in the morning fasting To make Saffron Water Take seven Quarts of white Wine and infuse in it all night one ounce of Saffron dried and in the morning distill it in a Limbeck or glass body with a head and put some white Sugar-candy finely beaten into the Receiver for it to drop on Mr. Stepkins Water for the Eyes Take four ounces of white Rose water and two drams of Tutia in powder shake them well together in a glass vial and drop of it a little into the Eyes evening and morning it is very good for any hot Rheum A precious Water to revive the Spirits Take four gallons of strong Ale five ounces of Aniseeds Liquorish scraped half a pound sweet Mints Angelica Betony Cowslip flowers Sage and Rosemary flowers sweet Marjoram of each three handfuls Pelitory of the wall one handful After it is for two or three dayes distill it in a Limbeck and in the water infuse one handful of the flowers aforesaid Cinamon and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce Juniper berries bruised one dram Red-rose buds rosted Apples and Dates sliced and stoned of each half a pound distill it again and sweeten it with some Sugar-candy and take of Ambergreece Pearle red Coral Harts-horn powdered and leaf Gold of each half a dram put them into a fine linnen bag and hang it by a thread in a glass The Bishop of Worcesters admirably curing Powder Take black tips of Crabs claws when the Sun enters into Cancer which is every year on the eleventh day of June pick and wash them clean and beat them into fine powder which finely searce then take Musk and Civet of each three grains Ambergreece twelve grains rub them in the bottom of the Mortar and then beat them and the powder of the Claws together then with a pound of this powder mix one ounce of the magistery of Pearle Then take ten skins of Adders or Snakes or Slow worm cut them in pieces and put them into a pipkin to a pint and a half of Spring water cover it close and set it on a gentle fire to simmer onely not to boil for ten or twelve hours in which time it will be turned into a Jelly and therewith make the said powder into balls If such skins are not to be gotten then take six ounces of shaved Harts-horn and boil it to a Jelly and therewith make the said powder into balls the horn must be of a red Deer kil'd in August when the moon is in Leo for that is best The Dose is seven or eight grains in beer or wine To make Spirit of Castoreum Take Calamints four ounces Orange peels two ounces Nep half a handful Walnut blossoms half an ounce Rosemary flowers and tops of Sage of each one handful Castoreum one ounce white Wine one quart distil them in a Limbeck This Water is good for swounding fits weak stomachs and rising of the Mother A Water for the Stone Take a quart of clean pickt Strawberries put them in a glass pour on them a quart of Aqua vitae let them stand and steep and take two or three spoonfuls of it morning and evening with fine Sugar or white Sugarcandy It will keep all the year Approved To make Dr. Stephens Water Take a gallon of Claret wine or Sack Cinamon Ginger Grains of Paradise Gallingall Nutmegs Anniseed and Fennel-seed of each three drams Sage Mint red Roses Pellitory of the Wall Wilde Marjoram Rosemary Wilde Time Cammomile Lavender of each one handful bruise the said spices small cut and bruise the Herbs and put all into the Wine in a Limbeck and after it hath stood twenty four hours distil it gently and keep the first water by it self and so the second For a Tetter Take water of red Tar and wash it therewith This is an approved remedy A special water for a Consumption Take a peck of garden shell Snails wash them in small Beer put them into a great Iron dripping-pan and set them on the hot fire of Charcoals and keep them constantly stirring till they make no noise at all then with a knife and cloth pick them out and wipe them clean then bruise them in a stone Mortar shells and all then take a quart of Earth Worms rip them up with a knife and scoure them with Salt and wash them clean and beat them in the Mortar then take a large clean Brass pot to distill them in put into it two handfulls of Angelica on them lay two handfuls of Celandine a quart of Rosemary flowers of Betony and Agrimony of each two handfuls Bears-foot Red dock leaves the bark of Barberries and Wood Sorrel of each one handful Rice half a handful Funugreek and Turnerick of each one ounce Saffron dryed and beaten into powder the weight of six pence Harts-horn and Cloves beaten of each three ounces when all these are in the Pot put the Snails and Worms upon them and then pour on them three gallon of strong Ale then set on the Limbeck and paste it close with Rye dough that no air come out or get in and so let it stand one and twenty hours and distill it with a moderate fire and receive the several Quarts in several Glasses close stopt The Patient must take every morning fasting and not sleep after it two spoonfuls of the strongest water and four spoonfuls of the weakest at one time fasting two hours after it Syrup of Pearmains good against Melancholly Take one pound of the juyce of Pearmains boil it with a soft fire till half be consumed then put it in a glass and there let it stand till it be settled and put to it as much of the juyce of the leaves and roots of Borage Sugar half a pound sirup of Citrons three ounces let them boil together to the consistence of a sirup Tincture of Ambergreece Put into half a pint of pure spirit of Wine in a strong glass Ambergreece one ounce Musk two drams stop the glass close with a cork and bladder and set it in hot horse-dung twelve dayes then pour off the spirit gently and put as much new spirit on and do as before and pour it off clean after all this the Ambergreece will serve for ordinary uses One drop of this Tincture will perfume any thing besides it is a great Cordial Dr. Price and Mâ— Fenton the Chyrurgion their excellent Medicine for the Plague after Infection Take assoon as you finde your self sick as much Diascordium as the weight of a shilling with ten grains of the powder called Speciei de gemmis well mingled together and streight after this let the party drink a good draught of hot posset ale made with Carduus Benedictus Sorrel Scabiosa and Scordium within eight hours after the first taking of it the party must take the Diascordium and Posset again as aforesaid and in like sort the third time within eight hours after but not above three times nor the third time if the party mend after the first or second taking Doctor
altogether then beat the yolks of six new laid eggs and put them into the Wine on the fire then take the Cock-treading of twelve eggs and the white of one egg and beat them to an Oyl take off the white froth from it and put this Oyl into the Wine and brew all well together with as much powder sugar as will make it of an indifferent sweetness whereof let the said woman take four spoonfuls at a time when she feeleth any pain to begin in her back or belly To make Childrens Teeth come without Pain Proved Take the head of a hare boild or rosted and with the brains thereof mingle honey and butter and therewith anoint the childes gums as often as you please Dr. Mays Juice of Liquorish to stay Rheum and preserve the Lungs Take six little handfuls of the tops of Hysop Rosemary flowers one little handful of the leaves of Coltsfoot four little handfuls stamp and take the juyce of them and put to it a pint of Hysop-water or running water unto all these put four ounces of Liquorish finely beaten and searsed then set it on the fire and boil it till it be as thick as cream then strain it through a fine strainer and set it again to the fire and stir it continually till it boil and put into it boiling four ounces of Yellow Sugar-candy let it boil till it rise from the bottom which stirring and when you may handle it make it up in Cakes and Roles as you please To kill a Felon quickly Take a little Rue and Sage stamp them small put to it Oyl of the white of an Egg and a little Honey and lay it to the sore A Remedy for the pain in the Stomach Take a pottle of white Wine eight ounces of Currans and four ounces of Elicampane-roots sliced a sprig of Marjoram and Spearmint boil all these together till the Currans be soft adding to it one spoonful of sweet Fennel-seed bruised Drink of the liquor every morning fasting at four a Clock in the afternoon and when you go to bed the quantity of six spoonfuls While you drink this apply to your stomach one spoonful of Conserve of Roses two penniworth of Mithridate Cinnamon Cloves and Nutmegs of each one spoonful and a penniworth of Saffron mix these together with Rose-water and Wine Vinegar and put them in a Linnen Bag and warm it and lay it to the Stomach To cure Diseases without taking any thing at the Mouth Take one pound of Aloes Hepatica Myrrhe four ounces both beaten very fine Aqua vitae and Rose-water of each one pinte after one nights infusion distil them in Sand twenty four hours very softly and in the end make a great fire and there will come a Balsome wherewith if you rub the Stomach with a warm cloath dipped therein it will purge Phlegm and Choler and all Worms which infect the brain and breed the Falling sickness it expelleth corrupruptions of the Stomach it helps digestion and appetite it expurgeth all dross in the bottom of the Stomach it cureth the Gout being mixed and well beaten with Aqua Vitae and applied warm to the Gouty place and left long on it To break the Stone Take Cammock roots dry them in an Oven beat them to powder searse it and put as much thereof as will lie on a groat into half a pint of White Wine half a sliced Lemon a top or two of Rosemary and some Sugar let them lie in steep all night in the morning stir them well together and drink it off and walk thereupon a good while Use this three or four mornings together and it will make the Stone break and void away in gravel but if the Kidneys be ulcerated then use the Medicine following viz. To help Vlceration in the Kidneys Take two drams of China-root sliced small Golden Rod Maiden-hair Pauls Betony Mousear Agrimony Comfrey Scabious Bugle red Bramble leaves Pelitory of the Wall Marsh Mallows and Plantain of each half a handful then take one spoonful of French Barley a stick of Liquorish sliced small one handful of Raisins of the Sun stoned boil all these softly in a pottle of running water to a quart then take it from the fire and put to it two ounces of Conserve of red Roses stir them together and let it run through a fine cloth and keep it close stopt in a glass and drink thereof blood-warm every morning and evening twelve spoonfuls at a time for two three or four weeks more or less as you see occasion and finde ease or pain A Special Medicine for one that cannot swallow although no inward Medicine can be taken for it Take the soiling of a Dog that is hard and white powder it and mingle it well with English Honey spread it thick upon a linnen cloth and hold it to the fire and lay it all over the Throat down to the Channel bone use fresh morning and evening binde it hard to and by Gods grace it will help To draw up the Vvula Take a new laid Egg and roste it till it be blue and then crush it between a cloth and lay it to the crown of the head and once in twelve hours lay new till it be drawn up A Purge for Children or Old men Take one spoonful of Spirit of Tartar prepared with Sugarcandy and Rose water put it in a little broth and give it either of them it purgeth gently it comforts the heart and expelleth Phlegm and Melancholly For a Noli me tangere Take the Herb called Turnsol cut it in small pieces and put it in a bottle and pour so much Aqua vitae on it as will cover it four fingers stop the bottle and set it in the Sun ten dayes and in the night in the Chimney corner but not too near the fire then pour of the Aqua vitae and keep it close then calcine the dregs remaining in the bottle between two calcining pots well luted which will be done in a day then put the calcined ashes into the said Aqua vitae and they will all dissolve Keep this as a great Treasure and give one spoonful thereof to the party fasting in white Wine and wet a cloth in the said Liquor and binde it on the sore place and without fail it will dry it up It helpeth also those that are troubled with the Gravel and Stone given as aforesaid with white Wine and it is very excellent for those that have the Dropsie Palsie or are taken with a Quartane Ague To make the Face fair and for a stinking Breath Take the flowers of Rosemary and seethe them in white Wine with which wash your face if you drink thereof it will make you have a sweet breath For heat in the Face redness and shining of the Nose Take a fair linnen cloth and in the morning lay it over the grass and draw it over till it be wet with dew then wring it out into a fair dish and wet the face therewith as oft as you
keep it in a glass close stopt for your use An Electuary for the passion of the Heart Take Damask Roses half blown cut off their whites and stamp them very fine and strain out the Juyce very strong moisten it in the stamping with a little Damask Rose-water then put thereto fine powder Sugar and boil it gently to a thin Syrup then take the powders of Amber Pearl and Rubies of each half a dram Ambergreece one scruple and mingle them with the said sirup till it be somewhat thick and take a little thereof on a knifes point morning and evening A Drink for a hot Feaver Take spring-Spring-water and red Rose-water of each one pint and a half the juice of three Lemons and white Sugar-candy one ounce and mix them together and give the Patient thereof six or eight spoonfuls at a time often in a day and night until the unnatural heat be extinguished For the Cholick Take equal portions of Honey and Wine put them on a fire and put thereto ground Wheat-meal and a pretty quantity of bruised Cummin-seeds and as much Sorrel boil all together for a pretty while then put them into a linnen bag and apply it to the belly as a plaister Or take a pretty bundle of Time and boil it with a little slice of Ginger in a pint of Malmsey till the third part be wasted and drink thereof as warm as you can For stopping of the Vrine Take the shells of quick Snails wash them and dry them clean and beat them into fine powder whereof take a pretty quantity in White Wine or thin broth For the Stone in the Kidneys Take a pottle of new Ale and as much Renish Wine and put into it two whole Lemons sliced with the peels and all and put to them one Nutmeg beaten and two handfuls of Scurvey-grass beaten and strained into the Ale and half a penniworth of grains of Paradise bruised put all together in a little stand with a cover and after three dayes drink of it with a taste It is also good against the winde Cholick proceeding from the Stone To make Hair grow thick Take three spoonfuls of Honey and a good handful of Vine sprigs that twist like Wire and beat them well and strain their juyce into the Honey and anoint the bald places therewith For the Rhume or Cough in the Stomach Take a pint of Malmsey or Muscadine and boil it in five ounces of Sugarcandy till it come to a Syrup and in the latter end of the boiling put to it five spoonfuls of Horehound distilled water and so suck it from a Liquorish stick bruised at the end Use this onely to bed-ward For the Sciatica Take a pound of yellow Wax six spoonfuls of the juyce of Marjoram and red Sage two spoonfuls of the juyce of Onions of Anniseeds Cloves Frankincense Mace and Nutmegs of each one penniworth and as much Turpentine boil these together to the consistence of a Salve and so apply it For the Piles Roste quick Snails in their shells pick out their meat with a pin and beat them in a Mortar with some powder of Pepper to a Salve then take the dried roots of Pilewort in powder and strew it thin on the Plaister and apply it as hot as you can suffer it To Procure sleep Chop Cammomile and crumbs of brown bread small and boil them with White Wine Vinegar stir it well and spread it on a cloth and binde it to the soles of the feet as hot as you can suffer it You may adde to it dried red Rose leaves or red Rose cakes with some red Rose water and let it heat till it be thick and binde some of it to the Temples and some to the Soles of the feet A good Purge Take Diacatholicon and Syrup of Roses Laxative of each one ounce mix them well together in a penny pot of white Wine and drink it warm early in the morning This purgeth Choller Phlegm and all manner of watry humours For a Fellon in a Joynt Dry Bay salt and beat it into powder and mix it with the yolk of an Egg and apply it to the grieved place in the beginning before the Fellon be broken but if it be first broken then take the juyce of Groundsel the yolk of an Egg a little Honey and Rye flower mix them well together and so apply it To heal a fresh Wound with speed Take the leaves of Columdine Nettles Plantain Ribwort wilde Tarras Wormwood red Roses Betony Violets of each one handful wash them clean and beat them well with the White of an Egg and strain out the juyce through a cloth to which juyce put the quantity of two Walnuts of Honey and half an ounce of Frankincense stir them well together and put it in a box and use it plaister wise Or take Rosin Wax fresh Butter Barrows grease well tried of each a little quantity oyl them well and put it into a bason of cold water and work it with your hands into little rolls spread it on a cloth and apply it If the wound be deep tent it with lint For the pricking of a Needle or Thorn Take boulted Wheat-flower and temper it with red Wine boil them together to the thickness of a Salve and lay it on so hot as you can suffer it This will open the hole draw out the filth and ease the pain For to kill a Corn. Take of the bigness of a Walnut of Ale yeast that is hard and sticks to the tub side put to it a little dried salt finely powdered work them well together and put it in a close box make a plaister of some of it and binde it to the Corn. For Bruises Swellings broken Bones Take Brooklime Chickweed Mallows Smallage Groundsel of each one handful stamp them with a little Sheeps tallow Swines grease and Copin put thereto wine dregs and a little Wheat bran stir them well together over the fire till they be hot so apply it to the place grieved For Burning or Scalding Take Goose dung and the middle bark of an Elder tree fry them in May butter strain them and therewith anoint the burnt or scalded place To help Deafness Take a piece of Rye dough the bigness of an Egg and of that fashion bake it dry in an Oven cut off the end and with a knife cut out the paste and make it hollow then put into it a little Aqua Composita and stir it and so hot as you can endure it apply it to the deaf ear till it be cold you must keep your head very warm If both ears be grieved make two of them and use those three times For the Cholick Take half a sheet of white paper anoint it all over with Oyl Olive and strew thereon gross pepper and so lay it to the belly from the navil downward For the yellow Jaundies Take Pimpinel Groundsel Sheebroom with the tops of each one handful boil them in a quart of Ale till half be consumed then divide it into three
