in the euening warme and in the morning cold For impostumes in the stomack ¶ Against the impostumes in the stomack and of the bowels séeth Fenegreke verie soft with water that Mallowes haue béene sodden in and lay it to the stomacke in manner of a plaister and this will ripen and breake the impostumes that be in the stomack Prooued For impostumes that be in the stomack or in the liuer or in the bowels ¶ Take the iuyce of Morrell with Prisome and Barly and giue it to the patient to drinke and it wil both ripen and destroy the impostume in the stomack Also take the oyle of Mandrake and annoynt the gréeued stomacke therewith For an impostume in the stomacke ¶ Take Barlie dryed Beanes and Lycoris and let them boyle all together of each of these a like much drinke thereof with Sugar euerie day fasting and at night when thou goest to bedde let the patient vse this seauen or eyght dayes together and it will cast out the impostume in his stomack For to cleanse the filth in the stomack ¶ For the filth and dyrt in the stomack which resteth there by reason of the impostume that hath béene in the stomack or in the bowels take the powder of Salnatry with warme water or else with Hony For a stomack ouer-charged with raw meat ¶ Take Stonecrop that groweth on the wal and it purgeth both vpward and downe ward it purgeth the stomacke of euill humors and helpeth the Dropsie the Stone and the Flix Also for the Spléene for the Tissick and for the Feauer it is a precious medicine For the stomack and head and for a man that may not well speake ¶ Take and giue the sick to eate nine daies in May Scabbias Mugwoort Smallage Morsus diaboli Iuie Mylfoyle Wormewood and Fetherfoy stampe all these together then séeth them and when they be well sodden take whites of Egs and purge the patient euening and morning For a man that cannot digest his meate in his stomacke ¶ Take Centorie and seeth it in water and drinke thereof warme euerie night when thou goest to bedde Also take Sage Rue Commin and Pepper séeth them together with Honny and eate euery day a spoonful thereof Also drinke the wine that Nep hath béen sodden in Or séeth Betony in the iuyce of wormwood and drinke it with warme water For winde in the stomack and bowels ¶ Take three vnces of Scene halfe an vnce of Ginger in powder Commin and Anniséedes three pound weight of both mingle all these together and eate thereof euery day a spoonefull Also take Calamint ginger an vnce made in powder with a little Honny and eate thereof first and last For vnkinde heate in the stomack ¶ Take Lettice and drinke it with Wine euery day or else eate thereof and it will take away the heat of the stomack also to eate Rue euery morning is good for the stomack For the weakenes of the stomack ¶ Take Mastick and Labdanum of each one vnce take also a dramme of the powder of Wormewood and Turpentine as much as néedes to encorporate them together make a plaister hereof and spread it vpon Leather then lay it to the stomacke It is good to annoynt the stomacke with the oyle of Spignard and Mastick or to lay vpon it hote bread stéeped in good wine on the which bread strew the powder of Cloues and Nutmegs Also it is wholsome to eate afore your meate Anniseedes and Fennell-séedes and when you begin to eate take a toste dipped in sodden wine or els in good Malmste without drinking of the same Wine except it be a very little draught after meat A medicine for the bulke ¶ Against paine of the members in the bulke as the longs and other that serue to the breath and against apilation of the liuer and Milke of the bladder and paine of the stomack drinke the Wine that the roote of Ireos hath béen sodden in Another for the same ¶ Take and make a manner of pottage with Barly water and put the powder of Bawme-mint thereto and giue it to the patient and it will helpe him For the bulke and the stomack ¶ Vse to drinke the Wine that is sodden with Dragagant it warmeth the parts of the bulke and clenseth them Also it warmeth the stomack and the bowels and is very good against the Collick and to open the milt also it is verie good against the hinderance of vrine be it either Strangurie or Dissury There be two kinds of Secadors that is to wit Arabick and Cytrine and both of them approoued to the sinnewes and braine For spetting of blood ¶ For the partie that vseth to spet blood caused in the bulk make Pills of the powder of Dragons blood and gumme Arabick and Ptysome that Dragagant hath béen molten in and let the patient hold it on his tongue and whē it is all relented swallow it downe Also for them that spet blood because of the disease in the bulke take Pills made of the powder of Sumac and gumme Arabick confect in rose-Rose-water Also for them that spet blood take Honny and Vinegar and it helpeth the same Another medicine for the spetting of blood ¶ Take Pilles confect with the powder of Mummy with a little Mastick and confect them in water that gum Arabicke hath béene molten or laid in and hold these Pills in thy mouth till they melt and then swallow them downe And if the blood come to thy mouth by reason of the nutritine members as the stomacke the liuer and the milt eate this powder with a rawe Egge and drinke it with the iuyce of Plantine Another for the same ¶ For them that vse to spet blood at the mouth out of the bellie and stomack and against the paine thereof take and beate the roote of Sowthistle small to powder drinke it with wine Or els take two drams of the powder of Betony with Ciats of olde Wine for three dayes and it will helpe the patient that is gréeued here-with For spetting of blood ¶ Take Ach Mints Rue and Betony of each a like quantitie and seeth them well in good Milke then giue the patient thereof to drinke and it shall helpe him Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Betonie and temper the same wel with Goates milke and let the partie troubled drinke thereof three dayes together Also take Smallage Mints Rue and Betony and giue thereof to the patient to drinke in Goates milk and let him sup vp a good draught at a time as hote as hée may well suffer it For straightnes of the breast ¶ Take a quarte of good stale Ale and a quart of fine Woort take also halfe a handfull of Liuer-wort halfe a penny-worth of Licoris sliced very fine and scraped cleane then bruse it take also a halfe penny-worth of Figges and wash them cleane and halfe a handful of Isope a quantitie of clarified Honny a quantity of Set well and thrée rootes of Parslie and cut them
beat the Pils in Rose-water and giue two or thrée of the said Pils to the Patient when he goeth to bed Also to take the quantity of foure drams of Cucubes with the iuice of the root or the leaues of Parsneps is very good Also for them that be faint at the hart or be like to sown giue them Rose-water for to drinke and also bedew their faces therwith Also if the faintnes come from the braine or liuer or paine of the stomack caused of cold take two Wheat cornes of Musk in wine and it will help the same Against sowning Against sowning and faintnes of the hart take rose-Rose-water that this hearb Bassell is sodden in and for the same take wine that the hearb is laid in all night Also against sowning take the powder of Roses and put it into a reare Egge Also take the powder of Ginger in your meats and it is good against sowning Against sowning make sirop with the iuice of Borage and Suger Also against sowning of the hart comming of cold take and séeth this hearb Cardomomum in sweet smelling wine with a little rose-Rose-water and vse it For sowning ¶ For sowning and weaknes of the hart be it in Feauers or sicknesses or if it come of either cause stampe Mints with Vineger and a litle Wine if the Patient haue no Feauer then tost a shiuer till it be almost burnt and put it therein till it be well stéeped then put of it in his nose and rub his lips his tong gums teeth and the temples and let him chewe it and sucke the moistnes therof and swallow it For the paine of the lungs ¶ Take Figs and let them be sodden with Isop they clense the lungs and heale the old cough Also take the root of the wild Rape and séeth it with Licoris and the water that it is sodden in giuen to the Patient to drink is very good to clense the lungs Also take this hearb Southernwood and mingle it with Isop and sodden in wine or water make it swéet with Suger and so drunken is very good for al diseases of the lungs and the breast when sicknes commeth of cold annoynt the breast Another for the same ¶ If you take the broth of Creues it is good for paine in the lungs named Perpleumonia vr consuming of a man called Prosis because when a man hath a swelling about the lungs then he commeth to drinesse and consuming of that naturall moysture till he dyeth For the lyuer and lungs ¶ For the lyuer and the lungs wasting with ouer vnkind heats take water made of Borage and of red Fenell roots Ach Isop Endiue Betony Calamint Lettice Nutmegs Mace flowers of Camomel Cloues Aniseeds by euen portions one vnce of Licoris and Aniséeds halfe a pound make of all these hearbs and spices a water and it shall restore you meruailously and if you cannot get all these hearbs then take the more of Borage Also to restore his kind make a confection of the flowers of Borage and of red Roses with the foresaid spires and with Suger For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Spodium vt eborij in rose Corall Barly meale Triacendaly thrée peny worth mingle all these with the iuice of Endiue S. Mary berry and Housléeke Another for the same ¶ Take red Roses Sandalorum cum Iuery and water of Lillies an vnce stamp them small and put therto Barly meale and the iuice of Marigolds Vineger and the iuice of Wormwood and make a plaister therof and lay it to the lyuer For chafing of the lyuer and of the spleene ¶ Take yellow Rubarb Barly meale and Vineger and temper them together and make therof a plaister and lay that plaister to a mans right side let him blood in the vaine of the spléene and giue him to drinke in Winter Suger rosset and in Sommer Scabious For the chafing of the lyuer ¶ For the chafing of the lyuer and opilation of the milt caused of humor take Rubarb with warme water but it is better to mingle it with Trifera sarazenica and this you may vse with the iuice of Endiue and so giue it to the Patient Also take and annoynt the lyuer with the oyle of Roses for the chafing of the lyuer Against chafing or heat of the lyuer take and wet a cloth many times double and lay it to the lyuer Also the oyle of Violets is good against the chafing of the lyuer Prooued Against the chafing of the lyuer scrape the vppermost of the Gourd stamp the said scraping and wring out the iuice and put Vineger thereto wet a cloth therin and lay it to the lyuer outwardlie Also take Endiue and lay it in water and vse it in your brothes for the Patient so gréeued For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Fenell Endiue Succory Planten of each a like much and still them with red Wine or milke and vse it euerie morning nine spoonfuls at a time with a draught of Wine and Suger or else fiue spoonfuls therof alone For the lyuer wasting which causeth a scabbid face ¶ Take thrée gallons of sweet Woort and put thereto foure handfull of Lyuerwoort and foure handfuls of Violets two handfuls of Harts tongue foure handfuls of Marigolds foure handfuls of Matfelon and stamp all these together and boyle them a prety while in the Woort then take them vp and when they are cold strain them and put therto Barly meale vse this fasting at night the space of a moneth then take an oyntment that is made for a dry scab and therwith daily annoynt thy face and vsing of this drink aforesaid the party shall find help For the vnkinde heate of a mans liuer which causeth his collour to waxe yellow ¶ Take the water of Chiccorie and the water of Lettice and the water of the leaues small branches of a Moryer tree take the hearbs and stampe them all together as much of the one as of the other take the iuyce thereof and asmuch Sugar as will suffise boyle all these together till they be as thicke as a sirrop and put vnto the same a poys and a halfe of Rewbarbe and vse a quantitie of this sirrop in colde water euerie day fasting till he be whole For the liuer that is corrupted and wasted ¶ Take a quantitie of Liuerwoort and bruse it a little then séeth it in good strong Woort with a quantitie of Rewbarb and vse this medicine till thou be whole A drinke for the Splene ¶ Take Harts-tongue wilde Hoppe leaues and Borage with the flowers of Femitory and Parflie rootes seeth them in Whey and clarifie them with the white of an Egge strain it drinke thereof morning and euening and so continue a fortnight and it will helpe you many waies A playster for the Splene ¶ Take three or foure Hollihocke rootes two handfulls of Mallowes and seeth them well together then stampe the rootes by themselues and straine them with the same water wherein they were sodden then stampe
preserue the same in a glasse and giue the woman so greeued a quarter of a pynte at once first in the morning and last at night Another for the same ¶ Take Sauerie and stampe it and put thereto good Ale with a little Iet white Amber made into powder very small and giue the woman thereof to drinke with the Sauery also make a plaister of Sauerie of Isope and of Léekes fryed with fresh Butter and lay it to her bellie and to her raines and shee shall be whole For a woman that her wombe is hard ¶ Let the partie gréeued drink the iuyce of Waybread with old Wine and shee shall bee eased Another for the same ¶ Take Cinckfoyle that is to say fiue leaued Grasse and stampe it and straine it with hote Milke and giue the woman thereof to drinke and it will helpe her For a swolne or aking wombe ¶ Take the iuyce of Rue and let the patient drinke thereof with Wine or Ale and it will help her on warrantise Proued Also take Sothernwood Tansie Rew and eate theÌ„ with salt and shee shall be whole For to vnbinde the belly and the wombe ¶ Take Honny and séeth it till it waxe black and put thereto powder of salt and mingle them both together poure it vpon an euen stone or some other euen thing then beeing made an oyntment put thereof into the parties fundament and it will cause him to goe to stoole very well Sundry other medicines for to vnbind the belly ¶ Seeth the roote of Mulberry in water and drinke thereof and it will losen the wombe and the belly and driue out the wormes that be rough and short Also you may vse a Gargarisme of Vinegar water wherein Assa fedita hath beene sodden it abateth the swelling of the wombe or bellie Also if you lay the leaues of Hollihocke very hote vppon the wombe it helpeth the same Also you may vse the Wine that Rosemary and Comin hath been sodden in against the ache of the wombe Also to take Peares and dresse them in your meate comforteth the wombe and vnbindeth the same For to lose the belly and wombe ¶ Take the iuyce of the hearb called Britanica asmuch therof as you thinke necessarie for the strength of the patient and it will loose the wombe without any danger Also if you take Mallowes and seeth them and make pottage of them it looseth the wombe as hath oft beene proued Also the heads of Leeks being sodden in the oyle of sweet Almonds or of oyle Cockil called Zizanium loseth the wombe and keepeth it moist Against wormes in the belly ¶ Take and make pancake or frittures of meale with the leaues of small Tapsebarbe and eate thereof for they are very good against wormes in the belly Also the iuyce of Scabbious beeing drunke is very good for the same Also a plaister made of parcht Beanes with a little Vinegar Mints and Wormewood and layd to the nauell is good against the wormes in the wombe Likewise the iuyce of Plantaine being drunke killeth wormes in the wombe The iuyce of Mints and of Horehound beeing drunke doth the same For wormes in the belly ¶ Take Bettonie and Sauine and dry theÌ„ and make pouder of them and let the patient drinke thereof in hote water and assoone as the pouder is in the belly it will kill the wormes and bring them out on warrantise Proued Another for the same Take Sengréene Fetherfoy and Mints stampe them and drinke the iuyce thereof in warme Wine and it will kill the wormes and bring them out For wormes in the belly ¶ Against wormes in the belly take Garlick Pepper a little Parsly and the iuyce of Mints make of them sauce and wet your bread therein Also for wormes in the belly make Pilles of Galbanum and annoynt them with Honny and vse thereof Also for the wormes in the belly take Armoniack made in pouder with the iuyce of Wormewood and Arsmert and it will helpe the same Against the Fluxe of the belly ¶ Take small Reysons and vse to eate of them often with your meate it taketh away the belching and helpeth greatly to stop the fluxe in the belly Also for the fluxe in the bellie let the patient take the roote of Turmentile and stampe it and straine out the iuyce thereof and drinke thereof warme with the Water of Plantaine and it will helpe him Also if the partie gréeued take the rootes or beards of Léekes dryed on a hote Tyle-stone and receiue the smâ—ake thereof beneath it is good for to close the fluxe of the belly Also the iuyce of the crops of Bryers taken with a glister is very good for the same purpose Also the iuyce of Sloes giuen to the patient to drink in wine helpeth the paine thereof The powder of fiue leaued Grasse beeing put into the iuyce of Plantaine and giuen vnto the patient to drinke thereof fasting stoppeth the fluxe in the belly A verie good experiment to stop the fluxe of the belly ¶ Take the rootes of Fearne Roses wild Cresses Figge-tree leaues and flowers of Camomile of each a like much and beate them together and seeth them in raine water til the halfe be wasted and then receiue the smoake thereof beneath and wash your feete also in the same water For wormes in little chyldren ¶ Take the hearbe called Rodalia and stampe it and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the childs belly and it will helpe the same Prooued For the wormes in childrens bellyes ¶ Take a penny-worth of Aloes siccatrina and asmuch of Colla curtadia and make them both in fine powder and boyle these two powders on the fire with halfe a pounde of swéet Butter and so dresse the child three or foure times ouer the stomack and the belly against a good fire but remember first to straine this medicine through a fine cloth after it is boyled and theÌ„ vse the 〈◊〉 in manner as is afore-said A drinke for wormes in chyldren ¶ Take of Wheate flower asmuch as will couer a French crowne heaped three times and put it into a goblet then take of faire water almost a pynt and sette it to the fire and let it seeth and scumme it verie cleane then take of Penidis two vnces in powder and put it into the water and let it boyle well then take the same from the fire and poure thereof in the flower and stirre it alwaies in the pouring that it may be as thick as milk and no thinner then gyue the partie to drinke thereof warme a good draught at a time A playster for wormes in chyldren ¶ Take of Aloes siccatrina the quantitie of two Beanes beaten into verie small powder and put it into a spoone with as much of the iuyce of Wormewood as will make the same moist like vnto a salue then take a peece of red Leather asmuch in breadth as your three fingers and smere the oyntment thereon then warme it a little and lay it vpon the nauell
