in Violet water and lay on the Eye the pap of aâ— Apple with some of that water a little Sugar and the yolk of an egg boile a together For an Ague in the Eye Lay on the eye a piece of fresh Biâ—â— two hours and drop on the Eye Alloâ—â— water and lay in the Temples leaverâ— Rosewater Vineger and Nutmeg to stâ—â— the Rheume For a Pin and Web. Take Ground Ivy stamp and straâ— with red Rose water and drop it oâ— in the eye A very good Powder for a spot in the Eye Take of Alloes Sicatrina Sugar candied or very good Sugar of each a like quantity make it into fine powder and put it often into your eyes when you go to bed and Eyebright water in the morning and once more in a day For red or yellow Eyes Take the juice of Parsley and the white of an egge mingled together and a little Rosewater dip flax therein and lay it over your eye and it will help you For Eyes that be blasted Take Plantane Water and the white of an egg mix them well together and wash your eyes therewith and lay it on 〈◊〉 our eyes To clear the sight Take Cellendine Eyebright red Fennel Roses Seagreene Maidenhair and Rue of each two ounces then put thereto half an ounce of Alloes stilling all these in a Stillatory then wash your eyes therewith For red Eyes and for the Pearle Take white Ginger and rub it on a whetstone into a dish then take as much salt as you have powder and put them in White Wine and let them stand a day and a night then take the juice and liquor thereof with a feather and annoint your eyes To take away the Web in the Eye Take the gall of a Hare and a little quantity of purified honey temper them well together then take a feather and annoint your eyes therewith A Water for the Eyes Take of Tutty and Alloes Sicatrina of each six ounces made in fine powder four drams of fine Sugar in powder of white Rosewater and of the best white Wine unchanged twelve ounces mixt all together in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the Sun a month let not your glass be ful shake it once a day turning the bottom upwards then strain it through a fine cloth from the dregs and when you use it one drop is sufficient at a time use it morning and evening and if one drop be too little take two For sore Eyes Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water then strike away the froth with a feather then take a piece of rough canvass tow or flax then powr your whites on it then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillatum and scrape them both upon it and with a knife spread it Plaister wise as much of the one as of the other and so fast bind it to your forehead and in the morning when you rise take it not off suddenly but take it off with fair water Do this three nights together For Blood shotten Eyes Rheume or sore Eyes Take four spoonfuls of Rose water of white Copperas as much as a pease and of Allome and Sugar candied of each as much as a pease all in powder sometimes drop of this in the eye and sometimes wash the eye with it and lay Herbs to the wrists Also Rosewater Sugar and Saffron is very good Sugar candied is the best For a spot or itching in the Eyes Take Ground Ivy Cellendine and Daisies stamp them and strain out the juice then put to it a little Sugar and Damask Rose water and drop in the eye twice a day For sore eyes or for any part inwardly disquieted by any Ache Swelling Wound or Stroke Take the leaves of Woodbind and Plantane of each one handful also three or four Dittony leaves of Roach Allom well washed the quantity of an egg as much Verdigrease three spoonfuls of pure honey put all this into a vessel to be kept only for that purpose put to it a pottle of fair running water and after it hath boiled one quarter of an hour let it stand four or five hours powre out the clear and bury the grounds if it be too sharp put in some white Rose water If the lids be sore with Rheume or the eyes be red or burning drop in and wash the lids often with the white of an egge if it be for a horse put in more Verdigrease and Honey Another Take the Water of Roses Saxifrage and Fennel of each alike and put to them a small quantity of Verdigrease and boil it a little on the fire and when it hath setled take the clear and see you wash Auxungium Poecati seven or eight times and of that put in to your eye a little when you go to bed For Eyes blasted or swoln Annoint them with rape Oyle and lay to a Plaister of Flower Cream Hogs grease Rose water and Violet leaves bruised small and boil all to a Poultice and lay it to warm change it as waxeth dry Capons grease washed and Tutia prepared and mixed with it is very good to annoint sore eyes For Ache Strain or pain in the Head by sore Eyes Take of Plantane Wood Betony and Ragweed of each one handful put as much flower to it as will make it a paste the Herbs being first beaten small make it in a Cake and make it through warm on a Gridiron and lay it to the nape of the neck and let it lye twelve houres and lay fresh as you see cause A Purge for Choller when there is Pain in the Head or Rheume in the Eyes Take of Cene and of Ginger sliced one ounce two ounces of Cassia and six ounces of Sugar stamp them all together and boil them in a pint of Rose water till half be consumed then put in two ounces more of Sugar beat it well and keep it close Take of this Confection a quarter of an ounce in the morning and fast three hours after putting it into a draught of White Wine warmed strain it and so drink it and use it in the Spring and Fall once in ten days for two months or six weeks If you make but for one you need make but half this quantity It purgeth very gently For Eys that be troubled with sorenesse and rednesse Colewort leaves boiled in White Wine and Plaisters made of them and laid one the eyes is good for sore eyes that water much To wash them with the Water of Plantane is very good Also skivers or pricks of any kind boiled in fair water with red Roses amongst them save the fat and drop it in your eyes morning and evening is very good To take away spots of Blood in the Eye Take red Roses and seeth them and let them be set warm to your Eye it taketh away spots of blood it is good also for all Diseases in the Eye for redness in the eye that cometh with a blow or any other
and the crumbs of white bread dipped in the fame Water and put thereto a little womans milk and two penny worth of Saffron bray them together and lay it over your forehead and the eyes Sometime such pain chanceth because of phlegme and then the Patient feeleth great pain and heavinesse in the eyes and in this case you must purge the phlegme as hath been said in the Remedies of the head grieved with the excess of phlegme To clarifie the sight or for redness of the eyes Take Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it in White Wine and set it so stand a day and a night then take of the thinnest and wet your eyes with a feather when you go to bed to resolve the Gum you must wash your eyes with houselee sometimes the pain cometh because of ventosity or wind and then the Patiene feeleth such pain as it were beating between the ears with a Hammer for which it is good to make a Decoction of Camomile flowers Mellilote and Fennel seeds in water and White Wine and therein wet a fourfold linnen cloth well pressed down and lay it upon the eyes often Otherwhiles there chanceth pain in the eyes by outward accidents as wind dust or heat milk well beaten with the white of an egge is good and sometimes the same pain cometh of striking and then drop in your eye the blood of a Pigeons wing which blood will take away spotted marks and rednesse of the face For a great pain in the Eye Take half an ounce of Oyl of Roses the yolk of an egge and a quarter of an ounce of Barley flower and a little Saffron mixt together and put it between two linnen cloths and lay it to the pain or else take the crumb of white bread one ounce and seeth it with Nightshade and Morral water then mix with the same bread yolks of eggs Oyl of Roses and Camomile of each an ounce and a half of Linseed one ounce and use it as aforesaid A very good Water to strengthen the sight and to prevent a Catherick Take Eyebright Vervain Tormentill of each two pound Cellendine Egrimony Wood Betony Honey suckle flowers White or Red Roses Vine leaves Pimpernel Fennel Rue Oculus Christi Chickweed Smallage and Clover of each a pound beat them small and steep them in a gallon of White Wine twelve hours then fill your Still reasonable full and put to it three great spoonfuls of Honey a pint of new milk and half a pint of Urine of a man child then still it and draw about a pint and a half of a Still For an Eye that is very full of pain Take of Violet leaves a quarter of a handful of Daisies roots and all half as many wash them and dry them very well in a cloth then stamp them and put to it a spoonful of red Rose water and strain it then take the white of a new laid egg well beaten and take away the froth then put that to the things aforesaid with half a quarter of a spoonful of Honey and drop this in the eye morning and evening and twice or thrice a day and at night lay on the eye the pap of a roasted Apple or of a rotten Apple and put a little juice of Houseleek amongst it and a little fine Sugar candied lay it upon the Eye two or three nights if the pain be great lap upon it a piece of fresh Bief two or three hours and so again as you see cause Lay to your neck behind Elder leaves and Woodbetony dryed between two tiles sprinkled with a little Vinegar and strew on good store of beaten Pepper when it is hot lay it on a thin cloth and so lay it to the neck night and morning four or five times Also make blisters behind the ears if you see cause If there grow a skin upon the eye put in Allome Water with the juice of Cellendine in it or if it be much the juice of Ground Ivy drop this in twice a day and the white powder once a day For Blood-shotten Eyes If the Violet Water will not help take five or six cornes of Cummin seeds bruised as many blades of Saffron put in a fine rag let it soak in a spoonful of red Rose water strain it and put to it a spoonful of Womans milk and drop this often into the eye For a very great Pearle in the Eye Put in the Eye a little clarified Honey and a little fine Ginger in it and sometimes the powder of white Sugar candied half an hour before you put in either put in a little fresh grease For a Rheume in the Eyes Make Eggshell Water with the juice of Houseleek as much white Copperas as a pease twice as much Honey this is good if you perceive the Humour to be very hot also it is good with Snow water and if the Humour be cold make it with half stilled water and half Eyebright Water if between both make it with fair water To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Take Woodbind bruised and lay it to your Temples For a Pin or Web in the Eye Take Herb Christopher stamp it and strain it and put in a little honey drop it in twice a day also lay on his eye white bread milk and Violets made in a Poultice also take Cellendine Daisies roots and all brown Fennel Cliver Betony Plantane Sorrel twice as much as the rest there must be of each a handful a pint of new milk a dram of white Coperas in powder two great spoonfuls of Honey do not draw it dry drop it in the eye three or four times in two hours and lay a wet cloth upon the eye To bring away the Rheume from the Eye Set the feet in Camomile sod in water two houres if you can then lap them in a blanket two houres keeping it warme with warm clothes For any spot in the Eye Take the scraping of a whetstone and Bay salt made very fine and put thereof twice a day into your Eye For a Pin and Web. Roast an egg and put in a piece of Copperas as big as a Pease and nine Cummin seeds strain it and put in a little Honey Alloes Sicatrina made in powder and strained with a little Rose water is very good for any sore eyes Capons grease washed with Plantane water and Tutia prepared and mixt together is very good for sore eyes to annoint them with it To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Make water seething hot and wet a good big cloth in it and lay it all over the forehead when it beginneth to wax cool wet another and lay to it hot and do so half an hour together against the fire For a prick in the Eye with a thorne and to drive out the thorne or stubble Take he treddle of an egg and put it in your eye and biod it in For a Bâ—â—iâ—â— in the Eye Lay to the Temples a piece of raw fresh Bâ—ef and to the eye put
