make thereof a playster and lay it to the sore and it will ease you For a hardnes in the body ¶ Against the hardnes of the body take a good quantitie of Lilly rootes with an hearbe called Brancha vrsina and the roote of Mallowes and Holly-hock and temper them altogether in Wine and Oyle twelue dayes and then straine it and in stratning put thereto waxe and oyle and make an oyntment therof and therewith annoynt the hard-bound body Against heate in the bodie ¶ Take and eate ripe Berries and drinke the iuyce thereof it is very good for them that haue ouer-much heate for it cooleth them and an electuary made of these Berries is verie good for them that is gréeued with ouermuch heate in the body Also take the distilled water of Oxe dunge it is very good and profitable for the same A medicine for the Blacke Iaundies ¶ Take Gentiana long Pepper Calomus aromaticus Anence Reysons Currons white Sope of Spaine of each of these one ounce and two spoonefuls of Musterd-séed and boyls all them in a quart of Wine till the third part be wasted Another for the same ¶ Take Angell towchis and grinde them small but first wash them as cleane as ye may then put thereto a quantitie of Neates-foote oyle and a quantitie of Vineger drinke this medicine cold thrée times and it will cause you to cast out all the sicknes in your body presently Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Sage Parsely Gromwell of each a like much and make pottage thereof with a péece of good Porke and eate no other meate that day prooued For the yellow Iaundies and greene sicknes ¶ Take of Iuorie made into small powder halfe an ounce of Turmericke thrée quarters of an ounce as much of Saffron as the weight of a groate compounde all these well together and vse to drinke of thys potion first in the morning and last in the euening with a draught of good stale Ale but if you take it for the blacke Iaundies you must first purge melancholy and for she gréene Iaundies without purging and this medicine will helpe both as hath béene proued For the yellow Iaundies ¶ Take a great white Onion and make a hole where the blads goeth out to the bignes of a Chesnut and then take Treacle of Iane asmuch as will fill the hole then take halfe an ounce of English-Hony being beaten so compound the Treacle and Saffron together and put it into the Onion and sette them against the fire and rost it well that it doo not burne and when it is rosted straine it through a cloth and giue the iuyce thereof to the sicke thrée dayes together and it shall help them Another for the same ¶ Take a redde Docke roote and scrape it and lay it in a quart of strong Ale all night Another for the same ¶ If the patient drinke the Sope of Spaine and the shauings of Iuory it is very good for the yellow Iaundies being either olde or young To expell the venim of the Iaundies ¶ Take of running water a pint of Endiue and Succory of each halfe a handfull let them boyle till the halfe be wasted then straine it and put thereto of Rubarbe one dramme and a halfe and of Spignard a halfe-penny weight fine beaten of Sugar three ounces and let it boyle a little and then take it off and let it stande close couered all night and the next day earlie strains it and giue the sicke to driuke thereof fasting and abstaine from meate two howres after For the Iaundies in young children ¶ Take of Rubarbe of Turmericke the waight of tenne pence of white sugar Candy as much of Spignard the waight of three pence make all these in fine powder and mixe it together and thrée dayes together take thereof in white Wine or Rennish Wine Another for the same ¶ Take Turmerick Saffron a penny waight the shauing of Iuory foure pence weight the shauing of Harts-horne as much a spoonefull of the iuyce of Capilly veneris made into powder and drinke it in Wine and put thereto a pretty quantitie of Sugar and it helpeth the same For an Impostume ¶ An Impostume is a swelling or aking out of kind and it is either of a corrupt humor that must be broken out or else of superfluitie of a humor that should nourish that limme First there must bee giuen a Purgation after that repercussions a maturatiue The remedie ¶ Take Holly-hock Licoris Lintséede dry Figges Lillierootes and Iiniper berries séeth them long in water after doe away the licoris the Iiniper berries and bray well the other then put thereto Barly meale Lintseed Fenegréek and boile al these together well and annoynt it first with fresh Butter and this ripeth postumes within without and it is good in an harde and dry impostume though it waxe as hard as a stone repercutions to smite inward the matter againe shoulde not be vsed in children nor in old men neither where matter is wooddish or seruent nor where the water is much now and then in the burning of sicknes in the nigreforiis as gréeueth when the postume or botch commeth of nobler lim or member then it is on then shal he be riped there and not driuen away frō destinary dread of the better member the which abréeding of the postume and of the venimous matter thereof repercutions must be taken in time ere that the matter be ful seged and ere it be corrupt and rotten and that is good commonly with the iuyce of cold hearbs as petty morrell purslaine of the wood and vmbelicus veneris with oyle of roses and a little aysell a little Bole armoniack and cold oyntments as Popilion or vnguentum album or the colde oyntment Iusquinianus and Poppy and lead and seeth greene Plantaine and Vinegar and the white of an Egge To breake an impostume ¶ Take a Lilly roote and an Onion and boyle them in cleane water till they be soft and then stampe them fry them with Swines greace and lay it to the impostume as hote as the patient may suffer it To ripen an impostume ¶ Take Worme-wood Mallowes Mugwoort of each a good handfull stampe them and mingle them with a quarter of a pounde of Swines greace and fry them and put to it a handfull of Wheaten branne and a little White wine of Honey foure ounces boyle them till they be thicke and lay it hote to the sore place For an Itch or breaking out ¶ Take an ounce of Quick-siluer two ounces of Baies and mingle them well together vntill that you can see no Quicksiluer and put it into a boxe and annoynt the patience once in 24 howres and it shall kill the itch Another for the same ¶ Take Frankensence and bray it small in a Morter and meddle it with Oyle de Bay and there-with annoynt thee all ouer and it will destroy the itch For all itches ¶ If the itch be in the heate of the wriste then let
and put a little of the same vpon a borde or trencher and take a stick or coale of fire and put it in the Brimstone and let the partie greeued holde his nose ouer the fume of the Brimstone and it shall breake the force of the cough and stoppings Also this is good for the pose and the rewme in the head as hath oft beene pooued To make a powder for the Cough ¶ Take Sugar-candie Enula Campana rootes dryed but nothing so much Enula campana as Sugar-candie theÌ„ take two or three crops of dryed Isope and one race of Ginger and beate all these together and afterwarde vse to eate of these powders till thou be whole To make a sirrop for the Cough ¶ Take a pynt of Isope water halfe a pynt of clipped Rosemary a quarter of a pound of Sugar-candie three spoonfuls of Anniséedes brused thrée sponfuls of Licoris sliced séeth al these together vpon a soft fire vntill it come to a sirrop then straine it and take a spoonfull thereof morning and euening and let it goe softly downe by gowlpes For the perrillous Cough ¶ Take white Horehound and stampe it and wring out the iuyce and mingle the iuyce with Honny and seeth it and gyue the sicke to drinke hereof Take also a Garlike head and rost it then take away the pills and eate it Also take a Colwoort leafe and strike the inner side thereof with May butter and lay it to the sicke mans stomacke or belly euery morning and euening and giue him no Milke Butter nor Cheese nor any kinde of salte meate nor fatte pottage nor Nuts nor Apples but make the partie pottage with leaues and rost him an Onyon and let him eate it with a little Pepper and Honny put therein and vse it osten and it will helpe him Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Sage and the iuyce of Rue of each like much and a quantitie of Commin and asmuch of the powder of Pepper and seeth them all very well in clarified Honny and so make an electuarie thereof and let the partie greeued vse of thys medicine daily thrée spoonfuls at night three in the morning vntill he be whole A good medicine to helpe the cough speedily ¶ Take two or thrée Garlick heads well pilled stamp them and put them into Hogs-greace or suet and stamp them well together and at night when thou goest to bedde warme well the soles of your féete and annoynt them with the said confection as hote as may be suffered and also the small of your legs and put a warme cloth about your feete and within thrée nights he shal be holpen Also take Brimstone and put it into powder and put a little thereof into a new layde Egge soft rosted and mingle it well together then put thereto of Bengemin as much as a fitch pease lightly stamped drinke it in the morning at your breakfast and at night A remedie for the dry cough ¶ Take a pound of Licoris and scrape it cleane then stampe it in a morter and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto three quarts of the best woort that may be gotten one ounce of Sugar and a quarter of an ounce of Ginger in powder a pynt of clarified Honny and seeth them all together till they bee halfe wasted then straine it through a cleane cloth into a faire vessell and let the party gréeued vse thereof first and last at night hote and in the morning cold till he be whole Another for the dry cough ¶ Take Anny-séedes Smallage seedes and Violet séedes of each a like much beate them all together in powder temper them with wine as the quantitie gyueth then seeth theÌ„ well till they wexe thicke and so vse it Also if you take the seedes of Nettles and seeth them in Oyle and afterward annoynt your hands and your féete therewith it will doe away the cough Also take the strrop of Violets and of Iniubes and drinke thereof Also it is very good to take first in the morning and last at night a losing of Diadragagant and after ward to drinke a draught of good Pâ—isan and thys is a present remedie for the cough when it procéedeth of a hote cause A dyer for them that haue the cold cough ¶ Yée must abstaine from Vineger and all salt meats from fruits and raw hearbes from Fish Lemmons and all kinde of grosse meats and too much replexion Also ye must drinke no Wine betwéene meales nor sléepe in the day time especiallie after meate For the stopping of the pypes and for fleame a medicine proued ¶ Take a good bowle-full of Barlie and put to the same a gallon of cleane Well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take that water and put thereunto asmuch good Woort with a penny-worth of Licoris brused but not made into powder and a good handfull of Isope another of Sage and boyle them altogether till one halfe of the liquor bee boyled in then straine that liquor through a cloth and that that commeth through the cloth put into a close vessell and let it stand a day and then let the patient drinke thereof a spoonefull or two euerie morning and so much likewise euery euening vntill he be well This hath béene often prooued For straitnesse in the pypes ¶ For straitnesse in the pypes or in the breast take dry Isope rootes of Enula campana of each one handfull sticks of Licoris scraped and soft brused foure vnces and boyle altogether in a gallon of running water till halfe be wasted then straine it and to all the aboue said liquor hote put halfe a pint of clarified hony and drinke therof milk warme a good draught euery day first and last A medicine for to stay a vomit ¶ Take halfe a pinte of running water an vnce of Suger and a good race of Ginger pick it and scrape it cleane and shred it in good handsome péeces and so put it to the water and the Suger and boile them together from halfe a pint to a quarter of a pint and so giue it to the party to drink for it will stay the vomit in a very little space For them that may not digest their meat ¶ Take Horshoue and Hilwate of each of these a like much wash them cleane and stamp them and put therto the powder of Pepper and séeth them together in faire water and let the Patient drink therof luke warme first and last For a vomit a remedy ¶ For them that haue vomit and for them that haue not their breath at will and hath stopping in their breasts take a dram and a halfe of the powder of Betony with a Goblet full of water and drink it fasting Another for the same ¶ Against the vomit caused of weakenesse heate or odor chollerick mingle the pouder of the thrée leaued Grasse with the white of an Egg and rost them
drink the iuice of Veruaine Fenell seed and Amber For to make a drinke for womans paps that are rancled and be full of ache ¶ Take Groundsell and two times as much of Brouswort and wash them both and stamp them and temper them with stale Ale and straine it through a cloth and giue to the Patient thereof first in the morning and last at night For the euill swelling in a womans breast ¶ Take Oake apples and stamp them in powder and put them in oyle of Roses and lay it to the swelling or else take the iuice of pety Morrell and Dasies and the dregs of Vineger and a hard Egge sodden with the shell and Barly flower and so make therof a plaister and lay it on the sore For biles on a womans breasts ¶ Take the iuice of Morrell the oyle of an Egg and Beane flower make therof a plaister and lay it cold thereto For a woman that desireth to haue great plenty of milke in her breasts ¶ Let her take the iuice of Veruaine or Fenell and vse to drink oftentimes therof and she shall haue great plenty of milk Also if she drink the broth that Whitings haue béen sodden in it is very good for the same purpose For paines in the breast with ouer too much milke ¶ Take very clean water without any grauell in the same and mingle it with Vineger and the yolke of an Egge and a little Saffron then lay it vpon a cloth plaister wise and lay it to the breast and when it is dry take it away and lay another in the place Another for the same ¶ Take Vineger and honey hoyled together and spread it vpon a cloth then lay vpon it a little powder of Comin it will asswage the milke For the milke that is curded in a womans breast ¶ Take Wheat mingled with Rue and sodden in water and lay it to a womans hard breasts that be curded with milke and it will soften them Another for the same ¶ If the séeds of Lentiles be mingled with water of the Sea they be good for milk that is curded in womens breasts For the hart burning ¶ Take a crop of Fennell and chewe it in thy mouth and suck the iuice therof then spet it out and take another vse this very often and it will help him that is hart burnt For the paine at the hart ¶ Take Centuary séeth it in stale Ale and when it is well sodden stamp it in a morter and seeth it againe with the same liquor then clense it through a cloth with two spoonfuls of the iuice and thrée spoonfulls of Honey and then boyle it well together againe and put it in a boxe and giue it to the Patient euery day thrée spoonfuls fasting till he be whole and this shall doo away the glut from him and make him haue an appetite to his meate For weaknesse of the hart ¶ Take rose-Rose-water and mother of Pearle beaten small to powder and mingle it with Suger and giue it to the Patient to drink three or foure daies and he shall be whole For faintnes at the hart ¶ Take the filings of Gold and the powder of the bone of a Harts hart and mingle them with the iuice of Borage and Suger made in sirop for it is very good for sowning For all sicknesses about the hart ¶ Take Rosemary Isope Centory Betony and Iris and séeth them in faire water and straine the water and the iuice of the hearbs and put therto hony and boile it againe and scum it and put therto as much butter as hony in the séething and mingle them together and take it downe and couer it well and drink therof at euen hot and in the morning cold An Electuary for the hart ¶ Diantes this Electuary is good for the heauines in the hart and for féeblenes of complection in a mans stomacke for the Cardiakle and for the had lungs et alia causa For euils at the hart ¶ Take Hartwoort Galingall Harts tongue and Sauine stampe them and wring out the iuice and temper them with good Wine a good quantity of Roses and giue it to the party so gréeued to drinke first in the morning and last at night and he shall be whole God willing A sirop for the paine of the hart ¶ Take and stamp Betony and hearb Benet Horehound and Veruaine séeth them in faire water to the third part then put therto hony and make therof a sirop For all diseases in a mans hart ¶ Take Sage Mints by euen portion séeth them in white Wine and make a plaister thereof and lay it to his hart till he be whole take also the Wine that it was sodden in and giue it to the Patient to drink euening and morning and he shall haue good desire to his meat within sixe daies after at the furthest For to comfort the hart ¶ Take the powder of Setwall and put it in the sick mans meat it comforteth the hart and is very good for them that haue weake harts and be disposed to sowning Another for the same ¶ Temper the Patients Wine with water that Spicknard is sodden in and with the same water make a sirop and let the sick drink therof it is good against the disease of the hart and for sowning And for weakenes of the braine smell it at thy nose Also séeth the flowers of Rosemary leaues mingled with Rose-water and giue it to the Patient to drinke Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Rosemary leaues mingled with Rose-water and a little of the iuice of Panay and make sirop therof it will also be good if some of the bone in the hart of an Hart be put therunto and giuen to the Patient For all paines in the hart ¶ Take the powder of Galingall with the iuice of Borage and the seeds of Ireos with the milke of a Goate and drinke it warme it will asswage the paine of the hart Another for the same ¶ Take the pouder of Cannel with the pouder of the leaues of Ielliflowers it is very good against the passion and sowning of the hart being giuen to the party Against the passions of the hart ¶ Take and make sirop with the iuice of Borage and put therto of the powder of the Harts bone in the hart of a Hart. Also take Buglosse and eate it often eyther rawe or sodden it driueth out the noysome humors Also against the passion of the hart and sowning take sirop made with Cassia ligna and Roses and the bone of a Harts hart and giue it the sick to eate For feeblenes of the hart ¶ For them that are weake in the hart and doo take their breaths in manner of sighes take and giue them the iuice of Buglosse with hony and it shall help them Against the fainting of the hart ¶ Take and make Pils with a dram of Amber and an vnce of Lignum aloes and two drams of the bone of a Harts hart beat to powder and