powder and searce them through a searcer and drink them in white Wine or good Ale first and last and in all maner of sauces that you eat with your meat and this medicine shall cure the mother the stone and the chollick proued Another for the mother ¶ Take Mugwoort and hearb Sunonde Saudry and red Mints and siraine all these iuyees with red Wine and giue it to the woman that is pained with the mother to drink A good medicine for the mother comming of what cause so euer ¶ Take the rasing of Iuery and the rasing of an Hartes horne with the haire of a Hare dryed and made in powder and as much of Geats clawes burnt and poudered if they may be gotten or in stéed therof Shéepes clawes take all these and vse to eat of them in your pottage or otherwise in your drinks For the genitories ¶ For the paine and swelling of the genitories sée the well the root of Bruse and make a plaister therof and put swet to it and bind it fast therto with a band and it will cease the paine and swelling of the cods For the swelling of the cods ¶ For them that haue swolne cods with fleame so that they shine stampe Doues-foote with small greene Lettice and lay it plaister-wise thereto Another for the same ¶ Take Barly meale and Honey and fry them together and make a plaister thereof and let the party so gréeued lay it warme to the gréefe of the cods For swelling of a mans cods ¶ Take Rue and Wormwood and srampe them together and put therto hony and make therof a cold plaister and lay all about the cod and when you will take the plaister away then wash the cod with Vineger and he shall be whole For a man that is brused or that his cods be sore ¶ Take the wooll of a blacke Rams cod and put that wooll into oyle and powder of Comin and heate it hote and thereof make a plaister and as hote as the party can suffer it lay it to his cods and it will doo away the aking and make it whole within thrée or foure times dressing therwith For swelling of the cods ¶ Take Rose leaues rose-Rose-water red Wine Camomell or Camomell flowers and Beane flower let them boyle together and make a plaister of it and lay it to the cods as hote as he may suffer it Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Walwoort Vineger and Honey put therto Barly flower and séeth them till they be thick and bind it to the sore all hot For a mans yard that is scalded ¶ Take Bruse Woort Veruaine hearb Robert Pimpernell of each of all these a good quantity and most of all of Pimpernell stamp them all together as small as you may then fry them with Butter and straine it through a cloth and put it in a bore and therwith annoynt your yard cold and of these hearbs make a plaister then lay it all about the yard cold dressing it euery day two or three times a day For a mans yard that is burnt ¶ Take a linnen cloth and burne it to powder and take oyle of Eggs and annoynt the sore and fill the gréefe with the sayd powder Also for a mans yard that is sore and full of holes take a good company of Dasies and stampe them and change them often Also take Linséed and burne it and make powder therof and doo it in a cloth and lay it to the sore For a sore in a mans yard ¶ Take Swinismore Hocke leaues Ambrose leaues Veruaine Peritory Cherfaile Mastick bruse these hearbs together in a morter and mingle them together with Mastick and Swines greace and oyle Oliue and boyle them and straine it through a cloth and with this Vnguent annoynt the sore yard so gréeued For the swelling of a mans yard ¶ Take Léekes and bray them in a morter and fry them in fresh greace of a Bore and make a plaister then lay it all about the yard and it shall asswage and heale it proued Another for the same ¶ Take Clay and beate it to powder and sifte it and take wine Vineger and seethe them together and make a plaister therof and it will take away the swelling therof For paine in the bladder ¶ Take fcure drams of Betony and foure rootes of Smallage sodden in water but first séethe the rootes till the water be halfe wasted then seeth the Betony therin and drink therof A decoction for to drink with Wine for them that make bloody water by fracture of any vaine within the body as in the lyuer raines and bladder ¶ Take of Knotgrasse Bursa pastoris of each a handfull the cups of Acornes of Camphire one lease of Cinamon a dram waight of Licoris cleane scraped and sliced one dram waight of water a quart of Suger two vnces all this must boyle to the consumption of the third part and then let it run through a faire cloth into a clean vessell and when it is cold put it into a glasse and in your drink vse therof eyther in Ale or Béere and it shall ease the bladder of payne For him that pisseth blood ¶ Take Ambrose Bursa pastoris Parsly séede stamp them and temper them with Goats milk and giue the party to drink and it will quickly help him For a man that pisseth blood ¶ Take of the earth that is on the Swallowes nest and put it into hot water and giue the sick for to drink and the bléeding shall staunch within a while For a man that may not hold his water ¶ Take the clawes of a Goate and burne them in the fier and make therof powder and let the sicke vse of this powder in pottage a spoonfull at once and he shall be whole For a man that may not pisse ¶ Take Mallowes a good quantity of Gromell and séethe them in Vineger a good while and then let the sick drink therof warme and he shall pisse soone after Another for the same ¶ Take Lanberd and make powder therof and then let the ficke drink therof with white Wine and he shall quickly pisse for this medicine hath béen proued For a hard womb and for to pisse ¶ Take Parfly séede Ache and Spurge of euery of them foure vnces stamp them to powder and put it either into wine or water and drink it morning and euening For to make a man to pisse well ¶ Take Peritory stamp it and fry it and lay it all hot to a mans yard Also make a plaister of the flower of Cockle and water and so lay it to the sicks yard Also Linseede béeing sodden well in hony and applyed to the place causeth the man to pisse well Prooued For a woman that may not hold her water ¶ For a woman that may not kéepe her water take Egrimony and Salt and stampe them together very small then séeth it in olde Wine vntill the third part thereof be consumed and then giue her thereof to drinke For a man or woman that
Cancer or Scorpio remember that you purge not in the change nor in any vnfortunate aspect of the Plannets vnto any other neither in the extreame heate or cold of the yeere Now if any man would know what commoditie purging or bleeding bringeth beeing rightly vsed and doone in such sort as it ought to be doone or what dyet and exercise shoulde bee vsed after bleeding and order obscrued in purging with the inconuenience and harme which may and doth dailie procéede of the negligence and vnskilfulnes in the contempt of the same For all diseases through the body and for all kind of Agues TAke Purslaine Gentill Bursa pastoris and stamp them all together and doo thereto Vinegar and binde it to the pulses it will greatly helpe you Also take the powder of Cloues and Pepper of each a like quantitie and eate fasting at one time as much as will lie vpon a sixe-pence and drinke not in on howre after Also let the partie so greeued with the Ague take halfe a pint of his owne water and a penny-worth of Pepper brused and put therein and let the parfie so greeued drinke thereof all an howre before that the fitte dooth come vpon him and let him lie downe and sweat as much as hée may Another for the Ague ¶ Take a pottle of thinne Ale and put thereto a handfull of Parsley as much redde Fennell as much Centorie as much Pimpernell and let the Ale be halfe consumed awaie and then take and drinke thereof Another for the Ague ¶ Take thrée Burre-rootes and wash them and straine them séethe them with halfe a pinte of Ale and so drinke therof luke-warme before the fitte dooth come Another for the same ¶ Take Endiue Sowthistle Dandelion Lettice Sorrel of each a like much and still them altogether and giue it to the partie so gréeued it is very good against the Ague Another experiment for the Ague ¶ Take foure handfuls of Groundswellie and stampe it small in a Morter and put thereto thrée spoonesuls of Vinegar and thrée spoonefuls of Bay-salt grinde them all together then put them in a pewter dish and set them on a Chafindish of coles and stirre them together till the liquor is almost dry then lay it to the wrists as hote as the partie can suffer it euery tune an howre before the fitte dooth come For the ague another medicine ¶ Take a handfull of redde Sage and a handfull of Redde Nettles and a handfull of Hearbe-grace and two spoonefuls of Bay-salt and a spoonefull of strong Vinegar and a peece of leauened bread and let all these be well beate together and bind it to the pulces of your wrists before that the fit doth come and it shall helpe you by the power of God proued For the hote ague a remedie ¶ Take the iuyce of Sengréene and the whites of 4. Egs and faire flower of Wheat and meddle it well together and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the patients sides thē take the water of Betony the water of Pimpernell Scabious water water of Turmentill the water of Radish of each of these a like much and meddle all these together and giue the patient to drinke all hote before that his fitte doth come Another for the same proued ¶ Take a pynt of the iuyce of Sorrell and put it into a pot of Milke when it beginneth to séeth vpon the sire then take it off the fire and let it stand and it will haue a curde vpon the same like vnto a posset-curde then take the curde off and let the patient drinke thereof a good draught at a time as hote as he can possible endure to drinke it and by Gods grace it will help him within two or thrée times seuerally drinking Thys Medicine hath beene proued Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Bursa pastoris and so much white Frankensence as will couer two shillings at thrice and asmuch Bay salt and bray them in a Morter and so lay them vpon a thinne cloth to the wrist and about the arme at night when you goe to bed an howre or two before that your fitte dooth come vpon you For the burning ague ¶ Take a handfull of Smalladge a handfull of Fetherfew a handfull of Redde sage stampe them all together and take thrée or foure spoonefuls of the parties water and asmuch Vineger and boile them altogether on the fire a little while take a quantitie of the same Hearbes and wringing the liquor out of them lay thē vpon a cloth and binde it hote vppon your temples and not vpon your fore-head then take the rest and binde it to the parties wristes as hote as he may suffer it before that the fitte commeth and within three or foure times dressing hée shall finde great ease and be helped of his Ague Another for the same ¶ Take a pottle of Water with halfe a pinte of Vinegar take also Endiue Suckorie Violet-leaues fine leaued grasse and Straw-berrie leaues of each of them a good quantitie and seeth them to a quart and put thereto halfe a pounde of Sugar and drinke thereof morning and euening For the quartaine ague ¶ Take Ribwoort Beet rootes and the leaues to the quantitie of three or foure handfuls washe the hearbes cleane then stampe them in a woodden dish with a woodden pestle straine the iuyce from the hearbes and drinke it Milke warme and this taketh away the humors of the stomacke and frō the hart within fiue or sixe times vsing it cureth and helpeth the sicke partie so gréeued with the ague prooued For the Ague comming with colde ¶ Take fiue crops of Rosemary and fiue cropps of Sage and fiue crops of Marigolds nine Bay leaues and a quart of strong Ale séethe all these together well and drinke it with Pepper being warme and vse it For feauer Agues in children ¶ Take the powder of Christall and lay it in soke in Wine and giue it to the Child to drink and the sucking Child shall be whole Also take Morsus diabolie the roote and the hearbe and hang it about the necke of the Child For all manner of aches a Seare-cloth ¶ Take Waxe Turpentine Rozin hard Pitch Bores greace powder of Commin powder of Bayes Frankensence oyle de vte de popilion and take all these things saue the peuder and set it ouer the fire and stir it fast till it be molten and set it downe and skim it not nor straine it not at all stir it fast till it be nye cold and then strew in thy powder with thy hand as thou wouldest strew flower into a Childs papp and when it is all in and welnie cold spread it with a slice vpon a péece of leather and when it is spread vpon the leather take a new linnen cloth and lay it vpon and couch it fast and at your néed vse it For a cold and ache of the lims ¶ Take a handfull of Suger a handfull of Endiue a handfull of the
the partie drinke euery day or other day of the iuyce of Femitory vsed fasting and in the Winter let him drinke the sirrop of Femitory with warme water for it clenseth all scabbes and other corrupt humors that ensueth as leprosie and clenseth the blood in the vaines For the itch another remedy ¶ Take the iuyce of Peniriall the iuyce of Sauen and the iuyce of Scabions the iuyce of Sage the iuyce of Pellitorie and Barrous greace and black Sope temper all these together and make a salue for the itch Also take Femitory or Earth-gall and seeth the same in Wine and it is very good for the itch Against grieuous itches eyther in men or women ¶ Take the iuyce of Calidon Tapsi Barbasti of Hony puristed an ounce beate them altogether till they bee wasted and set them on the fire and when they haue simpered take it from the fire and reserue it to thy vse and when thou wilt vse thereof against itching take thereof as much as thou wilt and put thereto of burnt powder of Vitriall of burnt Allam of each a like much and vse this till that thou be well For the Ring worme ¶ Take of the gumme of a Cherry trée a good quantitie of the gumme of a Plum-trée as much and dissolue it in Vinegar that is verie good and oftentimes annoynt the sore place therwith and it helpeth For kernells or Kings euill ¶ Take two ounces of the water of Broome-flowers stilled and giue it to the patient in the morning fasting and it wil purge the euill humour downe-ward and wasteth and healeth the kirnels without breaking them out-wardly Also if you séeth the water of Broome-flowers and put it in the patients Wine it will doe him great ease Also if you stampe Cuccow pintle with Bores-greace and lay the same to the place it helpeth Also if you make a plaister of redde Docke and stampe old greace therewith it helpeth For the Kings euill ¶ Take the roote of Briony or of Aristologia longa or Smerewort a like much and beate them with Honny and old greace and lay it there-unto Also take Beanes and mingle them after they bee beaten with the gleare of an Egge or old Oyle and it will dissolue the kernels or kings enill Also if Darnell be sodden in wine with the dunge of an Asse and Linseedes and being drunke it helpeth mightily Take of the decoction of the barkes or pilles of Copporis and Sperage and annoynt it with this oyntment Take a gray Serpent and cut off his head and tayle about foure inches thereof and afterwarde with the greace of that Serpent annoynt the said sore For a Laxe ¶ Take Scene an ounce Rubarbe two penny-woorth spignard a penny weight infuse the same with white Wine or water of Englasse or Borage of each halfe a pint and warme them scalding hote or boyle them a little and so let it stande al night then warme it in the morning and straine them put in a little Ginger and Sugar and so drinke it all warme till that thou be well eased thereof A powder laxatiue ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Scene in powder a quanty of Spignard brused and an ounce of Ginger in powder bruse all these very well and put this into the soft pappe of an Apple and so vse to take a pretty quantitie of this to bedward A powder for a laxatiue person ¶ Take in Sommer the white flowers of Elders asmuch as yée will occupie all the yeere and dry it two or three dayes in the Sunne and then put the same into a bladder and when you will occupie it dry it as you doo Saffron and put a little in an Ale berry or in a messe of pottage and incontiuent he shall haue thrée or soure stooles For the Leaper a medicine ¶ Take the iuyce of black Berries and temper it with firrop made of wilde Sage it is good for them that bee leaprous and they that feare the comming of it shold vse euery morning to drinke halfe an ounce thereof Another medicine for the Leaper ¶ Take and make a bath of strong Wine that the leaues and flowers of Elder is sodden in for it greatly profiteth them that be like to fall into lepry by reason of fleame Also a bath made in water that Scabbious and Moleyne is sodden in is good for them that haue the spice of the Leaprie called Alopice in the which the hayres fall To make a man leane ¶ Take and fill a panne full of Filberds flowers and seeth them a night and a day and put thereto Wine that they dry not then let the Wine be strained and let the patient drinke it fiue dayes together in the month of February For the lunges ¶ Take Southernwood and meddle it with Licoris and Isope seeth it in Wine or water make it swéete with Sugar and so drunke is very good for all diseases of the lungs breast when the sicknes commeth of cold the breast shall be annoynted with vnguentum dialthea and it easeth Also the broth of a Creues is good for the paine in the lungs consuming as when a man hath a swelling about the lunges then he commeth to drynes and consuming of the naturall moisture till he dieth Also the roote of wilde Rapes are good to clense the lunges if it be sodden with Licoris and drunke Also if Figges be sodden with Isope it clenseth the lunges and healeth the old cough For the Morphew ¶ Take water of Elder and drinke thereof thrée spoonefuls in the morning and when you haue drunke thereof walke vp and downe till you catch you a good heate and then take a pint of white Vinegar and nine Oake apples and cut them and lay them thrée dayes and thrée nights in the same Vinegar and after take a faire linnen cloth and put the Apples therein and then straine them and with the licour thereof annoynt thy bodie thrée dayes Also take the iuyce of Selidon and mingle it with the powder of Brimstone and doe it to the Morphew all cold Also for the Morphew white or black take Musterd-seede and salt and stampe them together then temper them with Vinegar and annoynt the Morphew therewith For the Morphew white or blacke ¶ Take an ounce of fine Verdigreace and one ounce of Brimstone and make them both into small powder then take two sheepes heads that are fat and flea them and cleaue them and take out the braine and cast it away then wash thē cleane and séeth them til they be tender and then take them of the fire and let them stand till the next day and then gather off all the greace thereof and mingle the foresaid powder therwith and then put it in a boxe and let it come neere no fire after thou hast doone them together but worke them all cold and it will heale the Morphew bée it white or blacke if you annoynt the sicke therewith against the fire euery night when he goes to bed and in the morning wash
iuice and put of the iuice into the nosthrils of the person that is troubled with the meigrim in the forepart of the head so that the Patient may lye that they may voide downe the iuice that discendeth from him or them For to know if that the braine pan be broke ¶ If the flesh be whole aboue take shaue the head there as the sore is and double a linnen cloth and spred on the white of an Egge and bind it too one night and on the morrow take it away and looke if the cloth be moist or dry for if it be moist the panne is broken and in the same place carue the flesh and let the blood out and annoynt it with an oyntment made therefore and thus thou shalt saue him or else he is but dead For the Fistula in the head ¶ Against the Fistula in the head take and séeth bitter Lupines in salt-salt-water and put Vineger to them and then straine it and in the straining therof put of the powder of Germander and wash the head therewith For the Fistula in the head ¶ Against the Fistula in the head take and gather the roots of Egrimony and dry them in the smoke and after that it is dry take and hang it about the neck of the Patient and it will helpe him For the meigrim and for the impostume in the head ¶ Take the foure peny waight of the roote of Pellitory of Spaine a ob waight of Spicknard and boyle them in good Vineger and when it is cold put therto a spoonfull of hony and a saucer-full of Musterd and mingle them well together held therof in thy mouth a spoonefull at once and vse this nine times and vse for to spit it out continually For an impostume in the head ¶ Take Galingall halse an vnce Nutmegs a quarter of an vnce Cloues a penny waight the flowers of Canell a penny waight of Spicknard a ob waight of Aniséede a quarter of an vnce of Eoula Campana halfe an vnce of Licoris of Suger halfe an vnce and beat them well together and vse of this pouder first and last a spoonfull at once Another for the impostume in the head ¶ Take Betony Sage red Mints red Fenell of eath thrée crops and eate them eight dayes together or fourtéene dayes and after take the greene rynde of the Elder sticke of one yéeres growing and put the iuice thereof into thy nose thrée dayes thrée times a day lying vpright the space that one may goe a myle For the head ache ¶ Take Rose Cakes and stamp them very small in a morter with a little Ale and let them be dryed by the fier on a Tile-shard and lay it to the nape of the necke to bedward proued Another for the head ache ¶ Take Hemlocks and séethe them till they be as soft as pappe lay it to the head where the paine is let it lye all night and on the morning lay on another hot plaister of the same and vse this foure or fiue times and by Gods grace the Patient shall be eased Another for the head ache ¶ Take a Posset and lay it hot vpon the head and let it oft be laid too for so cured a Phisition diuers cures And also take the oyle of Camomell and anoint the browes and the forehead and labour it very well and lay the Patient downe and make him sweat and it shall helpe him Also mingle a spoonfull of the iuice of Betony with as much wine and as much hony and put thereto nine Pepper cornes and drinke it foure dayes together proued For the head ache ¶ Take iuice of black Iuy iuice of Rue the oyle of Roses white wine and Vineger and mingle all together and annoint the temples therewith For the head ache ¶ Take an handfull of red Sage a handfull of redde Rose leaues sliced a handfull of Camomell flowers dryed a handfull of Bay-salt a péece of leauened bread two Nutmegges beate them all together and make as it were a quilt and rub ouer the hearbes and then lay it ouer his head in the forme of a plaister For the head ache proued ¶ Take white earth-bind and make iuice thereof and put it into thy nose and it shall purge thy head of rume and it dooth away the headache Also Leeks with leaues sodden in wine and emplaistred about the temples and the forehead it dooth away all the head ache Also take Musterd séede Saffron Rose flowers or the leaues and mingle them with Sope and make a plaister thereof bind it to the head Also take Insence Doues dung Wheat meale and temper them with the whites of Egs and bind it to the forehead and the temples and it dooth away all aches of the head Also wash the head with lye made of the powder of Colewoorts of red nettells and of white wine and it dooth away the ache without doubt for this is a true experiment prooued For aking of the head ¶ Take and make Lye of Veruaine or of Betony or of woormewood and therwith wash thy head thrice in the weeke and it shall doo thée very much good For the vanitie of the head ¶ Take the iuice of wallwoort Salt hony wax Ensence boyle all them together and therewith annoint the temples For the vanitie of the head and to wash the head and to comfort the braine and memory and for a fayre face ¶ Take lye that is not so strong and put two Pyls of Orenges the Pils of as many Citrons the blossomes of Camomell Bay leaues a handfull of maiden-haire a handfull of Egrimonie two or three vnces of barly-straw chopped in péeces a dishful of Fenegréeke a pound of Wine lyes two or three dishfulls of broome blossoms put all these into the lye and mingle them together and so wash the head therewith and put a little Myrre and Cinamon this is proued FOr the Lytargie in the head in the hinder part which maleeth it for to shake ¶ Take a pure blacke Cat and flea her and pull out her bowels and pick away the fat from the gutts and put them into the body againe and fill the body full of Musterdséede well stéeped in the iuice of Nep and Sage and then sow the body vp and rost it vpon a spit till it be so dry that it drop no more moysture then take the dripping that commeth thereof and put it in bladders and when you will occupy it shaue the Patient in the neck and annoint him by the fier in the ioynt next to the head and it shall help the gréeued Another experiment for the Lytargie in the head ¶ Take and make the decoction of Tutsan Smallage and of Sage in salt-salt-water and wash the hinder part of the head therwith Also take and séeth Castoreum in strong vineger put therto of the powder of Anacard and annoint the hinder part of the head therewith Another for the Lytargie in the hinder part of the head ¶ Take and chop the rootes of Siperus