quantity of Beets and a quantity o Mercury one ounce of Coriander seeds one ounce of Cummin seeds bruise the seeds and seeth them and the Herbs all together in a pottle of running water and let it seeth till halfe be consumed then strain it and take three spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and three spoonfuls of Honey and half a handful of Bay salt bruised so put it into a Glister pipe and use it For the Stone Take the inner bark of Elder and seeth it in Beer or Ale til it have a good strength of the Elder then strain it and drink it morning and evening and it will break the Stone A very good drink for the Stone Take a pint of White Wine and half a pint of Ale and make thereof with milk a pottle of posset drink and take away the curd very clean and boil in it two or three roots of Mallowes Marsh Mallowes are the best and some Licoras till a quarter be boiled away then drink half in the morning and the rest at night For the Stone or strongurion Take half an ounce of Anniseeds a quarter of an ounce of Licoras Calamus Aromaticus French Gallingal Mirrh Gum Arebeck Gum Traganthum Diatria Papira or Piperion Pine Apple kernels white Orris roots Storax Benjamin Cipresse and Labdanum of each a small quantity then beat them all together take also half an ounce of large Mace white Archangel Mead Parsley and Garden Parsley Camomile Mallowes Fennel and Spiere Mint of each halfe a handful then take three quarts of White Wine and put them together in a brasse pot or a Posnet and boil them a pretty while then take it off and strain it through a cloth and put it in earthen vessels and keep it cool it will drink the better and take six spoonfuls morning and evening for three dayes together when you find your self ill and do not foreslow the taking of it Probatum A Plaister to apply to the side for the Stone Take Mallowes Herb grace Pellitory of the wall the green tops of Fennel and Camomile of each two handfuls seeth them in water till they be tender then presse out the water from them then stamp them very small and put in Oyle of Lillies Oyl of Camomile Oyl of Dill Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oyle of Scorpions of each one ounce let them boil on a Chafingdish and coals a good while then put to it as much wheat flower as wil make it thick like a Plaister spread it between two cloths and apply it to the Patients side as hot as may be endured For the Stone Take the weight of a French Crown of Pulvis Hollandi drink it in a quantity of White Wine stirring it well in the cup that it may not curd drink it in the morning betimes or at what time the Patient pleaseth keeping himself warme in his chamber all that day for it will give him three or four stooles and drink some warm broth after it and use this once a Month. More belonging to the former Medicine Take once a week after the former eight spoonfuls of Deal Wine and eight spoon fuls distilled from the berry of the Hawes make it sweet with Sugar and slice half a Lemmon into it and some sliced Ginger For the Stone in the Kidneyes There is great pain in the raines of the back which draweth downwards stirring encreaseth the pain they are much inclined to vomiting the body is bound Urine raw and watrish often provoking to pisse but not without pain the Urine avoids with gravel sand and slime yea sometimes mixt with blood To know it from the Chollick first it s not so sharp as the paine of the Chollick Secondly The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above and stretcheth downwards and a little more towards the back Thirdly the pain is most of the Kidneyes fasting the Chollick otherwise All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone are good for the Kidnies but not for the Chollick Lastly there is found in the Urine gravel or sand and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts To restrain the growing of the Stone or Gravel Take Turbith one dram and an half Hermodactilus one dram Diagridy six graines Salt of India two grains Ginger half a scruple Annis and Mastick of each three grains Sugar Pellets one ounce white Sugar half an ounce steep them together in three ounces of Water of Smallage or Maidenhair all night and wring it out well and drink it if the matter be in the stomack then take a Vomit that it run not towards the Rains This Vomit may be made of reddish Orange seeds the middlemost rind of Elder and Nux Vomica SIRRUP To make a Sirrup for one that is short winded Take a good handful of Hisop a handful of Horehound and seeth them in a quart of running water to a pint then strain it through a fair cloth and put in Sugar to make it pleasant Use this morning and evening with a Licoras stick some three spoonfuls at a time To make Sirrup of Roses Your liquor must be ready to seeth then put therein as many Roses as will be well steeped in the same water and cover it close and when the Roses be throughly white then strain it and set it on the fire again and so you must use it thirteen times and to every pint of your water or liquor you must put into it a pound of Sugar and let it stand together for the space of one night steeping and skim it clean and seeth it over a quick fire a quarter of an hour then take the whites of egges and beat them well together then take the pot off the fire and put into it the whites of your egges and then set it on the fire again and let it seeth a good space then let it run through a Jelly bag til it will stand still upon your nayl To make a comfortable Sirrup Take a handful of Egrimony and seeth it in a pint of Water till half be confumed then take out the Egrimony and put in a good handful of Currans seeth them till they be ready to break then strain them and make a Sirrup of them then set it on a chafingdish and coales and put thereto a little white Saunders and drink it either hot or cold Sirrup of Sugar candied Take Sâ—gar candied and put it into a clear bladder and tye it but so as it may have some vent then put it into a bason of water so that the water come not over the top of the bladder and cover it with a pewter dish and let it stand all night and in the morning take of it with a Licoras stick Doctor Deodates Scorbuttical Sirrup Take of the juice of Garden Scurvigrass Brooklimes and Watercresses of each six ounces and after it hath stood till it be clear take sixteene ounces of the clearest and of the juice
Fennel seeds Coriander seeds Carraway seeds Parsley seeds and Gromel seeds of each a good handful and for any other Seeds or Spices use your discretion then take of Lavender Rosemary Sage Hisop Savory Sweet Marjerom Standing Time Mother-Time Running Time Burrage Buglos Succory Endive Lettice Violet-leaves Strawberry-leaves Mugwort Red Fennel Peniroyal Red Mints Herb-grace Germander Avens Wormwood Bay-leaves Nep Clary Horehound Comfrey Marigold leaves Mercury Sowthistle Sorrel Plantane Ribwort Angelica Carduus Benedictus Wood-Betany Scabious Balme Liver-wort Long-wort Saint Johns-wort Saint Peters-worts Parsley Dandillion Basil Lavender Spike Bloodwort Egrimony Burnet Garden Gallingale roots Setwal-roots Polipodium of the Oak Pimpernel Clivers Shepherds-flowers Knot grasse Cinqfoil Long debeeff Sparragus Water-cresses Spinage of each of these two handfuls two or three heads of House-leek Put all the Seeds Herbs and Roots to the Ale and let them lye a steeping all night then still them in a Limbeck and draw of it so long as it runneth good which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire if it burn it is good or else not To make another Aqua-composita Take a brass pot of four gallons and rub it very clean within side then take three Gallons of good strong Ale and a gallon of Wine lees so that your pot be not full by three fingers with your Herbs and Spices as followeth Take a pound of Anniseeds well bruised and half a pound of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it into the pot then take a handful of Rosemary a handful of Hisop a good root of Enulacampana and scrape it well and slice it half a handful of Unset Time half a handful of Mints a handful of red Fennel a handful of red Sage six good crops of Marjerom and as much Peniroyal a quater of a handful of Hartstongue half a handful of Horehound gather not the Herbs till the dew be off them then wring all your Herbs asunder and put your Spices and all in your pot and let them stand all night then set your pot upon a fire of Charcoals and set on your Limbeck upon the pot and stop your pot round about with paste so that no air come forth then make a little fire under the pot and put cold water in the top of the Limbeck and be sure you keep it alwayes full with cold water and as soon as it begins to drop into the Receiver abate the fire a little and keep it so that it drop not too fast nor too soft for if it drop too fast it will be too hot of the fire and if too soft it will be too weak you can draw but a quart of the best and a quart of the second Another way Take three gallons of Claret-wine with some Lees amongst it for want of Wine take very strong Ale then take two pound of Anniseeds bruised and four pound of Licoras clean scraped and bruised one pound of great Raisons stoned Parsley and Fennel roots of each a good handful scraped and the pith taken out with a root of Angelica then stop it very close and let it stand three dayes and three nights then still it in a Limbeck and keep the best by it self and you must put as much Sugar candied into the glasse as is worth a shilling and hang two grains of Musk in a cloth in it AQUA VITAE To make Aqua Vita for a cold stomack Take Rosemary and Hisop of each a handful Sage and Horehound of each half a handful one root of Enula campane Marjerom and red Mints of each six crops Licoras and Anniseeds well bruised of each two ounces then take three gallons of strong Ale grounds and set all these on a fire in a pan til it begin to seethe then take it from the fire and put it in a brasse pot and set on your Limbeck stopping it close with paste and keeping a soft fire under it To make Aqua-vitae to avoid Flegme Take of Peniroyal a handful of Strawberry leaves two handfuls and Pimpernels three handfuls and add these to the former Receipt AQUA MIRABILIS How to make a precious Water called Aqua Mirabilis Take Gallingale Cloves Squills Ginger Melilot Cardomons Mace and Nutmegs of each one dram of the juice of Cellendine half a pint mingle all these made into powder with the said juice and a pint of Aqua-vitae and three pints of good White-wine and put all these into a Stillatory of glasse and let it stand all night and on the morrow still it with an easie fire This Water is good for by a secret nature it dissolveth the grief of the Lungs without any pain it purgeth Melancholy it expelleth the stopping of the Urine and it marvellously profiteth the stomack conserveth Youth in his own state long and preserveth memory destroyeth the Palsie it being given a man or woman labouring for life one spoonful relieveth him Of all Artificial Waters I think none better In Summer use one spoonful thereof in Winter two BACK A good Medicine to strengthen the Back Take Oaken leaves and buds Knot-grass Comfrey and Clary of each alike and still them this must be taken every morning two spoonfuls but let it be a fortnight old or else the fire wil not be out of it Another Take Comfrey Knot-grass and the flowers of Archangel boile them in a little milk of a browne Cow and drink of it every morning it is very good For the Rains of the Back and Stomack Take of Fern that groweth on a house and Camomile of each a handful two or three slips of Unset Hysop bruise 〈◊〉 these together and seeth 〈◊〉 them in a quart of Rhenish or White-wine with a handful of Currants till it come to a pint and after it is sodden put into it an ounce and a half of white Sugar candied and let it melt of it self then strain it through a fair cloath and give it the Patient to drink warm morning and evening To strengthen the Back Take a handful of Knot-grasse a handful of Archangel flowers nine branches of Gromel and stamp it with a pint of Ewe milk and warm it bloud warm and let the Patient drink it an hour before he riseth for nine dayes together For the Raines of the Back Take your own water and boil it well and scum it well then take a quarter of an ounce of Oile of Bayes and an ounce of Oyle of Roses and boil it from a pottle to a pint or a quart and annoint therewith the rains of the back and also the Spleen vain in the foot For the pain of the Back and heat of the Back Take Rose-water and put thereunto Sanders and Rose leaves and lay them in steep in your Rose-water one whole night and it being drunk will take away the heat and greatly comfort the Reins or wash the back therewith To cleanse the Back and purge the Raines Take one Fennel root and two Parsley roots and pick out the piths of them and put thereto one handful
