fire till the skum arise then take off the skum and take it from the fire then put thereto the powder of Coltsfoot and make it as thick as Conserves of Roses which use at your pleasure A precious Water for a Consumption Take a quart of Rosewater as much of womans milk Goats milk or Cowes milk put unto it twenty yolks of Eggs and mix them well together and thereof distil a Water and give the Patient thereof to drink first and last with a Cake to eat made with Gold and Pearle A Water good for a Consumption or weaknesse Take a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and the yolks of twenty eggs beat them very wel together and put thereto a pint of good Red Wine and two Manchets sliced so mingle all these things together and put them in a plain Still and still it with a soft fire and now and then stir it or else it will have a crust on it the Water may be taken at any time three or four spoonfuls with some Sugar the oftner the better COUGH For the Cough be it never so extreme Take a quart of new milk and a pint of strong Ale and make a posset thereof then take off the curd then take a quarter of a pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned and two big sticks of Licoras and two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruise them and seeth all in the posset Ale until half be sodden away then take it from the fire and put therein so much sweet Butter as the bignesse of a Hasel Nut but let it not seeth after and let the party drink thereof evening 〈…〉 or eight spoonfuls at a time as hot as he can Probatum For the Cough Take a head of Garlick and prick it full of Cloves then take half a handful of three leaved grasse and as much Goats grease put the Garlick head therein and wrap it in russet paper and so roast it in the ashes till it be soft then beat it in a Mortar and straine it then drink it in some Ale or Beer it is good for the Cough A Tisan for the Cough Take a quart of good old Ale and set it on the fire and skim it clean then take half a dozen of good Fennel roots and scrape them and take out the pithes and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in the Ale then take a quantity of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it to the rest then take a handful of Anniseeds and sift them cleane and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth together a pretty while and take a handful of smal Raisons wash and pick them clean and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth a walme or two after then take a penny worth of Sugar candied and put into it when it is almost sodden from a quart to a pint and when it is full sodden to a pint take it off and strain it and drink it at times convenient and put to this Tisan Sugar Honey and Powder of Elicampane root of each a little and some great Raisons the stones taken out and Parsley roots and two or three Figs. For the Cough if it be of the Lungs Take half a pint of Aquavitae of Anniseedâ—â— half penny worth and as much English Licoras scrape it and slice it thin run the Anniseeds very well and fan the dust out of them and put them in together and let them boil on a soft fire till half be consumed then strain it out and wipe the pot and put it in again and put to it three ounces of brown Sugar candied and set it against the fire till it be melted then take it off and use as often as you will drink For the Cough or Cold. Take a quart of Ale and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary and boil it then put to it a spoonful of Sugar and as much butter as an egg and brew them together and let the Patient drink thereof to bedward and keep warm For the Cough Stamp two handfuls of Centory and seeth it in three quarts of Ale to the half then stamp it again and seeth it and put thereto a pint of honey and so take every morning thereof three spoonfuls Another The Cough is a Messenger of all Diseases of the Lights and Brest through the grosness drought moisture spittle and other excrements for the Cough is a motion of the Lights the which by the aire and moving vertue of the Muscels that are within the brest is meet and made for to cough up all that which hurteth the lights and the Rhume provoketh the Cough most of all There are often perillous Coughs through Rhume that falls down out of the head upon the lights and into the brest which is very ill to get out It is good to purge the head with Cochia Pills and to drink sometimes a draught of Barly Water in the morning and eat something after it Then take this Potion Take Syrrup of Endive Honey of Roses and Sirrup of Steches of each half an ounce Water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and half tempered together This Powder is approved to stay the Rhume Take Spica of the Indies one quarter of an ounce Cinnamon one quarter of an ounce of the Scull of a man that dyed through violence three quarters of an ounce take every time it cometh one dram after meat in Wine or any decoction Physicians do commend Barly Water mixt with Julip of Violets CORNES For to take away Cornes First cut away the Corne and root him out then drop into the hole a drop or two of a black Snail and put thereto the powder of Sandyfer and it will wear the Corn away Also cut your Cornes away and lay a little piece of the red Cerecloth upon the hole and in three months it will wear it clean away CRAMP For the Cramp Take the little bones of the Hares hinder legges which are in the knee joints if you touch the place grieved therewith it helpeth Also take Hollioaks Oyl of Violets and of Swines grease of each a little quantity and make an Ointment of them and annoint the place Another Take the Flank wool of a sheep carded in flakes and dipped in Sallet Oyle and wrap it about your leggs or where it taketh you and it will heat the Cramp and ease it DEAFNESSE For Deafnesse an excellent Medicine TAke the juice of Betony with the most part of Camomile wet in it a lock of wool and stop it in the deaf ear and Water stilled of the same Herbs to be powred into the ears is a help for deafness For the Hearing Take Oyle of Roses and White Wine Vineger of each alike and mingle them together and at night in bed put one drop into the ear and stop it with black wooll and lye on the other side DROPSIE A very good Drink to cure the Dropsie Take of Peperitis Roots otherwise called
quantity of Beets and a quantity o Mercury one ounce of Coriander seeds one ounce of Cummin seeds bruise the seeds and seeth them and the Herbs all together in a pottle of running water and let it seeth till halfe be consumed then strain it and take three spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and three spoonfuls of Honey and half a handful of Bay salt bruised so put it into a Glister pipe and use it For the Stone Take the inner bark of Elder and seeth it in Beer or Ale til it have a good strength of the Elder then strain it and drink it morning and evening and it will break the Stone A very good drink for the Stone Take a pint of White Wine and half a pint of Ale and make thereof with milk a pottle of posset drink and take away the curd very clean and boil in it two or three roots of Mallowes Marsh Mallowes are the best and some Licoras till a quarter be boiled away then drink half in the morning and the rest at night For the Stone or strongurion Take half an ounce of Anniseeds a quarter of an ounce of Licoras Calamus Aromaticus French Gallingal Mirrh Gum Arebeck Gum Traganthum Diatria Papira or Piperion Pine Apple kernels white Orris roots Storax Benjamin Cipresse and Labdanum of each a small quantity then beat them all together take also half an ounce of large Mace white Archangel Mead Parsley and Garden Parsley Camomile Mallowes Fennel and Spiere Mint of each halfe a handful then take three quarts of White Wine and put them together in a brasse pot or a Posnet and boil them a pretty while then take it off and strain it through a cloth and put it in earthen vessels and keep it cool it will drink the better and take six spoonfuls morning and evening for three dayes together when you find your self ill and do not foreslow the taking of it Probatum A Plaister to apply to the side for the Stone Take Mallowes Herb grace Pellitory of the wall the green tops of Fennel and Camomile of each two handfuls seeth them in water till they be tender then presse out the water from them then stamp them very small and put in Oyle of Lillies Oyl of Camomile Oyl of Dill Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oyle of Scorpions of each one ounce let them boil on a Chafingdish and coals a good while then put to it as much wheat flower as wil make it thick like a Plaister spread it between two cloths and apply it to the Patients side as hot as may be endured For the Stone Take the weight of a French Crown of Pulvis Hollandi drink it in a quantity of White Wine stirring it well in the cup that it may not curd drink it in the morning betimes or at what time the Patient pleaseth keeping himself warme in his chamber all that day for it will give him three or four stooles and drink some warm broth after it and use this once a Month. More belonging to the former Medicine Take once a week after the former eight spoonfuls of Deal Wine and eight spoon fuls distilled from the berry of the Hawes make it sweet with Sugar and slice half a Lemmon into it and some sliced Ginger For the Stone in the Kidneyes There is great pain in the raines of the back which draweth downwards stirring encreaseth the pain they are much inclined to vomiting the body is bound Urine raw and watrish often provoking to pisse but not without pain the Urine avoids with gravel sand and slime yea sometimes mixt with blood To know it from the Chollick first it s not so sharp as the paine of the Chollick Secondly The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above and stretcheth downwards and a little more towards the back Thirdly the pain is most of the Kidneyes fasting the Chollick otherwise All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone are good for the Kidnies but not for the Chollick Lastly there is found in the Urine gravel or sand and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts To restrain the growing of the Stone or Gravel Take Turbith one dram and an half Hermodactilus one dram Diagridy six graines Salt of India two grains Ginger half a scruple Annis and Mastick of each three grains Sugar Pellets one ounce white Sugar half an ounce steep them together in three ounces of Water of Smallage or Maidenhair all night and wring it out well and drink it if the matter be in the stomack then take a Vomit that it run not towards the Rains This Vomit may be made of reddish Orange seeds the middlemost rind of Elder and Nux Vomica SIRRUP To make a Sirrup for one that is short winded Take a good handful of Hisop a handful of Horehound and seeth them in a quart of running water to a pint then strain it through a fair cloth and put in Sugar to make it pleasant Use this morning and evening with a Licoras stick some three spoonfuls at a time To make Sirrup of Roses Your liquor must be ready to seeth then put therein as many Roses as will be well steeped in the same water and cover it close and when the Roses be throughly white then strain it and set it on the fire again and so you must use it thirteen times and to every pint of your water or liquor you must put into it a pound of Sugar and let it stand together for the space of one night steeping and skim it clean and seeth it over a quick fire a quarter of an hour then take the whites of egges and beat them well together then take the pot off the fire and put into it the whites of your egges and then set it on the fire again and let it seeth a good space then let it run through a Jelly bag til it will stand still upon your nayl To make a comfortable Sirrup Take a handful of Egrimony and seeth it in a pint of Water till half be confumed then take out the Egrimony and put in a good handful of Currans seeth them till they be ready to break then strain them and make a Sirrup of them then set it on a chafingdish and coales and put thereto a little white Saunders and drink it either hot or cold Sirrup of Sugar candied Take Sâ—gar candied and put it into a clear bladder and tye it but so as it may have some vent then put it into a bason of water so that the water come not over the top of the bladder and cover it with a pewter dish and let it stand all night and in the morning take of it with a Licoras stick Doctor Deodates Scorbuttical Sirrup Take of the juice of Garden Scurvigrass Brooklimes and Watercresses of each six ounces and after it hath stood till it be clear take sixteene ounces of the clearest and of the juice
of Pellitory of the wal and all these things being washed clean seeth them in posset Ale and drink thereof when you go to bed and if you awake at midnight drink of it also A good Medicine to strengthen a weak Back Take a good handful of the pith of the back of a young Ox or Heifer slice â—t and take out the stuff in it and put it in a fair dish put thereunto one two or three of pure Dates the skin within side taken off and minced as fine as may be then boile them in two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water then look what quantity of Dates so the like of Raisons of the Sun and red Currants your Raisons must be minced smal and the stones taken out then boil your Raisons and Currants and Rose-water together till they be tender and put in some crumbs of Bread Cinnamon and Sugar and Saffron small beaten to powder then temper all these together in a fair dish and have ready Pastionel which is made of Sugar and yolks of Eggs fine flower and butter these work together into paste and roll it as thin as you can and make it into pieces the fashion of a Pease cod and bake them slenderly and reserve them to your use and when you list to eat of them take one and heat it by the fire side in the morning and eat it and another 〈◊〉 noon For the Back Take some Comfrey roots Knotgrasse Clary and Shepherds purse stamp them and strain them with a little Muskadine and put thereto the rest of a pint of Muskadine one Nutmeg grated and two yolks of Eggs and so drink of it cold To cleanse and comfort the Back and Reins Take a pottle of fair spring-Spring-water and put thereinto halfe a pound of Eringo roots as new as you can get them and meerly of themselves as they grow without any candying or confectioning only bruise them very well before you put them into the pipkin of water then take three good sticks of Licoras and bruise them and put them into the same water let all these boil together over a temperate fire until half be consumed then take it off and every morning drink a pretty draught thereof for seventeen or eighteen dayes together A Conserve to strengthen the Back Take Eringo roots and conserve them as you do Damask white and red Roses in every respect the pith being taken out one pound and a half of Sugar is enough for every pound of Roots and three pints of water and stew them closely at the first as you do your Roses if you will add to them five or six graines of Ambergreece beaten to fine powder it will be much more cordial A good Drink against the heat of the Back Take Fennel Comfrey and Plantane of each a handful Anniseeds Fennel seeds and Licoras of each an ounce Mastick two drams Lapis dactilus two drams boile these in two quarts of new milk till half be consumed then strain it and drink of it morning and evening After this drink the space of an hour take on the top of a knife this Electuary Diatragacanth frigid one ounce of Sirrup of Violets one dram mix them together and take it as aforesaid For paine and heat in the Back Take Sage Rosemary Camomile and Maudlin of each one handful stamp them together and frye them in May butter and annoint the back with it warm Of the pain in the Back This pain proceedeth of Rheumes that fall into the sinews of the Muscles or of great labour and such like occasions Seeth Nep in your broth which draweth the noisome and grieved matter out of the neck and driveth away all pain in the shoulders and back bones Also silver Mountain seeds sod in water and drink thereof twice a week every time three or four ounces It is very good against all weakness of the back and raines BALM To make an excellent Balm Take a pottle of the best White wine three pints of Oyle of Saint Johns-wort of the blossomes of Saint Johns-wort Carduus Benedictus Sage Valerian of each two pound of Marjerom and Comfrey one pound chop them and stamp them small and put them into the Wine and Oyle then take new Wheat four ounces dry it well and bruise it and put it into the Wine and Oyle stir it well and seeth it four and twenty hours upon the embers close covered sometimes stirring it then boile it and stir it well and when you perceive the wine is almost consumed take it off and strain it then set it on a soft fire and take Venice Turpentine Mirrhe Incense and Mastick of each four ounces Ohbanum five ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce beat all these to fine powder and searse them through Lawn put in the Turpentine a little before the rest stirring it exceeding well then set it a little on the fire and off and on keeping it stirring till it be almost cold then put it in a glasse bottle for your use It is good for all manner of wounds BELLY For a swelling in the Belly Take Sassafras Hartstongue Betony Centory of each two handfuls Pelitory of Spain Cinnamon Ginger Cloves of each one ounce Licoras two ounces Spiknard one ounce put all these in a gillon of White wine and let it stand three dayes and then drink of it the space of eight dayes Another Take a quart of spring-Spring-water and about some twenty leaves of a weed called Dithander and put thereinto some ten or twelve Cloves and boyl all these together till it come to a pint and drink thereof An Oyntment for a great belly whether it be by reason of an Ague or Wormes or the Spleen Take Romane Wormwood common Wormwood Garden Tansie Fetherfew Sowthernwood Unset Leeks Peach leaves Herb-grace of each one handful wash them and wring them then take a pound of Barrowes grease or May butter stamp all the Herbs in a Mortar very small then mingle them with the grease and make it up into balls as big as Tennis Balls then put them in a Cellar seven or eight daies till they be all hoary then break them into an Earthen pot and boil them on a soft fire till the juice be consumed then take it up and strain it and keep it for your use And when you use it warm some of it and annoint the belly before the fire morning and evening For a pain in the Bowels through hot Choler The party must be purged with Sirâ—ups which do cool and Glisters For a Purge take eight and twenty damask Pruins and five or six Figs seeth them in water and take of this Decoction three or four ounces temper Cassia therein and the Oyl of Sweet Almonds five or six ounces tempered with Sugar and drink the same at once It looseneth the body very gently and may be given to children newly born Likewise Manna decocted with sowre Dates Pruins and Sugar is good to give a stool BITING For the Biting of a Mad Dog Take Garlick Salt and
drink a good draught for three mornings together and it will cause the Stone to break and provoke Urine abundantly For the Stone Collick Take a half penny worth of Summer Savory seeds and of Parsley seeds of Bay berries of Gromel of each a half penny worth and boil them in a posset of White Wine and drink For the wind Collick Take the water of Heraff and the root of a red Dock the inner pith taken away and the neather bark of an Ash of one years growth and pound them and strain them with the said water and so drink it first and last Another Take Parsley seeds and bruise them and seeth them in Sack and drink it warm when you have your pain Also Carduus Balsam is excellent An excellent Medicine for the Collick or Sâ—one Take Pellitory Unset Leeks and Mallowes of each a like stamp them and put thereto a pennyworth of Neats foot Oyl and fry them well together in manner of a Plaister put them in a linnen bag and apply it to the Raines of the back but for the Collick apply it to the Navel and it will help within an hour CONSUMPTION For a Consumption Take a couple of Marrow bones and seeth them and put in a great handful or two of Unset Leeks cut small with the roots and blades fair washed and when they be washed and sodden take them forth and strain them and take out the Marrow and put it into the broth then take a half penny worth of Ginger as much Pepper a penny worth of Cinnamon a half penny worth of Cloves and Mace a quarter of a pound of Sugar let all be very small beaten and put into the broth and drink it warme morning and evening as the stomack will bear it A Soveraign Medicine for man or woman in a Consumption First take a red Cock and kill him and flea him and cut him in four quarters but wash them not then take six cap Dates and cut them in four quarters and take half a score of large Mace and six whole Cloves then put in three or four pieces of old Gold and stamp the bones of the Cock then take a pewter pottle pot and lay in one quarter and lay upon it some of every Spice and a piece of old Gold and so upon every quatter until the last be put in and you may if you will put to the said Ingredients Amber Coral and Pearle but no kind of Licoras neither first nor last and when it is perfectly boiled put thereto a dozen or sixteene Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out Then take so much Rye dough as will stop the pots mâ—uâ—h close and thick enough of the paste so that no water may enter into it then take a good great brasse pot and set it on the fiâ—e that the pewter pot and the Ingredients that is in it may stand covered with water at least two handfuls and put some heavy weight upon the pewter pot that it be not overthrown in the boiling and let it seeth continually from five of the clock in the morning untill eight of the Clock at night then take it off and open the Pewter pot and let the Patient take of that Syrrup a spoonful at a time And when you make it for a woman you must use these Herbs Hartstongue Motherwort Mugwort Mother Time and Comfrey but no Herbs must be used for a man And if the woman be hot in the liver take Liverwort and if troubled with the Stone take a little Pellitory of the Wall A very excellent Water for a Consumption Take a red Cock and pluck him alive then quarter him and take out his bowels very clean and wipe him very dry with a linnen cloth then put the quarters into a pottle of the best Sack and pâ—t into them Rosemary Time Penniâ—oyal and Pimpernel of each of these one small handful of Dates the stones being taken out half a pound of Currans one pound let them lye and steepe in the Sack two houres then still them in a Stillatory and of the Water thereof use two spoonfuls one hour before you go to Dinner and so likewise before Supper and it will much restore your body This was used by the Lord Chief Justice Popham For a Consumption Take a pound and half of Prok fat and lean and boil it in water and put in some Oatmeal and boil it till the heart of the meat be out and then put in two penny worth of milk and boil it a quarter of an hour and give the Patient a draught in the morning in the afternoon and at night and now and then some Barley water and by Gods grace it will help Another Take a fair earthen pot and put therein a gallon of Claret Wine and then take a Capon well flesh'd but not fat and gut him and put in his belly half a handful of Mace and as much Raisons and Curransâ— then cover the pot and set it on the fire and let it seeth till the half be consumed then put the Capon into a Mortar with some of his broth and bray his bones and all then let it seethe one walm after and passe it through a Jelly bag into a close Vessel then take a Goblet full and put thereto the yolks of six new laid Eggs the strainet taken away and seethe it well and then give the Patient to drink as hot as he can suffer it in the morning fasting likewise before noon and before he goeth to bed and ere three Capons be spent by the grace of God he shall be much amended To restore one that is in a Consumption Take three pints of new milk and one pint of very good Red Wine and four yolks of Eggs beat them with the milk and Wine and put to it as much fine Manchet crumbâ— as will make it thick like thin batter and put in one quarter of an ounce of beaten Mace and distil all these with fire and draw a pint of water out of it and take one spoonful of the water in Pottage or drink morning and evening To nourish one in a Consumption Take a Chicken and take out his bones and wash it in White Wine and put it into a pipkin without liquor with a few Currant and then still it five on six hours upon Embers without coals then take a spoonful thereof and drink with thin broth For a Consumption Take Coltsfoot Burnet leaves Wood-Betoby leaves red Rose leaves Comfrey roots of each one handful pick'd and sliced boil them in running water from three quarts to three pints then strain them and put into the liquor two pound of good Sugar and the whites of two new laid eggs then boil it a quarter of an hour and take off the skum and take of this Sirrup seven spoonfuls in the morning fasting and at night to bedward Probatum For a Consumption or Cough of the Lungs Take three spoonfuls of English Honey and three of fair water mixed together set it on the
