fire till the skum arise then take off the skum and take it from the fire then put thereto the powder of Coltsfoot and make it as thick as Conserves of Roses which use at your pleasure A precious Water for a Consumption Take a quart of Rosewater as much of womans milk Goats milk or Cowes milk put unto it twenty yolks of Eggs and mix them well together and thereof distil a Water and give the Patient thereof to drink first and last with a Cake to eat made with Gold and Pearle A Water good for a Consumption or weaknesse Take a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and the yolks of twenty eggs beat them very wel together and put thereto a pint of good Red Wine and two Manchets sliced so mingle all these things together and put them in a plain Still and still it with a soft fire and now and then stir it or else it will have a crust on it the Water may be taken at any time three or four spoonfuls with some Sugar the oftner the better COUGH For the Cough be it never so extreme Take a quart of new milk and a pint of strong Ale and make a posset thereof then take off the curd then take a quarter of a pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned and two big sticks of Licoras and two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruise them and seeth all in the posset Ale until half be sodden away then take it from the fire and put therein so much sweet Butter as the bignesse of a Hasel Nut but let it not seeth after and let the party drink thereof evening 〈…〉 or eight spoonfuls at a time as hot as he can Probatum For the Cough Take a head of Garlick and prick it full of Cloves then take half a handful of three leaved grasse and as much Goats grease put the Garlick head therein and wrap it in russet paper and so roast it in the ashes till it be soft then beat it in a Mortar and straine it then drink it in some Ale or Beer it is good for the Cough A Tisan for the Cough Take a quart of good old Ale and set it on the fire and skim it clean then take half a dozen of good Fennel roots and scrape them and take out the pithes and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in the Ale then take a quantity of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it to the rest then take a handful of Anniseeds and sift them cleane and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth together a pretty while and take a handful of smal Raisons wash and pick them clean and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth a walme or two after then take a penny worth of Sugar candied and put into it when it is almost sodden from a quart to a pint and when it is full sodden to a pint take it off and strain it and drink it at times convenient and put to this Tisan Sugar Honey and Powder of Elicampane root of each a little and some great Raisons the stones taken out and Parsley roots and two or three Figs. For the Cough if it be of the Lungs Take half a pint of Aquavitae of Anniseedâ—â— half penny worth and as much English Licoras scrape it and slice it thin run the Anniseeds very well and fan the dust out of them and put them in together and let them boil on a soft fire till half be consumed then strain it out and wipe the pot and put it in again and put to it three ounces of brown Sugar candied and set it against the fire till it be melted then take it off and use as often as you will drink For the Cough or Cold. Take a quart of Ale and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary and boil it then put to it a spoonful of Sugar and as much butter as an egg and brew them together and let the Patient drink thereof to bedward and keep warm For the Cough Stamp two handfuls of Centory and seeth it in three quarts of Ale to the half then stamp it again and seeth it and put thereto a pint of honey and so take every morning thereof three spoonfuls Another The Cough is a Messenger of all Diseases of the Lights and Brest through the grosness drought moisture spittle and other excrements for the Cough is a motion of the Lights the which by the aire and moving vertue of the Muscels that are within the brest is meet and made for to cough up all that which hurteth the lights and the Rhume provoketh the Cough most of all There are often perillous Coughs through Rhume that falls down out of the head upon the lights and into the brest which is very ill to get out It is good to purge the head with Cochia Pills and to drink sometimes a draught of Barly Water in the morning and eat something after it Then take this Potion Take Syrrup of Endive Honey of Roses and Sirrup of Steches of each half an ounce Water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and half tempered together This Powder is approved to stay the Rhume Take Spica of the Indies one quarter of an ounce Cinnamon one quarter of an ounce of the Scull of a man that dyed through violence three quarters of an ounce take every time it cometh one dram after meat in Wine or any decoction Physicians do commend Barly Water mixt with Julip of Violets CORNES For to take away Cornes First cut away the Corne and root him out then drop into the hole a drop or two of a black Snail and put thereto the powder of Sandyfer and it will wear the Corn away Also cut your Cornes away and lay a little piece of the red Cerecloth upon the hole and in three months it will wear it clean away CRAMP For the Cramp Take the little bones of the Hares hinder legges which are in the knee joints if you touch the place grieved therewith it helpeth Also take Hollioaks Oyl of Violets and of Swines grease of each a little quantity and make an Ointment of them and annoint the place Another Take the Flank wool of a sheep carded in flakes and dipped in Sallet Oyle and wrap it about your leggs or where it taketh you and it will heat the Cramp and ease it DEAFNESSE For Deafnesse an excellent Medicine TAke the juice of Betony with the most part of Camomile wet in it a lock of wool and stop it in the deaf ear and Water stilled of the same Herbs to be powred into the ears is a help for deafness For the Hearing Take Oyle of Roses and White Wine Vineger of each alike and mingle them together and at night in bed put one drop into the ear and stop it with black wooll and lye on the other side DROPSIE A very good Drink to cure the Dropsie Take of Peperitis Roots otherwise called
apart by themselves and not altogether then take of each water a like quantity and put them together in a glasse and let the party grieved lye upright one half quarter of an hour in the morning at noon and at night and drop into his eyes at each time one or two drops and close the eys afterwards For sore Eyes Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten and cut out the core and then strain it through a fine cloth into some fair thing and of the juice of that Apple drop into your eye that is sore morning and evening A precious Water to clarifie the Eyes and to take away the Pearle in the Eye Take red Roses Smallage Rew Vervain Maidenhair Ewfrace Endive Seagreen red Fennel Hillwort and Cellendine of each like quantity then wash them clean and lay them in good White Wine the space of a day and then distil them the first water will be like Gold the second like silver and the third like Balme for any sore and it is precious for Ladies in stead of Balm water For heat in the Eyes Take a new laid egg open the top and let out all that is in the shell and divide the yolk from the white and then put in the white again into the shell and put thereto as much of the juice of Houseleek strained as there is of the white of the egge and so much Roach Allome as a hasel nut then set the egg shall with the things aforesaid in it upon some embers and so let it boil and when it is boiled the white will be smewhat hard then take it off and let all the water run from it and that water drop into eyes that be sore morning and evening The juice of Slowes being dropped into the eyes is as good a Medicine as may be and so is the juice of Cellendine but they must be severally used A very good Water for a Blast or Rheume in the Eyes Take Callaminaris stones and burne them well in the fire and when they be very hot quench them six or seven times in pure White Wine and Rosewater then leave the stones in the liquor two or three dayes and after apply it to your eyes Mrs. Meggs Receipt An Oyntment for sore eyes and such as be blasted Take the powder of Callaminaris and put thereunto the grease of a fat Pullet that never laid egg and some White Sugar candied finely beaten to powder and some Oyl of Almonds mix all these well together and use it as occasion is offered Mrs. Meggs For a Pearle in the Eye Take a quantity of Pearlwort as much Heyhowd and a less quantity of Ground Ivy and stamp them thereto put a spoonful of life Honey and about two or three drops of Rosewater strain these and drop the juice often in the eye Another for the same Take white Hemlock and Ground Ivy a little quantity sowre leaven and a little Bay salt and stamp them then put thereto a little Vineger and thereof make a Plaister upon Sheeps leather and lay it to the wrist of the contrary side To stay the hot Rheume in the Eye Take Bole Armoniack powdered the white of an egge well beaten and thereof make a Plaister and lay it to the temples Another for the same Wet a Cloth in the juice of House-leek and lay it upon the brow For heat in the Eyes Take White Wine wherein Lapis Callaminaris hath been seven times quenched and drop it into the eyes when you go to bed with a feather For the black or white Pearle in the Eye Take a handful of Ground Ivy and stamp it and strain it with some fasting spettle and temper it with a little clarified Honey and drop it in your eye Take Sugar candied and beat it small and searese it fine and blow it with a quill into your eye Take Coperas and beat it very fine and blow it in the eye Take Wormwood and beat it then take the white of an egg and beat it and take off the froth then make a pellet of flower and wet it and warm it and lay it to the eye For sore Eyes Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water then take away the skum with a feather then take a piece of rough canvass as broad as ones forehead and put upon your canvass Tow or Flax then powre your egge upon it then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillata and so bind it fast to your Temples when you go to bed but lye not upon the sore eye side and in the morning when you rise take it off suddenly but soak it first with fair water lest it grieve you when you take it off Do this three nights together Another Take the Oyle of a Goose wing a little English Honey and beat them well together in a sawcer then strain it through a clean cloth and drop it into the eye with a feather Probatum For heat in the Eyes Take a piece of a new white loaf and put it into running water and wrap it in a linnen cloth and lay it to the Eyes For a Pin or Web in the Eyes Boil in egg-shell water the stones of Raisons of the Sun and Goose dung new taken and strained therein is very good Capons grease washed in Plantane water and Tutia prepared mixt in it is very good for a sore eye For Bleare Eyes Take the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with the water aforesaid and put into your eye will take away the blood and aking For Blood-shotten Eyes Take the blood of a stock Dove or for want of it of a Pigeon and drop a little into your eyes and wet a cloth therein and lay it on the Eye helpeth the blood shotten eye whether by stroak or otherwise Sometimes the paine cometh of Choler and then the patient feeleth great heat sharp prickings much paine and commonly there appeareth no gumme in the Eye if there do it is yellow therefore the Patient ought to be purged as hath been said in the Remedies of the head proceeding of the cause of Choler And in the beginning of the redness lay Tow or Flax dipped in the white of an egg well beaten with rose-Rose-water and Plantane water To recover the sight Take three drams of Tuttie made into very fine powder as much of Alge Epatum or Epaline in powder two drames of fine Sugar six ounces of rose-Rose-water as much of pure White Wine mixt all together and put it into some clean Vessel of Glasse and being well closed and stopped set it in the Sun a month together stirring it once every day then take four or five drops of the same water and put it into the Eyes morning and evening this in short space will cause the sight to come againe as faire as ever before For swelling of the Eyes Take a Quince and seeth it in water til it be soft then pare it bruise it and mingle it with the yolk of an egg
in Violet water and lay on the Eye the pap of aâ— Apple with some of that water a little Sugar and the yolk of an egg boile a together For an Ague in the Eye Lay on the eye a piece of fresh Biâ—â— two hours and drop on the Eye Alloâ—â— water and lay in the Temples leaverâ— rose-Rosewater Vineger and Nutmeg to stâ—â— the Rheume For a Pin and Web. Take Ground Ivy stamp and straâ— with red Rose water and drop it oâ— in the eye A very good Powder for a spot in the Eye Take of Alloes Sicatrina Sugar candied or very good Sugar of each a like quantity make it into fine powder and put it often into your eyes when you go to bed and Eyebright water in the morning and once more in a day For red or yellow Eyes Take the juice of Parsley and the white of an egge mingled together and a little Rosewater dip flax therein and lay it over your eye and it will help you For Eyes that be blasted Take Plantane Water and the white of an egg mix them well together and wash your eyes therewith and lay it on 〈◊〉 our eyes To clear the sight Take Cellendine Eyebright red Fennel Roses Seagreene Maidenhair and Rue of each two ounces then put thereto half an ounce of Alloes stilling all these in a Stillatory then wash your eyes therewith For red Eyes and for the Pearle Take white Ginger and rub it on a whetstone into a dish then take as much salt as you have powder and put them in White Wine and let them stand a day and a night then take the juice and liquor thereof with a feather and annoint your eyes To take away the Web in the Eye Take the gall of a Hare and a little quantity of purified honey temper them well together then take a feather and annoint your eyes therewith A Water for the Eyes Take of Tutty and Alloes Sicatrina of each six ounces made in fine powder four drams of fine Sugar in powder of white rose-Rosewater and of the best white Wine unchanged twelve ounces mixt all together in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the Sun a month let not your glass be ful shake it once a day turning the bottom upwards then strain it through a fine cloth from the dregs and when you use it one drop is sufficient at a time use it morning and evening and if one drop be too little take two For sore Eyes Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water then strike away the froth with a feather then take a piece of rough canvass tow or flax then powr your whites on it then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillatum and scrape them both upon it and with a knife spread it Plaister wise as much of the one as of the other and so fast bind it to your forehead and in the morning when you rise take it not off suddenly but take it off with fair water Do this three nights together For Blood shotten Eyes Rheume or sore Eyes Take four spoonfuls of Rose water of white Copperas as much as a pease and of Allome and Sugar candied of each as much as a pease all in powder sometimes drop of this in the eye and sometimes wash the eye with it and lay Herbs to the wrists Also Rosewater Sugar and Saffron is very good Sugar candied is the best For a spot or itching in the Eyes Take Ground Ivy Cellendine and Daisies stamp them and strain out the juice then put to it a little Sugar and Damask Rose water and drop in the eye twice a day For sore eyes or for any part inwardly disquieted by any Ache Swelling Wound or Stroke Take the leaves of Woodbind and Plantane of each one handful also three or four Dittony leaves of Roach Allom well washed the quantity of an egg as much Verdigrease three spoonfuls of pure honey put all this into a vessel to be kept only for that purpose put to it a pottle of fair running water and after it hath boiled one quarter of an hour let it stand four or five hours powre out the clear and bury the grounds if it be too sharp put in some white Rose water If the lids be sore with Rheume or the eyes be red or burning drop in and wash the lids often with the white of an egge if it be for a horse put in more Verdigrease and Honey Another Take the Water of Roses Saxifrage and Fennel of each alike and put to them a small quantity of Verdigrease and boil it a little on the fire and when it hath setled take the clear and see you wash Auxungium Poecati seven or eight times and of that put in to your eye a little when you go to bed For Eyes blasted or swoln Annoint them with rape Oyle and lay to a Plaister of Flower Cream Hogs grease Rose water and Violet leaves bruised small and boil all to a Poultice and lay it to warm change it as waxeth dry Capons grease washed and Tutia prepared and mixed with it is very good to annoint sore eyes For Ache Strain or pain in the Head by sore Eyes Take of Plantane Wood Betony and Ragweed of each one handful put as much flower to it as will make it a paste the Herbs being first beaten small make it in a Cake and make it through warm on a Gridiron and lay it to the nape of the neck and let it lye twelve houres and lay fresh as you see cause A Purge for Choller when there is Pain in the Head or Rheume in the Eyes Take of Cene and of Ginger sliced one ounce two ounces of Cassia and six ounces of Sugar stamp them all together and boil them in a pint of Rose water till half be consumed then put in two ounces more of Sugar beat it well and keep it close Take of this Confection a quarter of an ounce in the morning and fast three hours after putting it into a draught of White Wine warmed strain it and so drink it and use it in the Spring and Fall once in ten days for two months or six weeks If you make but for one you need make but half this quantity It purgeth very gently For Eys that be troubled with sorenesse and rednesse Colewort leaves boiled in White Wine and Plaisters made of them and laid one the eyes is good for sore eyes that water much To wash them with the Water of Plantane is very good Also skivers or pricks of any kind boiled in fair water with red Roses amongst them save the fat and drop it in your eyes morning and evening is very good To take away spots of Blood in the Eye Take red Roses and seeth them and let them be set warm to your Eye it taketh away spots of blood it is good also for all Diseases in the Eye for redness in the eye that cometh with a blow or any other
