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 Hearâsâase drunk in water oâ in water and hony helpeth this disâase 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 ãâã exceeding good Some wâite that Cichory is a singular remedâ for the same disease it is meant by wilde Cichory growing in corns The flowers of Roseâary âade a Conserve hath the same effect in curing this disâase I could declare many other râmâdies commended of Authors but these are sufficieât For the Falling sickness Take the skul of a dead man which is cleanly takân out of the grave pulverizate very sâall add also hereunto five or six Piony kernels well pounded take hereof in the morn one dâam with wine and it is for this disease one of the best remedies An excellent Medicine sor the Apopâexia and Falling sickness Take Aqua vitae perfectly rectified without flegm one pint oyl of Vitriol one spoonful mix thâm and let the patient drink thereof every morn one spoonâul and he shall be holpen although he have had it ten years and ââll every hour And for Apoplexia ye shall give it in the said ordâr but if he cannot drink it so ye shall give it as you think good so that he have it in his body and prâsently 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 moâe 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 âhe same being ãâã by any cause whatsoever Take three drams of Tutia made into âhall powder anâ like quantity of Aloes âpaticum and three drams of fine Sugar ãâã ounces of Rosewater and as much white âine 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 ââârring 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 aâin 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 moâth 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 âgether and strain them then let the juice and and settle for a little space and when it âwell settled power out the clearest from the âsidue and put thereto half as much red ose water as is of the juice and half a quarter ãâã 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 succoââ 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 thââ that be fair clear blind Take Smallach red Fennel Rue Vervinâ Betony Cinqfoile Pimpernel Euârace Sagâ Selendine of each a quarâern of a pound anâ wash them clean and stampe them and dâ them in a clean brazen pan and take fiââeââ Pepper corns and bruise them all to powdeâ and cast them to the Heâbs and a pint of gooâ white wine and three spoonful of life hony and five spoonfuls of a man-childs urine that ãâã 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 thereââ as much Salt as thou hadst of the powder anâ temper them with white wine and let it stanâ ân the bason all a day and a night then do that clear that standeth above into a clean glass ând anoint thine eyes a liâtle therewith when âhou goest to bed with a soft feather and do so often and forsooth he shall be hole on warranâise For them that the Eye-lids be over-turned beneath Take Arnement and hony and the white of âggs of all alike much and temper them together then take hurden of Flax and wet âhem in water and wring out the water clean ând lay these three things on the Hurds plaisterwise And if evil blood be within thy eyes ât shall drive it out and heal them De ophthaâmia There happeneth sometime debility and âulness of sight which must be holpen accorâing to the divers causes thereof as followeth Take Fennil Vervine Celidone Rue Eye-âright and Roses of every one of them alike
much aâd distil them as ye would distil Rose-water and use theâeof a little in your eyes âoth 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 ând Eye-bright of each two ounces hony an âunce and halâ Aloes Tutiae and Sarcocâlle of âach half an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickân 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 liuâks and all from the tree with a few Wallnut leaves and distill therâof a water to drop into âour eyes Pills good for the sight The pills sine quibus asswaged with Trochiskâ of Agarick and Piâulae 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 cruâs 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 lây 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 Houâleek otherwise called Senâgreen 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 ând lay it to the pain Another Take crums of wheaten bread or white an âunce and seethe it in Nightshade or Morrel-âater then mix with the said bread two yelks âf eggs oyl of Roses and Camomile of each ân 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 âhe eye Tow dipped in the white of eggs but et the whites be well beaten first with Rose-âater or with Plantaine-water Another Take red Roses and seethe them and let âhem be set warm to your eye This taketh âway spots of blood that sometime chanceth ân the eyes also it is good for all diseases of âhe eyes and it is good for redness of the âyes that cometh by striking or any such vioâence If at any time there happen a spot or âlemish in the eye by a stroke ye must by and ây 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 Mintââ 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 plaistâr and lay it upon the eye Another Take Roses Sage Rue Celidony of eacâ alike much with a little Salt and distill ãâã water and put thereof a drop or two in youâ eye morning and evening instead of that wâter 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 Coppâris 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 takeâh away the redness of the eyes Take Tutiae preparatae an ounce and Timonie âalf an ounce pearles two drams red âoral a dram and an half powder all these âhings very fine and keep it in a box oâ Tin ând use it For to stop watering of the eyes Take a plaister of powder of Mastick fine Frankincense Bole-armoniack and Gum âragagant with white of eggâ mixt together ând lay to the forehead and Temples Also it âs good to lay ventoses on the Nape of the âeck Also ât is good to make a Collyrie to put ânto the eyes as âolloweth 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 âhree 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 wâh rain water wherein Olibanum or Frankincense hath been âodden For webbes of the eye It may easie be holpen in young folk but ãâã aged peâsons it is very hard And in the beginning ye must mollific them with a decoctâ on of the flâwers of Camomile Mellilote ãâã cool Leaves receiving the fume of the ãâã decoction within the eyes and thân put there in a little powder made with Sugar candy Saâgemme 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 ãâã them eight times and distill them in a coâmon Stillatory then take Hares galls ãâã 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 Sâgar 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 bâdward To stay the humours that fall in the eyes Take Mastick Sanguis draconis the whiâ of an egge and Rosewater of every one a smââ âuantity mixt them altogether and make a âlaâster thereof and spread it on a piece of âelvet and lay it to the temple vain and let it âick âhere till it fall of it self To clear the eyes that be dim of sighâ Take the Juice of Caprifolium or woodâinde and dry it in the sun till it come to a ââe powder after it is pounded strained and ârought to fine powdâr blow some of it âto the eyes and it will help God willing The Juice of Caprifolium is called at the âpothecaries Lycium you ought not to wash âhe woodbinde before the straining especially âhen you make Lycium for the eyes
half the Liquor be consumed then ãâã the Liquor from the herbs and put in ãâã Liquor pure English honey white ãâã and Penidies each of these eight ounces water five drams boil all this with an easie ãâã till it come to the thickness of a Syrup ãâã alwayes as the scum ariseth gather it off ãâã keep it to your use For wheesing in the Chest. Take a Toste of bakers bread and pour ãâã let oil on it upon either side as you woâââ butter a toste strew heaten Sugar on eitâââ side and use it first and last till you find eaââ For delivering from Phlegm Take Hyssop and parsely and stamp theâ temper them with wine or Ale and drink ãâã night and morning Another for wheesing of the Chest. Take spring water one quart put to it ãâã ounce of white Sugar candy and two ouncâ of Liquerice pared and cut small in shiveââ and half an ounce of pure Cinnamon a littââ bruised let them steep in the water all nighâ drink of it first and last until it be âpent Pââbat Remedies for the Cough Take Hyssop great raiâins and figgs of exâââ a handful Liquerice an ounce boil them ãâã water till the third part be wasted then giââ it him to drink twice a day in the morniââ two hours before meat and at night one hoââ 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 âiagragant of every one an ounce Liquerice âwo drams make a powder and let him eat a âoonful thereof morning and evening and ârink after it three ounces of water of Hyssop âr of scabious with Sugar and without Sugar In stead of these waters ye may take the âroth of red cole worts without salt Another remedy Take Syrup of Liquerice and of Hyssop ând drink it evening and morning with a âtisan or of one of the same Syrups with a ââoonful of Ptisan is good Another Take powder of Diairis simple and Liqueââce of each a dram weight and with four âunces of Sugar make an Electuary to be âaten first and last after meat It is good to take Lohoc sanum with a stick âf Liquerice at the coughing and after âeat And there is another Loch called âoch de pino as good at all times as the âther is And it is good to anoint the brest âorning and evening with oil of Lilies sweet âlmonds 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 Diâtragagant 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 theââ altogether in white wine with a dozen of sat Figgs and a little Liquârice 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 Sârâfââa or disease called the King evâl Take barly âlowre liquid pitch wax and oââ âlive 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 elseâhere mentioned at the same time as her Husâand was cured of a broken vein affirmed that âher certain knowledge the roots of Houndsâângue cut in the shape of dice and put into a âânen bagg of about two inches square unââl it be almost full and hang it about the neck âf the partie grieved to lie upon the pit of âe stomack and let it be renewed once in two ãâã three dayes as the vertue decaies It will âreak the disease if not broken if broken it ââll cure it especially if it run brown water white then with more difficultie Against shortness of winde Shortness of winde proceedeth oft-times of âhlegm that is tough and clammish hanging ââon the lungs or stopping the conduits of the ââme being in the hollowness of the brest or ãâã catarrhous humors that drop down into the âungs and thereby cometh straitness of drawââg of breath which is called of Physicians âyspnoea or Asthma And when the patient canââot bend his neck down for fear of suffocation âs called Orthopnoea for every one of these diââases there be very wholsom Medicines deâared 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 ãâã a Fox washed in wine water of scabioâs 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 aâas 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 sâethe it in milk until the lilly be very ãâã aâd plaister like and so as warm as the parââ can suffer it lay it morning and evening âo keep the brest from breaking if it be not too far gone Take clay that is without stones and knead ãâã with sharp vinegar the yâlks of two eggs a âittle English Saffron and work it into the clay ând so take asmuch as will cover the redneâ of ât you must use it cold some brâsts will have âo colour and such are not lightly saved from âreaking To heal the breast Take as many Mallowes as will into a charger ând chop them and seethe them in ruââiâg âater till they be tender pour the waâer from âhem and put them into a pottle of good Ale-drâggs and a peny loaf of leaven brââd âgâated with a quart of white wine let thâse âeethe together till you think it be thick ânough then put thereto half a quarter of a âound of Deares suet and lay it to the sore as âot as the party can suffer it morning and âvening and after that the heat be such as it âryeth this will help any sore in the breast or âny other places You must wash