precede Phlebottomiae or else the cold blood will remain Lastly It s good sometimes to be let blood that the blood may be led or drawn from one place to another BONES How to use Fractured Bones four kinds of Factures First when it is broken in length Next when it is broken overthwart Thirdly when it is oblick and crooked Fourthly when it is girded and broken and shivered in divers pieces either legs or armes Albusences and others later Writers make the difference of Fractures not according to the bone fractured but after the place affected as if the Nose be broken brain-pan jawes ribs back-bone armes legs or other parts which be not differences of Fractures but of the place affected according to nature Four Directions in the Cure of Fractures according to the place fractured First to respect that the bones be put again in their former place Secondly to be reduced to their natural and so conserved and kept without motion or hurt Thirdly That the bone broken may be ingendred and conglutinated together by ingendring of Callus Fourthly To correct the Accidents that do come after the Fracture of the bones How the Bones out of joint ought to be put together Be sure of help to hold the party at need for the Legg or Arm let him sit in a Chair and with annointing draw it out till the place be met as tenderly as you may having respect to the party grieved his complexion and nature How Bones may be conserved after they be set in their natural place Look well to your rolling First it is very good to take the white of an egge and Oyle of Roses mixt together and wet therein the linnen Cloathes which may cover the place broken and somewhat more of the other and roll it not hard for it may cause dolour and flux of humours How the Rollers must be used The first Roller upon the Fracture three or four times and so to the second part upwards the third Roller leek downward and it must be half as low as the first these Rollers should be wet in water and wine before you use them If the pain be vehement then the member would be wrapped about with fine wooll well carded or else with stuff wet in Oxicrotium A defensive Medicine Take Unguentum Populeum two ounces Bole Armoniack one ounce mix these together with Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger If the place appear blistered Take half a pint of running water and set it on the fire and put in fine Wax a little Oyl of Roses and sine Barly meal seethe them altogether but not very thick then make thereof a Plaister or Cere-cloth strike it upon the cloth upon the bottom of a Pewter dish over a Chafingdish and coals and lay it luke-warm to the arm or leg a night and a day and it will asswage the humour of boyning For the Wound of Broken Bones Take luke-warm Mell Rosarum and Oyle of Roses and a stamp of flax dipped in the Whites of Eggs and so bind it upon the sore Also apply about the place Bole Armoniack Sanguis Draconis and Olibanum beaten with a little Oyl of Roses Barley meal and Vineger round about the sore and so comfort the Patient A Defensive against Boyning of a broken Bone in the Leg. Make your Plaister of Oyle of Roses and Oyle of Mirtle melted together with a little wax and when it is cold put to it Bole Armoniack and Pompuleon of each one ounce of Wine two ounces and lay it a handful broad upon the hurt and let it lye A Poultice for any Boyning inward Take a pint of new Cowes milk a pint of Rye-bread crumbs a handful of French Poppy leaves shred small two ounces of Oyle of Roses three yolks of new laid eggs and as much Saffron as the weight of a Groat First boil the milk the crumbs and the Poppy together a good while and then put in the rest and spread it upon a faire linnen cloth To asswage the swelling upon any broken Bone or out of joint Take Unguentum Pompuleum one ounce Bole Armoniack one ounce mix them together with a little Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger For the Bone ache Take the leaves and flowers of Henbane and put them in an earthen pot with May butter and close the pot and set it in a dunghil three months then annoint the grieved place therewith BODY To distil a Cock good for any weak Person Take a red or black Cock and pluck him quick and whip him alive with small twigs a pretty while then cut off his head and gut him and cut him in quarters and wipe him very dry with a fair cloth then take an earthen pot and lay four or five splints to keep it from the bottom of the pot then lay in the four quarters upon the splints and lay between every quarter some of these Roots and Fruit following Fennel roots Parsley roots Succory roots of each two or three two or three slips of Rosemary two or three Dates quartered half a handful of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out six spoonfuls of Rhenish Wine Malmesey or Muskadine three or four whole Mace cover the pot and stop it close with paste and set it in a pot or kittle of hot water and let it boil softly with a temperate fire sour hours then take it up and let it run through a fair cloth without any forcing then put it in a fair glasse or pot and keep it close covered and give to the Patient two or three spoonfuls at once or in quantity as the stomack is able to take it in some broth made of Mutton or Veal first in the morning and as often in the day besides as he hath a stomack to take it To preserve the Body Take a pottle of fair water and six Calves feet and put therein Betony Long-wort Liver-wort Knot-grasse Clary Balm with a quantity of Mace Cinnamon and Ginger and six Dates let all these be sodden together till it come to a Jelly and then take a quart of White-wine or very pure claret and put therein and eat it at your pleasure Another Take the marrow of Venison a pint of running water three leaves of Clary three leaves of Comfrey one handful of Archange a handful of Charnel theree Dates a handful of smal Raisons seeth altogether till it come to half a pint then strain it and put thereto a pint of white Bastard and a quantity of Manus Christi Another Take a pint of Muskadine and put thereto Hemp-seed and blanched Almonds and Cap Dates two or three whole Mace and a Nutmeg and three crops of Rosemary and a little Saffron and red Rose-water and boil them all together till half be boiled away and after they be boiled put thereto Mithridatum about the quantity of a hasel Nut but let it not seethe after and let the party drink thereof at his going to bed at night Another Take a pottle of water and a Chickken and
drink a good draught for three mornings together and it will cause the Stone to break and provoke Urine abundantly For the Stone Collick Take a half penny worth of Summer Savory seeds and of Parsley seeds of Bay berries of Gromel of each a half penny worth and boil them in a posset of White Wine and drink For the wind Collick Take the water of Heraff and the root of a red Dock the inner pith taken away and the neather bark of an Ash of one years growth and pound them and strain them with the said water and so drink it first and last Another Take Parsley seeds and bruise them and seeth them in Sack and drink it warm when you have your pain Also Carduus Balsam is excellent An excellent Medicine for the Collick or Sâ—one Take Pellitory Unset Leeks and Mallowes of each a like stamp them and put thereto a pennyworth of Neats foot Oyl and fry them well together in manner of a Plaister put them in a linnen bag and apply it to the Raines of the back but for the Collick apply it to the Navel and it will help within an hour CONSUMPTION For a Consumption Take a couple of Marrow bones and seeth them and put in a great handful or two of Unset Leeks cut small with the roots and blades fair washed and when they be washed and sodden take them forth and strain them and take out the Marrow and put it into the broth then take a half penny worth of Ginger as much Pepper a penny worth of Cinnamon a half penny worth of Cloves and Mace a quarter of a pound of Sugar let all be very small beaten and put into the broth and drink it warme morning and evening as the stomack will bear it A Soveraign Medicine for man or woman in a Consumption First take a red Cock and kill him and flea him and cut him in four quarters but wash them not then take six cap Dates and cut them in four quarters and take half a score of large Mace and six whole Cloves then put in three or four pieces of old Gold and stamp the bones of the Cock then take a pewter pottle pot and lay in one quarter and lay upon it some of every Spice and a piece of old Gold and so upon every quatter until the last be put in and you may if you will put to the said Ingredients Amber Coral and Pearle but no kind of Licoras neither first nor last and when it is perfectly boiled put thereto a dozen or sixteene Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out Then take so much Rye dough as will stop the pots mâ—uâ—h close and thick enough of the paste so that no water may enter into it then take a good great brasse pot and set it on the fiâ—e that the pewter pot and the Ingredients that is in it may stand covered with water at least two handfuls and put some heavy weight upon the pewter pot that it be not overthrown in the boiling and let it seeth continually from five of the clock in the morning untill eight of the Clock at night then take it off and open the Pewter pot and let the Patient take of that Syrrup a spoonful at a time And when you make it for a woman you must use these Herbs Hartstongue Motherwort Mugwort Mother Time and Comfrey but no Herbs must be used for a man And if the woman be hot in the liver take Liverwort and if troubled with the Stone take a little Pellitory of the Wall A very excellent Water for a Consumption Take a red Cock and pluck him alive then quarter him and take out his bowels very clean and wipe him very dry with a linnen cloth then put the quarters into a pottle of the best Sack and pâ—t into them Rosemary Time Penniâ—oyal and Pimpernel of each of these one small handful of Dates the stones being taken out half a pound of Currans one pound let them lye and steepe in the Sack two houres then still them in a Stillatory and of the Water thereof use two spoonfuls one hour before you go to Dinner and so likewise before Supper and it will much restore your body This was used by the Lord Chief Justice Popham For a Consumption Take a pound and half of Prok fat and lean and boil it in water and put in some Oatmeal and boil it till the heart of the meat be out and then put in two penny worth of milk and boil it a quarter of an hour and give the Patient a draught in the morning in the afternoon and at night and now and then some Barley water and by Gods grace it will help Another Take a fair earthen pot and put therein a gallon of Claret Wine and then take a Capon well flesh'd but not fat and gut him and put in his belly half a handful of Mace and as much Raisons and Curransâ— then cover the pot and set it on the fire and let it seeth till the half be consumed then put the Capon into a Mortar with some of his broth and bray his bones and all then let it seethe one walm after and passe it through a Jelly bag into a close Vessel then take a Goblet full and put thereto the yolks of six new laid Eggs the strainet taken away and seethe it well and then give the Patient to drink as hot as he can suffer it in the morning fasting likewise before noon and before he goeth to bed and ere three Capons be spent by the grace of God he shall be much amended To restore one that is in a Consumption Take three pints of new milk and one pint of very good Red Wine and four yolks of Eggs beat them with the milk and Wine and put to it as much fine Manchet crumbâ— as will make it thick like thin batter and put in one quarter of an ounce of beaten Mace and distil all these with fire and draw a pint of water out of it and take one spoonful of the water in Pottage or drink morning and evening To nourish one in a Consumption Take a Chicken and take out his bones and wash it in White Wine and put it into a pipkin without liquor with a few Currant and then still it five on six hours upon Embers without coals then take a spoonful thereof and drink with thin broth For a Consumption Take Coltsfoot Burnet leaves Wood-Betoby leaves red Rose leaves Comfrey roots of each one handful pick'd and sliced boil them in running water from three quarts to three pints then strain them and put into the liquor two pound of good Sugar and the whites of two new laid eggs then boil it a quarter of an hour and take off the skum and take of this Sirrup seven spoonfuls in the morning fasting and at night to bedward Probatum For a Consumption or Cough of the Lungs Take three spoonfuls of English Honey and three of fair water mixed together set it on the