palenesse with full vaines stuffing of the head or nose swelling of the eyes pain in the throat motion to vomit swelling of the Almonds the Remedy is to use dry and warm Herbs as Sage Fennâ—â— Mints Rosemary Marjerom Time c. and after meat use something to close the stomack as prepared Coriander toasted Bread c. and walk in a morning fasting Hot Rheume the signes thereof are these viz. the face is red mixt with a pale or black colour great heat in the nose with itchings when the mouth and the throat is full of bitterness and sharpnesse and if the head be hot in feeling it s thus to be cured he must be let blood and use this Gargarism Take Sirrup of Jaunbes of Violets and Poppy seeds of each alike temper them with Barley water Or take Jaunbes Sebestians Violets white Poppy seeds and Quince kernels decocted in Barley water use it in the evening after meat it is passing good Also take Sirrup of Poppy seeds Sirrup of Mulberries of Roses and well water of each three ounces of Wine of Pomgranats one ounce make it warm and gargle therewith RICKETS For the Rickets in Children Cut the middle gristle of both the ears and with the blood annoint the belly and the Navel with a little Cotton wool then boil Harstongue and Liverwort in Milk or Broth for their usual Dyet Another Take Bay berries bruised and sweet Marjerom of each a handful and boil it in Beer with three or four blades of Mace and so drink it often Another When the former will not help take Fennel seeds and Dill seeds of each alike but most of Dill boile them in Beer and strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink often Probatum RUPTURE A Plaister to keep up the Rupture Take Knotgrass and Shepherds Purse of each one handful of Comfrey and Solomons seale of each half a handful beat them into an Oyl and thereof make your Plaister This Oyl will be preserved all the year in a Gally pot A Drink for the Rupture Take long Plantane Yarrow and Knotgrass of the redest colour of each a great handful Daisie roots Dovefâ—ot Mousear and Borage of each a small handful wash them very clean and shred them grosse then take three quarts of milk and two quarts of White Wine set the milk on the fire and when it doth seeth put in the Wine and as the Curd ariseth take it away and being clean put in the Herbs and let them boil gently a quarter of an hour then take it off and straine it and preserve it in Glasses and let the Patient drink thereof in the morning fasting and so in the evening almost a pint at a draught and do so one week Another Take Comfrey roots Daisie roots and Pollipodium of the Oak make them into fine powder and drink thereof every morning the weight of six pence the space of a fortnight fasting an houre after it For the Rupture in Children Take Frankinsence half an ounce Aloes a quarter of an ounce beat it small and mix it with the white of an egg unto an Oyntment and therewith annoint the child upon his Rupture morning and evening Also take the root of Aron halfe a pound in powder and give thereof unto the child every day for nine dayes together one dram with water of Parfoliata and tye the Rupture with a Boulster close upon it and unto it RESTORATIVE A Restorative Take Treakle Sallet Oyl Sugar candied Cinamon powder made with Licoras and Sugar of each a penny worth mingle all these together and take a quantity thereof as much as a Nut both morning and evening Another Take a quantity of Ale or Beer and put therein over night three or four sprigs of Rew and drink thereof evening and morning for a good space and it will keep your stomack in good order A restoring Medicine for any decay of the inner parts Take Live Honey and put thereto tops of Balme Cowslip flowers Borage flowers Bugloss flowers and tops of Gilly flowers and set this remain in the Honey the space of a Month stopping the pot very close that no aire come in let it stand all the said time in some warm place either in the. Sun or by the fire side then distil it in a glass Still with a little water and drink thereof every morning a good draught A Restorative made of an Herb called Rosâ—solis This Herb groweth in the Meadows in low Marish grounds and in no other places it is of Horseflesh colour and groweth very long and flat to the ground with a main long stalk growing in the midst of six branches springing out of the roots round about the stalk with a hoar colour and a main breadth and length and I do warn you in any wise not to touch this Herb when you gather it with your hands for then the vertue is gone you must gather it by the stalk and so pluck it out of the ground and put it in a glasse or pewter pot the leaves of this Herb are full of strength and vertue Take of this Herb as much as will fill a pottle pot but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua vitae and put them both together in a large vessel and let it stand being chopped just three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day strain it through a clean cloth into a glasse or pewter pot and put to it half a pound of Licoras beaten to fine powder and half a pound of Dates take out the stones of them and cut them into fine slices and mingle all these together and stop the glass or pewter pot close that no Aire come into it and drink of it at night to bedward half a spoonful with Ale and as much in the morning fasting for there is not the weakest man or body in the world that wanteth nature or strength or that is cast into any Consumption but it will restore them again and cause them to be strong and lusty and have a marvellous hungry stomack and that very shortly for he that useth this Medicine three times shal find a great change and comfort in it and as he feeleth himself so he may use it It cured one Mr. Stubbs who dwelt in Westminster and was in a great Consumption and very neer unto death being sick continually for eighteen weeks and all the Physicians in London had forsaken him and these things were sent him to drink from an outlandish man and in three times drinking of it he walked upon his feet RULES for Health A very good Rule for Mans Health to be used in every Month of the Year written 1607. In January use no Physick but warme clothing cat warm meats and drink White Wine fasting it is wholsom In February forbear Physick and letting of blood take no cold for fear of Agues which are easily gotten In March forbear grosse feeding purge by Potions Bathing or Blood-letting In April Physick is good upon occasion
quantity of Beets and a quantity o Mercury one ounce of Coriander seeds one ounce of Cummin seeds bruise the seeds and seeth them and the Herbs all together in a pottle of running water and let it seeth till halfe be consumed then strain it and take three spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and three spoonfuls of Honey and half a handful of Bay salt bruised so put it into a Glister pipe and use it For the Stone Take the inner bark of Elder and seeth it in Beer or Ale til it have a good strength of the Elder then strain it and drink it morning and evening and it will break the Stone A very good drink for the Stone Take a pint of White Wine and half a pint of Ale and make thereof with milk a pottle of posset drink and take away the curd very clean and boil in it two or three roots of Mallowes Marsh Mallowes are the best and some Licoras till a quarter be boiled away then drink half in the morning and the rest at night For the Stone or strongurion Take half an ounce of Anniseeds a quarter of an ounce of Licoras Calamus Aromaticus French Gallingal Mirrh Gum Arebeck Gum Traganthum Diatria Papira or Piperion Pine Apple kernels white Orris roots Storax Benjamin Cipresse and Labdanum of each a small quantity then beat them all together take also half an ounce of large Mace white Archangel Mead Parsley and Garden Parsley Camomile Mallowes Fennel and Spiere Mint of each halfe a handful then take three quarts of White Wine and put them together in a brasse pot or a Posnet and boil them a pretty while then take it off and strain it through a cloth and put it in earthen vessels and keep it cool it will drink the better and take six spoonfuls morning and evening for three dayes together when you find your self ill and do not foreslow the taking of it Probatum A Plaister to apply to the side for the Stone Take Mallowes Herb grace Pellitory of the wall the green tops of Fennel and Camomile of each two handfuls seeth them in water till they be tender then presse out the water from them then stamp them very small and put in Oyle of Lillies Oyl of Camomile Oyl of Dill Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oyle of Scorpions of each one ounce let them boil on a Chafingdish and coals a good while then put to it as much wheat flower as wil make it thick like a Plaister spread it between two cloths and apply it to the Patients side as hot as may be endured For the Stone Take the weight of a French Crown of Pulvis Hollandi drink it in a quantity of White Wine stirring it well in the cup that it may not curd drink it in the morning betimes or at what time the Patient pleaseth keeping himself warme in his chamber all that day for it will give him three or four stooles and drink some warm broth after it and use this once a Month. More belonging to the former Medicine Take once a week after the former eight spoonfuls of Deal Wine and eight spoon fuls distilled from the berry of the Hawes make it sweet with Sugar and slice half a Lemmon into it and some sliced Ginger For the Stone in the Kidneyes There is great pain in the raines of the back which draweth downwards stirring encreaseth the pain they are much inclined to vomiting the body is bound Urine raw and watrish often provoking to pisse but not without pain the Urine avoids with gravel sand and slime yea sometimes mixt with blood To know it from the Chollick first it s not so sharp as the paine of the Chollick Secondly The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above and stretcheth downwards and a little more towards the back Thirdly the pain is most of the Kidneyes fasting the Chollick otherwise All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone are good for the Kidnies but not for the Chollick Lastly there is found in the Urine gravel or sand and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts To restrain the growing of the Stone or Gravel Take Turbith one dram and an half Hermodactilus one dram Diagridy six graines Salt of India two grains Ginger half a scruple Annis and Mastick of each three grains Sugar Pellets one ounce white Sugar half an ounce steep them together in three ounces of Water of Smallage or Maidenhair all night and wring it out well and drink it if the matter be in the stomack then take a Vomit that it run not towards the Rains This Vomit may be made of reddish Orange seeds the middlemost rind of Elder and Nux Vomica SIRRUP To make a Sirrup for one that is short winded Take a good handful of Hisop a handful of Horehound and seeth them in a quart of running water to a pint then strain it through a fair cloth and put in Sugar to make it pleasant Use this morning and evening with a Licoras stick some three spoonfuls at a time To make Sirrup of Roses Your liquor must be ready to seeth then put therein as many Roses as will be well steeped in the same water and cover it close and when the Roses be throughly white then strain it and set it on the fire again and so you must use it thirteen times and to every pint of your water or liquor you must put into it a pound of Sugar and let it stand together for the space of one night steeping and skim it clean and seeth it over a quick fire a quarter of an hour then take the whites of egges and beat them well together then take the pot off the fire and put into it the whites of your egges and then set it on the fire again and let it seeth a good space then let it run through a Jelly bag til it will stand still upon your nayl To make a comfortable Sirrup Take a handful of Egrimony and seeth it in a pint of Water till half be confumed then take out the Egrimony and put in a good handful of Currans seeth them till they be ready to break then strain them and make a Sirrup of them then set it on a chafingdish and coales and put thereto a little white Saunders and drink it either hot or cold Sirrup of Sugar candied Take Sâ—gar candied and put it into a clear bladder and tye it but so as it may have some vent then put it into a bason of water so that the water come not over the top of the bladder and cover it with a pewter dish and let it stand all night and in the morning take of it with a Licoras stick Doctor Deodates Scorbuttical Sirrup Take of the juice of Garden Scurvigrass Brooklimes and Watercresses of each six ounces and after it hath stood till it be clear take sixteene ounces of the clearest and of the juice
of Pellitory of the wal and all these things being washed clean seeth them in posset Ale and drink thereof when you go to bed and if you awake at midnight drink of it also A good Medicine to strengthen a weak Back Take a good handful of the pith of the back of a young Ox or Heifer slice â—t and take out the stuff in it and put it in a fair dish put thereunto one two or three of pure Dates the skin within side taken off and minced as fine as may be then boile them in two or three spoonfuls of rose-Rose-water then look what quantity of Dates so the like of Raisons of the Sun and red Currants your Raisons must be minced smal and the stones taken out then boil your Raisons and Currants and rose-Rose-water together till they be tender and put in some crumbs of Bread Cinnamon and Sugar and Saffron small beaten to powder then temper all these together in a fair dish and have ready Pastionel which is made of Sugar and yolks of Eggs fine flower and butter these work together into paste and roll it as thin as you can and make it into pieces the fashion of a Pease cod and bake them slenderly and reserve them to your use and when you list to eat of them take one and heat it by the fire side in the morning and eat it and another 〈◊〉 noon For the Back Take some Comfrey roots Knotgrasse Clary and Shepherds purse stamp them and strain them with a little Muskadine and put thereto the rest of a pint of Muskadine one Nutmeg grated and two yolks of Eggs and so drink of it cold To cleanse and comfort the Back and Reins Take a pottle of fair Spring-water and put thereinto halfe a pound of Eringo roots as new as you can get them and meerly of themselves as they grow without any candying or confectioning only bruise them very well before you put them into the pipkin of water then take three good sticks of Licoras and bruise them and put them into the same water let all these boil together over a temperate fire until half be consumed then take it off and every morning drink a pretty draught thereof for seventeen or eighteen dayes together A Conserve to strengthen the Back Take Eringo roots and conserve them as you do Damask white and red Roses in every respect the pith being taken out one pound and a half of Sugar is enough for every pound of Roots and three pints of water and stew them closely at the first as you do your Roses if you will add to them five or six graines of Ambergreece beaten to fine powder it will be much more cordial A good Drink against the heat of the Back Take Fennel Comfrey and Plantane of each a handful Anniseeds Fennel seeds and Licoras of each an ounce Mastick two drams Lapis dactilus two drams boile these in two quarts of new milk till half be consumed then strain it and drink of it morning and evening After this drink the space of an hour take on the top of a knife this Electuary Diatragacanth frigid one ounce of Sirrup of Violets one dram mix them together and take it as aforesaid For paine and heat in the Back Take Sage Rosemary Camomile and Maudlin of each one handful stamp them together and frye them in May butter and annoint the back with it warm Of the pain in the Back This pain proceedeth of Rheumes that fall into the sinews of the Muscles or of great labour and such like occasions Seeth Nep in your broth which draweth the noisome and grieved matter out of the neck and driveth away all pain in the shoulders and back bones Also silver Mountain seeds sod in water and drink thereof twice a week every time three or four ounces It is very good against all weakness of the back and raines BALM To make an excellent Balm Take a pottle of the best White wine three pints of Oyle of Saint Johns-wort of the blossomes of Saint Johns-wort Carduus Benedictus Sage Valerian of each two pound of Marjerom and Comfrey one pound chop them and stamp them small and put them into the Wine and Oyle then take new Wheat four ounces dry it well and bruise it and put it into the Wine and Oyle stir it well and seeth it four and twenty hours upon the embers close covered sometimes stirring it then boile it and stir it well and when you perceive the wine is almost consumed take it off and strain it then set it on a soft fire and take Venice Turpentine Mirrhe Incense and Mastick of each four ounces Ohbanum five ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce beat all these to fine powder and searse them through Lawn put in the Turpentine a little before the rest stirring it exceeding well then set it a little on the fire and off and on keeping it stirring till it be almost cold then put it in a glasse bottle for your use It is good for all manner of wounds BELLY For a swelling in the Belly Take Sassafras Hartstongue Betony Centory of each two handfuls Pelitory of Spain Cinnamon Ginger Cloves of each one ounce Licoras two ounces Spiknard one ounce put all these in a gillon of White wine and let it stand three dayes and then drink of it the space of eight dayes Another Take a quart of Spring-water and about some twenty leaves of a weed called Dithander and put thereinto some ten or twelve Cloves and boyl all these together till it come to a pint and drink thereof An Oyntment for a great belly whether it be by reason of an Ague or Wormes or the Spleen Take Romane Wormwood common Wormwood Garden Tansie Fetherfew Sowthernwood Unset Leeks Peach leaves Herb-grace of each one handful wash them and wring them then take a pound of Barrowes grease or May butter stamp all the Herbs in a Mortar very small then mingle them with the grease and make it up into balls as big as Tennis Balls then put them in a Cellar seven or eight daies till they be all hoary then break them into an Earthen pot and boil them on a soft fire till the juice be consumed then take it up and strain it and keep it for your use And when you use it warm some of it and annoint the belly before the fire morning and evening For a pain in the Bowels through hot Choler The party must be purged with Sirâ—ups which do cool and Glisters For a Purge take eight and twenty damask Pruins and five or six Figs seeth them in water and take of this Decoction three or four ounces temper Cassia therein and the Oyl of Sweet Almonds five or six ounces tempered with Sugar and drink the same at once It looseneth the body very gently and may be given to children newly born Likewise Manna decocted with sowre Dates Pruins and Sugar is good to give a stool BITING For the Biting of a Mad Dog Take Garlick Salt and
or a month at both times of the year as you see cause and take it every day or second day as you finde it work A Dyet Drink to heal Wounds Take of Egrimony two handfuls of Daisie leaves and roots Wild Angelica Ribwort Mugwort Wormwood Comfry Mints Canapit Speedwel Avens Bramble leaves Arcamilla or Sincle Scabious Betony and Dandillion of each of these a handful boil them all together in two gallons of running water some three hours till half be consumed then put into it a pint of White Wine and half a pint of honey then strain it out and so keep it letting the party drink thereof two or three times a day EYES A good Medicine to preserve the Eye-sight TAke green Barly before it be eared and distil it and use daily now and then to lay a little on your eyes of that Water and it will continue the sight A special good Poultice for sore Eyes that be much swelled and cometh by the Rheume Take a quantity of Bean flower some of an Apple finely scraped a little womans milk of Sorrel Water red Role-Water Plantane Water of each a little quantity mix all these together and make a Poultice thereof then spread it upon a fine linnen cloth somewhat thick and put it to the Patients Eyes cold A Plaister for sore eyes Take of the pap of a roasted Apple two spoonfuls the like quantity of new laid eggs of Saffron thirteen chives dryed and made into fine powder work these together to one substance and put thereto of Womans milk of a maiden child one spoonful of Rose water the like quantity of these make your Plaister and lay it to your eyes morning and evening and have in a readiness the powders of these stones following Lapis Calaminaris quenched nine times in White Wine Aloes Hepatica white Sugar candied Tucia prepared Camphire of each of these half a dram made fine to powder sow these in a fine cloth or fine silk and put it in a glasse of water and of this Water drop into your eyes morning and evening and lye upon your back when you drop it into your eyes Make your Water as followeth Take Roses Marigolds Plantane brown Fennel Eyebright Cellendine Tormentil Betony Scabious Fumetory Oaken buds of each of these two ounces mix all these in a glasse and put in the powders above said A very good Medicine for Eyes that be troubled with Pin or Web or other dimnesse Take the yolk of a new laid egg or two and beat it well until it cometh unto a great froth then let it stand so a little while and let the Oyl run into a sawcer and put the juice of Daisies with the blossomes leaves and roots being stamped and strained into the Oyl of Eggs and put a little clarified honey unto it and mix all these well together and let the Patient take every morning and evening into the ey that is grieved a drop put in with a feather let this be used so long as the pain lasteth Another for sore Eyes Take a little Rosewater and womans milk and mix them together whereof the Patient may use a drop at a time as above said And if the Patient be a man the womans milk must be of her that hath a daughter and if the Patient be a woman she must have the milk of her that hath a son sucking upon her For a Pearle Pin or Web in the Eyes Take a little Hony clarified as it cometh from the Hive and so drop it into your eye evening and morning and it will help Probatum A very good Medicine for sore eyes that cometh of the Megrim Take the white of an egg and beat it well then skim it and put to the Oyle some case Ginger finely beaten and some White Wine Vineger then take flax and dip it in the Oyl and lay it on your Temples and take heed that no part thereof come into your eyes Do this four or five nights or more when you go to bed and every time wash your eyes with the water that cometh of cutting of Vines Probatum A Water very comfortable for the Eye-sight Take of Rose leaves red Fennel Vervain Rew Cellendine and Eyebright of each a handful and so still them all together and you shall have a good Water for the eye sight Probatum To recover the Eye sight Take Smallage Rew Fennel Vervain Egrimony Betony Scabious Avens Houndstongue Eyebright Pimpernel and Sage of each a like quantity and distil all these together with a little Urine of a man-child and five grains of Frankinsence and drop of this water every night into the eyes and the sight will recover by Gods grace Probatum by Mr. Whaley For sore eyes and blind Take the white of a new laid egge strained from the yolk beat it well to an Oyl and take off the froth and put to the Oyle a spoonful of good White Wine Vineger and a spoonful of Rose water beat them all well together and with a little flax lay to each temple a Plaister but take heed it touch not the eyes use this three or four times to bedward it hath brought them to sight that were seven weeks blind Probatum For red Eyes Take a new laid egg or two and roast them very hard then without taking away the shels cut them in sunder and take out the yolks and scrape a little white Copperas and put it where the yolks were as much Copperas as a little pease is enough for one egg then strain the whites with the shels through a cloth into a sawcer and with this Oyl annoint your eyes when you go to bed For Eyes that be Bloodshed or have Pushes in them Make a toast of fine leven bread and lay it in Wine till it be soft then put it in a cloth and to bedward lay it in the cloth to the eyes and it will heal them For an Eye that hath been hurt so that the Ball was ready to fall out being swolne as big as an egge Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten and take it from the core then bear the white of an egg well and drop the juice of the Apple therein and bind it with a cloth to the eye and so dresse it twice a day till it be whole The gall of a Hart and clarified Hony well mingled together is very good for the Web in the eye it must be laid on with a feather For a Pin or Web in the eye Take White Wine and put it in a Bason that is bright and put Bay salt unto it and let it stand for nine dayes two of the dayes shake the Bason and at the ninth dayes end put it into a glasse and keep it for your use it is also good for red eyes An excellent Water for sore Eyes by Pearle Pin and Web Lash or Prick Take of Cellendine Herb-grace Betony brown Fennel Eyebright red Rose flowers Maidenhair or as many of those as you can get distil of each alike much