any sore eyes And this medicine neuer fayleth but restoreth the sight ¶ Take a stone called Calamint and make it red hote nine times and quench it foure times in Rose water and fiue times in white Wine then take this stone that is thus quenched and make of it small powder in a brasen morter then take Frankensence as much as of the powder of the stone and make it also to powder and looke that you haue of them two euen portiens as much as you will then take Rose water and water of Rue and water of Fennell of each of these three two portions of the water of Strawberries and the water of Veruaine and the water of Enstras of each of these three three portions and put all these waters together in a cleane vessell and then looke how many vnces thou hast of thy powder to vnces of the aforesaid waters that be mingled Grinde the powder of Calamint and of Frankensence on a Marble stone as you would grinde Vermillion but you must grinde each one by it selfe then take fresh Swines greace of a Barrow-hog and wring the same verie well through a cleane cloth and looke that you haue asmuch weight of cold greace as of the mingled waters take then the powder of Calament and boyle it with the greace and with the mingled waters ouer a soft fire of Char-coles without anie smoake And when thou hast boyled these well together put vnto the same the powder of Frankensence and then boile them all together till the smoake of the boylings cease and then take it from the sire and let it coole but from the time that you sette it first to the fire for to seeth be alwaies stirring it verie busily till it be cold and thick Then take Camphire pare it in small péeces then take of thy oyntment euen as much and grind them together by parcels on a Marble stone and when they be well mingled together then put it in a boxe with one vnce of Calamint and one vnce of Frankensence Enfrance thrée pennie worth and thrée peny worth of Camphire and he that hath any gréeuance or sicknes in his eyes at night sitting on his bed let him take of this oyntment with his finger as much as a Wheat corne and hold it in his eye vntill it be relented and then dip his finger with the oyntment softly betwéen the lids of his eyes and then let him lye downe and sléepe and on the morrow when he riseth wash the eye with Rose-water or with Enfrance water or with Fenell water or with Rue water these waters be good therefore but ere thou wash the eyes therewith heate the water a little ouer the fier but looke that you wash not with fasting spittle nor with no other thing but with one of these waters before saide and thou shalt be whole this hath béene surely prooued For the Impostumes in the head ¶ Against the Impostume of the eyes and web of the same put the iuice of Hony-suckle often therin or mingle it with pure hony and straine it and it wasteth the Impostume and the web maruailously and it was thus proued One tooke a Cock and a Whelp and pricked their eyes with a crooked Iron or néedle so that they séemed that their eyes were out and then hee brused this hearbe and put it in their eyes and they became faire and cleare as they were before at the which he did maruaile and proued it many times vpon diuers persons For wormes in the eye lids ¶ Take Salt and burne it in a cloute and temper it with hony and with a feather annoynt the eye lids when the party goeth to bed For wormes in the eye lyds ¶ Take Bay-salt and burne it in the fire and then stampe it and doo thereto clarified hony and the water of Allom and a little Copperas and annoynt the eye lidds when thou goest to bed and this medicine shall kill the wormes that be in the eye liddes prooued For stinking at the nose ¶ Take Cloues Ginger and Calamint of each a like much and séethe them in white Wine and therewith wash thy nose After that put in the powder Piritrum to prouoke one to néese if there be replection fleam in the head first you must purge the head with Pylls of Cochie or of Hiera picra Also if the stinking of the nose come from the stomacke first purge the stomake et fiet For the polix of the nose ¶ Against the polix of the nose make a suppository or tent of a plaister called Apostolicon and put powder of Copperas theron and put it into thy nose or make that tent of cotton and wet it in Salt-water and lay of the said powder thereon and put it in thy nose The said powder is also good to fret the proud flesh of superfluitie of blood of the nose but first burne it then put it in olde Parchment and make powder thereof and take Mastick and then make a tent of Bursa pastoris with part of a stone called Emachitas and put it in thy nose For the polix of the nose ¶ To take and put the iuice of Iuy into thy nosthrils is very good The gum of Iuy made in an oyntment called Dialthera hath power to chase and to consume Also against the polix make a tent of Apostolicon and the powder of burnt brasse and lay it to the nose et fiet For the pose in the head ¶ Against the rume or pose mingle the powder of Comin-séede and Bay berries and put them all hote in a bag and lay them so to the head for the pose For the nosthrill a medicine ¶ For the highnes of the nosthrils and rednes caused in flux of humors take the broth that Olibanum is sodden in but first in the morning Pils of Olibanum and at night to bedward the said broth these Pylls comforteth digestion and purgeth the stomack For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take and mingle the powder of Betony with as much salt and put as much as you can take betwéene two fingers and a thomb in the nesthrils and the blood will staunch also take and wet cotton in the iuice of Bursa pastoris and cast powder of Antimonium vpon it and the bléeding will frent For bleeding at the nose ¶ Take a dram of Bolae armoniacke washed and mixe it in Rose-water and Planten water and drinke it then bind the extreame parts as hard as you may and after make a tent of gréene Nettles and put into his nose Moreouer if so be that the Patient doo hold in his hand Egrimony the roote and all and drink the iuice of Knotgrasse the blood will staunch For bleeding at the nose ¶ Against the bléeding of the nose that commeth by ebulition or boyling of the blood in the lyuer and vaines in Sommer make Beanes wet in the iuice of rose-Rose-water and lay them to the forehead or temples it hath been proued Another for the same ¶ Take Peruincle and chewe it in the
third part of Allom rub the téeth with a cloth dipped in the same and it maketh the téeth white and clenseth the gums To make the teeth cleane ¶ Take Rosemary Sage and a quarter of Allom and Honey and boile them together in faire running water and when it hath béen well boyled straine out the faire water and kéepe it in a glasse and vse it somtime to wash your mouth and the teeth therwith and it will make them clean Also wash the teeth with the decoction of our Lady thistle root and thy téeth shall be fastened and also kept cleane and thy gums béeing sore about the teeth shal be made whole Also the roote of Horehound drunke or chewed of a man fasting dooth quickly heale the gummes and maketh the téeth cleane Also Strawbury leaues taketh and clenseth the téeth and gums a sure and tried experiment For the gummes ¶ Against swelling of the gums wash them first with Vineger and Allom confect together but first set Ventoses or bores with scarification on the neck or shoulder or set the Ventoses in the hinder part of the head and scarifie it thrée daies then lay Horseleaches to the gums and wash the gums with Vineger wherein Allom Nutgalls and Roses hath béene sodden in and with the same vineger wash thy mouth thrée or foure days twice or thrice a day and it will ease thée Also against the rottennes of the gums take Cingstile and rub the cheeke therwith and it taketh away the rotting of the gums For the gummes that bleed ¶ Against the bléeding of the gums take powder of Corall and of Anthero that is in the middest of the Rose and lay it vpon the gummes or confect it with Honey and annoynt the gums therwith The pouder of Corall put to the gums healeth them Also for the gums that rotteth rub them with Myrrhe and it will help them Also the fume of Myrrhe receiued at the mouth comforteth and purgeth the braine For the gummes that are gnawne ¶ Take and séethe Cloues in water of Roses and then dry them and make therof powder then temper the powder with Rose-water or with Roses and that is best and then dry it againe in the Sunne and doo so thrée or foure times and then temper the powder againe with rose-Rose-water or with the iuice of Roses and annoynt the gummes therewith and lay the powder on them For Blisters in the mouth and swelling of the lyps ¶ Against the blisters in the mouth and swelling of the lips take and séeth the leaues of Mastick in Vineger and with the same make a Gargorisme thereof Also against fleaing or rawnesse of the mouth comming of Feauers and against small blisters and swelling séeth yolks of Egges in water and then fry them till oyle come out of them and with the oyle confect the powder of Pennets of Dragagant and Amidon and annoynt the gréefe this powder Confect with sirop of Roses or Violets is also very good therefore For chapping of the lyps ¶ For the chapping of the lippes take Pennets and delay them in water of Dragagant and annoynt the lips therewith Also for lippes that bee broken with the wind take the oyle of Almonds and Propolio boyle them ouer the fire and let it be fomwhat hard and therewith annoynt thy lips so chapped with wind Also for new clifts or chapping of the lips lay the pouder of Canell in the clifts and kéepe well thy lippes together and bind a cloth thereto For swelling of the cheeke that commeth of the tooth ache ¶ Take the iuice of the séede of Nettles and the white of an Egge Frankensence and Wheat flower and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the sore chéeke and it will doo away the swelling thereof For the great heat in the mouth ¶ Take a pint of water and as much as a Nut of white Allom and as much of Sage and a spoonfull of hony and boile all these together and wash thy mouth with it For the canker in the mouth ¶ Take a pint of white wine and as much running water and the crops of Sage two spoonfull of life honey and as much Allom as an Egge boyle all these together and skim it well clarifie it till the Allom be consumed and when it is somewhat cold put it in a glasse and vse it Also take the root of Selendine and séeth it in white wine and when it is well sod take the pot down and let the sicke hold ouer his mouth and let the breath goe into the body and it shall kill the canker For the canker in the mouth ¶ Take the iuice of Woodbind and the iuice of red Woorts Hony powder of Camomell and powder of wild Sage burnt also take red Wine a pint a quarter of a pint of honey and as much Allom as a Doues Egge and séeth them till the third part thereof be wasted proued Another for the same ¶ Take Vineger Allom Musterd Rue Auence Isope hearb Robert and seeth and straine them through a cloth as hot as you may suffer it and wash your mouth oftentimes therwith and it will heale the canker For the canker in the mouth and for stinking breath ¶ Take a handfull of Woodbind as much Planten and bray them small then take a pint of Eysell and another of water and a quantity of hony another of Allom kéepe all these waters together in a glasse and wash well thy mouth therewith and holde it in thy mouth and it shall destroy all cankers and slinking breath and saue the téeth from rotting A very good medicine for a canker or sore mouth ¶ Take a handfull of Woodbind as much Planten and halfe a handfull of Lauender cotten as much Sage an vnce of white roch Allom and thrée spoonfull of hony bray all these in Vineger let these be moderatly warmed and put into a still with the hearbs and softly distilled and after meales wash your mouth therwith thrée or foure times a day Proued Against clifts and sores in the mouth stéepe Dragagant in Rose-water and wring it in a cloth with a glewy substance that commeth out mingle the powder of Amidum and with a feather wet therin annoynt the sore mouth therwith and it will heale quickly Also for a man that cannot well eate take Ambrose Peniriall Aunce Ach Organum Rue swill these together with water and drinke the water morning and euening till thou be whole Proued For euill in the mouth or throat ¶ Take the leaues of the white Vine and boyle them in faire water and when it is well boyled hold thy mouth ouer that the ayre may goe into thy mouth and then sup of the water and hold it in thy mouth till it be cold and then put it out and take more and doo so seauen or eight times a day and vse this two dayes together Also doe in lyke manuer with the fiue leaued Grasse and vse it seauen or eyght times in a day and thrée dayes together but it
must be sodden somwhat more then the leafe of the Vine in fayre water and it will heale the Patient this hath béen often times proued For vnsauery mouthes ¶ Take the iuice of Endiue with Suger and if the iuice be thick or troubled clarifie it and so may all other iuices in this wise Séeth the iuice of Endiue a little and let it stand and that which is thick will goe to the bottom then take the thin liquor and straine it often through a cloth and wring it and with that iuice in the bottom make Syrop with Suger if you will make it thinner put the white of an Egge therto For stinke in the mouth ¶ Take and make Pils of Cassia lingua and eat of them and they be good for the stinke of the mouth Also for the stinke of the mouth caused of rottennes of the gums and téeth take and wash the mouth with water that garden Mints be sodden in and rub the téeth with the Mints or else with the powder thereof Also chew Muske and it will doo away the stinke of the mouth Also take the iuice of Vorueine and bruse it and put it in thy mouth and hold it a good while close in thy mouth and it will take away the slinke Proued To take away the stinking of the mouth ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with water and Vineger and chew Mastick a good while and then wash thy mouth with the decoction of Aniséeds Mints Cloues sodden in Wine If the stinking of the mouth come of a rotten tooth the best is for to haue it drawne out Also you must wash your mouth before meat and after with warme water For to clense the mouth and to purge the humors from the mouth which descend out of the head it is good euery morning fasting to wash your mouth and to rub your teeth with a Sage leafe Pils of citron or with powder made with Cloues or Nutmegs You must forbeare all meates of euill digestion and rawe fruites For a stinking breath ¶ Take oyle Doret Turpentine Hony oyle Oliue Virgin wax as much of the one as of the other and boyle them all together and make an oyntment therof and vse it euery day in the Patients nosthrills and let it be put into the nose euerie day with tents made of lynt scraped of fine linnen cloath and hee shall be whole For a stinking breath ¶ Take the iuice of Hilwoort or else take Butter and the iuice of Featherfoy and temper them with Honey and euery day giue the Patient a spoonfull Another for the same ¶ Take two handfuls of Comin and stampe it to powder and boyle it in Wine and drinke the Syrope thereof morning and euening warme the space of fiftéene dayes and thou shalt amend this hath been proued For a good breath ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with the water that the shels of Citeron haue béen sodden in and thou shalt haue a good breath Also these confections make the breath swéet the electuarie of Aromatikes and the pils of Citrons Against letting of the breth caused of cold humors take and drink the hearb Dawke or the liquor that dry Figs haue béen sodden in and it will make the breath sweet and wholsom Also take red Mints and Rue wring the iuice in the sick bodies nosthrils when he goeth to bed For the tongue ¶ Against the sharpnes and drynesse of the tongue put this gum in water which is called gum Arabike till the water be slymie and with that slyme moist the tongue or bind the gum in a thin cloth and put it in water till it begin to melt and with she same cloth rub thy tongue and it will take away the paine thereof Also for the roughnesse of the tongue put the séedes of Quinces or the curnells in a fine cloth and wash thy tongue therwith also Psillium or the séede thereof For drynesse of the tongue and for thirst ¶ Against drinesse of the tongue of the Feauer Ague put the séede of Fleawoort and bind it in a fine linnen cloth and then put it in cold water and therwith wash and rub thy tongue and scrape it with a knife Also for thirst put the séede of Fleawoort in a bag and lay it on the tongue For thirst in the tongue ¶ Against thirst in the tongue giue Ptysan or Dragagant and it will be dissolued in a night or make syrope with water that Barly and Dragagant is sod in and it is conueniable for Feauer Agues or if Dragagant be holden vnder the tongue For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Take and vse great strong ground Musterd the powder of Piones well scalled pouder of Sage Nutmegs and Suger doo these powders in the Musterd and eate euery day at meales therof and it will take away the palsie of the tongue Also Musterd seede sodden in oyle or wine is very good against the palsie Also take the powder of Casterium and hold it vnder the tongue till it be molten or dissolued For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Against the palsie of the tongue that is when the tongue is full of holes and the Patient cannot speake because the sinewes of the tongue is full of humors as it appeareth often in Feauer Agues for the same chew the séed of Cresses and hold it vnder the tongue proued For him that hath lost his speech ¶ Take Sage Pimpernel stamp them well annoint his tong vnderneath with the iuice therof els take the iuice of Sage and Pimpernell and doo it in his mouth Also take Ach Mints red Betony and lay them into Goats milke drinke it morning and euening Also take thrée vnces of Betony and swéet milke of a Goat temper them together and drinke it thrée daies together this for the palsie is most pretious To restore speech that is lost sodenly ¶ Take Peniriall and temper it with Eysell and giue the sicke to drinke it lay also a playster of this to his nosthrills so gréeued For a man that sleepeth and cannot speake ¶ Take Galbanum and set it ouer the fire with a candle and make it smoke and put the smoke to his nose and thou shalt cause him for to speake Also take the iuice of Sage and Printrose and doo it in his mouth and he shall speake by Gods grace Also take the iuice of greene Morrell berries and clarifie it wel and drink therof and thou shalt speake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Sothernwood and temper it with wine and drinke it when thou goest to bed Another for the same ¶ Take the crops of Rue and the crops of Verueine of each a like much and drink the iuice therof when thou goest to bed For Sunne burning ¶ Take the iuice of Lemons with a little bay-salt and wash your face therewith and let it dry in and doo so thrée or foure times and it will helpe you Also take halfe a pot full of raine water and fill it vp with Veriuice and séeth it till
