a little Nutmeg beat it well together and drink it mornings It s an admirable thing to cool it For feeble reins Take Burre roots and stamp them and boil thâ—m in stale Ale and drink thereof at evening hot and at morning cold To preserve nature from wasting Take acorns and steep them three dayes in wiâ—e vinâ—ger and dry them and let him drink the powder the cup is as good if not better then the Acorn its self so they may be both together For the running of the reins Take an handful of Cumphry a handful of Clary and so much of Mousear boil them in a quart of red wine with powder of Cinnaâ—on Saundâ—rs and Sugar and drink a good â—raught of thiâ— fasting For the running of the Reins Take white wine rosewater Plantain â—ater of each alike much in Quantitie one â—â—arter of a pint two Nutmegs grated two â—enny worth of Cinnamon pounded and asâ—uch of Bolearmony as a Nut beaten â—inal the â—hite of an Egg beaten to oil and put togeâ—â—er and for three dayes use it not but every 〈◊〉 shake it together in a glass and then take â— morning and evening provided that you 〈◊〉 a Syring now and then either with white â—ne or else rose water together or several â—nd this is a special remedy for the running of 〈◊〉 reins often times proved To knit a broken Vein One Master Atkinson having a broken vein his back could not be cured by any Doctor 〈◊〉 home to die having a continued issue of 〈◊〉 The Person of the parish advised him take a spoonful of the juice of Plaâ—tain â—ing which he did three or four times and was cured and is well and verifies this in Jâ—ly 1652. For the help of the disease called the French pox Take two peny worth of white wine and 〈◊〉 peny worth of honey one peny worth oâ— Roâ—h aâ—lame these three sorts to be boiled toâ—â—ther and the same to be placed where 〈◊〉 griâ—f doth lie or most offend A Diet drink â—o cure Lues venerea or any desperâ—â— disease in mans bodie Take seven gallons of spring water in â—rom pâ—t and put into it Sarâ—aparilla flicâ— and bruised three ounceâ— set it on the 〈◊〉 and let it infuse or boil very gently two houâ—â— thâ—n pâ—t into it fâ—ur ounces of chosen 〈◊〉 leaves and cods and half an ounce of 〈◊〉 beaten to powder and half an ounce Stychadâ—s and asmuch of Epithymum of choâ—â—â— liquâ—rice scraped sliced and bruised flat tâ— ouâ—ces of Camomile flowers one oâ—nce 〈◊〉 them into a pot and let them boil all together one hour or more then take it from the 〈◊〉 â—â—d strain it into an earthen pot and 〈◊〉 and till it be cold then pure it and 〈◊〉 bottles and drink thereof morning and eâ—â—ing a reasonable good draught Aâ— morbum Gallihidropicum cetera Acci e vini albi pounds 96 alias gallons 〈◊〉 lib. ss gyâ—yrrhiz iib. 2. Sea◠〈◊〉 â—ib â— Certâ—ciâ— guiaci lib. 2. Coloâ—â—â— one ounce coque in balneo Mariae per 24. horas iâ— non â—â—aporet exprime Colaturae ad Mitâ—ridatum optimum one ounce per duâ—s dies bibat â—â—antum potest nihil comedat per quatuâ—r 〈◊〉 postea comedat semel in die postea comedat 〈◊〉 in die Perficitur cura in duodecem diebus Pain of the reins is called Nephretica passio And cometh of some stone or gravel and it is most like unto the Colick in cuâ—e but in â—ourses they be clean contrary â—or the Colick beginneth of the lower paâ—ts on the right sâ—de and goeth up to the higher parts on the 〈◊〉 side oâ— the belly and it lieth rather more â—â—rward then backward but Neâ—hâ—etica Passio beginneth contrariwise above descending downward and ever lieth more toward the back Aâ—so Nephretica is painâ—uller a sore meat and the Colick is more grievous after And ofteâ— the Colick chanceth suddenly but Nephâ—â—tica contrary for commonly it cometh by little and little and evermore before one shall feâ—l pain of the back with difficultie of urine Item there is more difference for the Colick sheweth dryâ—ess as it were coloured but Nephretica is clear and white like water afterward waxeth thick and then appeareth in the bottom of the vâ—ssel like red sand or gravel Remedy â—or pain of the reins You must use things aperitive to cause you to make water but afore ye ought to loose the belly in taking an ounce of Cassia an hour before meat but if your belly be hard or bouâ—d you must take a Clyster before you take the said Cassia In stead thereof you may take Cowes milk with two yelks of Eggs in manner of a Clyster the Clyster must be great in quantitie Drink water of Pellitory of Cresses or of roots aperitive the which waters are good to purge the gravel and stone Likewise a very good Electuary for the â—â—me Philantropos or Lithontripon if one take â— dram or two after operation of a Clyster of Caâ—sia or a pill of ante Cibum and after to drink one of the sâ—id waters or else a little white wine warmed If ye will make a Julep take water oâ—â—intes and of Baâ—m of each half a pound Sugar a quartern and make a Julep of the which one may drink evening and morning after meaâ— a draâ—ght Every morning is good to take a Lozenge of the Elect. that followeth A nobâ—e Eâ—ectuary for the fluxe Take powder of Diagalanga a dram and a half of red corall and Masticke of each a scruple Trâ—chiskes of Terra sâ—gillata half a dâ—am the barkes of Citrons confite and quinces of each one three drames sugar dissolved in water of Mintes four ounces make an Electuary Oâ—ls of Wormewood Mint and of Narde and Masticke are very holsom to anoynt withall the belly and the stomack for the said flux And the things declared of the flux Lienteria be very good in this case taking ever after meat a morsel of Marmalade Red wine is very good in this flux to drink at meat with the water of a smith and likewise all spices are good in this case Medicines to restrain the flux of what cause sâ—ever it be Take the Peisel of an hart and dry it into powder and drink it the water of Oakbuds or the very acorns dryed and made in powder and drunk in â—ed wine is very good Remedie fâ—r the flux humoral called Diarhaea The said flux ought not to be restrained a sore the fourteenth day iâ— nature be not vâ—ry much infeâ—â—led And sometime it cometh of hot causes as of color and then the patient must drink beâ—ore his meat Syrup of Ribes Syrup of roses or syrup of Quinces and very smithes water After ye have purged the principal matter oâ— the disease the second Intention shall be by and by to stop the said Issue To stop the said flux Take trochiskes of white Amber and make them in powder and give a dram every morning and anon after drink an ounce or two oâ— plantain water Instead of
coâ—â—ander seeds prepared Parcâ—ly seed one ounce and beat them together then take Cinnamon half an ounce and saffron one scruple and beat them to powder altogether and temper with clarified hony or sugar making thereof an Electuary and eat of it morning and evening Probat A medicine for the whites and weakness of nature Take the whites of four Eggs dryed and made into powder two Nutmegs â—he weight of six pence in Cinnamon the weight of two pence in Mace the weight of ten pence in â—ed Saunders make all these into fine powder and take of this powder asmuch as will lie on a six pence in a rear egg or with Muscadine or mace ale and sometimes broath every mornâ—ng for a moneâ—hs space together for your diâ—t forbâ—ar milk butter roots and Herbs claret and wâ—ite wine and especially pigeons flesh To cure the Mother Take Gr.ii. of Musk in conserve of Gilliflowers â—nd it must be taken inward It will melt in â—our mouth A good Medicine for one that feareth to miscaâ— with childe Take yarrow and stamp it and strain thâ— juice and three spoonfuls of new milk warâ— from the cow mingle them together anâ— sweeten with sugar To make a caudle to strengthen one that is with childe and is weak Make a caudle with whites of Eggs and â— yâ—lks and boil in it a stick of Cinnamon whicâ— rose leaves and white Archangel flowers anâ— harâ—shorn boil all these together and so drinâ— it To make a woman have a quick delivery and smaâ—â— pain Take leaves of Betony stamp them anâ— strain them or else make powder of them anâ— give the woman to drink in a little water To cleanse the matrix after the Childbirth Take a quart of Claret Wine and burn iâ— and set it on the fire again and as it boileth pâ—â— into it 2. or 3. spoonful of Embers then straâ—â— it from the ashes this do two or three timeâ— then powder it with powder of Sugar and sucâ— Syrups as are fit for the womans body if sâ—â— be hot and costive Syrup of Violets but if sâ—â— be Laxative not that but Syrup of cowslips 〈◊〉 good to give her in broth oyl of sweet Aâ—monds To drive away the after pain of a woman Take mother time picked clean from the stalke and shred small the quantity of a spoonful and put to it asmuch salt as the quanâ—ity of a hasell Nut and put it in a draught of broth or caudle and give it the Woman to drink immediately after shee 's delivered the sooner the better the Herbs must be raw A medicine to fetch away a dead childs after burden Take a handful or two of Mugwort stampt â—â— chopt which you please then take a quantity of barly meal and mingle it with a little fair water set over the fire and boil till it be â—o thick to spread on a cloth then put into it some barrowes grease asmuch as an Egg and so 〈◊〉 and spread it on a cloth and lay it beneath the Navel of the woman and not above in any â—â—â—e and assoon as it hath brought away anâ—â—hing take it away for it maketh that way as â—â—ng as it s on and will bring away that which â—â— should not bring if it lie on after thats gone which you would have away A present remedy for a woman that travaileth with childe Take Hyssop Vervine and Betony of each â—â—e handful stamp them well and temper â—hem with stale Ale then strain it and wring â—ut the juice and give a good draught thereof 〈◊〉 her to drink and she shall be delivered with speed and the childe saved and she both foâ—â—ts proved To deliver a woman of a dead childe Take Camomil and give it in clear posseâ— drink is good to ease tâ—e pain colick or griping pain of the body stamp it and strain it inâ— to white Wine and give it a woman that hath a dead childe within her and it will cause heâ— presently to be delivered The Gout Remedies for the Gout THe pain in the joynts of a mans body as in the hands and feet is generally calleâ— Arthritis or gout which proceedeth sometime of debiliâ—y of the sinewes being lasâ—t and unable to consume the humours that continually Flow unto them And for the most part they are deriveâ— from the member Mandant that is to say thâ— brain for he is very grosse and engendretâ— every humour in himself by reason whereoâ— much of the said humours are derived intâ— the Nuke and muscles of the back and from thence they descend into the feet or to thâ— Hucklebone or else into the hands Remedy And since all the said kindes come or are caused of one beginning and for the better expedition in that we will be brief ye shall first take away the superfluous moisture of the brain which is the root and fountain of all the said diseases and that ye may do four manner of wayes The first observance is of diet inclining to dryness and to avoid all fulness of meat and drink and not to sleep in any wise after meat And ye must beware that ye eat no vaporous meats nor thin Wine nor dâ—ink much after supper And if perchance the pain be very sharp it shall be wholsome to abstain from all kinds of wine and â—o use himself to small drink which thing if he cannot do let him drink Claret wine mixed with a good quantity of water The second is to purge the brain once a moneth with the one half of Pills of Cochia â—nd another half of Pills of Assajareth and in â—ime of harvest and of summer with Pills 〈◊〉 quibus and Pil. imperial Whereof ye shall give one dram the night before the full Moon â—nd the day following ye may give him to eat little broth of Cicers with a little quantity of raisins of the sun The third is to repress â—he sumes that ascend into the brain after â—eat which thing may be done by eating a â—â—ttle dredge made of Aniseed and Coriander The fourth is to perfume the brain with cerâ—ain things comfortative as for example thus Take fine fâ—ankincense Sandrach and Mastick â—f every one an ounce of Lignum Aloes a dâ—â—m make them all in grosse powder and perfumâ— therewith stupes made of Flax or oâ— Cotten and lay upon the head And when yeâ— have by this meanes well and duly comforted the brain and defended the original cause oâ— the said disease ye shall proceed to take away the matter conjoynt that is descended into the sinevves and ye shall begin thus First ye must preserve the body from in â— gendring of humours in taking every morning next your heart a conserve made of Alcherineâ— and of Flowers of Rosemary mingled with â— little Nutmeg and Mastick and if ye be 〈◊〉 povver ye may drink a good draught oâ— Ipocras or other spiced drink after meat◠〈◊〉 dinner and at supper Secondly ye shall understand that whosoever doth intend to be holpen of the Gout he must every year
with a mote 2â— Eye with a pearl in it 2â— Eye sight to restore ibid Eye with a pin or web in it 3â— Ear that hath a noìse in it 31 4â— Ear pained ibid Ear that hath an impostume in it 3â— Falling sickness 11 12 13 1â— Fainting 6â— Feaver 81 82 83 8â— Feaver to cool ibid. Fundament to cure 92 93 Flux 102 103 Flux humoral to stop ibid. 104 119 Flux cured by an Irish Medecine ibid. Flux that is desperate and bloody 105 106 Flowers to suppress 120 Flux red in women 123 Flux of the Matrix 120 118 French Pox 100 Gall diseased 75 76 Gonorrhoea 98 100 Green sickness 1â—2 Gout 128 131 132 133 134 Head ach 1 3 5 6 7 8 9 Head ach extream ib. 4 Head ach for ever to cure 7 Head to purge 9 28 Head to expell cold out of it 9 Hearing hindered through pain of the head 33 Hearing 35 36 Hoarsness 50 Heart weak 64 Heart trembling 65 Heart beating ibid. Heart that hath an ach or troubled with worms ib. Impostume 62 Iaundies 77 Iaundies black ibid. Iulep for the Liver 73 â—tching to kill 17 Kings evil 50 51 Liver diseased 72 73 Lues Venera 100 Legs swoln 113 Megrims 7 Mouth 43 Madness 66 Melancholy 78 Matrice 119 120 Matrice to cleanse 126 Mother 120 124 125 Menstruus overflowing 121 Menstruus to provoke 122 Miscarrying to prevent 26 Murre and cough 50 Milk coagulating in the brest 56 Nose that stinketh 41 43 Nature to restore 97 Nature to preserve from wasting 99 Oyl for an ach 135 Oyl for the Palsey 10 Oyntment for an ach in the back 97 Palseâ— 10 Phegm 4â— 58 59 Phtysick 57 58 61 63 Pox 100 Piss well 111 Powder to restore Nature and preserve it 97 Plâ—ster for the Gout 131 Pulvis ducis for the stomach 70 Rheum 45 Rupture 92 93 Reines to restore that are sore 98 101 Running of the Rains 99 Rains to mundify 108 Sight to preserve 9 17 Sight dim 19 20 25 Sight decayed 26 Sight to get though blind 28 29 Sâ—itch in the side 63 Swooning 66 Stomack that is weak 67 Stomack troubled with winde ib. 69 Stomack cold 68 70 Stomack pained ibid. Stomack to comfort after vomiting 68 Stomack to cleer 69 Stone 77 106 108 Stonâ— in the Reines 107 Stone to break 109 An oyntment for the back if the Stone come away painful 109 Stone to slip with a Pultis 110 113 114 Sir Traver Williams receit for the stone 114 Stone to prevent ibid. 115 Sâ—one in the kidnies 117 Sciatica 134 135 Spee hiess with the Palsey 10 Tooth ach 39 37 40 Teeth rotten and stinking 38 Tooth ach never to vex you more 39 Tâ—eth loose 40 Teeth to leave aching or faâ—l out 40 Teats of a woman impostumed 57 Termes to bring down 122 Voice hoarse 44 Voice hoarse of long continuanâ—e ibid. Vein broken to knit 69 Vrin that is sharp 111 Vâ—in that is hot and burning 112 Vrin that is foul or red 113 Vrin to provâ—ke ibidem Vomiting 68 White and Weaknesse of nature 124 125 Wheesing in the Chest 48 Water for the sight 18 27 Water that is pretious for many sicknesses 10 Walnuts preserved for a cough a consumption 47 Windy Colick 91 Web in the eye 24 A Table of the Remedies for childrenâ— Diseases For the Diseases of the head 139 For the diseases of the eyes 143 For the diseases of the ears 145 For the diseases of the Teeth and Mouth 146 For the diseases of the neck throat and breast 149 For the diseases of the Stomach 151 For the diseases of the Navel 156 For the diseases of the reins and bladder 158 For ruptures 159 For the small pox and measels 162 For agues and feavers ibid. For the diseases of the Cods 166 For the Shinglâ—s 166 For burning and scalding 169 For to kill and destroy lice Also the manner how to make divers sorts of most pretious Waters Balsomes Oyles with other rare and excellent Medicines with their uses Vertues and wonderful Operationâ— page 175 to the end CHOICE and RARE EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICK AND CHIRURGERY The Head the remedies for its distempers Head-ach Here followeth the brief description of inward and outward diseases of the body with the most wholsom and expert Remedies for the Cure thereof And first of the sickness of the Head ANd it is to be noted that the cure or remedy must be appropriated according to the nature and cause of the grief which if it be not rightly considered it would be but vain to apply any Medicine and therefore the right judgement of an expert Physician is very requisite needful in such cases as you may plainly conceive for the multipliâ—ity or diversity of causes in some diseases maketh the cure of more difficulty as also the methodical way of applying the same in observation of the circumstances of the Patients age constitution strength sex and the like which must of necessity be observed in the administring or prescribing of all medicines that should take effect perfectly to cure c. And now Headach chanceth oftentimes of divers and sundry causes as of blood choler flegm or melancholy or of ventosity and sometime of heat of the Sun or of too greaâ— cold of the air If it come of blood the Cephalick vain oâ— the right arm is to be cut or opened if the paiâ— continue on the vain of the forehead on thaâ— side the pain is then lay upon the place â—yl oâ— Roses Vineger and Rose-water or a bagge witâ— Roses sprinckled with Rose-water And it is to be noted aswell in this cause aâ— all other that if his belly be hard and bound first ye must give him an easie Clyster or else oâ— Cassiâ— newly drawn out of the Cane or some other easie Laxative to provoke the duty of thâ— Womb else all applications of medicines wilâ— be nothing worth at all If the Headach proceed of Choller there 〈◊〉 sharp pain and heat chiefly on the right side oâ— the Head Ye must give him morning and evening 〈◊〉 drink Sâ—rup of Violets with a mean draught 〈◊〉 Endive Water in a glass or of Cummin waâ—â—â— sâ—dden and cooled again And instead of the Syrups you may drink water of Endive Succâ—ry Puâ—slain and Nenupâ—ar mixed together 〈◊〉 one of them by himself two or three dayes at even and morn Then give a dram of Pilulae sine quibus at night to bedward or about midnight and the day following keep you iâ— your chamber Instead of these Pills it is good every morn to take an hour before Sun a medicine to drink that shall be made of half an ounce of Succo Rosarum mixt with two ounces of Endive water Instead of the said Succo Rosarum ye may take half an ounce of Dia prunis Laxative and ye must take heed in giving such purgations that the patient be strong for if he be weak ye may give him but half of the said pills or of the other Laxatives And if in