and the crumbs of white bread dipped in the fame Water and put thereto a little womans milk and two penny worth of Saffron bray them together and lay it over your forehead and the eyes Sometime such pain chanceth because of phlegme and then the Patient feeleth great pain and heavinesse in the eyes and in this case you must purge the phlegme as hath been said in the Remedies of the head grieved with the excess of phlegme To clarifie the sight or for redness of the eyes Take Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it in White Wine and set it so stand a day and a night then take of the thinnest and wet your eyes with a feather when you go to bed to resolve the Gum you must wash your eyes with houselee sometimes the pain cometh because of ventosity or wind and then the Patiene feeleth such pain as it were beating between the ears with a Hammer for which it is good to make a Decoction of Camomile flowers Mellilote and Fennel seeds in water and White Wine and therein wet a fourfold linnen cloth well pressed down and lay it upon the eyes often Otherwhiles there chanceth pain in the eyes by outward accidents as wind dust or heat milk well beaten with the white of an egge is good and sometimes the same pain cometh of striking and then drop in your eye the blood of a Pigeons wing which blood will take away spotted marks and rednesse of the face For a great pain in the Eye Take half an ounce of Oyl of Roses the yolk of an egge and a quarter of an ounce of Barley flower and a little Saffron mixt together and put it between two linnen cloths and lay it to the pain or else take the crumb of white bread one ounce and seeth it with Nightshade and Morral water then mix with the same bread yolks of eggs Oyl of Roses and Camomile of each an ounce and a half of Linseed one ounce and use it as aforesaid A very good Water to strengthen the sight and to prevent a Catherick Take Eyebright Vervain Tormentill of each two pound Cellendine Egrimony Wood Betony Honey suckle flowers White or Red Roses Vine leaves Pimpernel Fennel Rue Oculus Christi Chickweed Smallage and Clover of each a pound beat them small and steep them in a gallon of White Wine twelve hours then fill your Still reasonable full and put to it three great spoonfuls of Honey a pint of new milk and half a pint of Urine of a man child then still it and draw about a pint and a half of a Still For an Eye that is very full of pain Take of Violet leaves a quarter of a handful of Daisies roots and all half as many wash them and dry them very well in a cloth then stamp them and put to it a spoonful of red Rose water and strain it then take the white of a new laid egg well beaten and take away the froth then put that to the things aforesaid with half a quarter of a spoonful of Honey and drop this in the eye morning and evening and twice or thrice a day and at night lay on the eye the pap of a roasted Apple or of a rotten Apple and put a little juice of Houseleek amongst it and a little fine Sugar candied lay it upon the Eye two or three nights if the pain be great lap upon it a piece of fresh Bief two or three hours and so again as you see cause Lay to your neck behind Elder leaves and Woodbetony dryed between two tiles sprinkled with a little Vinegar and strew on good store of beaten Pepper when it is hot lay it on a thin cloth and so lay it to the neck night and morning four or five times Also make blisters behind the ears if you see cause If there grow a skin upon the eye put in Allome Water with the juice of Cellendine in it or if it be much the juice of Ground Ivy drop this in twice a day and the white powder once a day For Blood-shotten Eyes If the Violet Water will not help take five or six cornes of Cummin seeds bruised as many blades of Saffron put in a fine rag let it soak in a spoonful of red Rose water strain it and put to it a spoonful of Womans milk and drop this often into the eye For a very great Pearle in the Eye Put in the Eye a little clarified Honey and a little fine Ginger in it and sometimes the powder of white Sugar candied half an hour before you put in either put in a little fresh grease For a Rheume in the Eyes Make Eggshell Water with the juice of Houseleek as much white Copperas as a pease twice as much Honey this is good if you perceive the Humour to be very hot also it is good with Snow water and if the Humour be cold make it with half stilled water and half Eyebright Water if between both make it with fair water To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Take Woodbind bruised and lay it to your Temples For a Pin or Web in the Eye Take Herb Christopher stamp it and strain it and put in a little honey drop it in twice a day also lay on his eye white bread milk and Violets made in a Poultice also take Cellendine Daisies roots and all brown Fennel Cliver Betony Plantane Sorrel twice as much as the rest there must be of each a handful a pint of new milk a dram of white Coperas in powder two great spoonfuls of Honey do not draw it dry drop it in the eye three or four times in two hours and lay a wet cloth upon the eye To bring away the Rheume from the Eye Set the feet in Camomile sod in water two houres if you can then lap them in a blanket two houres keeping it warme with warm clothes For any spot in the Eye Take the scraping of a whetstone and Bay salt made very fine and put thereof twice a day into your Eye For a Pin and Web. Roast an egg and put in a piece of Copperas as big as a Pease and nine Cummin seeds strain it and put in a little Honey Alloes Sicatrina made in powder and strained with a little Rose water is very good for any sore eyes Capons grease washed with Plantane water and Tutia prepared and mixt together is very good for sore eyes to annoint them with it To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Make water seething hot and wet a good big cloth in it and lay it all over the forehead when it beginneth to wax cool wet another and lay to it hot and do so half an hour together against the fire For a prick in the Eye with a thorne and to drive out the thorne or stubble Take he treddle of an egg and put it in your eye and biod it in For a Bâ—â—iâ—â— in the Eye Lay to the Temples a piece of raw fresh Bâ—ef and to the eye put
and lay it warm to the eyes Also if deflux cause much pain take unwashed sheeps wool burn it to ashes in a close stopped pot bruise it as small as may be and mix it with the white of an egge and lay it on your forehead and temples This asswageth the Catarrhe very quickly and abateth the pain A Plaister for the Temples or sore Eyes Take Alloes Mirrhe Mirtle leaves Acatia of each one dram Mastick and Frankinsence of each half a dram beaten small together and make it to a Plaister with the white of an egg Likewise he ought to purge with Pills of Cochia which be sharpned with the Trocisies of Alhandaly Also with the Confection of Hierâ— and such like Oyle of linnen being made thus is very good for sore Eyes viz. set it a fire with a candle and lay the linnen upon an even piece of iron tin or silver and put it out quickly and you shall find a drop of Oyle the which take up with a feather This healeth marvellously well the Imposthume of the eyes taketh away the pain and is good for a Fistula and Wounds in the Eyes FACE To take away the Scars or Pockholes or redness in the Face TAke a good quantity of Lemmons and slice them rinds and all and distil them laying them on fair sticks that they touch not the bottom of the Still and with the Water that cometh thereof annoint the face and it will soon take away the rednesse and scars of the face For a sawcie Face Take a pottle of White Wine and a quarter of a pound of Cinnamon cleane rubbed and winnowed then seeth it in the White Wine till it be half sodden away and then put it into a pot and drink it evening and morning till the Patient be cured Probatum An approved good Medicine to cool and repel the redness of the face that proceedeth of heat Take a quantity of running water and a quantity of Brimstone and as much Allome beaten small together put them with the water into a glasse fast stopped and so let it stand every morning and evening take a little out into a sawcer and with a linnen rag wash your face therewith and so let it dry in with wiping For Spots in the Face For a mans or a womans face that seemeth as they were drunken take Water-cresses and cut them small and put them in a small earthen pot and put fair Spring water thereto and let them boil together and drink of that water morning and evening To make the Face fair Take the flowers of Beanes and distil them and wash the face with the water Some say that the Urine of the party grieved is very good to wash the face and to keep it from blemishing If the face be washed with the water that Rice is sodden in it taketh away the Pimples and cleanseth the face For heat in the face Seeth white Copperas in running water and let it stand till it be cold and then put in a little Camphire and every morning and evening take a little of that water in a sawcer and with a little cloth dipt in it wash and bathe your face therewith and let it dry in of it self A Drink for the Heat or Rednesse in the Face Take four handfuls of Wild Tansie and boil it in two Gallons of small wort let it stand until it be almost cold then put to it a little Barme and let it work and when it is ripe put it in a close vessel and so let it stand three or four dayes then you must drink of it every day twice so long as you use it An excellent Water for the same Take twelve Lemmons and pare them to the very juice four new laid egges shells whites and yolks beaten all together six spoonfuls of pure English Honey Temper all together and distil them with a very soft fire and receive the water thereof in a glasse for your use putting thereto a little Mercury to make it keep and continue An excellent Lac Virginis to make the Face Neck or any part of the Body fair and white Take of Alumen Plumosi half an ounce of Camphire one ounce of Roach Allome one ounce and a dram Sal gemmi half an ounce white Frankinsence two ounces Oyle of Tartar one ounce and a half make all these into most fine powder and mix it with one quart of rose-Rose-water then set it in the Sun and let it stand there nine dayes often stirring it then take Littarge of Silver half a pound beat it fine and fearse it then boil it in one pint of White Wine Vinegar until one third part be consumed ever stirring it with a stick while it boileth then distil it by a Filter or let it run through a thick Jelly bag then keep it by it self in a glass Vial and when you will use these Waters take a drop of the one and a drop of the other in your hand and it will be like milk which is called Lac Virginis wash your face or any part of your body therewith It is most precious for the same Probatum Dr. Walmesley For the Pimples in the Face Take Wheat-flower mingled with honey and vinegar lay it upon them and it cleanseth them To dry up any Pimples or heat in the Face Take Virgin Wax one ounce and a half May Butter three ounces meâ—â— them then put to them Cerus half an ounce Bole Armoniack a scruple a little Rose water to wash it after these are melted together annoint the Pimples with it twice a day FELLON To ripen a Fellon or Boil Take Rue Sage and the fat of rusty Bacon of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and lay it on a linnen cloth warm to the Grief Another Take an Onion roasted put thereto Honey and Wheat flower and so beat it all together and lay it to the sore To kill a Fellon Take an egg and roast it hard and take the yolk thereof and take an Onion and roast it soft and beat the yolk and the Onion together and lay it to the sore and it will kill the Fellon A Soveraign Salve to heal the Fellon Take of the Soot of a house that is on the Beams and break it to powder and take the yolk of an egg and bray them together then lay it on a clean cloth and lay it on the sore and this will heal it An excellent Poultice to take away the anguish of a Fellon and to break it speedily Take milk and put therein crumbs of White Bread and boil them together very tender to a Poultice then take it from the fire and put therein the yolk of an egg and have ready some white Lilly roots wrapped up in a brown paper and roasted very tender first bruise the roots into a pap then mingle them well with the other things and so apply it warme to the griefe and when it is broken use healing Salve For a Fellon Take Verjuice and crumbs of browne bread
leaves Camomile and Setwal of each a handful stamp them all together very smal then take a pint or more of May Butter and half a pint of Neats foot Oyle stirre them all together and then put them into a Pipkin or liltle earthen pot with a cover and close it well with Paste that no air issue out then put that earthen pot into a brasse pot with water in it and boil them two hours then take them out and set them as deep as you can in a muckhil two dayes then take them up and boil them two hours again then take them out and let them cool and straine them through a linnen cloth and when they be setled powre out the watrish bloud from them and keep them pure and clean and lay them warm to the place grieved LEPROSIE For curing the Leprosie Take half a pint of English Honey and a good handful of Herb-grace beat it very smal and put it into the Honey and boil them very well together till the one half be consumed then straine it through a clean cloth and with a feather annoint the sores therewith A Drink belonging to the same Medicine Take an ounce of Elicampane roots one ounce of Fennel roots when they be picked and pithed one ounce of Burrage roots picked and pithed one ounce of Niprial picked and pithed then take a pottle of stream water and boile all these roots till one half be consumed then put in so much English Honey as will sweeten it to your taste then straine it and put it in a glasse bottle then take a penny worth of Quicksilver and kill it well with fasting spittle and then put it into the Drink when it is through cold and let the Patient drink thereof five spoonfuls in the morning fasting and so much when he goeth to bed and by Gods help it will cleanse him LASK For a Lask Take a good quantity of Wheat flower and put it in a bag seeth it very well then take the same and put it out of the bag and so much as is soft scrape away with a knife the rest will be very hard scrape it and make pap with milk and give it to the Patient twice or thrice a day and it will help Probatum To stay a Lask or Bloody Flux Take a sew old Beanes and parch them over the fire in a pan and then beat them into a powder then make an Aleberry of Sack or Ale and put some of the powder therein and seeth them well together then let the Patient drink thereof warm and with twice drinking it will help Another Take milk somewhat hot and put it in a dish then take Red Wine and put it in another dish and let the Patient suck it out of both dishes with two quils or reeds both together and in so doing it turneth into a curd and stoppeth the Flux To stay a Scouring Take a handful of Rice wash it in red Rose water and dry it well and beat 〈…〉 powder and make pap of it and bod it with Cinnamon and eat it Another Take Virgin Wax and make it into Pills and give it in the pap of an Apple three at one time For a Lask or Flux Take the neather Jaw of a great Pike and beat it into fine powder and drink it in Beer or Ale or in your pottage and it will help To procure Looseness Seeth Mallowes and red Nettles in fair water and let the Patient sit over the hot fume thereof LIVER For cooling of the Liver Take French Barley and boil it in a quart of fair water when it is boiled take it forth of that water and put it in three pints of fresh water then take of Violet leaves Strawberry leaves of each a handful Succory Bugloss Borage of each half a handful one good stick of Licoras half a handful of Raisons of the Sun stoned one spoonful of Anniseeds let all these boil from three pints to a quart then take the Liquor and strain it and put a handful of Almonds into it and when you drink of it take a spoonful of Rosewater and drink with it and take it two hours before you eat in the morning at the least and likewise two houres before Supper For the heat of the Liver Infuse and steep Bread reasonably leavened in water and a little Vineger and eat thereof fasting an hour or two before other meats and use Sallets of Succory roots sodden till they be tender Doctor Hills counsel for cooling the Liver Take Barly one handful of Sorrel Succory and Endive of each one handful a stick of Licoros bruised Raisons of the Sun one handful Anniseeds half a handful seeth all these in a quart of faire water till halfe be wasted away then strain it and drink of it in the morning three times in a week at least A Drink to cleanse the Liver Take a quart of Rhenish Wine and put thereto one ounce and half of Cene seeth it from a quart to a pint then strain it and put thereto three branches of white Mint three penny worth of white Rose water two Nutmegs sliced with a knife six penny worth of white Sugar candied and four penny worth of Angel Gold and seeth it a little and let the Patient take it morning and evening A good Medicine for the Liver Take Ivory and burn it in a clean earthen vessel and when it is burnt take sweet Barly Wort and put therein of the Ivory as you please or put it into Ale and drink it nine dayes together Also drink the juice of Liverwort A Drink to mitigate all heat of the Liver and Spleen Take of Liverwort Maidenhair Endive the flowers of Winter Gilliflowers picked clean from the stalks great Comfrey Tarragon of each four ounces of Spinage Water a pottle of Licoras cleane scraped and thin sliced two ounces of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced one ounce boil all these together stirring it now and then and then put in fine Sugar candied one ounce and half finely beaten to powder then let it boil half away alwayes stirring it and put it in some close glasse and reserve it to your use of this you must take a good draught every morning and fast an hour after it A Broth to cool the heat of the Liver Take Violets Time Parsley Water-cresses red Nettle Crops and Clivers and red Fennel of each alike but somewhat â—esse of the Water cresses red Nettle crops and Fennel then the rest shred all the Herbs and make broth with Chicken Capon or Mutton For the heat of the Liver Take three pints of Whey Egrimony Boâ—age and Bugloss of each one handful boil all together half an hour then stram it through a fine linnen cloth drink a good draught of this in the morning fasting and at three of the clock bâ—â— before you drink thereof take Smallage and stamp it and strain it and take two spoonfuls of the juice thereof and put it into your drink before you drink it Against
