good handfuls Sena 4. ounces boyl all in Water for a Bath to bathe in and give the Patient half a pound of each of Lupine Flower and red Cycers into the Bath to rub himself withall A Receipt to bring out the Small Pox. TAke two Figs sliced a spoonfull of Harts-horn steeped a few Mary-gold-Flowers and Tops one Leaf of Carduus Benedictus and a little Saffron boyl them in Posset-Ale and give the Patient to drink thereof To hinder Dinting TAke Beef-broth and bathe the Scabs therewith after take the Fat of Calves-Feet boyled and beaten white with May-dew and Rose-water anoint the face withall Or take white-wine and Butter of each a quarter of a pound boyl them together and use to bathe the Face often or melt salt-butter put into cold-water so anoint the Face withall A Bath for cold Diseases or Palsies BOyl Juniper-berries Broom-seed 20. good handfuls Penny-royall Origanum Hysop Time Sage Satureia Bayberries Rose-mary Camphery Pellitory of Spain of each 2. good handfuls Guaicum Sassafrass of each 1. pound boyl them in water enough to bathe them A Lotion for the Feet to induce Sleep TAke Malloes and Lettice of each 2. good handfuls Poppy-heads in number ten the rindes of Mandrake-roots Baum of each 1. oun Flowers of Water-Lillies Mellilot of each a good handful Dil-seed half an oun boyl them in water wherein wash and bath the feet bed-ward but do not dry them and wrap them up in a cloth wet in the same A good Restorative for weak Convalescent persons after a long and tedious sicknesse TAke Pine-Apple-Kirnels Pystaches of each 4. ounces fine White-Sugar half a pound Red Corall 1. drachm and half Cynamon 1. drachm species de gemmis Frigide 2. drachmes Nutmegs half a drachm Mace 5. grains Conserve of Burrage Cytron-Pils preserved of each 1. ounce and half Pearl 1. dram and half white burrage-Burrage-water make paste and yce it over with Sugar Cynamon To make a Caudle for restoring good Blood TAke white-wine and water of each a like quantity rose-Rose-water one spoonfull two Yelks of Egs sweetened wel with Sugar together with some Cynamon boyl it a while so drink thereof A Powder against the winde in the Womb. TAke Cynamon 1. dra Saffron half a drachm Cassia Lignea 2. scr white Amber 1. scruple mingle them make a Powder and give it in white Lillie-water or Lark Spur. Another for the same TAke Cynamon Saffron of each 1. scruple Borax 4. scr give it in Mugworth-water A Pultes to binde the Belly in Fluxes proceeding from a cold Cause to be applyed to the Belly TAke Tostes of bread steeped in Vineger 6. ou beat it in a morter and add Mace Mastick Mirtle-berries Stones of Rasins Cloves Galany Flowers of Pomgranats of each 1. ounce Oyl of Worm-wood and Mints of each 2. ounces make a Cataplasm A Pultes to soften the hard swelling of the Liver and Splene TAke Marsh-Mallow-roots of each 3. oun Malloes Violets Holy-oaks or each 3 good handfuls Flowers of Camomile Mellilot of each 1. good handfull Figs six Tops of wormwood 2. small handfuls boil them in water untill they be tender and strain them in a course searce then add Flower of the Flowers of Camomile Anise-seeds of each 1. ounce Flowers of Lin-seed Fenny-greeke Goose-grease and Oyl of Camomile Lillies Fresh-butter Marrow of a Calf Oyl of Flowers de Luce of each 1. ounce mingle them make a Pultes whereunto add a little Vineger A Pultes to ripen and supporate Biles and Tumors TAke Marsh-Mallowes and Mallow-Roots half a pound Mallowes 1. good handful Bread 1. pound Boyl them in water and strain them through a searcer and with 4. oun of Barrowes-grease make a Pultes A Pultes for Bruises TAke of both the Camphery-roots of each 3. ounces Camomile and Mellilot of each 2. good handfuls Saffron 1. scruple Beanâ—-flowers 2. ounces Fennegreek 1. ounce boyl them in water and add Worm-wood and Comin-seed of each half an ounce make a Pultes A Pultes to allay heat and Inflammation in any part TAke Marsh Mallow-roots 3. ounces Malâ—lowes with the roots Violets Blank Vâ—sâ—â— Chick-weed of each a good handfull Flowers of Camomile Violets powdered and Boâ—â— 1. small handfull boyl â—hem in fat Mutter-broth or water and add Hoggs-grease half a pound make a Pultes A Gargle for inflammation in the Throat c. TAke Plantine Cinque-foil Bramble-Leaves Columbine Straw-berry-Leaves Honey-suckles Red-Rose-leaves Jewsears Sage of each half a good handful Barley one ounce