheat meal and seeth them in hot Cows milk to a plaister and so apply it this will
for a sick body whose stomack is not good TAke the yeolks of two egges put them in a little pipkin for that purpose squeese therein the juice of a lemon or two then take a good ladlefull of some broth out of another pot that boyls first beat the egges and lemon well together and put in the said broth make it not salt by no means then stirre altogether upon a soft fire at the first boyl take it off and when it is cool enough give it the Patient To staunch Blood TAke Sanguis Draconis bole armonick Vermillion of each a like quantity compound them with the white of egges beat it to the form of a plaister this hath staied the blood of a womans breast that was cut off To purge the Back and Brain TAke the powder of Bettony and English honey and make a dose of pils and take two pils thereof when you go to bed as big as a smal nut next morning you shall see the effect thereof For a pain in the Back TAke a plaister of Paracelsus and lay thereon warm and it cureth To scale a mortified Bone TAke honey of Roses and dip spledgets of lint therein and lay it on the bone till you finde the bone loose dress it every night for three nights if it do not then loosen by the sides in feeling then apply this unguent or ointment Take pure hogs-grease half a pound argentum vivum two ounces well mortified and brayed together warm the Unguent in a sawcer or porringer and with a feather anoint the bone morning and evening and lay thereon lint and rowl it up just let him keep his bed and take no cold and you shall see the bone arise then heal it up as you see occasion The Black plaister that mundifieth all sores and taketh away all pain TAke Sallet-oyl and white-wine Vineger twelve ounces white lead and red lead of each two ounces wax three ounces boyl them altogether till they be black and when you have taken it from the fire adde two drams of camphire prepared and mix it well A powder which scaleth Bones and stoppeth the watering of sinews TAke burned Copras one ounce auri pigmentum fine combust one ounce Verdigrease sinely searced one ounce burned Allum fine powdered and searced three ounces mix them together so use them it is excellent in operation Another for the same and to abate spungy flesh TAke fine Allum Verdigrease of each two ounces Bole four ounces finely powdered mix altogether and so use it A good Medicine to cure any Disease which proceeds from the Breast TAke Parsly roots Fennell roots and Succory roots of each a like quantity take out the piths clean and wash away the dirt and sand from them and then seeth them in white-wine till they be soft and then when it is well boyled strain them and adde thereto a little Pellitory of Spain and let the Patient drink hereof morning and evening for the space of eight or nine daies together this hath holpen those which could not fetch their breath at all hardly A Remedy for a Chin chough TAke Bores-grease and warm the feet of the Patient against the fire and chafe and rub in the said grease well and then let the Patient go to bed and be kept very warm specially his feet This may be done to little Children Prob. est Another for the same TAke a Mouse and flay it and dry it in an oven and beat it to powder and give it the Patient to drink in a quantity of Ale and it will help him and it is also good for those that cannot hold their water Prob. est Another for the same and for the straitness of the Pipes TAke dry Figges and Hysope and stamp them well together and boyl them well with Honey and let the Patient take it fasting and it will help Prob. est Another for the same a Syrup TAke Horehound and Hysope of each a like quantity and a little water and sugar and boyl these together till they come to be a Syrup let the Patient eat this morning and evening and at other convenient times Prob. est Another for the same a pure one TAke Ellecampany and Reddish roots a like quantity and shred them small and pears or wardens twice the quantity as of the other then put them together into an earthen pot and put as much clarified Honey thereto as will make it ready to overflow the said ingredients then cover it close that no breath issue out then set it in an oven bake it with a batch of bread and then when it is baked give of this morning and evening a spoonfull and at noon to the Patient Prob. est A perfect Syrup for the same TAke half a pound of white Sugar-candy and half a pint of Rosewater and a good quantity of Licorish clean pared and bruised boyl all these together untill you see it come to a Syrup then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and put it in a glass and keep it for your use Prob. est A Medicine to take away Corns TAke black Sope and Snails of each of them a like quantity and stamp them together and make a plaister thereof and spread