warm to the nape of the neck To dry up and draw rheum out of the head A quilt made with Bay-salt dry Sage and Cummin is good for the rheum to draw it out and waste the humors and in like case is the leaves and flowers of Mustard-seed bruised and so laid to the crown of the head To purge the head and preserve the sight Drink Beer every morning a good draught fasting wherein the roots of Dog fennel or Motherwort is steeped the roots somewhat bruised and it will presently work in your eyes and head To expel a cold stomack or head and to expel a Consumption or either of them Take a pint of white wine Vinegar and half a pound of the best fine hard Sugar mix them and a head of Garlick trimmed clean bruised to mash then put them altogether into a pipkin and boil them softly till half be wasted and take thereof morning and evening a small quantity It will help the cold and expel a consumption An oyl to cure the cold Palsie and shaking Palsie Take a young cub Fox case him and gut him and chop him in peices and boil him in three gallons of water with a great handful of Her be-grace bruised and ever as the first scum ariseth scum it of and cast it away and all the rest of the scum and fat which riseth scum into a fair glass as long as you can get any and cover the glass close and anoint the place with the said ointment where the Palsie beginneth and you shall be cured And to anoint the shaâ—ing Palsie cureth it in a short time For quaking hands Take Fennel Rue and Wheat-bran seethe them in water and wash thâ— hands therewith also to wash thy hands in Claret wine is excellent for the same being often proved For them which aâ—e speechlesâ— with the Palsie Take sharp Mustard and give it to drink in Ale or Beer warm also Primrose roots cut in slices and a slice lâ—id under the tongue will help in the like case A precious water against many sicknesses Take Nutmeg Cloves Cresses-seed Cubebâ— Maces Grains Ginger and Cinnamon of each alike much and beat thâ—m to powder and put them in white wine a Limbeck and distill them with a soft fire This water drunk fasting helpeth all cold sicknesses putteth away all diseases in the eyes and redness and watering It helpeth the Spleen the Liver the Fistuâ—a in the body the Palsie the cold Gouâ— the Palsie with many other diseases and much comforteth the stomack For the falling Sicknessâ— Take a good handful of single Piony stamp them in a pottle of white wine having in it some Saffron within a cloth then give three spoonful of this three dayes before the change of the Moon and three dayes after the change the day of the change being not reckoned for one Take three spoonfuls of this three morâ—ings and three nights press well the juice ouâ— of the roots Hang a Piony root as neer the heart as you can Another Take the weight of half a crown in silver or half an ounce of red Fox Gloves and the like weight of Southernwood let them lie twelve hours a steep in a pint of Ale then strain it and give it blood warm fiâ—st and last do so for three daâ—es together about the time of the Moon your fit comâ—th If it be for a chiâ—de â— pint may be given at four dâ—aughts it maketh the party sick but it cureth For the Falling sickness or disease neer unto it Take one once of Piony root dryed and finely beaten and put it in a pint of Ale â—r Beer or both boil it and drink it morn and evening anâ— it will help you It is proved For the Falling sickness Take three nails made in the Vigil of Saint Iohn Baptist commonly called Midsummer eve drive them in the ground so deep that they be not seen in the place where the sick party fell naming the parties name whiles it is in doing It will drive away the disease which Misaldus credibly reported A powder against the Falling sickness Take of Christal prepared one dram Of red Coral prepared two scrupleâ— Of Pearl prepared one scruple Of Oâ—iental Smaragd prepared half a dram The half part of which is one dose in the water of our Ladies thistle Caeâ—ar accounted this for a great secreâ— and with which men that were somewhat aged as also those which have been long subject to this disease after purgation were cured Zacutus Lufitanus wiâ—nesseth and reporteth de Prax. Med. adm lib. observat 20. that he hath seen many and also of great age having this disease of the Falling sickness having tryed many remedies as well of an hidden as manifest quality which nothing profited or availed them onely with the syrup made of the green leaves of Tobacco and hony to have been cured taking of the same three ounces three hours after supper for fourty dayes if greeâ— Tobacc◠〈◊〉 wanting dry of good note or the best may be used instead thereof Another excellent Remedy for the salling evil Take a good handfuâ— of Piony roots and a handful of Misselto that groweth upon a blackâ—horn and a handful of Polypodium otherwise called in English Oakefearn and two good â—andful of Selendine if it be possible it may â—e had and stamp them very well and then â—et them to steep either in Ale or Beer for the â—pace of two hours or more and then put it inâ—o your earthen pot where it maybe kept close â—rom any air and let the party grieved drink a â—ood draught thereof every morning fasting â—nd last in the evening and let him use it for â—he space of fourteen or fifteen dayes and by Gods help it will cure him in short space Against the Epilepsie of Children Take Coriander prepared Mâ—stard-seed Nutmegs of each half a dram Piony-seed seven â—rams Diptamni two drams make thereof a â—owder and let it be given in the morn with â—ot wine Another expert against the Epiâ—epsie Take red Coâ—al the forepart of the skull of a man of grains of Piony of each one â—ram mix it and make a powder thereof of which powder must be given at three times at morn noon and night with some broth or â—ome water appropriated and if it help not at once then renew it in the same manner and â—ose as before It is found that many things have a natural vertue against the faâ—liâ—g eviâ— not of any quality elemental but by a siâ—gular property or rather an influence from heaven which almighty God hath given unto things here on earth as by these and other Saphiâ—es Smargdes red Coâ—al Piony Misseltoe of the Oak â—aken in the Moneth oâ— March and the Moon dâ—crâ—asing Time Savin Dill and the stone found in tâ—e belly of â— young Swallow and others these or one oâ— them hangâ—d about the neck of the child saveth and prâ—serveth it from the said sickness Take â—he root of Piony and make it inâ—o powder and â—ive it the
much aâ—d distil them as ye would distil Rose-water and use theâ—eof a little in your eyes â—oth in the morn and when ye go to bed A water proved to clarifie the dimness of sight Take the juice of Fennil of Celidony Rue â—nd Eye-bright of each two ounces hony an â—unce and halâ— Aloes Tutiae and Sarcocâ—lle of â—ach half an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickâ—n or Cock two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Saffron of each a dram Sugar candy six drams put all into a Limbeck of glass and distil it and of this water put in your eyes once in a day For the same Ye must use every day to eat Nutmegs and to take once in a week a Myrabolane condite Take green Walnuts liuâ—ks and all from the tree with a few Wallnut leaves and distill therâ—of a water to drop into â—our eyes Pills good for the sight The pills sine quibus asswaged with Trochiskâ— of Agarick and Piâ—ulae Lucis are excellent good to purge the brain and comfort the sight For swelling of the Eyes Take a Quince and seethe it in water till it bâ— soft then pare it and bruise it and mix iâ— with the yelk of an egg and the cruâ—s oâ— wheat or white bread steeped in the said water and put thereto a little womans milk and twâ— penny weight of Saffron bray them altogetheâ— and lâ—y it over the forehead and the eyes To resolve gummy matter in the eyes yâ— shall use to wash your eyes oftentimes witâ— thâ— juice of Houâ—leek otherwise called Senâ—green For great pain of the eyes Take an ounce and an half of oyl of Roses the yelk of an egg and a quarter of an ounce oâ— Barly flower and a little Saffron mix all togeher and put it between two linnen cloths â—nd lay it to the pain Another Take crums of wheaten bread or white an â—unce and seethe it in Nightshade or Morrel-â—ater then mix with the said bread two yelks â—f eggs oyl of Roses and Camomile of each â—n ounce and a half Mucilage of Lineseed an unce and use it as aforesaid Another Take six leaves of Henbane and rost them hen beat them very well in a Morter and lay hem to the pain For redness of the Eyes In the beginning of the redness lay upon â—he eye Tow dipped in the white of eggs but et the whites be well beaten first with Rose-â—ater or with Plantaine-water Another Take red Roses and seethe them and let â—hem be set warm to your eye This taketh â—way spots of blood that sometime chanceth â—n the eyes also it is good for all diseases of â—he eyes and it is good for redness of the â—yes that cometh by striking or any such vioâ—ence If at any time there happen a spot or â—lemish in the eye by a stroke ye must by and â—y lay to it Tow wet in Rosewater and in whites of eggs and after the pain is mitigated ye must lay to it a Plaister upon the eye made of a raw egge Barly flower and the juice or Mucilage of Mallows and then if the eye be not holpen of the said blood ye must lay to it a plaister both dissolutive defensive and partly appeasing the pain which must be made of Wheat flower the juice of Mallows Mintâ—â— and smallage and the yelk of an egge Of hardness that hath been long in the eye Take a scruple of Aloes succotrine and melâ— it in water of Selendine at the fire then receive the fume of it and afterward wash the eye with Fennel-water Another Take the powder of Cummin mixt witâ— wax like a plaistâ—r and lay it upon the eye Another Take Roses Sage Rue Celidony of eacâ— alike much with a little Salt and distill 〈◊〉 water and put thereof a drop or two in youâ— eye morning and evening instead of that wâ—ter it is good to take juice of Vervine Rue and a little Rosewater For all redness of the eyes Take the bigness of a Nut of white Coppâ—ris and a scruple of Ireos and powder it and mix it with a glassful of well water then put two oâ— three drops in your eyes For the same Water of strawberries made and put in the ye is good A singular powder that dryeth and takeâ—h away the redness of the eyes Take Tutiae preparatae an ounce and Timonie â—alf an ounce pearles two drams red â—oral a dram and an half powder all these â—hings very fine and keep it in a box oâ— Tin â—nd use it For to stop watering of the eyes Take a plaister of powder of Mastick fine Frankincense Bole-armoniack and Gum â—ragagant with white of eggâ— mixt together â—nd lay to the forehead and Temples Also it â—s good to lay ventoses on the Nape of the â—eck Also â—t is good to make a Collyrie to put â—nto the eyes as â—olloweth Take Tutiae preparat and the stone called Lapis Hematites of each a dram Aloes half a dram Pearls and Camphire of each a scruple powder them all very fine and mix them in â—hree ounces of water distilled of the knops of Roses and thereof make a Collyrie Also for to stop all humours descending to the eyes these things aforesaid are good mixed wâ—h rain water wherein Olibanum or Frankincense hath been â—odden For webbes of the eye It may easie be holpen in young folk but 〈◊〉 aged peâ—sons it is very hard And in the beginning ye must mollific them with a decoctâ— on of the flâ—wers of Camomile Mellilote 〈◊〉 cool Leaves receiving the fume of the 〈◊〉 decoction within the eyes and thâ—n put there in a little powder made with Sugar candy Saâ—gemme and egge shells brent and afteâ— distill into them womans milk with the decoction of Fenugreeke Another singular receipt for webbes in the eyes Take snayles with the shells on and 〈◊〉 them eight times and distill them in a coâ—mon Stillatory then take Hares galls 〈◊〉 Corall and Sugar-candy with the said wateâ— distill them again and put every morning aâ— evening a drop into your eyes Another This water is made of white Copperis Sâ—gar candy and Rosewater with whites of egg sodden hard and strained through a Linâ— Cloth and put into your eye after dinnâ— and at night to bâ—dward To stay the humours that fall in the eyes Take Mastick Sanguis draconis the whiâ— of an egge and Rosewater of every one a smâ—â— â—uantity mixt them altogether and make a â—laâ—ster thereof and spread it on a piece of â—elvet and lay it to the temple vain and let it â—ick â—here till it fall of it self To clear the eyes that be dim of sighâ— Take the Juice of Caprifolium or woodâ—inde and dry it in the sun till it come to a â—â—e powder after it is pounded strained and â—rought to fine powdâ—r blow some of it â—to the eyes and it will help God willing The Juice of Caprifolium is called at the â—pothecaries Lycium you ought not to wash â—he woodbinde before the straining especially â—hen you make Lycium for the eyes
together For the same It is good to drink every morning three â—â—nces of water of Bugloss wherein hath â—een sodden cloves And it is good to drink in a Morning four â—unces of Julep made of half a pound of â—awm water and three ounces of Sugar For the same It it good to drink every morning 3. ounces 〈◊〉 water of Bugloss wherein hath been sodden â—oves And it is good to drink in a morning 〈◊〉 ounces of Juâ—ep made of half a pound of â—arm water and three ounces of Sugar The â—onfection of Diajacinthy is singular and exâ—â—llent for trembling of the heart but it is for â—oble men not for poor folk â—or ach at the heart which are commonly a knot of worms Take unset leeks one handful chopped small â—â—d frie it with butter and bay salt and lay it 〈◊〉 the stomack upon a napkin Take a pinte of white wine English liquerice 〈◊〉 sugar boil it together in a pot close stoped take it fastingâ— To help a mad body Take the Flowers of Rose-mary of Burragâ— and of the roots of Buglosse of each a pound Saâ—â—ron two drams of Quinces four ounces 〈◊〉 the best white wine a quart mix them together let them stand a day put them over thâ— head fifteen days in an Horsmixon the mouâ—â— of the glass not covered quite then distil it Then take of it first and last a dram at a timâ— It is a precious secret it helpeth the treâ—bling of the heart For them that swound or are faint-hearted Take Rosemary Sage Betony and Marjerom of each an handful seethe them in a galloâ— of fair water till a quart be consumed theâ— take away the herbs and put to the said wateâ— a pinte of good hony then scum it well theâ— put in an ounce of Staechades tied in a fair linnen cloth Let it seethe a little then takâ— out the Staechades and add an ounce of Cinnamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmeggs and asmuch in Ginger in powder drink it warm thrice every day six or seven dayes â—â—fiet A potion for sainting Take of the confection of Alchermes two drams of garden blew violet water and excellent red rose water of each two ounces and Syrup of violets two ounces and an half and Syrup of Lymons one ounce mingle them well together and take hereof four or five spoonfuls at a time when you see eause or when you please The Stomack Remedies for all pains of the stomack For weakness of the Stomack TAke Pilulae Stomachiae two or three hours before meat more or lesse according to 〈◊〉 quantitie of the fulness of the stomack 〈◊〉 after give him every morning two hours 〈◊〉 ore meat and one hour after supper at every me a Lozenge of an Electuary called Diaga 〈◊〉 ga or another called Diacinimum which 〈◊〉 consume ventosities and with their comâ—â—â—table heat drive away the cold and windy â—â—mplexion of the stomack For windiness of the stomack Take in a morning two hours before meat a â—â—zenge of Aromaticum rosat and if ye have 〈◊〉 aching stomack and cold take every morn 〈◊〉 a Lozenge of Dianisâ— or Diacinimum and drink after it a spoonful of wine A present remedy for pain and ach in the stomack Maiden-hair bruised plaistered and laid to 〈◊〉 stomack sanat To help the pains of the stomack a rare secret Take every night last three drams of 〈◊〉 For a windie and cold stomack Take Aromaticum Garyophillat one ounce Electuar de aromatibus one ounceâ— Et Diattrion piperion one ounce Mix it together and take it first and last â— the quantity of three Nut kâ—rnels For pain of the stomack Take two drams of Diacinnaâ—on of Dianist 〈◊〉 Diagalanga and drink it with a little gooâ— wine an hour or two before meat drink a little Castor with good wine Another Drink two hours before meat three or 〈◊〉 ounces of the decoction of Mintes Anniâ—â— seeds cummin and fine frankincense Also drink an Electuary caâ—led Arcuâ—aticum whereof receive one Lozenge every mâ—rninâ— fasting To comfort the stomack after vomiting It is good to give unto the patient everâ— morning an ounce of Syrup of wormwood 〈◊〉 Mintes instead of which it is convenient 〈◊〉 take a Lozenge as Azromaticum rosatum or Diâ—galanga For the same Take evening and morning three hours before meat two Cloves in powder with a spoonâ—â—l of the Juice of mintes or half a spoonful 〈◊〉 Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloves 〈◊〉 d lignum aloes to the weight of a crown with 〈◊〉 ine two hours before meat â—n excellent purgation to avoid choler for men of all ages Take half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn dram of good Rubarb infused a night in wa 〈◊〉 of Endive with a little spikenard anâ— an â—unce of Syrup of violets mix all these things â—ith three ounces of Ptisan or whay and â—â—rink it warm A Medicine for winde in the stomack Take a spoonful of hony and two spoonâ—â—ls of rosewater and set them upon a Chaffing 〈◊〉 sh of coales and as the scum ariseth take it â—ith a feather till be clear Then take it off â—â—e fire then take a groaâ—s weight of long â—epper asmuch of white asmuch of black â—â—d asmuch of cummin seed asmuch of ginger â—â—d beat all together in a Mortar not very 〈◊〉 all and put them into a box Then put in 〈◊〉 ony and rosewater unto them and mix them â—ogether with a knife and eat them after dinâ—er asmuch as a pease and you may keep it as â—â—ng as you will and ever as it dryeth put â—hereto more hony clarified with rose water To clear the stomack Take stale Ale and boil it and put it two branches of Hyssop to boil with it and drinâ— first and last A notable sauce to procure an appetite in them whicâ— be brought low to get them a stomack Take Vine leaves and stamp them aâ—â— strain them and put in Sugar to the juice aâ—â— Cinnamon powder with Sippets of mancheâ— boil them as sorrel sops eat them with chicken or what you will It is excellent 〈◊〉 a fever or other sicknesses To make Pulvis ducis out of Master Cogans Caj 〈◊〉 of the weâ—kness of the stomack pag. 194. Pulvis Ducis as he saith is usually â—â—de of on ounce of Sugar and one ounce of Cinnamoâ— finely powdred both and then mixed togegether And this Pulvis Ducis being mingled the quantitie of one dram with half a pint oâ— Aqua vitae well tempered together and thrâ—â— pints of rose-rosewater and so let run twice oâ— thrice through an Hyppocrates bagg anâ— thereof take oft-times in the week one spoonful in the morning fasting especially in winteâ— time is excellent good for a bad stomack of cold cause A drink for a bad stomack Brew Beer or Ale and when you tunne iâ— before it work take a pound of wormwood and asmuch of the roots of red docks the pi 〈◊〉 taken out and washed and put them in a bagâ— with a