Licorish half an ounce boyl them in water and to one pound ad Melcosatum four ounces Allom one dr make a Gargle to be used luke-warm And for sore throats you may put to the aforesaid one dr of Salpruneliae to cool cleanse and dry more This Salpruneliae in Ale with Honey will cure Sore-throats very well If the sore in the Mouth or Throat be foul and Sordid to this Gargle you may add Aegyptiacum allayed first with Vineger and Honey of Roses or take Plantine water half a pound Syrrop of Mulberries 3 ounces and a little Oyl of Vitriol to make it a little tart For foul and Eating Sores TAke Sublimate 4 grains Plantine Rose-water of each 3 ounces dissolve it and touch the place and Gargle sometimes luke-warm A Gargle to draw Fleam TAke Sage Rose-mary Time Origan of each one good handfull boyl them very well and to half a pound put Oxmiel three ounces Mustard one or two good spoonfuls or else boyl Sage in Vineger and put to it Mustard and Honey A Gargle for Sore Throats called in the shops Mouth-water made but once for all the year in the spring TAke Woodbine-leaves and Flowers halfe a peck Salendine Lawrell or Spurge Sage Rue Mary gold-tops Cytron Rose-mary-tops Cinquefoile Valerian Agrimony Perry-winkle St. Johns-wort Veronica or Speed-well white Collumbine leaves Scabious Scrophulania of each a good handfull Boyl them in a Galon of running water to the East into two parts standing first one night in infusion then being boyled strain them hard and adde one ounce of Alom of the Cork and four ounces of Honey Then boyl it again and skim it as long as any that riseth afterward let it settle one night In the morning pour out the clearest which keep for use putting thereunto about 4 ounces of Vineger A Gargle for an unsavory breath TAke Rose-water Mirtle water Orenge-Flower-water of each 2. oun Musk 3. gra Amber-grease 6. grains Salt a little more Musk and Amber-grease you may put in for greater persons A Moderate suppository to loosen the Body TAke Honey thickned 1. ounce hieriae species Hierae picrae aloes or Agarick 1. scruple Salt half a scruple or add Salgem or Mustard 2. scruples make a Suppository A stronger Suppository TAke Honey thickned half an ounce Scamony Salt of each 1. scruple or take Honey concrete 2. ounces Euphorbium half a scruple powder of Colloquintida 5. gra powder of white Hellebore 2. ounces Salt 1. ounce Hierae picrae half an ounce make a
sufficient quantitie of water till half be consumed so use it A very good Syrrop to be taken against cold diseases of the Brain and Sinews as the Palsey Falling-sicknes the Cramp and water distilling out of the head lying TAke of the Flowers of Stechados 4 ounces of Time Calamint Origanum of each 1. ounce and half of Sage Bettony-flowers and Rosemary of each half an ounce of the Seeds of Rue Pyony Fennel of each 3 drachms Boil them in 10 pound of water till half be consumed When the decoction is strained boil it again to a syrrop with sugar and honey of each 2 li. and candie it with Cynamon Ginger Calamus aromaticus or Nutmeg of each two drachms which being bound up in a course cloth with open threeds must be hanged in the syrope To binde in Fluxes of the Belly and to comfort withall the Stomack TAke a quarter of an ounce of Ising-glasse which lay to steep in water 12. houres after boil the same in a quart of milk wherunto put a slack or two of Mace two Dates sliced in the middle with the stones keep it stirring till the one half be consumed take hereof 7. or 8. spoonfuls morning and evening use to take the same for a week or ten days together if occasion so require you may therefore provide a better quantitie of the aforesaid things as 1. ounce of Ising-glasse half an ounce of Dates 3. or 4. penyworth of Mace So long as you may use hereof take withall these Waters mixt together as followeth Of baum-Baum-water half a li. and a like quantity of Hysop-water dissolve therein a quartern of Sugar over the fire strain and take thereof five spoonfuls one houre after dinner wherunto put 4. or 5. drops of Cynamon-water If the aforesaid do not sufficiently binde put a little Cynamon or the cups of Akhorns powdered therein Against Winde in the Body TAke of Ginger half a ounce Anise-seeds 2 drachms Coriander prepared 1. ounce and half Mace Galingale Cabebes of each a drachm make all into fine powder well searced adding as much sugar as you