it upon a piece of white leather and lay it to the Corn and it will take it away within seven or eight daies Prob. est A good Medicine to avoid Choller TAke half an ounce of Cassia which is new drawn and a dram of Rubarb and let them be infused for the space of a night with water of indive and a little Spiknard and one ounce of Syrup of Violets and mingle them together with the quantity of three or four ounces of whey and let the Patient drink it warm Prob. est A proved Medicine for the Strangury Chollick and Stone TAke Gromell seed Parsly and red Nettle seed Violet leaves Smalledge Cherry stones Philopendula Eli sanders Saxifrage Cummin seed and Fennell seed Anniseed and Coriander seed Sowthistle and Dill seed of each of them a like quantity beat them very small in a mortar and searce them fine then take the Gum of Ivy or else the Berries of Ivy dried and beaten to powder and mingle with the powder aforesaid and let the Patient drink this powder in white-wine or stale Ale or in his pottage morning and evening for eight or nine daies Prob. est A Clyster for the same TAke Mallows Pellitory of the wall and Carduus Benedictus Colworts Setrach and Oak-fearn and Alkabergi seeds of each a like quantity and make thereof a Decoction then adde oyl of Dill and Camomili and oyl of Lillies of each one dram and of Hiera simplex and salt and so apply it An approved Medicine against the grief of the Flank and the Chollick passion TAke half a glass or less of the juice of Barberies when they be very ripe and red and put into it as much red Corall in powder as will lie upon a groat and give the Patient to drink Another perfect
strain it through a clean cloth and let the Patient drink thereof first and last for four or five daies together Prob. est For the Itch. TAke five or six spoonfuls of Barrows grease and a penny-weight of quicksilver and a handfull of bay Salt and six spoonfuls of fasting spittle and bray them altogether untill the quicksilver be consumed away let the Patient anoint himself therewith and it will destroy the Scabs Prob. est Another for the same TAke sweet butter unwrought wax Vinegar Brimstone a little Rose-water red Cloves whole boyl them together till they be like a Salve and anoint your body therewith three sundry nights and no more Yellow Jaundies a sure and quick cure TAke Plantine water one pint Ivory powdered two drams Saffron so much as will make it yellow boyl them all two or three walms then strain it and drink a good draught morning and evening A pretious Medicine to destroy an Imposthume in the body TAke Tanzy one handfull and wash it Maiden-hair flowers that grow in wheat one handfull bruise them alone take either of their juices one spoonfull mix them with three ounces of Camomill water distilled drink thereof warm very early a pritty draught this will purge the disease downward without pain take of the powder of Maidenhair in your ordinary broth three times a day also the roots of Scabions half a pound stamped and mix therewith some powder of Boral well together and drink thereof a draught in Camomill water three times a day and the Imposthume will break and spit forth Prob. est To ripen and maturate an Imposthume TAke the roots of Mallows and Lillies and boyl them in water till they be tender stamp them with fresh Hos-grease and meal and apply it hot To kill the Itch. MOrtifie Quicksilver with fasting spittle and mix it with as much Hogs-grease as will make it blackish anoint the palms of your hands and the soales of your feet when you go to bed and in the morning wash it with this water Take Indive water and Vinegar of each a like Roch-allum powder of Enula campana boyl them together and wash the grief therewith and this will cure and stop the fluxion of blood Jaundies Black and Yellow the cure TAke Earth-worms wash them in four or five waters very clean strip all the earth out with your finger and stamp them small put stale Ale unto them and stamp them hard out and drink it with Saffron it cureth at three times How to know the Kings-evil or a Disease so called and also the Cure TAke one ounce of pure yellow wax or somewhat more and one ounce of Turpentine and a good quantity of sheeps suet clarified and made pure boyl all these together very well and then put therein the quantity of two good handfuls of the finest and purest Barley-flower very clean without any pulce or seeds of any manner of weeds temper this flower and the other things together then put therein the quantity of three spoonfuls of the Urine of a male Childe being not above three years old then boyl it again with the residue of the things before mentioned then let it cool and put it into some Gallypot for your use and stop it close when you do use it take it and spread it upon a fine linnen cloth or a piece of leather and lay it to the grief and this will cure Prob. est