place of thy Head For the Rheume in the Head TAke and seeth Pimpernell in Wine and drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold this will help thee Or take and stew Onions in Water in a close pot and bath thy Head thy mouth and thy nose therewith and it will help thee For the weaknesse of the Brain TAke a handfull of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Hysop Betany the leaves and roots and the seeds and roots of Pyony wash all these said herbs and put them into a pottle of fair Water and let them seeth together untill the one half be wasted then take out the herbs and put to the said water almost half a pint of Honey clarified and let it boil well together with a dram of Stecados knit in a linnen cloth and let it boil till the sweetnesse of the Honey be boiled out then take out the Stecados and put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon three Nutmegs well bruised and put them to the same liquor and seeth them together a good while then strain it through a linnen cloth and so use to drink it morning and evening and it shall comfort thy Brain For hair that faileth on thy Head TAke and bray Lineseed and mingle it with oyl-Olive and when it is well beaten together anoint thy Head therewith three or four times and this will heal thee or take oyl of Tartar and warm it and then rub your Head with it or any place that is scald eight or nine dayes and the hair will come again An excellent medicine TAke a farthing worth of Pellitory of Spain and a quarter of Stavesacre seed and beat both together and then drink a draught of Malmsey and put a spoonfull of this powder into your mouth rolling it up and down till your mouth be hot and full of flegme and then spit it all out then take a stool and set before you and lay a cushion under your knees and set a bason under your mouth and gape as wide as you can and then the flegme will void from you out of all the members of your Head and if it come too fast hold over your Head to the bason and let it go use this once in a year and you shall be the better for it a long time A remedy for the Head TAke the juice of Ivy leaves mixt with Oyl and Vineger and rub therewith your temples and your nosthrills For lightnesse in the Head TAke small tents of linnen cloth and dip them in Cinamon water and put them into thy nosthrills and thou shalt be help't presently To purge the Head of evill humors TAke the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew a piece thereof on either side of thy mouth between thy Gumms and close thy mouth fast till the water cometh down then let the water go forth but hold the root still a quarter of an houre For pain in the Head TAke the juice of Ivy that groweth upon trees and oyl of Roses and mingle them together with Wine and anoint your Head therewith and this will make it leave aking Probatum For the Eyes FIrst if it do come of Rheume or corrupt blood purge Rheume and blood if it do come otherwise be let blood in a vein called Mediana and use locall waters as waters to mundifie the place and then use Salves sanative For a white that doth grow over the black of the Eye FIst purge the Rheum with Anacardine and Sternutations or Gargarices and then make a plaister made with the white of two Egs beat it well together and then put to it a little Honey and after that put to it Flax or Tow and to bedward lay it over the Eyes and let it lie all night and in the morning wash thine Eyes with cold water and a fine cloth do this three nights one after another and be whole For a bloodshotten Eye TAke the white of two new laid Egges and beat them to a watrish spome then put Tow unto it and three nights together lay it to thine Eye and bind it fast and renew it every night and wear a green cloth before thine Eye For a blast in the Eye MEddle not with it with medicines but wear before thine Eye a piece of black Sarsenet and eat neither Garlick nor Onions nor drink no Wines nor strong Ale and it will away A water to clear the sight TAke Fennell Vervain Roses Salendine and Rue of each two ounces and distill them and wash thine Eyes therewith for it is good for all manner of sore Eyes For blear Eyes TAke the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with water made of the white of an Egg and put it into thine Eyes and it shall put the blood and aking away A water to clarifie the dimnesse of the sight TAke the juice of Fennell and Salendine Rue and Eyebright of each two ounces Honey an ounce and a half Aloes Tyme and Sarcocell of each half an ounce the caul of a Capon Chicken or Cock two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Saffron of each a dram Sugar Candy six drams put all into a limbeck of glasse and distill it and of this water put into your Eyes and if you could get the liver of a Hee-Goat