please Take 1 dram of this powder in four ounces of sweet wine either Muscadine or Malmsie in the morning fasting and afterwards walk awhile Against Pain in the Back TAke the slimie substance of the Camphery root in posset drink and take the same 4. or 5. days together Or take Knotgrasse shread it and mix it with butter make a tansey with all It much profiteth for the said Cure For the Stone in the Kidneys TAke the distilled water of Parseley what quantity you please for one draught whereunto add half a spoonful of the whitest Snail-shels finely powdered with 4. or 5. drops of the Oyl of Turpentine drink it fasting and walk after it for an houre or more For cleansing the Blood TAke the leaves of Sena Polypody of each 3 ounces seeds of Fennel and Anise of each 1. ounce Hermodactils 2. ounces and half Salsaparilla 3 ounces Sassafrasse thin sliced 2 ounces Agarick sliced 1 ounce Rhuberb half an ounce Ginger a quarter of an ounce Scurvy-grasse Brooklime Watercresses of each 3 good handfuls Red dock-roots 2 ounces put these into a Boultering-bag and boil it in 4. gallons of Ale or Bear and let the bag hang in the vessel Take every morning the quantitie of 4 ounces or more according to the nature and condition of the body A Julip for a Tertian Fever TAke Endive Succory Sorrel Strawberry-leaves violet-leaves of each a good handfull French barley a good handfull Rasins stoned half a pound Aniseseeds 1 ounce one stick of Licorish decoct these in a pottle of faire water to the consumption of half Take hereof 7 or 8 ounces in the morning at a time A Purge for the same TAke the Pills of Cochi aureae of each half an ounce mix these together and make a Masse and take the weight of nine pence for the Dose A Dyet Drink to open and temper the Liver TAke the Roots of Fennel Parsly Dock Coroch Knee-holm of each half a good handfull the leaves of Endive Buglosse Fumitary Harts-tongue Agrimony Garden wormewood Cetrach of each a good handfull the back of the roots of Capers half an ounce Boyl these in a convenient quantity of Whey till a third part be spent then clarifie the same whereof drink in the morning fasting at the least half a pound at a time A Receipt to make purging Prunes Rasins and Currents TAke of Prunes half a li. of Sena 1 ounce Mechoacon 3 drachms Turbeth 3 dr of Borage-water Baum water and Rose-water of each 4 ounces boyl them a little then strain them whereunto add Manna 2 ounces and Sugar a sufficient quantity to make the Liquor into a Syrope A Restorative Broth for weak and consuming Bodies TAke half an ounce of the best China thin sliced infuse the same the space of foure and twenty houres in four Pintes of fair Spring-water in a Pipkin close stoped standing upon hot Embers Then put therein a small Chickin or a little peece of the Rack of Veal and so set it over the fire made of Charcoals to boyl gently and put therein a Succory-root the pith taken out of the Leaves of Agrimony Buglosse Cetrach and Edive of each a good handfull of Hartshorn a quarter of an ounce at the least scraped and a crust of White bread the which boyl till half the Liquor be consumed then strain it and with a convenient quantity of fine Sugar make the same fit for the taste Hereof let the party take in the morning early and in the afternoon about four of the clock at every time the third part of a pinte warm and so every day for the space of three weeks Remedies for the Hemorrhoids TAke the third part of a pinte of Milk and so much of Smiths-water wherein quench Gads of Steel Oftentimes put into the same 2 ounces of the juice of Clary so inject luke warme Take a pinte of Milk and boyl it in boyling slack it often when it riseth with Plantine-water so continue doing till a pinte of Plantine-water be put in about the slacking of the Milk Then take it off the fire and put thereunto 3 ounces of Mel rosarum wherof drink at your pleasure Take the white of an Egge 4 ounces of Fresh Butter out of a Chirne well washed and of Saffron a scruple work these together whereof at times put up a little into the fundament for ceasing paine but if the pain continue to the aforesaid add 2 good handfulls of Night-shade and then it will be much more effectuall for the said purpose Also take Mastick and Frankincense of each a good handfull powder and straw it upon coals of fire in a Chafindish put it into a close stool so fit over it to take the fume thereof and apply an Hagtaper-Leaf to the place Also take the Roots of Pilewort and Mutton-suet and shred them both together small then boyl the same and strain them so keep them for use to
