fire till the skum arise then take off the skum and take it from the fire then put thereto the powder of Coltsfoot and make it as thick as Conserves of Roses which use at your pleasure A precious Water for a Consumption Take a quart of Rosewater as much of womans milk Goats milk or Cowes milk put unto it twenty yolks of Eggs and mix them well together and thereof distil a Water and give the Patient thereof to drink first and last with a Cake to eat made with Gold and Pearle A Water good for a Consumption or weaknesse Take a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and the yolks of twenty eggs beat them very wel together and put thereto a pint of good Red Wine and two Manchets sliced so mingle all these things together and put them in a plain Still and still it with a soft fire and now and then stir it or else it will have a crust on it the Water may be taken at any time three or four spoonfuls with some Sugar the oftner the better COUGH For the Cough be it never so extreme Take a quart of new milk and a pint of strong Ale and make a posset thereof then take off the curd then take a quarter of a pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned and two big sticks of Licoras and two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruise them and seeth all in the posset Ale until half be sodden away then take it from the fire and put therein so much sweet Butter as the bignesse of a Hasel Nut but let it not seeth after and let the party drink thereof evening 〈…〉 or eight spoonfuls at a time as hot as he can Probatum For the Cough Take a head of Garlick and prick it full of Cloves then take half a handful of three leaved grasse and as much Goats grease put the Garlick head therein and wrap it in russet paper and so roast it in the ashes till it be soft then beat it in a Mortar and straine it then drink it in some Ale or Beer it is good for the Cough A Tisan for the Cough Take a quart of good old Ale and set it on the fire and skim it clean then take half a dozen of good Fennel roots and scrape them and take out the pithes and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in the Ale then take a quantity of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it to the rest then take a handful of Anniseeds and sift them cleane and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth together a pretty while and take a handful of smal Raisons wash and pick them clean and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth a walme or two after then take a penny worth of Sugar candied and put into it when it is almost sodden from a quart to a pint and when it is full sodden to a pint take it off and strain it and drink it at times convenient and put to this Tisan Sugar Honey and Powder of Elicampane root of each a little and some great Raisons the stones taken out and Parsley roots and two or three Figs. For the Cough if it be of the Lungs Take half a pint of Aquavitae of Anniseedâ—â— half penny worth and as much English Licoras scrape it and slice it thin run the Anniseeds very well and fan the dust out of them and put them in together and let them boil on a soft fire till half be consumed then strain it out and wipe the pot and put it in again and put to it three ounces of brown Sugar candied and set it against the fire till it be melted then take it off and use as often as you will drink For the Cough or Cold. Take a quart of Ale and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary and boil it then put to it a spoonful of Sugar and as much butter as an egg and brew them together and let the Patient drink thereof to bedward and keep warm For the Cough Stamp two handfuls of Centory and seeth it in three quarts of Ale to the half then stamp it again and seeth it and put thereto a pint of honey and so take every morning thereof three spoonfuls Another The Cough is a Messenger of all Diseases of the Lights and Brest through the grosness drought moisture spittle and other excrements for the Cough is a motion of the Lights the which by the aire and moving vertue of the Muscels that are within the brest is meet and made for to cough up all that which hurteth the lights and the Rhume provoketh the Cough most of all There are often perillous Coughs through Rhume that falls down out of the head upon the lights and into the brest which is very ill to get out It is good to purge the head with Cochia Pills and to drink sometimes a draught of Barly Water in the morning and eat something after it Then take this Potion Take Syrrup of Endive Honey of Roses and Sirrup of Steches of each half an ounce Water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and half tempered together This Powder is approved to stay the Rhume Take Spica of the Indies one quarter of an ounce Cinnamon one quarter of an ounce of the Scull of a man that dyed through violence three quarters of an ounce take every time it cometh one dram after meat in Wine or any decoction Physicians do commend Barly Water mixt with Julip of Violets CORNES For to take away Cornes First cut away the Corne and root him out then drop into the hole a drop or two of a black Snail and put thereto the powder of Sandyfer and it will wear the Corn away Also cut your Cornes away and lay a little piece of the red Cerecloth upon the hole and in three months it will wear it clean away CRAMP For the Cramp Take the little bones of the Hares hinder legges which are in the knee joints if you touch the place grieved therewith it helpeth Also take Hollioaks Oyl of Violets and of Swines grease of each a little quantity and make an Ointment of them and annoint the place Another Take the Flank wool of a sheep carded in flakes and dipped in Sallet Oyle and wrap it about your leggs or where it taketh you and it will heat the Cramp and ease it DEAFNESSE For Deafnesse an excellent Medicine TAke the juice of Betony with the most part of Camomile wet in it a lock of wool and stop it in the deaf ear and Water stilled of the same Herbs to be powred into the ears is a help for deafness For the Hearing Take Oyle of Roses and White Wine Vineger of each alike and mingle them together and at night in bed put one drop into the ear and stop it with black wooll and lye on the other side DROPSIE A very good Drink to cure the Dropsie Take of Peperitis Roots otherwise called
palenesse with full vaines stuffing of the head or nose swelling of the eyes pain in the throat motion to vomit swelling of the Almonds the Remedy is to use dry and warm Herbs as Sage Fennâ—â— Mints Rosemary Marjerom Time c. and after meat use something to close the stomack as prepared Coriander toasted Bread c. and walk in a morning fasting Hot Rheume the signes thereof are these viz. the face is red mixt with a pale or black colour great heat in the nose with itchings when the mouth and the throat is full of bitterness and sharpnesse and if the head be hot in feeling it s thus to be cured he must be let blood and use this Gargarism Take Sirrup of Jaunbes of Violets and Poppy seeds of each alike temper them with Barley water Or take Jaunbes Sebestians Violets white Poppy seeds and Quince kernels decocted in Barley water use it in the evening after meat it is passing good Also take Sirrup of Poppy seeds Sirrup of Mulberries of Roses and well water of each three ounces of Wine of Pomgranats one ounce make it warm and gargle therewith RICKETS For the Rickets in Children Cut the middle gristle of both the ears and with the blood annoint the belly and the Navel with a little Cotton wool then boil Harstongue and Liverwort in Milk or Broth for their usual Dyet Another Take Bay berries bruised and sweet Marjerom of each a handful and boil it in Beer with three or four blades of Mace and so drink it often Another When the former will not help take Fennel seeds and Dill seeds of each alike but most of Dill boile them in Beer and strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink often Probatum RUPTURE A Plaister to keep up the Rupture Take Knotgrass and Shepherds Purse of each one handful of Comfrey and Solomons seale of each half a handful beat them into an Oyl and thereof make your Plaister This Oyl will be preserved all the year in a Gally pot A Drink for the Rupture Take long Plantane Yarrow and Knotgrass of the redest colour of each a great handful Daisie roots Dovefâ—ot Mousear and Borage of each a small handful wash them very clean and shred them grosse then take three quarts of milk and two quarts of White Wine set the milk on the fire and when it doth seeth put in the Wine and as the Curd ariseth take it away and being clean put in the Herbs and let them boil gently a quarter of an hour then take it off and straine it and preserve it in Glasses and let the Patient drink thereof in the morning fasting and so in the evening almost a pint at a draught and do so one week Another Take Comfrey roots Daisie roots and Pollipodium of the Oak make them into fine powder and drink thereof every morning the weight of six pence the space of a fortnight fasting an houre after it For the Rupture in Children Take Frankinsence half an ounce Aloes a quarter of an ounce beat it small and mix it with the white of an egg unto an Oyntment and therewith annoint the child upon his Rupture morning and evening Also take the root of Aron halfe a pound in powder and give thereof unto the child every day for nine dayes together one dram with water of Parfoliata and tye the Rupture with a Boulster close upon it and unto it RESTORATIVE