and mix with the said things in the distillation that water will be of much greater vertue and almost without comparison Another for the same TAke the green Walnuts husks and all from the trees with a few Walnut leaves and distill thereof a water to drop into your eyes A singer powder that drieth and taketh away the rednesse of the Eyes TAke Tutty prepared an ounce Antimonie half an ounce Pearles two drams red Corall a dram and a half pound all these together very fine and keep them in a box of Tyn and use when thou hast need A Regiment for them that have sore Eyes TAke heed that you alwayes keep your body loose and abstain from fire smoke wind dust and over hot and cold aire and from weeping and long reading of small letters from over long watching over much drinking of Wine and eating late for all these are noysome to the Eyes also all vaporous things as Onions Leeks Garlick Mustard Pease and Beans are very dangerous forbear day sleep and behold green things clear and precious To clear the sight or for rednesse of the Eyes TAke Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it with white Wine and let it so stand a day and a night then take off the thinnest ryne and wet your Eyes with a feather to bedward For a Pin and Web in the Eye IF there be a Pin and Web in the Eye or other blemish in the ball of the Eye take water of Pimpernell Vervain or Salendine To make a good water for sore Eyes TAke Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain torn Mintill Betany red Roses Endive Sowthistles call'd Chicken meat Pimpernell red Salendine Filago the leaves of Piony the leaves of white Vine March Egremony Sinkfoil called Woodbine
handful of Sage as small as may be and put thereto two penyworth of Treacle and a penyworth of Aqua-vitae temper them well together and lay a plaifter thereof to the Wrist of the hand and in the Nape of the Neck and thus thou may'st heal him that is lame of the Palsie in short time For the Palsie that maketh a man bed-ridden TAke both the crops and blossoms of broom and seeth them in good red wine till it be thick as Oyntment and then anoynt all thy body with it and use this and it will make thee whole An excellent Drink for the Palsie Proved divers times TAke the flesh of a Fox new killed and lay it all night in new Milk and the buds of Rosemary leaves and flowers and that a great quantity and half a handful of Harts tongue and take away the string that goeth along the back of the leaves and a good quantity of Bugle and a few small raisins styll all these together with a gentle fire and when it is forty days old drink it fasting it destroyeth the Palsie and maketh good bloud Medicines for a Fellon TAke Groundsel and stamp it small then temper it with oyl of Roses and make it like a salve and lay it to the sore and this will heal thee To break a Fellon hastily TAke the yolk of an Egg and Bay salt and powder of Coperas and lay it to the sore and it will break it To destroy a Fellon TAke Scabias a good handful or two then take Sheeps suet and brown bread and chop all these together small then fry them in a pan and lay it hot to the Fellon and it shall destroy it Medicines for the Impostume within a mans Body TAke young Walnuts and stamp them Rindes and all and lay a plaister thereof upon the Navel and this will destroy an Impestume as Isaac saith Or take two handfuls of Clot roots made clean and seeth them well in half a gallon of good Ale or more until the fourth part be wasted away and let it run through a cloth but wring it not and let the sick drink thereof three days and then other three days and if thou wilt thou may'st put thereto Licoras This is proved To break an Impostume TAke the kernels of Wall-nuts and stamp them with Rue and lay a plaister thereof morning and evening upon the Navel and without all doubt it will help thee of all other swellings To put out an Impostume without peril TAke and drink the juyce of Mary-golds with red horehound and thou shalt be whole Medicines for the Measels or Shingles TAke the juyce of Arch-angel and dip a linnen cloth in it and lay it to the sore morning and evening untill it be whole Probatum est To take away the Scarres of the small Pox or the Measels TAke the blood of a Bull or of a Hart and this is much commended of Authors to be good to anoint hot the scarres and also the liquor that issueth out of the sheeps clawes hot in the fire or the dripping of a Signet or Swan upon the place oftentimes hot For the Shingles or Measeles TAke a Cat and with a stick beat her ear a good while and when you have wel beaten her ear cut off that ear first and with a sawcer save the blood and then cut of the other ear as you shall need and with that blood anoint the place where the Shingles be and use this three times and be whole Medecines