Horse Rhadish three ounces slice them by the length very thin of Licoras scraped and bruised two ounces Winter Savory Time Penniroyal the tops of Nettles of each a small handful of Smallage roots Fennel roots of each one ounce of sweet Fennel seeds bruised three ounces infuse all these things one night in two quarts of fair water and three pints of Canary Wine then boil all together the next day one quarter of an hour then take it from the fire and let it run through a clean cloth and so drink a smal draught thereof in the morning fasting and as much in the afternoon at three a clock and fast two hours after it and so continue taking it until you be wel Mr. Smart An excellent Medicine for the Dropsie Take Scruvey grasse otherwise called Sold Mella and stamp it and straine it with White Wine drink every morning some four or five spoonfuls blood warm and fast one hour or two after it and do the like every evening this you must do two or three months together taking now and then a little Mithridatum upon the point of a knife and keep your self very warme and wash those parts of your body that are swelled with this that followeth Take Water-cresses and Brooklime and boil them and wash the places therewith that are detected and let it dry in For the Dropsie Take a pitcher full of two gallons of new Ale then take Setwal Calamas Aromaticus and Gallingale of each two penny worth of Spiknard four penny worth stamp all and put them into a big and hang it in the pot and when it is four dayes old then drink it morning and evening A Dyet Drink for a Dropsie Timpany or other Swelling Take one ounce of Sassaparilla cut in small pieces a quarter of an ounce of Sassasrasse Hermodactulus half an ounce sliced Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce beaten Licoras one quarter of an ounce Raisons of the Sun two ounces the stones taken out boil all these in three quarts and a pint of fair water Wine measure then take it off the fire and put to it one ounce and a quarter of Cene and let it stand twelve hours then strain it and take at your rising in the morning and a little before Dinner and a little before supper and at going to bed a quarter of a pint to a draught and use it three dayes together or more if need require DRINK Dr. Deodates Scurbuttical Drink Take Roman Wormwood Carduus Benedictus Scurvy-grasse Brooklime Water-Cresses Water Trifoil of each one handful Dodder Cetrach Scolopendria Burrage Buglos Sorrel Vervain or Speedwel of each half a handful Elicampane root one ounce Raisons of the Sun three ounces slices of Oranges and Lemmons of each fifteen boil or rather infuse these in a double glasse with so much white Wine as will make a pint and a halfe of the liquor when it is done An excellent Drink for the Stomack and Brest grief of the heart the Palsie Jaundies the Rhume the sorenesse of the Throat the Ptisick all faintnesse about the Heart and Stomack and to make a good digestion and to be of a good colour Take the Powder of Pellitory of Spain and of Centory Anniseeds Licoras Graines of Paradise Callamus Ginger Cinnamon mix all these and use them evening and morning the quantity of halfe a spoonful in Wine or Ale A Dyet Drink to be taken in the Spring Take a quarter of a pound of Madder roots two ounces of red Dock roots of Scabious Egrimony Carduus Benedictus Liverwort of each a handful of Cene two ounces of Licoras Anniseeds Sassaparilla Sassafrass wood Lignum vitae and Hermodactilus of each one ounce put all these together into a rundlet of two gallons bruise all the Herbs and Spices then put to it two gallons of Beer or Ale and let it lye five or six dayes then take Rubarb the weight of a Groat and put it in a cloth and steep it in a draught of Beer all night and wring it into the Beer before you drink it A most excellent Diet Drink for the French Disease Take of good White Wine ten quarts of good strong Beer as much put thereto of the Bark Guacum two pound of Cene one pound of Licoras scraped and heaten to powder one pound of the root of Sassaparilla scraped and cut in pieces an inch long and slit in the midst one pound of Apples of Colliquintida the kernels taken out put all these things together into ordinary stone pots such as their mouthes may be so little as may be stopped close with corks or dough and being so stopped boil them in such a Vessel as they may be hanged in and not touch the bottome in the boiling and so let them be kept boiling continually without ceasing for the space of four and twenty hours from the time they begin to boil which you may do by having seething water ready in another vessel and being so well bruised strain the liquor from the dregs and put therein one ounce of pure Mithridatum and so let the Patient drink so much as he can possible and no other drink till he hath made an end of it and let him not eat any bread but bisket made without salt and every day a few Raisons of the Sun and nothing else for the space of ten dayes then if the Patient hath not drunk all this potion of drink let him if he be weak eat of a Chicken roasted or a rib of a neck of Mutton dry roasted once in four and twenty hours until he hath made an end of this quantity of drink the which being drank the Cure by Gods help is perfectly wrought This quantity of Drink hath been drunk in six dayes and it hath done the Cure after the Cure is done in any case keep a good Dyet for a quarter of a year and abstain from women and over much drink An Excellent Drink to prevent Physick being taken and used in the Spring and Fall and approved by many who have found the successe to be accordingly Take a gallon of Wort made of Malt and put into it a good handful of Egrimony and as much Goose-grasse let them seeth in the Wort almost an hour then strain it out and put into the Wort of good Cene clean picked and Anniseeds both bruised of each one ounce and half and let them seeth one hour and remain in the Wort after take a good pot ful of the Wort and put into it ten penny worth of the best Rubarb thin sliced then close up the pot with paste and let it stand to infuse upon embers twelve hours then put it again to the rest of the Wort and tun it up as other Ale and at the bunghole put in a good handful of red Dock roots scraped and sliced Drink of this in the Spring and Fall of the leaf a draught or two in the morning and fast after it two hours and use it for three weeks
Head through Melancholy It is described thus It is not so great as the former but with a drynesse and sadnesse the heat is more evident in the left side of the face then in the right it causeth disquietness and unnatural sleep it causeth fearful faintheartedness and carefulness the colour of the face is red and blue with a soure taste in the mouth if the Patient be old and if it be about Autumne then the signes are more sure Glisters are good in this case Of the paine in the Head caused by cold The signes are wearisomness of all parts as if the body were beaten and broken to pieces the paine is not extreme without any swelling or thirst sleepinesse much spitting at the mouth and moisture at the nose palenesse of colour and somewhat sullen the eyes run and the mouth out of taste In such cases use warm and dry Medicines and purging is very needful in this Infirmity Also this Wine following is excellent for this purpose Take Rosemary two handfuls Nutmegs one ounce dryed Betony two ounces Cloves two drams being cut very small put thereto eight quarts of good Rhenish Wine let it stand three dayes then for a weak stomack drink a good draught at the beginning of meals but for the Head ache at the latter end This Wine is very good for a cold and moist braine and hurtful for young folks and hot complections The Dyet must be strong Wine but very little left it disturb the Head once in eight dayes wash the head with the decoction of Camomile Marjerome and Steches and before meales rub the head with warme cloaths and after meales take a little Marmalade to hinder the vapour in ascending to the head But because the Laxative Medicines through their own power do not expel all humours for which they be given without such things as convey their operation towards some certain members which one desireth to purge therefore take this Oximil following and if you put thereto Nutmegs Piony seeds or Cubebs then doth it only purge the head and no other part of the body and if you put thereto Tamariscus and Caper roots then it purgeth the Melt and so for all the rest but because we speak now only of the head these are the Simples or Herbs that do conduct the Medicines thereto viz. Nutmegs Cubebs and Piony Penniroyal Marjerom Balsome wood and Seeds Frankinsence Beaver Codd Labdanum Mellilot Squils Spicknard Hisop and Pepper Oximel that is called at the Apothecaries Compositum or Diareticum Take Fennel roots and roots of Smallage of each two ounces the seeds of Parsley of Butchers broom Sparage Smallage and Fennel of each one ounce take out the pith or core of the roots chop them and seeth them in a quart of water till they be mellow then strain them through a cloth and add the Decoction of three ounces of sharp Vinegar twelve ounces of Honey let them seeth to a Sirrup it doth attenuate all tough slimes it driveth them out of the members opens the obstructions of the Liver Melt and the Kidnies and expelleth them A very good Medicine for Paine or Wind in the Head which much hindreth the Hearing Take one Clove of Garlick pill it and make three or four holes in it then dip it in fine English Honey and put it in your ear and lye on the other side and put in black wool after it and continue this eight dayes and it will expel the pain expulse the Humour at the nose and restore the Hearing For a White Scurf or Scabbed Head Take White wort Cellendine Ground Ivy. Mercury Wormwood and an Herb called Dead mens Bells growing in Woods like Leek blades of each of these alike and stamp them and mingle them with fresh grease And burne green Ash to ashes and mix it with fresh grease and annoint the place eherewith To heal a Scald Head Take Lye that is made with the bark of an Ashen tree and wash the head therewith and annoint it with Quicksilver killed in Barrowes grease and fasting spittle Another Take yolks of eggs and put thereunto as much Turpentine then fry them in Swines grease and stir them well together in the frying to a Salve and so lay it to the sore head Another Take the roots of the small reeds that grow in ditches burn them to ashes and apply the ashes wet in Vinegar to the sore Head This healeth the sore and maketh hair to grow The bark of an Ashen tree being well boiled in water with the Lye thereof sometimes wash the Head to cleanse it whiles the other Medicines be applyed to the same Another Take black Snailes and stamp them very well and in stamping them there will be an Oyle come from them and with the same Oyle annoint the sore head For a sore Head First wash the head with pisse and then annoint it with the dripping of a wild Duck being roasted guts and all HOARSNESSE Against Hoarsnesse Put Sugar and the powder of Hisop in figs and roast them on the coals and eat them and it will open the pipes JAUNDIES A good Medicine for the Black Jaundies TAke the Berries of Ivy that groweth upon a tree and of the whole leaves of Ground Ivy and Mugwort and put them in a woollen cloth and then put it into an Oven when the Bread is drawne out and when it is dry make powder thereof and take Saffron and powder of Gallingale and use all these in pottage and eat thereof Another for the Black Jaundies Take the gall of a Raven grated into powder take some of it in a spoonful of Ale or Beer temper it together and drink it in the morning fasting A Medicine for the yellow Jaundies Take a little Athanatia and eat it in the morning fasting three mornings will be enough It is much like Mithridatum Another Take a handful of red Nettle crops and feeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same three or four daies together in the morning fasting IMPOSTHUMES For an Imposthume Take powder of Cene Alexandria one ounce Ginger Cinnamon Mace Coliander seeds Anniseeds and Licoras of each the weight of eight pence of Sugar two ounces of Spurge seeds blanched twelve beat them all smal to powder and put them into a quart of Claret and let it be brewed out of one pot into another oftentimes in a day by the space of three dayes before you use it then let it run through a Jelly bag then take half a pint of the said Drink and when you shall have need to use it warm it at the fire and drink it after your first sleep and so ly still till it work and offer to come and then go to a close stool til it be clean come away and then make a Plaister of red Mints red Fennel Wormwood and Sage of each a handful and a good handful of Cummin seed and beat them small together put thereto a good sawcer full of Wine Vineger and set them all on the fire in
leaves Camomile and Setwal of each a handful stamp them all together very smal then take a pint or more of May Butter and half a pint of Neats foot Oyle stirre them all together and then put them into a Pipkin or liltle earthen pot with a cover and close it well with Paste that no air issue out then put that earthen pot into a brasse pot with water in it and boil them two hours then take them out and set them as deep as you can in a muckhil two dayes then take them up and boil them two hours again then take them out and let them cool and straine them through a linnen cloth and when they be setled powre out the watrish bloud from them and keep them pure and clean and lay them warm to the place grieved LEPROSIE For curing the Leprosie Take half a pint of English Honey and a good handful of Herb-grace beat it very smal and put it into the Honey and boil them very well together till the one half be consumed then straine it through a clean cloth and with a feather annoint the sores therewith A Drink belonging to the same Medicine Take an ounce of Elicampane roots one ounce of Fennel roots when they be picked and pithed one ounce of Burrage roots picked and pithed one ounce of Niprial picked and pithed then take a pottle of stream water and boile all these roots till one half be consumed then put in so much English Honey as will sweeten it to your taste then straine it and put it in a glasse bottle then take a penny worth of Quicksilver and kill it well with fasting spittle and then put it into the Drink when it is through cold and let the Patient drink thereof five spoonfuls in the morning fasting and so much when he goeth to bed and by Gods help it will cleanse him LASK For a Lask Take a good quantity of Wheat flower and put it in a bag seeth it very well then take the same and put it out of the bag and so much as is soft scrape away with a knife the rest will be very hard scrape it and make pap with milk and give it to the Patient twice or thrice a day and it will help Probatum To stay a Lask or Bloody Flux Take a sew old Beanes and parch them over the fire in a pan and then beat them into a powder then make an Aleberry of Sack or Ale and put some of the powder therein and seeth them well together then let the Patient drink thereof warm and with twice drinking it will help Another Take milk somewhat hot and put it in a dish then take Red Wine and put it in another dish and let the Patient suck it out of both dishes with two quils or reeds both together and in so doing it turneth into a curd and stoppeth the Flux To stay a Scouring Take a handful of Rice wash it in red Rose water and dry it well and beat 〈…〉 powder and make pap of it and bod it with Cinnamon and eat it Another Take Virgin Wax and make it into Pills and give it in the pap of an Apple three at one time For a Lask or Flux Take the neather Jaw of a great Pike and beat it into fine powder and drink it in Beer or Ale or in your pottage and it will help To procure Looseness Seeth Mallowes and red Nettles in fair water and let the Patient sit over the hot fume thereof LIVER For cooling of the Liver Take French Barley and boil it in a quart of fair water when it is boiled take it forth of that water and put it in three pints of fresh water then take of Violet leaves Strawberry leaves of each a handful Succory Bugloss Borage of each half a handful one good stick of Licoras half a handful of Raisons of the Sun stoned one spoonful of Anniseeds let all these boil from three pints to a quart then take the Liquor and strain it and put a handful of Almonds into it and when you drink of it take a spoonful of Rosewater and drink with it and take it two hours before you eat in the morning at the least and likewise two houres before Supper For the heat of the Liver Infuse and steep Bread reasonably leavened in water and a little Vineger and eat thereof fasting an hour or two before other meats and use Sallets of Succory roots sodden till they be tender Doctor Hills counsel for cooling the Liver Take Barly one handful of Sorrel Succory and Endive of each one handful a stick of Licoros bruised Raisons of the Sun one handful Anniseeds half a handful seeth all these in a quart of faire water till halfe be wasted away then strain it and drink of it in the morning three times in a week at least A Drink to cleanse the Liver Take a quart of Rhenish Wine and put thereto one ounce and half of Cene seeth it from a quart to a pint then strain it and put thereto three branches of white Mint three penny worth of white Rose water two Nutmegs sliced with a knife six penny worth of white Sugar candied and four penny worth of Angel Gold and seeth it a little and let the Patient take it morning and evening A good Medicine for the Liver Take Ivory and burn it in a clean earthen vessel and when it is burnt take sweet Barly Wort and put therein of the Ivory as you please or put it into Ale and drink it nine dayes together Also drink the juice of Liverwort A Drink to mitigate all heat of the Liver and Spleen Take of Liverwort Maidenhair Endive the flowers of Winter Gilliflowers picked clean from the stalks great Comfrey Tarragon of each four ounces of Spinage Water a pottle of Licoras cleane scraped and thin sliced two ounces of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced one ounce boil all these together stirring it now and then and then put in fine Sugar candied one ounce and half finely beaten to powder then let it boil half away alwayes stirring it and put it in some close glasse and reserve it to your use of this you must take a good draught every morning and fast an hour after it A Broth to cool the heat of the Liver Take Violets Time Parsley Water-cresses red Nettle Crops and Clivers and red Fennel of each alike but somewhat â—esse of the Water cresses red Nettle crops and Fennel then the rest shred all the Herbs and make broth with Chicken Capon or Mutton For the heat of the Liver Take three pints of Whey Egrimony Boâ—age and Bugloss of each one handful boil all together half an hour then stram it through a fine linnen cloth drink a good draught of this in the morning fasting and at three of the clock bâ—â— before you drink thereof take Smallage and stamp it and strain it and take two spoonfuls of the juice thereof and put it into your drink before you drink it Against
milk of a Girle if for a woman the milk of a boy For the Small Pocks or Meazels When the Pocks are white at the first coming out let a woman that gives suck milk some of her milk upon them and apply a paper thereupon and do this every day and they will not pit Also take a new laid egge and it in fresh butter and then poure it into cold water and being cold put it into a pot and put Rosewater thereunto and stir it so long till it become like an Oyntment and with it annoint the sace and the eyes especially and it will preserve the sight from the Pocks and when as any one hath Pockholes annoint them with Barrowes grease betimes and it will help Also for them that have the Small Pocks falne into the eyes let them take Pimpernel and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into the eyes where the Small Pocks are with a feather morning and evening this is a special good Medicine for a Pin and Web or Pearle in the eyes Also for the Small Pocks or Meazels take Dragon root it purgeth all the inner parts or the distilled water given to drink with Treakle is very good to drive them out Also Figs eaten before meat provoke sweat and thereby expel all stinking humors and therefore are good for the Meazels or Smal Pocks and to be given to Children to bring them out speedily Also an excellent Medicine to drive them out seeth Fumetory in Rue water and drink it Also to heal the Pocks or any Scabs seeth Houndstongue in Red Wine and drink thereof and also apply it to the Sores Also to drive out the Smal Pocks drink a spoonful of Sallet Oyl with three spoonfuls of Malmesey and the quantity of a Hasel nut of Treakle in it Also to take the print of the Small Pocks out of the Sore take one ounce of Sperma Ceti and as much Deers Suet and melt them together and when the Small Pocks are ripe annoint the face therewith with a feather and if the Pocks be in the throat then give the Patient a little Sirrup of Black-berries such as grow upon Briars but take them when they are red and pound them and strain them and put as much Sugar thereunto as there is of the juice and seeth them together till they be boiled away to the one halfe then give the Patient a little in a spoon three or four times in a day and that by Gods help will cure them and the very like may be done with Gooseberries before they be too ripe and these may be taken and made into Sirrup and kept seven yeares if you will A Drink to put out the Small Pocks Make a Posset with Ale and milk and take away the curd then take a red Fernel spout and boil it well together then strain it and put thereto a quantity of Nutmegs and Treakle and English Saffron mingled warme together QUINZIE For the Quinzy TAke milk and a flint stone and make it red hot and quench it twice in the milk and take Vervain and Collombine leaves and seeth it in the milk and fine Honey and so give it to the Patient to drink Another Take the paring of the threshold and Sallet Oyl and fry them together and lay it warm to the Patients throat RAINS An excellent Medicine for the running of the Rains TAke a good handful of the inner rind or bark of the Sloe-bush the outermost black skin or rind being cut or scraped away then put the same into a quart of the purest and strongest Ale you can get and let the same boil well from a quart to a pint when it is so boiled take the rind out of the Ale and let it stand until it be cold then divide it into two parts and drink it two mornings together and fast after it every morning two or three hours Probatum For the Raines of the Back Take half an ounce of Venice Turpentine and let it be wel washed in Plantane Water or Rose water 〈◊〉 aâ—d then mix it with fine white Sugar and make thereof four or five balls of which you must eat three in a morning fasting and drink White Wine or Rhenish Wine immediately after RHEUME A good Medicine for the Rheume distilling down the throat and causing pain in the Teeth Take two handfuls of Hisop strip it from the stalks rowle it in a brown paper somewhat wet then lay it to roast under embers until it be roasted very soft but not burned then take it off and lay it upon a linnen cloth and so lay it upon the mould of the Head as hot as may be suffered and so put it fresh three or four times letting it lye from the evening to the morning For the Rheume distilling into the Eyes or Lungs Take of Rosemary red Sage sweet Marjerom of each a handful of Betony half a handful seeth them in a quart of Balme Water until it cometh to a pint then strain it and make up the Decoction with Sugar and for the Lungs you must put in some Hysop and a few Anniseeds and Licoras before you boil it An approved Receipt to be Drunk first and last for a Months space good for Rheums and Aches Take of Licoras one ounce of Cassia in the Cane and Cena Alexandrina of each four ounces sweet Fennel seeds one ounce Madder roots two ounces of large Mace ten pence in weight of Cinnamon fourteen pence in weight Hermodactilus three ounces of Polipodium three ounces of Coriander seeds three ounces prepared two or three yellow Dock roots use but the rind a good hand ful of Scabious a handful of Egrimâ—ny All these are to be used thus the Polipodium scraped the Licoras scraped and bruised the Madder roots scraped and sliced the Hermodactilus sliced Mace bruised in a Mortar with the Cinnamon and Licoras Then put all these Simples together in a bag with a pound weight to cause it to sink but let it not touch the bottom then tun four gallons of good Ale and about a week after you have tunned it drink thereof first and last and continue it a Month or six weeks together For a Rheume in the Head Take the roots of white Beets stamped and strained and put the juice of them into a glass and snuff up thereof into your nose with a quill every morning twice in a Month and it wil help Of Rheume Rheume is nothing else but a defluxion that falls from the head into the throat or brest which doth otherwhiles so stop the pipes of the Lights and throat that its ready to choak also these Rheumes fall into the nose and cause the pawse These Rheums are caused divers waies as from gross meats which cause vapours or of cold or from a sharp North wind which bloweth suddenly after a South wind The cold Rheumes are knowne by these signes following as wearinesse heavinesse of the whole body sleepiness heavinesse of the head and forehead
palenesse with full vaines stuffing of the head or nose swelling of the eyes pain in the throat motion to vomit swelling of the Almonds the Remedy is to use dry and warm Herbs as Sage Fennâ—â— Mints Rosemary Marjerom Time c. and after meat use something to close the stomack as prepared Coriander toasted Bread c. and walk in a morning fasting Hot Rheume the signes thereof are these viz. the face is red mixt with a pale or black colour great heat in the nose with itchings when the mouth and the throat is full of bitterness and sharpnesse and if the head be hot in feeling it s thus to be cured he must be let blood and use this Gargarism Take Sirrup of Jaunbes of Violets and Poppy seeds of each alike temper them with Barley water Or take Jaunbes Sebestians Violets white Poppy seeds and Quince kernels decocted in Barley water use it in the evening after meat it is passing good Also take Sirrup of Poppy seeds Sirrup of Mulberries of Roses and well water of each three ounces of Wine of Pomgranats one ounce make it warm and gargle therewith RICKETS For the Rickets in Children Cut the middle gristle of both the ears and with the blood annoint the belly and the Navel with a little Cotton wool then boil Harstongue and Liverwort in Milk or Broth for their usual Dyet Another Take Bay berries bruised and sweet Marjerom of each a handful and boil it in Beer with three or four blades of Mace and so drink it often Another When the former will not help take Fennel seeds and Dill seeds of each alike but most of Dill boile them in Beer and strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink often Probatum RUPTURE A Plaister to keep up the Rupture Take Knotgrass and Shepherds Purse of each one handful of Comfrey and Solomons seale of each half a handful beat them into an Oyl and thereof make your Plaister This Oyl will be preserved all the year in a Gally pot A Drink for the Rupture Take long Plantane Yarrow and Knotgrass of the redest colour of each a great handful Daisie roots Dovefâ—ot Mousear and Borage of each a small handful wash them very clean and shred them grosse then take three quarts of milk and two quarts of White Wine set the milk on the fire and when it doth seeth put in the Wine and as the Curd ariseth take it away and being clean put in the Herbs and let them boil gently a quarter of an hour then take it off and straine it and preserve it in Glasses and let the Patient drink thereof in the morning fasting and so in the evening almost a pint at a draught and do so one week Another Take Comfrey roots Daisie roots and Pollipodium of the Oak make them into fine powder and drink thereof every morning the weight of six pence the space of a fortnight fasting an houre after it For the Rupture in Children Take Frankinsence half an ounce Aloes a quarter of an ounce beat it small and mix it with the white of an egg unto an Oyntment and therewith annoint the child upon his Rupture morning and evening Also take the root of Aron halfe a pound in powder and give thereof unto the child every day for nine dayes together one dram with water of Parfoliata and tye the Rupture with a Boulster close upon it and unto it RESTORATIVE A Restorative Take Treakle Sallet Oyl Sugar candied Cinamon powder made with Licoras and Sugar of each a penny worth mingle all these together and take a quantity thereof as much as a Nut both morning and evening Another Take a quantity of Ale or Beer and put therein over night three or four sprigs of Rew and drink thereof evening and morning for a good space and it will keep your stomack in good order A restoring Medicine for any decay of the inner parts Take Live Honey and put thereto tops of Balme Cowslip flowers Borage flowers Bugloss flowers and tops of Gilly flowers and set this remain in the Honey the space of a Month stopping the pot very close that no aire come in let it stand all the said time in some warm place either in the. Sun or by the fire side then distil it in a glass Still with a little water and drink thereof every morning a good draught A Restorative made of an Herb called Rosâ—solis This Herb groweth in the Meadows in low Marish grounds and in no other places it is of Horseflesh colour and groweth very long and flat to the ground with a main long stalk growing in the midst of six branches springing out of the roots round about the stalk with a hoar colour and a main breadth and length and I do warn you in any wise not to touch this Herb when you gather it with your hands for then the vertue is gone you must gather it by the stalk and so pluck it out of the ground and put it in a glasse or pewter pot the leaves of this Herb are full of strength and vertue Take of this Herb as much as will fill a pottle pot but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua vitae and put them both together in a large vessel and let it stand being chopped just three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day strain it through a clean cloth into a glasse or pewter pot and put to it half a pound of Licoras beaten to fine powder and half a pound of Dates take out the stones of them and cut them into fine slices and mingle all these together and stop the glass or pewter pot close that no Aire come into it and drink of it at night to bedward half a spoonful with Ale and as much in the morning fasting for there is not the weakest man or body in the world that wanteth nature or strength or that is cast into any Consumption but it will restore them again and cause them to be strong and lusty and have a marvellous hungry stomack and that very shortly for he that useth this Medicine three times shal find a great change and comfort in it and as he feeleth himself so he may use it It cured one Mr. Stubbs who dwelt in Westminster and was in a great Consumption and very neer unto death being sick continually for eighteen weeks and all the Physicians in London had forsaken him and these things were sent him to drink from an outlandish man and in three times drinking of it he walked upon his feet RULES for Health A very good Rule for Mans Health to be used in every Month of the Year written 1607. In January use no Physick but warme clothing cat warm meats and drink White Wine fasting it is wholsom In February forbear Physick and letting of blood take no cold for fear of Agues which are easily gotten In March forbear grosse feeding purge by Potions Bathing or Blood-letting In April Physick is good upon occasion