the stopping of the Liver Lungs and Spleen and to comfort the Stomack Take two or three roots of Succory and Parsley Sage of Jerusalem Folefoot Violet leaves Scabious Egrimony and Scurvigrasse of each half a handful Conserve of Red Roses one ounce of Saffron one penny worth and a Date or two sliced and the pill taken away put all these into a Pullets belly ready drest and sow up the open places but put not in the roots boil it in sufficient water till the flesh be sodden from the bones and when it is half sodden put in the roots steeped before in Wine Vinegar put in also three or four large Mace blades of Raisons of the Sun one handful stoned and a few Currans and when it is sodden as aforesaid strain it and drink every morning a good draught thereof fasting For all Griefs of the Liver Take the leaves flowers and roots of Betony in Drink Conserve Electuary Sirrup or Potion or Powder is singular good for all Diseases of the stomack Liver Melt Kidnies Bladder the Obstruction of the Matrix the consumption of the Lungs Coughs Dropsies continual Feavers boile the leaves and flowers in Honey water to have present Remedy Also seeth the Herbs and Flowers of Camomile in Wine and drink it to help stopping of the Liver and Melt to purge Choler to expel Terms to help the torments of the small guts for Griefes of the Kidnyes or Bladder for difficulty of Breathing Sighing Wheezing to warm a cold stomack and to drive away any inward grief For the Liver and to comfort the Stomack Take a branch or two of Ciprus otherwise called French Wormwood and a little Barme and boile them in Ale and Drink it fasting LIPS For chopt Lips Take new Wax Mastick and white Frankinsence with Oyle of Roses all made into an Oyntment and annoint the lips and it will cure them presently LUNGS A Preservation for the Lungs Take a pint of Wormwood Water and Liverwort almost a handful and of Longwort a handful Sugar one ounce boile them all together till one part of four be sodden away and let the patient drink thereof three spoonefulls in the morning fasting and last at night alwaies warmed Probatum LEGGS For a sore Legge or old vlcer Take Littarge of gold two pound of Galbanum one ounce Verdigrease foure ounces Bdelium one ounce Mastick one ounce and half Opoponax and Aristologia of each one ounce old Oyl Olive one pound and half You must drie the gummes that they may be powdred and frie them with your Oyle then straine it and put thereto your Littarge Verdigrease and Aristologia one after another alwayes stirring it lest the Littarge sink to the bottome and so let it simber over the fire easily then put to it three peniworth of turpentine and of wax three ounces and so make it up for your use in a Plaister It hath cured the Lord Wharton and divers others with two or three dressings when no Chirurgian could find a Cure for them For a sore Leg. Take stone lime and slake it and put it in running water and put thereto of Quicksilver white lead and Bores grease of each one penny worth mingle all together and so annoint it To kill the Itch of the same and to skin it Take a gallon of good Ale and boil it to a pint and then a linnen cloth and wet it therein and wash the sore withal Another Take of Ale Allom of each one half penny worth and boil it together and melt a quantity of fresh Butter therein and annoint it therewith A Plaister for festered Legs being long sore Take March and Wild Tansie Plantane Morrel Honey and the white of an egg and the milk of a Cow of one colour and Barley flower bray the Herbs in a Morter and mingle all together and lay it on the sore A Plaister for sore Eyes broken or not Take a pint of Sallet Oyl one pound of unwrought Wax half a pound of white Lead boile all these together in a brasse pan with a soft fire till it be as thick as pitch stirring it with a stick then dip in it a piece of Lockrum and make thereof a Plaister MEGRIM For the Megrim TAke a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Betony and a handful of Archangel seeth them all together in a quart of good Ale and a pint of White Wine Vinegar the space of half an hour and lay it to your forehead as hot as you may suffer it and the longer you keep it thereto it is the better Another Take halfe a handful of the leaves of Rosemary and seeth them in Vinegar till they be soure then lay them upon a linnen cloth and cast thereon a little Rosewater and lay it to your sorehead as hot as you may suffer it A Plaister for the Megrim Take the Oyl of an egge and some Cummin seed and Frankinsence and wheaten flower and two Nutmegs beaten all small and mingled with the Oyl of the egg and make a Plaister thereof as big as a groat and lay it to the temples of the head MOTHER For the Mother and green Sickness Take great Garden wormes and slit them and wash them clean and then lay them in White Wine half an hour then take them out and lay them in an Oven to dry and when they are throughly dryed beat them into fine powder and drink it in White Wine in the morning fasting and fast two hours after it MOUTH For a sore Mouth Take the waters of the tops and leaves of red Brambles Rosemary Sage and Woodbind leaves all severally distilled of each a like quantity and put them all together into a great glass thâ—n put as much Allom small beaten into the same as will make it sharp and so keep it to use as occasion serveth either for a Canker in the mouth ranknesse of the Gums or any other sorenesse Another Take Treakle English Honey and burnt Allome of each alke then take tops of Rosemary red Sage Honey suckle leaves Bramble leaves and Fennel of each a handful stamp and strain the Herbs and take the juice and boil with the other things til it be somewhat thick then rub your mouth therewith For a sore Mouth or Throat Take Rue and red Sage of each one handful Groundsel and Sorrel of each a little cut them small and then stamp them then take as much Allome as a Walnut and as much Copperas as a small Nut and burn them to powder in a frying pan then take a like quantity of each of them unburnt and beat them small then take a pint of running water and put them all in it and boil it halfe away then take it from the fire and strain it then put to it three spoonful of English Honey and so keep it in a glasse and warm a little of it every time you use it dipping a cloth in it upon a little stick and so wash the mouth twice a day or more as you see occasion NOSE For
draught in the morning be luke-warm fasting and at Dinner and at Supper what you think good for you must drink no other Drink till that be spent A Purging Ale Take of the juice of Scurvigrass foure pound of Watercresses two pound of Brooklime one pound of Water Mints half a pound of dry Wormwood four handfuls of the roots of Madder four ounces of the roots of Monks Rubarb three ounces roots of Horse Rhadish one ounce and a half the roots of Saxifrage one ounce of Cene four ounces of Juniper berries half an ounce of Anniseeds Coriander seeds and Ginger of each six drams Another Take a pint of the Whey of Goats milk of Cene half an ounce of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds well dusted and lightly bruised of each of weight of four pence let them stand one hour or one hour and half on warm embers in insuling the next morning to a draught hereof put a spoonful of Sirrup of Roses and as this agreeth with you so take it three or four dayes together or every other day Another Take a pottle of the same Whey boile therein of Betony Colts foot and Hisop of each one handful and drink there of as you have occasion A very easie Purgation Take halfe a pint of Malmesey or somewhat more and half a quarter of an ounce of Cene and two Races of Ginger sliced then put them both into the Malmesey and stir it well a good while and let it stand all night and then strain it and drink it and keep your Chamber and you shall have four or five stools Another Take clarified Whey and put into it a handful of Violet leaves and half a handful of Polipodium of the Oak called Oak fernes and drink a good draught of it luke-warm and wash after it To procure Looseness Seeth Mallows and red Nettles in fair water and let the party sit over the hot fume thereof A Purge Take Aron or Wakerobbin one dram of the powder thereof with two drams of Sugar is good to cut gross humours to purge the stomack of Phlegme and Melancholy Or else the root either green or dry one dram thereof being taken in drink with as much Treakle is a very special good Purgation To purge Phlegme and Melancholy Fetherfew dryed into fine powder and two drams thereof taken with Honey or sweet Wine purgeth by the stool Phlegm Melancholy and Sadness Also take Peniroyal with Honey and Aloes to purge Melancholy and for the Cramp To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Phlegm and Melancholy Drink the Seeds of Hollioaks Also Cene the cods and leaves in powder one dram doth purge Phlegm and Melancholy To purge Phlegme and Choler The great Garden Dock leaves drunk in Wine purgeth Phlegme Choler and Water A Purging Drink Take two gallons of new small Ale and put unto it a good handful of English Madder a handful of Dock roots bruised two handfuls of Scurvigrasse a handful of Scabious two ounces of Cene two ounces of Anniseeds two or three sticks of Licoras finely scraped and all those things bruised then put them into the new Ale and let them work therein so let it stand two or three dayes and then drink thereof morning and evening PAINE For pain in the Joints Take a pennoworth of Aquavitae Oyl of Exeter three ounces of Sage of Herb grace Clerk Robert of each a handful stamp them small in a Mortar then take your Aquavitae and straine them together a good while then take a spoonful thereof and annoint the Sore place against the fire For the pain under the side Take the toast of a Wheaten loaf and butter it and toast it again and butter it twice more then toast it againe and butter it with Soap and hold it against the fire till it lather then lay it to the side where the pain is For paine in the side that cometh of Wind. Take one handful of Cummin seeds as much of Anniseeds two handfuls of Rue seeth these together in running water from a pottle to a quart put to it half a pint of White Wine Vinegar before it be cold dip a Spunge in it and wring some of the liquor out of it and lay it to the Patients side as hot as may be suffered and when it beginneth to wax cold take a new POISON For the Poison of a Toad or other Poison Take a handful of Plantane and a handful of Parsley and stamp and strain them into a little raw Cream and mingle it well together and annoint the place grieved therewith PISSING For pissing a bed Take a Boares pisle and dry it and make powder of it and drink it in Ale or Beer POCKS A Medicine for the Small Pocks Take two handfuls of Salt and put it into a pint and halfe of water and stir it well together then set it upon the fire and let it boil well and in the boiling you must skim it so that there be not any skim seen and when the Small Pocks are come well forth and that the Swelling doth assuage you must take a fine cloth and both them with this Brine being warme three times a day And when they begin to grow brown use this Oyntment take a piece of Bacon and roast it upon a spit and set a dish of fair water under it putting thereto some Rose water and let the Bacon drop into it as it doth roast and when it is roasted take the dripping and the water and work it well together and it will be a very white Oyntment then put it into a Gally pot and twice a day annoint the places with a feather but in any case lay not on too much for that will make them moist and make them stay on the longer Another to take away the Redness Take fair water in a Posnet and put thereto half a pound of Butter then set it on the fire and let it boil softly and skim off all the froth very clean then take it off the fire and let it stand till it be throughly cold then powre the water from it and put it in clean water and set it upon the fire again skimming it very clean and do this nine times together but every time your butter must be cold before you put it into a new water and the last time being very cold take it clean away from the water and put Rosewater to it and work them very well together and put it up into a Gally pot and with a feather twice or thrice a day annoint the rednesse of the face and if these Medicines be used as they should be it will take away the rednesse and make the face not to have any holes in it For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take red Rose water white Sugar candied beaten very fine and brest milk and temper these very well together and with a feather dresse the eyes and it will keep them from the Small Pocks If it be for a man you must take the
moisture then rub the tongue with Sirrup or Wine of Pomgranats and Dates boiled in sweet Wine of each alike and purge the Head and use Barley water boiled with Pruines Barberries Cinamon use this as a cooler Also preserved Raspices or any thing made of them is to be used THIRST To abate excessive thirst Take a pottle of fair water Endive Succory Violet leaves and Borage of each a handful Lillies half a handful two Fennel roots two Parsley roots and seeth them from a pottle to a quart and put a little Sugar to it and drink it as you shall see cause Also seeth the leaves of Rosemary in well water and drink it cold with a little of a Pomgranat Also hold Purslain under the tongue VEYNES To knit Veines TAke Frankinsence one pound Mastick one ounce Bole Armoniack two ounces beat all into fine powder and mingle it with the white of an egge then spread it on a linnen cloth and apply it To mollifie Veines that be dry and stiff Take Oyl of Camomile and Oyle of Linseed and mingle it with Capons grease finely tried mix them together and this wil open the Veynes For straining of a Vein Take half an ounce of Coral and beat it fine and drink it in red Wine morning and evening For a broken Vaine in the Stomack to knit it or for any inward bleeding and casting of bloud c. Take the leaves of Plantane Shepherds Pouch of each one handful of Harts-horn half a handful of Nettles and Mints of each of them as much as you can hold betwixt two fingers of Barley the outer skin taken off three spoonfuls of Yarrow half a handful and one quarter of an ounce of Cinamon boil all these in two quarts of fair water till half be consumed then strain it and put to the liquor strained as much Sugar as wil make it sweet let it boil a little againe then put thereto as much White Wine Vineger as wil make it sharp and let the Patient take three or four spoonfuls ever in time of thirst boil an equal quantity with a black Hen drawne and washed but not pulled and then put an equal quantity of the broth and the juice of Mutton half roasted and boil them between two dishes until there remain no taste of rawness And if the Patient cast any more presently take two spoonfuls of the juice of Mints one spoonful of White Wine Vineger and as much soure leaven as two Walnuts boil them to the consumption of the juices then make thereof a slat cake and strow upon it fine powder of Nutmegs and apply it hot to the brest and give the Patient two spoonfuls of the Cordial following about three of the Clock and between nine and ten at night and at eight in the morning and fast one hour and an half before and two houres after at the least And give a Suppository made with two Positives of Honey and one of falt every day if the Patient cannot go to stool Diacatholicon half an ounce Consectionum de Hameck halfe an ounce comixt in a penny pot of White Wine Lotian water good for a heat A little Cinamon and Ginger and Venice Turpentine made into Pils and take three every morning Ising-glasse and Saffron boiled in a red Cowes milk and drunk three times for the same Church-yard wormes washed and sliced dried and drunk in Beer five several times or mornings is good for a sore throat as the Kings Evil c. VOMIT A Vomit for the Green Sicknesse Take one handful of Groundsel and one ounce of Currans boil them in a quart of Ale until it come to the quantity of a draught then strain it and drink it blood-warm and fast two hours after it and when the Patient hath once vomited drink Posset Ale between every Vomit until it cease To stay Vomiting Take Mint Water and Carduus Benedictus of each a pint bruise two Nutmegs and let them boil to a pint and make it sweet with Sugar and drink it first and last Another Take Cloves and boil them in faire water or beer and put Sugar thereto and drink it A Vomit Take an ounce of Green Ginger as much of Treakle and as much of Malmsey put these together and drink them bloud warm UFULA For falling of the Vfula Roast an egge hard then cut it long wayes and take out the yolk and fill the place full of Cummin seed fine beaten and lay it to the nape of the neck as hot as may be endured then take a good quantity of Sage and boil it in milk and so drink it warm as can be suffered keeping the head warm For a child that is Jaw fallen and Roof fallen See before in Children A Water for a sore Mouth or the falling of the Vfula Take Bramble tops Ivy berries green Rose leaves and some Allome seeth all these in drink and make thereof a Lotian and gargarise therewith For the falling of the Palate of the Mouth Take of Cummin in powder two great handfuls of white salt four of the powder of Camomile flowers three and the powder of three Nutmegs mingle these together and put them into a bag of linnen cloth cut round and then quilt it and use to lay it on the mould of your head all the day and night if need so require URINE To make a mans or womans water run strong from them Take of Gromel seed half an ounce of Cene cleane picked from the stalks a quarter of an ounce of Ginger scraped and sliced thin of Cinnamon scraped and bruised of each one dram of Damask Pruines the stones taken out seven of White Wine a pint put all in the Wine and cover it close and stop it with paste and set that in another pot of hot liquor for the space of one hour or more that the pot may be hot then take it forth and when it is cold strain it and after put in Sugar to make it toothsome and then drink it For one that cannot hold his Water Drink Neâ—e a little before Supper and also for pissing a bed in a cold cause drink three drams of the powder of Frankinsence in Ale An excellent approved Medicine for the hard and slow passage of Vrine in man or woman Take two quarts of good Wort and boil it in a skillet by it self without any Hops till it come to a pint and a half then when it is cold take it and put Barm to it till it be ripe drink and ready to cleanse then take drink barmâ— and all and boil it againe and boil in it the quantity of two Nutmegs of Civil Soan then skim it very clean and drink thereof at night when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise when it is done make more To cleanse the Vreters or Conduits of Vrine and to open them See before in Stone WATER A Water to cure all manner of Wounds and Sores be they never so stinking and all manner of Cankers in the nose 〈◊〉