A Restorative Take Treakle Sallet Oyl Sugar candied Cinamon powder made with Licoras and Sugar of each a penny worth mingle all these together and take a quantity thereof as much as a Nut both morning and evening Another Take a quantity of Ale or Beer and put therein over night three or four sprigs of Rew and drink thereof evening and morning for a good space and it will keep your stomack in good order A restoring Medicine for any decay of the inner parts Take Live Honey and put thereto tops of Balme Cowslip flowers Borage flowers Bugloss flowers and tops of Gilly flowers and set this remain in the Honey the space of a Month stopping the pot very close that no aire come in let it stand all the said time in some warm place either in the. Sun or by the fire side then distil it in a glass Still with a little water and drink thereof every morning a good draught A Restorative made of an Herb called Rosâ—solis This Herb groweth in the Meadows in low Marish grounds and in no other places it is of Horseflesh colour and groweth very long and flat to the ground with a main long stalk growing in the midst of six branches springing out of the roots round about the stalk with a hoar colour and a main breadth and length and I do warn you in any wise not to touch this Herb when you gather it with your hands for then the vertue is gone you must gather it by the stalk and so pluck it out of the ground and put it in a glasse or pewter pot the leaves of this Herb are full of strength and vertue Take of this Herb as much as will fill a pottle pot but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua vitae and put them both together in a large vessel and let it stand being chopped just three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day strain it through a clean cloth into a glasse or pewter pot and put to it half a pound of Licoras beaten to fine powder and half a pound of Dates take out the stones of them and cut them into fine slices and mingle all these together and stop the glass or pewter pot close that no Aire come into it and drink of it at night to bedward half a spoonful with Ale and as much in the morning fasting for there is not the weakest man or body in the world that wanteth nature or strength or that is cast into any Consumption but it will restore them again and cause them to be strong and lusty and have a marvellous hungry stomack and that very shortly for he that useth this Medicine three times shal find a great change and comfort in it and as he feeleth himself so he may use it It cured one Mr. Stubbs who dwelt in Westminster and was in a great Consumption and very neer unto death being sick continually for eighteen weeks and all the Physicians in London had forsaken him and these things were sent him to drink from an outlandish man and in three times drinking of it he walked upon his feet RULES for Health A very good Rule for Mans Health to be used in every Month of the Year written 1607. In January use no Physick but warme clothing cat warm meats and drink White Wine fasting it is wholsom In February forbear Physick and letting of blood take no cold for fear of Agues which are easily gotten In March forbear grosse feeding purge by Potions Bathing or Blood-letting In April Physick is good upon occasion
quantity of Beets and a quantity o Mercury one ounce of Coriander seeds one ounce of Cummin seeds bruise the seeds and seeth them and the Herbs all together in a pottle of running water and let it seeth till halfe be consumed then strain it and take three spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and three spoonfuls of Honey and half a handful of Bay salt bruised so put it into a Glister pipe and use it For the Stone Take the inner bark of Elder and seeth it in Beer or Ale til it have a good strength of the Elder then strain it and drink it morning and evening and it will break the Stone A very good drink for the Stone Take a pint of White Wine and half a pint of Ale and make thereof with milk a pottle of posset drink and take away the curd very clean and boil in it two or three roots of Mallowes Marsh Mallowes are the best and some Licoras till a quarter be boiled away then drink half in the morning and the rest at night For the Stone or strongurion Take half an ounce of Anniseeds a quarter of an ounce of Licoras Calamus Aromaticus French Gallingal Mirrh Gum Arebeck Gum Traganthum Diatria Papira or Piperion Pine Apple kernels white Orris roots Storax Benjamin Cipresse and Labdanum of each a small quantity then beat them all together take also half an ounce of large Mace white Archangel Mead Parsley and Garden Parsley Camomile Mallowes Fennel and Spiere Mint of each halfe a handful then take three quarts of White Wine and put them together in a brasse pot or a Posnet and boil them a pretty while then take it off and strain it through a cloth and put it in earthen vessels and keep it cool it will drink the better and take six spoonfuls morning and evening for three dayes together when you find your self ill and do not foreslow the taking of it Probatum A Plaister to apply to the side for the Stone Take Mallowes Herb grace Pellitory of the wall the green tops of Fennel and Camomile of each two handfuls seeth them in water till they be tender then presse out the water from them then stamp them very small and put in Oyle of Lillies Oyl of Camomile Oyl of Dill Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oyle of Scorpions of each one ounce let them boil on a Chafingdish and coals a good while then put to it as much wheat flower as wil make it thick like a Plaister spread it between two cloths and apply it to the Patients side as hot as may be endured For the Stone Take the weight of a French Crown of Pulvis Hollandi drink it in a quantity of White Wine stirring it well in the cup that it may not curd drink it in the morning betimes or at what time the Patient pleaseth keeping himself warme in his chamber all that day for it will give him three or four stooles and drink some warm broth after it and use this once a Month. More belonging to the former Medicine Take once a week after the former eight spoonfuls of Deal Wine and eight spoon fuls distilled from the berry of the Hawes make it sweet with Sugar and slice half a Lemmon into it and some sliced Ginger For the Stone in the Kidneyes There is great pain in the raines of the back which draweth downwards stirring encreaseth the pain they are much inclined to vomiting the body is bound Urine raw and watrish often provoking to pisse but not without pain the Urine avoids with gravel sand and slime yea sometimes mixt with blood To know it from the Chollick first it s not so sharp as the paine of the Chollick Secondly The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above and stretcheth downwards and a little more towards the back Thirdly the pain is most of the Kidneyes fasting the Chollick otherwise All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone are good for the Kidnies but not for the Chollick Lastly there is found in the Urine gravel or sand and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts To restrain the growing of the Stone or Gravel Take Turbith one dram and an half Hermodactilus one dram Diagridy six graines Salt of India two grains Ginger half a scruple Annis and Mastick of each three grains Sugar Pellets one ounce white Sugar half an ounce steep them together in three ounces of Water of Smallage or Maidenhair all night and wring it out well and drink it if the matter be in the stomack then take a Vomit that it run not towards the Rains This Vomit may be made of reddish Orange seeds the middlemost rind of Elder and Nux Vomica SIRRUP To make a Sirrup for one that is short winded Take a good handful of Hisop a handful of Horehound and seeth them in a quart of running water to a pint then strain it through a fair cloth and put in Sugar to make it pleasant Use this morning and evening with a Licoras stick some three spoonfuls at a time To make Sirrup of Roses Your liquor must be ready to seeth then put therein as many Roses as will be well steeped in the same water and cover it close and when the Roses be throughly white then strain it and set it on the fire again and so you must use it thirteen times and to every pint of your water or liquor you must put into it a pound of Sugar and let it stand together for the space of one night steeping and skim it clean and seeth it over a quick fire a quarter of an hour then take the whites of egges and beat them well together then take the pot off the fire and put into it the whites of your egges and then set it on the fire again and let it seeth a good space then let it run through a Jelly bag til it will stand still upon your nayl To make a comfortable Sirrup Take a handful of Egrimony and seeth it in a pint of Water till half be confumed then take out the Egrimony and put in a good handful of Currans seeth them till they be ready to break then strain them and make a Sirrup of them then set it on a chafingdish and coales and put thereto a little white Saunders and drink it either hot or cold Sirrup of Sugar candied Take Sâ—gar candied and put it into a clear bladder and tye it but so as it may have some vent then put it into a bason of water so that the water come not over the top of the bladder and cover it with a pewter dish and let it stand all night and in the morning take of it with a Licoras stick Doctor Deodates Scorbuttical Sirrup Take of the juice of Garden Scurvigrass Brooklimes and Watercresses of each six ounces and after it hath stood till it be clear take sixteene ounces of the clearest and of the juice