moisture then rub the tongue with Sirrup or Wine of Pomgranats and Dates boiled in sweet Wine of each alike and purge the Head and use Barley water boiled with Pruines Barberries Cinamon use this as a cooler Also preserved Raspices or any thing made of them is to be used THIRST To abate excessive thirst Take a pottle of fair water Endive Succory Violet leaves and Borage of each a handful Lillies half a handful two Fennel roots two Parsley roots and seeth them from a pottle to a quart and put a little Sugar to it and drink it as you shall see cause Also seeth the leaves of Rosemary in well water and drink it cold with a little of a Pomgranat Also hold Purslain under the tongue VEYNES To knit Veines TAke Frankinsence one pound Mastick one ounce Bole Armoniack two ounces beat all into fine powder and mingle it with the white of an egge then spread it on a linnen cloth and apply it To mollifie Veines that be dry and stiff Take Oyl of Camomile and Oyle of Linseed and mingle it with Capons grease finely tried mix them together and this wil open the Veynes For straining of a Vein Take half an ounce of Coral and beat it fine and drink it in red Wine morning and evening For a broken Vaine in the Stomack to knit it or for any inward bleeding and casting of bloud c. Take the leaves of Plantane Shepherds Pouch of each one handful of Harts-horn half a handful of Nettles and Mints of each of them as much as you can hold betwixt two fingers of Barley the outer skin taken off three spoonfuls of Yarrow half a handful and one quarter of an ounce of Cinamon boil all these in two quarts of fair water till half be consumed then strain it and put to the liquor strained as much Sugar as wil make it sweet let it boil a little againe then put thereto as much White Wine Vineger as wil make it sharp and let the Patient take three or four spoonfuls ever in time of thirst boil an equal quantity with a black Hen drawne and washed but not pulled and then put an equal quantity of the broth and the juice of Mutton half roasted and boil them between two dishes until there remain no taste of rawness And if the Patient cast any more presently take two spoonfuls of the juice of Mints one spoonful of White Wine Vineger and as much soure leaven as two Walnuts boil them to the consumption of the juices then make thereof a slat cake and strow upon it fine powder of Nutmegs and apply it hot to the brest and give the Patient two spoonfuls of the Cordial following about three of the Clock and between nine and ten at night and at eight in the morning and fast one hour and an half before and two houres after at the least And give a Suppository made with two Positives of Honey and one of falt every day if the Patient cannot go to stool Diacatholicon half an ounce Consectionum de Hameck halfe an ounce comixt in a penny pot of White Wine Lotian water good for a heat A little Cinamon and Ginger and Venice Turpentine made into Pils and take three every morning Ising-glasse and Saffron boiled in a red Cowes milk and drunk three times for the same Church-yard wormes washed and sliced dried and drunk in Beer five several times or mornings is good for a sore throat as the Kings Evil c. VOMIT A Vomit for the Green Sicknesse Take one handful of Groundsel and one ounce of Currans boil them in a quart of Ale until it come to the quantity of a draught then strain it and drink it blood-warm and fast two hours after it and when the Patient hath once vomited drink Posset Ale between every Vomit until it cease To stay Vomiting Take Mint Water and Carduus Benedictus of each a pint bruise two Nutmegs and let them boil to a pint and make it sweet with Sugar and drink it first and last Another Take Cloves and boil them in faire water or beer and put Sugar thereto and drink it A Vomit Take an ounce of Green Ginger as much of Treakle and as much of Malmsey put these together and drink them bloud warm UFULA For falling of the Vfula Roast an egge hard then cut it long wayes and take out the yolk and fill the place full of Cummin seed fine beaten and lay it to the nape of the neck as hot as may be endured then take a good quantity of Sage and boil it in milk and so drink it warm as can be suffered keeping the head warm For a child that is Jaw fallen and Roof fallen See before in Children A Water for a sore Mouth or the falling of the Vfula Take Bramble tops Ivy berries green Rose leaves and some Allome seeth all these in drink and make thereof a Lotian and gargarise therewith For the falling of the Palate of the Mouth Take of Cummin in powder two great handfuls of white salt four of the powder of Camomile flowers three and the powder of three Nutmegs mingle these together and put them into a bag of linnen cloth cut round and then quilt it and use to lay it on the mould of your head all the day and night if need so require URINE To make a mans or womans water run strong from them Take of Gromel seed half an ounce of Cene cleane picked from the stalks a quarter of an ounce of Ginger scraped and sliced thin of Cinnamon scraped and bruised of each one dram of Damask Pruines the stones taken out seven of White Wine a pint put all in the Wine and cover it close and stop it with paste and set that in another pot of hot liquor for the space of one hour or more that the pot may be hot then take it forth and when it is cold strain it and after put in Sugar to make it toothsome and then drink it For one that cannot hold his Water Drink Neâ—e a little before Supper and also for pissing a bed in a cold cause drink three drams of the powder of Frankinsence in Ale An excellent approved Medicine for the hard and slow passage of Vrine in man or woman Take two quarts of good Wort and boil it in a skillet by it self without any Hops till it come to a pint and a half then when it is cold take it and put Barm to it till it be ripe drink and ready to cleanse then take drink barmâ— and all and boil it againe and boil in it the quantity of two Nutmegs of Civil Soan then skim it very clean and drink thereof at night when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise when it is done make more To cleanse the Vreters or Conduits of Vrine and to open them See before in Stone WATER A Water to cure all manner of Wounds and Sores be they never so stinking and all manner of Cankers in the nose 〈◊〉
wash it in three or four waters and dry it one ounce of Cremer Tartary two Nutmegs Licoras the weight of fix pence make all into fine powder and mix them take every morning the weight of six pence in broth and fast two hours after and after this Receipt hath been taken let the party be purged once or twice WOUNDS For great Wounds in the head Take dry Wormwood or green green is the best and a new laid egge shell and all and beat them together very fine and make a Salve thereof and lay it to the place hurt very thick and let it lye four and twenty houres and if the party be much pained change it if but a little pained let it lye four and twenty hours more and then dresse it with other Salve as need requireth A Medicine for any Cut Wound or Sore Take of Rosen and Perrosen of each half a pound of Olibanum four ounces of Harts Suet four ounces of Mastick two ounces of Mirrh one ounce of Comfry half an ounce of White Wax four ounces let your Rosen Perrosen Olibanum Mastick and Mirrhe be made into fine powder and searsed each by themselves then take your Suet and Wax and dissolve them upon a soft fire when they be melted put in all your searsed powders alwayes stirring them till they be all melted then have ready a pottle of White-Wine hot in a faire pan and straine all your stuff through a Canvaâ— cloth into it then put in two ounces oâ— good Turpentine and then your Comfry beaten to fine powder alwayes stirring it till it be cold and then make in up in rolls and keep it for your use This Oyntment is very good for new Wound and for the Bloody Flux and the Wind Cholick being spread upon a cloth and laid to the Navel It is called Flos Vnguentorum The flower of Oyntments of which see more at large in Oyntments WIND To make one long winded Take half a pound of Almonds and lay them in cold water till they blanch of themselves then beat them very smal in a Mortar Licoras three ounces scrape off the bark or rind and beat it fine in a Mortar and take as muck Anniseeds two ounces of Sugar and beat them small as before and work them together and use it For the avoiding of Wind. Take the juice of red Fennel and make a posset of Ale therewith and drink thereof Another to expel Wind. Take of pure Sugar four ounces of Rose water as much as will moisten your Sugar put it in a possnet then have ready these Spices following White Pepper Black Pepper of each half adram pure Gallingale sliced and finely minced Ginger pared and minced fine of each of these one scruple and a half pure Turbit white and gummy clean scraped thin sliced and minced very fine two scruples skim your Rosewater and Sugar clean as may be and let them boil on a soft fire then put in all your Spices and stir them wel then take it from the fire and stir it till it be cold and thick then put it into a gally pot and reserve it to your use of this you may take at a time the quantity of a pennyworth or two pence For the Wind of the Stomack Take a handful of Tansie and a handful of Sorrel and beat them together and strain them and make a posset of White Wine and put in it the juice of the Herbs and drink it in the morning and fast after it a while VVORMES For a Ring-worm Take a Dog berry and with the juice thereof rub the Ring-worm and it will help it For the running Worm that eateth the flesh Take a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Herb grace a handful of Fetherfew a handful of Vervain a handful of Herb-Robert a bandful of Wild Bugloss boil these Herbs in half a pound of unwasht butter then strain it through a clean cloth and annoint the place with a feather and lay upon the wound Oak leaves with the smoothest side next the wound the leaves must be withered and so bind up your fores with linnen clothes dressing it twice a day after the same manner but remember your herbs bestamped before you boil them in your butter To kill the Canker and Worm that eateth the Teeth Take an egg that is layed on a thursday and empty it and fil it with salt and so set it on the fire until it may be made in powder and rub the Cankered teeth therewith and it both kills the Canker and destroyes the worms that eat the Teeth Probatum For Wormes in a Child to rid them away if they be almost past Remedy Take of Wormwood and of Walnut leaves of Rue and unset Leeks of each one handful and put to an Oxgall and fry them all over the fire and lay them on a cloth and lay them on the childs navel all night and that wil help them and on the morrow take half a pint of Malmsey and put into it four or five spoonfuls of Wormwood Water and as much Mint water and warm them toger ther and drink it one or two dayes and this will help without doubt Probatum For the Ring-worm Take a handful of Violet leaves an handful of Columbine leaves and a handful of Rosemary leaves stamp all these together and boil it in a quarter of a pound of unwasht butter and a little Deer Suet and when it is half boiled away strain it and put it over the fire again and let it boil two or three turnes then put it up for your use and strike a Plaister therewith and lay it on the Ring-worm dressing it twice a day and washing it every two dayes with White Wine For the Wormes Take Curraline in powder as much as will lye on a groat in new Milk three mornings three dayes before the Full or New of the Moon It will help old folks and sucking children it is a groat an ounce For the Ring worm Take black Soap and almost as much Ginger in powder and mix them well together and annoint the place therewith four or five dayes together and this will cure any Tetter or Ring-worm WHITES For the Whites Take a quarter of a pound of Ising-glasse and boile it in a pottle of milk to a pint and half then put to it Nutmeg Cinnamon and Sugar and red Rose water and so make it to a Gelly WOOD BETONY The Vertues of Wood Betony It saveth mens bodies by the vertue it hath in it and by Gods help for who so beareth this Herb about him preserveth him from Evil Spirits and this Herb must be gathered in the Harvest time early in the morning before Sun rising Also he that drinketh of the juice of Betony it will break the stone and cast it with the Urine Also if it be drunk with hony it is good against the Dropsie Also it is good against the outrage of wicked blood Also the juice of Betony mingled with rose-Rose-water put in the ear amendeth
the hearing Also the powder of Betony sodden with hony helpeth them that have the bloody Egestions and marvellously comforteth the stomack Also the leaves of Betony mingled with salt and make a Plaister thereof is a great help to green Wounds being layed thereto And the leaves of Betony with Rue evenly proportioned sodden together is good for akings in the eys and the blood of the Egestions it putteth away that which annoyeth the Eyes Also it draweth away all venom in the body of man Also take four handfuls of Betony and three cupfuls of Red Wine and seventeen Pepper cornes and break them smal and seeth it and drink it it purgeth the veins Also take an ounce of Betony and an ounce of Plantane and drink it with warm water and it will destroy the Quotidian Feaver Also take powder of the root of Betony and drink it with luke-warm water it will purge phlegme Also take the weight of a Bean of the powder of Betony mingled with honey it will comfort the stomack and the digestion Also make a Garland of Betony and lay it about an Adder and he will kill himself within it Also take Betony well warmed by the fire and then bound to the forehead it provoketh sleep and putteth away wicked blood and destroyeth the heat of the eyes Also Betony sodden in Wine and held in the mouth helpeth the Tooth ache Also Betony sodden in Wine purgeth the veines the spleen and the stomack And the juice of Betony mingled with salt and put into the nostrils purgeth the Evil savour of the nose THE KNOWLEDGE AND ORDERING OF WINES A true Receipt to fine any piece of Wine Spanish or French TAke Isinglass half a pound and steep it in as much of the hardest French White Wine let the Wine cover it and let it stand four and twenty hours then pull the Isinglasse in pieces then put a little of the same Wine to it then let it lye and three or foure times a day squeeze and break it with your hands 〈◊〉 it come to â—â— cleer Jelly and as it thickens put more of the same Wine to it then when it is come to a perfect cleer Jelly take a pint or a quart to a Hogshead and so according to that quantity as you have occasion overs draw the same piece of Wine that you beat up three or four gadons then put in the same quantity of Isinglass into the Can of Wine you everdraw then stir the Isinglass and break it very well together into the Wine then put it up into the same piece of Wine and beat it with a staffe exceeding well together then fill it up top full and so let it lye And for the French Wine Bung it up very tite and full Spanish Wine you may bung up or leave open as you please To fine any piece of Browne Wine that is quailish and brown be it Spanish or French Take a pint of the same Jelly of Ising-glass and a quantity of milk as you shall find the piece of Wine in brownesse and so put the Ising-glasse and the milk together and stir it very well â—llen overdraw the piece of Wine eight gallons then with a parting staff stir it two or three blowes then suddenly put â—â— both milk and Ising-glass into the Buty or Hogshead then 〈◊〉 it up 〈…〉 well fill it up very full and this will fine it in a day or two For French Wine that comes 〈…〉 the Lees that is brown and 〈◊〉 Take one pound of Alablasted 〈◊〉 sifted and over draw the Hogshead 〈◊〉 or four gallons then put this dry dust into the bung of it as it is upon the Lee then take a staff and give it siâ— good strokes then fill it up rop full the more you stir it the better it will be upon the Lee and nothing will be seen but grew perfect good 〈◊〉 longer it dyes the 〈◊〉 it is and when you see good you may 〈◊〉 it How to make any piece of quailish Spanish Wine fine Take halfe a quarter of a pound of 〈◊〉 Starch and about a quart of 〈◊〉 writing sand and a pint of Ising glasse and one handful of 〈◊〉 and the whites of two eggs and heat them with a little Brum very well then over 〈◊〉 the Wine and put it in all together and so beat it up all together 〈◊〉 well and fill it up and this will make it perfect fine To make Wine sweet that stinketh or is 〈◊〉 savory or Musty If the fault be in the Cask you must draw it out into a fresh Cask and Lees and let none of the old Lees come out of it therefore draw it not too neer then thus use him Take twelve eggs both whites and yolks and beat them short then take of Ginger Cloves Orras Graines of each two pennyworth and one pennyworth of Long Pepper put the eggs into a quart of Damask Rose-water well mingled together and put it into the Wine then beat the Butt half an hour let all the Spices be grostly beaten then take two grains of Musk and bruise it well in four spoonfuls of Damask Rose water with the back of a spoon and put that into the Butt then beat the Butt again gently a quarter of an hear then take Ambergrâ—â—ce Manns Christs of each two graines and beat them well and put them amongâ— he Spices and put all into a beg and tye at saft to the Bâ—ng and let it hang almost to the bottom two dayes then draw it up softly to the middle and there let it hang two dayes then draw it almost to the top and let 〈…〉 then take it out and roll the Butt a little and in two dayes broach it and it will be very 〈◊〉 If Claâ—tt or 〈…〉 First draw him out into fresh Lees and put into him four or five gallons of the best Allegant then turne him over twice in the Lees and let him lye with the Bung upright a week before you broach him and it shall have both a good colour and taste For Wine of any sort that groweth lang Take two penny worth of Roach Allom in powder and draw your Hogshead four or five gallons then strew in your powders and shake it well half an hour then fill it up and broach it within three dayes being well and close stopped If White Wine or Sack hath lost its colour Take four gallons of skimmed milk over draw the Hogshead six gallons then take the yolks of sorm eggs beat them and put them into the milk and after beat them together then put them into the Wine and beat the Wine well then stop it close and in five dayes you may broach it To keep Wine frish and sound all the year You must fill your Vessels once a month or six weeks fill your Red and Claret with the best Red Wine I for Red doth preserve the Clarret as White doth the Malmsey and Bastard and fit White with White And so all other Wines with the same and those
the Medicine from the wrists A good Medicine to remove or avoid a Burning Fever Take of Dragon Water of Angelica Water of Red rose Water of each three spoonfuls three grains of Bezar Stone the quantity of a Nutmeg of Mithridatum or else a spoonful of Jean Treakle half a penny worth of English Saffron Mingle all these together and take it fasting and sweat after it and use this two or three mornings together For the Ague Take one penny worth of Gore Turpentine of Rye Leaven the quantity of a Hasel Nut being somewhat stale a little course Mastick and a little bay salt both beaten small one handful of Smallage and a few Cobwebs shred smal mingle all these with the Turpentine and spread the same upon a plece of white Sheeps leather on the rough side being pricked full of holes and three hours before you think your Fit will come bind it to your wrists and let it continue nine dayes or more Another Take a pottle of Ale seethe it and skum it then put to it the tops of Centory Mints Sage Wormewood and Hysop of each a handful boil all in the Ale till half be consumed then take the Herbs out with a spoon then put a quantity of Sugar into the Ale to allay the bitternesse of it and so let it boil a little while again then strain it through a fair cloath that done put thereto as much Treakle as the bignesse of a bean and then keep it in a fair glasse and let the Patient drink thereof first and last and drink not after for the space of an hour For all Feavers and Agues of sucking Children Take powder of Christal and steep it in wine and give it the Nurse to drink also take the root of Morsus Diabili with the Herb and hang it about the Childs neck For an Ague Take Bur-roots and red Nettle crops and seethe them in stale Ale and clarifient let the Patient drink it a little before the cold fit cometh and when he beg nâ—eth to swear give him a posset of Ale made with Marigolds and Fennel being clarified and it helpeth in four or five Fits Another Take of Smallage and Fetherfew of each a handful stamp them and straine them and take half so much as the juice thereof of small Ale being mixt together drink it in bed before the Fit cometh and cover your self warm Another Take Endive Sowthistle Dandillion Lettice Sorrel of each alike stil them altogether and the water thereof is very good for an Ague Another Take Soot and yolks of Eggs and bay Salt and Pepper being mingled wel together and lay it to both the wrists and drink warm Ale Another Take three cloves of Garlick and bruise them a penny worth of Aqua vitae and half a pint of Ale seethe them together and drink it before the Fit cometh as hot as you may Another Box leaves dryed and made into powder and Sheeps trecklings put in soak in strong Ale and drunk is very good An approved Medicine for an Ague Take a red Fennel root and cut it very smal and take six and fifty cornes of Pepper beaten very small and mingle them together and bind them to your wrists half an hour before your Fit cometh AQUA COMPOSITA How to make a Special Aqua Composita to take for a Surfet or cold stomack Take a handful of Rosemary a good root of Enula campane a handful of Hysop half a handful of Thime six good crops of Sage as much Mint and as much Penniroyal half a handful of Horehound two ounces of Liquorice well bruised and as much Anniseeds Then take two gallons of the best strong Ale and take all the Herbs aforesaid and wring them asunder and put them into an Earthen pot wel covered and let them stand a day and a night from thence put all into a brasse pot and set it on the fire and let it stand till it boil then take it from the fire and set your Limbeck on the pot and stop it close with paste that there come no air out of it and still it out with a soft fire There is to be added to it by a new counsel one handful of red Fennel A Receipt of G. K. to make Aqua composita Take of the best strong stale Ale three gallons of Licoras clean scraped and bruised half a pound of Aniseeds clean dressed and bruised one pound Of each smal cut one ounce Fennel seed Carraway seed Sassafras seed Piony seed Winter savory seed Seed of Anodinum Seed of Ameos Of each one ounce Ginger Nutmegs Gallingal Great Gallingal Bruised of each half an ounce Cloves Long Pepper Cubebes Callamint aromaticus Of each two ounces Cinnamon bruised Ivy roots sliced Enula campana roots dried and thin sliced Roots of Tussilage Of Bay berries bruised first blanched one ounce Of each a quarter of an ounce Setwal Spiknard Mace Lignum Aloes Of each a handful Roots of Angelica sliced and of the seeds bruised Ligna Cassia sliced Juniper berries bruised or the Wood thin sliced Red Rose flowers Flowers of Sticardue Saint Johns wort The Herb Canapitis Diptamnus Cretius Pimpernel Phillipendola Scabious Betony Egrimony Plantane Oamomile flowers of each an ounce The Wood or Tree called Tamariscus The roots of Sassaparilla bruised The roots of Orpine The Roots of Gentian sliced two drams one ounce Of the Gum of Mirrh Of Olibanum Of Mastick Of Alkanite Of Sugar four ounces The order of drawing this Aqua Composita Half your Cinnamon your Lignum Adloâ—s the roots and seeds of Angelica must be reserved out of the Brasse pot and knit in a linnen bag and laid in the Receiver whereinto your Liquor must run and by and by the Alkanite must be put into the Receiver Also receive out of your brasse pot all your Herbs and Flowers until the last draught come your other Spices Seeds Roots and Gums must be put with your Ale into your brass pot then set on your Limbeck and close it fast with paste and keep the head therof always cool with cold water and draw it so long as it wil run good which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire if it burn it is good if not take off your Limbeck charily and powre out all your stuffe that is in your linnen bags in the Receiver and all the rest of your flowers and herbs and put to them a gallon and a half of fresh Ale and set on your Limbeck again and draw it as before and the Cinnamon and the Sugar that is left must be put into the Receiver again and when all is drawn out put your first draught and your last together and keep it for your use The best way to make Mrs. Bells Aqua-composita Take six gallons of the best strong Ale the Ale wort must be so strong that it will bear an Egge and the Ale must be at least a week old then take two pound of Anniseeds two pound of Licoras scraped and bruised