violence you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs juice of Wood-betony and Egrimony and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes If that do not help it take wheat flowers the juice of Mallowes Mints Smallage and the Oyl of an egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to For hardnesse that hath been long in the Eye Take a Scruple of Alloes and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire then put of it in the eye Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister and lay it upon the eye Or take Roses Sage Rew and Cellendine of each alike mixt with a little salt and distil it and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye In stead of that water it is good to take the juice of Vervain Rue and a little Rose water For the Pin or Web. Take tops and crops of Herb Christopher stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May stamp them very small then take a good quantity of May Butter and stamp them together in a vessel and strain it out and set it in the Sun and put of these into your eyes it must stand a month in the Sun For a hurt in the Eye that cometh by a stroke Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plantane and put thereto the white of an egg and womans milk of a male child and Oyle of Roses and put it in your eye going to bed use this three or four times in a day Or take Egrimony and bray it and temper it with White Wine and an egg and make a Plaister and lay to the outside of the eye For a Pearl at the beginning Take a Race of good Ginger pare it clean and rub it on a Whetstone and make powder of it and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine then strain it through a fair cloth and put it into a glasse or Viol and after nine daies you may use it when you go to bed lying upright and likewise in the morning Do this six or seven times For eyes that are full of Rheume and bleared Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls and two of honey mix them together and when you go to bed put some in your eye Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel a branch of Cellendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten if one serve not take two put all these into half a pint of water cover it and put of it in your eye when you go to bed and an hour before you rise strayning it when you use it To preserve the sight long Take a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week To clear the sight Take the white of an egg made as clear as water and a spoonful of clarified Honey and some fine Sugar and mix them together and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor and rub the eye-lids therewith within and without For sore Eyes and Megrim in the Head Take the whites of new laid eggs and beat them to Oyl then take a spoonful of Rose water as much fine Sugar and as much strong Vineger made of Malmesey or White Wine put them to the Oyl and beat them together then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister dip it in the Medicine and bind on each Temple one with a cloth but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes Do this three or four nights and every morning the eyes will cleave together with Gum. For the Megrim in the eyes Take new milk and seeth it and put it into a bason and cover it with a platter and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes Or take three drams of the juice of Rue and put in your eyes and ears and stop your ears and lye down on that side For a Pearl and Web. Take Veinfrage Ivie Daisies Sickwort red Fennel Seagreene Pimpernel May butter bruise them in a Mortar and let them lye in the froth five â—ayes then make an easie fire and set 〈◊〉 over till it be melted then straine it through a fair cloth and put is into a Vial and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn It will destroy the Web and when your eye cleaveth together wash it with Rose water Another Take the leaves of Sage Hysop oculus Christâ— puiled downward drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice stamped with the Herbs and straine it in some Beeâ— and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together Or take the juice of Avens Southernwood and put this juice into Fenâ—â—â— water and put it in your eye For Eyes that be fair to look on and naught to see with Take Smallage Fennel Rue Vervaiâ— Betony Pimpernel Eyebright Sagâ— and Cellendine of each alike wash theâ—â— clean and stamp them then take thâ— powder of fifteen Pepper cornes and 〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine three spoonfuls of good Honey and fifteen spoonfuls of the Urine of a man child that is young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little then strain it and keep it in a vessel or glasse and put of it into your Eyes and if it dry up in the glasse put to it a little White Wine This is good for all kind of sore eyes in fifteen daies it helpeth For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take the strained juice of Pimpernel and drop into your Eye morning and evening This is good also for the Pin and Web or Pearle in the eye For a Pin and Web. Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees wipe them clean with a cloth â—hen stamp and strain them with womans â—ilk of a Girle for a man of a boy for 〈◊〉 woman the sorer the eyes be take the â—ore juice and the less milk Drop this â—â—to your eye with a feather evening and â—orning and twice in the afternoon For sore Eyes that cometh of a hot cause at of a Rheume Take Elder leaves and chase them between your hands and lay them to the nape of the neck For Bloodshotten Eyes Take a toast of leavened Bread House-leek and womans milk a spoonful oâ— Rosewater the pap of an Apple roasteâ— the yolk of a new layd egg and boilâ— them take the toast and lay it in reâ— Wine not mingled and let it lyâ— halfe an hour till it be soaked they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces for each eye one and the cloth must be between the eye and the toaâ— and dresse it thus when you go tâ— bed For Watering Eyes and darknesse sight Take May Butter and Honey of 〈◊〉 alike and boil them together and 〈◊〉 in the white of an egge and when it
〈◊〉 cold put it into your eye and it will cleer up your fight Or take the leaves of red Roses and temper it with the whites of eggs and lay it to your eye when you go to bed For an excessive pain in the Eyes when the Flux of Humors be sharp in them Take milk hot as it cometh from the Cow cover it with a Bason then take the dew from the Bason with a feather and put it in a glasse and therewith dresse your Eyes For sore Eyes that be in the morning full of pain and water so that they will not open without great washing Take a new laid egg and roast it hard then take a little white Copperas and a little roach Allome and a little Sandifer then strain the juice and drop thereof into your eye evening and morning and wet a linnen cloth and lay over your eyes For Eyes that have skins over them or great pain in them Take black Snailes and make an Oyl and put thereto White Sugar candied and Lapis Calaminaris being first burned five or six times and thus prepared put in your eyes evening and morning with a feather Or take Daisie roots Betony flowers of Pimpernel red Fennel stamp and strain them with stale Ale and drink thereof evening and morning and lay outwardly to your eyes Rose water womans milk and the white of an egg wet Tow or Flax therein and lay it to your eyes the Drink will be the better if you put in the juice of Clestocks a worm so called A Medicine that helped one that had a thrust in the Eye Take the right ground Ivy and Cellendine and the green of a Goose turd and womans milk put them all together in a glasse and when it is setled put the clearest in your eyes An Oyle for burning of the Eyes Take the white of an egg well beaten together with the juice of Daisie roots and Houseleek put them into an egg-shell and roast it hard and thereof will come an Oyl wherewith annoint the place pained Dr. Cademans Water for the Eyes Lapis Tutiae prepared half an ounce white Vitriol half a scruple red Rose water Plantane water of each one ounce Egrimony water half an ounce mingle them together and let them boil gently then clear it very well An excellent good Eye Salve Take a pound of May Butter and set it in the Sun to clarifie and alwayes when it is melted powre the clear butter from the curds and whey that will be in the bottome thus do from day to day until no more will come out then put as much of the Herb Christopher small chopt as will be steeped in it then set it again in the Sun in a glasse for the space of a month in which time it will be rotten then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and so keep it in some Gally pot or Glasse that will not drink it up and every evening as much as a small Wheat corne being put into the eye will destroy any speck or Pin and Web or any scale or thicknesse For and of the Eyes in general In all causes of the eyes observe the Nature of the person his age the time of the year the sicknesse he hath had before c. It is alwayes good in all pains of the Eyes that the Patient keep in a dark place free from aire lye high in bed that the Rheume tarry not in the Eyes but may fall down to the cheeks seasonable sleep doth digest and congeal the matter all vexatio is to be avoided as sorrow anger ill favors c. Also all vaporous meats And this is a general rule that so long as the pain lasteth you shall lay upon the Eye the white of an egg brayed with Oyl of Roses for it stayeth the course of the humours and asswageth all pain or the white of an egge braied with womans milk if the eye be red Of the Vthalmia of the Eyes This Disease is caused from the Flux of certain humours be they mixt or not as from Choler Phlegme Blood or Melancholy the signes whereof are these If it proceed of bloud then are the Eyes and their veines puff'd up red the Temples of the Head do beat the uppermost Eye-lids do swell the Eyes are moist yet with little pain but so moist that in the sleep the Eyes do bake up If it proceed of Choler then is there much pricking burning with great pain and swelling and not so red as the former but moist and burning that thereby sometimes the Apple of the eye is perished If it proceed of phlegme then is there a compression and ponderosity in the Eyes with great pain without heat or rednesse and by reason of the great moistness some soreness and swelling If of Melancholy then is there also great ponderosity with a sallow colour with rednesse or compression they do not bake together in their sleep for that the Catarrhe or Rheum is too dry For the rednesse of the Eyes Take half an ounce of Tutia make it glowing hot and quench it fifteen times in Rose water then bruise it small and put into it a quarter of an ounce of Callamint stones three cloves and half a pint of Malmesey and mix them together This Collyria is for all redness of the Eyes Of Watry and running Eyes If the Cause be inward from any disease of the brain and not through heat you may perceive by this viz. The Patient alwayes feels some heavy puffing up of the vains in the forehead and Temples of the head and this reflux is for the most part augmented by neesing falling both into the Eyes and sharpnesse in the throat But if this humour be through heat it bites the eyelids and makes the hair to fall off but if through cold then contrary In case it be through heat the party must be purged with Pills of Cochiâ— Aâ—â—â— with Succo Rosarum or with Pills of the five kinds of Mirabilans and keep a good Diet. If his grief come of a cold Cause it s very convenient to eat a good deal of Fennel seed every morning and chew Rew and Valerian in the mouth and annoint the eyes with the spittle Also if it proceed from the brains this is excellent Take prepared Bloodstone one quarter of an ounce Roses burnt Ivory red and white Curral Amber yellow Mirabilans of each one dram the juice of the Spirits of Frombois four ounces temper them together and keep them close stopped put thereof daily into your eyes and annoint your Eye-lids therewith This dries the Rheume marvellously and strengthneth the eyes from taking any moisture Also take the juice of Fennel and of Rue of each one ounce and of a childs Urine halfe an ounce Alloes three drams let it seeth a little then strain it and put a drop thereof into your eye It cleanseth drieth and sharpneth the sight Also roast three Apples take away the skin and cores then temper them with the yolks of three new laid eggs