good while then shift it and boil it in another quart of water a good while shift it again and boil it in a pottle of running Spring water to a quart then take two ounces of sweet Almonds lay them to soak all night then stamp and strain them into the last Barley-water put to it four spoonfuls of Damask Rose-water the juyce of one Lemon and with Sugar sweeten it to your taste drink of this often in the night or when you are dry or hot To clear the Stomach and comfort it Take a pint of Sherry Sack put in it two ounces of Jean Treacle and four ounces of white Sugarcandy boil them into a Syrup with a soft fire and take one spoonful in the morning fasting A Plaister for the same Take a red Rose Cake and toste the upper side of it at the fire stick it thick full of Cloves and dip it in a little quantity of Aqua vitae and white Wine Vinegar warmed very hot in a Chafing-dish of coals lay it to the Stomach as hot as can be suffered and binde it fast on all night For a Rupture Take a sheet of Cap Paper wet it in water and fold it so wet and lay it upon the Rupture the party lying upon his back but close up the Rupture first with your fingers and so binde it down untiâ— it be dry and then it will hold and grow with the flesh you may wear a Truss upon it if you will To procure speedy Deliverance to a Woman in Labour with Childe Take a pint of Ale and boil it and put to it a Womans Milk to make a Posset of it and let the Woman in Travel drink it this hath procured easie and speedy Deliverance to divers Women in Childe-birth To cure a great Flux or Looseness of the Belly Take a hard Egg and peel off the shell and put the smaller end of it hot to the Fundament or Arse-hole and when that is cold take another such hot fresh hard and peeled Egg and apply it as aforesaid For to strengthen weak Eyes Mr. Stepkins Take one pint of red Rose water Sugarcandy one ounce Lapis Tutia two drams both finely pulverised put them into the Rose water and stir them well together and after it hath stood twenty four hours wet a bit of new clean spunge in the said water and wash the sore eyes therewith lying backward and when the water is almost spent put into the glass more red Rose-water A rare Oyl or St. Johns-wort Take a quart of Oyl Olive one pint of White Wine two handfuls of Saint Johns-wort stripped seeds and all bruise them and put them into the Oyl and put to it Oyl of Turpentine two ounces put all into a great double glass close stopped and set in the Sun ten dayes then put the glass with all that is in it into a Kettle of Water with some hay or straw in the bottom and let the water boil gently for ten or twelve hours then strain the Hearbs from the Oyl into which Oyl put as much fresh Saint Johns-wort and seeds bruised and let it stand ten dayes more in the sun this Oyl will be then of a deep red colour and will last seven years it is good to heal any wound the venemous bitings of Dogs or Serpents and for Sprains A Glyster for a hot Feaver Take one handful of French Barley boil it a while in water till it be red then pour off the water and put the Barley into a quart of running water with Mallow and Strawberry leaves of each one handful a few dried Cammomile flowers and a spoonful of Anniseeds bruised then boil it half away and strain it out put to the liquor a sawcer of Oyl Olive and four ounces of brown Sugar with four spoonsuls of Syrup of Violets use it something more then luke-warm An excellent Drink to keeps ones Mouth moist Take of Rosemary Cinquefoil and a stick of Liquorish bruised seethe them in a quart of fair water till half be consumed then strain it from the Hearbs and put in Sugarcandy and let it seethe a while again and then take it off the fire and let the Patient drink thereof cold or luâ—e-warm To stay Vomiting Seethe a good quantity of Cloves in Ale very well that it may be strong of the Cloves then sweeten it with Sugar and drink it warm An excellent Receipt for Swounding and bringing quickly to Life Take of the common round black Pepper and bruise it a little and take half a sheet of white paper and fold it up together and between every fold strew some of the same and burn the one end thereof in the fire and hold it to the Nostrils it is very good Against Fainting Take Amber and scrape it and put it in a spoonful of hot broth and take it in the morning fasting or at other time when you finde your self faint and fast an hour after Dr. Lukeners Medicine to strengthen the Back Take a pottle of fair water and a Cock Chicken then take three French Crowns weight of Sassafras as much of China wood one dram of orango roots one dram of Marsh Mallow roots scrape and cut all these in small pieces and put them in a close Pipkin and paste it fast that no air come out and let it stand twenty four hours upon the fire and stew but never boil then open the pipkin and put in one French Crowns weight of Fennil-seed and red Rose leaves Borage Bugloss and Rosemary flowers of each a small quantity of Prunes and Raisins of the Sun each a handful the bottom of a Manchet boil all these together very well till it come to a pretty thick broth then strain it and let the Patient take of this a reasonable draught at eight in the morning and at four in the afternoon three dayes together To hold Vrine Take the Claws of a Goat and burn them to powder and let the sick use hereof in their pottage a sooonful at once it will help them To stay Looseness Take Sage and dry it on the fire between two dishes and then put it in a linnen bag and sit upon it as hot as you can suffer it and continue it till you finde ease A singular Medicine that the marks of the Small Pocks be not seen Take a fat piece of Beef being througly powdered and boil it a great while then take a good quantity of the fattest broth and strain it and put thereto a quantity of red Rose water and beat them well together a good while and when the pocks begin to itch anoint two or three times a day herewith till they be clean gone and when the party is throughly well let them take the broth of lean powdered Beef and mingle it with white Wine and so let them wash their Face therewith and it shall bring it to smoothness and colour as it was before in any wise keep not the throat nor face too hot To dry up the Small Pocks Take
half a pint of new cream and as much Saffron as will make it of a deep Saffron colour and boil together half a quarter of an hour and keep it in a glass and when the Pocks begin to wheal warm some of the Oyntment in a Sawcer and anoint them with a feather twice a day till they be dried up Dr. Eaglestones Cure for the Small Pocks or Measles Take a quart of Ale or Beer and seethe it in a skillet and put thereto a good handful of Fennel and six or seven Figs scraped and cut in pieces two good spoonfuls of Anniseeds and a little Saffron put all these to the drink and let them seethe together till the liquor be more then half consumed and in the of Bores grease half an ounce of Sheeps suet two ounces of Neat-foot Oyl two ounces of Plantane and Rose water each two drams of Spike water one dram of Dragon water half an ounce as much of Borage water and Dr. Stevens water two Nutmegs twelve Cloves and some Mace of the best beat them small together and put them into a pot and boil it over a soft fire untill it become a Salve then chafe the place where the party is grieved as hot as he may suffer and then spread it on a fine linnen cloth and lay it upon the place six or eight dayes The Countess of Mounteagles excellent Medicine for the Cramp Proved Take a handful of the Herb called Perriwinkle some of it beareth a blew flower and some white and also take a good handful of Rosemary tops put them into a Pewter dish and set them upon coals dry them and turn them very often and when they are very hot lay them upon the place that is so taken with the Cramp and binde a cloth upon them when you go to bed and this will help you take it in the morning and lay fresh at night A Posset-drink for one that is Heart sick to remove it thence though it be the Plague Take Ale and make Posset-drink thereof and clarifie it then take Pimpernel and seethe in it till it be strong of it and drink often thereof Remedies against the Falling-sickness Take Powder of Harts-horn drink it with Wine it helpeth that disease so do Ravens Eggs taken with the juyce of Wilde Rue and the juyce of Misletoe To avoid Phlegm Take clarified Posset-drink and put thereto sweet butter the yolk of an Egg and a little small Ginger Hysop red Mints and Sugar let these seethe all together and drink thereof first and last as warm as you can suffer it A very good means to stay a Looseness that happeneth in Childe-bed First in the water you mean to use quench a gad of Steel sundry times then take the inward barks of the Sloe of the Bramble and of the young Oak of each a like quantity and so much as will suffice according to the liquor you intend to make if you use three pints of water a pretty handful of each bark will serve finely scraped when they are well boiled that one pint is wasted strain your liquor and make it into Almond Milk with unblanched Almonds finely grown then with well boiled Ivy thicken your Milk and other Rice broth and season it with Sugar and Cinamon finely beaten let the party forbear drink as much as may be and eat thereof once in two or three hours a little at once as her stomach will serve If she have any gripe in her belly I wish this to be used which I know to be singular good for any stoppage by sudden cold in Childe-bed Gather a great deal of Cammomile and heat it well between two Chargers upon a Chafing-dish of Coles and when the moisture of the Herb is somewhat spent strew in a handful of bruised Cummin-seed and sprinkle it now and then with a little Malmsey and so being a little dryish put it into a thin bag and apply it to the belly as hot as may be suffered and as it cooleth warm it again till she have ease instead of Malmsey you may use Muscadine This hath been many times proved For a Knock or Bruise in the Face Take a piece of brown paper and wet it in beer and lay it where the knock is and as it beginneth to dry lay on fresh a good while together For a Wen. Take Stone Lime and put it into water till it have done boiling then take a quantity of it and mix it with some barrel Soap laying them both on a cloth let it be applied to it and it will eat away the Wen. Mr. Potter Chyrurgeon His Cure for a man that is bursten Take the roots of baked Fern and the Roots of Elecampane of each a like quantity wash and pare them clean cut them as small as you can and stamp them in a Mortr as fine as you can and temper it with Oyl of Bay and two spoonfuls of Oyl of Exceter and when you have made the Salve spread it upon his Cod to his Belly and lay the Plaister upon the hole and remove it every two dayes and then use another space of ten dayes you must use another Salve or Plaister as followeth Take a quarter of a pound of 〈…〉 and the white of three or four Eggs and temper them together and when they are well tempered put in two spoonfuls of Pescolion temper all these together and use the same as you did the former salve when you take off the Plaister you must lay fine clothes under the bolster of the Truss until you think the skin be grown A medicine to destroy Warts Take Radish Root and shred it thin and put it in a pewter dish and cast salt upon it and cover it with another dish and shake the slices up and down and then take a piece thereof and rub the Warts therewith then throw away that and use another so three or four times in a day To take away Corns Take Hogs Grease that is not tried and beat it with a Pestle and spread it upon a piece of white Cotton on the rugged side and binde it on the Corns dressing it once or twice a day and it will wear them away To take away Freckles or Morphew Take four spoonfuls of May dew and one spoonfull of the Oyl of Tartar mingle them together and wash the places where the freckles be and let it dry of it self it will clear the skin and take away all foul spots rise about some four times then take Barberries and take the outside Rinde of them and beat them into very fine powder and take every morning and evening and drink either a draught of the said Water or small Beer after it continue this and it will cure you For an Ague congealed or fallen into a Womans Breast Take a quantity of stone Honey and the rustiest Bacon you can get Smallage Alexander red Cole Marigolds with black seeds of Groundsel Plantane and Sage of each a quantity put all these in a mortar and stamp
and take the marrow thereof and anoint the nipple therewith To dry up Milk in a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Aqua vitae and a quantity of sweet Butter melt and temper them together and anoint the Breast therewith laying a brown paper betwixt them and so do as often as the paper drieth till the Milk be dried up this is also good to keep the Ague out of the Breast To make a woman have a nipple that hath none and would give suck Take a Wicker Bottle that hath a little mouth and fill it full of hot water and stop it close til the bottle be through hot then let out the water and set the mouth of the bottle close to the Nipple as long as there is any heat in the bottle it will cleave fast To heal the Nipple of a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Cream and put it into the juyce of Valerian stamped and strained and as much of the juyce of sea-green used in like sort boil all these together till it come to be as Butter then take it and put it into a box and anoint the Nipple therewith three or four times a day and lay a Walnut shell or some other hollow thing over it to keep the clothes from it till it be whole or else make a Posset Ale of Alom and lay the curd to the Nipple warm till the childe doth suck and then lay on again A Medicine for Worms in young Children Take a Plaister of white Leather or brown paper and spread it with Honey warm it a little against the fire but first strew some of the best Aloes Succotrinae thereon then lay it all over the Stomach of the Childe warm the like plaister is to be laid on the Childes Navil at the same time if you have no Honey mix the juyce of Plantain and lay it on the leather Dr. Forsters Infusion purging Choller Take Damask Roses two ounces or Rhubarb two drams and a half of Spikenard one scruple of Orcin one scruple cut all small and infuse in a quart of clarified whey all night in the morning strain gently and put to it one ounce of Syrup of Roses or Syrup of Violets Dr. Fosters Infusion purging Melancholly Take Fumitory Epithymum flowers or leaves of Borage and Bugloss of each a good half handful Polypody of the Oak one ounce Sena half an ounce Fennil-seed two drams Whey three pints infuse and boil to a quart whereunto adde two ounces of Syrup of Roses solutive the dose is half a pound you may quicken a draught with a dram of Electuary of Roses An opening purging Julip and cooling for Choller and hot Humors Take of Barley two little handfuls of Savory with the roots Maidenhair Liverwort Sorrel each half a good handful of roots of Grass of Fennil each half an ounce of the four cold seeds each two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Succory water unto sixteen ounces in which infuse half an ounce of Sena Tamarindes and Polypody of each three drams Jalap and Hermodactils of each two drams Fennil-seed Anniseed and Liquorish of each one dram Currans bruised half an ounce of Borage Bugloss and Rosemary flowers of each one dram infuse these warm then boil them until five ounces of the Succory Water be consumed then strain it and adde the expression of four scruples of Rhubarb infused in three ounces of Manna and syrup of roses one ounce of the Christals of Tartar one dram mingle them the Dose is four or five ounces every morning Doctor Mores Powder or grosly prepared Drug to be taken in mornings and after Meals to mend Concoction comfort the Brain break Winde and make sweet Breath Take Liquorish cut small Anniseed Comfits with one skin of Sugar of each two ounces sweet Fennil seed Comfits with one skin of Sugar Corianders prepared and Caroway-seed of each one ounce of white Ginger Cinamon Calamus Aromaticus and Nutmegs of each one ounce cut very small of the Lozenges of Aromaticum Rosatum of Manus Christies with Chymica Oyl of Cinamon Cloves and Lozenges of Dâ—ambra cut into small pieces each half an ounce to be taken about a spoonful at the time aforesaid Lucatello's Balsam admirable for all Wounds Take Venice Turpentine one pound Oyl Olive three pints Sack six spoonfuls yellow Wax one pound natural Balsam half an ounce Oyl of Saint Johns-Wort red Sanders powdered of each one ounce wash the Venice Turpentine three times in red Rose-water then slice the Wax thin and set it on the fire in a big Skillet and when it is well molten put the Turpentine to it and stir them well together till they boil a little take it off the fire and let it cool till the next day then cut it into thick slices and pour all the water out of it then set it on the fire again and when it is molten stir it well and put it into the aforesaid Oyls Sack Balsam and Sanders and stir them well together that they may incorporate then â—et it boil again for a short space take it off the fire and stir it well for the space of two hours that it may become thick and when it is cold put it up in several Gallipots and when you use it apply it tented into a deep and hollow wound if it be onely a slit cut anoint the wound with it and binde it fast on with the cloth A Purge by Dr. Mayhern Take of the best Sena six drams of Rhubarb two drams Cream of Tartâ—r half a dram of sweet Fennil-seed as much and a little Cinamon infuse all these one night in half a pint of white Wine in the morning let it boil one walm or two strain it and put of the best Manna an ounce dissolve it over the fire then strain it again then put to it an ounce of Salatine syrup of Roses so drink it fast two hours after from meat and drink sleep and then drink nothing but thin broth An approved Medicine to beautifie the Face or to take away Pimples or Heat in the Face Take a fair earthen Pipkin and put into it a pottle of clean running water and an ounce of white Mercury beaten to white powder then set it on the fire and let it boil until one half be consumed and keep it close covered saving when you stir it then take the whites of six new laid egs beaten half an hour or more and put it into the liquor after it is taken from the fire you must put in also the juyce of Lemons being very good and half a pint of new Milk and a quarter of a pound of bitter Almonds blanched and beaten with half a pint of Damask Rose-water strain all these together through a strainer and let it stand three weeks before you use it and I will warrant you fair c. An excellent water for the Eyes that are red or full of Rhume Take young Hazle Nuts when they are so soft that you may thrust a pin through
