make thereof a playster and lay it to the sore and it will ease you For a hardnes in the body ¶ Against the hardnes of the body take a good quantitie of Lilly rootes with an hearbe called Brancha vrsina and the roote of Mallowes and Holly-hock and temper them altogether in Wine and Oyle twelue dayes and then straine it and in stratning put thereto waxe and oyle and make an oyntment therof and therewith annoynt the hard-bound body Against heate in the bodie ¶ Take and eate ripe Berries and drinke the iuyce thereof it is very good for them that haue ouer-much heate for it cooleth them and an electuary made of these Berries is verie good for them that is gréeued with ouermuch heate in the body Also take the distilled water of Oxe dunge it is very good and profitable for the same A medicine for the Blacke Iaundies ¶ Take Gentiana long Pepper Calomus aromaticus Anence Reysons Currons white Sope of Spaine of each of these one ounce and two spoonefuls of Musterd-séed and boyls all them in a quart of Wine till the third part be wasted Another for the same ¶ Take Angell towchis and grinde them small but first wash them as cleane as ye may then put thereto a quantitie of Neates-foote oyle and a quantitie of Vineger drinke this medicine cold thrée times and it will cause you to cast out all the sicknes in your body presently Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Sage Parsely Gromwell of each a like much and make pottage thereof with a péece of good Porke and eate no other meate that day prooued For the yellow Iaundies and greene sicknes ¶ Take of Iuorie made into small powder halfe an ounce of Turmericke thrée quarters of an ounce as much of Saffron as the weight of a groate compounde all these well together and vse to drinke of thys potion first in the morning and last in the euening with a draught of good stale Ale but if you take it for the blacke Iaundies you must first purge melancholy and for she gréene Iaundies without purging and this medicine will helpe both as hath béene proued For the yellow Iaundies ¶ Take a great white Onion and make a hole where the blads goeth out to the bignes of a Chesnut and then take Treacle of Iane asmuch as will fill the hole then take halfe an ounce of English-Hony being beaten so compound the Treacle and Saffron together and put it into the Onion and sette them against the fire and rost it well that it doo not burne and when it is rosted straine it through a cloth and giue the iuyce thereof to the sicke thrée dayes together and it shall help them Another for the same ¶ Take a redde Docke roote and scrape it and lay it in a quart of strong Ale all night Another for the same ¶ If the patient drinke the Sope of Spaine and the shauings of Iuory it is very good for the yellow Iaundies being either olde or young To expell the venim of the Iaundies ¶ Take of running water a pint of Endiue and Succory of each halfe a handfull let them boyle till the halfe be wasted then straine it and put thereto of Rubarbe one dramme and a halfe and of Spignard a halfe-penny weight fine beaten of Sugar three ounces and let it boyle a little and then take it off and let it stande close couered all night and the next day earlie strains it and giue the sicke to driuke thereof fasting and abstaine from meate two howres after For the Iaundies in young children ¶ Take of Rubarbe of Turmericke the waight of tenne pence of white sugar Candy as much of Spignard the waight of three pence make all these in fine powder and mixe it together and thrée dayes together take thereof in white Wine or Rennish Wine Another for the same ¶ Take Turmerick Saffron a penny waight the shauing of Iuory foure pence weight the shauing of Harts-horne as much a spoonefull of the iuyce of Capilly veneris made into powder and drinke it in Wine and put thereto a pretty quantitie of Sugar and it helpeth the same For an Impostume ¶ An Impostume is a swelling or aking out of kind and it is either of a corrupt humor that must be broken out or else of superfluitie of a humor that should nourish that limme First there must bee giuen a Purgation after that repercussions a maturatiue The remedie ¶ Take Holly-hock Licoris Lintséede dry Figges Lillierootes and Iiniper berries séeth them long in water after doe away the licoris the Iiniper berries and bray well the other then put thereto Barly meale Lintseed Fenegréek and boile al these together well and annoynt it first with fresh Butter and this ripeth postumes within without and it is good in an harde and dry impostume though it waxe as hard as a stone repercutions to smite inward the matter againe shoulde not be vsed in children nor in old men neither where matter is wooddish or seruent nor where the water is much now and then in the burning of sicknes in the nigreforiis as gréeueth when the postume or botch commeth of nobler lim or member then it is on then shal he be riped there and not driuen away frō destinary dread of the better member the which abréeding of the postume and of the venimous matter thereof repercutions must be taken in time ere that the matter be ful seged and ere it be corrupt and rotten and that is good commonly with the iuyce of cold hearbs as petty morrell purslaine of the wood and vmbelicus veneris with oyle of roses and a little aysell a little Bole armoniack and cold oyntments as Popilion or vnguentum album or the colde oyntment Iusquinianus and Poppy and lead and seeth greene Plantaine and Vinegar and the white of an Egge To breake an impostume ¶ Take a Lilly roote and an Onion and boyle them in cleane water till they be soft and then stampe them fry them with Swines greace and lay it to the impostume as hote as the patient may suffer it To ripen an impostume ¶ Take Worme-wood Mallowes Mugwoort of each a good handfull stampe them and mingle them with a quarter of a pounde of Swines greace and fry them and put to it a handfull of Wheaten branne and a little White wine of Honey foure ounces boyle them till they be thicke and lay it hote to the sore place For an Itch or breaking out ¶ Take an ounce of Quick-siluer two ounces of Baies and mingle them well together vntill that you can see no Quicksiluer and put it into a boxe and annoynt the patience once in 24 howres and it shall kill the itch Another for the same ¶ Take Frankensence and bray it small in a Morter and meddle it with Oyle de Bay and there-with annoynt thee all ouer and it will destroy the itch For all itches ¶ If the itch be in the heate of the wriste then let
then turne it and thus for the rume it is most excellent An experiment for wounds in the head ¶ For to cease the ache and swelling wounds that be sore in the head or in any other place so that the bones be not broken Take Mallowes Wormwood Betony Egrimony Hilwoort of each of these a handfull wash them and stamp them and put therto thrée vnces of wheat flower as much Hony and as much Barrow greace and stamp them together and put thereto red Wine and fry them and lay them warme to the sore but lay a red Cole leafe between the plaisters and the wound and it shall cease the ache and take away the swelling thereof For all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Wormwood Waybread Rue Wallwoort Sage the barke of the Elder trée thrée cornes of Pepper and temper them together in wine and drinke thereof each day a draught early and late till that the Patient be well Also take the gall of an Hare and temper it with as much hony and annoint therewith the temples Also Rue and Eysell and smere thy head therewith is wholsom Also Camomell is good for the burning Feauer that holdeth a man or woman in the head Also Feuell sodden in water swageth the ache in man or womans head when that the head is washed therwith Another for all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take the greace of an Hart and mingle it with Barly◠meale and Sorrell bind them and temper them all together and playster it to thy temples for this hath béene proued a right good medicine Also take the iuice of Primrose and the milke of a Cow and with a pen draw it vp into thy nosthrills and it shall purge the head and shall heale the partie so gréeued of the head ache For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of white Poppy and red Nettles and stamp them together and put to it a little Beane flower and lay it on a cloth and so bind it to the forehead and he shall sléepe quietlie To make one sleepe that slept not in a long time before ¶ Take white Poppy seede Aniséed of each a like quantity and beat them to fine powder then take Rose-water the white of an Egge and womans milke and mingle all these together but first beate the white of an Egge very much and take away the froth then take flocks as many as will lye ouer your forehead and wet them in the liquor aforesaid then sprinkle of the powder vpon it and then lay it in a pewter platter vpon a chasingdish of coles for to make it warme and so lay it to the forehead and the party shall take his rest and quiet sléepe For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of Elder and warme them betwéen two tiles and bind it to the nape of the necke and it will make him to sléepe Also take the leaues Scala caeli put them in a pot and séeth them well a good while and at euen wash well thy féet and legs vp to the knées with that water and no higher then goe to bed and thou shalt sléepe soundly For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take a quart of Almonds blended and halfe a pound of Hempséede thrée times washed in cleane water and sixtéene Dates stamp them together and put therto good stale Ale and take an vnce of Poppy séed brused and lay it in Ale thrée or foure houres and séeth them together and straine them and giue the sicke to eate of it and it shall make him sléepe For to make a man sleepe and for to come to quiet rest ¶ Take red Roses Violets the water of Mellilot Lettice of each a like quantity a handfull white Poppy white Henbane of each halfe a dram a little Dill séede for to comfort the braine bray all these together then put them in a soft linnen cloth twelue inches long thrée inches broad quilt it and tye it to his forehead Also take oyle of water Lillies Poppy Nightshade Rose-water Vineger and womans milk dip flaxe therin and bind it to his temples this hath béen often proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take the iuice of wild Cowcumbers and put it into the eares and it asswageth the paine Also put the wood of gréene Ashe in the fire and saue the liquor that commeth out at the end and put it into the eares it causeth the paine for to cease and amendeth the hearing Also beate the iuice of Wormwood and drop it into thy eares proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take and mingle the iuice of Betony with oyle of Roses and put it warme in the eares with a tent and stop them well Also take faire oyle Oliue and let it be blowne out of a mans mouth that is cleane and fasting into the eares of a sick man let this be doone thrée or foure times and let that side of the head be turned downward that the odour of the head may run out Also take Almonds and the kernels of Peaches let them be cleane pilled in hote water and make oyle of them and let the oyle be put into the eares of the Patient so gréeued For the paine in the eares ¶ Take oyle of Roses and a little Vineger and put it to the eare then make a bagg of Camomell and Mellilot and lay it thereunto Also Goose greace béeing taken with a little hony asswageth the paines of the eares Also oyle of Almonds is very good for the payne in the eares Also if there be water in the eares take a little Goose greace and the iuice of Onyons commixed together and so lay it to the eares proued For deafnes in the eare ¶ Take a péece of gréene Ashe and put it in she fire and take the droppings of that water and take the droppings of a fresh water Eele the oyle of bitter Almonds of euery one a equall portion warme it by the fier and let it drop two or thrée drops in the eare so gréeued then take black Ewes wooll and dip the wooll therein and put it into the same eare and it will help the Patient so gréeued by Gods grace Also take Betony and Horehound stamp them in a morter and wring out the iuice and let the Patient lye on that side and so poure it into his eare and let him take his rest this hath béene proued For deafnes in the head ¶ Take a Hedghog and rost it and take the droppings therof and put it to the Patients eares so gréeued and stop it with black wooll et fiet Somtime there chanceth deafnes by wind which is in the eare the which causeth tynkling in the head then take a little Aloes in hot water or in white Wine and distill it into the Patients eare then put a little Eustorbium in pouder into the parties nose so gréeued to make him for to néese and to auoyd as much filthy humors as you may Another for deafnes in
and fine till they be as tough as waxe then take a quart of claristed Honny and cast the Dates therein till they bee dissolued then take halfe an ounce of long Pepper as much of Mace and Cloues and Nutmegs beaten in fiue powder then seeth the Dates and Honny ouer a soft fire then cast on the powder by little and little and stirre it very fast and let it seeth long till it wexe thicke then set it to ecole and put it in close Boxes and eate therefore first and last and it shall restore a man bee hee neuer so weake or lowe brought vse this some-times vppon a full stomacke and you shall not surfet proued by M. Baltazer Chirurgian ¶ An Electuarie most soueraine for all manner of diseases in the body proued by G. K. ¶ Take foure pound of Sugar and boyle it in a pint and a halfe of Malmesey and put thereto a pint of rose-Rose-water and a pint and a halfe of White-wine halfe a pinte of Aqua vitae and of running water a pint boyle all these together and when it is well sodden take of the powder of Enula campana an ounce and a halfe of Calamus aromaticus and Licoris of each halfe an ounce pepper thrée penny waight one halfe penny worth of Alisander seedes in powder sixe pence waight of conserue of Roses and Violets of each foure ounces boyle all these to a measurable thicknes then put thereto of folliater golde and all to cut it with a knife and mingle it with the aforesaide Electuarie and vse it as your need requireth and by Gods grace it will helpe you A restoritie for the weake and feeble ¶ Take a pinte of running Water and heate it ouer the fire and put in it a handful of Rose-mary let it boile to the halfe and then straine it then take a pint of White wine or Claret wine and a good peece of Sugar and powder of Ginger Sinamon a little Mace and Cloues and put them altogether thē lay sops in a dish and poure thereon the broth and giue it to the ficke and féeble persons fasting in the morning proued For a consumption proued ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Manus Christi one ounce of white fugar Candy and a penny worth of Anniseedes and halfe a pinte of Redde-rose water and a pint of Muscadine foure new layde Egges a quarter of Nutmegges halfe a quarter of Cap Dates and stone your Dates and wash them before that you doo put them in and boile them altogether and so vse them for this hath béene proued A Ielly prooued for a consumption ¶ Take a well fleshed Capon and scald him and draw him and put into his belly a handfull of Barly and as much Reysons Currons and Dates and put him in an earthen pot with a gallon of Claret wine then put therein some Sinamon and Ginger let it seeth till the flesh be fallen from the bones then beate him in a Morter and put him into an Ipocras bag and let the Ielly runne into a faire Vessell and giue the patient of that ielly euening morning and within the spending of three Capons by the grace of God the patient shal recouer much his health and to comfort his stomack giue him Rorax aromaticum made in losings at the Apoticaries A present remedy for the Sciatica ¶ Take a handfull of Violet leaues and wash them in good Ale then take an other pint of good Ale and set it on the fire in a skillet and then beate the Violet leaues very small and so boyle them in the Ale and then when it is halfe boyled take out the leaues and straine the iuyce into the afore-said Ale againe and boyle it very well vntill that it bee thicke and then take a péece of sheepes leather as broad as the place which is gréeued and pricke it full of heles and spread the same on the rough side of the leather and lay it to the place xxiiij howres and then change it and lay to it new and so vse it thrée dayes and you shall be well the oftner the better To make a water for the Sciatica ¶ Take a peece of Porke of a male Hogge which is leane and perboyle it in water vntill the blood be cleane out thē boyle it in strong Ale a good while and after that take it and distill it with a soft fire and then kéepe the water and wash the places so gréeued two or thrée times against the fire For a Sciatica another medicine ¶ Take an Oxe gall and red Allam Rosemarie-tops bay Salt Aqua vitae and Vinegar bray them well together and set them on the fire and alwaies stirre it but let it not seeth and so vse it as neede requireth Another for the same ¶ Take Auence Comin and asmuch white salt a handful of Red nettles and seeth them in pisse and when they be well boyled put thereto Aqua vitae and annoynt well the sore therewith thrée or foure times A medicine for the Sciatica ¶ Take Time Lauender Cotten the runnings or out-laces of Straw-berries of each a like quantitie a nest or two of young Swallowes aliue with the feathers and the gutts and stampe them very small and so fry them in May-butter that is swéete and newe boile them on the fire then straine it through a cloth and put it into a pot and so vse it at your pleasure For the Crampe ¶ The Crampe commeth commonly of contractions of nerues or els it commeth of too much fulnes of the body or too much leannesse and note well that in the Palsie the members be more longer then they should be by relaxation and in the cramp the members are shorter then they should be by shrinking of the nerues but the Crampe that commeth of wasting is seldome cured if the paine be great withal cease it with oyle of roses or of Camemile hote and of yolks of Egges and Saffron together and wet Bread in swéet hote Milke for this ceaseth the aking of the Nerues Also make a garter of an Hares skin but the liuer is said to be full good for the Crampe prooued For the Crampe a remedy ¶ Take oyle of Camemile and Fenegréeke and annoynt the place where the Crampe is and it helpeth Another for the same ¶ Séeth these hearbes Betony Worme-wood Veruaine and Time these are exceeding good for to wash the party so troubled with the Crampe if he make it in a bath Another for the same ¶ If you say these words thrée times when the Cramp commeth vpon you Bero baro battora it may hap to help you To make one to haue a good colour ¶ Take and drinke the iuyce of Isope fasting warme it and it will make you to haue a good cullour it is good for the sight it destroyeth wormes it is also good for the Romake the liuer and the lunges For the Canker a remedie ¶ Take lentils of the Water which be called Frogs féete or Emets meate it is of great
for a new wound or to staunch blood poure a little of it in a dish and if it stick fast vnto the dishes side then it is inough and preserue it to your vse as neede requireth The making of the flower of all plaisters and salues called Flos vnguentorum per G. K. ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen halfe a pound of Perossen a quarter of a pound of Frankensence a quarter of a pound of virgin Wax an vnce of Mastick a quarter of a pound of Dears sewet a quarter of a pound of Shéepes sewet two drams of Camphire a quarter of a pound of Venice Turpentine and melt that may be molten and make powder of that which may be beaten to powder and searce your powder through a fine searcer and to compound this treate or plaister with all your Waxe Shéepes sewet and Deares sewet must be first molten on a soft fire then your Olibanum Mastick with your Rozen and Perossen and your Frankensence and Myrrh and last of all your Turpentine of Venice and as you put these gums in you must euer be stirring it with a little sticke that it doe not grow to the kettle side with a soft fire the gums being throughly molten take the kettle from the fire still stirring of it let your Myrrh and your Turpentine be put in the last for that must not abide on the fire long after it is put in then take a pottle of good white Wine and let your strainer be of canuas ready for to straine the sayd gums withall and let there be no holes in the canuas strayner then take a faire Bason or Péece and put it in a quart or thrée pints of your white Wine and then let it runne through into the white Wine and so let it coole for the space of two houres and then worke it and make it vp in roles and let the roles lye continually still in the white Wine for it will be 〈◊〉 as Allablaster and yée may kéepe it this seauen yeares in full effect and goodnes and especiallie for all new woundes and aches béeing spread vpon new canuasse and apply it to the gréefe and these be the vertues of this Flores vnguentorum Also this noble Salue or plaister amongst all other is most clensing and wel sounding the flesh that it healeth more in one weeke then in any other it wil suffer no corruption to be ingendred in man or woman nor no euill flesh to grow for all these diseases aboue named it is the most strange medicine that euer was sound as in experience it hath béen full many times proued and tryed The golden plaister that healeth all bruses of vaines or sinewes proued ¶ Take Colofony Pitch Rozen and Oyle thrée vnces of liquid Pitch an vnce of Olibanum an vnce of Auri vnguenti a like of each of Wine as much as suffiseth and make thereof a plaister and lay it too and kéepe it to your vse To make Gratia dei ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen and boile it in a pan vntill the fome or scum be come of it then take a quarter of a pound of vnwrought Wax and put it into the Rozen and boyle them together as is aforesaid then take an vnce of Sheepes sewet and as much of Turpentine and oyle Oliue a spoonefull and put them all together into the same pan amongst the Rozen and Wax aforesaid and boyle them all together vntill the fome begin aboue and when the fome beginneth to waxe blacke then take it off the fire and clense it through a faire linnen cloth into a pan of water then work it with your hands and put it out as you doo Birdlime for the space of a quarter of an houre and now and then wet your hands in the waâ—… when it cleaueth to the salue and then make it into roles To make Gratia dei minor ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Pimpernell that beareth the white flower of each thrée handfuls and bray them séeth them in white Wine till it be halfe sodden then poure out the Wine through a cloth and set it ouer the fire put thereto Perrosin a pound Mastick a pound Virgin wax and take womans milk that nourisheth a man child a quantity mingle them together boyling with a slice till it be well melt then take it off the fire put in halfe a pound of Turpentine stir it well together till it be cold then kéepe it till ye néede it is good for all new wounds and olde for the Webbe in the eye it suffereth no dead flesh to remaine within the wounde Also for stinging of venimous beasts and also for all maner of impostumes and for all sores To make a plaister that will heale a wounde ¶ Take a pound of the iuyce of Betony as much of Plantine the iuyce of Smallage as much Bursa pastoris as much and foure pound of Waxe and Perrossen a quarter of a pounde of Incense boyle all these together with the iuyces of these 4. hearbes till they be almost thick and then put therein a quarter of a pound of Turpentine oyle Oliue thrée pound and so vse it as a plaister at neede A methridate against poysons and pestilence which for a trueth was prooued vpon foure Irish Gentlemen poysoned with Rats-bane cast into a pan of Milke in Fraunce who were so swolne that they were ready to burst ¶ Take of the rootes of Turmentile two drammes of all the kinde of Saunders of euery of them a dram white Dittanie newe gathered and dryed a dramme of the top of a Harts horne or a Spitrack of precious stones the fragments of orient pearle Bole armoniack Aristologia rotunda of each a dram Peniriall Mirrh and sewet of each two drams Tarra limnia of the purest two drammes the seedes of Cytrons and Saffron of each a scruple Vnicorns horne and iacints of each halfe a dramme The licour to make this Electuary is Rosewater and the water of Borage flowers distilled boyle your Sugar and waters to a perfection and in the cooling put in your powders searced and so reserue it as a most precious treasure that is also a present remedy to driue out the Measels shingles small poxe the plague pushes and hath holpe them whose sores were gone in and brought them out againe and recouered the parties and it defendeth all venim To make pilles against poyson of a meruailous vertue as hath been proued ¶ Take Imperatrice Bistorta Turmentilla Valeriana Dittamo Bianco Carlina Gentiana Aristologia rotunda Agarico Electo Salgem of each a like quantity beate them in fine powder then take the iuyce of Garlike and of Onions as much as will make it into a paste Also put into the iuyce one dram of Saffron then let the sayd paste be mixt dry in the shadow and then beate it into powder againe and mixe it with the foresayd iuyce in good force and kéepe it in a vessell of lead vntill thou hast neede and when thou wilt vse it take thereof 4. drammes and make
the head ¶ Take Secados Bay berries Betony Bay leaues of each of them a handfull séeth them in white Wine to the halfe and for an old man in Maimsie then put it in a vessell that hath a narrow mouth and hold your eares ouer it béeing vnstopped as hote as you may suffer it beeing not too hote nor too cold also thrée drops of the oyle of Almonds dooth the same For woormes in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Woorm-wood Rue So wthistle put it in the patients eare and he shall be whole Take the iuyce of Elder and drop it into the eare of the patient gréeued Or take the iuyce of Cockle and mingle it with the iuyce of Arssmart and put it into the eares so gréeued For ach and wormes in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Henbane and put it into thine eares and it will take away the ach and kill the woormes Also take the powder of wilde Gourds and the iuyce of Arssmart and put it into thine eares Also for the wormes in the eares take Centory and Léekes the iuyce of thē both and put it into the eares and stop it with black wooll of a Sheepe that groweth betwéen the legges and it will help the patient For woormes in the eares ¶ Take oyle of Roses oyle Oliue oyle of Exeter Aqua composita of each of them a like quantitie and compound your Aqua vitae with other oyles on the fire then take Rue and the egges of Ants beate them small and compounde them altogether being well boyled and then put it into the eares dropping it in thrée or foure times and he shall find ease To cause a man to heare well ¶ Take and make a rounde loafe and fill it full of Sage and bake it and when it is baked then breake or cut the loafe in the midst and binde it to the eares as hote as you may suffer it let this be vsed three or foure times and it will cause the patient so gréeued for to heare well For the running in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Elder drop it in the eare of the partie gréeued and it clenseth the matter and the filth thereof Also the iuyce of Violets vsed is verie good for the running of the eares Also take the gall of a Weather and Honny of both a like portion mingle them and put them into the eares For the running in the eares ¶ Take the gall of a Goate womans milke mingled with Honny and Mirrh and it will help you Also boyle the iuyce of Sengreene and put it in a hollow Onyon in the fire then put of the same iuyce strained into thine eare and lay the Onyon likewise ouer thine eare in manner of a plaister Also the vrine of a man child being poured into the eare dryeth the humors and taketh away the running of the eares For the impostume behind the head ¶ Take Beanes and mingle thē with meale and the iuyce of Fenegreke and it helpeth the patient so gréeued with the impostume behind the eare but it must be laid plaister wise Another for the same ¶ Take Milke and Allom and make a posset and when the Allom hath turnd the milke lay the posset curd to the impostume and it will breake it Also to destroy an imposiume in what place soeuer take the roote of Hollock and wash it cleane then seeth it till it be tender then put out the water and put to the roote Linséede and Fenegreke and Barly meale mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the impostume plaister-wise and it will cure the same For all manner of sore eyes ¶ Take Fennell Rue Verueine Enfrance Endiue Betony and red Roses lay all these a day a night in white wine the second day still them with a soft fire then kéepe it in a glasse this water is as good as Bawme for all manner of euill eyes Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Rue Verueine Enfrance Betony Endiue Sengréene Hill-woort Peneriall redde Roses Maiden haire of each a like much also foure ounces of oyle Oliue stamp them and put them in a vessell of glasse and still them in a stillatory and as it stilleth part it in thrée parts the first water you must keepe by it selfe for it is as precious as siluer the second as gold the third as Bawme all these waters must be kept in verie cleane glasses close stopped and so vse any of them A precious water for the sight of the eyes made by King Edward the sixt ¶ Take Smallage red Fennell Rue Verneine Betonie Egremony Pimpernell Enfrance Sage Selondine of each a like quuntity first wash them cleane then stampe them and put them in a faire brasen pan with the powder of xv Pepper cornes faire serced into a pynt of good white wine then put thē into the hearbs with three spoonfuls of Honny and fiue spoonfuls of the water of a man child that is an innocent mingle all together and boile them ouer the fire and when it is sod straine it through a fine linnen cloth and put it into a glasse and stoppe it well and close till you will vse it and when you néed put a little thereof into the sore eyes with a feather but if it wexe dry then temper it with white wine and it profiteth much all manner of sore eyes this water was vsed by King Edward the sixt For the pin and the web and the fellon in the eye ¶ Take the gall of a Hare and Honny of each a like much mingle them together and take a feather and put a little into thine eyes and it will heale thē within two or thrée dayes and saue the sight on warrantise thys hath béene often proued For the pin and the web in the eye ¶ Take a quart or a pynt of Strawberries when they bee ripe and put thereto asmuch white Wine as Strawberries then put them in a cleane vessell and let them stand nine dayes hote stirre them very well euery day twice or thrice and the tenth day put it in a bag of Canuas and let it goe through hote you must not wring it hote let it goe through of it selfe thē take the cléere and put it in a viall of glasse then take Calamint that is a stene and put it in the fire til it be red hote and thē quench it in white Wine nine seuerall times and when thou hast done thus take the same stone and beate it to small powder in a brasen morter if you haue a pinte of Water then put therein one ounce of the said powder and mingle them well together and keepe it well for this is a precious water for the pinne and she webbe in the eye Another for the same ¶ Take Enstras a good quantitie and stampe it well and wring out the iuyce through a cloth and vse it Or take Bores greace Capons greace Goose greace and melt them together in a pan stir them well
any sore eyes And this medicine neuer fayleth but restoreth the sight ¶ Take a stone called Calamint and make it red hote nine times and quench it foure times in Rose water and fiue times in white Wine then take this stone that is thus quenched and make of it small powder in a brasen morter then take Frankensence as much as of the powder of the stone and make it also to powder and looke that you haue of them two euen portiens as much as you will then take Rose water and water of Rue and water of Fennell of each of these three two portions of the water of Strawberries and the water of Veruaine and the water of Enstras of each of these three three portions and put all these waters together in a cleane vessell and then looke how many vnces thou hast of thy powder to vnces of the aforesaid waters that be mingled Grinde the powder of Calamint and of Frankensence on a Marble stone as you would grinde Vermillion but you must grinde each one by it selfe then take fresh Swines greace of a Barrow-hog and wring the same verie well through a cleane cloth and looke that you haue asmuch weight of cold greace as of the mingled waters take then the powder of Calament and boyle it with the greace and with the mingled waters ouer a soft fire of Char-coles without anie smoake And when thou hast boyled these well together put vnto the same the powder of Frankensence and then boile them all together till the smoake of the boylings cease and then take it from the sire and let it coole but from the time that you sette it first to the fire for to seeth be alwaies stirring it verie busily till it be cold and thick Then take Camphire pare it in small péeces then take of thy oyntment euen as much and grind them together by parcels on a Marble stone and when they be well mingled together then put it in a boxe with one vnce of Calamint and one vnce of Frankensence Enfrance thrée pennie worth and thrée peny worth of Camphire and he that hath any gréeuance or sicknes in his eyes at night sitting on his bed let him take of this oyntment with his finger as much as a Wheat corne and hold it in his eye vntill it be relented and then dip his finger with the oyntment softly betwéen the lids of his eyes and then let him lye downe and sléepe and on the morrow when he riseth wash the eye with Rose-water or with Enfrance water or with Fenell water or with Rue water these waters be good therefore but ere thou wash the eyes therewith heate the water a little ouer the fier but looke that you wash not with fasting spittle nor with no other thing but with one of these waters before saide and thou shalt be whole this hath béene surely prooued For the Impostumes in the head ¶ Against the Impostume of the eyes and web of the same put the iuice of Hony-suckle often therin or mingle it with pure hony and straine it and it wasteth the Impostume and the web maruailously and it was thus proued One tooke a Cock and a Whelp and pricked their eyes with a crooked Iron or néedle so that they séemed that their eyes were out and then hee brused this hearbe and put it in their eyes and they became faire and cleare as they were before at the which he did maruaile and proued it many times vpon diuers persons For wormes in the eye lids ¶ Take Salt and burne it in a cloute and temper it with hony and with a feather annoynt the eye lids when the party goeth to bed For wormes in the eye lyds ¶ Take Bay-salt and burne it in the fire and then stampe it and doo thereto clarified hony and the water of Allom and a little Copperas and annoynt the eye lidds when thou goest to bed and this medicine shall kill the wormes that be in the eye liddes prooued For stinking at the nose ¶ Take Cloues Ginger and Calamint of each a like much and séethe them in white Wine and therewith wash thy nose After that put in the powder Piritrum to prouoke one to néese if there be replection fleam in the head first you must purge the head with Pylls of Cochie or of Hiera picra Also if the stinking of the nose come from the stomacke first purge the stomake et fiet For the polix of the nose ¶ Against the polix of the nose make a suppository or tent of a plaister called Apostolicon and put powder of Copperas theron and put it into thy nose or make that tent of cotton and wet it in Salt-water and lay of the said powder thereon and put it in thy nose The said powder is also good to fret the proud flesh of superfluitie of blood of the nose but first burne it then put it in olde Parchment and make powder thereof and take Mastick and then make a tent of Bursa pastoris with part of a stone called Emachitas and put it in thy nose For the polix of the nose ¶ To take and put the iuice of Iuy into thy nosthrils is very good The gum of Iuy made in an oyntment called Dialthera hath power to chase and to consume Also against the polix make a tent of Apostolicon and the powder of burnt brasse and lay it to the nose et fiet For the pose in the head ¶ Against the rume or pose mingle the powder of Comin-séede and Bay berries and put them all hote in a bag and lay them so to the head for the pose For the nosthrill a medicine ¶ For the highnes of the nosthrils and rednes caused in flux of humors take the broth that Olibanum is sodden in but first in the morning Pils of Olibanum and at night to bedward the said broth these Pylls comforteth digestion and purgeth the stomack For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take and mingle the powder of Betony with as much salt and put as much as you can take betwéene two fingers and a thomb in the nesthrils and the blood will staunch also take and wet cotton in the iuice of Bursa pastoris and cast powder of Antimonium vpon it and the bléeding will frent For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take a dram of Bolae armoniacke washed and mixe it in rose-Rose-water and Planten water and drinke it then bind the extreame parts as hard as you may and after make a tent of gréene Nettles and put into his nose Moreouer if so be that the Patient doo hold in his hand Egrimony the roote and all and drink the iuice of Knotgrasse the blood will staunch For bleeding at the nose ¶ Against the bléeding of the nose that commeth by ebulition or boyling of the blood in the lyuer and vaines in Sommer make Beanes wet in the iuice of Rose-water and lay them to the forehead or temples it hath been proued Another for the same ¶ Take Peruincle and chewe it in the
penny-worth of Lycoris scraped and a halfe penny-worth of Annyseed a little Linséed and a handfull of Isope and asmuch Penneriall cleane washed let them séeth to fiue pints and drinke hereof morning and euening till you haue ease For a hoarce voyce ¶ Take the broth that red Colwoorts haue béene sodden in and mingle it with seauen or eyght Penydis and one ounce of sirrop of Maiden-haire and giue it the patient when hee goeth to bed Take Dyairis simple and a losing of the same at morning and also at night Another remedy for a hoarce voyce ¶ Take great Raisons Figges Sugar Cinamon and Cloues of each a small quantitie séeth them in good Wine and giue the patient to drinke thereof morning and euening two ounces at a time except hee haue a Feauer It is also good to take morning and euening a spoonfull of the strrop of Iniubes mixed with a roote of Licoris in manner of a Locsanum if with the saide hoarcenes there discende aboundance of water to the mouth Also it is good for to make an clectuarie of halfe Dyairis and halfe Diadrigantum and vse hereof first in the morning and last at night A very good medicine for to open the pypes and to make the voyce cleere ¶ Take a Figge and put it in the powder of Isope and eate euerie morning one at a time till you be well Thys will help you on warrantise For a sore throat or mouth ¶ Take Cinckfoile a good quantitie stampe it and boyle it in faire water in a posnet then hold thy mouth open ouer the fume thereof as hote as possible thou canst suffer it that it may enter into thy throat and still as it cooleth in thy mouth spitte it out and so take fresh and fresh A sirrop for a sore throat ¶ Take halfe a pynte of the iuyce of Mulberries a pynte of clarified Honny and a quarter of a pinte of good Claret Wine séeth them altogether till the liquor be cōsumed take also sage Suger Woodbine and Roses of each a handfull seeth them in faire water till the strength of the hearbes be sodden then take tenne or twelue spoonfulls of the fore-said strrop of Mulberries and put therein and with thys vse to gargell your throat luke-warme oftentimes and spit it out againe proued For a sore throate ¶ Take oyle of Camomile oyle of Violets and the oyle of Almonds and the greace of a Hen asmuch as of all the others first wash it well and picke it then mingle all together and annoynt the throat therewith Take the dunge of an Asse and the dunge of Swallowes and make it in powder and put the same in wine and gargel it in your mouth and throat as hote as may be suffered Take also the Swallowes in the nest and a pounde of the oyle of Cammomile and the oyle of Almonds as much of the one as of the other and lay it to the place For the swelling in the throate ¶ Take the greene barke of the Elder trée and a little Bay salte beate them well together till they be somwhat small thou lay the same to the swelling of the throat For the Quinsie in the throate ¶ Take Cinckfoile and seeth the same in running Water and put it in a pot with a narrow mouth and let the party gréeued hold his mouth ouer the mouth of the potte so that the fume may passe into his throat and when the water waxeth colde wash the throat well with the same both within and without and the disease will vanish away prooued Another for the same ¶ First let the partie thus diseased bee let blood on the left arme or in the liuer vaine three or foure ounces and let him gargase it with Wine-vinegar and water warmed together of each a like quantitie gargase it often times and spet it out and let him haue Methridatum in white Wine and let him sweat vpon it an howre or two And if the Quinsie be swolne already in his throat then let him vse this remedie following Take a Swallowes nest as you finde it with Birds or with Egges or without eyther of them and put to the same eyght handfulls of Mallowes with asmuch Water-cresses boyle them all together in milke vntill they become soft and till the milk be cleane consumed then beate it in a bowle vntill it come to a plaister then take asmuch as your fist of the same and while it is warme spread it like a plaister and binde it as hote as may be suffered about the place where the swelling is and so change it often til the paine be gone Another for the same ¶ Take hote Bread and put it in Honny and lay it to the place as hote as may be suffered and it will drinke it vp Take also the iuyce of Planten gargell it vp and downe thy throat and it will case the paine thereof Also take the berries of the Mulberrie tree and make iuyce thereof then seeth them in a little Oyle and Wine and put Vineger thereto and so gargle it Also an electuarie made of the iuyce of the same Berries with a quantitie of scummed Honny is good for the same and it may be kept tenne yéeres in séedes of Dianorum for the Quinsie For the Cough ¶ Take Isope great Raisens and Figges of each a little handfull and one eunce of Liceris boyle them in faire water till the third part be consumed then giue the partie gréeued for to drinke thereof twise a day in the morning two houres before meate and at night two howres before supper also it is good for to eate a losing of Diairis or Diapeaideon If you will haue it stronger put thereto the decoction of a little Colewoorts Annyseedes and Fennell seedes with the séedes of Nettles of each two drams Another for the cough ¶ Take Sage Rue red Fennell Isope Comin and the powder of Pepper of each like much by weight and seeth them well together in Honny and make thereof an electuarie and vse thereof a spoonefull in the euening and another in the morning till the cough be gone Another medicine against the cough ¶ Take the roote of Enula campana Horehound Holihock of eath of them a like much séeth thē all together in white wine with a dozen of fatte Figges and with a little Licoris and vse to drinke hereof a draught at a time euerie day twise For a dry cough ¶ Take Annyséedes Ashe séedes and Violets and beate them to powder and stampe them with euen portion then seeth them together in faire water till they waxe thicke then put the same into a bore and as you neede let the sicke eate first last of the same till he be well For the Cough or stoppings ¶ Take the powder of Isope the powder of Anny-seed the powder of Ginger the powder of Licoris and mingle thē with clarified Honny and eate dailie hereof till thou bee whole Also for the cough take a little Brimstone and make powder thereof
and put a little of the same vpon a borde or trencher and take a stick or coale of fire and put it in the Brimstone and let the partie greeued holde his nose ouer the fume of the Brimstone and it shall breake the force of the cough and stoppings Also this is good for the pose and the rewme in the head as hath oft beene pooued To make a powder for the Cough ¶ Take Sugar-candie Enula Campana rootes dryed but nothing so much Enula campana as Sugar-candie theÌ„ take two or three crops of dryed Isope and one race of Ginger and beate all these together and afterwarde vse to eate of these powders till thou be whole To make a sirrop for the Cough ¶ Take a pynt of Isope water halfe a pynt of clipped Rosemary a quarter of a pound of Sugar-candie three spoonfuls of Anniséedes brused thrée sponfuls of Licoris sliced séeth al these together vpon a soft fire vntill it come to a sirrop then straine it and take a spoonfull thereof morning and euening and let it goe softly downe by gowlpes For the perrillous Cough ¶ Take white Horehound and stampe it and wring out the iuyce and mingle the iuyce with Honny and seeth it and gyue the sicke to drinke hereof Take also a Garlike head and rost it then take away the pills and eate it Also take a Colwoort leafe and strike the inner side thereof with May butter and lay it to the sicke mans stomacke or belly euery morning and euening and giue him no Milke Butter nor Cheese nor any kinde of salte meate nor fatte pottage nor Nuts nor Apples but make the partie pottage with leaues and rost him an Onyon and let him eate it with a little Pepper and Honny put therein and vse it osten and it will helpe him Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Sage and the iuyce of Rue of each like much and a quantitie of Commin and asmuch of the powder of Pepper and seeth them all very well in clarified Honny and so make an electuarie thereof and let the partie greeued vse of thys medicine daily thrée spoonfuls at night three in the morning vntill he be whole A good medicine to helpe the cough speedily ¶ Take two or thrée Garlick heads well pilled stamp them and put them into Hogs-greace or suet and stamp them well together and at night when thou goest to bedde warme well the soles of your féete and annoynt them with the said confection as hote as may be suffered and also the small of your legs and put a warme cloth about your feete and within thrée nights he shal be holpen Also take Brimstone and put it into powder and put a little thereof into a new layde Egge soft rosted and mingle it well together then put thereto of Bengemin as much as a fitch pease lightly stamped drinke it in the morning at your breakfast and at night A remedie for the dry cough ¶ Take a pound of Licoris and scrape it cleane then stampe it in a morter and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto three quarts of the best woort that may be gotten one ounce of Sugar and a quarter of an ounce of Ginger in powder a pynt of clarified Honny and seeth them all together till they bee halfe wasted then straine it through a cleane cloth into a faire vessell and let the party gréeued vse thereof first and last at night hote and in the morning cold till he be whole Another for the dry cough ¶ Take Anny-séedes Smallage seedes and Violet séedes of each a like much beate them all together in powder temper them with wine as the quantitie gyueth then seeth theÌ„ well till they wexe thicke and so vse it Also if you take the seedes of Nettles and seeth them in Oyle and afterward annoynt your hands and your féete therewith it will doe away the cough Also take the strrop of Violets and of Iniubes and drinke thereof Also it is very good to take first in the morning and last at night a losing of Diadragagant and after ward to drinke a draught of good Pâ—isan and thys is a present remedie for the cough when it procéedeth of a hote cause A dyer for them that haue the cold cough ¶ Yée must abstaine from Vineger and all salt meats from fruits and raw hearbes from Fish Lemmons and all kinde of grosse meats and too much replexion Also ye must drinke no Wine betwéene meales nor sléepe in the day time especiallie after meate For the stopping of the pypes and for fleame a medicine proued ¶ Take a good bowle-full of Barlie and put to the same a gallon of cleane Well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take that water and put thereunto asmuch good Woort with a penny-worth of Licoris brused but not made into powder and a good handfull of Isope another of Sage and boyle them altogether till one halfe of the liquor bee boyled in then straine that liquor through a cloth and that that commeth through the cloth put into a close vessell and let it stand a day and then let the patient drinke thereof a spoonefull or two euerie morning and so much likewise euery euening vntill he be well This hath béene often prooued For straitnesse in the pypes ¶ For straitnesse in the pypes or in the breast take dry Isope rootes of Enula campana of each one handfull sticks of Licoris scraped and soft brused foure vnces and boyle altogether in a gallon of running water till halfe be wasted then straine it and to all the aboue said liquor hote put halfe a pint of clarified hony and drinke therof milk warme a good draught euery day first and last A medicine for to stay a vomit ¶ Take halfe a pinte of running water an vnce of Suger and a good race of Ginger pick it and scrape it cleane and shred it in good handsome péeces and so put it to the water and the Suger and boile them together from halfe a pint to a quarter of a pint and so giue it to the party to drink for it will stay the vomit in a very little space For them that may not digest their meat ¶ Take Horshoue and Hilwate of each of these a like much wash them cleane and stamp them and put therto the powder of Pepper and séeth them together in faire water and let the Patient drink therof luke warme first and last For a vomit a remedy ¶ For them that haue vomit and for them that haue not their breath at will and hath stopping in their breasts take a dram and a halfe of the powder of Betony with a Goblet full of water and drink it fasting Another for the same ¶ Against the vomit caused of weakenesse heate or odor chollerick mingle the pouder of the thrée leaued Grasse with the white of an Egg and rost them
on a tyle and giue it to the Patient to eate Also for the vomit caused of retentiue weaknes take the pouder of gum Arabick and pouder of Canell For a man that vomiteth too much ¶ Take Roses and boyle them with strong Vineger and make a plaister therof and lay it to his stomack all hot Also vomiting commeth somtimes without great violence and therby one getteth health wherfore ye néed not giue him any remedy for it is a good action of the naturall vertue of the stomack somtime vomiting commeth by a great violent mouing of the vertue expulsiue of the stomack For the euill things contayned in the same a remedy one may well help a man to vomit giuing him water warme with a little oyle to drinke or else to put thy singer in his mouth very lowe or a feather wet in oyle the better to vomit and to mundifie the stomack if so be the person haue a wide throat and that vomiting dooth not hurt him much as they be that haue but small and strait throats and long necks and leane for all these are euill to vomit Somtimes vomiting commeth by weaknes of the stomack caused of a hot and euill complection ye shall cure it after this manner take sirop of Roses Quinces Mirtles with water sodden and cold againe or else water of Pursian to quench the thirst Also it is good to annoynt the stomack before dinner and supper with an oyntment of the oyle of Roses and Quinces and the iuice of Mints and a little wax or els make a plaister of Mints Roses Wormwood and oyle of Roses lay to his stomack as hot as ye may For to make a man cast and perbreake ¶ Take two parts of the iuice of Fenell and one part of hony and séeth it till it be thick and drink therof morning and euening and it will cause a man for to cast or perbreake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of spurge and vse to drinke thereof and it will cause you to cast Also the iuice of Stoncrop put into white wine causeth a man for to cast presently For to comfort the Patient after his vomiting ¶ Take and giue the Patient in the morning an vnce of the sirop of Wormwood or Mints in stéed of which it is conuenient to take a losing of AromaticuÌ„ rosatum or Diagalanga Also take euening and morning three houres before meate two Cloues in powder with a spoonfull of the iuice of Mints or half a spoonfull of Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloues and Lignum aloes the weight of a crown two houres before meate For one that abhorreth his meate ¶ Somtime there chaunceth in the stomack a disease called Fastidium or abhorring of meat wherby the person against his will taketh in hate all maner of meats that is offered vnto him like as the whole man taketh pleasure and delight in the same The cause of his disease is replection of chollerick humors or flegmatick grosse and viscouse which are in the stomack and the Patient hath great thirst a dry tongue the mouth bitter and sometime dooth vomit yellow choller And if the vaines be full let the Patient be let blood on the right arme and giue him to eat and drink such things as are fit for a party so gréeued also you may giue him the iuice of Pomgranets For to prouoke an appetite ¶ Take Sage Parsly Pepper and Mints and stampe them and temper them with Vineger as you doo make sauce for â—â—shes it will cause appetite also flesh eaten with Vineger comforteth and giueth appetite If Vineger be vsed with a full stomacke it vnbindeth the wombe with an emptie stomacke bindeth it It is good for them that be weake with sicknes if it be taken in this manner tost bread and wet it in Vineger and with the tost rub the mouth and nosthrils and bind it on the pulsable vaines for it comforteth the Patient and the appetite but for the appetite onely it were better wet in the iuice of Mints Also to them that haue lost their appetite by sicknes two drams of the powder of Betony with foure Ciote roots in drink taketh away both sadnes and euill tast of meats Also take and confect Cardomomum with the iuice of Mints and vse for to wet your meat therin it prouoketh appetite Against the letting of the breath ¶ Take and lay Orpiment vpon hote embers and let the Patient stoope downe and receiue the smoke therof through a pipe or funnell Also take three drams of Orpiment with reare Egs or with wine or womans milk once or twice in the wéek Against paine of the breath called Asma caused of cold take the powder of Philixendula with the powder of Gentiana and vse it in his meat and drink Another for the same ¶ Against the paine of the breath if it be of a long continuance take the powder of Gentiana with Wine and Barly water or else with meats or with new bread Also take two drams of Galbanum with a rere Egge or with Barly water Also to take Figs and seeth them in wine is good against the letting of the breath and against cold rume or humors in the breast Also Pancakes made of Docks with meat or Eggs is very good for letting of the breath called Asma if you cate therof An oyntment for the shortnes of the breath ¶ Take two vnces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and one vnce of May butter vnsalted a little Saffron and new Waxe and make an oyntment therwith and annoynt the breast eucning and morning Also for him that lacketh wind ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and Borage séeth them together in a péece of Pork and make therof pottage and eat and drink of this broth with wine or with Whey that is good For armes being consumed and fallen away ¶ Take Deare suet and thine owne water being dissolued in a basen warme then therewith wash thy armes euery day morning and euening For the mary being cold and numd in the armes ¶ Take thrée spoonfull of Mace thrée spoonfull of Aqua vita and three spoonfull of Vrine and thrée spoonful of Capons greace and put them all in a Porrenger and warme them on the sire and wash your armes morning and euening Also if that you be sore in any part of the armes take Roch Allom and Madder and boyle them with Conduit water from a pottell to a pint and so wash your armes For aking of the hands and deadnes of the fingers ¶ Take a handfull of red Sage as much red Fennell as much red Nettles with a quantity of Bay leaues in pouder and long Pepper stamp all these together in a Morter then straine the same through a Canuas cloth with Aqua vita and with this liquor annoynt thy hands when you goe to bed For swelling of wounds in the hand ¶ Take Wormwood stampe it and straine it and boyle it with Vineger and put therto Wheat bran and
beat the Pils in rose-Rose-water and giue two or thrée of the said Pils to the Patient when he goeth to bed Also to take the quantity of foure drams of Cucubes with the iuice of the root or the leaues of Parsneps is very good Also for them that be faint at the hart or be like to sown giue them rose-Rose-water for to drinke and also bedew their faces therwith Also if the faintnes come from the braine or liuer or paine of the stomack caused of cold take two Wheat cornes of Musk in wine and it will help the same Against sowning Against sowning and faintnes of the hart take Rose-water that this hearb Bassell is sodden in and for the same take wine that the hearb is laid in all night Also against sowning take the powder of Roses and put it into a reare Egge Also take the powder of Ginger in your meats and it is good against sowning Against sowning make sirop with the iuice of Borage and Suger Also against sowning of the hart comming of cold take and séeth this hearb Cardomomum in sweet smelling wine with a little Rose-water and vse it For sowning ¶ For sowning and weaknes of the hart be it in Feauers or sicknesses or if it come of either cause stampe Mints with Vineger and a litle Wine if the Patient haue no Feauer then tost a shiuer till it be almost burnt and put it therein till it be well stéeped then put of it in his nose and rub his lips his tong gums teeth and the temples and let him chewe it and sucke the moistnes therof and swallow it For the paine of the lungs ¶ Take Figs and let them be sodden with Isop they clense the lungs and heale the old cough Also take the root of the wild Rape and séeth it with Licoris and the water that it is sodden in giuen to the Patient to drink is very good to clense the lungs Also take this hearb Southernwood and mingle it with Isop and sodden in wine or water make it swéet with Suger and so drunken is very good for al diseases of the lungs and the breast when sicknes commeth of cold annoynt the breast Another for the same ¶ If you take the broth of Creues it is good for paine in the lungs named Perpleumonia vr consuming of a man called Prosis because when a man hath a swelling about the lungs then he commeth to drinesse and consuming of that naturall moysture till he dyeth For the lyuer and lungs ¶ For the lyuer and the lungs wasting with ouer vnkind heats take water made of Borage and of red Fenell roots Ach Isop Endiue Betony Calamint Lettice Nutmegs Mace flowers of Camomel Cloues Aniseeds by euen portions one vnce of Licoris and Aniséeds halfe a pound make of all these hearbs and spices a water and it shall restore you meruailously and if you cannot get all these hearbs then take the more of Borage Also to restore his kind make a confection of the flowers of Borage and of red Roses with the foresaid spires and with Suger For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Spodium vt eborij in rose Corall Barly meale Triacendaly thrée peny worth mingle all these with the iuice of Endiue S. Mary berry and Housléeke Another for the same ¶ Take red Roses Sandalorum cum Iuery and water of Lillies an vnce stamp them small and put therto Barly meale and the iuice of Marigolds Vineger and the iuice of Wormwood and make a plaister therof and lay it to the lyuer For chafing of the lyuer and of the spleene ¶ Take yellow Rubarb Barly meale and Vineger and temper them together and make therof a plaister and lay that plaister to a mans right side let him blood in the vaine of the spléene and giue him to drinke in Winter Suger rosset and in Sommer Scabious For the chafing of the lyuer ¶ For the chafing of the lyuer and opilation of the milt caused of humor take Rubarb with warme water but it is better to mingle it with Trifera sarazenica and this you may vse with the iuice of Endiue and so giue it to the Patient Also take and annoynt the lyuer with the oyle of Roses for the chafing of the lyuer Against chafing or heat of the lyuer take and wet a cloth many times double and lay it to the lyuer Also the oyle of Violets is good against the chafing of the lyuer Prooued Against the chafing of the lyuer scrape the vppermost of the Gourd stamp the said scraping and wring out the iuice and put Vineger thereto wet a cloth therin and lay it to the lyuer outwardlie Also take Endiue and lay it in water and vse it in your brothes for the Patient so gréeued For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Fenell Endiue Succory Planten of each a like much and still them with red Wine or milke and vse it euerie morning nine spoonfuls at a time with a draught of Wine and Suger or else fiue spoonfuls therof alone For the lyuer wasting which causeth a scabbid face ¶ Take thrée gallons of sweet Woort and put thereto foure handfull of Lyuerwoort and foure handfuls of Violets two handfuls of Harts tongue foure handfuls of Marigolds foure handfuls of Matfelon and stamp all these together and boyle them a prety while in the Woort then take them vp and when they are cold strain them and put therto Barly meale vse this fasting at night the space of a moneth then take an oyntment that is made for a dry scab and therwith daily annoynt thy face and vsing of this drink aforesaid the party shall find help For the vnkinde heate of a mans liuer which causeth his collour to waxe yellow ¶ Take the water of Chiccorie and the water of Lettice and the water of the leaues small branches of a Moryer tree take the hearbs and stampe them all together as much of the one as of the other take the iuyce thereof and asmuch Sugar as will suffise boyle all these together till they be as thicke as a sirrop and put vnto the same a poys and a halfe of Rewbarbe and vse a quantitie of this sirrop in colde water euerie day fasting till he be whole For the liuer that is corrupted and wasted ¶ Take a quantitie of Liuerwoort and bruse it a little then séeth it in good strong Woort with a quantitie of Rewbarb and vse this medicine till thou be whole A drinke for the Splene ¶ Take Harts-tongue wilde Hoppe leaues and Borage with the flowers of Femitory and Parflie rootes seeth them in Whey and clarifie them with the white of an Egge strain it drinke thereof morning and euening and so continue a fortnight and it will helpe you many waies A playster for the Splene ¶ Take three or foure Hollihocke rootes two handfulls of Mallowes and seeth them well together then stampe the rootes by themselues and straine them with the same water wherein they were sodden then stampe
is verie good for the liuer Also to drinke the water that Louage hath been sodden in is likewise good for the liuer and the milt Also against the stopping of the liuer and milt take the powder of Barbaries with the iuyce of Morrell and drinke often of the same For the liuer milt raines and bladder ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and raines and the hinderance of vrine take and seeth the hearbe Germander and Canuphithis in oyle and lay it to the place where the party is greeued Also take an electuary confect with Honny and two parts of these hearbes and so vse it For the liuer the milt and the Iaundise ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and Iaundise take the iuyce of Wormwood and Sirrill or else make them in sirrop and vse it with warme water also against opilation of the milt take the iuyce of Worm-wood and the powder of Costy it is also good for the same For all paynes in the milt ¶ Take of the drinke that Gold hath beene quenched in red hote and it helpeth the paine in the milt Also an oyntment made of Assa armonia and Wax softneth the hard milt and it dissolueth the milke curded in the paps Also make iuyce with Smallage and put thereto Oyle and Waxe and confect it into a sirrop Also for the Milt take Annoniacke and Galbane of each of these a like much soften them well in Vinegar and with waxe then put thereto powder of Coste and of Wormwood and make thereof an oyntment and vse therewith to annoynt the place against the milt and it will help the same Also take Egrimonie and eate thereof often-times and it healeth the paine of the milt Against the opilation of the milt or Dropsie take the Wine that Abrosiana hath beene sodden in for beeing often-times drunke it healeth the paine of the milt comming of cold Also against the ache of the milt drinke the wine that Betonie hath been sodden in and it profiteth Also make an oyntment with the hearbe called Bears-foote beaten and then lay it long in Oyle and with waxe make an oyntment the leaues ought to be vsed while they be greene Also the hearbe Amios with the rootes of Ciats in wine helpeth much the paine of the milt Also for the milt and liuer take the iuyce of Fennell sodden in an Apple and take the powder thereof Also for the paine of the milt and liuer take the Wine that Coperis hath been sodden in Also for the payne of the milt and the liuer drinke the wine that Cassia ligna hath beene sodden in Also for the paine of the milte and liuer take the electuarie that Diocostum hath been sodden in Also for the paine of the milt vse a dramme of Cammomile in powder with Wine forty dayes Also for the paine of the milte vse to drinke the Wine that Honny-suckle hath been sodden in Also seeth Iuie in Wine and then straine out the iuyce and drinke thereof it helpeth greatly Also the water that the roote of Fearne hath been sodden in is very good for the same Also you may vse the water or Wine that the rinde of Fennell rootes hath beene sodden in Also the Water or wine that the bough of an Ashe hath béen sodden in is good for this purpose For to soften the milt that is hard ¶ Take the roote of the wilde Vine stampe it with Porks greace then melt it on the fire and straine it and take meale of Linseede and oyle and put thereto and thys oyntment is very good for the hardnesse of the milt and liuer and to ripen unpostumes Another for the same ¶ Take the rinde of the roote of Hore-hound and stéepe the same a fortnight in Wine and Oyle and then let it bee sodden and strained and in the straining put thereto water and Oyle and make thereof an oyntment and vse the same at your neede for thys purpose For ache in the gutts and belly ¶ Take the powder of Mugwoort and let it be drunk with Wine and Honny it easeth greatly the ache in the bowels and is good against diuers other diseases And for the paines in the guts take a ciate of the iuyce of Clot leaues and it wil ease thée For paynes in the belly ¶ Take and stampe Mugwoort and lay it to the bellie it helpeth the same meruailously take also an vnce and a halfe of Wartwoort with asmuch wine and it will likewise asswage the paine in the belly For the paines in the belly ¶ Take and make an electuarie of Honny and seeth it with water to keepe it from cleauing to then put to the same two vnces of Hermodates and one vnce of Fennell seedes and giue thereof to the partie so greeued that hath the paine in his bellie and it will helpe him proued For the payne in the belly ¶ Take wilde Time and seeth the same with Wine and Oyle and it is verie good against the paine in the belly Also if you take the braine of a Hare rosted eate thereof and drink some good Wine afterward it is good for the paine in the belly For the paine in the belly ¶ Take three pynts of Malmesey and a handfull of Oris powder and a handfull of Commin with a handfull of Red-rose leaues dryed a handfull of Cammomile flowers and one dishfull of Wheate branne seeth all these together and put them in a bagge and make it plaister-wise then lay it to the belly of the patient some-what warme For the griping or pulling in the belly ¶ Take halfe a pinte of Malmesie a big roote of Turmentile and grinde the roote into powder with a little Treacle and make it blood-warme and so giue it to the partie to drinke Or els take a penny-pot of Malmesie and a little Treacle and two penny-worth of Mirrh and grinde it to powder and so put the Treacle and Mirrh into the Malmesie and make it reasonable warme and giue it to the patient Another for the same ¶ Take a little quantitie of the earth that wormes cast vp out of the ground which most commonly you shall find in some soft foote-path-waie or els in some Garden path and when you haue gathered the same mingle therewith a like quantitie of Honny and giue the patient halfe a spoonfull in the morning causing him to fast two howres after this within foure mornings eating thereof will certainlie helpe the same as hath beene by sundry persons proued To breake wind in the belly and for wringing in the same ¶ Take Commin seedes Fennell seedes Anni-seedes brused and seeth all in Wine and drinke thereof in the morning at noone and at night Also take Pellitory and boyle it in broth and giue the sicke thereof to drinke For Women that haue very great bellyes beeing not with childe ¶ Take a handfull of Isope a handfull of Hearbe-grace a handfull of Arsmert and seeth all these hearbes in a quarte of Ale till it come to a pynt then
spoonfull and the powder of Pepper mingle these together and drink it for three dayes fasting For the wasting of the kidneyes and for paines of the back ¶ Take a handfull of Planten a handfull of Parsly a handfull of Betony a handfull of water Betony a handfull of Sorrell a dosen crops of Rosemary séeth these in three pints of Ale till it be wasted and strain them and put therto a pint of Sack and a good péece of Suger and burne it well together and so giue it to the party all hot euening and morning proued For the whites or the running in the raines ¶ Take white washed Turpentine and make it vp in balls like Pyls then take Cinamon Ginger and rowle the balls in it and take them as you would doo Pylls morning and euening Prooued For the whites ¶ For the whites or weaknes in the back take an earthen vessell and put it in a quart pot of faire water wherin you must quench two or thrée gads of sréele being red hot then stéepe therin an vnce of Lettice séeds foure and twenty houres then strain the same and séeth it halfe away and scum it very cleane and keepe it in a couered cup and drinke this morning and euening with powder of Iuory Another for the same ¶ Take Archangell and séeth it in drinke and drink it morning and euening it is very good the red for the woman and the white for the man For all manner of aches in the back ¶ Take Egrimony Mugwoort both the leaues and rootes and stamp them with Swines greace and Vineger and séethe them and lay it to the back Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Peniriall and put therto Vineger and oyle Oliue that is gréene and lay it to thy backe plaister wise For him that hath lost his complexion from the back ¶ Take Linséed and stamp it smal and temper it with Goats milk and straine it all warme and drink it thrée or foure times fasting and thy complexion will come againe For the paines in the back ¶ Take Vnguentum rosarum and chafe your backe morning and euening and lay to this plaister following take Fethersoy Tansie Housleeke of each a handfull shreded and stamped fine then fry them well together with a saucer full of hony and two vnces of Deues dung of the newest you can get when it is thick like a plaister put it in the end of a small sléeue and so lay it to your back all warme For all manner af ache in the back ¶ Take Smallage Egrimony Mouseare and stamp them all together but wash them well first and temper them with Ginger and fry them well in Bores greace and make a playster and as hote as the sicke may suffer lay it on the ache and he shall haue ease Another for the same ¶ Take Lilly rootes Camomell Anniséedes and stampe them all together and fry them in Bores greace and put a little Wine therete and in manner of a plaister lay it on a cloth and bind it fast to the backe or raines all hot and after thrée or foure daies remoue it with renuing of the plaister therto with more fresh For the running of the raines ¶ Take Pellitory of the wall and stampe it and straine it and drink it with Malmsie or white Wine or Ale and doo this often till that thou be all whole Also if the Patient make a Tansie of Clary and eate thereof is very good for the same disease as hath béene proued For womens termes ¶ Take Selondine and let a woman put it in her hose vnder the soles of her féete and it will help her Also Mollet leaues and the red flowers of Hollihocks is very good for this purpose Also the great leaues of Burres béeing sodden in strong Ale and the same afterward drunk is very good For wasting of nature ¶ Take a pint of Malmsie and put therto a peny woorth of Sinamon and another of cleane Mace and boyle them ouer the fier with Wine but first make powder of your spices then take Treakle as much as a Damson and put therto and stir altogether and let the sick drink therof hot at all times and it shall auoide all fleame and wind in the interior parts of man to restore his nature prooued For all Impostumes in the body ¶ Take Centory Rosemary Wormwood Horthound and make it in sirop with white Wine and let the sick take therof and it shall cause the Impostume to goe downe and when it is broken let him vse to drink of the same sirop warme For to destroy all Impostumes either in man or woman ¶ Take the root of Hollihock and wash it cleane and séeth it till it be tender and then put the water into a vessell and then take Linséed and Fenegreke of each of them a like much and sée that thou haue as much of them two as the root that is sodden then séeth them in the same water till it rope as it were Birdlime then stamp the root and doo therto Barly meale and mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the sore plaister wise as hote as you may suffer it and within nine daies ye shall be whole Also take Turmentile and let the Patient drinke often of the iuice therof and it shall cure him prooued An experiment to take away the mother ¶ Take a great deale of Mugwoort and as you gather it sliue the leaues downward then wash them cleane and boyle them in running water till they be soft and when the party goeth to bed let him or her wash themselues therewith from the nauell downward both flanks and members and also the mother so hote as is possible to be suffered remember the parties that they wash not vpward at any time and within thrée daies washing the parties eyther hee or shée shall be whole God willing Prooued Another medicine for the mother ¶ Take a handfull of Mother-time a handfull of Motherwoort a handfull of Isop a handfull of Sage séeth all these in a gallon of faire water vntill it be halfe consumed then mash it vpon halfe a peck of Malt so let it stand an houre then take the woort of it as you doo for drink and put yéest to it and being thus made let the party drink it morning and euening A drink for the paine of the mother ¶ Take a dram of Methridatum and dissolue it in an vnce and a halfe of water of Wormwood and giue it to the woman for to drinke before that she goeth to meat foure houres and let her not drink a good while afterward proued A most excellent medicine for the mother the chollick and stone ¶ Take Fenell séed Coriander seed Carroways séed Parsly séed Galingall séed Gromwell seed an vnce of each of these also an vnce of leaues and cods of Scene a quarter of an vnce of Spignall a quarter of an vnce of Time take al these and make them into
powder and searce them through a searcer and drink them in white Wine or good Ale first and last and in all maner of sauces that you eat with your meat and this medicine shall cure the mother the stone and the chollick proued Another for the mother ¶ Take Mugwoort and hearb Sunonde Saudry and red Mints and siraine all these iuyees with red Wine and giue it to the woman that is pained with the mother to drink A good medicine for the mother comming of what cause so euer ¶ Take the rasing of Iuery and the rasing of an Hartes horne with the haire of a Hare dryed and made in powder and as much of Geats clawes burnt and poudered if they may be gotten or in stéed therof Shéepes clawes take all these and vse to eat of them in your pottage or otherwise in your drinks For the genitories ¶ For the paine and swelling of the genitories sée the well the root of Bruse and make a plaister therof and put swet to it and bind it fast therto with a band and it will cease the paine and swelling of the cods For the swelling of the cods ¶ For them that haue swolne cods with fleame so that they shine stampe Doues-foote with small greene Lettice and lay it plaister-wise thereto Another for the same ¶ Take Barly meale and Honey and fry them together and make a plaister thereof and let the party so gréeued lay it warme to the gréefe of the cods For swelling of a mans cods ¶ Take Rue and Wormwood and srampe them together and put therto hony and make therof a cold plaister and lay all about the cod and when you will take the plaister away then wash the cod with Vineger and he shall be whole For a man that is brused or that his cods be sore ¶ Take the wooll of a blacke Rams cod and put that wooll into oyle and powder of Comin and heate it hote and thereof make a plaister and as hote as the party can suffer it lay it to his cods and it will doo away the aking and make it whole within thrée or foure times dressing therwith For swelling of the cods ¶ Take Rose leaues Rose-water red Wine Camomell or Camomell flowers and Beane flower let them boyle together and make a plaister of it and lay it to the cods as hote as he may suffer it Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Walwoort Vineger and Honey put therto Barly flower and séeth them till they be thick and bind it to the sore all hot For a mans yard that is scalded ¶ Take Bruse Woort Veruaine hearb Robert Pimpernell of each of all these a good quantity and most of all of Pimpernell stamp them all together as small as you may then fry them with Butter and straine it through a cloth and put it in a bore and therwith annoynt your yard cold and of these hearbs make a plaister then lay it all about the yard cold dressing it euery day two or three times a day For a mans yard that is burnt ¶ Take a linnen cloth and burne it to powder and take oyle of Eggs and annoynt the sore and fill the gréefe with the sayd powder Also for a mans yard that is sore and full of holes take a good company of Dasies and stampe them and change them often Also take Linséed and burne it and make powder therof and doo it in a cloth and lay it to the sore For a sore in a mans yard ¶ Take Swinismore Hocke leaues Ambrose leaues Veruaine Peritory Cherfaile Mastick bruse these hearbs together in a morter and mingle them together with Mastick and Swines greace and oyle Oliue and boyle them and straine it through a cloth and with this Vnguent annoynt the sore yard so gréeued For the swelling of a mans yard ¶ Take Léekes and bray them in a morter and fry them in fresh greace of a Bore and make a plaister then lay it all about the yard and it shall asswage and heale it proued Another for the same ¶ Take Clay and beate it to powder and sifte it and take wine Vineger and seethe them together and make a plaister therof and it will take away the swelling therof For paine in the bladder ¶ Take fcure drams of Betony and foure rootes of Smallage sodden in water but first séethe the rootes till the water be halfe wasted then seeth the Betony therin and drink therof A decoction for to drink with Wine for them that make bloody water by fracture of any vaine within the body as in the lyuer raines and bladder ¶ Take of Knotgrasse Bursa pastoris of each a handfull the cups of Acornes of Camphire one lease of Cinamon a dram waight of Licoris cleane scraped and sliced one dram waight of water a quart of Suger two vnces all this must boyle to the consumption of the third part and then let it run through a faire cloth into a clean vessell and when it is cold put it into a glasse and in your drink vse therof eyther in Ale or Béere and it shall ease the bladder of payne For him that pisseth blood ¶ Take Ambrose Bursa pastoris Parsly séede stamp them and temper them with Goats milk and giue the party to drink and it will quickly help him For a man that pisseth blood ¶ Take of the earth that is on the Swallowes nest and put it into hot water and giue the sick for to drink and the bléeding shall staunch within a while For a man that may not hold his water ¶ Take the clawes of a Goate and burne them in the fier and make therof powder and let the sicke vse of this powder in pottage a spoonfull at once and he shall be whole For a man that may not pisse ¶ Take Mallowes a good quantity of Gromell and séethe them in Vineger a good while and then let the sick drink therof warme and he shall pisse soone after Another for the same ¶ Take Lanberd and make powder therof and then let the ficke drink therof with white Wine and he shall quickly pisse for this medicine hath béen proued For a hard womb and for to pisse ¶ Take Parfly séede Ache and Spurge of euery of them foure vnces stamp them to powder and put it either into wine or water and drink it morning and euening For to make a man to pisse well ¶ Take Peritory stamp it and fry it and lay it all hot to a mans yard Also make a plaister of the flower of Cockle and water and so lay it to the sicks yard Also Linseede béeing sodden well in hony and applyed to the place causeth the man to pisse well Prooued For a woman that may not hold her water ¶ For a woman that may not kéepe her water take Egrimony and Salt and stampe them together very small then séeth it in olde Wine vntill the third part thereof be consumed and then giue her thereof to drinke For a man or woman that
and it will ripen the same For to breake the botch ¶ Take Bramble leaues Elder leaues and Musterd séed and stampe them all together and then take of it and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out all the venome Another for the same ¶ Take one spoonfull of Honey the iuyce of Spurge two spoonfuls and a halfe of Wheaten flower a good quantity and one spoonfull of Turpentine temper all these together and lay it to the botch and it helpeth For byting of a Serpent ¶ Against byting of a Serpent or venemous Beast take two drams of the powder of Egrimony with two measures of Wine that is called Ciates and it will cast out the venome Another for the same ¶ Take Centory and stampe it with his owne water and giue the sick to drinke it is as good for Beast as men for the biting of an Adder Also beare Veruaine about thée and the Serpent as some report shall haue no power to hurt thee Another for the byting of a Serpent ¶ Take and seethe two or thrée handfull of Veruaine and wash the place therwith and stamp the leaues and lay therto and it will abate the swelling therof and bray this hear be Veruaine with Honey and lay it often therto and it will resounder and heale it faire againe Also the iuyce of Cinkfoyle being drunk putteth out all venome so dooth the iuyce of Plantaine For the byting of a mad dogge ¶ Take of the séede of Boxe and stampe it and temper it with water and giue it to the party so gréeued and it helpeth them God willing Also take Sauery and temper it with bread and lay it thervnto and it hath the same vertue Also stampe long Plantaine and lay it to the gréeued place and will cure the sore Proued Another for the same ¶ Take Walnuts and stampe them with salt and an Onion they be good for the biting of a mad doggs béeing layed thereto Also Betony that is gréene being laide thereto helpeth the biting of a mad dogge in very short space For biting of venomous Beasts ¶ Take Garlicke and bray it and lay it to the place so bitten and it will in short time cure the same Also if Garlick be eaten it putteth foorth the venome in the body and clenseth the same Also take the powder of Aristialogia roâ—unda with the iuice of Mints Also if the roote of Brusewoort be brused and laide thereto it healeth the biting of venomous Beasts For a man or woman that is in a consumption ¶ Take a brasse pot and fill it with water and set it on the fire and put a great carthen pot within that pot and then put in these parcels following Take a Cock and pull him aliue then slea off his skin then beate him in peeces take Dates a pound slit out the stones and lay a layer ouer them in the bottoms of the pot and then lay a péece of the Cocke and vpon that some more of the Dates then take Succory Endiue and Parsly roots and so euery layer one vpon an other and put in fine gold and some pearle and couer the pot as close as may be with corse dowe and so let him distill a good while and so reserue it to your vse till such time as you haue néede thereof For a weake person in a consumption ¶ Take a quart of red Rose-water and a pottell of the strapings of the milk of a Cowe 2. d. of fine Manchets the yolkes of thirty Egs halfe a pound of Raisons of the sunne Cinamon one vnce Nutmegs one vnce Mace halfe an vnce Cloues a quarter of on vnce of long Pepper halfe an vnce your bread must be fine grated and your Raisons stoned and your Dates scraped and all your other spices beaten all together then put in your Eggs and milke so stirred together and then last of all your Rose-water and so distill it in a Limbeck of glasse and so reserue it to your vse and as neede requireth to vse it For to restore health in a consumption ¶ Take a handfull of Yarrow and slampe it and straine it into a dish and put thereto the yolke of an Egge and a little Suger fine beaten and with this iuice being heate luke warm temper therwith as much of Wheat flower as will make Past then the Past being well wrought make thereof little cakes as bigge and as thick as an old testorne and bake them vpon a a little shard and being baked let the Patient eate one of the cakes euery day thrée times or as much as he or she can cate and by the prouidence of God it shall make them strong and mighty this hath béen proued For a consumption in the raines ¶ Take Clary leaues and prick them and fry them with two or thrée yolkes of Egs and put thereto Saffron dried vpon a stone and grind it small and put all together and fry them with fresh butter and eate it warme next your hart and it will helpe you God willing For one that is in a consumption ¶ Take a great number of young Nettles that springeth at the roote and wash them cleane and stampe them and straine them till you haue a pinte of the iuice therof then put them in a faire skillet and set it ouer the fire and let it séethe till it waxe some-what redde then take it from the fire and put thereto a quart of Malmesey and brew them together a good space then take the yolkes of sixe newe layde Egges and beate them together then brew it againe and put therto as much sugar as wil make it sweet then let the partie so groeued take euery night and morning a reasonable draught thereof blood-warme and by the grace of GOD it shall ease the partie so greeued in verie short space ¶ To helpe to restore him that is in a consumption ¶ Take a Cocke which is neither fat nor leane and wring his necke and hang him vp by the legges and let him beat him selfe to death with his winges and when hee is colde flea him and take out the bowels then cut off his neeke and legges and sée that his body within he well dryâ—d with a cloth and quarter him and at foure stills still the quarters beeing first well hacked and chopped and the water that shall come out of the Cock béeing stilled you must giue the patient in his brothes or drinks beeing blood-warme and within short time by Gods grace it will restore him or her But remember that the partie gréeued doo neither eate nor drinke in all the time any meats or brothes dressed with hote spices or sharpe sauces A notable restoritie and electuarie for a man that is wasted or consumed called the electuary of life practized by M. Baltazar ¶ Take two pounde of Dates and wash them cleane in Ale or Beere then cut them and take out the stones and the white skinnes and cut them small and bray them very small
vertue if it be stamped and the iuyce medled with Porkes greace and lay it plaister-wise on the Canker it sleieth and healeth mightily Another remedy for the Canker ¶ Take as much Allam as a Nut halfe a glasse full of Honie and a pint of Red wine and seeth them together till it come to the third part then straine it through a cloth and wash the sores there-with Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of vnset Leekes with the rootes and a small quantitie of Yarrow ten or twentie branches therof and boile them in white-wine vntill they be all very softe and then straine them and clarifie them and let the patient drinke of it morning and euening blood warme For to kill the Canker in a mans bodie ¶ Take the roote of Dragons and breake it in small peeces and dry it and make it in powder and take nine pennie waight of the powder and put it in Wine and séeth it well and then let the sicke drinke thereof warme a good draught fasting in the morning for thrée daies together Another for the same ¶ Take two handfulls of Sage and as much Wood-binde leaues with the rootes of a wilde Vine this beeing stamped and strained take a little Honny with a peece of Alam beeing warmed and so wash the sore place where the Canker is For the Canker another remedie ¶ Take Christall and make it in fine powder and the powder of Harts-horne burnt with asmuch of the rinde of a Poungranet and the iuyce of Night-shade and giue all these to the partie eyther man woman or child For the Chollick and the stone ¶ Take a handfull of Sapifrags a handfull of Pellitorie of the Wall a handfull of vnset Isope a handfull of vnset Time and seeth all these hearbes well together with a quarte of good Malmesey to a pint and the powder of whole Egge-shels and as much of the powder of Hasell-nut shells when you haue put the liquor from the hearbes then put in the powder to the same and let the patient drinke thereof warme in the morning fasting and it will helpe him For the collick a remedy ¶ Take white Time Parsley bruse them and strayne them with stale Ale and set it to the fire and make it warme and put thereto a good quantity of Graines and so drinke it Also take Broome seede that is gréene and giue it to the party to drinke being dried and made in powder and when the paine is vpon him vse it A medicine for the collick ¶ Take a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a handfull of white salt and séethe them then dippe in two or thrée handfuls of blacke Shéeps wooll and bind the same from the nauell to the bottome of your belly as warme as you can suffer it For the collica passio ¶ Take the roote of Quintfoyle and long Pepper grind them small in powder and drinke it in good Ale Also take Time and Saffron stampe them together and put thereto a little good Ale and straine it through a cloth and then giue it to the Patient to drinke and it shall ease him forthwith Also make a plaister of the hearbe Philopendula being sodden with the afore-said hearbes For the collica passio ¶ Take the crums of cleane wheaten bread and white Vineger and the pouder of Comin boile all them together and make a plaister therof and as hot as the sicke may suffer it lay it néere to the belly and he shall soone be eased of his paine Also take Turmentile and Treakle de bayes and eate it and drinke of the water of Elderne flowers stilled Another for the same ¶ Take vnset Léekes and cut away the faces and all then take the white of the Léeke and bray it small with May butter and fry it lay it very hot to the nauell being bound with a cloth For the collick and the stone ¶ Take the gréene pith of an Elder stalke that is betwéene the barke and the stalke and stamp it small and drinke it with good stale Ale and it shall breake winde For a man that is costife ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and séethe them with Pork and make therof pottage and let the party eate therof and drink Whay and it shall make him sollible Also take the iuyce of Walwoort and mingle it with honey and drink it For the dropsie proued ¶ Take two pound of sage Ryall and two pound of water Carsen and two pound of Isope take these hearbes and bray them in a morter and wring out the iuyce thereof and then take Wheate flower and blend it with the iuyce and make a loafe thereof and bake it in an Ouen and all hot breake him into two or three gallons of good stale Ale and let there be no dregs therein and so let it stand all night and stop it close and let the sicke drinke thereof at all times and he shall be whole Also take Borage and Langdebéefe and Parsly and Scabiâ—us and of water Cresses as much as of the other hearbes a handfull of Smerewoort and vse this pottage with that drink and he shall be whole Another for the dropsie proued ¶ Take foure penny waight of Scamony and two penny waight of Rubarb sixe penny waight of Scene and a penny waight of Setwell and a penny waight of Spignard and a penny waight of the pouder of Camomell and an vnce of Suger and bray all these spices in a morter of brasse and mingle therwith the Suger then let the sicke vse this medicine thrée daies fasting a good spoonfull at once and it will make him for to haue a good stomack and doo away all euils For the Dropsie if it be curable or no. ¶ Take Barly meale and the iuyce of Spinage and of Marigolds and make thereof a plaister and lay it three times vnto a mans liuer and if the plaister be dry soone hée is curable and if it dry not hee is vncurable For the Dropsie another proued ¶ Take a handfull of the tender crops of Broome and stampe them and straine them in a quart of stale Ale and boyle it till it be halfe wasted then put thereto some Sinamon and Ginger and set the patient vpright in a chaire so that his feete touch not the grounde by two foote and a halfe then put vnder his feete a panne of coales and lay ouerthwart the pan a payre of tonges or two and lay thereon geene Broome and let him sette the soles of his feete thereon and giue him of the drinke blood warme and so let him sweat well when he goeth to bed and by Gods grace it will helpe him For a Dormitorie ¶ Take a quarter of a pounde of Almonds blended and a halfe pound of Hempseede three times washed in cleane water and sixe Dates and stampe them altogether and put thereto good stale Ale and take an ounce and a halfe of Poppy seede brused and let it lie in Ale three or foure howres and then séeth them together and
straine them and giue the sick to cate thereof warme and it shall quickly make him sleep by Gods grace To draw a Bile from one place to another ¶ Take Oculus Christi and Veruaine and make a plaister of them and let the same be layde from the Byle two singers broade and when it hath line a good while renew it and so remoue it still from place to place vntill it bee layde in the place where you would haue it breake To drawe out arrowes out of a mans body ¶ Take Polipodion and grinde it with fresh greace that is olde and bind the same vpon the place and it will soone drawâ— it out be it arrow or thorne or any other euill thing To draw out an arrow head ¶ For to draw an arrow head out of a mans flesh take red Spere roote temper the same and seeth it with Honny and then lay it on a cloth and lay it to the wound and it shall draw it out by the grace of God quickly For a Dart in a mans body ¶ Take a Worme that is called Piâ—cher that is as great as a Beane and is cleane blew or sender it hath many small féete and is white vnder the belly and when a man toucheth it it will be as round as a button take thys Worme and rubbe it well against the Dart till it be all broken and doo this euery day three or foure times and at euery time take thrée or foure Wormes For all manner of falling euills ¶ Take the blood of his little finger that is ficke and write these thrée verses following and hang it about his neck Iasper fert mirram thus melchior balthazar aurum hec quicum secum porta tria nomina regum soluiter a morbo domini pictate caduca and it shall helpe the party so gréeued For the falling euill ¶ Take the powder of Osmond and the roote of pilny and and take the powder of Mortegan and drinke all these with stale Ale and let them say theyr prayers and as soone as the party falleth downe take the gall of a Dogge and giue the sick to drinke with good Ale that is stale and by Gods grace he shal neuer haue the falling euill any more proued For to cure the falling euill in foure dayes ¶ Take Swallowes and beate them feathers guts and all Castorry Vineger and some Iermander distilled first in water and some Cardus benedictus water and then still all and giue the sicke to drink therof Also take the roote of Piony and make it in powder and put it into pappe for a child and let him or them lick it with a little Suger and they that be of age may eate the more quantity therof Also the black séede of Piony is good therfore For the falling euill ¶ The filling of gold being taken in meate and drinke is good against that euill and if the Patients backe be annoynted with the oyle of Iiniper in the very chine and so is a dram of Castoreum very good therfore Also take the powder of Gentiana with the iuice of wilde Sage is good for the falling euill The manner and vse to be obserued and kept in the time of curing of a fistula ¶ First you must search the vlcer with your tonte to know the depth and the length thereof that you may knowe of what fise to make your tente and annoynt the sore onlie with Populion and your tent also and dippe the ende therof in the powder following for two daies once a day dresse it with your powder and other two daies with nothing but Populion to remooue the aker and thus inlarge your tent till the worke be knowne vnto you so long as it casteth a blocky maulte gory stinking or bloodie water still vse your powder vntill it come grosse thick and white and then apply mundisters or clensers and the vlcer clensed then vse incarnatiues as the gréene balme before written other that followe alwaies rather shortening your tent and making of it lesse till you be assured of the victory for sigilation sealing or sinking of the water that hereafter shall follow termed mother and the congelour The powder for the Fistusta ¶ Take two ounces of greene Copperas and burne it in a Goldsmithes potte called a crusible Mercurij subblimati an ounce grinde them small on a Marble stone till that it bee very fine powder and vse it when neede requireth A skinning water for the Fistula ¶ Take strong Vinegar that is white for that is best a quart of Litarge of gold finely beaten finely searced a pound mingle them together and let them infuse in a glasse thrée or foure daies stirring them together twice in a day then let it settle a day and take the cleared thereof and put it into a viall or glasse and so you haue the mother The congelour in a Fistula ¶ Take faire water a pint salte genne two ounces common salt a good spoonefull boyle all till the salts bee dissolued then put the cleerest thereof into a glasse and this is the congelour The vse of the congelour ¶ Take of the mother thrée parts of the congelour 2. parts and a little more put them together and it will be an oyntment or a thick creame lay it on the place that you would haue skinned or the créeping tetter and it shall doo wonderfully for the long vlcers that lack nothing but skinning and it will skin in very short time For the Fistula ¶ In what place soeuer it be take the inyce of Turmentil and drop it into the hole and it helpeth and so doth a tent dipped in the sayd iuyce layd to the Fistula Also take gréene Betonie with salt and make a tent and put to it a plaister of the same and it will heale it Another for the same ¶ Take of the powder of Copperis with two parts of beane meale and confect them with french sope and shape a tent therof and put it into the hole of the Fistula it will clense it in such manner that if there be any bones corrupt or broken that they may be taken out and it will consume the euill moistures To stop a very great flixe ¶ Take halfe a pound of Almonds and blanch them and stampe them very small in a Morter and then take twelue yolkes of newe layde Egges rosted harde and put them into a Morter and bray altogether and then take a pint of strong red vinegar for that is best and put it into the same stuffe and mingle theÌ„ well together and then put all into a faire pot of earth and stampe it well then take thereof fiue or sixe spoonefulls at once but first warme it and then drinke three or foure times vpon a day if neede be Another for the same ¶ Take the roote of a great Docke that beareth the Burre and the leaues of Oake and ground-Iuie and make a bath of them and put thy féete therein vp to the ankles but no higher and let
beate it fine and mingle it with the same powder and so keepe it close that no winde come at it vsing it first and last with posset drinke made with White wine or strong Ale and when you cate your pottage or other broth put some in it if you bee sore pained and if you haue any stone it will come away by shiuers and if it doe so when you think that your water beginneth to cleare again take this drinke following and it will clense your bladder and it will leaue no corruption therein The drinke ¶ Take Rose-mary and wilde Time and séeth them in running water with as much Sugar as will make it sweete from a quart to a pint vse the quantitie of your hearbes according to your discretion so that it may sauour well of them and so vse it nine mornings sixe or seauen spoonefuls at a time For the Tissicke well proued ¶ Take a handfull of Fennell rootes as much Parsley rootes as many Alisander rootes halfe a handfull of Borrage rootes and pull out the pith of all the sayde rootes then take halfe a handfull of Penny-riall as much of Violet leaues and as much of Cinckfoyle as much Succory Endiue Hollihockleaues Mallow leaues and redde garden Mints of all these a like quantitie as of those next before halfe a handfull of Licoris stickes scraped brused and beaten to fine powder a gallon of fayre running water boyle therein all these simples and boile these séedes following with them that is thrée spoonesuls of Annyseedes as much Fennell seede as much Coliander seede and Comin seede a good handfull of Dandelion rootes and so boyle altogether from a gallon to a pottle and let the patient drinke thereof first and last and it will quickly help him Another for the Tissicke ¶ Take a quart of running water with a handful of Isope two ounces of Annyseedes asmuch Licoris beaten both togeather halfe an ounce of Fennell seede beate all these togeather very sine with a quarterne of white Sugar and so boyle them altogether vnto a pint and then straine them and so let the partie drinke thereof first and last and it will doo him good For a Tissicke or colde another ¶ Take two ounces of Licoris scraped and brused of Figs three ounces of Egrimony Hore-hounde Enula campana of each a handfull and boyle them altogether in a gallon of Water vntill the halfe be wasted then straine the hearbes from the iuyce and vse it early and late for this hath béene proued Also for the dry Tissick take and stamp Fennell rootes and drinke the iuyce thereof with white Wine For the Tissicke another experiment ¶ Take Radish rootes make them cleane and cutte them thin and cast them into an Ouen and bake them then beate them into powder so small as you can then drinke thereof euerie morning fasting and at night when you goe to bedde and wet your meate in the same powder as you weuld doo in salte and it will doo you very great ease shortly To make the mother of Treakle ¶ Take a pint of Honny put thereto the iuyce of red Fennell séeth it on the fire vntill it come to a pinte then take it of and put thereto a penny-woorth of Sinamon in powder two raises of Ginger a Nutmeg and a little Mace and stirre them well together and when it is cold put it into a boxe and gather your Fennell in May. Also to make Treakle for all manner of poyson take one ounce of Betony in powder 4. ounces of Centory in powder and 2. ounces of the powder of Rew medle these together and temper them with clarified Honny and kéepe it in a glasse The golden treate that healeth all bruses ¶ Take Colosony pitch and Rozen and two ounces of oyle three ounces of liquid Pitch 1. ounce of Olibanū Auti vnguenti Allam of each two ounces of Wine as much as suffiseth and boyle all these together and so receiue them to your vse as you neede and it helpeth For to make a white treate called Apostolicen ¶ Take oyle Oliue litarge of Leade Golde and Siluer stampe it and put it in the oyle through a cloth and stirre it till it be harde and this is a good treate for to heale all manner of woundes be they newe or old thys kinde of treate hath often béene proued good To make a treat called Emanuell ¶ Take Veruaine Bittany Pimpernell Centorie the more Gratia dei of each one handfull hearbe Iohn Auence Celondine Acus muscata alaluia Plantaine Spurge Egrimonie of each one handfull grinde all in a morter and put thē in a gallon of Wine and boyle them in a pan till the third part be wasted then straine it through a Canuas cloth and set it oner the fire and put thereto Waxe foure ounces Pitch asmuch Rozen as much Olibanum two ounces Mastick two ounces Mirrhe two ounces Aloes two ounces Turpentine two ounces Sheepes sewet halfe a pound boate them all in powder and boyle them all together saue the Turpentine the which must be put in last of all then straine the same through a cloth and keepe it till you haue neede thereof and this is a speciall healer of all wounds and sores bruses and broken bones and Apostumes that be broken also it hath a special vertue to draw clense and reengender good flesh it healeth and doth away all kinde of aches whatsoeuer all Cankers and Festers it healeth Morimals it passeth all other oyntments and if you will haue it soft put thereto a quantitie of oyle of Roses so much as you thinke good Proued A good entreat called the greene treat of Iane. ¶ Take a pint of the iuice of Smallage a pint of the iuice of Waybright as much of Plantaine put them together in a vessell and put to it a quarter of a pound of Wax and as much of Frankensence or Rozen made into powder make your Wax into small péeces and boile them altogether and euer stir them and to know when it is boyled inongh drop a drop vpon a Bason and if there be any moisture in it when it is cold then put to it a pound of Turpentine and stir them till they be well medled together then strain it and put into it a quart of white Wine and let it stand while it be cold and so vse it Another intreat called Gratia dei ¶ Take Wax May butter or other butter without salt of each one vnce then take of Frankensence two vnces melt them together and straine them and this is the making of this entreat which is called Gratia dei A good entreat for wounds ¶ Take Betony Pimpernell and Veruaine of each a handfull boile them in a pottell of very good white Wine vntill it be halfe consumed then straine it through a course canuas then put the liquor ouer the fire againe and in the boyling put to it halfe a pound of Rozen a pound of Frankensence in powder and alwayes stir it that the powder goe not to
much of white Copper is fine beaten a penny-worth of graines brused then let them boyle altogether three or foure walmes ouer the fire and let the skimme as it riseth be wel taken off with a feather and when it is colde put the same into an earthen pot or bottle so that it may be kept close from ayre and for a greene wound take of the thinnest and for an olde wounde of the thickest couer the sore rather with Veale or Mutton skimme them with Docke leaues when that you haue dressed them with thys aforesaid water To make water imperiall another way ¶ Take a handfull of Dragon of Scabions of Endiue a handfull of Pimpernell a handfull of Worme-wood of Rew a handfull a handfull of Tansie as much Fetherfoy asmuch of Daisie leaues as much of Cowslyps as much of Maydenhayre as much Sinckfoyle as much Dandelyon as much Time as much Bawme of each of these hearbes a handfull as I sayd before then take of Treakle a pound of Bole Armoniack foure ounces and when you haue all these hearbes together you must take and shread them a little but not too small then take the Treakle the Bole armoniack and mingle them and the hearbes together then put them in a stillitory and still them and it is made A very good remedy to take away Warts ¶ For to take away Warts take the séede of Briony with the leaues burne them and make Ashes of them and meddle the ashes with the iuyce of the same hearbe like an oyntment and annoynt your Warts often and they will fall away The dunge of an Eagle if it be often rubbed vpon the Warts dooth likewise doo away the same very quickly Another remedie for Warts ¶ Take the iuyce of hearbe Wart-wort and annoynt any Wart or Ring-worme there-with and it helpeth For to doe away Warts ¶ Take Elder berries and stampe them then wringe out the iuyce and with the same vse once or twise a day to annoint thy Warts and it will quickly doo them cleane away Thys experiment hath béene proued For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take and binde fast the Wenne then take Verdigreace Sulphur Sope oyle of Egges Allam and Honny and temper them together and lay thereto and it shall doo away the Wem and also for to heale it well and cleane within three or foure times dressing For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take a quantitie of vnslackt Lime and mixe the same very well with as much blacke Sope and annoynt any Wen therewith and the Wenne will fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt the place with oyle of Balme and it wil perfectly heale the same How to helpe one that is blasted ¶ Take the white of a Hennes Egge and put it in a brazen Morter then put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Copperis and grinde them well togeather till it bee as small as an oyntment with which annoynt the sore face and it will case the paine and take away the swelling and when it is welnye whole annoynt the place with a little Popilium and that will make the skinne faire and well againe An excellent remedy to helpe the rewme ¶ Rub the leafe of a Marygold betweene your fingers and put the same into your nose and let it stay there a little while and it will bring forth aboundance of humors out of the heade it will helpe the Rewme within a little while if you vse it This hath béene prooued Another speciall