a pan and so stir them till they are almost dry and then put them into a bag and lay the same to your stomack so that your stomack be not full of meat JULIP A most excellent Julip to refresh and cool any body distempered with heat or drougth in Agues or hot Diseases Take of Barley water a quart and put it into a fair bottle of glasse and let drop into the same some Oyl of Vitrioâ— or for want of that Oyl of Sulphur and then shake it well all together to disperse the Oyl and when you have perfectly tempered it then take two very good Pomgranats and cut them in two and squeece all the juice of them into it through some Colender or Strainer to keep out the kernels or husks or for want of Pomgranats as much Sirrup of Violets or Sirrup of Lemmons as the juice of two Pomgranats may be then take six penny worth of white Sugar candied and beat it very small and put it also in the Barley water and let it dissolve therein and drink thereof as need requires It is the best Julip that ever was made by the Art of man ITCH To take away or kill the hot Itch. Take Brimstone and as much Allom with a spooneful of white lead beat them small into powder then take a quantity of Cream and put the powder therein and beat them well together and therewith annoint the place that itches For an Itch. Take a pint of Borus two penny worth of Quicksilver and four penny worth of Frankinsence put these together and stir them with your finger and so annoint the hands and feet KIDNEYES Of the Kidneyes THe Kidneyes are fastned very strongly to the Back bone and that on the left side is right under the Melt and that on the right side a little higher so that sometimes it doth touch a great part of the liver and they have sundry veins from the liver whereby they draw blood with water and also some part of the gall unto them separating the same blood from the water and keeping so much of the blood as sufficeth for sustenance and vents through the Conduits whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descending into the Bladder The Diseases of the Kidneyes are divers as Imposthumes Ulcers c. which appears by pissing of Blood or like blood as if flesh were washed in it which Diseases arise either of heat cold or gravel c. The signes of cold Diseases are these There is no great pain nor heat nor thirst neither is the water high colourred but much in quantity because it is not wasted through unnatural heat which Agues Winter and the Gravel augmenteth for these Diseases a good Diet must be kept all grosse and slimie meats being avoided and likewise all cold Herbs exercise presently after meat is very hurtful Pain of the Kidneyes through Wind which spreadeth it self abroad and the pain is more after one hath eaten then before and is augmented through windy things when the meat is half digested therefore all windy things are to be avoided and annoint the back with Oyl of Rue and Oyl of Lillies likewise Conserve of Betony and the confected roots of Pimpernel Erinringo roots and Callamint is very good Pain in the Kidnyes through heat is when the Patient hath great thirst and a bad stomack maketh very little Urine and high coloured and sometimes there is fat swimming upon it and the rather in young cholerick hot men this is most dangerous for through the heat which is mixed with a tough thick phlegmatick matter the stone of the Kidney may grow therefore the Liver Veine must be opened and Glisters administred whereby the gots may be cleansed use cool Herbs and purge with Manna and Succo Rosarum Also use Saxifrage Parslye Cantharides roots of Fennel Butchers broom c. which are of a secret quality to convey the Medicine to the Kidnyes Also Sirrups of Water Lillies and of Vinegar and all things that cool the Liver and Spleen KNEES For pain in the Knees Take a Sheeps head newly killed and slit it and put into it a good handful of Plantane as much Camomile and so much Sage and so much Rosemary boil all well together until it be very tender then take out the bones very clean and chop all the flesh and herbs well together then put in a handful of Oatmeal grâ—ts and so boil it again until the Oatmeal be very tender and so lay it to the Knees as hot as you may suffer it and so use it as you see cause For ache in the Knees Take Rue and Lovage of each alike stamp them and mix them with Honey and fry them together and lay a Plaister thereof warm to the sore For swelling in the Knees and Legs Take Lilly roots and red Cole of each alike seeth them in clean running water and strain the Herbs then take the milk of a Cow and Wheat meal and temper it with the aforesaid Herbs and let it over the fire and stir it well till it be thick and then lay it on with a cloth For Aches and Swelling in the Knees Take a quart of Malmsey of Time one handful and boil it together and when it is half boiled put in a piece of sweet butter and let it boil together from a quart to a pint and when you go to bed bathe your knees therewith and let a cloth be wet therein four or five times double very warm and lay it so warme to your knees six or feven times LAMENESSE For such as be stiff in their Limbs or Lame TAke five black Sheeps heads a lapful of Arsemart as much Mallows as much Balm two good handfuls of Herb grace four handfuls of Fetherfew as much Lavender Spike two handfuls of Wormwood two handfuls of Savage one handful of Smallage and two handfuls of Rosemary all these will be as much as will fill a good sheet put them all into a Lead into running water a great deal and pull off the stalks of the Herbs and let them seeth a whole day you must not skin the sheeps heads but cleave them in sunder and let the wool be on still cutting off the hornes and seeth the Heads until the bones fall asunder then take out the bones and skim off the fat and keep it to annoint the Patient withal and the Patient must sit in the water up to the brests and wash and bathe himself therein and when he hath so done by the space of an hour or as long as he can endure it then lay him in a hot sheet into his bed and there let him sweat and so keep him close from the aire two or three dayes A Soveraigne Medicine for Lamenesse in the Joints to supple any sore and to bring it into Joint which hath been long out and for aches Take four or five young Swallowes out of the Nest being Flege and put them into a stone Mortar and stamp them feathers and all then take Lavender Cotton Wild Strawberry
before it be broken A very good Oyntment Take Rosasolis Sallet Oyl and Neats Foot Oyl and boil them all together over the fire To make the green Oyntment Take one pound of Sheeps suet and melt it and skim it and put thereto one ounce of Verdigrease and half an ounce of Sal gemmi in fine powder and stir it well together then take it from the fire and put it into a clean box and keep it for it may be kept many years It is good for Cankers and to heal old Wounds and to fret away dead flesh and it will keep a Wound from festering It is good for Morphew and for Scabs and there is no Oyntment that worketh so strongly as this doth Probatum To make another green Oyntment Take of Sage Rue of each a pound of Wormewood Bay leaves of each half a pound of Mellilot Herbs and flowers of Camomile flowers of Spike Rosemary red Rose leaves Saint Johns wort and Dill of each one good handful of Marsh Mallowes two handfuls chop these Herbs and Flowers as small as may be and stamp them and weigh them and put thereto the weight of pure sheeps suet chop it small and mince your Herbs and it together and stamp it in a stone Mortar to one substance that there be no suet seen but all green put it in some fair pot or pan and put thereto a pottle and a pint of Oyl Olive and work all these together in the pan with your hand to one substance and cover it close with some clay or paste about the edges that no air come in nor out and let it stand so seven daies then undo it and take it forth and put it a clean pan and set it on a soft fire alwayes stirring it till the Herbs begin to wax parched and then strain it into some â—air pan and then put into it these Oyls following Oyle of Roses Oyl of Camomile Oyl of White Lillies Oyl of Spike and Oyl of Violets of each one ounce stir them all together and resurve them to your use The Infirmities that this Oyntment is good for are these for Stiches Bruises Aches Palsies shrinking of Sinewes Gouts and Sciaticaes the Ache of the Back Lamenesse Plurisies the Cough the soles of the feet being annointed for extreme pain in the head make a cap for the crown of the Head of linnen cloth and lay in it the wool of a quick Sheep plucked from the flanks and cods pick out all the moates and make it cleane and card it then straine it with this Oyntment and baste it and lay it some what warm to your Head It is good for the Cholick and for the Spleen and for the cold Dropsie of the Liver If you will have it to be more pleasant of sent and more nourishing add thereunto of the Gums of Labdanum one ounce and a half bruised fine to powder of the Gum called Storax Cremitie three quarters of an ounce beaten well to fine powder mingle the other stuffe and this together and strain it and keep it to your use An Oyntment for the heat of the Raines or elsewhere in the Body Take Oyl of Roses six ounces of clear white Wax two ounces scraped as fine as may be dissolve these together on the fire and skim them as clean as may be then have a dish ful of Rose water and three spoonfuls of Rose Vineger mixt together strain your other stuff into it and labour it a long time in the liquor and last of all have ready Camphire a dram in fine powder and work it till it be cold This is a good Oyntment for the back head or eyes An Oyntment for a Bruise or Ach. Take of Dill Vervaine Mugwort Henbane the tops of Camomile Lavender of every one a like quantity then take May butter and shred the Herbs small and put them in the May Butter and stamp it well in the Butter then let it stand a fortnight and then fry it well but take heed you burne it not and then strain it and keep it to your use A very good Oyntment for all Aches and shrinking of Sinewes for blasting of the Face and for greene Wounds Take of Mellilot white Dothet Adderstongue Valerian of each three handfuls May butter well clarified in the Sun four pound your Herbs must be shred small and then stamped very wel by themselves and after stamped againe with your clarified butter and so let it stand six or seven dayes then boil it over a temperate fire until the Butter be green stirring it alwayes till it be taken from the fire then strain it and keep it to your use The white Dothet doth grow in moorish grounds where Rosasolis growes and groweth very neer the ground like a Plantane but a more yellowish greene leaf it beareth a blue flower on a tall stem and smal no Herbal maketh mention of this Dothet An Oyntment for any Swelling or Sore It is good for many things Take three good handfuls of Rosemary and as much of Hisop stripped Rosen as much as a Walnut and one pound of fresh May butter boil them all together until it be green then strain it into pots A very good Oyntment for any Ache. Take two pound of fresh new butter and clarifie it till it be clear then take a handful of the youngest Bay leaves of Camomile red Sage and Herb grace of each two handfuls chop the Herbs then boil them in the clarified butter a pretty while till it be green then straine it and keep it for your use and when you use it let the place pained be well chafed therewith against the fire You must also put in it with the rest a handful of Smallage An Oyntment for a Wrench or Strain Take the white of an egg and a spoonful of Honey and beat it to an Oyle then boil Bove wort with Sallet Oyl or Butter to an Oyl and mingle it together An excellent green Oyntment for a strain or Bruise Take a handful of Camomile of Bay leaves four handfuls of Smallage foure handfuls and a half of red Sage four handfuls of Herb grace three handfuls chop the Herbs and stamp them then take five pound of fresh Ewes Butter and boil it and when it riseth take it from the fire and let it stand then take off the skum cleane and then put in the Herbs together keeping it stirring and when it is well boiled take it off and let it stand till it be cold then strain it into an earthen pot well glaz'd and keep it to your use it will continue a year or two An Oyntment for Legs that itch with heat or to cool or heal any Sore running of a hot humour Take a handful of Houseleek stamp it very small and migle it with thick Cream and annoint the sore therewith A Soveraign Oyntment to strengthen Sinewes and good for Lameness Take half a pound of Swines grease half a pint of Sack Camomile and Betony of each a handful as much Sage half
