est Remedies to provoke Menstruum Mulieris TAke powder of Peeter Bittony Yarrowseed in white Wine and drinke it Another Take Mugwort Selondine Marigold Verven Nippe of each nine crops three dayes before the change and three dayes before the full of the Moone Another Take Germander and the rootes of red Madder and seethe it in Ale and give it her to drinke or else take Radishes Et semen pionae red Sanders and Suger and use it as aforesaid Another Take Cotula Fetuda the which is like Camomill but it stinketh and make a fomentation thereof Another Take the Juyce of Mercury and Honey and flower of Cockle as much as will incorporate it and make thereof little balls and give her one or two of them and she shall have Menstruum also it shall after dispose her to conceive for it hath seldome failed and is well proved Another Take the blacke seed of Pionie and bruise them one by one to the number of nine and picke of the blacke huskes and in a Morter breake them to powder eate and drink the said powder at times afore said in the second Medicine Pro eadem Another Take the rootes of Gladion and Arsmart and seethe them in good white Wine or Vineger and when they be well sodden take them from the fire and let the woman sit over it so that the ayre may strike up and none goe away for this is proved Another Take Bittonie Puliall Royall Centory of each a handfull seethe them with Wine or water till the two parts be wasted and then clense it thorow a cloth and drinke it Another Take Balme Margerom Isope and Marigolds a handfull seethe them from a pottle to a quart upon a soft fire and so take it and drinke it every morning fasting and if it be bitter put thereto Suger and use it Remedies to stop Menstruum Mulieris TAke the blackest holly-hocks that yee can get and take the flowers thereof and make them in powder and drinke them and wash the place with the water of Lovage Another Take the water of Oake leaves distilled halfe a pinte of Rose-water and Syrrupe of Quinces sixe ounces and let her drinke thereof first and last Another Take Horse-dung and seethe it in good Vineger and put it into little bagges of linnen cloth and lay the one upon the Reines of the backe and the other betweene the Navill and the privie place as warme as shee may suffer it and let her drinke it every Morning and Evening with a little Synamon till shee be whole Another Take the rootes of Gladium and seeth them well in Wine or water and receive the fume thereof It never failed To stop white Menstruum and red TAke the Juyce of Planten and of Bursa Pastoris and two whites of Egges well beaten among the Juyce and put thereto Bole-armoniack one ounce and of Terra sigillata one ounce and a portion of Beane flower and make it thicke upon the fire and draw thereof a Plaister upon thin cloth and lay it to her Backe and Navill Another for the white TAke the inner rinde of the Sloe tree Sumatch Balestianes the rinde of the Pomegranate Planten Knot-grasse the inner rinde of the red Bryer and a little French-Bolearmoniack and boyle all these in red Wine till halfe be consumed and let her drinke it fasting Et restringet fluxum Menstruum Another Take the foote and Legge of a Hare and bake it to powder haire and all and drinke it and it restraineth the same The vertue of Fearne THe Root is good to be drunke and laid to Plaister-wise for the Wounds that are made with Reedes and in like manner the roote of the Reede drunke and laid Plaister-wise to the sore where Fearne sticketh The Powder is good to be strowed upon moyst Sores which are hard to be covered with skin and ill to be healed the Juyce pressed out of the Fearne roote laid to with Rose-water or other cold water is good for all manner of burning or scalding perfectly and sure To take away heate and inflamation of a Member TAke the waters of Planten and Purslaine of each two ounces and the water of a little hearbe called Verniculaâ—is two ounces Litarge and Ceruse in fine powder of each foure drams and Camphere three graines mixe all these together and so use them A Locion for a sore Mouth TAke running water a pinte Vineger halfe a pinte Honey foure ounces Bay leaves one ounce Galingale one dram Let all these be decocted to the forme of a Syrope A preparative TAke Syrope of Violets Endiffe and of Femitory of each two ounces and of common Decoction foure ounces To make Vergent milke by D. Yaxley TAke Litarge of Leade one pound with Vineger a pinte laid in fuse three dayes and then drawne with woollen shreds and so keepe it in a Viall by it selfe close then take foure ounces of conduit-Conduit-water and one ounce of Allome and one dram of Camphere and melt all over the Fire and keepe the water by it selfe in another Viall and when you will use it put both these waters together of each a like quantity and it will be like milke It taketh away the spottes and Freckles in the Face if it be often applyed thereto A comfortable Powder for the Heart TAke Synamon Ginger of each three ounces graines of Paradice long Pepper of each two drams Saffron one dram Suger foure ounces and so make your Powder A Remedy that breaketh the Stone TAke a pound of Grâ—mmell a pound of Saxifrage seed and a pound of Coriander with a quarter of a pound of Soras white and red and grinde all these in a Morter very small and so keepe it using to eate thereof in your Pottage every day a spoonefull Another Take Time Damsons Beane-Cods Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage a like quantities and sleepe them one night in white Wine then distill them and use to drinke thereof Another remedy for the Stone and to cause the voydance of Vrine TAke Pellitorie of the Wall Sothernwood and seeth them in Water or white Wine with a quantity of Sheepes Suet till it bee tender then put the hearbes and tallow in a linnen bag and lay it warme to the bottome of the belly using this you shall finde remedy A proved Medicine to avoid the Vrine that hath beene long stopped TAke Radish rootes one if it be of bignesse and strong is sufficient and scrape it very cleane and lay it in white Wine a night in steepe then straine the Wine and give the Patient to drinke and he shall voyd water A very good water for the stone proved THe water of Strawberries with the leaves distilled and so used by draughts as other drinke To breake the Stone DRy the stones of a Cock a yeare old and â—eate them into fine powder and give the diseased thereof to drinke in white Wine but if he have the Charward then give it to drink with good water Doctor Argentines Medicine for the Stone TAke the