cold strain through a linnen cloth and boil again the rest of the substance as before for the space of 8 hours with Fresh water fresh Licorish and Raisins of the Sun half an hour before you take it off from the fire put into it these Herbs following viz. Fumiterie Violet-leaves Succory Strawberry-leaves Sorrell of each a handfull put these into the pot and let them boil half an hour then take them off frō the fire strain them as before This second drink you must use in the day time when you are a dry bui you must close up your Stomack both after Dinner and after Supper with the former drink This is a soverain Medicine to cure the foul Disease or French-Pox An excellent Drink or Potion for sundry Diseases TAke the Roots of Munks Rhubarb and Red Madder of each half a pound Sena 4 ounces Anise seeds and Licorish of each 2 ounces Scabius Agrimony of each 1 handful slice the roots of the Rhubarb bruise the Anise-seeds and Licorish break the Herbs with your hand and put them into a Stone-pot called a Stean with 4 Gallons of strong Ael to steep or soak for the space of 3 dayes and then drink this Liquor as your ordinary Drink for 3 weeks together and the longer you take it it is the better provided you have alwayes one Stean under another being alwayes carefull to keep a good diet It cureth the Dropsie the Yellow-Jaundice all manner of Itch Scabs Breaking-out Maunginesse It purifieth the Blood from all Corruption prevaileth against the Green-sicknes very greatly and against all Oppilations or Stoppings maketh young Wenches look very fair Cherry-like and bringeth down their Courses the stopping whereof hath caused the same An excellent Remedie for a Green-wound THe coles of a Burch-fire made into powder and put into the Wound or Sore healeth it presently without any other thing in few dayes A Diet-Drink for any desperate Disease that is curable TAke of Hermodactiles 2 ounces of Salsaparilla 4 ounces of Sena Alexandrina 4 ounces of Sassafras 2 ounes of Licorish 1 ounce of Aniseseeds 1 ounce of long Pepper half an ounce of the leaves of Scabius a great handful of Watercresses and Brooklime of each one great handull Sea-scurvygrass 2 great handfuls Nutmeg 1 ounce let all the Weeds be slit and cut small and the Herbs shred and put it into a bag and hang it in a barrell with 6 Gallons of new Ale and let it stand and setle 8 dayes then drink continually of it and no other drink while it lasteth and eat Bakers Bread with Corianderseeds and keep a good diet use this 6 weeks together and doubtles you will recover For a Quartane Ague TAke Red-Wine and new-Milk of a Cow that is all of one Colour of each of them a pottle then take 3 or 4 handfuls of Mouse-ear of Lettice and Strawberry-leaves of each 2 handfulls well picked and washed strip them into the Wine and Milk and temper them all together and let them stand so for the space of one night then put them into a fair still and so distill them with a soft fire then take the Water and put it into a Glass and set it where it may stand in the Sun for the space of five dayes and let the Patient when he is dry in his Ague drink thereof 3 or 4 times and he shall be rid of his Ague and this drink will quench his thirst be he never so drie A most soveraign Balsam for 22 severall Diseases with the Vertues TAke five Pints of Sallet-Oyl one pound of Venus-Turpentine half a pound of Virgins-Wax six ounces of Red Sanders half a Pinte of Damask-Rose water First put your Oyl with six spoonfuls of the Rose-water into a clean skellet or new Pipkin and let it boyl a quarter of an hour wash the Turpentine with the rest of the Rose water pare the Wax clean and cut it into thin slices and put it into an other clean Skellet or new Pipkin with the Turpentine Let them be well melted and mixed together then pour the water from the Oyl if you can see any put it into the Wax Turpentine let them boyl upon a gentle fire a dosen Walms Then take it off and put in the Saunders by two ounces at a time mingling and stirring it well Then let it boyl a dosen walms more stir it to avoid burning then strain it into a Bason and fill it into Gally Pots The Vertues Green Wound Warm