and lay it warm to the eyes Also if deflux cause much pain take unwashed sheeps wool burn it to ashes in a close stopped pot bruise it as small as may be and mix it with the white of an egge and lay it on your forehead and temples This asswageth the Catarrhe very quickly and abateth the pain A Plaister for the Temples or sore Eyes Take Alloes Mirrhe Mirtle leaves Acatia of each one dram Mastick and Frankinsence of each half a dram beaten small together and make it to a Plaister with the white of an egg Likewise he ought to purge with Pills of Cochia which be sharpned with the Trocisies of Alhandaly Also with the Confection of Hierâ— and such like Oyle of linnen being made thus is very good for sore Eyes viz. set it a fire with a candle and lay the linnen upon an even piece of iron tin or silver and put it out quickly and you shall find a drop of Oyle the which take up with a feather This healeth marvellously well the Imposthume of the eyes taketh away the pain and is good for a Fistula and Wounds in the Eyes FACE To take away the Scars or Pockholes or redness in the Face TAke a good quantity of Lemmons and slice them rinds and all and distil them laying them on fair sticks that they touch not the bottom of the Still and with the Water that cometh thereof annoint the face and it will soon take away the rednesse and scars of the face For a sawcie Face Take a pottle of White Wine and a quarter of a pound of Cinnamon cleane rubbed and winnowed then seeth it in the White Wine till it be half sodden away and then put it into a pot and drink it evening and morning till the Patient be cured Probatum An approved good Medicine to cool and repel the redness of the face that proceedeth of heat Take a quantity of running water and a quantity of Brimstone and as much Allome beaten small together put them with the water into a glasse fast stopped and so let it stand every morning and evening take a little out into a sawcer and with a linnen rag wash your face therewith and so let it dry in with wiping For Spots in the Face For a mans or a womans face that seemeth as they were drunken take Water-cresses and cut them small and put them in a small earthen pot and put fair Spring water thereto and let them boil together and drink of that water morning and evening To make the Face fair Take the flowers of Beanes and distil them and wash the face with the water Some say that the Urine of the party grieved is very good to wash the face and to keep it from blemishing If the face be washed with the water that Rice is sodden in it taketh away the Pimples and cleanseth the face For heat in the face Seeth white Copperas in running water and let it stand till it be cold and then put in a little Camphire and every morning and evening take a little of that water in a sawcer and with a little cloth dipt in it wash and bathe your face therewith and let it dry in of it self A Drink for the Heat or Rednesse in the Face Take four handfuls of Wild Tansie and boil it in two Gallons of small wort let it stand until it be almost cold then put to it a little Barme and let it work and when it is ripe put it in a close vessel and so let it stand three or four dayes then you must drink of it every day twice so long as you use it An excellent Water for the same Take twelve Lemmons and pare them to the very juice four new laid egges shells whites and yolks beaten all together six spoonfuls of pure English Honey Temper all together and distil them with a very soft fire and receive the water thereof in a glasse for your use putting thereto a little Mercury to make it keep and continue An excellent Lac Virginis to make the Face Neck or any part of the Body fair and white Take of Alumen Plumosi half an ounce of Camphire one ounce of Roach Allome one ounce and a dram Sal gemmi half an ounce white Frankinsence two ounces Oyle of Tartar one ounce and a half make all these into most fine powder and mix it with one quart of rose-Rose-water then set it in the Sun and let it stand there nine dayes often stirring it then take Littarge of Silver half a pound beat it fine and fearse it then boil it in one pint of White Wine Vinegar until one third part be consumed ever stirring it with a stick while it boileth then distil it by a Filter or let it run through a thick Jelly bag then keep it by it self in a glass Vial and when you will use these Waters take a drop of the one and a drop of the other in your hand and it will be like milk which is called Lac Virginis wash your face or any part of your body therewith It is most precious for the same Probatum Dr. Walmesley For the Pimples in the Face Take Wheat-flower mingled with honey and vinegar lay it upon them and it cleanseth them To dry up any Pimples or heat in the Face Take Virgin Wax one ounce and a half May Butter three ounces meâ—â— them then put to them Cerus half an ounce Bole Armoniack a scruple a little Rose water to wash it after these are melted together annoint the Pimples with it twice a day FELLON To ripen a Fellon or Boil Take Rue Sage and the fat of rusty Bacon of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and lay it on a linnen cloth warm to the Grief Another Take an Onion roasted put thereto Honey and Wheat flower and so beat it all together and lay it to the sore To kill a Fellon Take an egg and roast it hard and take the yolk thereof and take an Onion and roast it soft and beat the yolk and the Onion together and lay it to the sore and it will kill the Fellon A Soveraign Salve to heal the Fellon Take of the Soot of a house that is on the Beams and break it to powder and take the yolk of an egg and bray them together then lay it on a clean cloth and lay it on the sore and this will heal it An excellent Poultice to take away the anguish of a Fellon and to break it speedily Take milk and put therein crumbs of White Bread and boil them together very tender to a Poultice then take it from the fire and put therein the yolk of an egg and have ready some white Lilly roots wrapped up in a brown paper and roasted very tender first bruise the roots into a pap then mingle them well with the other things and so apply it warme to the griefe and when it is broken use healing Salve For a Fellon Take Verjuice and crumbs of browne bread
of each one handful of Auni-seeds Fennel seeds Hysop seeds and the root of Elicampane about two ounces seethe them in two pound of water until the third part be consumed drink this and it loseth all congealed blood in the body and expelleth it in the Urine An excellent Balme to cure any bruise though Bones be broken therein and it is very good to cure wounds Take of Scala Coeli one pound Rosemary flowers four ounces Pomgranat rinds two ounces Sallet Oyle two pound White Wine halfe a pint bruise the Scala Coeli and the Pomgranate rinds and in the Oyle and the Wine with the Rosemary flowers infuse them ten dayes in the Sun after that boil them till the Wine be consumed then strain it and unto the Oyl being strained put these things following Mastick Olibanum of each four ounces Aloes one ounce Cassia four ounces Venice Turpentine twelve ounces Verdigrease one ounce boil these in the Oyle until the Gummes be dissolved then straine it and keep it to use and remember that in the end of the boiling the Verdigrease be put in and let the Turpentine be put in last not letting it boil after but only with the heat dissolve it self For any Bruises Aches or any such like pain Take Rosemary tops Toutswaine leaves Plantane leaves of each two handfuls Stone pitch and Turpentine of each one pound a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of Wax two ounces of Olibanum the Herbs must be beaten very small in a Mortar and then boile them together in a Pipkin six or seven hours till it come to be as stiff as Soap and when it is so boiled it must be strained through a linnen cloth and so put up in to Gally pots the Olibanum must not be put in till the other be boiled sufficiently For a Bruise or Strain or Green Wound Take half a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of White-lead two ounces of Cerus First set the Oyl on the fire in an earthen pan and when it is ready to boil put in the White-lead being in fine powder so let it boil a quarter of an hour then put in your Cerus being beaten small and stir it while it seethes then drop a drop in cold water and if it will roll it is boiled enough then powre it all into a Bason of cold water and when it is cold enough to touch annoint your hands and roll it up in little rolls An excellent Remedy for Bruises and Aches which come of cold Take young Bay-leaves and Wormewood of each a quarter of a pound a pound and a half of Suet of a Loyne of Mutton a quart of Oyle Olive of Oyle of Spike two ounces shred your Herbs smal and your Suet then put them in a stone pot and powre the Oyles upon them and cover it very close and so let it stand close covered two dayes then boil it till the Liquor be very green that the goodnesse is out of the Herbs then strain it and reserve it for your use Another Take a pound of Butter out of the Charn-milk and set it on the fire and clarifie it then take a handful and a half of red Sage as much Camomile as much Herb-grace and half as much Smallage some young Bay-leaves chop all the Herbs small and put them into the clarified butter and boile them on a