gallon of Liquor one Lemon and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs it must boil till the scum rise black that you will have it quickly ready to drink squeeze into it a Lemon when you tun it It must be cold before you tun it up To make Syrup of Rasberries Take nine quarts of Rasberries clean pickt and gathered in a dry day and put to them four quarts of good Sack into an earthen pot then paste it up very close and set it in a Cellar for ten dayes then distill it in a Glass or Rose-still then take more Sack and put in Rasberries to it then when it hath taken out all the colour of the Raspiss strain it out and put in some fine Sugar to your taste and set it on the fire keeping it continually stirring till the scum doth rise then take it off the fire let it not boil skim it very clean and when it is cold put it to your distilled Raspis but colour it no more then to make it a pale Claret Wine This put into bottles or Glasses stopt very close To make Lemon Water Take twelve of the fairest Lemons slice them and put them into two pints of White Wine and put to them Cinamon two drams Gallingale two drams of Rose leaves Borage and Bugloss flowers of each one handfull of yellow Saunders one dram steep all these together twelve hours then distill them gently in a Glass Still until you have distilled one pint and an half of the Water and then adde to it three ounces of Sugar one grain of Ambergreese and you will have a most pleasing cleansing Cordiall water for many uses To make Gilly-flower Wine Take two ounces of dried Gilly-flowers and put them into a pottle of Sack and beat three ounces of Sugar-candy or fine Sugar and grinde some Ambergreece and put it in the bottle and shake it oft then run it through a gelly bag and give it for a great Cordial after a weeks standing or more You make Lavander Wine as you do this The Lady Spotswood Stomach water Take white Wine one pottle Rosemary and Cowslip flowers of each one handful as much Betony leaves Cinnamon and Cloves grosly beaten of both one ounce steep all these three dayes stirring it often then put to it Mithridate four ounces and stir it together and distill it in an ordinary Still Water of Time for the passion of the heart Take a quart of white Wine and a pint of Sack steep in it as much broad Thime as it will wet put to it of Galingale and Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Cloves Mace Ginger and grains of Paradise two drams steep these all night the next morning distill it in an ordinary Still drink it warm with sugar A Receipt to make damnable Hum. Take species de Gemmis Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Laetificans Galeni of each four drams Loaf Sugar beaten to powder half a pound small Aqua vitae three pints strong Angelica water one pint mix all these together and when you have drunk it to the Dregs you may fill it up again with the same quantity of waters The same powders will serve twice and after twice using it it must be made new again An admirable Water for sore Eyes Take Lapis Tutiae Aloes Hepatica fine hard Sugar of each three drams beat them very small and put them into a Glasse of three pints to which put red rose-Rose-water and white Wine of each one pint set the Glass in the Sun in the Moneth of July for the whole Moneth shaking it twice in a day for all that while then use it as followeth put one drop thereof into the Eye in the evening when the party is in bed and one drop in the morning an hour before the Patient riseth Continue the use of it till the Eyes be well The older the VVater the better it is Most approved A Snail Water for weak Children and old People Take a pottle of Snails and wash them well in two or three waters and then in small Beer bruise them sheâ— and all then put them into a gallon 〈◊〉 red Cowes Milk red Rose leaves dried the whites cut off Rosemary sweet Marjoram of each one handful and so distill them in a cold still and let it drop upon powder of white Sugarcandy in the receiver drink of it first and last and at four a clock in the afternoon a Wine glass full at a time Clary water for the Back Stomach c. Take three gallons of midling Beer put it in a great brasse Pot of four gallons and put to it ten handfuls of Clarey gathered in a dry day Raisins of the Sun stoned three pounds Anniseeds and Liquorish of each four ounces the whites and shells of twenty four eggs or half so many if there be not so much need in the back the shells small and mix them with the whites 〈…〉 the bottoms of three white lâ—â—ves put into the receiver one pound of white Sugarcandy or so much fine loaf Sugar beaten small and distill it through a Limbeck keep it close and be seldom without it for it reâ—â—eth very much the stomach and heart â—trengtheneth the back procureth Appetite and Digestion driveth away Melancholly sadness and heaviness of the heart c. Dr. Montfords Cordial Water Take Angelica leaves twelve handfuls six leaves of Carduus Benedictus Balm and Sage of each five handfuls the seeds of Angelica and sweet Fennil of each five ounces bruised scraped and bruised Liquorish twelve ounces Aromaticum Rosatum Diamoscus dulcis of each six drams the Hearbs being cut small the seeds and Liquorish bruised infuse them into two gallons of Canary Sack for twenty four hours then distill it with a gentle fire and draw off onely five pints of the spirits which mix with one pound of the best Sugar dissolved into a Syrup in half a pint of pure red Rose-water Aqua mirabilis Sir Kenelm Digby's way Take Cubebs Gallingale 〈◊〉 Mellilot flowers Cloves 〈◊〉 Ginger Cinnamon of each one 〈◊〉 bruised small juyce of Celandine 〈◊〉 pint juyce of Spearmint half a 〈◊〉 juyce of Balm half a pint Sugar one pound flower of Cowslips Rosemary Borage Bugloss Marigolds of each two drams the best Sack three pints strong Angelica water one pint red Rose-water half a pint bruise the spices and flowers and steep them in the Sack and juyces one night the next morning distill it in an ordinary or glass still and first lay Harts-tongue leaves in the bottom of the Still The Vertues of the precedent water This Water preserveth the Lungs without grievances and helpeth them being wounded it suffereth not the blood to putrifie but multiplieth the same this water suffereth not the heart to burn nor melancholy nor the 〈◊〉 to be lifted up above nature it expelleth the Rhume preserveth the Stomach conserveth Youth and procureth a good colour it preserveth Memory it destrâ—yeth the Palsie if this be given to one a 〈◊〉 a spoonful of it
please as you wet it let it dry in May dew is the best An excellent Oyl to take away the Heat and Shining of the Nose Take twelve ounces of Gourd-seed crackle them and take out the kernels peel off the skin and blanch six ounces of bitter Almonds and make an Oyl of them and anoint the place grieved therewith you must alwayes take as much of the Gourd-seed as of the Almonds use it often For Heat or Pimples in the Face Take the Liverwort that groweth in the Well stamp and strain it and put the juyce into Cream and so anoint your face as long as you will and it will help you Proved Also the juyce of Liverwort drunk in beer warm is good for the heat of the Liver To take away Hair Take the shells of fifty two Eggs beat them small and still them with a good fire and with the water anoint your self where you would have the hair off Or else Cats Dung that is hard and dryed beaten to powder and tempered with strong vinegar and anointed on the place Dr. Friers Receipt for sweating in the face Take a little handful of Penniroyal and as much Cinquefoil and seethe them in white Wine or Vinegar if you take Vinegar put a little to it when it is sodden this done you must hold your head over it and cast a sheet over your head and keep in the air close as long as you can endure it and so ten or twelve times a day An approved Medicine taught by Dr. Blacksmith for the Cough Take the roots of Folefoot and dry them in an Oven and powder them then heat a Tile red hot and strew it thereupon then set the bottom of a tunnel upon it and let the patient receive the same morning and evening An approved Medicine for the same by Doctor Blacksmith Take a pint of Hysop-water and a quarter of a pound of Sugar-candy a spoonful of Anniseed bruised and a small stick of Liquorish sliced and bruised put them together and let them stand all night boil it a quarter of an hour upon a fire then strain and take of it two or three spoonfuls at a time warm you may take it at any time best at night when you go to bed or in the morning For the Kidneys swlon with cold or other Accident Take the Oyls of Roses and Quinces of each two drams and warm them in a saucer or porringer and anoint the place therewith against the fire lest you take cold in the doing of it A Vomit for an Ague Take blue Lilly-roots sliced small and bruised and steep it in as much Vinegar as will cover them and when the Patient feels his fit coming let him drink a draught of it in Ale and keep him very warm while it worketh A restorative Bag for a cold or windy Stomach Take Rose leaves Rosemary tops and flowers red Mints and Borage flowers of each one handful warm them in a platter on a chasing-dish of coals and ever as you stir it sprinkle it with Sack and Rose water and when it is as hot as can be put it in a cloth or silk bag and lay it to the bottom of the Stomach as hot as can be endured and keep your self from studying or musing and it will comfort very much A Drink for cold Rhumes or Phlegms Take the Roots of Fennel Comfrey Parsley and Liverwort Harts-tongue Mousear Horehound Sandrake Maiden-hair Chinquefoil Hysop Bugloss and Violet leaves of each one handful wash and dry them very clean Raisins of the Sun eight ounces Anniseeds four drams Liquorish two drams Elecampane-root two drams half a pint of Barley washed and bruised boil these in a pottle of fair water until half the liquor be consumed strain it and put to it one quart of White or Renish Wine and one ounce of Sugarcandy and boil it again till half be consumed take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a clean glass and drink thereof every morning and evening a draught first and last and by Gods grace it will make you well and sound Approved For Rhume in the Throat Make a Cap of brown paper perfume it with Frankincense and apply it hot to the head then take the hard Eggs and lay them hot to the Nape of the Neck and anoint the Throat with Oyls of Rice and sweet Almonds and lay your self to sweat and after sweating mix Mell Rosarum Syrup of Mulberries Plantain water together and gargle the throat therewith In want of the said Syrup use Woodbin water A Remedy for the Stone Take a quart of Milk Ale and white Wine of each four ounces make them into a clear Posset drink the curd taken off to which put Parsley-roots Mallow leaves and Pellitory of the wall of each one handful Water-Cresses one handful and a half all small shred two sprigs of Time and Liquorish one ounce bruised boil all together to the consumption of a quart and take a draught thereof in the morning or at any time before meat sweetened with sugar to your taste A Broth for the Cough of the Lungs devised by Dr. Brasdale Dr. Atkinson and Dr. Fryer for the Lord Treasurer Take one paper of the prepared China Roots and steep it in six pints of fair water three hours then boil it unto three pints in an earthen pipkin then boil a Chicken and one ounce of French Barley together in a Pipkin six or seven Walmes and scum it then put away the water and put the Barley and the Chick to the China with the China in the paper a little green Endive twenty Raisins of the Sun stoned a little crust of Bread and a little Mace boil them together unto a pint and half strain it and let the party drink every day two draughts thereof one in the morning fasting and another at four a clock in the afternoon use it as often as you see cause For a Burning or Scalding Take Alehoof one handful the yolk of an Egg and some fair water stamp them and strain it and therewith wash the grieved place till the fire be out Or boil some Alehoof and Sheeps Suet together with Sheeps Dung and Plantain leaves till they come to a salve and apply it To Pâ—â—cure Sleep â—ruise a handful of Anniseeds and steep them in red Rose-water and make it up in little bags and binde one of them to each Nostril and it will cause sleep To sharpen a sick mans Appetite and to restore his Taste Take Wood or Garden Sorrel one handful and boil it in a pint of white wine vinegar till it be very tender strain it out and put to it Sugar two ounces and boil it to a Syrup and let the Patient take of it at any time A comfortable Juleb for a Feaver Take Barley-water and White Wine of each one pint Whey one quart put to it two ounces of Conserve of Barberries and the juices of two Lemons and two Oranges This will cool and open the body and
Liquorish two drams boil all these in three pints of fair running water to a quart or less then take the weight of a French Crown of the Kernels of each of the three cold seeds and beat them with a few Almonds and white Rose-water and Sugar and make Almond Milk Dr. Atkins excellenâ—t Receipt of Almond Milk to cool and cleanse the Kidneys Take a pint and a quarter of Barley-water and in that boil Althea Iringus Gramen and Sparagus Roots each a French Crowns weight Strawberries and five leaved Grass both Leaves and Roots each a few boil them till the Barley-water be but a pint then strain out the Barley-water and take a French Crowns weight a piece of the four cold seeds and peel off the husks then beat the seeds with the Almonds and strain them forth together with the Barley-water and put to it a little Rose water and Sugar and make it an Almond Milk A Receipt for the Stone Take a gallon of new Milk Wilde Time Sassafras Pellitory of the Wall Philipendula roots Saxifrage of each one handful Parsley leaves two handfuls three or four Radish-roots and as many Parsley roots Anniseeds one ounce cut and slit the roots bruise the hearbs and seeds and put them to infuse in the milk a whole night the next morning distil it in a Rose distiliatory Take ten or twelve spoonfuls of the water and as much White or Rhenish Wine a little Sugar and a sliced Nutmeg It is very good every full and change of the Moon to take morning and evening to prevent sickness and at any time if need require For the green sickness Take Aloes and Rhubarb of each four ounces finely beaten and searsed prepared Steel four drams mix these together with Claret Wine and make them into twenty seven pills and take every morning in three of them using exercise till all be gone and drink after them at each time a glass of Claret wine For any sore Breasts or Paps Take a pottle of running water Sage two good handfuls small minced and a quantity of Oatmeal-greats small beaten boil all these to the thickness of white bread dough but let it not burn to then put to it three spoonfuls of honey and a little saffron stir it well together and boil it to a quart somewhat stiff This Pultess will break and heal it soon and draw away the pain without breaking It will cure any sore Breast or Pap if it be not a Canker or Fistula A Syrrup lasting many years good for Swounding and Faintness of Heart it comforteth the weak Brain and Sinews it may be used as much as half a nut at once at your pleasure Take Borage Bugloss white Endive one little handful of Rosemary-flowers Time Hysop Winter Savory of each one little handful break these between your hands and seethe them in three quarts of water to three pints then strain it and put to it a pint of good Malmsey one ounce of whole Cloves powder of cinamon half an ounce powder of Ginger a quarter of an ounce one Nutmeg in powder Sugar half a pound or more let them seethe upon a soft fire well stirred for burning to until it come to the thickness of Honey then take it up and let it cool and put it in pots or glasses at your pleasure Prescribed by Dr. Twine An approved Medicine for a woman in Labor to make come prove safe deliverance Take powder of Cinamon one dram powder of Amber half a dram finely beaten mingle it with eight spoonfuls of Claret Wine and so let her drink it To know how much Bezar Stone must be taken when one is heart sick Take Bezer Stone the weight of three Barley corns or five at a time once in six or ten hours and give it in a spoon with Carduus bean-Bean-water Borage or Bugloss Ale or Beer Doctor Stevens excellent water wherewith he cured many Diseases following Take one gallon of Gascoign Wine Ginger Gallingal Cammomil Nutmegs Grains of Paradise Cloves Anniseeds Caroway seeds of each one dram then take Sage Mint red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary Penniroyal Montanum Cammomil Babin Harts-tongue Lavender Avance of each a handful bray the spices small and let it stand so twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first by it self for it is best then will there come a second water which is good but not so good as the first for it is fainter The vertues of this water is to comfort the Vital Spirit greatly and preserve the youth of man or woman and helps the inward diseases that come of cold helpeth the shaking of the Palsie and cureth contractions of Sinnews it strengthneth the Marrow in the bones it helpeth the conception of Women that are barren it killeth Worms in the body and cureth the cold Gout and Tooth-ache and it helpeth the Stone in the bladder and the pain in the Reins of the Back and will make one seem young a long time one spoonful of this Aqua vitae shall do more good to a man that is sick then four spoonfuls of any other and this Aqua vitae shall be better if it stand in the Sun all Summer long For the Falling Sickness Take half a peck of Peony roots cleanse rub wash and stamp them and as you stamp them put in Sherry Sack let them be beaten very small and then put to them a pottle of Sherry Sack stir all well together and let it stand close covered twenty four hours then pour of the clearest into bottles and take thereof a little draught every change of the Moon for three mornings one morning after another A Pultess to break a Bile or Imposthume Take Sorrel one handful twelve Figs quartered half a pint of Sorrel juyce boil and break these together till it be very tender and put to it some Wheat flower and when it is well boiled put to it a good piece of butter and lay it warm to the place twice a day till it be drawn enough A Remedy for Worms in Children Take one spoonful of juyce of Lemons powdered Saffron half a scruple and a little Sugar and give this same quantity to the Patient three mornings together For Worms Dr. Wetherborn Take Rhubarb one dram Wormwood half a dram Corralline one scruple Currans one good handful beat them all to a Conserve and mix it with Syrup of Violets to an Electuary and give a childe the quantity of a Walnut thereof every other morning fasting An Oyntment to heal any Bruise or Wound Take Sage Self-heal Smallage Sothernwood Plantain Time Ribwort Rue Parsley Marigold leaves Mercury Wormwood Betony Scabious Valerian Comfrey Lions-tongue Buck-horn of each one handful wash them clean and put them into a Sieve to drain all night and when they are dry chop them very small and put to them two pounds of unwashed Butter well beaten then boil it till half be consumed then strain it into the pot you mean to keep it in It is