beat the Pils in rose-Rose-water and giue two or thrée of the said Pils to the Patient when he goeth to bed Also to take the quantity of foure drams of Cucubes with the iuice of the root or the leaues of Parsneps is very good Also for them that be faint at the hart or be like to sown giue them rose-Rose-water for to drinke and also bedew their faces therwith Also if the faintnes come from the braine or liuer or paine of the stomack caused of cold take two Wheat cornes of Musk in wine and it will help the same Against sowning Against sowning and faintnes of the hart take Rose-water that this hearb Bassell is sodden in and for the same take wine that the hearb is laid in all night Also against sowning take the powder of Roses and put it into a reare Egge Also take the powder of Ginger in your meats and it is good against sowning Against sowning make sirop with the iuice of Borage and Suger Also against sowning of the hart comming of cold take and séeth this hearb Cardomomum in sweet smelling wine with a little Rose-water and vse it For sowning ¶ For sowning and weaknes of the hart be it in Feauers or sicknesses or if it come of either cause stampe Mints with Vineger and a litle Wine if the Patient haue no Feauer then tost a shiuer till it be almost burnt and put it therein till it be well stéeped then put of it in his nose and rub his lips his tong gums teeth and the temples and let him chewe it and sucke the moistnes therof and swallow it For the paine of the lungs ¶ Take Figs and let them be sodden with Isop they clense the lungs and heale the old cough Also take the root of the wild Rape and séeth it with Licoris and the water that it is sodden in giuen to the Patient to drink is very good to clense the lungs Also take this hearb Southernwood and mingle it with Isop and sodden in wine or water make it swéet with Suger and so drunken is very good for al diseases of the lungs and the breast when sicknes commeth of cold annoynt the breast Another for the same ¶ If you take the broth of Creues it is good for paine in the lungs named Perpleumonia vr consuming of a man called Prosis because when a man hath a swelling about the lungs then he commeth to drinesse and consuming of that naturall moysture till he dyeth For the lyuer and lungs ¶ For the lyuer and the lungs wasting with ouer vnkind heats take water made of Borage and of red Fenell roots Ach Isop Endiue Betony Calamint Lettice Nutmegs Mace flowers of Camomel Cloues Aniseeds by euen portions one vnce of Licoris and Aniséeds halfe a pound make of all these hearbs and spices a water and it shall restore you meruailously and if you cannot get all these hearbs then take the more of Borage Also to restore his kind make a confection of the flowers of Borage and of red Roses with the foresaid spires and with Suger For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Spodium vt eborij in rose Corall Barly meale Triacendaly thrée peny worth mingle all these with the iuice of Endiue S. Mary berry and Housléeke Another for the same ¶ Take red Roses Sandalorum cum Iuery and water of Lillies an vnce stamp them small and put therto Barly meale and the iuice of Marigolds Vineger and the iuice of Wormwood and make a plaister therof and lay it to the lyuer For chafing of the lyuer and of the spleene ¶ Take yellow Rubarb Barly meale and Vineger and temper them together and make therof a plaister and lay that plaister to a mans right side let him blood in the vaine of the spléene and giue him to drinke in Winter Suger rosset and in Sommer Scabious For the chafing of the lyuer ¶ For the chafing of the lyuer and opilation of the milt caused of humor take Rubarb with warme water but it is better to mingle it with Trifera sarazenica and this you may vse with the iuice of Endiue and so giue it to the Patient Also take and annoynt the lyuer with the oyle of Roses for the chafing of the lyuer Against chafing or heat of the lyuer take and wet a cloth many times double and lay it to the lyuer Also the oyle of Violets is good against the chafing of the lyuer Prooued Against the chafing of the lyuer scrape the vppermost of the Gourd stamp the said scraping and wring out the iuice and put Vineger thereto wet a cloth therin and lay it to the lyuer outwardlie Also take Endiue and lay it in water and vse it in your brothes for the Patient so gréeued For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Fenell Endiue Succory Planten of each a like much and still them with red Wine or milke and vse it euerie morning nine spoonfuls at a time with a draught of Wine and Suger or else fiue spoonfuls therof alone For the lyuer wasting which causeth a scabbid face ¶ Take thrée gallons of sweet Woort and put thereto foure handfull of Lyuerwoort and foure handfuls of Violets two handfuls of Harts tongue foure handfuls of Marigolds foure handfuls of Matfelon and stamp all these together and boyle them a prety while in the Woort then take them vp and when they are cold strain them and put therto Barly meale vse this fasting at night the space of a moneth then take an oyntment that is made for a dry scab and therwith daily annoynt thy face and vsing of this drink aforesaid the party shall find help For the vnkinde heate of a mans liuer which causeth his collour to waxe yellow ¶ Take the water of Chiccorie and the water of Lettice and the water of the leaues small branches of a Moryer tree take the hearbs and stampe them all together as much of the one as of the other take the iuyce thereof and asmuch Sugar as will suffise boyle all these together till they be as thicke as a sirrop and put vnto the same a poys and a halfe of Rewbarbe and vse a quantitie of this sirrop in colde water euerie day fasting till he be whole For the liuer that is corrupted and wasted ¶ Take a quantitie of Liuerwoort and bruse it a little then séeth it in good strong Woort with a quantitie of Rewbarb and vse this medicine till thou be whole A drinke for the Splene ¶ Take Harts-tongue wilde Hoppe leaues and Borage with the flowers of Femitory and Parflie rootes seeth them in Whey and clarifie them with the white of an Egge strain it drinke thereof morning and euening and so continue a fortnight and it will helpe you many waies A playster for the Splene ¶ Take three or foure Hollihocke rootes two handfulls of Mallowes and seeth them well together then stampe the rootes by themselues and straine them with the same water wherein they were sodden then stampe
spoonfull and the powder of Pepper mingle these together and drink it for three dayes fasting For the wasting of the kidneyes and for paines of the back ¶ Take a handfull of Planten a handfull of Parsly a handfull of Betony a handfull of water Betony a handfull of Sorrell a dosen crops of Rosemary séeth these in three pints of Ale till it be wasted and strain them and put therto a pint of Sack and a good péece of Suger and burne it well together and so giue it to the party all hot euening and morning proued For the whites or the running in the raines ¶ Take white washed Turpentine and make it vp in balls like Pyls then take Cinamon Ginger and rowle the balls in it and take them as you would doo Pylls morning and euening Prooued For the whites ¶ For the whites or weaknes in the back take an earthen vessell and put it in a quart pot of faire water wherin you must quench two or thrée gads of sréele being red hot then stéepe therin an vnce of Lettice séeds foure and twenty houres then strain the same and séeth it halfe away and scum it very cleane and keepe it in a couered cup and drinke this morning and euening with powder of Iuory Another for the same ¶ Take Archangell and séeth it in drinke and drink it morning and euening it is very good the red for the woman and the white for the man For all manner of aches in the back ¶ Take Egrimony Mugwoort both the leaues and rootes and stamp them with Swines greace and Vineger and séethe them and lay it to the back Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Peniriall and put therto Vineger and oyle Oliue that is gréene and lay it to thy backe plaister wise For him that hath lost his complexion from the back ¶ Take Linséed and stamp it smal and temper it with Goats milk and straine it all warme and drink it thrée or foure times fasting and thy complexion will come againe For the paines in the back ¶ Take Vnguentum rosarum and chafe your backe morning and euening and lay to this plaister following take Fethersoy Tansie Housleeke of each a handfull shreded and stamped fine then fry them well together with a saucer full of hony and two vnces of Deues dung of the newest you can get when it is thick like a plaister put it in the end of a small sléeue and so lay it to your back all warme For all manner af ache in the back ¶ Take Smallage Egrimony Mouseare and stamp them all together but wash them well first and temper them with Ginger and fry them well in Bores greace and make a playster and as hote as the sicke may suffer lay it on the ache and he shall haue ease Another for the same ¶ Take Lilly rootes Camomell Anniséedes and stampe them all together and fry them in Bores greace and put a little Wine therete and in manner of a plaister lay it on a cloth and bind it fast to the backe or raines all hot and after thrée or foure daies remoue it with renuing of the plaister therto with more fresh For the running of the raines ¶ Take Pellitory of the wall and stampe it and straine it and drink it with Malmsie or white Wine or Ale and doo this often till that thou be all whole Also if the Patient make a Tansie of Clary and eate thereof is very good for the same disease as hath béene proued For womens termes ¶ Take Selondine and let a woman put it in her hose vnder the soles of her féete and it will help her Also Mollet leaues and the red flowers of Hollihocks is very good for this purpose Also the great leaues of Burres béeing sodden in strong Ale and the same afterward drunk is very good For wasting of nature ¶ Take a pint of Malmsie and put therto a peny woorth of Sinamon and another of cleane Mace and boyle them ouer the fier with Wine but first make powder of your spices then take Treakle as much as a Damson and put therto and stir altogether and let the sick drink therof hot at all times and it shall auoide all fleame and wind in the interior parts of man to restore his nature prooued For all Impostumes in the body ¶ Take Centory Rosemary Wormwood Horthound and make it in sirop with white Wine and let the sick take therof and it shall cause the Impostume to goe downe and when it is broken let him vse to drink of the same sirop warme For to destroy all Impostumes either in man or woman ¶ Take the root of Hollihock and wash it cleane and séeth it till it be tender and then put the water into a vessell and then take Linséed and Fenegreke of each of them a like much and sée that thou haue as much of them two as the root that is sodden then séeth them in the same water till it rope as it were Birdlime then stamp the root and doo therto Barly meale and mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the sore plaister wise as hote as you may suffer it and within nine daies ye shall be whole Also take Turmentile and let the Patient drinke often of the iuice therof and it shall cure him prooued An experiment to take away the mother ¶ Take a great deale of Mugwoort and as you gather it sliue the leaues downward then wash them cleane and boyle them in running water till they be soft and when the party goeth to bed let him or her wash themselues therewith from the nauell downward both flanks and members and also the mother so hote as is possible to be suffered remember the parties that they wash not vpward at any time and within thrée daies washing the parties eyther hee or shée shall be whole God willing Prooued Another medicine for the mother ¶ Take a handfull of Mother-time a handfull of Motherwoort a handfull of Isop a handfull of Sage séeth all these in a gallon of faire water vntill it be halfe consumed then mash it vpon halfe a peck of Malt so let it stand an houre then take the woort of it as you doo for drink and put yéest to it and being thus made let the party drink it morning and euening A drink for the paine of the mother ¶ Take a dram of Methridatum and dissolue it in an vnce and a halfe of water of Wormwood and giue it to the woman for to drinke before that she goeth to meat foure houres and let her not drink a good while afterward proued A most excellent medicine for the mother the chollick and stone ¶ Take Fenell séed Coriander seed Carroways séed Parsly séed Galingall séed Gromwell seed an vnce of each of these also an vnce of leaues and cods of Scene a quarter of an vnce of Spignall a quarter of an vnce of Time take al these and make them into
powder and searce them through a searcer and drink them in white Wine or good Ale first and last and in all maner of sauces that you eat with your meat and this medicine shall cure the mother the stone and the chollick proued Another for the mother ¶ Take Mugwoort and hearb Sunonde Saudry and red Mints and siraine all these iuyees with red Wine and giue it to the woman that is pained with the mother to drink A good medicine for the mother comming of what cause so euer ¶ Take the rasing of Iuery and the rasing of an Hartes horne with the haire of a Hare dryed and made in powder and as much of Geats clawes burnt and poudered if they may be gotten or in stéed therof Shéepes clawes take all these and vse to eat of them in your pottage or otherwise in your drinks For the genitories ¶ For the paine and swelling of the genitories sée the well the root of Bruse and make a plaister therof and put swet to it and bind it fast therto with a band and it will cease the paine and swelling of the cods For the swelling of the cods ¶ For them that haue swolne cods with fleame so that they shine stampe Doues-foote with small greene Lettice and lay it plaister-wise thereto Another for the same ¶ Take Barly meale and Honey and fry them together and make a plaister thereof and let the party so gréeued lay it warme to the gréefe of the cods For swelling of a mans cods ¶ Take Rue and Wormwood and srampe them together and put therto hony and make therof a cold plaister and lay all about the cod and when you will take the plaister away then wash the cod with Vineger and he shall be whole For a man that is brused or that his cods be sore ¶ Take the wooll of a blacke Rams cod and put that wooll into oyle and powder of Comin and heate it hote and thereof make a plaister and as hote as the party can suffer it lay it to his cods and it will doo away the aking and make it whole within thrée or foure times dressing therwith For swelling of the cods ¶ Take Rose leaues Rose-water red Wine Camomell or Camomell flowers and Beane flower let them boyle together and make a plaister of it and lay it to the cods as hote as he may suffer it Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Walwoort Vineger and Honey put therto Barly flower and séeth them till they be thick and bind it to the sore all hot For a mans yard that is scalded ¶ Take Bruse Woort Veruaine hearb Robert Pimpernell of each of all these a good quantity and most of all of Pimpernell stamp them all together as small as you may then fry them with Butter and straine it through a cloth and put it in a bore and therwith annoynt your yard cold and of these hearbs make a plaister then lay it all about the yard cold dressing it euery day two or three times a day For a mans yard that is burnt ¶ Take a linnen cloth and burne it to powder and take oyle of Eggs and annoynt the sore and fill the gréefe with the sayd powder Also for a mans yard that is sore and full of holes take a good company of Dasies and stampe them and change them often Also take Linséed and burne it and make powder therof and doo it in a cloth and lay it to the sore For a sore in a mans yard ¶ Take Swinismore Hocke leaues Ambrose leaues Veruaine Peritory Cherfaile Mastick bruse these hearbs together in a morter and mingle them together with Mastick and Swines greace and oyle Oliue and boyle them and straine it through a cloth and with this Vnguent annoynt the sore yard so gréeued For the swelling of a mans yard ¶ Take Léekes and bray them in a morter and fry them in fresh greace of a Bore and make a plaister then lay it all about the yard and it shall asswage and heale it proued Another for the same ¶ Take Clay and beate it to powder and sifte it and take wine Vineger and seethe them together and make a plaister therof and it will take away the swelling therof For paine in the bladder ¶ Take fcure drams of Betony and foure rootes of Smallage sodden in water but first séethe the rootes till the water be halfe wasted then seeth the Betony therin and drink therof A decoction for to drink with Wine for them that make bloody water by fracture of any vaine within the body as in the lyuer raines and bladder ¶ Take of Knotgrasse Bursa pastoris of each a handfull the cups of Acornes of Camphire one lease of Cinamon a dram waight of Licoris cleane scraped and sliced one dram waight of water a quart of Suger two vnces all this must boyle to the consumption of the third part and then let it run through a faire cloth into a clean vessell and when it is cold put it into a glasse and in your drink vse therof eyther in Ale or Béere and it shall ease the bladder of payne For him that pisseth blood ¶ Take Ambrose Bursa pastoris Parsly séede stamp them and temper them with Goats milk and giue the party to drink and it will quickly help him For a man that pisseth blood ¶ Take of the earth that is on the Swallowes nest and put it into hot water and giue the sick for to drink and the bléeding shall staunch within a while For a man that may not hold his water ¶ Take the clawes of a Goate and burne them in the fier and make therof powder and let the sicke vse of this powder in pottage a spoonfull at once and he shall be whole For a man that may not pisse ¶ Take Mallowes a good quantity of Gromell and séethe them in Vineger a good while and then let the sick drink therof warme and he shall pisse soone after Another for the same ¶ Take Lanberd and make powder therof and then let the ficke drink therof with white Wine and he shall quickly pisse for this medicine hath béen proued For a hard womb and for to pisse ¶ Take Parfly séede Ache and Spurge of euery of them foure vnces stamp them to powder and put it either into wine or water and drink it morning and euening For to make a man to pisse well ¶ Take Peritory stamp it and fry it and lay it all hot to a mans yard Also make a plaister of the flower of Cockle and water and so lay it to the sicks yard Also Linseede béeing sodden well in hony and applyed to the place causeth the man to pisse well Prooued For a woman that may not hold her water ¶ For a woman that may not kéepe her water take Egrimony and Salt and stampe them together very small then séeth it in olde Wine vntill the third part thereof be consumed and then giue her thereof to drinke For a man or woman that
