Worms they will rise white like Wheals under the plaister then cast more Coperas on your said plaister and so dresse him and he shall be whole To make the Face fair TAke the Flowers of Rosemary and boil them in white Wine then wash thy Face therewith and use to drink of the same Or take Burnet water and Wash thy Face therewith and let it dry by it self also Water of Bean Flowers doth better A Medicine for a white Scurf in the Face TAke of Vineger a Pinte and dissolve in it one Ounce of Champhire and let it stand there in fourteen dayes being very well stopped and then wash the diseased place This holp a Gentlewoman which had a long time a Scurf rising in her Face as though she had been a Leper For Chapped Lips TAke and anoint them with Vnguentum album consecratum and if there be any corrupt blood or matter you must wash the place with Water of Plantain wherein hath been sod a little Alum before you put in the same ointment also it is good to wash the place with Plantain Water and Barley Water together To put away Freckles in the Face Take and anoint thy Face with the Blood of a Hare or of a Bull and this shall destroy the Freckles within five nights dressing if you use it A singular Medicine for Worms in the Face TAke the Leaves and Roots of Leeks and the Juice of them all together and take thereof a Pint and a half and put it into a glasse with an Ounce of Powder of Pellitory and a scruple of Verdigreace and stir them all together and every day bath the Worm and Whelks With Cotton moistened in the said Juice and stir it often in the said glasse also it is good for Worms in any other Members and breeding in the sicknesse called in France the Kings Evil. To put away Freckles in the Face TAke and lay a raw Egge that is new laid in white Wine Vineger all night and on the morrow stamp the Egg small and then put thereto as much Powder of Mustard-seed as the Egge was and mingle it with the Egge and when thou goest to bed anoint thy Face therewith and on the morrow mingle Barley Meal and hot Water together then cast away the VVater and wash thy Face therewith nine dayes or take Salendine stamp it and temper it with white Wine and lay it to the Face or take a good quantity of Pellitory of Spain and white VVine and let it stand a while and then wash thy Face therewith and it will heal thee For Blains in the Face TAke Salt and the Roots of Plantain and Verjuice and stamp them well together and wash the Face therewith and this will heal thee For a foul Blast in the Face TAke red Honey-Suckle for the Man and white for the VVoman and take the juice thereof and annoint therewith thy Face and it will heal thee For a sawcy Flegme Face TAke the Roots of Enula Campana and seeth it in a pot of Vineger untill the Vineger be well sod away then stamp it in a Mortar and put thereto Quick-silver and Brimstone and Swines Greace and make therewith a plaister ointment and anoint thy Face therewith and if you make a plaister lay thereto the some stuffe This is proved Or toke Oil of Tartar and anoint thy Face therewith or any Canker or Ringworm or Tetter Leprosie for this will make it whole For a red Face full of Pimples TAke and distill Water of Salendine and dissolve Camphire in it as is afore written with Vineger and with this wash thy Face this did make a maid whole in twenty dayes that had a marvellous great heat in her Face Also there was a Farmers Wife in Berk-shire which had her Face full of white Scales and was cured with this that followeth she took Honey Suckle Leaves and distilled them and washed her Face often with the Water and it never came again Also there was a Woman which had such a grief in her Face that if she had been by the Fire but a little while and then gone abroad into the Aire her Face would have risen full of red spotts as though she had been drunk which was helpt with this which followeth She took Frankincense and Saffron and then made them to Powder and then cast this Powder upon a Chafingdish of Coals and received the Smoke with open Mouth and using it often was helped To take away Freckles in the Face TAke Pellitory and seeth it with Wine and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the Freckles and this will take it away or take the Gall of a Cock and mingle it with the Flower of Cocle of each a like quantity and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the Freckles or take when you kill a Bull and save the Blood thereof anoint the place therewith that hath the Freckles and it will take them away To take away the small Pox that they shall not be seen TAke the Juice of Fennell and heat it luke-warm and anoint the place therewith three or four dayes divers times for this is an approved Medicine for the small Pox. To make the Face fair TAke white Lillies green Cocle and green honey Suckles of every one a like much and then distill them in a Stilletory and take the Water thereof and wash therewith thy Face and within fifteen dayes thou shalt be fair Medicines for the Throat THE Causes of these Impediments do come of Rheume descending from the Head or by Opilation or such like therefore first purge Flegme and Rheume For a sore Throat that is inflamed TAke two spoonfulls and a half of Honey two good spoonfulls of Treacle of Alum as much as a Pullets Egge of sweet Butter two good spoonfulls five Sprigges of Rosemary a quarter of a spoonfull of Pepper and for an old body the more Pepper For dry Hoarsenesse in the Throat TAke the Root of Parslie and the Root of Fennell a like much and three penny weight of Enula Campana and one pound of Figges and a quarter of a pound of Licoras seeth all these together in a Gallon of running Water to three quarts and put therein a little Hysop and strain it then boil it and take the white of ten or twelve Egges and put therein and let it boil together till it turn clear then take Sugâ—r Roset and put thereto as much as a Hens Egge then take it from the Fire and cleanse it through a fair Cloth and drink thereof Morn and Evening For a Canker in the Throat TAke a Pint of good stale Ale and a good handfull of Sage and a good stone of Alum as much as an Egge and boil them together well and then with a Cloth wash thy Throat and garle it in thy Throat and be whole Or take Sage Woodbine Rue Hysop or Penyryall of each a quarter of a handfull and boil them in good Wine Vineger or strong Ale with a little Roch Alum and a
help you A good Medicine for the Heart and Swowning TAke the powder of Cloves with the juyce of Borage a spoonfull at a time and it will help you Also the powder of Ginger and powder of Cummin put in meats is good for the same A comfortable Medicine to restore the spirits of the Heart and to mend the disposition of the Etick or Consumption as followeth TAke a quarter of an ounce of Gold foyle and half an ounce of Manus Christi beat them in a mortar together untill none of the Gold be seen and keep it till you have need to use it which must be in manner following Take a quart of pure Rose water and boyl it with a quantity of Penidos keep it in a faire glasse and when you will use it take in the morning the weight of the foresaid powder and put in your mouth and drink it down with five or six spoonfulls of the foresaid water For swelling or rising about the Heart SEeth Oyl Olive by it self then take as much Honey and seeth it by it self then seeth them together a little while and when it is cool put it in a box and this is very good for the Heart For fatnesse about the Heart TAke the juice of Fennell and Honey and seeth them all together untill they be hard and then eat thereof evening and morning and thou shalt be whole To put away venom from the heart TAke Bolearmoniack and Sanguis Draconis of each three ounces and of the best Cinamon four ounces and mingle them altogether in powder and so receive it and it will put away Venom from the Heart For Gnawing about the Heart TAke Sage leaves and as much yarrow and grind them together and temper them with Ale and then strain and drink thereof Things good for the Heart SAffron Borage Hearts horn Mustard Cloves Galingale Nutmegs red Roses Violets Maces Sugar good Wine moderately taken Mirth and good ayre that day you eat of Piony or drink thereof you shall not swound Against Swounding BOrage eaten with flesh or in pottage is good for them that fall in their Swounding or be faint at the Heart or have Cardiack Passion at the Heart Against Swounding TAke water that Roses hath been sodden in and the powder of the same with a raw Egge Or take Rose VVater that Sweet VVater hath been sodden in this is very good Medicines for the Belly To dissolve a hard Belly TAke and stamp Mallows and Mercury together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy Navell and it shall dissolve the matter in the womb in short time Or take the juice of Rue and drink it with stale Ale or Wine or fair Water and use to drink of this and it will help thee in short time For any hard Belly that is sore MIngle Pennyroyall and Ginger together and bind them plaisterwise to thy Belly and be whole For Diseases of the Belly whatsoever they be TAke Wormwood Rew Motherwort Lavender Cotton and the gall of an Oxe Cow or Calf stamp the herbs and put the Gall thereto and lay it to the bottom of thy Belly and be whole A Drink to destroy all evills in the Belly or Body within fifteen dayes TAke Scabias Mugwort Smallage Devills-bit Herb-Ivy Wormwood Fumitory Fetherfew and Spiknard stamp all these and seeth them in white Wine and clarifie it with whites of Eggs drink of this nine dayes and be whole Medicines for the Collick For the Wind-Collick TAke Winter-Savory stamp it and strain it with strong Ale drink this warm and immediately the pain will cease as if it were sweep'd away There have been divers helpt with this which have had such pain with the Wind-Collick that they have swowned severall times in a day Also a cupping-glasse set upon the top of the Navell is a present remedy Also Camomill Rosemary Sage and Salt rosted under the embers and laid to the Navell is a present Remedy Emmets eggs dried in an oven made in powder and drank helpeth the Wind-Collick immediately For the Collick of the Stomach see after For the Strangullion CUt off the top of an Onyon and take out the core then put into the place a pretty quantity of this powder following Take Betany and Centory of each a like quantity and make powder thereof putting in a little Butter then put on the top again and put it in hot embers and rost it then lay it to your Navell as hot as you may-suffer it and be whole To make a precious Water for the Strangullion TAke a peck of Hawes when they be ripe and half a peck of Hips and beat them in a mortar to powder then take two gallons of Lees of Malmsey or Sack a penniworth of long Pepper and a half-penniworth of graines put all these together and distill them in a Stilletory or Limbeck take the water thereof and drink it luke-warm first and last For the Collick a precious Medicine proved TAke Saxifrage Maidenhaire unset Time and Parsley seed and seeth all these together in Malmsey strain it and drink it warm Or take Time Mints Woodroof Vilipendula and Setwall make pottage herewith and you shall find great ease For all evills within the Bladder TAke Fennell seeds Parsley seeds and Smalladge seeds bruise them and temper them with faire running Water and drink this first and last at your pleasure For one that hath much wind in his Belly TAke Juniper berries ere they wax black and drie them in the ayre and keep them all the year and use the powder thereof in your drink and pottage Or take the roots of Elecampane the roots of Pellitory of the garden and Fennell roots of each a like quantity and as much of Sothernwood wash them and bray them a little and seeth them all together in a gallon of Wort and drink thereof For the Collick TAke Flower and Ale and drink it unsod with a little Sugar and this will make you go to the stool and ease your Collick and Strangullion Or take Hempseed and drie it and make powder thereof and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine Or take Dill seed Anniseed and Cummin of each a like quantity beaten into fine powder eat it in your pottage it will help you A soveraine Medicine for the Collick and Stone TAke Parsley seed Fennell seed Anniseed Cummin seed Plantain seed of each of them a quarter of an ounce an ounce of Nutmeg foure ounces of fine Sugar beat all these seeds into powder and searse them and let the Sugar be beaten with Ale then take of the powder as much as an Hafell nut and let the Patient use to drink thereof morning and evening four times a week warm with Wine or Beer but Wine is best and when the pain cometh drink it with Malmsey Another FRie Pellitory and Butter together and bind them to thy Navell and this will suddenly cease the pain Or take a Lapwing and burn her in the fire feathers and all then take the