it and pour it into the Wound lay a dubble Cloth on it dipped in Balsam Burn or Scald Apply it hot if the Skin be not broken and bathe it well but if the Skin be broken then not so hot bathe it well and lay on a dipped Cloth Dog-Biting Warm it and boyl the place well and lay on it a dipped Cloth Bruise If the Brest or Stomack be bruised eat the quantity of a Nutmeg and drink a little Bear after it and lay a dipped Cloth on the place Swelling Bathe it well and warm and lay a dubble dipped Cloth to it bind it up Aches in the Head Anoint the Temples warm and apply to the Nape of the Neck a hot dipped Cloth when you go to Bed Joints or Sinews Eat in the morning as much of it as a Nutmeg Gowt Bathe the place scalding hot and lay a dubble dipt Cloth and bind it up Wind-Collick Eat as much of it as a Nut and bathe the place very hot and lay on it a dubble dipped Cloth and bind it up Pleuresie After Blood-Letting eat so much of it as a Nut bathe the Left-side very hot Surfeit If you be Surfeited or have any poisonfull Disease eat so much of it as an Nutmeg Vlcer Fistulo Pour it into the Sore as hot as you can endure it and lay a dubble dipped Cloth to it and bind it up Canker Warme it and rub the place very well that is grieved with a Rag. Stone If it be in the Kidnies take a Pint of White Wine and make it boyl but not burn brue it with Sugar and drink a quarter of a Pint of it morning and evening warm and eat so much of it as a Walnut before you drink Wormes Eat so much of it as a Nut in a poonful or two of Milk eat a Messe of Milk after it anoint the Navell with it you may administer it to Old-folks or Children Flowers Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg Provoke sleep Eat so much of it as a Nut and anoint the Temples warm Spleen Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg and anoint the place very hot Running of the Reines Make a Caudle of Eggs and Ale and put in Sugar Cynamon and Nutmeg beaten to powder and so much of the Balsam as a Nutmeg drink it warm and anoint the Reines of the Back very well and hot and lay to it a dubble dipped Cloth Sciatica Bathe the place very hot and lay on it a dubble dipped Cloth and
bind it up Plague Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg every morning and put a little of it in your Nose Green-sicknes Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg every morning walk a good while after Note that when you apply a cloth dipped to any Wound Swelling or Bruise you must do it very hot A speciall good Receipt for the Falling-Sicknes TAke of Boxleaves 3 handfulls of Pionie-roots small and thin sliced 2 handfulls of Pionie-seed pilled 6 ounces Boil these in 3 Gallons of Ale or Bear to 2 Gallons then give of this drink to the Patient every day twice a good draught warm and by Gods blessing he shall recover A marvelous good Medicine for the Deafnesse in the Ear. TAke of the pulp of Colloquintida the seeds clean picked out and 〈◊〉 â—t away 1 scruple infuse it 6 hours in half an ounce of Oyl of Bitter Almonds and 5 grains of Civit being well incorporated let it stand in a Glass in Warm-Water 6 hours as aforesaid Reserve this and when you have use of it with a feather drop when you go to Bed thrice a week two or three drops into your ear lying upon the contrary ear and so sleep that ear being stopped with Wooll An approved Remedie for the Plague and to prevent infection TAke three Pints of the best Malmsey boyl therein one handfull of Rue and one handfull of Sage till one Pint be boyled away then strain it after set it over the fire again and put thereto Long-Pepper Ginger and Nutmegs all these three beaten together one ounce then boyl all these together a little more after take it off from the fire and put therein 1 ounce of the best Mithridatum and 2 ounces of the best Treakle a quarter of a Pint of the best Aquavitae So keep this as thy life above all other things or Medicines and make use thereof viz. Note this well If thou think thy self to be at any time infected of the Plague take every Morning and Evening one spoonfull at a time luke-warm if not infected take this but once or twice a week at the most and but half a spoonfull at a time In any Plague-time trust in God and next under God trust to this for there was never Man Woman nor Child that ever this Drink deceived if the heart be not clean mortified and