Sugar beaten sâall 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 stirâing and incorporating the same altogether and so keep it for your use Pâohatum est Take the lungs of a Fox dryed the juice of Liquerice Maidenhair Fennel-seed of âach 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 Lât it be boiled in three pound of fouâtain âr 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 unâil 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 ãâã three or four stick and as much of Par ãâã roots the pith taken out bruised and sliced ãâã put therein then last put in a good spoonâââ of the tender crops of Hysâope so let them ãâã from a quart to a pint still bruising them ãâã a spoon as they boil and when it is ââfficient boiled strain it into a glass and take ââereof warm in the evening a pretty draught ãâã two hours after and before meat fast two ãâã use this it hath done wonders c. âhe Sides Remedies for their distempers âeuâisie 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 ãâã if it may be not breaking the Apple ãâã which hole put in OlibanuÌ of the best the ââantity of three or four grains and cover the ãâã of the Apple then put the Apple into ãâã embers there to soken till it be tender but it must not burn then break the apple ãâã the Olibanum into four or five pieces and give it the patient to eat and forthwith ãâã Impostume of the pleurisie breaketh and ãâã patient recovereth Pro certo oyl of scorâons anoynted often to the griefs vatet âwrodâ See that you apply withal thin Cakes made with the said oyl and the fleying ãâã dryest hot one after another one at once and anointing the grief before any cake ãâã laid on with the said oyl hot and thus the ãâã cakes oyl and hot ashes breaketh the Impostume of the Pleurisie For to cure an Iâpostume which groweth in the ãâã side of the ribes of the side when no other Meâicâââ 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 ãâã 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 ãâã 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 âollihock roots to it being well pounded and add a handfull of barly meal and fry them all âith boars grease and if you will you may âdd sheepes suet apply it hot Probatum est A Catâplasme Take the flowers of Camomil Melilote of âach one handful of the leaves of Rue Marârow Nepthe of each one pugil of the seeds ãâã Annise two drams of the Laurel berries âhree ounces boil it moderately pound it ãâã asmuch hoây as is sufficient and apply it Another Stamp Mallowes roots well sodden then ãâã butter hony and pigeons dung very well âixt et fiet For the stitch Anoint the place with oil of Melilot and apâly 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 âunning water and fry them together in a fryâng pan and make a plaister thereof and lay it âhe side of the patient and it will draw forth âll 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 wâight 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 Trâhisks 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 litâle 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 ãâã the third part of Elect. de gemmis then ãâã two or three ounces of Bugloss and âawme mixed
together For the same It is good to drink every morning three âânces of water of Bugloss wherein hath âeen sodden cloves And it is good to drink in a Morning four âunces of Julep made of half a pound of âawm water and three ounces of Sugar For the same It it good to drink every morning 3. ounces ãâã water of Bugloss wherein hath been sodden âoves And it is good to drink in a morning ãâã ounces of Juâep made of half a pound of âarm water and three ounces of Sugar The âonfection of Diajacinthy is singular and exââllent for trembling of the heart but it is for âoble men not for poor folk âor ach at the heart which are commonly a knot of worms Take unset leeks one handful chopped small ââd frie it with butter and bay salt and lay it ãâã the stomack upon a napkin Take a pinte of white wine English liquerice ãâã 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 Saââron two drams of Quinces four ounces ãâã 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 mouââ 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 treâbling 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 ââfiet 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 ãâã quantitie of the fulness of the stomack ãâã after give him every morning two hours ãâã ore meat and one hour after supper at every me a Lozenge of an Electuary called Diaga ãâã ga or another called Diacinimum which ãâã consume ventosities and with their comâââtable heat drive away the cold and windy ââmplexion of the stomack For windiness of the stomack Take in a morning two hours before meat a ââzenge of Aromaticum rosat and if ye have ãâã aching stomack and cold take every morn ãâã 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 ãâã stomack sanat To help the pains of the stomack a rare secret Take every night last three drams of ãâã 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 kârnels For pain of the stomack Take two drams of Diacinnaâon of Dianist ãâã 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 ãâã ounces of the decoction of Mintes Anniââ seeds cummin and fine frankincense Also drink an Electuary caâled Arcuâaticum whereof receive one Lozenge every mârninâ fasting To comfort the stomack after vomiting It is good to give unto the patient everâ morning an ounce of Syrup of wormwood ãâã Mintes instead of which it is convenient ãâã take a Lozenge as Azromaticum rosatum or Diâgalanga For the same Take evening and morning three hours before meat two Cloves in powder with a spoonââl of the Juice of mintes or half a spoonful ãâã Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloves ãâã d lignum aloes to the weight of a crown with ãâã ine two hours before meat ân 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 ãâã of Endive with a little spikenard anâ an âunce of Syrup of violets mix all these things âith three ounces of Ptisan or whay and âârink it warm A Medicine for winde in the stomack Take a spoonful of hony and two spoonââls of rosewater and set them upon a Chaffing ãâã sh of coales and as the scum ariseth take it âith a feather till be clear Then take it off ââe fire then take a groaâs weight of long âepper asmuch of white asmuch of black ââd asmuch of cummin seed asmuch of ginger ââd beat all together in a Mortar not very ãâã all and put them into a box Then put in ãâã ony and rosewater unto them and mix them âogether with a knife and eat them after dinâer asmuch as a pease and you may keep it as ââng as you will and ever as it dryeth put âhereto 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 aââ strain them and put in Sugar to the juice aââ Cinnamon powder with Sippets of mancheâ boil them as sorrel sops eat them with chicken or what you will It is excellent ãâã a fever or other sicknesses To make Pulvis ducis out of Master Cogans Caj ãâã of the weâkness of the stomack pag. 194. Pulvis Ducis as he saith is usually ââde 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 thrââ 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 ãâã taken out and washed and put them in a bagâ with a
leave off the trusse until three weeks aâter he is perfectly whole For the Fundament coming out Take Aloes Mirrbe ana one ounce terendâ terantur subtiliter and cribrentur And anoiât the Fundament with the oil of Almonds and lay of tâis powder thârââpân and witâ a skarlet ââotâ hot put up the funâament this used will hâlp with Gods gâace âo a mans Fundament when it comes out â true Medicine Take red nettles and stamp them well and put them into an earâhen pât and puâ to them a portion of wine and seethe it well and give it the patient to dâink A special good Medicine proved to heal a rupture or broken man Probat First puâge him with easie purgâtions and let him keep good and straight diet ââll âhe matter be up within his body Then take the juice of Polypodie of the oak of daysies compâry Avens and Beâony in the winter take the juice of the rootâ and all of each one handful stamp them and strain them without other Liquâr 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 powdâr 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 sâails 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 Colâck 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 ââme of cold ye must anoint his belly with of bayes and goose grease For the winde Colick ât is good to drink the Syrup of Elecamââ to wear a plaister upon the belly made ââony Wormwood and Aloes Pilulae Coââ are very good for the said disease especiâââ when the Clâster doth not suffice to âge the cause of the same Also Diamuscum ãâã Diacinnamum are very good Electuaries if âake one of them a Lozenge fasting 2 hours âore meat Likewise it is good to take âhridate with a little white wine or with decoction of Camomile four or five hours ãâã dinner if his belly be naturally lax or â by some suppository or Clyster ãâã Back and Reins The Remedies of their distempers A purgation for Choler coming of Phlegm ââke five drams of Diaphaenicon three ounces Wormwood water and make a drink the ââch received fasting four or five hours afore ât is very profitable âscour câeanse and cool the reins of the Back âake half a pound of brown Sugar candy and one pint of Endive water and anotheâ pint of red rose water boil all thâse togetheâ from a quart to a pint and until it come to thick Syrup which then put into a fair gâasâ and keep it to thy use This Syrup cleanseth the Reins and cookââ the heat thâreof It must be taken fastiââ chiefly and last towaâds bed yet it may be use as occasion sârveth For a pain in the back Take a quart of wâite wine and a quarâ of running water Then take of the crâp ãâã Râsemary asmuch as both the haâds can claââ seethe them till half be consuâed tâen takâ Sugar gâains as ye think good and drink ãâã first and last For ache in the back Take a good onion or two and rost theâ in the Embers then stamp them and straââ out the juice and mix it with asmuch Malmeâ as juice and drink thâreof blood warm firââ and last Probat Another Take Egrimony and Mugwort both leavââ and roots and stamp them small then mingâ them with good Dears suât then smear ãâã anoint the place therewith very warm and ââter 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 Medicâne For heat in the back Take the white of an Egg a little red rose water and
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 thâm 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 wiâe vinâger 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 Cinnaâon Saundârs and Sugar and drink a good âraught of thiâ fasting For the running of the Reins Take white wine rosewater Plantain âater of each alike much in Quantitie one ââarter of a pint two Nutmegs grated two âenny worth of Cinnamon pounded and asâuch of Bolearmony as a Nut beaten âinal the âhite of an Egg beaten to oil and put togeââer and for three dayes use it not but every ãâã shake it together in a glass and then take â morning and evening provided that you ãâã a Syring now and then either with white âne or else rose water together or several ând this is a special remedy for the running of ãâã 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 ãâã home to die having a continued issue of ãâã The Person of the parish advised him take a spoonful of the juice of Plaâtain âing which he did three or four times and was cured and is well and verifies this in Jâly 1652. For the help of the disease called the French pox Take two peny worth of white wine and ãâã peny worth of honey one peny worth oâ Roâh aâlame these three sorts to be boiled toââther and the same to be placed where ãâã griâf doth lie or most offend A Diet drink âo cure Lues venerea or any desperââ disease in mans bodie Take seven gallons of spring water in ârom pât and put into it Sarâaparilla flicâ and bruised three ounceâ set it on the ãâã and let it infuse or boil very gently two houââ thân pât into it fâur ounces of chosen ãâã leaves and cods and half an ounce of ãâã beaten to powder and half an ounce Stychadâs and asmuch of Epithymum of choâââ liquârice scraped sliced and bruised flat tâ ouâces of Camomile flowers one oânce ãâã them into a pot and let them boil all together one hour or more then take it from the ãâã ââd strain it into an earthen pot and ãâã and till it be cold then pure it and ãâã bottles and drink thereof morning and eââing a reasonable good draught Aâ morbum Gallihidropicum cetera Acci e vini albi pounds 96 alias gallons ãâã lib. ss gyâyrrhiz iib. 2. Seaâ ãâã âib â Certâciâ guiaci lib. 2. Coloâââ one ounce coque in balneo Mariae per 24. horas iâ non ââaporet exprime Colaturae ad Mitâridatum optimum one ounce per duâs dies bibat ââantum potest nihil comedat per quatuâr ãâã postea comedat semel in die postea comedat ãâã 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 cuâe but in âourses they be clean contrary âor the Colick beginneth of the lower paâts on the right sâde and goeth up to the higher parts on the ãâã side oâ the belly and it lieth rather more âârward then backward but Neâhâetica Passio beginneth contrariwise above descending downward and ever lieth more toward the back Aâso Nephretica is painâuller a sore meat and the Colick is more grievous after And ofteâ the Colick chanceth suddenly but Nephââtica contrary for commonly it cometh by little and little and evermore before one shall feâl pain of the back with difficultie of urine Item there is more difference for the Colick sheweth dryâess as it were coloured but Nephretica is clear and white like water afterward waxeth thick and then appeareth in the bottom of the vâssel like red sand or gravel Remedy âor 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 bouâd 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 ââme Philantropos or Lithontripon if one take â dram or two after operation of a Clyster of Caâsia or a pill of ante Cibum and after to drink one of the sâid waters or else a little white wine warmed If ye will make a Julep take water oââintes and of Baâm of each half a pound Sugar a quartern and make a Julep of the which one may drink evening and morning after meaâ a draâght Every morning is good to take a Lozenge of the Elect. that followeth A nobâe Eâectuary for the fluxe Take powder of Diagalanga a dram and a half of red corall and Masticke of each a scruple Trâchiskes of Terra sâgillata half a dâam the barkes of Citrons confite and quinces of each one three drames sugar dissolved in water of Mintes four ounces make an Electuary Oâls 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 sâever 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 âed wine is very good Remedie fâr the flux humoral called Diarhaea The said flux ought not to be restrained a sore the fourteenth day iâ nature be not vâry much infeââled And sometime it cometh of hot causes as of color and then the patient must drink beâore 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