Leeks with the tails and wash them clean and stamp them and fry them in Barrows-grease and make a Plaister and lay it all about the yard and be whole Or take Betony and seeth it in Wine and stamp it and make a Plaister and lay it to the Cods and it will asswage the swelling of them this is well proved For pain in a mans Yard through Gravel or Champise as followeth TAke Pellitory and Boares-grease and fry them together well and make two Plaisters thereof and lay one between the Navel and the Yard and the other on the Reines of the back and anon thou shalt deliver water and gravel which before thou mightst not do but by drops this will help thee without doubt To make a water for a sore Yard TAke and put Allom in fair water and seeth it till it wax tough then put it in a pewter Box this will cleanse a sore and make it fair For burnign with a Harlot IF a man be burnt with a Harlot and do meddle with another woman within one day she shal be burned If one be burned let him wash his secrets two or three times with white Wine or Sack and water but if the matter have continued long go to some expert Chyrurgion to have help or else thy Guts will burn and fall out of thy belly For a mans Stones that hang down long TAke the fatness of a Conney and anoynt thy Cods and Stones therewith and then wrap thy Sones in a Conny-skin do this nine times and labour not in nine dayes and be whole For him that cannot make water TAke Rue Grommel and Parsley and stamp them and mingle them with white Wine and give the sick thereof to drink warm Or take the juyce of Cinquefoil and drink it with Posset-ale and it will make you make water anon For one that cannot make water TAke the stones and Kercels of Peches and Medlers as much of the one as of the other and make them into Powder very fine and searse them this done take fine Sugar the weight of all this and mingle all this together and let the Patient drink thereof with good white Wine and he shall be whole incontinent To make one make water TAke six or seven Berries of Ivy and stamp them and strain them with Ale and give the sick to drink therof and he shall make water straight To make one make water TAke a pinte of good Ale and put therein of Honey even as it cometh out of the Hive with Bees wax and all and strain it with the Ale then give it the Patient to drink and within one quarter of an hour he shall make water with this was one holpen that lay three dayes and never made water To make one make water TAke a pinte of white Wine and a good spooonful of Sivil Soap finely scraped and the yolks of two Eggs well put from the whites beat all these together with the Wine and then strain it and warm it luke-warm and drink hereof as often as you shall feel pain and this will help you for it is well proved A Medicine for the Scyatica THis Infirmity cometh of hard lying on the Huckle-bones or lying upon the ground or upon a forme or such like it may come by a stripe or by a fall and it will run from the Huckle-bone to the knee and from the knee to the anckle and from the anckle to the little toe and then it is past cure and otherwhiles this Gowt will have a reflexion ro the Reines of the back and to the Flank and it may come of a gross Flegmetique humour The chiefest remedy is to anoint the place with oyl of Turpentine and Aqua vitae compounded together and use to anoint the place often against the fire and a searcloth of pitch is good For the Scyatica TAke oyl of Olive May butter gall of a Bul and red Onyons and boyle these together and lay it to the hips where the paine is this is a good Medicine Or take a red cloth and Anoynt it with Clarified Honey and thereupon strew the powder of Cummyn and as hot as you may Bind it to the sore and be whole For the Scyatica in the Hip. Take a Pottle of wine Lees and wine dregs and sower bread and Cow-dung and boyl these well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the paine as hot as you may suffer it and this will heal you For the Scyatica Passion TAke a Gallon of Urine and seeth it well and scum it well untill it be cleer and then take it downe and let it stand untill it be cold and then put the cleer therof into a faire Pot and put away the dregs and then take the same cleer Urine and put it over the fire and put therein a quart of black dew Snails and boyl them together until the Snails be wasted then strain it through a hair sive and keep the same liquor in an earthen pot and aniont the hipp and the legg therwith before a hot fire and let the liquor be warm For all manner of Gouts and consumed members and for the Scyatica passion TAke a pound of Riote of red docks that men make brogys of and wash them clean and dry them in the sun untill the water be away then cut them small and bray them in a morter and boyl them in a quart of strong vineger untill half be wasted and then with the same anoint the aking place and it will amend then keep it in a vial of glass or els it will dry away This Medicine is very excellent for the diseases abovewritten for it hath been very well proved Medicines for the fundament A Remedy for falling out of the Fundament FIrst beware of taking cold in that place and beware of costiveness and keep your arse and buttocks warm and sit not upon the cold earth nor upon stones nor upon no hard thing but take something under the buttocks not only for falling out of the Longation or arsgut for all other infirmities that may be engendred in the Longation For the figge in the fundament THis Impediment is a Impostumation or lump of flesh growing in the Longation and it doth come of melancholy humors the which doth descend to the Longation or fundament and for remedy purge the matter with confection of hamock or with the pills of Lapides Lazule or with Vera Rufini then take of the powder of a dogs head burned and mix it with the juyce of pimpernel and make tents and put into the fundament For him that his fundament goeth out TAke bay leaves and boyl them in a pot of water and as hot as you can suffer it you must sit over it to the intent the fume of the water may go up into the body and with your finger put it up by little and little and when it is hot heat an Oaken board and sit on it as hot as you can suffer it and it wil help you
boil them till half be wasted then thick it up with Bran and lay it to the sore Or take and seeth the juice of Nightshade in Butter and Oil and scum off the froth and keep the same for a precious Jewell to use when you have need Or take and seeth Oatmeal in white Wine and lay it plaisterwise to the sore Knee and it wil help thee shortly For the Gout in the Knee TAke the milk of a Cow of one colour and wheaten flower and seeth it untill it be thick like a plaister and put thereto the juice of Smallage and lay it to the Gout and be whole Medicines for Legs Medicines for the Legs that be swollen TAke Wormwood Sothernwood and Rue of each a like much and stamp them together and sry them with fair Honey till it llegin to wax dry and as hot as you may suffer it lay it to the Legs or Hands and this will asswage the swelling A Psaister for swollen Legs or when you have no feeling in them TAke a pound of Pitch and half a pound of Wax and half a pound of Dears sewet or Sheep sewer and boil all these together then strain tnem through a linnen cloth and so make a plaister of white Leather of the bignesse of the fore place and let it lie to the sore three or four daies and then if it be not whole make another plaister and lay it again and so dresse it till it be whole for this will bring the feeling again and mollifie the humor and asswage the swelling For a sore Leg. TAke unwrought Wax and a little sheeps Tallow and seeth them together with a little white Coperas and strike it on a cloth and so lay it to the sore Or take Elder Leaves those that grow one side the leaf longer then the other on the stalk then the other doth these be very good for a sore Leg both to heal and these be leafs best for mankind A Pultis for a sore Leg which is swollen red and doth prick and ake TAke Housleek Maslows Lilly roots and Smallage dry red Rose Leafs of each a good handfull Oatmeal two handfulls Lineseed Vinecreet seed of each a handfull good Ale dregs and Vineger of each a pint or more white Wine a pottle more or lesse seeth the foresaid stuffe very softly and make thereof a Pultis and lay it to the Leg. A Medicine for a Leg that is swollen and is not red but will pit after ones finger TAke Chickweed and Pelltory of each an handfull and instead of Vineger take dregs of Wine and put thereto Sheeps tallow pound chopped and Cows milk at your pleasure and seeth them as before written untill it be soft and bind it to the swollen Leg. Another for the same TAke a quart of red Wine and crums of Rie bread and seeth them together till it be like a plaister as hot as you can suffer it lay it to the sore Leg upon a fair cloth and when that is done take another and so till you have taken four and this will help you To heal a sore Leg coming of an old cause TAke flowers of Camomill or Camomill and a good handfull of Mallows of Wormwood of Grunsell and Sage of every one half a handfull and beat all small in a Morter and seeth it in Milk and put thereto in the seething Vincreeck seed in powder half a handfull of Anniseeds and Fennell seeds one ounce a little May-butter four or five yolks of Eggs and seeth all together and the same Eggs in the latter end of the seething and so let it seeth till you come to a thicknesse You may in the latter end of the seething put in a pint of red Wine to comfort the Synews take the Camomill and Mallows of each a handfull beaten in a Morter with Oatmeal and Milk sodden together and let it boil to a thicknesse For a Veine or Synew sprung in the Leg or elswhere TAke Dill Vervain Mallows and the crops of red Nettles and seeth all these in running Water and after chop them small and lay them hot to the Leg as he can suffer it The best Medecine for aking of bones in the Legs or Joynts or elswhere TAke a quarter of a pound of Dill and beat it to powder and put thereto a quart of good white Wine and let it seeth till half be wasted away then put thereto a pint of Oyl Olive and let them seeth together and then strain it and keep it to annoint the sore place withall and this will cease the pain anon this is called Oleum Vnamico keep it well in a glasse for this is proved For a swollen Leg. TAke Oatmeal and seeth it in Milk as you would make pottage therewith and put thereto a handfull of Mallows chopped small and the juice of Sengreen and sheeps sewet and let it boyl together till it be thick and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore Leg and be whole For a red swelling in the Foot TAke and seeth Beane meal and Barley meal with water right thick and well and make a plaister and lay it to the swelling Or take Turpentine and Vineger Honey white Wine and Bran and seeth all these together well untill they be thick and then lay it to the swelling Or take else Parsley Sage and Rue and stamp with Lard of fat Bacon and gray snails and lay it to the sore and it will gather to a head Or take Rose leafs and Lineseed Milk and Oatmeal and fry all these together and lay it to the sore For an ach in the Feet or if his limbs were taken from him TAke wool Oyl or rather other Oyl and put thereto a good quantity of Aqua vitae and beat it to gether and chase it against the fire and all to rub the sore and dead place and in short time it wil be whole For great aking of Bones in the Feet or elswhere the best Medicine TAke Baldare one ounce and put it in your pottage and eat thereof for this is very good for aking of Bones and also to restore a man that is in a Consumption in short time if you will use it To cool a hot sore Leg and to abate the swelling TAke red Coal Leaves Sage and Smallage well stamped medled together with sowre dough and Honey and lay it to the sore Or take horse Dung newly made and wring out the juice thereof and annoint the sore therewith a good while and then take Violet Leases and Housleek and stamp them and strain them and put to that juice sweet Cream and annoint the sore therewith and it will destroy the great heat For a swelling in any place TAke Hogs Dung Pigeons Dung and Sheeps Tallow Chickweed and Smallage and put all these together in Lees of Malmsey or in Malmsey or for lack of this in his own water and when it is wel boyled lay it hot to the sore swelling and this will abate the swelling and ease the pain For
or woman ten grains and temper it well with conserve of Barberries or any other conserve and after it doth work let them drink still between times a good draaught of Posset-drink For the Tooth-ach TAke the green Bark of the Elder-tree after you have scraped off the upper gray Bark being gathered in the Spring let it be gently dryed in the shade so as it may be powdered whereof take a quarter of an ounce Bay-salt well dryed Pellitory of Spain and Euphorbium of each the weight of six-pence let all of them be beaten together into very fine Powder and there of ty up so much in a little thin Lawn Tiffine or Sarcenet as will make the quantity of an ordinary Button which you must let the Party hold between his teeth laying it on the pained Tooth and so hanging down the head let the Rhume run out of the mouth till the pain cease With this onely Medicine M. Clark in Sheer-lane got forty pound in a year having many coming to him in the mornings and paying ten groats each of them and so departing holpen Or take the Powder of Spanish-flies and lay them on a piece of sower Leven well moystened with sharp Vinegar and press them well into the Leven being the bigness of a Shilling and so lay them under each ear and when they are fast bound let them lie still the space of six or eight hours in which time it must raise a Blister which when you take it off you must dip and let it run as long as you can laying on it a Colewort-leaf until it be whole and this will also help For the Mother TAke Sneesing-powder the weight of sixpence Castorium the weight of two-pence mingle them together then moysten the Powder well with oyl of Amber and taking a little on the end of ones little finger stroak it into the nose when the Party hath her Fit and it will cause her sneese and cease the Fit Also for the preventing the Fit THe Party should use twice in a week at her going to bed to take two good Pills of Assa-fetida Or else Take of the Briony root dry the weight of six-pence and boyl it in a pinte of white Wine and then strain it and put some sugar to it and make three draughts of it taking it three times in a week each other morning and you shall find it a singular Remedy For the Spleen LEt the Party purge twice in a week with a Dram or the weight of six-pence of Pulvis Sanctus and the next week let them cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Hemeroid-veins in the Fundament and afterward use this drink following for the space of seven or eight dayes Take the Inner Bark of the Ash-tree two ounces the Polipody-root or Fearn-root that groweth on the sides of watery ditches one ounce Tamerickt wo good handfuls Liqueorish half an ounce Anniseeed one ounce Let these be boyled in three quarts of small Beer till it come to a pottle whereof let then Party drink morning and at night going to bed a quarter of a pinte very warm And for Diet let them generally forbear Fish Baked-meats Smoak-dryed-meats and new Beer use to eat good store of Capers and Broom-buds for Sallets And after this course you should cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Veins in the Fundament called the Hemeroid veins For a Tertian Fever TAke young Plantane with the root young Vervane with the root Cinkefoyl with the root of each of them three roots with the herb of red Fennel red Sage Rosemary of each three slips Let these be boyled in a pinte and a half of Posset-ale or whey till that come to a pint and in the latter end of the boyling put into that a dram of the salte of wormewod and then let that be strained Whereof the patient must make three good drafts three howers before the fit be exspected each hower a draft as hot as he can drink it and at the second day of taking