You may know it certainly by this following rule TAke a ground-worm and lay it alive upon the place grieved then take a green Dock-leaf or two and lay them upon the worm and then binde the same about the neck of the Patient at night when he goes to bed and in the morning when he riseth take it off again and if it be the Kings-evil the worm will be turned into powder or dust or else he will be and remain dead in his own former form A soveraign Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs TAke a handfull of Raisins of the Sun and let them be clean washed and stoned and a pennyworth of Maidenhair and one spoonfull of Anniseeds bruised smal ten or twelve Figs and three quarters of a pound of Portugall Sugar and three pints of fair running water boyl all these together till half be consumed then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and every morning drink thereof two spoonfuls luke-warm Prob. est A good Medicine for a sore Leg that doth fester or rankle TAke Smallidge roots and Southernwood Houseleek and Violet-leaves and roots and Waybroad leaves of each a good quantity and a good quantity of Honey and temper it well wich the hearbs and strain them through a fine linnen cloth and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and renew it twice every day and alway before you lay on your plaister wash the sore well with white-wine or oyl of Roses and in time of your cure put alwaies into your drink daily two or three Sage leaves this hath cured many Prob. est Another for the same TAke two white Herrings out of the pickle and open them and lay the insides of them to the soles of your feet when you go to bed and renew them in the morning use this five or six times and it will cure Prob. est A very good drink made of whey which will cool the extream heat of the Liver and Stomack TAke Violet leaves Sinckfoil Succory Endive Scabions and Femitory leaves of each a good handfull and seeth them in a pottle of good whey which hath been boyled and let it continue till the third part be consumed then strain it through a fine cloth and let the Patient drink a good draught thereof morning and evening for a certain time and this will cure For any disease in the Liver TAke the Liver of a Hare well dried and beat into powder and drink it in Ale or Beer or Wine and this will do much good To preserve the Lungs TAke the Lungs of a Fox and dry it well and bâ—â—t it into powder and then put a quarter of a spoonful thereof into Almond milk or into Veal or Mutton broth and let the Patient eat it and this will mightily preserve the Lungs For the Cough of the Lungs TAke green Box and dry it and powder it and searce it take so much at once as will lie on a groat in a draught of warm white-wine morning and evening till you be well which will be as soon as you see your self avoid blood then leave taking your Medicine For heat in the Liver the cure TAke Liverwort Maidenhair and Harts-tongue and Scabions and Strawberry-leaves of each two handfuls Egrimony and Hop buds of each half a handfull boyl all these in a gallon of wort to the consumption of a quart then strain it and put it to the fire again with the white of an egge and one spoonfull of pure Honey let it boyl again then with a spoon scum off the white of the egge and put in some
Germander and Neep of each a good quantity and boyl them in a pottle of fair running water and let it boyl till half be consumed and then strain it and adde two spoonfuls of good wine Vinegar and three or four ounces of fine white Sugar to sweeten it and let the Patient drink every morning and evening three daies together a good draught Prob. est For the Palsie TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves of each of them a like quantity if it be in winter Primrose roots beat them both together and strain them with Ale and give it to the Patient to drink a good quantity at a time and this will cure Prob. est For lameness in the side coming by the Palsie TAke Sage and Hysope and boyl a good quantity together in fair running water and bathe the side that is grieved well therewith then take the hearbs and binde them as hot as may be suffered to the place grieved and this will help Prob. est A soveraign drink if it be taken in time to preserve against the Plague TAke a dram and half of the powder called Imperial one dram of Treakle and Dragon water and Sorrell water of each a dram drink it with Ale in the morning fasting although the party have been infected with the plague twenty four hours before yet by Gods grace he shall escape This hath been truly proved Another for the same TAke a good handfull of winter Savory and boyl it in a quart of good wine Vinegar with a spoonfull of grains being beaten and put to it and adde also a good quantity of fine Sugar and take a good draught thereof morning and evening and if you