wash it in three or four waters and dry it one ounce of Cremer Tartary two Nutmegs Licoras the weight of fix pence make all into fine powder and mix them take every morning the weight of six pence in broth and fast two hours after and after this Receipt hath been taken let the party be purged once or twice WOUNDS For great Wounds in the head Take dry Wormwood or green green is the best and a new laid egge shell and all and beat them together very fine and make a Salve thereof and lay it to the place hurt very thick and let it lye four and twenty houres and if the party be much pained change it if but a little pained let it lye four and twenty hours more and then dresse it with other Salve as need requireth A Medicine for any Cut Wound or Sore Take of Rosen and Perrosen of each half a pound of Olibanum four ounces of Harts Suet four ounces of Mastick two ounces of Mirrh one ounce of Comfry half an ounce of White Wax four ounces let your Rosen Perrosen Olibanum Mastick and Mirrhe be made into fine powder and searsed each by themselves then take your Suet and Wax and dissolve them upon a soft fire when they be melted put in all your searsed powders alwayes stirring them till they be all melted then have ready a pottle of White-Wine hot in a faire pan and straine all your stuff through a Canvaâ— cloth into it then put in two ounces oâ— good Turpentine and then your Comfry beaten to fine powder alwayes stirring it till it be cold and then make in up in rolls and keep it for your use This Oyntment is very good for new Wound and for the Bloody Flux and the Wind Cholick being spread upon a cloth and laid to the Navel It is called Flos Vnguentorum The flower of Oyntments of which see more at large in Oyntments WIND To make one long winded Take half a pound of Almonds and lay them in cold water till they blanch of themselves then beat them very smal in a Mortar Licoras three ounces scrape off the bark or rind and beat it fine in a Mortar and take as muck Anniseeds two ounces of Sugar and beat them small as before and work them together and use it For the avoiding of Wind. Take the juice of red Fennel and make a posset of Ale therewith and drink thereof Another to expel Wind. Take of pure Sugar four ounces of Rose water as much as will moisten your Sugar put it in a possnet then have ready these Spices following White Pepper Black Pepper of each half adram pure Gallingale sliced and finely minced Ginger pared and minced fine of each of these one scruple and a half pure Turbit white and gummy clean scraped thin sliced and minced very fine two scruples skim your rose-Rosewater and Sugar clean as may be and let them boil on a soft fire then put in all your Spices and stir them wel then take it from the fire and stir it till it be cold and thick then put it into a gally pot and reserve it to your use of this you may take at a time the quantity of a pennyworth or two pence For the Wind of the Stomack Take a handful of Tansie and a handful of Sorrel and beat them together and strain them and make a posset of White Wine and put in it the juice of the Herbs and drink it in the morning and fast after it a while VVORMES For a Ring-worm Take a Dog berry and with the juice thereof rub the Ring-worm and it will help it For the running Worm that eateth the flesh Take a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Herb grace a handful of Fetherfew a handful of Vervain a handful of Herb-Robert a bandful of Wild Bugloss boil these Herbs in half a pound of unwasht butter then strain it through a clean cloth and annoint the place with a feather and lay upon the wound Oak leaves with the smoothest side next the wound the leaves must be withered and so bind up your fores with linnen clothes dressing it twice a day after the same manner but remember your herbs bestamped before you boil them in your butter To kill the Canker and Worm that eateth the Teeth Take an egg that is layed on a thursday and empty it and fil it with salt and so set it on the fire until it may be made in powder and rub the Cankered teeth therewith and it both kills the Canker and destroyes the worms that eat the Teeth Probatum For Wormes in a Child to rid them away if they be almost past Remedy Take of Wormwood and of Walnut leaves of Rue and unset Leeks of each one handful and put to an Oxgall and fry them all over the fire and lay them on a cloth and lay them on the childs navel all night and that wil help them and on the morrow take half a pint of Malmsey and put into it four or five spoonfuls of Wormwood Water and as much Mint water and warm them toger ther and drink it one or two dayes and this will help without doubt Probatum For the Ring-worm Take a handful of Violet leaves an handful of Columbine leaves and a handful of Rosemary leaves stamp all these together and boil it in a quarter of a pound of unwasht butter and a little Deer Suet and when it is half boiled away strain it and put it over the fire again and let it boil two or three turnes then put it up for your use and strike a Plaister therewith and lay it on the Ring-worm dressing it twice a day and washing it every two dayes with White Wine For the Wormes Take Curraline in powder as much as will lye on a groat in new Milk three mornings three dayes before the Full or New of the Moon It will help old folks and sucking children it is a groat an ounce For the Ring worm Take black Soap and almost as much Ginger in powder and mix them well together and annoint the place therewith four or five dayes together and this will cure any Tetter or Ring-worm WHITES For the Whites Take a quarter of a pound of Ising-glasse and boile it in a pottle of milk to a pint and half then put to it Nutmeg Cinnamon and Sugar and red Rose water and so make it to a Gelly WOOD BETONY The Vertues of Wood Betony It saveth mens bodies by the vertue it hath in it and by Gods help for who so beareth this Herb about him preserveth him from Evil Spirits and this Herb must be gathered in the Harvest time early in the morning before Sun rising Also he that drinketh of the juice of Betony it will break the stone and cast it with the Urine Also if it be drunk with hony it is good against the Dropsie Also it is good against the outrage of wicked blood Also the juice of Betony mingled with Rose-water put in the ear amendeth
to bed and lye in the same cloathes and never change them in three dayes He may eat and drink what he lift so his Drink be warm For all manner of Aches and the Sciatica Take a handful of Herb-grace and bray it smal in a Mortar then take one ounce of Frankinsence and one ounce of Commin and beat them to Powder severally then take one pound of black soap and seeth it on the fire till it be melted then put in the aforesaid things and let them boile together till it be thick then take and spread it like a Plaister upon a cloath and lay it to the Grief as hot as may be suffered and so let it continue twelve houres then take it away and if the place be blistered lay that to it no more but prick the blisters with a needle and if it be not blistered then lay on a fresh plaister and let it ly twelve hours more and keep the place grieved and the Patient very warm Probatum est For any Ache whatsoever Take two great Onions and make holes in the tops and put into each one dram of Camphire so much of Frankinsense as a Walnut one pennyworth of English Saffron roast the Onion in the fire then pill it and strain it to an Oyle and put thereto so much of the marrow of a dead horses haunch bone and mingle it well together and annoint the place pained therewith A precious Remedy for any extreme Ache. Take a Whelp that sucketh the fatter the better and drowne him in water then take out his guts clean and fill his belly with black Soap and put him on a spit and roast him well and take the dropping thereof and put it in a Vessel and then lay the Patient in a sweat and annoint him therewith and cover him warm with clothes that he may sweat well then make a fire of Charkcoals in a pan and lay thereon a good handful of Sage and let him take the aire thereof in a close room and do this five times For all manner of Aches in Bones Joints or Sciatica Take Balme and Cinqfoil but most of all Betony Nep and Fetherfew stamp them and drink the juice with Ale or Wine Prebatum A very good Plaister for any Ache or swelling in the Joints Take of Stipticum Paracelsi and Calcithers of each alike spread it upon Leather and make a Plaister thereof then annoint the place grieved with Oyl of Roses and after lay on the Plaister Mr. Smart For an old Ache or Sciatica Take Harts-horn and chop it in reasonable smal pieces then put it in a Pipkin cover is with water and stop it close and set it in an Oven with Bread and when it is baked take out the Pipkin and when it is cold it will be a Jelly then warm some of it and annoint the grieved place with a warm hand and chafe it in often For an Ache. Take Aqua composita and Neatsfoot Oyle warm them and annoint the place therewith and lay warm cloaths thereon Another Take Paâ—sly and Wormwood of each a handful and seethe them in a quart of Ale with a quantity of sweet Butter and wash the place therewith and bind the Herbs to the place as hot as may be suffered Another Take Smallage stampt and put it into Aqua vitae and strain it and put thereto Boars grease and straine them together and annoint the place therewith morning and evening For an Ache or the Sciatica Take Neats foot Oyle and Aqua composita and annoint the place therewith then take wool newly taken from the Sheep and put thereon with warme cloathes Another Take the juice of Smallage Sorrel and of Woodbind leaves of each alike then take Honey and the white of an egg of each alike and mingle it together till it be thick and lay it on cold without any boiling at all Another Take as fat a Goose as you can get and when she is ready drest then take a couple of the fattest young sucking Cats you can get and flay them and cut them into gobbets and put them into the belly of the Goose and so roast it as long as it will drop then take the liquor and annoint the place pained therewith and bathe it wel before the fire as hot as you can suffer it and dip a brown paper therein and lay it hot thereunto with warm cloaths bound fast to it all night Do this for the space of three or four nights together AGUES For a Quartain Ague Take a quart of Ale one ounce of Cene half an ounce of Licoras half an ounce of Anniseeds a few Raisons of the Sun boil these together till your Ale be more then halfe consumed then give it to the Patient to drink as warme as he may when his Fit is upon him and go to bed and keep him warm This is to be used three several times if his Fit go not away at the first Probatum For an Ague Take the Root of a blew Lilly and scrape it clean and slice it lay it in soak all night in Ale and in the morning stamp it and strain it and give it the Patient luke warm to drink an hour before the Fit cometh For the Feaver Cake Take Barley meal or else the flower of wheat and make a cake and bake it and then take the juice of Hemlocks and annoint the belly with it Also you may take Oyle of Exceter or Sallet Oil and fry a few Oats therein and lay it to the Patients stomack as hot as he can suffer it Probatum For a hot Burning Ague Take Succory roots and leaves Parsley roots Endive leaves Borrage leaves and Sorrel leaves seethe all these together in a pottle of running water and when it is well sodden strain the water from the Herbs then put to it a good piece of Sugar to make it pleasant and two spoonful of Vineger that it may be somewhat sharp you may also put in Buglos An excellent Medicine for an Ague Take a handful of good Bay Salt and put it into a Mortar and bray it very small then put thereto as many of the biggest Cobwebs that you can get as the quantity of four fingers and beat them a good while then put into them a good handful of Smallage clean picked and so beat them all together very well into one substance then take it out of the Mortar and put thereunto two ounces of the best Venice Turpentine unwashed and temper them well together and two hours before the Ague fit cometh divide it into two parts and bind it equally to both wrists on the place where the Pulse beateth and roll it up well with a linnen cloth that it stir not from the place and tack it fast with a needle and thred and so let it lye four and twenty hours and it will alter the Fit of the Ague and drive it away but if not try the second time and no doubt but it will help A little fresh butter will get off
of each one handful of Auni-seeds Fennel seeds Hysop seeds and the root of Elicampane about two ounces seethe them in two pound of water until the third part be consumed drink this and it loseth all congealed blood in the body and expelleth it in the Urine An excellent Balme to cure any bruise though Bones be broken therein and it is very good to cure wounds Take of Scala Coeli one pound Rosemary flowers four ounces Pomgranat rinds two ounces Sallet Oyle two pound White Wine halfe a pint bruise the Scala Coeli and the Pomgranate rinds and in the Oyle and the Wine with the Rosemary flowers infuse them ten dayes in the Sun after that boil them till the Wine be consumed then strain it and unto the Oyl being strained put these things following Mastick Olibanum of each four ounces Aloes one ounce Cassia four ounces Venice Turpentine twelve ounces Verdigrease one ounce boil these in the Oyle until the Gummes be dissolved then straine it and keep it to use and remember that in the end of the boiling the Verdigrease be put in and let the Turpentine be put in last not letting it boil after but only with the heat dissolve it self For any Bruises Aches or any such like pain Take Rosemary tops Toutswaine leaves Plantane leaves of each two handfuls Stone pitch and Turpentine of each one pound a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of Wax two ounces of Olibanum the Herbs must be beaten very small in a Mortar and then boile them together in a Pipkin six or seven hours till it come to be as stiff as Soap and when it is so boiled it must be strained through a linnen cloth and so put up in to Gally pots the Olibanum must not be put in till the other be boiled sufficiently For a Bruise or Strain or Green Wound Take half a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of White-lead two ounces of Cerus First set the Oyl on the fire in an earthen pan and when it is ready to boil put in the White-lead being in fine powder so let it boil a quarter of an hour then put in your Cerus being beaten small and stir it while it seethes then drop a drop in cold water and if it will roll it is boiled enough then powre it all into a Bason of cold water and when it is cold enough to touch annoint your hands and roll it up in little rolls An excellent Remedy for Bruises and Aches which come of cold Take young Bay-leaves and Wormewood of each a quarter of a pound a pound and a half of Suet of a Loyne of Mutton a quart of Oyle Olive of Oyle of Spike two ounces shred your Herbs smal and your Suet then put them in a stone pot and powre the Oyles upon them and cover it very close and so let it stand close covered two dayes then boil it till the Liquor be very green that the goodnesse is out of the Herbs then strain it and reserve it for your use Another Take a pound of Butter out of the Charn-milk and set it on the fire and clarifie it then take a handful and a half of red Sage as much Camomile as much Herb-grace and half as much Smallage some young Bay-leaves chop all the Herbs small and put them into the clarified butter and boile them on a soft fire stirring it until it be green then strain it and keep the Liquor for your use For a Bruise or Strain Take the grounds of Ale or Beere Wheat Bran and Chickweed and lay it to the grief three or four times a day upon a red cloth For a Bruise or Sore unripened Take Oatmeal and seethe it in sweet Cowes milk until it be as thick as pap and put it into a pan with a quantity of Sheeps suet and boile them well and then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the grief as hot as you can suffer it BREATH A good Medicine for a stinking Breath Take two handfuls of Cumin seeds and seeth them in good Wine from a pottle to a pint and then drink of it fifteen days together morning and evening Of a stinking Breath how it cometh This Infirmity proceedeth First when the Gums are putrified Secondly from hallow teeth Thirdly Stinking humors that fall downe from the head to the Pannicles of the mouth and make the spettle to stink Fourthly Stinking slime of the stomack Fifthly the corruption of the Lights Sixthly Stinking matter and purulency Seventhly stopping in the Nose or some exulceration of the same If it be from any of these causes proceeding from the Head then it is of heat then purge the head and wash the mouth often with Plantane water Also take green Oaken leaves and dry them and beat them to powder and take one dram sod in Wine BURNING An excellent Medicine for Burning or Scalding Take Sage and seeth it in running water and wash the wound with the water as hot as you can suffer it and it will take away the heat immediately then take Sage and Hartstongue leaves and Sheeps dung and fry it with Sheeps suet and annoint the place therewith with a feather and let it lye still then take Sheeps dung and dry it to powder and strew it twice a day and annoint it twice a day but take heed of picking any of it away left there be holes in the skin ever after And to asswage the stiffness when you can abide it no longer then bathe it a little in Sage water but the less bathing the sooner it will be whole For a scalding or burning with fire Take black Soap about the bignesse of the sore and spread it upon a linnen cloth like a Plaister and so lay it upon the sore and within half a day it will draw out the fire and then lay healing Salve to it The Oyle of Cream and Snow water is good to wash the place so hurt For Burning or Scalding Take the whites of two Eggs and one yolk and beat them well together and scum off the froth then melt three spoonfuls of Barrowes grease and take three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage and put thereto and stir it well together till it be cold then make thereof a Salve To heal a Burning or Scalding Take the fat of dryed Bacon and hold it between a pair of Tongs red hot and let it drop into a pot of faire water and of the dropping make your Plaister For Burning in the fire Take the second pill of a young Elme tree and lay it in fair water the space of twelve hours or more then fill out the water and warm it on the fire and annoint the Patient therewith and let it drink in the water and when it is dry then take new with the juice of Plantane as much of the one as of the other and then annoint it therewith after the first water To make Oyle of Cream for Burning or Scalding Take a quart or a pint of new
when you will use it take of it the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much marrow of an Ox leg mâ—â—t it together and mingle it well and morning and evening annoint as warm as can be suffered the hinder parts of the Childs thighes and legges and also his knees chafing it well with your wâ—rme hands and in a short time his limbs shall be exceedingly strengthned and be enabled by Gods blessing to go and walk To loosen the Belly of young Children Tye a Nutshel full of the Salve of Mallowes on the Navel and let it lye thereupon til it be soaked in Do this once twice or thrice till it be amended The Salve of Mallowes is thus made Take Mallow leaves and pound them then melt fresh Butter and boil the Mallow leaves therein till it be green then strain and use it Or give the child Sirrup of Violetâ— being heat or Sirrup of Damask Roses a quarter of an ounce at a time For the Lask of young Children Give to the child both morning and evening a spoonful of Plantane water to drink if the Child be old give it the more and give it no drink but such wherein Gold hath been three times quenched Also annoint the stomack with the Oyle of Mastick and Oyl of Mints towards his Navel downewards Also take the juice of broad Plantane and Wine Vineger of each a like quantity and mix therewith Barley meal till it be somewhat thick then cool it a little and spread it upon a woollen cloath and apply it upon the belly warm and when it is cold heat it again Also take a new laid egg and take a way the threeds as some call it the two white spots that are joyning to the yolk and beat it a good while then with meal make a Cake and bake it in a pan then beat it in a Mortar and put powder of Cinnamon unto it and bake it again and let the child eat thereof now and then COLICK For the Collick and Stone Take a handful of Stone crop Wild Time Garden Time Parsley Saxifrage Pellitory of the wall of each a handful four or five Rhadish roots a little of Philip Pimperlow scrape the roots and slice them and put all these into a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and let it stand twelve hours and then distil it with a soft fire and take five spoonfuls of this Water and put it into a good draught of Rhenish or White Wine then warm it milk warm and with the juice of a Lemmon and some Nutmeg and Sugar drink this fasting in the morning and fast four or five hours after and walk up and down take this every third day Probatum A good Medicine for the Wind Collick Take a flint stone and cast it into the fire until it be red hot then put it into a pot of drink and there will arise a great foame let the Patient drink thereof Another Take the Herb Eve and Holly without prickles dry them by the fire upon a paper and being well dryed make them into a powder and drink so much thereof at a time as will ly upon a Groâ—t in White Wine or Ale it is exceeding good For the Collick in the stomack Take a quantity of Conserves of Red Roses three Pepper cornes and beat them small also take the seeds of Uâ—â—set Time with Anniseeds beat them small and put them into the Conserve of Roses and mingle them well together then put it into a Gally pot and when your pain first cometh upon you take the quantity of a small Walnut and presently after as much Green Ginger as a Hasel Nat. For the Collick and Stone Take Parsley Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage Wild Time Eyebright of each two handfuls twenty Rhadish roots scraped and sliced steep all in a pottle of Red Cowes milk all night then distil them in the hottest of May and use it as followeth Take nine spoonfuls of the water and nine of Rhenish Wine the juice of a Lemmon half a Race of Ginger finely minced and sugar it as you please for a draught drink this thrice a week fasting and use presently moderate exercise A Preservative against the Collick and Stone Take a quantity of Parsley roots about two handfuls boil them in running water till they be soft then take out the pith and stamp them well and put them in a pottle of stale Ale then strain them from thence and drink thereof for the space of nine dayes at the least Another Take a quart of White Wine and boil it in an earthen pot and when it begins to boil put into it a handful of Mother Time and let it boil half a quarter of an hour then put unto it a head of Garlick stamped in a Mortar then boil them together a little space then strain it and give the Patient to drink and let him drink as much as he can when the grief is upon him but if it cease or break not then take about a penny worth of Honey unto halfe a pint of the Drink and by Gods grace it will help For the wind Collick Take a good quantity of Wormwood and tops of Rosemary as much and boile them in Sack and put them in a linnen cloth and lay it warme to the belly where the griefe is and by Gods grace it will help presently Another for the same Take a spoonful of the powder of Holland which is to be had at the Apothecaries and put it into a good quantity of stale drink and make it luke warme and so drink it Or else take the weight of a French Crowne thereof in some warm broth after the manner of a Purgation for it is not only good to break the wind presently but it will purge also and cause some stools Probatum To break the Wind Collick Take Wormwood and Tansie of each three branches seven or eight leaves of brown Sage stamp all these together and strain them into a quantity of Ale and then drink it luke warm twice if it be need For the Collick and Stone and burning Fever Take some leaves of the Herb called Dandillion and pound them small and strain them into stale Ale or Beer and so drink some three or four times It is not only good against the Collick and Stone but also against a hot burning Fever An approved good Medicine for the Collick and Stone Take Coriander Caraway Fennel Spicknard and Anniseeds of each one ounce and a half of Gromeâ— seeds and Licoras one ounce beat all these into fine powder and let the Patient drink a scruple in White Wine a little warmed and walk one hour after it fasting and do this every morning and evening and put thereto six drops of the juice of Juniper berries and you shall find it excellent in operation Probatum Another Take Parsley roots Marsh Mallow roots and red roots of each alike stamp them and put them into a pint of White Wine and strain it and let the Patient