drowned with poyson too long before It is not only good against the common Plague but also the next kin to the Plague as the Swelling-Sicknes Small-Pox Measels Surfeit and such like taking a spoonfull of it when thou first fallest sick and at all other times as need requireth Assure your selves this is better then Beazer-stone to draw away all infection from the Heart Where any sick Party drinks thereof they must lye down and sweat two or three hours in Bed and after be very well dried and very warm kept drinking nothing but warm drink and Caudles so shall the sicknes keep from thy Heart c. This Drink will keep half a year good being well covered An Aquavitae Bottle will keep this Drink very well This hath been proved of many and never failed but did good with Gods help An excellent and approved Medicine for the Piles TAke two handfuls of Souhern-wood and strip the leaves from the stalk then take new fresh Butter as it cometh from the Churne unsalted and a little Saffron Bruise the Herbs and fry them in a Frying-Pan with the aforesaid Butter untill they are become tender then take and spread them upon a fine linen Cloth and lay them to the sore place as hot as possibly it may be suffered and doubtles this will help A speciall Receipt to stanch the bleeding of the Piles TAke a good quantity of the Juice of Milfoil put thereto a pretty quantity of the powder of burnt Garlick and let the party grieved drink thereof either in Ale or Wine and the Piles will dye in a short space Another for the same TAke Leaves of Mullet and Leaves of an Elder-Tree and stamp them very well and mingle them with a Butter that is unsalted and anoint the place grieved often therewith before a good fire and this will cure you To Loosen the Body of one that is hard Bound TAke a Chickin and a pretty quantity of Cassia Fistula Boyl these in fair running-Water and drink the Broth there of and it will immediately procure loosenes without pain Another for the same purpose TAke the Juice of Southernwood and anoint your Belly well therewith and it will loosen your Body very gently A speciall Remedy for those that spit Blood TAke Betony Mints Smalledge Yarrow and Rue of each a like quantity Boyl them all together in new Milk and let the Patient sup it off as hot as he can endure it and it will help him An approved Receipt to stanch the Bleeding of any Wound TAke a linnen-cloth and burn it then take the powder thereof and spread it thick upon another cloth and lay it to the Wound and it will stanch the bleeding of it immediately Also take Pimpernel and hold it between your Teeth and you shall not bleed any more whilest you hold it there Another excellent Remedy to stanch Bleeding TAke a Toad and dry him very well in the Sun then put him into a linnen-bag and hang him with a string about the Neck of the party that bleedeth and let it hang so low that it may touch the Brest on the left side neer unto the Heart and this will certainly stay all manner of Bleeding at the Mouth Nose Wound or otherwise whatsoever A speciall Remedy to cure one that is bitten of a Mad Dog TAke Night shade Betony and Wild Sage of each a handfull and a pint of fair Running Water Stamp the Herbs and strain them with the said Water and then put thereto one peny-worth of Treakle and so give it the party to drink 3 or 4 mornings together fasting and apply the Herbs strained to the Wound and this will shortly help Another excellent Medicine for the biting of a Mad Dog Adder or Snake or any other Venimous Beast DRink in dragon-Dragon-water the powder of Crefish shels with Mithridatâ— and apply to the Wound Garlick and powder of Crefish-shels mixed and strained together To avoid the stinging or biting either by Wasps or Bees TAke a good quantity of Mallows stamp them and mingle them with Oyl-Olive and whatsoever part of your Body is anointed therewith neither Wasps nor Bees will touch there A speciall Receipt to destroy Lice TAke Frankincense and beat it into fine powder and a good quantity of Bores-grease Boil them together in an Earthen Pan and when it 's boiled anoint therewith the place where the Lice are and you shall be suddenly rid of them Another for the same purpose TAke two peny-worth of Staves-acre beat it into very fine powder then searse it and mingle the same with Sope and Tobacco Ashes and so make an Ointment thereof use this often and it