for a new wound or to staunch blood poure a little of it in a dish and if it stick fast vnto the dishes side then it is inough and preserue it to your vse as neede requireth The making of the flower of all plaisters and salues called Flos vnguentorum per G. K. ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen halfe a pound of Perossen a quarter of a pound of Frankensence a quarter of a pound of virgin Wax an vnce of Mastick a quarter of a pound of Dears sewet a quarter of a pound of Shéepes sewet two drams of Camphire a quarter of a pound of Venice Turpentine and melt that may be molten and make powder of that which may be beaten to powder and searce your powder through a fine searcer and to compound this treate or plaister with all your Waxe Shéepes sewet and Deares sewet must be first molten on a soft fire then your Olibanum Mastick with your Rozen and Perossen and your Frankensence and Myrrh and last of all your Turpentine of Venice and as you put these gums in you must euer be stirring it with a little sticke that it doe not grow to the kettle side with a soft fire the gums being throughly molten take the kettle from the fire still stirring of it let your Myrrh and your Turpentine be put in the last for that must not abide on the fire long after it is put in then take a pottle of good white Wine and let your strainer be of canuas ready for to straine the sayd gums withall and let there be no holes in the canuas strayner then take a faire Bason or Péece and put it in a quart or thrée pints of your white Wine and then let it runne through into the white Wine and so let it coole for the space of two houres and then worke it and make it vp in roles and let the roles lye continually still in the white Wine for it will be 〈◊〉 as Allablaster and yée may kéepe it this seauen yeares in full effect and goodnes and especiallie for all new woundes and aches béeing spread vpon new canuasse and apply it to the gréefe and these be the vertues of this Flores vnguentorum Also this noble Salue or plaister amongst all other is most clensing and wel sounding the flesh that it healeth more in one weeke then in any other it wil suffer no corruption to be ingendred in man or woman nor no euill flesh to grow for all these diseases aboue named it is the most strange medicine that euer was sound as in experience it hath béen full many times proued and tryed The golden plaister that healeth all bruses of vaines or sinewes proued ¶ Take Colofony Pitch Rozen and Oyle thrée vnces of liquid Pitch an vnce of Olibanum an vnce of Auri vnguenti a like of each of Wine as much as suffiseth and make thereof a plaister and lay it too and kéepe it to your vse To make Gratia dei ¶ Take halfe a pound of Rozen and boile it in a pan vntill the fome or scum be come of it then take a quarter of a pound of vnwrought Wax and put it into the Rozen and boyle them together as is aforesaid then take an vnce of Sheepes sewet and as much of Turpentine and oyle Oliue a spoonefull and put them all together into the same pan amongst the Rozen and Wax aforesaid and boyle them all together vntill the fome begin aboue and when the fome beginneth to waxe blacke then take it off the fire and clense it through a faire linnen cloth into a pan of water then work it with your hands and put it out as you doo Birdlime for the space of a quarter of an houre and now and then wet your hands in the waâ—… when it cleaueth to the salue and then make it into roles To make Gratia dei minor ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Pimpernell that beareth the white flower of each thrée handfuls and bray them séeth them in white Wine till it be halfe sodden then poure out the Wine through a cloth and set it ouer the fire put thereto Perrosin a pound Mastick a pound Virgin wax and take womans milk that nourisheth a man child a quantity mingle them together boyling with a slice till it be well melt then take it off the fire put in halfe a pound of Turpentine stir it well together till it be cold then kéepe it till ye néede it is good for all new wounds and olde for the Webbe in the eye it suffereth no dead flesh to remaine within the wounde Also for stinging of venimous beasts and also for all maner of impostumes and for all sores To make a plaister that will heale a wounde ¶ Take a pound of the iuyce of Betony as much of Plantine the iuyce of Smallage as much Bursa pastoris as much and foure pound of Waxe and Perrossen a quarter of a pounde of Incense boyle all these together with the iuyces of these 4. hearbes till they be almost thick and then put therein a quarter of a pound of Turpentine oyle Oliue thrée pound and so vse it as a plaister at neede A methridate against poysons and pestilence which for a trueth was prooued vpon foure Irish Gentlemen poysoned with Rats-bane cast into a pan of Milke in Fraunce who were so swolne that they were ready to burst ¶ Take of the rootes of Turmentile two drammes of all the kinde of Saunders of euery of them a dram white Dittanie newe gathered and dryed a dramme of the top of a Harts horne or a Spitrack of precious stones the fragments of orient pearle Bole armoniack Aristologia rotunda of each a dram Peniriall Mirrh and sewet of each two drams Tarra limnia of the purest two drammes the seedes of Cytrons and Saffron of each a scruple Vnicorns horne and iacints of each halfe a dramme The licour to make this Electuary is Rosewater and the water of Borage flowers distilled boyle your Sugar and waters to a perfection and in the cooling put in your powders searced and so reserue it as a most precious treasure that is also a present remedy to driue out the Measels shingles small poxe the plague pushes and hath holpe them whose sores were gone in and brought them out againe and recouered the parties and it defendeth all venim To make pilles against poyson of a meruailous vertue as hath been proued ¶ Take Imperatrice Bistorta Turmentilla Valeriana Dittamo Bianco Carlina Gentiana Aristologia rotunda Agarico Electo Salgem of each a like quantity beate them in fine powder then take the iuyce of Garlike and of Onions as much as will make it into a paste Also put into the iuyce one dram of Saffron then let the sayd paste be mixt dry in the shadow and then beate it into powder againe and mixe it with the foresayd iuyce in good force and kéepe it in a vessell of lead vntill thou hast neede and when thou wilt vse it take thereof 4. drammes and make
beate it fine and mingle it with the same powder and so keepe it close that no winde come at it vsing it first and last with posset drinke made with White wine or strong Ale and when you cate your pottage or other broth put some in it if you bee sore pained and if you haue any stone it will come away by shiuers and if it doe so when you think that your water beginneth to cleare again take this drinke following and it will clense your bladder and it will leaue no corruption therein The drinke ¶ Take Rose-mary and wilde Time and séeth them in running water with as much Sugar as will make it sweete from a quart to a pint vse the quantitie of your hearbes according to your discretion so that it may sauour well of them and so vse it nine mornings sixe or seauen spoonefuls at a time For the Tissicke well proued ¶ Take a handfull of Fennell rootes as much Parsley rootes as many Alisander rootes halfe a handfull of Borrage rootes and pull out the pith of all the sayde rootes then take halfe a handfull of Penny-riall as much of Violet leaues and as much of Cinckfoyle as much Succory Endiue Hollihockleaues Mallow leaues and redde garden Mints of all these a like quantitie as of those next before halfe a handfull of Licoris stickes scraped brused and beaten to fine powder a gallon of fayre running water boyle therein all these simples and boile these séedes following with them that is thrée spoonesuls of Annyseedes as much Fennell seede as much Coliander seede and Comin seede a good handfull of Dandelion rootes and so boyle altogether from a gallon to a pottle and let the patient drinke thereof first and last and it will quickly help him Another for the Tissicke ¶ Take a quart of running water with a handful of Isope two ounces of Annyseedes asmuch Licoris beaten both togeather halfe an ounce of Fennell seede beate all these togeather very sine with a quarterne of white Sugar and so boyle them altogether vnto a pint and then straine them and so let the partie drinke thereof first and last and it will doo him good For a Tissicke or colde another ¶ Take two ounces of Licoris scraped and brused of Figs three ounces of Egrimony Hore-hounde Enula campana of each a handfull and boyle them altogether in a gallon of Water vntill the halfe be wasted then straine the hearbes from the iuyce and vse it early and late for this hath béene proued Also for the dry Tissick take and stamp Fennell rootes and drinke the iuyce thereof with white Wine For the Tissicke another experiment ¶ Take Radish rootes make them cleane and cutte them thin and cast them into an Ouen and bake them then beate them into powder so small as you can then drinke thereof euerie morning fasting and at night when you goe to bedde and wet your meate in the same powder as you weuld doo in salte and it will doo you very great ease shortly To make the mother of Treakle ¶ Take a pint of Honny put thereto the iuyce of red Fennell séeth it on the fire vntill it come to a pinte then take it of and put thereto a penny-woorth of Sinamon in powder two raises of Ginger a Nutmeg and a little Mace and stirre them well together and when it is cold put it into a boxe and gather your Fennell in May. Also to make Treakle for all manner of poyson take one ounce of Betony in powder 4. ounces of Centory in powder and 2. ounces of the powder of Rew medle these together and temper them with clarified Honny and kéepe it in a glasse The golden treate that healeth all bruses ¶ Take Colosony pitch and Rozen and two ounces of oyle three ounces of liquid Pitch 1. ounce of Olibanū Auti vnguenti Allam of each two ounces of Wine as much as suffiseth and boyle all these together and so receiue them to your vse as you neede and it helpeth For to make a white treate called Apostolicen ¶ Take oyle Oliue litarge of Leade Golde and Siluer stampe it and put it in the oyle through a cloth and stirre it till it be harde and this is a good treate for to heale all manner of woundes be they newe or old thys kinde of treate hath often béene proued good To make a treat called Emanuell ¶ Take Veruaine Bittany Pimpernell Centorie the more Gratia dei of each one handfull hearbe Iohn Auence Celondine Acus muscata alaluia Plantaine Spurge Egrimonie of each one handfull grinde all in a morter and put thē in a gallon of Wine and boyle them in a pan till the third part be wasted then straine it through a Canuas cloth and set it oner the fire and put thereto Waxe foure ounces Pitch asmuch Rozen as much Olibanum two ounces Mastick two ounces Mirrhe two ounces Aloes two ounces Turpentine two ounces Sheepes sewet halfe a pound boate them all in powder and boyle them all together saue the Turpentine the which must be put in last of all then straine the same through a cloth and keepe it till you haue neede thereof and this is a speciall healer of all wounds and sores bruses and broken bones and Apostumes that be broken also it hath a special vertue to draw clense and reengender good flesh it healeth and doth away all kinde of aches whatsoeuer all Cankers and Festers it healeth Morimals it passeth all other oyntments and if you will haue it soft put thereto a quantitie of oyle of Roses so much as you thinke good Proued A good entreat called the greene treat of Iane. ¶ Take a pint of the iuice of Smallage a pint of the iuice of Waybright as much of Plantaine put them together in a vessell and put to it a quarter of a pound of Wax and as much of Frankensence or Rozen made into powder make your Wax into small péeces and boile them altogether and euer stir them and to know when it is boyled inongh drop a drop vpon a Bason and if there be any moisture in it when it is cold then put to it a pound of Turpentine and stir them till they be well medled together then strain it and put into it a quart of white Wine and let it stand while it be cold and so vse it Another intreat called Gratia dei ¶ Take Wax May butter or other butter without salt of each one vnce then take of Frankensence two vnces melt them together and straine them and this is the making of this entreat which is called Gratia dei A good entreat for wounds ¶ Take Betony Pimpernell and Veruaine of each a handfull boile them in a pottell of very good white Wine vntill it be halfe consumed then straine it through a course canuas then put the liquor ouer the fire againe and in the boyling put to it halfe a pound of Rozen a pound of Frankensence in powder and alwayes stir it that the powder goe not to
if it be moist it will be of more vertue Also take of Ginger Canell Mace Cucubes Nutmegs Graines long Pepper of each of these thrée vnces and bray them in a morter and searce them and put these powders into the water that burneth and still it oft and so reserue it to your vse morning and euening first and last and this is called the most soueraine water and mighty against all manner of cold causes that ingendereth within man or woman and this will helpe you for diuers infirmities that is within man this hath béen prooued often A soueraine water vsed by Doctor Steaphens Phisition with the which he did many great cures and a little before his death he declared the same to the Archbishop of Canterbury and now to the benefit and commodity of all people that be well disposed ¶ Take two gallons of good Gascoigne wine or Clarret wine that is good or else two gallons of mighty strong Ale and of euery of these spices a dram take of Ginger Galingall Cinamon or Canell Nutmegs Graines Cloues Anniséeds Fennell séed Caraway séeds Calamus aromaticus Cucubes Ireos Maces Spignard Enula campana Canepithis of each of these a good handfull Iuniper berries one vnce and of euery one of these hearbs following a handfull Sage red Roses red Mints garden Time wild Time Pellitory Camomell Lauender Wormwood Betony Plantaine Ribwoort Bayes red Iilliflowers wild Marierum Rosemary Organum Rue the flowers of Secados Peniriall Hilwoort Auence Cowslip leaues Primrose leaues and flowers of screbby grasse Strawbery leaues Tutson beate all these spices and stamp all these hearbs and put them in the liquor aforesaide and put a little Muske therin and let it stand twelue houres infused and stir it oftentimes then still this water in a Limbeck close stopt that no ayre come out of the pot and with a small sire kéepe about it that it come not too fast forth and kéepe the first water by it selfe for that is best Also the second pint by it selfe for that is also good but not as the first is Also you shall receaue a third pint of that water of these thrée gallens but your vnce of Alkenet must be for the two last waters to cullour it red withall which must be in the receauer with some Suger and some Cinamon and you may kéepe this water these seauen yeares and it will be in his full strength and operation The receite of the water called Aqua mirabilis et pretiosa made by Doctor VVillowby Phisition ¶ Take of Galingall Cloues Maces Cucubes Ginger Cardomomum Nutmegs Millilot Saffron Egrimony water foure vnces and beat all these into powder the quantity of a dram and somwhat more then take of the iuice of Selondine and a pint of M. George Kebels water of the best and the first put of the same water beeing well mingled in a stillatory of glasse and let it be stopped well and close and so let it stand for the space of foure and twenty houres and then distill them with a soft fire for the space of a naturall day The vertue of this water aforesaid ¶ This water is of secret nature it is excéeding good for the stomacke it dissolueth the lungs without any gréeuance and the same lungs beeing wounded and putrified it mightilie helpeth them and comforteth them and it suffereth not the body to putrifie Also he shall neuer néede to be let blood and this water suffereth not the body to be brent with choller nor yet with melancholly nor slemot to be lift vp and haue dominion aboue water and this water mightily expelleth the rume and profiteth much the stomack it ingendreth good colour and keepeth and conserueth the visage and memory Also it is good for the palsie if the said water be giuen to man or woman labouring towards death one spoonfull it relenteth them of all waters artificiall there is no better Also vse in Sommer once a wéeke a spoonfull of this water fasting and in Winter time two spoonefuls it is good for women that haue the gréene sicknesse and for diuers other causes per Doctorem Willowbie The receite of Cinamon ¶ Take rennish wine a quart or spanish wine a pint Rose-water a pint and a halfe Cinamon brused a pound and a halfe let these stand infused the space of foure and twenty houres then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbecke of glasse and receaue the first water by it selfe Also if ye be so disposed to make the same water weaker take thrée pints of Rosewater and a pint and a halfe of rennish wine and so distill the same and you shall haue to the quallity of the stuffe the quantity of the water which is thrée pintes but the first is the best and so reserue it to your vse both morning and euening To make Cinamon water another way ¶ Take thrée quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and halfe a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lye infused the space of foure and twenty houres and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receaue to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the cheefest of all the other as is manifest practise Aqua composito for a surfet ¶ Take Rosemary Fenell Isope Time Sage Horehound of each of these a handfull Peniriall Mints Marierum of each sixe crops a roote of Enula campana of Licoris Aniseed brused of each two vnces put all these to three gallons of mighty strong Ale and put it into a brasse pot ouer an easse fire and set the Limbeck vpon it and stop it close with dow or Past that no ayre doo goe out and so kéepe it stilling with a soft fire and so preserue it to your vse as néede requireth To make water of life ¶ Take Balme leaues and stalkes Burnet leaues and flowers a handfull of Rosemary Turmentile leaues and roots Rosa solis a handfull red Roses a handfull Carnations a handfull Isope a handfull a handfull of Time red strings that grow vpon Sauery a handfull red Fenell leaues and rootes a handfull red Mints a handfull put all these hearbs into a pot of earth glased and put therto as much white Wine as will couer the hearbs and let them soke therein eight or nine dayes then take an vnce of Cinamon as much of Ginger as much of Nutmegs Cloues and Saffron a like quantity of Aniséeds a pound great Raisons a pound Suger a pound halfe a pound of Dates the hinder part of an olde Coney a good fleshy running Capon the flesh and sinewes of a legge of Mutton foure young Pigeons a dozen of Larks the yelâ—…s of twelue Eggs a loafe of white bread cut in sippets Muskadell or Bastard thrée gallonsâ— or as much in quantity as suffiseth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck and thereto put of Methridatum two or three vnces or els with as much perfect Treakle and