for bones out of Joint so that laying on two or three of these Plaisters hath healed in fifteen dayes Armes out of Joint when you do lay up this Salve keep it in an Oyly paper PLURISIE A good Medicine to ripen a Plurisie Take a fair Costard and cut off the crowne and pick out the core but make no hole through and then put in all these powders of Bores tooth the weight of four pence of the Powder of Rubarb grated fine as may be the weight of three pence of Cinamon the weight of a penny of the powder of white Sugar candied the weight of two pence put all these into the Apple and cover him again and lay him on a tile on the Embers and roast him till he be soft as may be then cut it in sunder and give the sick party in the morning half of it to eat and fast two hours after it then eat some good broth and take the other part of the Apple the next day so that both the dayes are good to take a Medicine on An approved Medicine for the Plurisie Take a quantity of Horse dung which is kept in the Stable strain it with Ale then put to it a good quantity of Treakle and some Ginger and let the Patient drink thereof morning and evening luke-warm as much as he can endure A Plaister for the same Probatum Take a good handful of Brooklime and shred it very smal and boil it in fair water till it be very tender then take a quantity of Sheeps suet and wheaten bran and boil them together till it be thick and so lay it to his side where the pain is as hot as may be endured For the Plurisie Take a quart of White Wine put to it two handfuls of Cummin as much Oaten bran newly bolted bruise the Cummin and boil all to a Poultice and put it in two bags hot lay one to the side pained and when it cooleth lay to the other and so continue changing them three or four hours Or take Earth-wormes and fry them in Vinegar and spread them and lay them to the pained side Another The Plurisie cometh of cold humours therefore beware you take not much cold or any cold thing Malmesey sod with Camomile is very good A sweet Apple roasted and eaten with powder of Licoras and Sugar candied is good to be eaten in the morning and at night A sweet Apple also is best with Olibanum Also a Plaister of Pitch is very good laid to the side Another Annoint the place where the paine is with the Oyl of Linseed For the Plurisie Take four Spanish Balls newly gathered from a Horse stamp them and strain them with a pint of White Wine and as much beer put to that a penny worth of Treakle being first melted and give the party to drink thereof twice a day and not to eat nor drink one hour before nor after if you be sure it is the Plurisie let him blood within three dayes but if he be longer before he be let blood be sure you let him blood on that arm on that side where the pain is Also if when after blood letting he fall worse again this Drink is a very good Medicine for that Sicknesse taken by overmuch labour or lying on the ground There must be laid also to the side that the stitch is on for the Plurisie this following Take a pint of new milk make batter of it with wheaten flower as thick as you do Fritters put to it three spoonful of Honey and a groats worth of Saffron boil it to a Poultice and spread half and then grate it over with Nutmegs and lay it warm to the side and when it hath been on twelve hours then lay to the other half and make more if you see cause Also if you boil a piece of leaven as big as a good Apple in Vinegar the quantity of four spoonfuls and as much rose-Rose-water and a few Rose leaves to a Poultice spread it and grate it thrice over with Nutmegs and lay to the pained side It is also very good for the Plurisie or for any pain in the side If you take two handfuls of Horse-dung two Races of Ginger powdered boil them in a quart of White Wine being bound in a cloth boil it to the one half then drink a good draught morning and evening and after you have drunk it cover your self warm and sweat this way is also very good If the party be costive give him gentle Purgations as Cassia Fistula or use Suppositories or Glisters For this Sicknesse Tessers are good and the water of Mallowes Violets Borage or Bugloss Sugar candied also Take also of the Water of Broom flowers Scabious and Carduus Benedictus of each three spoonfuls put in Sugar candied and let the party drink so much morning and evening and annoint the side with Oyl of Broom flowers To know whether one have the Plurisie or no. Hold in thy breath as long as possibly thou canst do and then if thou canst not let thy breath pass from thee without coughing assuredly thou either hast it or art in danger of having it forthwith For the cure of the Plurisie Thou must be let blood forthwith then take the quantity of a Walnut of Carduus Balsom and eat it upon a knifes point and take again presently the like quantity of the same Balsom and melt it in a sawcer at the fire and with a soft clean linnen cloth dipped in the Balsom wash and bathe thy left side well as hot as thou art able to suffer it then warme the said cloth and lay it double over the place pained and bind it on and ly down to rest and by Gods blessing thou shalt find it a present Cure For a hot Plurisie When any get a pricking pain about the ribs with a Cough and an Ague then use this Glister Take sixteen ounces of Broth wherein a Lambs head or Calvs feet have been sodden put therein one ounce of Sugar the yolk of one egg two ounces of Sallet Oyle salt one dram and halfe temper them well together and use it PRICKING For the pricking of a thorn Swelling or Ancomb Take Birdlime and spread it on a piece of Glovers leather on the Allome side and lay it on as far as the swelling goeth and let it lye four and twenty hours and then renew it again Another for the pricking of a thorn or needle in any joint Take fine boulted flower and temper it with White Wine and boil it together till it be thick then lay it on the Sore as hot as may be suffered and it will open the hole and draw out the anguish help the aking and heal it for want of White Wine take Ale or Beer It is good to heal a Boil or Whitlow POULTICE To make a Poultice for Wounds or Swellings Take a good quantity of Marsh Mallowes or of other if you cannot get them and boil them in clean water then cut them small and
take White Wine dregs and of good Ale as much more your Mallowes being shred put it into your dregs and put in some Deers Suet and Sheeps Tallow melted and crumbs of brown bread boil all these together till it be thick alwayes stirring it to keep it from burning then lay it warm every dressing upon a woollen cloth it dissolveth hardnesse and swelling The Lady Farnchams Poultice Another Poultice to mollifie and dissolve Take the crumbs of white bread seeth them in milk and put to it Oyl of Camomile and a little Saffron then take it from the fire then put to it the yolks of two new laid egges and so make of it a Poultice and lay it to the sore An approved good Poultice to lay to an Ache or Pain Take a good handful of Mallowes another of Smallage a handful of Linseed as much of Oatmeal grets pounded together a pottle of well water halfe a pint of milk and Deeres Suet as much as an egge or else so much of Sheeps Tallow then boil all these together till it be thick then lay it to the Patient where the pain is being spread upon a linnen cloth A very good Poultice for Wind gotten into joints Take Wormwood and Dill dryed and beaten to fine powder of each one handful of Sheeps dung three handfuls of Camomile flowers half a handful of Cummin seeds two ounces seeth them all in Lye and let it boil together until it be very thick then spread it upon leather and lay it upon the place grieved warm but first annoint it with Oyle of Rue Mr. Smart A Poultice for a Bruise or Strain Take Claret Wine Balme and Rose-leaves boil them together till they be thick then lay them to the Sore as hot as the Patient can suffer it A Water to wash the place before you apply the Poultice Take Mallowes and Smallage of each a handful boil them in a quart of Vineger to a pint then wash the place pained as hot as you can suffer it An excellent Poultice for the Ague in a Womans brest or Legs Take Houseleek Smallage and Mallowes of each two handfuls shred them small then take a handful of Linseed and bruise it finely in a Mortar take also a handful of Oatmeal or wheaten bran some Roses of a Rose cake every leaf pulled from another Sheeps Tallow one pound shred it well then put all these into a gallon of running water and boil them together till they become thick then put thereto a quart of Cowes milk and let it boil stall till it be as thick as a Plaister â—tirring it often then when the leng or brest is washed with the water also â— said spread the Poultice on a cloth all abroad and lay it to the leg or brest aâ— hot as may be suffered and let it lye so till it be dry and hard and then renew it but if the leg or brest be not very hot and red it shall not need A Poultice for any Swelling Take of Violet leaves and Groundsel of each a handful of Mallowes and Chickweed of each halfe a handful shred them smal and let them seeth wel in running water and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted and spread it on a cloth and so lay it on the place pained and bind it fast and shift it twice a day till it be cured PURGE The Manna Purge Take half an ounce of the best Cene lay it in soak in a pint and a half of Posset Ale on the Embers in a close covered pot two hours then put it into a posnet and put to it a Parsley root or two one Fennel root two spoonfuls of Anniseeds a stick or two of Licoras scraped and bruised a few Raisons stoned boil all together to half then strain it and put into it one ounce of Manna and four penny weight of Rubarb being grated and put in a clout and laid in soak in the aforesaid liquor with the Manna one hour when the Manna is melted wring the Rubarb strain it and put to it three spoonfuls of the Sirrup of Roses and drink it blood warm in the morning and eat a mess of Mutton pottage after it To Purge the Moon being in Scorpio Cancer or Pisces Michocanum two drams which is two six penny weights grate at with a Grater and pound it smal steep it in a penny pot of White Wine all night and in the morning about six of the Clock warm it milk warm and drink it off and half an hour after take eight or ten spoonfuls of Mutton broth with a few Raisons or Currans in it and it will work downewards and purge away moist humours causing Phlegme to breed in the body Of Catapusia being small seeds you must take two and twenty or four and twenty of them in quantity and take off the outer hulls and beat the inner graines small in a Mortar or pewter dish then mingle it with a little Ale or White Wine which is best warm it a little and take it as abovesaid and it wil void as the other And if you should at any time have any continuing Lask by occasion of Medicine or otherwise seeth a little Rice without any salt or butter and eat it with a little Cinnamon and it shall presently stop it Another to purge Phlegme Take a handful of Groundsel wash it clean and boil it in a pint of Ale skim it then put in half a handful of Raisons or Currans and two ounces of Sugar candied boil all together again to half a pint or lesse then strain it and drink it milk warme fasting at six a Clock and fast till eleven then take some Mutton broth Another Take Encampane roots and make Conserves of it use it in this manner first wash the roots clean then slice them in pieces as big as your little finger seeth them in fair water until they be tender then take them up and pound them and strain them through a haire sieve then set them over the fire and put to them the double or trebble weight of Sugar and when it is perfectly incorporated or mingled take it off and keep it in a Gally pot The time to gather the roots is when the leafe falleth away A Dyet Drink to Purge withal Take Anniseeds Licoras Cene Hermodactilus of each one ounce of Sassaparilla five ounces scrape away the outside of it and bruise it a little and cut it the length of an inch then bruise your Licoras and put your Anniseeds to it and put them in a pot to steep in two gallons of Conduit or running water four and twenty hours then boil them until a third part be consumed then put in your Cene and half an hour after put in your Hermodactilus the outside being pared away and slice them as you do a Race of Ginger and withn an hour after take it from the fire and let it rest in the pot two hours then strain it in a bag as you strain Hypocras so let your first