drink a good draught for three mornings together and it will cause the Stone to break and provoke Urine abundantly For the Stone Collick Take a half penny worth of Summer Savory seeds and of Parsley seeds of Bay berries of Gromel of each a half penny worth and boil them in a posset of White Wine and drink For the wind Collick Take the water of Heraff and the root of a red Dock the inner pith taken away and the neather bark of an Ash of one years growth and pound them and strain them with the said water and so drink it first and last Another Take Parsley seeds and bruise them and seeth them in Sack and drink it warm when you have your pain Also Carduus Balsam is excellent An excellent Medicine for the Collick or Sâ—one Take Pellitory Unset Leeks and Mallowes of each a like stamp them and put thereto a pennyworth of Neats foot Oyl and fry them well together in manner of a Plaister put them in a linnen bag and apply it to the Raines of the back but for the Collick apply it to the Navel and it will help within an hour CONSUMPTION For a Consumption Take a couple of Marrow bones and seeth them and put in a great handful or two of Unset Leeks cut small with the roots and blades fair washed and when they be washed and sodden take them forth and strain them and take out the Marrow and put it into the broth then take a half penny worth of Ginger as much Pepper a penny worth of Cinnamon a half penny worth of Cloves and Mace a quarter of a pound of Sugar let all be very small beaten and put into the broth and drink it warme morning and evening as the stomack will bear it A Soveraign Medicine for man or woman in a Consumption First take a red Cock and kill him and flea him and cut him in four quarters but wash them not then take six cap Dates and cut them in four quarters and take half a score of large Mace and six whole Cloves then put in three or four pieces of old Gold and stamp the bones of the Cock then take a pewter pottle pot and lay in one quarter and lay upon it some of every Spice and a piece of old Gold and so upon every quatter until the last be put in and you may if you will put to the said Ingredients Amber Coral and Pearle but no kind of Licoras neither first nor last and when it is perfectly boiled put thereto a dozen or sixteene Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out Then take so much Rye dough as will stop the pots mâ—uâ—h close and thick enough of the paste so that no water may enter into it then take a good great brasse pot and set it on the fiâ—e that the pewter pot and the Ingredients that is in it may stand covered with water at least two handfuls and put some heavy weight upon the pewter pot that it be not overthrown in the boiling and let it seeth continually from five of the clock in the morning untill eight of the Clock at night then take it off and open the Pewter pot and let the Patient take of that Syrrup a spoonful at a time And when you make it for a woman you must use these Herbs Hartstongue Motherwort Mugwort Mother Time and Comfrey but no Herbs must be used for a man And if the woman be hot in the liver take Liverwort and if troubled with the Stone take a little Pellitory of the Wall A very excellent Water for a Consumption Take a red Cock and pluck him alive then quarter him and take out his bowels very clean and wipe him very dry with a linnen cloth then put the quarters into a pottle of the best Sack and pâ—t into them Rosemary Time Penniâ—oyal and Pimpernel of each of these one small handful of Dates the stones being taken out half a pound of Currans one pound let them lye and steepe in the Sack two houres then still them in a Stillatory and of the Water thereof use two spoonfuls one hour before you go to Dinner and so likewise before Supper and it will much restore your body This was used by the Lord Chief Justice Popham For a Consumption Take a pound and half of Prok fat and lean and boil it in water and put in some Oatmeal and boil it till the heart of the meat be out and then put in two penny worth of milk and boil it a quarter of an hour and give the Patient a draught in the morning in the afternoon and at night and now and then some Barley water and by Gods grace it will help Another Take a fair earthen pot and put therein a gallon of Claret Wine and then take a Capon well flesh'd but not fat and gut him and put in his belly half a handful of Mace and as much Raisons and Curransâ— then cover the pot and set it on the fire and let it seeth till the half be consumed then put the Capon into a Mortar with some of his broth and bray his bones and all then let it seethe one walm after and passe it through a Jelly bag into a close Vessel then take a Goblet full and put thereto the yolks of six new laid Eggs the strainet taken away and seethe it well and then give the Patient to drink as hot as he can suffer it in the morning fasting likewise before noon and before he goeth to bed and ere three Capons be spent by the grace of God he shall be much amended To restore one that is in a Consumption Take three pints of new milk and one pint of very good Red Wine and four yolks of Eggs beat them with the milk and Wine and put to it as much fine Manchet crumbâ— as will make it thick like thin batter and put in one quarter of an ounce of beaten Mace and distil all these with fire and draw a pint of water out of it and take one spoonful of the water in Pottage or drink morning and evening To nourish one in a Consumption Take a Chicken and take out his bones and wash it in White Wine and put it into a pipkin without liquor with a few Currant and then still it five on six hours upon Embers without coals then take a spoonful thereof and drink with thin broth For a Consumption Take Coltsfoot Burnet leaves Wood-Betoby leaves red Rose leaves Comfrey roots of each one handful pick'd and sliced boil them in running water from three quarts to three pints then strain them and put into the liquor two pound of good Sugar and the whites of two new laid eggs then boil it a quarter of an hour and take off the skum and take of this Sirrup seven spoonfuls in the morning fasting and at night to bedward Probatum For a Consumption or Cough of the Lungs Take three spoonfuls of English Honey and three of fair water mixed together set it on the
violence you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs juice of Wood-betony and Egrimony and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes If that do not help it take wheat flowers the juice of Mallowes Mints Smallage and the Oyl of an egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to For hardnesse that hath been long in the Eye Take a Scruple of Alloes and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire then put of it in the eye Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister and lay it upon the eye Or take Roses Sage Rew and Cellendine of each alike mixt with a little salt and distil it and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye In stead of that water it is good to take the juice of Vervain Rue and a little Rose water For the Pin or Web. Take tops and crops of Herb Christopher stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May stamp them very small then take a good quantity of May Butter and stamp them together in a vessel and strain it out and set it in the Sun and put of these into your eyes it must stand a month in the Sun For a hurt in the Eye that cometh by a stroke Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plantane and put thereto the white of an egg and womans milk of a male child and Oyle of Roses and put it in your eye going to bed use this three or four times in a day Or take Egrimony and bray it and temper it with White Wine and an egg and make a Plaister and lay to the outside of the eye For a Pearl at the beginning Take a Race of good Ginger pare it clean and rub it on a Whetstone and make powder of it and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine then strain it through a fair cloth and put it into a glasse or Viol and after nine daies you may use it when you go to bed lying upright and likewise in the morning Do this six or seven times For eyes that are full of Rheume and bleared Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls and two of honey mix them together and when you go to bed put some in your eye Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel a branch of Cellendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten if one serve not take two put all these into half a pint of water cover it and put of it in your eye when you go to bed and an hour before you rise strayning it when you use it To preserve the sight long Take a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week To clear the sight Take the white of an egg made as clear as water and a spoonful of clarified Honey and some fine Sugar and mix them together and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor and rub the eye-lids therewith within and without For sore Eyes and Megrim in the Head Take the whites of new laid eggs and beat them to Oyl then take a spoonful of Rose water as much fine Sugar and as much strong Vineger made of Malmesey or White Wine put them to the Oyl and beat them together then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister dip it in the Medicine and bind on each Temple one with a cloth but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes Do this three or four nights and every morning the eyes will cleave together with Gum. For the Megrim in the eyes Take new milk and seeth it and put it into a bason and cover it with a platter and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes Or take three drams of the juice of Rue and put in your eyes and ears and stop your ears and lye down on that side For a Pearl and Web. Take Veinfrage Ivie Daisies Sickwort red Fennel Seagreene Pimpernel May butter bruise them in a Mortar and let them lye in the froth five â—ayes then make an easie fire and set 〈◊〉 over till it be melted then straine it through a fair cloth and put is into a Vial and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn It will destroy the Web and when your eye cleaveth together wash it with Rose water Another Take the leaves of Sage Hysop oculus Christâ— puiled downward drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice stamped with the Herbs and straine it in some Beeâ— and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together Or take the juice of Avens Southernwood and put this juice into Fenâ—â—â— water and put it in your eye For Eyes that be fair to look on and naught to see with Take Smallage Fennel Rue Vervaiâ— Betony Pimpernel Eyebright Sagâ— and Cellendine of each alike wash theâ—â— clean and stamp them then take thâ— powder of fifteen Pepper cornes and 〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine three spoonfuls of good Honey and fifteen spoonfuls of the Urine of a man child that is young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little then strain it and keep it in a vessel or glasse and put of it into your Eyes and if it dry up in the glasse put to it a little White Wine This is good for all kind of sore eyes in fifteen daies it helpeth For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take the strained juice of Pimpernel and drop into your Eye morning and evening This is good also for the Pin and Web or Pearle in the eye For a Pin and Web. Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees wipe them clean with a cloth â—hen stamp and strain them with womans â—ilk of a Girle for a man of a boy for 〈◊〉 woman the sorer the eyes be take the â—ore juice and the less milk Drop this â—â—to your eye with a feather evening and â—orning and twice in the afternoon For sore Eyes that cometh of a hot cause at of a Rheume Take Elder leaves and chase them between your hands and lay them to the nape of the neck For Bloodshotten Eyes Take a toast of leavened Bread House-leek and womans milk a spoonful oâ— Rosewater the pap of an Apple roasteâ— the yolk of a new layd egg and boilâ— them take the toast and lay it in reâ— Wine not mingled and let it lyâ— halfe an hour till it be soaked they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces for each eye one and the cloth must be between the eye and the toaâ— and dresse it thus when you go tâ— bed For Watering Eyes and darknesse sight Take May Butter and Honey of 〈◊〉 alike and boil them together and 〈◊〉 in the white of an egge and when it
be clean wiped also if you lay it to any place where the skin is not broken you may let it lye thereunto til by the moisture that it draweth from the sore place it falleth off and so from time to time you must do it til you find release of pain and being driven thin upon a cloth you must lay it that it may cover all the sore PALSIE For the Palsie TAke half a pound of sweet butter a pint of new Cow-dung and boil them both together till it come to a Salve then lay half of it upon a woollen cloth and lay it to the nape of the neck and when it is cold apply the other half warm Another Take White Wine and Sider and take a good deal of red Sage and boil them well to the one half and wash the Patient where he shaketh and if his Head shaketh wash the neck as hot as may be suffered and keep his neck warm and his joints at all times Against the Palsie Take a handful of Sage of Southern wood Spike of Lavender of each alike boile these in a gallon of running water and strain it into a stone pot when it is boiled away to a pint and half then every morning take three or four spoonfuls thereof luke warm and gargarise therewith and put it forth again Also take some of the same water warm and chafe the place with a spunge Of the Palsie This shaking is a continual strife of natural powers which are raised without ceasing It hapneth first by looking from a great height by sudden fear or sudden joy or much cold or great heat or much bleeding for remedy use three leaved grasse Cummin and Steches by Glister or otherwise of Oyls use Oyl of wild Cowâ—umbers Oyl of Dil of Clivers Artico which Herb is very good against the shaking Palsie PLAGUE or PESTILENCE For the Pestilence Take half a handful of Rue as much of Fetherfew and one handful of Marigolds a handful of Burnet a handful of Sorrel a quantity of Dragons either the root or the crop as the time of the year requireth and then take a pottle of running water and let them boil over the fiâ—e till half the water be consumed then take it from the fire and let it cool and when it is almost cold straine it through a fair linnen cloth and then let the sick body drink thereof and if it be too bitter put thereto a quantity of loaf Sugar or else powder of Licoras This hath been proved of a certain by great men and hath holpen almost an hundred Persons in divers places and where there were three persons in one house sick two of them drunk thereof and the third would not and he dyed and the two that took it lived and this was proved of a certain This Medicine must be given betimes before the Purples do appear and it will cease by the grace of God A Medicine against the Plague Take a handful of Sage vertue a handful of Hens grease a handful of Elder leaves a handful of red Bramble leaves and stamp them all together and strain them with a fine cloth into a quart of White Wine and then take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them all together and drink thereof a spoonful every day fasting for ten dayes together and for the first spoonful you shall be safe for four and twenty hours and after the ninth spoonful you shall be safe for all the yeare after And if it shall happen that any be strucken with the Plague before this Medicine be taken then take water of Scabious and water of Betony and a quantity of fine Treakle and put them together and drink it and it will put out all the Venom and if the Sore do appear then take leaves of Elder and make a Plaister thereof with Mustard seed stamped together and lay it to the Sore and it will draw out all the Venome and by Gods grace recover the party A precious Water good against all Poisons and Pestilences Take Turmentile Scabious Dittony Pimpernel of each a like quantity distil them all together and drink of it An approved Medicine for the Plague It taketh one like the Ague with cold as soon as it taketh them and complain of it take five seven or nine leaves of Garden Spurge nine is the most stamp them small in a dish and put to it warm milk or Posset Ale and let the sick body drink it and presently go to bed and sweat then take a great Onion and take out the core and put into it Mithridatum then lay on the top again and rost it very soft then beat it very small in a dish and put to it three spoonfuls of White Wine Vinegar and as much Sugar as will make it pleasant to take and as soon as the stomack is purged give him of the Onion as much as you can for that will draw out â—he Sore in four and twenty hours by Gods grace and keep the Patient very hot and warm and give him hot Broths and Drinks and keep him in a sweat four and twenty hours and after keep him very hot and when the Sore is come out roast an Onion with Treakle and Viegar and lay it to the Sore to draw it out and have a Chirurgion to launce it For the rest of your houshold give them every day Mithridatum and Treakle and take Centory and Madder and boil it in Beer and let them drink now and then thereof An excellent Drink against the Plague Small Pox or Meazels and for the cure and prevention thereof Take a pint of Dragon water three pints of the best Malmesey or Muskadine boil therein of Rue and Sage of each a handful and let it boil till one pint be boiled away then strain it and afterwards set it on the fire again and put thereto long Pepper Ginger and Nutmegs beaten to powder of each one ounce boil all these a little more and then take it from the fire and put therein of the best Mithridate one ounce of London Treakle two ounces and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica Water and use it as followeth If you think your self to be infected take one spoonful of this at a time morning and evening luke-warm but if not infected take it but once or twice a week at the most half a spoonful at a time in any Plague time and when they that are infected take this let them lye down and sweat two or three houres in the bed and when they be well dryed and warm kept let them drink none but warme Drinks or Caudles and so by Gods assistance they shall be well This Drink will keep good half a year if it be close kept A good Drink against the Plague Take of White Wine one quart and put therein the juice of these Herbs following of Elder leaves Rue leaves Wormewood and Scabious and put in a spoonful of good Treakle and the powder of a good Race of Ginger stir all