in thin fair water when it is boiled a little while put in your Cherries after they are stoned four pound to one pound of Sugar let them lie in the Sugar three dayes then take them out of the Syrup and lay them on sieves one by one and set them before the Sun upon stools turn them every day else they will mould when they look of a dark red colour and are dry then put them up And so you may do any manner of fruit In the Sun is the best drying of them put into the syrup some juyce of Rasps To make Juyce of Liquorish Take English Liquorish and stamp it very clean bruise it with a hammer and cut it in small pieces to a pound of Liquorish thus bruised put a quart of Hysop water let them soak together in an earthen pot a day and a night then pull the Liquorish into small pieces and lay it in soak again two dayes more then strain out the Liquorish and boil the liquor a good while Stir it often then put in half a pound of Sugar-candy or Loaf Sugar finely beaten four grains of Musk as much Ambergreece bruise them small with a little Sugar then boil them together till it be good and thick still have a care you burn it not then put it out in glass plates and make it into round rolls and set it in a drying place till it be stiff that you may work it into rolls to be cut as big as Barley corns and so lay them on a place again If it be needful strew on the place a little Sugar to prevent thickning so dry them still if there be need and if they should be too dry the heat of the fire will soften them again A perfume for Clothes Gloves Take of Linet two grains of Musk three of Ambergreese four and the oyl of Bems a pretty quantity grinde them all upon a Marble stone fit for that purpose then with a brush or spunge rake them over and it will sweeten them very well your Gloves or Jerkins must first be washed in old red Rose-water and when they are a most dry stretch them forth smooth and lay on the perfumes To make Almond Bisket Take the whites of four new laid Eggs and two yolks then beat it well for an hour together then have in readiness a quarter of a pound of the best Almonds blanched in cold water and beat them very small with Bosewart for fear of Oyling then have a pound of the best Loaf Sugar finely beaten beat that in the Eggs a while then put in your Almonds and five or six spoonfuls of the finest flower and so bake them together upon paper or plates you may have a little fine sugar in a piece of tiffany to dust them over as they be in the Oven so bake them as you do Bisket To make Conserve of Roses boiled Take a quart of Red rose-rose-water a quart of fair water boil in the water a pound of red Rose leaves the whites cut off the leaves must be boiled very tender then take three pound of Sugar and put to it a pound at a time and let it boil a little between every pound so put it up in your pots To make Conserves of Roses unboiled Take a pound of red Rose leaves the whites cut off stamp them very fine take a pound of Sugar and beat in with the Roses and put it in a pot and cover it with leather and set it in a cool place To dry Apricocks First stone them then weigh them take the weight of them in double refined Sugar make the Syrup with so much water as will wet them and boil it up so high that a drop being dropped on a Plate it will slip clean off when it is cold then put in your Apricocks being pared whilest your Syrup is hot but it must not be taken off the fire before you put them in then turn them in the Syrup often then let them stand three quarters of an hour then take them out of the Syrup and tie them up in Tiffanies one in a Tiffany or more as they be in bigness and whilest you are tying them up set the Syrup on the fire to heat but not to boil then put your Apricocks into the Syrup and set them on a quick fire and let them boil as fast as you can skim them clean and when they look clear take them from the fire and let them lie in the Syrup till the next day then set them on the fire to heat but not to boil then set them by till the next day and lay them upon a clean Sieve to drain and when they are well drained take them out of the Tiffanies and so dry them in a stove or better in the Sun with glasses over them to keep them from the dust To make Quinces for Pies Wipe the Quinces and put them into a little vessel of small beer when it hath done working stop them close that no air can get in and this will keep them fair all the year and good The best way to break sweet Powder Take of Orrice one pound Calamus a quarter of a pound Benjamin one half pound Storax half a pound Civet a quarter of an ounce Cloves a quarter of a pound Musk one half ounce oyl of Orange flowers one ounce Lignum Aloes one ounce Rosewood a quarter of a pound Ambergreese a quarter of an ounce To every pound of Roses put a pound of Powder the bag must be of Taffaty or else the powder will run through To make excellent Perfumes Take a quarter of a pound of Damask Rose-buds cut clean from the Whites stamp them very small put to them a good spoonful of Damask rose-Rose-water so let them stand close stopped all night then take one ounce and a quarter of Benjamin finely beaten and also searsed if you will twenty grains of Civit and ten grains of Musk mingle these with the Roses beating them well together then make it up in little Cakes between Rose leaves and dry them between sheets of paper To make a very good Pomatum Take the fat of a young Dog one pound it must be killed well that the blood settle not into the fat then let the outer skin be taken off before it be opened lest any of the hair come to the fat then take all the fat from the inside and assoon as you take it off fling it into Conduit-water and if you see the second skin be clear peel it and water it with the other be sure it cools not out of the water you must not let any of the flesh remain on it for then the Pomatum will not keep To one pound of this fat take two pound of Lambs caule and put it to the other in the water and when you see it is cold drain it from the water in a Napkin and break it in little pieces with your fingers and take out all the little veins then take eight ounces of oyl of
as Butter and spreead it over thin with two or three feathers and then put it into the Oven again and when you see it rise high and white take it out again and garnish it with some pretty conceit and stick some long Comfits upright in it so gild it then strow Biskets and Carawayes on it If your Marchpane be oyly in beating then put to it as much rose-water as will make it almost as thin as to Ice Lorenges Take Blossoms of Flowers and beat them in a bowl-dish and put them in as much clarified sugar as may come to the colour of the cover then boil them with stirring till it is come to sugar again then beat it fine and searse it and so work it up to paste with a little Gum Dragon steep it in Rose-water then print it with your mould and being dry keep it up To make Walnuts artificial Take searsed Sugar and Cinnamon of quantity alike work it up with a little Gum Dragon steep it in Rose-water and print it in a mould made like a Walnut-shell then take white sugar plates print it in a mould made like a Walnut kernel so when they are both dry close them up together with a little Gum Dragon betwixt and they will dry as they lie To make Collops like Bacon of Marchpane Take some of your Marchpane Paste and work it in red Saunders till it be red then rowl a broad sheet of white Paste and the sheet of red Paste three of the white and four of the red and so one upon another in mingled sorts every red between then cut it overthwart till it look like Collops of Bacon then dry it To make artificiall Fruits Take a Mould made of Alablaster three yolks and tie two pieces together and lay them in water an hour and take as much sugar as will fill up your mould and boil it in a Manus Christi then pour it into your mould suddenly and clap on the lid round it about with your hand and it will be whole and hollow then colour it with what colour you please half red or half yellow and you may yellow it with a little Saffron steept in water Touching Preserves and Pomanders To make an excellent Perfume to burn between two Rose-leaves TAke an ounce of Juniper an ounce of Storax half a dozen drops of the water of Cloves six graines of Musk a little Gum Dragon steept in water and beat all this to paste then roll it in little pieces as big as you please then put them betwixt two Rose-leaves and so dry them in a dish in an Oven and being so dried they will burn with a most pleasant smell To make Pomander Take an ounce of Benjamin an ounce of Storax and an ounce of Laudanum heat a Mortar very hot and beat all these Gums to a perfect paste in beating of it put in six grains of Musk four grains of Sivet when you have beaten all this to a fine paste with your hands with Rose-water rowl it round betwixt your hands and make holes in the beads and so string them while they be hot To make an Ipswich Water Take a pound of fine white Castle Soap shave it thin in a pint of Rose-water and let it stand two or three dayes then pour all the water from it and put to it half a pint of fresh water and so let it stand one whole day then pour out that and put half a pint more and let it stand a night more then put to it half an ounce of powder called sweet Marjoram a quarter of an ounce of powder of winter Savory two or three drops of the Oyl of Spike and the Oyl of Cloves three graines of Musk and as much Ambergreese work all these together in a fair Mortar with the powder of an Almond Cake dried and beaten as small as fine Flower so roul it round in your hands in Rosewater To make a sweet Smell Take the Maste of a sweet Apple tree being gathered betwixt the two Lady-dayes and put to it a quarter of Damask rose-Rose-water and dry it in a dish in an Oven wet it in drying two or three times with rose-Rose-water then put to it an ounce of Benjamin an ounce of Storax Calamintae these Gums being beaten to powder with a few leaves of Roses then you may put what cost of Smells you will bestow as much Civet or Ambergreese and beat it all together in a Pomander or a Bracelet Touching VVine To make Hypocras TAke four gallons of Claret Wine eight ounces of Cinnamon three Oranges of Ginger Cloves and Nutmegs a small quantity Sugar six pound three sprigs of Rosemary bruise all the spices somewhat small and so put them into the Wine and keep them close stopped and often shaked together a day or two then let it run through a gelly bag twice or thrice with a quart of new milk The Lady Thornburghs Syrup of Elders Take Elder-berries when they be red bruise them in a stone Mortar strain the juyce and boil it to a consumption of almost half scum it very clear take it off the fire whilest it is hot put in sugar to the thickness of a Syrup put it no more on the fire when it is cold put it into Glasses not filling them to the top for it will work like Beer This cleanseth the stomach and spleen and taketh away all obstructions of the Liver by taking the quantity of a spoonful in a morning and fasting a short time after it To make Gelly of Raspis the best way Take the Raspis and set them over the fire in a Posnet and gather out the thin Juyce the bottom of the skillet being cooled with fair water and strain it with a fine strainer and when you have as much as you will then weight it with Sugar and boil them till they come to a Gelly which you may perceive by drawing your finger on the back of the spoon To dry Fox Skins Take your shee Fox Skins nail them upon a board as strait as you can then brush them as clean as you can then take Aqua Fortis and put into it a six pence and still put in more as long as it will dissolve it then wash your skin over with this water and set it to dry in the Sun and when it is dry wash it over with the spirits of wine this must be done in hottest time of summer Choice Secrets made known To make true Majestery of Pearl DIssolve two or three ounces of fine seed Pearl in distilled Vinegar and when it is perfectly dissolved and all taken up pour the Vinegar into a clean glass Bason then drop some few drops of Oyl of Tartar upon it and it will cast down the Pearl into fine powder then pour the Vinegar clean off softly then put to the Pearl clear Conduit or Spring water pour that off and do so often until the taste of the Vinegar and Tartar be clean gone then dry the powder of Pearl upon warm
reviveth him in 〈…〉 use one spoonful à week fasting in the winter two spoonfuls A Water for fainting of the Heart Take Bugloss and red Rose-water of each one pint Milk half a pint Anniseeds and Cinnamon grosly bruised of each half an ounce Maiden-hair two handfuls Harts tongue one handful both shred mix all together and distill it in an ordinary still drink of it morning and evening with a little sugar A Surfeit Water Take half a bushel of red Corn Poppy put it into a large dish cover it with brown paper and lay another dâ—sh upon it set it in an Oven after brown bread is baked divers times till it be dry which put into a pottle of good Aqua vitae to which put Raisins of the sun stoned half a pound six figs sliced three Nutmegs sliced two flakes of Mace bruised two races of Ginger slâ—ced one stick of Cinnamon bruised Liquorish sliced one ounce Anniseed Fennill-seed and Cardamums bruised of each one dram put all these into abroad glasse body and lay first some Poppy in the bottom then some of the other Ingredients then Poppy again and so till the glasse be full then put in the Aqua vitae and let it infuse till it be strong of the spices and very red with the Poppy close covered of the which take two or three spoonfulls upon a Surfeit and when all the liquor is spent put more Aqua vitae to it and it will have the same effect the second time but no more after D. Butlers Cordial Water against Melancholly c. Most approved Take the flowers of Cowslips Marigolds Pinks Glove-gilly-flowers single stock Gilly-flowers of each four handfulls the flowers of Rosemary and Damask Roses of each three handfulls Borage and Bugloss flowers and Balm leaves of each two 〈◊〉 put them in a quart of Canary Wine into a great Bottle or jugg close stopped with a Cork sometimes stirring the flowers and wine together adding to 〈◊〉 Anniseeds bruised one dram two â—utmegs sliced English Saffron two penniworth after some time infusion distill them in a cold Still with a hot fire hanging at the Nose of the Still Ambergreese and Musk of each one grain then to the distilled water pat White Sugar candy finely beaten six ounces and put the glass wherein they are into hot water for one hour Take of this water at one time three spoonfuls thrice a week or when you are ill it cureth all melancholly fumes and infinitely comforts the spirits The admirable and most famous Snail Water Take a peck of garden shell Snails wash them well in small Beer and put them in an hot Oven till they have done making a noise then take them out and wipe them well from the green froth that is upon them and bruise them shells and all in a stone Mortar then take a quart of earth worms scowre them with salt slit them and wash them well with water from their filth and in a stone Mortar beat them to pieces then lay in the bottom of your distilled pot Angelica two handfuls and two handfulls of Celandine upon them to which put two quarts of Rosemary flowers Bears foot Agrimony red Dock Roots Bark of Barberries Betony wood sorrel of each two handfuls Rue one handful then lay the Snails and Worms on the top of the Hearbs and Flowers then pour on three Gallons of the strongest Ale and let it stand all night in the morning put in three ounces of Cloves beaten six penniworth of beaten Saffron and on the top of them six ounces of shaved Harts-horn then set on the Limbeck and close it with paste and so receive the water by