those Trochiâkes 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 âhe quantity ââ 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 bâoody flux Take âowder of Comphry and make tosts of wheat bread and put them in red wine aâd 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 cuâe any dangerous flux which is âf âorce 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 whân 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 tâought past help and also to rost an egge stone hard and âlit 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 shiâting them as they grow cold is excellent in thâs case For the bloody flux Womans milk drunk nine dayes togetheâââsting 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 ââhatum 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 paâsley seed red nettle Seed and saxiârage 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 potâage the weight of one scruple or more according to your strength It is a singular Medicine for them that cannot piâs for stopping of the conduites Another singuâar Medicine Take the seed of Smalledge parsly Loâvage 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 âo 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 Fennâl 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
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 inhâs 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 âittle seed and all or ripe burrs put them to dry in a oven for else it will be hard to stamp them âo powder then stamp them with their seed âhis done take a quick hare and strangle her âhat no drop of blood be lost with a strong âord put him so whole or in pieces into an ââarthen pot close stopped the feet head guts skin and all and so let the pot in a ãâã 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 oât-times It s the most exquisâtest thing in the world And although both new as âell 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 ãâã the Hare dried to powder drunk with white wine is excellent for the stone and in red wine for womens diseases for the superfluiââ 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 fâr 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 thârefore for the stone the water is likely to do best the wine in winter may be good as he saiâh and for sâime the wine may be good or better if cold slime wiâhout biting heat but it seemeth the coldness which he Commendâth iâ the coldness of the diuerticks and if the âffect do prâceâd fâom a cold then the wine may do well âr bâst wiâh it Alsâ Mr. âogan in his chapâeâ of the pâeservatiââ ãâã cuââ of the stone in the kidneys and bladder ââth that the water of glamen or Câuchgrasâ with a little pure thin wine is a siâgula Mâdicine 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 wâmb 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 Iâââe 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 baâeâ ââe dram Rubarb a little dryed half a dram ârup of quinces one ounce water of plantain three ounces minglâ altogether let the patiâât drink thâm âour hourâs before meat and âhen give him a Clyster Retentive made thus âake oyl of roses or quinces of mastick of âach âe three ounces âole aâmoniack in powder a ââains meddle alltogether give it as a Clystââ here is to be noted that the Clyster that âe given to stop a Flux must be very little in âuantity Ye may heal the Flux dysenteria as the flux âumâral and take afore your reâast two dâams âf conserves of quinces and he ought to drink ââter wherein hath been quenched gads of âeel ye must avoyd diversitie of meats A purgation for the flux humoraâ Take two drams of Mirabolanes dryed on tile half a scruple âf Agarick in trochisk half â ounce of Syrup of Mintes or two ounces of ââater of bawm and make a potion to be reâived three or four hours afore meat For the suffocation of the matrice The matrice in a woman oftentimes mounteth âwaâds the midââffe and the stomack with
inââlerable pain is called suffocation because ãâã it is choaked ovârcharged with some evil â superfluous matter as by stopping of due âgâtions or too much abstenence of Venus âhereby often chanceth shortness of breath ââin of the head swooning trembling of the ââart contraction of members and otherwhiles ââth 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 fâteen of the red seeds stancheth it again or aâother Flux of âhe mother These Heâbs 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 Rââmedies Fâr suppression or retaining of the flowers or Mââstruus If the blood be too gross and thick you muâ every month give her the syrup of sumitoââ with the decoction of borage and bugloss aââ âther bath her self with fresh water hot And âhen she goeth out of the bath into the bed âe must receive the aforâsaid Syrup and deââtion of the Herb called Rubea tinctorum or ââadder sâdden in clear water In stead of Syâps ye may take the very juice or decoction the Herbs And if the womans blood be slimie cold ând Phlegmatick then she must drink Syrup of ââechados and of oxymel diuretick and afterâârds take the pills called Faetidae and of Aquae âârick and every morning after she must ââke a dram of Trochiskes of Mârrhe with two âânces of the decoction of Iuniper berries âd thereupon drink two ounces of water of ââgwort Moreover it is a proved expert Medicine â give the first day of the new Moon a ââim of powder made of Borax which theââldsmiths do occupie with asmuch Cinnamon ââd a little water of smallage It is good to help and provoke the said purtion by such things as open which must be âen at such time of the Moon as the said woâân 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 ââdicine and secret A certain herb called ââriân not that with coâs and stones in the âât but that which hath a root like the hand â man with fingers and the root of one ââ drieth and groweth in the end of the ââr 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 effâct 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 aââ urine Cantharides the head and other things tâken 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 tââ 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 causeââ flowers Take Nep unset Hyssop Lavender Cotteâ ângelica leaves mother of time French Malâwes Germander Fetherfew of each a good ândful boil them in two gallons of spring âater to one gallon then strain it then put to two good sticks of Liquerice scraped and âuised flat and one pint of pure clarified âây then boil it again four or five walmes ââd drink thereof fasting and one hour before âpper and use exercise A medicine to stop over much abundance of Flowers Take Shepherds purse knotgrass and red âchangel a little quantity pound them aâder and not all together then take the juice each of them and put one spoonful of ââe juice of every one of them into six spoonâââ of stale Ale for Ale is better then Beer this case and drink it of and use this drink âorning and evening To make this Electuary take red Coral in ââe powder two ounces a half white Coral fine powder two ounces Sanguis Draconis fine powder three ounces put to it two âânces of conserve of red roses and mingle ââem well together of this Electuary first take ââe quantity of three beanes morning and ââening 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 ââble 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 Comitâssae 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 dayââ 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 nââ stopped then you must take it again and ãâã the ointment and plaster still until it stoâ and if this will not help it and stop it nâthing will do it as one Master Berâington ââ 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 ââ mornings together drink three or four spoââfuls of the water and fast an hour after For rising of the Mâther Take some knops of Amber otherwise led Succinum and cast them upon a chafâ dish of coalâ until they make a great smotââ and then hold your mouth open over chaffing dish and receive the fume ãâã 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 mediâine for the mother or winde or spleen which riseth about the heart Take Fenugreek Liquerice Fennel seeds Anniseeds Alisander seeds
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 1â2 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 âtching 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 Plâster 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 Sâitch 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 Sâone 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 Tâeth loose 40 Teeth to leave aching or faâl out 40 Teats of a woman impostumed 57 Termes to bring down 122 Voice hoarse 44 Voice hoarse of long continuanâe ibid. Vein broken to knit 69 Vrin that is sharp 111 Vâin that is hot and burning 112 Vrin that is foul or red 113 Vrin to provâke 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 Shinglâs 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 multipliâity 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 âyl 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 ãâã sharp pain and heat chiefly on the right side oâ the Head Ye must give him morning and evening ãâã drink Sârup of Violets with a mean draught ãâã Endive Water in a glass or of Cummin waâââ sâdden and cooled again And instead of the Syrups you may drink water of Endive Succâry Puâslain and Nenupâar mixed together ãâã 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 shaâing 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 aâe 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 lâid 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 thâm 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 Fistuâa 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 morâings 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 fiâst and last do so for three daâes together about the time of the Moon your fit comâth If it be for a chiâde â pint may be given at four dâaughts 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 âr 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 Oâiental Smaragd prepared half a dram The half part of which is one dose in the water of our Ladies thistle Caeâar 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 wiânesseth 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 Tobaccâ ãâã 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 blackâhorn and a handful of Polypodium otherwise called in English Oakefearn and two good âandful of Selendine if it be possible it may âe had and stamp them very well and then âet them to steep either in Ale or Beer for the âpace of two hours or more and then put it inâo your earthen pot where it maybe kept close ârom any air and let the party grieved drink a âood draught thereof every morning fasting ând last in the evening and let him use it for âhe 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 Mâstard-seed Nutmegs of each half a dram Piony-seed seven ârams Diptamni two drams make thereof a âowder and let it be given in the morn with âot wine Another expert against the Epiâepsie Take red Coâal the forepart of the skull of a man of grains of Piony of each one âram 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 âome water appropriated and if it help not at once then renew it in the same manner and âose as before It is found that many things have a natural vertue against the faâliâg eviâ not of any quality elemental but by a siâgular property or rather an influence from heaven which almighty God hath given unto things here on earth as by these and other Saphiâes Smargdes red Coâal Piony Misseltoe of the Oak âaken in the Moneth oâ March and the Moon dâcrâasing Time Savin Dill and the stone found in tâe belly of â young Swallow and others these or one oâ them hangâd about the neck of the child saveth and prâserveth it from the said sickness Take âhe root of Piony and make it inâo powder and âive it the