it be consumed away and in the time that it is a boyling fill it with the iuice of Lemons and when it is sodden take it off and let it coole and then take eight new laid Egs the whites of them and beat them fine and put fine Suger to it and so occupy it for Sun burning For red pimples in the face ¶ Take a little Roch Allom and breake it in small péeces then take the white of a new laid Egge and put it in a pan that is leaded within set it to the fire till you see it boile and stir it all the while with a little stick till you sée it wax hard take this and wash your face therewith Also take Rose-water and water of wild Tansie and mingle them together and therwith wash thy face and thou shalt be whole For pimples in the face ¶ Take and wash your face wheÌ„ you goe to bed with warme water and let it dry in take the white of an Egge and put it into a Saucer and set it vpon a chasingdish of coles and put into it a péece of Allom beat it together with a spoone till it become thick then make a round ball and therwith anoynt the parties face where the pimples be For heate and blaines in the face ¶ Take the whites of two Egs and beat them with an Allom stone till they come to curd then take it and set it vpon a few embers and alwaies stir it as it doth gather to a curd then take it off and put it vpon a Painters stone and put thereon Vnguentum populeon halfe the portion and of Allom as much as your thomb so fine beaten as may be and this grind with all the other ingrediens a long while and put it in a glasse or pot and therewith annoynt thy face For a rich face ¶ Take thrée yolks of Eggs rawe as much in quantity of fresh butter or Capons greace without salt Camphire two peny worth red Rose-water halfe a pint two graines of Siuet and boile all these together in a dish then strain them through a clean cloth and so set it to kéele and take the vppermost and box it Also take Populeon Brimstone and fresh butter and à handfull of red Sage and stamp and strain them and then melt all together and put it in a boxe Also take white Copperas one vnce one pint of running water and boile them altogether to the halse and skim it clean and straine it and put it in a glasse and set it in the Sunne then wash thy face with a feather and annoint thy face therwith morning and euening till it be whole For a sauce flamed face ¶ To annoynt it by day take eight penny worth of Camphire and as much of Bores greace as a costard Aple and mingle them together finely till you can perceiue none of the Camphire then put it into a box and keepe it as close as you can from the ayre Also to annoynt the face by night take a quantitie of Deares suet and put therto a little Bores greace and a quantity of Brimstone and boile them together with a quantity of Copperas and a pint of Vineger or claret Wine and after they haue béen boyled vse to annoynt thy face therwith To make a good oyntment for a sauceflamed face ¶ Take an vnce of oyle of Bayes and an vnce of Quicksiluer and doo them in a bladder together with a spoonfull of fasting spittle and then rub them well together that nothing of the Quicksiluer be seene and then take of this oyntment when that it is made and anoynt the sauceflame face therwith and it will heale it well and faire on war rantise proued true Another oyntment for the sauceflame face ¶ Take the rootes of Louach and of Dock roots the tops of Nettles and Cellendine a like much the quantity of thrée vnces halfe a pound of the beanes of Parsley and bray them well in water and doo therto two pound of Bores greace and stamp them well together and let them stand still foure daies after set it ouer the fire till it séeth then straine it through a faire cleane cloth and then put therto fine Frankensence Myrrh and Mastick of each an vnce and let it boile eftsone with a easie fire and stir it well with a slyce and then let it kéele and when it is cold put thereon two vnces of Quicksiluer and mingle them together and therewith annoynt the saucefleame face and this will heale the same as it hath béen oft proued Another medicine for a saucefleame face ¶ Take the pâ—tty Morell and still thereof a quart of water and take a quarter of a pounde of Camphier and heate the water a little then put the Camphire therein and mingle theÌ„m verie well together then put it in a glasse and stop it well but you must bruse the Morell a little in a Morter before you still it afterward with thys water vse to annoynt the sausefleame face and it will heale the same Also with thys water you may heale anie manner of sausefleame face whatsoeuer as by experience hath often béen proued For heate or swelling in the face ¶ Take and boyle the leaues or the blossoms of Rosemarie eyther in white Wine or faire water and vse to wash thy face and hands therewith and it will preserue thée from all inconueniences and also make both thy hand and face verie smooth For wrincles in the face ¶ Take white Wine and a little Brionie and a drie Figge that is fatte and annoynt your face therewith then trauaile vpon the same till you sweat For a man that sweateth too much Take Linseede and Lettice and stampe them together and lay it to the stomack of the partie that vseth to sweat much and it will helpe him For to make the face fayre ¶ Take the flowers of Rosemarie and seeth them in white Wine with the which wash your face also if you drinke hereof it will make you haue a sweet breath Also to make the face white put the powder of Sepia in oyntment Citerium and annoynt the face Or make powder of the roote of Serpentine and of this bone and mingle the same with rose-Rose-water and let it drie and then put it to the same water againe and let it likewise dry doe this foure or fiue times and then vse to annornt the face therewith For a chylde that is iaw-fallne or mold-fallne or rooffallne ¶ Take a handfull of Chickwéede and wrap it in a red Colwoort leafe or els a linnen cloth and rost it in the hote embers in the fire and it will become a gréene salue then lay thereof to the bone of the necke as hote as may be suffered and take soure leauen of white Bread and crum it on the molde of the childes head as a plaister and it will raise vp the bone or molde by the grace of God within nine howres For shortnesse of breath ¶ Take a gallon of Ale put therto a
penny-worth of Lycoris scraped and a halfe penny-worth of Annyseed a little Linséed and a handfull of Isope and asmuch Penneriall cleane washed let them séeth to fiue pints and drinke hereof morning and euening till you haue ease For a hoarce voyce ¶ Take the broth that red Colwoorts haue béene sodden in and mingle it with seauen or eyght Penydis and one ounce of sirrop of Maiden-haire and giue it the patient when hee goeth to bed Take Dyairis simple and a losing of the same at morning and also at night Another remedy for a hoarce voyce ¶ Take great Raisons Figges Sugar Cinamon and Cloues of each a small quantitie séeth them in good Wine and giue the patient to drinke thereof morning and euening two ounces at a time except hee haue a Feauer It is also good to take morning and euening a spoonfull of the strrop of Iniubes mixed with a roote of Licoris in manner of a Locsanum if with the saide hoarcenes there discende aboundance of water to the mouth Also it is good for to make an clectuarie of halfe Dyairis and halfe Diadrigantum and vse hereof first in the morning and last at night A very good medicine for to open the pypes and to make the voyce cleere ¶ Take a Figge and put it in the powder of Isope and eate euerie morning one at a time till you be well Thys will help you on warrantise For a sore throat or mouth ¶ Take Cinckfoile a good quantitie stampe it and boyle it in faire water in a posnet then hold thy mouth open ouer the fume thereof as hote as possible thou canst suffer it that it may enter into thy throat and still as it cooleth in thy mouth spitte it out and so take fresh and fresh A sirrop for a sore throat ¶ Take halfe a pynte of the iuyce of Mulberries a pynte of clarified Honny and a quarter of a pinte of good Claret Wine séeth them altogether till the liquor be cōsumed take also sage Suger Woodbine and Roses of each a handfull seeth them in faire water till the strength of the hearbes be sodden then take tenne or twelue spoonfulls of the fore-said strrop of Mulberries and put therein and with thys vse to gargell your throat luke-warme oftentimes and spit it out againe proued For a sore throate ¶ Take oyle of Camomile oyle of Violets and the oyle of Almonds and the greace of a Hen asmuch as of all the others first wash it well and picke it then mingle all together and annoynt the throat therewith Take the dunge of an Asse and the dunge of Swallowes and make it in powder and put the same in wine and gargel it in your mouth and throat as hote as may be suffered Take also the Swallowes in the nest and a pounde of the oyle of Cammomile and the oyle of Almonds as much of the one as of the other and lay it to the place For the swelling in the throate ¶ Take the greene barke of the Elder trée and a little Bay salte beate them well together till they be somwhat small thou lay the same to the swelling of the throat For the Quinsie in the throate ¶ Take Cinckfoile and seeth the same in running Water and put it in a pot with a narrow mouth and let the party gréeued hold his mouth ouer the mouth of the potte so that the fume may passe into his throat and when the water waxeth colde wash the throat well with the same both within and without and the disease will vanish away prooued Another for the same ¶ First let the partie thus diseased bee let blood on the left arme or in the liuer vaine three or foure ounces and let him gargase it with Wine-vinegar and water warmed together of each a like quantitie gargase it often times and spet it out and let him haue Methridatum in white Wine and let him sweat vpon it an howre or two And if the Quinsie be swolne already in his throat then let him vse this remedie following Take a Swallowes nest as you finde it with Birds or with Egges or without eyther of them and put to the same eyght handfulls of Mallowes with asmuch Water-cresses boyle them all together in milke vntill they become soft and till the milk be cleane consumed then beate it in a bowle vntill it come to a plaister then take asmuch as your fist of the same and while it is warme spread it like a plaister and binde it as hote as may be suffered about the place where the swelling is and so change it often til the paine be gone Another for the same ¶ Take hote Bread and put it in Honny and lay it to the place as hote as may be suffered and it will drinke it vp Take also the iuyce of Planten gargell it vp and downe thy throat and it will case the paine thereof Also take the berries of the Mulberrie tree and make iuyce thereof then seeth them in a little Oyle and Wine and put Vineger thereto and so gargle it Also an electuarie made of the iuyce of the same Berries with a quantitie of scummed Honny is good for the same and it may be kept tenne yéeres in séedes of Dianorum for the Quinsie For the Cough ¶ Take Isope great Raisens and Figges of each a little handfull and one eunce of Liceris boyle them in faire water till the third part be consumed then giue the partie gréeued for to drinke thereof twise a day in the morning two houres before meate and at night two howres before supper also it is good for to eate a losing of Diairis or Diapeaideon If you will haue it stronger put thereto the decoction of a little Colewoorts Annyseedes and Fennell seedes with the séedes of Nettles of each two drams Another for the cough ¶ Take Sage Rue red Fennell Isope Comin and the powder of Pepper of each like much by weight and seeth them well together in Honny and make thereof an electuarie and vse thereof a spoonefull in the euening and another in the morning till the cough be gone Another medicine against the cough ¶ Take the roote of Enula campana Horehound Holihock of eath of them a like much séeth thē all together in white wine with a dozen of fatte Figges and with a little Licoris and vse to drinke hereof a draught at a time euerie day twise For a dry cough ¶ Take Annyséedes Ashe séedes and Violets and beate them to powder and stampe them with euen portion then seeth them together in faire water till they waxe thicke then put the same into a bore and as you neede let the sicke eate first last of the same till he be well For the Cough or stoppings ¶ Take the powder of Isope the powder of Anny-seed the powder of Ginger the powder of Licoris and mingle thē with clarified Honny and eate dailie hereof till thou bee whole Also for the cough take a little Brimstone and make powder thereof
smal with halfe a roote of Fennell cut likewise very small boyle all these together till halfe be consumed then vse to drinke heereof morning and euening reasonable hote For the partie that is incombred in the brest with any kind of fleame or glart ¶ Take the powder of Betonie and drinke it with warme water it voideth and purgeth the fleame wondrously and doth awaie the glart or fleame For paine in the breast ¶ Take and gather a good quantity of ripe Slowes grinde them small in a morter then put them in an earthen potte and sill it full of new Ale and so drinke thereof Another for the same ¶ Take Isope Parsly and Sage stampe them and lay thē to the breast of the patient verie hote Take also the marrowe of a Calfe Fenegreke Linséedes bray them small in a morter and mingle the powder with the yolkes of Egges then temper all these together with fresh greace or Oyle and lay it to the sore as hote as you may suffer it For the breast that is incombred ¶ Take Isope and seeth it in a pottle of Wine till it come to a quarte and let the patient vse thereof first in the morning colde and last in the euening hote Another for the same ¶ Take three pottles of running water of a Well that springs and boyle it to a pottell then take halfe a pint of Hony and one pounde of the powder of Anniseedes a pounde of the powder of Licoris one penny-worth of Sugar and cast all these into the liquor and let them boyle well then put it into a vessel and stop the mouth thereof close that the ayre goe not out and let the patient drinke thereof in the morning but not fasting at night and he shall be whole For the breast and the lunges ¶ Take a quantity of clarified Hony and boyle it and when it is boyled put thereto an vnce of the powder of Enula campana and one vnce of the powder of Licoris and let them boyle till they be somwhat thick then take it from the fire and when it is cold put thereto an vnce of the powder of Ginger and stirre it well together and vse this first and last For a man that is stopped in his breast or pypes ¶ Take Enula campana Isope and Licoris dry them wel then beat them in a morter as fine as flower then take Ginger Anniséeds Sinamon and Galingall beate them also and when thou hast done take a quantity of Hony boile it wel and seum it cleane then take the Enula campana the Isope and the Licoris and boyle them wel together in the Hony afterward take the Ginger Anniseedes Galingall and Sinamon put them al in Hony and let them seeth together then put it in a dish then take Sugar and put vpon it while it is hote and eate a quantity thereof morning and euening but drinke not till two howers after and it will helpe thee Also if you take and séeth Rue in Vinegar and drinke thereof it will likewise helpe you For swelling of the breasts ¶ Take Wormwood Sage and Calamint of each a like much and stampe them well put thereto a quantitie of Vinegar and temper them well together then take white Breade and toste it till it be browne and grind it small then boile them together and stir it that it burne not to and lay thereof to the patients breast as hote as may be suffered Another for the same ¶ Also if a plaister be made of Chesnuts with Barly meale and Vinegar or Wine and layd to the pappes it will asswage both the swelling and the paine thereof For all manner of euills and paine in the breast or the ribbes ¶ Take and bruse Mugwoort with Vinegar and lay it to the breast and it will be whole in thrée dayes Also take the water that guin Arabick and Mirth hath been sodden in and wash the breast therewith Also take the electuary called Diapenidion made into pennets it is verie good for the same purpose as hath oft been proued Also for drought in the breasts and the members in it and for them that be Costisse so that the breast be not stopped nor the brath short lay Psilium in water a certaine space and then poure out the water and take the same séedes with other cleane water that is cold and vse it to the patient Also take and make a plaister of Knotgrasse and Butter and lay it to the sore breast and it helpeth the same For vaines broken in the breast ¶ Take the roote of Camphire and secth it and when it is sodden slice it with a knife then hange it in the Sunne to dry thys may be kept thrée yeeres in goodnes and vertue and if a vaine be broken in the breast or guttes it will resound and knit it and reioyne it meruailously if that the powder thereof be taken greene with Wine or water or if you fry the roote greene like a fritture with Egges or Meale and so cate thereof For impostumes in the breast ¶ Take and fill a bagge with meale of Fenegreke and séeth it in water that Lysmachie and Hollihock hath been sodden in and lay it often to the impostume of the breast Another for the same ¶ Take the water that Licoris hath béene sodden in or the iuyce thereof and it is very good being vsed against the impostumes of the breasts or ribbes called the Plurisie For blood of the breasts ¶ Take two drammes of Leekes seede and Mirth it stancheth the blood that commeth out of the breast by spetting although it be griefe to the teeth and throat For the Canker in a womans pappes ¶ Take picked Garlicke and Rye-meale or Barly-meale and bray them together wish Vinegar till they become as thick as a plaister then lay it to the sore till it bee white then take Pimpernell and beate it small and put thereto Life-honny and lay the plaister to the sore pappe and it will heale it faire Or else take the fenne of a white Goose and the iuyce of Ellidonie and bray them well together and lay it to the pappe and it wil kill the Canker and heale it soundly Another for the same ¶ Take Wormwood and the white of an Egge and skinne it then temper it with oyle of Violets and let her blood on the vaines about the paps For the fester in the breast ¶ Take the iuice of the roote of Foxe gloues and temper it with mans vrine and wring it through a cloth and wash the sore oftentimes therwith and it will cure it To make a woman to haue soft breasts ¶ Let the party that desireth to haue soft breasts drinke in Ale Nettle séede and Salt and it shall quickly help her For a woman that hath her breasts rancled ¶ Take Lint séede and bray it with the white of an Egge and lay it on her breasts and then take the iuice of Ache and of Rye meale and lay it on her breasts and let her
drink the iuice of Veruaine Fenell seed and Amber For to make a drinke for womans paps that are rancled and be full of ache ¶ Take Groundsell and two times as much of Brouswort and wash them both and stamp them and temper them with stale Ale and straine it through a cloth and giue to the Patient thereof first in the morning and last at night For the euill swelling in a womans breast ¶ Take Oake apples and stamp them in powder and put them in oyle of Roses and lay it to the swelling or else take the iuice of pety Morrell and Dasies and the dregs of Vineger and a hard Egge sodden with the shell and Barly flower and so make therof a plaister and lay it on the sore For biles on a womans breasts ¶ Take the iuice of Morrell the oyle of an Egg and Beane flower make therof a plaister and lay it cold thereto For a woman that desireth to haue great plenty of milke in her breasts ¶ Let her take the iuice of Veruaine or Fenell and vse to drink oftentimes therof and she shall haue great plenty of milk Also if she drink the broth that Whitings haue béen sodden in it is very good for the same purpose For paines in the breast with ouer too much milke ¶ Take very clean water without any grauell in the same and mingle it with Vineger and the yolke of an Egge and a little Saffron then lay it vpon a cloth plaister wise and lay it to the breast and when it is dry take it away and lay another in the place Another for the same ¶ Take Vineger and honey hoyled together and spread it vpon a cloth then lay vpon it a little powder of Comin it will asswage the milke For the milke that is curded in a womans breast ¶ Take Wheat mingled with Rue and sodden in water and lay it to a womans hard breasts that be curded with milke and it will soften them Another for the same ¶ If the séeds of Lentiles be mingled with water of the Sea they be good for milk that is curded in womens breasts For the hart burning ¶ Take a crop of Fennell and chewe it in thy mouth and suck the iuice therof then spet it out and take another vse this very often and it will help him that is hart burnt For the paine at the hart ¶ Take Centuary séeth it in stale Ale and when it is well sodden stamp it in a morter and seeth it againe with the same liquor then clense it through a cloth with two spoonfuls of the iuice and thrée spoonfulls of Honey and then boyle it well together againe and put it in a boxe and giue it to the Patient euery day thrée spoonfuls fasting till he be whole and this shall doo away the glut from him and make him haue an appetite to his meate For weaknesse of the hart ¶ Take Rose-water and mother of Pearle beaten small to powder and mingle it with Suger and giue it to the Patient to drink three or foure daies and he shall be whole For faintnes at the hart ¶ Take the filings of Gold and the powder of the bone of a Harts hart and mingle them with the iuice of Borage and Suger made in sirop for it is very good for sowning For all sicknesses about the hart ¶ Take Rosemary Isope Centory Betony and Iris and séeth them in faire water and straine the water and the iuice of the hearbs and put therto hony and boile it againe and scum it and put therto as much butter as hony in the séething and mingle them together and take it downe and couer it well and drink therof at euen hot and in the morning cold An Electuary for the hart ¶ Diantes this Electuary is good for the heauines in the hart and for féeblenes of complection in a mans stomacke for the Cardiakle and for the had lungs et alia causa For euils at the hart ¶ Take Hartwoort Galingall Harts tongue and Sauine stampe them and wring out the iuice and temper them with good Wine a good quantity of Roses and giue it to the party so gréeued to drinke first in the morning and last at night and he shall be whole God willing A sirop for the paine of the hart ¶ Take and stamp Betony and hearb Benet Horehound and Veruaine séeth them in faire water to the third part then put therto hony and make therof a sirop For all diseases in a mans hart ¶ Take Sage Mints by euen portion séeth them in white Wine and make a plaister thereof and lay it to his hart till he be whole take also the Wine that it was sodden in and giue it to the Patient to drink euening and morning and he shall haue good desire to his meat within sixe daies after at the furthest For to comfort the hart ¶ Take the powder of Setwall and put it in the sick mans meat it comforteth the hart and is very good for them that haue weake harts and be disposed to sowning Another for the same ¶ Temper the Patients Wine with water that Spicknard is sodden in and with the same water make a sirop and let the sick drink therof it is good against the disease of the hart and for sowning And for weakenes of the braine smell it at thy nose Also séeth the flowers of Rosemary leaues mingled with Rose-water and giue it to the Patient to drinke Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Rosemary leaues mingled with rose-Rose-water and a little of the iuice of Panay and make sirop therof it will also be good if some of the bone in the hart of an Hart be put therunto and giuen to the Patient For all paines in the hart ¶ Take the powder of Galingall with the iuice of Borage and the seeds of Ireos with the milke of a Goate and drinke it warme it will asswage the paine of the hart Another for the same ¶ Take the pouder of Cannel with the pouder of the leaues of Ielliflowers it is very good against the passion and sowning of the hart being giuen to the party Against the passions of the hart ¶ Take and make sirop with the iuice of Borage and put therto of the powder of the Harts bone in the hart of a Hart. Also take Buglosse and eate it often eyther rawe or sodden it driueth out the noysome humors Also against the passion of the hart and sowning take sirop made with Cassia ligna and Roses and the bone of a Harts hart and giue it the sick to eate For feeblenes of the hart ¶ For them that are weake in the hart and doo take their breaths in manner of sighes take and giue them the iuice of Buglosse with hony and it shall help them Against the fainting of the hart ¶ Take and make Pils with a dram of Amber and an vnce of Lignum aloes and two drams of the bone of a Harts hart beat to powder and