then turne it and thus for the rume it is most excellent An experiment for wounds in the head ¶ For to cease the ache and swelling wounds that be sore in the head or in any other place so that the bones be not broken Take Mallowes Wormwood Betony Egrimony Hilwoort of each of these a handfull wash them and stamp them and put therto thrée vnces of wheat flower as much Hony and as much Barrow greace and stamp them together and put thereto red Wine and fry them and lay them warme to the sore but lay a red Cole leafe between the plaisters and the wound and it shall cease the ache and take away the swelling thereof For all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Wormwood Waybread Rue Wallwoort Sage the barke of the Elder trée thrée cornes of Pepper and temper them together in wine and drinke thereof each day a draught early and late till that the Patient be well Also take the gall of an Hare and temper it with as much hony and annoint therewith the temples Also Rue and Eysell and smere thy head therewith is wholsom Also Camomell is good for the burning Feauer that holdeth a man or woman in the head Also Feuell sodden in water swageth the ache in man or womans head when that the head is washed therwith Another for all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take the greace of an Hart and mingle it with Barly◠meale and Sorrell bind them and temper them all together and playster it to thy temples for this hath béene proued a right good medicine Also take the iuice of Primrose and the milke of a Cow and with a pen draw it vp into thy nosthrills and it shall purge the head and shall heale the partie so gréeued of the head ache For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of white Poppy and red Nettles and stamp them together and put to it a little Beane flower and lay it on a cloth and so bind it to the forehead and he shall sléepe quietlie To make one sleepe that slept not in a long time before ¶ Take white Poppy seede Aniséed of each a like quantity and beat them to fine powder then take Rose-water the white of an Egge and womans milke and mingle all these together but first beate the white of an Egge very much and take away the froth then take flocks as many as will lye ouer your forehead and wet them in the liquor aforesaid then sprinkle of the powder vpon it and then lay it in a pewter platter vpon a chasingdish of coles for to make it warme and so lay it to the forehead and the party shall take his rest and quiet sléepe For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of Elder and warme them betwéen two tiles and bind it to the nape of the necke and it will make him to sléepe Also take the leaues Scala caeli put them in a pot and séeth them well a good while and at euen wash well thy féet and legs vp to the knées with that water and no higher then goe to bed and thou shalt sléepe soundly For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take a quart of Almonds blended and halfe a pound of Hempséede thrée times washed in cleane water and sixtéene Dates stamp them together and put therto good stale Ale and take an vnce of Poppy séed brused and lay it in Ale thrée or foure houres and séeth them together and straine them and giue the sicke to eate of it and it shall make him sléepe For to make a man sleepe and for to come to quiet rest ¶ Take red Roses Violets the water of Mellilot Lettice of each a like quantity a handfull white Poppy white Henbane of each halfe a dram a little Dill séede for to comfort the braine bray all these together then put them in a soft linnen cloth twelue inches long thrée inches broad quilt it and tye it to his forehead Also take oyle of water Lillies Poppy Nightshade Rose-water Vineger and womans milk dip flaxe therin and bind it to his temples this hath béen often proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take the iuice of wild Cowcumbers and put it into the eares and it asswageth the paine Also put the wood of gréene Ashe in the fire and saue the liquor that commeth out at the end and put it into the eares it causeth the paine for to cease and amendeth the hearing Also beate the iuice of Wormwood and drop it into thy eares proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take and mingle the iuice of Betony with oyle of Roses and put it warme in the eares with a tent and stop them well Also take faire oyle Oliue and let it be blowne out of a mans mouth that is cleane and fasting into the eares of a sick man let this be doone thrée or foure times and let that side of the head be turned downward that the odour of the head may run out Also take Almonds and the kernels of Peaches let them be cleane pilled in hote water and make oyle of them and let the oyle be put into the eares of the Patient so gréeued For the paine in the eares ¶ Take oyle of Roses and a little Vineger and put it to the eare then make a bagg of Camomell and Mellilot and lay it thereunto Also Goose greace béeing taken with a little hony asswageth the paines of the eares Also oyle of Almonds is very good for the payne in the eares Also if there be water in the eares take a little Goose greace and the iuice of Onyons commixed together and so lay it to the eares proued For deafnes in the eare ¶ Take a péece of gréene Ashe and put it in she fire and take the droppings of that water and take the droppings of a fresh water Eele the oyle of bitter Almonds of euery one a equall portion warme it by the fier and let it drop two or thrée drops in the eare so gréeued then take black Ewes wooll and dip the wooll therein and put it into the same eare and it will help the Patient so gréeued by Gods grace Also take Betony and Horehound stamp them in a morter and wring out the iuice and let the Patient lye on that side and so poure it into his eare and let him take his rest this hath béene proued For deafnes in the head ¶ Take a Hedghog and rost it and take the droppings therof and put it to the Patients eares so gréeued and stop it with black wooll et fiet Somtime there chanceth deafnes by wind which is in the eare the which causeth tynkling in the head then take a little Aloes in hot water or in white Wine and distill it into the Patients eare then put a little Eustorbium in pouder into the parties nose so gréeued to make him for to néese and to auoyd as much filthy humors as you may Another for deafnes in
any sore eyes And this medicine neuer fayleth but restoreth the sight ¶ Take a stone called Calamint and make it red hote nine times and quench it foure times in Rose water and fiue times in white Wine then take this stone that is thus quenched and make of it small powder in a brasen morter then take Frankensence as much as of the powder of the stone and make it also to powder and looke that you haue of them two euen portiens as much as you will then take Rose water and water of Rue and water of Fennell of each of these three two portions of the water of Strawberries and the water of Veruaine and the water of Enstras of each of these three three portions and put all these waters together in a cleane vessell and then looke how many vnces thou hast of thy powder to vnces of the aforesaid waters that be mingled Grinde the powder of Calamint and of Frankensence on a Marble stone as you would grinde Vermillion but you must grinde each one by it selfe then take fresh Swines greace of a Barrow-hog and wring the same verie well through a cleane cloth and looke that you haue asmuch weight of cold greace as of the mingled waters take then the powder of Calament and boyle it with the greace and with the mingled waters ouer a soft fire of Char-coles without anie smoake And when thou hast boyled these well together put vnto the same the powder of Frankensence and then boile them all together till the smoake of the boylings cease and then take it from the sire and let it coole but from the time that you sette it first to the fire for to seeth be alwaies stirring it verie busily till it be cold and thick Then take Camphire pare it in small péeces then take of thy oyntment euen as much and grind them together by parcels on a Marble stone and when they be well mingled together then put it in a boxe with one vnce of Calamint and one vnce of Frankensence Enfrance thrée pennie worth and thrée peny worth of Camphire and he that hath any gréeuance or sicknes in his eyes at night sitting on his bed let him take of this oyntment with his finger as much as a Wheat corne and hold it in his eye vntill it be relented and then dip his finger with the oyntment softly betwéen the lids of his eyes and then let him lye downe and sléepe and on the morrow when he riseth wash the eye with Rose-water or with Enfrance water or with Fenell water or with Rue water these waters be good therefore but ere thou wash the eyes therewith heate the water a little ouer the fier but looke that you wash not with fasting spittle nor with no other thing but with one of these waters before saide and thou shalt be whole this hath béene surely prooued For the Impostumes in the head ¶ Against the Impostume of the eyes and web of the same put the iuice of Hony-suckle often therin or mingle it with pure hony and straine it and it wasteth the Impostume and the web maruailously and it was thus proued One tooke a Cock and a Whelp and pricked their eyes with a crooked Iron or néedle so that they séemed that their eyes were out and then hee brused this hearbe and put it in their eyes and they became faire and cleare as they were before at the which he did maruaile and proued it many times vpon diuers persons For wormes in the eye lids ¶ Take Salt and burne it in a cloute and temper it with hony and with a feather annoynt the eye lids when the party goeth to bed For wormes in the eye lyds ¶ Take Bay-salt and burne it in the fire and then stampe it and doo thereto clarified hony and the water of Allom and a little Copperas and annoynt the eye lidds when thou goest to bed and this medicine shall kill the wormes that be in the eye liddes prooued For stinking at the nose ¶ Take Cloues Ginger and Calamint of each a like much and séethe them in white Wine and therewith wash thy nose After that put in the powder Piritrum to prouoke one to néese if there be replection fleam in the head first you must purge the head with Pylls of Cochie or of Hiera picra Also if the stinking of the nose come from the stomacke first purge the stomake et fiet For the polix of the nose ¶ Against the polix of the nose make a suppository or tent of a plaister called Apostolicon and put powder of Copperas theron and put it into thy nose or make that tent of cotton and wet it in Salt-water and lay of the said powder thereon and put it in thy nose The said powder is also good to fret the proud flesh of superfluitie of blood of the nose but first burne it then put it in olde Parchment and make powder thereof and take Mastick and then make a tent of Bursa pastoris with part of a stone called Emachitas and put it in thy nose For the polix of the nose ¶ To take and put the iuice of Iuy into thy nosthrils is very good The gum of Iuy made in an oyntment called Dialthera hath power to chase and to consume Also against the polix make a tent of Apostolicon and the powder of burnt brasse and lay it to the nose et fiet For the pose in the head ¶ Against the rume or pose mingle the powder of Comin-séede and Bay berries and put them all hote in a bag and lay them so to the head for the pose For the nosthrill a medicine ¶ For the highnes of the nosthrils and rednes caused in flux of humors take the broth that Olibanum is sodden in but first in the morning Pils of Olibanum and at night to bedward the said broth these Pylls comforteth digestion and purgeth the stomack For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take and mingle the powder of Betony with as much salt and put as much as you can take betwéene two fingers and a thomb in the nesthrils and the blood will staunch also take and wet cotton in the iuice of Bursa pastoris and cast powder of Antimonium vpon it and the bléeding will frent For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take a dram of Bolae armoniacke washed and mixe it in rose-Rose-water and Planten water and drinke it then bind the extreame parts as hard as you may and after make a tent of gréene Nettles and put into his nose Moreouer if so be that the Patient doo hold in his hand Egrimony the roote and all and drink the iuice of Knotgrasse the blood will staunch For bleeding at the nose ¶ Against the bléeding of the nose that commeth by ebulition or boyling of the blood in the lyuer and vaines in Sommer make Beanes wet in the iuice of Rose-water and lay them to the forehead or temples it hath been proued Another for the same ¶ Take Peruincle and chewe it in the
must be sodden somwhat more then the leafe of the Vine in fayre water and it will heale the Patient this hath béen often times proued For vnsauery mouthes ¶ Take the iuice of Endiue with Suger and if the iuice be thick or troubled clarifie it and so may all other iuices in this wise Séeth the iuice of Endiue a little and let it stand and that which is thick will goe to the bottom then take the thin liquor and straine it often through a cloth and wring it and with that iuice in the bottom make Syrop with Suger if you will make it thinner put the white of an Egge therto For stinke in the mouth ¶ Take and make Pils of Cassia lingua and eat of them and they be good for the stinke of the mouth Also for the stinke of the mouth caused of rottennes of the gums and téeth take and wash the mouth with water that garden Mints be sodden in and rub the téeth with the Mints or else with the powder thereof Also chew Muske and it will doo away the stinke of the mouth Also take the iuice of Vorueine and bruse it and put it in thy mouth and hold it a good while close in thy mouth and it will take away the slinke Proued To take away the stinking of the mouth ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with water and Vineger and chew Mastick a good while and then wash thy mouth with the decoction of Aniséeds Mints Cloues sodden in Wine If the stinking of the mouth come of a rotten tooth the best is for to haue it drawne out Also you must wash your mouth before meat and after with warme water For to clense the mouth and to purge the humors from the mouth which descend out of the head it is good euery morning fasting to wash your mouth and to rub your teeth with a Sage leafe Pils of citron or with powder made with Cloues or Nutmegs You must forbeare all meates of euill digestion and rawe fruites For a stinking breath ¶ Take oyle Doret Turpentine Hony oyle Oliue Virgin wax as much of the one as of the other and boyle them all together and make an oyntment therof and vse it euery day in the Patients nosthrills and let it be put into the nose euerie day with tents made of lynt scraped of fine linnen cloath and hee shall be whole For a stinking breath ¶ Take the iuice of Hilwoort or else take Butter and the iuice of Featherfoy and temper them with Honey and euery day giue the Patient a spoonfull Another for the same ¶ Take two handfuls of Comin and stampe it to powder and boyle it in Wine and drinke the Syrope thereof morning and euening warme the space of fiftéene dayes and thou shalt amend this hath been proued For a good breath ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with the water that the shels of Citeron haue béen sodden in and thou shalt haue a good breath Also these confections make the breath swéet the electuarie of Aromatikes and the pils of Citrons Against letting of the breth caused of cold humors take and drink the hearb Dawke or the liquor that dry Figs haue béen sodden in and it will make the breath sweet and wholsom Also take red Mints and Rue wring the iuice in the sick bodies nosthrils when he goeth to bed For the tongue ¶ Against the sharpnes and drynesse of the tongue put this gum in water which is called gum Arabike till the water be slymie and with that slyme moist the tongue or bind the gum in a thin cloth and put it in water till it begin to melt and with she same cloth rub thy tongue and it will take away the paine thereof Also for the roughnesse of the tongue put the séedes of Quinces or the curnells in a fine cloth and wash thy tongue therwith also Psillium or the séede thereof For drynesse of the tongue and for thirst ¶ Against drinesse of the tongue of the Feauer Ague put the séede of Fleawoort and bind it in a fine linnen cloth and then put it in cold water and therwith wash and rub thy tongue and scrape it with a knife Also for thirst put the séede of Fleawoort in a bag and lay it on the tongue For thirst in the tongue ¶ Against thirst in the tongue giue Ptysan or Dragagant and it will be dissolued in a night or make syrope with water that Barly and Dragagant is sod in and it is conueniable for Feauer Agues or if Dragagant be holden vnder the tongue For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Take and vse great strong ground Musterd the powder of Piones well scalled pouder of Sage Nutmegs and Suger doo these powders in the Musterd and eate euery day at meales therof and it will take away the palsie of the tongue Also Musterd seede sodden in oyle or wine is very good against the palsie Also take the powder of Casterium and hold it vnder the tongue till it be molten or dissolued For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Against the palsie of the tongue that is when the tongue is full of holes and the Patient cannot speake because the sinewes of the tongue is full of humors as it appeareth often in Feauer Agues for the same chew the séed of Cresses and hold it vnder the tongue proued For him that hath lost his speech ¶ Take Sage Pimpernel stamp them well annoint his tong vnderneath with the iuice therof els take the iuice of Sage and Pimpernell and doo it in his mouth Also take Ach Mints red Betony and lay them into Goats milke drinke it morning and euening Also take thrée vnces of Betony and swéet milke of a Goat temper them together and drinke it thrée daies together this for the palsie is most pretious To restore speech that is lost sodenly ¶ Take Peniriall and temper it with Eysell and giue the sicke to drinke it lay also a playster of this to his nosthrills so gréeued For a man that sleepeth and cannot speake ¶ Take Galbanum and set it ouer the fire with a candle and make it smoke and put the smoke to his nose and thou shalt cause him for to speake Also take the iuice of Sage and Printrose and doo it in his mouth and he shall speake by Gods grace Also take the iuice of greene Morrell berries and clarifie it wel and drink therof and thou shalt speake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Sothernwood and temper it with wine and drinke it when thou goest to bed Another for the same ¶ Take the crops of Rue and the crops of Verueine of each a like much and drink the iuice therof when thou goest to bed For Sunne burning ¶ Take the iuice of Lemons with a little bay-salt and wash your face therewith and let it dry in and doo so thrée or foure times and it will helpe you Also take halfe a pot full of raine water and fill it vp with Veriuice and séeth it till
on a tyle and giue it to the Patient to eate Also for the vomit caused of retentiue weaknes take the pouder of gum Arabick and pouder of Canell For a man that vomiteth too much ¶ Take Roses and boyle them with strong Vineger and make a plaister therof and lay it to his stomack all hot Also vomiting commeth somtimes without great violence and therby one getteth health wherfore ye néed not giue him any remedy for it is a good action of the naturall vertue of the stomack somtime vomiting commeth by a great violent mouing of the vertue expulsiue of the stomack For the euill things contayned in the same a remedy one may well help a man to vomit giuing him water warme with a little oyle to drinke or else to put thy singer in his mouth very lowe or a feather wet in oyle the better to vomit and to mundifie the stomack if so be the person haue a wide throat and that vomiting dooth not hurt him much as they be that haue but small and strait throats and long necks and leane for all these are euill to vomit Somtimes vomiting commeth by weaknes of the stomack caused of a hot and euill complection ye shall cure it after this manner take sirop of Roses Quinces Mirtles with water sodden and cold againe or else water of Pursian to quench the thirst Also it is good to annoynt the stomack before dinner and supper with an oyntment of the oyle of Roses and Quinces and the iuice of Mints and a little wax or els make a plaister of Mints Roses Wormwood and oyle of Roses lay to his stomack as hot as ye may For to make a man cast and perbreake ¶ Take two parts of the iuice of Fenell and one part of hony and séeth it till it be thick and drink therof morning and euening and it will cause a man for to cast or perbreake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of spurge and vse to drinke thereof and it will cause you to cast Also the iuice of Stoncrop put into white wine causeth a man for to cast presently For to comfort the Patient after his vomiting ¶ Take and giue the Patient in the morning an vnce of the sirop of Wormwood or Mints in stéed of which it is conuenient to take a losing of AromaticuÌ„ rosatum or Diagalanga Also take euening and morning three houres before meate two Cloues in powder with a spoonfull of the iuice of Mints or half a spoonfull of Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloues and Lignum aloes the weight of a crown two houres before meate For one that abhorreth his meate ¶ Somtime there chaunceth in the stomack a disease called Fastidium or abhorring of meat wherby the person against his will taketh in hate all maner of meats that is offered vnto him like as the whole man taketh pleasure and delight in the same The cause of his disease is replection of chollerick humors or flegmatick grosse and viscouse which are in the stomack and the Patient hath great thirst a dry tongue the mouth bitter and sometime dooth vomit yellow choller And if the vaines be full let the Patient be let blood on the right arme and giue him to eat and drink such things as are fit for a party so gréeued also you may giue him