that the cure is done This cureth the fever that cometh every other day To dry up milk in the brests USe nothing but the plaister of Diachilon spread upon thin leather and let it ly on three or four days and it faileth not For sore Nipples TAke of the rosin of the Firre tree and when that is finely powdered strew that upon the sore nipples and then cover them with little cups fitted hollow for to cover the nipples like a thimble with a little brim unto it and it will skin it This powder also being finely beaten and with a quill blowen into the eye will take away the pin and web or any excrescens on the surface of the eye For one that is Costive in Childbed THere is nothing safer nor better then to give the party two ounces of the oyle of sweet almondes Or if the party cannot take that you may give her a suppositer of Cassel sope which is alway to be had for the manner of the cutting the sope you may do that by the holding a Cytern wyer fast at both ends and then sawing it through it without breaking out of the sides as it will do if you cut with a knife For to Clense and stay the whites TAke of the purest rosin or gum of Lignum vitae otherwise called the gum of Guaicum rub it gently in a Morter so as it may be in a fine powder and thereof mingle as much as the weight of six pence in a draught of milk and sugar taking that cold and so use that twice in a week for two weekes together and that will give two or three stooles clense and knit the weakness of the back perfectly For a Whitelow on the finger TAke a snaile out of his shell and chop it very small and bind that to it and dress it twice in a day and that will quickly help it For a cut hand or finger TAke some green hysop and stamp that well in a morter with some sugar and so binde that to the wound To stay the bleeding of the nose TAke nettles stamp them and juice them which you may take cold a good spooneful or two holding that in your mouth as long as you can and then take some more fresh and also stamp them and lay them al over your forehead being a little moistned or sprinkled with vineger Also thus YOu should in the moneth of March take two or three cloths as big as handkerchiefs and wet them very well in the spawn of froggs and hang them up to dry in a stove and then dip them very well again and dry them and do so three or four times and when at last they be wel dryed reserve them And when you have occasion to use them you may tear off a peece and spriknle it with a little vineger and lay it on cold upon the forehaed and if that do not stay it the party must presently be let blood before he grow too weak For a Cough TAke Turnips and put them into an Earthen glased pot and cover it with a cover of the same or a peuter dish and paste that close together then set them into the bakers oven with the houshold bread and then they wil be wel stewed And then press out the juyce and make it into a syrup with sugar and take of it often in a day a spoonful at once letting it melt down your throat by degrees and that wil recover you from your cough For the wormes in Children TAke gum Dragaint a dram put to it a quarter of a pint of Rosewater let it stand twenty four howers stirring of it often and with this muscilage moisten some fine powdered sugar working them together into a paste of which paste take the quantity of twenty grains and mix with it nine or ten graines of the powder of Mercurius dulcis and make that into a little cake and let it dry in a Stove and give it to children of five six or seven and to elder you may give twelve graines The Composition of the Emplastrum Diachilon to dry up milke in the brests TAke Linseed oyl two pintes and a half Litharge of Lead in fine powder two pound mix the oyl and the Litarge together and let them boyl til they be knit and com to a reasonable stifnes then put in twelve ounces of the muscilage made with Marshmallow roots Fennigreek seed and Linseed then boyle it til al the muscilages moisture be boyled away then put in half a pound of wax rosin one pound melt them with the rest which being done put into the same in the cooling cerufe one pound stir them up together and then make them up into roules and reserve them When you put in your muscilage put it in a spoonful at once til you have put it al in lest it make the medicine run over For any red inflammation or that which is called saint Anthonies fire which usually doth come in the Legs and somtime in other Places TAke one ounce of the Lapis Medicamentosus and boyle it in a quart of fair water til half a pint be wasted and then let it stand together all night next morning you should dip a linnen cloth in it warm and lay it on the place til it be dry and then lay on another and you shall keep wet clothes to it til it be wel which usualy is two or three dayes For a Tetter or Ringworm TAke ordinary white copperas four ounces powder it fine and put to it a pinte of the sharpest wine vineger and shake them wel together til the copperas be dissolved and so wetting linnen cloths in it apply it to the place FINIS
untill it be thick and spread it upon a little cloth of the bignesse of the Eyes and lay it to lukewarm one day and a night or untill you see them something asswaged and then wash them with Womans milk Probatum est I have known a woman heal many blind people with this medecine following TAke Daysie roots Betany flowers Pimpernell and red Fennel stamp them and strain them with stale Ase and drink of this evening and morning and lay outwardly to thy Eyes Rose-water Womans milk and the white of an Egg with Tow being well beaten together the drink will be better if you pound and put the juice of Cheslocks a worm so called that is between the bark and the body of trees commonly and then the juice of the said worm put into the sore Eyes healeth them A medicine wherewith one was holpen that had a prong thrust into the white of his Eye TAke the right ground Ivy Salendine the green of a Goose Tird Womans milk and put them together in a Glasse then when they be settled powr out the clearest and put it into thine Eyes and this will make thee whole A precions medecine for sore and dim Eyes TAke a handfull of Tyme a handfull of Vervain a handfull of Rose leaves a handfull of brown Fennell and when you have washed those herbs clean put them into a Stillitory and then put thereto a pint of white Wine and eight ponniworth of pure white Coperas and distill the same and put it into a glasse and use to wash your Eyes therewith Probatum est Another for sore Eyes TAke red Rue Smallage Vervain Maiden-hair Ivy Sengreen Walwort and red Fennell of each a handfull wash them clean and lay them in good white Wine a day and a night and after put them all into a stillitory and still them for the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like Balm and keep it in a glasse and use it A speciall medecine for Eyes first to clarifie the sight and curable to all Passions to Eyes as hath been proved many times and if the Eyes be therewith washed or else one drop of cleer water put therein it cleareth the sight and is much profitable to strained Eyes it will destroy a Pearl overcometh the Megrim and healeth any Eye that is smitten with a stroke TAke red Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain Betany red Roses Grape leaves Appium Egrimony ground Ivy that groweth upon an oak and of all these take even portions and it must be put foure dayes and four nights in this manner following the first day and night in white Wine the second day and night in Water of a Manchild a Virgin the third day and night in Womans milk the fourth day and night in clean Honey and this done take all the herbs and put them into a stillitory and the water that cometh thereof ye shall put into a viall and use this as aforesaid and in this water put the fourth part of an ounce of Camphere beaten in a morter this is an excellent medicine To make a precious water for sore eyes and for all manner of sores as followeth TAke red Roses Smallage Rue Vervain Maidenhaire Eufrasia Eyebright Endive Sengreen Walwort red Fennel and Salendine of every one of these half a quartern wash them and lay them in good white Wine twenty four houres and then distil them and the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like balm keep it well in a viall or glasse for it is worth any Balm for any manner of evill or sore Eye and this hath been proved many times To make a water for sore Eyes which is excellent TAke the filing of Brasse of Iron Lead of Steel and of Gold and put it one day in the water of a clean Virgin to steep the second day put it in white Wine being hot the third day in the juice of Fennell the fourth day in the milk of an Ewe the fifth in red Wine the sixth day in three whites of Egges and then put it into a Stilletory and distill it with a soft fire and keep the water in a vessell this water is right excellent and precious for a mans sight and destroyeth the Leprosie A medicine for the Pearl and Flegme grown over the Eye TAke the Gall of an Hare and boil it with as much Honey as the Gall. Probatum est Medicines for the Ears For an Ear-wig or Worm in the Ear. TAke the Juice of Wormwood Rue and Sothernwood of each a like much and mingle them together and put it into the Ear and that will slay the Worm that is in any mans head within five nights at the furthest and lay some of the substance of the herbs plaister-wise To make one hear that is deaf TAke green Elm and lay it amidst the Fire and take the water that cometh out at the ends thereof a spoonfull and take a spoonfull of the juice of Sengreen and a spoonfull of Eels grease that is a kind of a black Eel of the gobbin next the navell and boil them together a little over the fire and then put the liquor into a glasse and put thereof into thine eares when thou art in bed and within a day thou shalt be whole but look that the liquor be milk-warm or take the juice of Betany and let it rest a good while and then take black Sope and the juice together and put it into thine Ears Another for the same TAke Camomill Melil ot Marjoram Calamint Hysop Wormwood Pennyroyall Stethados Mints of each a handfull boil them in running water one houre and dip a cloth therein and hold it hot to the Eare that the heat may enter into thy head and after stop thy Ears with cotton or black wooll that no cold may enter and this will help the hearing A water to help the hearing TAke and distill Sorrell or Wormwood in a common stilletory and take foure drops of either of the same waters whether you will and put into the ear lukewarm For pain in the Ears or for default of hearing TAke the oyl of sweet Almonds and drop it into thine ear and it helpeth the pain speedily also milk sodden and put into a stone pot with a narrow mouth and the sore ear holden over the pot that the vapor of the milk may ascend into the care this taketh away the pain and breaketh the imposthume of the head this is proved trrue Another for the same TAke the oil of a silver Eel with black wool of a Ram betwixt the hinder legs and the flank it helpeth presently the pain and will cause the Ear to run Also the oyl of a Weasle or Mole helpeth the hearing very well but you must make it in this sort when the Weasle or Mole is stripped of his skin then put the said Weasle or Mole into an earthen Jug and stop the Jug very close and put the pot into seething water and let
it stand there three houres and then take it out and put the clear substance into a Glasse To draw an Ear-wig out of the Ear. TAke a piece of an old Apple and put it into the Ear of the Patient and lie down all night upon the same side and in the Morning pluck away the Apple quickly and the Worm will come forth This helpt a Woman in Oxfordshire Also another Woman had one of the said Worms in her Ear and she took Aqua vitae and dropped it into her Ear and stopped her Ear with Bumbast and laid her down on the same side and was holpen presently but if once will not serve do it two or three times Medicines for the Nose For a fleshy humor growing in the Nose or for a bottle Nose TAke of the Powder of Dragagant with a little Honey and make a Tent thereof and introduce it into your Nose or Nostrills or take the Juice of Black Ivy with a little Cotton and make a Tent and put it in your Nostrills For bleeding at Nose TO restrict the Blood which doth flow out of a mans Nose let him smell to a Hogs Tird and lay his Stones and Cods in Vineger If it be a Woman let her lay her breasts in Vineger or else exhaust an Ounce or more of Blood out of a Vein called Cephalica For stinking of the Nose TAke Cloves Ginger and Calamints of each alike and seeth them in white Wine and therewith wash thy Nose and after put in Powder of Pierimonie to provoke sneesing Also if the cause of thy stinking come from thy Stomach first help thy Stomach as shall be said in the Remedies for the Stomach A singular Medicine to stop blood TAke Swines Dung as hot as you may have it from the Swine when you have cleansed the congeal'd Blood out of the Nose wring it through a Cloth and let that juice pierce into the side from whence the Blood cometh and by the Grace of God it shall stanch anon Moreover it is good to bind the Feet and Arms as hard as can be suffered with a Cord or Lace the stronger the better Or take strong Vineger and put it into the side of the Nostrill that bleedeth and if they bleed both put it into both and it shall stop straight Or take and bear about thee the herb Appium otherwise called March Smallage that groweth by the Waters side and whilest thou bearest the same about thee thou shalt not bleed if thou haddest many Wounds To kill a Canker in the Nose TAke and boil Strong Ale untill it rope and be like a Salve then lay it on a plaister of Leather and lay it on the Nose and it will heal it and for stinking Flesh that groweth on the Nose take and distill Serpentine called Adders-tongue and then put of the same Water with Cotton into the Nostrills where the stinking Flesh is And against the Imposthumation of the Nose take and distill Flower de Luce and lay wet Clothes thereon also Water of Sowthistles called Carduus Benedictus doth heal the Noli me tangere in the Nose wet Clothes being laid thereon and some of the Powder of the same will heal the Nose For Pushes and Pimples in the Nose TAke the Yolk of an Egge and bray it with Ceruse and so anoint your Nose therewith and be whole within four or five dayes at the most or take the Juice of Plantane and the roots of Burres and Salt and Verjuice and stamp them