for bones out of Joint so that laying on two or three of these Plaisters hath healed in fifteen dayes Armes out of Joint when you do lay up this Salve keep it in an Oyly paper PLURISIE A good Medicine to ripen a Plurisie Take a fair Costard and cut off the crowne and pick out the core but make no hole through and then put in all these powders of Bores tooth the weight of four pence of the Powder of Rubarb grated fine as may be the weight of three pence of Cinamon the weight of a penny of the powder of white Sugar candied the weight of two pence put all these into the Apple and cover him again and lay him on a tile on the Embers and roast him till he be soft as may be then cut it in sunder and give the sick party in the morning half of it to eat and fast two hours after it then eat some good broth and take the other part of the Apple the next day so that both the dayes are good to take a Medicine on An approved Medicine for the Plurisie Take a quantity of Horse dung which is kept in the Stable strain it with Ale then put to it a good quantity of Treakle and some Ginger and let the Patient drink thereof morning and evening luke-warm as much as he can endure A Plaister for the same Probatum Take a good handful of Brooklime and shred it very smal and boil it in fair water till it be very tender then take a quantity of Sheeps suet and wheaten bran and boil them together till it be thick and so lay it to his side where the pain is as hot as may be endured For the Plurisie Take a quart of White Wine put to it two handfuls of Cummin as much Oaten bran newly bolted bruise the Cummin and boil all to a Poultice and put it in two bags hot lay one to the side pained and when it cooleth lay to the other and so continue changing them three or four hours Or take Earth-wormes and fry them in Vinegar and spread them and lay them to the pained side Another The Plurisie cometh of cold humours therefore beware you take not much cold or any cold thing Malmesey sod with Camomile is very good A sweet Apple roasted and eaten with powder of Licoras and Sugar candied is good to be eaten in the morning and at night A sweet Apple also is best with Olibanum Also a Plaister of Pitch is very good laid to the side Another Annoint the place where the paine is with the Oyl of Linseed For the Plurisie Take four Spanish Balls newly gathered from a Horse stamp them and strain them with a pint of White Wine and as much beer put to that a penny worth of Treakle being first melted and give the party to drink thereof twice a day and not to eat nor drink one hour before nor after if you be sure it is the Plurisie let him blood within three dayes but if he be longer before he be let blood be sure you let him blood on that arm on that side where the pain is Also if when after blood letting he fall worse again this Drink is a very good Medicine for that Sicknesse taken by overmuch labour or lying on the ground There must be laid also to the side that the stitch is on for the Plurisie this following Take a pint of new milk make batter of it with wheaten flower as thick as you do Fritters put to it three spoonful of Honey and a groats worth of Saffron boil it to a Poultice and spread half and then grate it over with Nutmegs and lay it warm to the side and when it hath been on twelve hours then lay to the other half and make more if you see cause Also if you boil a piece of leaven as big as a good Apple in Vinegar the quantity of four spoonfuls and as much Rose-water and a few Rose leaves to a Poultice spread it and grate it thrice over with Nutmegs and lay to the pained side It is also very good for the Plurisie or for any pain in the side If you take two handfuls of Horse-dung two Races of Ginger powdered boil them in a quart of White Wine being bound in a cloth boil it to the one half then drink a good draught morning and evening and after you have drunk it cover your self warm and sweat this way is also very good If the party be costive give him gentle Purgations as Cassia Fistula or use Suppositories or Glisters For this Sicknesse Tessers are good and the water of Mallowes Violets Borage or Bugloss Sugar candied also Take also of the Water of Broom flowers Scabious and Carduus Benedictus of each three spoonfuls put in Sugar candied and let the party drink so much morning and evening and annoint the side with Oyl of Broom flowers To know whether one have the Plurisie or no. Hold in thy breath as long as possibly thou canst do and then if thou canst not let thy breath pass from thee without coughing assuredly thou either hast it or art in danger of having it forthwith For the cure of the Plurisie Thou must be let blood forthwith then take the quantity of a Walnut of Carduus Balsom and eat it upon a knifes point and take again presently the like quantity of the same Balsom and melt it in a sawcer at the fire and with a soft clean linnen cloth dipped in the Balsom wash and bathe thy left side well as hot as thou art able to suffer it then warme the said cloth and lay it double over the place pained and bind it on and ly down to rest and by Gods blessing thou shalt find it a present Cure For a hot Plurisie When any get a pricking pain about the ribs with a Cough and an Ague then use this Glister Take sixteen ounces of Broth wherein a Lambs head or Calvs feet have been sodden put therein one ounce of Sugar the yolk of one egg two ounces of Sallet Oyle salt one dram and halfe temper them well together and use it PRICKING For the pricking of a thorn Swelling or Ancomb Take Birdlime and spread it on a piece of Glovers leather on the Allome side and lay it on as far as the swelling goeth and let it lye four and twenty hours and then renew it again Another for the pricking of a thorn or needle in any joint Take fine boulted flower and temper it with White Wine and boil it together till it be thick then lay it on the Sore as hot as may be suffered and it will open the hole and draw out the anguish help the aking and heal it for want of White Wine take Ale or Beer It is good to heal a Boil or Whitlow POULTICE To make a Poultice for Wounds or Swellings Take a good quantity of Marsh Mallowes or of other if you cannot get them and boil them in clean water then cut them small and
take White Wine dregs and of good Ale as much more your Mallowes being shred put it into your dregs and put in some Deers Suet and Sheeps Tallow melted and crumbs of brown bread boil all these together till it be thick alwayes stirring it to keep it from burning then lay it warm every dressing upon a woollen cloth it dissolveth hardnesse and swelling The Lady Farnchams Poultice Another Poultice to mollifie and dissolve Take the crumbs of white bread seeth them in milk and put to it Oyl of Camomile and a little Saffron then take it from the fire then put to it the yolks of two new laid egges and so make of it a Poultice and lay it to the sore An approved good Poultice to lay to an Ache or Pain Take a good handful of Mallowes another of Smallage a handful of Linseed as much of Oatmeal grets pounded together a pottle of well water halfe a pint of milk and Deeres Suet as much as an egge or else so much of Sheeps Tallow then boil all these together till it be thick then lay it to the Patient where the pain is being spread upon a linnen cloth A very good Poultice for Wind gotten into joints Take Wormwood and Dill dryed and beaten to fine powder of each one handful of Sheeps dung three handfuls of Camomile flowers half a handful of Cummin seeds two ounces seeth them all in Lye and let it boil together until it be very thick then spread it upon leather and lay it upon the place grieved warm but first annoint it with Oyle of Rue Mr. Smart A Poultice for a Bruise or Strain Take Claret Wine Balme and Rose-leaves boil them together till they be thick then lay them to the Sore as hot as the Patient can suffer it A Water to wash the place before you apply the Poultice Take Mallowes and Smallage of each a handful boil them in a quart of Vineger to a pint then wash the place pained as hot as you can suffer it An excellent Poultice for the Ague in a Womans brest or Legs Take Houseleek Smallage and Mallowes of each two handfuls shred them small then take a handful of Linseed and bruise it finely in a Mortar take also a handful of Oatmeal or wheaten bran some Roses of a Rose cake every leaf pulled from another Sheeps Tallow one pound shred it well then put all these into a gallon of running water and boil them together till they become thick then put thereto a quart of Cowes milk and let it boil stall till it be as thick as a Plaister â—tirring it often then when the leng or brest is washed with the water also â— said spread the Poultice on a cloth all abroad and lay it to the leg or brest aâ— hot as may be suffered and let it lye so till it be dry and hard and then renew it but if the leg or brest be not very hot and red it shall not need A Poultice for any Swelling Take of Violet leaves and Groundsel of each a handful of Mallowes and Chickweed of each halfe a handful shred them smal and let them seeth wel in running water and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted and spread it on a cloth and so lay it on the place pained and bind it fast and shift it twice a day till it be cured PURGE The Manna Purge Take half an ounce of the best Cene lay it in soak in a pint and a half of Posset Ale on the Embers in a close covered pot two hours then put it into a posnet and put to it a Parsley root or two one Fennel root two spoonfuls of Anniseeds a stick or two of Licoras scraped and bruised a few Raisons stoned boil all together to half then strain it and put into it one ounce of Manna and four penny weight of Rubarb being grated and put in a clout and laid in soak in the aforesaid liquor with the Manna one hour when the Manna is melted wring the Rubarb strain it and put to it three spoonfuls of the Sirrup of Roses and drink it blood warm in the morning and eat a mess of Mutton pottage after it To Purge the Moon being in Scorpio Cancer or Pisces Michocanum two drams which is two six penny weights grate at with a Grater and pound it smal steep it in a penny pot of White Wine all night and in the morning about six of the Clock warm it milk warm and drink it off and half an hour after take eight or ten spoonfuls of Mutton broth with a few Raisons or Currans in it and it will work downewards and purge away moist humours causing Phlegme to breed in the body Of Catapusia being small seeds you must take two and twenty or four and twenty of them in quantity and take off the outer hulls and beat the inner graines small in a Mortar or pewter dish then mingle it with a little Ale or White Wine which is best warm it a little and take it as abovesaid and it wil void as the other And if you should at any time have any continuing Lask by occasion of Medicine or otherwise seeth a little Rice without any salt or butter and eat it with a little Cinnamon and it shall presently stop it Another to purge Phlegme Take a handful of Groundsel wash it clean and boil it in a pint of Ale skim it then put in half a handful of Raisons or Currans and two ounces of Sugar candied boil all together again to half a pint or lesse then strain it and drink it milk warme fasting at six a Clock and fast till eleven then take some Mutton broth Another Take Encampane roots and make Conserves of it use it in this manner first wash the roots clean then slice them in pieces as big as your little finger seeth them in fair water until they be tender then take them up and pound them and strain them through a haire sieve then set them over the fire and put to them the double or trebble weight of Sugar and when it is perfectly incorporated or mingled take it off and keep it in a Gally pot The time to gather the roots is when the leafe falleth away A Dyet Drink to Purge withal Take Anniseeds Licoras Cene Hermodactilus of each one ounce of Sassaparilla five ounces scrape away the outside of it and bruise it a little and cut it the length of an inch then bruise your Licoras and put your Anniseeds to it and put them in a pot to steep in two gallons of Conduit or running water four and twenty hours then boil them until a third part be consumed then put in your Cene and half an hour after put in your Hermodactilus the outside being pared away and slice them as you do a Race of Ginger and withn an hour after take it from the fire and let it rest in the pot two hours then strain it in a bag as you strain Hypocras so let your first
milk of a Girle if for a woman the milk of a boy For the Small Pocks or Meazels When the Pocks are white at the first coming out let a woman that gives suck milk some of her milk upon them and apply a paper thereupon and do this every day and they will not pit Also take a new laid egge and it in fresh butter and then poure it into cold water and being cold put it into a pot and put Rosewater thereunto and stir it so long till it become like an Oyntment and with it annoint the sace and the eyes especially and it will preserve the sight from the Pocks and when as any one hath Pockholes annoint them with Barrowes grease betimes and it will help Also for them that have the Small Pocks falne into the eyes let them take Pimpernel and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into the eyes where the Small Pocks are with a feather morning and evening this is a special good Medicine for a Pin and Web or Pearle in the eyes Also for the Small Pocks or Meazels take Dragon root it purgeth all the inner parts or the distilled water given to drink with Treakle is very good to drive them out Also Figs eaten before meat provoke sweat and thereby expel all stinking humors and therefore are good for the Meazels or Smal Pocks and to be given to Children to bring them out speedily Also an excellent Medicine to drive them out seeth Fumetory in Rue water and drink it Also to heal the Pocks or any Scabs seeth Houndstongue in Red Wine and drink thereof and also apply it to the Sores Also to drive out the Smal Pocks drink a spoonful of Sallet Oyl with three spoonfuls of Malmesey and the quantity of a Hasel nut of Treakle in it Also to take the print of the Small Pocks out of the Sore take one ounce of Sperma Ceti and as much Deers Suet and melt them together and when the Small Pocks are ripe annoint the face therewith with a feather and if the Pocks be in the throat then give the Patient a little Sirrup of Black-berries such as grow upon Briars but take them when they are red and pound them and strain them and put as much Sugar thereunto as there is of the juice and seeth them together till they be boiled away to the one halfe then give the Patient a little in a spoon three or four times in a day and that by Gods help will cure them and the very like may be done with Gooseberries before they be too ripe and these may be taken and made into Sirrup and kept seven yeares if you will A Drink to put out the Small Pocks Make a Posset with Ale and milk and take away the curd then take a red Fernel spout and boil it well together then strain it and put thereto a quantity of Nutmegs and Treakle and English Saffron mingled warme together QUINZIE For the Quinzy TAke milk and a flint stone and make it red hot and quench it twice in the milk and take Vervain and Collombine leaves and seeth it in the milk and fine Honey and so give it to the Patient to drink Another Take the paring of the threshold and Sallet Oyl and fry them together and lay it warm to the Patients throat RAINS An excellent Medicine for the running of the Rains TAke a good handful of the inner rind or bark of the Sloe-bush the outermost black skin or rind being cut or scraped away then put the same into a quart of the purest and strongest Ale you can get and let the same boil well from a quart to a pint when it is so boiled take the rind out of the Ale and let it stand until it be cold then divide it into two parts and drink it two mornings together and fast after it every morning two or three hours Probatum For the Raines of the Back Take half an ounce of Venice Turpentine and let it be wel washed in Plantane Water or Rose water 〈◊〉 aâ—d then mix it with fine white Sugar and make thereof four or five balls of which you must eat three in a morning fasting and drink White Wine or Rhenish Wine immediately after RHEUME A good Medicine for the Rheume distilling down the throat and causing pain in the Teeth Take two handfuls of Hisop strip it from the stalks rowle it in a brown paper somewhat wet then lay it to roast under embers until it be roasted very soft but not burned then take it off and lay it upon a linnen cloth and so lay it upon the mould of the Head as hot as may be suffered and so put it fresh three or four times letting it lye from the evening to the morning For the Rheume distilling into the Eyes or Lungs Take of Rosemary red Sage sweet Marjerom of each a handful of Betony half a handful seeth them in a quart of Balme Water until it cometh to a pint then strain it and make up the Decoction with Sugar and for the Lungs you must put in some Hysop and a few Anniseeds and Licoras before you boil it An approved Receipt to be Drunk first and last for a Months space good for Rheums and Aches Take of Licoras one ounce of Cassia in the Cane and Cena Alexandrina of each four ounces sweet Fennel seeds one ounce Madder roots two ounces of large Mace ten pence in weight of Cinnamon fourteen pence in weight Hermodactilus three ounces of Polipodium three ounces of Coriander seeds three ounces prepared two or three yellow Dock roots use but the rind a good hand ful of Scabious a handful of Egrimâ—ny All these are to be used thus the Polipodium scraped the Licoras scraped and bruised the Madder roots scraped and sliced the Hermodactilus sliced Mace bruised in a Mortar with the Cinnamon and Licoras Then put all these Simples together in a bag with a pound weight to cause it to sink but let it not touch the bottom then tun four gallons of good Ale and about a week after you have tunned it drink thereof first and last and continue it a Month or six weeks together For a Rheume in the Head Take the roots of white Beets stamped and strained and put the juice of them into a glass and snuff up thereof into your nose with a quill every morning twice in a Month and it wil help Of Rheume Rheume is nothing else but a defluxion that falls from the head into the throat or brest which doth otherwhiles so stop the pipes of the Lights and throat that its ready to choak also these Rheumes fall into the nose and cause the pawse These Rheums are caused divers waies as from gross meats which cause vapours or of cold or from a sharp North wind which bloweth suddenly after a South wind The cold Rheumes are knowne by these signes following as wearinesse heavinesse of the whole body sleepiness heavinesse of the head and forehead
Patient shall be able to endure it and do it very warm against the fire and then take Nerve Oyle and annoâ—â—â— it and then take a Scarlet cloth and bind it up or cover it warm and this do morning and evening CERECLOTH To make a Cerecloth Take Virgin Wax Deers Suet Rosen Pitch and Barrowes grease of each alike and boil them together until they be half consumed then do it abroad upon a linnen cloth somewhat thin and lay it to the place grieved as hot as may be suffered A singular Cereeloth for all Bruises Aches and Wounds whatsoever Take a pint of Sallet Oyle of the best you can get and half a pound of red Lead and as much Rosen as a Walnut boil all together upon a soft fire till it be somewhat black stirring it continually and when it is cold rowle it up and keep it for your use You may keep it seven years and it will be exceeding good if you keep it from the hear of the fire Probatum To make a Cerecloth for an Ache. Take Olibanum and Sallet Oyle with Wax Rosen and Stone Pitch and boil them together A Cerecloth for all Members that be out of Joint-or any consuming member and grieved with cold moistness that consumeth it bringeth the Member again to his natural place Take six ounces of Wax three ounces of Rosen two ounces of Mastick Armoniacum Galbanum and Olibanum of each one ounce of Fenicreek Wormwood Camomile and Cummin of each of these in powder one ounce Oyl of Castorum and Oyle of Camomile flower of each one ounce of Vinegar five ounces melt the Rosen and Wax and the Oyles together and then put in the Galbanum and Armoniack steeped in Vineger and strained and so put in the powder last of all stirring it together and thereof make your Cerecloth To make a good Cerecloth Take one pound of Galbanum finely beaten to powder and searsed as much fine Rosen beaten and searsed as much Pitch of Sheeps Suet four ounces of Cummin two ounces Labdanum one ounce of Cloves one ounce of Mace one ounce of Saffron half an ounce SORE For a new cut or Sore Take Brimstone and scrape it fine and mingle it with May butter and annoint a Tent or a little lint throughly and put it into the Sore or Cut and it helpeth To dry up and to heal a Sore Take the burned Ashes of a Rhadish and strew it upon the Sore and it will dry and heal To break a Sore that is swoln Take Spurge and shred it small and boil it in Whey and thicken it with Oatmeal and lay it warme to the Sore it is also good for a womans brest Also for the breaking of a Sore or Boil take Coriander seeds made into fiâ—e powder and mix it with Honey and this being implaistered upon a Boil or a Carbunkle will in a short time destroy it Or take a little of a Calves curd STONE A Water for the Stone Take Ashen Keyes Stitchwort Saxifrage Mother-time Broom flowers Hawes Hips Bramble leaves Pollipodium of the Oak Pellitory on the wall put all these together of each alike and Still them then to every pottle of water put half a pound of Anniseeds and so let them stand four and twenty hours then put them into the Still again and still them all together then drink of it as you need and if it happen that the gravel come too fast and will not avoid then stil Ivy berries and Parsley and drink two spoonfuls of it and it will avoid the stone if it be never so great A present Remedy to avoid the Stone Take a handful of Pellitory on the wall a handful of Parsley and a handful of Parsley seeds a little bruised boil these things in a quart of White Wine until a third part be wasted then strain it and wring into it the juice of a Lemmon or two then with this Wine and some milk make a Posset as clear as you can and drink thereof a good draught twice or thrice a day but not with meat nor when the stomack is empty from meat When the Stone is avoided and the pain ceased to preserve you from the like again make a Broth and break fast three dayes every week thus Take a Chicken or a piece of Veal three young Mallowes Marsh Mallows are the best if you know them one handful of Violet leaves or of Mercury or of Pellitory of the wall one handful of Apothecary Barley scalded half a handful of great Raisons stoned boil these in water until the meat be enough then take of this broth without thickning or seasoning with a little Sugar three hours before dinner For the Stone and to provoke Vrine Take a quantity of Normandy glasse being clean without rust or canker burn it in the fire a good space then beat it in a Mortar then take an old Cambrick cloth and sift it very fine and give the Patient a spoonful or two of the same powder to drink in Malmesey being pained and it will help by Gods grace Probatum An approved Medicine for the Stone Take a gallon of new milk from the Cow that is all red and thereinto put one handful of Pellitory of the wall wild Time Saxifrage and Parsley of each a handful two or three Rhadish roots sliced steep all these in milk one night together and in the morning distil them with a moderate fire then take of that Water six spoonfuls and six spoonfuls of Rhenish or White Wine and a little Sugar and some slices of Nutmegs make it luke-warm and drink it fasting and fast after it three houres using temperate exercises Take this two or three dayes together every fortnight or oftner if need require The best time to distil this Water is towards the end of May. For the Stone Take two or three unset Leeks and stamp them and strain them and drink it in Malmesey in the morning strain as much as the Patient will drink at twice after this to bedward take some Sack and Sallet Oyle and beat it and drink it hot that will make the Stone slide A present Remedy for the Stone in the back or Bladder Take Saxifrage Philippendula Peniroyal and Parsley seeds and stamp them together and strain them into a cleane Vessel and let the Patient drink thereof with racked Rhenish Wine Probatum A Medicine for the Stone Take Ivy berries and stamp them wel and put it is White Wine and give the Patient to drink thereof and let the Patient make Water through a cloth and you shall see the avoiding of Stones and Gravel For the Stone Take Foxes bloud and Hares blood of both alike quantity and dry them in an Oven then beat it to powder and seeth it in a little White Wine and drink it as warm as you can suffer it To make a Glister for the Stone Take a good handful of Mallowes as much of Camomile and as much Pellitory of the wall three or four crops of Herb-grace a