a swolne Face that is hurt by reason of some strange Scorching TAke the Juyce of Barba Jovis in English Singreene and rub your face with it twice or thrice a day You may doe the like with â—he Juyce of Purflaine but if your Face 〈…〉 â—oo much marred or hurt take forty or 〈◊〉 yolks of Egges and put them in a frying 〈…〉 upon a great fire and get some Oyle out of them wherewith you shall annoynt your â—â—â—e To make an aking Tooth fall out of himselfe TAke wheate flower and mixe it with the milke of the hearb called in Latine Herba Lactaria in French Tintamaille or Herbe Alerte in English Spurge that hath milke in it in Greeke Tithimales which is an Hearbe well enough knowne and thereof make as it were a paste or dow with the which you shall fill the hole of the Tooth and leave it in a certaine time and the tooth will fall out of it selfe And if you wash your mouth every moneth once with Wine wherein the roote of the said hearbe hath beene sodden you shall never have paine in your Teeth Also the decoction or powder of the flowers of a Pomegranate Tree being put in your mouth and betweene your Gums fasteneth Teeth To kill Lice and Nits in the Head TAke the powder or scraping of Harts horne and make the Patient to drinke it and there will no Lice nor Nits breed in his head but if you will straw the said powder upon his head all the Lice and Nits will dye To remedy or to helpe Blood-shotten eyes comming by any Rheume Fluxion or such other like cause TAke the tops or ends of Worme-wood which is an hearb well enough knowne and stampe it mixing it with the wâ—ite of an Egge and Rose-water and make thereof as it were a Plaister and spred it upon a linnen cloth which you may lay upon the eye wâ—ere the blood is or else upon both and doe this at night when you goe to bed and the next morning take it off and you shall see that tâ—is Plaister shall have drawne to it selfe all the bloud and all the rednesse that was in your Eyes and so you shall be quit of it For the Tooth-ache TAke the Rootes and Leaves of Chickweede and boyle them in water with the which you shall wash your mouth well and hold it in your mouth a certaine space and it will take away your paine To take away the Tooth-ache TAke Hysope and make thereof a decoction with Vineger and it being hot wash your mouth withall and the paine of the Teeth shall goe away The Hysope also being stampt and incorporated with Honey and a little Nitrina killeth the Wormes in a mans body Against the Crampe TAke and beat Brimstone and Vervine together and so binde it to your Arme or other place grieved and it shall helpe it for having the paine againe A Medicine to purge the Head TAke Masticke Peritory of Spaine tame Cressis Seede Cockle-seede Stavisacre both the kindes of neesing powder white and blacke Ginger Sinamond of each halfe a dram in fine-powder and mixed together and put it in a little bagge of fine linnen cloth and let the Patient hold one of these bagges in his mouth a good space but these bagges must first lye in Fuse a pretty while in Vineger and it will draw out Rheumes from the head wonderfully and when he hath done he must wash his mouth well with Wine or Ale A Medicine for a scald Head TAke Daysie Rootes and Ale and stampe them with as much May-butter as needs and annoynt the sore head therewith For the Head-Ache TAke a good handfull of Red-Rose leaves dryed and a good quantity of Cummin grossely bruised and a good handfull of Camomill grossely shred and a quantity of browne leavened Bread then mixe them and put it into a Linnen cloth then quilt it and set it into a hot Dish upon a Chafingdish and sprinckle the bagge with Rose-water and Vineger and turne it in the dish till it be as hot as may be suffered to be laid to the noddle of the Necke and let it be cold and so use another and keepe his head so hot as he may sweate For paine of the Head TAke Marjorom and presse out the Juyce of it and let the Patient take of it in his Nose For deafenesse in the Eares TAke the Juyce of Coleworts and mixe it with warme water and droppe it into thine Eares and it will helpe To make Honey of Roses called Mel Rosarum TAke foure pound foure ounces of Honey clarified and two pound of the Juyce of Red Roses and let them boyle together till it be like a Sirrope Another making thereof TAke a pottle and halfe a pinte of Honey well clarified with a pottle of white or red Wine two pound of Red-Rose leaves Boyle the Rose Leaves and Wine till halfe be wasted and then put in your Hony and let it boyle till it bee somewhat thicke and in colour like a Syrrope For the Pockes TAke the Juyce of Peny-Roiall and young Tansie and give the sicke party to drinke A true Medicine for the Jaundies TAke a handfull of Chery Leaves seeth them in a pinte of Milke and let them boyle well Then straine it and drinke a good draught thereof to Bedwards and in the morning fasting and the Jandies