all together and strain out the Juice and therewith wash thy Nose and it will be whole To stop Bleeding at the Nose TAke Amber and burn it in a Chasingdish of Coals and let the Smoak of it go up into thy Nose and it will stop Bleeding A Tailor Bleeding twenty four houres without ceasing and no Medicine could stay him at last he took a Skain of black Threed and put the one end thereof in at the Nostrills and the other was set on Fire and when he had received the Smoke into his Nostrills the great Flux ceased immediately and he bled no more in a long time after Another for the same TAke the Root of the great Romane Nettle and let the Patient chew it in his mouth and so refresh it with another Root for this in great need hath been found very saving for staying of the Flux of Blood And when I could stop the Blood with no manner of Medicine then I opened a Vein in the Ear and so let out a good quantity of blood this is the last Refuge for Bleeding at the Nose Medicines for the Mouth WHosoever would have help for the Mouth or for the Tongue or for the Ears or for the Eyes or for the Nose or for the Teeth or for any dolour or pain which may be in any of those parts or places let them use otherwhiles Sternutations and Pills of Cochy and once or twice a Moneth let them use Gargarizes to exhaust and draw out the Rheume out of the Head the which Rheume is cause of many infirmities in mans body as doth more largely appear as followeth For spitting of Blood TAke the Juice of Betany and temper it with Goats Milk and let the sick drink thereof three dayes and he shall be whole Or take Smallage Mints Rue and Betany and boil all these together in good Milk and sup it warm For stinking of the Mouth TAke the Juice of black Mints and of Rue a like much and put it into thy Nostrills and this will help thee This is proved For a stinking Breath TAke an Ounce of Sage and make thereof Powder one Ounce of Rosemary Flowers half an Ounce of Cloves two Drams of Cinamon two Nutmegs and two Grains of Musk and make them all into Powder then take as much purified Honey as will cover all them put it in a Box and set it in the Sun five dayes and it will be perfect then take every Morning fasting half an Ounce and so at Night to comfort the Meat that it putrifie not or corrupt the Stomach and be whole To recover a Mans Speech TAke the Juice of Sage and Primrose and put into the Patients Mouth and he shal speak straight or within a while after For a Mouth that is staid with heat TAke Ribwort and seeth it in Red Wine and hold it in your Mouth hot and do this often and be whole For the Canker in the Mouth TAke nine Leaves of Sage and stamp them with a little Salt and Verjuice and make thereof a Plaister and lay it thereto and it will be whole but you must dresse it twice a day Against the inward eating sore of the Mouth TAke and distill Perwinckle and with the Water thereof wash thy Mouth also Water of Lavender and Fumitory doth kill all sores in the Mouth and for Blains in the Mouth take and distill Burnet in a common Still and with the Water thereof wash the Blains in thy Mouth For a Canker in the Mouth TAke rusty
which was sore grieved with the Stone who was holpen with this drink following Take the blossoms of Haws and distyl them then take the water thereof and seeth it and put therein Grommel-seed Saxifrage-seed and Parsly-seed of each an ounce of Goats blood Hares blood and Fox blood of each of them seven Drams seeth all these in a quart of the water in a close pot of Pewter or earth in a Kettle of water the space of six hours then strain it and drink thereof every day This is an excellent hing To deliver the Stone a Medicine that never fails TAke the roots of red Nettles and wash them clean in many waters and then bray them small and lay them in red Wine twelve hours then give the sick thereof to drink six spoonfuls of the liquor and let him rest on a bed 3 hours and then give him twelue spoonfuls and 3 hours after give him twenty spoonfuls and anon he shall make water and deliver the Stone Or take white Thorn buds in May and distyl them and take a pinte of the same water and half a pinte of Malmsey and boyl it a little at the fire but if you put in a little Honey withal it will be the better and then drink it to bed-ward Proved by Master GAGE To break the Stone TAke a quantity of a Jet-stone and two races of Ginger and the shells of Egs hatched under a Hen when the Chickens be out but first take away the filme of the shels and put them altogether in a Morter with the piece of a stone that cometh out of an Ox gall or with Parsley-seed if you cannot get the stone and make Powder of all these together and drink of it with warm Ale in a spoon as often as you shall think good and it will break the Stone and ease you of the Collick and cause you to make water easily An excellent Medicine for the Stone TAke Selgreen Planten Fetherfew and Tansey and pound them all apart and keep every Liquor by it self in a Glass then take of each of them a like quantity and boyl it with Bean-flower and Honey to make it Plaister-wise and then take a double swadling-band of linnen cloth and spread the Plaister thereupon and so lay it to the pain and round about the back and use it so a fortnight or three weeks for this is a special good Medicine and well approved Another for the same TAke a Goat and keep him three dayes fasting then put him in a Tub full of holes and the fourth day give him nothing but Grommel Parsley Alexander Salendine Saxifrage Hawberries and Watereresses and make him to lick prepared Salt and give it him with Wine to drink and so keep him with that food a whole week in the foresaid Tub and all the water he maketh you must through the holes of the Tub receive it into some vessel then take this water and put thereto Holly Berries Ivy Berries and Hawthorn Berries of each half a handful of Juniper Berries of flowers of Starewort of Cras-foot of each half a handful of the seeds of Parsley Saxifrage Elysander Radish Philipendula Nettles the Berries of Kneeholm Asparagus Fennel-seed and Anni-seed of each half an ounce of the roots of Kneeholm of Asparagus and Water-cresses of each of them four ounces of Grommel-seed and Smallage-seed eight ounces Bruise all these feeds small and chop the herbs and put them into the foresaid Goats water the space of twelve dayes into some warm place stirring them every day two or three times then put them together into a Styll and hang in the mouth of the Styll a little Musk Cynamon and Cloves because of the loathsomness of the Goats water and so distyl the water and give the Patient that hath the Stone three ounces at a time this is the most Soverain water can be found for it melteth and voideth the Stone without pain This holp a Scholler at Eaton-Colledge whom all the Physitians gave over as one incurable Of the Stone THe Stone is engendered by reason of a great heat that is about the Reins straightness of the Conduit and abundance of gross and slimy humors or Brentcholer which by the said excess of heat is as one would say baked or dryed as Clay in the Furnace and so at last becometh a hard stone Therefore it is chiefly to be noted that without the mending of the foresaid causes all that you do minister to break the Stone is either hurtful to the Patient or else small effect therefore it is good to keep a sober diet And note that alwaies whatsoever they be are nought in this case All kind of Pulses as Pease Beanes and such like all gross flesh and water-fowls and fowls of great bodies and all Fruits except ripe Prunes are might and all Shell-fish except Grevise and Shrimps also all Pepper and hot spices and all meats salt or sower but especially boware of hard Cheese for that is oftentimes the onely cause of the Stone and you must not lie on your back and you must keep your Reins cold and let your back be untrussed in summer An approved Medicine for the Stone and Strangury TAke most of Licoras then Anniseeds Colianedr Grommel Fennel Parsley and Alicander-seeds then dry all these seeds and pound them severally by themselves and note that Licoras Anni-seeds and Grommel-seeds be Restoratives and when they are all in Powder mix thereto powder of Syre to the quantity of one half of one parcel of the scowrers also mix thereto white Sugar-candy to the quantity of your Licoras with a Nutmeg or two use this powder fasting in clear Ale in your Broths and all suspected meats Remedies for a Mans Yard IF this Impediment be of any interial cause use to drink Milk or else drink oft a good portion of the water of Hawes and inject into the Yard the water of Comphry if the Impediment be betwivt the head and skin of the Yard wash the head of the Yard divers times with white Wine and after that use the powder of a rotten Post or any siceative Medicines is good or else Populion or Vnguentum ei Epsiacon is good For the Erection of the Yard above Nature TAke first and anoint the Yard and Godds with oyl of Juniper and the oyl of Campheret is good and so is Agnus Castus braid and made in a Plaister and laid upon the Stones This Impediment doth come of the inflamation of the Reins of the back or of inflamations of the Veines of the Yard and Stones or of too much use of Venerious acts To heal a mans Yard that is sore TAke Turpentine and the yolk of an Egg of each a like much well beaten together with Saffron and anoint the sore Yard therewith Or take and seeth the powder of Lynseed in sweet Milk till it be thick and lay it to the Yard Plaister-wise and anoint it with the juyce of Morrel and Plantane and be whole For the swellings in a mans Yard TAke
For the falling out of the fundament TAke a red Nettle and bray it well and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto a good portion of white wine and seeth it until it be half wasted and of the liquor give the patient to drink first and last warm and lay the herbs to the fundament as hot as he may suffer it and use this and be whole Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids THe Emerods or the Piles the which be the vains in the extreame parts of the Longation to whom doth happen divers times 2 sundry passions the first is like paps and tetts and they will bleed and they be the very Emerods the other be like wartes and they will itch water and smart and they be called the Piles and in the same place doth breede other infirmities as is aforesaid The cause of this Impediment doth some of malicious humours in the Maw and Entrails or it may come of a cholerick humor For the Piles or Hemeroids TAke a pint or a quart of Linseed Oyl and put into it as many Cray-fish alive as it will hold then boyl them a quarter of an hour then strain the oyl from them and let them be very well beaten in their shells in a Mortar and then put them into the oyl again and let them boyl as formerly then strain them hard from the oyl and cast them away then fill the oyl with as many of the young tops or tender buds of Elder or the young fresh leaves and let them boyl in them till they begin to be crips like fryed Parsly then strain that very hard from the Elder and reserve that for an excellent medicine to anoint the Piles or moistning a little Cotton keep it close trussed up and it will quickly help them It is also a soverain medicine for any Burning or Scalding For the Emrods TAke an onyon and cut of the top thereof and take out the hart of the onyon and fill up the place with the juyce of unset leeks and then rist it in the fire and with the juyce thereof anoint the sore and lay all hot thereto Or take bran of wheat and fry it in sheeps tallow and put it in a bagg or pocket and lay it to the sore or let the sick sit thereon and this will help you For the Piles TAke Scabias and boyl it in water until the water be consumed almost and let him that is sore hold his fundament over the fume of the said water as hot as he can suffer it and be whole For the Piles TAke aqua vitae cold and wash the piles therewith and take cotton linnen and burn it and lay the powder thereof to the piles upon a linnen cotton cloth as often as you be greived Or take wormwood and grind it in a morter small and then fry it in Oyl Olive and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it and this will cease the bleedag and aking For the Emeraoids that have pappes TAke and bind about the Pap a red silk thred and cut away the pap above the head and leave the thred fast and lay a plaister of Wormwood upon the same and this will heal it Probatum est For the Piles TAke a quart of White Wine and the tops of Elder buds and Honey and boyl them well together then strain them and wash the place therewith and this will heal you in short space For the Hemeroids TAke the juyce of red Nettle leaves and a little Deer suet and heat them together in a Sawcer till it be somwhat green and anoint the place with it For the Hemeroids an approved Medicine TAke a gray Cat and cut her Throat and save her blood then flea her and rost her and save the grease then fry the grease and the blood together and lay it to the fore thrice as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will help him An excellent Medicine for the Hemeroids or Piles TAke and stamp Dandelion and Daysies together and strain out the juyce thereof into good Ale and drink thereof and it will help thee A Glister TAke of Endive of Succory of Violet Leafs of each a handfull of Cummin seeds and Anniseeds being bruised small of each a little boyl them in sufficient water as will boyl them tender then strain the herbs from the liquor and take three parts of the water and one part of milk putting into it a little salt a spoonfull of Honey and as much Oyl Olive if you wil make it stronger you may put in an ounce of Cassia Fistula extract Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe The Brooklime Horehound herb John Sheeps Tallow Swines Grease and a Horse turd that is new made beat it all together and lay it to the sore For aking of the Bones of the Thighes TAke a pint of white Wine and the Gaul of an Oxe and boyl them well and scum them clean then take crums of white Bread and put thereto and make it in a plaister and lay to the sore two or three times and be whole To knit the synews and veins of the Thighes or elswhere when they be broke TAke great worms of the earth and put them in sallet oyl and with a little Spodonesos that Pedlers have to sell work them together and lay them to the wound and let it lie nine daies and remove it not and it will knit both Sinews and Veins together This is proved To make an ointment to asswage the swelling and to keep Synews from shrinking TAke clean Barrows Grease and a good quantity of Sage and boyl them together upon a chasingdish of coals and when the Sage is dry strain it through a cloth and annoint the place therewith For Thighes that be swollen TAke Hens dung or Pigeons dung and Sheeps tallow and Chickweed and Smalladge and beat all together and fry it with lees of Malmsey and so lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the swelling For Synews that be shrunk in the Thighes or elswhere TAke young Swallows out of the nest to the number of twelve then take Rosemary Lavender-Cotton and Strawbery leaves strings and all of each a handfull and bray the Swallows in a Morter guts feathers and all with the herbs till they be small and then fry it again in a Frying Pan with May butter and then strain it and when you will occupie it chafe it against the fire Medecines for an ach or swelling in the Knee TAke Rew and Lovage and stamp them together and put thereto honey and lay it to the sore Or take Lovage Smalladge and Sheeps tallow and lees of white Wine and boyl all together and lay it to the sore on a cloth Or take Milk and Oatmeal and dry Rose leaves and seeth them together and lay them to the sore hot and be whole For an Ach that doth come of an old bruise TAke a pottle of Running Water and a pint of Bay Salt and