leave off the trusse until three weeks aâ—ter he is perfectly whole For the Fundament coming out Take Aloes Mirrbe ana one ounce terendâ— terantur subtiliter and cribrentur And anoiâ—t the Fundament with the oil of Almonds and lay of tâ—is powder thâ—râ—â—pâ—n and witâ— a skarlet â—â—otâ— hot put up the funâ—ament this used will hâ—lp with Gods gâ—ace â—o a mans Fundament when it comes out â— true Medicine Take red nettles and stamp them well and put them into an earâ—hen pâ—t and puâ— to them a portion of wine and seethe it well and give it the patient to dâ—ink A special good Medicine proved to heal a rupture or broken man Probat First puâ—ge him with easie purgâ—tions and let him keep good and straight diet â—â—ll â—he matter be up within his body Then take the juice of Polypodie of the oak of daysies compâ—ry Avens and Beâ—ony in the winter take the juice of the rootâ— and all of each one handful stamp them and strain them without other Liquâ—r And put the same juice into a quart of stale Ale and drink a quantitie thereof evening and morning blood warm for nine dayes keeping good diet and sure trussing you may put Sugar candy to it if you will Probat Against ruptures or burstings Take the Herb and root of Cranesbill dry it make it into very fine powdâ—r and give one spoonful every morning fasting every night when he goeth to bed in red wine or claret wine for xxi dayes together It cureth miraculously but in aged persons to mix with it the powder of red sâ—ails those that that are without shells dried in an oven This medicine never faileth although the rupture be great and of continuance It likewise profiteth much those that are wounded in their bodies The decoction of the herbs made with wine prevaileth mightily in healing inward wounds All this hath been well proved If ye know the pain of the belly cometh through winde apply upon it a great ventose without incision for by that means the pain will surely go away or diminish If not it sheweth that it is caused of some other humor as Phlegm or choler A purgation for Colâ—ck coming of Phlegm Take five drams of Diaphaenicon three ounces of Wormwood water and make a drink the which received fasting four or five hours before meat is very profitable For pain of the Colick coming of Choler If the said pain come of choler which is known by the application of hot things the pain increaseth ye must make a Clyster of violets or give him half an ounce of succo rosarum with Ptisan Endive water or wine And the next morning let him drink a Ptisan of the decoction of prunes and violet Flowers and anoint the belly with oil of violets or wet a linnen cloth in cold water and lay it thereupon and if the pain â—â—me of cold ye must anoint his belly with of bayes and goose grease For the winde Colick â—t is good to drink the Syrup of Elecamâ—â— to wear a plaister upon the belly made â—â—ony Wormwood and Aloes Pilulae Coâ—â— are very good for the said disease especiâ—â—â— when the Clâ—ster doth not suffice to â—ge the cause of the same Also Diamuscum 〈◊〉 Diacinnamum are very good Electuaries if â—ake one of them a Lozenge fasting 2 hours â—ore meat Likewise it is good to take â—hridate with a little white wine or with decoction of Camomile four or five hours 〈◊〉 dinner if his belly be naturally lax or â— by some suppository or Clyster 〈◊〉 Back and Reins The Remedies of their distempers A purgation for Choler coming of Phlegm â—â—ke five drams of Diaphaenicon three ounces Wormwood water and make a drink the â—â—ch received fasting four or five hours afore â—t is very profitable â—scour câ—eanse and cool the reins of the Back â—ake half a pound of brown Sugar candy and one pint of Endive water and anotheâ— pint of red rose water boil all thâ—se togetheâ— from a quart to a pint and until it come to thick Syrup which then put into a fair gâ—asâ— and keep it to thy use This Syrup cleanseth the Reins and cookâ—â— the heat thâ—reof It must be taken fastiâ—â— chiefly and last towaâ—ds bed yet it may be use as occasion sâ—rveth For a pain in the back Take a quart of wâ—ite wine and a quarâ— of running water Then take of the crâ—p 〈◊〉 Râ—semary asmuch as both the haâ—ds can claâ—â— seethe them till half be consuâ—ed tâ—en takâ— Sugar gâ—ains as ye think good and drink 〈◊〉 first and last For ache in the back Take a good onion or two and rost theâ— in the Embers then stamp them and straâ—â— out the juice and mix it with asmuch Malmeâ— as juice and drink thâ—reof blood warm firâ—â— and last Probat Another Take Egrimony and Mugwort both leavâ—â— and roots and stamp them small then mingâ— them with good Dears suâ—t then smear 〈◊〉 anoint the place therewith very warm and â—â—ter binde it up A good ointment for the back and restorative for the same Take the mosel of a Hart or Stagge and make powder of it and boil it in white wine with Bursa Pastoris knot grasse plantain and Comphry and when it s well boiled strain it and let it cool and it will be a Jelly And if you will eat of it put to it Sugar Cinnamon and Saffron for its a great restorative so eaten also with the Jelly aforesaid anoint a weak back on either side the back bone and chafe it well in but do not anoint the back bone with the hand use it thrice a week to bedward till you be well Probat For the weakness of the small of the back Take one handful of Baulme one handful of Clarie wash them not they must be gathered in the heat of the day dry them in an oven and make them into power the powder will be green if it be done right then lay a new layed egg into the fire Let it be not half rosted then put into it asmuch of the powder as will lie upon the point of a broad knife and so eat it A powder to knit and restore nature well proved Take the roots of Tormentil the best of them are red when they are broken take of the powder of these roots two parts and the third parâ— of fine Galingale in powder and of the powder of red mintes asmuch as of the Galingale and mingle them and use of this powder in your broths and meats and Sawces Pro Gonorrhaea Take Aqu. Calendulae extractae ex foljis florum et bibe singulis diebus Cochlearia tria sanus evades To restore a man that wasteth and for soreness of the reins Take sperma caeti and powder of mints and use to drink this with a spoonful of red roseâ— water and make it luke warm the sperma caeti will relent anon for this is a soveraign Medicâ—ne For heat in the back Take the white of an Egg a little red rose water and
those Trochiâ—kes he may make a powder of Sanguis draconis Bole armony white amber and red coral drinking one dram with plantain water as is aforesaid Another Medicine to stanch the said flux Take two ounces of old conserve of Roses of the seed of plantain two drams Sanguis draconis Bole armony of every one a dram and a half white Cortal and red one dram make a confection with Syrup of Mirtles and give it to drink morning and evening two houres afore meat at every time â—he quantity â—â— a mean chesnut An Irish Medicine to stay any flux Take a handful of Sage chop it small and put thereto the yelks of eggs and fry them with as little butter as may be and eat them as hot as you can and drink not of 4 hours and in four dayes after it helpeth For the bâ—oody flux Take â—owder of Comphry and make tosts of wheat bread and put them in red wine aâ—d powder of Cinnamon therewith and also eat it alone To cure the bloody flux Take of Rubard grated one ounce harts-horn burnt and made into powder half a dram mix them with Conserves of red Roses of the last year and make thereof two or three boles and let him take it at once this scoureth away the cause of the flux and bindeth him presently after To cuâ—e any dangerous flux which is â—f â—orce to bring a man in danger of a consumption Take fine wheat flour boulted finely and tye it in a linnen cloath of the bigness of two eggs and boyl it in a pottle of running water with a handful of mother of time whâ—n it is half boyled away then take up the flour whhich will be hard and in looking upon the flour you must take of a skim which will be on it then take some of the said flour and thicken a quantity of new milk boyled as a thin flour meat and drink it as ye see cause until you have recovered strength This will recover a man of the bloody flux even when he is tâ—ought past help and also to rost an egge stone hard and â—lit it and lay it hot to the fundament stayeth any monstrous flux and to wear napkins hot and to keep them as hot as one can well endure to the navel and fundament shiâ—ting them as they grow cold is excellent in thâ—s case For the bloody flux Womans milk drunk nine dayes togetheâ—â—â—sting cureth the bloody flux in any Another for the same Note that the powder of Misselden of the oak given in red wine helpeth that Flux â—â—hatum A sure experiment to cure the bloody flux when a man avoideth as it were black gobbets of flesh Take Cumphry Knotgrass sheppards purse Cinqufoil Plantain Ribwort strawberry leaves one handful the middle rinde of a black thorn of cinramon one half ounce broken in small pieces boyl all these in a pot of spring water with a wheat bread crust unto a quart and clarifie it and put nine spoonfuls of wine vinegar unto it with sugar and make a Iulep drink thereof morning and evening not drinking after of two hours Probatum The Bladder Remedies for its Distempers A medicine for the stone Take grommel seed paâ—sley seed red nettle Seed and saxiâ—rage all these made in powder by even portions or else take the Juice of alâ— these Herbes and of Lettuce and endive of all juices alike much and strain it through a Cloath and setâ— it in a vessel on the fire And take halfe so much of honey as of the Juices and cast them all together and seeth them till they be thick and keep it safe as Treasure for this is a gracious Electuary for the stone Of the cure of the stone in the Reines and bladder To break the stone Take the kernells that are within sloes and drie them on a tilestone then make of them a powder by it selfe After that take the roots of Alisander parsly parietary and Hollihocke of every one alike much and seethe them all in white wine or in the broth of Chickens then strain them out into a clean vessel and when ye drink of it adde asmuch of the said powder as ye think convenient half a silver spoonful or more for without doubt it hath great effect in bringing out the gravel Another expert medicine There groweth in the galls of some open a certain yellow stone sometimes in bignes of a Wallnut somewhat long and brittle if ye take that stone and make of it a powder and eat it in your potâ—age the weight of one scruple or more according to your strength It is a singular Medicine for them that cannot piâ—s for stopping of the conduites Another singuâ—ar Medicine Take the seed of Smalledge parsly Loâ—vage vage and Saxifrage the roots of Philipendula cherry stones gromel seed and broom seed of every one alike much make them in fine powder and when ye be diseased of the stone eat of this powder a spoonful at once in pottage or broth of Chickins and eat nothing after in two or three hours A goodly syrup to mundifie the reins Take the broth of a young chicken sodden till the bones fall assunder three pound Melon seed a little bruised an ounce parcely roots and Alisander roots three ounces Damask prunes Sebesten of each six in number great raisins half an ounce clean Liquerice â—o drams water of Borage endive and hops of each three drams and with sufficient white sugar boyl them all unto the consumption of half and morâ— and afterward strain them and make a goodly syrup This is a thing of excellent operation and an high secret in mundifying the reins and keep right diet the dose of it is one Cyath or a little cupfull in the morning early and sleep after it a little if yee would have the foresaid Syrup to purge more choler then put in a dram of fine Rubarb with a liter cassia A powder for the stone and Colick or either of them Imprimis Carawayseeds two ounces Gromel seeds two ounces Anniseeds two ounces Rubarb two ounces Liquerice four ounces Parslâ— seeds two ounces Fennâ—l seeds two ounces dryed in an oven Elecampana roots dryed as the Rubarb else neither of them will beat to powder bruise all these very small and Put to them asmuch sugar as the quantity of them all and searce them through a sieve then every morning take an heaped spoonful and put in your broth or what you like best If you cannot away with the Gromel put the more into of the other seeds for that doth more prevail either against the stone or Colick This receipt hath often been proved to be good either for the stone or Colick Another for the stone and to break it Take ripe elder berries and distil then and drink the water with sugar and it shall break and come out in one night Probatum Some four ounces of the water will serve at a time For the stone which letteth a man to make water Take Southernwood stamp it small
inâ—â—lerable pain is called suffocation because 〈◊〉 it is choaked ovâ—rcharged with some evil â— superfluous matter as by stopping of due â—gâ—tions or too much abstenence of Venus â—hereby often chanceth shortness of breath â—â—in of the head swooning trembling of the â—â—art contraction of members and otherwhiles â—â—th without remedy A drink for pain of the mother Take one dram of Mithridate and dissolve in an ounce and a half of water of wormwooâ— and give it her to drink afore she go to meâ— four hours Another to provoke the flux of the Matrice See the Marigolds nept and savine in good alâ— and drink it with a good quantity of Saffrâ— and a little honey and sugar Item fifteen blaâ— seeds of Piony drunken in wine with safirâ— purgeth the Matrice of humors and other fâ—teen of the red seeds stancheth it again or aâ—other Flux of â—he mother These Heâ—bs aâ— good to purge the Matrice Rue Piony Savinâ— Betony nept Valerian Maydenhair Horâ— hound Savary Parsley Gromel Alisader Marigolds Smalledge and Time The Terms or flowers their Râ—â—medies Fâ—r suppression or retaining of the flowers or Mâ—â—struus If the blood be too gross and thick you muâ— every month give her the syrup of sumitoâ—â— with the decoction of borage and bugloss aâ—â— â—ther bath her self with fresh water hot And â—hen she goeth out of the bath into the bed â—e must receive the aforâ—said Syrup and deâ—â—tion of the Herb called Rubea tinctorum or â—â—adder sâ—dden in clear water In stead of Syâ—ps ye may take the very juice or decoction the Herbs And if the womans blood be slimie cold â—nd Phlegmatick then she must drink Syrup of â—â—echados and of oxymel diuretick and afterâ—â—rds take the pills called Faetidae and of Aquae â—â—rick and every morning after she must â—â—ke a dram of Trochiskes of Mâ—rrhe with two â—â—nces of the decoction of Iuniper berries â—d thereupon drink two ounces of water of â—â—gwort Moreover it is a proved expert Medicine â— give the first day of the new Moon a â—â—im of powder made of Borax which theâ—â—ldsmiths do occupie with asmuch Cinnamon â—â—d a little water of smallage It is good to help and provoke the said purtion by such things as open which must be â—en at such time of the Moon as the said woâ—â—n were wont to have the same â— the overflowing of the menstruus and for the retaining of the same To provoke the termes a most expert â—â—dicine and secret A certain herb called â—â—riâ—n not that with coâ—s and stones in the â—â—t but that which hath a root like the hand â— man with fingers and the root of one â—â— drieth and groweth in the end of the â—â—r the other a green root Take three leaves otherwise one or two otherwise threâ— green roots of that Herb dayly and give it foâ— nine dayes in broth or rosted or fryed without broth as you will and it shall effâ—ct anâ— give of the dry roots in the same and theâ— shall cease c. A most approved Experiment to provoke the Menstruiss Take of tryphera magna the quantity of great Nut and put to it the Sal gem the quantity of a filbird nut let them be mixed anâ— tempered with white wine or eat it with Rueâ— For the dropsie and to provoke the flowers aâ—â— urine Cantharides the head and other things tâ—ken away burnt and brought to a powdeâ— the dose is a dram with white Wine in thâ— evening Probatum est Item a gum called Serapine mixed with tâ—â— juice of Savine or Centory and it causeth a deaâ— childe to issue forth To bring down womens termes Bruise the roots of Celendine and wear the in your socks next to your bare feet and will cause them to break and come down witâ— in four dayes or lesse in plentiful manner which then presently take away A medicine for the green sickness and to causeâ—â— flowers Take Nep unset Hyssop Lavender Cotteâ— â—ngelica leaves mother of time French Malâ—wes Germander Fetherfew of each a good â—ndful boil them in two gallons of spring â—ater to one gallon then strain it then put to two good sticks of Liquerice scraped and â—uised flat and one pint of pure clarified â—â—y then boil it again four or five walmes â—â—d drink thereof fasting and one hour before â—pper and use exercise A medicine to stop over much abundance of Flowers Take Shepherds purse knotgrass and red â—changel a little quantity pound them aâ—der and not all together then take the juice each of them and put one spoonful of â—â—e juice of every one of them into six spoonâ—â—â— of stale Ale for Ale is better then Beer this case and drink it of and use this drink â—orning and evening To make this Electuary take red Coral in â—â—e powder two ounces a half white Coral fine powder two ounces Sanguis Draconis fine powder three ounces put to it two â—â—nces of conserve of red roses and mingle â—â—em well together of this Electuary first take â—â—e quantity of three beanes morning and â—â—ening to bedward and within one quarter of hour after take of the drink aforesaid cold warm will hinder the force of it this is a â—â—ble Electuary and drink in that case For the red Flux in women Take a dram of Persicum Philonium in a sufficient quantity of plantain water to carry down as a Vehiculum which is the Physicianâ— word to carry things down drink this fasting and anoint the Navel and the belly about the Navel and all the back over with Vnguentum Comitâ—ssae make two plasters the one for thâ— belly about the Navel and the other for thâ— other for the whole back parts and applâ— them thereto and wear them nights and dayâ—â— for a good while you must take the Phy oniuâ— Persicum divers dayes together in manneâ— aforesaid for four or five dayes together and stay to see what good you finde if you havâ— not found it stay before and if it be nâ—â— stopped then you must take it again and 〈◊〉 the ointment and plaster still until it stoâ— and if this will not help it and stop it nâ—thing will do it as one Master Berâ—ington â—â— confidently assure out of his own practise For the whites proved Take a pint of spring water and stone theâ— in half a pound of prunes and put therâ— with them two spoonfuls of sugar and â—â— mornings together drink three or four spoâ—â—fuls of the water and fast an hour after For rising of the Mâ—ther Take some knops of Amber otherwise led Succinum and cast them upon a chafâ— dish of coalâ— until they make a great smotâ—â— and then hold your mouth open over chaffing dish and receive the fume 〈◊〉 as you can and cast a good linnen cloth abâ— your head and face to keep in the fume that as little go by as may be A specia mediâ—ine for the mother or winde or spleen which riseth about the heart Take Fenugreek Liquerice Fennel seeds Anniseeds Alisander seeds