of Oranges and Lemmons of each four ounces make it to a clear Sirrup with so much fine Sugar as will serve the turne STRAINE For a Strain Take of Elland leaves Sage Fennel Fetherfew and Mallowes of each a handful and seeth them in thick milk till the milk be almost consumed and then lay it to the place very warm SUPPOSITORY To make Suppositories for such as be bound and costive Take English Honey white Soap and some Salt mixt together and fryed then make a roul or peg thereof and put it in the Fundament it will make the Patient go to stool within an hour and a half for so long or until it work he must keep it in his body Another Take a long piece of Coperas being white and smooth it and annoint it with some butter and so minister it to the Patient and let him keep it in his body an hour and half if it work not before and he shall find great ease and helpâ— These kind of Suppositories will serve twice or thrice at the least SINEWES A good Medicine for Sinewes that be shortned or shrunk Take the head of a black Sheep Camomile Barly leaves of Sage of each one handful and bray them together in a Mortar and then boil them all together till they be well sodden then let it stand to cool and then draw it through a Strainer and lay it on the place grieved and by Gods grace it shall soone amend For shrinking of Sinewes Take Hogs dung and half a pound of Oyle of Roses seeth it in a new earthen pot and apply it as hot as you can endure it The Composition of a Cerot to mollifie Sinewes anâ—â— Joints that have been long displaced Take the leaves of Mallowes cleane picked from the stalks eight handfuls of Gentian three handfuls of Archangel one handful then take of Oyl Olive a pint of Oyl of Roses Oyl of Camomile and Oyl of Dill of each half a pint boil all together and in boiling of them strow on one ounce of Anniseeds and one ounce of graines beaten into fine powder and when they be well sodden beat them in a Mortar with yolks of eggs For a Sinew that is strained Take Groundsel Brooklime Fitch Bruisewort Nepe Petty Morral and Hemlock of each alike stamp them and boil them in a pan over the fire and lay it to the Sore as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will case the aking and swelling and heal it in a little space For Sinewes that be shrunken or grown together Take the water of shell Snailes and Shoomakers Oyl of each alike and temper them wel together then take new Snailes and seeth them in running water and gather off the Oyle and put it to the other Oyle and temper them well together STOMACK For the pain in the Stomack Take Mackerel Mints two handfuls and of sowr leaven one handful and an half stamp them very small and put to it a good quantity of Mace beaten to fine powder and so much Wine Vinegar as shall incorporate all into a liquid paste which you must spread upon a linnen cloth apply it warm to the Stomack twice a day For heat in the Stomack Take a pint of stale Ale and half a pint of Endive Water and put thereto as much Sugar as will make it sweet then set it on the fire and skim it clean then take a piece of a white loaf as much as an apple the crust taken away and three or four whole Mace then let it seeth one walm after and then take and drink it duke warm the bread taken away whensoever you feel the heat in your stomack To make one have a stomack to his meat Seeth Centory in fair water and let the Patient drink it luke-warme fasting three dayes each day three spoonfuls it purifieth the stomack and brest also A good Powder to digest well Take Centory and Pellitory of Spain Anniseeds Licoras Grains of Paradise Ginger and Cinnamon of each alike beaten and searsed into fine powder and drink thereof morning and evening half a spoonful in Wine or Ale To make Hipocras for a weak Stomack Take a pint of Aqua vitae and put it in a glass then take two ounces of Cinnamon and one ounce of Ginger of Cloves and of Graines of each two penny worth of Nutmegs one Penny worth beat them all together into grosse powder and put them all into the glasse to the Aqua vitae and shake it very often for nine dayes together and then drink it with Wine or Ale half a spoonful or a quarter with halfe a pint of Ale To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Flegm and Melancholy Drink the seeds of Hollioaks Also the cods and leaves of Cene in powder one dram taken with broth of a Chicken or Mutton doth purge phlegm and Melancholy For a cold and stopping in the Stomack Take one handful of sweet Marjerom a few Marigold flowers a penny worth of Caraway Comfits a penny worth of Parsley seeds two penny worth of Dates a half penny worth of Raisons of the Sun boil all these in a quart of White Wine till halfe be boiled away then put in two ounces of brown Sugar candied and a little Mithridate SHINGLES For the Shingles Take the gteen leas of Colts foot stamped and mingled with Hony and apply it and it will help SPOTS To cleanse the skin from allscars and spots Make balls of a little bignesse of the juice of the inner parts of a Pumphin and bean flower dry them in the shadow and wash therewith before the fire SWELLING For a Swelling Take two handfuls of Wheaten meal and a pint of Cow milk and a handful of Rue and shred it small with a spoonful of fresh grease and boil them all together till they be thick then lay it on the swelling For Swelling in the Legs Take a handful of Archangel a handful of red Fennel and two handfuls of Mallowes and a handful of Brooklimes then seeth all these Herbs together in a gallon of running water to a pottle then bathe the leggs with the water hot and lay the Herbs on For all Swellings and Wrenchings c. Take a pint of Milk Oatmeal dryed Rose leaves Mellilot flowers of each a handful and a little Deers Suet and seeth it till it be as thick as pap then lay it to the hurt as hot as may be suffered For swelling in the Legs Take Wormwood Parsly Camomile Cummin and Ash rods of every one a handful and seeth them in the Patients Urine and make a plaister and apyly it For swelling of Sinewes Take Smallage Lovage Groundsel Brooklime Sengâ—een and Bruisewort stamp them and put thereto a little wheaten bran Sheeps Tallow and some Barrowes grease fry them well together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the place grieved For Swellings or Bruises Take milk wheaten meal red Roses and Camomile of each a handful seeth all these together until they be thick then spread it on a
throat or elsewhere TAke a handful of red Sage a handful of Cellendine and as much Woodbind leaves take a gallon of running water and put the Herbs into it and let it boil to a pottle then strain it and take the liquor and set it over the fire again then put thereto a pint of English Honey and a good handful of Roach Allome finely beaten a penny worth of graines grosly bruised and let them hoil all together three or four walmes and then skim it off with a feather and when it is cold put it in an earthen pot or bottle so as it may be kept close and for a green wound take of the thinnest of the water and for an old wound the thickest the Water first being well shaken together and after you have well cleansed the old sore with White-Wine then take fine lint and wet it in the water and oft times bathe the wound and with the lint cover the wound and if there be any holes in the wound fill them with lint made like a Tent and so cover the wound with a piece of bladder the more better to continue your lint with moisture and dresse your wound twice a day To make Barley Water Take a penny worth of Barley a penny worth of Raisons of the Sun a penny worth of Anniseeds a half penny worth of Licoras two quarts or more of water boil all together till halfe be consumed then strain it and when it is cold drink it your Licoras must be sliced into small pieces To make Doctor Stephens Water Take a gallon of good Gascoigne Wine then take Ginger Gallingal Cinnamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Mace Anniseeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds of each a dram then take red Mints red Rose leaves Garden Time Pellitory of the wall Smal Marjerom Rosemary Peniroyal Sage Wild Time Camomile Lavender Avens of each one handful then bruise them all in a Mortar and beat your Spices small and then put your Spices and Herbs into your Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it oftentimes and then still it in a Limbeck The first pint is the best the second is good The Vertue of this Water It comforteth the spirits and preserveth greatly the youth of man it helpeth the inward Diseases coming of cold it helpeth the shaking of the Palsie it cureth the distraction of the Sinewes and helpeth the Tooth ache it comforreth the stomack very much it cureth the Raines of the back the Canker and cold Dropsie it helpeth forth the Stone in the bladder also it helpeth a stinking breath and the Conception of a woman that is barren a spoonful of this Water to some is sufficient to others two or three once in ten dayes sufficeth A Water for a green Wound Take a gallon of fair running water a pottle of White Wine of Wormwood Motherwort Bramble buds Hawthorn buds Basil Mints Avens Egrimony Bovewort Wood Bugloss Woodbind Plantane Ribwort Daisie roots Betony Wild Angelica Sanicle White Bottles Scabious and Dandillion of each one handful and put them into the Wine and water and let them boil together till the half be consumed then strain out all the Herbs and boil the liquor with a quart of English Honey very softly till it be clean skimmed then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a glass and keep it for to wash any green wound which it will care although never so dangerous drinking also at a time three spoonfuls of it A Water to heal a Wound Take Woodbind leaves and Sage of each a handful boil them well together in a little water and put in a piece of Allome and a little Honey and wash the wound therewith laying a little lint to it and it wil heal it An excellent Water to wash any Sore withal and will be a means to gather skin Doctor Wheads Water Take brown Sage brown Fennel Rosemary Violet leaves Liverwort Harts-tongue Bryar leaves Plantane leaves Woodbind leaves five leaved grasse Egrimony Wild Tansie of each one handful take all these Herbs and boile them in an earthen pot with a pint of White Wine and three pints of running water till it comes to a quart then take the Herbs and strain them in a bason then take as much Allome as three Walnuts and put it in the water and let it boil up then take it and put it in a bason till it be almost cold then put in a quarter of a pint of live Honey and presently put it in bottles and stop it very close To make a cordial Water Take of the tender leaves of green Angelica four handfuls of the like leaves of Carduus Benedictus two handfuls of the like leaves of Balm and Sage of each one handful and an halfe let all be shred small Licoras bruised five ounces the seeds of Angelica two ounces the seeds of sweet Fennel three ounces let both be bruised well the Spices of Aromaticum Rosarum Diamoschum Dulce of each half an ounce infuse them all in six quarts of good Sack four and twenty hours then distil them in a Limbeck with a soft fire according to Art and draw forth of the best water a pottle whereunto after two dayes put half a pound of the finest Sugar dissolved in half a pint of good red Rose water in a fair pipkin on the fire when the rose-Rose-water is hot with the Sugar then put in your hot water and let it stand over the fire till it be throughly hot then take it off and put it in glasses and keep it as excellent to comfort the spirits and against infection you may draw forth of good smaller water a quart A very precious Water made of Cinnamon Take one pound of good Cinnamon and bruise it a little and lay it a soaking four and twenty hours in four pints or four-pound of Rosewater a pint and half of Muskadine or white Wine then put it into a Limbeck glass to distil upon hot ashes or else in a pot of hot water This Water is good against the pain of the Spleen the pain in the head the Mother to provoke Urine to stay vomiting to expel all venemous colds You may take four pints of White Wine putting to it half a pound of Cinnamon and use it as aforesaid WEN A Medicine to put away a Wen or Curnel Take black Soap mixed with unslaked Lime made into powder lay it to the Wen or Curnel and by Gods grace it will help A Medicine for an unbroken Wen. Take the crumbs of Barley bread the bignesse of an egge and as much White Wine Vinegar as will make it into a soft paste and spread it upon a cloth then take an old wooden ladle and set it against the fire and it will sweat then take a feather and wipe the sweat off the ladle and annoint the Wen therewith then take a plaister of the paste and lay it on the Wen and dresse it three times a day after the Sun is risen and before the
Licoras of each two penniworth bruise them well and put them into the little bag then line him to the side of the other Bag and sink them and put into the Pipe a branch of Rosemary then stop it close and at two dayes end draw it up to the middle and there let it hang two dayes then leisurely take it out and stop it close and in one day after broach it PERFUMES The Kings Perfume boiled TAke six spoonfuls of Rose water and as much Ambergreece as weigheth two Barly Cornes as much Civet in weight as much Sugar as weigheth two pence beaten in fine powder All these boiled together in a Persuming pan is an excellent Perfume The Queens Perfume Take four spoonfuls of Spike water and four spoonfuls of Damask water thirt Cloves and eight Bay leaves shred as much Sugar as weigheth two pence All these boiled make a good Perfume To keep your house apt to take Perfumes and to take away grosse Aiâ—es Take Cypress wood or Juniper in chips and throw them on a fair pan of coales deck your house with flowers and brush and Iprinkle it with vinâ—gar and Rose water and keep your windows and doors close till the house be perfumed and then set up your Perfumes King Edwards Perfume to make your house smell like Râ—semary Take three spoonfulâ— of perfect Rosemary and as much Sugar as halt a Walnut beaten in small powder All these boiled together in the Perfuming pan upon hot embers with a few coles is a very sweet Perfume Such Herbs as are good for Perfumes Sweet Basil dryed in the Sun Sweet Marjerom young red Mints the Pills of Lemmons dryed and powdered All these are good for Perfumes every one will smell severally A sweet Perfume to burn Take Benjamin three ounces Labdanum one ounce Ambergreece three ounces Civet one ounce mingle all these together with Gumdragagant and roll it and make it three square with Fusses dissolved in Rosewater mingle with the same Another Perfume to boil and burn Take Benjamin and Storax of each an ounce Labdanum and Fusses of each an ounce and half a dram of Civet to be burnt beat them in a white Mortar and to boil put them in Rosewater It is also a good Perfume for Gloves A fine and sweet Oyl Take Musk twelve graines Civet six graines Ambergreece eight grains Benjamin six graines a few Cloves Storax Callamint three grains Grind all these together with Oyl of Sweet Almonds First wash your Gloves with Fusses dissolved a day in Damask water A Perfume for Gloves Take your Gloves and wash them well in Damask water then stretch them fair and softly and lay them in a fair linnen cloth or sheet folded eight folds that the Rosewater may dry in by leisure Then take Oyl of Sweet Almonds upon a store and with your hands annoint your gloves and rub them well over and stretch them forth by little and little and before they be throughly dryed take the powder of Sanders mixed with a little Ambergreece and strow the powder finely fearced upon them and let them lye in a box in a sheet of white paper Another Perfume for Gloves Take your Gloves or any other leather and wash them well in Rose or Damask water then wring them out of the water and dry them Do so three or four times then take Gumdragagant steep it in fine Damask water all night and so strain it and mingle it with a quarter of an ounce of Ambergreece and as much fine Musk. First grind your Ambergreece with the Oyle of Trobyn and then mix all together within and without and lay a paper betwixt the Gloves Glove by Glove and dry them under a feather bed A Perfume in Powder Take Ireos Storax Callamint Lignum Aloes Laudanum graines or seeds of Juniper as much of each sort as you will beat together as much of one sort as of another Cast the Perfumes into the fire and then you shall see whether it wil smell well or not To make an Oyl Perfume for Gloves that shall never out Take Benjamin two ounces of Storax and Calamint of each an ounce the powder of Benjamin and Storax must be finely beaten by themselves that done take a pound of sweet Almonds and mingle it with the Storax and Benjamin upon a Marble stone and then put it into an earthen pâ—t with moâ—e Oyle then put in your gloves powdered and so let it stand very close covered And when you will perfume a paire of Gloves take a little fair water in a spoon and wipe your Gloves very fine with it Take another spoon and dip it in your Oyl and rub it on your Gloves and let them dryâ— this is excellent Perfumes sweet and good Take Gumdragagant and lay it in Rose-water until it be dissolved and liquid then powder the things hereafter written Take Laudanum an ounce Benjamin an ounce Lignum Aloes a quarter of an ounce Coles of Willowes twoÌ„ ounces and half beat all these together and make paste of it with the Gum and make as many balls or cloves as you will then dry it in the shadow A Receipt to make a Perfume to preserve mankind from the Infection of the Plagueâ— and also to burn in Chambers Chests and Presses for preserving of clothes bedding and hangings Take pure old Juniper shave it thin as may be one ounce of the flower or herb of Saint Johns wort half an ounce of the Gums of Olibanum Mastick and pure chosen Mirrhe of each one ounce your Gums grind great your Saint Johns wort hack it small your shavings of Juniper in like sort then mix them all together and put them in so me convenient vessel then add thereunto pure Venice Turpentine as much as will make it like a piece of paste then use it at your pleasure taking the quantity of halfe a Nutmeg at a time and burn it on a tile stone in your Chamber when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise A Receipt for a Perfume Take Musk Ambergreece and Civet of each a quarter of an ounce of Orange flowers one ounce grind all these things very smal on a stone then mingle them well together with half aâ— ounce of Oyl of Beanes and for want thereof one ounce of sweet Almonds and then apply it to the leather or other use you will put it to FINIS