a point of a knife and lay it to the nape of your neck just upon the bone that sticketh out most and as long as it will ly on let it but in two or three days it helpeth some You may let it ly on as long as you please a quarter of a yeer and if it falleth off before your eyes be well you may wipe off the moisture of it and apply others as you shall see occasion Probatum To Cure a Catarack A Catarack is curable by making an Issue in the Nape of the Neck This is the manner how you shall discern a Catarack it will seem to be like many motes or little Flyes between them and the light and in the beginning beginneth to take away the true sight of the Eye and then it groweth into a Film which is counted uncurable when it covers the whole sight or bale of the Ey though at first it is curable although there is nothing to be seen on the out-side of the Ey as a purl or such like so that it is not to be helped being within the Ey though many books write of it without the handy Operation of some skilful Chyrurgion puting some filver Needle into one corner of the Ey and twisting the film about the Needle coucheth it under the sight of the Eye where it will afterward waste but it requires an Artist that is well skill'd in the couching a Catarack For a Consumption TAke the heart and lungs of a Calf new killed a Capon let these be bruised in a stone morter and boyled with an hundred Snails till the broth be as thick as pottage then put to it Harts tongue Maiden hair Hysope Scabias Sage of each an handful with China roots sliced and beaten two ounces of the juyce of Coltsfoot roots ten ounces the blood of a Pig newly killed and Conserve of red Roses one pound these being well mixed let them be distilled in Balneo with a very gentle fire and reserve it Another TAke a young Cock pull him alive and then slit him in the middle then wipe him with a clean cloth then take sops of white bread soaked in a quart of Burrage water put the sops in a common Still and lay the Cock with his bones broken upon the sopping putting thereto raisins of the Sun stoned and unwashed with a quantity of Dates this being distilled take thereof constantly a pretty quantity A Julip of D. Trench for the Mother fits Proved IN the time of yeer distil black Cherry water Pyon flower water Couslip water Rue or Herbgrace water then take of the waters of Couslip and black Cherry of each an ounce Aqua Histericae half an ounce Cinamon water one dram Sirup of Clove Gillyflowers three drams Take of these two spoonfuls at a time as often as you please Histerica is Castor To make the Salt of Coral TAke of the broken pieces of the reddest Coral you can get at the Druggist half a pound or as much as you please then put upon it of good wine Vineger distilled a gallon and presently you shall see it work up and down upon the Coral then set it in a great glass on the top of a warm Stove and let it stand three or four dayes then if you taste of the Vineger although it were sharp before it will have no strength but taste sweetish which is a signe it hath taken into the Vineger as much as it can then you may pour that off from the Coral and put on more Vineger and do as before till all your Coral be dissolved then put all your Vineger together and put it into a large flat pan well glased and lay into the Vineger in the pan two or three white lists half a yard long and let one half of them ly in the Vineger in the pan and the other half hang out and you shall see those lists which must first be very clean washed before you lay them into the Vineger by drops draw out all the Vineger in the pan which you must receive with setting an other large pan or pot under the ends of the Lists that hang out of the pan that they ly in And when you have so filtred your foresaid Vineger very clear from the dross of the Coral which you shall see remain at the bottom of the first pan you put your Vinegar into then you must set your clear Vinegar into the Oven being a little hotter then when Houshold bread is drawn but it must be put into a large clean Tinne Bason or Silver for it will pierce through any earthen vessel and so it must be breathed away gently till all the Vineger be gone and leave the Salt of Coral in the bottom being very gently dryed Then must you have in a readiness a pottle or two of plain distilled water and upon your formerly dryed salt of Coral if there be a quarter of a pound put a quart of distilled water and set it in warmth till it be melted like Sugar in it then lay in your clean washed lifts of cloth into it being put into a flat Pan as formerly and let it run through those lists by drops to purify the salt and when all the water is come from the dross which will remain in the Pan the lists were put into then put your clear water into the Oven and let it breath away gently till it leave the salt of Coral dry and then disolve it in distilled water again and proceed with it as before and then it will be pure and prepared for your use whose vertues are many and some approved by practise as followeth The vertues of the salt of Coral IT is to be given to children of any age in Fevers the weight of twenty grains and gently covered to move sweat Also to women in child-bed that are in any Fever the weight of thirty grairs Also in apparision of any small Pox or the Measels it is never taken without good success It strengtheneth the Liver and helpeth it to make good blood being taken twice in a week in a little Posset-ale and continued so for the space of a moneth Also it helpeth children of Convulsions For Convulsion Fits TAke white Coperas dissolve it in a little warm distilled water and then with clean lists layed into it fylter it from his dross and gently vapor away the water till it be â—…ry then dissolve it again fylter it and lay it again in a Oven as before and it is prepared Hereof you may give unto a sucking child three grains in a spoonful of Posset-drink once or twice and it seldom or never faileth but cureth An excellent Vomit TAke the leaves of Assara-bacca being gathered in the beginning of June and run a threed through the leaves and let them hang thereon till they be dry in the shade so that you may powder them to fine Powder in a Morter and then searse them and keep the Powder in a Glass close stopped Hereof you may give to a man
Ringworm 170 Rehume in the head 179 Another for the same 179 For the Ring-worm 208 S MEdicines for Sciatica 103 Another approved 193 Another 193 Sciatica in the hips 105. Stone and Strangury 99. For all manner of Gouts and the Sciatica and Consumption of the members Strangullion 76. A water for the Strangullion 76. Swage and cool a swoln sore Leg 121. For a swelling in any place 121. For a scald or burn and chiefly for the Emerods 190. For a swelling in a mans body 137 For to get out the fire by a scalding 148. To stop bloud in a vein 148. To stop bloud suddainly in a wound 148. To stop bloud if the Master-Vein be cut 141. Salt of Corall to make it and excellent vertues thereof as to cure the fevers in Children and women in Child-bed 197. For the Wind in the Side 66 Stich in the side 66 Stich in the left side 66 Another for the same ibid. To know when one hath a stitch whether it be of Wind or Plurisie ibid Stich at the heart ibid Asswage a swelling 157 For a scab in man or woman 161 For the itch in the hands that come of Worms 161 To destroy all manner of scabs dry or moyst 162 For the dry scab 162 To make one sleep 166 Pain in the Stomach by cold 181 Medicines for the stone c. 88 89 90. For the Spleen 54 For the wasting of the Spleen and for the Dropsie 54 Medicines for the Stomach 56 57 58 59 60 61. T TO make Teeth white 29 To keep teeth from wormes 29 A regiment for the teeth 30 31. Another 32. To take away the tooth-ach in half an hour 32 A noteable medicine for the tooth-ach 32 To make teeth white 32 For the tooth-ach 32 To remove teeth 33 Water for the teeth 33 For a Canker and tooth ach 33 To make childrens teeth come 34 To fasten teeth 35 For wormes in teeth 35 For tooth ach 35 For a sore throat that 's inflam'd 45 46 For hoarsenesse in the throat 45 46 Canker in the throat 46 For Quinsie in the throat 46 Canker in the throat 46 For stopping of pipes 47 To kill a Tetter or ring-worm 192 Medicines for the thighes that be stiffe 113 For the aking bones of the thigh 113 To knit the sinews and veins in the thigh 114 To make an oyntment to asswage the swelling â—nd to keep sinews from shrinking 114 For thighes that be swollen 114 For sinews shrunk in the thighes 114 V FOr an Vncom 13 An excellent vomit 199 W MEdicines for the Wormes 80 The Wormes in young children 80 Medicines for all sorts of wounds and sores 153 A good water for every sore 153 To heal a wound 158 A water to heal all manner of wounds in a short space 159 To heal a wound in ten daies 160 To make that flesh shall not grow in a wound 160 Diet for him that is wounded 160 For warts to take away 165 Medicines to take away Wens 171 Against wind in the Stomach 174 Against the wormes in children 18 206 Felon and Whitlow 183 Another 205. For the whites to cleanse and stay them 191. 214 For a wound that 's full of blood 141 Water to comfort the Vitalls most excellent 143 Y REmedy for a mans Yard 99 Against the erection of the yard 100 To heal a mans yard that is sore 100 For the swelling in any yard 100 For the pain in a mans yard thorough gravell 101 A water for a sore yard 101 For being burnt with a harlot 102 For a mans stones that hang down long 102 For him that cannot make water 102 103 104 Medicines for the Head A remedy for the universall pain of the Head FIrst beware of all things which do hurt the Head as Garlick Onions Chiboles Wine stooping downe with thy Head extreame labour and such like and beware of surfeiting and drunkennesse and purge thy Head with Gargacies and sternutations and purge thy Head and thy stomack twice per week with pills of Coch or such like and be whole A remedy for the Head whatsoever the pain be TAke an handfull of Betanie an handfull of Cammomell and a handfull of Vervain leaves picked stamp them and seeth them in black Wort or in Ale for went of Wort and in the latter end of the seething put to it a little Cummin brayed the powder of a Harts-horn and the yolks of two Egges and Saffton a little and stir them well together and lay a plaister hot over all the forehead and Temples This is an excellent remedy also for the Megrim it shall pierce the better if you shall add to the medicine a little Vineger For pain in the Head TAke Rue Heyhoad Camomell flowers Betany Vervain Mints Hillwort red Fennell Wormwood and Sothernwood of each a handfull and wash them and shred them small and seeth them in water and mingle the herbs with wheat bran and make a plaister and lay it on thy mold as hot as thou canst suffer it and bind it on with a Kerchief and thou shalt be whole in short space For all manner of Head-aches TAke the greace of a Hart and mingle it with Oat meal and Sorrell and temper them well then lay it plaisterwise to thy temples This is proved To purge the Head TAke the juice of Primrose and milk of a Cow and with a quill blow it into thy nostrills and this will purge the head A water for the Rheume in the Head and how to put away the Palsie TAke a red Onyon and break it small and seeth it in a little Verjuice and put thereto a little Honey clarified and when they be well sod together put thereto a great spoonfull of Mustard and let it seeth long together then lay the sick upright and he shall find ease Do this three dayes twice per day and be whole For the Megrim in the Head TAke sowr Bread and Chickweed and bray them together and boil it in Vineger and so bind it to the grieved place or take and seeth Barley well in water and as it seeths put in Betanie and other good herbs for the Head and when they be well sodden bind them to thy head To stop and dry up Rheume TAke Cummin-seed a Nutmeg and a little Bay-salt every one beaten to powder alone and spread the same upon hurds of Flaxe in a cloth and hold the same over the perfume of Frankincense and lay it hot to your Head For a scalded Head TAke the liver of a Thornback and seeth it by it self and six Elacampana roots and seeth them by themselves in water three houres and put thereto three handfulls of Houseleek stamped and strained through a cloth and make an ointment thereof and anoint the Head therewith and if the hair be gone take a handfull of Wooll and bray it hot to powder then take two spoonfulls of Honey and anoint thy Head therewith where it is pilled and thy hair will soon come again as thick as in any other