shall avoyd from you by siege or else drinke in the morning this following Take the wood of Bayberries pill the upper shell with the leaves from it and take the second shell that is yellow put thereof as much as a Walnut into a cloth and seeth it with a pinte of water let it be well boyled and let it coole and then driuke it this hath beene experimented For the Liver that is corrupted and wasted TAke a good quantity of Liverwort and bruise it a little and then seethe it in good strong Wort with a quantity of Ruberb and use this medicine and thou shalt be whole For heate in the Liver TAke the Juyce of sower Apples and sweet Apples of each a pound or more as much as you thinke best and two pounds of Sugar mingle these things together and let them boyle on a simple fire till it be thicke as a Syrrope and vse this course every day fasting with luke-warme water Remedies for the Collicke TAke Parcely Water-cresses Pellitory of the Wall unset Time of each a handfull a dish of sweet Butter let the Herbes be cleane washed and seethe them in a quart of running water let your water bee taken up against the streame and let them seethe till you make a Plaister thereof then temper them together with a handfull of Wheat branne and let the plaister bee layd to the Patients belly beneath the Navill and let him put in his pottage some Pellatory of the wall and when the Patient makes water straine it thorow a faire cloath and thereby ye shall know and perceive whether it doth him good or not and let him use this three or
certaine learned men which reckon that the hote breath or vapour that riseth up from the Bathe is much more mightier then the water of the bath is and it is true therefore it were well that they which have any Dropsie and especially a Tympanie should sit over such a place of the Bath that they might receive into the moyst diseased place the vapour of the bathe either by an holed stoole or by some other such like manner of thing well devised for that purpose If any poore man by the heate of the drynesse of the Bathe cannot sleepe enough let him eate Lettice or Purslaine or the seedes of Poppy called Chesbowle in some places of England or let him eate Suger and Poppy-seed together let this be done at night Hee may also if he cannot get the aforesaid things seethe Violet leaves and Mallowes and bathe the uttermost parts with that they are sodden in These are remedies for poore folke that are not able to have a Physitian with them to give them counsell Let the rich use such remedies as their Physitians shall counsell them If any poore man be vexed with any unsufferable thirst let him take a little Barley and seethe it long and put a little Suger unto it or let him take the juyce of an Orange or take a little of it with a little Suger If any poore man catch the Head-ache let him take a little Wormelade if he can get it or Coriander Comfits or if he can get none of these let him take the white of an Egge and beate it with Vineger and Rosewater or with the broath of Violets or Nightshade or with any of them and a little Vineger and lay them in a cloath unto the temples of his head and forehead If any poore man be burned too much let him take a Glister made with Mallowes Beetes and Violet leaves or let him seethe Prunes with Barley a good while and Raisins putting a way the stones and eate of them or let him use Suppositories sometimes made of rootes either of Beetes of Flower-de-Luce or of white Sope or of salt Bacon If any man sweat too much let him use colder meates than he used before with Vineger or Verjuyce and let them also eate Sheepes-feete and Calves-feete with Verjuyce or Vineger If any man have the burning of his water when he maketh it let him an houre after he is come out of the Bathe annoynt his Kidneyes with some cold Oyntment as is Infrigidus Galeni or if you cannot come by that let him seethe Violet leaves Poppy-heads Raisins Licorice and Mallowes together straine them and put some Suger in the broath and drinke of it a draught before Supper If any be troubled with the Rheume which he hath caught in the Bath let him parch or bristle at the fire Nigella Romana and hold it in a cloath to his Nose and let him set cups or boxing glasses to his shoulders without any scorching and let him drinke sodden water with Barley and with a little Suger If any man have any appetite to eate let him use the sirrups of Ribles or Barberies or the sirrup of unripe Grapes or use Verjuyce or Vineger to provoke appetite in due measure and now and then if ye can get it let him take a little Marmalade or of the sirrup of Mynts or Worm-wood Raman These have I written for poore folke Those that are rich by the advice of the Physitians may have other Remedies enough against the fore-named accidents that chance in the time of their bathing If thou be rid of thy disease by thy bathing offer unto Christ in thy pure members such offering of Thankesgiving as thou mayest spare and give him hearty thankes both in word minde and deed and sinne no more but walke in all kindnesse of life and honesty as farre as thou shalt be able to doe as long as thou shalt live hereafter But if thou be not healed the first time be patient and live vertuously till the next bathing time and then if it be to the glory of God and for the most profitable thou shalt the next bathing time be healed by the grace of God of whom commeth all health both of body and soule Some if they be not healed whilest they be in the bathing cry out both upon the Bath wâ—ich healeth many other of the same Diseases that they are sicke of and of the Physitian also that counselled them to goe to the Bathe such men must learne that they must not appoint God a time to heale them by the