the Mallowes together with the iuyce of the Hollihock rootes and put in eyght or nine Figges and two vnces of Sugar a little leauened Breade and halfe a dish of sweet Butter then lay part of the same vppon a wollen cloth and as hote as may bee suffered lay the same to the side and rowle it verie fast with a strong rowler and euerie day once renew the same with a fresh plaister verie hote vntil such time as the partie be well Another plaister for the Spleene ¶ Take Wormwood Mallowes Cammomile and Melilot of each of these a good handfull boyle them in faire water till the liquor be halfe consumed then put vnto the same halfe a handful of Wheate branne or more and boyle it to the thicknes of a plaister then quilt it and as hote as you may suffer it lay it to your left side An aluarie for the Spleene ¶ Take a pinte of Ale clarified and put therein a crust of Breade then take the powder of Gentiana Spignard Gallingall of each two penny-woorth let them haue a boyling or a waulme then take it off the fire and drinke thereof morning and euening and it will cure the Spléene A restoritie for the liuer lungs and spleene ¶ Take two parts of Fennell and three parts of Honnie séeth them together till they be as thicke as a lectuarie and let the sicke vse this morning and euening For the stopping of the Spleene ¶ Take the Elder roote and seeth the same in white wine vntill the third part thereof and drinke of the same and it cureth the Spléene meruailously Another for the same ¶ Take the lunges of a Foxe and make it into powder and vse to drinke thereof and it will certainly cure the Spléene For the Spleene a good experiment ¶ Take two pounde of Bores greace and two pounde of ashes made of Ashen wood and one gallon of faire running water and séeth them all together til halfe be consumed thē straine them through a cloth and let it stand all night and in the morning fléete of the greace and cast away the water and mingle the greace well together and put it in a boxe and there-with-annoynt vpon the Spléene You must likewise giue the patient this drinke following Take the reotes of young Ashen plants and a good quantity of Wormwood and seeth them well together in a gallon of Wine till the one halfe be wasted and let the patient drinke thereof in the euening hote and in the morning cold and let the patient vse of this oyntment and drink of thys drinke the space of nine dayes and it will helpe him proued Another for the Spleene proued ¶ Take the inner rine of the Ashe trée stamp it and seeth it in Wine and it will doubtles helpe the Spléene For the heate of the liuer ¶ Take the inyce of sowre Apples and swéet Apples of each a pynt or more and two pound of Sugar and mingle these together and let it boyle on a soft fire till it be as thick as a sirop and vse of this a little euery day fasting beeing first made luke warme at the fire To purge the liuer of choller and salt sleame ¶ Take the waight of a gold Noble of Rubarbe and cut it in small péeces and a halfe penny-worth of Spignard and the weight of two groats of Scene in the codds lay all these in soke in nine spoonfuls of Whey by the space of twelue howres and so giue it to the patient For the liuer that is chafed ¶ Take and vse Saunders in thy pottage or broth drinke it and wash thy right side with cold vrine but first boyle it and scum it and put thereto Vinegar and lay it to thy right side but not hote for it will chafe the liuer For wasting of the liuer ¶ Take Water-cresses Red Fennell and Sorrell with a Chicken in a pot nine dayes and vse it Another for the heate of the liuer ¶ Take a quart of Barlie and put thereto a gallon of well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take the same water and put thereto asmuch good woorte with a penny-worth of Licoris beaten but not to powder and take a good handfull of Isope and a good handfull of Sage and boyle all these together till the one halfe thereof be wasted then straine them againe through another cleane cloth and that which commeth forth put it into a cleane vessell and let it stand a day and a night and drinke of the same first in the morning and last at night when you goe to bed For stoppings in the liuer and the milt ¶ Take and seeth Harts-tongue in water or Wine and drinke it or if the herbe bee eaten it is very good for the same Also to vnstop the pypes of the liuer and of the milt take Smallage and seeth the same with a like quantitie of Elder leaues then straine it and drinke the broth thereof Another for the same ¶ If you vse to drinke the iuyce of Chiccorie it openeth the oppilation of the liuer and milt caused of heate Or if you take the Wine that Silios hath beene sodden in and drinke thereof fasting it is a very good medicine against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and against the let of vrine Another for the same ¶ Take and drinke the Wine that wilde Time hath béene sodden in and you shall finde it very good against the stopping of the Liuer Milte and Raines and the hinderance of vrine as hath oft been proued ¶ Also if you take the iuyce of the bearbe called Witminte with Honny and the Wine that it hath been sodden in it is verie good to vnstop the conduit of the Milt and the liuer vrine Against the oppilation of the Liuer the Milte the vrine and the bladder vse the decoction of Cassia ligna or the sirrop that it is made with To vse also the iuyce of Night-shade made in sirrop with a little Sugar is very good for the liuer and the milte Also if you make sirrop of the iuyce of Fennell and the decoction of the hearbe called Dawke it is good against the stopping of the Liuer and the Milt and against the Dropsie For the liuer and the milt ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer or of the milt take Aloe Epatick with the iuyce of Smallage warme Or make a decoction of the rootes of Smallage Parssie Fenel Bomwoort and Spurge with two orammes of Mastick and vse this two or thrée times in the weeke till you be well Another for the liuer and the milt ¶ Also who so vseth often to eate the hearb Cheruell it causeth the stopping of the liuer and the milt to cease Or if the patient take the seedes thereof and make them into powder and afterward eyther eate or drinke of the same it will help him Also if the iuyce of Wolst-thistle be drunken with Wine it
is verie good for the liuer Also to drinke the water that Louage hath been sodden in is likewise good for the liuer and the milt Also against the stopping of the liuer and milt take the powder of Barbaries with the iuyce of Morrell and drinke often of the same For the liuer milt raines and bladder ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and raines and the hinderance of vrine take and seeth the hearbe Germander and Canuphithis in oyle and lay it to the place where the party is greeued Also take an electuary confect with Honny and two parts of these hearbes and so vse it For the liuer the milt and the Iaundise ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and Iaundise take the iuyce of Wormwood and Sirrill or else make them in sirrop and vse it with warme water also against opilation of the milt take the iuyce of Worm-wood and the powder of Costy it is also good for the same For all paynes in the milt ¶ Take of the drinke that Gold hath beene quenched in red hote and it helpeth the paine in the milt Also an oyntment made of Assa armonia and Wax softneth the hard milt and it dissolueth the milke curded in the paps Also make iuyce with Smallage and put thereto Oyle and Waxe and confect it into a sirrop Also for the Milt take Annoniacke and Galbane of each of these a like much soften them well in Vinegar and with waxe then put thereto powder of Coste and of Wormwood and make thereof an oyntment and vse therewith to annoynt the place against the milt and it will help the same Also take Egrimonie and eate thereof often-times and it healeth the paine of the milt Against the opilation of the milt or Dropsie take the Wine that Abrosiana hath beene sodden in for beeing often-times drunke it healeth the paine of the milt comming of cold Also against the ache of the milt drinke the wine that Betonie hath been sodden in and it profiteth Also make an oyntment with the hearbe called Bears-foote beaten and then lay it long in Oyle and with waxe make an oyntment the leaues ought to be vsed while they be greene Also the hearbe Amios with the rootes of Ciats in wine helpeth much the paine of the milt Also for the milt and liuer take the iuyce of Fennell sodden in an Apple and take the powder thereof Also for the paine of the milt and liuer take the Wine that Coperis hath been sodden in Also for the payne of the milt and the liuer drinke the wine that Cassia ligna hath beene sodden in Also for the paine of the milte and liuer take the electuarie that Diocostum hath been sodden in Also for the paine of the milt vse a dramme of Cammomile in powder with Wine forty dayes Also for the paine of the milte vse to drinke the Wine that Honny-suckle hath been sodden in Also seeth Iuie in Wine and then straine out the iuyce and drinke thereof it helpeth greatly Also the water that the roote of Fearne hath been sodden in is very good for the same Also you may vse the water or Wine that the rinde of Fennell rootes hath beene sodden in Also the Water or wine that the bough of an Ashe hath béen sodden in is good for this purpose For to soften the milt that is hard ¶ Take the roote of the wilde Vine stampe it with Porks greace then melt it on the fire and straine it and take meale of Linseede and oyle and put thereto and thys oyntment is very good for the hardnesse of the milt and liuer and to ripen unpostumes Another for the same ¶ Take the rinde of the roote of Hore-hound and stéepe the same a fortnight in Wine and Oyle and then let it bee sodden and strained and in the straining put thereto water and Oyle and make thereof an oyntment and vse the same at your neede for thys purpose For ache in the gutts and belly ¶ Take the powder of Mugwoort and let it be drunk with Wine and Honny it easeth greatly the ache in the bowels and is good against diuers other diseases And for the paines in the guts take a ciate of the iuyce of Clot leaues and it wil ease thée For paynes in the belly ¶ Take and stampe Mugwoort and lay it to the bellie it helpeth the same meruailously take also an vnce and a halfe of Wartwoort with asmuch wine and it will likewise asswage the paine in the belly For the paines in the belly ¶ Take and make an electuarie of Honny and seeth it with water to keepe it from cleauing to then put to the same two vnces of Hermodates and one vnce of Fennell seedes and giue thereof to the partie so greeued that hath the paine in his bellie and it will helpe him proued For the payne in the belly ¶ Take wilde Time and seeth the same with Wine and Oyle and it is verie good against the paine in the belly Also if you take the braine of a Hare rosted eate thereof and drink some good Wine afterward it is good for the paine in the belly For the paine in the belly ¶ Take three pynts of Malmesey and a handfull of Oris powder and a handfull of Commin with a handfull of Red-rose leaues dryed a handfull of Cammomile flowers and one dishfull of Wheate branne seeth all these together and put them in a bagge and make it plaister-wise then lay it to the belly of the patient some-what warme For the griping or pulling in the belly ¶ Take halfe a pinte of Malmesie a big roote of Turmentile and grinde the roote into powder with a little Treacle and make it blood-warme and so giue it to the partie to drinke Or els take a penny-pot of Malmesie and a little Treacle and two penny-worth of Mirrh and grinde it to powder and so put the Treacle and Mirrh into the Malmesie and make it reasonable warme and giue it to the patient Another for the same ¶ Take a little quantitie of the earth that wormes cast vp out of the ground which most commonly you shall find in some soft foote-path-waie or els in some Garden path and when you haue gathered the same mingle therewith a like quantitie of Honny and giue the patient halfe a spoonfull in the morning causing him to fast two howres after this within foure mornings eating thereof will certainlie helpe the same as hath beene by sundry persons proued To breake wind in the belly and for wringing in the same ¶ Take Commin seedes Fennell seedes Anni-seedes brused and seeth all in Wine and drinke thereof in the morning at noone and at night Also take Pellitory and boyle it in broth and giue the sicke thereof to drinke For Women that haue very great bellyes beeing not with childe ¶ Take a handfull of Isope a handfull of Hearbe-grace a handfull of Arsmert and seeth all these hearbes in a quarte of Ale till it come to a pynt then
and binde it fast letting it lye there vnremoued the space of three dayes and then take it away for it will helpe the child on warrantise as hath oft been proued For a stitch in a mans side ¶ Take a reasonable peece of white leauened Breade and toste the same on both sides and then spread it on the one uÌ„de with the best Treacle you can get and couer it with a fine linnen cloth and so lay it warme to the sore side where the payne is and it will helpe you God willing Thys medicine cost fiue pound the learning Another for the same ¶ Take Oates and fry them with Vinegar then put them in a cloth and lay them verie hote to the parties side and it will helpe the Stitch. Proued For broken sides ¶ Take and stampe the rootes of Mallowes and put thereto the blood of a Goate and frie it together and lay it hote to the side renue it but once in three dayes For sore sides within or without ¶ Take Alisanders Parsly Louage Red-fennell Smallage Burnet and Gromell and seeth them in white Wine till the one halfe be consumed or wasted then straine it and let the patient drinke thereof first and last in the euening colde and in the morning hote An oyntment for sore sides ¶ Take a handfull of Mallowes a handfull of Groundsell a handfull of Sowthistle as much of Nightshade a quantity of Varuaine and Dill these hearbs must be stamped as small as may bee and tempered well with May butter or Sheepes suet ouer the fire and so make it an oyntment and annoynt the bodie or side that is stiffe by the fire the oftner the better proued For the Impostume in a mans side ¶ Take Wormewood Mint Calamint hearbe Bennet Mallowes Cheruell Sage Rosemary flowers pounde them together and put thereto Commin and crummes of leauened Bread and boyle them in Wine or pisse and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the side For the Impostume in the sides ¶ Take Rue and drinke it often-times Also stampe Figs with oyle Oliue or with greace and plaister it to the sore side Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Scabious and halfe a pounde of the powder of Corrall and mingle them together and drink therof a good draught and it shall breake the impostume of the side Another for the same ¶ Take March Radish Rue Wormwood Centory Sauine stampe all these together and drinke it fasting and thou shalt breake the impostume inwardly and auoyd it outwardly For ache in the side or ribbes ¶ Take and annoynt the sides and ribbes with the iuyce of Knotgrasse and with the oyle of Roses and it will helpe them For ache vnder the sides ¶ Drinke Sage with Wine a little warmed and it will ease the ache vnder the sides and of the wombe and it is good for the Dropsie or the Palsie Also Cheruile drunk with wine easeth greatly the paine in the sides For all diseases in the sides ¶ Take Woorts and make balles thereof beeing sodden and grinde them to powder and brew them in a newe earthen pot and after that gather them together with Hony and smere them well together and make a plaister for the sore side For womens sides that be sore ¶ Take Hilwate Alisander Parsly Louage red Fennell Radish Enula campana and seeth all these hearbs together in white Wine from a pottle to a quart and let the patient drinke thereof morning and euening till the paine be gone For the plurisie and for such as are vsed to be let blood to saue them from letting of blood and to dissolue all ill blood ¶ Take Rye-bread and cut it in small shiuers set it in the wind for to dry and when ye shall be pained with the Spléene put the Bread in the strongest Vinegar that you can get and let it steepe therein foure howrâ—s till it is well soked then sette it on the fire and seeth it together and make a plaister therof and lay it on the side whereas the greefe is as hote as the party may suffer it and it shall dissolue ill blood and take away the paine in their ordure thys hath beene proued for the Plurisie A notable plaister for the Plurisie ¶ Take the rootes of wilde Mallowes the greace of a hog the greace of a Fexe and of a Goose or a Ducke of each a like much but not aboue an ouce of eyther of fresh Butter halfe an vnce of Terrebanthium halfe an vnce of the fatte of Veale sixe drammes of the oyle of Dyll halfe an vnce of the mary of a Deere halfe an vnce the powder of the seedes of Flaxe Vinegar and Bay berries of each three drammes and eyght Figs beate all in a morter then put all in a pan putting Flaxe therin to binde it together and stirre it with a stick vpon the coales then take the whole or part thereof and spread it vppon Leather and couer it with silke and bast it with thread like a quilt and so apply the plaister to the place so greeued as close as may be and by Gods grace you shall find great ease Proued For the ache in a mans back ¶ Take Burre rootes and make them cleane and stampe them and temper them with stale Ale and boyle it well and straine it drinke thereof in the morning cold at night hote For the paines in the back of either man or woman ¶ Take Walwoort and seeth it and presse out the Water and â—ray it in a morter then fry it with Shéepes tallow put thereto cleane bran and plaister it to the backe either of man or woman and it shall helpe them by Gods grace For the raines of the backe ¶ Take two newe layd Eggs and put away the white and fill the shell with the iuyce of Clarie beate it well and straine it and stir well the yolkes and the iuice together ouer a fewe coles for the time it is boyling and then take one and eat it and vse this nine dayes fasting and it shall strength your raines and comfort nature although the Patient be right feeble it hath béene prooued For a sore back ¶ Take Mallowes and séeth them in faire water and lay it vpon a red cloth to the sore as hot as ye may suffer it Another for the same ¶ Take kernels of Hasell nuts and the dung of the house Pidgion and May butter stampe them together and it shall make any sore for to breake and to heale and for the great paine in the back often prooued For the raines of the back ¶ Take two gallons of strong pisse and still it and take a handfull of sappy Sage and Hemlocks Mallows Rue Egrimony Scabious and still all these together to a pint and when it is stilled put therto foure spoonfuls of oyle Oliue this is made principally for the raines of the back For the raines a good drinke ¶ Take the iuice of Betony of Wine an vnce and of the Betony a