Fennel seeds Coriander seeds Carraway seeds Parsley seeds and Gromel seeds of each a good handful and for any other Seeds or Spices use your discretion then take of Lavender Rosemary Sage Hisop Savory Sweet Marjerom Standing Time Mother-Time Running Time Burrage Buglos Succory Endive Lettice Violet-leaves Strawberry-leaves Mugwort Red Fennel Peniroyal Red Mints Herb-grace Germander Avens Wormwood Bay-leaves Nep Clary Horehound Comfrey Marigold leaves Mercury Sowthistle Sorrel Plantane Ribwort Angelica Carduus Benedictus Wood-Betany Scabious Balme Liver-wort Long-wort Saint Johns-wort Saint Peters-worts Parsley Dandillion Basil Lavender Spike Bloodwort Egrimony Burnet Garden Gallingale roots Setwal-roots Polipodium of the Oak Pimpernel Clivers Shepherds-flowers Knot grasse Cinqfoil Long debeeff Sparragus Water-cresses Spinage of each of these two handfuls two or three heads of House-leek Put all the Seeds Herbs and Roots to the Ale and let them lye a steeping all night then still them in a Limbeck and draw of it so long as it runneth good which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire if it burn it is good or else not To make another Aqua-composita Take a brass pot of four gallons and rub it very clean within side then take three Gallons of good strong Ale and a gallon of Wine lees so that your pot be not full by three fingers with your Herbs and Spices as followeth Take a pound of Anniseeds well bruised and half a pound of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it into the pot then take a handful of Rosemary a handful of Hisop a good root of Enulacampana and scrape it well and slice it half a handful of Unset Time half a handful of Mints a handful of red Fennel a handful of red Sage six good crops of Marjerom and as much Peniroyal a quater of a handful of Hartstongue half a handful of Horehound gather not the Herbs till the dew be off them then wring all your Herbs asunder and put your Spices and all in your pot and let them stand all night then set your pot upon a fire of Charcoals and set on your Limbeck upon the pot and stop your pot round about with paste so that no air come forth then make a little fire under the pot and put cold water in the top of the Limbeck and be sure you keep it alwayes full with cold water and as soon as it begins to drop into the Receiver abate the fire a little and keep it so that it drop not too fast nor too soft for if it drop too fast it will be too hot of the fire and if too soft it will be too weak you can draw but a quart of the best and a quart of the second Another way Take three gallons of Claret-wine with some Lees amongst it for want of Wine take very strong Ale then take two pound of Anniseeds bruised and four pound of Licoras clean scraped and bruised one pound of great Raisons stoned Parsley and Fennel roots of each a good handful scraped and the pith taken out with a root of Angelica then stop it very close and let it stand three dayes and three nights then still it in a Limbeck and keep the best by it self and you must put as much Sugar candied into the glasse as is worth a shilling and hang two grains of Musk in a cloth in it AQUA VITAE To make Aqua Vita for a cold stomack Take Rosemary and Hisop of each a handful Sage and Horehound of each half a handful one root of Enula campane Marjerom and red Mints of each six crops Licoras and Anniseeds well bruised of each two ounces then take three gallons of strong Ale grounds and set all these on a fire in a pan til it begin to seethe then take it from the fire and put it in a brasse pot and set on your Limbeck stopping it close with paste and keeping a soft fire under it To make Aqua-vitae to avoid Flegme Take of Peniroyal a handful of Strawberry leaves two handfuls and Pimpernels three handfuls and add these to the former Receipt AQUA MIRABILIS How to make a precious Water called Aqua Mirabilis Take Gallingale Cloves Squills Ginger Melilot Cardomons Mace and Nutmegs of each one dram of the juice of Cellendine half a pint mingle all these made into powder with the said juice and a pint of Aqua-vitae and three pints of good White-wine and put all these into a Stillatory of glasse and let it stand all night and on the morrow still it with an easie fire This Water is good for by a secret nature it dissolveth the grief of the Lungs without any pain it purgeth Melancholy it expelleth the stopping of the Urine and it marvellously profiteth the stomack conserveth Youth in his own state long and preserveth memory destroyeth the Palsie it being given a man or woman labouring for life one spoonful relieveth him Of all Artificial Waters I think none better In Summer use one spoonful thereof in Winter two BACK A good Medicine to strengthen the Back Take Oaken leaves and buds Knot-grass Comfrey and Clary of each alike and still them this must be taken every morning two spoonfuls but let it be a fortnight old or else the fire wil not be out of it Another Take Comfrey Knot-grass and the flowers of Archangel boile them in a little milk of a browne Cow and drink of it every morning it is very good For the Rains of the Back and Stomack Take of Fern that groweth on a house and Camomile of each a handful two or three slips of Unset Hysop bruise 〈◊〉 these together and seeth 〈◊〉 them in a quart of Rhenish or White-wine with a handful of Currants till it come to a pint and after it is sodden put into it an ounce and a half of white Sugar candied and let it melt of it self then strain it through a fair cloath and give it the Patient to drink warm morning and evening To strengthen the Back Take a handful of Knot-grasse a handful of Archangel flowers nine branches of Gromel and stamp it with a pint of Ewe milk and warm it bloud warm and let the Patient drink it an hour before he riseth for nine dayes together For the Raines of the Back Take your own water and boil it well and scum it well then take a quarter of an ounce of Oile of Bayes and an ounce of Oyle of Roses and boil it from a pottle to a pint or a quart and annoint therewith the rains of the back and also the Spleen vain in the foot For the pain of the Back and heat of the Back Take Rose-water and put thereunto Sanders and Rose leaves and lay them in steep in your Rose-water one whole night and it being drunk will take away the heat and greatly comfort the Reins or wash the back therewith To cleanse the Back and purge the Raines Take one Fennel root and two Parsley roots and pick out the piths of them and put thereto one handful
Rew stamp them altogether and in the manner of a Plaister lay it to the sore and give the Patient Treakle to drink three times in a week till the danger be past Prebatum Another Take a handful of Box and stamp it and strain it with a draught of milk put into it a pretty quantity of Lobsters shell beaten to powder and some Unicorns horn if you can get it and drink thereof and wash the wound therewith Another Take Betony Wild Sage and Night Shade of each a good handful and a pint of running water stamp the Herbs and strain them therewith and put thereto a penny worth of Treakle and give the Patient to drink two or three mornings fasting BLEEDING To stanch the bleeding of a Cut. Take Hysop and cut it as small as you can and put it into the wound and put Cobwebs thereupon or a linnen cloth clean washed and dryed and burnt to tinder and laid to the cut doth stanch it without doubt To stanch the Bleeding and to heal Take Mastick and the hair of a Hare mixt with the white of a new laid Egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the wound Another for the same There is not a better thing then the powder of Bole Armoniack for to stanch the bleeding of a wound the powder to be laid upon it or for the Nose to be put in with the blast of a quil Another for the same Take the shavings of Parchment and lay it to the wound it stancheth and healeth Another Take dryed Vervain and make it into powder and so lay it in the wound To stanch bleeding at the Nose Vein or Wound Take a little piece of linnen cloth and a Spider kill it not but wrap it in the piece of linnen cloth and put it up in the Patients Nostrils Another Take Orpine which is chiefe of all Herbs to stanch blood beat the Herb in your hand chasing it till it be warm it will stop all manner of bleeding Another to stop bleeding at the Nose mouth wound or bloudy flux Take the juice of red Nettles with a little red Wine and a little Vitriol burnt or unburnt and drink it Another for the same Take a little lint and make it round like a pease and dip it into ink and put it into the Nose and it will stanch bleeding straightwayes Another Take the Mosse of a Crab tree and let the Patient smell to it as it cometh from the tree Another Take a quantity of green Coperas as much Bole Armoniack beaten to fine powder and cast it into the wound Another Take Wine Vineger and the white of an Egg and beat them together and spread them on a linnen cloth and for a man lay it on his privy members and for a woman on her brest Another for a Wound Take wild Tansie and bruise it small and lay it on the wound or make powder of it and fill the wound full of it For bleeding at the Nose Take Betony and stamp it with as much salt as you can hold between your two fingers and put it in your Nose To stanch Blood Take the lean of salt Bief so much as you think will goe into the wound and lay it in the Embers of the fire and let it roast till be red hot and thrust it into the wound hot and bind it up fast and if the wound be in the foot bind him about the Anckle if in the legg about the knee if in the knee bind the thigh if in the hand about the wrists if in the arme about the bought of the arme with a gâ—od list or Garter two or three times about and it will stanch bleeding To stop Bleeding Take Centory green Rew and red Fennel and stamp and strain them and drink it warmed Another Take an old clean linnen cloth and wet it well in Vineger then burn it and take the powder thereof and if it be a wound cast it therein and it will stop the bleeding immediately but if the Nose bleed then snuff up the powder into the Nose and it helpeth Another Take the crops of Southernwood and crush them in your fingers and put it into the nose Another If your Nose do bleed unmeasurably then tye your little finger very hard about the lower joint and for the most part it faileth not but stayeth the same For spitting of Blood Take the juice of Betony and temper it with Goats milk and give it the Patient to drink three dayes together Another Take Smallage Rew Mints and Betony and seeth them well in good milk and sup it warm To stanch blood Take an Herb called Periwinkle and hold it between thy teeth and it helpeth For pissing of Blood Take Ambrosia and Bursa pastoris of each a handful Parsley seeds the like stamp them together and drink the juice thereof with Goats milk The cause of pissing of blood may be superfluity of Humors sharpness of Urine Winds Tumors Impostumations debility of the Kidneyes and Bladder then is there a pain about the Privities and the blood is congealed and separated from the Urine In case the blood be much and runneth out swiftly then it signifies a broken Vein otherwise an Ulcer but if the Urine be like water that flesh is washed in then it is of a weak liver but if from superfluity of blood then it is to be seen by the fulnesse of the body if through sharpnesse of Humours the Patient is ever burning therefore he must avoid all sharp tart and salt things Of letting Bloud Phlebottomie is needlesse to those that be of so strong a nature that being over laden are able to expel all superfluity through natural passages as by bleeding at Nose c. Quest But why is Phlebottomie used Ans When blood aboundeth it is commonly in those that have a hot liver full veines a high colour and brownish and not fat and corpulent Also in those that eat and drink abundantly live at ease and use meats that ingender much blood which when Nature cannot digest it corrupteth the braines from which issueth dangerous Diseases and in these cases this is a more sure remedy then to admit of inward Physick Also letting of bloed doth strengthen the brain comfort the sight warmeth the marrow in the bones freeth the inward parts of many infirmities stayeth vomiting oftentimes helpeth the flux or lask cleereth the senses restoreth sleep râ—neweth the spirits because melancholy blood is thereby diminished cureth deasness reduceth lost voices augmenteth the powers and vertues of all the body being thereby rid of superfluities the abundance of blood is known no less by the thicknesse and troubled matter consisting of the Urine then by the signes before mentioned And though the blood be not inflamed but superabundant it causeth many dangerous diseases and if any in the morning about the dawning of the day do commonly sweat it is a sign of Superfluity in the Veineâ— Thirdly Where cold and bad blood is there must be a Purgation
precede Phlebottomiae or else the cold blood will remain Lastly It s good sometimes to be let blood that the blood may be led or drawn from one place to another BONES How to use Fractured Bones four kinds of Factures First when it is broken in length Next when it is broken overthwart Thirdly when it is oblick and crooked Fourthly when it is girded and broken and shivered in divers pieces either legs or armes Albusences and others later Writers make the difference of Fractures not according to the bone fractured but after the place affected as if the Nose be broken brain-pan jawes ribs back-bone armes legs or other parts which be not differences of Fractures but of the place affected according to nature Four Directions in the Cure of Fractures according to the place fractured First to respect that the bones be put again in their former place Secondly to be reduced to their natural and so conserved and kept without motion or hurt Thirdly That the bone broken may be ingendred and conglutinated together by ingendring of Callus Fourthly To correct the Accidents that do come after the Fracture of the bones How the Bones out of joint ought to be put together Be sure of help to hold the party at need for the Legg or Arm let him sit in a Chair and with annointing draw it out till the place be met as tenderly as you may having respect to the party grieved his complexion and nature How Bones may be conserved after they be set in their natural place Look well to your rolling First it is very good to take the white of an egge and Oyle of Roses mixt together and wet therein the linnen Cloathes which may cover the place broken and somewhat more of the other and roll it not hard for it may cause dolour and flux of humours How the Rollers must be used The first Roller upon the Fracture three or four times and so to the second part upwards the third Roller leek downward and it must be half as low as the first these Rollers should be wet in water and wine before you use them If the pain be vehement then the member would be wrapped about with fine wooll well carded or else with stuff wet in Oxicrotium A defensive Medicine Take Unguentum Populeum two ounces Bole Armoniack one ounce mix these together with Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger If the place appear blistered Take half a pint of running water and set it on the fire and put in fine Wax a little Oyl of Roses and sine Barly meal seethe them altogether but not very thick then make thereof a Plaister or Cere-cloth strike it upon the cloth upon the bottom of a Pewter dish over a Chafingdish and coals and lay it luke-warm to the arm or leg a night and a day and it will asswage the humour of boyning For the Wound of Broken Bones Take luke-warm Mell Rosarum and Oyle of Roses and a stamp of flax dipped in the Whites of Eggs and so bind it upon the sore Also apply about the place Bole Armoniack Sanguis Draconis and Olibanum beaten with a little Oyl of Roses Barley meal and Vineger round about the sore and so comfort the Patient A Defensive against Boyning of a broken Bone in the Leg. Make your Plaister of Oyle of Roses and Oyle of Mirtle melted together with a little wax and when it is cold put to it Bole Armoniack and Pompuleon of each one ounce of Wine two ounces and lay it a handful broad upon the hurt and let it lye A Poultice for any Boyning inward Take a pint of new Cowes milk a pint of Rye-bread crumbs a handful of French Poppy leaves shred small two ounces of Oyle of Roses three yolks of new laid eggs and as much Saffron as the weight of a Groat First boil the milk the crumbs and the Poppy together a good while and then put in the rest and spread it upon a faire linnen cloth To asswage the swelling upon any broken Bone or out of joint Take Unguentum Pompuleum one ounce Bole Armoniack one ounce mix them together with a little Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger For the Bone ache Take the leaves and flowers of Henbane and put them in an earthen pot with May butter and close the pot and set it in a dunghil three months then annoint the grieved place therewith BODY To distil a Cock good for any weak Person Take a red or black Cock and pluck him quick and whip him alive with small twigs a pretty while then cut off his head and gut him and cut him in quarters and wipe him very dry with a fair cloth then take an earthen pot and lay four or five splints to keep it from the bottom of the pot then lay in the four quarters upon the splints and lay between every quarter some of these Roots and Fruit following Fennel roots Parsley roots Succory roots of each two or three two or three slips of Rosemary two or three Dates quartered half a handful of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out six spoonfuls of Rhenish Wine Malmesey or Muskadine three or four whole Mace cover the pot and stop it close with paste and set it in a pot or kittle of hot water and let it boil softly with a temperate fire sour hours then take it up and let it run through a fair cloth without any forcing then put it in a fair glasse or pot and keep it close covered and give to the Patient two or three spoonfuls at once or in quantity as the stomack is able to take it in some broth made of Mutton or Veal first in the morning and as often in the day besides as he hath a stomack to take it To preserve the Body Take a pottle of fair water and six Calves feet and put therein Betony Long-wort Liver-wort Knot-grasse Clary Balm with a quantity of Mace Cinnamon and Ginger and six Dates let all these be sodden together till it come to a Jelly and then take a quart of White-wine or very pure claret and put therein and eat it at your pleasure Another Take the marrow of Venison a pint of running water three leaves of Clary three leaves of Comfrey one handful of Archange a handful of Charnel theree Dates a handful of smal Raisons seeth altogether till it come to half a pint then strain it and put thereto a pint of white Bastard and a quantity of Manus Christi Another Take a pint of Muskadine and put thereto Hemp-seed and blanched Almonds and Cap Dates two or three whole Mace and a Nutmeg and three crops of Rosemary and a little Saffron and red Rose-water and boil them all together till half be boiled away and after they be boiled put thereto Mithridatum about the quantity of a hasel Nut but let it not seethe after and let the party drink thereof at his going to bed at night Another Take a pottle of water and a Chickken and
of each one handful of Auni-seeds Fennel seeds Hysop seeds and the root of Elicampane about two ounces seethe them in two pound of water until the third part be consumed drink this and it loseth all congealed blood in the body and expelleth it in the Urine An excellent Balme to cure any bruise though Bones be broken therein and it is very good to cure wounds Take of Scala Coeli one pound Rosemary flowers four ounces Pomgranat rinds two ounces Sallet Oyle two pound White Wine halfe a pint bruise the Scala Coeli and the Pomgranate rinds and in the Oyle and the Wine with the Rosemary flowers infuse them ten dayes in the Sun after that boil them till the Wine be consumed then strain it and unto the Oyl being strained put these things following Mastick Olibanum of each four ounces Aloes one ounce Cassia four ounces Venice Turpentine twelve ounces Verdigrease one ounce boil these in the Oyle until the Gummes be dissolved then straine it and keep it to use and remember that in the end of the boiling the Verdigrease be put in and let the Turpentine be put in last not letting it boil after but only with the heat dissolve it self For any Bruises Aches or any such like pain Take Rosemary tops Toutswaine leaves Plantane leaves of each two handfuls Stone pitch and Turpentine of each one pound a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of Wax two ounces of Olibanum the Herbs must be beaten very small in a Mortar and then boile them together in a Pipkin six or seven hours till it come to be as stiff as Soap and when it is so boiled it must be strained through a linnen cloth and so put up in to Gally pots the Olibanum must not be put in till the other be boiled sufficiently For a Bruise or Strain or Green Wound Take half a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of White-lead two ounces of Cerus First set the Oyl on the fire in an earthen pan and when it is ready to boil put in the White-lead being in fine powder so let it boil a quarter of an hour then put in your Cerus being beaten small and stir it while it seethes then drop a drop in cold water and if it will roll it is boiled enough then powre it all into a Bason of cold water and when it is cold enough to touch annoint your hands and roll it up in little rolls An excellent Remedy for Bruises and Aches which come of cold Take young Bay-leaves and Wormewood of each a quarter of a pound a pound and a half of Suet of a Loyne of Mutton a quart of Oyle Olive of Oyle of Spike two ounces shred your Herbs smal and your Suet then put them in a stone pot and powre the Oyles upon them and cover it very close and so let it stand close covered two dayes then boil it till the Liquor be very green that the goodnesse is out of the Herbs then strain it and reserve it for your use Another Take a pound of Butter out of the Charn-milk and set it on the fire and clarifie it then take a handful and a half of red Sage as much Camomile as much Herb-grace and half as much Smallage some young Bay-leaves chop all the Herbs small and put them into the clarified butter and boile them on a soft fire stirring it until it be green then strain it and keep the Liquor for your use For a Bruise or Strain Take the grounds of Ale or Beere Wheat Bran and Chickweed and lay it to the grief three or four times a day upon a red cloth For a Bruise or Sore unripened Take Oatmeal and seethe it in sweet Cowes milk until it be as thick as pap and put it into a pan with a quantity of Sheeps suet and boile them well and then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the grief as hot as you can suffer it BREATH A good Medicine for a stinking Breath Take two handfuls of Cumin seeds and seeth them in good Wine from a pottle to a pint and then drink of it fifteen days together morning and evening Of a stinking Breath how it cometh This Infirmity proceedeth First when the Gums are putrified Secondly from hallow teeth Thirdly Stinking humors that fall downe from the head to the Pannicles of the mouth and make the spettle to stink Fourthly Stinking slime of the stomack Fifthly the corruption of the Lights Sixthly Stinking matter and purulency Seventhly stopping in the Nose or some exulceration of the same If it be from any of these causes proceeding from the Head then it is of heat then purge the head and wash the mouth often with Plantane water Also take green Oaken leaves and dry them and beat them to powder and take one dram sod in Wine BURNING An excellent Medicine for Burning or Scalding Take Sage and seeth it in running water and wash the wound with the water as hot as you can suffer it and it will take away the heat immediately then take Sage and Hartstongue leaves and Sheeps dung and fry it with Sheeps suet and annoint the place therewith with a feather and let it lye still then take Sheeps dung and dry it to powder and strew it twice a day and annoint it twice a day but take heed of picking any of it away left there be holes in the skin ever after And to asswage the stiffness when you can abide it no longer then bathe it a little in Sage water but the less bathing the sooner it will be whole For a scalding or burning with fire Take black Soap about the bignesse of the sore and spread it upon a linnen cloth like a Plaister and so lay it upon the sore and within half a day it will draw out the fire and then lay healing Salve to it The Oyle of Cream and Snow water is good to wash the place so hurt For Burning or Scalding Take the whites of two Eggs and one yolk and beat them well together and scum off the froth then melt three spoonfuls of Barrowes grease and take three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage and put thereto and stir it well together till it be cold then make thereof a Salve To heal a Burning or Scalding Take the fat of dryed Bacon and hold it between a pair of Tongs red hot and let it drop into a pot of faire water and of the dropping make your Plaister For Burning in the fire Take the second pill of a young Elme tree and lay it in fair water the space of twelve hours or more then fill out the water and warm it on the fire and annoint the Patient therewith and let it drink in the water and when it is dry then take new with the juice of Plantane as much of the one as of the other and then annoint it therewith after the first water To make Oyle of Cream for Burning or Scalding Take a quart or a pint of new
when you will use it take of it the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much marrow of an Ox leg mâ—â—t it together and mingle it well and morning and evening annoint as warm as can be suffered the hinder parts of the Childs thighes and legges and also his knees chafing it well with your wâ—rme hands and in a short time his limbs shall be exceedingly strengthned and be enabled by Gods blessing to go and walk To loosen the Belly of young Children Tye a Nutshel full of the Salve of Mallowes on the Navel and let it lye thereupon til it be soaked in Do this once twice or thrice till it be amended The Salve of Mallowes is thus made Take Mallow leaves and pound them then melt fresh Butter and boil the Mallow leaves therein till it be green then strain and use it Or give the child Sirrup of Violetâ— being heat or Sirrup of Damask Roses a quarter of an ounce at a time For the Lask of young Children Give to the child both morning and evening a spoonful of Plantane water to drink if the Child be old give it the more and give it no drink but such wherein Gold hath been three times quenched Also annoint the stomack with the Oyle of Mastick and Oyl of Mints towards his Navel downewards Also take the juice of broad Plantane and Wine Vineger of each a like quantity and mix therewith Barley meal till it be somewhat thick then cool it a little and spread it upon a woollen cloath and apply it upon the belly warm and when it is cold heat it again Also take a new laid egg and take a way the threeds as some call it the two white spots that are joyning to the yolk and beat it a good while then with meal make a Cake and bake it in a pan then beat it in a Mortar and put powder of Cinnamon unto it and bake it again and let the child eat thereof now and then COLICK For the Collick and Stone Take a handful of Stone crop Wild Time Garden Time Parsley Saxifrage Pellitory of the wall of each a handful four or five Rhadish roots a little of Philip Pimperlow scrape the roots and slice them and put all these into a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and let it stand twelve hours and then distil it with a soft fire and take five spoonfuls of this Water and put it into a good draught of Rhenish or White Wine then warm it milk warm and with the juice of a Lemmon and some Nutmeg and Sugar drink this fasting in the morning and fast four or five hours after and walk up and down take this every third day Probatum A good Medicine for the Wind Collick Take a flint stone and cast it into the fire until it be red hot then put it into a pot of drink and there will arise a great foame let the Patient drink thereof Another Take the Herb Eve and Holly without prickles dry them by the fire upon a paper and being well dryed make them into a powder and drink so much thereof at a time as will ly upon a Groâ—t in White Wine or Ale it is exceeding good For the Collick in the stomack Take a quantity of Conserves of Red Roses three Pepper cornes and beat them small also take the seeds of Uâ—â—set Time with Anniseeds beat them small and put them into the Conserve of Roses and mingle them well together then put it into a Gally pot and when your pain first cometh upon you take the quantity of a small Walnut and presently after as much Green Ginger as a Hasel Nat. For the Collick and Stone Take Parsley Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage Wild Time Eyebright of each two handfuls twenty Rhadish roots scraped and sliced steep all in a pottle of Red Cowes milk all night then distil them in the hottest of May and use it as followeth Take nine spoonfuls of the water and nine of Rhenish Wine the juice of a Lemmon half a Race of Ginger finely minced and sugar it as you please for a draught drink this thrice a week fasting and use presently moderate exercise A Preservative against the Collick and Stone Take a quantity of Parsley roots about two handfuls boil them in running water till they be soft then take out the pith and stamp them well and put them in a pottle of stale Ale then strain them from thence and drink thereof for the space of nine dayes at the least Another Take a quart of White Wine and boil it in an earthen pot and when it begins to boil put into it a handful of Mother Time and let it boil half a quarter of an hour then put unto it a head of Garlick stamped in a Mortar then boil them together a little space then strain it and give the Patient to drink and let him drink as much as he can when the grief is upon him but if it cease or break not then take about a penny worth of Honey unto halfe a pint of the Drink and by Gods grace it will help For the wind Collick Take a good quantity of Wormwood and tops of Rosemary as much and boile them in Sack and put them in a linnen cloth and lay it warme to the belly where the griefe is and by Gods grace it will help presently Another for the same Take a spoonful of the powder of Holland which is to be had at the Apothecaries and put it into a good quantity of stale drink and make it luke warme and so drink it Or else take the weight of a French Crowne thereof in some warm broth after the manner of a Purgation for it is not only good to break the wind presently but it will purge also and cause some stools Probatum To break the Wind Collick Take Wormwood and Tansie of each three branches seven or eight leaves of brown Sage stamp all these together and strain them into a quantity of Ale and then drink it luke warm twice if it be need For the Collick and Stone and burning Fever Take some leaves of the Herb called Dandillion and pound them small and strain them into stale Ale or Beer and so drink some three or four times It is not only good against the Collick and Stone but also against a hot burning Fever An approved good Medicine for the Collick and Stone Take Coriander Caraway Fennel Spicknard and Anniseeds of each one ounce and a half of Gromeâ— seeds and Licoras one ounce beat all these into fine powder and let the Patient drink a scruple in White Wine a little warmed and walk one hour after it fasting and do this every morning and evening and put thereto six drops of the juice of Juniper berries and you shall find it excellent in operation Probatum Another Take Parsley roots Marsh Mallow roots and red roots of each alike stamp them and put them into a pint of White Wine and strain it and let the Patient