the iuice of Pomgranets For to prouoke an appetite ¶ Take Sage Parsly Pepper and Mints and stampe them and temper them with Vineger as you doo make sauce for â—â—shes it will cause appetite also flesh eaten with Vineger comforteth and giueth appetite If Vineger be vsed with a full stomacke it vnbindeth the wombe with an emptie stomacke bindeth it It is good for them that be weake with sicknes if it be taken in this manner tost bread and wet it in Vineger and with the tost rub the mouth and nosthrils and bind it on the pulsable vaines for it comforteth the Patient and the appetite but for the appetite onely it were better wet in the iuice of Mints Also to them that haue lost their appetite by sicknes two drams of the powder of Betony with foure Ciote roots in drink taketh away both sadnes and euill tast of meats Also take and confect Cardomomum with the iuice of Mints and vse for to wet your meat therin it prouoketh appetite Against the letting of the breath ¶ Take and lay Orpiment vpon hote embers and let the Patient stoope downe and receiue the smoke therof through a pipe or funnell Also take three drams of Orpiment with reare Egs or with wine or womans milk once or twice in the wéek Against paine of the breath called Asma caused of cold take the powder of Philixendula with the powder of Gentiana and vse it in his meat and drink Another for the same ¶ Against the paine of the breath if it be of a long continuance take the powder of Gentiana with Wine and Barly water or else with meats or with new bread Also take two drams of Galbanum with a rere Egge or with Barly water Also to take Figs and seeth them in wine is good against the letting of the breath and against cold rume or humors in the breast Also Pancakes made of Docks with meat or Eggs is very good for letting of the breath called Asma if you cate therof An oyntment for the shortnes of the breath ¶ Take two vnces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and one vnce of May butter vnsalted a little Saffron and new Waxe and make an oyntment therwith and annoynt the breast eucning and morning Also for him that lacketh wind ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and Borage séeth them together in a péece of Pork and make therof pottage and eat and drink of this broth with wine or with Whey that is good For armes being consumed and fallen away ¶ Take Deare suet and thine owne water being dissolued in a basen warme then therewith wash thy armes euery day morning and euening For the mary being cold and numd in the armes ¶ Take thrée spoonfull of Mace thrée spoonfull of Aqua vita and three spoonfull of Vrine and thrée spoonful of Capons greace and put them all in a Porrenger and warme them on the sire and wash your armes morning and euening Also if that you be sore in any part of the armes take Roch Allom and Madder and boyle them with Conduit water from a pottell to a pint and so wash your armes For aking of the hands and deadnes of the fingers ¶ Take a handfull of red Sage as much red Fennell as much red Nettles with a quantity of Bay leaues in pouder and long Pepper stamp all these together in a Morter then straine the same through a Canuas cloth with Aqua vita and with this liquor annoynt thy hands when you goe to bed For swelling of wounds in the hand ¶ Take Wormwood stampe it and straine it and boyle it with Vineger and put therto Wheat bran and
make a plaister and lay it to the sore hands For wormes or heat in the hands ¶ Take Chickwéed and bruse it a little and séeth it in running water till the halfe be wasted and wash your hands as hot as the party can suffer it for the space of sixe daies and it will driue away the heat or wormes in the hands For to make your hands white ¶ To make the hands white and soft take Affodill in clean water till it wax thick and put therto powder of Cantarium and stir them together then put thereto rawe Eggs and stir them well together and with this oyntment annoynt your hands and within three or foure daies vsing thereof they will be white and cleane For itching of the hands with wormes ¶ Take and annoynt the place that itcheth with the iuice of Mints or of Rue and it shall put away the wormes Or else take the berries of the lesse Morrell and therwith annoyist the wormes and the hands For to make nailes to grow ¶ Take Wheate flower and mingle the same with honey and lay it to the nailes and it will help them For nailes that doe fall off ¶ Take powder of Egrimony and lay it there as the nayle was and it shall put away the aking and it will make the nails for to grow For clouen nailes ¶ Take Virgin Wax and Turpentine and mingle them together and lay it on the naile and as it waxeth or groweth cut it away and it will heale For nailes that are rent from the flesh ¶ Take the lesser Violet and stamp it and fry it with Virgin waxe and Frankensence and make a plaister and lay it to the naile all whole Also anoint the fingers with the pouder of Brimston Arsnick and Vineger and in short time you shall find great ease For stinch vnder the arme holes ¶ First pluck away the haires of the arme holes and wash them with white Wine and Rose-water that Cassia ligna hath béen sodden in and vse it thrée or foure times For to destroy the heat of the stomack ¶ Take faire cleare water and boyle it well and skim it and put therin shiuers of brown Bread and let them lye therin an houre till the water be almost cold and drink therof two or thrée dayes the oftner a day the better and eat gréene Parsly and Galingall and it shall help thée For to auoid fleame out of the stomack ¶ Take the pouder of Pellitory of Spaine and the pouder of Comin powder of long Pepper pouder of Ginger Musterd Vineger and mingle them together and chafe them en the fier till they waxe thicke and then as hot as you can suffer it put part thereof in your mouth gargling it in your throat vp and down but let none enter into your stomack doo this diuers times spetting it out by the space of an hower and this is a Gargarisme prooued For the stomack that is hot and swolne ¶ Take the roote of Smallage stamp it and put it in swéet Wine or in other good wine all a day and a night and straine it through a faire linnen cloth and put it in a cleane vessell and vse to drink a little thereof euery day fasting take this eight or nine dayes For rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take long Pepper Graines Saffron Ginger Aniséed Licoris and Suger and séeth them al in good Ale till it be thick and giue it to the party to drink and he shall be whole A plaister for rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take Yarrow Milfoyle red Fenell red Mints Rue Borage Fetherfoy Cloteler Pellitory Egrimony of each of these a like much and the greace of a barow Hog that is a Sow kind and séeth them all together in good Ale and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the stomack as hot as it may be suffered two or thrée times and he shall be whole God willing the hetter the better for to be taken this hath béen proued For the gnawing of the stomack ¶ Take and séethe Betony in the iuice of Wormwood and let the party drinke it with warme water if his stomacke be not well Also drink wine that Nep hath béen sodden in next to the hart fasting very early For the stomack that aketh ¶ Take an hearb that is called Poleo and dry leaues and a handfull of Houseléeke and as much of this Poleo and put it in a vessell with faire water and let it boile on the fire till the third part of the water be sodden away and put therto stone Suger and a little honey and let the Patient drinke thereof sixe dayes fasting and he shall be whole For to force the stomack ¶ Take thrée parts of Cannell and one part of Mastick and one part of the parings of Pomgranets and halfe a part of Galingall and stamp all these together and temper it with hony that hath béen clarified on the fire and well scummed then vse as much of this as a Nut euery day during ten dayes together this hath béen proued For the wind chollick in the stomack ¶ Take a handfull of Time and wash it cleane and put it into a cup of Ale or Béere and let it stand all night then take thrée sticks of Licoris brused and let the party so gréeued drinke therof morning and euening Another for the same ¶ Take Onyons and put them into running water and change them into foure waters séething and when they are tender sod take them and wring them betwéen two trenchers and butter them and put theren grosse Pepper and so eate of them morning and euening vntill you doo find your selfe eased of your stomacke For fleame in the stomack ¶ Take red Nettles a good quantity a good quantity of clarified Butter and séethe them in faire running water till the hearbs be tender then take them vp and eate the hearbs and drinke the liquor proued For to make losings to comfort the stomack ¶ Take a pint of rose-Rose-water a quantity of Rubarb grate it vpon a Grater twice as much Setwell as much Calomus aromaticus asmuch Spignard a little Sinamon asmuch Enula campana as much Ginger and a little cleane water put to these Spices one penny-worth of Sugar and let all séeth on the fire till it waxe verie thicke and be well sodden then vse hereof both morning and euening For all manner of euill in the stomack ¶ Take Ashe seedes Linséedes Comin of euery of them a like much giue these to the sick to drink with hot Woort or else with faire hot water For the Feauer in the stomack ¶ Conserue of Roses is very good for the Feauer in the stomack also it is good for all euils in the stomack that is ingendred of hot humors For the swelling in the stomack ¶ Take the rootes of Fennell and the rootes of Smallage of each of them a like quantitie then stampe them and straine out the iuyce and temper the same with good Wine and vse to drinke thereof first and last
smal with halfe a roote of Fennell cut likewise very small boyle all these together till halfe be consumed then vse to drinke heereof morning and euening reasonable hote For the partie that is incombred in the brest with any kind of fleame or glart ¶ Take the powder of Betonie and drinke it with warme water it voideth and purgeth the fleame wondrously and doth awaie the glart or fleame For paine in the breast ¶ Take and gather a good quantity of ripe Slowes grinde them small in a morter then put them in an earthen potte and sill it full of new Ale and so drinke thereof Another for the same ¶ Take Isope Parsly and Sage stampe them and lay thē to the breast of the patient verie hote Take also the marrowe of a Calfe Fenegreke Linséedes bray them small in a morter and mingle the powder with the yolkes of Egges then temper all these together with fresh greace or Oyle and lay it to the sore as hote as you may suffer it For the breast that is incombred ¶ Take Isope and seeth it in a pottle of Wine till it come to a quarte and let the patient vse thereof first in the morning colde and last in the euening hote Another for the same ¶ Take three pottles of running water of a Well that springs and boyle it to a pottell then take halfe a pint of Hony and one pounde of the powder of Anniseedes a pounde of the powder of Licoris one penny-worth of Sugar and cast all these into the liquor and let them boyle well then put it into a vessel and stop the mouth thereof close that the ayre goe not out and let the patient drinke thereof in the morning but not fasting at night and he shall be whole For the breast and the lunges ¶ Take a quantity of clarified Hony and boyle it and when it is boyled put thereto an vnce of the powder of Enula campana and one vnce of the powder of Licoris and let them boyle till they be somwhat thick then take it from the fire and when it is cold put thereto an vnce of the powder of Ginger and stirre it well together and vse this first and last For a man that is stopped in his breast or pypes ¶ Take Enula campana Isope and Licoris dry them wel then beat them in a morter as fine as flower then take Ginger Anniséeds Sinamon and Galingall beate them also and when thou hast done take a quantity of Hony boile it wel and seum it cleane then take the Enula campana the Isope and the Licoris and boyle them wel together in the Hony afterward take the Ginger Anniseedes Galingall and Sinamon put them al in Hony and let them seeth together then put it in a dish then take Sugar and put vpon it while it is hote and eate a quantity thereof morning and euening but drinke not till two howers after and it will helpe thee Also if you take and séeth Rue in Vinegar and drinke thereof it will likewise helpe you For swelling of the breasts ¶ Take Wormwood Sage and Calamint of each a like much and stampe them well put thereto a quantitie of Vinegar and temper them well together then take white Breade and toste it till it be browne and grind it small then boile them together and stir it that it burne not to and lay thereof to the patients breast as hote as may be suffered Another for the same ¶ Also if a plaister be made of Chesnuts with Barly meale and Vinegar or Wine and layd to the pappes it will asswage both the swelling and the paine thereof For all manner of euills and paine in the breast or the ribbes ¶ Take and bruse Mugwoort with Vinegar and lay it to the breast and it will be whole in thrée dayes Also take the water that guin Arabick and Mirth hath been sodden in and wash the breast therewith Also take the electuary called Diapenidion made into pennets it is verie good for the same purpose as hath oft been proued Also for drought in the breasts and the members in it and for them that be Costisse so that the breast be not stopped nor the brath short lay Psilium in water a certaine space and then poure out the water and take the same séedes with other cleane water that is cold and vse it to the patient Also take and make a plaister of Knotgrasse and Butter and lay it to the sore breast and it helpeth the same For vaines broken in the breast ¶ Take the roote of Camphire and secth it and when it is sodden slice it with a knife then hange it in the Sunne to dry thys may be kept thrée yeeres in goodnes and vertue and if a vaine be broken in the breast or guttes it will resound and knit it and reioyne it meruailously if that the powder thereof be taken greene with Wine or water or if you fry the roote greene like a fritture with Egges or Meale and so cate thereof For impostumes in the breast ¶ Take and fill a bagge with meale of Fenegreke and séeth it in water that Lysmachie and Hollihock hath been sodden in and lay it often to the impostume of the breast Another for the same ¶ Take the water that Licoris hath béene sodden in or the iuyce thereof and it is very good being vsed against the impostumes of the breasts or ribbes called the Plurisie For blood of the breasts ¶ Take two drammes of Leekes seede and Mirth it stancheth the blood that commeth out of the breast by spetting although it be griefe to the teeth and throat For the Canker in a womans pappes ¶ Take picked Garlicke and Rye-meale or Barly-meale and bray them together wish Vinegar till they become as thick as a plaister then lay it to the sore till it bee white then take Pimpernell and beate it small and put thereto Life-honny and lay the plaister to the sore pappe and it will heale it faire Or else take the fenne of a white Goose and the iuyce of Ellidonie and bray them well together and lay it to the pappe and it wil kill the Canker and heale it soundly Another for the same ¶ Take Wormwood and the white of an Egge and skinne it then temper it with oyle of Violets and let her blood on the vaines about the paps For the fester in the breast ¶ Take the iuice of the roote of Foxe gloues and temper it with mans vrine and wring it through a cloth and wash the sore oftentimes therwith and it will cure it To make a woman to haue soft breasts ¶ Let the party that desireth to haue soft breasts drinke in Ale Nettle séede and Salt and it shall quickly help her For a woman that hath her breasts rancled ¶ Take Lint séede and bray it with the white of an Egge and lay it on her breasts and then take the iuice of Ache and of Rye meale and lay it on her breasts and let her
is verie good for the liuer Also to drinke the water that Louage hath been sodden in is likewise good for the liuer and the milt Also against the stopping of the liuer and milt take the powder of Barbaries with the iuyce of Morrell and drinke often of the same For the liuer milt raines and bladder ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and raines and the hinderance of vrine take and seeth the hearbe Germander and Canuphithis in oyle and lay it to the place where the party is greeued Also take an electuary confect with Honny and two parts of these hearbes and so vse it For the liuer the milt and the Iaundise ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and Iaundise take the iuyce of Wormwood and Sirrill or else make them in sirrop and vse it with warme water also against opilation of the milt take the iuyce of Worm-wood and the powder of Costy it is also good for the same For all paynes in the milt ¶ Take of the drinke that Gold hath beene quenched in red hote and it helpeth the paine in the milt Also an oyntment made of Assa armonia and Wax softneth the hard milt and it dissolueth the milke curded in the paps Also make iuyce with Smallage and put thereto Oyle and Waxe and confect it into a sirrop Also for the Milt take Annoniacke and Galbane of each of these a like much soften them well in Vinegar and with waxe then put thereto powder of Coste and of Wormwood and make thereof an oyntment and vse therewith to annoynt the place against the milt and it will help the same Also take Egrimonie and eate thereof often-times and it healeth the paine of the milt Against the opilation of the milt or Dropsie take the Wine that Abrosiana hath beene sodden in for beeing often-times drunke it healeth the paine of the milt comming of cold Also against the ache of the milt drinke the wine that Betonie hath been sodden in and it profiteth Also make an oyntment with the hearbe called Bears-foote beaten and then lay it long in Oyle and with waxe make an oyntment the leaues ought to be vsed while they be greene Also the hearbe Amios with the rootes of Ciats in wine helpeth much the paine of the milt Also for the milt and liuer take the iuyce of Fennell sodden in an Apple and take the powder thereof Also for the paine of the milt and liuer take the Wine that Coperis hath been sodden in Also for the payne of the milt and the liuer drinke the wine that Cassia ligna hath beene sodden in Also for the paine of the milte and liuer take the electuarie that Diocostum hath been sodden in Also for the paine of the milt vse a dramme of Cammomile in powder with Wine forty dayes Also for the paine of the milte vse to drinke the Wine that Honny-suckle hath been sodden in Also seeth Iuie in Wine and then straine out the iuyce and drinke thereof it helpeth greatly Also the water that the roote of Fearne hath been sodden in is very good for the same Also you may vse the water or Wine that the rinde of Fennell rootes hath beene sodden in Also the Water or wine that the bough of an Ashe hath béen sodden in is good for this purpose For to soften the milt that is hard ¶ Take the roote of the wilde Vine stampe it with Porks greace then melt it on the fire and straine it and take meale of Linseede and oyle and put thereto and thys oyntment is very good for the hardnesse of the milt and liuer and to ripen unpostumes Another for the same ¶ Take the rinde of the roote of Hore-hound and stéepe the same a fortnight in Wine and Oyle and then let it bee sodden and strained and in the straining put thereto water and Oyle and make thereof an oyntment and vse the same at your neede for thys purpose For ache in the gutts and belly ¶ Take the powder of Mugwoort and let it be drunk with Wine and Honny it easeth greatly the ache in the bowels and is good against diuers other diseases And for the paines in the guts take a ciate of the iuyce of Clot leaues and it wil ease thée For paynes in the belly ¶ Take and stampe Mugwoort and lay it to the bellie it helpeth the same meruailously take also an vnce and a halfe of Wartwoort with asmuch wine and it will likewise asswage the paine in the belly For the paines in the belly ¶ Take and make an electuarie of Honny and seeth it with water to keepe it from cleauing to then put to the same two vnces of Hermodates and one vnce of Fennell seedes and giue thereof to the partie so greeued that hath the paine in his bellie and it will helpe him proued For the payne in the belly ¶ Take wilde Time and seeth the same with Wine and Oyle and it is verie good against the paine in the belly Also if you take the braine of a Hare rosted eate thereof and drink some good Wine afterward it is good for the paine in the belly For the paine in the belly ¶ Take three pynts of Malmesey and a handfull of Oris powder and a handfull of Commin with a handfull of Red-rose leaues dryed a handfull of Cammomile flowers and one dishfull of Wheate branne seeth all these together and put them in a bagge and make it plaister-wise then lay it to the belly of the patient some-what warme For the griping or pulling in the belly ¶ Take halfe a pinte of Malmesie a big roote of Turmentile and grinde the roote into powder with a little Treacle and make it blood-warme and so giue it to the partie to drinke Or els take a penny-pot of Malmesie and a little Treacle and two penny-worth of Mirrh and grinde it to powder and so put the Treacle and Mirrh into the Malmesie and make it reasonable warme and giue it to the patient Another for the same ¶ Take a little quantitie of the earth that wormes cast vp out of the ground which most commonly you shall find in some soft foote-path-waie or els in some Garden path and when you haue gathered the same mingle therewith a like quantitie of Honny and giue the patient halfe a spoonfull in the morning causing him to fast two howres after this within foure mornings eating thereof will certainlie helpe the same as hath beene by sundry persons proued To breake wind in the belly and for wringing in the same ¶ Take Commin seedes Fennell seedes Anni-seedes brused and seeth all in Wine and drinke thereof in the morning at noone and at night Also take Pellitory and boyle it in broth and giue the sicke thereof to drinke For Women that haue very great bellyes beeing not with childe ¶ Take a handfull of Isope a handfull of Hearbe-grace a handfull of Arsmert and seeth all these hearbes in a quarte of Ale till it come to a pynt then