soft fire stirring it until it be green then strain it and keep the Liquor for your use For a Bruise or Strain Take the grounds of Ale or Beere Wheat Bran and Chickweed and lay it to the grief three or four times a day upon a red cloth For a Bruise or Sore unripened Take Oatmeal and seethe it in sweet Cowes milk until it be as thick as pap and put it into a pan with a quantity of Sheeps suet and boile them well and then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the grief as hot as you can suffer it BREATH A good Medicine for a stinking Breath Take two handfuls of Cumin seeds and seeth them in good Wine from a pottle to a pint and then drink of it fifteen days together morning and evening Of a stinking Breath how it cometh This Infirmity proceedeth First when the Gums are putrified Secondly from hallow teeth Thirdly Stinking humors that fall downe from the head to the Pannicles of the mouth and make the spettle to stink Fourthly Stinking slime of the stomack Fifthly the corruption of the Lights Sixthly Stinking matter and purulency Seventhly stopping in the Nose or some exulceration of the same If it be from any of these causes proceeding from the Head then it is of heat then purge the head and wash the mouth often with Plantane water Also take green Oaken leaves and dry them and beat them to powder and take one dram sod in Wine BURNING An excellent Medicine for Burning or Scalding Take Sage and seeth it in running water and wash the wound with the water as hot as you can suffer it and it will take away the heat immediately then take Sage and Hartstongue leaves and Sheeps dung and fry it with Sheeps suet and annoint the place therewith with a feather and let it lye still then take Sheeps dung and dry it to powder and strew it twice a day and annoint it twice a day but take heed of picking any of it away left there be holes in the skin ever after And to asswage the stiffness when you can abide it no longer then bathe it a little in Sage water but the less bathing the sooner it will be whole For a scalding or burning with fire Take black Soap about the bignesse of the sore and spread it upon a linnen cloth like a Plaister and so lay it upon the sore and within half a day it will draw out the fire and then lay healing Salve to it The Oyle of Cream and Snow water is good to wash the place so hurt For Burning or Scalding Take the whites of two Eggs and one yolk and beat them well together and scum off the froth then melt three spoonfuls of Barrowes grease and take three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage and put thereto and stir it well together till it be cold then make thereof a Salve To heal a Burning or Scalding Take the fat of dryed Bacon and hold it between a pair of Tongs red hot and let it drop into a pot of faire water and of the dropping make your Plaister For Burning in the fire Take the second pill of a young Elme tree and lay it in fair water the space of twelve hours or more then fill out the water and warm it on the fire and annoint the Patient therewith and let it drink in the water and when it is dry then take new with the juice of Plantane as much of the one as of the other and then annoint it therewith after the first water To make Oyle of Cream for Burning or Scalding Take a quart or a pint of new
drink a good draught for three mornings together and it will cause the Stone to break and provoke Urine abundantly For the Stone Collick Take a half penny worth of Summer Savory seeds and of Parsley seeds of Bay berries of Gromel of each a half penny worth and boil them in a posset of White Wine and drink For the wind Collick Take the water of Heraff and the root of a red Dock the inner pith taken away and the neather bark of an Ash of one years growth and pound them and strain them with the said water and so drink it first and last Another Take Parsley seeds and bruise them and seeth them in Sack and drink it warm when you have your pain Also Carduus Balsam is excellent An excellent Medicine for the Collick or Sâ—one Take Pellitory Unset Leeks and Mallowes of each a like stamp them and put thereto a pennyworth of Neats foot Oyl and fry them well together in manner of a Plaister put them in a linnen bag and apply it to the Raines of the back but for the Collick apply it to the Navel and it will help within an hour CONSUMPTION For a Consumption Take a couple of Marrow bones and seeth them and put in a great handful or two of Unset Leeks cut small with the roots and blades fair washed and when they be washed and sodden take them forth and strain them and take out the Marrow and put it into the broth then take a half penny worth of Ginger as much Pepper a penny worth of Cinnamon a half penny worth of Cloves and Mace a quarter of a pound of Sugar let all be very small beaten and put into the broth and drink it warme morning and evening as the stomack will bear it A Soveraign Medicine for man or woman in a Consumption First take a red Cock and kill him and flea him and cut him in four quarters but wash them not then take six cap Dates and cut them in four quarters and take half a score of large Mace and six whole Cloves then put in three or four pieces of old Gold and stamp the bones of the Cock then take a pewter pottle pot and lay in one quarter and lay upon it some of every Spice and a piece of old Gold and so upon every quatter until the last be put in and you may if you will put to the said Ingredients Amber Coral and Pearle but no kind of Licoras neither first nor last and when it is perfectly boiled put thereto a dozen or sixteene Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out Then take so much Rye dough as will stop the pots mâ—uâ—h close and thick enough of the paste so that no water may enter into it then take a good great brasse pot and set it on the fiâ—e that the pewter pot and the Ingredients that is in it may stand covered with water at least two handfuls and put some heavy weight upon the pewter pot that it be not overthrown in the boiling and let it seeth continually from five of the clock in the morning untill eight of the Clock at night then take it off and open the Pewter pot and let the Patient take of that Syrrup a spoonful at a time And when you make it for a woman you must use these Herbs Hartstongue Motherwort Mugwort Mother Time and Comfrey but no Herbs must be used for a man And if the woman be hot in the liver take Liverwort and if troubled with the Stone take a little Pellitory of the Wall A very excellent Water for a Consumption Take a red Cock and pluck him alive then quarter him and take out his bowels very clean and wipe him very dry with a linnen cloth then put the quarters into a pottle of the best Sack and pâ—t into them Rosemary Time Penniâ—oyal and Pimpernel of each of these one small handful of Dates the stones being taken out half a pound of Currans one pound let them lye and steepe in the Sack two houres then still them in a Stillatory and of the Water thereof use two spoonfuls one hour before you go to Dinner and so likewise before Supper and it will much restore your body This was used by the Lord Chief Justice Popham For a Consumption Take a pound and half of Prok fat and lean and boil it in water and put in some Oatmeal and boil it till the heart of the meat be out and then put in two penny worth of milk and boil it a quarter of an hour and give the Patient a draught in the morning in the afternoon and at night and now and then some Barley water and by Gods grace it will help Another Take a fair earthen pot and put therein a gallon of Claret Wine and then take a Capon well flesh'd but not fat and gut him and put in his belly half a handful of Mace and as much Raisons and Curransâ— then cover the pot and set it on the fire and let it seeth till the half be consumed then put the Capon into a Mortar with some of his broth and bray his bones and all then let it seethe one walm after and passe it through a Jelly bag into a close Vessel then take a Goblet full and put thereto the yolks of six new laid Eggs the strainet taken away and seethe it well and then give the Patient to drink as hot as he can suffer it in the morning fasting likewise before noon and before he goeth to bed and ere three Capons be spent by the grace of God he shall be much amended To restore one that is in a Consumption Take three pints of new milk and one pint of very good Red Wine and four yolks of Eggs beat them with the milk and Wine and put to it as much fine Manchet crumbâ— as will make it thick like thin batter and put in one quarter of an ounce of beaten Mace and distil all these with fire and draw a pint of water out of it and take one spoonful of the water in Pottage or drink morning and evening To nourish one in a Consumption Take a Chicken and take out his bones and wash it in White Wine and put it into a pipkin without liquor with a few Currant and then still it five on six hours upon Embers without coals then take a spoonful thereof and drink with thin broth For a Consumption Take Coltsfoot Burnet leaves Wood-Betoby leaves red Rose leaves Comfrey roots of each one handful pick'd and sliced boil them in running water from three quarts to three pints then strain them and put into the liquor two pound of good Sugar and the whites of two new laid eggs then boil it a quarter of an hour and take off the skum and take of this Sirrup seven spoonfuls in the morning fasting and at night to bedward Probatum For a Consumption or Cough of the Lungs Take three spoonfuls of English Honey and three of fair water mixed together set it on the