pints which will be nine in all the first is the strongest whereof take in the morning two spoonfuls in four spoonfuls of small Beer and the like in the afternoon you must keep a good Diet and use moderate â—â—ercise to warm the blood This Water is good 〈…〉 Obstructions whatsoever It 〈◊〉 a Consumation and Dropsie the stopping of the Stomach and Liver It may be 〈◊〉 with Milk for weak people and 〈◊〉 with Harts-tongue and Elecamâ—ane A singular Mint Water Take a still full of Mints put Balm and Penniroyal of each one good handful steep them in Sack or Lees of Sack twenty four hours stop it close and stir it now and then Distill it in an ordinary still with a very quick fire and keep the still with wet clothes put into the Receiver as much sugar as will sweeten it and so double distill it Distillings A most excellent Aqua Coelestis taught by Mr. Philips Apothecary TAke of Cinnamon one dram Ginger half a dram the three sorts of Saunders of each of them three quarters of an ounce Mace and Cubebs of each of them one dram Cardamon the bigger and lesser of each three drams Setwell-roots half an ounce Anniseed Fennil-seed Basil-seed of each two drams Angelica roots Gillyflowers Thime Calamint Liquorish Calamus Masterwort Penniroyal Mint Mother of Thime Marjoram of each two drams red Rose-seed the flowers of Sage and Betony of each a dram and a half Cloves Galingal Nutmegs of each two drams the flowers of Stechados Rosemary Borage and Bugloss flowers of each a dram and half Citron Rindes three drams bruise them all and put in their Cordial Powders Diamber Aromâ—â—â—cam Diamuscum Diachoden the spices made with Pearle of each three drams infuse all these in twelve pints of Aqua vitae in a glass close stopped for fifteen dayes often shaking it then let it be put in a â—â—â—â—beck close stopped and let it 〈◊〉 distiâ—â—ed gently when you have 〈…〉 in a cloth two drams of 〈…〉 â—alf a dram of Ambergreese and 〈…〉 twelve grains of gold and so 〈◊〉 it to your use Hypocras taught by Dr. Twine for Winde in the Stomach Take Pepper Grains Ginger of each half an ounce Cinnamon Cloves Nutmegs Mace of each one ounce grosly beaten Rosemary Agrimony both shred of each a few crops red rose leaves a pretty quantity as an indifferent gripe a pound of Sugar beaten lay these to steep in a gallon of good Rhennish or White Wine in a close vessel stirring it two or three times a day the space of three or four dayes together then strain it through an Hypocras strainer and drink a draught of it before meat half an hour and sometimes after to help digestion Marigold flowers distilled good for the pain of the Head Take Marigold flowers and distill them then take a fine cloth and wet 〈◊〉 the aforesaid distilled water and so lay it to the forehead of the Patient and being so applied let him sleep if he can this with Gods help will cease the pain A water good for Sun-burning Take water drawn off the Vine dropping the flowers of white Thorn Bean-flowers Water Lilly-flowers Garden Lilly-flowers Elder-flowers and Tansie flowers Althea flowers the whites of Eggs French Barley The Lady Giffords Cordial Water Take four quarts of Aâ—â—a Vitae Borrage and poppy-Poppy-water 〈◊〉 each a pint two
for a Dropsie approved by the Lady Hobby who was cured her self by it Take Carawayes Smallage Time Hysop Watercresses Penniroyal Nettle tops Calamint Elecampane-roots of each one little handful Horse radish two pounds boil them in six quarts of running water until half be consumed then strain it boil it a new with a pottle of Canary Sack Liquorish twelve ounces sweet Fennel-seed one ounce bruised and a quarter of an ounce of Cumin-seed bruised boil all these above half an hour then strain it and keep it for your use nine spoonfuls in the morning fasting and as much at three or four a clock in the afternoon use it for some time together This the Lady Hobby proved by her self Dr. Adrian Gilberts most Sovereign Cordial Water Take Spearmint Broom-mint Mother of Time the Blossome tops of Garden Time red Penniroyal Scabious Celandine Wood Sorrel Wood Betony Angelica leaves and stalkes set Wall Leaves Peony leaves Egrimony Tormentil sweet Marjoram red Sage Rue Rossolis Angelica roots Elecampany roots set Wall Roots green Peniroyal Comfrey Blossoms and Leaves Juniper-berries of each a pound Balm Carduus Benedictus Dragon Feaverfew Wormwood of each two pounds steep all these in the lees of strong pure venient Claret Wine for nine dayes every day twice turning them to mingle them well in the Lees then distil them in a Limbeck with a red clear head with two pounds of shaved Harts horn and Ivory twelve ounces draw as long of it as you may in several pottle glasses the first is accounted the best and uncompounded and the perfectest against the Plague spotted Feavers small Pocks ordinary Feavers divers times experienced by my self either to prevent or in the time of these sicknesses If you will compound it because the water hath an ill taste then take the first gallon of the water and mix it with a pottle of the best Malaga sack and put into them three pounds of Raisins solis stoned Figs one pound and a half the flowers of Clove-gilly-flowers Cowslips and Marigolds blue Violets of each two pounds red Rose buds one pound Ambergreece Bezoar stone clarified Sugar Aniseeds Liquorish and what else you please These are Adrian Gilberts Receipts having had experience of them most constantly sure The uncompounded Water is the more excellent and if in time of infection one take two spoonfuls of it in good Bear or white Wine he may safely walk from danger by the leave of God If any of the former diseases attache any person then he must take four ounces of the first water and mix therewith either the syrups of Violets Clove-gilly-flowers or Angelica as the disease is one spoonful of the Syrup is sufficient for four ounces of the water so take it in three times For a swoln Face Take Oyl of Elder and Plaintain-water of each one ounce beat them well together until they be exactly incorporated and therewith anoint the tumefied place twice or thrice in a day until the swelling be chased away Cock water for a Consumption Take a running Cock pull him alive then kill him cut him abroad by the back take out the entrails and wipe him clean then quarter him and break his bones then put him into a Rose-water still with a pottle of Sack Currans and Raisins of the sun stoned and Figs sliced of each one pound Dates stoned and cut small half a pound Rosemary flowers Wilde Time Spearmint of each one handful Organs or Wilde Marjoram Bugloss pimpinel of each two handfuls and a bottle of new milk from a red cow Distill these with a soft fire put into the Receiver a quarter of a pound of brown Sugar-candy beaten small four grains of Ambergreece fourty grains of prepared pearl and half a book of leaf gold cut very small you must mingle the strong water with the small and let the patient take two spoonfuls of it in the morning and as much at going to bed A precious Cordial for a sick body Take three spoonfuls of Mint water and as much of Muskadine and Wormwood water two or three spoonfuls of fine Sugar and two or three drops of Cinamon spirit beat these well together with two or three spoonfuls of Clove-gilly-flowers spirit and give the Patient now and then one spoonfull thereof especially when he or she goeth to bed Wormwood Cakes good for a cold Stomach and to help Digestion Take pure searced Sugar two ounces and wet it with the Spirit of Wormwood then take a little Gum Tragiganth and steep it all night in Rose water then take some of this and the wet sugar and beat them together in an Alablaster Mortar till it come to a paste like dough if you please put a little Musk to it then make it up in little cakes of the breadth of a groat or three pence lay them upon plates and dry them gently in an Oven and keep them in a dry place for your use and upon occasion hold one of them in your mouth to melt and swallow the dissolved juyce thereof for the infirmities aforesaid To make water of Life Take Balm leaves and stalks Burnet leaves and flowers Rosemary red Sage Taragon Tormentil leaves Rossolis red Roses Carnation Hysop Thyme red strings that grow upon Savory red Fennel leaves and roots red Mints of each one handful bruise these herbs and put them in a great earthen pot and pour on them as much white Wine as will cover them stop them close and let them steep for eight or nine dayes then put to it Cinamon Ginger Angelica seeds Cloves and Nutmegs of each one ounce a little Saffron Sugar one pound Raisins Solis stoned one pound Dates stoned and sliced half a pound the loins and legs of an old Coney fleshy running Capon the red flesh of the sinnews of a leg of Mutton four young Chickens twelve Larks the yolks of twelve Eggs a loaf of white bread cut in sops and two or three ounces of Mithridate or Treacle and as much Bastard or Muscadine as will cover them all Distill all with a moderate fire and keep the first and second waters by themselves and when there comes no more by distilling put more Wine into the Pot upon the same stuff and distil it again and you shall have another good water This water must be kept in a double glass close stopt very carefully it is good against many Infirmities as the Dropsie Palsie Ague Sweating Spleen Worms Yellow and Black Jaundies it strengtheneth the Spirits Brain Heart Liver and Stomach Take two or three spoonfulss when need is by it self or with Ale Beer or Wine mingled with sugar Dr. Atkinsons excellent Perfume against the Plague Take Angelica roots and dry them a very little in an Oven or by the fire and then bruise them very soft and lay them in Wine Vinegar to steep being close covered three or four days and then heat a brick hot and lay the same thereon every morning this is excellent to air the house or any clothes or to breath over
any one do dye for when the poyson is quite drawn out the Chick will live the sore presently will asswage and the party recover Mr. Winlour proved this upon one of his own Children the thirteenth Chick dyed the fourteenth lived and the party cured Lord Treasurers Receipt for an Ague Take a quantity of Plantain shred it and double distil it and take six or eight spoonfuls of the Water with as much Borage-water with a little Sugar and one Nutmeg and drink it warm in the cold fit by Gods help it will cure you For Rheume in the Eyes Take one spoonful of Commin-seed finely beaten and boil it in Verjuyce till half be consumed put to it some course wheat bran and boil it till it be dry then put it in a small linnen bag and lay it to the nape of the neck so hot as you can endure it and it will draw the Rhume away To break the Stone and bring away the Gravel Take the inner bark of red Filberd-tree and shave a good handful of it and take as much Saxifrage and steep them in a quart of Ale or white Wine and drink a good draught thereof nine mornings together fasting A cordial Water in the time of Infection by Sir Thomas Mayner Take the juyce of green Walnuts shells and all two pound the juyces of Balm Carduus Benedictus and Marigolds of each three pounds roots of great Docks half a pound Butchers broom roots and all three quarters of a pound Angelica and Masterwort of each three ounces Scordium leaves two handfuls Treacle Venice and Mithridate of each four ounces Canary Wine three pints juyce of Lemons one pint digest these in a glass body two dayes close stopt then put on a glass head and distill it and when it is half distilled strain that which is left in the glass through a linnen cloth and distill it till it grow thick as honey which put into a Gally pot and give some of it in the time of Infection on a knifes point The distilled water is also good for the same purpose China broth for a Consumption Take an ounce of China root chipped thin and steep it in three pints of water all night on embers covered the next day take a Cock chicken deplumed and exenterated and put in its belly Agrimony Maidenhair of each half a handful Raisins of the Sun stoned one good handful and as much French barley boil all these in a pipâ—in close covered on a gentle fire for six or seven hours let it stand till it be cold strain it or let it run through a Hypocras bag and keep it in a glass for your use Take a good draught of it in the morning and at four a clock in the afternoon A comfortable Bag for the Stomach Take Balm Wormwood Rosemary Spearmints sweet Marjoram Winter savory of each half a handful dry them between two dishes on a chafing-dish of coals sprinkling them often with good Vinegar when they are well dryed put to them some crumbs of bread Cloves Cinamon and Nutmeg beaten to powder put them in a fine linnen bag quilt it and lay it warm to the stomach To encrease Womans Milk Bruise Fennel seed and boil them in Barley water and let the Woman drink thereof often To expell Winde Take a handful of Groundswel stripped downwards as much of sage and a quarter of a pound of currans boil these in a pint of Ale and drink it For the Piles Take white Lead finely scraped one dram burnt Allum two drams temper them with hogs lard and plantain-plantain-water and therewith anoint the grieved place For a Thrush or Canker in the Mouth Take two spoonfuls of clarified honey and put a piece of Allum between red hot tongs and hold it till it drop into the Honey and therewith dress the mouth often until it be perfectly cured A green Oyntment good for Bruises Swellings and Wrenches in Man Horse or other Beast Take six pound of May Butter unsalced Oyl Olive one quart Barrows-grease four pound Rosin and Turpentine of each one pound Frankincense half a pound then take these following Hearbs of each one handful Balm Smallege Lovage Red Sage Lavander Cotten Marjoram Rosemary Mallows Cammomile Plaintain Alheal Chickweed Rue Parsley Comfrey Laurel leaves Birch leaves Longwort English Tobacco Groundswel Woundwort Agrimony Briony Carduus Benedictus Betony Adders Tongue Saint Johns-wort pick all these wash them clean and strain the water clean from them These hearbs must be gathered after Sun rising Stamp them very small in a stone Mortar then beat the Rosin and Frankincense to powder and melt them alone then put in the Oyl Butter and Hogs grease and when all is well melted put in the Hearbs and let them boil half a quarter of an hour then take it off the fire and scum it very clean a quarter of an hour and when it is off the fire put in the Turpentine and two ounces of Verdigreese stir it well on else it will run over and so stir it till it leave boiling then put it in an earthen pot which stop very close with a cloath and a board on the top and set in an Horse Dunghil one and twenty dayes and take it out and put it into a Kettle and let it boil a little taking heed that it boil not over then strain it through a course cloath and put to it half a pound of Oyl of Spike and cover the pot close till you use it When you have any occasion to use it warm it a little for a cold cause and anoint the place grieved Mix this Oyl with the like quantity of the Oyl of Bayes when it is for a Melander in a Horse or a dry Itch in a Horse or Mare then take Quick-silver and beat it often with fasting spittle till it be killed and look black and take a quart of Comfrey to the quantity of Quick-silver to which put thrice so much of the said Oyl beat all well together and use it For a man it must be well chafed in the Palme of the hand three or four times If you use it for a Horse put to it Brimstone finely beaten and work it altogether as aforesaid An excellent Sear-cloth for a Wound Bruise or Ache. Take a pint of Oyl Olive four ounces of Unguentum Populeon the Oyls of Cammomile and Roses of each one ounce Virgins Wax three ounces Red Lead in powder eight ounces boil these together continually stirring them till they will stick to a cloth which is enough then wet your clothes in them and hang them up to dry The best time to make it is in March Dr Reads Perfume to smell against the Plague First take half a pint of red Rose water and put thereto the quanity of a hazle Nut of Venice Treacle or Mithridate stirring them together till they be well infused then put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon broken into small pieces and bruised in a Mortar twelve cloves bruised the quantity of