for the small Pox. FIrst let all Physitians beware not onely in this infirmity but in many others not to minister Medicines External which should be repercussive which is to say to drive in the infirmity into the body And beware in this matter of ointments and baths and of cold and open ayers or of picking or touching any of the pushes or skabs keep the Parient warm and let him be of a good diet to comfort blood although some that be expert Physitians in this matter would that a man should exhaust blood out of a vain named Mediana For Pock-holes TAke for a man the grease of a Capon and for a woman the grease of a Hen and anoint the place where the Pock-holes be and it shal cleanse them and make them appear as it were no Pock there To drive out the Pox. TAke Malmsey Ginger and Treacle and mingle them well together and when thou goest to bed drink a good draught and it will drive out the Pox. For the French POX OF this there be many kinds some be moist some be watrish some be dry and some be scurvy some be like Scabs some like Ring-worms some be fistuled some be festered some be Cankers some be like Wens some like Biles some like Knobs or Kernels and some be Ulcerous having a little dry Scab in the midst of the ulcerous Scab some have ach in the joynts and no sign of the Pox and yet it may be the Pox. The cause of this infirmity doth come many wayes it may come by lying in the sheets or bed wherein a Pockie person hath lyen the night before it may come by lying with a Pockie person it may come by sitting on a Jakes where Pockie persons did lately sit it may come by drinking with a Pockie person but specially it is taken when one Pockie person doth sin in Lechery with another all the kinds of Pox be infectious and therefore beware of them A Remedy TAke the grease of a Boar the skin clean taken away the weight of a pound of the powder of Brimstone three ounces of the powder of Oyster-shels two ounces of Verdigrease the weight of twelve pence of the inner bark of the branches of a Vine two ounces of Quicksilver mortifyed with fasting-spittle then stamp all these together in a Morter and anoint thy body specially as near as you can to the sores and then lay the person in a bed and lay clothes enough over him and let him sweat twenty or four and twenty hours do this three times in nine dayes and after that take an easie purgation and take of the water of planten half a pint of Mercury sublimated the weight of eight pence of Roch allom half an ounce make powder of it and mix it altogether and with the feather anoint the place Or take of Turpentine well washed one ounce of Lytarge and burnt Allom of each an ounce and mix these together then take seven ounces of the fat of a Goat or Kid and anoint the place Or take of fresh Butter an ounce and an half of Barrowes grease half a pound of old Treacle an ounce of Mitbridatum half an ounce of Quicksilver mortifyed the weight of six groats of Lytarge and salt of each half an ounce mix this together and make an ointment thereof and anoint the sores therewith and this will heal thee if thou wilt use it as is afore-said For the Cramp TAke the stifle bone of a Hare and as long as you have the same about
Bacon wheaten Bran and the Roots of a Vine and seeth all these together in Brine wherein Flesh hath been laid to Salt and let the hot Vapor thereof ascend to the sore place through an instrument like a Funnel made of Wood and this done wash this sore place with this Water following Take the inner Bark of the Roots of black Thorn and seeth it in a Pint of white Wine Vineger and a Pint of Water of the Bark twelve Ounces of Roch Alum two Ounces seeth these together in a stone Cruse in a Kettle of water closely stopped till half be wasted then strain them and put of this Liquor into the Sore This helped a child of twelve years old that the Canker had eaten through the Roof of his Mouth into his Nose But if the Canker be not very corrosive take Woodbine Sage Lavender Rosemary and Salendine and seeth these in running water and white Wine till half be wasted and then strain them and put to this strained Liquor a little Alum and Myrrhe Honey and Sarcacoll when these be a little sodden then strain them again and rub thy Mouth therewith often in a day For the falling of the Evola TAke a little Pepper and Salt and put it up therewith or else take and seeth a little Pepper in Ale ad dip a Linnen Cloth therein and put it up therewith also take a handfull of Fetherfew and rub it between your hands then lay it to the Crown of the Head and it will draw up the Evola For a Canker in the Mouth TAke Rosemary Sage and running Water and seeth them well together and put to them Roch Alum and wash thy Mouth therewith or take Woodbine leaves and stamp them and put thereto a little running Water