reserve the Liquour this is called oil of Eggs a very precious thing in the aforesaid cure Irem the juice of Lilies five parts and vineger one part hony a little maketh an excellent Medicine not onely for this intent but for all other kindes of hot and running Ulcers Whatsoever you use must be laid to bloodwarm Also for avoiding of a scar keep that place moist with medicine An approved Medicine for a burning or for a childe that falls into the fire and burns any part of it Take Hens dung or Capons dung and ground Ivy and stamp them together then take sheepes suet and fry the dung and Herbs withall and strain it and where the burning is â—noint it two or three times a day till it be whole and keep the Salve in a box to use it at â—eed Probat For a burn or a scaâ—d Take Mousear a good handful of Primâ—ose leaves an handful Fearn roots an handful â—ound these together and boil them in thick â—ream till it come to a butter then strain it â—nd so anoint the place Another for the same Take the yellow Moss or scurse of an Ashbough and put into cream and boil it to butter Of consumption or leannesse When a child consumeth or waxeth lean without any cause apparant there is a bathe commended of Authors to wash the childe many timâ—s is made thus Take the head and feet of a weather seethe them till the bones fall asandâ—r use to bath the childe in this Liquor after anoint him with this ointment following Take butter without salt oil of Roses and of Violets of each an ounce the fat of raw pork half an ounce wax a quarter of an ounce make an ointment wherewith the childe must be rubbed every day twice this shall with good feeding increase his strength by the grace of God Lice To destroy Lice MAke a Lavatory to wash scour the body twice a day thus take brine and strong lyâ— oâ— aâ—hes of each a like portion wormwood a hâ—nâ—ful â—eethe them a while and after wash the body with the same liquor A goodly Medicine to kill them Take the grounds or dregs of oil Aloes wormwood and the gall â—f a Bull or of an ox make an ointment which is singular good for the same purpose Item Stavisacre Brimstone and vinegar is exceeding good It is good to give the patient often in his drink powder of an hartshorn brent Stavisacre with oil is a marvellous wholsom thing in this case An expert Medicine to drive away Lice Take the grounds and dregs of oil or in lack of it fresh swines grâ—ase a sufficient quantity wherein ye shall chaâ—e an ounce of quicksilver till it be all sunk into the grease then take powder of Stavisacre searce and mingle all together make a girdle of woollen list meet for the midle of the patient and all to anoint it over with the said Medicine then let him wear it continually next his skin for it is a singâ—lar remedy to chasâ— away the vermin The onely odour of quicksilver killeth lice For scabbinesse and Itch. Take water of Betony two good handfuls daisie leaves Alehoof otherwise called Judmur or ground ivy of each one handful the red Dock roots two or three stamp them all together aâ—d gâ—inde them well then mingle them with fresh grease and again stamp them Let them so stand eight dayes to putrifie till it be hoar then fâ—y them and strain them out and keep for the same intent This ointment hath gâ—eat effect both in young and old and that without repercussion or driving back of the matter which should be a perilous thing for a young childâ— The water Betony alone is a gâ—eat Medicine to quench all unkindly heats without danger or the seething of it in clear well water to anoint the Members Another remedy for scabs and Itch. Take the roots of Docks and fry them in fresh gâ—ease then put to a quantity of Brimstone in powder and use to rub the places twice or thrice a day Brimstone powdred and supped in a rear Egg healeth the scabs which thing is also very good to destroy worms A gâ—odly sweet sope for scabs and itch Take white sope half a pound and steep it in sufficient rose-rosewater till it be well soked then â—ake two drams of Mercury sublimed disolve it in a little rose-rosewater labour the sope and the Rose water well together and afterward put in a little muâ—k or civet and keep it Tâ—is sope is exceeding good to â—ure a great scab or itch and without peril but in a Childe shall suffice to make it weaker of Mercury Anoâ—her approved Medicine for scabbiness and Itâ—h Take Fumitory dock roots scabious and the roots of Walwort stamp them all and set them in fresh grease to putrifie thâ—n fry them and strain them in which Liquor you shall put turpentine a little quantity brimstone and fâ—ankincense very finely powdered and sifted a portion and with sufficient wax make an ointment on a soft fire this is a singular remedy for the same purpose And if need be to make a bath of Fumitory centaury Featherfew Tansie wormwood Sage alone if ye see the cause of the itch or the scab to be worms in the â—kin for a bitter decoction shall destroy them and dâ—y up the moisture of the sores Ad scabiem tam siâ—cum quam humidum praesens Auxilium Take the roots of Elecampane and of dockâ— ana and scrape them clean and wash theâ— cut them into small slices and seethe them in vineger until they be soft then pound thâ—m very small as is possible Then take thâ—reof a pound and of Barrowes grease of common Sivil oil ana three ounce Of new wax one ouâ—ce Of quicksilver mortified of Turpentine washed ana two ounces Of common salt half an ounce Melt your oil your â—arrowes grease and your wax together then put in your roots prepared and after your Quâ—cksilver then strain it and in the end put in the Turpâ—ntine and salt made in powder but it were more safe to leave out the quicksilver and to puâ— instead thereof three ounces of the juice of Limons both be good but the former more vehement A clear and white water that will heal in five dayes at the most all manner of scabs aswell inward as outward Take plantain water two glassful rose water one glassful of the water of the flowers of Citrons or Oâ—anges half a glassful or less put all together into a clear pan or Vial of glass and put to it one ounce of Mercury sublimated beaten into fine powder and beat it well with fasting spittle and put to the aforesaid waterâ— then let it boil fair and softly a quaâ—tâ—r of an hour take it from the fire and let it cool then put it into some Vial and wash the scabbie places at night with it and let it dry of it self And let them alone so the next day without washing them and wash them again the third day but not the
it up also four or five drops thereof poured into a great quantity of warm water will make it have a pleasant smell to wash hands or other things To make a special Aqua composita to drink for a cold or suâ—fet in the stomack well proved Take a handful of Rosemary and a good root of Elecampana and an handful of Hyssoâ— half an handful of time half a handful of Sagâ— six good crops of red Mints and as many 〈◊〉 penyrial half a handful of Horeâ—ound six crop of Marjerom two ounces of Liquerice weâ—â— bruised asmuch Anniseed and take three galons of good strong Ale and take all the saiâ— Herbs wringing asunder and put them into thâ— Ale in a brasse pot well covered and close anâ— let them stand till they begin to boil theâ— take them from the fire and set upon it you Limbeck and stop it just with paste that therâ— cometh no air out and so keep it forth with soft fire as Aqua vitae is made put more therâ—to half an handful of red Fennel half handful of Hartstongue and half an ounce 〈◊〉 Maces A marvellous Ba'm made by art most laudable Take fine turpentine one pound of oil of bay four ounces oâ— galbanum four ounces of guâ—â— arabick four ounces of pure Frankincense 〈◊〉 Miâ—rh of gum Jvy and of Lignum aloes 〈◊〉 each four ounces of Galâ—â—gale zedoary oâ— Gingeâ— of the white Dittany of leaves of Conjoliâ—â— minor of Nutmeggs of Cinnamon of each on dram of Musk and Ambergrease of each onâ— dram all these bâ—at together pour upon 〈◊〉 pints of the best Aqua vitae distill it secunduâ— arâ—em The vertues are thâ—se it breaketh and diâ—solve â—n the stâ—ne in the kidneys causeth thâ— patient to pisse which otherwise is letted 〈◊〉 a piece of flesh it helpeth consumption sciâ—tica or ach in the head fowl scurse wounds iâ— the head It helpeth the plurifie Give on dram with water at a time helpeth any swelâ—ng in any part of the body the coldness in â—â—e head it helpeth hot sickness aswell as cold Take a Borrage more and boil him in half pinte of wine and half a pint of rose-rosewater 〈◊〉 drunk fasting in the morning It com 〈◊〉 the heart and brain it healeth the â—emorie and wit it purgeth the evil blood â—â—covereth Phrensiness 〈◊〉 making of Venice Balsam and the vertues thereof Take a handful of the flowers of Dogsâ—â—ngue of St. Iohn Worâ—t the flowers a handâ—â—l white wine somewhat more then a quarter 〈◊〉 a pint of gum Elemie one ounce five penyâ—orth of saffron one penyworth of venice â—urpâ—ntine one ounce of Candied oil or 〈◊〉 oil half a pinte If the flowers of the Herbs are not infused 〈◊〉 the oil then boil it in the white wine by â—â—emselves and then boil the gum Elemie in â—â—e oil by it self and then clarifie it and cast â—way the dreggs and then boil it again all toâ—ether and last of all put in the saffron and 〈◊〉 Turpentine when you are ready to take 〈◊〉 boiling a little and so clarifie it again â—nd when it is almost cold put it into a glass to â—â—e The best way is to infuse the flowers of the Herbs with red roses or Damask in sallet â—â—il for a year or less The gum Elemie will â—â—il in the oil a quarter of an hour and after 〈◊〉 boiling it together it will be a quarter of a 〈◊〉 hour the flowers are to be strained out â—odden in wine or the oil The vertues of it are as followeth It will cure all diseases coming of cold eiâ— pains or achs in the head or the deaâ—ness iâ— the eare the same Ballam 〈◊〉 waâ—med and anointing the place gâ—ieved and a warm cloath applied thereunto And for tâ—e ears to lip â— little black wool in the same Balsom and 〈◊〉 then thâ—rewith This is good for the gâ—avâ— and pain in making of 〈◊〉 and the Coâ— lick to take the same in a little Mutâ—oâ— broath to the quantity of a great bâ—an and drink it every morâ—ing fasting and anâ— in thâ— place grieved Moreover for all cold Ague drink but half an ounce in broath before the fit comes Again for pain or swelling of the Spleen or Milt and for the mother Anoinâ— the leâ—t side therewith well warâ—â—d and iâ— will dissolve all hardness cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneyeâ— and bladder It câ—reth all aches in what parâ— of the body soever rubbing the place grieveâ— with a Cloath first well warmed and then anoint it with the same Balsam being made warm and binde the place with a warm Cloath afterward It cureth all Lameness and shrinking of the sinews and all green wounds suddenly It hath more vertues then I have here written To make the most eâ—dellent water of Treacle or Mithridate which is a most precious remedie against all outward and inward poysons or pestilence Take of excellent venice Triacle or Mithridate one pound which put into three pounds of Ardent water rectified to be there digested in a furnace of Circulaâ—ion And in a circulating vâ—ssâ—l the fire all that while be verâ— soft and slender which done pour it into a Cucurbite and put on the Alembick and distill the same so long in a balneo Mariae as ye may see the Liquor issue out clear and bright but when ye see the colour thereof become clear and yellowish then take away the receiver and keep that clear water by it self to be drank in such times of need as is asoresaid To draw out another Liquor from the sâ—â—is whence this Liquor was distilled superâ—â—ctum Take the Cucurbite with the saecis from whence this liquor was distilled and lute the said still over then set it upon Ashes and make a hot fire and draw from it such liquor as will distill And receive the said liquor into a bladder which set under the nose oâ— the Aleâ—bick and keep it and therewith anoint the skin or outward parts and they shall be preserved from the Contagion as aforesaid To make Cinnamon milk or liquor after another sort most precious for a restorative Take the waters of Bugloss Borrage Balme and of the lesser Cenâ—aury of each a pound and an half into the which put of Cinnamon welâ— choyce of the best sort two pound well beaten to powder first which then steep in the said waters together in one glass vessel 15. dayes And after that distill it upon hot ashes first with a lent fire so long as any Liquor will issue clear and fair which clear liquor keep apart but when ye see certain drops issue like unto whey or milk then change the receiver and reserve therewith all that milk liquor by it selâ— for it is most excellent of which if ye give unto any aged or weak person or to a woman in childbed thereof a spoonful or a spoonful and a half it doth wonderfully strengthen them A ba'm for a wound Take good white wine one pinte oil olive half a pinte St. Iohns
child to lick in a little pap and Sugar They that are of age may eat of it a good quantity at once and likewise of the black seeds of the same Piony Item the purple Violets that creepeth oâ— the ground in gardens with a long stalk and iâ— called in English Hearâ—sâ—ase drunk in water oâ— in water and hony helpeth this disâ—ase in â— young childe moreover the muskle of the Oak rased and given in milk and water and hony is good Also ye may still a water of the flowers of Linde it is a tree call in Latine Tilia take the same flowers and distill a water and let the patient drink thereof now and then a spoonful it is a good remedy Item the root of the Sea-thistle called Erigum in Latin eaten in broth or drunken 〈◊〉 exceeding good Some wâ—ite that Cichory is a singular remedâ— for the same disease it is meant by wilde Cichory growing in corns The flowers of Roseâ—ary â—ade a Conserve hath the same effect in curing this disâ—ase I could declare many other râ—mâ—dies commended of Authors but these are sufficieâ—t For the Falling sickness Take the skul of a dead man which is cleanly takâ—n out of the grave pulverizate very sâ—all add also hereunto five or six Piony kernels well pounded take hereof in the morn one dâ—am with wine and it is for this disease one of the best remedies An excellent Medicine sor the Apopâ—exia and Falling sickness Take Aqua vitae perfectly rectified without flegm one pint oyl of Vitriol one spoonful mix thâ—m and let the patient drink thereof every morn one spoonâ—ul and he shall be holpen although he have had it ten years and â—â—ll every hour And for Apoplexia ye shall give it in the said ordâ—r but if he cannot drink it so ye shall give it as you think good so that he have it in his body and prâ—sently he shall amend although he have had iâ— a long while and were lame over all his body c. For the Falling Evil. Take the secundum of a boy child dryed to powder in an Oven and the forepart of a dead mans skulâ— wash'â— in water of Betony and the seed or root of Piony dryed into powder and of Galingale all into several portions to the quantity of a spoonful of each moâ—e or less in the distilled water of Cowslipe flowers according to the strength of the patient and give to drink drink three dayes together and then rest three dayes and then drink it three dayes together again then rest three dayes and so till he have took it nine dayes The Eyes The Remedies for its distempers A Medicine to take all gummy matter or filth out oâ— the Eyes TAke Housleek otherwise called Singreeen and stamp it well and strain it through a fine linnen cloth and with the juice thereof wash the eyes often and it will both clear the sight and purge the eyes from all manner of filth and matter A powder for weeping and running eyes Take red Coral one dram Tutia half an ounce and burn them in a vessel of earth then put into it fine Pearl half a dram and beat it small into fine powder in a stone morter and search it through silk and put of it into the eye morning and evening and close up the eye till t is dry This is a great secret and is excellent for a pearl and dimness of sight For the Sight â— marvellous good water to recover the Eye sight â—he same being 〈◊〉 by any cause whatsoever Take three drams of Tutia made into â—hall powder anâ— like quantity of Aloes â—paticum and three drams of fine Sugar 〈◊〉 ounces of Rosewater and as much white â—ine mingle all these together and put them to a glass and stop it close and set it to and in the Sun by the space of a moneth â—â—â—rring it together once every day Then ke the quantity of six drops at a time of the me water and drop it into your eyes both orn and even and so continue for a short ace and it will cause your sight to come aâ—in and be as clear and as perfect as ever it as before This hath been proved by one hat recovered his sight having lost it a moâ—th before it was ministred unto himself most singular good Medicine to keep the Eyes clear cool and from redness and to kill the Itching of them Take a good handful of Housleck and two andfuls of Plantaine and stampe them well â—gether and strain them then let the juice and and settle for a little space and when it â—well settled power out the clearest from the â—sidue and put thereto half as much red ose water as is of the juice and half a quarter 〈◊〉 white Sugar candy beaten to fine powder and then take a piece as big as a Walnut or somewhat more of Lapis Calaminaris and let it slake ten or twelve times in the same water and let the patient take four or five drops aâ— he lyeth upright in his bed thereof and put iâ— into his eyes and it will help him This hatâ— been proved For running eyes of a cold Take Tutiae ten drams Coralli rubri mirabolaâ— citrini succoâ—â— aloes alike two drams piperis haâ— a dram fiat pulv and put often into the eye Here is a precious water for the sight and for thâ—â— that be fair clear blind Take Smallach red Fennel Rue Vervinâ— Betony Cinqfoile Pimpernel Euâ—race Sagâ— Selendine of each a quarâ—ern of a pound anâ— wash them clean and stampe them and dâ— them in a clean brazen pan and take fiâ—â—eâ—â— Pepper corns and bruise them all to powdeâ— and cast them to the Heâ—bs and a pint of gooâ— white wine and three spoonful of life hony and five spoonfuls of a man-childs urine that 〈◊〉 innocent and boil them altogether on thâ— fire a little and strain them A Medicine for them that may not well see and if the eyes be red Take the white Ginger and rub it on â— Whetstone in a clean basin and take thereâ—â— as much Salt as thou hadst of the powder anâ— temper them with white wine and let it stanâ— â—n the bason all a day and a night then do that clear that standeth above into a clean glass â—nd anoint thine eyes a liâ—tle therewith when â—hou goest to bed with a soft feather and do so often and forsooth he shall be hole on warranâ—ise For them that the Eye-lids be over-turned beneath Take Arnement and hony and the white of â—ggs of all alike much and temper them together then take hurden of Flax and wet â—hem in water and wring out the water clean â—nd lay these three things on the Hurds plaisterwise And if evil blood be within thy eyes â—t shall drive it out and heal them De ophthaâ—mia There happeneth sometime debility and â—ulness of sight which must be holpen accorâ—ing to the divers causes thereof as followeth Take Fennil Vervine Celidone Rue Eye-â—right and Roses of every one of them alike