Bathe and that when as the Bath hath dryed up and washed by Sweating and made subtill through blowing the evill matter of the disease that it is one dayes worke or two to make good humours to occupie the place of such evill humours as have beene in them before Therefore let such be patient and for the space of a Moneth keepe the same dyet that they kept at the Bath and if God will they shall have their desire but not onely these but all others that are healed for a moneth at the least the longer the better must keepe the same dyet that they kept in the Bath as touching meate and drinke and if it be possible also from the use of all Women When as you goe homewards make but small Journeyes and beware of surfetting and of cold and when you are at home use measurable Exercise daily and honest mirth and pastime with honest company and beware of too much study or carefulnesse And give God thankes for all his Guifts Thus much for the Bath Of Herbes and Drugs Hereafter followeth divers Medicines Remedies and Cures to heale divers Diseases curable by the grace of God as also the Nature and property of certaine Herbes Plants and Drugs belonging thereunto PART IX And first of Marte Mylletare to stop the Flux of the body DIvers times the Flux of the Body proceedeth of superfluous heat contained in the Stomacke the which maketh a continuall solution inwardly as yee may see by Experience of those that are troubled therewith for so long as the cause is not taken away all their meat doth turne into the matter the which if it be so that is true which J doe say That the Fluxes are a distemperance of the body caused of hot and corrupt humours in the Stomacke and therefore if thou wilt cure it it were necessary to extinguish the heat and so take away the corruption the which thou shalt doe with the rednesse of Marte Mylletare as is hereafter following for that is the most soveraigne remedy that can be found First yee shall take twelve graines of Petra Philosophalla with half an ounce of Mel Rosarum and then take foure mornings together one scruple of Marte Mylletare with half an ounce of Suger Rosate and therewith thou shalt worke very strange effects Also for Perbreaking and for Flux seethe Roses in Vineger or Tamarindes or Galls and while it is hot wet therein Wooll and lay it
on the Stomacke for Vomit and on the Navill for Flux and on the Reynes for appetite The vertue of certaine Herbes and Drugs MAllowes the Leaves boyled being eaten doth take away Hoarsnesse and being pounded with Sage they make a singular plaister for Wounds and other Inflamations St. Johns-wort the Seed thereof being drunk with Wine voideth the Stone out of the body Wormwood is good against the Dropsie taking often the leaves thereof confected with Suger Hysop being boyled with Figges Water Honey and Rew taken in drinke is good for inflamation of the Lungs it avoydeth flegme and easeth an old Cough Sage is good against all Cold and flegmatick diseases in the Head and against all paines in the Joynts being taken in drinke or applyed in fomentation It is good for great bellied women to eate which are subject to travell before their time Mynt beaten and made into a Plaister comforts a weake Stomack it is very good to restore the smell or the Feeling if it bee often held to the nose the Leaves dryed and beaten to powder kill wormes in Children also it applied to the forehead helpeth the Head-ach Time taken in drinke is good to purge the Intrailes or to make one spit out the evill humours of the Lungs and in the Brest Rosemary is very good against the Collick and casting up of Meat by eating it in bread or drinking it in powder in Wine Camomill The leaves beaten and put into white Wine is good drinke against Quotidian and quartern Agues the decoction thereof drunk healeth paines in the side good against Feavers and also to avoyd Urine Lillyes The leaves thereof being boyled heale burnings and confected in Vineger and mingled with Saffron and Cinamon is good for Women that are delivered of Child with great difficulty and voydeth the after burden Baulme The property of it in Wine is to comfort the Heart to helpe digestion to heale the feeblenesse of the heart especially if the weaknesse be such that it causeth to breake sleepe in the Night it stayeth the panting of the heart and drives away cares the leaves thereof taken in drinke is good against the biting of a Dog or outwardly applyed is good to heale the Wound with the decoction of it Dogs tooth The decoction of the leaves taken in drinke helpeth the wringing of the belly hard making of water and breaketh the Stone or gravell in the Kidneyes the seed thereof doth greatly provoke Urine Periatory or Pellatory Gathered in winter hath vertue to dissolve consume and draw and while it is greene it breaketh wind in the stomack The juyce thereof held within the mouth allayeth the Tooth-ach the leaves thereof being applyed healeth Burnings swellings and Inflamations being fryed with fresh Butter or Capons grease and layd unto the belly it cureth the Collick and being mixed with Goats or Kids grease is good to ease the Gout the Juyce also mixed with like quantity of white Wine and oyle of sweet Almonds newly made is very good against the Stone and dropped into the Eares with oyle of Roses helpeth the paine Aleanet is to sooder Wounds Aspaltum is Tarre of India it hath vertue to draw and sooder for if the Powder thereof be strowed on a dry Wound it will presently close it though it be both broad and deepe Oates hath vertue to abate Swelling and to soften things being made hot in a pan Asarum maketh Women to have their termes openeth the veynes of the Urine and maketh one to pisse freely It mixed with honey killeth Wormes