also good for swollen Breasts May is the best time to make it in For a Bruise in a Womans Breast that is hard swoln Take Wood-lice and dry them between papers before the fire and make them into fine powder whereof take as much as will lie on a three pence in a spoonful of Grout Ale do thus first and last for three weeks together and after you may take twice a week till you finde the Breast well But you must be sure to keep a white Cotton fried in Goose grease to it constantly though you leave taking the said powder until you finde the breast cured This hath cured breasts that should have been cut off A Medicine for a childe that cannot hold his or her Water Take the Navil string of a childe which is ready to fall from him dry it and beat it to powder and give it to the patient childe Male or Female in two spoonfuls of small Beer to drink fasting in the morning A. R. C. Shred two handfulls of Rosemary flowers and boil them in a quarter of a pint of Aqua vitae a little together At nâ—ght when you go to bed and in the morning you must have two little pieces of white Cotton and take some of this liquor and set it on the embers in a dish and put in one of the pieces of Cotton and when it is hot wring out the liquor and lay it to the grief Do thus three times evening and morning keeping the last piece of Cotton to the grief all night and so all day An Electuary for the Liver Take Cichory roots wash and rub them very dry in a cloth then slit them and take out their pith and cut them in small pieces of these roots thus ordered take eight ounces and beat them small in a Mortar and put to them two ounces of currans well washed and dry rubbed in a cloth and beat them well together put one ounce of the best grated Rhubarb and half a pound of double refined Sugar beaten to powder and beat all well together in the Mortar to the consistence of a well formed Electuary and keep it in a galley-pot for your use close covered Take as much thereof as a Walnut in the morning fasting and as much at four a clock in the afternoon A Purging Ale for the Liver Take Scurvy-grass six handfuls Brooklime Water-cresses of each three handfuls Agrimony Speed-wel Liverwort of each two handfuls Fennel and Parsley roots of each three ounces Horse-radish two ounces Monks Rhubarb one pound as well picked washed and bruised then put to them Sena five ounces Polypody of the Oak four ounces Nutmegs bruised two ounces Fennel-seed bruised one ounce Liquorish slit and bruised two ounces Sassafras cut small three ounces put all these in a bag or boulter and hang it in five or six gallons of second Ale and after five dayes infusion drink thereof half a pint every morning fasting and walk upon it A Medicine for the Stone Take the Pulp of Cassia Fistula newly drawn one ounce and a half Rhubarb in powder one dram and a half Venice Turpentine seven drams Liquorish half a dram Species of Diatragacanthum Frigidum one scruple mix them well together with a sufficient quantity of Marsh Mallows and take thereof in the morning fasting the quantity of a Walnut and drink after it a good draught of posset drink use it three mornings at every new Moon For the Whites and Heats in the Back Take three or four Nutmegs and put them into the middle of a brown loaf set it in an Oven and when it is baked take out the Nutmegs and every morning for nine dayes one after another beat the white of a new laid Egg to water then put to it of Plantain and red Rose water of each four spoonfuls and grate into it some of the said Nutmegs and sweeten it with a little Sugar and drink it off Syrup of Ale for the same Disease Take a gallon of new Ale wort of the first tunning and hang it over the clear fire in an Iron Pot and scum it till no more will rise and when it is boiled to a pint take it off and put it into an earthen pot with a cover and take a little thereof on a Pen-knifes point every morning and evening An excellent artificial Balsam Take Conduit-water and Oyl Olive of each one quart Turpentine four ounces liquid Storax six ounces put them in a Bason and let them stand together all night the next day melt half a pound of Bees-wax on the fire and put to it Rosemary Bayes and sweet Marjoram of each one handful shred small and also Dragons Blood and Mummey of each one ounâ—â— made small and let them boil in the wax a while then put into the Bason Oyl of Saint Johns-wort and rose-water of each two ounces and boil it together a little more then put in some natural Balsam and red Sanders pulverised and let it boil a little then strain it into a bason and when it is cold make a hole in it with a knife to let out the water so dissolve it on the fire and put it up for your use The Vertues and Operations of this Balsam are 1. It is good to cure any wound inward if inward squirt it in or apply it with a tent if outward anoint the place 2. It healeth any burning or scalding bruise or cut being therewith anointed and a linnen cloth or lint dipped therein laid to the place warm 3. It takes away any pain or grief that comes of cold and moisture in the bones or sinews anointing the place grieved with this Oyl heated and a warm cloth laid on it 4. It cureth the headache onely anointing the temples and nostrils therewith 5. It is good for the Winde Cholick or Stitch in the sides applied thereunto warm with hot clothes four mornings together every morning a quarter of an ounce And many other cures it doth c. To make the Green Oyntment Take Rue and Sage of each one pound Bay leaves and Wormwood of each half a pound Melilot the Herb and Flowers of Cammomile Spike Rosemary red Rose leaves Saint Johns wort and Dill of each one handful chop them first very small then stamp them and put thereto the like weight of Sheeps Suet chopt very small and stamp them all in a stone Mortar to one substance that all be green and no Suet appear Then put it into a large earthen pan and pour on it five pints of pure and sweet Oyl Olive and work them together with your hands to one substance then cover the pan with paste close that no air enter and let it stand seven dayes then open it and put it in a fresh pan and set it on a soft fire alwayes stirring it till the herbs begin to grow parched then strain it into a fresh pan to which put the Oyls of Roses Cammomile white Lillies Spike and Violets of each one ounce stir them well together and
Mace Grains of Paradise and Nutmegs of each half a dram and make thereof a Sawce then divide the Beef into two pâ—eces and wet them in the Sawce and binde the one piece to the bottom of the womans belly and the other to the reins of the back as hot as may be suffered and keep them on twenty four hours at the least and longer if need be thereof For any pain in the Stomach Cut a piece of new Scarlet in the shape of a Heart put it in a pewter dish and wet it with the strongest Cinamon or Wormwood water then set it on a Chafing-dish of Coals and cover it close and when it is dry wet it again which do so often until the sent of the hot water be strong in it â—nd lay it very hot to the Stomach and renew it once or twice in a week For the Winde in the Veins Take powder of Liquorish Caroway-seed and Sugarcandy beaten small of each an equal quantity to your taste to which put Rhubarb in powder a third part or more with as much Cream of Tartar pulverised put it in a box and keep it in your pocket and eat as much of it as will lie on a six pence twice or thrice in a day for a week together This will gently purge you cool the blood and expel the Winde out of the Veins This hath holpen those that have not been able to go An excellent Sear-cloth for a Bruise Strain or Wound Take one pint of Oyl Olive Red Lead eight ounces Virgins Wax four ounces Oyntment of Populeon four ounces the Oyls of Roses and Cammomile of each one ounce set the Oyl on the fire then melt the Wax in it then put in the Populeon and Oyls and when all are molten put in the red lead stir them well together and let it boil till it be black then dip in your clothes and apply them to the places ill-affected Mr. Lumley Chyrurgeon His Pippin drink for a Consumption Take the thick paring of six pippins boil them in three pints of Spring-water to a quart then sweeten it with Sugar-candy whereof drink the quantity of a Wine glass when you go to bed In a Feaver it is very good with a little Syrup of Lemons An approved Medicine for the Spleen Drink for three mornings together pure Whey as it comes naturally from the Curd the first morning two pints the second morning three pints the third morning four pints The best exercise after it is gentle riding A rare Balsam Take Venice Turpentine one pound wash it four times with fair water and as many times in Damask Rose water till it be as white as snow then take an earthen pot of a gallon make a hole in the bottom of it which stop with a cork and a rag and tie a string about the cork into which pot put five pints of pure Oyl Olive and three pints of Spring water boil this half a quarter of an hour then melt eight ounces of yellow Wax in a skillet which put to the Turpentine in the pot take it off the fire and stir them together with a spoon till they be wellâ—mingled then pluck the cork out of the earthen pot and let out all the water in a platter and the Oyl and the Turpentine into the Wax in a large Bason and set them over the fire stirring them well then pour all out into a large earthen pan and when it is through cold melt it again on the fire so that it wilâ— slip out then pour out the water in the bottom and melt it again on the fire stirring all well together and so put it up into Galli-pots for your use and you have a most excellent Balsam made by decoction whose effects follow The Vertues of it 1. It is good for any inward wound squirted warm into it and outwardly to it on fine Lint and anointing the place It also preserveth the wound from inflamation and putrefaction 2. It heals any bruise or cut being first anointed therewith and then a piece of lint dipped in it and laid to the place 3. It cures all burnings and scaldings 4. It helps the Head-ache anointing the Nostrils and Temples therewith 5. It expelleth the winde Cholick or stitch in the side being anointed and applied four mornings with warm cloths and every morning bathing it before the fire a quarter of an hour 6. It helps a Surfet taking one ounce thereof in warm Sack 7. It preserveth from the Plague onely by anointing the Lip and Nostrils therewith before the party goeth abroad in the morning 8. It is good against Cancers and Worms applied as before for a cut 9. It helps digestion and keepeth from Vermin if the Navil or Stomach be anointed therewith before the party goeth to bed The Operator that made it healed himself being sorely scalded To cure the Rickets in Children Approved Take a quart of new Milk put into it one handful of Sanicle boil it half away and give it to the Patient Childe to drink in the morning for a breakfast and let it not eat any thing for an hour or two after it and at night take a quart of Milk and one handful of red Mints boil it half away as before and let the Childe eat it last at night This continue for a moneth or longer as occasion is This quantity of Milk so made will serve for twice An Vnguent to anoint the Ricketted Childes Breast Take fresh butter Sanicle red Mints of each one pound stamp the Herbs very small then mix it with the butter to a perfect Unguent and therewith anoint the childes breast every morning and evening before the fire you must anoint it from arm to arm that it may open the breast and also anoint the gullet bones that they may open for in this disease they will seem to close To anoint the Ricketted Childes Limbs and to recover it in a short time though the Childe be so lame as to go upon Crutches Take a peck of Garden Snails and bruise them put them into a course Canvas Bag and hang it up and set a dish under it to receive the liquor that droppeth from them wherewith anoint the Childe in every Joynt which you perceive to be weak before the fire every morning and evening This I have known made a Childe that was extream weak to go alone using it onely a weeks time A Plaister for an Ague Take strong Leaf Tobacco six drams Currans a small handful and as much Bores Grease as will make it into a salve by beating and stamping together in a Mortar of stone when it is beaten to a salve take two pieces of sheeps leather and spread the salve an inch thick on both of them and lay them upon the veins of both wrists twenty four hours before the fit cometh This will cure either a quartane or Tertian Ague A dainty cecling Drink for a hot Feaver Take French Barley one ounce boil it first in a quart of fair water a
them still them in a Rose still Husks Shells and all and with the water wash your eyes To cure a Wound though the Patient be never so far off Take a quart of pure Spring water and put into it some Roman Vitriol and let it dissolve then if you have any blood of the wound either in linnen or woollen or silk put the cloth so blooded in the water and rub the cloth once a day and if the wound be not mortal the blood will out if it be it will not Let the patient keep his Wound clean washing it with white Wine when ever you wash the cloth the party wounded shall sensibly finde ease let the cloth be constantly in the water To make Oyl of Swallows Take swallows as many as you can get ten or twelve at the least and put them quick into a Mortar and put to them Lavender Cotton Spike Cammomil Knot-grass Ribwort Balm Valerian Rosemary tops Woodbine tops strings of Vines French Mallows the tops of Alehoof Strawberry strings Tutsane Plantain Walnut leaves tops of young Bayes Hysop Violet leaves Sage of vertue fine Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Mother of Time of each of these a handful two of Cammomil and two of red Roses beat all these together and put thereto a quart of Neats-foot Oyl or May Butter stamp them all together and beat them with one or two ounces of Cloves and put them all together in an earthen pot stop it very close with a piece of dough round about so close that no air can come out set them nine days in a cellar and then take them out and boil them six or eight hours on the fire or else in a pan of water but first open your pot and put in half a pound of Wax white or yellow whether you will and a pint of Sallet Oyl and strain them through a Canvas cloth To make Lead Plaister Take two pound and four ounces of the best and greenest Sallet Oyl with a pound of good red Lead and a pound of white Lead beat them well into dust then take twelve Ounces of Castle-Sope incorporate all these well together in a well glassed and great earthen pot that the Sope may come upwards set it on a small fire of coals the space of one hour and a half alwayes stirring it with an iron ball or round Pommil then make your fire somewhat bigger until it be the colour of Oyl then drop a little on the board and if it cleave neither to your finger nor the board then it is enough then take the clothes and make them into what breadth or size you please in Searcloth let not your cloth be course but of a reasonable new Holland and when you have dipped them then rub them with a Slick-stone it will last two years and the elder the better as long as it will stick it is good The vertues of the Leaden Plaister 1. If it be laid to the Stomach it provoketh appetite and taketh away any grief in the same 2. If laid to the belly it is a present remedy for the ache 3. If laid to the Reins of the back it cureth and healeth the Bloody Flux the running of the Reins heat in the Liver or weakness of the Back 4. Itâ— healeth all bruises and Swellings it taketh away aches it breaketh Fellons Pushes and other Impostumes and healeth them 5. It draweth out any running Humour without breaking of the skin and being applied to the Fundament it healeth any disease there growing 6. The same laid to the head is good for the eyes 7. The same laid to the Belly of a Woman provoketh the Tearms and maketh apt for Conception For the Stone and Gravel Take and dry the roots of red Nettles make them into powder and drink a spoonful of the powder in a draught of white Wine something warm and it will break the Stone though it be never so great with speed use it every day until the Stone and Gravel be all broken and consumed A thing of small price and great vertue A drink to purge the body being very good for them that have the Scurvey or are inclined to it Take a pottle of fine running water and a pint of Rhennish Wine for a young body and for any elder take a quart set it on the fire put into it three or four slices of Horse Radish a great handful of Water Cresses and a handful of Brooklime both a little bruised slice in two or three Oranges outsides and insides let them boil all together better then half an hour then have ready a greater quantity of scurvey-grass bruised or a pint of the juyce of Scurvy-grass ready strained and put into the liquor and set over the fire again then there will arise a curd which being taken off put it into the drink when it is cold three or four Lemons more or less as best pleaseth the taste sweeten it with Sugar and drink a Wine draught in the morning and at four a clock in the afternoon and then walk and use some exercise after it The party that hath the scurvy and whose legs are much swelled may put into the drink some Juniper berries bruised half an ounce or thereabouts Dr. Bates his Medicine against a Consumption Take Liverwort two handfuls Succory six Endiffe Borage Colts-foot of each six handfuls shred these finely put them in a gallon of new Milk let them steep all night in the morning distil them in a glass still then take three spoonfuls of red rose-Rose-water three spoonfuls of this water with half a pint of red Cows Milk and as much Sugar of Roses as will sweeten it To make Gascony Powder Take the black tips of Crabs claws gotten when the Sun is in Cancer pick out from within them all the fish beat them to as fine a powder as you can then searse it through a very fine searse take an ounce of this powder and put to it half an ounce of the Magestical of Pearl and as much of the Magestical of Coral mix them well together then put a little Rose-water in a glass in which you must hang a little Saffron in a bag and a little Musk and Ambergrece in another let them hang in Rose-water two or three dayes till the vertue of them be gone into the water then put your powder either into a Silver Porringer or a white earthen one and put as much of the Rose-water as will moisten your powder then dry it in the Porringer by a gentle fire and so wet your powder three or four times and as often dry it after this make a Gelly as followeth Take a Viper alive in May or June cut off his head and tail above the Navil pull off his skin and with a clean cloth rub it dry and so you may hang them up and take two of those skins and slice them small with a little Harts-horn and make a Gelly of them you need not make much then when your powder is dry wet it