To destroy Rheum that it fall not into the eyes Take raw beef a fair slice as broad as your and and lay it in a pewter platter and put to asmuch aqua vitae as will cover the beef and â—t it on a chaffing dish of coles let it boil in â—qua vitae until it be ready as though it should â—e eaten then take it out of the Aqua vitae â—nd lay it to the neck of the grieved partie â—nd there let it remain and use it and it will â—ive the Rheum that doth offend the eyes â—roved Master Davies water for the clearing of the eye sight being much decayed Take two great handfuls of eye bright when is well sprunge up and in full flowring and â—â—e handful of Balm and still them together â—nd scum the water nine dayes then use every morning to wash your eyes and eye-browes therewith and use so quarterly nine dayes tother and it will cause you in short space to read without spectacles if you have used spectacles before time Probat To draw a mote out of the eye Take white sope and scrape a little of it into a Sawcer and dry it by the fire very dry and then put it into a little fair water but make it not too thin put it into the sore eye with a feather and its good for man or beast Probat A cure for the sight decayed Take 3. pintes of barly flower finely boulted make paste thereof with fair water or with distilled water of Tormentil and make your paste stiff and roul it like venison pastie and fill it full of the leaves flowers and Wyers of Tormentil and put thereto one peny of life-hony and close it and bake it with Cakes and when it s baked break it in small pieces and put it in a steane pot of ale of three gallons and drink no other drink neither at meat nor any other times for the space of two moneths and this shall restore the sight if possible Proâ—at A powder to clear â—he sight much decayed and near gone Take of the powder of eye-bright made of the leaves and Flowers stripped together and â—o fine powder four ounces of Mace one â—ince mingle them and take thereof the â—ight of three pence before meat water to preserve the eye-sight which hath been commended to be the best in the world Take Hepatis hircini sani recentis 4. ounces lâ—mi Aromatici melli one half ounce succi a one scrâ—ple Aquae Celidoniae six drams ue feniculi aquae Verbenae aquae Euphragiae of ch 4. drams Piâ—eris longi Nucis Moschat iGarioâ—orum of each grains fifteen Croci grains two â—is Rerismarini aliquantulum contusi Pugillum â—is Sarcocolle Aloes Hepatice one scruple of e gall of a Hen and of a Capon of each â—ee drams hony of roses one dram mingle em and distill them in a glass still first bruiâ—g them and putting to them one quarter of ounce of the best refined Sugar Some three four drops in each eye at a time is thought â—ficient it s also a fine smelling water with a â—tle smell not very easily perceived nor â—elling far off It s not much matter whether 〈◊〉 Liver of the Kid be of a he Kid or a â—e Kid but of the two the he Kid is â—ought to be the better A preservative for the eye sight Make comfits of Turnepseeds and eat a â—re of them after dinner and supper as â—ny immediately after the said meats It was â—ected that nine or ten of the said Comfits â—ould be eaten after meales they are to be â—led in Sugar To purge the head and preserve the sight Drink beer every morning a good draughâ—â—asting wherein the roots of dog fennell oâ— Motherwood is steeped the roots somwhat bruisâ—d and it will presently work in your eyeâ— and head Probat For all Infirmities in the eyes Take ground Jvy called Cill gee by the ground alias Ale-hoof Celendine and Daysies the Flowers leaves and roots of each one oâ— these herbs and a like quantity of theâ— stamped and strained and a little Sugar anâ— red rose water put thereto and dropped witâ— a feather into the eyes it taketh away all â—â—flamation and spots scabs scales Itch smaâ—â—ing or any grief whatsoever in the eyes yâ—â— although the sight were almost gone A gâ—od water for sore eyes Take a pint of running water half an haâ—â—ful of Singrene Leaves and a little of unicoâ—â— horn and boil it all together and pour out â— water and wash the eyes therewith Proved A precious Medicine for the eyes then which no better be for though a man had been ten years within eleven dâ—yes he shall be stored to his sight again of very truth Take smallach brown fennile vervi◠〈◊〉 â—etonie avence pimpernel strawbeâ—â— wisâ— Filago Eufrace Câ—lendine Sage of eâ—â— alike much and lay them all a night to sleep in a childs urine that is a virgin and after put â—t into a morter and put seven corns of pepâ—er and stamp it small and temper it with the sâ—me â—rine aforesaid and then strain it and keep it in boxes and anoint the eyes in the morning and Evening For sight of the eyes lost how to restore the same and to clear the eyes and to help the dimnâ—ss of tâ—em Take Eye-bright water made of all the whole Eye-bright and anoint the eyes ofteâ— and eat often the powder thereof and drink the water use it long sanat To cleanse the eyes and do away the pearl Take the red Roses and Maiden-â—air and Rue Vervine Eusrace Endive and Singâ—eâ—n Hill-worte red Fennel â—f each alike three ounces and wash them clâ—an and lay â—hem in white wine all day and all night and aâ—â—â—r distil them And the first will be like gold and the second like silver and the third like Eawm this is for the eyes a worthy water and a good c. To restore their eyes that are as though they did see and yet see not The decoction of Tormentil daily drunk three Moneths and no other dâ—ink and the same Tormentil every night laid plaâ—ster wise on the eyes doth it pro certo To kill the pin or webbe in the eye Take leaves of Celendine and stamp theâ— well and strain them and with a feather 〈◊〉 one drop of the same Juice into the eye of the patient and it will presently help A very good Medicine to kill a pearl or webâ—e the eye Take a good quantity of three leaved graâ—â— that beareth the honey suckles and bruiseâ— well in a Mortar or else in a wooden dish and then strain it let the party grieved put some of the same Juice into his eye and by using this twice or thrice a day for the space of siâ— or seven dayes together it will help him A good Medicine for eyes that be blood-shot and red Take Housleek and stamp it well then take a new laid egg and make a hole in the one end of it and draw out all the meat of it and put
half the Liquor be consumed then 〈◊〉 the Liquor from the herbs and put in 〈◊〉 Liquor pure English honey white 〈◊〉 and Penidies each of these eight ounces water five drams boil all this with an easie 〈◊〉 till it come to the thickness of a Syrup 〈◊〉 alwayes as the scum ariseth gather it off 〈◊〉 keep it to your use For wheesing in the Chest. Take a Toste of bakers bread and pour 〈◊〉 let oil on it upon either side as you woâ—â—â— butter a toste strew heaten Sugar on eitâ—â—â— side and use it first and last till you find eaâ—â— For delivering from Phlegm Take Hyssop and parsely and stamp theâ— temper them with wine or Ale and drink 〈◊〉 night and morning Another for wheesing of the Chest. Take spring water one quart put to it 〈◊〉 ounce of white Sugar candy and two ouncâ— of Liquerice pared and cut small in shiveâ—â— and half an ounce of pure Cinnamon a littâ—â— bruised let them steep in the water all nighâ— drink of it first and last until it be â—pent Pâ—â—bat Remedies for the Cough Take Hyssop great raiâ—ins and figgs of exâ—â—â— a handful Liquerice an ounce boil them 〈◊〉 water till the third part be wasted then giâ—â— it him to drink twice a day in the morniâ—â— two hours before meat and at night one hoâ—â— before supper immediately after it is gooâ— to eat a Lozenge of Diairis or Diapenidion Another remedie Take Sugar candy white pills of Diairis and â—iagragant of every one an ounce Liquerice â—wo drams make a powder and let him eat a â—oonful thereof morning and evening and â—rink after it three ounces of water of Hyssop â—r of scabious with Sugar and without Sugar In stead of these waters ye may take the â—roth of red cole worts without salt Another remedy Take Syrup of Liquerice and of Hyssop â—nd drink it evening and morning with a â—tisan or of one of the same Syrups with a â—â—oonful of Ptisan is good Another Take powder of Diairis simple and Liqueâ—â—ce of each a dram weight and with four â—unces of Sugar make an Electuary to be â—aten first and last after meat It is good to take Lohoc sanum with a stick â—f Liquerice at the coughing and after â—eat And there is another Loch called â—och de pino as good at all times as the â—ther is And it is good to anoint the brest â—orning and evening with oil of Lilies sweet â—lmonds and May butter without salt Remedie against the cough coming of a hot cause Take Syrup of violets and of Jubes and drink thereof morning and evening with a litle Ptisan sodden For the same It is good to take first and last a Lozenge of Diâ—tragagant and afterward to drink draught of good Ptisan A good receit against the Cough Take the root of Elicampane Horehound Hollihock of each alike much seethe theâ—â— altogether in white wine with a dozen of sat Figgs and a little Liquâ—rice drink of it a draught every day twice For the Cough and Murre Take Aqua vitae a sufficient quantitie temper it with Sugar candy A Medicine for hoarsness in the throat Take three or four figgs and cleave them in two every one and then put into them â— prettie quantity of Ginger finely beaten into powder and then roste them upon a clean hearth or tile stone and then let the partie eat them as hot as possible he can This harâ— holpen some that have been troubled with hoarsness four or five years together before To heal the Sâ—râ—fâ—â—a or disease called the King evâ—l Take barly â—lowre liquid pitch wax and oâ—â— â—live in equal quantitie boil it altogether with childs Urine and brought to a plaister and applyed Fiet To cure the Kings evil Mistris Athinson the wife of the man elseâ—here mentioned at the same time as her Husâ—and was cured of a broken vein affirmed that â—her certain knowledge the roots of Houndsâ—â—ngue cut in the shape of dice and put into a â—â—nen bagg of about two inches square unâ—â—l it be almost full and hang it about the neck â—f the partie grieved to lie upon the pit of â—e stomack and let it be renewed once in two 〈◊〉 three dayes as the vertue decaies It will â—reak the disease if not broken if broken it â—â—ll cure it especially if it run brown water white then with more difficultie Against shortness of winde Shortness of winde proceedeth oft-times of â—hlegm that is tough and clammish hanging â—â—on the lungs or stopping the conduits of the â—â—me being in the hollowness of the brest or 〈◊〉 catarrhous humors that drop down into the â—ungs and thereby cometh straitness of drawâ—â—g of breath which is called of Physicians â—yspnoea or Asthma And when the patient canâ—â—ot bend his neck down for fear of suffocation â—s called Orthopnoea for every one of these diâ—â—ases there be very wholsom Medicines deâ—ared before The receipt for Asthma Take an ounce of great raisins picked from the kernels two figgs the meat of a Date dry Hyssop maiden-hair Liquerice and the lungs 〈◊〉 a Fox washed in wine water of scabioâ—s of every one a dram Penidies two ounces with Syrup of Liquerice Let all be incorporated and make a Loch to eat a good whilâ— after meat with a stick of Liquerice To cure Asthmatick persons Take Lowes aâ—as in Latine Porcelliones and burn them to white powder upon a little stone and make them into an Electuary with life honey is excellent against the disease called Asthma An oyntment for shortness of breath Take two ounces of oil of sweet Almonds one of May butter unsalted a little Saffron and of new wax and make an oyntment wherewith ye shall anoint the brest morning and evening To break a sore brest Take a Lily root and a piece of leaveâ— sâ—ethe it in milk until the lilly be very 〈◊〉 aâ—d plaister like and so as warm as the parâ—â— can suffer it lay it morning and evening â—o keep the brest from breaking if it be not too far gone Take clay that is without stones and knead 〈◊〉 with sharp vinegar the yâ—lks of two eggs a â—ittle English Saffron and work it into the clay â—nd so take asmuch as will cover the redneâ— of â—t you must use it cold some brâ—sts will have â—o colour and such are not lightly saved from â—reaking To heal the breast Take as many Mallowes as will into a charger â—nd chop them and seethe them in ruâ—â—iâ—g â—ater till they be tender pour the waâ—er from â—hem and put them into a pottle of good Ale-drâ—ggs and a peny loaf of leaven brâ—â—d â—gâ—ated with a quart of white wine let thâ—se â—eethe together till you think it be thick â—nough then put thereto half a quarter of a â—ound of Deares suet and lay it to the sore as â—ot as the party can suffer it morning and â—vening and after that the heat be such as it â—ryeth this will help any sore in the breast or â—ny other places You must wash
the place beâ—ng broken with white wine at every dressing To heal any kinde of ach or sore brest Pare off a cap of the root of white Bryonie â—nd make a hole in the root as hollow as you â—an and cover the root close with the cap you â—ut off or with a piece of a tile-stone and cover â—ll again with earth letting it still grow and three dayes after open the said root and the hole will be full of water then take that water and put it in a glass and anoint the place where the grief is and use it A plaister for a sore brest Take wheat meal and pure life honey and claâ—ified bores grease of each like portions boil them a little and make a plaister and lay thereto Probat A medicine to skin a womans sore breâ—t which is â—aw Take a pint of sweet thick cream and put it into a pan with three spoonfuls of the juice of brown fennel boil it to an oil and therewith anoint the sore brests morning and evening till it be whole Probat To help the hardness in women brests Wheat flower honey oil olive and the juice abundantly of yellow Gilly flower together with the juice of rue Sanat For the aking of a womans brest Take Cinquefoil or five leaved grass and stamp them with swines grease and make thereof a plaister and lay it to well brayed together and it will take away the aking Another for the same Take and boil Rue and put there to flower â—f wheat and make thereof a Plaister and lay hereto â—â—r womens brests or swelling that cometh by cold in child birth Take and lay Chickweed upon a Tyleâ—one and rose leaves upon Chickâ—eed upon the rose leaves again so that hâ—re be of them two or three leaves then â—â—rinkle it with vineger and boil all these â—pon the tyle-stone And when it s well boilâ—d take another Tyle and lay upon thaâ— and â—ut it asunder and lay to the swelling and it â—ill take away the pain â—n approved Medicine for them that haâ—e cold in their brests Take oil of Camomil and Aqua composiâ—â— â—ingle them together against the fire chafe â—â—e breast well withall that it may enter into â—â—e Stomack and veines This hath holpeâ—â—any â—pproved Medicine for a sore brest that is broken Take Malâ—owes and boil them with sheeps â—llow till they be very tender then strain it â—â—d keep it in boxes and if the brest have â—eed to be tented take a piece of the stalk of â—â—e Mallowes that are â—â—dden and tent it withâ—â—l this is proved For bolning of a womans brest Take apples of the oak and stamp them with oil and lay it to the bolning For a very sore brest Take Hartshorn or a Buls horn for need and grate it into a pint of good white wine and give the woman to drink thereof and leâ— her sleep upon the same Medicine and it shall cease For coagulation of milk in a womans brest Take Egâ—miony Vervine Fennel and bray it altogether and lay it thereon and be whole c. A Soveraign Medicine for a sore brest Take a pottle of smiths water the elder it is the better if it smell a little so much the better also you must take a quarter of a pound of old alume and white salt asmuch as ye can hold on the two fingers from the second joynt forth two handfuls of Sage two Heads of housleek put all these into the water and seethe it till it come to a quart then let it stand with the Herbs in it and wash the sorâ— breast well with the Herbs and the wateâ— twice a day and at every time ye wash it lay upon the sore or sores green Sage leaves till it be whole this hath been proved and hâ—aled a breast so sore as it was thought uncurable Ye must warm the water and Herbâ— every â—ime ye dress the brest A medicine for the womanâ— brests if the sore 〈◊〉 of Milâ— Take Mallows as ye get to be holden in a â—harger and cut them small and seethe them â—n a Gallon of running water and when they â—esodden soft put thereto a potile of the â—roâ—nds â—f Ale and a quart of white wine â—nd two penny white loaves cutting off the â—rusts leavened make it thick and put into it â—eers Sueâ— or Sheeps Sueâ— and lay it upon a â—lew cloth or linen cloth and lay it warm to â—he sore brest every day as long as its sore â—nd it shall be healed by the grace of God A plaister for a postume on womens Teats Take Linseed and seethe it well and long 〈◊〉 fair running water then take fresh Sheeâ—s â—allow and fry the Linseed therein and eâ—â—n as hot as ye may suffer it lay it thereon Remedies for the Pthisick Pthisis is an ulceration of the lungs by â—hich all the body falleth into Consumption 〈◊〉 such casâ— that it wasteth all save the slâ—in yâ—â—ay know him that hath a Pthisick for â—rom 〈◊〉 to day he waxeh ever leaner and dryer â—nd his hair falleth and hath ever cougâ— and â—itteth sometimes matter and bloody strings â—ithall And if that which he spitteth be â—ut into a bason of water it falleth into the bottom for it is so heavy A remedy Take two oâ—nces of Pimpernel in powder and thereof make an Electuary with Sugar and use it every morning two drams with Pimpernel water three ounces Water of Snails distilled is proved good to them that be Pthsicke every morning in drink and for all them that are dry and lean Another First take a quantity of running water and boil it half away The ingredients that you are to put into the composition are two ounces of Anniseeds one ounce of Coliander seeds one ounce of Liquerice sliced one ounce of Sugar candy one handful of Coltsfoot half a pound of Raisins of the Sun one quarter of a pound of â—iggs and one handful of Liverwort a handful of Maidenhair a quantity of Hartstongue and two penniworth of Dates The composition made and put into the water boiled halâ— a way take it and strain it and scum it sweeten it and drink it For the cough and consumptâ—on of the lungs Take Fox Lungs fresh killed pull them from the Windepipes and the straines which hange by the same then wash the lungs in Sack or white wine lâ—â—ewarm three or four times until they be clean from the blood thâ—n dry them in a pot in an Oven after the baâ—câ— drawn forth so well dried beat them to powder Take Anniseeds Fennel seeds Maiden hairâ— of each like quantity of weight to your Fox lungs beat all these together to fine powder and see the sâ—me well mingled take also a like weight of Liquorice as the Fox lungs or somâ— deal more and lay it in water fourteen hourâ— first clean scraped and a little bruised then seethe your Liquorice in the same water until half be consumed and so strain the Liquor from the Liquorice and with the liquor seeth as much fine