must of necessity come into the place where any infectious persons are it is good to smell to the roots of Angellica Gentian or Valerian and likewise a piece of Arras root kept in your mouth as you walk any of these are very good and cordial Prob. est Another for the same TAke an Onion and make a hole in it and take out the inner core then take Dragon-water Treakle and Pepper bruised and put them altogether into the Onion and rost it in the embers and then bruise it and strain it into pure Malmsie and give it to the Patient to drink this is a present remedy if it be given before the heart be infected Prob. est A good plaister to draw the Plague-sore to a head and to break it TAke a good handfull or two of Mallows one handfull of Linseed one handfull of sower dow and two or three Lilly roots and stamp all these together very smal and boyl them in a quart of white-wine lees untill it be thick then lay it one inch thick or more upon a piece of leather that is somewhat broader then the sore and let the borders of the leather be plaistered with Shoemakers wax and that will cause it to cleave fast this will break it in a short space Prob. est A soveraign Medicine to cure the Plurisie TAke Brooklime Sheeps suet and a little fair water and fry them together in a frying pan and make a plaister thereof and lay to the side of the Patient and this will draw forth all the corruption Prob. est Another for the same TAke Aqua vitae and Capons grease of each a pritty quantity and boyl them together then take a little black wool and dip it therein and lay it as hot as may be suffered to the grief and this will give ease speedily Prob. est For the French Pox an Oyntment good TAke Allum Verdigrease English Honey that is good and wine Vinegar that is both strong and sharp of each a like quantity mix them well together to an Oyntment anoint the grief therewith often and it will both dry and heal Prob. est An excellent Receipt called Moses water very good for the French Pox or any other disease growing out in sores or scurfs TAke six gallons or more of the purest white-wine that may be gotten and as much stale Ale and a pound and half of Sarsaprila of Licorish and Scena of each of them two pound and two pound of the bark of Guyacum Coloquintida four ounces let all these be boyled together for the space of twenty four hours over a soft fire and put therein with the rest a little Backma maria and when it is well boyled put therein one ounce of Methridatum then take it off and put it into some earthen pot and stop it up close and when you will use it take a good quantity thereof at a time three times a day fasting at three a clock and going to bed and this will cleanse both inward and outward parts of the body and cause the body to be sound after it when that is done make more and use it often Prob. est For the small Pox. TAke Milk Saffron and English honey and seeth them together and give it to the Patient and let him be kept warm and this will bring out the disease Prob. est An excellent good Purge for any manner of disease TAke half an ounce of Senna one spoonfull of Anniseeds half a dram of Licorish one spoonfull of Fennell seeds a few Raisins of the Sun the stones picked out boyl them together in a quart of fair running water and let it boyl till the one half be consumed then strain it and adde thereto one dram and half of Diaphenicon and shake the same well together and let the party which desireth to purge drink a pritty quantity thereof every morning fasting blood-warm and it will purge him well without causing any sickness Prob. est Another Purge for the stomack TAke young Mallows and Mercury of each of them a good handfull or somewhat more Senna one dram and three spoonfuls of Anni-seeds and put them into one pint of white-wine and as much strong Ale and let them stand one night the next day seeth them together again untill the one half be consumed then strain it and give the Patient a good draught thereof in the morning fasting and if he sleep a little after it it will be never the worse Another Purge for all parts of the body TAke two drams of pure Turpentine and wash it very well in Fennell water and bruise it and dissolve it in a mortar with a pestill and put thereto half the yeolk of a new laid egge and one dram of Smallidge water and beat them altogether till it be like Milk and let the Patient sip it off and this will work effectually in all parts of the body For the Pestilence TAke the water of Bettony and Pimpernell and Turmentill or Scabions mix it together and drink it nine daies fasting and fear no Pestilence Doctor â—urgess his Receipt against the Plague and for any symptome of it or the small Pox or Measels or for the beginning of the Ague or Feaver TAke three pints of Malmsie Sage and Herb-grace of each one handfull boyl them altogether till the third part be