dissolveth Winds and warmeth the stomacke clenseth the Liver and veynes of the Guts and reynes of the Mother it putteth away Feaver quotidian and cureth the stinking of venemous Wormes Bole-Armoniacke if it be good is as it were white redded Ballestianes is the flower of the Pomgranet and Pâ—idia is the rinde and it hath vertue to restraine as Bolle hath Brancha Vrona hath vertue to make soft or to rypen Empostumes Bistorta or Tormentill hath vertue to straine together comfort and confound Bedellion hath vertue to constraine together it helpeth the Impostume both within and without it breaketh the stone and breaketh the Cough Cadamen is the rootes of Parcely that hath â—ertue to dissolve to consume and to draw Camfere ought to be kept in Marble or Alablaster Lynseed or Anniseed is good for the Gomora and to abate a mans courage Coloquintida hath vertue to purge Flegme and Melancholy and for the Tooth-ache seethe it in Vineger Câ—ssia fiâ—tula a Gargarisme made thereof and of the Juyce of Morell dissolveth the Empostume in the Wezend and also swelling in the Cheekes Ceruâ—e is good to engender good flesh and to fret away evill flesh Capers is good to defie cold Humours in the mouth and stomack Conâ—ube and Quibebes the powder heereof with the juyce of Borage is good for the cold Rheume and to comfort the Braine Dragagant is of three kinds and the white is the best in cold Medicines and the red in hot Euphorbium his vertue is to dissolve to draw to allay to consume to purge Fleame and Melancholly Esulâ— is the rinde of Eleborus Albus or Peritory of Spaine it hath vertue to purge Fleame and Melancholly and it is the best that purgeth nekt to Scamonie Take Esula five drams Canell Fennell-seeds Any seedes and use this with warme Wine or other broth is a very good purge Gum Arabic the white is cold the red is hot in Medicines Gariofiolate is Avence his vertue is to open dissolve and consume whilest hee is greene it helpeth the Collicia passio Hermadactilus the whitest is the best it hath vertue to dissolve consume and draw and principally to purge Fleame Jarus Barba Aron Calves feet Cuckoopintell the leaves and the rootes and the gobbets about the rootes be of good vertue and the Rootes being cloven and dryed they have vertue to dissolve and asswage Ipaguistidos is Gobbets that are found by the roote of the Dog bryer it hath vertue to draw together Jempus is the fruit thereof it hath vertue to dissolve and consume for the Strangury and Illiaco drinke Wine wherein it was sodden Licium is good with the juyce of Fennell for sore Eyes Litarge is good to close together and to clense Lovagâ—-seed with Cinamon is good for the Liver and Spleen and wind in the Guts and stomacke Mamia is good to make Bloud cleane Mumia hath vertue to straine together Medeswete greene or dry bringeth Menstruum and clenseth the Mother Mora is the fruit of the Cicomore Tree it hath vertue to dissolve consume and make cleane it is good for the Ovinsie and for costivenesse Nitrum the whiter the better it hath vertue to dissolve and drive away filth Opponax if it be cleere and draw to Cytrin colour it is good it hath vertue to dissolve and consume Oppium that which is not hard nor soft is good it hath vertue to make one sleepe Organum flowers is good powdered to make Laxe to dissolve and
to consume and the powder put within and without abateth swolne cheekes Oxificicentia Phenicon Dactilis Indie Tamarindus They that bee good be neither too moyst nor too hard and be somewhat blacke and somewhat sower the Rind nor the Seed must not be used in Medicines It hath vertue to purge Choller to clense the Blood and to abate unkind heat Os de cordâ— Cervi is the bone of the Harts heart on the left side it is good to purge Melancholy blood and Cardiacle and Sinicapos or Sincapos with the juyce of Borage and Os Sexi will make the Teeth white Dog-Fennell the root is good for the Strangury Oissury and stopping of the Liver and Spleene Pine apples the Kernels doe moysten and open and is good for the disease in the Brest or Cough or Eticke or Consumption and to increase good blood Damsons bee cold and moyst in the third degree gather them when they be ripe and cleave them in the Sun and spring them with Vineger above and then yee may keepe them two yeare in a vessell Their vertue is to coolâ— a man and make his Guts light and therefore they be good in Fevers against the costivenesse that commeth of drynesse or of Cholerick humours in the Guts when they be ripe to cut and when they be dry soke them in water and eate the Prune and drinke the water Psilium is cold and moyst in the third degree his vertue is to make soft and light and to coole a mans body and to draw together Purslene is good both raw and sodden to abate unkind heat in Cholerick men Pitch-liquid hath vertue to dissolve and consume Ponticum is good for the stopping of the Liver and Spleene that commeth of cold Storax hath vertue both to comfort and consume and to fasten Teeth and comfort the Gummes Squilla is a Sea-Onion and that is found by himselfe is deadly his vertue is to purge and to dissolve but the outer and inner parts must be cast away for they bee deadly and that which is in the middest may bee put in Medicines and it hath more vertue raw than sodden Seeds within the berries of Elder is good to purge Flegme Stavisacre hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and purge Flegme and Litargie and to put away heavinesse from the heart if it be taken and put in the nose Sâ—apium is good and hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and laxe and heale it is good for fallings downe of the Mother with suffumigation or supositor and for the tearmes of the secondine or dead Child