or a month at both times of the year as you see cause and take it every day or second day as you finde it work A Dyet Drink to heal Wounds Take of Egrimony two handfuls of Daisie leaves and roots Wild Angelica Ribwort Mugwort Wormwood Comfry Mints Canapit Speedwel Avens Bramble leaves Arcamilla or Sincle Scabious Betony and Dandillion of each of these a handful boil them all together in two gallons of running water some three hours till half be consumed then put into it a pint of White Wine and half a pint of honey then strain it out and so keep it letting the party drink thereof two or three times a day EYES A good Medicine to preserve the Eye-sight TAke green Barly before it be eared and distil it and use daily now and then to lay a little on your eyes of that Water and it will continue the sight A special good Poultice for sore Eyes that be much swelled and cometh by the Rheume Take a quantity of Bean flower some of an Apple finely scraped a little womans milk of Sorrel Water red Role-Water Plantane Water of each a little quantity mix all these together and make a Poultice thereof then spread it upon a fine linnen cloth somewhat thick and put it to the Patients Eyes cold A Plaister for sore eyes Take of the pap of a roasted Apple two spoonfuls the like quantity of new laid eggs of Saffron thirteen chives dryed and made into fine powder work these together to one substance and put thereto of Womans milk of a maiden child one spoonful of Rose water the like quantity of these make your Plaister and lay it to your eyes morning and evening and have in a readiness the powders of these stones following Lapis Calaminaris quenched nine times in White Wine Aloes Hepatica white Sugar candied Tucia prepared Camphire of each of these half a dram made fine to powder sow these in a fine cloth or fine silk and put it in a glasse of water and of this Water drop into your eyes morning and evening and lye upon your back when you drop it into your eyes Make your Water as followeth Take Roses Marigolds Plantane brown Fennel Eyebright Cellendine Tormentil Betony Scabious Fumetory Oaken buds of each of these two ounces mix all these in a glasse and put in the powders above said A very good Medicine for Eyes that be troubled with Pin or Web or other dimnesse Take the yolk of a new laid egg or two and beat it well until it cometh unto a great froth then let it stand so a little while and let the Oyl run into a sawcer and put the juice of Daisies with the blossomes leaves and roots being stamped and strained into the Oyl of Eggs and put a little clarified honey unto it and mix all these well together and let the Patient take every morning and evening into the ey that is grieved a drop put in with a feather let this be used so long as the pain lasteth Another for sore Eyes Take a little Rosewater and womans milk and mix them together whereof the Patient may use a drop at a time as above said And if the Patient be a man the womans milk must be of her that hath a daughter and if the Patient be a woman she must have the milk of her that hath a son sucking upon her For a Pearle Pin or Web in the Eyes Take a little Hony clarified as it cometh from the Hive and so drop it into your eye evening and morning and it will help Probatum A very good Medicine for sore eyes that cometh of the Megrim Take the white of an egg and beat it well then skim it and put to the Oyle some case Ginger finely beaten and some White Wine Vineger then take flax and dip it in the Oyl and lay it on your Temples and take heed that no part thereof come into your eyes Do this four or five nights or more when you go to bed and every time wash your eyes with the water that cometh of cutting of Vines Probatum A Water very comfortable for the Eye-sight Take of Rose leaves red Fennel Vervain Rew Cellendine and Eyebright of each a handful and so still them all together and you shall have a good Water for the eye sight Probatum To recover the Eye sight Take Smallage Rew Fennel Vervain Egrimony Betony Scabious Avens Houndstongue Eyebright Pimpernel and Sage of each a like quantity and distil all these together with a little Urine of a man-child and five grains of Frankinsence and drop of this water every night into the eyes and the sight will recover by Gods grace Probatum by Mr. Whaley For sore eyes and blind Take the white of a new laid egge strained from the yolk beat it well to an Oyl and take off the froth and put to the Oyle a spoonful of good White Wine Vineger and a spoonful of Rose water beat them all well together and with a little flax lay to each temple a Plaister but take heed it touch not the eyes use this three or four times to bedward it hath brought them to sight that were seven weeks blind Probatum For red Eyes Take a new laid egg or two and roast them very hard then without taking away the shels cut them in sunder and take out the yolks and scrape a little white Copperas and put it where the yolks were as much Copperas as a little pease is enough for one egg then strain the whites with the shels through a cloth into a sawcer and with this Oyl annoint your eyes when you go to bed For Eyes that be Bloodshed or have Pushes in them Make a toast of fine leven bread and lay it in Wine till it be soft then put it in a cloth and to bedward lay it in the cloth to the eyes and it will heal them For an Eye that hath been hurt so that the Ball was ready to fall out being swolne as big as an egge Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten and take it from the core then bear the white of an egg well and drop the juice of the Apple therein and bind it with a cloth to the eye and so dresse it twice a day till it be whole The gall of a Hart and clarified Hony well mingled together is very good for the Web in the eye it must be laid on with a feather For a Pin or Web in the eye Take White Wine and put it in a Bason that is bright and put Bay salt unto it and let it stand for nine dayes two of the dayes shake the Bason and at the ninth dayes end put it into a glasse and keep it for your use it is also good for red eyes An excellent Water for sore Eyes by Pearle Pin and Web Lash or Prick Take of Cellendine Herb-grace Betony brown Fennel Eyebright red Rose flowers Maidenhair or as many of those as you can get distil of each alike much
apart by themselves and not altogether then take of each water a like quantity and put them together in a glasse and let the party grieved lye upright one half quarter of an hour in the morning at noon and at night and drop into his eyes at each time one or two drops and close the eys afterwards For sore Eyes Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten and cut out the core and then strain it through a fine cloth into some fair thing and of the juice of that Apple drop into your eye that is sore morning and evening A precious Water to clarifie the Eyes and to take away the Pearle in the Eye Take red Roses Smallage Rew Vervain Maidenhair Ewfrace Endive Seagreen red Fennel Hillwort and Cellendine of each like quantity then wash them clean and lay them in good White Wine the space of a day and then distil them the first water will be like Gold the second like silver and the third like Balme for any sore and it is precious for Ladies in stead of Balm water For heat in the Eyes Take a new laid egg open the top and let out all that is in the shell and divide the yolk from the white and then put in the white again into the shell and put thereto as much of the juice of Houseleek strained as there is of the white of the egge and so much Roach Allome as a hasel nut then set the egg shall with the things aforesaid in it upon some embers and so let it boil and when it is boiled the white will be smewhat hard then take it off and let all the water run from it and that water drop into eyes that be sore morning and evening The juice of Slowes being dropped into the eyes is as good a Medicine as may be and so is the juice of Cellendine but they must be severally used A very good Water for a Blast or Rheume in the Eyes Take Callaminaris stones and burne them well in the fire and when they be very hot quench them six or seven times in pure White Wine and Rosewater then leave the stones in the liquor two or three dayes and after apply it to your eyes Mrs. Meggs Receipt An Oyntment for sore eyes and such as be blasted Take the powder of Callaminaris and put thereunto the grease of a fat Pullet that never laid egg and some White Sugar candied finely beaten to powder and some Oyl of Almonds mix all these well together and use it as occasion is offered Mrs. Meggs For a Pearle in the Eye Take a quantity of Pearlwort as much Heyhowd and a less quantity of Ground Ivy and stamp them thereto put a spoonful of life Honey and about two or three drops of Rosewater strain these and drop the juice often in the eye Another for the same Take white Hemlock and Ground Ivy a little quantity sowre leaven and a little Bay salt and stamp them then put thereto a little Vineger and thereof make a Plaister upon Sheeps leather and lay it to the wrist of the contrary side To stay the hot Rheume in the Eye Take Bole Armoniack powdered the white of an egge well beaten and thereof make a Plaister and lay it to the temples Another for the same Wet a Cloth in the juice of House-leek and lay it upon the brow For heat in the Eyes Take White Wine wherein Lapis Callaminaris hath been seven times quenched and drop it into the eyes when you go to bed with a feather For the black or white Pearle in the Eye Take a handful of Ground Ivy and stamp it and strain it with some fasting spettle and temper it with a little clarified Honey and drop it in your eye Take Sugar candied and beat it small and searese it fine and blow it with a quill into your eye Take Coperas and beat it very fine and blow it in the eye Take Wormwood and beat it then take the white of an egg and beat it and take off the froth then make a pellet of flower and wet it and warm it and lay it to the eye For sore Eyes Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water then take away the skum with a feather then take a piece of rough canvass as broad as ones forehead and put upon your canvass Tow or Flax then powre your egge upon it then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillata and so bind it fast to your Temples when you go to bed but lye not upon the sore eye side and in the morning when you rise take it off suddenly but soak it first with fair water lest it grieve you when you take it off Do this three nights together Another Take the Oyle of a Goose wing a little English Honey and beat them well together in a sawcer then strain it through a clean cloth and drop it into the eye with a feather Probatum For heat in the Eyes Take a piece of a new white loaf and put it into running water and wrap it in a linnen cloth and lay it to the Eyes For a Pin or Web in the Eyes Boil in egg-shell water the stones of Raisons of the Sun and Goose dung new taken and strained therein is very good Capons grease washed in Plantane water and Tutia prepared mixt in it is very good for a sore eye For Bleare Eyes Take the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with the water aforesaid and put into your eye will take away the blood and aking For Blood-shotten Eyes Take the blood of a stock Dove or for want of it of a Pigeon and drop a little into your eyes and wet a cloth therein and lay it on the Eye helpeth the blood shotten eye whether by stroak or otherwise Sometimes the paine cometh of Choler and then the patient feeleth great heat sharp prickings much paine and commonly there appeareth no gumme in the Eye if there do it is yellow therefore the Patient ought to be purged as hath been said in the Remedies of the head proceeding of the cause of Choler And in the beginning of the redness lay Tow or Flax dipped in the white of an egg well beaten with Rose-water and Plantane water To recover the sight Take three drams of Tuttie made into very fine powder as much of Alge Epatum or Epaline in powder two drames of fine Sugar six ounces of rose-Rose-water as much of pure White Wine mixt all together and put it into some clean Vessel of Glasse and being well closed and stopped set it in the Sun a month together stirring it once every day then take four or five drops of the same water and put it into the Eyes morning and evening this in short space will cause the sight to come againe as faire as ever before For swelling of the Eyes Take a Quince and seeth it in water til it be soft then pare it bruise it and mingle it with the yolk of an egg
and the crumbs of white bread dipped in the fame Water and put thereto a little womans milk and two penny worth of Saffron bray them together and lay it over your forehead and the eyes Sometime such pain chanceth because of phlegme and then the Patient feeleth great pain and heavinesse in the eyes and in this case you must purge the phlegme as hath been said in the Remedies of the head grieved with the excess of phlegme To clarifie the sight or for redness of the eyes Take Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it in White Wine and set it so stand a day and a night then take of the thinnest and wet your eyes with a feather when you go to bed to resolve the Gum you must wash your eyes with houselee sometimes the pain cometh because of ventosity or wind and then the Patiene feeleth such pain as it were beating between the ears with a Hammer for which it is good to make a Decoction of Camomile flowers Mellilote and Fennel seeds in water and White Wine and therein wet a fourfold linnen cloth well pressed down and lay it upon the eyes often Otherwhiles there chanceth pain in the eyes by outward accidents as wind dust or heat milk well beaten with the white of an egge is good and sometimes the same pain cometh of striking and then drop in your eye the blood of a Pigeons wing which blood will take away spotted marks and rednesse of the face For a great pain in the Eye Take half an ounce of Oyl of Roses the yolk of an egge and a quarter of an ounce of Barley flower and a little Saffron mixt together and put it between two linnen cloths and lay it to the pain or else take the crumb of white bread one ounce and seeth it with Nightshade and Morral water then mix with the same bread yolks of eggs Oyl of Roses and Camomile of each an ounce and a half of Linseed one ounce and use it as aforesaid A very good Water to strengthen the sight and to prevent a Catherick Take Eyebright Vervain Tormentill of each two pound Cellendine Egrimony Wood Betony Honey suckle flowers White or Red Roses Vine leaves Pimpernel Fennel Rue Oculus Christi Chickweed Smallage and Clover of each a pound beat them small and steep them in a gallon of White Wine twelve hours then fill your Still reasonable full and put to it three great spoonfuls of Honey a pint of new milk and half a pint of Urine of a man child then still it and draw about a pint and a half of a Still For an Eye that is very full of pain Take of Violet leaves a quarter of a handful of Daisies roots and all half as many wash them and dry them very well in a cloth then stamp them and put to it a spoonful of red Rose water and strain it then take the white of a new laid egg well beaten and take away the froth then put that to the things aforesaid with half a quarter of a spoonful of Honey and drop this in the eye morning and evening and twice or thrice a day and at night lay on the eye the pap of a roasted Apple or of a rotten Apple and put a little juice of Houseleek amongst it and a little fine Sugar candied lay it upon the Eye two or three nights if the pain be great lap upon it a piece of fresh Bief two or three hours and so again as you see cause Lay to your neck behind Elder leaves and Woodbetony dryed between two tiles sprinkled with a little Vinegar and strew on good store of beaten Pepper when it is hot lay it on a thin cloth and so lay it to the neck night and morning four or five times Also make blisters behind the ears if you see cause If there grow a skin upon the eye put in Allome Water with the juice of Cellendine in it or if it be much the juice of Ground Ivy drop this in twice a day and the white powder once a day For Blood-shotten Eyes If the Violet Water will not help take five or six cornes of Cummin seeds bruised as many blades of Saffron put in a fine rag let it soak in a spoonful of red Rose water strain it and put to it a spoonful of Womans milk and drop this often into the eye For a very great Pearle in the Eye Put in the Eye a little clarified Honey and a little fine Ginger in it and sometimes the powder of white Sugar candied half an hour before you put in either put in a little fresh grease For a Rheume in the Eyes Make Eggshell Water with the juice of Houseleek as much white Copperas as a pease twice as much Honey this is good if you perceive the Humour to be very hot also it is good with Snow water and if the Humour be cold make it with half stilled water and half Eyebright Water if between both make it with fair water To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Take Woodbind bruised and lay it to your Temples For a Pin or Web in the Eye Take Herb Christopher stamp it and strain it and put in a little honey drop it in twice a day also lay on his eye white bread milk and Violets made in a Poultice also take Cellendine Daisies roots and all brown Fennel Cliver Betony Plantane Sorrel twice as much as the rest there must be of each a handful a pint of new milk a dram of white Coperas in powder two great spoonfuls of Honey do not draw it dry drop it in the eye three or four times in two hours and lay a wet cloth upon the eye To bring away the Rheume from the Eye Set the feet in Camomile sod in water two houres if you can then lap them in a blanket two houres keeping it warme with warm clothes For any spot in the Eye Take the scraping of a whetstone and Bay salt made very fine and put thereof twice a day into your Eye For a Pin and Web. Roast an egg and put in a piece of Copperas as big as a Pease and nine Cummin seeds strain it and put in a little Honey Alloes Sicatrina made in powder and strained with a little Rose water is very good for any sore eyes Capons grease washed with Plantane water and Tutia prepared and mixt together is very good for sore eyes to annoint them with it To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Make water seething hot and wet a good big cloth in it and lay it all over the forehead when it beginneth to wax cool wet another and lay to it hot and do so half an hour together against the fire For a prick in the Eye with a thorne and to drive out the thorne or stubble Take he treddle of an egg and put it in your eye and biod it in For a Bâ—â—iâ—â— in the Eye Lay to the Temples a piece of raw fresh Bâ—ef and to the eye put
in Violet water and lay on the Eye the pap of aâ— Apple with some of that water a little Sugar and the yolk of an egg boile a together For an Ague in the Eye Lay on the eye a piece of fresh Biâ—â— two hours and drop on the Eye Alloâ—â— water and lay in the Temples leaverâ— Rosewater Vineger and Nutmeg to stâ—â— the Rheume For a Pin and Web. Take Ground Ivy stamp and straâ— with red Rose water and drop it oâ— in the eye A very good Powder for a spot in the Eye Take of Alloes Sicatrina Sugar candied or very good Sugar of each a like quantity make it into fine powder and put it often into your eyes when you go to bed and Eyebright water in the morning and once more in a day For red or yellow Eyes Take the juice of Parsley and the white of an egge mingled together and a little Rosewater dip flax therein and lay it over your eye and it will help you For Eyes that be blasted Take Plantane Water and the white of an egg mix them well together and wash your eyes therewith and lay it on 〈◊〉 our eyes To clear the sight Take Cellendine Eyebright red Fennel Roses Seagreene Maidenhair and Rue of each two ounces then put thereto half an ounce of Alloes stilling all these in a Stillatory then wash your eyes therewith For red Eyes and for the Pearle Take white Ginger and rub it on a whetstone into a dish then take as much salt as you have powder and put them in White Wine and let them stand a day and a night then take the juice and liquor thereof with a feather and annoint your eyes To take away the Web in the Eye Take the gall of a Hare and a little quantity of purified honey temper them well together then take a feather and annoint your eyes therewith A Water for the Eyes Take of Tutty and Alloes Sicatrina of each six ounces made in fine powder four drams of fine Sugar in powder of white rose-Rosewater and of the best white Wine unchanged twelve ounces mixt all together in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the Sun a month let not your glass be ful shake it once a day turning the bottom upwards then strain it through a fine cloth from the dregs and when you use it one drop is sufficient at a time use it morning and evening and if one drop be too little take two For sore Eyes Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water then strike away the froth with a feather then take a piece of rough canvass tow or flax then powr your whites on it then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillatum and scrape them both upon it and with a knife spread it Plaister wise as much of the one as of the other and so fast bind it to your forehead and in the morning when you rise take it not off suddenly but take it off with fair water Do this three nights together For Blood shotten Eyes Rheume or sore Eyes Take four spoonfuls of Rose water of white Copperas as much as a pease and of Allome and Sugar candied of each as much as a pease all in powder sometimes drop of this in the eye and sometimes wash the eye with it and lay Herbs to the wrists Also Rosewater Sugar and Saffron is very good Sugar candied is the best For a spot or itching in the Eyes Take Ground Ivy Cellendine and Daisies stamp them and strain out the juice then put to it a little Sugar and Damask Rose water and drop in the eye twice a day For sore eyes or for any part inwardly disquieted by any Ache Swelling Wound or Stroke Take the leaves of Woodbind and Plantane of each one handful also three or four Dittony leaves of Roach Allom well washed the quantity of an egg as much Verdigrease three spoonfuls of pure honey put all this into a vessel to be kept only for that purpose put to it a pottle of fair running water and after it hath boiled one quarter of an hour let it stand four or five hours powre out the clear and bury the grounds if it be too sharp put in some white Rose water If the lids be sore with Rheume or the eyes be red or burning drop in and wash the lids often with the white of an egge if it be for a horse put in more Verdigrease and Honey Another Take the Water of Roses Saxifrage and Fennel of each alike and put to them a small quantity of Verdigrease and boil it a little on the fire and when it hath setled take the clear and see you wash Auxungium Poecati seven or eight times and of that put in to your eye a little when you go to bed For Eyes blasted or swoln Annoint them with rape Oyle and lay to a Plaister of Flower Cream Hogs grease Rose water and Violet leaves bruised small and boil all to a Poultice and lay it to warm change it as waxeth dry Capons grease washed and Tutia prepared and mixed with it is very good to annoint sore eyes For Ache Strain or pain in the Head by sore Eyes Take of Plantane Wood Betony and Ragweed of each one handful put as much flower to it as will make it a paste the Herbs being first beaten small make it in a Cake and make it through warm on a Gridiron and lay it to the nape of the neck and let it lye twelve houres and lay fresh as you see cause A Purge for Choller when there is Pain in the Head or Rheume in the Eyes Take of Cene and of Ginger sliced one ounce two ounces of Cassia and six ounces of Sugar stamp them all together and boil them in a pint of Rose water till half be consumed then put in two ounces more of Sugar beat it well and keep it close Take of this Confection a quarter of an ounce in the morning and fast three hours after putting it into a draught of White Wine warmed strain it and so drink it and use it in the Spring and Fall once in ten days for two months or six weeks If you make but for one you need make but half this quantity It purgeth very gently For Eys that be troubled with sorenesse and rednesse Colewort leaves boiled in White Wine and Plaisters made of them and laid one the eyes is good for sore eyes that water much To wash them with the Water of Plantane is very good Also skivers or pricks of any kind boiled in fair water with red Roses amongst them save the fat and drop it in your eyes morning and evening is very good To take away spots of Blood in the Eye Take red Roses and seeth them and let them be set warm to your Eye it taketh away spots of blood it is good also for all Diseases in the Eye for redness in the eye that cometh with a blow or any other
Head through Melancholy It is described thus It is not so great as the former but with a drynesse and sadnesse the heat is more evident in the left side of the face then in the right it causeth disquietness and unnatural sleep it causeth fearful faintheartedness and carefulness the colour of the face is red and blue with a soure taste in the mouth if the Patient be old and if it be about Autumne then the signes are more sure Glisters are good in this case Of the paine in the Head caused by cold The signes are wearisomness of all parts as if the body were beaten and broken to pieces the paine is not extreme without any swelling or thirst sleepinesse much spitting at the mouth and moisture at the nose palenesse of colour and somewhat sullen the eyes run and the mouth out of taste In such cases use warm and dry Medicines and purging is very needful in this Infirmity Also this Wine following is excellent for this purpose Take Rosemary two handfuls Nutmegs one ounce dryed Betony two ounces Cloves two drams being cut very small put thereto eight quarts of good Rhenish Wine let it stand three dayes then for a weak stomack drink a good draught at the beginning of meals but for the Head ache at the latter end This Wine is very good for a cold and moist braine and hurtful for young folks and hot complections The Dyet must be strong Wine but very little left it disturb the Head once in eight dayes wash the head with the decoction of Camomile Marjerome and Steches and before meales rub the head with warme cloaths and after meales take a little Marmalade to hinder the vapour in ascending to the head But because the Laxative Medicines through their own power do not expel all humours for which they be given without such things as convey their operation towards some certain members which one desireth to purge therefore take this Oximil following and if you put thereto Nutmegs Piony seeds or Cubebs then doth it only purge the head and no other part of the body and if you put thereto Tamariscus and Caper roots then it purgeth the Melt and so for all the rest but because we speak now only of the head these are the Simples or Herbs that do conduct the Medicines thereto viz. Nutmegs Cubebs and Piony Penniroyal Marjerom Balsome wood and Seeds Frankinsence Beaver Codd Labdanum Mellilot Squils Spicknard Hisop and Pepper Oximel that is called at the Apothecaries Compositum or Diareticum Take Fennel roots and roots of Smallage of each two ounces the seeds of Parsley of Butchers broom Sparage Smallage and Fennel of each one ounce take out the pith or core of the roots chop them and seeth them in a quart of water till they be mellow then strain them through a cloth and add the Decoction of three ounces of sharp Vinegar twelve ounces of Honey let them seeth to a Sirrup it doth attenuate all tough slimes it driveth them out of the members opens the obstructions of the Liver Melt and the Kidnies and expelleth them A very good Medicine for Paine or Wind in the Head which much hindreth the Hearing Take one Clove of Garlick pill it and make three or four holes in it then dip it in fine English Honey and put it in your ear and lye on the other side and put in black wool after it and continue this eight dayes and it will expel the pain expulse the Humour at the nose and restore the Hearing For a White Scurf or Scabbed Head Take White wort