Cancer or Scorpio remember that you purge not in the change nor in any vnfortunate aspect of the Plannets vnto any other neither in the extreame heate or cold of the yeere Now if any man would know what commoditie purging or bleeding bringeth beeing rightly vsed and doone in such sort as it ought to be doone or what dyet and exercise shoulde bee vsed after bleeding and order obscrued in purging with the inconuenience and harme which may and doth dailie procéede of the negligence and vnskilfulnes in the contempt of the same For all diseases through the body and for all kind of Agues TAke Purslaine Gentill Bursa pastoris and stamp them all together and doo thereto Vinegar and binde it to the pulses it will greatly helpe you Also take the powder of Cloues and Pepper of each a like quantitie and eate fasting at one time as much as will lie vpon a sixe-pence and drinke not in on howre after Also let the partie so greeued with the Ague take halfe a pint of his owne water and a penny-worth of Pepper brused and put therein and let the parfie so greeued drinke thereof all an howre before that the fitte dooth come vpon him and let him lie downe and sweat as much as hée may Another for the Ague ¶ Take a pottle of thinne Ale and put thereto a handfull of Parsley as much redde Fennell as much Centorie as much Pimpernell and let the Ale be halfe consumed awaie and then take and drinke thereof Another for the Ague ¶ Take thrée Burre-rootes and wash them and straine them séethe them with halfe a pinte of Ale and so drinke therof luke-warme before the fitte dooth come Another for the same ¶ Take Endiue Sowthistle Dandelion Lettice Sorrel of each a like much and still them altogether and giue it to the partie so gréeued it is very good against the Ague Another experiment for the Ague ¶ Take foure handfuls of Groundswellie and stampe it small in a Morter and put thereto thrée spoonesuls of Vinegar and thrée spoonefuls of Bay-salt grinde them all together then put them in a pewter dish and set them on a Chafindish of coles and stirre them together till the liquor is almost dry then lay it to the wrists as hote as the partie can suffer it euery tune an howre before the fitte dooth come For the ague another medicine ¶ Take a handfull of redde Sage and a handfull of Redde Nettles and a handfull of Hearbe-grace and two spoonefuls of Bay-salt and a spoonefull of strong Vinegar and a peece of leauened bread and let all these be well beate together and bind it to the pulces of your wrists before that the fit doth come and it shall helpe you by the power of God proued For the hote ague a remedie ¶ Take the iuyce of Sengréene and the whites of 4. Egs and faire flower of Wheat and meddle it well together and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the patients sides thē take the water of Betony the water of Pimpernell Scabious water water of Turmentill the water of Radish of each of these a like much and meddle all these together and giue the patient to drinke all hote before that his fitte doth come Another for the same proued ¶ Take a pynt of the iuyce of Sorrell and put it into a pot of Milke when it beginneth to séeth vpon the sire then take it off the fire and let it stand and it will haue a curde vpon the same like vnto a posset-curde then take the curde off and let the patient drinke thereof a good draught at a time as hote as he can possible endure to drinke it and by Gods grace it will help him within two or thrée times seuerally drinking Thys Medicine hath beene proued Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Bursa pastoris and so much white Frankensence as will couer two shillings at thrice and asmuch Bay salt and bray them in a Morter and so lay them vpon a thinne cloth to the wrist and about the arme at night when you goe to bed an howre or two before that your fitte dooth come vpon you For the burning ague ¶ Take a handfull of Smalladge a handfull of Fetherfew a handfull of Redde sage stampe them all together and take thrée or foure spoonefuls of the parties water and asmuch Vineger and boile them altogether on the fire a little while take a quantitie of the same Hearbes and wringing the liquor out of them lay thē vpon a cloth and binde it hote vppon your temples and not vpon your fore-head then take the rest and binde it to the parties wristes as hote as he may suffer it before that the fitte commeth and within three or foure times dressing hée shall finde great ease and be helped of his Ague Another for the same ¶ Take a pottle of Water with halfe a pinte of Vinegar take also Endiue Suckorie Violet-leaues fine leaued grasse and Straw-berrie leaues of each of them a good quantitie and seeth them to a quart and put thereto halfe a pounde of Sugar and drinke thereof morning and euening For the quartaine ague ¶ Take Ribwoort Beet rootes and the leaues to the quantitie of three or foure handfuls washe the hearbes cleane then stampe them in a woodden dish with a woodden pestle straine the iuyce from the hearbes and drinke it Milke warme and this taketh away the humors of the stomacke and frō the hart within fiue or sixe times vsing it cureth and helpeth the sicke partie so gréeued with the ague prooued For the Ague comming with colde ¶ Take fiue crops of Rosemary and fiue cropps of Sage and fiue crops of Marigolds nine Bay leaues and a quart of strong Ale séethe all these together well and drinke it with Pepper being warme and vse it For feauer Agues in children ¶ Take the powder of Christall and lay it in soke in Wine and giue it to the Child to drink and the sucking Child shall be whole Also take Morsus diabolie the roote and the hearbe and hang it about the necke of the Child For all manner of aches a Seare-cloth ¶ Take Waxe Turpentine Rozin hard Pitch Bores greace powder of Commin powder of Bayes Frankensence oyle de vte de popilion and take all these things saue the peuder and set it ouer the fire and stir it fast till it be molten and set it downe and skim it not nor straine it not at all stir it fast till it be nye cold and then strew in thy powder with thy hand as thou wouldest strew flower into a Childs papp and when it is all in and welnie cold spread it with a slice vpon a péece of leather and when it is spread vpon the leather take a new linnen cloth and lay it vpon and couch it fast and at your néed vse it For a cold and ache of the lims ¶ Take a handfull of Suger a handfull of Endiue a handfull of the
and it will ripen the same For to breake the botch ¶ Take Bramble leaues Elder leaues and Musterd séed and stampe them all together and then take of it and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out all the venome Another for the same ¶ Take one spoonfull of Honey the iuyce of Spurge two spoonfuls and a halfe of Wheaten flower a good quantity and one spoonfull of Turpentine temper all these together and lay it to the botch and it helpeth For byting of a Serpent ¶ Against byting of a Serpent or venemous Beast take two drams of the powder of Egrimony with two measures of Wine that is called Ciates and it will cast out the venome Another for the same ¶ Take Centory and stampe it with his owne water and giue the sick to drinke it is as good for Beast as men for the biting of an Adder Also beare Veruaine about thée and the Serpent as some report shall haue no power to hurt thee Another for the byting of a Serpent ¶ Take and seethe two or thrée handfull of Veruaine and wash the place therwith and stamp the leaues and lay therto and it will abate the swelling therof and bray this hear be Veruaine with Honey and lay it often therto and it will resounder and heale it faire againe Also the iuyce of Cinkfoyle being drunk putteth out all venome so dooth the iuyce of Plantaine For the byting of a mad dogge ¶ Take of the séede of Boxe and stampe it and temper it with water and giue it to the party so gréeued and it helpeth them God willing Also take Sauery and temper it with bread and lay it thervnto and it hath the same vertue Also stampe long Plantaine and lay it to the gréeued place and will cure the sore Proued Another for the same ¶ Take Walnuts and stampe them with salt and an Onion they be good for the biting of a mad doggs béeing layed thereto Also Betony that is gréene being laide thereto helpeth the biting of a mad dogge in very short space For biting of venomous Beasts ¶ Take Garlicke and bray it and lay it to the place so bitten and it will in short time cure the same Also if Garlick be eaten it putteth foorth the venome in the body and clenseth the same Also take the powder of Aristialogia roâ—unda with the iuice of Mints Also if the roote of Brusewoort be brused and laide thereto it healeth the biting of venomous Beasts For a man or woman that is in a consumption ¶ Take a brasse pot and fill it with water and set it on the fire and put a great carthen pot within that pot and then put in these parcels following Take a Cock and pull him aliue then slea off his skin then beate him in peeces take Dates a pound slit out the stones and lay a layer ouer them in the bottoms of the pot and then lay a péece of the Cocke and vpon that some more of the Dates then take Succory Endiue and Parsly roots and so euery layer one vpon an other and put in fine gold and some pearle and couer the pot as close as may be with corse dowe and so let him distill a good while and so reserue it to your vse till such time as you haue néede thereof For a weake person in a consumption ¶ Take a quart of red Rose-water and a pottell of the strapings of the milk of a Cowe 2. d. of fine Manchets the yolkes of thirty Egs halfe a pound of Raisons of the sunne Cinamon one vnce Nutmegs one vnce Mace halfe an vnce Cloues a quarter of on vnce of long Pepper halfe an vnce your bread must be fine grated and your Raisons stoned and your Dates scraped and all your other spices beaten all together then put in your Eggs and milke so stirred together and then last of all your Rose-water and so distill it in a Limbeck of glasse and so reserue it to your vse and as neede requireth to vse it For to restore health in a consumption ¶ Take a handfull of Yarrow and slampe it and straine it into a dish and put thereto the yolke of an Egge and a little Suger fine beaten and with this iuice being heate luke warm temper therwith as much of Wheat flower as will make Past then the Past being well wrought make thereof little cakes as bigge and as thick as an old testorne and bake them vpon a a little shard and being baked let the Patient eate one of the cakes euery day thrée times or as much as he or she can cate and by the prouidence of God it shall make them strong and mighty this hath béen proued For a consumption in the raines ¶ Take Clary leaues and prick them and fry them with two or thrée yolkes of Egs and put thereto Saffron dried vpon a stone and grind it small and put all together and fry them with fresh butter and eate it warme next your hart and it will helpe you God willing For one that is in a consumption ¶ Take a great number of young Nettles that springeth at the roote and wash them cleane and stampe them and straine them till you haue a pinte of the iuice therof then put them in a faire skillet and set it ouer the fire and let it séethe till it waxe some-what redde then take it from the fire and put thereto a quart of Malmesey and brew them together a good space then take the yolkes of sixe newe layde Egges and beate them together then brew it againe and put therto as much sugar as wil make it sweet then let the partie so groeued take euery night and morning a reasonable draught thereof blood-warme and by the grace of GOD it shall ease the partie so greeued in verie short space ¶ To helpe to restore him that is in a consumption ¶ Take a Cocke which is neither fat nor leane and wring his necke and hang him vp by the legges and let him beat him selfe to death with his winges and when hee is colde flea him and take out the bowels then cut off his neeke and legges and sée that his body within he well dryâ—d with a cloth and quarter him and at foure stills still the quarters beeing first well hacked and chopped and the water that shall come out of the Cock béeing stilled you must giue the patient in his brothes or drinks beeing blood-warme and within short time by Gods grace it will restore him or her But remember that the partie gréeued doo neither eate nor drinke in all the time any meats or brothes dressed with hote spices or sharpe sauces A notable restoritie and electuarie for a man that is wasted or consumed called the electuary of life practized by M. Baltazar ¶ Take two pounde of Dates and wash them cleane in Ale or Beere then cut them and take out the stones and the white skinnes and cut them small and bray them very small
and fine till they be as tough as waxe then take a quart of claristed Honny and cast the Dates therein till they bee dissolued then take halfe an ounce of long Pepper as much of Mace and Cloues and Nutmegs beaten in fiue powder then seeth the Dates and Honny ouer a soft fire then cast on the powder by little and little and stirre it very fast and let it seeth long till it wexe thicke then set it to ecole and put it in close Boxes and eate therefore first and last and it shall restore a man bee hee neuer so weake or lowe brought vse this some-times vppon a full stomacke and you shall not surfet proued by M. Baltazer Chirurgian ¶ An Electuarie most soueraine for all manner of diseases in the body proued by G. K. ¶ Take foure pound of Sugar and boyle it in a pint and a halfe of Malmesey and put thereto a pint of Rose-water and a pint and a halfe of White-wine halfe a pinte of Aqua vitae and of running water a pint boyle all these together and when it is well sodden take of the powder of Enula campana an ounce and a halfe of Calamus aromaticus and Licoris of each halfe an ounce pepper thrée penny waight one halfe penny worth of Alisander seedes in powder sixe pence waight of conserue of Roses and Violets of each foure ounces boyle all these to a measurable thicknes then put thereto of folliater golde and all to cut it with a knife and mingle it with the aforesaide Electuarie and vse it as your need requireth and by Gods grace it will helpe you A restoritie for the weake and feeble ¶ Take a pinte of running Water and heate it ouer the fire and put in it a handful of Rose-mary let it boile to the halfe and then straine it then take a pint of White wine or Claret wine and a good peece of Sugar and powder of Ginger Sinamon a little Mace and Cloues and put them altogether thē lay sops in a dish and poure thereon the broth and giue it to the ficke and féeble persons fasting in the morning proued For a consumption proued ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Manus Christi one ounce of white fugar Candy and a penny worth of Anniseedes and halfe a pinte of Redde-rose water and a pint of Muscadine foure new layde Egges a quarter of Nutmegges halfe a quarter of Cap Dates and stone your Dates and wash them before that you doo put them in and boile them altogether and so vse them for this hath béene proued A Ielly prooued for a consumption ¶ Take a well fleshed Capon and scald him and draw him and put into his belly a handfull of Barly and as much Reysons Currons and Dates and put him in an earthen pot with a gallon of Claret wine then put therein some Sinamon and Ginger let it seeth till the flesh be fallen from the bones then beate him in a Morter and put him into an Ipocras bag and let the Ielly runne into a faire Vessell and giue the patient of that ielly euening morning and within the spending of three Capons by the grace of God the patient shal recouer much his health and to comfort his stomack giue him Rorax aromaticum made in losings at the Apoticaries A present remedy for the Sciatica ¶ Take a handfull of Violet leaues and wash them in good Ale then take an other pint of good Ale and set it on the fire in a skillet and then beate the Violet leaues very small and so boyle them in the Ale and then when it is halfe boyled take out the leaues and straine the iuyce into the afore-said Ale againe and boyle it very well vntill that it bee thicke and then take a péece of sheepes leather as broad as the place which is gréeued and pricke it full of heles and spread the same on the rough side of the leather and lay it to the place xxiiij howres and then change it and lay to it new and so vse it thrée dayes and you shall be well the oftner the better To make a water for the Sciatica ¶ Take a peece of Porke of a male Hogge which is leane and perboyle it in water vntill the blood be cleane out thē boyle it in strong Ale a good while and after that take it and distill it with a soft fire and then kéepe the water and wash the places so gréeued two or thrée times against the fire For a Sciatica another medicine ¶ Take an Oxe gall and red Allam Rosemarie-tops bay Salt Aqua vitae and Vinegar bray them well together and set them on the fire and alwaies stirre it but let it not seeth and so vse it as neede requireth Another for the same ¶ Take Auence Comin and asmuch white salt a handful of Red nettles and seeth them in pisse and when they be well boyled put thereto Aqua vitae and annoynt well the sore therewith thrée or foure times A medicine for the Sciatica ¶ Take Time Lauender Cotten the runnings or out-laces of Straw-berries of each a like quantitie a nest or two of young Swallowes aliue with the feathers and the gutts and stampe them very small and so fry them in May-butter that is swéete and newe boile them on the fire then straine it through a cloth and put it into a pot and so vse it at your pleasure For the Crampe ¶ The Crampe commeth commonly of contractions of nerues or els it commeth of too much fulnes of the body or too much leannesse and note well that in the Palsie the members be more longer then they should be by relaxation and in the cramp the members are shorter then they should be by shrinking of the nerues but the Crampe that commeth of wasting is seldome cured if the paine be great withal cease it with oyle of roses or of Camemile hote and of yolks of Egges and Saffron together and wet Bread in swéet hote Milke for this ceaseth the aking of the Nerues Also make a garter of an Hares skin but the liuer is said to be full good for the Crampe prooued For the Crampe a remedy ¶ Take oyle of Camemile and Fenegréeke and annoynt the place where the Crampe is and it helpeth Another for the same ¶ Séeth these hearbes Betony Worme-wood Veruaine and Time these are exceeding good for to wash the party so troubled with the Crampe if he make it in a bath Another for the same ¶ If you say these words thrée times when the Cramp commeth vpon you Bero baro battora it may hap to help you To make one to haue a good colour ¶ Take and drinke the iuyce of Isope fasting warme it and it will make you to haue a good cullour it is good for the sight it destroyeth wormes it is also good for the Romake the liuer and the lunges For the Canker a remedie ¶ Take lentils of the Water which be called Frogs féete or Emets meate it is of great