Saracoll if it be right it is good it hath vertue to straine together and to sooder Drinke Calamint sodden in Wine for coldnesse of the stomack and for stopping of the Liver and Spleen the Reynes and Bladder and Illiacâ— passio Saterion his root is green and hath vertue to unloose mans nature Saligem his vertue is to dissolve and consume Scabius while hee is greene hath vertue to dissolve consume and cleanse Dragons take the roote and cleave it and dry it in the Sun yee may keepe it two yeares mingle the powder of Dragons with Sope and wet a Tent therein and put it deepe into a fester and it will clense and enlarge it and if there be a bone in it it will draw it out or else loose it that yee may take it out lightly Sene is to purge Melancholy and Epilencie and Fever quartaine and Emerodes for the Spleene and Liver take Cardiacle sodden in water and put to Sage and make a Syrope or the Juyce of Borage and Suger is very good Terra sigillata terra sarasincia terra argenta is all one manner of earth his vertue is to constraine together Turbith if it be hollow small and of an Ash-colour and gummie it is good It hath vertue to dissolve and draw humours from the uttermost part of a mans body and namely Fleame for the Gout and Illiaca and Podegra and Chiragra give him foure scruples of Turbith mingled with some other Medicine and it will doe the like Taplia or faiters Hearbe his vertue is to purge above and beneath both greene and dry for it is never given by himselfe he that stampeth it let him hide his face and eyes that he see not also keepe close his Testacles or else they will swell With this Hearbe beggers doe make themselves seeme to have the Dropsie upon them Tartar is the Lees of Wine and hath vertue to dissolve and dryeth away filth and to abate a mans fatnesse Terbentine a fugimation thereof is good for the subfumigation of the Mother Virga Pastoris or Shepheards rod hath vertue to straine together to coole and to fill that is empty and is good for the Fluxe Bryona or wild Neppe is hot and dry the roote thereof maketh a woman to have her tearmes and delivereth a dead Child or secondine Flower-de-Luce the Root of it washt and scraped cleane being dryed and finely beaten and put into a pint of new Milke made hote upon the fire and given the patient to drinke it helpeth the Greene sicknesse D. B. Ginger comforteth the heart and maketh good digestion Sugar is temperate hot and moyst his vertue is to moysten and nourish and to loose if it be mingled with cold things to coole The excellent vertues of Cardus Benedictus IT is very good for the Head-ache and the Megrim For the use of the juyce and powder of the Leaves preserveth and keepeth a man from the Head-ach and healeth it being present it quickneth the sight if the Juyce of it be layd on the Eyes The Powder stanches blood that flowes out of the Nose or commeth out of the Lungs the broath of it taken with Wine maketh an appetite It is good for any Ache in the body it strengtheneth the members of the body and fasteneth loose sinewes and weak It is also good for the Dropsie it breaketh also the Stone and breaketh an Impostume it preserveth one from the Pestilence if the powder be taken in water foure and twenty houres before a man come to the Infected place It is good for the dizzinesse of the Head It helpeth the memory It helpeth thicke hearing It is good for short winds and the diseases of the Lungs Some write that it strengtheneth the Teeth others write â—hat it bringeth down Flowers and provoketh sleepe and helpeth the Falling sicknesse It is also good for falls and bruises the Leaves provoke sleepe the Powder is good against all poyson the same put into the Guts by a Glyster It helpeth the Collicke and other diseases of the Guts and the wounds of t he same They write also that the water of Cardus Benedictus helpeth rednesse and the itching of the Eyes and the Juyce doth the same for Burnings and for Carbunckles There is nothing better for the Canker and old festering sores the Leaves are good for Fomentations and to be sitten over being sodden in water that the Vapour may come to the diseased places also it is good
leaves and Rootes and stampe them very small then mingle them well with old Decres Suet then besmeere or annoynt the grieved place therewith very warme and after rowle it up hard To heale in foure dayes the scalding with water or any other liquor without Plaister or Oyntment TAke an Onyon and cut him overth-wart and wring out the juyce upon the scalded place doing so every day twise it will heale it quickly Probatum est To heale the Itch. TAke of Lapacinum Acutum or of Sorell and boyle it in water and wash therewith the diseased person or else take the rootes of Lawrell and being well brayed with Salt and bread annoynt therewith the body The like effect is done with the decoction of Egrimony and Sage made with Raine water and washing therewith the sicke person To heale Sores or Tetters TAke of Waxe of Ganabrinum in powder and of Oyle of Roses as much as shall be sufficient Make thereof an Oyntment Or else bray Cockle and Brimstone and mixe them with Vineger and make an Oyntment For the hardnesse of Hearing TAke an Onyon and coare it and fill it with the Oyles of Rew and bitter Almonds then rost it soft and drop thereof into the contrary Eare lying still after one houre keeping your selfe warme it will both purge the Head and quicken the Hearing An easie Remedy for the Tooth-ache TAke a slice of the Root Acorus of some called in English Gladen of other Galanga which groweth in waters and marishes this must be laid green upon the Tooth Or a piece of the greene roote of Tormentill doth it likewise For the swelling in the Throat TAke white Frankensence