Bacon wheaten Bran and the Roots of a Vine and seeth all these together in Brine wherein Flesh hath been laid to Salt and let the hot Vapor thereof ascend to the sore place through an instrument like a Funnel made of Wood and this done wash this sore place with this Water following Take the inner Bark of the Roots of black Thorn and seeth it in a Pint of white Wine Vineger and a Pint of Water of the Bark twelve Ounces of Roch Alum two Ounces seeth these together in a stone Cruse in a Kettle of water closely stopped till half be wasted then strain them and put of this Liquor into the Sore This helped a child of twelve years old that the Canker had eaten through the Roof of his Mouth into his Nose But if the Canker be not very corrosive take Woodbine Sage Lavender Rosemary and Salendine and seeth these in running water and white Wine till half be wasted and then strain them and put to this strained Liquor a little Alum and Myrrhe Honey and Sarcacoll when these be a little sodden then strain them again and rub thy Mouth therewith often in a day For the falling of the Evola TAke a little Pepper and Salt and put it up therewith or else take and seeth a little Pepper in Ale ad dip a Linnen Cloth therein and put it up therewith also take a handfull of Fetherfew and rub it between your hands then lay it to the Crown of the Head and it will draw up the Evola For a Canker in the Mouth TAke Rosemary Sage and running Water and seeth them well together and put to them Roch Alum and wash thy Mouth therewith or take Woodbine leaves and stamp them and put thereto a little running Water and strain out the Juice thereof then put to the same a little white Coperas and wash thy Mouth therewith and it will be whole For a Canker in the Mouth TAke a sawcer full of Wodbine-water and put thereto as much Alum as a Hasell Nut and then take of Mell-Roset as much again as the Alum is and put to it a spoonfull of good Vineger and boil all these together upon a Chafingdish and wash the Canker therewith Medicines for Teeth To make Teeth white TAke Vineger of Quinces and dip a little piece of Cloth in it and rub thy Teeth and Gums therewith the said Vineger fasteneth the Teeth and Gums comforteth the Roots of the Teeth and maketh sweet Breath To keep the Teeth sweet clean and from danger of Worms or a Regiment Ach TAke a Pint of White Wine two Ounces of Alum and a quarter of an Ounce of Honey boil them together and wash your Mouth therewith every Morning A Regiment for the Tooth-ach YOu must wash your Mouth before and after Meat with warm Water to cleanse the Mouth and purge the Humors from the Gums which descend out of the Head it is good every Morning to wash the Mouth and to rub the Teeth with a Sage Leaf or with Powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs You must forbear Lettice and raw fruits all tart things and the chewing of hard things also all Meats of evill digestion and vomiting and straining of your self For the Tooth-ach TAke the Root of Henbane and seeth it in Vineger and hold in thy Mouth the Decoction thereof and the pain of the Teeth will away straight or take Hysope and make a decoction with Vineger and wash your Mouth and Teeth therewith being hot and the pain will away Another for the same TAke Wheat Bran and good stale Ale and make it thick like Mustard and let it soke therein a quarter of an hour then strain it and put thereto the Powder of Pepper a good quantity and some of the Juice of Rue and make it somewhat thick and put it into a little bag of linnen cloth and lay it between thy Cheek and thy Teeth and lie down on that side and let the Water run out of thy Mouth and use it three or four times and thou shalt never have the Tooth-ach more or take Hounds tongue and stamp it and frie it with Butter and make a Plaister thereof and bind it to thy Cheek on that side that the pain is and thou shalt be whole Proved An approved Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Berries of Ivy and the scraping of a Harts Horn and boil it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to thy Cheek and hold the Liquor thereof in thy Mouth and thou shalt be whole Or take Pepper Salt and the Roots of Primrose and dry them all together and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith To take away the Tooth-ach in half an hour TAke Henbane Seed Smallage Seed and Poppy Seed of each the weight of a Penny and make Pellets thereof as big as a Vache with a quantity of Aqua vitae and lay it unto thy Teeth that ake and the pain shall cease straight A notable Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Pellitory of Spain both of the Leaf and of the Root wash it and stamp it and there of make three Balls every Ball as big as a Plumb and lay the first Ball between the Teeth and the Gummes the space of a miles riding and even as the water ingendreth in thy Mouth spit it out whole and put in another Ball as thou diddest at the first and likewise the third and so let the Water run out of thy Mouth still and be whole straight To make Teeth white TAke Flower of Rie Salt and Honey and mingle them well together and therewithall rub thy Teeth every day twice or thrice and then wash them clean with Water and they will be clean Or take green Branches of Broom and burn them and make thereof a Powder and burn Alum and mix them together and then temper them with fair Water and rub thy Teeth therewith and it will do away the blacknesse of them For the Tooth-ach TAke the green part of the Eldar Rine not the uttermost nor the innermost but the green in the middle between both and Sage Rue and Ginger and a good deal of Salt then grind them all together in a mortar and seeth it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay to the Cheek and be whole Another for the same TAke a Pint of the strongest Vineger thou canst get and a handfull of Sage the Root of a red Nettle the quantity of a Fingers length and as much of the Rine of an Oke and cut them in little pieces and so let the Vineger and all the rest seeth together from a Pint then let the Patient chew it on the sore Tooth and so dresse Evening and Morning half of it at each time and this shall help him for ever Probatum est For to remove a Tooth TAke the Root of a Mulberry Tree and lay it in Vineger three dayes and three Nights and then dry it in the Sun and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith and
it will fall out A Water for the Teeth TAke and distill the Water of Mother wort and hold it in thy Mouth a good while and it will kill the Pain of the Teeth and the stinking thereof Also Water of Vervain or Hysope Water will do the like For the Tooth-ach TAke Henbane-seed and the Powder of Amber of each a like much and lay them on a glowing tile and make a Pipe that thy Breath may go through to the sore Tooth and this will kill the Worms and put away the Tooth-ach For a Canker and Tooth ach TAke Smalladge and Sorrell Leaves Alum and Glasse and make thereof a Powder and lay it to the Sore wheresoever it be and for the Tooth that is hollow and aketh take the Flowers and Leavos of Pellitory and stamp it with Salt and fill the hollow Tooth therewith and be whole For the Tooth-ach Take Ivy Berries and seeth them well in Vineger and when they be well sodden sip some of the liquor as hot as you may suffer it and hold it in your Mouth till it be cold and then cast it out and take new and do so three or fout times and it will ease you For the Tooth-ach TAke and rost an Egge hard and put therein a Spoonfull of Salt and two Spoonfulls of Vineger or good Aleger and temper them well together till they be a Pap then strain it and with a little fine Cloth put some thereof into your Mouth and when you have spit out the corruption refresh the same with more and it will take away the Pain shortly To make Childrens Teeth come TAke the Brains of a Hare and seeth them and anoint the Gummes therewith and take the Brains of a Hen likewise and rub the Gummes therewith and this shall make the Teeth grow without akng To fasten the Teeth TAke and seeth the Roots of Vervain in old Wine and wash thy Teeth therewith and this will make them fast For Worms in the Teeth TAke Henbane seed and lay it upon a flat Stone and set it upon a Chafingdish of Coals and let the smoke go into your Mouth and this will will kill the Worm shortly For the Tooth-ach TAke the inner Rine of an Eldar Tree and bruise it a little and put thereto a little Pepper and make it in Balls and lay it to your Teeth and be whole THe cause of these impediments may come either by an humor descending out of the Head to the Teeth or Gummes or by corroding or eatiâ—g of Worms or corruption of Blood lying and being upon and betwixt the Teeth or it may come by drinking of hot Wines eating of hot Spices or hot Apples Pears Cherries and such like and it may come of a hot Liver or Stomach and ever beware of pulling out of thy Teeth for pull out one and pull out more but if it be hollow pull it out for it will rot still more and more do what thou canst Medicines for the Gummes For the Gummes that be gnawn and fretted with Humors TAke Cloves and seeth them in Rose water then dry them and make Powder thereof with Rose water or Roses for that is best then dry it again in the Sun do this three or four times and then temper the Powder again with Rose water or with the Juice of Roses and anoint thy Gummes therewith A Water for a Canker in the Gumms TAke half a Pint of white Wine and a quarter of a Pint of Water and put thereto an Ounce of burnt Alum and take a quantity of five leaved Grasse otherwise called Cinque-Foyl and put all these into a clean earthen Pot and set it over the Fire and let it seeth to the half and scum it clean then strain the Liquor into some Vessell and keep it in a Glasse till thou have need to occupy it Another for the same TAke Herb Grasse and wash it clean and dry it with a Linnen Cloth and stamp it in a Morter and put thereto strong red Vineger then strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth three times folded of an Ell broad wet it in the same Medicine and lay it to the Sore within the Mouth and if it be a very great Canker take Alum and beat it very small in a Morter and put it to the said Medicine to the value of a handfull of Herb Grasse and this will heal thee To make a Gumme hard to hold the Teeth TAke clean Rose water and daily wash thy Gummes and Teeth therewith and it will fasten thy Gummes to thy Teeth For rotting of thy Gummes TAke the Water of great Sage and wash thy Mouth and Gummes therewith and it will help the rotting of thy Teeth and the shaking of them if thou use it often in a day and hold it in thy Mouth Medicines for the Face For asawcy stain'd Face like a Leper YOU must give him a Purgation as is said in the pain of the Head coming of Choller then dip Cloths in Alum water which must be made as followeth take a pound of Alum Glasse the juice of Purslain of Plantine and Verjuice of Grapes or Crabs of each a Pint with the whites twenty one Egges well beaten together then mingle them altogether and distill it in a Stillitory this Water is for the Pimples Scurfes Chafings Wheals and Heats dip your Cloth therein often and lay to the rednesse THe cause of these Impediments doth come of a venemous matter ascending out of the Stomach meeting with Rheum that would descend from the Head and meeting both together do cause the Vapors to break out in the Face For a Copper Face TAke Litarge of Silver and Brimstone of each a like much and seeth them in Vineger and then wet a Linnen Cloth therein and lay it to the Sore putting a little Rose water to it A Diet for a Copper Face ABstain from all Salt things Spices Fried Meats and Rosted Meats from drinking of Wine for it is very ill also Onyons Mustard and Garlick be very bad instead of which you must take Purslain Sorrell Lettice and Hops Borage otherwise Succory or Endive in your pottage Also it is necessary to be laxative and sleeping to lay your head high For a red Face TAke Sowthistles Borage Purslain Sorrell Barley Parsly Roots and Licoras and boil all together in running Water and drink it first and last For Worms in the Face TAke of Rosine three parts and the fourth of unwrought VVax one spoonfull of Honey half a spoonfull of May Butter try them all together on the fire then strain it through a fair Cloth into a dish of fair Water and when it is so cold that you may stir it with your hand work it well against the Fire as you do an Electuary and in working thereof put in as much white Coperas as a Nut as you do occupy it made into Powder then strike it on a Cloth as you do other plaisters and lay it to the Face and within three dayes you shall know whether there be
a Corn on the Toe TAke a black Snail and rost him in a white cloth and when he is rosted lay him to the corn hot and it will heale thee in short time Or take a sharp knife and cut the Corne cleane away and pick out the little white pith that is within him and when you have so done lay a little Turpentine unto it and be whole Another for the same FIrst pare the Agnails or Corns with a sharp knife to the quick flesh that it bleed then wipe away the bloud and drop into the place red Wax and let it lie till it be consumed this wil heal your Corn within twice or thrice serving so To make a Nail TAke Cinquefoil and bray it with any grease and lay it unto the Nail and this will bring the Nail again For aches in the Armes TAke Searcloaths that be atractive or take the Oyl of Turpentine and mix it with Aqua vitae and annoint the place therewith For aking of the Wrests TAke and stamp Mugworth with Swines grease and put verjuice thereto and lay it to the grief and this will help the akings Or take Planten leaves and stamp them with a little salt and this is good if it be swollen Or take the Bran and the Powder of Lyne of each a like much and and seeth them in Wine and put a little Oyl thereto and make it thick and lay it to the sore and this will heal thee For chapped hands TAke Mastick Frankincense new Wax and Oyl of Roses and make thereof an oyntment and annoint thy chapped hands and this will make thee whole Another for the same TAke Rose Water and Oyl of Almonds and a little Wax and melt them together and make an oyntment thereof and annoint thy chapt hands and within four times annointing they shall be whole For the prick of a Thorne TAke Sothernwood and stamp it and mingle it with fair Barrows grease and lay it to the Thorn or pricking of any venemous Beast Or take Brooklime Smalladge Sheeps Tallow Bay Salt and your own urine well sod together and lay it to the sore place where the Thorn is To draw out a Prick or Thorn TAke Dittany and grind it and make a plaister and lay it to the sore and also eat or drink Dittany and it will do the same Or take black Sope and lay it to the sore and it will draw out either prick or thorne being well tempered with Birdlime and so will Violets boiled in water and laid to the sore Or take stone crop and stamp it and lay it to the point of a thorn and this vvill draw it out without fail To draw out a Thorn and heal the place being red swollen my Lady Audelies medicine TAke Smallage perfectly beaten in a Morter and put it to black Sope and Boars Grease and beat all together very wel and make an ointment thereof and spread ir on a linnen cloth and lay it vvarm to the sore place vvhere the Thorn is and bind it For a prick of a Thorn or Nail TAke Chickvveed and seeth it in fair running Water til it be tender and then strain it from the water and bray it in a Morter and put it in a bottle of milk and put thereto Deers Sevvet or sheeps Tallovv and Oatmeal and seeth it all together till it come to a Pultis then vvash the sore place vvith the vvater that the Chickvveed vvas sodden in and then lay this Pult is on a linnen cloth and lay it to the sore Or take the dung of a Gander nevv laid and lay it upon the place vvhere the Thorn is upon a linnen cloth and this vvill dravv him out For a prick of a a Thorn TAke of the seed of Flax half a handfull and a quarter so much of Oatmeal of Cummin an ounce beat all these into fine powder in a brazen Morter and seeth them in Vineger or lees of red Wine or Claret Wine or white Wine and put thereto half so much milk and let it seeth untill it be thick like Past and then lay it hot to the sore and if it be rotten it will draw it out and if not it will dissolve it Another for the same TAke the black vvorm called a Shromp vvhich is commonly in horse dung and make a slit in his belly but kill him not and lay it round upon the place vvhere the Thorn is or went in it vvill be painfull for a time but it vvill bring out the Thorn vvithout fail Medicines for the Gout An approved Medicine for the Gout TAke Wormwood Smallage Camomill holy-Oak leaves Horehound of each a handfull then take a pint of Neatsfoot Oyl and half a pint of the Oyl of Shomakers patches and boyl the Oyls together a little while and scum it and the herbs being well chopped then put them into the Oyls and let them all boyl together a quarter of an hour and strain it through a cloth and keep it for your use to this must be added Deers sewet and two spoonfulls of Aqua vitae There be four kinds of Gouts named in Latin Chiragra Podagra Scyatica and Artetica the one is in the hands fingers and armes the which is called Chiragra The other is named Podagra and that is the feet toes and legs The third doth keep the huckle bone and doth run to the knee and in processe of time descendeth to the ancle and to the toe and is called Scyatica The fourth kind of the Gout is named the Gout Artetick the which doth run over all the joynts and parts of a mans body and the Medicines of every one follow For the Gout in the hand called Chyragra THe cause of this impediment doth come of rheume and evill dirt and there be two kinds of Gout in the hands the one is confirmed and cannot be made whole for if it do come by kind and the joynts be broken the sicknesse is incurable the other which is not confirmed may be made whole as followeth TAke of Colworts three handfulls and seeth them with a little Lie with three spoonfulls of Vineger and a little salt stamp all these together with the said little and make a plaister thereof Or take and eat Treacle and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the place and mark if the matter do come of a hot cause you may minister hot Medicines and if of a cold cause no hot medecines but cold and let the Patient beware of eating those things that be over hot or cold For the Gout and all manner of Aches TAke of Clot roots two pound and seeth them in pisse till they be tender and then bray them and strain them through a cloth and then take six Oxen galls or Neats and look that you have a pottle of urine or more well strained and then put thereto a quart of Oyl Olive and seeth this together till it do come to the quantity of the Oyl for this will work wonders in the Gout To comfort
a Barrow For one that is burned with a Match TAke the same Match and burn it to powder and strew the same powder upon the place and this will heal it in short space For burning with Gun-powder TAke Sheeps sewet and Sheeps dung and fry them both together and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith twice every day and do not wash the sore with any thing for the meditine vvil fall away of it self as it doth heale and do not change the medicine in any wise For burning with Wild-fire TAke the dregs of Wine and Vineger and an Egg both the white and yolk by even portions and mingle them well together and lay it to the sore untill it be whole To get out the fire of burning or scalding TAke the whites of new laid Eggs after the quantity of the sore and put them in a peuter dish and with a stone of Roch Allum labour it about till it come all to a froth then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter and lay it next the sore and then lay the froth upon the same a good thicknesse and so bind it with a cloth foure times dresse it evening and morning and the fire will be out Medicines to stop Bloud To stop Bloud in a Veine TAke a handfull of Leaves of the little Burrs that stick upon a mans Coat and are called Strachantes and bray these Leaves and lay them to the wound and it will stop the bloud To stop bloud in a wound suddainly TAke Paper Flax or Linnen cloth which is next thy hand and burn it and put it into the wound the ashes thereof hot and the bloud shall stop straight Or if you will stamp nettle roots and lay them to the wound it shall be no more To stop bloud if the Master-Veine be cut or the wound very large TAke red nettles or red Colwort Leafs stamp them with Hogs dung well tempered together and lay it on the wound and this will stench the bleeding quickly Or take dried Vervain made in Powder and put the Powder into the wound and it will help For a wound that is full of Bloud TAke red Nettles and stamp them with Vineger and lay them upon the wound and it will cleanse the wound and do away the bloud To stop bleeding at the Nose or in any other place upon the suddain IF it be a man that bleedeth take a Leather point and tye about his stones very hard and this wil stop the bleeding straight Or if his Arm or Leg be cut bind the other Arm or Leg very hard and the bloud will run to the other side that is most pained Medicines for the Morphew TAke Mustard made of white Vineger and let the Patient annoynt himself withall where the Morphew is nine nights and this will help him Or take and bray Sorrell and strain it clear then put to it as much sugar and honey as you do juice and boil them well together over the fire and then let them seeth till the sugar have the tast then put to it one ounce of Vineger and so dresse it and keep the medicine to eat Another for the same TAke an ounce of very good sope and a penyworth of Aqua vitae and put them both into a Morter and grind them well together then take a handfull of Eglantine and stamp it and strain it and put some of the juice to the soâ—e and Aqua vita and then take a course Canvas cloth and rub where the Morphew is and after annoynt the place with this medicine and be whole For the black Morphew THere be two kind of Morphews the white and the black the white is named Alborus and for remedy for the black Morphew take this rule that if the place be pricked and will not bleed then it is not cureable but if it will bleed take of Rapes and Rocket of each an ounce and an half and stamp it with Vineger and after that wash the place Or take of the earth of Africk and mix it with Vineger and wash the place oft therewith and it will heal thee A most excellent Water to comfort the Vitalls and preserve other parts of the body made by Doctor Stephens TAke a gallon of good Gascoygne Wine Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds Fennell seed a Dram Sage Mints red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary wild Time Camomile Lavender of each one handfull then bruise the spices and the herbs small and put all into the Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Lymbeck according to the art and the first water is of more strength then the second and both be the better by the standing in the Sun The vertues hereof Be to comfort the spirits vitall helps to the inward diseases of cold the Palsey the contraction of Sinews the conception of Women killeth the Wormâ— within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropfie comforteth the Stomach helpeth the stone in the Bladder and in the reins of the Back slackneth a stinking breath Whosoever useth this water ever anon and not too aften it preserveth him in good likeing and maketh him seem young very long with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life untill such extreme Age that he could neither go nor ride and kept him five years when other Phisitians judged it impossible for him to live one year To make Cinamon Water TAke Rhenish Wine a quart and Spanish wine a pint Rosewater a pint and a half Cinamon bruised a pound and a half let these stand infused the space of four and twenty hours then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck of Glasse and receive the first Water by it self Also if ye be so disposed to make the same Water weaker take three pints of Rosewater and a pint and a half of Rhenish Wine and so distill the same and you shall have to the quality of the stuffe the quantity of the Water which is three pints but the first Water is the best and so reserve it to your use both morning and evening To make Cinamon Water another way TAke three quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and half a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receive to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the chiefest of all the other as is manifest by practise Medicines for the Palsie that take away the Speech TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves and if it be in winter take leaves and roots and all of each a like quantity beat them together and strain them with Ale and give it the sick to drink a spoonful or two at a time and it will bring the speech again For the Palsie TAke and stamp a
you next to your skin you shall not have the Cramp Another for the Cramp TAke two spoonfuls of May-butter and two spoonfuls of Ruejuyce and temper them together till they be a salve and anoint the place therewith Medicines for all kind of sores and wounds and first to draw a sore TAke and beat Oatmeal in a Morter small and then put it into milk and seeth it well together with a handful of Rose-flowers unstild if you may have them or else of them that are stilled and not burned and seeth them till they be like Pap together and then lay them warm to the sore as the Patient may suffer it evening and morning and this will dry it A good water for every sore TAke a quart of ashes made of an Ash and a pottle of vineger and a pound of Madder half a pound of Allom-glass and seeth all these together until they be half wasted then take it from the fire and let it stand and spurge then take the water that is clear above and put it into a Vial and put that water into a sore and this will heal it without any more cost A Plaister for that swelling which is called an Vncome TAke Rue and Smalledge of each an handful a good gobet of fat Bacon such as is very much smoaked or resty as they call it and dress the said Bacon in squares as big as your finger and beat all these together till it be dissolved and meet to spread upon leather or cloth and lay it to the sore and it will both draw it and heal it when it is broken A soveraine plaister for any Ach. TAke a quart of Malmsey and a spoonful of Sallet-oyl a good handful of Onyons pilled broken and bruised and an-ounce of pepper finely beaten then seeth all these together till they be thick and spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the place where the pain is and this will take away the Ach. A Medicine or Oyntment called Flos Unguentorum TAke Rosin and per Rosin of each half a pound Virgin wax and Frankincense of each a quarter of a pound Mastick an ounce Harts tallow a quarter of a pound and Camphire two drams melt that which is to be molten and powder that which is to be made in powder and searce them fine and boyl them over the fire and then strain them through a Canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine then boyl the wine with all the other ingredients together till the wine be confumed then let it cool till it be but bloud-warm then put thereto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine evermore stiring it till it be thorow cold but ever beware your stuff be no hotter then bloud when you put in your Turpentine and Camphire for if it be it marreth all your stuff then when it is cold make it up in rolls and keep it for your use for the best medicine and precious salve that ever was or can be made To make Salus Populi which is good for Blanes and to skin all sores in three days and is good for him that feareth the Hemeroids TAke of Salendine two handfuls Allom one handful and grind them together like sauce then take Weathers tallow or Harts tallow a pound of oyl of Roses half a pound and melt them together and boyl the herbs therein until it sink down to the bottom and it wax somwhat black then strain it and keep it to your use This Oyntment is hard and therefore when you will use of it put it in a spoon and melt it over the fire and understand it must not be put in old sores but there as it scaldeth the skin off and when there riseth any pimples white black blew or red this Salus Populi dryeth well and healeth well and destroyeth the wild stre A special Medicine for a Bruise TAke a great handful of Rue the white and Yolks of five Eggs half a pint of Honey and a handful of wheat flower temper all these together and make it thick and so lay it to the place that is bruised upon a fair cloth heated hot against the fire and let it ly twenty four hours and then lay on a fresh To asswage any Swelling where-ever it be TAke two handfuls of Penyrial and set it in the strongest Ale you can get til it be tender then take it and press it from the herbs and lay it unto the swelling as hot as he can suffer it and so use it two or three days and it will be good A marvellous Salve to heal and draw TAke Betony Plantane and Smallage the juyce of them one pound then take four ounces of Wax that cometh of the honey two ounces of incense white and clean two ounces of pitch two ounces of Rosin melt these by themselves upon a soft fire that done put the juyce of the herbs to it and boyl it together until the juyce be wasted and alwaies stir it then take it from the fire and strain it through a clean cloth then take two ounces of Turpentine and temper it with the rest and when it is cold keep it as gold To heal a wound TAke the flowers of herb John and put them in a glass and put thereto as much oyl Olive as will cover the herbs and then stop the glass close and put it in the Sun for the space of twenty days or more then it will be a fine coloured oyntment and very good for green wounds and when you will use it warm it a little at the fire and then wet your Lint therein and lay it to the wound and it will be whole A water to heal all manner of wounds in short space which is a thing that every man ought to have in his house seeing it is of so great vertue TAke a pound of new yellow wax or as much as you will and melt it in a clean pan and then pour it out into some other vessel wherein must be Malmsey Muscadel or good Claret-wine and then take the wax out and pour it again upon the wine I and do so seven times then take the said wax and melt it on the fire and put into it a handful of Brick beaten into fine powder and stir it well together and then put it into a crook't-neckt glass such as Stillers call the Bag-pipe-glass you must clay it well about the midst of the glasses neck and let it distil first with a little fire and then more and last with a good great fire and then when all the things be cold put it out of your recipient and pour it into a Viol well stoped with wax and searcloth so that in no case the ayre go out no sun nor fire come to it for it is so fine of himself that it will vanish away straight and when you will occupy it you must wet and moyst the wound with a fine linnen cloth and so bind it to the wound To heal a wound in ten days TAke Camphire and
stamp it with Boars-grease put it into the wound and this will heal it in ten days without fail To make that flesh shall not grow too much in a wound TAke the Lightes or Lungs of a Sheep hot and lay it upon the wound and the flesh shall rise equal with the skin A Diet for him that is wounded TAke heed you eat no Cheese Butter Eggs nor Fish of the Sea nor Fruit but fine and light meats as Capons Chickens Rabbets Pheasants and Partridge Lamb Lark and such like Medicines for the Itch in man or woman THis I do advise every man for this matter to ordain and prepare a sharp pair of nailes to scratch claw rent and tear the skin and the flesh that the corrupt blood may run out and then use purgations stoves and sweats and beware you reverberate not the cause inward with any oyntment nor claw not thy skin with filthy fingers but wash thy hands to bed-ward For a Scab on man or woman TAke Mallows and Wormwood and boyl them well together and with the said water and herbs warm as thou mayst suffer it all to wash thy Body and this will heal thee in short time For the Itch in the hands that come of worms TAke the seed of Henbane and cast it on a Chafing-dish of coals but first wash thy hands and then hold them over the fire as hot as you may suffer it a good while and then put thy hands into a Bason of cold water and thou shalt see the wormes creep out into the water do this three or four times and be whole To destroy all manner of Scabs dry or moyst TAke the juyce of Scabias and Vineger and one part of Garlick and seeth altogether till it do turn to an oyntment and anoint the Scabs therewith and be whole For the dry Scab THis infirmity commeth to man after his complexion by superabundant humors or by lying with an infectious person having the said infirmity or by aridity or dryness of choller or melancholy the which doth engender a dry Scab which is the worst among all the kind of Seabs The Remedy TAke Mercury mortifyed with Fasting-spittle three cunces incorporate it with the oyl of Bayes and anoint thy body therewith Or take Mercury mortifyed three ounces of the powder of Brimstone two ounces of the powder of Elicampana two ounces Confect it together with Barrows-grease and anoint thy body oft Medicines for the Falling-sickness that doth not foam in the mouth but by Vrine and Egestion or both at once defileth himself THe cause of this infirmity many Authors in divers matters be of sundry opinions but for this matter I do say that forasmuch as it is one of the kinds of the Falling-sickness it doth take his Original of a Rheumetick humour opilating the cels of the Brain the Brain so opilated and stopped the Patient lyeth pittifully unto the time that Nature hath removed the Cause A Remedy FOr this matter a great circumspection must be had first in the diet of the Patient for the Patient not onely in this kind of Falling-sickness but in all other kinds must abstain from white meats Beef Hares-flesh and Venison also they must beware of climbing up to high places they must eat no Saliets Onyons nor Garlick Raisons Gibboles or Scalions or such like things The Patient must beware of eating of Water-fowles and fatness of fish as Eels Conger and Salmon and such like and then use the seeds and roots of Piony as well in meats as drinks and so wear the seeds about thy neck and purge thy head and do as it is specifyed in the Chapter named Epilepsia next following THere be three kinds of Falling-sickness which men be infected with to wit Epilepsia who in their falling foam at the mouth and this is the common kind of the Falling-sickness They which have the Analepsia shall when they fall defile themselves and not foam at the mouth They which have Tatalepsia whether they be taken open-ey'd or half closed for the time they shall see nothing For the Falling Sickness TAke Rue and Wormwood of each of them a handful and make it powder and blow some of it into his nose that doth fall and he shall presently rise Medicines for Warts THis Infirmity doth come of gross evil humors to remedy which Take a pair of Cissers and cut off the heads of the Warts and then rub them with Garlick and Bay salt and stamp both together do this six or seven times and lay over them a plaister of lead To take away Warts TAke the juyce of red cole-stocks and lay it on the Warts and this will heal them Or take a white Snail without a house and anoint thy Warts withal and they will go away Or take Egrimony and Verjuyce and put them together and lay it to the Warts three nights being stamped and it shall drive them away and heal them Medicines to make one sleep TAke of the Oyl of Violets an ounce of Opium half an ounce incorporate these together with womans milk and with a fine linnen cloth lay it upon thy Temples Or take leaves of Henbane stamp it and lay it to thy Temples Or else use to eat Lettice seeds white Poppy seeds of Mandragon seeds and of Sander of each three drams but above all things mirth is best to bedward To make one sleep TAke ground Ivy and Sengreen of each a like quantity and stamp them and temper them with womans milk and lay it to thy Temples and this will make thee sleep well Medicines for an Ague for a Fever Tertian TAke the buds or leaves of Willows red Sage and Fetherfew of each an handful seeth them in a quart of Milk till the herbs be well sodden then crush the herbs and wring them in a cloth and lay them to your pulse as warme as you can suffer it and this will help the Ague Another for the same THe Medicines which do help a Fever causon will help a fever tertian first purge choler and three or four hours before the fit doth come I do thus I cause a man to ly in his doublet and a woman in her wastcoat then do I cause them to put on a pair of gloves and with two garters I do bind the wrists of their arms and do lay their arms and hands into the bed and do cast on clothes and do bring them into a sweat before the fit doth come three or four hours and out of a goose quill one put into another they do take their drink because they shall take no aire into the bed then do I give them first an Altery and suffer them to drink as much possit Ale as they will and when the burning doth begin I do withdraw the clothes and this I do three courses and have made many hundreds whole so and on their good daies I do not suffer them to go into the Aire For the quartane Ague TAke a spoonfull of mustard and as much Treacle as a
chicken will gape and labour for life and in the end he will dy then take another Pullet and do the like and so another as the Pullets do dy for when the poyson is drawn out the last chicken that is offered thereto will live the sore presently is asswaged and the party recovereth it is necessary to use the Medicine to drive away venome from the heart This is proved very true To make Plague water TAke a pound of Rosemary a pound of Salerdine a pound of Sage and a pound of Balm a pound of Mugwort one pound of Rue one pound of Wormwood one pound of Dragon one pound of Scabias one pound of Pimpernel that grows among the corne one pound of Angelica and one pound of Betony put all these herbs together in a great pot with a narrow mouth and let them soak in white Wine three dayes and three nights closely stopped and then take the herbs out and styll them and keep the water in a fair glass and if any be sick of the Plague give him the value of ten spoonfuls blood-warm so soon as he doth feel himself sick and then let him walk if he be able if not lead him by the armes and keep him from eating and drinking one hour after and then let him go to bed and if he vomit it is the better for him and if it be possible that he take it before he sleep he shall escape by Gods grace and the elder the water is the better it is This water is good for the quartane Ague or any disease lying in the stomack taking it before the fit doth come and this water must be stylled in the month of May Contra vim mortis non est Medicamen in hortis To make Doctor Josephus Water TAke a pint of Water and a spoonfnl of French Barley half a handful of red Rose leaves two or three drops of the Oyl of Brimstone and a quarter of a pound of the finest refined Sugar the water and Barley to seeth together and then the scum to be taken off and so the other to be let cool so with the Rose leaves to stand all night and then to be well brewed all together but first the leaves and Barley strained from the Water For the Convulsion TAke one ounce of an Elke-hoof and half an ounce of English Liqueris two piana small roots two or three Fenel roots as many Parsly roots three or four roots of unset Hyssop a little quantity Herbegrass which is Rue a quart of small beer but boyl it till it come to a pinte then strain it and sweeten it with Syrop of Hyssop and give it the Party before and after the Fit For the moist Rhume in the Head TAke conserve of Roses two ounces Metridate two drams Bolearminak one dram of Olibinum one dram and an half Mastick half a dram beat these together with Syrop of Violets into the form electuary whereof take twice going to bed and in the morning the quantity of a Nutmeg Another for the same ROsemary flowers Elder flowers Bittony flowers Sage flowers of each two good handfuls Scurvy grass three handfuls China-roots three ounces an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two ounces of Coriander-seeds half a pound Fumitur three handfuls Epithimum Agramony Hartstongue of each two handfuls Harts-horn-shaving one ounce of Stringoroots four ounces Citron-seeds Musked half an ounce let these be boyled in a gallon and an half of Whey and let them first be infused two dayes in a gallon of white Wine then put the ingredience with the Wine to the Whey and let them be boyled gently the space of two hours and so next day drink thereof half a pint in the morning and so in the afternoon as long as it lasteth An approved Medicine for sore Eyes TAke six ounces of Lapis Callimnaris and heat that in a wooden fire and blow it red hot and then quench it in a pinte of pure white Wine in a Bowl or any other clean vessel nine times and then strain it out by it self through a fine linnen cloth and then take a handful of Houslick unwashed and stamp it in a clean Morter and strain it through a fine cloth then put the quench'd Wine and that both together and strain them again through a fine cloth and then take a feather and drop it in your eyes three or four drops at a time every morning and evening and by the grace of God you will find help in a very short time Probatum est A Medicine for Children that have the wormes approved by Mistris Isabel Dee in Moscoe TAke Wormseed and boyl it in Beer and then sweeten it with clarifyed Honey and let them drink of it every morning fasting For a pain in the stomack by a Cold. TAke two or three Turnips and wrap them in brown Paper weted and put them in Ember-ashes for two hours as ready for to eat and then scruze the juyce out of them betwixt two Trenchers and then mix it with Loaf-sugar with Cynamon and Nutmeg powdered and made like a Syrop and then drink four ounces of it at night when you go to bed Probatum est Mistris Fâ—…yerirs medicine for sore Eyes TAke a pine of white Wine two drams of Camphire cut as small as may be half an ounce Omphacium that is pure oyl of green Grapes or for want of that your purest Sallet-oyl put the Camphire and the Oyl into a Basin let them stand covered two hours then put in your white Wine to them then take the stones called Lapides Culumanaris and heat three of them fire hot then put them so hot into the Wine covering your Basin very close while they are a cooling in the water heat three more fire hot take the other out and put in the hot ones and so heat them by course five or six times till the Wine is very hot and the Camphire well dessolved then take the clcarest of it and the top when it is cold and reserve it in glasses For your use put two or three drops into the sore ey three times a day For a Fellon or a Whitlow FIrst take a quarter of a pinte of Milk and as much Leaven as an egg and let it boyl till it commeth to be as thick as a Poultess then take a penny-worth of oyl of Roses and mix with it and which is above half a spoonful and so apply it to the grieved place as hot as you can twice a day lay it too as you do a Poultess This is proved For one that is Bursten or a Child that hath been Bursten six years TAke oyl of Nip or Nep and anoynt the Party therewith and morning and evening take of the herbs and bind one boyl'd in Butter or dip Wool in the aforesaid Oyl this use six weeks until you be whole This proved For to keep a Child from having Convulsion fits TAke oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn beaten up with white Sugar-candy and give the Child so soon as it