or a month at both times of the year as you see cause and take it every day or second day as you finde it work A Dyet Drink to heal Wounds Take of Egrimony two handfuls of Daisie leaves and roots Wild Angelica Ribwort Mugwort Wormwood Comfry Mints Canapit Speedwel Avens Bramble leaves Arcamilla or Sincle Scabious Betony and Dandillion of each of these a handful boil them all together in two gallons of running water some three hours till half be consumed then put into it a pint of White Wine and half a pint of honey then strain it out and so keep it letting the party drink thereof two or three times a day EYES A good Medicine to preserve the Eye-sight TAke green Barly before it be eared and distil it and use daily now and then to lay a little on your eyes of that Water and it will continue the sight A special good Poultice for sore Eyes that be much swelled and cometh by the Rheume Take a quantity of Bean flower some of an Apple finely scraped a little womans milk of Sorrel Water red Role-Water Plantane Water of each a little quantity mix all these together and make a Poultice thereof then spread it upon a fine linnen cloth somewhat thick and put it to the Patients Eyes cold A Plaister for sore eyes Take of the pap of a roasted Apple two spoonfuls the like quantity of new laid eggs of Saffron thirteen chives dryed and made into fine powder work these together to one substance and put thereto of Womans milk of a maiden child one spoonful of Rose water the like quantity of these make your Plaister and lay it to your eyes morning and evening and have in a readiness the powders of these stones following Lapis Calaminaris quenched nine times in White Wine Aloes Hepatica white Sugar candied Tucia prepared Camphire of each of these half a dram made fine to powder sow these in a fine cloth or fine silk and put it in a glasse of water and of this Water drop into your eyes morning and evening and lye upon your back when you drop it into your eyes Make your Water as followeth Take Roses Marigolds Plantane brown Fennel Eyebright Cellendine Tormentil Betony Scabious Fumetory Oaken buds of each of these two ounces mix all these in a glasse and put in the powders above said A very good Medicine for Eyes that be troubled with Pin or Web or other dimnesse Take the yolk of a new laid egg or two and beat it well until it cometh unto a great froth then let it stand so a little while and let the Oyl run into a sawcer and put the juice of Daisies with the blossomes leaves and roots being stamped and strained into the Oyl of Eggs and put a little clarified honey unto it and mix all these well together and let the Patient take every morning and evening into the ey that is grieved a drop put in with a feather let this be used so long as the pain lasteth Another for sore Eyes Take a little Rosewater and womans milk and mix them together whereof the Patient may use a drop at a time as above said And if the Patient be a man the womans milk must be of her that hath a daughter and if the Patient be a woman she must have the milk of her that hath a son sucking upon her For a Pearle Pin or Web in the Eyes Take a little Hony clarified as it cometh from the Hive and so drop it into your eye evening and morning and it will help Probatum A very good Medicine for sore eyes that cometh of the Megrim Take the white of an egg and beat it well then skim it and put to the Oyle some case Ginger finely beaten and some White Wine Vineger then take flax and dip it in the Oyl and lay it on your Temples and take heed that no part thereof come into your eyes Do this four or five nights or more when you go to bed and every time wash your eyes with the water that cometh of cutting of Vines Probatum A Water very comfortable for the Eye-sight Take of Rose leaves red Fennel Vervain Rew Cellendine and Eyebright of each a handful and so still them all together and you shall have a good Water for the eye sight Probatum To recover the Eye sight Take Smallage Rew Fennel Vervain Egrimony Betony Scabious Avens Houndstongue Eyebright Pimpernel and Sage of each a like quantity and distil all these together with a little Urine of a man-child and five grains of Frankinsence and drop of this water every night into the eyes and the sight will recover by Gods grace Probatum by Mr. Whaley For sore eyes and blind Take the white of a new laid egge strained from the yolk beat it well to an Oyl and take off the froth and put to the Oyle a spoonful of good White Wine Vineger and a spoonful of Rose water beat them all well together and with a little flax lay to each temple a Plaister but take heed it touch not the eyes use this three or four times to bedward it hath brought them to sight that were seven weeks blind Probatum For red Eyes Take a new laid egg or two and roast them very hard then without taking away the shels cut them in sunder and take out the yolks and scrape a little white Copperas and put it where the yolks were as much Copperas as a little pease is enough for one egg then strain the whites with the shels through a cloth into a sawcer and with this Oyl annoint your eyes when you go to bed For Eyes that be Bloodshed or have Pushes in them Make a toast of fine leven bread and lay it in Wine till it be soft then put it in a cloth and to bedward lay it in the cloth to the eyes and it will heal them For an Eye that hath been hurt so that the Ball was ready to fall out being swolne as big as an egge Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten and take it from the core then bear the white of an egg well and drop the juice of the Apple therein and bind it with a cloth to the eye and so dresse it twice a day till it be whole The gall of a Hart and clarified Hony well mingled together is very good for the Web in the eye it must be laid on with a feather For a Pin or Web in the eye Take White Wine and put it in a Bason that is bright and put Bay salt unto it and let it stand for nine dayes two of the dayes shake the Bason and at the ninth dayes end put it into a glasse and keep it for your use it is also good for red eyes An excellent Water for sore Eyes by Pearle Pin and Web Lash or Prick Take of Cellendine Herb-grace Betony brown Fennel Eyebright red Rose flowers Maidenhair or as many of those as you can get distil of each alike much
violence you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs juice of Wood-betony and Egrimony and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes If that do not help it take wheat flowers the juice of Mallowes Mints Smallage and the Oyl of an egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to For hardnesse that hath been long in the Eye Take a Scruple of Alloes and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire then put of it in the eye Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister and lay it upon the eye Or take Roses Sage Rew and Cellendine of each alike mixt with a little salt and distil it and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye In stead of that water it is good to take the juice of Vervain Rue and a little Rose water For the Pin or Web. Take tops and crops of Herb Christopher stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May stamp them very small then take a good quantity of May Butter and stamp them together in a vessel and strain it out and set it in the Sun and put of these into your eyes it must stand a month in the Sun For a hurt in the Eye that cometh by a stroke Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plantane and put thereto the white of an egg and womans milk of a male child and Oyle of Roses and put it in your eye going to bed use this three or four times in a day Or take Egrimony and bray it and temper it with White Wine and an egg and make a Plaister and lay to the outside of the eye For a Pearl at the beginning Take a Race of good Ginger pare it clean and rub it on a Whetstone and make powder of it and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine then strain it through a fair cloth and put it into a glasse or Viol and after nine daies you may use it when you go to bed lying upright and likewise in the morning Do this six or seven times For eyes that are full of Rheume and bleared Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls and two of honey mix them together and when you go to bed put some in your eye Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel a branch of Cellendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten if one serve not take two put all these into half a pint of water cover it and put of it in your eye when you go to bed and an hour before you rise strayning it when you use it To preserve the sight long Take a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week To clear the sight Take the white of an egg made as clear as water and a spoonful of clarified Honey and some fine Sugar and mix them together and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor and rub the eye-lids therewith within and without For sore Eyes and Megrim in the Head Take the whites of new laid eggs and beat them to Oyl then take a spoonful of Rose water as much fine Sugar and as much strong Vineger made of Malmesey or White Wine put them to the Oyl and beat them together then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister dip it in the Medicine and bind on each Temple one with a cloth but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes Do this three or four nights and every morning the eyes will cleave together with Gum. For the Megrim in the eyes Take new milk and seeth it and put it into a bason and cover it with a platter and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes Or take three drams of the juice of Rue and put in your eyes and ears and stop your ears and lye down on that side For a Pearl and Web. Take Veinfrage Ivie Daisies Sickwort red Fennel Seagreene Pimpernel May butter bruise them in a Mortar and let them lye in the froth five â—ayes then make an easie fire and set 〈◊〉 over till it be melted then straine it through a fair cloth and put is into a Vial and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn It will destroy the Web and when your eye cleaveth together wash it with Rose water Another Take the leaves of Sage Hysop oculus Christâ— puiled downward drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice stamped with the Herbs and straine it in some Beeâ— and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together Or take the juice of Avens Southernwood and put this juice into Fenâ—â—â— water and put it in your eye For Eyes that be fair to look on and naught to see with Take Smallage Fennel Rue Vervaiâ— Betony Pimpernel Eyebright Sagâ— and Cellendine of each alike wash theâ—â— clean and stamp them then take thâ— powder of fifteen Pepper cornes and 〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine three spoonfuls of good Honey and fifteen spoonfuls of the Urine of a man child that is young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little then strain it and keep it in a vessel or glasse and put of it into your Eyes and if it dry up in the glasse put to it a little White Wine This is good for all kind of sore eyes in fifteen daies it helpeth For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take the strained juice of Pimpernel and drop into your Eye morning and evening This is good also for the Pin and Web or Pearle in the eye For a Pin and Web. Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees wipe them clean with a cloth â—hen stamp and strain them with womans â—ilk of a Girle for a man of a boy for 〈◊〉 woman the sorer the eyes be take the â—ore juice and the less milk Drop this â—â—to your eye with a feather evening and â—orning and twice in the afternoon For sore Eyes that cometh of a hot cause at of a Rheume Take Elder leaves and chase them between your hands and lay them to the nape of the neck For Bloodshotten Eyes Take a toast of leavened Bread House-leek and womans milk a spoonful oâ— Rosewater the pap of an Apple roasteâ— the yolk of a new layd egg and boilâ— them take the toast and lay it in reâ— Wine not mingled and let it lyâ— halfe an hour till it be soaked they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces for each eye one and the cloth must be between the eye and the toaâ— and dresse it thus when you go tâ— bed For Watering Eyes and darknesse sight Take May Butter and Honey of 〈◊〉 alike and boil them together and 〈◊〉 in the white of an egge and when it
〈◊〉 cold put it into your eye and it will cleer up your fight Or take the leaves of red Roses and temper it with the whites of eggs and lay it to your eye when you go to bed For an excessive pain in the Eyes when the Flux of Humors be sharp in them Take milk hot as it cometh from the Cow cover it with a Bason then take the dew from the Bason with a feather and put it in a glasse and therewith dresse your Eyes For sore Eyes that be in the morning full of pain and water so that they will not open without great washing Take a new laid egg and roast it hard then take a little white Copperas and a little roach Allome and a little Sandifer then strain the juice and drop thereof into your eye evening and morning and wet a linnen cloth and lay over your eyes For Eyes that have skins over them or great pain in them Take black Snailes and make an Oyl and put thereto White Sugar candied and Lapis Calaminaris being first burned five or six times and thus prepared put in your eyes evening and morning with a feather Or take Daisie roots Betony flowers of Pimpernel red Fennel stamp and strain them with stale Ale and drink thereof evening and morning and lay outwardly to your eyes Rose water womans milk and the white of an egg wet Tow or Flax therein and lay it to your eyes the Drink will be the better if you put in the juice of Clestocks a worm so called A Medicine that helped one that had a thrust in the Eye Take the right ground Ivy and Cellendine and the green of a Goose turd and womans milk put them all together in a glasse and when it is setled put the clearest in your eyes An Oyle for burning of the Eyes Take the white of an egg well beaten together with the juice of Daisie roots and Houseleek put them into an egg-shell and roast it hard and thereof will come an Oyl wherewith annoint the place pained Dr. Cademans Water for the Eyes Lapis Tutiae prepared half an ounce white Vitriol half a scruple red Rose water Plantane water of each one ounce Egrimony water half an ounce mingle them together and let them boil gently then clear it very well An excellent good Eye Salve Take a pound of May Butter and set it in the Sun to clarifie and alwayes when it is melted powre the clear butter from the curds and whey that will be in the bottome thus do from day to day until no more will come out then put as much of the Herb Christopher small chopt as will be steeped in it then set it again in the Sun in a glasse for the space of a month in which time it will be rotten then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and so keep it in some Gally pot or Glasse that will not drink it up and every evening as much as a small Wheat corne being put into the eye will destroy any speck or Pin and Web or any scale or thicknesse For and of the Eyes in general In all causes of the eyes observe the Nature of the person his age the time of the year the sicknesse he hath had before c. It is alwayes good in all pains of the Eyes that the Patient keep in a dark place free from aire lye high in bed that the Rheume tarry not in the Eyes but may fall down to the cheeks seasonable sleep doth digest and congeal the matter all vexatio is to be avoided as sorrow anger ill favors c. Also all vaporous meats And this is a general rule that so long as the pain lasteth you shall lay upon the Eye the white of an egg brayed with Oyl of Roses for it stayeth the course of the humours and asswageth all pain or the white of an egge braied with womans milk if the eye be red Of the Vthalmia of the Eyes This Disease is caused from the Flux of certain humours be they mixt or not as from Choler Phlegme Blood or Melancholy the signes whereof are these If it proceed of bloud then are the Eyes and their veines puff'd up red the Temples of the Head do beat the uppermost Eye-lids do swell the Eyes are moist yet with little pain but so moist that in the sleep the Eyes do bake up If it proceed of Choler then is there much pricking burning with great pain and swelling and not so red as the former but moist and burning that thereby sometimes the Apple of the eye is perished If it proceed of phlegme then is there a compression and ponderosity in the Eyes with great pain without heat or rednesse and by reason of the great moistness some soreness and swelling If of Melancholy then is there also great ponderosity with a sallow colour with rednesse or compression they do not bake together in their sleep for that the Catarrhe or Rheum is too dry For the rednesse of the Eyes Take half an ounce of Tutia make it glowing hot and quench it fifteen times in Rose water then bruise it small and put into it a quarter of an ounce of Callamint stones three cloves and half a pint of Malmesey and mix them together This Collyria is for all redness of the Eyes Of Watry and running Eyes If the Cause be inward from any disease of the brain and not through heat you may perceive by this viz. The Patient alwayes feels some heavy puffing up of the vains in the forehead and Temples of the head and this reflux is for the most part augmented by neesing falling both into the Eyes and sharpnesse in the throat But if this humour be through heat it bites the eyelids and makes the hair to fall off but if through cold then contrary In case it be through heat the party must be purged with Pills of Cochiâ— Aâ—â—â— with Succo Rosarum or with Pills of the five kinds of Mirabilans and keep a good Diet. If his grief come of a cold Cause it s very convenient to eat a good deal of Fennel seed every morning and chew Rew and Valerian in the mouth and annoint the eyes with the spittle Also if it proceed from the brains this is excellent Take prepared Bloodstone one quarter of an ounce Roses burnt Ivory red and white Curral Amber yellow Mirabilans of each one dram the juice of the Spirits of Frombois four ounces temper them together and keep them close stopped put thereof daily into your eyes and annoint your Eye-lids therewith This dries the Rheume marvellously and strengthneth the eyes from taking any moisture Also take the juice of Fennel and of Rue of each one ounce and of a childs Urine halfe an ounce Alloes three drams let it seeth a little then strain it and put a drop thereof into your eye It cleanseth drieth and sharpneth the sight Also roast three Apples take away the skin and cores then temper them with the yolks of three new laid eggs
and lay it warm to the eyes Also if deflux cause much pain take unwashed sheeps wool burn it to ashes in a close stopped pot bruise it as small as may be and mix it with the white of an egge and lay it on your forehead and temples This asswageth the Catarrhe very quickly and abateth the pain A Plaister for the Temples or sore Eyes Take Alloes Mirrhe Mirtle leaves Acatia of each one dram Mastick and Frankinsence of each half a dram beaten small together and make it to a Plaister with the white of an egg Likewise he ought to purge with Pills of Cochia which be sharpned with the Trocisies of Alhandaly Also with the Confection of Hierâ— and such like Oyle of linnen being made thus is very good for sore Eyes viz. set it a fire with a candle and lay the linnen upon an even piece of iron tin or silver and put it out quickly and you shall find a drop of Oyle the which take up with a feather This healeth marvellously well the Imposthume of the eyes taketh away the pain and is good for a Fistula and Wounds in the Eyes FACE To take away the Scars or Pockholes or redness in the Face TAke a good quantity of Lemmons and slice them rinds and all and distil them laying them on fair sticks that they touch not the bottom of the Still and with the Water that cometh thereof annoint the face and it will soon take away the rednesse and scars of the face For a sawcie Face Take a pottle of White Wine and a quarter of a pound of Cinnamon cleane rubbed and winnowed then seeth it in the White Wine till it be half sodden away and then put it into a pot and drink it evening and morning till the Patient be cured Probatum An approved good Medicine to cool and repel the redness of the face that proceedeth of heat Take a quantity of running water and a quantity of Brimstone and as much Allome beaten small together put them with the water into a glasse fast stopped and so let it stand every morning and evening take a little out into a sawcer and with a linnen rag wash your face therewith and so let it dry in with wiping For Spots in the Face For a mans or a womans face that seemeth as they were drunken take Water-cresses and cut them small and put them in a small earthen pot and put fair Spring water thereto and let them boil together and drink of that water morning and evening To make the Face fair Take the flowers of Beanes and distil them and wash the face with the water Some say that the Urine of the party grieved is very good to wash the face and to keep it from blemishing If the face be washed with the water that Rice is sodden in it taketh away the Pimples and cleanseth the face For heat in the face Seeth white Copperas in running water and let it stand till it be cold and then put in a little Camphire and every morning and evening take a little of that water in a sawcer and with a little cloth dipt in it wash and bathe your face therewith and let it dry in of it self A Drink for the Heat or Rednesse in the Face Take four handfuls of Wild Tansie and boil it in two Gallons of small wort let it stand until it be almost cold then put to it a little Barme and let it work and when it is ripe put it in a close vessel and so let it stand three or four dayes then you must drink of it every day twice so long as you use it An excellent Water for the same Take twelve Lemmons and pare them to the very juice four new laid egges shells whites and yolks beaten all together six spoonfuls of pure English Honey Temper all together and distil them with a very soft fire and receive the water thereof in a glasse for your use putting thereto a little Mercury to make it keep and continue An excellent Lac Virginis to make the Face Neck or any part of the Body fair and white Take of Alumen Plumosi half an ounce of Camphire one ounce of Roach Allome one ounce and a dram Sal gemmi half an ounce white Frankinsence two ounces Oyle of Tartar one ounce and a half make all these into most fine powder and mix it with one quart of Rose-water then set it in the Sun and let it stand there nine dayes often stirring it then take Littarge of Silver half a pound beat it fine and fearse it then boil it in one pint of White Wine Vinegar until one third part be consumed ever stirring it with a stick while it boileth then distil it by a Filter or let it run through a thick Jelly bag then keep it by it self in a glass Vial and when you will use these Waters take a drop of the one and a drop of the other in your hand and it will be like milk which is called Lac Virginis wash your face or any part of your body therewith It is most precious for the same Probatum Dr. Walmesley For the Pimples in the Face Take Wheat-flower mingled with honey and vinegar lay it upon them and it cleanseth them To dry up any Pimples or heat in the Face Take Virgin Wax one ounce and a half May Butter three ounces meâ—â— them then put to them Cerus half an ounce Bole Armoniack a scruple a little Rose water to wash it after these are melted together annoint the Pimples with it twice a day FELLON To ripen a Fellon or Boil Take Rue Sage and the fat of rusty Bacon of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and lay it on a linnen cloth warm to the Grief Another Take an Onion roasted put thereto Honey and Wheat flower and so beat it all together and lay it to the sore To kill a Fellon Take an egg and roast it hard and take the yolk thereof and take an Onion and roast it soft and beat the yolk and the Onion together and lay it to the sore and it will kill the Fellon A Soveraign Salve to heal the Fellon Take of the Soot of a house that is on the Beams and break it to powder and take the yolk of an egg and bray them together then lay it on a clean cloth and lay it on the sore and this will heal it An excellent Poultice to take away the anguish of a Fellon and to break it speedily Take milk and put therein crumbs of White Bread and boil them together very tender to a Poultice then take it from the fire and put therein the yolk of an egg and have ready some white Lilly roots wrapped up in a brown paper and roasted very tender first bruise the roots into a pap then mingle them well with the other things and so apply it warme to the griefe and when it is broken use healing Salve For a Fellon Take Verjuice and crumbs of browne bread