the place beâng 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 ând make a hole in the root as hollow as you âan and cover the root close with the cap you âut off or with a piece of a tile-stone and cover âll 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 claâified 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 breât which is âaw 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 âf wheat and make thereof a Plaister and lay hereto ââr womens brests or swelling that cometh by cold in child birth Take and lay Chickweed upon a Tyleâone and rose leaves upon Chickâeed upon the rose leaves again so that hâre be of them two or three leaves then âârinkle it with vineger and boil all these âpon the tyle-stone And when it s well boilâd take another Tyle and lay upon thaâ and âut it asunder and lay to the swelling and it âill take away the pain ân approved Medicine for them that haâe cold in their brests Take oil of Camomil and Aqua composiââ âingle them together against the fire chafe ââe breast well withall that it may enter into ââe Stomack and veines This hath holpeââany âpproved Medicine for a sore brest that is broken Take Malâowes and boil them with sheeps âllow till they be very tender then strain it ââd keep it in boxes and if the brest have âeed to be tented take a piece of the stalk of ââe Mallowes that are ââdden and tent it withââl 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 Egâmiony 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 hâaled a breast so sore as it was thought uncurable Ye must warm the water and Herbâ every âime ye dress the brest A medicine for the womanâ brests if the sore ãâã of Milâ Take Mallows as ye get to be holden in a âharger and cut them small and seethe them ân a Gallon of running water and when they âesodden soft put thereto a potile of the âroânds âf Ale and a quart of white wine ând two penny white loaves cutting off the ârusts leavened make it thick and put into it âeers Sueâ or Sheeps Sueâ and lay it upon a âlew cloth or linen cloth and lay it warm to âhe sore brest every day as long as its sore ând 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 ãâã fair running water then take fresh Sheeâs âallow and fry the Linseed therein and eâân as hot as ye may suffer it lay it thereon Remedies for the Pthisick Pthisis is an ulceration of the lungs by âhich all the body falleth into Consumption ãâã such casâ that it wasteth all save the slâin yââay know him that hath a Pthisick for ârom ãâã to day he waxeh ever leaner and dryer ând his hair falleth and hath ever cougâ and âitteth sometimes matter and bloody strings âithall And if that which he spitteth be âut into a bason of water it falleth into the bottom for it is so heavy A remedy Take two oânces 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 âiggs 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 consumptâon 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 lââewarm three or four times until they be clean from the blood thân dry them in a pot in an Oven after the baâcâ 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 sâme 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
if when the fever is past the Jauâdize ta ãâã still the patient must drink water of ãâã râll and fennel with the Syrup of oxysaââh ãâã composit Jaundise sometimes cometh withoââ a fever and may be healed thus drink ev ãâã morning four ounces of the decoction of Ho ãâã hound made in white wine Ye may let ãâã drink seven or eight dayes together in ãâã morning a good draâght of the decoction Politrichon or maidânhair The decoction of woodbinâe or the water of it distilled a common still is a soveraign medicine ââr said disease Another singuâar Remedie Take cowes milk and white wine of ãâã a pinte and distill them in a still keep ãâã water a moneth and then give it the ãâã âhree ounces in the morning two hours before ââat and likewise after supper when he goâth to bed A ââmedy for the Iaundise and strangury and dyssury and straitness of breath and to break the stone in the bladder Aâianâhes otherwise called Gallitricum in Engâish Maidenhair or maidenweed the leavâs âre iâe Coliander sodden in pure water or in âine and therewith make a Syrup with Sugar ând when ye seethe it put in the root âf Fennel march the branches and leaves of ãâã âme or Borwoât and give it with wiâe ând thou shalt see the marvellous cures in âhese disâasâs A perfect help of the black Iaundise The powder of shell snayles eaten and ârunken killeth the black Jaundise pro certo For the yellow Iaundise Take one handful of Chickweed and stamp ãâã and strain it into a draught of Ale and use ãâã three dayes fasting and last Probat The Spleen For dis eâses of the Spleen IN oppilations caused of a hot humourâ must give the patiâât four or five mârninâ fasting Syrup of Endive water and Heartâ tongue then a purgation made thus A âurgation to avoid Melanchoây Take an ounce of Succo Rosarum and thrââ ounces of the decoction of the roots of Câââparus and Harâstongue and âake a dâink tââ which ye may minister in a good day to takâ purgations for Melancholy Drink Syâup of Staechados or Heartstongueâ or oxymâl diureticum wâth water of the dâcoction of Hâââstongue Eâithyme sâallagâ roots parcely rootâ Tamariscus and mintes âr else onâly with the decoction of hearâs tongâe and roots of Capers And theâ after purge from such Melancholy humââ with an ounce of Diacaâholicon and twâ drams of Diaâena dissolved in three ounce of the said decoction or water of wormwood or Heartstongue And aftâr this ye must anoinâ the side of the spleen with oil of âlies oâ of Dill or anoint the said side with Dialtheâ An expeât medicine for all diseases of the spleen Take the leaves and cods âf 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 âhe ash aâd cleanse them and bruise them well in a morâaâ and seethe them well in white wine from a pottle to a quart and of that liquoâ milk warm dâink at morning and at evening the quantâty of seven spoonfuls and thou shalt be whole For diseases oâ the Spleen Ye must give Syrups and purgations aâ is âforâsaid and to be let blood of the vein Salâarâlla and after diveâs times to apply Venâoses upon the spleen without scaâââyâng Aââârward ye must lay ân it a lift wât in good âineger an keep it there so long as heât reâaineth in the said lift and warm it three or âour times Afterward anoint the spleân with Dialâhea and so continue four or five dayes and other four or five dayes lay upon the plaister made of two âunces of gum Armoâiack dissâlved in vineger and spâead upon Leather And if by the aforesaid tâings the patient be not eased the Doctors of Physick âaâ that he must receive the Medicines again ât the least once every moneth for half a yâar âogether An approved Medicine for the Spleen Eat Capers and drink after them the water ân a smiths cole trough sanat pro certo An approved Medicine to take away an agââ though a Quartain Take of Bay-salt a spoonfull of the blackest sope asmuch pepper finely beaten nângâe 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 Agââ 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 shouldârs and this must be done before the âit comes in three times doing they shall be âhole For the Fever Take a pinte of stale ale oâ Malmesey and âoil in it powder of Sage and powder of âinger and drink it a little before the shakâng For the Quartan proved by Doctor Simons âaâe a red dâck root and slice it and lay it iââalmesy four and twenty houres and drink it âvery day fasting For the Ague Take a posset made of milk and clarified âith a good deal of Camomil that the strenâth âay be in the posset ale and then let the sick âriâk of it An approved Medicine for the Ague âake three spoonfuls of Aqua composita and six ââoonfuls of Malmesey and put therâ to a quanââtâ of long pepper beaten and asmuch gâaines ãâã it as you would dâes a cup of ale with âânger aâd Nuâmeg and when the coââ is upon ââe 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 âed onion beââ 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 ãâã chopped small Apply it plasterwise two houres before the fit For a burning fever a medicine approved ââue 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 ãâã picked from filth and let the salt melt ãâã 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 Câllendine a handful of bay salt an hard âgge and a raw egge a râsted onion and a raw oniân 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 pâppie two spoonfuls of the white seeds of Lâttice being tâe best one spoonful make them into powder and drink it going to bed in a draught of clarified Mâce 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 pât the âot milk to cold butter and it will be a posset you must use that posset ale first and last a week together It cuâeth also such as âake bloody water To make a breath to cool one in a fever Taâe fair water and put thâreto French barly boyl until the watâr be red thân pour the red water from it and put into barly the hot water some Liquorice some cooling herb as Violet leaves and strawbeâry leaves and put in some Lettice seeds and let it boil until the barly be very soât 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 Seâa two ounces of Polypody oâ the oak half an ounce Bay-berries half an ouâce 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 nâw 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 Tobaâco and open the the Leaâ if it be in roul and stâep 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 âast two hours after and you shal have youâ stomack well purged and cleansed of Phlegm and choler This will our Engââsh 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 hâlp for it hath been proved many âimes An excellent plaster to put away the Ague fit either Quotidian or tertian Take a good spoonful of Bay salt asmuch ârankincense bruised both so small as you can and put to them the bigneâs of an âgge 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 thickneââ 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 steepâd in rose vinâgar thân stamp it with a spoânful of bay salt and one spoonful of Olibanum and lay it on a cloth spread well and thick to the left hand wrest leâinâ it ly there four and twenty hours Probatum What to give one in the fever or Ague Give them one dram of Theriaca Andromacââ mix it with one ounce of Conserves of Red roses and with dragon water or water of Carduââ 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 watâr 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 Prâbatum 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 vâry 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