Cellendine Ground Ivy. Mercury Wormwood and an Herb called Dead mens Bells growing in Woods like Leek blades of each of these alike and stamp them and mingle them with fresh grease And burne green Ash to ashes and mix it with fresh grease and annoint the place eherewith To heal a Scald Head Take Lye that is made with the bark of an Ashen tree and wash the head therewith and annoint it with Quicksilver killed in Barrowes grease and fasting spittle Another Take yolks of eggs and put thereunto as much Turpentine then fry them in Swines grease and stir them well together in the frying to a Salve and so lay it to the sore head Another Take the roots of the small reeds that grow in ditches burn them to ashes and apply the ashes wet in Vinegar to the sore Head This healeth the sore and maketh hair to grow The bark of an Ashen tree being well boiled in water with the Lye thereof sometimes wash the Head to cleanse it whiles the other Medicines be applyed to the same Another Take black Snailes and stamp them very well and in stamping them there will be an Oyle come from them and with the same Oyle annoint the sore head For a sore Head First wash the head with pisse and then annoint it with the dripping of a wild Duck being roasted guts and all HOARSNESSE Against Hoarsnesse Put Sugar and the powder of Hisop in figs and roast them on the coals and eat them and it will open the pipes JAUNDIES A good Medicine for the Black Jaundies TAke the Berries of Ivy that groweth upon a tree and of the whole leaves of Ground Ivy and Mugwort and put them in a woollen cloth and then put it into an Oven when the Bread is drawne out and when it is dry make powder thereof and take Saffron and powder of Gallingale and use all these in pottage and eat thereof Another for the Black Jaundies Take the gall of a Raven grated into powder take some of it in a spoonful of Ale or Beer temper it together and drink it in the morning fasting A Medicine for the yellow Jaundies Take a little Athanatia and eat it in the morning fasting three mornings will be enough It is much like Mithridatum Another Take a handful of red Nettle crops and feeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same three or four daies together in the morning fasting IMPOSTHUMES For an Imposthume Take powder of Cene Alexandria one ounce Ginger Cinnamon Mace Coliander seeds Anniseeds and Licoras of each the weight of eight pence of Sugar two ounces of Spurge seeds blanched twelve beat them all smal to powder and put them into a quart of Claret and let it be brewed out of one pot into another oftentimes in a day by the space of three dayes before you use it then let it run through a Jelly bag then take half a pint of the said Drink and when you shall have need to use it warm it at the fire and drink it after your first sleep and so ly still till it work and offer to come and then go to a close stool til it be clean come away and then make a Plaister of red Mints red Fennel Wormwood and Sage of each a handful and a good handful of Cummin seed and beat them small together put thereto a good sawcer full of Wine Vineger and set them all on the fire in
draught in the morning be luke-warm fasting and at Dinner and at Supper what you think good for you must drink no other Drink till that be spent A Purging Ale Take of the juice of Scurvigrass foure pound of Watercresses two pound of Brooklime one pound of Water Mints half a pound of dry Wormwood four handfuls of the roots of Madder four ounces of the roots of Monks Rubarb three ounces roots of Horse Rhadish one ounce and a half the roots of Saxifrage one ounce of Cene four ounces of Juniper berries half an ounce of Anniseeds Coriander seeds and Ginger of each six drams Another Take a pint of the Whey of Goats milk of Cene half an ounce of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds well dusted and lightly bruised of each of weight of four pence let them stand one hour or one hour and half on warm embers in insuling the next morning to a draught hereof put a spoonful of Sirrup of Roses and as this agreeth with you so take it three or four dayes together or every other day Another Take a pottle of the same Whey boile therein of Betony Colts foot and Hisop of each one handful and drink there of as you have occasion A very easie Purgation Take halfe a pint of Malmesey or somewhat more and half a quarter of an ounce of Cene and two Races of Ginger sliced then put them both into the Malmesey and stir it well a good while and let it stand all night and then strain it and drink it and keep your Chamber and you shall have four or five stools Another Take clarified Whey and put into it a handful of Violet leaves and half a handful of Polipodium of the Oak called Oak fernes and drink a good draught of it luke-warm and wash after it To procure Looseness Seeth Mallows and red Nettles in fair water and let the party sit over the hot fume thereof A Purge Take Aron or Wakerobbin one dram of the powder thereof with two drams of Sugar is good to cut gross humours to purge the stomack of Phlegme and Melancholy Or else the root either green or dry one dram thereof being taken in drink with as much Treakle is a very special good Purgation To purge Phlegme and Melancholy Fetherfew dryed into fine powder and two drams thereof taken with Honey or sweet Wine purgeth by the stool Phlegm Melancholy and Sadness Also take Peniroyal with Honey and Aloes to purge Melancholy and for the Cramp To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Phlegm and Melancholy Drink the Seeds of Hollioaks Also Cene the cods and leaves in powder one dram doth purge Phlegm and Melancholy To purge Phlegme and Choler The great Garden Dock leaves drunk in Wine purgeth Phlegme Choler and Water A Purging Drink Take two gallons of new small Ale and put unto it a good handful of English Madder a handful of Dock roots bruised two handfuls of Scurvigrasse a handful of Scabious two ounces of Cene two ounces of Anniseeds two or three sticks of Licoras finely scraped and all those things bruised then put them into the new Ale and let them work therein so let it stand two or three dayes and then drink thereof morning and evening PAINE For pain in the Joints Take a pennoworth of Aquavitae Oyl of Exeter three ounces of Sage of Herb grace Clerk Robert of each a handful stamp them small in a Mortar then take your Aquavitae and straine them together a good while then take a spoonful thereof and annoint the Sore place against the fire For the pain under the side Take the toast of a Wheaten loaf and butter it and toast it again and butter it twice more then toast it againe and butter it with Soap and hold it against the fire till it lather then lay it to the side where the pain is For paine in the side that cometh of Wind. Take one handful of Cummin seeds as much of Anniseeds two handfuls of Rue seeth these together in running water from a pottle to a quart put to it half a pint of White Wine Vinegar before it be cold dip a Spunge in it and wring some of the liquor out of it and lay it to the Patients side as hot as may be suffered and when it beginneth to wax cold take a new POISON For the Poison of a Toad or other Poison Take a handful of Plantane and a handful of Parsley and stamp and strain them into a little raw Cream and mingle it well together and annoint the place grieved therewith PISSING For pissing a bed Take a Boares pisle and dry it and make powder of it and drink it in Ale or Beer POCKS A Medicine for the Small Pocks Take two handfuls of Salt and put it into a pint and halfe of water and stir it well together then set it upon the fire and let it boil well and in the boiling you must skim it so that there be not any skim seen and when the Small Pocks are come well forth and that the Swelling doth assuage you must take a fine cloth and both them with this Brine being warme three times a day And when they begin to grow brown use this Oyntment take a piece of Bacon and roast it upon a spit and set a dish of fair water under it putting thereto some Rose water and let the Bacon drop into it as it doth roast and when it is roasted take the dripping and the water and work it well together and it will be a very white Oyntment then put it into a Gally pot and twice a day annoint the places with a feather but in any case lay not on too much for that will make them moist and make them stay on the longer Another to take away the Redness Take fair water in a Posnet and put thereto half a pound of Butter then set it on the fire and let it boil softly and skim off all the froth very clean then take it off the fire and let it stand till it be throughly cold then powre the water from it and put it in clean water and set it upon the fire again skimming it very clean and do this nine times together but every time your butter must be cold before you put it into a new water and the last time being very cold take it clean away from the water and put Rosewater to it and work them very well together and put it up into a Gally pot and with a feather twice or thrice a day annoint the rednesse of the face and if these Medicines be used as they should be it will take away the rednesse and make the face not to have any holes in it For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take red Rose water white Sugar candied beaten very fine and brest milk and temper these very well together and with a feather dresse the eyes and it will keep them from the Small Pocks If it be for a man you must take the