spoonfull and the powder of Pepper mingle these together and drink it for three dayes fasting For the wasting of the kidneyes and for paines of the back ¶ Take a handfull of Planten a handfull of Parsly a handfull of Betony a handfull of water Betony a handfull of Sorrell a dosen crops of Rosemary séeth these in three pints of Ale till it be wasted and strain them and put therto a pint of Sack and a good péece of Suger and burne it well together and so giue it to the party all hot euening and morning proued For the whites or the running in the raines ¶ Take white washed Turpentine and make it vp in balls like Pyls then take Cinamon Ginger and rowle the balls in it and take them as you would doo Pylls morning and euening Prooued For the whites ¶ For the whites or weaknes in the back take an earthen vessell and put it in a quart pot of faire water wherin you must quench two or thrée gads of sréele being red hot then stéepe therin an vnce of Lettice séeds foure and twenty houres then strain the same and séeth it halfe away and scum it very cleane and keepe it in a couered cup and drinke this morning and euening with powder of Iuory Another for the same ¶ Take Archangell and séeth it in drinke and drink it morning and euening it is very good the red for the woman and the white for the man For all manner of aches in the back ¶ Take Egrimony Mugwoort both the leaues and rootes and stamp them with Swines greace and Vineger and séethe them and lay it to the back Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Peniriall and put therto Vineger and oyle Oliue that is gréene and lay it to thy backe plaister wise For him that hath lost his complexion from the back ¶ Take Linséed and stamp it smal and temper it with Goats milk and straine it all warme and drink it thrée or foure times fasting and thy complexion will come againe For the paines in the back ¶ Take Vnguentum rosarum and chafe your backe morning and euening and lay to this plaister following take Fethersoy Tansie Housleeke of each a handfull shreded and stamped fine then fry them well together with a saucer full of hony and two vnces of Deues dung of the newest you can get when it is thick like a plaister put it in the end of a small sléeue and so lay it to your back all warme For all manner af ache in the back ¶ Take Smallage Egrimony Mouseare and stamp them all together but wash them well first and temper them with Ginger and fry them well in Bores greace and make a playster and as hote as the sicke may suffer lay it on the ache and he shall haue ease Another for the same ¶ Take Lilly rootes Camomell Anniséedes and stampe them all together and fry them in Bores greace and put a little Wine therete and in manner of a plaister lay it on a cloth and bind it fast to the backe or raines all hot and after thrée or foure daies remoue it with renuing of the plaister therto with more fresh For the running of the raines ¶ Take Pellitory of the wall and stampe it and straine it and drink it with Malmsie or white Wine or Ale and doo this often till that thou be all whole Also if the Patient make a Tansie of Clary and eate thereof is very good for the same disease as hath béene proued For womens termes ¶ Take Selondine and let a woman put it in her hose vnder the soles of her féete and it will help her Also Mollet leaues and the red flowers of Hollihocks is very good for this purpose Also the great leaues of Burres béeing sodden in strong Ale and the same afterward drunk is very good For wasting of nature ¶ Take a pint of Malmsie and put therto a peny woorth of Sinamon and another of cleane Mace and boyle them ouer the fier with Wine but first make powder of your spices then take Treakle as much as a Damson and put therto and stir altogether and let the sick drink therof hot at all times and it shall auoide all fleame and wind in the interior parts of man to restore his nature prooued For all Impostumes in the body ¶ Take Centory Rosemary Wormwood Horthound and make it in sirop with white Wine and let the sick take therof and it shall cause the Impostume to goe downe and when it is broken let him vse to drink of the same sirop warme For to destroy all Impostumes either in man or woman ¶ Take the root of Hollihock and wash it cleane and séeth it till it be tender and then put the water into a vessell and then take Linséed and Fenegreke of each of them a like much and sée that thou haue as much of them two as the root that is sodden then séeth them in the same water till it rope as it were Birdlime then stamp the root and doo therto Barly meale and mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the sore plaister wise as hote as you may suffer it and within nine daies ye shall be whole Also take Turmentile and let the Patient drinke often of the iuice therof and it shall cure him prooued An experiment to take away the mother ¶ Take a great deale of Mugwoort and as you gather it sliue the leaues downward then wash them cleane and boyle them in running water till they be soft and when the party goeth to bed let him or her wash themselues therewith from the nauell downward both flanks and members and also the mother so hote as is possible to be suffered remember the parties that they wash not vpward at any time and within thrée daies washing the parties eyther hee or shée shall be whole God willing Prooued Another medicine for the mother ¶ Take a handfull of Mother-time a handfull of Motherwoort a handfull of Isop a handfull of Sage séeth all these in a gallon of faire water vntill it be halfe consumed then mash it vpon halfe a peck of Malt so let it stand an houre then take the woort of it as you doo for drink and put yéest to it and being thus made let the party drink it morning and euening A drink for the paine of the mother ¶ Take a dram of Methridatum and dissolue it in an vnce and a halfe of water of Wormwood and giue it to the woman for to drinke before that she goeth to meat foure houres and let her not drink a good while afterward proued A most excellent medicine for the mother the chollick and stone ¶ Take Fenell séed Coriander seed Carroways séed Parsly séed Galingall séed Gromwell seed an vnce of each of these also an vnce of leaues and cods of Scene a quarter of an vnce of Spignall a quarter of an vnce of Time take al these and make them into
and fine till they be as tough as waxe then take a quart of claristed Honny and cast the Dates therein till they bee dissolued then take halfe an ounce of long Pepper as much of Mace and Cloues and Nutmegs beaten in fiue powder then seeth the Dates and Honny ouer a soft fire then cast on the powder by little and little and stirre it very fast and let it seeth long till it wexe thicke then set it to ecole and put it in close Boxes and eate therefore first and last and it shall restore a man bee hee neuer so weake or lowe brought vse this some-times vppon a full stomacke and you shall not surfet proued by M. Baltazer Chirurgian ¶ An Electuarie most soueraine for all manner of diseases in the body proued by G. K. ¶ Take foure pound of Sugar and boyle it in a pint and a halfe of Malmesey and put thereto a pint of Rose-water and a pint and a halfe of White-wine halfe a pinte of Aqua vitae and of running water a pint boyle all these together and when it is well sodden take of the powder of Enula campana an ounce and a halfe of Calamus aromaticus and Licoris of each halfe an ounce pepper thrée penny waight one halfe penny worth of Alisander seedes in powder sixe pence waight of conserue of Roses and Violets of each foure ounces boyle all these to a measurable thicknes then put thereto of folliater golde and all to cut it with a knife and mingle it with the aforesaide Electuarie and vse it as your need requireth and by Gods grace it will helpe you A restoritie for the weake and feeble ¶ Take a pinte of running Water and heate it ouer the fire and put in it a handful of Rose-mary let it boile to the halfe and then straine it then take a pint of White wine or Claret wine and a good peece of Sugar and powder of Ginger Sinamon a little Mace and Cloues and put them altogether thē lay sops in a dish and poure thereon the broth and giue it to the ficke and féeble persons fasting in the morning proued For a consumption proued ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Manus Christi one ounce of white fugar Candy and a penny worth of Anniseedes and halfe a pinte of Redde-rose water and a pint of Muscadine foure new layde Egges a quarter of Nutmegges halfe a quarter of Cap Dates and stone your Dates and wash them before that you doo put them in and boile them altogether and so vse them for this hath béene proued A Ielly prooued for a consumption ¶ Take a well fleshed Capon and scald him and draw him and put into his belly a handfull of Barly and as much Reysons Currons and Dates and put him in an earthen pot with a gallon of Claret wine then put therein some Sinamon and Ginger let it seeth till the flesh be fallen from the bones then beate him in a Morter and put him into an Ipocras bag and let the Ielly runne into a faire Vessell and giue the patient of that ielly euening morning and within the spending of three Capons by the grace of God the patient shal recouer much his health and to comfort his stomack giue him Rorax aromaticum made in losings at the Apoticaries A present remedy for the Sciatica ¶ Take a handfull of Violet leaues and wash them in good Ale then take an other pint of good Ale and set it on the fire in a skillet and then beate the Violet leaues very small and so boyle them in the Ale and then when it is halfe boyled take out the leaues and straine the iuyce into the afore-said Ale againe and boyle it very well vntill that it bee thicke and then take a péece of sheepes leather as broad as the place which is gréeued and pricke it full of heles and spread the same on the rough side of the leather and lay it to the place xxiiij howres and then change it and lay to it new and so vse it thrée dayes and you shall be well the oftner the better To make a water for the Sciatica ¶ Take a peece of Porke of a male Hogge which is leane and perboyle it in water vntill the blood be cleane out thē boyle it in strong Ale a good while and after that take it and distill it with a soft fire and then kéepe the water and wash the places so gréeued two or thrée times against the fire For a Sciatica another medicine ¶ Take an Oxe gall and red Allam Rosemarie-tops bay Salt Aqua vitae and Vinegar bray them well together and set them on the fire and alwaies stirre it but let it not seeth and so vse it as neede requireth Another for the same ¶ Take Auence Comin and asmuch white salt a handful of Red nettles and seeth them in pisse and when they be well boyled put thereto Aqua vitae and annoynt well the sore therewith thrée or foure times A medicine for the Sciatica ¶ Take Time Lauender Cotten the runnings or out-laces of Straw-berries of each a like quantitie a nest or two of young Swallowes aliue with the feathers and the gutts and stampe them very small and so fry them in May-butter that is swéete and newe boile them on the fire then straine it through a cloth and put it into a pot and so vse it at your pleasure For the Crampe ¶ The Crampe commeth commonly of contractions of nerues or els it commeth of too much fulnes of the body or too much leannesse and note well that in the Palsie the members be more longer then they should be by relaxation and in the cramp the members are shorter then they should be by shrinking of the nerues but the Crampe that commeth of wasting is seldome cured if the paine be great withal cease it with oyle of roses or of Camemile hote and of yolks of Egges and Saffron together and wet Bread in swéet hote Milke for this ceaseth the aking of the Nerues Also make a garter of an Hares skin but the liuer is said to be full good for the Crampe prooued For the Crampe a remedy ¶ Take oyle of Camemile and Fenegréeke and annoynt the place where the Crampe is and it helpeth Another for the same ¶ Séeth these hearbes Betony Worme-wood Veruaine and Time these are exceeding good for to wash the party so troubled with the Crampe if he make it in a bath Another for the same ¶ If you say these words thrée times when the Cramp commeth vpon you Bero baro battora it may hap to help you To make one to haue a good colour ¶ Take and drinke the iuyce of Isope fasting warme it and it will make you to haue a good cullour it is good for the sight it destroyeth wormes it is also good for the Romake the liuer and the lunges For the Canker a remedie ¶ Take lentils of the Water which be called Frogs féete or Emets meate it is of great
straine them and giue the sick to cate thereof warme and it shall quickly make him sleep by Gods grace To draw a Bile from one place to another ¶ Take Oculus Christi and Veruaine and make a plaister of them and let the same be layde from the Byle two singers broade and when it hath line a good while renew it and so remoue it still from place to place vntill it bee layde in the place where you would haue it breake To drawe out arrowes out of a mans body ¶ Take Polipodion and grinde it with fresh greace that is olde and bind the same vpon the place and it will soone drawâ— it out be it arrow or thorne or any other euill thing To draw out an arrow head ¶ For to draw an arrow head out of a mans flesh take red Spere roote temper the same and seeth it with Honny and then lay it on a cloth and lay it to the wound and it shall draw it out by the grace of God quickly For a Dart in a mans body ¶ Take a Worme that is called Piâ—cher that is as great as a Beane and is cleane blew or sender it hath many small féete and is white vnder the belly and when a man toucheth it it will be as round as a button take thys Worme and rubbe it well against the Dart till it be all broken and doo this euery day three or foure times and at euery time take thrée or foure Wormes For all manner of falling euills ¶ Take the blood of his little finger that is ficke and write these thrée verses following and hang it about his neck Iasper fert mirram thus melchior balthazar aurum hec quicum secum porta tria nomina regum soluiter a morbo domini pictate caduca and it shall helpe the party so gréeued For the falling euill ¶ Take the powder of Osmond and the roote of pilny and and take the powder of Mortegan and drinke all these with stale Ale and let them say theyr prayers and as soone as the party falleth downe take the gall of a Dogge and giue the sick to drinke with good Ale that is stale and by Gods grace he shal neuer haue the falling euill any more proued For to cure the falling euill in foure dayes ¶ Take Swallowes and beate them feathers guts and all Castorry Vineger and some Iermander distilled first in water and some Cardus benedictus water and then still all and giue the sicke to drink therof Also take the roote of Piony and make it in powder and put it into pappe for a child and let him or them lick it with a little Suger and they that be of age may eate the more quantity therof Also the black séede of Piony is good therfore For the falling euill ¶ The filling of gold being taken in meate and drinke is good against that euill and if the Patients backe be annoynted with the oyle of Iiniper in the very chine and so is a dram of Castoreum very good therfore Also take the powder of Gentiana with the iuice of wilde Sage is good for the falling euill The manner and vse to be obserued and kept in the time of curing of a fistula ¶ First you must search the vlcer with your tonte to know the depth and the length thereof that you may knowe of what fise to make your tente and annoynt the sore onlie with Populion and your tent also and dippe the ende therof in the powder following for two daies once a day dresse it with your powder and other two daies with nothing but Populion to remooue the aker and thus inlarge your tent till the worke be knowne vnto you so long as it casteth a blocky maulte gory stinking or bloodie water still vse your powder vntill it come grosse thick and white and then apply mundisters or clensers and the vlcer clensed then vse incarnatiues as the gréene balme before written other that followe alwaies rather shortening your tent and making of it lesse till you be assured of the victory for sigilation sealing or sinking of the water that hereafter shall follow termed mother and the congelour The powder for the Fistusta ¶ Take two ounces of greene Copperas and burne it in a Goldsmithes potte called a crusible Mercurij subblimati an ounce grinde them small on a Marble stone till that it bee very fine powder and vse it when neede requireth A skinning water for the Fistula ¶ Take strong Vinegar that is white for that is best a quart of Litarge of gold finely beaten finely searced a pound mingle them together and let them infuse in a glasse thrée or foure daies stirring them together twice in a day then let it settle a day and take the cleared thereof and put it into a viall or glasse and so you haue the mother The congelour in a Fistula ¶ Take faire water a pint salte genne two ounces common salt a good spoonefull boyle all till the salts bee dissolued then put the cleerest thereof into a glasse and this is the congelour The vse of the congelour ¶ Take of the mother thrée parts of the congelour 2. parts and a little more put them together and it will be an oyntment or a thick creame lay it on the place that you would haue skinned or the créeping tetter and it shall doo wonderfully for the long vlcers that lack nothing but skinning and it will skin in very short time For the Fistula ¶ In what place soeuer it be take the inyce of Turmentil and drop it into the hole and it helpeth and so doth a tent dipped in the sayd iuyce layd to the Fistula Also take gréene Betonie with salt and make a tent and put to it a plaister of the same and it will heale it Another for the same ¶ Take of the powder of Copperis with two parts of beane meale and confect them with french sope and shape a tent therof and put it into the hole of the Fistula it will clense it in such manner that if there be any bones corrupt or broken that they may be taken out and it will consume the euill moistures To stop a very great flixe ¶ Take halfe a pound of Almonds and blanch them and stampe them very small in a Morter and then take twelue yolkes of newe layde Egges rosted harde and put them into a Morter and bray altogether and then take a pint of strong red vinegar for that is best and put it into the same stuffe and mingle theÌ„ well together and then put all into a faire pot of earth and stampe it well then take thereof fiue or sixe spoonefulls at once but first warme it and then drinke three or foure times vpon a day if neede be Another for the same ¶ Take the roote of a great Docke that beareth the Burre and the leaues of Oake and ground-Iuie and make a bath of them and put thy féete therein vp to the ankles but no higher and let
it away with Vinegar Another for the Morphew ¶ Take blacke Sope and put it in a cleane Cloth and put it in your owne vrine and there-with annoint the Morphew Also let the partie gréeued drinke morning and euening water of Femitory and water of Borage mingled together in like portions and within foure-teene dayes it will helpe him clean Also take greene Copperas and put it in cleane water and let it stand a day and then clense the water and then annoynt the Morphew with the water A mechcine for the Marmole ¶ Take Broome flowers and dry them and beate them to powder and temper the powder with oyle made of Mints and a little Vinegar there-with and annoynt the sore there-with Take great Wall nuts as they grow huskes and all and bray them in a Morter and temper it with oyle Oliue and fry it in a pan and put thereto a quantitie of pitch in the frying thereof and straine it through a linnen cloth and there-with annoynt the sore and lay Plantaine leaues about the back towarde the sore and euery morning wash the sore with Madder water For to heale a Marmole ¶ Take a pinte of clarified Honny and a quart of running water and a great quantitie of Sage and seeth them together as well as thou canst and wash the wound with the licour and lay a Sage leafe on the wound Another for the same ¶ Take oyle Oliue and annoynt the sore there-with and lay thereon a Plantine leafe and euery morning wash the sore with Madder water For to cure a Marmole ¶ Take fresh Seame and the kernels of ripe Nutts and stampe them small as may be and blende them together with Aqua vitae and Honny and make them thick as a plaister and lay it on a linnen cloth and put to the Marmole and as often as yee shall change the plaister ye shall find it full of red wormes and therfore kéepe this medicine thereto fresh and fresh til such time as the wormes be cleane out but looke that you claw not your legges to make them bleede A maturatiue to ripen a botch or a bile ¶ Take sower dow and white of old Swines greace and beate them together and put thereto salte and the powder of Comin and mingle them well together and make a plaister thereof this ripeth and breaketh impostumes but my Maister did put thereto powder of Fenegréeke and the yolke of an Eg at one time if there be much for failing of the hart How to make Neruaile for all akings ¶ Take two pound of wild mersh and a pounde of Ambrosen and a pound of Camemile a pound of Betony and a pound of Sage a pound of Mints and a pound of Hawhew a pound of Southernewood a pound of Mugwort and a pound of wormwood a pound of Mallowes and a pound of Holly-hock a pound of Hore-hound and a pound of red Nettles a pound of Lorrell leaues and a pound of Liuerwort then take all these hearbes and stampe thē in a morter small and doo thereto three or foure pound of May butter and a quart of oyle Oliue and stampe thē together then doe them in an earthen pot and couer it wel and set the pot in a moist place and let it stand nine dayes and the tenth day take it out of the pot and put it in a pan and set it on the fire to séeth and stirre it that it doo not cleane to the pan and when it hath well boiled take it from the fire and straine it through a cloath a little and a little into a faire vessell thē take that licour and put it in a cleane pan and sette it ouer the fire and doo thereto a quarter of a pound of shéepes tallow melted and asmuch Frankensence well broken in powder and stirre them well together till it be molten and then take if from the fire and let it stand and coole and make thereon a hole and let out the water thereof and turne it on the other side and doe awaie the foulenes thereof then take it and doo it in the panne againe and set it ouer the fire till that it be molten and then doo therto a pint of the greace of a Gray if you may haue it then with a feather scum it cleane and put it in boxes and this is the kindly making of Neruaile and this oyntment is hote To make Neruaile to helpe all sinnewes and to put them in theyr strength ¶ Take Ambrosen Camemile hearbe Iohn hearbe Water hearbe Robert Eglantine the leaues of Crosse wood Fenegreke Laurell leaues as much thereof as of all the other breake them and lay them in white Wine and let them lye so fourteene dayes then take a pottle of greace a quarte of May butter and of oyle Oliue and boile them together and straine them and let them coole and so vse it to the shrunck sinewes Heere followeth the making of diuers kindes of oyles and it showes which be hote which be cold according to the opinion of Ipocras and Gallen Oyle of Roses ¶ Take and fill a glasse full of Rose leaues and put thereto one pound of oyle Oliue and stop it well and set it in the sunne stirring it euery day once for the space of xv dayes then straine it through a cloth and put it vpon cold water and stirre it with Hasell wood but take the barke off and this is moist and colde Oyle of yolkes of Egges ¶ Take yolkes of Egges and put them in a pot ouer the fire and let them so stand ouer the heate of the fire till you perceiue they are become black then put them in a presse presse out the oyle and this oyle is good for all manner of burnings or scaldings what soeuer Oyle of Henbane ¶ Take the séede of Henbane and fry it in oyle and presse it through a cloth and afterward put the same for your vse into some glasse for this oyle is good for all maner of swellings and burnings in the ioynts Oyle of Mandrakes ¶ Take and cut them in diuers péeces and séeth them in a double vessell of glasse and set them in the Sunne and let it standnine dayes then set them on a small fire till they be thiek and keepe that oyle for it is good for all festures Oyle of Lorrell ¶ Take Lorrell leaues and bray them in a Morter and let it stand two or thrée dayes and then seeth them and straine thē through a cloth and that which heaueth aboue is the oyle Also take Lorrell Berries when they be gréene and seeth them in oyle and straine them and it is good oyle Also take Lorrell berries when they be ripe and seeth them with Lorrell leaues and thereof thou shalt haue the best Oyle and this oyle is good for diuers cold causes Another sort of oyle very necessary for diuers purposes ¶ Take Almonds or Nuts blaunched into a pot ful of holes in the bottome and set that pot vpon a séething potte that