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 ânoint it two or three times a day till it be whole and keep the Salve in a box to use it at âeed Probat For a burn or a scaâd Take Mousear a good handful of Primâose leaves an handful Fearn roots an handful âound these together and boil them in thick âream till it come to a butter then strain it ând 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 timâs is made thus Take the head and feet of a weather seethe them till the bones fall asandâr 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 aâhes of each a like portion wormwood a hânâful âeethe 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 âf 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 grâase a sufficient quantity wherein ye shall chaâe 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 singâlar 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 aâd gâinde 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 fây them and strain them out and keep for the same intent This ointment hath gâeat 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 gâeat 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 gâease 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 gâodly 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 âake 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 muâk or civet and keep it Tâis sope is exceeding good to âure a great scab or itch and without peril but in a Childe shall suffice to make it weaker of Mercury Anoâher approved Medicine for scabbiness and Itâh Take Fumitory dock roots scabious and the roots of Walwort stamp them all and set them in fresh grease to putrifie thân fry them and strain them in which Liquor you shall put turpentine a little quantity brimstone and fâankincense 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 âkin for a bitter decoction shall destroy them and dây up the moisture of the sores Ad scabiem tam siâcum 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 thâm very small as is possible Then take thâreof a pound and of Barrowes grease of common Sivil oil ana three ounce Of new wax one ouâce Of quicksilver mortified of Turpentine washed ana two ounces Of common salt half an ounce Melt your oil your âarrowes grease and your wax together then put in your roots prepared and after your Quâcksilver then strain it and in the end put in the Turpântine 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 Oâanges 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 quaâtâr 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 suâfet 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 ãâã penyrial half a handful of Horeâound six crop of Marjerom two ounces of Liquerice weââ 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 therâto half an handful of red Fennel half handful of Hartstongue and half an ounce ãâã 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 guââ arabick four ounces of pure Frankincense ãâã Miârh of gum Jvy and of Lignum aloes ãâã each four ounces of Galââgale zedoary oâ Gingeâ of the white Dittany of leaves of Conjoliââ minor of Nutmeggs of Cinnamon of each on dram of Musk and Ambergrease of each onâ dram all these bâat together pour upon ãâã pints of the best Aqua vitae distill it secunduâ arâem The vertues are thâse it breaketh and diâsolve ân the stâne in the kidneys causeth thâ patient to pisse which otherwise is letted ãâã a piece of flesh it helpeth consumption sciâtica 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 swelâng in any part of the body the coldness in ââe 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 ãâã drunk fasting in the morning It com ãâã the heart and brain it healeth the âemorie and wit it purgeth the evil blood ââcovereth Phrensiness ãâã making of Venice Balsam and the vertues thereof Take a handful of the flowers of Dogsâângue of St. Iohn Worât the flowers a handââl white wine somewhat more then a quarter ãâã a pint of gum Elemie one ounce five penyâorth of saffron one penyworth of venice âurpântine one ounce of Candied oil or ãâã oil half a pinte If the flowers of the Herbs are not infused ãâã the oil then boil it in the white wine by ââemselves and then boil the gum Elemie in ââe oil by it self and then clarifie it and cast âway the dreggs and then boil it again all toâether and last of all put in the saffron and ãâã Turpentine when you are ready to take ãâã boiling a little and so clarifie it again ând when it is almost cold put it into a glass to ââe The best way is to infuse the flowers of the Herbs with red roses or Damask in sallet ââil for a year or less The gum Elemie will ââil in the oil a quarter of an hour and after ãâã boiling it together it will be a quarter of a ãâã hour the flowers are to be strained out âodden 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 deaâness iâ the eare the same Ballam ãâã waâmed and anointing the place gâieved and a warm cloath applied thereunto And for tâe ears to lip â little black wool in the same Balsom and ãâã then thârewith This is good for the gâavâ and pain in making of ãâã and the Coâ lick to take the same in a little Mutâoâ broath to the quantity of a great bâan and drink it every morâing 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 leât side therewith well warââd and iâ will dissolve all hardness cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneyeâ and bladder It câreth 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 eâdellent 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 Circulaâion And in a circulating vâssâl 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 sââis whence this Liquor was distilled superââctum 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 Aleâbick 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 Cenâaury 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
of sweet yellow wax twelve ounces of the ashes of the vine tree six ounces these put all together into a Retortartly luted and fenced which after the setting into the ashes distill according to art maintaining a stronger and stronger heat unto the end of the work which you shall perceive by the neck of the Retort within wax curded which is a marvellous signe the distillation is performed It healeth wounds in four times dropping in the person that cannot pisse two drams helpeth presently It helpeth the stitch in the side and many other griefes c. For to make the white plaster Take two pound and four ounces of oil Oliffe of the best of good red lead one pound of white lead one pound very well beaten into dust then take 12. ounces of Spanish sope and incorporate these all together into an earthen pot well closed and when they are well incorporated that the sope cometh upwards put it upon a small fiâe of coles continuing the fire for the space of an hour and an half still stirring it with an iron or the end of a stick Then make the fire a little bigger until the redness be turned into a grey colour but you must not âeave stirring it until the water be turnâd into oil somewhat darker then drop it on a wooden trencher if it cleave not unto the fingâr or trencher then make it up in rols it will last twenty years the older the better The vertue of this plaster The same being laid to the mouth of the stomack helpeth digestion taketh away the offence and grief that riseth in the stomack It helpeth the Colick in the belly being applyed thereto It s good for the flux if it be applyed to the reins of the back It easeth the heat of the kidneys and weakness of the back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away aches it doth break âellons pushes and other pushes and impostumes and healeth them draweth out any running humour withouâ breaking the skin and applyed to the fundament helpeth any diseases there growing its good for the falling of the willow or palate being laid to the crown of the head It also easeth the head-ach being applyed to the temples or forehead It s good against the rheum that falleth into the eyes being applyed to the belly of a woman it helpeth conception A plaster proved on Sir William Farrington Knight of a grievous Marmole that was on his Legg and could not be remedied it was so horrible of stink till a French man healed it with this following Take one pound of Litarge of gold make powder of it as you can âearse it then take one quarter of oil of Roses and a pint of white wine and half a pint of urine well clarified and half a pint of vineger and temper all these together on the fire but put in the urine last then make a plaster of it and lay to the Marmole and it will heal Marmole Canker fester wound all other sores and if you put thereto one ounce of Virgin wax Libanum and one ounce of Mirrhe it will be the more fine and the more precious Probatum A plaster called plaster Emanuel chief for impostumes and other malodies it hath more vertues then man can tell I healeth wounds anon Take Litarge one pound and one dram of gum Armoniak a dram of Galbanum Mirrhe two drams Verdigreece one dram Frankincense one dram Bdellion one dram Mastick half a dram Opoponax half a dram Arisâolâgie three ounces of old oil olive one pound and an half Take the gums and beat thâm âmall and fry them in a skillet on the fire and cleanse them And then do thereto thy Litarge and thy verdigreece and do in these things by and by one after another alwayes stir it well and last put in the Aristologie and so boil it unto a plaster this plaster may soon heal Marmole on the legs and all manner of diseases and impostumes this plaster cometh of God and not of man An approved Medicine against the plague against Carbuncles hot impostumes and such like it will break them expel the poison causeth health Take Ivy Berries dryed in the shadow and after dryed and made into powder and drink them with plantain water It hath helpt the plague in two dayes Probat The partie must sweat in bed and must change the linnen being aired every four and twenty hours It hath holpen the plague in one day and a night An approved Syrup by the Lady Harrington Take a pint of vineger and more then a pint of running water one pound of Sugar and let it seethe till the Sugar be melted Then take a good quantity of Succory and put it to the vineger and water and let it seethe from a pint to half a pint For Venom or poison Triacle in all causes especially Andromachus Triacle with the Snakes flesh in it And the root of Affodil having in it vertue to quicken and strengthen doth cherish the heart by defending it from poison and keeping it in strength A Medicine for the plague or for any Ague Take the best Mithridate half an ounce or one ounce London triacle one ounce Jeane triacle one ounce powder of Saffron one scruple Florum sulphuris or white brimstone in fine powder half an ounce Mix all these well together with the distilled water of Wormwood to the form of an Electuary and give the patient to drink five spoonfuls of the Wormwood water with the Quantity of three Nuts of the aforesaid Electuary bloodwarm in bed and it certainly cureth the Ague or plague by sweat and driveth out the botch and saveth his life which is infected Probat To ripen and break the botch Take the black roots of Crowfoot pound them and lay on a Cloath to the risen If the place be white it is deadly but this plaister will presently c. Against all pesti ent sicknesses or plague and to break the botch and to cure c. Take the âuice of scabious in Ale and give it to the patient warm with a little Triacle and take the root of Scabious stamped with swines grease and spread it on a cloath cold as thick as you can and lay it to the plague sore or any other impostume It must not be changed in twenty four hours Scabious which is also called Divels bit is best for the plague sore To help assuredly divers diseases thats to say to preserve the body from all diseases being drank first and to kill Impostumes to make good colour to resist the plague and to help it to heal the Pâisick it breaketh the stone in the reins it hâlpeth the spleân it purgeth the belly It maketh good colour and expelleth all corrupt blood It healeth wounds in the belly it cleareth the sight Take one pint of Gentian and two parts of Centaury stamp them together and put white wine to them Let them soke five dayes then distill them keep the water distilled in a close vessel use
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 ât it on a chaffing dish of coles let it boil in âqua vitae until it be ready as though it should âe eaten then take it out of the Aqua vitae ând lay it to the neck of the grieved partie ând there let it remain and use it and it will âive the Rheum that doth offend the eyes âroved 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 ââe handful of Balm and still them together ând 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 Proâat A powder to clear âhe sight much decayed and near gone Take of the powder of eye-bright made of the leaves and Flowers stripped together and âo fine powder four ounces of Mace one âince mingle them and take thereof the âight 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 lâmi Aromatici melli one half ounce succi a one scrâple Aquae Celidoniae six drams ue feniculi aquae Verbenae aquae Euphragiae of ch 4. drams Piâeris longi Nucis Moschat iGarioâorum of each grains fifteen Croci grains two âis Rerismarini aliquantulum contusi Pugillum âis Sarcocolle Aloes Hepatice one scruple of e gall of a Hen and of a Capon of each âee drams hony of roses one dram mingle em and distill them in a glass still first bruiâg 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 âficient it s also a fine smelling water with a âtle smell not very easily perceived nor âelling far off It s not much matter whether ãâã Liver of the Kid be of a he Kid or a âe Kid but of the two the he Kid is âought to be the better A preservative for the eye sight Make comfits of Turnepseeds and eat a âre of them after dinner and supper as âny immediately after the said meats It was âected that nine or ten of the said Comfits âould be eaten after meales they are to be âled in Sugar To purge the head and preserve the sight Drink beer every morning a good draughââasting wherein the roots of dog fennell oâ Motherwood is steeped the roots somwhat bruisâd 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 ââflamation and spots scabs scales Itch smaââing or any grief whatsoever in the eyes yââ although the sight were almost gone A gâod water for sore eyes Take a pint of running water half an haââful of Singrene Leaves and a little of unicoââ 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 dâyes he shall be stored to his sight again of very truth Take smallach brown fennile verviâ ãâã âetonie avence pimpernel strawbeââ wisâ Filago Eufrace Câlendine Sage of eââ alike much and lay them all a night to sleep in a childs urine that is a virgin and after put ât into a morter and put seven corns of pepâer and stamp it small and temper it with the sâme ârine 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 dimnâss of tâem 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-âair and Rue Vervine Eusrace Endive and Singâeân Hill-worte red Fennel âf each alike three ounces and wash them clâan and lay âhem in white wine all day and all night and aâââr 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 dâink and the same Tormentil every night laid plaâster 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 ãâã 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 webâe the eye Take a good quantity of three leaved graââ 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
stone to make it sink and hang the drink and drink it in the morning fast ãâã g and at four of the clock in the afterââon Probatum Another for the stomack ââke cakes like apple cakes or Pasties in ãâã or May and fill them full of wormwood ãâã bake them hard the paste must be of âeat meal undrest and brew a stand of strong ãâã beer And when it 's turned and given ãâã e âurging âakââhe âakes when they be ãâã d and cut them into quarters and put ââem into the barrel and stop it up close and âhen it 's settled and clear drink a bowl full draught in the morning fasting and so use ãâã heat in the stomack which maketh the throaâ sore ââke an handful of Columbine Leaves and a âândfull of Cuarrnts boyl them in a pinâe of ââw milk then take out the Currants and the âeaves and shred them together And eat ââe Currants and the leaves and then sup the âilk as hot as you can The Liver Remedies for its disâempers Against stopping of the Liver called opilaâiâ DRink every morning the Syrup of Oxyââ sqyllitick wiââ half a dâaughâ oâ mo ãâã 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 ãâã and then put there to a liââle white sugar ãâã let them eat of it every day fasting Take a good haâdful of iver wort tââ groweth upon stones and another of fumitoââ 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 tââ heat of the Liver seethe Barberries in wheââ and drink them Remedy If it come of gross blood give the patieâ Medicins that do pierce and are suâtil as is wiââ of Pome-granates Srup of Endive with tââ decoction of Cicers Then let him blood ãâã the Liver vein and everymorning eat a Lââzeng of Triasanâali Sometime the said opilation cometh of ââbundance of somâ humour viscouâ coâd and ãâã egmatick stopping the veins of the âiver ââd then the Urine as clear as water and then ââe 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 quarââr of waâer of Endive and five ounces of ââgar make a Julep of which you shall drink ââsting a good draught And if he will needs ârink between meals Let it be mingled with ââo parts of the waâer of the wâll and if ye ââill have it more cooling aâd unto it two âunces of vinâger or the juice of Pomegraâate In stead of the said medicine too costââ for poor folk you may make bâles of half ân ounce of Cassia and three drams of the âlectuary de succo rosarum and eat it three âours after midnight and steep it and so drink ââ mix the said boles with whay or Eâdive âater and drink it at five in the morning but âeep not after it A drink to cool the Liver Take an ounce of Sena Alexandrina a farâhing worth of Anniseeds and a sarthing worth âf Liquerice and a dram of Rubarbe de Spain ând make a powder of the sâme with half an âunce of Polypodie of the oak when the âowder is fine boil it in three pints of white âine before you do put it in make ready âhree 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 sâre 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 Sagittariâs And when ye drink it take a brown toste and wet it in vineger and smâll to it fiet A good râcâipt for the dâopsie 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 abuâdantly 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 aâuâdance 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 wâay clarified âor its good also to pârâe the dropsie water And if you put a little Cinnaâon to the juice of Floweâ-deluce in the ââg yelk its a very good medicine for the ââdding of nature as hath been often proved For the Dropsie or Tympany Take the flower of Dane wort and of the âââves and distill them in a stillatory and ââânk four or five spoonful at a time with the ãâã er of Herb grace in six or seven spoonfuls ãâã white wine one spoonful of the water of âââb grace will serve This is the excellentest ââdicine one can give for this will void the ãâã er out of the belly by usage Probât by ãâã 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 ãâã and to send it to the bowels to be avoid ãâã âith the grosse excrements to the intent to ãâã se the blood of the said choler To the ãâã ch cometh opilations in the parties about ãâã he liver or beneath it in it self nâxt the ãâã els causing great pain by reason whereof ãâã choler turneth again into the liver and ãâã e is mingled with the blood and spread ãâã ad into the veines of all the body and ãâã deth a disease named Iaundise Ictiritia If the Jaundise happen in an Ague befo ãâã the seventh day It is great danger of his liâe but if it appâar on the sixth day being a daâ judicial or critick of the âgu oâ after it is very good sign And thân ye must succoâ Nature with refreshing and diââsting the chââler with Syrup of violets given in the morââing Syrup of Endive with watâr of Cicho ãâã Aftâr this purge choler and then give hiâ a Lozenge of Triasandâl with Ruâarbe evâââ morning two hours before meat and d ãâã a little water of Endive and Cichory afore ãâã said Lozenge Moreover it is good to hath the Liver ãâã wash the patients eyes with vineger and ãâã mans milk anâ drink a Ptisan made of b ãâã I querice prunes and roots of Fennel ãâã
forehead and temples with the milk of a woman oil of roses and vineger a little The Teeth To help the breeding of them IF it come of cold Rheum make a plaster oâ Mastick Frankincense Mirrhe wine anâ apply it to the former part of the head âfume of the same received in flax and laid upon the childs head is wholsom To procure easie breeding of Teeth Anoint the gums with the brains of an harâ mixt with asmuch capons grease and honeâ or any of these things alone is exceeding gooâ to supple the gums and the sinewes And when the pain is intolerable wiââ Apâstume or Inflâmmation of the gums mâkâ an ointment with oil of Roses with the juâââ of Morrel otherwise called nightshade and in lack of it anoint the jawes within with a lâttle fresh butter and hony For lack of thâ harâs brain ye may take the conniââ for they be also of the kinde of hares whâse Mawes are of the same effect in Medicine as the Mawes of Haâes If the gums apostume or swell with soât flesh full of matter and painful the best shall be to anoint the sore place with the brain of an haââ and Câpons grease equally mixed together and after that ye have used this once or twice anoint the gums and apostumations with hony If this help not tâke turpentine mixt with a little hony in equal portion And make a bath for the head of a childe in this manner following Take the flowers of Camomil dill of each an handful and seethe them in a quart of pure running water until they be tender and wash the head afore any meat every morning for it purgeth the superfluity of the brain the seames of the skull and withdraweth humours from the sore place finally comforteth the brain and all the vertues animal of the childe The mouth The Remedies of its Distempers in Chidren To cause easie breeding of Teeth TAke red Coral hanged about the neck where upon the childe should often labor his gums It helpeth children of the falling evil and is very good to be made in powder and drunken against all manner of bleeding of the nose or Fundament Remedies for the canker in the mouth of Children Take drie red roses and Violets of each a like quântity make them in powder and mix them with a little hony this medicine is very good in a young sucking childe and many times healeth without any other thing at all But if there be great pain and heat in the sore ye shall make a juice of purcelaine lettuce and nightshade and wash the sore with a fine piece of silk this will abate the brenning asswage the pain and kill the venome of the ulcer but if ye see the Cankâr yet encrease with great corruption and matter ye shall make an ointment after this manner Take Mirrhe galias or in default of them open apples dried Frankincense of each a like much of the black berries growing on the bramble taken from the bush while they be green the third part of all the rest make them all in powder and mix them with asmuch hony and saâfron as is sufficient and use it Another stronger Medicine for the Canker in the mouth of Children Take the root of Celidonie dried the rinde of Pomegranate dried red Coral in powder and the powder of an hârâshorn of each alike âoch alâoân a liâtle fiâst wash the place with wine or warm water aâd hony and afterward put on the aforesaid powder very fine and subtile The Neck the throat and breast Remedies for their Distempers in Children Another singular medicine for the Canker in the mouth of all ages TAke Hyssop Sage rue of each one good handful seethe them in wine and water to the third part then strain them out and put in it a little white Copper as according to the necessity that is to say when the sore is great put in the more when it is small ye make take the lesse then add to it a quantity of hony clarified and a spoonful or two of good Aqua vitae wash the place with it for it is a singular remedy to remove the malice in a short while which done ve shall make a water incarnative and healing thus Take Ribwort Betony and daisies of each a handful seethe them in wine and water and wash his mouth two or three times a day with the same juice Of Quinsie and swelling of the Thrâat The Quinsie is a dangerous sickness both in young and old It is an inflamation of the neck swelling and great pain sometime it lyeth in the very threat upon the Weasand pipe and then it is exceeding perillous for it stoppeth the breath and strangleth the patient anân otherwhiles it breaketh out like a bouch on the one side of the neck and then also with very great difficulty of breathing but it choketh not so soon as the first doth and it is more obedient to receive Curation The signes are apparent to sight that the Childe cannot cry neither swallow down his meat and drink without pain Remedy It is good to anoint the grief with oil of Dill or oil of Camoâil and lilies and to lay upon the head hot clouts dipped in the waters of rosemary Lavender and Savory the chiefest remedy commended of Authors in this âutragious sicknâss is the powder of a swallow brent with feathers and all and mixt with hony whâreof the patient might swallow down a little and the rest anointed upon the pain Iâem another experiment for the quinsie and swelling under the ears Take the Mushrom that groweth upon an Elder Tree called in English Jews ears heat it against the âfire and put it hot in any drink the same drink âs good and wholsom for the Quinsie Some hold opinion that who so useth to drink with it shall never be troubled with this disease and therefore carry it about with them in journies Of the Cough Stamp blaunched Almonds and wring them out with the juice of Fennel or water of Fennel and give it the childe to feed with a little sugar First anoint his head over with hony and press his tongue with your finger holding down his head that the same may issue Against the great Cough and heat in the body Take heads of white poppie and gum Dâagaganâ of each alike much long Cucumer seeds asmuch as all seethe them in whey with raisins and Sugar and let the childe drink of it twice or thrice a day luke warm or cold The Stomack Its Remedies in Children For straitness of winde AGainst the straitness of winde which is no quinsie the consent of Authors do attribute a great effect to Linseed made in powder and tempered with hony for the Childe to swallow a little at once For vomiting It is very good to wash the stomack with warm water of roses wherein a little Musk hath been dissolved for that by the odour and natural heat giveth a comfort to all the spiritual Members And then it is good to râst
present help To keep the small pox out of the throat Take Diaprunis the quantity of a good Nutââgg and dissolve it in broth and give it âââo the partie grieved in the morning fasting For chafing of the skin In the beginning ye shall anoint the places ââth fresh Capons grease then if it will not ââal make an ointment and lay to the place An ointment Take the root of Flower-deluce dried of ãâã roses dried Galingale and Mastick of each ââke quantity beat them into most subtil ââwder then with oil of Roses or of Linâââd make a soft ointment Item bean flower barly flower and the ââwer of fitches tempered with a little oil of âes maketh a soveraign ointment for the ââme intent Of small Pox and Measils The best and most help in this case is not ãâã meddle with any kinde of Medicines but ãâã nature âork her operation notwithstandinâ if they be too slow in coming out it shall bâ good for you to give the childe to drink sâââden milk and saffron and so keep him close anâ warm but in no case to administer any thinâ that might represse the swelling of the skin ãâã to cool the heat that is within the Members If the wheales be outragious and great ãâã decoction of water Betony is approved goââ in the said disease Likewise the ointment made mention of in the cure of scabs is âââceeding wholsome after the sores are ripââ moreover it is good to drop into the patienâ eye five or six times a day a little rose Fennel water to comfort the sight left it hurt by continual running of the matter Tââ water must be ministred in the Summer coââ and in the winter luke warm The same roâââwater is good to gargle in the mouth if tââ childe be then pained in the throat And lââ the conduits of the nose should be stoppedâ is expedient to let him smell often to a spun wet in the juice of savory strong vineger anâ little rose-water Fevers in Children their cure To take away the spots and scars of the small poxes and measils THe blood of a Bull or of a hare is much commended of Authors to be anointed âot upon the scars and also the liquour that âââeth out of sheepes clawes or goats clawes âoâ in the fire Fevers If the Fever use to take the childe with a âââat shaking and after hot whether it be ââtidian or Tertian it shall be singular good âo give it in drink the black seeds of Piony ââde in fine powder searced and mingled with â little sugar Also take plaintain fetherfew ãâã Vervine and bath the childe in it once or ââice a day binding to the pulses of the hand ââd seet a plaster of the same Herbs stamped ââd provoke the childe to sweat afore the fit âometh Some counâel in a hot Fever if be a ââak patient to take dry roses and powder ââem then temper the powder with the juice ãâã Endive or Purcelain rose water and barly ââwer and make a plaster to the stomack Item an ointment for his temples arms and ââggs made of oil of roses and Populeon of ââch alike much A good Medicine fâr the ague in Children Take Planâain with the root wash it thâ seeth it in faiâ running water to a thiâd paââ whereof âe shall give it a dâaught if it be ãâã age to drink with suffiâient Sugar and lay tââ sâdden Herbs as hot as may be suffered the pulses of the hands and feet this mâââ be dâne a liâtle afore the fit after cover with clothes The oil of nettles is exceediââ good to anoint the members in a cold shakiââ ague Codds The cure of their Diââstempers in Children Of the swelling of the Codds TAke a quart of good Ale and set it on ãâã fire to seethe with the crums of broâ bread strongly leavened and a handful Cummin or more in powder make a plasâââ with all this and sufficient bean flower and âââply it to the grief as hot as may be sâffered Another Take Cowes dung and seethe it in miââ then make a plaster and lay it meetly hot ãâã on the swelling Another Take Cummin Anniseeds and Fenugreâk of each a like portion seethe them in Ale and âtamp them then temper thâm with fresh May âutter or else oil olive and apply to the sore Another Take Camomil Holihock Linseed and Fenuââreek seethe them in water and grinde all toâââher then make a plaster with a handful of âean flower Another in the beginning of the grief If there be much inflammation or heat in the âodds ye may make an ointment of plantain âhe white and yelk of an Egg and a portion of ãâã of Roses stir them well about and apply it ãâã the grief twice or thrice a day when the âin is intolerable and the childe of age or of âârong complexion if the premisses will not âelp ye shall make a plaster after this sort Take Henbane leaves a handful and an half ââllow leaves an handful seethe them well in âear water then stamp and stirre them and âith a little of the broth bean flower barly âower oil of roses and Camomil sufficient âake it up and set it on the swelling luke âarm Henbanes is exceeding good to resolve âhe hardness of the stones by a secret quaââtie notwithstanding iâ it come of winde it ââall be better to use the said plasters that are âade of Cummin Shingles their Cure Of the Erisipelas or Shingles THe remedies for burning are also good in this case Take at the Apothecaries oâ unguent Galeni an ounce and half oil of roseâ two ounces unguent Populeon one ounce thâ juice of plantain and nightshade one ounce oâ more the whites of three Eggs beat them all together and ye shall have a good ointmenâ for the same purpose Item the dung of a Swan or goose with the white and yelk of an Egg is good Item doveâ dung stamped in salt oil or other is a singulaâ remedy for the same purpose Of burning and scalding When ye see a member burnt or scalded Take a good quantity of time which is madâ of water and salt not too exceeding eager oâ strong but of a mean sharpness and with â clout or spunge âath the member in it cold at least blood warm three or four hourâ together the longer the better for it shalâ asswage much of the pain open the pores cause also the fire to vapour and give a greaâ comfort to the weak member then anoint thâ place with one of these Medâcines Take oil of roses one part sweet cream twâ parts hony half a part make an ointment anâ use it Item a soveraign Medicine for burninâ and scalding is thus made take a dozen or more of hard rosted Eggs and put the yelks in a pot on the fire by themselves without liquor stir them and bray them with a strong hand till there arise as it were a froth or spume of oil to the mouth of the vessel then presse the yelks and
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 oâe ounce of the seeds of Annis sweet Fânnel wilde Carrets and Basil of each two dâams 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 minâes 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 Diamosâhi dulcis Diamargariton Diarhâdon 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 vâry 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 vâssâl 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 paâchment 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 âhey 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 liâe 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 rawnâss of the stomack and swelling that cometh of winde swimming of the head the falling sicknes faintness Melancholy passions beating and trembling âf 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 Mithridaâum mingled with it and put into a Clyster for those which have the colick which cometh of cold and winde and ministred presenâly healeth it And to be short it is being used of a mâst excellent remedy âgainst 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 whârewith 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 wâerewith to cure the obstructions of the Liver and the spâeen which is of force to help the same when the said grief cannot be cured by any other meanâ or Medâcine Take the rust of an Anchor or Anchors of ships craped of which file asmâch quantity as you list and this ruââ being ground or beaten into very fine powder steep it in very shârâ white vineger in a balm of warm water in a glasse vessel so as long until you see the vinegar be turâed 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 thoâow 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 powdâr and put the same into a glass with a crooked neck which the common distillers called a Retort stâll 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 âr 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 Nicoiaâs Myrepsus a Greek Author Take of spici nardi fol. which is a leaf of India Cloves Saffron Cinnamân Epiâhymi which is a Herb like a round Lace growing in some Countries upon time the flowers of Mucus odoraâus which the Apothâcaries 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 Irââs 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 âhe 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 âr Apostumation of the âângs And those that have sowre belâhing and also for âhose 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 easâth the gout of the feet if it be given before the accidents comeâ and in especial it profiâeth much for womens diseases in which number are accâunted 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 aâsolutely and in âew words it is the gift of God for whosâever 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 Preâiosa otherwise the admirable water of England Take Galingale Cloves Cubebs Ginger Meliâote 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 inâused 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 cureâh 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 âe hot neither melancholy or Flegm to be about it nor to have domination above nature It also expelleth the rheum and pârfecteth the stomack and comforteth youth in its own estatâ engendâeth 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 whiâes 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 stoââ 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 ââeweâ 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 pânyroyal 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 sâlf for it is the best and keep the sâcond 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 Tuâpenâine six pounds olibanum two ounce Aloes citrine cubâbs Mastick Cloves galingale Cinnamon Nutmegs of everich one ounce gum of the fig-âree and of the juice of each three ounces then make the drugs in powder and put all into a Limbeck of glasâ wâich 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 ând 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 câreth any impostume green wounds and ulcers scabs and all other superfluous humours and the tooth-ach ye any fisâula or canker in nine dayes also the noâi 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 healâth strengtheneth and all other things rectifieth the âiâewes 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 âsmuch of time red stringes tâat grow upon saverie one handful red Fennel Leaves and roots red mintes a handful pât 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 Nuâmeggs Cloves and saâiron 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 âs 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 ãâã shall remain good in the first ingredience of this water You must keep this waâer 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 strengâhneth and fortiâieth 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 âhân 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 powâer and put them in a stillatory covered over âith Muscadel or good Malmesy and let it âtand so xxiiii hours then still it with a slow fâre 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
Wort Hypericon of every one half a handful shred them small and boil in the oil and wine to the consumption of the wine and then strain it and set it over the fire again putting Frankincense and Mirâhe in fine powder alwayes stirâing in putting in the powder And in the end put to it Turpentine and then strain it again into some glasse alwayes remembring for every pound of of oil one ounce of Turpentine This cureth wounds without tenting at all A medicine for all manner of ulcers and sores very pleasant called Lycion The making of virkin lycion is the juice of Capri foli Lycion cureth the canker in the Matrice and in the skin and bones Lycion is a principal medicine boiled with hoây unto the thickness of hony It may be made thus Take the juice and set it in the sun for to dry that it may be powder and this powder of Lycion serveth dark eyes for it is called Luciâum ocu'o It profiteth also Chirurgery that is thus Take the juice of Caprisolij by it self and put thereto asmuch clarfied hony and seerhe it unto the wasting of the hony let it be kept unto the time of your use and this availeth unto all fraudulent ulcers of the Leggs in such time of the year if the herb be so dried that the juice will not be pressed out thân may the Leaves be infused in good white wine or red and then may the juiee be pressed our for to know that Caprifolii ought not to be washed with water but with this white wine and especially when there ought to be made Licium for the câre of the eyes Also Leaves of Caprifoli bruised by themselves with all his substance without medling of any other thing put it upon an ulcer of a Legg dâsperate and stiâking and puting out foul blood it cureth them marvellously and this was proved in the Legg of a great man having a pustule in cuâing of which all Medicines failed and with this onely was cured For to make Mermale Take Camomile Betony Sage hey how sothernweed Mugwort wormwood water cresses Mallowes Holihock Horâound red nettle Laurel leaves of each a good handful and half and wash them and pick them clean and stââp them small and put there to May butter and temper them well together then put thereto a pint of oil olâffe and mâddle them well together and then put them in an eaâthen pot and cover it well and set it in a moist place the space oâ seven dayes then put it in a clean pan and set it over the fire and let it fry well and stir it well with a slice that it cleave not to the bottom and then strain it and set it over the fire again and put thereto two ounce of virgin wax and four of weathers tallow melted and boil them a little then put thereto four ounces of fine Frankincense fine powdred and stir it well together till it be well medled and take it down and strain it and let it cool then karn and let the water and turn and cleanse it on the othâr side and warm it and a little skumme it with a feather and do it in boxes this ointment is precious for joints or for sinewes and for many other diseases Diaflosmus Diaflosmus is thus made Take juice of smallage and wormwood Mollein Walwort Speldearge crowfoot Melilote dowfoot Weybred Mugwort Avence Daisies Woodbind Burris hony suckles of every of the juice of these Herbs take two ounceâ sâve onely of woodbinde thereof take three ounces clarified hony two pound and four ounces then mix your hony your juice together and set it on an easie fire and boil and stir them so long till it be welââgh as thick as hony that is mâlting then take it from the fire and put it in an earthen pot and keep it to your use for now it is called Capsimel hony of Molloin But when ye will use of this most precious Medicine in Surgery Take of this Capsimel four ounces and of wheat meal three ounces put these together and set them upon an easie fire and all to stir it that it cleave not to the pans bottom And when it is through hot take it off then take oil of clare or of roses virgin wax of each three ounces and mix them together and then put all together and mix them well together and when it begins to cool then put to it 2. ounces of Turpentine and stir it very well together and then it is called Diaflosmus Idem est quod Flosmus anc Molleyn Take of this byster and spread on stupes of clean Linnen cloth without slyms or on carpe and lay it to a fistula in the Fundament or to a Canker marmole fester plague wolfe or noli me tangere and it healeth not only this but every most horrible sore as bruises rucomes swellings and all others A balm of great vertue Take of Turpentine four ounce of frankincense half an ounce of Lignum aloes two drams of Mastick of Cloves Galingale of Cinnamon Zedoaria of Nutmeggs and of Cubebs of each two drams of gum Elemie one ounce and a half This Bawâ marvellously worketh In that it putteth away both wayes in applying of it both within and without the body and many other incurable diseases as the Canker and the fistula c. A very precious Aqua vitae Take Cinnamon half an ounce Lignum aloes five dramâ Cubebs Cloves three drams and a half galingale three drams yellow Saunders three drams and a half red rose leaves dryed four drams and a half Nutmeg and Mace a dram Musk half a dram Amber greese ten grains Syrup of the bark of Citrons one pound Syrup of Quinces half an pound Aquâ vitae three pottles powder those things which are to be powdred and put all together into an earthen pot well leaded And let them stand and infuse the space of a Moneth stirring them twice or thrice a day then strain them and keep it close in a glasse well stopped This water restoreth Memory lost strengtheneth the senses and comforteth the stomack The Sublimated vine of Master Callus Physitian to the Emperour Charls the fifth is most admirrable for the use thereof caused him to live 129 years without any disease and is made thus Take Cubebs Cinnamon Cloves mace and Ginger Nutmeggs and Galingula one three ounces of Rhaberbe half an ounce Angelica two drams Mastick four ounces Sage lib. 1. two ounces first steep them in lib. two ounces six of Aqua vitae which was six times distilled then distill them all together This wine comforteth the brain and memory expelleth melancholy and breaketh the stone provoketh appetite and reviveth weak spirits and causeth a man to wax young and lustie It may be taken twice a week and not above one spoonful at a time A special Iulep made of white wine and sugar and rose-rosewater which comforteth and refresheth the body much causing the spirits to wax lively Put two pounds of Sugar
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 âick 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 aâd anoint the place For the canker in the mouth the best way Take two âennyworth 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 âash 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 selfâheaâ sanicle Ladies Mantle Madder Hempe Mugwort Fetherfew wilde tansie brier tops one handâul Lignum giâacum lib. 1. Corticis ejusdem two ounces Inâuse 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 thân 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 dissâlved 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 Reââedy 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 âay 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
a Quince tender and with a little powder of Câoves and Sugar and give it to the Childe To eat Conserve of Quinces wiâh a little Cinnamon and Cloves is singular good for the same intent also ye may make a juice of Quinces and give the Childe to drink with a little Sugar An ointment for the stomack Take Gallia Moschata at the Apothecaries xx gâain weight mirrhe a very little make it up in ointment form with oil of Mastick and water of roses sufficient To recover an appetite lost Take a good quantitie of rank and lustie Rue and seethe it in a pint of vineger to the third part or lesse and make it very strong whereof if it be a childe ye may take a tost of brown bread and stamp it with the same vineger and lay it plaisterwise to the stomack and for a stronger age besides the plaster let him sup morning and evening of the same vineger This is also good to recover a stomack lost by coming to a fire after a long journey and hath a singular vertue to restore a man that swooneth For a yeaxing or hicket Make him vomit with a feather or by some other light means that done bring it asleep and use to anoint the stomack with oil of Castor Spike Camomil and Dill or two or three of them joyned together warm For Colick and rumbling in the guts Wash the childs belly with hot water wherein hath been sodden Cummin Dill and Fennil after that âake a plaster of oil and wax and clap it hot upon a cloth to the belly Remedy for the flux in a childe First make a bath of Herbs that do restrain as of plantain St. Iohns weed called Hypericon Knot-grasse Bursa pastoris and other such or some of them and use to bath him in it as hot as ye may well suffer them then wrap him in with clothes and lay him down to sleep And if in twice or thrice using the belly be âoâ stopped ye may take an eggs yelk hard rosted grinde it with a little Sâffâon Mirrhe and wine made a plaster and lay to the âaâil hot if this succeed not Take powder of Knotgrass or the juice there of in a posset drink or a plaster of the same herb and of shepherds purse Boleaâmony and the juice of plantain with a little vineger and wheat slower is exceeding good in this case Another Take Sorrel seed and the kernels of great Raisins dried Acoân cups and the seeds of white poppie of each two drams saâfron a good quantity make them in powder and temper them with the juice of quinces or Syrup of red Roses this is a soveraign Medicine in all fluxes of the womb The pizzle of an hart or stagg dried in powder and drunk is of great effect in this case which is also approved in the Liver of a beast called in English an otter The stones of him drunk in powder a little at once thirty dayes together hath healed men for ever of the falling evil For stopping and hardness of the belly In this case ye must alway put a little hony in the childs meat and let the nurse give him honâ to suâk upon his fingâr and if this will not help then the next is to mixt a little fine and clear Turpentine with hony and so to râsolvâ it in a sawcer and let the childe sup of it a little The gall of an ox or cow laid upon a clout on the âavil causeth a childe to be loose bellied likewise an emplaster of a rostâd onyon the gâll of an ox and butter laid upon the belly as hot as he may suffâr it If these will not help ye shaâl take a liââlâ Cottoâ and dipped in the said gall put it in the Fundament And ât âs to be noted that a natuâal flux is nevâr to be feared aâoâe the seventh day and except there issue blood it ought not to be stopped afore that time Remedies for worms in Chiâdren The herb that is found growing upon oysters by the sea side is a singular remedy to dâstroy worms and is called âherefore of the greeks Scolitabotani that is to say the herb that killeth worms It must be made in powder and given with sweet milk to the childe to drink The Physicians call the same herb Corallinâ To kill worms in Children Take red currants and lay them in vinger of white wine and let them remain one night steeped in the vinger and take sugar and make it sweet and take two or three spoonfuls and give the patient to eat and this will make them come away For worms in the belly or Stomack a most excellânt approved Medicine Take the green buds of Elme and fry them with fresh butter and lay it hot to the belly or stomack and it presently curâth the grieved and will cause the worms to avoid For worms Take powder of Centory Carduus Beneâictus and Lavender coâton one ounce and towards the full of the Mâon give one sââuple with wort or pure Triacle to bedward and it helpeth also you may spread thereof on the rough side of Leather cut round like a trencher for fruit and lay it on the childs navil and warm clothes aloft To kill and avoid chest worms Take great raisins pick out the stones and fill them with powder of Mirrhe and give the childe fasting and he shall finde ease presently A singular receipâ to kill worms If the childe be of age or of strong constitution ye may make a few pills of Aloes and the powder of wormseed then winde them in a piece of a singing loaf and anoint them over with a little butter and let them be swallowed down whole without chewing The Nâvil Itâ Remedies For swelling of the Navil TAke Spike or Lavender half an ounce make it in powder and with three ounces of fine and clear Turpentine temper it in an ointment adding a portion of oil of sweet Almonds But if it come of crying take a little bean flower and the ashes of fine linâen clouts buânt and temper with red wine and honey and lay to the sore A Plaster for swelling of the Navil Take Cowes dung and dry it in powder barly flower and bean flower of each a portion the juice of knot grasse a good quantity Cummin a little make a plaster of all and set it to the Navil Take Cowes dung and seethe it in the milk of the same Cow and lay it the grief This is also marvellous effectual to help a suddain ache or swelling in the Leggs For the stone in Children Though it be very hard to be cured yet in the beginning it is healed thus First let the nurse be well dieted or the childe if it be of age abstaining from all grosse meat and hard of digestion as is Beef and Bacon salt meats and cheese then make a powder of the root of Piony dried and minister it with asmuch hony as shal be sufficient or if the childe aâhor hony make it up with sugar molten