stone to make it sink and hang the drink and drink it in the morning fast 〈◊〉 g and at four of the clock in the afterâ—â—on Probatum Another for the stomack â—â—ke cakes like apple cakes or Pasties in 〈◊〉 or May and fill them full of wormwood 〈◊〉 bake them hard the paste must be of â—eat meal undrest and brew a stand of strong 〈◊〉 beer And when it 's turned and given 〈◊〉 e â—urging â—akâ—â—he â—akes when they be 〈◊〉 d and cut them into quarters and put â—â—em into the barrel and stop it up close and â—hen it 's settled and clear drink a bowl full draught in the morning fasting and so use 〈◊〉 heat in the stomack which maketh the throaâ— sore â—â—ke an handful of Columbine Leaves and a â—â—ndfull of Cuarrnts boyl them in a pinâ—e of â—â—w milk then take out the Currants and the â—eaves and shred them together And eat â—â—e Currants and the leaves and then sup the â—ilk as hot as you can The Liver Remedies for its disâ—empers Against stopping of the Liver called opilaâ—iâ— DRink every morning the Syrup of Oxyâ—â— sqyllitick wiâ—â— half a dâ—aughâ— oâ— mo 〈◊〉 of the decoction of the roots of Smallâ— Fennel and Parsely Another for stopping of the Liver Take Venice Turpentine to the quantity a bean and put it into a spoon until it doe m 〈◊〉 and then put there to a liâ—â—le white sugar 〈◊〉 let them eat of it every day fasting Take a good haâ—dful of iver wort tâ—â— groweth upon stones and another of fumitoâ—â— with as much hearts tongue and drink the every day twice The liver of an hare dryed good for all diseases of the Liver also for tâ—â— heat of the Liver seethe Barberries in wheâ—â— and drink them Remedy If it come of gross blood give the patieâ— Medicins that do pierce and are suâ—til as is wiâ—â— of Pome-granates Srup of Endive with tâ—â— decoction of Cicers Then let him blood 〈◊〉 the Liver vein and everymorning eat a Lâ—â—zeng of Triasanâ—ali Sometime the said opilation cometh of â—â—bundance of somâ— humour viscouâ— coâ—d and 〈◊〉 egmatick stopping the veins of the â—iver â—â—d then the Urine as clear as water and then â—â—e patient must use the Syrup above written â— viz. Oxymel scylliticum A Iulep for heat of the Liver Take half a pound of rose water one quarâ—â—r of waâ—er of Endive and five ounces of â—â—gar make a Julep of which you shall drink â—â—sting a good draught And if he will needs â—rink between meals Let it be mingled with â—â—o parts of the waâ—er of the wâ—ll and if ye â—â—ill have it more cooling aâ—d unto it two â—unces of vinâ—ger or the juice of Pomegraâ—ate In stead of the said medicine too costâ—â— for poor folk you may make bâ—les of half â—n ounce of Cassia and three drams of the â—lectuary de succo rosarum and eat it three â—ours after midnight and steep it and so drink â—â— mix the said boles with whay or Eâ—dive â—ater and drink it at five in the morning but â—eep not after it A drink to cool the Liver Take an ounce of Sena Alexandrina a farâ—hing worth of Anniseeds and a sarthing worth â—f Liquerice and a dram of Rubarbe de Spain â—nd make a powder of the sâ—me with half an â—unce of Polypodie of the oak when the â—owder is fine boil it in three pints of white â—ine before you do put it in make ready â—hree roots that 's a Fennel root a parsly root a Mallow root washed fair and clean bruise these three roots and boil them in white wine from three pintes to a pinte upon a still fire and be sâ—re to stir it about and let not the flame nor smoak come to it This purgeth the Liver and spleen then strain it through a clean cloth and drink in the morning fasting in the second day of M or the first day of Sagittariâ—s And when ye drink it take a brown toste and wet it in vineger and smâ—ll to it fiet A good râ—câ—ipt for the dâ—opsie Take the salt of Wormwood three daies iâ— a moneth a spoonful at a time and you shall feel the dropsie water fall into your leggs every time you may take it away by setting your leggs up to the knees in hot water To purge dropsie water abuâ—dantly for the shedding oâ— nature called Gonorrhaaea verbatim out of Master Cogan Pag. 5. in Flower deluce Take a new laid Egg pouring out the white put into the yelk so much of the root of Flower deluce as was of the white after set the same Egg into the Embers which being sufficiently warmed sup off fasting in the morning And the patient shall after send forth aâ—uâ—dance of water and so be eased of the dropsie Or else you may take a dram or two oâ— the dry root made into powder and drunk in wâ—ay clarified â—or its good also to pâ—râ—e the dropsie water And if you put a little Cinnaâ—on to the juice of Floweâ—-deluce in the â—â—g yelk its a very good medicine for the â—â—dding of nature as hath been often proved For the Dropsie or Tympany Take the flower of Dane wort and of the â—â—â—ves and distill them in a stillatory and â—â—â—nk four or five spoonful at a time with the 〈◊〉 er of Herb grace in six or seven spoonfuls 〈◊〉 white wine one spoonful of the water of â—â—â—b grace will serve This is the excellentest â—â—dicine one can give for this will void the 〈◊〉 er out of the belly by usage Probâ—t by 〈◊〉 er for which propertie of daneworte Gerards Herball The Gall. Against diseases of the Gall. He gall is placed in the hollowness of the Liver to receive the superfluity of cho 〈◊〉 and to send it to the bowels to be avoid 〈◊〉 â—ith the grosse excrements to the intent to 〈◊〉 se the blood of the said choler To the 〈◊〉 ch cometh opilations in the parties about 〈◊〉 he liver or beneath it in it self nâ—xt the 〈◊〉 els causing great pain by reason whereof 〈◊〉 choler turneth again into the liver and 〈◊〉 e is mingled with the blood and spread 〈◊〉 ad into the veines of all the body and 〈◊〉 deth a disease named Iaundise Ictiritia If the Jaundise happen in an Ague befo 〈◊〉 the seventh day It is great danger of his liâ—e but if it appâ—ar on the sixth day being a daâ— judicial or critick of the â—gu oâ— after it is very good sign And thâ—n ye must succoâ— Nature with refreshing and diâ—â—sting the châ—â—ler with Syrup of violets given in the morâ—â—ing Syrup of Endive with watâ—r of Cicho 〈◊〉 Aftâ—r this purge choler and then give hiâ— a Lozenge of Triasandâ—l with Ruâ—arbe evâ—â—â— morning two hours before meat and d 〈◊〉 a little water of Endive and Cichory afore 〈◊〉 said Lozenge Moreover it is good to hath the Liver 〈◊〉 wash the patients eyes with vineger and 〈◊〉 mans milk anâ— drink a Ptisan made of b 〈◊〉 I querice prunes and roots of Fennel 〈◊〉
if when the fever is past the Jauâ—dize ta 〈◊〉 still the patient must drink water of 〈◊〉 râ—ll and fennel with the Syrup of oxysaâ—â—h 〈◊〉 composit Jaundise sometimes cometh withoâ—â— a fever and may be healed thus drink ev 〈◊〉 morning four ounces of the decoction of Ho 〈◊〉 hound made in white wine Ye may let 〈◊〉 drink seven or eight dayes together in 〈◊〉 morning a good draâ—ght of the decoction Politrichon or maidâ—nhair The decoction of woodbinâ—e or the water of it distilled a common still is a soveraign medicine â—â—r said disease Another singuâ—ar Remedie Take cowes milk and white wine of 〈◊〉 a pinte and distill them in a still keep 〈◊〉 water a moneth and then give it the 〈◊〉 â—hree ounces in the morning two hours before â—â—at and likewise after supper when he goâ—th to bed A â—â—medy for the Iaundise and strangury and dyssury and straitness of breath and to break the stone in the bladder Aâ—ianâ—hes otherwise called Gallitricum in Engâ—ish Maidenhair or maidenweed the leavâ—s â—re iâ—e Coliander sodden in pure water or in â—ine and therewith make a Syrup with Sugar â—nd when ye seethe it put in the root â—f Fennel march the branches and leaves of 〈◊〉 â—me or Borwoâ—t and give it with wiâ—e â—nd thou shalt see the marvellous cures in â—hese disâ—asâ—s A perfect help of the black Iaundise The powder of shell snayles eaten and â—runken killeth the black Jaundise pro certo For the yellow Iaundise Take one handful of Chickweed and stamp 〈◊〉 and strain it into a draught of Ale and use 〈◊〉 three dayes fasting and last Probat The Spleen For dis eâ—ses of the Spleen IN oppilations caused of a hot humourâ— must give the patiâ—â—t four or five mâ—rninâ— fasting Syrup of Endive water and Heartâ— tongue then a purgation made thus A â—urgation to avoid Melanchoâ—y Take an ounce of Succo Rosarum and thrâ—â— ounces of the decoction of the roots of Câ—â—â—parus and Harâ—stongue and â—ake a dâ—ink tâ—â— which ye may minister in a good day to takâ— purgations for Melancholy Drink Syâ—up of Staechados or Heartstongueâ— or oxymâ—l diureticum wâ—th water of the dâ—coction of Hâ—â—â—stongue Eâ—ithyme sâ—allagâ— roots parcely rootâ— Tamariscus and mintes â—r else onâ—ly with the decoction of hearâ—s tongâ—e and roots of Capers And theâ— after purge from such Melancholy humâ—â— with an ounce of Diacaâ—holicon and twâ— drams of Diaâ—ena dissolved in three ounce of the said decoction or water of wormwood or Heartstongue And aftâ—r this ye must anoinâ— the side of the spleen with oil of â—lies oâ— of Dill or anoint the said side with Dialtheâ— An expeâ—t medicine for all diseases of the spleen Take the leaves and cods â—f Sena the barkâ— of an Ash tree scraped and cut Maidenhair Hartstongue and Liquerice seethe them all iâ— clear whay and after they be strained drink of it twice or thrice till he be amended For the spleen that is great and aking Take the barke of the clefts of â—he ash aâ—d cleanse them and bruise them well in a morâ—aâ— and seethe them well in white wine from a pottle to a quart and of that liquoâ— milk warm dâ—ink at morning and at evening the quantâ—ty of seven spoonfuls and thou shalt be whole For diseases oâ— the Spleen Ye must give Syrups and purgations aâ— is â—forâ—said and to be let blood of the vein Salâ—arâ—lla and after diveâ—s times to apply Venâ—oses upon the spleen without scaâ—â—â—yâ—ng Aâ—â—â—rward ye must lay â—n it a lift wâ—t in good â—ineger an keep it there so long as heâ—t reâ—aineth in the said lift and warm it three or â—our times Afterward anoint the spleâ—n with Dialâ—hea and so continue four or five dayes and other four or five dayes lay upon the plaister made of two â—unces of gum Armoâ—iack dissâ—lved in vineger and spâ—ead upon Leather And if by the aforesaid tâ—ings the patient be not eased the Doctors of Physick â—aâ— that he must receive the Medicines again â—t the least once every moneth for half a yâ—ar â—ogether An approved Medicine for the Spleen Eat Capers and drink after them the water â—n a smiths cole trough sanat pro certo An approved Medicine to take away an agâ—â— though a Quartain Take of Bay-salt a spoonfull of the blackest sope asmuch pepper finely beaten nâ—ngâ—e those in the yelk of an new laid Egg adding thereto of Aqua vitae with some raisins of the sun stoned with a spoonfull of red Sage chopped small apply it plasterwise to the wrests before the fit For the Spleen Doctor Butler of Cambridge did use to prescribe ten raisins oâ— the fun torrified oâ— parched upon a clean Tyle stone by the fire until they did swell and then to be eaten fasting A diet drink for the Liver and Spleen Take a handfull of red Dock roots and make them clean and a handfull of Tamarisk boil them together in a quart of clear posset Ale and drink it morning fasting and after walk or use some other exercise for one hour or more Doctor Simons Medicine proved both for the Agâ—â— and Quartane Take Southernwood and minse it small and put sallet oil into a sawcer and put the herb to it and let it be an hour or two in it then let them simper a little upon the fire then take it and anoint the wrests and soles of the feet and the nape of the neck and down between the shouldâ—rs and this must be done before the â—it comes in three times doing they shall be â—hole For the Fever Take a pinte of stale ale oâ— Malmesey and â—oil in it powder of Sage and powder of â—inger and drink it a little before the shakâ—ng For the Quartan proved by Doctor Simons â—aâ—e a red dâ—ck root and slice it and lay it iâ—â—almesy four and twenty houres and drink it â—very day fasting For the Ague Take a posset made of milk and clarified â—ith a good deal of Camomil that the strenâ—th â—ay be in the posset ale and then let the sick â—riâ—k of it An approved Medicine for the Ague â—ake three spoonfuls of Aqua composita and six â—â—oonfuls of Malmesey and put therâ— to a quanâ—â—tâ— of long pepper beaten and asmuch gâ—aines 〈◊〉 it as you would dâ—es a cup of ale with â—â—nger aâ—d Nuâ—meg and when the coâ—â— is upon â—â—e sick give him a good draught to drink For a fever quartan Take a handfull of Maydenhair and choice Mirrhe one ounce drink with water and in the same water mix a little Triacle and give to the patient with a fasting stomack and so continue and he shall be certainly cured For the Ague Take a handfull of Rue a â—ed onion beâ—â— them small together with the glare of an Egge and lay it to the wrist An approved medicine to take away an Aguâ— Take of bay-salt a spoonful of the blackest sope asmuch pepper finely beaten mingle these in the yelk of a new laid egge adding thereto of Aqua vitae with some raisinâ— of the sun
stoned with a spoonfull of red 〈◊〉 chopped small Apply it plasterwise two houres before the fit For a burning fever a medicine approved â—â—ue Take six spoonfulls of fair running water and put it into a fair glass or other vessel anâ— put thereto one spoonful of bay salt 〈◊〉 picked from filth and let the salt melt 〈◊〉 the said water then put to it a pretty quantity of Saffron finely beaten and let the patient drink thereof in the beginning of his hearâ— and it will lay the heat and in short spacâ— drive away the fever and the sooner if thâ— siek be made soluble or loose bellyed and thiâ— approved to be true Another for a burning fever Take a handful of Câ—llendine a handful of bay salt an hard â—gge and a raw egge a râ—sted onion and a raw oniâ—n stamped altogether and make two plasters and binde them to the soles of your feet and with two plasters you shall have remedy A medicine to precure sleep in a fever Take of the seeds of white pâ—ppie two spoonfuls of the white seeds of Lâ—ttice being tâ—e best one spoonful make them into powder and drink it going to bed in a draught of clarified Mâ—ce ale warm and it will cause quiet sleep the ordinary use is two small spoonfuls to bedward Probat For the fever in Angine and for bloody matter Seeth parsly in white milk and pâ—t the â—ot milk to cold butter and it will be a posset you must use that posset ale first and last a week together It cuâ—eth also such as â—ake bloody water To make a breath to cool one in a fever Taâ—e fair water and put thâ—reto French barly boyl until the watâ—r be red thâ—n pour the red water from it and put into barly the hot water some Liquorice some cooling herb as Violet leaves and strawbeâ—ry leaves and put in some Lettice seeds and let it boil until the barly be very soâ—t then strayn the barly from it and let it cool and when it 's cold put in some vinegar and sugar and so drink it you must put in your vinegar and Sugar as you drink it For an Ague of long continuance Take of Seâ—a two ounces of Polypody oâ— the oak half an ounce Bay-berries half an ouâ—ce of Fenel seeds half an ounce of Aniseeds half an ounce of Liquerice half an ounce one red Dock root the pith taken ouâ— of scurvy grass one handful and a half bruise all this together in a mortar then put them in a Linnen bag and hang them in a gallon of nâ—w ale three dayes then drink thereof near a pint at eight in the morning fasting and at four in the afternoon till all be out A remedy to cure the new Ague and to cleanse the stomack by vomit Take a dram of pure Tobaâ—co and open the the Leaâ— if it be in roul and stâ—ep the leaves of the said dram all night in half a pinte oâ— white wine then strayn it and drink it next your heart and â—ast two hours after and you shal have youâ— stomack well purged and cleansed of Phlegm and choler This will our Engâ—â—sh garden Tobacco do Probatum also either steeped green but especially the dry Leaves of it as with esseth Mr. Parkinsons Herbal For an Ague if it be given before the first fit Take Dandelion stamp and strayn it and ouâ— Triacle or Mithridate to the juice and drink it on your good dayes two or three dayes as your good dayes do fall out and it will hâ—lp for it hath been proved many â—imes An excellent plaster to put away the Ague fit either Quotidian or tertian Take a good spoonful of Bay salt asmuch â—rankincense bruised both so small as you can and put to them the bigneâ—s of an â—gge of the root of white Briony and half an handful of Smalledge let the Briony and Smalledge be both pounded together and put with them your bay salt and Frankincense and lay it to both your wrestâ— of your arms a hand breadth so cold as may be two hours before the course of your fit being spread a good thickneâ—â— on two faiâ— clothes Let it be unremoved twentie four hours then renew it This helped a dozen at one time in my Lord Harringtous house A plaster to put away the new Ague Take the middle bark of a walnut tree well steepâ—d in rose vinâ—gar thâ—n stamp it with a spoâ—nful of bay salt and one spoonful of Olibanum and lay it on a cloth spread well and thick to the left hand wrest leâ—inâ— it ly there four and twenty hours Probatum What to give one in the fever or Ague Give them one dram of Theriaca Andromacâ—â— mix it with one ounce of Conserves of Red roses and with dragon water or water of Carduâ—â— Benedictus two ounces with one ounce of Syrup of Limons and take of this mixture one spoonful in your extremity at a time Leâ— blod if need require the sixth day of youâ— sickness in the Hepatica vein six or seveâ— ounces For a tertian Ague a soveraign drink proved Take vervine and Mouseare and Camomil one handful boyl them in a quart of Ale to a pint and strayn it into a pot and when your cold fit is upon your drink a good draught of it and in two drinkings it will help Prebatum For an ague Juice of Wormwood and sugar doth help the ague in short time A special medicine for the Ague Drink at the coming of the cold fit the distilled watâ—r of Germander and it helpeth surely To cure a fever Take spring water and boyl it either in silver or other clean skillet or in a pewter pot set in hot water and let it onely boil and no more and then cool it And let the patient make it his drink untill the fever be gone and if the party have a choice palate put in a little white sugarcandy to take away the taste of the water A diet drink for the Scorbutum or scurvy and to put away the malum habitum corporis Prâ—batum Take seven gallons of good middle ale wort and put it into a pan with seven handfus of Scurvy grass or for want thereof take three handfuls of pepper three handfuls of water Cresses and three handfulls of Brooklime boyl these being fair washed and pulled in pieces in the water until six gallons remain then order it as you would order beer and tunne it up in a barrel having ready a fine linnen bag wherein put a stone or plum with three ounces of Sena and one ounce of fine Rubarbe cut in small slices with the powder of grains long pepper anniseeds fennel seeds and Liquorice scraped and bruised flat one half ounce of spicknard and galingal vera beaten small one two ounces of the wood and rinde of pure sassafras half an ounce or one ounce if the wood be not vâ—ry good cut in smal pieces then sow them all in the bag and fasten a long double strong thread to the bagge and hang it so in
dry which you shall distill fair and softly that it may not smell of thâ— smoke into some vessel of glass Then take two or three Radish roots cut into small pieces and put the radishes so cut into a vial and fill it with greek or good white wine or good strong Malmesey letting it stand in the sun close stopt all one day and one might And then take one part of that wine and two parts of the water of ox dung half a pinte of Strawberry water three or four drops of Lymons juice or Citrous juice and let there be of all half a glassful or somewhat more into the which you shall put a piece of Sugar to taste it withall which Medicine must be given in the morning and the patient must walk after it you must also incorporate inhâ—s water this powder following or else this Medicine is of small effect The powder for the stone Take the seeds of blew violets or march violets and the seeds of common Burrs with their â—ittle seed and all or ripe burrs put them to dry in a oven for else it will be hard to stamp them â—o powder then stamp them with their seed â—his done take a quick hare and strangle her â—hat no drop of blood be lost with a strong â—ord put him so whole or in pieces into an â—â—arthen pot close stopped the feet head guts skin and all and so let the pot in a 〈◊〉 that the Hare may be burned to powder and then stamp your Hare with your other two powders of Burre and violets and dry oaken leaves well beaten to powder four ounces of dry Saxifrage or of Sampier one pound beaten to powder bay-berries five ounces Let all these things be well beaten to powder sisted and well mingled together Give unto the patient so much as will lie upon a groat making him to drink it to his breakfast in the morning fasting in white wine And let him do this oâ—t-times It s the most exquisâ—test thing in the world And although both new as â—ell as old Physicians have very well travelled for this disease of the stone and Strangury yet this is the best and soveraignest thing that can be given to a Christian man Both the water going before and this powder must be applyed as one medicine so it seemeth that this powder may be taken either in white wine or in the aforesaid water or in white wine mingled with the said water or in the said water without any white wine which is thought to be the best the said water being accounted so precious for this purpose and of purpose distilled for this use as appeareth in the end of the receipt of the said water Note Mr. Louth saith that the very blood 〈◊〉 the Hare dried to powder drunk with white wine is excellent for the stone and in red wine for womens diseases for the superfluiâ—â— of the flowers Probat For the stone in the back bladder Kidnies and stomack Take the roots of Philipendula that 's to say the round knots thereof gather them after Lammaâ— and grate them and take it in Ale or white wine The cold diureticks are the best for the stone when diureticks are to be used for it or fâ—r any other obstructions of the Kidnies which are the four cold seeds the greater Semen Alkakengi radix graminis acetosae And therefore is cited Valeseus who saith that nothing is more excellent for the stone then Vinum Alkakengi or the distilled water thereof and to use the wine in winter and the water in summer the branches and fruit of Alkakengi being in equal portions mixed and then bruised and then put into the wine which must be used when the effect cometh from a cold cause And the reason is that the hot diureticks which are wont to be used against the stone do increase the hot distemperature engendring the stone And therefore what good the said hot diureticks do one day they do hurt another And the cold diureticks are not onely good for the present evil but do also resist the efficient cause and do stay the generation of the said stone Thus much out of Valeseus as aforesaid Whereby I gather that in a hot cause the water of the said Alkakengi is best and fittest and to use the wine and ale for he prescribeth the winâ— when the effect proceedeth from â— cold cause and also the wine in winter and the water in summer which observe whether thâ— stone may proceed of a cold cause obstructions of slyme may thâ—refore for the stone the water is likely to do best the wine in winter may be good as he saiâ—h and for sâ—ime the wine may be good or better if cold slime wiâ—hout biting heat but it seemeth the coldness which he Commendâ—th iâ— the coldness of the diuerticks and if the â—ffect do prâ—ceâ—d fâ—om a cold then the wine may do well â—r bâ—st wiâ—h it Alsâ— Mr. â—ogan in his chapâ—eâ— of the pâ—eservatiâ—◠〈◊〉 cuâ—â— of the stone in the kidneys and bladder â—â—th that the water of glamen or Câ—uchgrasâ— with a little pure thin wine is a siâ—gula Mâ—dicine for that purpose also he saith that winâ— of Alkakengi is a good preservative or the fruit condited with sugar Thus much for the stone The Womb its remedies For the flux of the wâ—mb In all fluxes of the belly cause the excrements to be duly searched for if the disease be such that the meat cometh forth as it was received or not half digested the said Flux is called Lienteria if great abundance of watery humours have their Iâ—â—â—e below the said Flux is named Diarhaea which is as much to say as Flux humoral and if blood or matter appear with the excrements in the sickness then they call it dysenteria which is a great disease and dangerous foâ— to cure Take the rindes of Mirabolane cirtin baâ—eâ— â—â—e dram Rubarb a little dryed half a dram â—rup of quinces one ounce water of plantain three ounces minglâ— altogether let the patiâ—â—t drink thâ—m â—our hourâ—s before meat and â—hen give him a Clyster Retentive made thus â—ake oyl of roses or quinces of mastick of â—ach â—e three ounces â—ole aâ—moniack in powder a â—â—ains meddle alltogether give it as a Clystâ—â— here is to be noted that the Clyster that â—e given to stop a Flux must be very little in â—uantity Ye may heal the Flux dysenteria as the flux â—umâ—ral and take afore your reâ—ast two dâ—ams â—f conserves of quinces and he ought to drink â—â—ter wherein hath been quenched gads of â—eel ye must avoyd diversitie of meats A purgation for the flux humoraâ— Take two drams of Mirabolanes dryed on tile half a scruple â—f Agarick in trochisk half â— ounce of Syrup of Mintes or two ounces of â—â—ater of bawm and make a potion to be reâ—ived three or four hours afore meat For the suffocation of the matrice The matrice in a woman oftentimes mounteth â—waâ—ds the midâ—â—ffe and the stomack with
fourth day and the first and second time they are washed it will make all the scabs in the body break forth And at the third time you shall have it so dried up that you shall finde all neat and clean within and without This water maketh the flesh white It s good for the Pox the Gout many other infirmities and namely for that the sublimate is good to eat away all the evil and corupt flesh and all dead flesh and to heal wounds incurable Here followeth the making and description of divers Waters Balsoms or Balms and other rare and excellent Medicines with their use and wonderful operations and vertues To make the precious Quintessence of the learned Mathiolus as followeth TAke of Cinnamon two ounces of Ginger four drams of each sort of Saunders six drams of Cloves Galingale Nutmeggs of each two drams and a half of Mace and of of Cubebs of each one dram of both kinds of Cardamomum and of the seed of Nigella Komana of each three drams of zedoarie half oâ—e ounce of the seeds of Annis sweet Fâ—nnel wilde Carrets and Basil of each two dâ—ams of the roots of Angelica Liquerice great Valerian called setwall Calamus odoratus of each two drams of the Leaves of Setarie or clary time Neppe and pennyrial minâ—es wilde time sweet Marioram of each two dramâ— of red roses of Flowers of Sage Betony Rosemary Stechados Buglos Borrage of each one half an ounce of the rinds of Citrons three drams of the powder of Amber Aromaticus rosatus Diamosâ—hi dulcis Diamargariton Diarhâ—don Abbatis Electuarium de gemmis of each of these three drams Beat all these together to powder that are to beaten And steep them together in 12. pound of the best Aqua vitae made of excellent wine in a glass vessel but Doctor Stephens water is better then Aqua vitae letting all these things so steep there 15. dayes together keeping all the while the mouth of the glass vâ—ry close stopped continually Afterward put on your Limbeck of glasâ— still this there a balm oâ— water temperately making very close the head of the still that no breath may get out And keep the stilled water in another fair glass vâ—ssâ—l and put thereto of sweet Saunders cut small two ounces and put into it of the best Musk and Amber grease both knit in a fair thin cloth of each half one scruple of pure clear Syrup rosat one pound then shake all these together in the glasse till the Syrup and water in the glass be well tempered together then shut the glass very close with wax and paâ—chment and so let it rest in some close place 15. dayes together and after 15. dayes clear it into another glass and keep this for a noble Medicine and right excellent whose singular vertues are as followeth The use and vertues of the Quintessence devised by the famous Mathioluâ— This Quintessence if your use to drink of it and especially if â—hey which have cold bodies pestered with cold moist humours do daily drink one spoonful or two of this water It taketh away inward rottenness it preserveth nourisheth and repaireth and defendeth encreaseth and prolongeth liâ—e And doth not only nourish natural heat and keep it in his strength but also doth quicken and regenerate the vital spirit it warmeth the stomack and and the brain and sharpeneth the wit It purifieth the eye-sight and refresheth the memorie It healeth the rawnâ—ss of the stomack and swelling that cometh of winde swimming of the head the falling sicknes faintness Melancholy passions beating and trembling â—f the heart sounding slumbring and the pain of the belly and sides above the Navil about which the Liver and the spleen lyeth also one ounce weight hereof with a convenient quantity of fine Triacle or Mithridaâ—um mingled with it and put into a Clyster for those which have the colick which cometh of cold and winde and ministred presenâ—ly healeth it And to be short it is being used of a mâ—st excellent remedy â—gainst all cold diseases or griefes And marvellously preserveth the life and lustie estate of man known and approved a true and present remedy to restore the speech lost good for the mother whâ—rewith women be often grieviously vexed and being given to a person that is even now ready to passe from this life it so long retaineth him in life that it shall seem miraculous to the beholders To make a precious oil wâ—erewith to cure the obstructions of the Liver and the spâ—een which is of force to help the same when the said grief cannot be cured by any other meanâ— or Medâ—cine Take the rust of an Anchor or Anchors of ships craped of which file asmâ—ch quantity as you list and this ruâ—â— being ground or beaten into very fine powder steep it in very shâ—râ— white vineger in a balm of warm water in a glasse vessel so as long until you see the vinegar be turâ—ed very red with the rust aforesaid Then pour the said vinegar the clearest from the grounds into another vessel and keep it diligently then pour more vinegar upon the said ground or residens steep it as before in your balm of warm water until it be red also then clear it as you did the first and likewise keep it And yet again steep more vineger upon the same grounds again and again steeping and in all such things continuing as you did before until you see that the vinegar will be no more stained red Then pour all your said red steeped vinegar into a glasse still and put your still into a furnace and cover it with hot ashes and still it until all the vinegar be stilled out as other stilled water will be and keep it then take the glass or still out of the furnace and break it and take the substance which lieth in the bottom and pound it small and put it into another glass vessel and put to it the common water fresh distilled and let that steep again in warm balm as before the space of two dayes then take all out and let it drop thoâ—ow a Jelly bag and save all that Liquor in a pure vessel and keep it until it be grown unto a salt which salt again beaten into powdâ—r and put the same into a glass with a crooked neck which the common distillers called a Retort stâ—ll it as you do a balsamis and with a very strong firâ— you shall out of the same still an oil which oil will be in colour red which receiving keep diligently for you shall have hereof a rare and excellent Medicine The use and vertues of the said oil followeth This oil prevaileth against all manner of obstructions of the Liver and spleen And when these obstructions cannot be healed nor cured by any other means then will this oil heal and cure the same The manner how to administer the same to the patient First the grieved must be purged by the advice of a learned Physician with such a
purgation as hath a propertie to attenuate the humours and draw down the belly which done you shall give the patient that is obstructed in the Liver of this oil the weight of one dram first mingling it with a prettie quantity of the water of Endive or Succory or Egrimony and if you seek to help the spleen take the like quantity of this oil and give it as before to drink with the water of Maiden hair â—r of Wal-fearn or of Tamariss which is an Herb so called this Medicine is of an approved truth An Antidote or confection called Theodoretâ— Anacardies taken out of Nicoiaâ—s Myrepsus a Greek Author Take of spici nardi fol. which is a leaf of India Cloves Saffron Cinnamâ—n Epiâ—hymi which is a Herb like a round Lace growing in some Countries upon time the flowers of Mucus odoraâ—us which the Apothâ—caries call Squinantum Myrabolanorum which is a little hard fruit and somewhat long of each of these three drams of Aloes flavae twelve drams of Chestnuts Ginger Mastickes of each one dram of Irâ—â—s the best six drams Anacardij Agarici of each one dram of the roots of Asarabacca half a dram of the seeds of parcely one dram of Costus half a dram of pepper three drams of Fennel seed one ounce of the juice of Fennel one ounce pound â—he green Fennel in a mortar and then soak or infuse the same in vineger three dayes then seethe it well and strain it handsomly And let all the other things be well pounded and made in a powder and finely searced to the which add or put asmuch clarified hony or sugar as shall suffice and seethe all together unto a reasonable thickness that is until the Medicine be brought unto the thickness of hony or Triacle The effects of this medicine followeth This medicine is good for any strong disease as for the falling evil for those that be vexed with an evil spirit for the headach for the diseases of the brest for the plurifie shortness of winde the inflammation â—r Apostumation of the â—â—ngs And those that have sowre belâ—hing and also for â—hose that have an evil disease about their stomack or belly It is profitable also to those that have a languishing after a long disease and that have an ill colour It helpeth those that have the yellow Jaundise and that have the dropsie proceeding from the Lungs It helpeth the tissick and pain of the reins of the back And the continual grief of the colick it strengthneth them that be troubled in all their body it helpeth also the inordinate strange and long diseases and agues that cometh by course and with order if it be given between the courses It easâ—th the gout of the feet if it be given before the accidents comeâ— and in especial it profiâ—eth much for womens diseases in which number are accâ—unted the Strangury or the purching that happeneth througâ— the mother or the suffocation of the mother or troubles of the same And it profiteth also those women with childe that are in danger of abortion It looseth also the belly It healeth the stirring or rising of the mother the inflammation also and raging of it And to speak aâ—solutely and in â—ew words it is the gift of God for whosâ—ever shall use it to eat of it shall finde good successe And any shall use it once or twice in the spring time and harvest so he offend not over much in diet he shall not be subiect to diseases for taking fasting the quantity of a filberd nut it will soon dissolve all evil humours The making of a precious water called for the vertue Aqua mirabilis and Preâ—iosa otherwise the admirable water of England Take Galingale Cloves Cubebs Ginger Meliâ—ote Cardamomum Macis Nutmegs Cinnamon of each of these a dram then take of the juice of Celendine half a pinte Mix all the spices being beaten together into the powder with the said juice of Celendine Then take a pintâ— of good Aqua vitae and three pintes of good white wine or sack and put all together into a stillatory of glass let it stand inâ—used a night and in the morrow distill it with a very sober fire the first pint that cometh is best the rest that runneth iâ— good but not so good as the first The vertue of this water This water hath a secret nature it dissolveth the swelling oâ— the Lungs without any grief and the Lungs being perished it presently cureâ—h it and it comforteth and suffereth not the Lungs to putrifie he shall not need to be let blood that useth it and suffereth not the heart to â—e hot neither melancholy or Flegm to be about it nor to have domination above nature It also expelleth the rheum and pâ—rfecteth the stomack and comforteth youth in its own estatâ— engendâ—eth a good colour and keepeth and comforteth the visage and memorie helpeth the palsie of the Limbs and tongue And this water to be given to any person in extremity one spoonful delivereth them Of all waters artificial it is the best in summer use fasting once a week the quantity of a spoonful and in the winter you may take two spoonful to prevent the diseases and sicknesses aforesaid A marvellous water to heal the leprosie and all spots of the face or elsewhere and to make one look young and to have a good colour Take the filing of gold silver iron brasse lead and the powder of Storax and put all together to sleep a whole day in the urine of a maid male childâ— being warm and as long in pure white wine and the third day in the juice of Fennel the fourth day in whiâ—es of Eggs then take all the liquour with the filings and powder and still it with a slow fire and keep the water in a glass and it shall have all the vertues before specified By a day is meant xxiiii hours A comfortable water or medicine for these diseases as followeth that is to say it cureth the stoâ—â— in the bladder and the reins of the back It helpeth a stinking breath it comforteth and helpeth the spirits and inward diseases that cometh of cold It is good for the stomack and shaking palsie and cureth the contraction of the â—â—eweâ— and helpeth the conception of women that are barren It killeth worms in the body it helpeth the cold Cough it comforteth the stomack much it cureth the cold Dropsie whoso useth this Medicine every moneth and not too often it will make him seem young again Take a gallon of good and pure gascoin wine of the best you can get Ginger Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Galingale Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Cinnamon Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Nutmegs Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Grains Of