of water and so let it stand 3. dayes and on the 4. day let it seeth ouer the fire till it waxe thick then take it off and straine it through a cloth and put thereto a little hote water for the thicknes and straine it as harde as you may betwéene your hands and take the third deale of that licour and put thereto two pounde of oyle Oliue and let them boyle well till they be some-what wasted put thereto a portion of waxe and of Turmentill and doo it to the other licour and let them seeth well till it waxe thick then doo it off the fire and let it keele and then put it in boxes This oyntment is good for great gréeuaunce of the stone and for the aking of the ribbes and all hard greeuaunce it maketh them nesh but the partie must bée annoynted against the fire for this hath been proued To make a good oyntment ¶ Take of Smallage and Mallowes and put thereto two pound of Bores greace one pound of May butter and oyle of Neates feete a good quantity stampe them well together then fry them and straine them into an earthen vessell A medicine for the palsie ¶ Take oyle Oliue and the slowers of Cowslips out them together and still them in a glasse in the sunne and then take two spoonefuls of the oyle that shall come of it with a spoonefull of Aqua vitae and warme it on the fire in a saucer so annoynt the place which is benumd or gréeued and the patient shall find very great remedy prooued A medicine for the Palsie ¶ Take a handful of Marigolds beate them and wring out the iuyce therof with a draught of Ale put to the same a spoonefull of as good Musterd that may be gotten warme this drinke thrée times and so giue it to the party so gréeued Another medicine for the palsie ¶ Take Cowslips wild Sage Lauender and stamp them small and worke them with swéet Ale and make them vp in balls and make holes in them and fill them full of swéet oyle and let them stand infuse nine dayes then take them temper them againe with swéet oyle and then fry them and straine them and so annoynt the party so gréeued with the palsie An electuary for the palsie ¶ Take Mints Sinamon Comin Rose leaues dryed Mastick Fenigreeke Valerian Ameos dorinici Zedoarye Cloues Saunders and Lignum aloes of euery one a dram Muske halfe a dram make an electuary with clarified hony and let either man or child that hath the palsie take halfe as much as a nut Also a bath made with these hearbs Sauery Marierum Time Sage Nep Smallage and Mints are very wholesome for the same A plaister for a man that is benumed in any member with cold or palsie ¶ Take Sauine Ru◠Sage Musterstéede and temper it with white Wine and make it as thick as it were a plaister and so let it stand in a vessell a day and a night and then lay it on a cloth thick and lay it to the member benumed For the pricking of a thorne or needle in a ioynt and the hole stopped ¶ Take fine bolted flower of Wheate and temper it with white Wine and boile it together till it be thicke with white Wine and lay it to the sore as hot as you may suffer it and it shall open the hole and draw out the venim and cease the aking and heale it againe this medicine is good to heale a bile or any Whitlow or Vncome For the pricking of a thorne ¶ Take Mather rootes and grind them small and boyle it with oyle Oliue and lay it therunto or els with the aforesaide oyle anoynt the sore place and it will doo thée good A preparatiue ¶ Take of Endiue Succory Harts-tung Borage of each a handfull of Persly roots Fennell roots Fumitory and the tops of young Hops of each a quarter of a handfull of Time Betony Germaunder of each foure crops great Raizons a handfull of Licoris a little brused halfe an vnce of Fenell séed seeth all these in a pot of faire water to the halfe then put ther to sixe spoonefuls of vineger and after one boyling straine them without pressing then take the clearest thereof and if you will make a sirrop thereof put to a pint of the broth a pound of Suger and in the boyling therof put therto a little Cinamon brused the weight of eight pence let him drinke of this foure good spoonfuls with sixe spoonfuls of Borage water warmed fasting in his bed and sweat after it To make an excellent Millilot plaister ¶ Take of gréene Millilot brused ten handfuls boyle it in a pottell of white Wine to the wasting of the halfe and straine it then put therto of Rozen a pound Waxe as much Shéepes tallow foure vnces Turpentine three vnces Mastick one vnce boyle all saue the Mastick vntill the wasting of the iuice more then halfe then bruse other sixe handfuls of Millilot and put to it while it is a boyling and stir it well while it hath a play or two then take it from the fire and straine it while it is hete through a course canuas bag and with wringing and iumping betweene two round staues till by little and little the stuffe gums and iuyce be come all out as much as you can get and when you may handle it put therto your vnces of Mastick finelie powdered and make it in rowles mingle your Mastick in the handling thereof To make the powder of life ¶ Take Spinage Columbine Camomell the séed of Femitory and Marigold of euery of these iuyces and séedes one handfull and dry them out of the Sunne and make thereof powder and giue it to drink either hot or cold for this hath béen proued a medicine full true The Philosophers stone so called for medicine to cure all diseases both within and without Fistules Canker Poxe Falling sicknes Woolfes S. Antonies fire and all incurable diseases proued ¶ Take Celondine leaues fast by the roots in May or Iune and seethe them in running water vntill such time as they doe come to pap and as pap take them forth and grind them on a stone very fine as Gréene-sauce and let it be no dryer then put them in a glasse with a Limbeck head a receauer but it must be stilled in Balneo likewise receaue the first water by it selfe and when it beginneth to drop somewhat slowly or to change then take that receauer away put another to it and then take that as long as it will stil then take that glasse away and kéepe it closely and sure for that is the fiery element and the first is the water then let your glasse coole and then set it in ashes in a dry Furnace and draw the last water by it selfe for that is the ayre and that that remaineth in the bottom is the earth which earth you must take out and grind it on a stone fine and let it stand vpon the stone
thereof pilles with Siropo aceteso in good forme the which thou shalt giue vnto him that is poysoned and in short time thou shalt see miracles of this medicine for all the aforesaid simple is in maner alone sufficient to deliuer one that were poisoned but béeing mixed together it worketh greater effect these pilles are of as good experiment against poison as may be For a man that hath drunke poyson ¶ Take Betony and stampe it and mingle it with water and the poyson that the partie hath drunke will presently come forth againe Against the plague or pestilence ¶ Take Matselon Sentuarie Worme-wood Horchound of each a good handfull and stéepe them all night in a pot of Beare and in the morning drinke a draught thereof fasting Also to perfume your Chamber with Rosemary dryed Bay leaues or Ieneper or Rosewater and Cloues and Olibanum it is very good to giue children in time of infection treakle with water of Dragons or Scabions or let them chew Zedwall in in their mouthes To driue out the plague if you thinke one be infected ¶ Take the roote of Dragons and the roots of Polipodium of the Oake of each like quantitie and dry them in an Ouen and beate them to powder and if you thinke that you bee infected take asmuch of the powder as will lye on a groat and put it in a cup of Ale and drinke it next your hart and it will driue out the plague and preserue the patient A powder to drinke to preserue one from the plague ¶ Take Betony Pimpernell Sinckfoile Scabions of each of all these a like quantitie and dry them all and beat thē into fine powder where any infection of the plague is drinke some of the powder in Ale warme next your hart two mornings in a wéeke and if the infection bee great drinke it euery morning and by Gods grace it shall helpe you For them that are infected with the plague ¶ Take a spoonefull of running water aspoonfull of Vinegar a good quantitie of Treakle to the bignes of a Walnutte temper all these together and heate it luke-warme and gine it him to drinke 24. howres For the plague a remedie ¶ Take Scabions and stampe it with swines greace and lay it to the sore and let it lye 24. howres vnremooued and it will take it cleane away or else breake it and if the patient drinke the iuyce thereof it is very good therefore For the plague a medicine ¶ Take an Onion and cut out the core and fill it full of Treakle of Iane and rost it in the fire and then take three spoonefuls of red Vinegar and sixe spoonefulles of iuyce of Sorrel and straine the Onion with the said iuyce and drinke it warme and it will helpe you Another for the same ¶ Take Treakle of Iane and stirre it together with Ginger and Cloues and a little Saffron and take thereof in the morning next to your hart For to kill Ring-wormes or Tetters ¶ Take vnslacked lime and Sope and mixe them tagether and lay it vpon a parchment skinne no broader then the King-worme and lay it thereto halfe an howre vntill it take the barke or skinne and thē take the iuyce of Orpine and annoynt it till it be cold and then heale it vp with salue Also if ye take glasse and make the same into fine powder and afterward meddle it with blacke Sope annoynt the sore there-with it will heale the same A very good oyntment for Ring-wormes or Tetters ¶ Take oyle of Roses two ounces newe Waxe 4. penny waight mingle your oyle and Waxe together then take Litage of Golde and Seruse of each halfe an ounce make your Litage and Seruse into fine powder and meddle them in a brazen Morter with your oyle Waxe then take halfe an ounce of Quicksiluer mortified and the white of an Egge new layd meddle them together and put in your Quicksiluer last and vse it euening and morning and thus you shall mortifie your Quicksiluer put it into a violl of glasse and put fasting spettle to it beate it vp and downe till it change colour like ashes then put in your stuffe and labour them well together and afterward vse thereof at your neede For a Ringworme or Tetter ¶ Take foure ounces of Bores greace and one ounce of Quicksiluer and kill it with fasting spettle one ounce of Verdigreace a dramme of Camphire a quantitie of blacke Sope and of Mustard the iuyce of Walnut leaues and grinde them altogether vpon a Painters stone and put it into a boxe and there-with annoynt all the places where the Ringworme or Tetter is euening and morning till it be whole To kill a Ringworme or Tetter in what place soeuer it bee ¶ Take blacke Sope and Pepper and mingle themtogeather and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the gréefe Also take the iuyce of Honny-suckle leaues and annoynt the place with a feather Also take the oyle of Scorpian annoynt the place where the greefe is and it helpeth the same Also if you take the flower of Popell and Vinegar and oyle of Nuts and annoynt the place with the same it will perfectlie cure the Tetter or Ringworme A good restoritie to restore a mans nature and to helpe them that are weake and decayed ¶ Take and make Almond milke with the broth of Béefe mary-bones and of a Cocke that is well boyled then temper there-with yolkes of Egges and good Bastard then put them in the Almond milke and make a Cawdell thereof with your Bastard and cast blaunch powder vpon it and you may put a little Rosewater vpon it for it will be the better A restoratiue of Rosa solis ¶ Take Rosa solis but touch not the leaues in gathering nor washe it not take thereof foure good handfuls then take thrée pints of good Aqua vitae and put them both into a glasse or pot of thrée or foure pints and then stop it hard for three dayes and thrée nights and the fourth day straine it through a cleane cloth into a glasse or pewter pot and put thereto halfe a pounde of fine Sugar beaten very fine take foure ounces of fine Licoris beaten in powder halfe a pound of sound Dates the stones taken out make them cleane and mince them small and put all these together in a glasse or pewter pot and stop it close that no ayre goe out and drinke thereof at night halfe a spoonefull with Ale or Beere but Ale is best take as much in the morning fasting for there is not the weakest body in the world that wanteth nature or strength or that is in a consumption but that wil restore him againe and make them to haue a good appetite to theyr meate For to restore the strength of a man that is brought low ¶ Take two or thrée Fennell rootes and as many Parsely rootes Isope Time Sauory Violet leaues of each halfe a handfull and a Licoris sticke brused small a spoonfull of Annyséedes
wounds Prooued To make a salue that is a precious oyntment for wounds and for bruzings but it must be drunken in white Wine or stale Ale ¶ Take of the hearbe Walter Robart wilde Thistles Pursewort Veruaine Daysie the little Knapwoort Egrimouy Harts tung Horehound Pimpernell hearb Iuie Sanigell Plantaine Medewoort Sothernwood little Burnet Mugwoort Tansie the holly Thistle Betony Turmentile Mouse-eare Peluet Milfoyle Robwort black Thistle wild Sage crops of Hemp crops of the red Bramble crop of the red Woorts Mors diaboli Groundswelly Scabions Sage Violet of the garden Osmond waches of the mede Fumitory Dawk Spinage Strawberies and the more Dayste Mede March Wasts crops Peygell Woodrone Crosset Iermander Tutsan Woodbind Pedelion flowers of Broome Cinkfoyle Wormwort Scabwort then take of Auence as much of him as of all the other hearbs and then shred them and doo them in a morter and stamp them sinall and doo therte thrée or foure pound of May butter cleane clarified and put together and so let them stand seauen dayes and then doo it in a cleane pan and set it ouer the fire and let it séeth soft then strain it through a canuas cloth and doo therto the iuice of Saffron and stir them well together let it stand forth till it be cold then must the sick take therof on this maner take of this salue sixe peny waight doo it in warm Wine or stale Ale and let it melt on the fire and let the sick drink it first and last and this healeth wounds well For the salt humour ¶ Take halfe a pound of Lignum vitae and barks therof and Anniseed Licoras and boyle all these together and halfe a pint of clarified Hony and all kind of cold hearbs with Liuerwort and Harts-tung halfe a quartern of French Barly and halfe a pound of Rayzons of the sunne pull out the stones of the Raizons and boyle all these together very well and straine them and it will help that disease in the body For the salt humour another ¶ Take white Lead Ceruse Litarge of gold and Litarge of siluer of each one vnce Sulphur one vnce mixe them together and make them in powder very small then take oyle Oliue one vnce and a halfe Vineger white Wine as much as néedeth mixe in due proportion For to heale any sore or cut ¶ Take a little fine Flaxe and a little Hogs greace and chop them together and make a plaister of the same and it will heale it very well and faire An oyntment for all maner of sores and cuts and swellings and heat ¶ Take Melilot Egrimony of each a like much Wood Betony Wormwood and Smallage a quantity of each of them and gather them in May and shred them and bray them with as much butter waight for waight as the hearbs all together and then lay it in a corner sixe or seauen daies vntill it be hoary and then take it and fry it then strain it into an earthen pot and when it is cold make an hole in the side or bottome of the pot that the drosse may runne out Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Smallage and Mallowes and put therto two pound of Bores greace a pound of butter and oyle of Neates-féete a quantity and stampe them well altogether then fry them and straine it in an earthen pot and kéepe it to your vse A water for to heale an old sore ¶ Take a gallon of running water and set it on the fire and let it séethe then take an vnce of gréene Copperas two vnces of Bolae armoniake white Copperas the quantity of halfe a Nut and grind or beate them all to powder together into the said water and let them séeth together a little while then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it in an earthen bottle and stop it fast and then occupy it at your néede A soueraigne water for all manner of sores ¶ Take red Sage Isop Rosemary red Fenell Daisies English Saffron Nep Allom of each a quantity but most of Daisies séethe them in running water and wring it through a cloth and so make a water and this is good for all sores An oyntment to cleanse olde stinking sores Take the iuyce of Selidon the iuyce of Plantaine Honey the yolke of an Egge of each a like much Barly flower meddle them together and put as much Barly flower as shal make it thick like a plaister and let it come néere no fire and so lay it vpon the sore A good oyntment to cleanse a sore both olde or newe ¶ Take halfe a pound of Turpentine and wash it well in Barly water the yoks of sixe Egs new layed honey of Roses foure vnces and for lacke of honey of Rofes take other honey Barly flower as much as shall be sufficient to make it thicke like a plaister and meddle them together and let them not come néere any fire To skin the flesh that is raw ¶ Take a quart of good Ale and Allom Hony and Woodbind leaues and stampe the leaues and put the iuyce to them and séeth them till they come to a pint and when it is cold wet a gray paper in it and lay it to the sore For all manner of scabs ¶ Take Enula campana red Docke rootes Nightshade Woodbind leaues and then cast in a péece of Allom and put in Vitrioll romana rubrified when it is cold and wash the scabbe therewith Another for the same ¶ Take white oyntment Brimstone Quicksiluer Verdigreace and meddle them together and therewith annoynt the sore scab For to doe away scabs ¶ Take red Dock roots Pimpernell Scabions Sorrell de bayes Celondine stampe them with May butter and fry them well together and straine them through a cloth into a cleane vessell and cast thereto a good quantity of Brimstone in powder and stir it well together till it be colde and therewith annoynt the sick till that he be all whole Another for the same ¶ Take the roote of Horsehelme and séethe it in water till it be nesh and take old Shéepes tallow and meddle them well together in a morter and doo it in a linnen cloth and annoynt the sore by the fire Another for to doe away scabs ¶ Take Celondine and powder of Brimstone and medle them well together and it will doo away the scabs Another for the same ¶ Take Oniens and mince them and séeth them in water or in vineger and wash therewith the scabs or isching and it shall doo it away and heale it faire and smooth Another for to doe away seabs or itching ¶ Take the roots of Enula campana and wash them cleane in faire water and seeth them as you séeth Persneps and then make them cleane and cut them in péeces and stampe them small with Colts greace anoynt the sore therwith A good oyntment for the scabbes and for itching of the body ¶ Take foure vnces of oyle de bay and an vnce of Frankensence