and strain out the Juice thereof then put to the same a little white Coperas and wash thy Mouth therewith and it will be whole For a Canker in the Mouth TAke a sawcer full of Wodbine-water and put thereto as much Alum as a Hasell Nut and then take of Mell-Roset as much again as the Alum is and put to it a spoonfull of good Vineger and boil all these together upon a Chafingdish and wash the Canker therewith Medicines for Teeth To make Teeth white TAke Vineger of Quinces and dip a little piece of Cloth in it and rub thy Teeth and Gums therewith the said Vineger fasteneth the Teeth and Gums comforteth the Roots of the Teeth and maketh sweet Breath To keep the Teeth sweet clean and from danger of Worms or a Regiment Ach TAke a Pint of White Wine two Ounces of Alum and a quarter of an Ounce of Honey boil them together and wash your Mouth therewith every Morning A Regiment for the Tooth-ach YOu must wash your Mouth before and after Meat with warm Water to cleanse the Mouth and purge the Humors from the Gums which descend out of the Head it is good every Morning to wash the Mouth and to rub the Teeth with a Sage Leaf or with Powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs You must forbear Lettice and raw fruits all tart things and the chewing of hard things also all Meats of evill digestion and vomiting and straining of your self For the Tooth-ach TAke the Root of Henbane and seeth it in Vineger and hold in thy Mouth the Decoction thereof and the pain of the Teeth will away straight or take Hysope and make a decoction with Vineger and wash your Mouth and Teeth therewith being hot and the pain will away Another for the same TAke Wheat Bran and good stale Ale and make it thick like Mustard and let it soke therein a quarter of an hour then strain it and put thereto the Powder of Pepper a good quantity and some of the Juice of Rue and make it somewhat thick and put it into a little bag of linnen cloth and lay it between thy Cheek and thy Teeth and lie down on that side and let the Water run out of thy Mouth and use it three or four times and thou shalt never have the Tooth-ach more or take Hounds tongue and stamp it and frie it with Butter and make a Plaister thereof and bind it to thy Cheek on that side that the pain is and thou shalt be whole Proved An approved Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Berries of Ivy and the scraping of a Harts Horn and boil it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to thy Cheek and hold the Liquor thereof in thy Mouth and thou shalt be whole Or take Pepper Salt and the Roots of Primrose and dry them all together and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith To take away the Tooth-ach in half an hour TAke Henbane Seed Smallage Seed and Poppy Seed of each the weight of a Penny and make Pellets thereof as big as a Vache with a quantity of Aqua vitae and lay it unto thy Teeth that ake and the pain shall cease straight A notable Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Pellitory of Spain both of the Leaf and of the Root wash it and stamp it and there of make three Balls every Ball as big as a Plumb and lay the first Ball between the Teeth and the Gummes the space of a miles riding and even as the water ingendreth in thy Mouth spit it out whole and put in another Ball as thou diddest at the first and likewise the third and so let the Water run out of thy Mouth still and be whole straight To make Teeth white TAke Flower of Rie Salt and Honey and mingle them well together and therewithall rub thy Teeth every day twice or thrice and then wash them clean with Water and they will be clean Or take green Branches of Broom and burn them and make thereof a Powder and burn Alum and mix them together and then temper them with fair Water and rub thy Teeth therewith and it will do away the blacknesse of them For the Tooth-ach TAke the green part of the Eldar Rine not the uttermost nor the innermost but the green in the middle between both and Sage Rue and Ginger and a good deal of Salt then grind them all together in a mortar and seeth it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay to the Cheek and be whole Another for the same TAke a Pint of the strongest Vineger thou canst get and a handfull of Sage the Root of a red Nettle the quantity of a Fingers length and as much of the Rine of an Oke and cut them in little pieces and so let the Vineger and all the rest seeth together from a Pint then let the Patient chew it on the sore Tooth and so dresse Evening and Morning half of it at each time and this shall help him for ever Probatum est For to remove a Tooth TAke the Root of a Mulberry Tree and lay it in Vineger three dayes and three Nights and then dry it in the Sun and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith and