of thy Head For the Rheume in the Head TAke and seeth Pimpernell in Wine and drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold this will help thee Or take and stew Onions in Water in a close pot and bath thy Head thy mouth and thy nose therewith and it will help thee For the weaknesse of the Brain TAke a handfull of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Hysop Betany the leaves and roots and the seeds and roots of Pyony wash all these said herbs and put them into a pottle of fair Water and let them seeth together untill the one half be wasted then take out the herbs and put to the said water almost half a pint of Honey clarified and let it boil well together with a dram of Stecados knit in a linnen cloth and let it boil till the sweetnesse of the Honey be boiled out then take out the Stecados and put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon three Nutmegs well bruised and put them to the same liquor and seeth them together a good while then strain it through a linnen cloth and so use to drink it morning and evening and it shall comfort thy Brain For hair that faileth on thy Head TAke and bray Lineseed and mingle it with oyl-Olive and when it is well beaten together anoint thy Head therewith three or four times and this will heal thee or take oyl of Tartar and warm it and then rub your Head with it or any place that is scald eight or nine dayes and the hair will come again An excellent medicine TAke a farthingworth of Pellitory of Spain and a quarter of Stavesacre seed and beat both together and then drink a draught of Malmsey and put a spoonfull of this powder into your mouth rolling it up and down till your mouth be hot and full of flegme and then spit it all out then take a stool and set before you and lay a cushion under your knees and set a bason under your mouth and gape as wide as you can and then the flegme will void from you out of all the members of your Head and if it come too fast hold over your Head to the bason and let it go use this once in a year and you shall be the better for it a long time A remedy for the Head TAke the juice of Ivy leaves mixt with Oyl and Vineger and rub therewith your temples and your nosthrills For lightnesse in the Head TAke small tents of linnen cloth and dip them in Cinamon water and put them into thy nosthrills and thou shalt be help't presently To purge the Head of evill humors TAke the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew a piece thereof on either side of thy mouth between thy Gumms and close thy mouth fast till the water cometh down then let the water go forth but hold the root still a quarter of an houre For pain in the Head TAke the juice of Ivy that groweth upon trees and oyl of Roses and mingle them together with Wine and anoint your Head therewith and this will make it leave aking Probatum For the Eyes FIrst if it do come of Rheume or corrupt blood purge Rheume and blood if it do come otherwise be let blood in a vein called Mediana and use locall waters as waters to mundifie the place and then use Salves sanative For a white that doth grow over the black of the Eye FIst purge the Rheum with Anacardine and Sternutations or Gargarices and then make a plaister made with the white of two Egs beat it well together and then put to it a little Honey and after that put to it Flax or Tow and to bedward lay it over the Eyes and let it lie all night and in the morning wash thine Eyes with cold water and a fine cloth do this three nights one after another and be whole For a bloodshotten Eye TAke the white of two new laid Egges and beat them to a watrish spome then put Tow unto it and three nights together lay it to thine Eye and bind it fast and renew it every night and wear a green cloth before thine Eye For a blast in the Eye MEddle not with it with medicines but wear before thine Eye a piece of black Sarsenet and eat neither Garlick nor Onions nor drink no Wines nor strong Ale and it will away A water to clear the sight TAke Fennell Vervain Roses Salendine and Rue of each two ounces and distill them and wash thine Eyes therewith for it is good for all manner of sore Eyes For blear Eyes TAke the juice of Wormwoood and mingle it with water made of the white of an Egg and put it into thine Eyes and it shall put the blood and aking away A water to clarifie the dimnesse of the sight TAke the juice of Fennell and Salendine Rue and Eyebright of each two ounces Honey an ounce and a half Aloes Tyme and Sarcocell of each half an ounce the caul of a Capon Chicken or Cock two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Saffron of each a dram Sugar Candy six drams put all into a limbeck of glasse and distill it and of this water put into your Eyes and if you could get the liver of a Hee-Goat and mix with the said things in the distillation that water will be of much greater vertue and almost without comparison Another for the same TAke the green Walnuts husks and all from the trees with a few Walnut leaves and distill thereof a water to drop into your eyes A singer powder that drieth and taketh away the rednesse of the Eyes TAke Tutty prepared an ounce Antimonie half an ounce Pearles two drams red Corall a dram and a half pound all these together very fine and keep them in a box of Tyn and use when thou hast need A Regiment for them that have sore Eyes TAke heed that you alwayes keep your body loose and abstain from fire smoke wind dust and over hot and cold aire and from weeping and long reading of small letters from over long watching over much drinking of Wine and eating late for all these are noysome to the Eyes also all vaporous things as Onions Leeks Garlick Mustard Pease and Beans are very dangerous forbear day sleep and behold green things clear and precious To clear the sight or for rednesse of the Eyes TAke Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it with white Wine and let it so stand a day and a night then take off the thinnest ryne and wet your Eyes with a feather to bedward For a Pin and Web in the Eye IF there be a Pin and Web in the Eye or other blemish in the ball of the Eye take water of Pimpernell Vervain or Salendine To make a good water for sore Eyes TAke Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervam torn Mintill Betany red Roses Endive Sowthistles call'd Chicken meat Pimpernell red Salendine Filago the leaves of Piony the leaves of white Vine March Egremony Sinkfoil called Woodbine of each
will bring the speech again For the Palsie TAke and stamp a handful of Sage as small as may be and put thereto two penyworth of Treacle and a penyworth of Aqua-vitae temper them well together and lay a plaister thereof to the Wrist of the hand and in the Nape of the Neck and thus thou may'st heal him that is lame of the Palsie in short time For the Palsie that maketh a man bed-ridden TAke both the crops and blossoms of broom and seeth them in good red wine till it be thick as Oyntment and then anoynt all thy body with it and use this and it will make thee whole An excellent Drink for the Palsie Proved divers times TAke the flesh of a Fox new killed and lay it all night in new Milk and the buds of Rosemary leaves and flowers and that a great quantity and half a handful of Harts tongue and take away the string that goeth along the back of the leaves and a good quantity of Bugle and a few small raisins styll all these together with a gentle fire and when it is forty days old drink it fasting it destroyeth the Palsie and maketh good bloud Medicines for a Fellon TAke Groundsel and stamp it small then temper it with oyl of Roses and make it like a salve and lay it to the sore and this will heal thee To break a Fellon hastily TAke the yolk of an Egg and Bay salt and powder of Coperas and lay it to the sore and it will break it To destroy a Fellon TAke Scabias a good handful or two then take Sheeps suet and brown bread and chop all these together small then fry them in a pan and lay it hot to the Fellon and it shall destroy it Medicines for the Impostume within a mans Body TAke young Walnuts and stamp them Rindes and all and lay a plaister thereof upon the Navel and this will destroy an Impostume as Isaac saith Or take two handfuls of Clot roots made clean and seeth them well in half a gallon of good Ale or more until the fourth part be wasted away and let it run through a cloth but wring it not and let the sick drink thereof three days and then other three days and if thou wilt thou may'st put thereto Licoras This is proved To break an Impostume TAke the kernels of Wall-nuts and stamp them with Rue and lay a plaister thereof morning and evening upon the Navel and without all doubt it will help thee of all other swellings To put out an Impostume without peril TAke and drink the juyce of Mary-golds with red horehound and thou shalt be whole Medicines for the Measels or Shingles TAke the juyce of Arch-angel and dip a linnen cloth in it and lay it to the sore morning and evening untill it be whole Probatum est To take away the Scarres of the small Pox or the Measels TAke the blood of a Bull or of a Hart and this is much commended of Authors to be good to anoint hot the scarres and also the liquor that issueth out of the sheeps clawes hot in the fire or the dripping of a Signet or Swan upon the place oftentimes hot For the Shingles or Measeles TAke a Cat and with a stick beat her ear a good while and when you have wel beaten her ear cut off that ear first and with a sawcer save the blood and then cut of the other ear as you shall need and with that bleod anoint the place where the Shingles be and use this three times and be whole Medecines for the small Pox. FIrst let all Physitians beware not onely in this infirmity but in many others not to minister Medicines External which should be repercussive which is to say to drive in the infirmity into the body And beware in this matter of ointments and baths and of cold and open ayers or of picking or touching any of the pushes or skabs keep the Paâ—ieâ—… warm and let him be of a good diet to comfort blood although some that be expert Physitians in this matter would that a man should exhaust blood out of a vain named Mediana For Pock-holes TAke for a man the grease of a Capon and for a woman the grease of a Hen and anoint the place where the Pock-holes be and it shal cleanse them and make them appear as it were no Pock there To drive out the Pox. TAke Malmsey Ginger and Treacle and mingle them well together and when thou goest to bed drink a good draught and it will drive out the Pox. For the French POX OF this there be many kinds some be moist some be watrish some be dry and some be scurvy some be like Scabs some like Ring-worms some be fistuled some be festered some be Cankers some be like Wens some like Biles some like Knobs or Kernels and some be Ulcerous having a little dry Scab in the midst of the ulcerous Scab some have ach in the joynts and no sign of the Pox and yet it may be the Pox. The cause of this infirmity doth come many wayes it may come by lying in the sheets or bed wherein a Pockie person hath lyen the night before it may come by lying with a Pockie person it may come by sitting on a Jakes where Pockie persons did lately sit it may come by drinking with a Pockie person but specially it is taken when one Pockie person doth sin in Lechery with another all the kinds of Pox be infectious and therefore beware of them A Remedy TAke the grease of a Boar the skin clean taken away the weight of a pound of the powder of Brimstone three ounces of the powder of Oyster-shels two ounces of Verdigrease the weight of twelve pence of the inner bark of the branches of a Vine two ounces of Quicksilver mortifyed with fasting-spittle then stamp all these together in a Morter and anoint thy body specially as near as you can to the sores and then lay the person in a bed and lay clothes enough over him and let him sweat twenty or four and twenty hours do this three times in nine dayes and after that take an easie purgation and take of the water of planten half a pint of Mercury sublimated the weight of eight pence of Roch allom half an ounce make powder of it and mix it altogether and with the feather anoint the place Or take of Turpentine well washed one ounce of Lytarge and burnt Allom of each an ounce and mix these together then take seven ounces of the fat of a Goat or Kid and anoint the place Or take of fresh Butter an ounce and an half of Barrowes grease half a pound of old Treacle an ounce of Mithridatum half an ounce of Quicksilver mortifyed the weight of six groats of Lytarge and salt of each half an ounce mix this together and make an ointment thereof and anoint the sores therewith and this will heal thee if thou wilt use it as is afore-said For the Cramp TAke the stifle
Physical Rarities Containing The most choice RECEIPTS OF PHYSICK AND CHYRURGERIE FOR The Cure of all Diseases incident to Mans Body Being a rich Jewell kept in the Cabinet of a famous Doctor in this Nation stored with admirable Secrets and approved Medicines Published By RALPH WILLIAMS Practitioner in Physick and Chyrurgerie LONDON Printed for J. M. and are to be sold by George Calvert at the half Moon in Watling-street neer S. Austins Gate 1651. To the READER COurteous and kind Reader I must confesse that divers learned men have taken much pains in translating sundry books containing most wholesome and profitable precepts of Physick and Chyrurgery wherein they have published and at large declared all such things as seemed necessary and expedient in Physick to be known in our Native and mother Tongue to the intent that every one that would but take the pains to peruse them and make tryall of them might benefit themselves and do much good to their acquaintance and friends To the same intent and purpose I have collected this small though beneficiall Treatise I have thought fit to write something in the behalf and praise thereof finding many rare experimented medicines which put in practise may prove beneficiall to studious and carefull Practisioners and I doubt not but they may gain much credit and applause both by their practise and by their cure if they please to put them in practise which will be little expence unto them though great credit and benefit There are many curious Medicaments therein contained and divers of them approved by famous Physitians of good esteem And therefore desire all who affect their healths to make use of such medicines as they shall find sutable to the preservation thereof as also for such as are necessary for the recovery of such as are sick and weak being confident by Gods assistance that much happinesse will redound to such as make tryall of them And to the end that this little volume might not be dispiseable but estimable and beneficiall to the Common-wealth of England I have thought fit to write thus much in the praise thereof wishing good successe in its progresse and to all that shall peruse and practise on it and to all Students Practitioners and well wishers to Physicall practise and that their studies labours and practises may alwaies be successefull and prosperous to the honour and glory of God the good of the Common-wealth the benefit of their Patients and to their perpetuall fame and renown and therefore do wish that every one of them would use all care to spend some part of their study how to benefit the Common-wealth knowing the saying of Cicero non solûm nobis nati sumus but to be helpfull to our friends and strangers which is most commendable This I conceive should invite all well-wishers to the generall good to imitate the example of divers learned Phisitians who have not only cured divers out of charity but also left most famous pieces of Phisick and Chyrurgery printed in English for the good of all that will take the pains to read them and practise on their labours And certain I am that many by their care and industry following their prescriptions have gained much benefit and great esteem thereby and though ignorant in Phisick or the practise thereof became Practitioners and famous by others labours and indeavours and successefull also in what they undertook I hope the same happinesse will befall such as will take the pains and care in reading this Treatise and likewise make trial of the medicaments herein contained which is and shall be desire and prayer of R. W. A Table A Soveraign plaister for any ach 154. For an Ague 167 168. For the quartan ague 140 160. Adder stung 172. For an Adder crept into a mans body 172. For him that hath eat or drunk poison 172. For aking bones in the Legs or Joynts 199. For the ach in the Feet 120. For aking bones in the feet 120. For aches in the armes 122. For aking in the wrest 122. For S. Anthonies fire 208. B FOr the Brests when they be broken 49. For a sore brest 50. A healing salve for a sore brest 50. For a swelling in a womans brest 50. For abundance of milk in a womans brest 54. For all manner of stopping in any brest 51. For all diseases of the brest and to clear the voice 51. To clear the brest 52. For a sore brest 52. For to make the brests shrink and for to heal them 52. For a woman that lacks milk in her brest 152. To dissolve a hard belly 75. For any hard belly that 's sore 75. For diseases of the belly 76. A drink to destroy all evills of the belly 76. For blanes and to skin sores 156. Medicines for a bruise 157. For the biting of a mad dog 169. The biting of all kind of venemous beasts 169 173. The bursten to cure 183. Weaknesse of the back 83. For the pain in the back 83 Medicines for burning and scalding 139. For one burned with a March 139. For burning with Gunpowder 139. For burning with Wild-fire 139. For the bleeding of the Nose to stop any other place 141 Another 205. Another ibid. For the pain in the reines of the back 84. For the bloudy Flux 86. Another for the same 87. To avoid bruised bloud 87. A gentle purge for the bloud without fear 87. For all evills in the bladder 78. For wind in the belly 78. For spitting bloud 25. For boyle to ripen 188. For one if bursten six years man or child 183. C MEdicines for a Canker 138. For a Canker or Fistula warts 138. To cure a Cataract 194. For one that is costiff in child-birth 192. Another 204. For cut finger or hand 204. For the Consumption 188. A Cordiall for the burning Fever 186. For to keep a child from Convulsion sits 184. For chad'd lips 40. Medicines for the Collick 78. For the Wind-collick 76. For the Collick a precious medicine 78. A Soveraign medicine for the Collick and Stone 79. Another ibid. For the Collick of the Stomach ibid. For the Cramp 152. Another for the same 153. For the Convulsion 178. Another 184 199. For a child still-born 184. For a dry Cough 47. For the Cough 48. Another for the same 49. Another 206. For the Chin Cough 48. For Cornes in the Toes 121. Another for chaps 122. D DRawing plaister for the Dropsie 135. Another for the Dropsie 136. Another for the Dropsie that swelleth 137. E FOr the Eyes 6. An excellent medicine for sore eyes and Megrim in the head 11. For a rheume in the eyes 6. For the white that doth grow over the black of the eye 7. For bloud-shot eyes 7. For a blast in the eye 7. To clear the sight 7. For bleer eyes 8. Water for dimnesse of the sight 8. Another for the same 8. A powder that takes away the rednesse of the eyes 8. A regiment for sore eyes 8. To clear the sight or rednesse
a like quantity bray them well together and the first day lay them in white Wine the second day lay them in the Urine of a man-child the third day lay them in the Milk of a woman that feedeth a man-child the fourth day in clean Hony and then distill them with a clean fire softly and keep that water well for it is excellent For a hurt in a mans Eye that cometh with a stroke TAke Betany two handfulls and beat it small in a mortar and put thereto the white of an Egge and break it with the other in a mortar and take of the same liquor and put it into thine Eye and lay some upon the Eye and bind it fast and do so nine dayes and be whole Another for the same TAke Egremony and bray it and temper it with white Wine and an Egge and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the outside of thine Eye and if were almost out it would heal it without doubt For the Eyes that run full of water and be bleared TAke of the juice of Rue foure spoonfulls and two of Honey and mingle them together and when you go to bed put thereof into your Eyes and keep it in together and use this and it will help thee Or take two or three roots of red Fennell and the leaves also and a branch of Salendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten flat and if one be not great enough take two races put all these into half a pint of running water and cover it and use to put of this water into your Eyes when you go to bed and an houre before you rise in the morning when you take thereof strain it To save a mans sight a long time good TAke a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a fig or two three dayes in a week and this will save thy sight To draw Rheume back that falleth into the Eye TAke an Egge and rost it hard and slit it into two parts and lay it hot to the nape of the neck and thou shalt find ease presently A medicine for sore Eyes and for the Megrim in the head TAke the white of a new laid Egge clean taken from the yolk and a spoonfull of white Ginger and a spoonfull of strong white Vineger made of Malmsey or white Wine and a spoonfull of clean Rose water but first the white of the Egge must be well beaten and then to the oyl of the Egge put your other things above written and beat them all together then take Flax as much as will make two plaisters for either Temple one with a cloth and dip it into the medicâ—ne and bind upon every Temple one with a cloth and take heed the medicine do not touch your Eyes and do this three or four nights together and every morning the Eyes will cleave together with the Gumme but this medicine hath brought to sight them that were eight weeks stark blind For a Pearl and Wb in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger and grate it upon a whetstone and then beat fine a little white Coperas and put to it and when the Patient goeth to bed put some of it with a quill into his Eyes and when it hath been there a little while take ground Ivy beaten and strained with womans Milk and put three or foure drops into your Eyes evening and morning after the white Coperas hath been in your Eyes half an hour Probatum est A Medicine to clear the sight TAke clean Rose water a quantity in a sawcer and take clean Myrrhe as much as a nut and break it to powder small and bind it in a clean linnen cloth and let it lie in the Rosewater twelve hours and then the water will wax somewhat red of the Myrrhe then take of this water and put it into your Eye and this will clear the sight very well Probatum est To make a precious water for sore Eyes that be fair to look on and yet cannot see with them TAke Smallage and red Fennell Rue Betany Vervain Pimpernell Eyebright Sage and Salendine of every one of these a quartern and wash them clean and stamp them in a very fair vessell and take the powder of fifteen Pepper corns and a pint of good white Wine and three spoonfulls of good live Honey and fifteen spoonfulls of the water of a man child that is very young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little and then strain it through a clean cloth and keep it in a vessell or glasse well stopped and when you will occupie it put some of it into your Eyes with a feather and if it dry away in the glasse then put a little white Wine to it and this is good for all sore Eyes if thy Eyes be never so sore in fifteen dayes it will heal thee Probatum est For a Pearl and Web in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger beaten fine into powder searse it and seeth it a great while in good white Wine and put it into a faire vessell of Latten well stirred and let it stand in the vessell till it look green then put it into a glasse and when you have need of it use it with a little white Coperas at the dressing Or for the Web in the Eye take the gall of an Hare and clarified Honey by even portions and mingle them together and lay it on the Web and within three nights the Web shall break and save the sight Probatum est A Medicine for any that have the small Pox fallen into their Eyes TAke Pimpernell and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into your Eyes where the small Pox is with a feather morning and evening and this is a speciall good Medicine for a Pin a Web or a Pearle in the Eye For a Pin and a Web. TAke the Ivy leaves that grow upon an Ash tree wipe them clean with a cloth and stamp them and strain them with Womans milk if it be a man that hath a Pearl in the Eye strain it with the milk of a woman that nurseth a Girl if a woman have a Pearl then with the milk of a Boy and the sorer the Eye is the more of the juice you must take and lesse of the milk and drop this Medicine into thine Eye with a feather morning and Evening and twice in the afternoon This is proved For sore Eyes TAke the juice of Houseleek Womans milk Rose water or Woodbine water and the white of a new laid Egge well beaten the froth taken away and beat all these together and dip in Flax and lay it to your Eyes when you go to bed Probatum est For Eyes that are swoln TAke two spoonfulls of Womans milk one spoonfull of Rose water the pap of a rosted Apple and the yolk of a new laid Egge and boil all these together in a sawcer upon a chafing-dish of coals untill it
it stand there three houres and then take it out and put the clear substance into a Glasse To draw an Ear-wig out of the Ear. TAke a piece of an old Apple and put it into the Ear of the Patient and lie down all night upon the same side and in the Morning pluck away the Apple quickly and the Worm will come forth This helpt a Woman in Oxfordshire Also another Woman had one of the said Worms in her Ear and she took Aqua vitae and dropped it into her Ear and stopped her Ear with Bumbast and laid her down on the same side and was holpen presently but if once will not serve do it two or three times Medicines for the Nose For a fleshy humor growing in the Nose or for a bottle Nose TAke of the Powder of Dragagant with a little Honey and make a Tent thereof and introduce it into your Nose or Nostrills or take the Juice of Black Ivy with a little Cotton and make a Tent and put it in your Nostrills For bleeding at Nose TO restrict the Blood which doth flow out of a mans Nose let him smell to a Hogs Tird and lay his Stones and Cods in Vineger If it be a Woman let her lay her breasts in Vineger or else exhaust an Ounce or more of Blood out of a Vein called Cephalica For stinking of the Nose TAke Cloves Ginger and Calamints of each alike and seeth them in white Wine and therewith wash thy Nose and after put in Powder of Pierimonie to provoke sneesing Also if the cause of thy stinking come from thy Stomach first help thy Stomach as shall be said in the Remedies for the Stomach A singular Medicine to stop blood TAke Swines Dung as hot as you may have it from the Swine when you have cleansed the congeal'd Blood out of the Nose wring it through a Cloth and let that juice pierce into the side from whence the Blood cometh and by the Grace of God it shall stanch anon Moreover it is good to bind the Feet and Arms as hard as can be suffered with a Cord or Lace the stronger the better Or take strong Vineger and put it into the side of the Nostrill that bleedeth and if they bleed both put it into both and it shall stop straight Or take and bear about thee the herb Appium otherwise called March Smallage that groweth by the Waters side and whilest thou bearest the same about thee thou shalt not bleed if thou haddest many Wounds To kill a Canker in the Nose TAke and boil Strong Ale untill it rope and be like a Salve then lay it on a plaister of Leather and lay it on the Nose and it will heal it and for stinking Flesh that groweth on the Nose take and distill Serpentine called Adders-tongue and then put of the same Water with Cotton into the Nostrills where the stinking Flesh is And against the Imposthumation of the Nose take and distill Flower de Luce and lay wet Clothes thereon also Water of Sowthistles called Carduus Benedictus doth heal the Noli me tangere in the Nose wet Clothes being laid thereon and some of the Powder of the same will heal the Nose For Pushes and Pimples in the Nose TAke the Yolk of an Egge and bray it with Ceruse and so anoint your Nose therewith and be whole within four or five dayes at the most or take the Juice of Plantane and the roots of Burres and Salt and Verjuice and stamp them all together and strain out the Juice and therewith wash thy Nose and it will be whole To stop Bleeding at the Nose TAke Amber and burn it in a Chafingdish of Coals and let the Smoak of it go up into thy Nose and it will stop Bleeding A Tailor Bleeding twenty four houres without ceasing and no Medicine could stay him at last he took a Skain of black Threed and put the one end thereof in at the Nostrills and the other was set on Fire and when he had received the Smoke into his Nostrills the great Flux ceased immediately and he bled no more in a long time after Another for the same TAke the Root of the great Romane Nettle and let the Patient chew it in his mouth and so refresh it with another Root for this in great need hath been found very saving for staying of the Flux of Blood And when I could stop the Blood with no manner of Medicine then I opened a Vein in the Ear and so let out a good quantity of blood this is the last Refuge for Bleeding at the Nose Medicines for the Mouth WHosoever would have help for the Mouth or for the Tongue or for the Ears or for the Eyes or for the Nose or for the Teeth or for any dolour or pain which may be in any of those parts or places let them use otherwhiles Sternutations and Pills of Cochy and once or twice a Moneth let them use Gargarizes to exhaust and draw out the Rheume out of the Head the which Rheume is cause of many infirmities in mans body as doth more largely appear as followeth For spitting of Blood TAke the Juice of Betany and temper it with Goats Milk and let the sick drink thereof three dayes and he shall be whole Or take Smallage Mints Rue and Betany and boil all these together in good Milk and sup it warm For stinking of the Mouth TAke the Juice of black Mints and of Rue a like much and put it into thy Nostrills and this will help thee This is proved For a stinking Breath TAke an Ounce of Sage and make thereof Powder one Ounce of Rosemary Flowers half an Ounce of Cloves two Drams of Cinamon two Nutmegs and two Grains of Musk and make them all into Powder then take as much purified Honey as will cover all them put it in a Box and set it in the Sun five dayes and it will be perfect then take every Morning fasting half an Ounce and so at Night to comfort the Meat that it putrifie not or corrupt the Stomach and be whole To recover a Mans Speech TAke the Juice of Sage and Primrose and put into the Patients Mouth and he shal speak straight or within a while after For a Mouth that is staid with heat TAke Ribwort and seeth it in Red Wine and hold it in your Mouth hot and do this often and be whole For the Canker in the Mouth TAke nine Leaves of Sage and stamp them with a little Salt and Verjuice and make thereof a Plaister and lay it thereto and it will be whole but you must dresse it twice a day Against the inward eating sore of the Mouth TAke and distill Perwinckle and with the Water thereof wash thy Mouth also Water of Lavender and Fumitory doth kill all sores in the Mouth and for Blains in the Mouth take and distill Burnet in a common Still and with the Water thereof wash the Blains in thy Mouth For a Canker in the Mouth TAke rusty
Bacon wheaten Bran and the Roots of a Vine and seeth all these together in Brine wherein Flesh hath been laid to Salt and let the hot Vapor thereof ascend to the sore place through an instrument like a Funnel made of Wood and this done wash this sore place with this Water following Take the inner Bark of the Roots of black Thorn and seeth it in a Pint of white Wine Vineger and a Pint of Water of the Bark twelve Ounces of Roch Alum two Ounces seeth these together in a stone Cruse in a Kettle of water closely stopped till half be wasted then strain them and put of this Liquor into the Sore This helped a child of twelve years old that the Canker had eaten through the Roof of his Mouth into his Nose But if the Canker be not very corrosive take Woodbine Sage Lavender Rosemary and Salendine and seeth these in running water and white Wine till half be wasted and then strain them and put to this stained Liquor a little Alum and Myrrhe Honey and Sarcacoll when these be a little sodden then strain them again and rub thy Mouth therewith often in a day For the falling of the Evola TAke a little Pepper and Salt and put it up therewith or else take and seeth a little Pepper in Ale ad dip a Linnen Cloth therein and put it up therewith also take a handfull of Fetherfew and rub it between your hands then lay it to the Crown of the Head and it will draw up the Evola For a Canker in the Mouth TAke Rosemary Sage and running Water and seeth them well together and put to them Roch Alum and wash thy Mouth therewith or take Woodbine leaves and stamp them and put thereto a little running Water and strain out the Juice thereof then put to the same a little white Coperas and wash thy Mouth therewith and it will be whole For a Canker in the Mouth TAke a sawcer full of Wodbine-water and put thereto as much Alum as a Hasell Nut and then take of Mell-Roset as much again as the Alum is and put to it a spoonfull of good Vineger and boil all these together upon a Chafingdish and wash the Canker therewith Medicines for Teeth To make Teeth white TAke Vineger of Quinces and dip a little piece of Cloth in it and rub thy Teeth and Gums therewith the said Vineger fasteneth the Teeth and Gums comforteth the Roots of the Teeth and maketh sweet Breath To keep the Teeth sweet clean and from danger of Worms or a Regiment Ach TAke a Pint of White Wine two Ounces of Alum and a quarter of an Ounce of Honey boil them together and wash your Mouth therewith every Morning A Regiment for the Tooth-ach YOu must wash your Mouth before and after Meat with warm Water to cleanse the Mouth and purge the Humors from the Gums which descend out of the Head it is good every Morning to wash the Mouth and to rub the Teeth with a Sage Leaf or with Powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs You must forbear Lettice and raw fruits all tart things and the chewing of hard things also all Meats of evill digestion and vomiting and straining of your self For the Tooth-ach TAke the Root of Henbane and seeth it in Vineger and hold in thy Mouth the Decoction thereof and the pain of the Teeth will away straight or take Hysope and make a decoction with Vineger and wash your Mouth and Teeth therewith being hot and the pain will away Another for the same TAke Wheat Bran and good stale Ale and make it thick like Mustard and let it soke therein a quarter of an hour then strain it and put thereto the Powder of Pepper a good quantity and some of the Juice of Rue and make it somewhat thick and put it into a little bag of linnen cloth and lay it between thy Cheek and thy Teeth and lie down on that side and let the Water run out of thy Mouth and use it three or four times and thou shalt never have the Tooth-ach more or take Hounds tongue and stamp it and frie it with Butter and make a Plaister thereof and bind it to thy Cheek on that side that the pain is and thou shalt be whole Proved An approved Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Berries of Ivy and the scraping of a Harts Horn and boil it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to thy Check and hold the Liquor thereof in thy Mouth and thou shalt be whole Or take Pepper Salt and the Roots of Primrose and dry them all together and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith To take away the Tooth-ach in half an hour TAke Henbane Seed Smallage Seed and Poppy Seed of each the weight of a Penny and make Pellets thereof as big as a Vache with a quantity of Aqua vitae and lay it unto thy Teeth that ake and the pain shall cease straight A notable Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Pellitory of Spain both of the Leaf and of the Root wash it and stamp it and thereof make three Balls every Ball as big as a Plumb and lay the first Ball between the Teeth and the Gummes the space of a miles riding and even as the water ingendreth in thy Mouth spit it out whole and put in another Ball as thou diddest at the first and likewise the third and so let the Water run out of thy Mouth still and be whole straight To make Teeth white TAke Flower of Rie Salt and Honey and mingle them well together and therewithall rub thy Teeth every day twice or thrice and then wash them clean with Water and they will be clean Or take green Branches of Broom and burn them and make thereof a Powder and burn Alum and mix them together and then temper them with fair Water and rub thy Teeth therewith and it will do away the blacknesse of them For the Tooth-ach TAke the green part of the Eldar Rine not the uttermost nor the innermost but the green in the middle between both and Sage Rue and Ginger and a good deal of Salt then grind them all together in a mortar and seeth it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay to the Cheek and be whole Another for the same TAke a Pint of the strongest Vineger thou canst get and a handfull of Sage the Root of a red Nettle the quantity of a Fingers length and as much of the Rine of an Oke and cut them in little pieces and so let the Vineger and all the rest seeth together from a Pint then let the Patient chew it on the sore Tooth and so dresse 〈…〉 Evening and Morning half of it at each time and this shall help him for ever Probatum est For to remove a Tooth TAke the Root of a Mulberry Tree and lay it in Vineger three dayes and three Nights and then dry it in the Sun and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith and
it will fall out A Water for the Teeth TAke and distill the Water of Mother wort and hold it in thy Mouth a good while and it will kill the Pain of the Teeth and the stinking thereof Also Water of Vervain or Hysope Water will do the like For the Tooth-ach TAke Henbane-seed and the Powder of Amber of each a like much and lay them on a glowing tile and make a Pipe that thy Breath may go through to the sore Tooth and this will kill the Worms and put away the Tooth-ach For a Canker and Tooth-ach TAke Smalladge and Sorrell Leaves Alum and Glasse and make thereof a Powder and lay it to the Sore wheresoever it be and for the Tooth that is hollow and aketh take the Flowers and Leavos of Pellitory and stamp it with Salt and fill the hollow Tooth therewith and be whole For the Tooth-ach Take Ivy Berries and seeth them well in Vineger and when they be well sodden sip some of the liquor as hot as you may suffer it and hold it in your Mouth till it be cold and then cast it out and take new and do so three or four times and it will ease you For the Tooth-ach TAke and rost an Egge hard and put therein a Spoonfull of Salt and two Spoonfulls of Vineger or good Aleger and temper them well together till they be a Pap then strain it and with a little fine Cloth put some thereof into your Mouth and when you have spit out the corruption refresh the same with more and it will take away the Pain shortly To make Childrens Teeth come TAke the Brains of a Hare and seeth them and anoint the Gummes therewith and take the Brains of a Hen likewise and rub the Gummes therewith and this shall make the Teeth grow without akng To fasten the Teeth TAke and seeth the Roots of Vervain in old Wine and wash thy Teeth therewith and this will make them fast For Worms in the Teeth TAke Henbane seed and lay it upon a flat Stone and set it upon a Chafingdish of Coals and let the smoke go into your Mouth and this will will kill the Worm shortly For the Tooth-ach TAke the inner Rine of an Eldar Tree and bruise it a little and put thereto a little Pepper and make it in Balls and lay it to your Teeth and be whole THe cause of these impediments may come either by an humor descending out of the Head to the Teeth or Gummes or by corâ—oding or eating of Worms or corruption of Blood lying and being upon and betwixt the Teeth or it may come by drinking of hot Wines eating of hot Spices or hot Apples Pears Cherries and such like and it may come of a hot Liver or Stomach and ever beware of pulling out of thy Teeth for pull out one and pull out more but if it be hollow pull it out for it will rot still more and more do what thou canst Medicines for the Gummes For the Gummes that be gnawn and fretted with Humors TAke Cloves and seeth them in Rose water then dry them and make Powder thereof with Rose water or Roses for that is best then dry it again in the Sun do this three or four times and then temper the Powder again with Rose water or with the Juice of Roses and anoint thy Gummes therewith A Water for a Canker in the Gumms TAke half a Pint of white Wine and a quarter of a Pint of Water and put thereto an Ounce of burnt Alum and take a quantity of five leaved Grasse otherwise called Cinque-Foyl and put all these into a clean earthen Pot and set it over the Fire and let it seeth to the half and scum it clean then strain the Liquor into some Vessell and keep it in a Glasse till thou have need to occupy it Another for the same TAke Herb Grasse and wash it clean and dry it with a Linnen Cloth and stamp it in a Morter and put thereto strong red Vineger then strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth three times folded of an Ell broad wet it in the same Medicine and lay it to the Sore within the Mouth and if it be a very great Canker take Alum and beat it very small in a Morter and put it to the said Medicine to the value of a handfull of Herb Grasse and this will heal thee To make a Gumme hard to hold the Teeth TAke clean Rose water and daily wash thy Gummes and Teeth therewith and it will fasten thy Gummes to thy Teeth For rotting of thy Gummes TAke the Water of great Sage and wash thy Mouth and Gummes therewith and it will help the rotting of thy Teeth and the shaking of them if thou use it often in a day and hold it in thy Mouth Medicines for the Face For a sawcy stain'd Face like a Leper YOU must give him a Purgation as is said in the pain of the Head coming of Choller then dip Cloths in Alum water which must be made as followeth take a pound of Alum Glasse the juice of Purslain of Plantine and Verjuice of Grapes or Crabs of each a Pint with the whites twenty one Egges well beaten together then mingle them altogether and distill it in a Stillitory this Water is for the Pimples Scurfes Chafings Wheals and Heats dip your Cloth therein often and lay to the rednesse THe cause of these Impediments doth come of a venemous matter ascending out of the Stomach meeting with Rheum that would descend from the Head and meeting both together do cause the Vapors to break out in the Face For a Copper Face TAke Litarge of Silver and Brimstone of each a like much and seeth them in Vineger and then wet a Linnen Cloth therein and lay it to the Sore putting a little Rose water to it A Diet for a Copper Face ABstain from all Salt things Spices Fried Meats and Rosted Meats from drinking of Wine for it is very ill also Onyons Mustard and Garlick be very bad instead of which you must take Purslain Sorrell Lettice and Hops Borage otherwise Succory or Endive in your pottage Also it is necessary to be laxative and sleeping to lay your head high For a red Face TAke Sowthistles Borage Purslain Sorrell Barley Parsly Roots and Licoras and boil all together in running Water and drink it first and last For Worms in the Face TAke of Rosine three parts and the fourth of unwrought VVax one spoonfull of Honey half a spoonfull of May Butter try them all together on the fire then strain it through a fair Cloth into a dish of fair Water and when it is so cold that you may stir it with your hand work it well against the Fire as you do an Electuary and in working thereof put in as much white Coperas as a Nut as you do occupy it made into Powder then strike it on a Cloth as you do other plaisters and lay it to the Face and within three dayes you shall know whether there be
seeth all these in a pint of white Wine strain it and drink thereof foure spoonfulls morning and evening warm 〈…〉 Medicines for the Side For Wind in the Side TAke the leaves of Holly and dry them and make powder thereof but do not burn them and give the Patient thereof to drink in Beer or Ale and it will ease immediatly Proved by my Lady Coplin For a Stich in the Side TAke the urine of him that is sick Wormwood and Cummin and seeth them well together and by the fire therewith anoint thy side and after with the oil of Bay Also Endive Water water of Divells-bit water of Mallows and water of Carduus benedictus are all good for the Stitch. For a Stich in the left Side TAke a quantity of Cummin and steep it in a pottle of Malmsey then take and fry them together in a Pan and put it into a linnen bag and lay it hot to your side and it will help you Another for the same TAke and stamp Wormwood Mints and Camomill Mallows red Roses Sage Cummin and white Bread Crums and boil all these in red Wine or in stale Ale and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the side This is proved To know when one hath a Stitch whether it be of the Wind or the Plurisie TAke Wormwood and lay it on a tile-stone before the fire and when it is neare hot sprinkle it with good Malmsey and put it in a linnen cloth and lay it to when you feel the Stitch if it be but a Wind it will take it away in two hours but if it be the Plurisie it will augment the pain and then seek other remedy For a Stitch at the Hart. TAke and distill Endive Water and when the fire is out of it drink thereof one ounce at a time for this will help all Stitches of the Heart if you will use it Medicines for the Pleurisie TAke Broom Flowers Scabias and Carduus Benedictus of every one a like portion mingle them together and let the Patient every morning and evening take a good draught and annoint the ribs with oyl of Broom Flowers for this is good Another singular remedy for the same TAke three ounces of the water of Lady-thistle called Carduus Benedictus one spoonfull of white Wine and fix inner whites of Eggs well braid mingle them together and lay them plaister-wise upon the ribs as hot as you may suffer it Another for the same TAke two good handfulls of Horse-dung two races of Ginger in powder then wrap the dung and the Ginger together in a linnen cloth then put them in a pot to boyle with a quart of white Wine untill the third part be consumed and drink thereof evening and morning and after you have drunk the said Wine cover you well and sweat A Regiment for the Pleurisie THe Patient ought not to drink wine nor eat flesh but must be content to drink Tysants Barley water and weak drink and to eat Barley hulked and milk of Almonds clarified rosted Apples and great Raisins as long as the Fever doth last And to help him to spit it is good to use often white pills of Diadragaganton Sugar Candy and other things mentioned in the Remedies of the Cough For the Pleuresie THe common practice is to let the Patient blood and to administer to him Tysants and to give the syrup of Violets in the which is dissolved Cassia newly drawn half an ounce of Manna elect 1.3 give this to the Patient after he is let blood this hath holpen many Also this is very good for the Pleurisie Take a hollow Apple and put therein a good quantity of Olybanum and put the Apple in the hot embers and so let it stand till it be rosted and then give it to the Patient this hath helpt many without letting blood A Pleurisie cometh of cold humors and if it be not far past give the Patient Malmsey wherin hath been sodden Camomil to drink this hath helpt many without letting blood Medicines for the Lungs An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs TAke the Lungs of a Fox and wash them clean in fair water and lay them in Vineger two daies and then hang them up to dry the shortest way is to dry them in an Oven and then take a few crops of Hysope Elecampana roots and a few crops of Hoarhound and a good quantity of Anniseeds and a good quantity of Licoras and one ounce of Sugar-Candy and bray all together and searse it and then you may chuse whether you will eat the Powder in apples in pottage or in meat To make a Water that is restorative for a man that if his Lungs be wasted will restore them again and gather Nature again TAke Fennell roots and Parsley roots and wash them clean and pill of the utter bark of the roots and the hard roots that is within them and cast it away and make them small then take a brazen pot and put therein three quarts of water and put the roots therein and seeth it over the fire then take Figs and mince them small and Licoras small and put them together and make them boil well then take Sorrell and stamp it and put it thereto and let it boil well and then take it down and strain it through a cloth into some Vessell of earth and stop it well and fast that the breath go not out and let the sick drink thereof hot evening and morning cold For the Cough of the Lungs TAke a handfull of Figs and seeth them in Ale or Beer untill they be somewhat tender then slit them asunder and put them in a linnen bag and so lay them on your Stomach warm and when they be cold warm them again in the same liquor To comfort the Lungs TAke and distill our Lady Thistle and drink the water thereof twice a day and it will comfort the Lungs Also the Water of Chervell doth the like To open the Lungs TAke Hysope VVater and drink thereof twice a day evening and morning at each time one ounce and a half or two ounces and it will help you For the Impostumation of the Lungs TAke and drink VVater of Camomill twice a day at each time an ounce and it will help thee Fennell water will do the like Approved For heat or drought in the Lungs DRink water of great Plantain twice a day and it will kill the heat of the Lungs Water of blue Violets doth the like Medicines for the Heart For trembling of the Heart without a Fever TAke the maw of an old Cock drie it and make powder thereof and drink the same powder in red Wine or sweet Wine for it is very good put a little Saffron thereto For the Heart that beateth or trembleth in mans body and cometh of thought BRay Corall in a mortar of brasse as small as you can then searse it and mingle it with Sugar very fine beaten use to take of this powder first in the morning and last
at night and it will help you A good Medicine for the Heart and Swowning TAke the powder of Cloves with the juyce of Borage a spoonfull at a time and it will help you Also the powder of Ginger and powder of Cummin put in meats is good for the same A comfortable Medicine to restore the spirits of the Heart and to mend the disposition of the Etick or Consumption as followeth TAke a quarter of an ounce of Gold foyle and half an ounce of Manus Christi beat them in a mortar together untill none of the Gold be seen and keep it till you have need to use it which must be in manner following Take a quart of pure Rose water and boyl it with a quantity of Penidos keep it in a faire glasse and when you will use it take in the morning the weight of the foresaid powder and put in your mouth and drink it down with five or six spoonfulls of the foresaid water For swelling or rising about the Heart SEeth Oyl Olive by it self then take as much Honey and seeth it by it self then seeth them together a little while and when it is cool put it in a box and this is very good for the Heart 〈…〉 For fatnesse about the Heart TAke the juice of Fennell and Honey and seeth them all together untill they be hard and then eat thereof evening and morning and thou shalt be whole To put away venom from the heart TAke Bolearmoniack and Sanguis Draconis of each three ounces and of the best Cinamon four ounces and mingle them altogether in powder and so receive it and it will put away Venom from the Heart For Gnawing about the Heart TAke Sage leaves and as much yarrow and grind them together and temper them with Ale and then strain and drink thereof Things good for the Heart SAffron Borage Hearts horn Mustard Cloves Galingale Nutmegs red Roses Violets Maces Sugar good Wine moderately taken Mirth and good ayre that day you eat of Piony or drink thereof you shall not swound Against Swounding BOrage eaten with flesh or in pottage is good for them that fall in their Swounding or be faint at the Heart or have Cardiack Passion at the Heart Against Swounding TAke water that Roses hath been sodden in and the powder of the same with a raw Egge Or take Rose VVater that Sweet VVater hath been sodden in this is very good Medicines for the Belly To dissolve a hard Belly TAke and stamp Mallows and Mercury together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy Navell and it shall dissolve the matter in the womb in short time Or take the juice of Rue and drink it with stale Ale or Wine or fair Water and use to drink of this and it will help thee in short time For any hard Belly that is sore MIngle Pennyroyall and Ginger together and bind them plaisterwise to thy Belly and be whole For Diseases of the Belly whatsoever they be TAke Wormwood Rew Motherwort Lavender Cotton and the gall of an Oxe Cow or Calf stamp the herbs and put the Gall thereto and lay it to the bottom of thy Belly and be whole A Drink to destroy all evills in the Belly or Body within fifteen dayes TAke Scabias Mugwort Smallage Devills-bit Herb-Ivy Wormwood Fumitory Fetherfew and Spiknard stamp all these and seeth them in white Wine and clarifie it with whites of Eggs drink of this nine dayes and be whole Medicines for the Collick For the Wind-Collick TAke Winter-Savory stamp it and strain it with strong Ale drink this warm and immediately the pain will cease as if it were sweep'd away There have been divers helpt with this which have had such pain with the Wind-Collick that they have swowned severall times in a day Also a cupping-glasse set upon the top of the Navell is a present remedy Also Camomill Rosemary Sage and Salt rosted under the embers and laid to the Navell is a present Remedy Emmets eggs dried in an oven made in powder and drank helpeth the Wind-Collick immediately For the Collick of the Stomach see after For the Strangullion CUt off the top of an Onyon and take out the core then put into the place a pretty quantity of this powder following Take Betany and Centory of each a like quantity and make powder thereof putting in a little Butter then put on the top again and put it in hot embers and rost it then lay it to your Navell as hot as you may suffer it and be whole To make a precious Water for the Strangullion TAke a peck of Hawes when they be ripe and half a peck of Hips and beat them in a mortar to powder then take two gallons of Lees of Malmsey or Sack a penniworth of long Pepper and a half-penniworth of graines put all these together and distill them in a Stilletory or Limbeck take the water thereof and drink it luke-warm first and last For the Collick a precious Medicine proved TAke Saxifrage Maidenhaire unset Time and Parsley seed and seeth all these together in Malmsey strain it and drink it warm Or take Time Mints Woodroof Vilipendula and Setwall make pottage herewith and you shall find great ease For all evills within the Bladder TAke Fennell seeds Parsley seeds and Smalladge seeds bruise them and temper them with faire running Water and drink this first and last at your pleasure For one that hath much wind in his Belly TAke Juniper berries ere they wax black and drie them in the ayre and keep them all the year and use the powder thereof in your drink and pottage Or take the roots of Elecampane the roots of Pellitory of the garden and Fennell roots of each a like quantity and as much of Sothernwood wash them and bray them a little and seeth them all together in a gallon of Wort and drink thereof For the Collick TAke Flower and Ale and drink it unsod with a little Sugar and this will make you go to the stool and ease your Collick and Strangullion Or take Hempseed and drie it and make powder thereof and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine Or take Dill seed Anniseed and Cummin of each a like quantity beaten into fine powder eat it in your pottage it will help you A soveraine Medicine for the Collick and Stone TAke Parsley seed Fennell seed Anniseed Cummin seed Plantain seed of each of them a quarter of an ounce an ounce of Nutmeg foure ounces of fine Sugar beat all these seeds into powder and searse them and let the Sugar be beaten with Ale then take of the powder as much as an Hasell nut and let the Patient use to drink thereof morning and evening four times a week warm with Wine or Beer but Wine is best and when the pain cometh drink it with Malmsey Another FRie Pellitory and Butter together and bind them to thy Navell and this will suddenly cease the pain Or take a Lapwing and burn her in the fire
feathers and all then take the ashes of her and give it the Patient to drink with Wine somwhat warm and this will ease the Collick For the Collick of the stomach TAke of Broom seeds a spoonfull and a half so many Barberries with the hulls off and half a spoonfull of Anniseeds and a quarter of a spoonfull of Licoras and as much white Sugar Candy of all these beaten together into powder take a quantity first in a morning and last in an evening Medicines for the Wormes TAke and eat Garlick and it will kill all Worms in mans Belly Or take of the juyce of Lavender-Cotton and put to it the powder of Wormseed and drink it three times every morning fasting but drink not in an houre or two after and this will destroy the Wormes For Worms in young children TAke Setwell you must buy it at the Apothecaries and make it into fine powder and give the child to drink as much as a small Walnut in a cup of Malmsey and it will destroy all Worms Or Take Garlick Wormwood Mints Fetherfew Tansey and stamp them all together with the gall of an Oxe then fry them together and put them in a linnen cloth and lay them to the Navell as hot as may be suffered or seeth them in Vineger and lay them to likewise Or take the gall of a Bull and dip some Wool therein and lay it upon the Navel of the child and it will make the worms come forth Or take Honey and spread it on a tost of bread and cast good Worm-seed thereon and give it the childe fasting Worms in the Belly TAke the pils of Oranges and dry them and make them in powder and drink it in Malmsey or stale Ale there is nothing better A Medicine for the Guts For the Guts that fret TAke twelve leaves of Rue nine Pepper corns and as much Dill-seed as thou may'st take up with thy two fingers stamp them and temper them together with fair water and it will help thee For wind in the Guts TAke Honey pitch and Butter and seeth them together and anoint thy belly therewith against the fire For pain of the Guts TAke Tansey Rue and Sothern-wood and eat it with salt fasting and be whole For the cough in the Guts TAke the water of Flower-de-luce and drink it luke-warm twice or thrice a day an ounce at a time Also water of Camomil doth the same drunk as aforesaid The water of Vine leaves is good against stitches and also against Impostumes in the Guts A Medicine for the Navel A plaister for swelling of the Navel TAke Cowes dung and dry it to powder Barly flower and Bean flower of each a portion the juyce of Knot-grass a good quantity and of Cummin a little make a Plaister of Ale and lay it to thy Navel and it will heal thee Or take Cowes dung and seeth it in the Milk of the same Cow and lay it on the grief this is also marvellous good for a suddain Ach and swelling in the Bagg For a Childs Navel sore with crying TAke a little Bean-flower and the ashes of fine linnen clouts burned and temper it with red Wine and Honey and so lay it to the sore Medicines for the Back For the weakness of the Back TAke flower of Barley and Beans and oyl of Roses the yolk of an Egg and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy back in the day time and it will do you much good Or take flower of fine Rice and Wheat flower and temper it with Claret wine and Sugar and put thereto a little of the powder of Clare and Nut-megs and make a Cake thereof and bake it well and eat thereof this is good For pain of the Back TAke fresh Cow dung and fry it in Vinegar and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to thy Back and within four or five times dressing thou shalt be whole For pain in the reins of the Back TAke and seeth the leaves of red Willow and as hot as the sick may suffer it lay it to the reins of thy Back and within four or five times dressing thou shalt be whole Medicines for the Flux of the Belly To restrain the Flux whatsoever the cause be TAke the pisle of an Hare and dry it and make powder thereof and drink it Also … e water of Oken-buds or the very Acorns dryed and made in Powder and drunk with red Wine is very good Also the maw of a young Leveret is very good drunk with the juyce of Plantane A good Medicine for the bloody Flux TAke a pennyworth of Honey and a penny-worth of Wheat flower and three spoonfuls of Chalk and the yorks of five Egs and half a pennyworth of Saffron and make a Cake thereof and eat thereof four dayes and be whole Or take the root of the red Nettle and stamp it and delay it with water or Ale then strain it and drink thereof and be whole for over For all manner of Fluxes that be curable TAke the seed of Plantane and the blossoms of red Roses in Powder of each alike much and give the sick half a spoonful at once with warm Whey first and last three days together and it will heal him Or take and drink the water that stone hath been scalded in first and last and be whole To stop a Lask in Children TAke the seeds of Plantane and make powder thereof and give it to the Child to drink in red Wine or in Ale and it will stop the Flux Proved true Or take Almonds and blaunch them and fry them in a Pan and eat them divers times in a day Also the dung of a stoned Horse that goeth to house fryed in Malmsey and laid to the Navel will stop a Lask To stop the bleeding of the Fundament TAke Aloes and Mirrhe of each a like much and make them into Powder and with a little Pile of Almonds anoint the sore and then cast the Powder thereon and put upon the Fundament with a hot Scarlet cloth and this will help thee To make a man have a Lask TAke Salt and Soap and lay it to thy belly plaister-wise and it will make the have a Lask straight Or take the gall of an Ox and anoint thy belly and stomack therewith and it will make thee Laxative To keep a man Laxative TAke Mallows and Mercury a good quantity and stamp them together and fry them with May butter or fresh butter and then strain it and keep it in a Box and anoint your belly therewith evening and morning and it will keep you soluble For the Bloody-flux TAke the jaw-bones of a Pike and make powder of them and eat of this powder dry or take it with red Wine first and last and it will stop the Flux for it hath holpen when nothing else could help Another for the same TAke red Beans and boyl them in red Wine till it wax thick but first dissolve a little Allom in the Wine then let the Patient eat
sore with great expedition There was a man the which was sore grieved with the Stone who was holpen with this drink following Take the blossoms of Haws and distyl them then take the water thereof and seeth it and put therein Grommel-seed Saxifrage-seed and Parsly-seed of each an ounce of Goats blood Hares blood and Fox blood of each of them seven Drams seeth all these in a quart of the water in a close pot of Pewter or earth in a Kettle of water the space of six hours then strain it and drink thereof every day This is an excellen thing To deliver the Stone a Medicine that never fails TAke the roots of red Nettles and wash them clean in many waters and then bray them small and lay them in red Wine twelve hours then give else sick thereof to drink six spoonfuls of the liquor and let him rest on a bed 3 hours and then give him twelue spoonfuls and 3 hours after give him twenty spoonfuls and anon he shall make water and deliver the Stone Or take white Thorn buds in May and distyl them and take a pinte of the same water and half a pinte of Malmsey and boyl it a little at the fire but if you put in a little Honey withal it will be the better and then drink it to bed-ward Proved by Master GAGE To break the Stone TAke a quantity of a Jet-stone and two races of Ginger and the shells of Egs hatched under a Hen when the Chickens be out but first take away the filme of the shels and put them altogether in a Morter with the piece of a stone that cometh out of an Ox gall or with Parsley-seed if you cannot get the stone and make Powder of all these together and drink of it with warm Ale in a spoon as often as you shall think good and it will break the Stone and ease you of the Collick and cause you to make water easily An excellent Medicine for the Stone TAke Selgreen Planten Fetherfew and Tansey and pound them all apart and keep every Liquor by it self in a Glass then take of each of them a like quantity and boyl it with Bean-flower and Honey to make it Plaister-wise and then take a double swadling-band of linnen cloth and spread the Plaister thereupon and so lay it to the pain and round about the back and use it so a fortnight or three weeks for this is a special good Medicine and well approved Another for the same TAke a Goat and keep him three dayes fasting then put him in a Tub full of holes and the fourth day give him nothing but Grommel Parsley Alexander Salendine Saxifrage Hawberries and Water-cresses and make him to lick prepared Salt and give it him with Wine to drink and so keep him with that food a whole week in the foresaid Tub and all the water he maketh you must through the holes of the Tub receive it into some vessel then take this water and put thereto Holly Berries Ivy Berries and Hawthorn Berries of each half a handful of Juniper Berries of flowers of Starewort of Cras-foot of each half a handful of the seeds of Parsley Saxifrage Elysander Radish Philipendula Nettles the Berries of Kneeholm Asparagus Fennel-seed and Anni-seed of each half an ounce of the roots of Kneeholm of Asparagus and Water-cresses of each of them four ounces of Grommel-seed and Smallage-seed eight ounces Bruise all these seeds small and chop the herbs and put them into the foresaid Goats water the space of twelve dayes into some warm place stirring them every day two or three times then put them together into a Styll and hang in the mouth of the Styll a little Musk Cynamon and Cloves because of the loathsomness of the Goats water and so distyl the water and give the Patient that hath the Stone three ounces at a time this is the most Soverain water can be found for it melteth and voideth the Stone without pain This holp a Scholler at Eaton-Colledge whom all the Physitians gave over as one incurable Of the Stone THe Stone is engendered by reason of a great heat that is about the Reins straightness of the Conduit and abundance of gross and slimy humors or Brentcholer which by the said excess of heat is as one would say baked or dryed as Clay in the Furnace and so at last becometh a hard stone Therefore it is chiefly to be noted that without the mending of the foresaid causes all that you do minister to break the Stone is either hurtful to the Patient or else small effect therefore it is good to keep a sober diet And note that alwaies whatsoever they be are nought in this case All kind of Pulses as Pease Beanes and such like all gross flesh and water-fowls and fowls of great bodies and all Fruits except ripe Prunes are nought and all Shell-fish except Grevise and Shrimps also all Pepper and hot spices and all meats salt or sower but especially beware of hard Cheese for that is oftentimes the onely cause of the Stone and you must not lie on your back and you must keep your Reins cold and let your back be untrussed in summer An approved Medicine for the Stone and Strangury TAke most of Licoras then Anniseeds Colianedr Grommel Fennel Parsley and Alicander-seeds then dry all these seeds and pound them severally by themselves and note that Licoras Anni-seeds and Grommel-seeds be Restoratives and when they are all in Powder mix thereto powder of Syne to the quantity of one half of one parcel of the scowrers also mix thereto white Sugar-candy to the quantity of your Licoras with a Nutmeg or two use this powder fasting in clear Ale in your Broths and all suspected meats Remedies for a Mans Yard IF this Impediment be of any interial cause use to drink Milk or else drink oft a good portion of the water of Hawes and inject into the Yard the water of Comphry if the Impediment be betwivt the head and skin of the Yard wash the head of the Yard divers times with white Wine and after that use the powder of a rotten Post or any siccative Medicines is good or else Populion or Vnguentum ei Epsiacon is good For the Erection of the Yard above Nature TAke first and anoint the Yard and Codds with oyl of Juniper and the oyl of Campheret is good and so is Agnus Castus braid and made in a Plaister and laid upon the Stones This Impediment doth come of the inflamation of the Reins of the back or of inflamations of the Veines of the Yard and Stones or of too much use of Venerious acts To heal a mans Yard that is sore TAke Turpentine and the yolk of an Egg of each a like much well beaten together with Saffron and anoint the sore Yard therewith Or take and seeth the powder of Lynseed in sweet Milk till it be thick and lay it to the Yard Plaister-wise and anoint it with the juyce of Morrel and Plantane and be
whole For the swellings in a mans Yard TAke Leeks with the tails and wash them clean and stamp them and fry them in Barrows-grease and make a Plaister and lay it all about the yard and be whole Or take Betony and seeth it in Wine and stamp it and make a Plaister and lay it to the Cods and it will asswage the swelling of them this is well proved For pain in ae mans Yard through Gravel or Champise as followeth TAke Pellitory and Boares-grease and fry them together well and make two Plaisters thereof and lay one between the Navel and the Yard and the other on the Reines of the back and anon thou shalt deliver water and gravel which before thou mightst not do but by drops this will help thee without doubt To make a water for a sore Yard TAke and put Allom in fair water and seeth it till it wax tough then put it in a pewter Box this will cleanse a sore and make it fair For burnign with a Harlot IF a man be burnt with a Harlot and do meddle with another woman within one day she shal be burned If one be burned let him wash his secrets two or three times with white Wine or Sack and water but if the matter have continued long go to some expert Chyrurgion to have help or else thy Guts will burn and fall out of thy belly For a mans Stones that hang down long TAke the fatness of a Conney and anoynt thy Cods and Stones therewith and then wrap thy Sones in a Conny-skin do this nine times and labour not in nine dayes and be whole For him that cannot make water TAke Rue Grommel and Parsley and stamp them and mingle them with white Wine and give the sick thereof to drink warm Or take the juyce of Cinquefoil and drink it with Posset ale and it will make you make water anon For one that cannot make water TAke the stones and Kernels of Peches and Medlers as much of the one as of the other and make them into Powder very fine and scarse them this done take fine Sugar the weight of all this and mingle all this together and let the Patient drink thereof with good white Wine and he shall be whole incontinent To make one make water TAke six or seven Berries of Ivy and stamp them and strain them with Ale and give the sick to drink therof and he shall make water straight To make one make water TAke a pinte of good Ale and put therein of Honey even as it cometh out of the Hive with Bees wax and all and strain it with the Ale then give it the Patient to drink and within one quarter of an hour he shall make water with this was one holpen that lay three dayes and never made water To make one make water TAke a pinte of white Wine and a good spooonful of Sivil Soap finely scraped and the yolks of two Eggs well put from the whites beat all these together with the Wine and then strain it and warm it luke-warm and drink hereof as often as you shall feel pain and this will help you for it is well proved A Medicine for the Scyatica THis Infirmity cometh of hard lying on the Huckle-bones or lying upon the ground or upon a forme or such like it may come by a stripe or by a fall and it will run from the Huckle-bone to the knee and from the knee to the anckle and from the anckle to the little toe and then it is past cure and otherwhiles this Gowt will have a reflexion ro the Reines of the back and to the Flank and it may come of a gross Flegmetique humour The chiefest remedy is to anoint the place with oyl of Turpentine and Aqua vitae compounded together and use to anoint the place often against the fire and a scarcloth of pitch is good For the Scyatica TAke oyl of Olive May butter gall of a Bul and red Onyons and boyle these together and lay it to the hips where the paine is this is a good Medicine Or take a red cloth and Anoynt it with Clarified Honey and thereupon strew the powder of Cummyn and as hot as you may Bind it to the sore and be whole For the Scyatica in the Hip. TAke a Pottle of wine Lees and wine dregs and sower bread and Cow-dung and boyl these well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the paine as hot as you may suffer it and this will heal you For the Scyatica Passion TAke a Gallon of Urine and seeth it well and scum it well untill it be cleer and then take it downe and let it stand untill it be cold and then put the cleer therof into a faire Pot and put away the dregs and then take the same cleer Urine and put it over the fire and put therein a quart of black dew Snails and boyl them together until the Snails be wasted then strain it through a hair sive and keep the same liquor in an earthen pot and aniont the hipp and the legg therwith before a hot fire and let the liquor be warm For all manner of Gouts and consumed members and for the Scyatica passion TAke a pound of Riote of red docks that men make brogys of and wash them clean and dry them in the sun untill the water be away then cut them small and bray them in a morter and boyl them in a quart of strong vineger untill half be wasted and then with the same anoint the aking place and it will amend then keep it in a vial of glass or els it will dry away This Medicine is very excellent for the diseases abovewritten for it hath been very well proved Medicines for the fundament A Remedy for falling out of the Fundament FIrst beware of taking cold in that place and beware of costiveness and keep your arse and buttocks warm and sit not upon the cold earth nor upon stones nor upon no hard thing but take something under the buttocks not only for falling out of the Longation or arsgut for all other infirmities that may be engendred in the Longation For the figge in the fundament THis Impediment is a Impostumation or lump of flesh growing in the Longation and it doth come of melancholy humors the which doth descend to the Longation or fundament and for remedy purge the matter with confection of hamock or with the pills of Lapides Lazule or with Vera Rufini then take of the powder of a dogs head burned and mix it with the juyce of pimpernel and make tents and put into the fundament For him that his fundament goeth out TAke bay leaves and boyl them in a pot of water and as hot as you can suffer it you must sit over it to the intent the fume of the water may go up into the body and with your finger put it up by little and little and when it is hot heat an Oaken board and sit on it as hot
as you can suffer it and it wil help you For the falling out of the fundament TAke a red Nettle and bray it well and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto a good portion of white wine and seeth it until it be half wasted and of the liquor give the patient to drink first and last warm and lay the herbs to the fundament as hot as he may suffer it and use this and be whole Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids THe Emerods or the Piles the which be the vains in the extreame parts of the Longation to whom doth happen divers times 2 sundry passions the first is like paps and tetts and they will bleed and they be the very Emerods the other be like wartes and they will itch water and smart and they be called the Piles and in the same place doth breede other infirmities as is aforesaid The cause of this Impediment doth â—ome of malicious humours in the Maw and Entrails or it may come of a cholerick humor For the Piles or Hemeroids TAke a pint or a quart of Linseed-Oyl and put into it as many Cray-fish alive as it will hold then boyl them a quarter of an hour then strain the oyl from them and let them be very well beaten in their shells in a Mortar and then put them into the oyl again and let them boyl as formerly then strain them hard from the oyl and cast them away then fill the oyl with as many of the young tops or tender buds of Elder or the young fresh leaves and let them boyl in them till they begin to be crips like fryed Parsly then strain that very hard from the Elder and reserve that for an excellent medicine to anoint the Piles or moistning a little Cotton keep it close trussed up and it will quickly help them It is also a soverain medicine for any Burning or Scalding For the Emrods TAke an onyon and cut off the top thereof and take out the hart of the onyon and fill up the place with the juyce of unset leeks and then rift it in the fire and with the juyce thereof anoint the sore and lay all hot thereto Or take bran of wheat and fry it in sheeps tallow and put it in a bagg or pocket and lay it to the sore or let the sick sit thereon and this will help you For the Piles TAke Scabias and boyl it in water until the water be consumed almost and let him that is sore hold his fundament over the fume of the said water as hot as he can suffer it and be whole For the Piles TAke aqua vitae cold and wash the piles therewith and take cotton linnen and burn it and lay the powder thereof to the piles upon a linnen cotton cloth as often as you be greived Or take wormwood and grind it in a morter small and then fry it in Oyl Olive and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it and this will cease the bleeding and aking For the Emeraoids that have pappes TAke and bind about the Pap a red silk thred and cut away the pap above the head and leave the thred fast and lay a plaister of Wormwood upon the same and this will heal it Probatum est For the Piles TAke a quart of White Wine and the tops of Elder buds and Honey and boyl them well together then strain them and wash the place therewith and this will heal you in short space For the Hemeroids TAke the juyce of red Nettle leaves and a little Deer suet and heat them together in a Sawcer till it be somwhat green and anoint the place with it For the Hemeroids an approved Medicine TAke a gray Cat and cut her Throat and save her blood then flea her and rost her and save the grease then fry the grease and the blood together and lay it to the sore thrice as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will help him An excellent Medicine for the Hemeroids or Piles TAke and stamp Dandelion and Daysies together and strain out the juyce thereof into good Ale and drink thereof and it will help thee A Glister TAke of Endive of Succory of Violet Leafs of each a handfull of Cummin seeds and Anniseeds being bruised small of each a little boyl them in sufficient water as will boyl them tender then strain the herbs from the liquor and take three parts of the water and one part of milk putting into it a little salt a spoonfull of Honey and as much Oyl Olive if you wil make it stronger you may put in an ounce of Cassia Fistula extract Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe THe Brooklime Horehound herb John Sheeps Tallow Swines Grease and a Horse turd that is new made beat it all together and lay it to the sore For aking of the Bones of the Thighes TAke a pint of white Wine and the Gaul of an Oxe and boyl them well and scum them clean then take crums of white Bread and put thereto and make it in a plaister and lay to the sore two or three times and be whole To knit the synews and veins of the Thighes or elswhere when they be broke TAke great worms of the earth and put them in sallet oyl and with a little Spodonesos that Pedlers have to sell work them together and lay them to the wound and let it lie nine daies and remove it not and it will knit both Sinews and Veins together This is proved To make an ointment to asswage the swelling and to keep Synews from shrinking TAke clean Barrows Grease and a good quantity of Sage and boyl them together upon a chafingdish of coals and when the Sage is dry strain it through a cloth and annoint the place therewith For Thighes that be swollen TAke Hens dung or Pigeons dung and Sheeps tallow and Chickweed and Smalladge and beat all together and fry it with lees of Malmsey and so lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the swelling For Synews that be shrunk in the Thighes or elswhere TAke young Swallows out of the nest to the number of twelve then take Rosemary Lavender-Cotton and Strawbery leaves strings and all of each a handfull and bray the Swallows in a Morter guts feathers and all with the herbs till they be small and then fry it again in a Frying Pan with May butter and then strain it and when you will occupie it chafe it against the fire Medecines for an ach or swelling in the Knee TAke Rew and Lovage and stamp them together and put thereto honey and lay it to the sore Or take Lovage Smalladge and Sheeps tallow and lees of white Wine and boyl all together and lay it to the sore on a cloth Or take Milk and Oatmeal and dry Rose leaves and seeth them together and lay them to the sore hot and be whole For an Ach that doth come of an old bruise TAke a pottle of
Running Water and a pint of Bay Salt and boil them till half be wasted then thick it up with Bran and lay it to the sore Or take and seeth the juice of Nightshade in Butter and Oil and scum off the froth and keep the same for a precious Jewell to use when you have need Or take and seeth Oatmeal in white Wine and lay it plaisterwise to the sore Knee and it wil help thee shortly For the Gout in the Knee TAke the milk of a Cow of one colour and wheaten flower and seeth it untill it be thick like a plaister and put thereto the juice of Smallage and lay it to the Gout and be whole Medicines for Legs Medicines for the Legs that be swollen TAke Wormwood Sothernwood and Rue of each a like much and stamp them together and fry them with fair Honey till it llegin to wax dry and as hot as you may suffer it lay it to the Legs or Hands and this will asswage the swelling A Psaister for swollen Legs or when you have no feeling in them TAke a pound of Pitch and half a pound of Wax and half a pound of Dears sewet or Sheep sewet and boil all these together then strain them through a linnen cloth and so make a plaister of white Leather of the bignesse of the fore place and let it lie to the sore three or four daies and then if it be not whole make another plaister and lay it again and so dresse it till it be whole for this will bring the feeling again and mollifie the humor and asswage the swelling For a sore Leg. TAke unwrought Wax and a little sheeps Tallow and seeth them together with a little white Coperas and strike it on a cloth and so lay it to the sore Or take Elder Leaves those that grow one side the leaf longer then the other on the stalk then the other doth these be very good for a sore Leg both to heal and these be leafs best for mankind A Pultis for a sore Leg which is swollen red and doth prick and ake TAke Housleek Maslows Lilly roots and Smallage dry red Rose Leafs of each a good handfull Oatmeal two handfulls Lineseed Vinecreet seed of each a handfull good Ale dregs and Vineger of each a pint or more white Wine a pottle more or lesse seeth the foresaid stuffe very softly and make thereof a Pultis and lay it to the Leg. A Medicine for a Leg that is swollen and is not red but will pit after ones finger TAke Chickweed and Pellitory of each an handfull and instead of Vineger take dregs of Wine and put thereto Sheeps tallow a pound chopped and Cows milk at your pleasure and seeth them as before written untill it be soft and bind it to the swollen Leg. Another for the same TAke a quart of red Wine and crums of Rie bread and seeth them together till it be like a plaister as hot as you can suffer it lay it to the sore Leg upon a fair cloth and when that is done take another and so till you have taken four and this will help you To heal a sore Leg coming of an old cause TAke flowers of Camomill or Camomill and a good handfull of Mallows of Wormwood of Grunsell and Sage of every one half a handfull and beat all small in a Morter and seeth it in Milk and put thereto in the seething Vincreeck seed in powder half a handfull of Anniseeds and Fennell seeds one ounce a little May-butter four or five yolks of Eggs and seeth all together and the same Eggs in the latter end of the seething and so let it seeth till you come to a thicknesse You may in the latter end of the seething put in a pint of red Wine to comfort the Synews take the Camomill and Mallows of each a handfull beaten in a Morter with Oatmeal and Milk sodden together and let it boil to a thicknesse For a Veine or Synew sprung in the Leg or elswhere TAke Dill Vervain Mallows and the crops of red Nettles and seeth all these in running Water and after chop them small and lay them hot to the Leg as he can suffer it The best Medecine for aking of bones in the Legs or Joynts or elswhere TAke a quarter of a pound of Dill and beat it to powder and put thereto a quart of good white Wine and let it seeth till half be wasted away then put thereto a pint of Oyl Olive and let them seeth together and then strain it and keep it to annoint the sore place withall and this will cease the pain anon this is called Oleum Vnamico keep it well in a glasse for this is proved For a swollen Leg. TAke Oatmeal and seeth it in Milk as you would make pottage therewith and put thereto a handfull of Mallows chopped small and the juice of Sengreen and sheeps sewet and let it boyl together till it be thick and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore Leg and be whole For a red swelling in the Foot TAke and seeth Beane meal and Barley meal with water right thick and well and make a plaister and lay it to the swelling Or take Turpentine and Vineger Honey white Wine and Bran and seeth all these together well untill they be thick and then lay it to the swelling Or take else Parsley Sage and Rue and stamp with Lard of fat Bacon and gray snails and lay it to the sore and it will gather to a head Or take Rose leafs and Lineseed Milk and Oatmeal and fry all these together and lay it to the sore For an ach in the Feet or if his limbs were taken from him TAke wool Oyl or rather other Oyl and put thereto a good quantity of Aqua vitae and beat it together and chafe it against the fire and all to rub the sore and dead place and in short time it wil be whole For great aking of Bones in the Feet or elswhere the best Medicine TAke Baldare one ounce and put it in your pottage and eat thereof for this is very good for aking of Bones and also to restore a man that is in a Consumption in short time if you will use it To cool a hot sore Leg and to abate the swelling TAke red Coal Leaves Sage and Smallage well stamped medled together with sowre dough and Honey and lay it to the sore Or take horse Dung newly made and wring out the juice thereof and annoint the sore therewith a good while and then take Violet Leafes and Housleek and stamp them and strain them and put to that juice sweet Cream and annoint the sore therewith and it will destroy the great heat For a swelling in any place TAke Hogs Dung Pigeons Dung and Sheeps Tallow Chickweed and Smallage and put all these together in Lees of Malmsey or in Malmsey or for lack of this in his own water and when it is wel boyled lay it hot to the sore swelling and this
another as you cut them and lay them in a row between two dishes and thereof will come a water and be in the dish then take it out and put it in a glasse and then dresse new till you have some quantity of the Water for six Eggs will not make above a spoonfull at once This is a proved medicine to drive away the pain of the Gout when it cometh For the Gout TAke the milk of a Cow of one color and small Planten Leaves and flower of clean Wheat-meal and boyl them together and make a plaister and lay it to the sore and this will help thee in short space A speciall medicine for the Gout TAke a young Whelp in the moneth of May and strip him out of his skin and dresse him clean then take a quantity of Water-frogs and put them in his belly when his guts be out and sow up his belly then rost him and take the dripping in an Iron Vessell and when it is cold put it in a glasse and therewithall annoynt the disease and you shall be whole by Gods grace For the Gout a proved medicine TAke Civill sope and two penniworth of Camphire a sawcer full of womans Milk of a man child then put the Sope and Camphire into the milk til it be thick then put it into a clean box or vessell and let it stand twenty four hours and then annoynt the Patient therewith cold and ever lay the medicine above the sore to draw it downwards This was proved upon Sir John Wilton and many others For the Gout TAke Cows horn coming of a red or brinded Cow a good quantity and make it warm in a frying pan and put thereunto half a spoonfull of the powder of a rotten post or pole of Older wood and stir them together and bind them on the place aggrieved hot or bloud-warm and lap it with a woollen cloth next to the medicine and a linnen cloth over all to keep in the medicine wash off this medicine when you take it off with Farrow Cow milk warmed Another for the Gout TAke four ounces of the Oyl of Lineseed four ounces of Oyl of Worms and the like quantity of the best Treacle and mix them well together and annoynt the place aggrieved and also spread it on a linnen cloth and bind it on all night For the Gout VAlerian Coltsfoot Oyl of Shomakers patches Deers sewet and as much of Neats foot Oyle as the other two melt the Oyls and Deers sewet and then put in the two herbs being chopped small and boil them all together with a gentle fire half an hour and then strain them through a course cloth and keep this oyntment in a box Annoynt the place aggrieved with this oyntment and lay it on a plaister of the Oyl of Shomakers patches only spread upon thin brown paper warmed Medicines for the Dropsie TAke a portion of water Cresses and Sage the greatest part of Mugwort Hysope red Fennel of every one of these a like portion wash all these clean and let the water run from them then take the same herbs and put them in Past of a great pie and the same Pie to be baked in an oven and when it is baked take it out and all hot put it into a pot of ale clear drawn after the portion of your herbs Also you must cover your pot to the intent the strength of the herbs come not out but remain in your pot still and work in the Ale to make it so much the stronger then draw off the said Ale daily and let the sick drink thereof at all times when you will day or night when he desireth to drink and wit bin nine daies he shall be whole An excellent medicine for the Dropsie made for Queen Elizabeth by Doctor Adrian and Doctor Lasye TAke Polypodium Spicknard Squant Ginger Marjoram Galingall Setwell of every one one penny weight Seeny the leaves and cods so much as all the rest grosly broken into powder and so put them into a bag and hang it with a packthread in an earthen pot of two gallons of Ale and every four daies cover the Ale with new Barm and drink no other drink the space of a whole week and this shall purge all ill humors in the body this drink will not let the bloud putrifie neither flegme to have domination nor choler to burn nor melancholy to have exaltation it doth multiply bloud and helpeth all evill it purgeth the rheume and mightily helpeth it it defendeth the Stomach and nourisheth it profiteth and preserveth youth and engendreth good colour comforteth the sight and nourisheth the mind For the Dropsie that swelleth TAke and eat water Cresses and Raysons and this shal make the malady come down to the Legs and Toes then when it is in the Legs or Feet take the green bark of Older in Winter and the Crops in Summer and Oatmeal and lay it to thy Legs being sodden in fair water and this will heal thee For a swelling in a mans body TAke Betany and Sentory of each a like much and make Powder of them and put of the powder in your drink and in your pottage and it will bring the swelling out of your body into Legs and Feet then take Salendine and bruise him in a Morter and lay him to the soles of your feet and it will take away all the swellings of the Body through the soles of your Feet by water running and it is called a Dropsie Medicnes for a Canker TAke Walwort and Waybred Self-green Housleek and Smallage of each a like much stamp them together in a leaden Morter and strain them through a cloth and mingle the juice with wheat flower and honey and the white of an Egg and stir all these and lay it to the sore For a Canker Fistula Wart new sores old sores or wounds TAke a galâ—â—n and an half of running Water and a peck of ashes made of green ashen wood and sift them clean and make thereof a gallon of Lie and put thereto a gallon of Tanwoose and a pound of Madder and seeth all these to a gallon and let your Pan be so great that it be little more then half full and when it riseth in the seething stir it with a ladle that it run not over then let it stand three or four hours till it be clear and then let all that is clear strain through a good clean cloth and then wet a ragged cloth and with a long Lint lay it to the sore and this will heal the diseases aforesaid Medicines for burning or scalding TAke unslaked Lime as much as you think good and slake it in common Oyle and then take it out as dry as you can and incorporate it with Oyl of Roses and it will be as it were an oyntment which you shal annoynt the place with and in eight or ten daies it will be whole and not leave any mark or scarr upon the skin and when the party is first burned or scalded because
Ague TAke a spoonfull of mustard and as much Treacle as a bean and let the sick drink thereof with vineger and he shall be whole Or take his own urine and scum it cleane then take the juyce of Camomil the juyce of sage or the powder of them both and the powder of Galingale and Licoras and let them boyl together a little while and drink thereof often fasting For the ague Mr Willoughbies Medicine TAke a handfull of the herbs called Shephards purle and halfe a handfull of Houseleeke and as much sinkfoyl and the like of Groundsel and beat them with two spoonfuls of bay-salt then divide it into four parts and lay two parts to the wrists of the hands one halfe hour before the fit doth come and when you feel it come take knot grass and stamp it and straine it with a pint of stale Ale and let the sick drink it luke-warm he must ly down as soone as the herbs be bound to his arm For the byting of a mad Dog TAke mints and a clove of garlick and salt and stamp them together and make a plaster thereof and lay to the bitten place and this will heal it Another for the same TAke Egremony Plantane and the white of an egg and bean them well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore place and this will heal it For the biting of all kind of venemous beasts and other things TAke the juyce of Vervaine and drink it and with this many have been holpen Also the black that is of the Crabs feet well beaten into powder do very well help the same being drunk For the biting of a mad Dog TAke a quantity of Vervaine as much of Rue and as much of Plantane with Treacle and stamp it and strain it with good wine or stale Ale and give it unto the Patient Also take any of those herbs and stamp them with Bay-salt and bind it fast to the wound and it will draw out the venome Dr Wood and Dr Nichols are of this opinion To kill a Tetter or Ring-worm TAke Fetherfew and stamp it and strain it with Vinegar and rub the Tetter therewith and this will kill it in short time For a Ring-worm TAke Juniper berries _____ ounces and stamp them and seeth them in a sufficient quantity of water until half be consumed then strain it and put to the said water swines grease clean tryed three ounces of Turpentine half an ounce seeth all these over the fire again a little time then take it off and when it is cold put the said water away and to the rest put of Brimstone finely powdered one ounce and so make an oyntment this is very good Medicines to take away Wens TAke Snails to the number of forty and seeth them in a pint of running water as you do Perywinckles and let them rest in the water until they be cold and then scum off the fat with wool or with a linnen cloth and lay it to the Wen and in short time it will be whole and gone Or take a stone or two of fine Jet and make the same in powder and put it in Ale or Pottage and give him to drink that hath a Wen and this will asswage it in short time For stinging of an Adder TAke Garlick pill it and fry it in oyl Olive or in May butter or in any other thing without salt but May butter is best and lay it unto the place that was stung and change it twice a day and this will kill the Venome and make the place whole For an Adder that is crept into a Mans Body TAke green Rue and temper it with mans urine be it man or beast that hath the worm crept into him and give it him to drink For him that hath Eaten or Drunken Poyson TAke the bark of a Walnut Tree and put away the innermost Rind and stamp it in a Morter as small as you can and lay it in Ale and in the morning strain it and give the Patient to drink thereof fasting and this will make him cast out all the Venome in short time To avoid poysoning with wicked meats and to keep thee from Drunkenness TAke the seed of Lettice and drink it fasting with clear runing water or take Betony and dry it and make Powder thereof and use this every morning fasting in a little stale Ale and this will keep thee from Drunkenness and save thee from poysoning For biting or stinging of any venemous Beast TAke one handful of Plantane and one handful of Rosemary and stamp them together then mingle it with a little sower Leaven and fry it with a little Butter sweet and when it is a little through warm then lay it plaister-wise unto the sore place but first you must bath the place well with warm Vineger Probatum For Man or Woman that is poysoned TAke Rue and Worm-wood and stamp it and drink the juyce thereof and eat Hasel-nuts for they be very good for the same Or take Goats-milk and mince and seeth them together with Treacle and drink it hot three dayes and be whole For the wind in the Stomack TAke Cummin-seed Fennel-seeds and Anniseeds and make them in Powder seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof first and last five dayes and you shall find great ease therein Medicines for the Plague or Pestilence Against the Plague TAke three ounces of the liquor of the inner rind of an Ash-tree and styll it with three ounces of white Wine and give the Patient to drink of it every three hours and within four and twenty hours he shall be whole by the Grace of God A Medicine that was sent by the Queens Majesty to my Lord Major of London for the Plague TAke a handful of Sage vertue a handful of Herb grace a handful of Elder-leaves and a handful of red Bramble-leaves and stamp them together and strain them in a cloth with a quart of white Wine and a quantity of white Vinegar and take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them together and drink thereof evening and morning a spoonful nine dayes together after the first spoonful they shall be made safe for four and twenty dayes and after the ninth spoonful for a whole year by the grace of God And if it happen one to be sick of the Plague before he hath drunk of this Medicine Then take the water of Scabias a spoonful of Betony water a quantity of Treacle put it altogether and it will put out the venome And if it fortune the Botch to appear then take Bramble-leaves Elder-leaves and Mustard-seed and stamp them together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out the venome and heal the Patient Another for the same AMong the excellent and approved Medicines for the Pestilence there is none more worthy or available When the sore appeareth then take a Cock-pullet and pluck oft the feathers of the tayle or hinder part till the rump be bare