milk of a Girle if for a woman the milk of a boy For the Small Pocks or Meazels When the Pocks are white at the first coming out let a woman that gives suck milk some of her milk upon them and apply a paper thereupon and do this every day and they will not pit Also take a new laid egge and it in fresh butter and then poure it into cold water and being cold put it into a pot and put Rosewater thereunto and stir it so long till it become like an Oyntment and with it annoint the sace and the eyes especially and it will preserve the sight from the Pocks and when as any one hath Pockholes annoint them with Barrowes grease betimes and it will help Also for them that have the Small Pocks falne into the eyes let them take Pimpernel and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into the eyes where the Small Pocks are with a feather morning and evening this is a special good Medicine for a Pin and Web or Pearle in the eyes Also for the Small Pocks or Meazels take Dragon root it purgeth all the inner parts or the distilled water given to drink with Treakle is very good to drive them out Also Figs eaten before meat provoke sweat and thereby expel all stinking humors and therefore are good for the Meazels or Smal Pocks and to be given to Children to bring them out speedily Also an excellent Medicine to drive them out seeth Fumetory in Rue water and drink it Also to heal the Pocks or any Scabs seeth Houndstongue in Red Wine and drink thereof and also apply it to the Sores Also to drive out the Smal Pocks drink a spoonful of Sallet Oyl with three spoonfuls of Malmesey and the quantity of a Hasel nut of Treakle in it Also to take the print of the Small Pocks out of the Sore take one ounce of Sperma Ceti and as much Deers Suet and melt them together and when the Small Pocks are ripe annoint the face therewith with a feather and if the Pocks be in the throat then give the Patient a little Sirrup of Black-berries such as grow upon Briars but take them when they are red and pound them and strain them and put as much Sugar thereunto as there is of the juice and seeth them together till they be boiled away to the one halfe then give the Patient a little in a spoon three or four times in a day and that by Gods help will cure them and the very like may be done with Gooseberries before they be too ripe and these may be taken and made into Sirrup and kept seven yeares if you will A Drink to put out the Small Pocks Make a Posset with Ale and milk and take away the curd then take a red Fernel spout and boil it well together then strain it and put thereto a quantity of Nutmegs and Treakle and English Saffron mingled warme together QUINZIE For the Quinzy TAke milk and a flint stone and make it red hot and quench it twice in the milk and take Vervain and Collombine leaves and seeth it in the milk and fine Honey and so give it to the Patient to drink Another Take the paring of the threshold and Sallet Oyl and fry them together and lay it warm to the Patients throat RAINS An excellent Medicine for the running of the Rains TAke a good handful of the inner rind or bark of the Sloe-bush the outermost black skin or rind being cut or scraped away then put the same into a quart of the purest and strongest Ale you can get and let the same boil well from a quart to a pint when it is so boiled take the rind out of the Ale and let it stand until it be cold then divide it into two parts and drink it two mornings together and fast after it every morning two or three hours Probatum For the Raines of the Back Take half an ounce of Venice Turpentine and let it be wel washed in Plantane Water or Rose water 〈◊〉 aâ—d then mix it with fine white Sugar and make thereof four or five balls of which you must eat three in a morning fasting and drink White Wine or Rhenish Wine immediately after RHEUME A good Medicine for the Rheume distilling down the throat and causing pain in the Teeth Take two handfuls of Hisop strip it from the stalks rowle it in a brown paper somewhat wet then lay it to roast under embers until it be roasted very soft but not burned then take it off and lay it upon a linnen cloth and so lay it upon the mould of the Head as hot as may be suffered and so put it fresh three or four times letting it lye from the evening to the morning For the Rheume distilling into the Eyes or Lungs Take of Rosemary red Sage sweet Marjerom of each a handful of Betony half a handful seeth them in a quart of Balme Water until it cometh to a pint then strain it and make up the Decoction with Sugar and for the Lungs you must put in some Hysop and a few Anniseeds and Licoras before you boil it An approved Receipt to be Drunk first and last for a Months space good for Rheums and Aches Take of Licoras one ounce of Cassia in the Cane and Cena Alexandrina of each four ounces sweet Fennel seeds one ounce Madder roots two ounces of large Mace ten pence in weight of Cinnamon fourteen pence in weight Hermodactilus three ounces of Polipodium three ounces of Coriander seeds three ounces prepared two or three yellow Dock roots use but the rind a good hand ful of Scabious a handful of Egrimâ—ny All these are to be used thus the Polipodium scraped the Licoras scraped and bruised the Madder roots scraped and sliced the Hermodactilus sliced Mace bruised in a Mortar with the Cinnamon and Licoras Then put all these Simples together in a bag with a pound weight to cause it to sink but let it not touch the bottom then tun four gallons of good Ale and about a week after you have tunned it drink thereof first and last and continue it a Month or six weeks together For a Rheume in the Head Take the roots of white Beets stamped and strained and put the juice of them into a glass and snuff up thereof into your nose with a quill every morning twice in a Month and it wil help Of Rheume Rheume is nothing else but a defluxion that falls from the head into the throat or brest which doth otherwhiles so stop the pipes of the Lights and throat that its ready to choak also these Rheumes fall into the nose and cause the pawse These Rheums are caused divers waies as from gross meats which cause vapours or of cold or from a sharp North wind which bloweth suddenly after a South wind The cold Rheumes are knowne by these signes following as wearinesse heavinesse of the whole body sleepiness heavinesse of the head and forehead
of Oranges and Lemmons of each four ounces make it to a clear Sirrup with so much fine Sugar as will serve the turne STRAINE For a Strain Take of Elland leaves Sage Fennel Fetherfew and Mallowes of each a handful and seeth them in thick milk till the milk be almost consumed and then lay it to the place very warm SUPPOSITORY To make Suppositories for such as be bound and costive Take English Honey white Soap and some Salt mixt together and fryed then make a roul or peg thereof and put it in the Fundament it will make the Patient go to stool within an hour and a half for so long or until it work he must keep it in his body Another Take a long piece of Coperas being white and smooth it and annoint it with some butter and so minister it to the Patient and let him keep it in his body an hour and half if it work not before and he shall find great ease and helpâ— These kind of Suppositories will serve twice or thrice at the least SINEWES A good Medicine for Sinewes that be shortned or shrunk Take the head of a black Sheep Camomile Barly leaves of Sage of each one handful and bray them together in a Mortar and then boil them all together till they be well sodden then let it stand to cool and then draw it through a Strainer and lay it on the place grieved and by Gods grace it shall soone amend For shrinking of Sinewes Take Hogs dung and half a pound of Oyle of Roses seeth it in a new earthen pot and apply it as hot as you can endure it The Composition of a Cerot to mollifie Sinewes anâ—â— Joints that have been long displaced Take the leaves of Mallowes cleane picked from the stalks eight handfuls of Gentian three handfuls of Archangel one handful then take of Oyl Olive a pint of Oyl of Roses Oyl of Camomile and Oyl of Dill of each half a pint boil all together and in boiling of them strow on one ounce of Anniseeds and one ounce of graines beaten into fine powder and when they be well sodden beat them in a Mortar with yolks of eggs For a Sinew that is strained Take Groundsel Brooklime Fitch Bruisewort Nepe Petty Morral and Hemlock of each alike stamp them and boil them in a pan over the fire and lay it to the Sore as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will case the aking and swelling and heal it in a little space For Sinewes that be shrunken or grown together Take the water of shell Snailes and Shoomakers Oyl of each alike and temper them wel together then take new Snailes and seeth them in running water and gather off the Oyle and put it to the other Oyle and temper them well together STOMACK For the pain in the Stomack Take Mackerel Mints two handfuls and of sowr leaven one handful and an half stamp them very small and put to it a good quantity of Mace beaten to fine powder and so much Wine Vinegar as shall incorporate all into a liquid paste which you must spread upon a linnen cloth apply it warm to the Stomack twice a day For heat in the Stomack Take a pint of stale Ale and half a pint of Endive Water and put thereto as much Sugar as will make it sweet then set it on the fire and skim it clean then take a piece of a white loaf as much as an apple the crust taken away and three or four whole Mace then let it seeth one walm after and then take and drink it duke warm the bread taken away whensoever you feel the heat in your stomack To make one have a stomack to his meat Seeth Centory in fair water and let the Patient drink it luke-warme fasting three dayes each day three spoonfuls it purifieth the stomack and brest also A good Powder to digest well Take Centory and Pellitory of Spain Anniseeds Licoras Grains of Paradise Ginger and Cinnamon of each alike beaten and searsed into fine powder and drink thereof morning and evening half a spoonful in Wine or Ale To make Hipocras for a weak Stomack Take a pint of Aqua vitae and put it in a glass then take two ounces of Cinnamon and one ounce of Ginger of Cloves and of Graines of each two penny worth of Nutmegs one Penny worth beat them all together into grosse powder and put them all into the glasse to the Aqua vitae and shake it very often for nine dayes together and then drink it with Wine or Ale half a spoonful or a quarter with halfe a pint of Ale To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Flegm and Melancholy Drink the seeds of Hollioaks Also the cods and leaves of Cene in powder one dram taken with broth of a Chicken or Mutton doth purge phlegm and Melancholy For a cold and stopping in the Stomack Take one handful of sweet Marjerom a few Marigold flowers a penny worth of Caraway Comfits a penny worth of Parsley seeds two penny worth of Dates a half penny worth of Raisons of the Sun boil all these in a quart of White Wine till halfe be boiled away then put in two ounces of brown Sugar candied and a little Mithridate SHINGLES For the Shingles Take the gteen leas of Colts foot stamped and mingled with Hony and apply it and it will help SPOTS To cleanse the skin from allscars and spots Make balls of a little bignesse of the juice of the inner parts of a Pumphin and bean flower dry them in the shadow and wash therewith before the fire SWELLING For a Swelling Take two handfuls of Wheaten meal and a pint of Cow milk and a handful of Rue and shred it small with a spoonful of fresh grease and boil them all together till they be thick then lay it on the swelling For Swelling in the Legs Take a handful of Archangel a handful of red Fennel and two handfuls of Mallowes and a handful of Brooklimes then seeth all these Herbs together in a gallon of running water to a pottle then bathe the leggs with the water hot and lay the Herbs on For all Swellings and Wrenchings c. Take a pint of Milk Oatmeal dryed Rose leaves Mellilot flowers of each a handful and a little Deers Suet and seeth it till it be as thick as pap then lay it to the hurt as hot as may be suffered For swelling in the Legs Take Wormwood Parsly Camomile Cummin and Ash rods of every one a handful and seeth them in the Patients Urine and make a plaister and apyly it For swelling of Sinewes Take Smallage Lovage Groundsel Brooklime Sengâ—een and Bruisewort stamp them and put thereto a little wheaten bran Sheeps Tallow and some Barrowes grease fry them well together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the place grieved For Swellings or Bruises Take milk wheaten meal red Roses and Camomile of each a handful seeth all these together until they be thick then spread it on a