and kernels of gray Soap and seeth all together till it be somewhat thick then spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the Fellon and it will both kill the Fellon and heal it For a Fellon in the Joint Take Bay salt and beat it then take the yolk of an Egg and beat them together and lay it to the joint Another for a Fellon Take twelve Snailes in the Garden and beat them shels and all until they come to be a Salve then lay them to the fore and it will both kill draw and heal Also bruise Raisons and lay them to the fore Another Take the biggest and fowlest Spider you can finde and a quantity of black Soap and one clove of Garlick and bray them all together and lay it to the Fellon as neer as you can where you think it will break and so let it lye four and twenty hours then take it off and heal it with some other Salve Also take Sage Rue Bay salt Snailes and Bacon and beat them together and then lay it to the Fellon and it will help Also make a Poultice of Bean flower or of Wheat flower and honey and apply it every morning and evening FISTULA Against a Fistula or hollow Vlcer First mingle the milk of Wortwort with fresh Hogs grease and boil them together a little and incorporate them and put thereto powder of Mirrhe and annoint a Tent therewith and put it into the hole of the Ulcer For a Fistula Take the seeds of red Coleworts the feed of Tansie and Cabbage of each a like quantity and of the great Madder and make it into Pills and give thereof to the Patient thrice a day and keep a Colewort leaf upon the Sore To heal a Fistula or Vlcer Take Figs and stamp them with Shoomakeâ—s Wax and lay it to the sore on leaâ—â—er and it will heal FLESH To kill dead flesh Take a pint of Malmesey and a pint of Aquavitae and flower pound Parsley and straine the juice into it and drink it And take Allome and Withy leaves and boil them together in running water and wash the wound therewith To try whether there be dead flesh in a Wound or no. Take posset curd made of strong Ale lay it to the wound and if it look yellow then there is dead flesh A Water to abate proud flesh and to clear a corrupted wound Take a quart of Ale or strong Beer and a handful of Sage and a piece of Allome as much as a Walnut and let it seeth till it come to a pint and therewith wash the wound To clear a Sore or Wound of dead flesh Clarifie some Honey and put it into the sore and lay a Plaister over it and in two or three dressings it will cleer the Sore and take out the dead flesh To take out dead Flesh Take of Honey of Oyl Olive and of Wheat-flower of each a spoonful and the yolk of an egg and mix them well together and spread it on a cloth and so lay it on the sore and it will draw and cleanse it FLUX For the white Flux Take the powder of the flowers of Pomegranats and drink it in red Wine For the red Flux Take Sperma Caeti and drink it and truss up your self with a piece of black Cotton To stop the Flux Make a Caudle of Oatmeal and put to it scraped chalk brown Pepper finely beaten then boil them together and let the Patient drink thereof three or four times and it will help For the Bloody Flux Take four or five eggs and roast them hard until they be blue then take a pint of Red Wine and mix the yolks of the egges with it then seeth it and after it is sodden put an ounce of Cinnamon into it and let the Patient drink thereof two or three times in a day and it will help Another Take Camock roots make them in fire powder and drink them in posset Ale or put it into a cake as you do Spice and eat it Another Take linnen cloth and make it like a Pill and steep it in Aquavitae and convey it into the Fundament and in three or four dressings it helpeth For the Bloody Flux or Scouring Take a great Apple and cut out the core and put therein pure Virgin Wax then wet a paper and lap it therein theâ— rake it up in the Embers and let it roâ—â— till it be soft then eat of it as your stomack will give leave PHLEGME To loose Phlegme Take an ounce of Ingibus Sirrup one ounce of Sirrup of Violets half an ounce of Sirrup of Roses and half an ounce of Hisop A Drink to avoid Phlegme Take an Onion and core it and put therein a little Mithridatum and bruised Pepper and then roast it soft then take a pint of White Wine and seeth it with a little white Sugar and then straine it with the Onion and give it the Patient to drink A Powder to break Phlegme Take of fine Ginger the weight of eight pence of Elicampane roots the weight of four groats Anniseeds and Licoras of each the weight of seven groats and of Sugar candied four ounces make all these into powder and eat â—t dry morning and evening FORGETFULNESSE Against Forgetfulnesse Apply Rue and red Mints with Oyl of Roses and very strong Vineger to the nostrils and it helpeth Also burn thine own hair and mingle it with Vineger and a little pitch and apply it to the nostrils GOUT For the Gout TAke Snailes with shells on theâ—â— backs Barrel Soap leaven Bayâ— salt and Honey and pound them all to gether and lay it to the grieved place Sundry Medicines for the Gout Take the grease of a fat Cat of a Goose of a Gray of a Fox and the marrow of a Harts horn Ivy Sage Rue Virgins Wax Frankinsence the yolks of roasted eggs and Snailes put them all in an earthen pot with a hole in the bottom for that purpose and close it above with paste that no aire issue out and put under the same pot another whole pot and close them together and put the neathermost in the ground and compasse it about with fire and there will distil a wonderful good Oyntment out of the uppermost pot which will be good for the cold Gout Another Oyntment of great force for the Gout Take the juice of the wild Coweâ—mber roots green Grapes and Pellitory the leaves and Berries of Ivy Juniper berries Euforbium Castorium the fat of a Graye of a Goose of a Heron of a Fox of a Beare then take a fat Cat and pull off her skin and take out her guts and fill her with all the aforesaid things and let it roast well upon a spit and save the dripping and resolve a little Wax therein and use it Also a dog killed of thirty dayes old and annoint the grief with the blood of the dog it is very good Also take a fat Cat and flea her and pull the flesh from the bones stamp it well and put it into
the stopping of the Liver Lungs and Spleen and to comfort the Stomack Take two or three roots of Succory and Parsley Sage of Jerusalem Folefoot Violet leaves Scabious Egrimony and Scurvigrasse of each half a handful Conserve of Red Roses one ounce of Saffron one penny worth and a Date or two sliced and the pill taken away put all these into a Pullets belly ready drest and sow up the open places but put not in the roots boil it in sufficient water till the flesh be sodden from the bones and when it is half sodden put in the roots steeped before in Wine Vinegar put in also three or four large Mace blades of Raisons of the Sun one handful stoned and a few Currans and when it is sodden as aforesaid strain it and drink every morning a good draught thereof fasting For all Griefs of the Liver Take the leaves flowers and roots of Betony in Drink Conserve Electuary Sirrup or Potion or Powder is singular good for all Diseases of the stomack Liver Melt Kidnies Bladder the Obstruction of the Matrix the consumption of the Lungs Coughs Dropsies continual Feavers boile the leaves and flowers in Honey water to have present Remedy Also seeth the Herbs and Flowers of Camomile in Wine and drink it to help stopping of the Liver and Melt to purge Choler to expel Terms to help the torments of the small guts for Griefes of the Kidnyes or Bladder for difficulty of Breathing Sighing Wheezing to warm a cold stomack and to drive away any inward grief For the Liver and to comfort the Stomack Take a branch or two of Ciprus otherwise called French Wormwood and a little Barme and boile them in Ale and Drink it fasting LIPS For chopt Lips Take new Wax Mastick and white Frankinsence with Oyle of Roses all made into an Oyntment and annoint the lips and it will cure them presently LUNGS A Preservation for the Lungs Take a pint of Wormwood Water and Liverwort almost a handful and of Longwort a handful Sugar one ounce boile them all together till one part of four be sodden away and let the patient drink thereof three spoonefulls in the morning fasting and last at night alwaies warmed Probatum LEGGS For a sore Legge or old vlcer Take Littarge of gold two pound of Galbanum one ounce Verdigrease foure ounces Bdelium one ounce Mastick one ounce and half Opoponax and Aristologia of each one ounce old Oyl Olive one pound and half You must drie the gummes that they may be powdred and frie them with your Oyle then straine it and put thereto your Littarge Verdigrease and Aristologia one after another alwayes stirring it lest the Littarge sink to the bottome and so let it simber over the fire easily then put to it three peniworth of turpentine and of wax three ounces and so make it up for your use in a Plaister It hath cured the Lord Wharton and divers others with two or three dressings when no Chirurgian could find a Cure for them For a sore Leg. Take stone lime and slake it and put it in running water and put thereto of Quicksilver white lead and Bores grease of each one penny worth mingle all together and so annoint it To kill the Itch of the same and to skin it Take a gallon of good Ale and boil it to a pint and then a linnen cloth and wet it therein and wash the sore withal Another Take of Ale Allom of each one half penny worth and boil it together and melt a quantity of fresh Butter therein and annoint it therewith A Plaister for festered Legs being long sore Take March and Wild Tansie Plantane Morrel Honey and the white of an egg and the milk of a Cow of one colour and Barley flower bray the Herbs in a Morter and mingle all together and lay it on the sore A Plaister for sore Eyes broken or not Take a pint of Sallet Oyl one pound of unwrought Wax half a pound of white Lead boile all these together in a brasse pan with a soft fire till it be as thick as pitch stirring it with a stick then dip in it a piece of Lockrum and make thereof a Plaister MEGRIM For the Megrim TAke a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Betony and a handful of Archangel seeth them all together in a quart of good Ale and a pint of White Wine Vinegar the space of half an hour and lay it to your forehead as hot as you may suffer it and the longer you keep it thereto it is the better Another Take halfe a handful of the leaves of Rosemary and seeth them in Vinegar till they be soure then lay them upon a linnen cloth and cast thereon a little Rosewater and lay it to your sorehead as hot as you may suffer it A Plaister for the Megrim Take the Oyl of an egge and some Cummin seed and Frankinsence and wheaten flower and two Nutmegs beaten all small and mingled with the Oyl of the egg and make a Plaister thereof as big as a groat and lay it to the temples of the head MOTHER For the Mother and green Sickness Take great Garden wormes and slit them and wash them clean and then lay them in White Wine half an hour then take them out and lay them in an Oven to dry and when they are throughly dryed beat them into fine powder and drink it in White Wine in the morning fasting and fast two hours after it MOUTH For a sore Mouth Take the waters of the tops and leaves of red Brambles Rosemary Sage and Woodbind leaves all severally distilled of each a like quantity and put them all together into a great glass thâ—n put as much Allom small beaten into the same as will make it sharp and so keep it to use as occasion serveth either for a Canker in the mouth ranknesse of the Gums or any other sorenesse Another Take Treakle English Honey and burnt Allome of each alke then take tops of Rosemary red Sage Honey suckle leaves Bramble leaves and Fennel of each a handful stamp and strain the Herbs and take the juice and boil with the other things til it be somewhat thick then rub your mouth therewith For a sore Mouth or Throat Take Rue and red Sage of each one handful Groundsel and Sorrel of each a little cut them small and then stamp them then take as much Allome as a Walnut and as much Copperas as a small Nut and burn them to powder in a frying pan then take a like quantity of each of them unburnt and beat them small then take a pint of running water and put them all in it and boil it halfe away then take it from the fire and strain it then put to it three spoonful of English Honey and so keep it in a glasse and warm a little of it every time you use it dipping a cloth in it upon a little stick and so wash the mouth twice a day or more as you see occasion NOSE For
be clean wiped also if you lay it to any place where the skin is not broken you may let it lye thereunto til by the moisture that it draweth from the sore place it falleth off and so from time to time you must do it til you find release of pain and being driven thin upon a cloth you must lay it that it may cover all the sore PALSIE For the Palsie TAke half a pound of sweet butter a pint of new Cow-dung and boil them both together till it come to a Salve then lay half of it upon a woollen cloth and lay it to the nape of the neck and when it is cold apply the other half warm Another Take White Wine and Sider and take a good deal of red Sage and boil them well to the one half and wash the Patient where he shaketh and if his Head shaketh wash the neck as hot as may be suffered and keep his neck warm and his joints at all times Against the Palsie Take a handful of Sage of Southern wood Spike of Lavender of each alike boile these in a gallon of running water and strain it into a stone pot when it is boiled away to a pint and half then every morning take three or four spoonfuls thereof luke warm and gargarise therewith and put it forth again Also take some of the same water warm and chafe the place with a spunge Of the Palsie This shaking is a continual strife of natural powers which are raised without ceasing It hapneth first by looking from a great height by sudden fear or sudden joy or much cold or great heat or much bleeding for remedy use three leaved grasse Cummin and Steches by Glister or otherwise of Oyls use Oyl of wild Cowâ—umbers Oyl of Dil of Clivers Artico which Herb is very good against the shaking Palsie PLAGUE or PESTILENCE For the Pestilence Take half a handful of Rue as much of Fetherfew and one handful of Marigolds a handful of Burnet a handful of Sorrel a quantity of Dragons either the root or the crop as the time of the year requireth and then take a pottle of running water and let them boil over the fiâ—e till half the water be consumed then take it from the fire and let it cool and when it is almost cold straine it through a fair linnen cloth and then let the sick body drink thereof and if it be too bitter put thereto a quantity of loaf Sugar or else powder of Licoras This hath been proved of a certain by great men and hath holpen almost an hundred Persons in divers places and where there were three persons in one house sick two of them drunk thereof and the third would not and he dyed and the two that took it lived and this was proved of a certain This Medicine must be given betimes before the Purples do appear and it will cease by the grace of God A Medicine against the Plague Take a handful of Sage vertue a handful of Hens grease a handful of Elder leaves a handful of red Bramble leaves and stamp them all together and strain them with a fine cloth into a quart of White Wine and then take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them all together and drink thereof a spoonful every day fasting for ten dayes together and for the first spoonful you shall be safe for four and twenty hours and after the ninth spoonful you shall be safe for all the yeare after And if it shall happen that any be strucken with the Plague before this Medicine be taken then take water of Scabious and water of Betony and a quantity of fine Treakle and put them together and drink it and it will put out all the Venom and if the Sore do appear then take leaves of Elder and make a Plaister thereof with Mustard seed stamped together and lay it to the Sore and it will draw out all the Venome and by Gods grace recover the party A precious Water good against all Poisons and Pestilences Take Turmentile Scabious Dittony Pimpernel of each a like quantity distil them all together and drink of it An approved Medicine for the Plague It taketh one like the Ague with cold as soon as it taketh them and complain of it take five seven or nine leaves of Garden Spurge nine is the most stamp them small in a dish and put to it warm milk or Posset Ale and let the sick body drink it and presently go to bed and sweat then take a great Onion and take out the core and put into it Mithridatum then lay on the top again and rost it very soft then beat it very small in a dish and put to it three spoonfuls of White Wine Vinegar and as much Sugar as will make it pleasant to take and as soon as the stomack is purged give him of the Onion as much as you can for that will draw out â—he Sore in four and twenty hours by Gods grace and keep the Patient very hot and warm and give him hot Broths and Drinks and keep him in a sweat four and twenty hours and after keep him very hot and when the Sore is come out roast an Onion with Treakle and Viegar and lay it to the Sore to draw it out and have a Chirurgion to launce it For the rest of your houshold give them every day Mithridatum and Treakle and take Centory and Madder and boil it in Beer and let them drink now and then thereof An excellent Drink against the Plague Small Pox or Meazels and for the cure and prevention thereof Take a pint of Dragon water three pints of the best Malmesey or Muskadine boil therein of Rue and Sage of each a handful and let it boil till one pint be boiled away then strain it and afterwards set it on the fire again and put thereto long Pepper Ginger and Nutmegs beaten to powder of each one ounce boil all these a little more and then take it from the fire and put therein of the best Mithridate one ounce of London Treakle two ounces and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica Water and use it as followeth If you think your self to be infected take one spoonful of this at a time morning and evening luke-warm but if not infected take it but once or twice a week at the most half a spoonful at a time in any Plague time and when they that are infected take this let them lye down and sweat two or three houres in the bed and when they be well dryed and warm kept let them drink none but warme Drinks or Caudles and so by Gods assistance they shall be well This Drink will keep good half a year if it be close kept A good Drink against the Plague Take of White Wine one quart and put therein the juice of these Herbs following of Elder leaves Rue leaves Wormewood and Scabious and put in a spoonful of good Treakle and the powder of a good Race of Ginger stir all
together and drink three spoonfuls of this every morning for the space of nine dayes together This preserves you from the Plague and if you be infected it wil expel it and if it come to a Botch stamp the leaves of red Brambles with Mustard and Honey and make a Plaister and lay it to the Sore Probatum An excellent thing to defend the Plague Take twenty leaves of Rue two Walnuts and two figs and a graine of Salt in the morning fasting with a little Wine A good Preservation against the Plague Take of the best Hungâ—ria or Roman Vitriol with a little Amber and dissolve it in Vineger of the best then take a litle Rosewater and mingle therewith and every morning take half a spoonful thereof and cast it on a brick made hot in the fire and let the chamber where any abide be perfumed every day and t will take away all corruption and poison out of the Chamber so that the Spiders will nor endure of all outward Medicines there is none better then this by the advice of Doctor Matthias a Germane and Doctor Butler of Cambridg A Water for the Plague Take Turmentile Scabious Betony of each a like quantity distil them together and they will make the best water for a Surfet or any manner of poisonoâ—s Disease if you drink it in the morning fasting A Water to be made in May good against the Plague or Surset Take Cellendine Rosemary Rue Pellitory of Spain Scabious Angelica Pimpernel Wormwood Mugwort Betony Egrimony Balme Dragon and Turmentile of each half a pound shred them somewhat smal and put them into a narrow mouthed pot and put to them five quarts of White Wine stop it close and let it stand three daies and nights stirring it morning and evening then take the Herbs from the Wine and distil them in an ordinary Still and when you have distilled the Herbs distil the Wine also wherein is vertue for a weak stomack Take of either of these three or four spoonfuls in the morning or any other time as occasion serveth walking after it till you shall feel your selfe inclining to sweat then go to bed or betake your self otherwise to rest An approved Medicine for the Plague Take a root or smal handful of Saxifrage or Meadow Parsley one good spoonful of Sassafrass wood smal beaten one half root of Tormentile or Setwal Elder berries one good spoonful or a handful of the leaves of Rue red Sage and red young Bramble leaves of each a handful two spoonfuls of old black Ivy berries Harts horne scraped very small as much eight Figs dryed eight Races of white Ginger and two Oranges stamp them all together in a Mortar steep them all at least twelve hours in a quart of White Wine and half a pint of White Wine Vinegar then strain them through a fine cloth and drink every morning a spoonful fasting and take nothing in two hours after and as much at night if you be to go abroad into any infectious place carry in your mouth one half root of Tormentil taking the wind as much as you can of all infectious persons and places This is to be done before you be infected and when you are infected you must keep your self warm and out of the ayre for twelve dayes drinking this as before and if there be any great danger you may drink a spoonful every three or six hours and it will with Gods blessing bring the Infection out in Sores which being done the worst is past only take heed of cold to drive in the Sores again and use warm Poultices which may draw them to a head ripen and so break them A Preservative against the Plague Take of Sage Rue Elder leaves and red Bramble leaves of each a handful stamp them all together and strain them through a cloth with a quart of White Wine then take a quantity of Ginger and mingle it together and drink thereof morning and evening a spoonful nine dayes together For the Party Infected If you be infected before you have drunk the aforesaid Medicine then take a spoonful of Scabious Water as much of Betony and a quantity of fine Treakle put it together and drink it and it will expel the Venom To break the Botch Take Bramble leaves Elder leaves and Mustard seed and stamp them all together then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Sore A Medicine for the Plague Take three slips of Herb grace and siz spoonfuls of Vinegar and beat them together then strain them and put thereto one ounce of Treakle and one ounce of Sugar and stir them together and set it on the fire and make a Sirrup thereof then take a Sage leafe and every morning take as much as a bean upon the same leaf and eat it A Drink against the Plague Take one ounce of Sorrel Water as much Dragon water and a dram of Treakle and put thereto a dram and a halfe of Powder Imperial and give it to the Patient in Ale within four and twenty hours after he is infected Another Take a handful of Savory and boil it in a quart of Wine Vinegar with a spoonful of graines beaten being put therein and drink it every morning with Sugar fasting Another Take in the morning fasting one dry Figge one Walnut and four or five leaves of Rue chopt all together and eat it and after drink a cup of Wine PILES A good Medicine for the Piles or Emrods Take a very old and hard white Dogs turd which will be on the top of Mole-hills and seeth it in Sallet Oyl very thick and so put up the Piles therewith and it will help very quickly A Plaister to mitigate the pains of the Piles and Emrods Take the pap of an Apple and put thereunto the yolk of a new laid egge work them well together then put in nine cleaves of Saffron small ground of Linseed twenty cornes finely ground these boil all together on the Embers alwayes stirring it of this make a Plaister and lay it to your grief A Medicine for the Piles Take a good handful of Mullet leaves and a good handful of Elder leaves and stamp them very smal in a Mortar and boil them in fresh butter very well so that it may be very strong of the leaves then strain it and keep it for your use For the Piles Take a fair great Pippin or other Apple and cut off the top and take out the core then fill the same with Capons grease and the powder of Saffron and roast the apple in the Embers till it be soft then stamp it and make thereof a Salve and spread the same upon a piece of leather and lay it on the Sore being well warmed Another Take a pint of Sallet Oyl Rosemary tops Sowthernwood Hisop Lavender Camomile and Costmary of each almost a handful and a good handful of red Rose buds stamp all these herbs in a stone Mortar then put them into the Oyl and let it stand nine dayes then boil
for bones out of Joint so that laying on two or three of these Plaisters hath healed in fifteen dayes Armes out of Joint when you do lay up this Salve keep it in an Oyly paper PLURISIE A good Medicine to ripen a Plurisie Take a fair Costard and cut off the crowne and pick out the core but make no hole through and then put in all these powders of Bores tooth the weight of four pence of the Powder of Rubarb grated fine as may be the weight of three pence of Cinamon the weight of a penny of the powder of white Sugar candied the weight of two pence put all these into the Apple and cover him again and lay him on a tile on the Embers and roast him till he be soft as may be then cut it in sunder and give the sick party in the morning half of it to eat and fast two hours after it then eat some good broth and take the other part of the Apple the next day so that both the dayes are good to take a Medicine on An approved Medicine for the Plurisie Take a quantity of Horse dung which is kept in the Stable strain it with Ale then put to it a good quantity of Treakle and some Ginger and let the Patient drink thereof morning and evening luke-warm as much as he can endure A Plaister for the same Probatum Take a good handful of Brooklime and shred it very smal and boil it in fair water till it be very tender then take a quantity of Sheeps suet and wheaten bran and boil them together till it be thick and so lay it to his side where the pain is as hot as may be endured For the Plurisie Take a quart of White Wine put to it two handfuls of Cummin as much Oaten bran newly bolted bruise the Cummin and boil all to a Poultice and put it in two bags hot lay one to the side pained and when it cooleth lay to the other and so continue changing them three or four hours Or take Earth-wormes and fry them in Vinegar and spread them and lay them to the pained side Another The Plurisie cometh of cold humours therefore beware you take not much cold or any cold thing Malmesey sod with Camomile is very good A sweet Apple roasted and eaten with powder of Licoras and Sugar candied is good to be eaten in the morning and at night A sweet Apple also is best with Olibanum Also a Plaister of Pitch is very good laid to the side Another Annoint the place where the paine is with the Oyl of Linseed For the Plurisie Take four Spanish Balls newly gathered from a Horse stamp them and strain them with a pint of White Wine and as much beer put to that a penny worth of Treakle being first melted and give the party to drink thereof twice a day and not to eat nor drink one hour before nor after if you be sure it is the Plurisie let him blood within three dayes but if he be longer before he be let blood be sure you let him blood on that arm on that side where the pain is Also if when after blood letting he fall worse again this Drink is a very good Medicine for that Sicknesse taken by overmuch labour or lying on the ground There must be laid also to the side that the stitch is on for the Plurisie this following Take a pint of new milk make batter of it with wheaten flower as thick as you do Fritters put to it three spoonful of Honey and a groats worth of Saffron boil it to a Poultice and spread half and then grate it over with Nutmegs and lay it warm to the side and when it hath been on twelve hours then lay to the other half and make more if you see cause Also if you boil a piece of leaven as big as a good Apple in Vinegar the quantity of four spoonfuls and as much Rose-water and a few Rose leaves to a Poultice spread it and grate it thrice over with Nutmegs and lay to the pained side It is also very good for the Plurisie or for any pain in the side If you take two handfuls of Horse-dung two Races of Ginger powdered boil them in a quart of White Wine being bound in a cloth boil it to the one half then drink a good draught morning and evening and after you have drunk it cover your self warm and sweat this way is also very good If the party be costive give him gentle Purgations as Cassia Fistula or use Suppositories or Glisters For this Sicknesse Tessers are good and the water of Mallowes Violets Borage or Bugloss Sugar candied also Take also of the Water of Broom flowers Scabious and Carduus Benedictus of each three spoonfuls put in Sugar candied and let the party drink so much morning and evening and annoint the side with Oyl of Broom flowers To know whether one have the Plurisie or no. Hold in thy breath as long as possibly thou canst do and then if thou canst not let thy breath pass from thee without coughing assuredly thou either hast it or art in danger of having it forthwith For the cure of the Plurisie Thou must be let blood forthwith then take the quantity of a Walnut of Carduus Balsom and eat it upon a knifes point and take again presently the like quantity of the same Balsom and melt it in a sawcer at the fire and with a soft clean linnen cloth dipped in the Balsom wash and bathe thy left side well as hot as thou art able to suffer it then warme the said cloth and lay it double over the place pained and bind it on and ly down to rest and by Gods blessing thou shalt find it a present Cure For a hot Plurisie When any get a pricking pain about the ribs with a Cough and an Ague then use this Glister Take sixteen ounces of Broth wherein a Lambs head or Calvs feet have been sodden put therein one ounce of Sugar the yolk of one egg two ounces of Sallet Oyle salt one dram and halfe temper them well together and use it PRICKING For the pricking of a thorn Swelling or Ancomb Take Birdlime and spread it on a piece of Glovers leather on the Allome side and lay it on as far as the swelling goeth and let it lye four and twenty hours and then renew it again Another for the pricking of a thorn or needle in any joint Take fine boulted flower and temper it with White Wine and boil it together till it be thick then lay it on the Sore as hot as may be suffered and it will open the hole and draw out the anguish help the aking and heal it for want of White Wine take Ale or Beer It is good to heal a Boil or Whitlow POULTICE To make a Poultice for Wounds or Swellings Take a good quantity of Marsh Mallowes or of other if you cannot get them and boil them in clean water then cut them small and