straine them and giue the sick to cate thereof warme and it shall quickly make him sleep by Gods grace To draw a Bile from one place to another ¶ Take Oculus Christi and Veruaine and make a plaister of them and let the same be layde from the Byle two singers broade and when it hath line a good while renew it and so remoue it still from place to place vntill it bee layde in the place where you would haue it breake To drawe out arrowes out of a mans body ¶ Take Polipodion and grinde it with fresh greace that is olde and bind the same vpon the place and it will soone drawâ— it out be it arrow or thorne or any other euill thing To draw out an arrow head ¶ For to draw an arrow head out of a mans flesh take red Spere roote temper the same and seeth it with Honny and then lay it on a cloth and lay it to the wound and it shall draw it out by the grace of God quickly For a Dart in a mans body ¶ Take a Worme that is called Piâ—cher that is as great as a Beane and is cleane blew or sender it hath many small féete and is white vnder the belly and when a man toucheth it it will be as round as a button take thys Worme and rubbe it well against the Dart till it be all broken and doo this euery day three or foure times and at euery time take thrée or foure Wormes For all manner of falling euills ¶ Take the blood of his little finger that is ficke and write these thrée verses following and hang it about his neck Iasper fert mirram thus melchior balthazar aurum hec quicum secum porta tria nomina regum soluiter a morbo domini pictate caduca and it shall helpe the party so gréeued For the falling euill ¶ Take the powder of Osmond and the roote of pilny and and take the powder of Mortegan and drinke all these with stale Ale and let them say theyr prayers and as soone as the party falleth downe take the gall of a Dogge and giue the sick to drinke with good Ale that is stale and by Gods grace he shal neuer haue the falling euill any more proued For to cure the falling euill in foure dayes ¶ Take Swallowes and beate them feathers guts and all Castorry Vineger and some Iermander distilled first in water and some Cardus benedictus water and then still all and giue the sicke to drink therof Also take the roote of Piony and make it in powder and put it into pappe for a child and let him or them lick it with a little Suger and they that be of age may eate the more quantity therof Also the black séede of Piony is good therfore For the falling euill ¶ The filling of gold being taken in meate and drinke is good against that euill and if the Patients backe be annoynted with the oyle of Iiniper in the very chine and so is a dram of Castoreum very good therfore Also take the powder of Gentiana with the iuice of wilde Sage is good for the falling euill The manner and vse to be obserued and kept in the time of curing of a fistula ¶ First you must search the vlcer with your tonte to know the depth and the length thereof that you may knowe of what fise to make your tente and annoynt the sore onlie with Populion and your tent also and dippe the ende therof in the powder following for two daies once a day dresse it with your powder and other two daies with nothing but Populion to remooue the aker and thus inlarge your tent till the worke be knowne vnto you so long as it casteth a blocky maulte gory stinking or bloodie water still vse your powder vntill it come grosse thick and white and then apply mundisters or clensers and the vlcer clensed then vse incarnatiues as the gréene balme before written other that followe alwaies rather shortening your tent and making of it lesse till you be assured of the victory for sigilation sealing or sinking of the water that hereafter shall follow termed mother and the congelour The powder for the Fistusta ¶ Take two ounces of greene Copperas and burne it in a Goldsmithes potte called a crusible Mercurij subblimati an ounce grinde them small on a Marble stone till that it bee very fine powder and vse it when neede requireth A skinning water for the Fistula ¶ Take strong Vinegar that is white for that is best a quart of Litarge of gold finely beaten finely searced a pound mingle them together and let them infuse in a glasse thrée or foure daies stirring them together twice in a day then let it settle a day and take the cleared thereof and put it into a viall or glasse and so you haue the mother The congelour in a Fistula ¶ Take faire water a pint salte genne two ounces common salt a good spoonefull boyle all till the salts bee dissolued then put the cleerest thereof into a glasse and this is the congelour The vse of the congelour ¶ Take of the mother thrée parts of the congelour 2. parts and a little more put them together and it will be an oyntment or a thick creame lay it on the place that you would haue skinned or the créeping tetter and it shall doo wonderfully for the long vlcers that lack nothing but skinning and it will skin in very short time For the Fistula ¶ In what place soeuer it be take the inyce of Turmentil and drop it into the hole and it helpeth and so doth a tent dipped in the sayd iuyce layd to the Fistula Also take gréene Betonie with salt and make a tent and put to it a plaister of the same and it will heale it Another for the same ¶ Take of the powder of Copperis with two parts of beane meale and confect them with french sope and shape a tent therof and put it into the hole of the Fistula it will clense it in such manner that if there be any bones corrupt or broken that they may be taken out and it will consume the euill moistures To stop a very great flixe ¶ Take halfe a pound of Almonds and blanch them and stampe them very small in a Morter and then take twelue yolkes of newe layde Egges rosted harde and put them into a Morter and bray altogether and then take a pint of strong red vinegar for that is best and put it into the same stuffe and mingle theÌ„ well together and then put all into a faire pot of earth and stampe it well then take thereof fiue or sixe spoonefulls at once but first warme it and then drinke three or foure times vpon a day if neede be Another for the same ¶ Take the roote of a great Docke that beareth the Burre and the leaues of Oake and ground-Iuie and make a bath of them and put thy féete therein vp to the ankles but no higher and let
thy feete stand long therein as hote as yee may suffer it and then keepe them warme A medicine for to stope the flixe or laxe ¶ Take three Nutmegs and rost them take of Sinamon thrée ounces three new layd Egges and rost them very harde till they be blew then take the yolke from the white as much of Bole armoniack as a Doues Egge then beate the spices verie fine that doone take altogether and beate them then put them in a quart of strong Ale sturring all these together then straine them and seeth the same till it come to a pint then giue the partie so grieued to drinke thereof first and last Also take Alligant and thicken it with Rice flower as you would make pappe then spread it vpon a peece of redde leather as broade as your hand and for a child lay it beneath the nauel somewhat warme and it helpeth For the flixe or laxe ¶ Take Redde-rose buddes and clippe off the whites from the leaues and dry them and make powder of them and giue it to the partie so grieued in a cawdell and at three times drinking it shall ease him And if the partie be weake to make him a Tansie of Camphier Planten and Archangell a little at a time asmuch as an Egge You may gather these hearbes in Sommer to serue in Winter To helpe the bloody flixe ¶ Take two handfull of Plantaine leaues and séeth them in faire water and let it seeth till it bee sodden to the one halfe then take the same water and straine it through a cloth with out any wringing thereof then with the same water make rice pottage and let the patient eate thereof a good messe and it will stop the bloody flie Another for the same ¶ Take Henne crossen and the crops of Wood-bine and stampe them and temper them with warme Redde-wine and giue the sicke thereof to drinke and let him eate for thrée dayes together each day fine Léekes with bread that is hote and drink no drinke but Red-wine warme and he shall be whole and let the sicke haue a stoole with a siedge and make there-vnder a little Char-cole fire and let it be closed round about with a cloth that no ayre may enter proued For to fret away dead flesh ¶ Take Hennes bones and burne them and the shelles of tenne Egges stampe them and make powder of them and lay it to the dead flesh and it will fret it away Another for the same ¶ Take gréene Copperis and burne it and as much burnt Allam and asmuch Verdigreace and grind them altogether and vse thereof as you neede and it helpeth proued To abate proude flesh ¶ Take Honny and clarifie it and skimme it with a seather and take the white of and take a quantitie of Verdigreace till it be gréene and lay thereto To rayse vp flesh ¶ Take red nettles and bray them small and put thereto thrée or foure cornes of Salt and mixe it with Butter and lay it to the sore and it will make the flesh to grow and to be more fairer then euer it was before To take the fire out of any sore ¶ Take a quantitie of Rose-water Sallet-oyle an Ore gall Housléeke the iuyce of each a like quantitie and so beate theÌ„ altogether till that they be all one and so annoint the place and it will take away the fire For the Gout a most precious medicine ¶ Take a good handfull of Rewe as much of Plantaine and asmuch of Redde Sage and stampe them as small as you can then take halfe a pound of black Sope and a penny-worth of the Treacle of Iane and meddle all these together then put them in a close vessell and when the paine beginnes to come make thereof a plaÃster and lay it thereto and hee or shée shall be eased within an hower prooued For the red Goute ¶ This experiment is prooued best Take Quicksiluer Brimstone thrée parts and two of Quicksiluer quenched with fresh greace and the iuyce of Earth-bind and a little of swines gall and meddle altogether and put it into boxes and when neede requireth annoynt the place and you shall be whole For the Gout that is bolning ¶ Take Beane leaues sodden in water then meddle it with Swines greace and lay it to the sore place and it doth awaie all the boluing Also for the same you may take a Foxe and make oyle thereof and therewith annoynt the patient For the Gout that is in the bones ¶ Take three tostes of Rie-bread and tost them well and then lay on a dishfull of Garlicke and stampe them and lay it on the Gout as hote as may bee suffered Also Walwort sodden in Wine till it be well thicked and the sore annointed with the same is very good Also Nettles stampt and layd vpon the Gout helpeth it An oyntment for the Goute ¶ Take an olde fat Cat and flea her and draw foorth her guttes and bray the Cat and put her altogether in a fat Ganders belly and put thereto halfe a pound of Pepper Mustard-séede and Parsly seede of each foure ounces Worme-wood and Garlicke a good quantitie Bole armoniack sixe peny waight then rost it and the greace that droppeth from the same keepe it and annoynt the Patient withall and by the grace of God the ache will goe away for being throughly annoynted therewith it presently helpeth him For the Gout a remedy ¶ Take a handfull of Rue as much Canell as much Turpentine of red Sage of each of these a like much stamp them all as small as you can then take halfe a pound of black Sope and mingle all these together and put them in a close vessell and when the paine beginneth for to come make a plaister thereof and lay it thereto and the party so gréeued shall haue ease within one houre For the Goute in the toes ¶ Take the roote of Fragon Matselon and the roote of Launceroy stampe them and drinke them with White-wine euery day a pottle fasting For the Greene-sicknes ¶ Take Betonie Harts-tongue Liuerwoort of each a good handfull a Fennell roote washe them and bruse them and put them in a skillet with a quart of Ale two spoonefuls of Alisander seedes and foure good sticks of Licoris let all be brused and boyle all in the Ale till it bee halfe wasted then straine it and make it sweete with Sugar and put into it a little Maces and Nutmegs and vse to drinke thereof warme morning and euening thrée or foure spoonefuls and like-wise when your fit doth come vpon you Another for the same ¶ Take the keyes of an Ashen trée being dryed and made into powder and take of Red-Fennel Red-sage and Marierum and Betony and seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then straine them and drinke thereof a good draught with Sugar morning and euening luke warme For gnawing and aking in ioynts ¶ Take hearbe Bennet Sheepes suet and Oyle Oliue frie them together then take it off the fire and
the partie drinke euery day or other day of the iuyce of Femitory vsed fasting and in the Winter let him drinke the sirrop of Femitory with warme water for it clenseth all scabbes and other corrupt humors that ensueth as leprosie and clenseth the blood in the vaines For the itch another remedy ¶ Take the iuyce of Peniriall the iuyce of Sauen and the iuyce of Scabions the iuyce of Sage the iuyce of Pellitorie and Barrous greace and black Sope temper all these together and make a salue for the itch Also take Femitory or Earth-gall and seeth the same in Wine and it is very good for the itch Against grieuous itches eyther in men or women ¶ Take the iuyce of Calidon Tapsi Barbasti of Hony puristed an ounce beate them altogether till they bee wasted and set them on the fire and when they haue simpered take it from the fire and reserue it to thy vse and when thou wilt vse thereof against itching take thereof as much as thou wilt and put thereto of burnt powder of Vitriall of burnt Allam of each a like much and vse this till that thou be well For the Ring worme ¶ Take of the gumme of a Cherry trée a good quantitie of the gumme of a Plum-trée as much and dissolue it in Vinegar that is verie good and oftentimes annoynt the sore place therwith and it helpeth For kernells or Kings euill ¶ Take two ounces of the water of Broome-flowers stilled and giue it to the patient in the morning fasting and it wil purge the euill humour downe-ward and wasteth and healeth the kirnels without breaking them out-wardly Also if you séeth the water of Broome-flowers and put it in the patients Wine it will doe him great ease Also if you stampe Cuccow pintle with Bores-greace and lay the same to the place it helpeth Also if you make a plaister of redde Docke and stampe old greace therewith it helpeth For the Kings euill ¶ Take the roote of Briony or of Aristologia longa or Smerewort a like much and beate them with Honny and old greace and lay it there-unto Also take Beanes and mingle them after they bee beaten with the gleare of an Egge or old Oyle and it will dissolue the kernels or kings enill Also if Darnell be sodden in wine with the dunge of an Asse and Linseedes and being drunke it helpeth mightily Take of the decoction of the barkes or pilles of Copporis and Sperage and annoynt it with this oyntment Take a gray Serpent and cut off his head and tayle about foure inches thereof and afterwarde with the greace of that Serpent annoynt the said sore For a Laxe ¶ Take Scene an ounce Rubarbe two penny-woorth spignard a penny weight infuse the same with white Wine or water of Englasse or Borage of each halfe a pint and warme them scalding hote or boyle them a little and so let it stande al night then warme it in the morning and straine them put in a little Ginger and Sugar and so drinke it all warme till that thou be well eased thereof A powder laxatiue ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Scene in powder a quanty of Spignard brused and an ounce of Ginger in powder bruse all these very well and put this into the soft pappe of an Apple and so vse to take a pretty quantitie of this to bedward A powder for a laxatiue person ¶ Take in Sommer the white flowers of Elders asmuch as yée will occupie all the yeere and dry it two or three dayes in the Sunne and then put the same into a bladder and when you will occupie it dry it as you doo Saffron and put a little in an Ale berry or in a messe of pottage and incontiuent he shall haue thrée or soure stooles For the Leaper a medicine ¶ Take the iuyce of black Berries and temper it with firrop made of wilde Sage it is good for them that bee leaprous and they that feare the comming of it shold vse euery morning to drinke halfe an ounce thereof Another medicine for the Leaper ¶ Take and make a bath of strong Wine that the leaues and flowers of Elder is sodden in for it greatly profiteth them that be like to fall into lepry by reason of fleame Also a bath made in water that Scabbious and Moleyne is sodden in is good for them that haue the spice of the Leaprie called Alopice in the which the hayres fall To make a man leane ¶ Take and fill a panne full of Filberds flowers and seeth them a night and a day and put thereto Wine that they dry not then let the Wine be strained and let the patient drinke it fiue dayes together in the month of February For the lunges ¶ Take Southernwood and meddle it with Licoris and Isope seeth it in Wine or water make it swéete with Sugar and so drunke is very good for all diseases of the lungs breast when the sicknes commeth of cold the breast shall be annoynted with vnguentum dialthea and it easeth Also the broth of a Creues is good for the paine in the lungs consuming as when a man hath a swelling about the lunges then he commeth to drynes and consuming of the naturall moisture till he dieth Also the roote of wilde Rapes are good to clense the lunges if it be sodden with Licoris and drunke Also if Figges be sodden with Isope it clenseth the lunges and healeth the old cough For the Morphew ¶ Take water of Elder and drinke thereof thrée spoonefuls in the morning and when you haue drunke thereof walke vp and downe till you catch you a good heate and then take a pint of white Vinegar and nine Oake apples and cut them and lay them thrée dayes and thrée nights in the same Vinegar and after take a faire linnen cloth and put the Apples therein and then straine them and with the licour thereof annoynt thy bodie thrée dayes Also take the iuyce of Selidon and mingle it with the powder of Brimstone and doe it to the Morphew all cold Also for the Morphew white or black take Musterd-seede and salt and stampe them together then temper them with Vinegar and annoynt the Morphew therewith For the Morphew white or blacke ¶ Take an ounce of fine Verdigreace and one ounce of Brimstone and make them both into small powder then take two sheepes heads that are fat and flea them and cleaue them and take out the braine and cast it away then wash thē cleane and séeth them til they be tender and then take them of the fire and let them stand till the next day and then gather off all the greace thereof and mingle the foresaid powder therwith and then put it in a boxe and let it come neere no fire after thou hast doone them together but worke them all cold and it will heale the Morphew bée it white or blacke if you annoynt the sicke therewith against the fire euery night when he goes to bed and in the morning wash