throat or elsewhere TAke a handful of red Sage a handful of Cellendine and as much Woodbind leaves take a gallon of running water and put the Herbs into it and let it boil to a pottle then strain it and take the liquor and set it over the fire again then put thereto a pint of English Honey and a good handful of Roach Allome finely beaten a penny worth of graines grosly bruised and let them hoil all together three or four walmes and then skim it off with a feather and when it is cold put it in an earthen pot or bottle so as it may be kept close and for a green wound take of the thinnest of the water and for an old wound the thickest the Water first being well shaken together and after you have well cleansed the old sore with White-Wine then take fine lint and wet it in the water and oft times bathe the wound and with the lint cover the wound and if there be any holes in the wound fill them with lint made like a Tent and so cover the wound with a piece of bladder the more better to continue your lint with moisture and dresse your wound twice a day To make Barley Water Take a penny worth of Barley a penny worth of Raisons of the Sun a penny worth of Anniseeds a half penny worth of Licoras two quarts or more of water boil all together till halfe be consumed then strain it and when it is cold drink it your Licoras must be sliced into small pieces To make Doctor Stephens Water Take a gallon of good Gascoigne Wine then take Ginger Gallingal Cinnamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Mace Anniseeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds of each a dram then take red Mints red Rose leaves Garden Time Pellitory of the wall Smal Marjerom Rosemary Peniroyal Sage Wild Time Camomile Lavender Avens of each one handful then bruise them all in a Mortar and beat your Spices small and then put your Spices and Herbs into your Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it oftentimes and then still it in a Limbeck The first pint is the best the second is good The Vertue of this Water It comforteth the spirits and preserveth greatly the youth of man it helpeth the inward Diseases coming of cold it helpeth the shaking of the Palsie it cureth the distraction of the Sinewes and helpeth the Tooth ache it comforreth the stomack very much it cureth the Raines of the back the Canker and cold Dropsie it helpeth forth the Stone in the bladder also it helpeth a stinking breath and the Conception of a woman that is barren a spoonful of this Water to some is sufficient to others two or three once in ten dayes sufficeth A Water for a green Wound Take a gallon of fair running water a pottle of White Wine of Wormwood Motherwort Bramble buds Hawthorn buds Basil Mints Avens Egrimony Bovewort Wood Bugloss Woodbind Plantane Ribwort Daisie roots Betony Wild Angelica Sanicle White Bottles Scabious and Dandillion of each one handful and put them into the Wine and water and let them boil together till the half be consumed then strain out all the Herbs and boil the liquor with a quart of English Honey very softly till it be clean skimmed then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a glass and keep it for to wash any green wound which it will care although never so dangerous drinking also at a time three spoonfuls of it A Water to heal a Wound Take Woodbind leaves and Sage of each a handful boil them well together in a little water and put in a piece of Allome and a little Honey and wash the wound therewith laying a little lint to it and it wil heal it An excellent Water to wash any Sore withal and will be a means to gather skin Doctor Wheads Water Take brown Sage brown Fennel Rosemary Violet leaves Liverwort Harts-tongue Bryar leaves Plantane leaves Woodbind leaves five leaved grasse Egrimony Wild Tansie of each one handful take all these Herbs and boile them in an earthen pot with a pint of White Wine and three pints of running water till it comes to a quart then take the Herbs and strain them in a bason then take as much Allome as three Walnuts and put it in the water and let it boil up then take it and put it in a bason till it be almost cold then put in a quarter of a pint of live Honey and presently put it in bottles and stop it very close To make a cordial Water Take of the tender leaves of green Angelica four handfuls of the like leaves of Carduus Benedictus two handfuls of the like leaves of Balm and Sage of each one handful and an halfe let all be shred small Licoras bruised five ounces the seeds of Angelica two ounces the seeds of sweet Fennel three ounces let both be bruised well the Spices of Aromaticum Rosarum Diamoschum Dulce of each half an ounce infuse them all in six quarts of good Sack four and twenty hours then distil them in a Limbeck with a soft fire according to Art and draw forth of the best water a pottle whereunto after two dayes put half a pound of the finest Sugar dissolved in half a pint of good red Rose water in a fair pipkin on the fire when the Rose-water is hot with the Sugar then put in your hot water and let it stand over the fire till it be throughly hot then take it off and put it in glasses and keep it as excellent to comfort the spirits and against infection you may draw forth of good smaller water a quart A very precious Water made of Cinnamon Take one pound of good Cinnamon and bruise it a little and lay it a soaking four and twenty hours in four pints or four-pound of Rosewater a pint and half of Muskadine or white Wine then put it into a Limbeck glass to distil upon hot ashes or else in a pot of hot water This Water is good against the pain of the Spleen the pain in the head the Mother to provoke Urine to stay vomiting to expel all venemous colds You may take four pints of White Wine putting to it half a pound of Cinnamon and use it as aforesaid WEN A Medicine to put away a Wen or Curnel Take black Soap mixed with unslaked Lime made into powder lay it to the Wen or Curnel and by Gods grace it will help A Medicine for an unbroken Wen. Take the crumbs of Barley bread the bignesse of an egge and as much White Wine Vinegar as will make it into a soft paste and spread it upon a cloth then take an old wooden ladle and set it against the fire and it will sweat then take a feather and wipe the sweat off the ladle and annoint the Wen therewith then take a plaister of the paste and lay it on the Wen and dresse it three times a day after the Sun is risen and before the
in then take two handfuls of Fordy Almonds blaneh and bruise them and mingle them with a gallon of Cute and put them into the Bastard and roll it well for half an hour and lot wo dayes you may broach it and it will be perfect good A Parrel to the same Basturd First Parrel him with the whites of eight new laid Eggs beat them wel with a handful 〈…〉 and a pint of the same Bastard and put them into the Bastard then beat it an hour with a parting staff then-take one pennyworth of Allome and burn it and mingle it with a pint of running water and put it into the Pipe and then give it a stroak more and roll it well and a dozen upon the Bung stop him close and broach him if you have occasion two hours after To make Tyre that is excellent Take a good Butt of Malmsey and overdraw him one quarter and then fill him with fat Balâ—ard and two gallons of Cute then Parrel him as you did the Malmsey with the same things and after the same manner and â—o beat him and keep him close and in two or three dayes you may broach him To make Muskadine of Jane Take a Burt of Jane or good Malmsey and fill him up with sat Bastard and Parcel him as you did the Malmsey and beat him well one hour 〈◊〉 he be fine A Parrel for the Muskadine When it comes to be fine within four hours after take six new laid eggs beat them shels and all with one handful of Bay salt put to them a quart of old Sack one handful of white Sugar candy beaten small then beat them all together very well then overdraw the Butt eight or ten gallons then bear the Butt an hour then put in the Parrel and then bear him again gently half an hour and stop him close and broach him within twenty four hours A Parrel for Malmsey It must be Parrel'd as your Muskadine saving only you must take yolks in stead of Whites or also use them all 〈◊〉 alike For 〈…〉 Overdraw him one 〈…〉 fill him up with pleasant sat Bast and 〈…〉 gallons of Râ—d 〈…〉 two gallons of 〈…〉 it wel and it shal help it presently For Bastard that drinketh hard You must put in it three or four gallons of running water and as much skimmed milk then beat them wel and give him a Parrel of the yolks of six eggs with a pint of water and put it into the Wine and beat the Butt well half an hour and when he is fine you shall rack him into a cleer Pipe and put into him two gallons of Honey water and stop him close and roll him and within two dayes broach him To make a Pipe of Ossey Take a Pipe of Eager Bastard then take a Butt of smal Sack but first you must roll the Pipe of Bastard and draâ—â— him half into another Pipe then take your small Butt of Sack fill up your Bastard therewith within ten or twelve inches if your Bastard be but small take the lesse Sack for the Ossey must drink somewhat fat then to take away the eagernesse which is a principal thing take five gallons of new milk and two gallons of water and that shall make it white and well coloured and wel in drinking and then you must beat it or else it wil faint in the Pipe then take half an ounce of Orris and two ounces of Cloves and beat them smal and bang them in a bag three dayes in the midst of the Pipe and that shal give it a right sent and taste and at three dayes end with-draw him from his Bastard Lees to good Sack Lees and parrel him thus Take twelve whites of eggs and a handful of White Salt well beaten together with a gallon of White Wine which is in the Trace then put it into the Butt with your beating staff and fill him up and let him lye til he shew fine and then it wil seem for Ossey which is excellent Or with the two Pipes you may make or draw mingled together four Butts of exceeding good Malmsey To shift Wines and Malmseyes and put off your ill Wines If you have two principal good Butts of Malmseyes you may make two and a half with eight gallons of pleasant fat Bastard and with the Lugs you have of Clarret White and Sack and if you put a gallon of Red Wine to every Butt it will do well and you shall have the more Cute or you may use Cute two gallons of Spainsh Cute wil go further then five of Candy Cute but Candy Cute is more natural for Malmesey then the other then Parrel him with eight whites of eggs and a handful of salt beaten together then put them into the Wine and beat the Butt half an hour and stop him very close and in two dayes you may broach him A pleasant Sent for Red Wine Take two ounces of Brimstone half an ounce of Callamus mix them together with half a pint of Burrage water melt the Brimstone into a pan and let the rest be with it therein then put in so many Cloves as wil soak it up and burne the Cloves in the Cask throw away the ashes then your Wine being rackt put into it a pint of Damask Rose-water then roll it wel half an hour stop it close and let it lye two dayes then broach it This shal give it or any other Gascoin Wine a most pleasant sent and taste For to make Match Take one pound of Brimstone half a pound of Coriander seeds Anniseeds two ounces of Cloves and Nutmegs one peniworth Orris one penniworth one penniworth of Cammomile grate them and beat all these together Also for parrelling a Hogshead of White Wine take two gallons of milk and the whites of four eggs and a handful of Bay salt these being well parrelled and put into the Hogshead will do the work Also if you have a Butt of Sack that doth begin to be long take two penny-worth of Roach Allom burne it then beat it smal with the whites of six eggs and one handful of Bay salt if it begin to boile give it the Parrel aforesaid Also if you have a Pipe of Malaga that pricketh over-draw it ten gallons and put in Chalk in this manner you may help it away Roll it well and put therein two gallons of Stone-Honey clarified and beaten with a quart of Conduit water and that shall fine the Wine again and in two dayes close stopped it shal be perfect For Bastard that pricketh First draw it out into a fresh Pipt and fresh Lees then take three gallons of the best Stone Honey clarifie it and beat it with a quart of the same Bastard then take a peck of Frumety well boiled as for pottage then mingle the Honey and beat it together then put it into the bag and let the bag be long that it may reach almost to the bottom then put into another little bag one pennyworth of Anniseeds of Coriander seeds and