take White Wine dregs and of good Ale as much more your Mallowes being shred put it into your dregs and put in some Deers Suet and Sheeps Tallow melted and crumbs of brown bread boil all these together till it be thick alwayes stirring it to keep it from burning then lay it warm every dressing upon a woollen cloth it dissolveth hardnesse and swelling The Lady Farnchams Poultice Another Poultice to mollifie and dissolve Take the crumbs of white bread seeth them in milk and put to it Oyl of Camomile and a little Saffron then take it from the fire then put to it the yolks of two new laid egges and so make of it a Poultice and lay it to the sore An approved good Poultice to lay to an Ache or Pain Take a good handful of Mallowes another of Smallage a handful of Linseed as much of Oatmeal grets pounded together a pottle of well water halfe a pint of milk and Deeres Suet as much as an egge or else so much of Sheeps Tallow then boil all these together till it be thick then lay it to the Patient where the pain is being spread upon a linnen cloth A very good Poultice for Wind gotten into joints Take Wormwood and Dill dryed and beaten to fine powder of each one handful of Sheeps dung three handfuls of Camomile flowers half a handful of Cummin seeds two ounces seeth them all in Lye and let it boil together until it be very thick then spread it upon leather and lay it upon the place grieved warm but first annoint it with Oyle of Rue Mr. Smart A Poultice for a Bruise or Strain Take Claret Wine Balme and Rose-leaves boil them together till they be thick then lay them to the Sore as hot as the Patient can suffer it A Water to wash the place before you apply the Poultice Take Mallowes and Smallage of each a handful boil them in a quart of Vineger to a pint then wash the place pained as hot as you can suffer it An excellent Poultice for the Ague in a Womans brest or Legs Take Houseleek Smallage and Mallowes of each two handfuls shred them small then take a handful of Linseed and bruise it finely in a Mortar take also a handful of Oatmeal or wheaten bran some Roses of a Rose cake every leaf pulled from another Sheeps Tallow one pound shred it well then put all these into a gallon of running water and boil them together till they become thick then put thereto a quart of Cowes milk and let it boil stall till it be as thick as a Plaister â—tirring it often then when the leng or brest is washed with the water also â— said spread the Poultice on a cloth all abroad and lay it to the leg or brest aâ— hot as may be suffered and let it lye so till it be dry and hard and then renew it but if the leg or brest be not very hot and red it shall not need A Poultice for any Swelling Take of Violet leaves and Groundsel of each a handful of Mallowes and Chickweed of each halfe a handful shred them smal and let them seeth wel in running water and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted and spread it on a cloth and so lay it on the place pained and bind it fast and shift it twice a day till it be cured PURGE The Manna Purge Take half an ounce of the best Cene lay it in soak in a pint and a half of Posset Ale on the Embers in a close covered pot two hours then put it into a posnet and put to it a Parsley root or two one Fennel root two spoonfuls of Anniseeds a stick or two of Licoras scraped and bruised a few Raisons stoned boil all together to half then strain it and put into it one ounce of Manna and four penny weight of Rubarb being grated and put in a clout and laid in soak in the aforesaid liquor with the Manna one hour when the Manna is melted wring the Rubarb strain it and put to it three spoonfuls of the Sirrup of Roses and drink it blood warm in the morning and eat a mess of Mutton pottage after it To Purge the Moon being in Scorpio Cancer or Pisces Michocanum two drams which is two six penny weights grate at with a Grater and pound it smal steep it in a penny pot of White Wine all night and in the morning about six of the Clock warm it milk warm and drink it off and half an hour after take eight or ten spoonfuls of Mutton broth with a few Raisons or Currans in it and it will work downewards and purge away moist humours causing Phlegme to breed in the body Of Catapusia being small seeds you must take two and twenty or four and twenty of them in quantity and take off the outer hulls and beat the inner graines small in a Mortar or pewter dish then mingle it with a little Ale or White Wine which is best warm it a little and take it as abovesaid and it wil void as the other And if you should at any time have any continuing Lask by occasion of Medicine or otherwise seeth a little Rice without any salt or butter and eat it with a little Cinnamon and it shall presently stop it Another to purge Phlegme Take a handful of Groundsel wash it clean and boil it in a pint of Ale skim it then put in half a handful of Raisons or Currans and two ounces of Sugar candied boil all together again to half a pint or lesse then strain it and drink it milk warme fasting at six a Clock and fast till eleven then take some Mutton broth Another Take Encampane roots and make Conserves of it use it in this manner first wash the roots clean then slice them in pieces as big as your little finger seeth them in fair water until they be tender then take them up and pound them and strain them through a haire sieve then set them over the fire and put to them the double or trebble weight of Sugar and when it is perfectly incorporated or mingled take it off and keep it in a Gally pot The time to gather the roots is when the leafe falleth away A Dyet Drink to Purge withal Take Anniseeds Licoras Cene Hermodactilus of each one ounce of Sassaparilla five ounces scrape away the outside of it and bruise it a little and cut it the length of an inch then bruise your Licoras and put your Anniseeds to it and put them in a pot to steep in two gallons of Conduit or running water four and twenty hours then boil them until a third part be consumed then put in your Cene and half an hour after put in your Hermodactilus the outside being pared away and slice them as you do a Race of Ginger and withn an hour after take it from the fire and let it rest in the pot two hours then strain it in a bag as you strain Hypocras so let your first
draught in the morning be luke-warm fasting and at Dinner and at Supper what you think good for you must drink no other Drink till that be spent A Purging Ale Take of the juice of Scurvigrass foure pound of Watercresses two pound of Brooklime one pound of Water Mints half a pound of dry Wormwood four handfuls of the roots of Madder four ounces of the roots of Monks Rubarb three ounces roots of Horse Rhadish one ounce and a half the roots of Saxifrage one ounce of Cene four ounces of Juniper berries half an ounce of Anniseeds Coriander seeds and Ginger of each six drams Another Take a pint of the Whey of Goats milk of Cene half an ounce of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds well dusted and lightly bruised of each of weight of four pence let them stand one hour or one hour and half on warm embers in insuling the next morning to a draught hereof put a spoonful of Sirrup of Roses and as this agreeth with you so take it three or four dayes together or every other day Another Take a pottle of the same Whey boile therein of Betony Colts foot and Hisop of each one handful and drink there of as you have occasion A very easie Purgation Take halfe a pint of Malmesey or somewhat more and half a quarter of an ounce of Cene and two Races of Ginger sliced then put them both into the Malmesey and stir it well a good while and let it stand all night and then strain it and drink it and keep your Chamber and you shall have four or five stools Another Take clarified Whey and put into it a handful of Violet leaves and half a handful of Polipodium of the Oak called Oak fernes and drink a good draught of it luke-warm and wash after it To procure Looseness Seeth Mallows and red Nettles in fair water and let the party sit over the hot fume thereof A Purge Take Aron or Wakerobbin one dram of the powder thereof with two drams of Sugar is good to cut gross humours to purge the stomack of Phlegme and Melancholy Or else the root either green or dry one dram thereof being taken in drink with as much Treakle is a very special good Purgation To purge Phlegme and Melancholy Fetherfew dryed into fine powder and two drams thereof taken with Honey or sweet Wine purgeth by the stool Phlegm Melancholy and Sadness Also take Peniroyal with Honey and Aloes to purge Melancholy and for the Cramp To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Phlegm and Melancholy Drink the Seeds of Hollioaks Also Cene the cods and leaves in powder one dram doth purge Phlegm and Melancholy To purge Phlegme and Choler The great Garden Dock leaves drunk in Wine purgeth Phlegme Choler and Water A Purging Drink Take two gallons of new small Ale and put unto it a good handful of English Madder a handful of Dock roots bruised two handfuls of Scurvigrasse a handful of Scabious two ounces of Cene two ounces of Anniseeds two or three sticks of Licoras finely scraped and all those things bruised then put them into the new Ale and let them work therein so let it stand two or three dayes and then drink thereof morning and evening PAINE For pain in the Joints Take a pennoworth of Aquavitae Oyl of Exeter three ounces of Sage of Herb grace Clerk Robert of each a handful stamp them small in a Mortar then take your Aquavitae and straine them together a good while then take a spoonful thereof and annoint the Sore place against the fire For the pain under the side Take the toast of a Wheaten loaf and butter it and toast it again and butter it twice more then toast it againe and butter it with Soap and hold it against the fire till it lather then lay it to the side where the pain is For paine in the side that cometh of Wind. Take one handful of Cummin seeds as much of Anniseeds two handfuls of Rue seeth these together in running water from a pottle to a quart put to it half a pint of White Wine Vinegar before it be cold dip a Spunge in it and wring some of the liquor out of it and lay it to the Patients side as hot as may be suffered and when it beginneth to wax cold take a new POISON For the Poison of a Toad or other Poison Take a handful of Plantane and a handful of Parsley and stamp and strain them into a little raw Cream and mingle it well together and annoint the place grieved therewith PISSING For pissing a bed Take a Boares pisle and dry it and make powder of it and drink it in Ale or Beer POCKS A Medicine for the Small Pocks Take two handfuls of Salt and put it into a pint and halfe of water and stir it well together then set it upon the fire and let it boil well and in the boiling you must skim it so that there be not any skim seen and when the Small Pocks are come well forth and that the Swelling doth assuage you must take a fine cloth and both them with this Brine being warme three times a day And when they begin to grow brown use this Oyntment take a piece of Bacon and roast it upon a spit and set a dish of fair water under it putting thereto some Rose water and let the Bacon drop into it as it doth roast and when it is roasted take the dripping and the water and work it well together and it will be a very white Oyntment then put it into a Gally pot and twice a day annoint the places with a feather but in any case lay not on too much for that will make them moist and make them stay on the longer Another to take away the Redness Take fair water in a Posnet and put thereto half a pound of Butter then set it on the fire and let it boil softly and skim off all the froth very clean then take it off the fire and let it stand till it be throughly cold then powre the water from it and put it in clean water and set it upon the fire again skimming it very clean and do this nine times together but every time your butter must be cold before you put it into a new water and the last time being very cold take it clean away from the water and put Rosewater to it and work them very well together and put it up into a Gally pot and with a feather twice or thrice a day annoint the rednesse of the face and if these Medicines be used as they should be it will take away the rednesse and make the face not to have any holes in it For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take red Rose water white Sugar candied beaten very fine and brest milk and temper these very well together and with a feather dresse the eyes and it will keep them from the Small Pocks If it be for a man you must take the
Patient shall be able to endure it and do it very warm against the fire and then take Nerve Oyle and annoâ—â—â— it and then take a Scarlet cloth and bind it up or cover it warm and this do morning and evening CERECLOTH To make a Cerecloth Take Virgin Wax Deers Suet Rosen Pitch and Barrowes grease of each alike and boil them together until they be half consumed then do it abroad upon a linnen cloth somewhat thin and lay it to the place grieved as hot as may be suffered A singular Cereeloth for all Bruises Aches and Wounds whatsoever Take a pint of Sallet Oyle of the best you can get and half a pound of red Lead and as much Rosen as a Walnut boil all together upon a soft fire till it be somewhat black stirring it continually and when it is cold rowle it up and keep it for your use You may keep it seven years and it will be exceeding good if you keep it from the hear of the fire Probatum To make a Cerecloth for an Ache. Take Olibanum and Sallet Oyle with Wax Rosen and Stone Pitch and boil them together A Cerecloth for all Members that be out of Joint-or any consuming member and grieved with cold moistness that consumeth it bringeth the Member again to his natural place Take six ounces of Wax three ounces of Rosen two ounces of Mastick Armoniacum Galbanum and Olibanum of each one ounce of Fenicreek Wormwood Camomile and Cummin of each of these in powder one ounce Oyl of Castorum and Oyle of Camomile flower of each one ounce of Vinegar five ounces melt the Rosen and Wax and the Oyles together and then put in the Galbanum and Armoniack steeped in Vineger and strained and so put in the powder last of all stirring it together and thereof make your Cerecloth To make a good Cerecloth Take one pound of Galbanum finely beaten to powder and searsed as much fine Rosen beaten and searsed as much Pitch of Sheeps Suet four ounces of Cummin two ounces Labdanum one ounce of Cloves one ounce of Mace one ounce of Saffron half an ounce SORE For a new cut or Sore Take Brimstone and scrape it fine and mingle it with May butter and annoint a Tent or a little lint throughly and put it into the Sore or Cut and it helpeth To dry up and to heal a Sore Take the burned Ashes of a Rhadish and strew it upon the Sore and it will dry and heal To break a Sore that is swoln Take Spurge and shred it small and boil it in Whey and thicken it with Oatmeal and lay it warme to the Sore it is also good for a womans brest Also for the breaking of a Sore or Boil take Coriander seeds made into fiâ—e powder and mix it with Honey and this being implaistered upon a Boil or a Carbunkle will in a short time destroy it Or take a little of a Calves curd STONE A Water for the Stone Take Ashen Keyes Stitchwort Saxifrage Mother-time Broom flowers Hawes Hips Bramble leaves Pollipodium of the Oak Pellitory on the wall put all these together of each alike and Still them then to every pottle of water put half a pound of Anniseeds and so let them stand four and twenty hours then put them into the Still again and still them all together then drink of it as you need and if it happen that the gravel come too fast and will not avoid then stil Ivy berries and Parsley and drink two spoonfuls of it and it will avoid the stone if it be never so great A present Remedy to avoid the Stone Take a handful of Pellitory on the wall a handful of Parsley and a handful of Parsley seeds a little bruised boil these things in a quart of White Wine until a third part be wasted then strain it and wring into it the juice of a Lemmon or two then with this Wine and some milk make a Posset as clear as you can and drink thereof a good draught twice or thrice a day but not with meat nor when the stomack is empty from meat When the Stone is avoided and the pain ceased to preserve you from the like again make a Broth and break fast three dayes every week thus Take a Chicken or a piece of Veal three young Mallowes Marsh Mallows are the best if you know them one handful of Violet leaves or of Mercury or of Pellitory of the wall one handful of Apothecary Barley scalded half a handful of great Raisons stoned boil these in water until the meat be enough then take of this broth without thickning or seasoning with a little Sugar three hours before dinner For the Stone and to provoke Vrine Take a quantity of Normandy glasse being clean without rust or canker burn it in the fire a good space then beat it in a Mortar then take an old Cambrick cloth and sift it very fine and give the Patient a spoonful or two of the same powder to drink in Malmesey being pained and it will help by Gods grace Probatum An approved Medicine for the Stone Take a gallon of new milk from the Cow that is all red and thereinto put one handful of Pellitory of the wall wild Time Saxifrage and Parsley of each a handful two or three Rhadish roots sliced steep all these in milk one night together and in the morning distil them with a moderate fire then take of that Water six spoonfuls and six spoonfuls of Rhenish or White Wine and a little Sugar and some slices of Nutmegs make it luke-warm and drink it fasting and fast after it three houres using temperate exercises Take this two or three dayes together every fortnight or oftner if need require The best time to distil this Water is towards the end of May. For the Stone Take two or three unset Leeks and stamp them and strain them and drink it in Malmesey in the morning strain as much as the Patient will drink at twice after this to bedward take some Sack and Sallet Oyle and beat it and drink it hot that will make the Stone slide A present Remedy for the Stone in the back or Bladder Take Saxifrage Philippendula Peniroyal and Parsley seeds and stamp them together and strain them into a cleane Vessel and let the Patient drink thereof with racked Rhenish Wine Probatum A Medicine for the Stone Take Ivy berries and stamp them wel and put it is White Wine and give the Patient to drink thereof and let the Patient make Water through a cloth and you shall see the avoiding of Stones and Gravel For the Stone Take Foxes bloud and Hares blood of both alike quantity and dry them in an Oven then beat it to powder and seeth it in a little White Wine and drink it as warm as you can suffer it To make a Glister for the Stone Take a good handful of Mallowes as much of Camomile and as much Pellitory of the wall three or four crops of Herb-grace a
of Oranges and Lemmons of each four ounces make it to a clear Sirrup with so much fine Sugar as will serve the turne STRAINE For a Strain Take of Elland leaves Sage Fennel Fetherfew and Mallowes of each a handful and seeth them in thick milk till the milk be almost consumed and then lay it to the place very warm SUPPOSITORY To make Suppositories for such as be bound and costive Take English Honey white Soap and some Salt mixt together and fryed then make a roul or peg thereof and put it in the Fundament it will make the Patient go to stool within an hour and a half for so long or until it work he must keep it in his body Another Take a long piece of Coperas being white and smooth it and annoint it with some butter and so minister it to the Patient and let him keep it in his body an hour and half if it work not before and he shall find great ease and helpâ— These kind of Suppositories will serve twice or thrice at the least SINEWES A good Medicine for Sinewes that be shortned or shrunk Take the head of a black Sheep Camomile Barly leaves of Sage of each one handful and bray them together in a Mortar and then boil them all together till they be well sodden then let it stand to cool and then draw it through a Strainer and lay it on the place grieved and by Gods grace it shall soone amend For shrinking of Sinewes Take Hogs dung and half a pound of Oyle of Roses seeth it in a new earthen pot and apply it as hot as you can endure it The Composition of a Cerot to mollifie Sinewes anâ—â— Joints that have been long displaced Take the leaves of Mallowes cleane picked from the stalks eight handfuls of Gentian three handfuls of Archangel one handful then take of Oyl Olive a pint of Oyl of Roses Oyl of Camomile and Oyl of Dill of each half a pint boil all together and in boiling of them strow on one ounce of Anniseeds and one ounce of graines beaten into fine powder and when they be well sodden beat them in a Mortar with yolks of eggs For a Sinew that is strained Take Groundsel Brooklime Fitch Bruisewort Nepe Petty Morral and Hemlock of each alike stamp them and boil them in a pan over the fire and lay it to the Sore as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will case the aking and swelling and heal it in a little space For Sinewes that be shrunken or grown together Take the water of shell Snailes and Shoomakers Oyl of each alike and temper them wel together then take new Snailes and seeth them in running water and gather off the Oyle and put it to the other Oyle and temper them well together STOMACK For the pain in the Stomack Take Mackerel Mints two handfuls and of sowr leaven one handful and an half stamp them very small and put to it a good quantity of Mace beaten to fine powder and so much Wine Vinegar as shall incorporate all into a liquid paste which you must spread upon a linnen cloth apply it warm to the Stomack twice a day For heat in the Stomack Take a pint of stale Ale and half a pint of Endive Water and put thereto as much Sugar as will make it sweet then set it on the fire and skim it clean then take a piece of a white loaf as much as an apple the crust taken away and three or four whole Mace then let it seeth one walm after and then take and drink it duke warm the bread taken away whensoever you feel the heat in your stomack To make one have a stomack to his meat Seeth Centory in fair water and let the Patient drink it luke-warme fasting three dayes each day three spoonfuls it purifieth the stomack and brest also A good Powder to digest well Take Centory and Pellitory of Spain Anniseeds Licoras Grains of Paradise Ginger and Cinnamon of each alike beaten and searsed into fine powder and drink thereof morning and evening half a spoonful in Wine or Ale To make Hipocras for a weak Stomack Take a pint of Aqua vitae and put it in a glass then take two ounces of Cinnamon and one ounce of Ginger of Cloves and of Graines of each two penny worth of Nutmegs one Penny worth beat them all together into grosse powder and put them all into the glasse to the Aqua vitae and shake it very often for nine dayes together and then drink it with Wine or Ale half a spoonful or a quarter with halfe a pint of Ale To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Flegm and Melancholy Drink the seeds of Hollioaks Also the cods and leaves of Cene in powder one dram taken with broth of a Chicken or Mutton doth purge phlegm and Melancholy For a cold and stopping in the Stomack Take one handful of sweet Marjerom a few Marigold flowers a penny worth of Caraway Comfits a penny worth of Parsley seeds two penny worth of Dates a half penny worth of Raisons of the Sun boil all these in a quart of White Wine till halfe be boiled away then put in two ounces of brown Sugar candied and a little Mithridate SHINGLES For the Shingles Take the gteen leas of Colts foot stamped and mingled with Hony and apply it and it will help SPOTS To cleanse the skin from allscars and spots Make balls of a little bignesse of the juice of the inner parts of a Pumphin and bean flower dry them in the shadow and wash therewith before the fire SWELLING For a Swelling Take two handfuls of Wheaten meal and a pint of Cow milk and a handful of Rue and shred it small with a spoonful of fresh grease and boil them all together till they be thick then lay it on the swelling For Swelling in the Legs Take a handful of Archangel a handful of red Fennel and two handfuls of Mallowes and a handful of Brooklimes then seeth all these Herbs together in a gallon of running water to a pottle then bathe the leggs with the water hot and lay the Herbs on For all Swellings and Wrenchings c. Take a pint of Milk Oatmeal dryed Rose leaves Mellilot flowers of each a handful and a little Deers Suet and seeth it till it be as thick as pap then lay it to the hurt as hot as may be suffered For swelling in the Legs Take Wormwood Parsly Camomile Cummin and Ash rods of every one a handful and seeth them in the Patients Urine and make a plaister and apyly it For swelling of Sinewes Take Smallage Lovage Groundsel Brooklime Sengâ—een and Bruisewort stamp them and put thereto a little wheaten bran Sheeps Tallow and some Barrowes grease fry them well together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the place grieved For Swellings or Bruises Take milk wheaten meal red Roses and Camomile of each a handful seeth all these together until they be thick then spread it on a