of water and so let it stand 3. dayes and on the 4. day let it seeth ouer the fire till it waxe thick then take it off and straine it through a cloth and put thereto a little hote water for the thicknes and straine it as harde as you may betwéene your hands and take the third deale of that licour and put thereto two pounde of oyle Oliue and let them boyle well till they be some-what wasted put thereto a portion of waxe and of Turmentill and doo it to the other licour and let them seeth well till it waxe thick then doo it off the fire and let it keele and then put it in boxes This oyntment is good for great gréeuaunce of the stone and for the aking of the ribbes and all hard greeuaunce it maketh them nesh but the partie must bée annoynted against the fire for this hath been proued To make a good oyntment ¶ Take of Smallage and Mallowes and put thereto two pound of Bores greace one pound of May butter and oyle of Neates feete a good quantity stampe them well together then fry them and straine them into an earthen vessell A medicine for the palsie ¶ Take oyle Oliue and the slowers of Cowslips out them together and still them in a glasse in the sunne and then take two spoonefuls of the oyle that shall come of it with a spoonefull of Aqua vitae and warme it on the fire in a saucer so annoynt the place which is benumd or gréeued and the patient shall find very great remedy prooued A medicine for the Palsie ¶ Take a handful of Marigolds beate them and wring out the iuyce therof with a draught of Ale put to the same a spoonefull of as good Musterd that may be gotten warme this drinke thrée times and so giue it to the party so gréeued Another medicine for the palsie ¶ Take Cowslips wild Sage Lauender and stamp them small and worke them with swéet Ale and make them vp in balls and make holes in them and fill them full of swéet oyle and let them stand infuse nine dayes then take them temper them againe with swéet oyle and then fry them and straine them and so annoynt the party so gréeued with the palsie An electuary for the palsie ¶ Take Mints Sinamon Comin Rose leaues dryed Mastick Fenigreeke Valerian Ameos dorinici Zedoarye Cloues Saunders and Lignum aloes of euery one a dram Muske halfe a dram make an electuary with clarified hony and let either man or child that hath the palsie take halfe as much as a nut Also a bath made with these hearbs Sauery Marierum Time Sage Nep Smallage and Mints are very wholesome for the same A plaister for a man that is benumed in any member with cold or palsie ¶ Take Sauine Ru◠Sage Musterstéede and temper it with white Wine and make it as thick as it were a plaister and so let it stand in a vessell a day and a night and then lay it on a cloth thick and lay it to the member benumed For the pricking of a thorne or needle in a ioynt and the hole stopped ¶ Take fine bolted flower of Wheate and temper it with white Wine and boile it together till it be thicke with white Wine and lay it to the sore as hot as you may suffer it and it shall open the hole and draw out the venim and cease the aking and heale it againe this medicine is good to heale a bile or any Whitlow or Vncome For the pricking of a thorne ¶ Take Mather rootes and grind them small and boyle it with oyle Oliue and lay it therunto or els with the aforesaide oyle anoynt the sore place and it will doo thée good A preparatiue ¶ Take of Endiue Succory Harts-tung Borage of each a handfull of Persly roots Fennell roots Fumitory and the tops of young Hops of each a quarter of a handfull of Time Betony Germaunder of each foure crops great Raizons a handfull of Licoris a little brused halfe an vnce of Fenell séed seeth all these in a pot of faire water to the halfe then put ther to sixe spoonefuls of vineger and after one boyling straine them without pressing then take the clearest thereof and if you will make a sirrop thereof put to a pint of the broth a pound of Suger and in the boyling therof put therto a little Cinamon brused the weight of eight pence let him drinke of this foure good spoonfuls with sixe spoonfuls of Borage water warmed fasting in his bed and sweat after it To make an excellent Millilot plaister ¶ Take of gréene Millilot brused ten handfuls boyle it in a pottell of white Wine to the wasting of the halfe and straine it then put therto of Rozen a pound Waxe as much Shéepes tallow foure vnces Turpentine three vnces Mastick one vnce boyle all saue the Mastick vntill the wasting of the iuice more then halfe then bruse other sixe handfuls of Millilot and put to it while it is a boyling and stir it well while it hath a play or two then take it from the fire and straine it while it is hete through a course canuas bag and with wringing and iumping betweene two round staues till by little and little the stuffe gums and iuyce be come all out as much as you can get and when you may handle it put therto your vnces of Mastick finelie powdered and make it in rowles mingle your Mastick in the handling thereof To make the powder of life ¶ Take Spinage Columbine Camomell the séed of Femitory and Marigold of euery of these iuyces and séedes one handfull and dry them out of the Sunne and make thereof powder and giue it to drink either hot or cold for this hath béen proued a medicine full true The Philosophers stone so called for medicine to cure all diseases both within and without Fistules Canker Poxe Falling sicknes Woolfes S. Antonies fire and all incurable diseases proued ¶ Take Celondine leaues fast by the roots in May or Iune and seethe them in running water vntill such time as they doe come to pap and as pap take them forth and grind them on a stone very fine as Gréene-sauce and let it be no dryer then put them in a glasse with a Limbeck head a receauer but it must be stilled in Balneo likewise receaue the first water by it selfe and when it beginneth to drop somewhat slowly or to change then take that receauer away put another to it and then take that as long as it will stil then take that glasse away and kéepe it closely and sure for that is the fiery element and the first is the water then let your glasse coole and then set it in ashes in a dry Furnace and draw the last water by it selfe for that is the ayre and that that remaineth in the bottom is the earth which earth you must take out and grind it on a stone fine and let it stand vpon the stone
bléeding thereof To staunch blood when a Maister vaine is cut ¶ Take rawe Béefe that neuer had any salt cast thereon and lay it on a gredion ouer fresh coales well kindled and lay the Béefe thereon still turning the same till it be well broiled and then lay it to the sore and it will stanch the blood and for the nose if it be put into a cloth and smelt to it helpeth To staunch blood ¶ Take an hearbe that is called Lunaha and stamp it and lay it to the wound or take the gréene leaues thereof and lay them on the wound and it shall staunch and if a man may not haue thys hearbe let him burne the feathers of a Cocks necke and take the ashes of them and lay on the wound and the blood shall soone be staunehed For swelling that commeth suddainly in a mans limmes ¶ Take Harts-tongue Cherfoyle and cut them small and then take dregs of Ale and wheate branne and shéepes tallow molte and doe all in a pot and séeth them till that they be thick and then make a plaister and lay it to the swelling Another for the same ¶ Take faire Water and salte and stirre them well together and therein wet a cloth and lay it to the swelling For to make one slender ¶ Take Fennell and séeth it in water a very good quantitie and wring out the iuyce thereof when it is sod and drinke it first and last and it shall helpe the patient For to breake the stone a medicine ¶ Take halfe a handfull of Pellitory of the wall halfe a dozen Parfly rootes halfe a handfull of vnsette Time a quantitie of Pennyriall and seeth all these in a pottle of Rennishe Wine or white wine and let it séeth to a quart or a pint which you will then take a Nutmegge rosted and dry it by the fire and deuide it in foure parts and drinke the same warme after it is strained as much at a time as you thinke good Another for the same ¶ Take the rootes of Parsly Pellitory and red Nettles of each a like quantitie wash them cleane and mince theÌ„ smal and lay them in White wine twenty foure howres and still them together and drinke it with two pound of rootes put to a quart of White wine For the stone a remedy ¶ Take Reysons vnset Léekes Sappifrage Samphire Auence Beane-cods still each one by it selfe and fine them in the Sunne and take of each a like much and put thereto as much Malmesie as of the waters and still them altogether againe and fine it in the Sunne and when the patient is gréeued and at no time else let â—un drinke thereof thrée spoonefuls at a time and that will be sufficient enough at once and heate it luke warme and put in a little powder of Giues and drinke it and lay him downe to sweat Also takâ— Sapifrage and still the same with water and make thereof a firrop as though it were with Roses and put thereto a quantitie of Sugar and eate it and it will breake the stone meruailously Another medicine for the stone ¶ Take a cake of Rye and bake it then take Onions and roste them very soft then take your cake out of the ouen slit it a sunder in the middest the vpper side froÌ„ the nether then take your Ouions and pill them and shread them vpon the cake and lay the one péece to the bottome of your belly and the other part to the raines of your back and it will helpe you A very good powder for the stone ¶ Take Smallage seede Louach séede Fennell séede Sapifrage seede Caraway séede Gremell seede Broome seed parslie féede Philopendula the roote thereof dryed Veruaine and the kernels of Cherristones of euery of these a like much by weight then beate them in a brassen Morter all to powder and then let the sick vse of this in White wine at euening and morning and also let him vse of this powder in his pottage for it is very good for the stone An excellent good Medicine for the stone and to breake it ¶ Take Allisander Louach Smallage Water cresses and Gromet of each a like much and boyle them in a Gallon of faire water till the halfe thereof be wasted and doo thereto a good deale of Sugar or of Licoris and then straine it through a cloth and doo it in a cleane vessell well stopped and let the sick drinke thereof morning and euening and this will breake the stone in the raines or bladder and make him for to come foorth without faile A good medicine for the stone ¶ Take March seede Anniseede and Commin séed Parsly seede and Fennell séede and Water Cresses seede or els the powder made of the hearbe then take all these seedes and doe them in good Vinegar and so let them stande two dayes and a night then dry these séedes in an Ouen and then make them to powder in a brassen Morter and let the sick vse of this powder in his pottage and in his drinke as is aforesaide and thys will make a man to make water well A good plaister proued for the strangury ¶ Take Holly-hocks Violets and Mercurie the leaues of these hearbes or the séedes of them also the rind of the Elder trée and leydwort of each of these a handfull and beate them small and seeth them in water till halfe be consumed then doe thereto a little oyle Oliue and all hote make thereof a plaister and lay it to the sore and raines And also in Sommer you must make him a drinke in this manner take Sapifrage and the leaues of Elders fiue leaued grasse and seeth them in a pottle of stale Ale till the one halfe thereof be consumed then straine it and keepe it cleane and let the sicke drinke thereof first in the morning and last at night and if you lacke these hearbes because of Winter then take the rootes of fiue leaued grasse and dry them and make thereof powder and then take Dister shels and burne them and make powder of them and mingle them together and so let the sicke vse thereof in his pottage and drinke and it shall helpe him A very good medicine shewing how to make a powder for the stone and strangulion ¶ Take blacke Bramble berries while they bee red Iuieberries the inner pith of the Ashe keyes the stones of Eglantine berries clouen rubbed from the hayre Nutte keyes the rootes of Philopendula of all these a like quantity Acorne kirnels the stones of Sloes of each a like quantity dry all these in platters in an Ouen till they may bee well beaten to powder then take Gromell seede Sapisrage seede Alisander seed Coliander seede Persly seede Commin seede Fennell seede Anniseede of each of these a like quantitie asmuch as is before written and dryed in like sort then beate all these to fine powder and take Licoris of the best that you can get fayre scraped as much in quantitie as of all the other and
the Mallowes together with the iuyce of the Hollihock rootes and put in eyght or nine Figges and two vnces of Sugar a little leauened Breade and halfe a dish of sweet Butter then lay part of the same vppon a wollen cloth and as hote as may bee suffered lay the same to the side and rowle it verie fast with a strong rowler and euerie day once renew the same with a fresh plaister verie hote vntil such time as the partie be well Another plaister for the Spleene ¶ Take Wormwood Mallowes Cammomile and Melilot of each of these a good handfull boyle them in faire water till the liquor be halfe consumed then put vnto the same halfe a handful of Wheate branne or more and boyle it to the thicknes of a plaister then quilt it and as hote as you may suffer it lay it to your left side An aluarie for the Spleene ¶ Take a pinte of Ale clarified and put therein a crust of Breade then take the powder of Gentiana Spignard Gallingall of each two penny-woorth let them haue a boyling or a waulme then take it off the fire and drinke thereof morning and euening and it will cure the Spléene A restoritie for the liuer lungs and spleene ¶ Take two parts of Fennell and three parts of Honnie séeth them together till they be as thicke as a lectuarie and let the sicke vse this morning and euening For the stopping of the Spleene ¶ Take the Elder roote and seeth the same in white wine vntill the third part thereof and drinke of the same and it cureth the Spléene meruailously Another for the same ¶ Take the lunges of a Foxe and make it into powder and vse to drinke thereof and it will certainly cure the Spléene For the Spleene a good experiment ¶ Take two pounde of Bores greace and two pounde of ashes made of Ashen wood and one gallon of faire running water and séeth them all together til halfe be consumed thē straine them through a cloth and let it stand all night and in the morning fléete of the greace and cast away the water and mingle the greace well together and put it in a boxe and there-with-annoynt vpon the Spléene You must likewise giue the patient this drinke following Take the reotes of young Ashen plants and a good quantity of Wormwood and seeth them well together in a gallon of Wine till the one halfe be wasted and let the patient drinke thereof in the euening hote and in the morning cold and let the patient vse of this oyntment and drink of thys drinke the space of nine dayes and it will helpe him proued Another for the Spleene proued ¶ Take the inner rine of the Ashe trée stamp it and seeth it in Wine and it will doubtles helpe the Spléene For the heate of the liuer ¶ Take the inyce of sowre Apples and swéet Apples of each a pynt or more and two pound of Sugar and mingle these together and let it boyle on a soft fire till it be as thick as a sirop and vse of this a little euery day fasting beeing first made luke warme at the fire To purge the liuer of choller and salt sleame ¶ Take the waight of a gold Noble of Rubarbe and cut it in small péeces and a halfe penny-worth of Spignard and the weight of two groats of Scene in the codds lay all these in soke in nine spoonfuls of Whey by the space of twelue howres and so giue it to the patient For the liuer that is chafed ¶ Take and vse Saunders in thy pottage or broth drinke it and wash thy right side with cold vrine but first boyle it and scum it and put thereto Vinegar and lay it to thy right side but not hote for it will chafe the liuer For wasting of the liuer ¶ Take Water-cresses Red Fennell and Sorrell with a Chicken in a pot nine dayes and vse it Another for the heate of the liuer ¶ Take a quart of Barlie and put thereto a gallon of well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take the same water and put thereto asmuch good woorte with a penny-worth of Licoris beaten but not to powder and take a good handfull of Isope and a good handfull of Sage and boyle all these together till the one halfe thereof be wasted then straine them againe through another cleane cloth and that which commeth forth put it into a cleane vessell and let it stand a day and a night and drinke of the same first in the morning and last at night when you goe to bed For stoppings in the liuer and the milt ¶ Take and seeth Harts-tongue in water or Wine and drinke it or if the herbe bee eaten it is very good for the same Also to vnstop the pypes of the liuer and of the milt take Smallage and seeth the same with a like quantitie of Elder leaues then straine it and drinke the broth thereof Another for the same ¶ If you vse to drinke the iuyce of Chiccorie it openeth the oppilation of the liuer and milt caused of heate Or if you take the Wine that Silios hath beene sodden in and drinke thereof fasting it is a very good medicine against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and against the let of vrine Another for the same ¶ Take and drinke the Wine that wilde Time hath béene sodden in and you shall finde it very good against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and the hinderance of vrine as hath oft been proued ¶ Also if you take the iuyce of the bearbe called Witminte with Honny and the Wine that it hath been sodden in it is verie good to vnstop the conduit of the Milt and the liuer vrine Against the oppilation of the Liuer the Milte the vrine and the bladder vse the decoction of Cassia ligna or the sirrop that it is made with To vse also the iuyce of Night-shade made in sirrop with a little Sugar is very good for the liuer and the milte Also if you make sirrop of the iuyce of Fennell and the decoction of the hearbe called Dawke it is good against the stopping of the Liuer and the Milt and against the Dropsie For the liuer and the milt ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer or of the milt take Aloe Epatick with the iuyce of Smallage warme Or make a decoction of the rootes of Smallage Parssie Fenel Bomwoort and Spurge with two orammes of Mastick and vse this two or thrée times in the weeke till you be well Another for the liuer and the milt ¶ Also who so vseth often to eate the hearb Cheruell it causeth the stopping of the liuer and the milt to cease Or if the patient take the seedes thereof and make them into powder and afterward eyther eate or drinke of the same it will help him Also if the iuyce of Wolst-thistle be drunken with Wine it