remedie for the Rewme ¶ Take a little sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oaken leaues then cut them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre as you can suffer the same holding the sticke betweene your teeth in thys manner hold your mouth ouer a dish or poringer and there wil great aboundance of humors auoyde out of your mouth But within a while washe in faire water the leaues on the sticke and then holde them in your mouth againe Doe thus for the space of an howre and vse it thrée or foure times a day for thrée or foure dayes together or vntill you haue auoyded so much watry humors as you thinke good This is the best and presentest remedy for the rewme that euer was heard of And hee that proues it shall finde it and excellent helpe A soueraigne water against melancholly and drinke to comfort the stomacke ¶ Take a pounde of Aqua vitae and put thereto a quart of Redrose water put into it as much Licoris sliced and scraped as you may hold in both your hands but if it be English Licoris you may take lesse put thereto as much Anniseede as you thinke will be sufficient to make it taste well thereof stew all these with a soft fire well couered with an earthen pot that the ayre doo not goe out to your iudgement till that a pinte thereof be consumed let it not boyle in any case but stewe softly this done take it from the sire and let it scand and coole and when it is cold draw it from the seede and Licoris and put it into the wicker glasse or bottle but bruse it that your water may be as cleere as you can and when neede requireth occupy it To make artificiall oyle of balme for woundes ¶ Take Balme Rewe Fetherfoy Sowthistle Nettles Briany leaues Bramble leaues Sage leaues Cinckfoyle of each of all these a handfull take all these simples and lay them in oyle Oliue one whole night and take the water that commeth of a Vine stalke and blacke Suailes gum Arabeck gum Edere of each of these one ounce you must take the seed of the Ashe trée and beate the seedes and the gummes very fine together Afterward you must put the oyle and the hearbs into the Still and throwe thereupon a quarter of a pound of the oyle of Roses and two ounces of Aqua vitae and so distill it with a soft fire but you must still it at the least twice or thrise Thys oyle will heale all wounds very soone A greene balme to incarnate wounds and to dry vp filthy vlcers ¶ Take of fine Aqua vitae Venice turpentine oyle of Roses of euery of them a pint boyle them with a soft fire of coles and after a waume or two put in of Verdigreace made in fine powder an ounce and a halfe and boyle it to a good perfect substance and so vse it to your sore wounds and filthy vlcers and it shall helpe them very shortly To make artificiall Balme ¶ Take of gum Elempine sixe ounces Aloes Mirrhe Castore Apponace of each two ounces Storax calamite Olibanum Mastick Cacabre of each foure ounces Munge Bedelii gum of the Fig trée of each two ounces and a halfe make euery one of them in powder by themselues that will be powdered The spices take of Lignum aloes three ounces Zilobalsami Carpobalsami Spignard Cloues Sinamon Calamus aromatici nut aromatici Nutmegs Galingall Setwell graines Cardomomus both of
if it be moist it will be of more vertue Also take of Ginger Canell Mace Cucubes Nutmegs Graines long Pepper of each of these thrée vnces and bray them in a morter and searce them and put these powders into the water that burneth and still it oft and so reserue it to your vse morning and euening first and last and this is called the most soueraine water and mighty against all manner of cold causes that ingendereth within man or woman and this will helpe you for diuers infirmities that is within man this hath béen prooued often A soueraine water vsed by Doctor Steaphens Phisition with the which he did many great cures and a little before his death he declared the same to the Archbishop of Canterbury and now to the benefit and commodity of all people that be well disposed ¶ Take two gallons of good Gascoigne wine or Clarret wine that is good or else two gallons of mighty strong Ale and of euery of these spices a dram take of Ginger Galingall Cinamon or Canell Nutmegs Graines Cloues Anniséeds Fennell séed Caraway séeds Calamus aromaticus Cucubes Ireos Maces Spignard Enula campana Canepithis of each of these a good handfull Iuniper berries one vnce and of euery one of these hearbs following a handfull Sage red Roses red Mints garden Time wild Time Pellitory Camomell Lauender Wormwood Betony Plantaine Ribwoort Bayes red Iilliflowers wild Marierum Rosemary Organum Rue the flowers of Secados Peniriall Hilwoort Auence Cowslip leaues Primrose leaues and flowers of screbby grasse Strawbery leaues Tutson beate all these spices and stamp all these hearbs and put them in the liquor aforesaide and put a little Muske therin and let it stand twelue houres infused and stir it oftentimes then still this water in a Limbeck close stopt that no ayre come out of the pot and with a small sire kéepe about it that it come not too fast forth and kéepe the first water by it selfe for that is best Also the second pint by it selfe for that is also good but not as the first is Also you shall receaue a third pint of that water of these thrée gallens but your vnce of Alkenet must be for the two last waters to cullour it red withall which must be in the receauer with some Suger and some Cinamon and you may kéepe this water these seauen yeares and it will be in his full strength and operation The receite of the water called Aqua mirabilis et pretiosa made by Doctor VVillowby Phisition ¶ Take of Galingall Cloues Maces Cucubes Ginger Cardomomum Nutmegs Millilot Saffron Egrimony water foure vnces and beat all these into powder the quantity of a dram and somwhat more then take of the iuice of Selondine and a pint of M. George Kebels water of the best and the first put of the same water beeing well mingled in a stillatory of glasse and let it be stopped well and close and so let it stand for the space of foure and twenty houres and then distill them with a soft fire for the space of a naturall day The vertue of this water aforesaid ¶ This water is of secret nature it is excéeding good for the stomacke it dissolueth the lungs without any gréeuance and the same lungs beeing wounded and putrified it mightilie helpeth them and comforteth them and it suffereth not the body to putrifie Also he shall neuer néede to be let blood and this water suffereth not the body to be brent with choller nor yet with melancholly nor slemot to be lift vp and haue dominion aboue water and this water mightily expelleth the rume and profiteth much the stomack it ingendreth good colour and keepeth and conserueth the visage and memory Also it is good for the palsie if the said water be giuen to man or woman labouring towards death one spoonfull it relenteth them of all waters artificiall there is no better Also vse in Sommer once a wéeke a spoonfull of this water fasting and in Winter time two spoonefuls it is good for women that haue the gréene sicknesse and for diuers other causes per Doctorem Willowbie The receite of Cinamon ¶ Take rennish wine a quart or spanish wine a pint Rose-water a pint and a halfe Cinamon brused a pound and a halfe let these stand infused the space of foure and twenty houres then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbecke of glasse and receaue the first water by it selfe Also if ye be so disposed to make the same water weaker take thrée pints of Rosewater and a pint and a halfe of rennish wine and so distill the same and you shall haue to the quallity of the stuffe the quantity of the water which is thrée pintes but the first is the best and so reserue it to your vse both morning and euening To make Cinamon water another way ¶ Take thrée quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and halfe a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lye infused the space of foure and twenty houres and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receaue to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the cheefest of all the other as is manifest practise Aqua composito for a surfet ¶ Take Rosemary Fenell Isope Time Sage Horehound of each of these a handfull Peniriall Mints Marierum of each sixe crops a roote of Enula campana of Licoris Aniseed brused of each two vnces put all these to three gallons of mighty strong Ale and put it into a brasse pot ouer an easse fire and set the Limbeck vpon it and stop it close with dow or Past that no ayre doo goe out and so kéepe it stilling with a soft fire and so preserue it to your vse as néede requireth To make water of life ¶ Take Balme leaues and stalkes Burnet leaues and flowers a handfull of Rosemary Turmentile leaues and roots Rosa solis a handfull red Roses a handfull Carnations a handfull Isope a handfull a handfull of Time red strings that grow vpon Sauery a handfull red Fenell leaues and rootes a handfull red Mints a handfull put all these hearbs into a pot of earth glased and put therto as much white Wine as will couer the hearbs and let them soke therein eight or nine dayes then take an vnce of Cinamon as much of Ginger as much of Nutmegs Cloues and Saffron a like quantity of Aniséeds a pound great Raisons a pound Suger a pound halfe a pound of Dates the hinder part of an olde Coney a good fleshy running Capon the flesh and sinewes of a legge of Mutton foure young Pigeons a dozen of Larks the yelâ—…s of twelue Eggs a loafe of white bread cut in sippets Muskadell or Bastard thrée gallonsâ— or as much in quantity as suffiseth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck and thereto put of Methridatum two or three vnces or els with as much perfect Treakle and
drink the iuice of Veruaine Fenell seed and Amber For to make a drinke for womans paps that are rancled and be full of ache ¶ Take Groundsell and two times as much of Brouswort and wash them both and stamp them and temper them with stale Ale and straine it through a cloth and giue to the Patient thereof first in the morning and last at night For the euill swelling in a womans breast ¶ Take Oake apples and stamp them in powder and put them in oyle of Roses and lay it to the swelling or else take the iuice of pety Morrell and Dasies and the dregs of Vineger and a hard Egge sodden with the shell and Barly flower and so make therof a plaister and lay it on the sore For biles on a womans breasts ¶ Take the iuice of Morrell the oyle of an Egg and Beane flower make therof a plaister and lay it cold thereto For a woman that desireth to haue great plenty of milke in her breasts ¶ Let her take the iuice of Veruaine or Fenell and vse to drink oftentimes therof and she shall haue great plenty of milk Also if she drink the broth that Whitings haue béen sodden in it is very good for the same purpose For paines in the breast with ouer too much milke ¶ Take very clean water without any grauell in the same and mingle it with Vineger and the yolke of an Egge and a little Saffron then lay it vpon a cloth plaister wise and lay it to the breast and when it is dry take it away and lay another in the place Another for the same ¶ Take Vineger and honey hoyled together and spread it vpon a cloth then lay vpon it a little powder of Comin it will asswage the milke For the milke that is curded in a womans breast ¶ Take Wheat mingled with Rue and sodden in water and lay it to a womans hard breasts that be curded with milke and it will soften them Another for the same ¶ If the séeds of Lentiles be mingled with water of the Sea they be good for milk that is curded in womens breasts For the hart burning ¶ Take a crop of Fennell and chewe it in thy mouth and suck the iuice therof then spet it out and take another vse this very often and it will help him that is hart burnt For the paine at the hart ¶ Take Centuary séeth it in stale Ale and when it is well sodden stamp it in a morter and seeth it againe with the same liquor then clense it through a cloth with two spoonfuls of the iuice and thrée spoonfulls of Honey and then boyle it well together againe and put it in a boxe and giue it to the Patient euery day thrée spoonfuls fasting till he be whole and this shall doo away the glut from him and make him haue an appetite to his meate For weaknesse of the hart ¶ Take Rose-water and mother of Pearle beaten small to powder and mingle it with Suger and giue it to the Patient to drink three or foure daies and he shall be whole For faintnes at the hart ¶ Take the filings of Gold and the powder of the bone of a Harts hart and mingle them with the iuice of Borage and Suger made in sirop for it is very good for sowning For all sicknesses about the hart ¶ Take Rosemary Isope Centory Betony and Iris and séeth them in faire water and straine the water and the iuice of the hearbs and put therto hony and boile it againe and scum it and put therto as much butter as hony in the séething and mingle them together and take it downe and couer it well and drink therof at euen hot and in the morning cold An Electuary for the hart ¶ Diantes this Electuary is good for the heauines in the hart and for féeblenes of complection in a mans stomacke for the Cardiakle and for the had lungs et alia causa For euils at the hart ¶ Take Hartwoort Galingall Harts tongue and Sauine stampe them and wring out the iuice and temper them with good Wine a good quantity of Roses and giue it to the party so gréeued to drinke first in the morning and last at night and he shall be whole God willing A sirop for the paine of the hart ¶ Take and stamp Betony and hearb Benet Horehound and Veruaine séeth them in faire water to the third part then put therto hony and make therof a sirop For all diseases in a mans hart ¶ Take Sage Mints by euen portion séeth them in white Wine and make a plaister thereof and lay it to his hart till he be whole take also the Wine that it was sodden in and giue it to the Patient to drink euening and morning and he shall haue good desire to his meat within sixe daies after at the furthest For to comfort the hart ¶ Take the powder of Setwall and put it in the sick mans meat it comforteth the hart and is very good for them that haue weake harts and be disposed to sowning Another for the same ¶ Temper the Patients Wine with water that Spicknard is sodden in and with the same water make a sirop and let the sick drink therof it is good against the disease of the hart and for sowning And for weakenes of the braine smell it at thy nose Also séeth the flowers of Rosemary leaues mingled with Rose-water and giue it to the Patient to drinke Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Rosemary leaues mingled with Rose-water and a little of the iuice of Panay and make sirop therof it will also be good if some of the bone in the hart of an Hart be put therunto and giuen to the Patient For all paines in the hart ¶ Take the powder of Galingall with the iuice of Borage and the seeds of Ireos with the milke of a Goate and drinke it warme it will asswage the paine of the hart Another for the same ¶ Take the pouder of Cannel with the pouder of the leaues of Ielliflowers it is very good against the passion and sowning of the hart being giuen to the party Against the passions of the hart ¶ Take and make sirop with the iuice of Borage and put therto of the powder of the Harts bone in the hart of a Hart. Also take Buglosse and eate it often eyther rawe or sodden it driueth out the noysome humors Also against the passion of the hart and sowning take sirop made with Cassia ligna and Roses and the bone of a Harts hart and giue it the sick to eate For feeblenes of the hart ¶ For them that are weake in the hart and doo take their breaths in manner of sighes take and giue them the iuice of Buglosse with hony and it shall help them Against the fainting of the hart ¶ Take and make Pils with a dram of Amber and an vnce of Lignum aloes and two drams of the bone of a Harts hart beat to powder and