and dry them in a stove turning them every day you must be sure that your Stove or Cubboard where you dry them the heat of it be renewed three times a day with a temperate drying heat until they be something dry then afterwards turn once as you see cause Conserves of Violets the Italian manner Take the leaves of blew Violets separated from their stalks and greens beat them very well in a stone Mortar with twice their weight of Sugar and reserve them for your use in a glass vessel The Vertue The heat of Choler it doth mitigate extinguisheth thirst asswageth the belly and helpeth the Throat of hot hurts sharp droppings and driness and procureth rest It will keep one year Conserves of red Roses the Italian manner Take fresh red Roses not quite ripe beat them in a stone Mortar mix them with double their weight of Sugar and put them in a glass close stopped being not full let them remain before you use them three moneths stirring of them once a day The Vertue The Stomach Heart and Bowels it cooleth and hindered vapours the spiting of blood and corruption for the most part being cold it helpeth It will keep many years Conserve of Borage Flowers after the Italian Manner Take fresh Borage flowers cleansed well from their heads four ounces fine Sugar twelve ounces beat them well together in a stone Mortar and keep them in a vessel well placed The vertues are the same with Bugloss flowers Conserve of Rosemary flowers after the Italian manner Take new Rosemary Flowers one pound of white Sugar one pound so beat them together in a Marble Mortar with a wooden Pestle keep it in a Gallipot or vessel of earth well glassed or in one of hard stone It may be preserved for one year or two The Vertues It comforteth the Heart the Stomach the brain and all the nervous parts of the Body Conserve of Betony after the Italian way Betony new and tender one pound the best Sugar three pound beat them very small in a stone Mortar let the Sugar be boiled with two pound of Betony-water to the consistence of a syrup at length mix them together by little and little over a small fire and make a Conserve which keep in a glass The Vertues It helpeth the cold pains of the Head purgeth the Stomach and Womb it helpeth stoniness of the Reins and furthereth Conception Conserve of Sage Take new flowers of Sage one pound Sugar one pound so beat them together very small in a Marble Mortar put them in a vessel well glassed and steeped set them in the Sunne stir them daily it will last one year The Vertues It is good in all cold hurts of the brain it refresheth the Stomach it openeth obstructions and takes away superfluous and hurtful humours from the Stomach Conserve of the Flower of Lavander Take the flowers being new so many as you please and beat them with three times their weight of white sugar after the same manner as Rosemary flowers they will keep one year The Vertues The Brain the Stomach Liver Spleen and Womb it maketh warm and is good in the Suffocation of the Womb hardness of the Spleen and for the Apoplex Conserve of Marjoram The Conserve is prepared as Betony it keepeth a year The Vertues It is good against the coldnesse moistnesse of the Brain and Stomach and it strengtheneth the Vital Spirits Conserve of Piony after the Italian way In the Spring take of the Flowers fresh half a pound Sugar one pound beat them together in a good stone mortar then put them in a glass and set them in the sun for three Moneths stirring them daily with a wooden Spathula The Vertues It is good against the Falling-sickness and giddiness of the Head it cleanseth the Reins and Bladder Touching Candies as followeth To Candy Rosemary flowers in the Sun TAke Gum-Dragon and steep it in Rose-water then take the Rosemary flowers good coloured and well pickt and wet them in the water that your Gum Dragon is steeped in then take them out and lay them upon a Paper and strew fine Sugar over them this do in the hot Sun turning them and strewing Sugar on them till they are candied and so keep them for your use To make Sugar of Roses Take the deepest coloured red Roses pick them cut of the white bottoms and dry your red leaves in an Oven till they be as dry as possible then beat them to powder and searse them then take half a pound of sugar beaten fine put it into your pan with as much fair water as will wet it then set it in a chafing-dish of coals and let it boil till it be Sugar again then put as much powder of roses that will make it look very red stir them well together and when it is almost cold put it into pales and when it is throughly cold take them off and put them in boxes To Candy Pippins Pears Apricocks or Plums Take any of these fruits being pared and strew upon them as you do flower upon frying fish then lay them on a board in a Pewter dish so put them into an Oven as hot as for Manchet as the liquor comes from them pour forth turn them and strew more Sugar on them and sprinkle Rose water on them thus turning and sugaring of them three or four times till they be almost dry then lay them on a Lettice Wire or on the bottom of a sieve in a warm oven after the bread is drawn out till they be full dry so you may keep them all the year To Candy or Clear Rockandy flowers Take spices and boil them in a syrup of sugar then put in the flowers boil them till they be stiff when you spread them on a paper lay them on round Wiers in an earthen pan then take as much hard sugar as will fill your pan and as much water as will melt the sugar that is half a pint to every pound then beat a dozen spoonfuls of fair water and the white of an Egg in a bason with a Birchin rod till it come to a froth when your Sugar is all melted and boiled put the froth of the Egg in the hot sirup and as it riseth drop in a little cold water so let it boil a little while then scum it then boil it to a candy height that is when you may draw it in small threads between your finger and your thumb then pour forth all your syrup that will run from it in your pan then set it a drying one hour or two which done pick up the wiers and take off the flowers and lay them on papers and so dry them To Candy Spanish flowers Take the Blossoms of divers sorts of flowers and make a syrup of water and sugar and boil it very thick then put in your Blossoms and stir them in their boiling till it turn to sugar again then stir them with the back of a spoon till the Sugar fall from it so may
you keep them for Sallets all the year To Candy Grapes Cherries or Barberries Take any of these fruits and strew fine sifted sugar on them as you do flower on frying fish lay them on a lettice of wier in a deep earthen pan and put them into an Oven as hot as for Manchet then take them out and turn them and sugar them again and sprinkle a little Rose-water on them pour the syrup forth as it comes from them thus turning and sugaring them till they be almost dry then take them out of the earthen pan and lay them on a lettice of wier upon two billets of wood in a warm Oven after the bread is drawn till they be dry and well candied To Candy Suckets of Oranges Lemons Citrons and Angelica Take and boil them in fair water tender and shift them in three boilings six or seven times to take away their bitterness then put them into as much sugar as will cover them and so let them boil a walm or two then take them out and dry them in a warm oven as hot as Manchet and being dry boil the sugar to a Candy height and so cast your Oranges into the hot sugar and take them out again suddenly and then lay them upon a lettice of wier on the bottom of a sieve in a warm oven after the bread is drawn still warming the Oven till it be dry and they will be well candied To Candy the Orange roots Take the Orange roots being well and tenderly boiled petch them and peel them and wash them out of two or three waters then dry them well with a fair cloth then pot them together two or three in a knot then put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover and so let them boil leasurely turning them until you see the Sugar drunk up into the Root then shaking them in the Bason to sunder the knots and when they wax dry take them up suddenly and lay them on sheets of white Paper and so dry them before the fire an hour or two and they will be well candied Candy Orange Peels after the Italian way Take Orange peels so often steeped in cold water as you think convenient for their bitterness then dry them gently and candy them with some convenient syrrup made with Sugar some that are more grown take away that spongious white under the yellow peels others do both together The Vertues They corroborate the Stomach and Heart To Candy Citrons after the Spanish way Take Citron Peels so large as you please the inner part being taken away let them be steeped in a clear lay of water and ashes for nine dayes and shift them the fifth day afterward wash them in fair water till the bitterness be taken away and that they grow sweet then let them be boiled in fair water till they grow soft the watery part being taken away let them be steeped in a vessel of stone twenty four hours with a Julip made of white Sugar and three parts water after let them be boiled upon a gentle fire to candness of Penidies or Paste being taken out of that let them be put in a glass vessel one by one with the Julip of Roses made somewhat hard or with sugar some do adde Amber and Musk to them The Vertues It comforteth the Stomach and Heart it helpeth concoction Candied Cherries the Italian wy Take Cherries before they are full ripe the stones taken out put clarified Sugar boiled to a height then pour it on them Chicory Roots candied the Italian way Take Chicory new and green the outward Bark being taken away then before they be candied let them be cut in several parts and gently boiled that no bitterness may remain then set them in the air placed severally and put Sugar to them boiled to a height Touching Marmalets and Quiddony as followeth To make Marmalet of Damsins TAke two quarts of Damsins that be through ripe and pare off the skins of three pints of them then put them into an earthen pipkin those with the skins undermost then set the pipkin into a pot of seething water and let the water seethe apace untill the Damsins be tender Cover the pipkin close that no water gets into them and when they are tender put them out into an earthen pan and take out all the stones and skins then weigh them and take the weight with hard Sugar then break the Sugar fine and put it into the Damsins then set it on the fire and make it boil apace till it will come from the bottom of the skillet then take it up and put it into a glass but scum it clear in the boiling To make white Marmalet of Quinces Take unpared Quinces and boil them whole in fair water peel them and take all the pap from the coar to every pound thereof adde three quarters of a pound of Sugar boil it well till it come well from the pans bottom then put it into boxes To make Marmalet of any tender Plum Take your Plums and boil them between two dishes on a Chafing-dish of coals then strain it and take as much Sugar as the Pulp do weigh and put to it as much Rose-water and fair water as will melt it that is half a pint of water to a pound of Sugar and so boil it to a Candy height then put the pulp into hot Sugar with the pap of a roasted apple In like manner you must put roasted Apples to make Paste Royal of it or else it will be tough in the drying To make Orange Marmalet Take Oranges pare them as thin as you can boil them in four severall waters let them be very soft before you take them out then take two quarts of Spring-water put thereto twenty Pippins pared quartered and coared let them boil till all the vertue be out take heed they do not lose the colour then strain them put to every pint of water a pound of Sugar boil it almost to a Candy height then take out all the meat out of the Oranges slice the peel in long slits as thin as you can then put in your peel with the juyce of two Lemmons and one half Orange then boil it to a Candy To make Quiddony of Pippins of Ruby or any Amber colour Take Pippins and cut them in quarters and pare them and boil them with as much fair water as will cover them till they be tender and sunk into the water then strain all the liquor from the Pulp then take a pint of that liquor and half a pound of Sugar and boil it till it be a quaking gelly on the back of a spoon so then pour it on your moulds being taken out of fair water then being cold turn them on a wet trencher and so slide them into the boxes and if you would have it ruddy colour then boil it leasurely close covered till it be as red as Claret Wine so may you conceive the difference is in the boiling of it remember to
embers and keep it for your use How to make Hair grow Take half a pound of Aqua Mellis in the Spring time of the year warm a little of it every morning when you rise in a Sawcer and tie a little spunge to a fine box comb and dip it in the water and therewith moisten the roots of the Hair in combing it and it will grow long thick and curled in a very short time To write Letters of secrets that they cannot be read without the directions following Take fine Allum beat it small and put a reasonable quantity of it into water then write with the said water The work cannot be read but by steeping your paper into fair running water You may likewise write with Vinegar or the juyce of Lemon or Onion if you would read the same you must hold it before the fire How to keep Wine from sowering Tie a piece of very salt Bacon on the inside of your barrel so as it touch not the Wine which will preserve Wine from sowering To take out spots of Greese or Oyl Take bones of sheeps feet burn them almost to ashes then bruise them to powder and put of it on the spot and lay it in the sun when it shineth hottest when the powder becomes black lay on fresh in the place till it fetch out the spots which will be done in a very short time To make hair grow black though any color Take a little Aqua Fortis put therein a groat or six pence as to the quantity of the aforesaid water then set both to dissolve before the fire then dip a small spunge in the said water and wet your beard or hair therewith but touch not the skin King Edwards Perfume Take twelve spoonfulls of right red rose-Rose-water the weight of six pence in fine powder of Sugar and boil it on hot Embers and Coals softly and the house will smell as though it were full of Roses but you must burn the sweet Cipress wood before to take away the gross air Queen Elizabeths Perfume Take eight spoonfulls of Compound water the weight of two pence in fine powder of sugar and boil it on hot Embers and Coals softly and half an ounce of sweet Marjoram dried in the Sun the weight of two pence of the powder of Benjamin This Perfume is very sweet and good for the time Mr. Ferene of the New Exchange Perfumer to the Queen his rare Dentifrice so much approved of at Court First take eight ounces of Irios roots also four ounces of Pomistone and eight ounces of Cutel bone also eight ounces of mother of Pearle and eight ounces of Corral and a pound of brown sugar-candy and a pound of Brick if you desire to make them red but he did oftner make them white and then instead of the Brick did take a pound of fine Alablaster all this being throughly beaten and sifted through a fine searse the powder is then ready prepared to make up in a paste which must be done as follows To make the said Powder into Paste Take a little Gum Dragant and lay it in steep twelve hours in Orange flower water or Damask Rose-water and when it is dissolved take the sweet Guâ—â— and grinde it on a Marble-stone wiâ—â— the aforesaid powder and mixing some crums of white bread it will come into a Paste the which you may make Dentifrices of what shape or fashion you please but long rolls is the most commodious for your use The Receipt of the Lady Kents powder presented by her Ladyship to the Queen Take white Amber Crabs eyes red Corral Harts-horn and Pearl all prepared several of each a like proportion tear and mingle them then take Harts-horn gelly that hath some Saffron put into a bag dissolve into it while the gelly is warm then let the gelly cool and therewith make a paste of the powders which being made up into little balls you must dry gently by the fire side Pearl is prepared by dissolving it with the juyce of Lemons Amber prepared by beating it to powder so also Crabs-eyes and Corral Harts-horn prepared by burning it in the fire and taking the shires of it especially the pith wholly rejected A Cordial Water of Sir Walter Raleigh Take a gallon of Strawberries and put them into a pint of Aqua vitae let them stand so four or five dayes strain them gently out and sweeten the water as you please with fine Sugar or else with perfume The Lady Malets Cordial Water Take a pound of fine Sugar beaten and put to it a quart of running water pour it three or four times through a bag then put a pint of Damask Rose-water which you must alwayes pour still through the bag then four penniworth of Angelica water four pence in Clove-water four pence of Rosa solis one pint of Cinnamon-water or three pints and half of Aqua vitae as you finde it in taste put all these together three or four times through the bag or strainer and then take half an ounce of good Muskallis and cut them grosly and put them into a glass and fill them with the water c. A Sovereign Water of Dr. Stephens which he long times used wherewith he did many Cures he kept it secretly till a little before his Death and then he gave it to the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury in writing being as followeth viz. Take a Gallon of good Gascoine VVine and take Ginger Gallingale Cinamon Nutmegs Cloves Grains Ani-seeds Fennil-seed of every of them a dram then take Caraway-seed of red Mints Roses Thime Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary wilde Thime Camomil the leaves if you cannot get the flowers of small Lavender of each a handfull then bray the spices small and bray the Hearbs and put all into the Wine and let it stand so twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first water for iâ— is best then put the second water by it self for it is good but not of such vertues c. The Vertues of this Water It comforts the Spirits Vitall and helps all inward Diseases that come of cold it is good against the shaking of the Palsie it cures the Contraction of the Sinnews helps the conception of women if they be barren it kills the VVorms in the Belly and Stomach it cures the cold Dropsie and helps the Stone in the Bladder and in the Reins of the back it helps shortly the stinking breath and whosoever useth this water morning and evening and not too often it preserveth him in good liking and will make him seem young very long and comforteth nature marvellously with this water did Dr. Stephens preserve his life till extream age would not let him go or stand and he continued five years when all the Physicians judged he would not live a year longer nor did he use any other Medicine but this c. A Plague Water to be taken one spoonful every four hours with one sweat every time Take Scabious