and cast a piece of it upon hot coales then put a Funnell over it and let the smoake thereof goe into the Throate that helpeth and is oft times experimented and proved To cause a Womans speedy deliverance TAke whites of Egges and Castle sope and make Pills adding to every pill one drop of the oyle of Savin and in time of need give her five Pilles of it To make a womans Milke increase TAke Fennell-seed and seethe it in Barly-water and give the woman of it to drinke and her milke will increase abundantly For the Rickets and weaknesse of the limbes in Children TAke a little quantity of the best English Honey mix it with Beere and let them use no other drinke till they recover their strength This hath bin tryed and approved To fasten the Gums or loose Teeth TAke a little Myrrhe temper it with Wine and Oyle and wash your mouth therewith and you shall see a rare experience Myrrhe also killeth the Wormes in a mans body and chew it in the mouth ma kes the breath sweet For one that cannot hold his Water TAke the clawes of a Goates feet burne them to powder and take a spoonfull of it in Pottage or broath wherein a little Knotgrasse and Hypoquistidos may bee put and take of it twice a day For the Dropsie made for the Queenâ— by D. D. Adryan TAke Polipodium Spikenard Calamus odoratus Marjerum Galingall Selwall ana vj. d. weight Anniseeds Saxafrage Plantane vij d. weight Cynamon xij d. weight Seenie so much as of all the rest put them into a bagge hanging in two gallons of Ale cover it with new Yest every fourth day and drink no other drinke for a weeke and be whole For the stinging of Waspes and Bees TAke Mallowes and rub them on the place where it is stung or else take Flyes stamped with a little durt For the falling downe of the Tuell SIt over the fumes of Ginger and Frankensence For the swelling of the Legges TAke the Juyce of Walwort of Waxe of Vineger and of Barley Meale of each a like quantity Boyle it and make a Plaister and bind it upon the sore For the Canker in the mouth TAke halfe a pinte of Ale and a sprig of Rosemary and seeth them together and skim your Ale And then put in a piece of Allom as much as a Nut and a spoonefull of Honey and two spoonefuls of Honey suckle water and wash the mouth with it To make the Face faire and the Breath sweet TAke the Flowers of Rose-mary and boyle them in white Wine then wash your face with it and use it for to drinke and so shall you make your Face faire and your breath sweetâ— A Remedy for a red face or a red nose TAke Litarge of Silver and Brimstone of each like much and seeth them in Rose-water and Vineger and then with a linnen cloath wet in the said Vineger lay it to the sore A Remedy to qualifie the Coppered Face MAke a Bath with the flowers of Cammomell Violets Roses and Flowers of water Lillies then annoynt the place with Vnguentum Album Champherarius and mixe that oyntment with a little yellow Brimstone and Quicksilver killed with fasting spittle and annoynt the Face withall A speciall good dyet for all fiery Faces ABstaine from all salt things spiced fryed meates and rosted meates also from drinking of Wine for it is very evill also Onyons Mustard and Garlicke are very naught in steed of which you must take Purslaine Sorrell Lettice Hops of Borrage with Succory or endive in Pottage or otherwise Also it is necessary to be laxative and in sleeping to lay your head high An easie Remedy to make the Teeth white TAke Vinger of Squiles and dip a little piece of Cloth in it and rub the Teeth or Gummes withall the said Vineger fastneth the Gummes comforteth the rootes of the Teeth and maketh a sweet breathe To take away the stinking of the mouth YEe must wash your mouth with Water and Vineger and chew Masticke a good while and then wash thy mouth with the decoction of Annis-seeds Mints and Cloves sodden in Wine If the stincking of thy mouth commeth of a rotten tooth the best is to have it drawne out A Remedy for sore Eyes TAke the Juyce of Fennell and drop thereof into the Eyes Evening and Morning and it shall heale the griefe and paine A proved Medicine for the bleeding at the Nose called the Ladie Maries Medicine TAke the shell of an Egge the meate being very cleane out and put it into the fire till it be burnt very blacke and ready to breake then take it out and make thereof fine Powder whereof yee shall blow through a Quill part thereof into the Nose that bleedeth and it shall stanch Against a stinking Breath MElt Hony Salt and Rye flower well together and therewith rub the Gumâ— twice or thrice then wash it with faire water and it will helpe thee For an evill breath SEeth two ounces of Commin in fine Powder in a pottle of white Wine unto a quart Then keepe it using to drinke a little thereof warme at Night the space of fifteene dayes and it will helpe For the Head-ache and clensing of the same CHew Pellitory of Spaine in thy mouth it will cleanse the Head and also take away the Ache or paine To heale