every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Cloves Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Maces Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Anniseeds Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Carrawayseeds Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Then take Sage Mintes roses pellitory rosemary of every of them gather an handful and most of the roses rosemary wilde time Camomil Lavender pâ—nyroyal Then break the spice small and bruise the Herbs and put all the wine and let it stand twelve hours and stir it divers times together in the wine and still it by a Limbeck and keep the first water by it sâ—lf for it is the best and keep the sâ—cond by it self but not sâ— good as the first and use this as you have need thereof A water called the mother of the bawme Take Tuâ—penâ—ine six pounds olibanum two ounce Aloes citrine cubâ—bs Mastick Cloves galingale Cinnamon Nutmegs of everich one ounce gum of the fig-â—ree and of the juice of each three ounces then make the drugs in powder and put all into a Limbeck of glasâ— wâ—ich you must joyn to the capitel with hot flower ashes and whites of eggs so that no breath come out and let it still with a slow fire â—nd the first water will be white and clear the second like hony and the third like bawm which you shal receive into three receptories These be of vertue as they be in order they will burn in fire and a drop will turn a vessel of milk as Bawm it self will two drops thereof powred into the ears will take away the great noise that some have in their headâ— likewise in the eyes will heal all watrie and red eyes and other diseases of the face it câ—reth any impostume green wounds and ulcers scabs and all other superfluous humours and the tooth-ach ye any fisâ—ula or canker in nine dayes also the noâ—i me tangerea the small pox if you wash the places therewith it is good for all old hurts and for dry blowes of staves or stones It healâ—th strengtheneth and all other things rectifieth the â—iâ—ewes it is so hot and penetrative that it will run through your head without grief to you It healeth all painâ— of the Leggs and joints with all other diseases that come of cold and it is as precious as bawm it self To make the water of life Take Balm leaves and stalkes Burnet leaves and flowers a handful of Rosemary tormentil Leaves and roots rosa solis a handful red roses a handful Carnations a handful Hyssop a handful and â—smuch of time red stringes tâ—at grow upon saverie one handful red Fennel Leaves and roots red mintes a handful pâ—t all these Herbs in a great pot of earth glassed And put thereto asmuch white wine as will cover the herbs and let them soak therein eight or nine dayes Then take an ounce of Cinnamon asmuch ginger asmuch of Nuâ—meggs Cloves and saâ—iron a little a quantity of Anniseeds of great raisins one pound half a pound of dates the hinder part of a good old Conny a good fleshie running Capon the red flesh with the sinewes of a legg of mutton four young pigeons a dozen of Larkes the yelks of twelve Eggs a loafe of white bread cut in sops in Muskadel or bastard â—s much as sufficeth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck and put thereto Mithridate two or three ounces or else asmuch perfect Triacle and distill it with a moderate fire And keep the first water by it self and the second alone and where there cometh no more water with strings then take away the Limbeck and put into the more wine upon the same stuff and still it again and you shall have another good water and 〈◊〉 shall remain good in the first ingredience of this water You must keep this waâ—er in a double glass warily for it is restorative of principal Members and defendeth against all pestilential diseases and against the palsie dropsie spleen yellow or black Jaundise worms agues and sweatings and pestilential sorrowes melancholy and strengâ—hneth and fortiâ—ieth the spirits and strings of the brain the heart and Stomack and the Liver taking a spoonful or two or three at a time by it self or with Ale or wine and Sugar it helpeth digestion and breaketh winde stoppeth lask and bindeth not To make water of Rosemary Take Rosemary flowers and in the midst of May ere the sun arise in the morning take the Rosemary and strip the Leaves from the stalks and take four or five great roots of Elecampane and an handful or two of Sage and beat the Rosemary the roots and Sage together in a stone mortar till they be very small â—hâ—n take it up and take three ounces of Cubebs and half a pound of Anniseeds and beat the spices in a mortar of brasse every spice by it self then take all the Herbs and all the spices and put them in four or six gallons of white wine then put all these spices herbs and wine in an earthen pot and stop the pot close so that no air come thereto with a cover made of earth and set the same pot in the ground by the space of fifteen dayes then take it and still it in a stillatory of tin otherwise called a Limbeck with a soft fire A notable water of great vertue Take Fennel Eyebright Endive Betony Silermontain Rosemary rue Maidenhair of each an handful and let all these steep in good white wine xxiiii hours and afterward distill all together and keep the first water as silver the second as gold and the third as bawm This will heal all swelling and running of the ears and falling of the hairs off the head and browes it healeth all diseases of the eyes and killeth the worms in the teeth and maketh the breath sweet It breaketh the impostume in the head if it be put into the ears with bumbast a cloth steeped therein and laid upon the stomack easeth the pains of the same and likewise mollifieth the hardness of the spleen Also it taketh away all spots of the face if you mingle a little thereof with white wine and put thereto a little Roch Allom. An excellent water against the Colick the mother and all pains in the belly Take Cinnamon two drams Cloves two drams galls one dram grains two drams Nutmeggs one dram beat all these to grosse powâ—er and put them in a stillatory covered over â—ith Muscadel or good Malmesy and let it â—tand so xxiiii hours then still it with a slow fâ—re and you shall have a very sweet and wholsome water which you shall use thus Take â— cup of pleasant and strong wine and pour five or six drops of this water into it and let the patient drink
it first and last It is comparable to gold A Medicine for the Plague Take a fair onion make a hole in it and take out the Inner core then take Dragon water triacle and pepper and bruise them a little and put them into the onion and rost the onion in the Embers and after bruise the onion and strain it with Malmesey and give it to the patient to drink And if it be taken before the heart is infected it s a present Remedy Probat For the canker in the body Take the roots of Dragon and cut them in small pieces and dry them into powder and seethe it in white wine very well and let the â—ick drink thereof three dayes together fasting and he shall be whole For the Canker Take an handful of woodbind and an handful of Sage stamp and strain them and seethe them to the third part with hony and Allome till it be thick and wash the Canker therewith To cure a Canker in the mouth Take Rock allome and burn it and make it into fine powder and scrape some Bole-armoniake into iâ— and when you use it put drops of wine vineger unto it aâ—d anoint the place For the canker in the mouth the best way Take two â—ennyworth of pure coral asmuch as a wall-nut of roch allome and half asmuch of white Copperas and a pint of strong white wine vineger woodbind leaves and sage leaves of each ten one spoonful of bay-salt half a spoonful of English hony and a branch of Rosemary boil all together till half be wasted then strain and keep it in a glasse this water will remedy it in twice dressing When you wash your mouth put a little in a sawcer and â—ash the Canker therewith but let none go down A water to cure a Fistula Take Bolearmoniake Roman Vitriol allome of each two ounces boil these in eight pound of water till half be consumed with this you may wash any Fistula A diet drink for a Fistula Take Egrimony selfâ—heaâ— sanicle Ladies Mantle Madder Hempe Mugwort Fetherfew wilde tansie brier tops one handâ—ul Lignum giâ—acum lib. 1. Corticis ejusdem two ounces Inâ—use al in twelve pound of water twelve hours then boil them to the third part post concoctionem ad Mellis optimi lib. 1. or cola A Medicine most excellent for the spitting of blood Take a raw Eggshell and cast away the inner skin thereof thâ—n dry it in such order as may be finely powdered of which powder take two drams with three ounces of plantain water well mixed together Or if you will have this remedy more effectual then give it five days together in the morning two drams of the same powder dissâ—lved in this Syrup following Take Syrupi de rosis siccis Syrup de portulaca Syrup de Myrtis one ounce Misce. In like manner it s a fore Reâ—â—edy aswell in the cure as in the preservation for the patient to chew in his mouth every morning fasting one scruple of Rubarbe torrified For any sore which is poisoned with a contrary and unproper salve Make a posset of white wine and â—ay thâ— curde thereof to the sore and it will take aâ— the malice away so that another salve maâ— work Also take new milk from the Cow and wash the sore therewith and it will do the like For any that is wounded to keep it from ranckling Take the juice of parsly and drink it and it shall not ranckle Te heal an Impostume in the body Dioscorides saith that Mintes stamped and drunk with Ale destroyeth all Impostumes in the body An ale salve to cure most sores Take a quart of the first running of Alewort boil it to a pint then put into it two ounces of fresh unsalted butter and so boil them to the thickness of hony And if it chance the sore to have dead flesh put in the salve an half peny worth of Allome Probat To remove pain and exceeding dolour in an Impostume or wound Apply the whites of Eggs or the whites and yelks together being well wrought together with oil of roses or else take the crums of wheat bread steeped in hot water and pressed out one pound yelks of Eggs in number two For Hemerods that come forth Take Wormwood and drink it fasting and make a plaster thereof and mingle with burnt garlick to powder and the sick shall be whole by Gods grace FINIS
Sugar beaten sâ—all as he weight of the receit amounteth unto till it thick like a Syrup then put to this Syrup as it cooleth all your powder well stirâ—ing and incorporating the same altogether and so keep it for your use Pâ—ohatum est Take the lungs of a Fox dryed the juice of Liquerice Maidenhair Fennel-seed of â—ach â— like four ounces make it in Sugar sodden in water as much as will suffice some make it with the juice of Myrts and then it is comfortable for the stomack this is a present remedy for a Consumption For the Phlegm and Cough Take an handful of Coltfoot of Liquerice shaved and bruised two ounces an handful of Maidenhair of Anniseed three ounces Lâ—t it be boiled in three pound of fouâ—tain â—r Spring water till half be consumed strain it and then put into it three ounces of white Sugar Give thereof five spoonfuls for the space of eight dayes warmed For a Consumption Take Syrup of Limons half dram Syrup of Coltsfoot Syrup of Hyssop alike one ounce Syrup of Liquerice one ounce Floris Sulphuris half a scruple Spirit of the seed of Fennel four drops and mix it all together For the Consumption Take a handful of Rosemary tops a handful of red Sage a handful of Horehound a handful of Plantaine leaves a handful of Hyssope a handful of winter Savory a pint of English hony a pint of runing water half a pound of blew Figs half a pound of Raisins of the Sun a stick of Liquerice boil all these in a new pipkin with a cover to it cut them small and put them into the pipkin and let it boil softly unâ—il it be half consumed then take and strain it through a cloth very well then give the party four spoonfuls morning and evening Another excellent for the same Take a quarter of pure red Rosewater put it in a pewter platter or bason set it over a Chasfing dish of coales take clean Anniseeds and bruise them a little in a Mortar put thereof into your Rosewater a good handful and put also of sliced Liquerice bruised and tore in 〈◊〉 three or four stick and as much of Par 〈◊〉 roots the pith taken out bruised and sliced 〈◊〉 put therein then last put in a good spoonâ—â—â— of the tender crops of Hysâ—ope so let them 〈◊〉 from a quart to a pint still bruising them 〈◊〉 a spoon as they boil and when it is â—â—fficient boiled strain it into a glass and take â—â—ereof warm in the evening a pretty draught 〈◊〉 two hours after and before meat fast two 〈◊〉 use this it hath done wonders c. â—he Sides Remedies for their distempers â—euâ—isie A thing most certain to remedy the greatest pleurisie possible TAke the delicatest Apple that may be had make an hole therein pull out the 〈◊〉 if it may be not breaking the Apple 〈◊〉 which hole put in OlibanuÌ„ of the best the â—â—antity of three or four grains and cover the 〈◊〉 of the Apple then put the Apple into 〈◊〉 embers there to soken till it be tender but it must not burn then break the apple 〈◊〉 the Olibanum into four or five pieces and give it the patient to eat and forthwith 〈◊〉 Impostume of the pleurisie breaketh and 〈◊〉 patient recovereth Pro certo oyl of scorâ—ons anoynted often to the griefs vatet â—wrodâ— See that you apply withal thin Cakes made with the said oyl and the fleying 〈◊〉 dryest hot one after another one at once and anointing the grief before any cake 〈◊〉 laid on with the said oyl hot and thus the 〈◊〉 cakes oyl and hot ashes breaketh the Impostume of the Pleurisie For to cure an Iâ—postume which groweth in the 〈◊〉 side of the ribes of the side when no other Meâ—icâ—â—â— will cure the same Take Pipins and bruse them and strayâ— the juice thereof to the quantity of a prettâ— draught and put thereto a dram of the juice 〈◊〉 the herb called bearfoot and give it to thâ— grieved to drink and it shall presently helâ— him Another good Medicine Take Aqua vitae and Capons grease of eacâ— of them a prety quantity and boil them together then take a little black wool and 〈◊〉 it therein and lay it hot as may be suffered to the stomack of the party grieved and it will ease him very spedily To destroy an Impostume and anâ— swelling Take the roots of Hollihock sod till they be very soft and the water halfe consumed and more then put into the same water the flower of Linseed fenugreck a like much seethe it until the water doe rope then put the said â—ollihock roots to it being well pounded and add a handfull of barly meal and fry them all â—ith boars grease and if you will you may â—dd sheepes suet apply it hot Probatum est A Catâ—plasme Take the flowers of Camomil Melilote of â—ach one handful of the leaves of Rue Marâ—row Nepthe of each one pugil of the seeds 〈◊〉 Annise two drams of the Laurel berries â—hree ounces boil it moderately pound it 〈◊〉 asmuch hoâ—y as is sufficient and apply it Another Stamp Mallowes roots well sodden then 〈◊〉 butter hony and pigeons dung very well â—ixt et fiet For the stitch Anoint the place with oil of Melilot and apâ—ly Melilot plaister to the place upon a piece of Leather and change it once a week An experienced good Medicine for a pleurisie Take Brooklime sheeps suet and a little fair â—unning water and fry them together in a fryâ—ng pan and make a plaister thereof and lay it â—he side of the patient and it will draw forth â—ll the corruption This hath been proved The Heart Remedies for its Distempers Remedies for weakness and feebleness of the heart GIve him that hath a feeble heart and ready to saint either for fever or extream heaâ— the wâ—ight of a French crown of Trochisk of Camhire with wine of Pomegranates and lay upon his left side Limon dipped in water of roses and vineger In stead of these Trâ—hisks ye may use a Electuary called Diamargariton frigidum every morning a lozenge And it is good to give him for the same feeblenes conserve of Roses violets water lilies mingled together and after to drink water of Sorrel and to smell Roses water lilies rose-water and vineger Other whiles and most often debility of heart chanceth of a cold and drie cause and is without fever with great fear and heaviness the remedy whereof is this Take an Electuary called Diamoschum and use every morning a Lozeng and drink after it a litâ—le good wine or Bugloss water and anoint the brest with oil of Spikenard Moreover use once in a week before meat the weight of half a crown of good triackle or Mithridate so it be well tempered with a little white wine and with a few maces For beating or trembling of the heart If it be without offence Take two drams 〈◊〉 the third part of Elect. de gemmis then 〈◊〉 two or three ounces of Bugloss and â—awme mixed