Betony Pimpernel and Turmentine roots of each a pound steep these all night in three gallons of strong Beer and distil them all in a Limbeck and when you use it take a spoonful thereof every four hours and sweat well after it draw two quarts of water if your Beer be strong and mingle them both together Poppy Water Take four pound of the Flower of Poppies well pickt and sifted steep them all night in three Gallons of Ale that is strong and still it in a Limbeck you may draw two quarts the one will be strong and the other will be small c. A Water for a Consâ—mption or for a Brain that is weak Take Cream or new milk and Claret VVine of each three pints of Violet flowers Bugloss and Borage flowers of each a spoonfull Comfrey Knotgrass and Plantain of these half a handfull three or four Pome-waters sliced a stick of Liquorish some Pompion seeds and strings put to this a Cock that hath been chased and beaten before he was killed dress it as to boil and parboil it until there be no blood in it then put them in a pot and set them over your Limbeck and the soft fire draw out a pottle of water then put your water in a Pipkin over a charcoal fire and boil it awhile dissolve therein six ounces of white Sugar-candy and two penny weight of Saffron when it is cold strain it into a glass and let the Patient drink three or four spoonfulls three or four times a day blood-warm your Cock must be cut into small pieces and the bones broken and in case the flowers and hearbs are hard to come by a spoonful of their stilled waters are to be used Another for the same Take a pottle of good Milk one pint of Muscadine half a pint of red Rose-water a penny manchet sliced thin two handfuls of Raisins of the sun stoned a quarter of a pound of fine sugar sixteen Eggs beaten mix all these together then distill them in a common still with a soft fire then let the Patient drink three or four spoonfuls at a time blood-warm being sweetened with Manus Christi made with Corral and Pearle when your things are all in the Still strew four ounces of Cinnamon beaten this water is good to put into broath c. A good Stomach Water Take a quart of Aqua Composita or Aqua vitae the smaller and put into it one handfull of Cowslip flowers a good handfull of Rosemary flowers sweet Marjoram a little Pellitory of the Wall a little Betony and Balm of each a little handful Cinnamon half an ounce Nutmegs a dram Anniseeds Coriander seeds Caroway seeds Gromel-seeds Juniper berries of each a dram bruise the spice and seed and put them into Aqua Composita or Aqua vitae with your Hearbs together and put into them a pound of very fine sugar stir them well together and put them into a glass and let it stand in the Sun nine dayes and stir it every day two or three Dates and a little race of Ginger sliced into it will make it the better especially against winde c. A Bag of Purging Ale Take of Agrimony Speedwell Liverwort Scurvy-grass Water-Cresses of each a handful of Monk of Rhubarb and red Madder of each half a pound of Horse-Radishes three ounces Liquorish two ounces Sassafrage four ounces Sena seven ounces sweet Fennil-seeds two drams Nutmegs four pick and wash your hearbs and roots and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in a bag made of a Bolter and so hang them in three galons of middle ale and let it work in the Ale and after three dayes you may drink it as you see occasion c. The Ale of Health and Strength by Viscâ—unt St. Albans Take Sassafras wood half an ounce Sarsaparilla three ounces white Saunders one ounce Chamapition an ounce China root half an ounce Mace a quarter of an ounce Chamapition an ounce cut the wood as thin as may be with a knife into small pieces and bruise them in a Mortar put to them these sorts of Hearbs viz. Cowslip Flowers Roman VVormwood of each a handful of Sage Rosemary Betony Mugwort Balm and sweet Marjoram of each half a handful of Hops boil all these in six gallons of Ale till it come to four then put the wood and hearbs into six gallons of Ale of the second wort and boil it till it come to four let it run from the dregs and put your Ale together and run it as you do other purging Ale c. A water excellent good against the Plague Take three pints of Malmsey or Muscadine of Sage and Rue of each one handful boil them together gently to one pint then strain it and set it on the fire again and put to it one penniworth of Long Pepper Ginger four drams Nutmegs two drams all beaten together then let it boil a little take it off the fire and while it is very hot dissolve therein six penniwoth of Methridate and three penniworth of Venice Treacle and when it is almost cold put to it a pint of strong Angelica water or so much Aqua vitae and so keep it in a glass close stopped A Cordial Cherry-water Take a pottle of Aqua vitae two ounces of ripe Cherries stoned Sugar one pound twenty four Cloves one stick of Cinamon three spoonfuls of Aniseeds bruised let these stand in the Aqua vitae fifteen dayes and when the watet hath fully drawn out the Tincture pour it off into another glass for your use which keep close stopped the Spice and the Cherries you may keep for they are very good for winde in the Stomach The Lord Spencers Cherry-water Take a pottle of new Sack four pound of through ripe Cherries stoned put them into an earthen pot to which put an ounce of Cinnamon Saffron unbruised one dram tops of Balm Rosemary or their flowers of each one handful let them stand close covered twenty four hours now and then stirring them then put them into a cold Still to which put of beaten Amber two drams Coriander seed one ounce Alkerms one dram and distill it leasurely and when it is fully distilled put to it twenty grains of Musk. This is an excellent Cordiall good for Faintings and Swoundings for the Crudities of the Stomach Winde and swelling of the Bowels and divers other evill Symptomes in the Body of Men and Women The Herbs to be distilled for Vsquebath Take Agrimony Fumitory Betony Bugloss Wormwood Harts-tongue Carduus Benedictus Rosemary Angelica Tormentil of each of these for every gallon of Ale one handful Anniseeds and Liquorice well bruised half a pound Still all these together and when it is stilled you must infuse Cinnamon Nutmeg Mace Liquorish Dates and Raisms of the Sun and sugar what quantity you please The infusion must be till the colour please you Dr. Kings way to make Mead. Take five quarts and a pint of VVater and warm it then put one quart of Honey to every
pound of Sugar 〈◊〉 one pound of figs sliced one pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned 〈◊〉 handfuls of red Roses clipped and dried one handfull of red Mint half a handful of Rosemary as much of Hysop a few Cloves put all these in a great double Glass close stopped and set it in the Sun three moneths and so 〈…〉 A Water for one pensive and very sick to comfort the Heart very excellent Take a good spoonful of Manus Christi beaten very small into powder then take a quarter of a pound of very fine sugar and beat it small and six spoonfuls of Cinnamon water and put to it and ten spoonfuls of red Rose-water mingle all these together and put them in a dish and set them over a soft fire five or six walms and so let it be put into a glass and let the party drink thereof a spoonful or two as he shall see cause To perfume Water Take Malmsey or any kinde of sweet water then take Lavander Spike sweet Marjoram Balm Orange peels Thime Basil Cloves Bay leaves Woodbine flowers red and white Roses and still them all together FINIS THE TABLE A. AChes to take away 38 41 72 108 110 153 156 157 184 Abortion to prevent 121 After-birth to bring away 159 160 Ague of all sorts to cure 16 32 52 57 127 161 Ague in womens breast 110 167 Ale to purge most excellent 2 280 281 Ambergreese tincture to make and 〈…〉 Amber pills for a Consumption 3. Appetite to help â—â— â—84 Appoplex to cure 236 Aqua mirabilis to 〈◊〉 290 Almond milk to 〈◊〉 82 83 108 B. BIting of 〈◊〉 Sâ—â—ke 154 〈…〉 cool 94 95 〈…〉 strâ—ngthen 66 135 184 191 â—89 〈◊〉 most excellent with its use 95 123 125 â—elly-ake to cure 184 Belly hard to dissolve 155 Biles and Botches to cure 81 89 112 152 188 Bloud to cleanse 10 148 161 Biting of a mad Dog 41 152 154 Bloudy flux to help 42 106 108 130 184 Bleeding at Nose to stanch 163 Bladder to cleanse 169 237 Bones out of joynt to set 104 153 189 Breaths shortness to remedy 5 Breath stinking to cure 53 111 196 276 Brain to strengthen 17 86 178 196 236 Burning to help 60 77 78 95 104 125 149 162 189 Breasts sore to cure 85 90 91 109 110 117 147 Bruises to cure 36 38 90 104 122 125 144 156 184 188 Bursten to remedy 145 Balsam Luccatelloes to make and its Vertues 179 Bag restorative for the stomach 57 C. CAnker to cure 36 41 152 Cock water 14 Cancer to prevent and cure 36 110 125 China broth in a Consumption 34 Choler to purge 49 102 176 177 233 Childe to bring again when born 159 160 Consumption to cure 3 9 10 14 22 34 42 123 186 299 278 279 295 Cold to help 27 88 164 206 Cough to take away 55 56 59 62 63 100 164 Conception to help 88 168 184 235 276 Costiveness to remove 159 Chollick to cure 44 63 96 99 105 125 166 170 Corns to take away 104 146 Cramp to cure 141 Cordials most excellent 7 14 274 275 285 290 Cordial water 2 Conserves of all sorts to make and their Vertues 234 235 236 Mrs. Chaunce her Purge 165 Cordial waters for the sick D. DRink for the Scurvy Diet Drink for a Eisiâ—la 70 Diet Drink for one that hath no speech in sickness 71 Deakness to help 45 105 162 Dead flesh to prevent 152 Digâ—stion to procure 6 15 50 125 196 244 Drâ—psie to cure 11 16 42 52 64 276 295 â—â—seases cured without taking any thing at the mouth 49 Drink for Rhume and Phlegm 57 Drink for a hot Feaver 98 128 Drink to keep the mouth moist 132 E. ELectuary for the stomach 5 Electury for the poison of the heart 98 Eyes sore to cure 28 147 148 189 288 Eyes full of Rhume 18 32 110 181 Eyes weak to strengthen 130 184 Eyes having a Pin or Web 171 172 Eyes redness to take away 171 173 181 F. FAce sweld to asswage 13 Faces redness and pimples to cure 41 53 54 55 173 180 Face bruised 144 Face fair to make 115 180 Faintness to take away 86 133 283 291 Falling-sickness to cure 49 88 142 237 Feavers all sorts to remove 2 12 25 61 98 128 132 Festers in the flesh to cure 41 Fellons to cure 41 48 102 184 Fire to take out 189 Fistula to cure 70 79 117 152 Finger sore to heal 81 Flux or Looseness to stay 130 Freckles to take away 146 Fish to take by angling 108 G. Gâ—scony Powder to make 187 Gout to cure 42 50 77 88 140 56 Golden colour without Gold to make 114 Green sickness to cure 69 85 Gravel to cleanse 185 Glisters for a hot Feaver 132 Glisters for the Winde 30 160. H. HAir to grow thick 100 270 Hair to take away 55 Hardness to dissolve 189 Heart to chear 52 87 235 Head lightness in Sickness 72 Head-ache to cure 41 96 120 125 235 Heads breaking out in Children 148 Hearts passion to take away 98 287 Heart-burn to cure 291 Hearing 4â— Hearbs boild in Broth 65 1â—â— Humors watery to purge â—â— 184 Humors hot to cool â—â— I. JAundies black and yellow to cure 16 73 74 105 〈…〉 to cure 42 89 112 152 184 〈…〉 to prevent 189 〈…〉 to heat 188 〈◊〉 to keep from rust 113 Itch to cure 32 77 Juyce of Liquorsh to make 307 Julip for a Feaver 61 K. KIdneys ulceration to cure 50 Kidneys swoln to take away 56 Kidneys to cool and cleanse 83 Kings Evil to cure 117 L. LAbor in women to help 86 119 130 Letters of Secrets how to write 270 Letters of gold to make without gold 114 Letters of silver to make without silver ib. Liver to strengthen and cool 17 68 92 93 184 268 295 Looseness to help 80 143 Lungs to cleanse 44 47 59 62 291 Lumly's drink for a Consumption 123 M. MAngie in a Dog to cure 120 Mead to make 284 Measles to cure 29 107 236 Melancholy to suppress 4 23 52 164 165 177 291 293 Memory to preserve 291 Megrum to cure 119 Milk in women to increase 35 113 Milk to dry up 174 Miscarriage in women to prevent 46 121 Mothers rising to prevent 20 63 Mouth to keep moist 132 Morphew to take away 146 N. NAvels coming out to help 109 Nipple to skin when raw 174 175 Nipple to make when none 175 Noses shining to cure 53 Noses redness to cure 54 Noli me tangere 52 O. OBstructions 10 68 236 268 295 Ointment for a hard belly 155 Oyl of Excester to make 75 156 Oyl of Mustard-seed and its use 77 Oyl of Eggs 75 Oyl for a shining Nose 54 Oyl of Fennel and its use 77 Oyl of Rue to make and its use â—â— Oyl of Cammomil to make and its use ib. Oyl of St. Johns-wort to make 131 190 Oyl of Swallows to make 182 Oyntment grow to â—ake 36 97. 117 158 Oyntments and 〈◊〉 uses 189 〈…〉 to make 67 P.
of White Lillies two of Dragon leaves two of Rue two of Wormwood two of Mints one of Sweet Marjoram one of Pellitory of Spain one of Feaverfew one of Angelica one of Betony stamp well these herbs and put them into a great pottage pot and boil them in two quarts of running water till the water be consumed then put to it two quarts of Cowslip flowers that have been steeped in Oyl Olive four weeks and have been kept in the Sun all that time and two quarts of White Wine and also two quarts of Oyl Olive boil them together one or two hours till you think it almost dry then strain in the Oyl from the herbs and put it into a glass and blow the uppermost of the Oyl into the glass for the very bottom is not so good A Medicine for the Worms Take a little fresh Butter and Honey melt it and anoint therewith the childe from the Stomach to the Navil then take powder of Mirrhe and strew it upon the place so anointed cover it with a brown paper and binde a cloth over it and so anoint the childe three nights one after another This Mirrhe is also good to swallow in a morning for shortness of breath and to chew it in the mouth for Rhumes A Powder for the winde in the Body Take Anniseed Caroway-seed Jet Ambergreese red Coral dried Lemon or Orange peels new laid Egg shells dried Dates stones pillings of Goose-horns of Capons and Pigeons dried Horse radish-roots of each half a scruple in fine powder well mixed and take half a scruple thereof every morning in a spoonful of Beer or white Wine To make Oyl of Eggs. Take twelve yolks of eggs and put them in a pot over the fire and let them stand till you perceive them to grow black then put them in a press and press out the oyl This oyl is good for all manner of burnings and scaldings whatsoever To make Oyl of Mustard seed Take two pounds of Mustard seed and four pounds of Oyl Olive grinde them together and let them so stand nine dayes and then stir it well and keep in boxes This Oyl is good for the Palsie Gout Itch c. To make Oyl of Fennel Take a good quantity of Fennel and put it betwen two iron Plates and make them very hot in the fire then press out the liquor This Oyl will keep a great while it is good for the Tissick and for Burnings or Scaldings To make Oyl of Rue Cut Rue leaves small and put them into a pot with some Oyl Olive and let them stand twelve dayes then boil them till they be wasted to the third part then strain it and keep it close This Oyl is good to keep away all causes of Pestilences in man woman or childe To make Oyl of Cammomile Stamp a good quantity of Cammomile flowers in a Mortar put them in a pot with some Oyl Olive and let them stand twelve dayes then boil it a little on the fire then take it off and press it out hard and put the juyce into glasses and put to them more Cammomile flowers stamped small and let them stand for your use A Sovereign Medicine for a Fistula Take pure Rosin one pound Sheep Suet the bigness of a great Egg or somewhat more in Winter and set them on a fire in a pot till it be ready to boil then pour it in a pan of cold water and work it with your hands rubbed with butter till it become so small as packthred scrape it on a cloth and spread it thin then cut it out small and narrow and when you use it roul it up small like tents The Powder Take an Ox-horn and steep it nine dayes in water shift every day into fresh water then take it out and fill it full of black Soap and fry it over the fire in a Frying-pan and the horn will melt away and burn to powder dip the end of ten tents in this powder The Water Take Allum and white Copperas of each half a pound beat them into fine powder and mix them well together and put them in an earthen pot and let them boil on a soft fire till they be hard and will boil no longer then beat them to powder Two spoonfuls will make a gallon of water and one spoonful will make a pottle but let the water seethe first then take it off and at first sprinkle a little of the powder lest it flame up and after the rest wet a fair cloth and dress the sore twice a day If green Copperas be used two pound must be put to one pound of Allum When the sore is dressed it must be tented as aforesaid if need require and lay on a cloth still wet in the said water As the water comes hot from the fire put in one spoonful of the said powder by degrees A special Medicine for a Looseness Burn three Nutmegs to ashes in the flame of a wax candle and when they are thorowly burnt rub them to powder and mix it with the like quantity of Bean flower and Cinamon finely beaten and searsed then make up into a paste with the white of an Egg and a little red Wine and make the paste into small round pills fit for swallowing and dry them hard in a clean fire and when you take them drink a little red wine after it For an Vncomb or sore Finger Shred one handful of Smallage very small and put to it one spoonful of Honey the yolk of an Egg and a little Wheat flower to make it thick then spread it on a cloth and lay it to the sore twice a day For the same in young Children or any other in the beginning Take Celandine and bruise it well between your hands and binde to your Navil and the soles of your feet hang it once in twenty four hours till they be well A Medicine for the Purples proved Take Purple Silk and shred it as small as you can and put it into a spoon and put a little Ale or Beer unto it lukewarm and so take it and drink after it a little and so do five mornings together and fast an hour after it Dr. Twines Almond Milk Take a pot of water when it is boiled and stood to be clear then boil therein Violet leaves Strawberries the whole herb with the root of each a pretty handful Sorrel a good root all well washed a crust of white bread raisins of the Sun stoned two ounces boil all these from a pottle to a quart and with fifty Almonds blanched and thirty Pompion Kernels all well beaten draw an Almond Milk sweetned with good â—ugar to your liking and drink a good draught thereof morning and evening towards the quantity of a pint Dr. Blacksmiths Almond Milk Take of the roots of Ruscus Gramen Sparagus and Succory each three drams Barley prepared half a handful of the leaves of Mallows Violets five leaved Grass Strawberries Borage Bugloss Maiden-hair of each half a handful sliced