cloth and lay it to till it heal the Patient For swelling in the Joints Take Groundsel Daisies Brooklime Chickweed Petty Moral Herb Bennet take of each of these alike and fry them with Sheeps Suet and put thereto crumbs of soure wheat bread and so bind it to with a cloth warm For any Swelling that lookâ—th red or for the Ague fallen into any part of the Body Take Houndstongue Camomile Daisie leaves and roots Plantane leaves and roots and Adderstongue of each a handful pick them clean but wash them not chop them small and stamp them then take a pound of fresh butter of Sheeps Suet half a pound set them over the fire and so let them boil until it look green then strain it out and keep it in an earthen vessel to use all the yeare For a Swelling Take three handfuls of Mallowes and a pottle of running water and boil the water and Mallowes together then bath the swelling therewith a good while then take a good quantity of Suet of the Kidney of a fat Sheep chopt and so boile that together with the Herbs againe and being hot lay it on a red piece of cloth all night and the next morning renew it and so from time to time till it be asswaged Another Take two quarts of Barley and two gallons of running water a pound of Boars grease four new laid eggs a handful of Bay salt of the tops of Rue Sage Camomile Rosemary of each a handful a quart of new Barm chop all the Herbs together then let it boil to two quarts and when it is boiled sufficiently then stop it close until it be in good case to lay to the place pained on a piece of new red cloth and renew it as occasion shall require It is called by the name of the Jewes Bath and is an excellent thing for this purpose For a white Swelling Take Woodbind flowers Water and Wheat flower and make thereof a thin paste first annoint the Swelling with Oyl of Linseed then lay on a plaister of paste FALLING SICKNES Divers and sundry Remedies for the Falling Sicknesse Take powder of Hawthorne and drink it with Wine it healeth the Falling Evil. The braines of a Fox unto Infants cureth this Disease Also Powder made of Opoponax Castorum Antimonium and Dragons is a most Soveraign Medicine The like vertue hath Antimonium alone with Castorum Or Antimonium alone received with water The ashes of a dead mans skull drunk is wonderful good Five leaved grasse drunk three and thirty times together doth perfectly heal this Disease The red stone found in a Swallow healeth the falling Evil. It hath been proved that Mistletow drunk healeth this Disease Piony tied about the Patients neck keepeth him from falling Also cut a Frog through the midst of the back with a knife and take the liver and fold it in a Colewort leaf and burn it in a new earthen pot wel stopped and give the ashes thereof unto the Patient in his sickness to drink with good Wine and if he be not healed at once do so by another Frog or more and without all doubt it wil heal him A Rhadish stampt and bound to the braines will heal one of this Disease The bloud or gall of a Lamb drunk with Wine cureth it The stone that is found in a Harts head stamped and given to the sick party doth the like The braines of a Camel mixt with Oyl of Roses wherewith annoint the Patient before and behind over all his body doth heal it which is a wonderful experiment and true The dung of a Peacock taken in drink doth the same also Take Mares piss new made and heat it and let the party grieved drink thereof as warm as he may this will help by Gods grace with three or four 〈◊〉 â—aking Probatum A good Medicine for the Falling Sicknesse Take young Ravens when they be fledged before they touch any ground flea the skin and feathers off clean and pull out all the guts and entrels and wipe it very clean and then put it into an Oven and dry it that you make powder thereof then beat flesh and bones together very fine and searse it and take a quantity as you think good and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine when the Fit begins and by Gods grace it will help Probatum STITCH For the Stitch in the side Take Camomile Spieremint Wormwood and Southernwood of each a handful then put a few cold ashes in the bottom of a pewter dish and upon them hot embers then clap the dish Herbs and all over with a linnen cloth and lay to the side somewhat higher then the paine is and it will drive away the pain downwards For the Stitch of the Stomack or Heart Take young Broom of one yeares growth distil it and drink it and it will help the Stitch and if it be in such time of the year that you cannot get the water then take Broome and make powder thereof and drink it in Ale or Beer For all manner of Stitches in any part of the Body Take Mousear and Shee Holm Stitchwort and Spieremint of each alike and dry them upon a tile and make powder of them and drink it with Ale or Beer Another Take some wool and baste it on a piece of linnen cloth then take Oyle of Camomile and warm it and sprinkle it thereon and lay to the pained place being first annointed with the Oyl SWEAT To cool a Sweat withal Take a Chicken and boil it in fair running water then take Burnet Burrage Marigold leaves Parsley and Sorrel of each a handful then boil all these together with a little salt then take the yolk of a new laid egge and put to halfe a pint of the broth and drink it hot To abate too much sweating Take Balm Burrage and Rosemary of each alike and steep it four and twenty hours or more in Ale or Beer and drink thereof evening and morning Also the water of the Decoction of Strawberries is good to be drunk for overmuch heat or sweating SLEEP To make one sleep Take a handful of Betony a handful of Rosemary and a handful of red Rose leaves brown bread crumbs two spoonfuls of womans milk two spoonfuls of Rosewater a spoonful of Vinegar and boil all them together and lay it to the temples of the Head Another Take an Onion and roast it soft and take Camomile and shred it and lay it upon the Onion and so bind it upon the nape of the neck A good Medicine to make one sleep Take a pint of Milk and seeth it and let it cool then take the Cream thereof and the white of an egge and a little womans milk and a little Rosewater beat them all together and spread them on a cloth and so lay it to the forehead A Medicine of Doctor Cranmers to bring sleep Take twenty or thirty Almonds or more and beat them with a spoonful of Poppy seed that is white then take two handfuls of white
Poppy leaves and as much of Lettice leaves and seeth them from a quart to a pint and with that water strain the Almonds to make Almond milk to drink and let them that cannot sleep drink of it last to bedward For one that cannot sleep in sicknesse but raves Take the juice of Houseleek a good quantity as much womans milk and as much Rose vinegar or else rose-Rose-water and vineger and mix them well together and then wet flax in it milk warm and bind it to the temples of the Patient and also wet flax therein and make round together like a ball and bind it in the palmes of the hands and it wil give great ease Another to make one steep Take the white of a new laid egg and beat it with a spoon until it cometh to an Oyl then let it stand a while and take the froth of it from the Oyl and put thereto Rose-water Vineger and womans milk and lay it to the Patients forehead in a linnen cloth and when it is dry lay on more Probatum Another for one that cannot sleep Take Oyl of Roses and put thereto a little good Vineger and heat them wel together and put it on a Cloth and bind it to the forehead it is a comfortable Remedy TASTE Losse of Taste THe signes of the Humour that causeth this Infirmity viz. The Blood yeildeth a sweet taste Phlegme also somewhat sweetish with much spettle humidity of the head of the tongue and of the whole body Choller causeth bitternesse saltnesse and a salt phlegme if no taste then is the mouth of the stomack troubled with many superfluous humours If Melancholy then is the taste tart There may also be sure signs taken from the tongue if it be white it s not only a sign of cold but also that the stomack head and liver are full of phlegme if red then the malady is of blood and hot Rheumes yellownesse is a sign that choller is the cause of all if a blackish lead colour it signifies Melancholy unlesse in hot Feavers then must the Patient be dyeted according to the grief TEETH For Tooth ache Take running water and put into it a Rosemary branch a branch of Sage and a branch of Rue and let it lye three or four hours and then wash your mouth with the water For a swelling in the cheek or Tooth ache and good for the Stomack Take a handful of Bay salt a quantity of Cloves Mace and Nutmegs and put it in a bag and warme it good and hot and lay it to the place grieved A Powder to keep Teeth clean and without Ache. Take dry Sage Allom Pepper and Bay Salt of each a like weight and make all these in powder and preserve it in a box and take a Sage leaf with the Powder and rub your gums with it when you please A Medicine for the Tooth ache Take Fetherfew and stamp it and strain it and drop a drop or two into the contrary ear to the pain and then lye still a half hour after To make a Tooth fall out Take the roots of Marigolds and put it in thy mouth on that Tooth that aketh For any Swelling that cometh by Tooth ache Take a quantity of Sage and Woodbind leaves and seeth them very tender in White Wine and a little Honey then wash the inside of your mouth with the water thereof and lay the Herbs to the outside of the grief very warm For the Tooth ache Take every night a little salt and let it malt in your mouth and when it is melted gargarise it well in your mouth then spit out then take five leaves of Rosemary and chew it wel and hold it to your teeth A hollow Tooth cured for ever Lint shaved and dipped in Oyl of Camphire then roll it in Bole Armoniack and burnt Allom being beat very small and make it into balls like paste and stop the hollow tooth and lay lint thereon and let it remain in the Tooth four our five houres then take it out and wash the Tooth cured for ever To keep Teeth from rotting Take white salt and in the morning fasting hold it under your tongue till it do turn to water and with that water wash your Teeth To make the Teeth white Take one drop of the Oyl of Vitriol and wet the Teeth with it and rub them afterwards with a course cloth although this Medicine be strange yet feare it not Of the Teeth Some men have thirty two Teeth some eight and twenty and some have thirty The Physicians write that the foremost Teeth are engendred of pure and superfluous moisture of the Scull the middest of a reasonable good humor and the hindmost of a grosse humidity All Imposthumes or Corruption of the Gums or Teeth if there be much blood and moisture with it then that part is to be purged with yellow Marabus and sowre Dates according to his ability and wash the mouth with this water viz. Take blossomes or pills of Pomgranats Acorn cups and Roses of each one ounce and boil them in water and wash the mouth with Vinegar and Allome For loose Teeth The cause is blowes thrusts defluctions that fall out of the head into the Teeth which loosen their roots or of great drowth after long sicknesse the corruption of the mouth and teeth may also cause the same The Remedy is Take half an ounce of Allome Rose buds half an ounce Bedegar Red Wine one pint boil them unto the one half and take this into your mouth warm often and hold it a good while therein for it is very good Also to wash the mouth often with Rosemary and Wine is very good TYMPANY For the Tympany in a Woman Take a handful of the blossoms of the Marygold that is yellow stamp it and strain it and give the juice thereof to the sick in a draught of Ale and drink the same fasting An Oyntment for the same Take the herbs stalks and leaves of the said Marigolds chopt small and fry them Goose grease take the liquor that cometh of the frying of the herbs and annoint the Patient all over the belly and in short time the Disease will vanish away A Plaister for the same Then take the Herbs so fryed and lay on a Plaister of black wool and bind it over all the belly which will help likewise The like for a Man Take the Marigold that hath black grounds and use them for a man as the other in all respects TETTER A good Medicine to kill a Tetter Take Lemmons and distil them rinds and all and with the water thereof wash the Tetter and sometimes annoint it with the juice of Ribwort TONGUE For a sore Tongue Seeth five leaved grass in Vinegar and gargarise therewith to help a sore mouth tongue or throat Of the Tongue The swelling of the Tongue is of blood or of phlegme that falleth out of the head If it be of a cold phlegme the tongue and face is alwayes white and the mouth full of
throat or elsewhere TAke a handful of red Sage a handful of Cellendine and as much Woodbind leaves take a gallon of running water and put the Herbs into it and let it boil to a pottle then strain it and take the liquor and set it over the fire again then put thereto a pint of English Honey and a good handful of Roach Allome finely beaten a penny worth of graines grosly bruised and let them hoil all together three or four walmes and then skim it off with a feather and when it is cold put it in an earthen pot or bottle so as it may be kept close and for a green wound take of the thinnest of the water and for an old wound the thickest the Water first being well shaken together and after you have well cleansed the old sore with White-Wine then take fine lint and wet it in the water and oft times bathe the wound and with the lint cover the wound and if there be any holes in the wound fill them with lint made like a Tent and so cover the wound with a piece of bladder the more better to continue your lint with moisture and dresse your wound twice a day To make Barley Water Take a penny worth of Barley a penny worth of Raisons of the Sun a penny worth of Anniseeds a half penny worth of Licoras two quarts or more of water boil all together till halfe be consumed then strain it and when it is cold drink it your Licoras must be sliced into small pieces To make Doctor Stephens Water Take a gallon of good Gascoigne Wine then take Ginger Gallingal Cinnamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Mace Anniseeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds of each a dram then take red Mints red Rose leaves Garden Time Pellitory of the wall Smal Marjerom Rosemary Peniroyal Sage Wild Time Camomile Lavender Avens of each one handful then bruise them all in a Mortar and beat your Spices small and then put your Spices and Herbs into your Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it oftentimes and then still it in a Limbeck The first pint is the best the second is good The Vertue of this Water It comforteth the spirits and preserveth greatly the youth of man it helpeth the inward Diseases coming of cold it helpeth the shaking of the Palsie it cureth the distraction of the Sinewes and helpeth the Tooth ache it comforreth the stomack very much it cureth the Raines of the back the Canker and cold Dropsie it helpeth forth the Stone in the bladder also it helpeth a stinking breath and the Conception of a woman that is barren a spoonful of this Water to some is sufficient to others two or three once in ten dayes sufficeth A Water for a green Wound Take a gallon of fair running water a pottle of White Wine of Wormwood Motherwort Bramble buds Hawthorn buds Basil Mints Avens Egrimony Bovewort Wood Bugloss Woodbind Plantane Ribwort Daisie roots Betony Wild Angelica Sanicle White Bottles Scabious and Dandillion of each one handful and put them into the Wine and water and let them boil together till the half be consumed then strain out all the Herbs and boil the liquor with a quart of English Honey very softly till it be clean skimmed then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a glass and keep it for to wash any green wound which it will care although never so dangerous drinking also at a time three spoonfuls of it A Water to heal a Wound Take Woodbind leaves and Sage of each a handful boil them well together in a little water and put in a piece of Allome and a little Honey and wash the wound therewith laying a little lint to it and it wil heal it An excellent Water to wash any Sore withal and will be a means to gather skin Doctor Wheads Water Take brown Sage brown Fennel Rosemary Violet leaves Liverwort Harts-tongue Bryar leaves Plantane leaves Woodbind leaves five leaved grasse Egrimony Wild Tansie of each one handful take all these Herbs and boile them in an earthen pot with a pint of White Wine and three pints of running water till it comes to a quart then take the Herbs and strain them in a bason then take as much Allome as three Walnuts and put it in the water and let it boil up then take it and put it in a bason till it be almost cold then put in a quarter of a pint of live Honey and presently put it in bottles and stop it very close To make a cordial Water Take of the tender leaves of green Angelica four handfuls of the like leaves of Carduus Benedictus two handfuls of the like leaves of Balm and Sage of each one handful and an halfe let all be shred small Licoras bruised five ounces the seeds of Angelica two ounces the seeds of sweet Fennel three ounces let both be bruised well the Spices of Aromaticum Rosarum Diamoschum Dulce of each half an ounce infuse them all in six quarts of good Sack four and twenty hours then distil them in a Limbeck with a soft fire according to Art and draw forth of the best water a pottle whereunto after two dayes put half a pound of the finest Sugar dissolved in half a pint of good red Rose water in a fair pipkin on the fire when the Rose-water is hot with the Sugar then put in your hot water and let it stand over the fire till it be throughly hot then take it off and put it in glasses and keep it as excellent to comfort the spirits and against infection you may draw forth of good smaller water a quart A very precious Water made of Cinnamon Take one pound of good Cinnamon and bruise it a little and lay it a soaking four and twenty hours in four pints or four-pound of Rosewater a pint and half of Muskadine or white Wine then put it into a Limbeck glass to distil upon hot ashes or else in a pot of hot water This Water is good against the pain of the Spleen the pain in the head the Mother to provoke Urine to stay vomiting to expel all venemous colds You may take four pints of White Wine putting to it half a pound of Cinnamon and use it as aforesaid WEN A Medicine to put away a Wen or Curnel Take black Soap mixed with unslaked Lime made into powder lay it to the Wen or Curnel and by Gods grace it will help A Medicine for an unbroken Wen. Take the crumbs of Barley bread the bignesse of an egge and as much White Wine Vinegar as will make it into a soft paste and spread it upon a cloth then take an old wooden ladle and set it against the fire and it will sweat then take a feather and wipe the sweat off the ladle and annoint the Wen therewith then take a plaister of the paste and lay it on the Wen and dresse it three times a day after the Sun is risen and before the
going down of the same every time fresh paste and divers times the ladies sweat Probatum For the drawing and healing of a Wen when it is broken Take a handful of Marigolds blowne of them that have black in the midst and half a handful of Rosemary leaves stripped downward and half a handful of Pellamountain half a handful of Hysop half an handful of Valerian all stripped downward as before and all these Herbs must be boiled in six ounces of unwasht Butter over a soft fire till the one half be confumed then strain the Oyntment through a clean cloth then put the Oyntment over the fire and put in an ounce of Bee Wax and hoil it again half a dozen turnes then put it in a fair pot and keep it to your use WOMAN To make a Woman to be soon delivered the child being dead or alive Take a good quantity of the best Amber and beat it exceeding small to powder then searse it through a fine piece of Lawne and so drink it in some broth or caudle and it will by Gods grace presently help the Patient to be delivered To make a Womans Disease to come to its right course Take young Southernwood Betony Caunapitum Centory the roots of Cellendine St Johns wort with the stowers of each of these as big as your thumb yet put but one root of Cellendine of White Wine a pint and half of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out half a handful cut in pieces these boil until a third part be wasted then strain it and put to it three and forty blades of Saffron made to powder of Graines the weight of two pence beaten then boil it a little again and of this drink a draught in the morning fasting with as much Treakle as a Hasel Nut and at night a draught without Treakle For the green Sickness Take fasting every morning of one Cowes milk one pint hot from the Cow with a few Mints bruised in it and let the party stirre about after it An approved Medicine for the green Sickness or the yellow Jaundies Take seven or nine Lice out of a cleane bodies head and put them into bread and Butter or Conserves of Roses or into Ale or Beer or any other thing you shall think fit so that the party grieved may eat them all alive and know not of it for loathing the Medicine A Medicine for the Green Sicknesse and also to scowre the body Take thre sticks of a fig tree and three sticks of a Walnut tree and a handful of red Sage and a good handful of Peniroyal a pound of Raisons of the Sun stones and all three Cap Dates stones and all bruise them all together and put them all in a pottle of White Wine and seeth it from a pottle to a quart then strain it and put into the drink oâ—e ounce of the best Sugar candied and drink thereof morning and evening it is good Probatum A Medicine for a woman that is in travel Take seven or nine leaves of Dittony a pretty quantity of Germander a branch or two of Peniroyal three Marigolds a branch or two of Hisop take all these and boil them together in a pint of White Wine or a pint of Ale and after it is boiled put into it Sugar and Saffron and boil it a quarter of an hour more and give it the Patient to drink warm For the after Burthen Take one little branch of Motherwort and six blades of Saffron pound them together and then put to it six spoonfuls of Ale and then drink it blood warme all at one draught and fast after it half an hour A good Medicine to provoke the Termes in a Woman Take Wormwood and Rue of each one handful five or six Pepper Cornes seeth them all together in a quart of White Wine or Malmsey strain it and drink thereof Mallows sod in Wine and drunk is very good Also take Sage half an handful of Cloves Mace and Saffron of each half a scruple stamp them all together and bind it in a fine cloth and hang it a night and a day in a pint of good Wine wringing it oftentimes out into the Wine then divide it into three parts and take one part five hours before meat the second part in the afternoon and the other part after supper but this is to be done in the wane of the Moon and eat very little A Medicine for the Green Sickness Take the weight of a French Crowne of Rubarb of French Wormwood and Egrimony of each half a handful steep them over night in a quart of Ale and slice a Nutmeg and put therein and so take it three several mornings at three draughts and this being done you must make more and use it in that sort six mornings more See before amongst the Vomits for a Vomit for the Greene Sicknesse which is to be taken before this Medicine To procure the red Menstrues Take of Clary leaves and of Hisop of each one handful of Parsley half a handful stamp them and straine them and put part of the juice thereof into an empty eggshel and put thereto the yolk of an egg only with a little Sugar candied in powder then stir it and set it on embers and when it is through hot sup it up and fast after it two hours and this do three mornings together in the beginning of the Moon within five dayes of the Change To stop the White Menstrues Take a pottle of running water of pure Cinnamon half an ounce half a Pomgranat Pill of Knotgrasse halfe an handful boil these together till the water come to a pint and thereof make a caudle 〈◊〉 three mornings Also 〈◊〉 Sassaparilla six ounces Pollipodium of the Oak Cene and Fennel of each four ounces of Caraway seeds one ounce of Licoras scraped and bruised two ounces Egrimony and Maiden hair of each two handfuls Liverworn one handful Scurvigrasse two handfuls new Beer or Ale three gallons these particulars must be stampt to powder and all put into a bag together with the Scurvigrasse stamped then hang the bag in the vessel of Ale or Beer the yeest being first taken away and so stopped very close that no aire get in then drink thereof the quantity of a pint two hours before dinner and so at Supper It purgeth all humours in the body it will not suffer the bloud to putrifie nor phlegme to have Dominion nor Melancholy to have exaltation it purgeth the wind it defendeth the stomack it nourisheth profiteth and preserveth the Heart it ingendreth a good colour it comforteth the sight it nourisheth the mind and is good against the Stone To stop the red Menstrues Take a good handful of Lavender tope and boile them in a quart of Posset drink till it come to a pint and drink it off bot with some Sugar if your please For the Green Sicknesse Take half an ounce of the powder of steel as you have it at the Steel-makers but the Needle makers have the best
in then take two handfuls of Fordy Almonds blaneh and bruise them and mingle them with a gallon of Cute and put them into the Bastard and roll it well for half an hour and lot wo dayes you may broach it and it will be perfect good A Parrel to the same Basturd First Parrel him with the whites of eight new laid Eggs beat them wel with a handful 〈…〉 and a pint of the same Bastard and put them into the Bastard then beat it an hour with a parting staff then-take one pennyworth of Allome and burn it and mingle it with a pint of running water and put it into the Pipe and then give it a stroak more and roll it well and a dozen upon the Bung stop him close and broach him if you have occasion two hours after To make Tyre that is excellent Take a good Butt of Malmsey and overdraw him one quarter and then fill him with fat Balâ—ard and two gallons of Cute then Parrel him as you did the Malmsey with the same things and after the same manner and â—o beat him and keep him close and in two or three dayes you may broach him To make Muskadine of Jane Take a Burt of Jane or good Malmsey and fill him up with sat Bastard and Parcel him as you did the Malmsey and beat him well one hour 〈◊〉 he be fine A Parrel for the Muskadine When it comes to be fine within four hours after take six new laid eggs beat them shels and all with one handful of Bay salt put to them a quart of old Sack one handful of white Sugar candy beaten small then beat them all together very well then overdraw the Butt eight or ten gallons then bear the Butt an hour then put in the Parrel and then bear him again gently half an hour and stop him close and broach him within twenty four hours A Parrel for Malmsey It must be Parrel'd as your Muskadine saving only you must take yolks in stead of Whites or also use them all 〈◊〉 alike For 〈…〉 Overdraw him one 〈…〉 fill him up with pleasant sat Bast and 〈…〉 gallons of Râ—d 〈…〉 two gallons of 〈…〉 it wel and it shal help it presently For Bastard that drinketh hard You must put in it three or four gallons of running water and as much skimmed milk then beat them wel and give him a Parrel of the yolks of six eggs with a pint of water and put it into the Wine and beat the Butt well half an hour and when he is fine you shall rack him into a cleer Pipe and put into him two gallons of Honey water and stop him close and roll him and within two dayes broach him To make a Pipe of Ossey Take a Pipe of Eager Bastard then take a Butt of smal Sack but first you must roll the Pipe of Bastard and draâ—â— him half into another Pipe then take your small Butt of Sack fill up your Bastard therewith within ten or twelve inches if your Bastard be but small take the lesse Sack for the Ossey must drink somewhat fat then to take away the eagernesse which is a principal thing take five gallons of new milk and two gallons of water and that shall make it white and well coloured and wel in drinking and then you must beat it or else it wil faint in the Pipe then take half an ounce of Orris and two ounces of Cloves and beat them smal and bang them in a bag three dayes in the midst of the Pipe and that shal give it a right sent and taste and at three dayes end with-draw him from his Bastard Lees to good Sack Lees and parrel him thus Take twelve whites of eggs and a handful of White Salt well beaten together with a gallon of White Wine which is in the Trace then put it into the Butt with your beating staff and fill him up and let him lye til he shew fine and then it wil seem for Ossey which is excellent Or with the two Pipes you may make or draw mingled together four Butts of exceeding good Malmsey To shift Wines and Malmseyes and put off your ill Wines If you have two principal good Butts of Malmseyes you may make two and a half with eight gallons of pleasant fat Bastard and with the Lugs you have of Clarret White and Sack and if you put a gallon of Red Wine to every Butt it will do well and you shall have the more Cute or you may use Cute two gallons of Spainsh Cute wil go further then five of Candy Cute but Candy Cute is more natural for Malmesey then the other then Parrel him with eight whites of eggs and a handful of salt beaten together then put them into the Wine and beat the Butt half an hour and stop him very close and in two dayes you may broach him A pleasant Sent for Red Wine Take two ounces of Brimstone half an ounce of Callamus mix them together with half a pint of Burrage water melt the Brimstone into a pan and let the rest be with it therein then put in so many Cloves as wil soak it up and burne the Cloves in the Cask throw away the ashes then your Wine being rackt put into it a pint of Damask Rose-water then roll it wel half an hour stop it close and let it lye two dayes then broach it This shal give it or any other Gascoin Wine a most pleasant sent and taste For to make Match Take one pound of Brimstone half a pound of Coriander seeds Anniseeds two ounces of Cloves and Nutmegs one peniworth Orris one penniworth one penniworth of Cammomile grate them and beat all these together Also for parrelling a Hogshead of White Wine take two gallons of milk and the whites of four eggs and a handful of Bay salt these being well parrelled and put into the Hogshead will do the work Also if you have a Butt of Sack that doth begin to be long take two penny-worth of Roach Allom burne it then beat it smal with the whites of six eggs and one handful of Bay salt if it begin to boile give it the Parrel aforesaid Also if you have a Pipe of Malaga that pricketh over-draw it ten gallons and put in Chalk in this manner you may help it away Roll it well and put therein two gallons of Stone-Honey clarified and beaten with a quart of Conduit water and that shall fine the Wine again and in two dayes close stopped it shal be perfect For Bastard that pricketh First draw it out into a fresh Pipt and fresh Lees then take three gallons of the best Stone Honey clarifie it and beat it with a quart of the same Bastard then take a peck of Frumety well boiled as for pottage then mingle the Honey and beat it together then put it into the bag and let the bag be long that it may reach almost to the bottom then put into another little bag one pennyworth of Anniseeds of Coriander seeds and