suffice make thereof a Plaister for the Spleene Another Take the tops of Acornes Rose leaves Coriander seed and Commin seed prepared of each one ounce Strado Arabiae Galanga of each two ounces Salinter I. Saltpeeter one ounce terrified mixe them and put them in a bagge quilted or basted quadrantwise and lay it to the place grieved Another Take Camomill flowers wheat bran and a pint of white Wine boyle them all together and put them in a bag then take oyles of Violets of Linseed and of Lillies of each a penniworth annoynt therewith and put your bagge hot thereto A Drinke for the Spleene TAke the juyce of Licorice one ounce Fennell-seed Anniseed and Juniper of each an ounce pound them all in a Morter together and so drinke it in your drinke Another Take three spoonfuls of the juyce of Ivie leaves in white Wine or else of the Juyce of Egrimony and drinke of it three or foure mornings fasting and it will helpe you To dissolve the hardnesse of the Spleene AMoniacum dissolved in very sharpe Vineger and spred upon leather Plaister-wise and applyed to the Spleene will mollifie the hardnesse thereof and it may lye thereto seven weekes and never be removed A soveraigne Medicine for the Spleene and to clense the body TAke Harts-tongue wilde Hoppes Lettice and Borage with the flowers of Fumitory and Parcely rootes seethe all these in Whay and clarifie it with whites of Egges straine it and drinke it first in the morning and last at night during the space of a Moneth and by Gods helpe it will cure your Spleene and clense your blood and comfort you many wayes for your health For Ache in the Backe TAke a great Onyon or two and roast them in the embers then stampe them and straine them out of the Ju yce and mix it with as much Malmesie as Juyce and drinke thereof blood warme first and last Probatum To stay the Backe and helpe him that consumeth TAke the rootes of Parcely Fennell Camphere and of Borage Planten Bursa Pastoris and Knotgrasse and make broth with them of young Hennes Capon Mutton Rabbets and Veale and put thereto a Date or two and yee may seethe them in posset Ale made of white Wine Another Take white Archangell Cumfrey flowers white Lillies white Roses white Holly hockes Knot-grasse and Clary stampe them and take a pottle of Muskadine and a pint of Ale with the pith of an Oxe backe and three capped Dates the stones taken out and beating them in a morter small then put in some of your Muskadine and grind it with some of your Ale and stirre it and boyle the rest thereof take also the yolkes of three new layd Egges the strings taken out and beat them well together and put thereto of Sinamon two penniworth and of whole Mace one penniworth and seethe all these to a quart and so use it Another Take the pith of an Oxe backe and scald it then straine it out of the skin and shred Nippe and beat it in a Morter very small putting thereto a quart of Milke and straine it and then seethe it with five or sixe Dates and a graine of Amber-greece and the powder of Ginger and let the Patient use it very often It is proved To take away the paine of the Reynes of one that is low brought TAke three quarts of white Wine and boyl therein a red Cocke and put thereto a handfull of red Nip a quantity of Clary and the rootes of red Fennell Harts-tongue a sticke of Synamon bruised Dates great and small Raisins with a few Prunes seeth all these together till the strength of the Cocke be in the broath and put therein one ounce of Manus Christi and use this Morning and Evening luke warme For Ache in the Backe and Legges TAke the marrow of an Oxe and oyle Olive three spoonefuls and the yolkes of Egges and Butter Pepper one ounce then take the milke of a woman and mingle it together and anoynt the sicke therewith For the Bladder and the Reynes TAke the seedes of Planten beaten in a Morter and seeth them in Wine and drinke thereof alone A Plaister for the Reynes TAke Callamint Camomill Wormewood Peritory Holyhockes and bray them in a Morter with Oyle Butter or Deere and Sheeps suet and grease of a Boare or Barrow hogge with a quantity of Commin and lay it on a Plaister both behind and before For all Diseases in the Backe TAke the rootes of Daisies of Planten of Bursa pastoris of Centimodum and the Cups of Acorns a handfull and of Bole-armoniack two ounces and of Harts-horne burnt and also a Bucke Conie that is fat and let all these be sodden together in white Wine and water as much Wine as water till the Cony be consumed from the bones of the flesh then take away the flesh and the bones from the broth and so let the broth stand till it come to a jelly and when you are in your bed cause your Backe to be therewith annoynted by a Chafingdish of coales three nights together and lay thereon a warme linnen cloth and it shall helpe you by Gods grace For paine in the bladder and to make it whole for ever TAke three rootes of Smalledge and wash them faire and cleane and cut them small and seethe them in a quart of faire water till three parts of the water be consumed then straine it and take foure drams of the powder of Bittony and put thereto and drinke the said water Against running of the Reynes TAke one pound of Jordaine Almonds and blanch them and parch them and grind them very small and make Almond milke thereof with a pinte of rose-Rose-water and a pinte of Planten water and then seethe it with Suger and Sina mon and when it is cold put thereto a dramme of Masticke in fine powder and use thereof to eate and be whole Probatum est A Syrope for the Backe TAke the rootes of Ennila Compana cleane scraped and slice them thin and lay them in faire running water three dayes and shift them every day then at three dayes end take them out and put them in a gallon of faire running water with a quart of Honey of Lycorice one ounce scraped cleane and sliced and of Anniseeds one ounce cleane rubbed from the dust let all these be boyled with a soft fire and take out the rootes out of the liquour washing them one by one and when they be cut lay them on a faire dish and so let them lye 24. houres and then take the rootes and weigh them and for every pound of your rootes take a pottle of Muskadine or white Bastard and put your rootes therein and put thereto two pound of fine white Suger two or three whole Maces boyle all these to a Syrope with your rootes and then put it into a Pot and when you will use it let the Patient eate of the rootes and drinke a spoonfull of the Syrope with your rootes after it Morning and Evening Probatum