bléeding thereof To staunch blood when a Maister vaine is cut ¶ Take rawe Béefe that neuer had any salt cast thereon and lay it on a gredion ouer fresh coales well kindled and lay the Béefe thereon still turning the same till it be well broiled and then lay it to the sore and it will stanch the blood and for the nose if it be put into a cloth and smelt to it helpeth To staunch blood ¶ Take an hearbe that is called Lunaha and stamp it and lay it to the wound or take the gréene leaues thereof and lay them on the wound and it shall staunch and if a man may not haue thys hearbe let him burne the feathers of a Cocks necke and take the ashes of them and lay on the wound and the blood shall soone be staunehed For swelling that commeth suddainly in a mans limmes ¶ Take Harts-tongue Cherfoyle and cut them small and then take dregs of Ale and wheate branne and shéepes tallow molte and doe all in a pot and séeth them till that they be thick and then make a plaister and lay it to the swelling Another for the same ¶ Take faire Water and salte and stirre them well together and therein wet a cloth and lay it to the swelling For to make one slender ¶ Take Fennell and séeth it in water a very good quantitie and wring out the iuyce thereof when it is sod and drinke it first and last and it shall helpe the patient For to breake the stone a medicine ¶ Take halfe a handfull of Pellitory of the wall halfe a dozen Parfly rootes halfe a handfull of vnsette Time a quantitie of Pennyriall and seeth all these in a pottle of Rennishe Wine or white wine and let it séeth to a quart or a pint which you will then take a Nutmegge rosted and dry it by the fire and deuide it in foure parts and drinke the same warme after it is strained as much at a time as you thinke good Another for the same ¶ Take the rootes of Parsly Pellitory and red Nettles of each a like quantitie wash them cleane and mince theÌ„ smal and lay them in White wine twenty foure howres and still them together and drinke it with two pound of rootes put to a quart of White wine For the stone a remedy ¶ Take Reysons vnset Léekes Sappifrage Samphire Auence Beane-cods still each one by it selfe and fine them in the Sunne and take of each a like much and put thereto as much Malmesie as of the waters and still them altogether againe and fine it in the Sunne and when the patient is gréeued and at no time else let â—un drinke thereof thrée spoonefuls at a time and that will be sufficient enough at once and heate it luke warme and put in a little powder of Giues and drinke it and lay him downe to sweat Also takâ— Sapifrage and still the same with water and make thereof a firrop as though it were with Roses and put thereto a quantitie of Sugar and eate it and it will breake the stone meruailously Another medicine for the stone ¶ Take a cake of Rye and bake it then take Onions and roste them very soft then take your cake out of the ouen slit it a sunder in the middest the vpper side froÌ„ the nether then take your Ouions and pill them and shread them vpon the cake and lay the one péece to the bottome of your belly and the other part to the raines of your back and it will helpe you A very good powder for the stone ¶ Take Smallage seede Louach séede Fennell séede Sapifrage seede Caraway séede Gremell seede Broome seed parslie féede Philopendula the roote thereof dryed Veruaine and the kernels of Cherristones of euery of these a like much by weight then beate them in a brassen Morter all to powder and then let the sick vse of this in White wine at euening and morning and also let him vse of this powder in his pottage for it is very good for the stone An excellent good Medicine for the stone and to breake it ¶ Take Allisander Louach Smallage Water cresses and Gromet of each a like much and boyle them in a Gallon of faire water till the halfe thereof be wasted and doo thereto a good deale of Sugar or of Licoris and then straine it through a cloth and doo it in a cleane vessell well stopped and let the sick drinke thereof morning and euening and this will breake the stone in the raines or bladder and make him for to come foorth without faile A good medicine for the stone ¶ Take March seede Anniseede and Commin séed Parsly seede and Fennell séede and Water Cresses seede or els the powder made of the hearbe then take all these seedes and doe them in good Vinegar and so let them stande two dayes and a night then dry these séedes in an Ouen and then make them to powder in a brassen Morter and let the sick vse of this powder in his pottage and in his drinke as is aforesaide and thys will make a man to make water well A good plaister proued for the strangury ¶ Take Holly-hocks Violets and Mercurie the leaues of these hearbes or the séedes of them also the rind of the Elder trée and leydwort of each of these a handfull and beate them small and seeth them in water till halfe be consumed then doe thereto a little oyle Oliue and all hote make thereof a plaister and lay it to the sore and raines And also in Sommer you must make him a drinke in this manner take Sapifrage and the leaues of Elders fiue leaued grasse and seeth them in a pottle of stale Ale till the one halfe thereof be consumed then straine it and keepe it cleane and let the sicke drinke thereof first in the morning and last at night and if you lacke these hearbes because of Winter then take the rootes of fiue leaued grasse and dry them and make thereof powder and then take Dister shels and burne them and make powder of them and mingle them together and so let the sicke vse thereof in his pottage and drinke and it shall helpe him A very good medicine shewing how to make a powder for the stone and strangulion ¶ Take blacke Bramble berries while they bee red Iuieberries the inner pith of the Ashe keyes the stones of Eglantine berries clouen rubbed from the hayre Nutte keyes the rootes of Philopendula of all these a like quantity Acorne kirnels the stones of Sloes of each a like quantity dry all these in platters in an Ouen till they may bee well beaten to powder then take Gromell seede Sapisrage seede Alisander seed Coliander seede Persly seede Commin seede Fennell seede Anniseede of each of these a like quantitie asmuch as is before written and dryed in like sort then beate all these to fine powder and take Licoris of the best that you can get fayre scraped as much in quantitie as of all the other and
as golde Another to make the hayre yellow ¶ Take the rinde or barke of Rubarbe and take the scrapings thereof and steepe it in white wine or cleere Lye and after that you haue washed your head therewith you shall wet your haire with a Sponge or some cloth kept for that purpose then let your haire dry against the fire or sunne and the oftner that you vse it the better it will proue as I haue often tryed For to stay hayre from falling ¶ Take and make strong standing Lye and take a great company of Isope rootes and burne them to ashes and mingle the ashes and the Lie together and therewith wash your head and it will keepe the haire from falling of and vse this often it is well proued Also if you take the ashes of little Frogs being burnt it staieth the falling of the haire and the ashes of Goats dung mingled with oyle doth increase haire Another for the falling of hayre ¶ Take the ashes of Culuer-dung in lie and wash the heade therewith Also Walnut leaues beaten with Beares suet restoreth the haire that it plucked away Also the leaues and middle rind of an Oke sodden in water and the head washed therewith is very good for this purpose For to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Frankensence and Barrowes greace boyle them together in a pan of earth and with this oyntment rub the head where the lyce is and it will kill them Another to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Stauesaker and beat it to powder and mingle it with blacke Sope and annoynt the head therewith and it will be quicklie cleane For the Nits in the head ¶ Take the gall of a Calfe and smere the head therwith and it will kill the Nits For woormes in the hayre ¶ Take and rub Calamint on the head and it will sley the woormes in the haire For to doe away hayre ¶ Take the head of Nettles and stampe them and temper it with Eysell and annoynt the head therewith but first shaue or pul away the haire for it is better After this you must sweat and when that you are hote then annoynt your head therwith and doe this three daies and there will growe no more haire in that place Also take the gumme of Arabick and annoynt the place where the haire groweth and it shall quicklie fall awaie For to take away hayre ¶ Take the shells of two Egges beate them small and still them with a good fire and with that water annoynt the place Or els take hard Cats dunge dry it and beate it to powder and temper it with strong Vineger then wash the place with the same where you would haue no haire to grow An experiment for to take away haire ¶ Take the blood of a Snaile without a shell and it hindereth greatly the growing vp of haire Also take Labdanum the gum of an Iuie tree Emmets Egges Arsenick and Vinegar and binde it to the place where you will haue no haire to grow Another for to take away hayre ¶ Take the iuyce of Fumitory and mixe it with gum Arabick then lay it on the place of the haires first plucked out by the rootes and it will neuer permit any more haire to grow in that place Also if you annoynt your heade with the iuyce of a Gloworme stamped it hath the same vertue For the scurffe in the head ¶ Take of the decoction of Mallow rootes and wash your head often therewith and it will cause the scurffe to fall away Also the decoction of the middle rinde of an Elme the head beeing washed therewith doth mightily driue out the scurffe Another for the scurffe in the head ¶ Take Vinegar and boyle it in wine lees a little and annoynt all ouer the scurffe but first clense it and it will mightily heale and dry it Also take the branch of a greene Fig trée with the leaues and stampe them in water it will heale the scurffe being washed therewith If the scurffe be newe vse this medicine daily with Vineger and annoynt the head therewith this hath beene proued For wheales or pushes in the head ¶ Take and wash your head with Vineger or with water wherein Camomell hath beene sodden Also the leaues of Violets stampt with honny doth lightly heale the same Also towne Cresses stampt with Goose greace dooth spéedily heale the pushes or wheales that be in the head For a scald head ¶ Take a penny-worth of Lampe oyle and halfe a pynte of faire water and boyle it well together and when it is cold put thereto halfe a penny-worth of Quicksiluer and temper it wel together and annoynt the head therewith For a scald head ¶ Take the liuer of a Thornebacke and séeth it by it selfe then take six roots of Enula campana and séeth thē by the space of thrée howers in cleane water of Houseléeke three handfulls stampe them and mingle them altogeather and strayne them through a linnen cloth and make an oyntment of them and annoint the head therewith and if the haire be gone take a handfull of wooll and burne it to powder and annoint therewith the head that is pilde and the haire shall growe as thicke as euer it was before Another for a scald head ¶ Take Groundsell and Barrowes greace and chopps the Groundsell small and boyle it with a softe fier with the Barrowes greace and so clip off the haire and ther-withall annoynt the scald head For to heale a white scald in the head ¶ Take Houndstung and Borage rootes of each a like quantitie wash them faire and cleane then shred them chop them small in péeces séeth them in vineger about halfe a pint more then put in a little sweete Butter neuer salted and let them boyle together till they be softe then strayne them through a cleane cloth and it will be a pleasant salue then take a feather and annoynt the Patients head withall but you must vse to wash the scald head with Cow pisse or else with faire water and this will heale the white scald head Another for to heale the white scald ¶ Take gréene coperis rosen waxe shéepes suet hony and beat them small together and boyle them well and it will be a very faire salue and this will heale any white scald proued For the brayne an experiment ¶ Take the Sirope of red Roses with the powder of Lygnum Aloes and the bone in the Harts hart cloues the leaues of red Roses or the Cakes thereof and séethe them all together with Snger and giue the patient thereof to drink fasting morning and euening For the brayne another ¶ Take the smoke of Lignum Aloes and it comforteth the cold braine and all weake parts of the braine and the head For to restore the braine ¶ Take and make powder of Betony and vse it in thy pottage and it will restore the braine Also take and chew Mace in your mouth Also put into thy nose the roote or iuice of Galingall and it
very small and séeth them in oyle till the oyle be nigh wasted then lay the residus that is left on the hot coales and let the Patient take the smoke thereof at his mouth and nose and it will help him Also bind the powder of Eustorbium in a fine cloth and hold it so to his nose that he be constrained to neese Or else take and make an oyntment of Eustorbium of Pepper and of Castore with oyle of Muske or common oyle with these powders and iuyce of Gourds and annoynt and rubb the hinder part of the Patients head prooued For to purge the head and to clense it ¶ Take Pellitory of Spaine and chew a good quantitie of the roote in thy mouth thrée seuerall daies and it shall purge the head doo away the ache and fasten the gumms For to purge the head an experiment ¶ Take the séede of Stoni sacrae and beat it all to powder and when it is beaten small take a fine linnen cloth and put the powder therein and make therof a little ball the quantity of a Hasell nut and put it in thy mouth and role it to and fro betwixt thy téeth chawing and holding downe thy head the space of an houre and it will purge the head and thy gummes and kéepe thy téeth from aking this also clenseth all filthines out of the head and braine For to purge the head of what cause so euer ¶ Take a handfull of Betony a handfull of Camomell and a handfull of Veruaine leaues picked stampe them and seeth them in black Woort or in Ale and in the latter end of the sée thing put to it a little Comin brayed the pouder of Harts horne and the yolks of two Eggs and a little Saffron and stir them well about and lay a plaister thereof hote ouer all his forehead and temples Also if you put to it a little Vineger it is a remedy for to purge the head and for the Meigrim beside Another for to clense the head the brest and the stomack ¶ Take thrée handfull of Centory and séeth it in a gallon of water vnto a pottell and then clense it and put therto a pint of clarified hony and séeth it softly to a quart and drink therof two spoonfuls at once early in the morning and late in the euening For all manner of head ache ¶ Take Veruaine Betony Wormwood Celidony Wall-woort Rue and the bark of the Elder Hony and Pepper and all whole stampe them together and seeth them in water and drink it early and late prooued Another experiment for the same ¶ Take Rue Hayhoue Betony Veruaine Mintes Hilwoort red Fenell Wormwood Sothernwood of each a handfull wash them and shred them small then séethe them with water in an earthen pot and wash thy head with some of the water then mingle the hearbs with Wheat bran and make a plaister thereof and lay it on the mould of his head as hote as may be suffered then bind it too with a Kerchiefe and within fiue times dressing of the Patient he shall be whole Another experiment for all manner of head ache ¶ Take Rue Veruaine Wormwood Sage Walwoort Heyhoue red Fenell Planten the gréene of an Elder between the bark and the trée of each a handfull wash them and stamp them small put them in a new earthen pot with a pottle of red Wine and a pottle of stale Ale seeth it to the halfe put therunto a quarter of an vnce of Pepper beaten and straine it through a cloth and drink therof nine daies eight spoonfuls at once at eueuing hot and in the morning cold and wash the Patients head with the liquor and it will cure all manner of head ache Against the turne or daseling in the head ¶ Let thy head be washed with the water of the decoction of thrée leaued Grasse and lay a playster of the hearbe to the Patients forehead Also Mints laid to the head taketh away the paines that come of a cold cause Also Mistletow laid to the head draweth out the corrupt humors and the iuyce of Onions cast into the nosthrils cleanseth the head Also séethe Peniriall and lay it to the temples or poure Bawlme into the eares thrée or foure times in the Sunne and it will cure the Patient of daseling in the head Another for daseling or swimming in the head ¶ Take and make a plaister of Culuer-dung and Wheate branne temper them with the white of an Egge and lay it to the contrary part of the head to that which is payned Also the iuice of Iuie mingled with old Lard is good for the swimming in the head Also the pith of bread which was baken with Coriander seede laid to the head is good Against the rume in the head ¶ Take and make a Pomander of the powder of Cucubes Maces Labdanum and Gréeke Pitch it doth remoue from the braine all superfluous humers Maces and Cucubes chewed in the mouth doo the same A plaister made of Garlick and Cloues stoppeth that humor which causeth the rume Also Isop boyled in the embers and so laid to the head stoppeth the rume and a little bag full of Darnell Salt and Aniseede is very good A Gargell for the rume ¶ Take Vineger Musterd a good quantity of Pepper and boyle them all together then let the party so gréeued put a spoonfull in their mouth and walke vp and downe and when it waxeth cold spit it out and take an other and vse it for a time and for euery one spoonful you shall voyd fiue take it not in the frest this hath beene prooued For the rume an other experiment ¶ Take iuice of Colewoorts and draw it into the nosthrils and it purgeth the head Sorrell beaten with the oyle of Roses is good for the ache of the head For the rume in the eyes take Time and eate it and it driueth away the rume For the rume in the head an other proued ¶ Against cold rume and other passions and swimming of the head and such other quallities take thrée Pills of Cassia of Labdanum and Storax Confecta with the iuice of Wormwood wheÌ„ the cause commeth of the head this comforteth the braine also make a Fumigation of Cassia Ligna ouer hote coales and receiue the smoake thereof at thy mouth A quilt for the rume a speedy remedie proued often ¶ Take of Olibanum Bengeum Storax Calamita of each of these halfe a dram of Labdanum two drams of Nutmegs and Cloues of each halfe a dram of Commin a scruple Masticke halfe a dram of Maces half a scruple of Iugula Romana a dram of Bay berries a scruple of the flower of Roses of Camomell of Violets of each a dram of the flowers of Betony a scruple beat all these into grosse pouders and so let them be quilted with good red Scarlet flocks in a péece of black Sarcenâ—t and so be laid vpon the head to the nape of the necke and let it lye there the space of twenty houres and
then turne it and thus for the rume it is most excellent An experiment for wounds in the head ¶ For to cease the ache and swelling wounds that be sore in the head or in any other place so that the bones be not broken Take Mallowes Wormwood Betony Egrimony Hilwoort of each of these a handfull wash them and stamp them and put therto thrée vnces of wheat flower as much Hony and as much Barrow greace and stamp them together and put thereto red Wine and fry them and lay them warme to the sore but lay a red Cole leafe between the plaisters and the wound and it shall cease the ache and take away the swelling thereof For all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take Betony Veruaine Wormwood Waybread Rue Wallwoort Sage the barke of the Elder trée thrée cornes of Pepper and temper them together in wine and drinke thereof each day a draught early and late till that the Patient be well Also take the gall of an Hare and temper it with as much hony and annoint therewith the temples Also Rue and Eysell and smere thy head therewith is wholsom Also Camomell is good for the burning Feauer that holdeth a man or woman in the head Also Feuell sodden in water swageth the ache in man or womans head when that the head is washed therwith Another for all manner of euill aches in the head ¶ Take the greace of an Hart and mingle it with Barly◠meale and Sorrell bind them and temper them all together and playster it to thy temples for this hath béene proued a right good medicine Also take the iuice of Primrose and the milke of a Cow and with a pen draw it vp into thy nosthrills and it shall purge the head and shall heale the partie so gréeued of the head ache For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of white Poppy and red Nettles and stamp them together and put to it a little Beane flower and lay it on a cloth and so bind it to the forehead and he shall sléepe quietlie To make one sleepe that slept not in a long time before ¶ Take white Poppy seede Aniséed of each a like quantity and beat them to fine powder then take Rose-water the white of an Egge and womans milke and mingle all these together but first beate the white of an Egge very much and take away the froth then take flocks as many as will lye ouer your forehead and wet them in the liquor aforesaid then sprinkle of the powder vpon it and then lay it in a pewter platter vpon a chasingdish of coles for to make it warme and so lay it to the forehead and the party shall take his rest and quiet sléepe For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take the leaues of Elder and warme them betwéen two tiles and bind it to the nape of the necke and it will make him to sléepe Also take the leaues Scala caeli put them in a pot and séeth them well a good while and at euen wash well thy féet and legs vp to the knées with that water and no higher then goe to bed and thou shalt sléepe soundly For to make a man to sleepe ¶ Take a quart of Almonds blended and halfe a pound of Hempséede thrée times washed in cleane water and sixtéene Dates stamp them together and put therto good stale Ale and take an vnce of Poppy séed brused and lay it in Ale thrée or foure houres and séeth them together and straine them and giue the sicke to eate of it and it shall make him sléepe For to make a man sleepe and for to come to quiet rest ¶ Take red Roses Violets the water of Mellilot Lettice of each a like quantity a handfull white Poppy white Henbane of each halfe a dram a little Dill séede for to comfort the braine bray all these together then put them in a soft linnen cloth twelue inches long thrée inches broad quilt it and tye it to his forehead Also take oyle of water Lillies Poppy Nightshade rose-Rose-water Vineger and womans milk dip flaxe therin and bind it to his temples this hath béen often proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take the iuice of wild Cowcumbers and put it into the eares and it asswageth the paine Also put the wood of gréene Ashe in the fire and saue the liquor that commeth out at the end and put it into the eares it causeth the paine for to cease and amendeth the hearing Also beate the iuice of Wormwood and drop it into thy eares proued For paine in the eares ¶ Take and mingle the iuice of Betony with oyle of Roses and put it warme in the eares with a tent and stop them well Also take faire oyle Oliue and let it be blowne out of a mans mouth that is cleane and fasting into the eares of a sick man let this be doone thrée or foure times and let that side of the head be turned downward that the odour of the head may run out Also take Almonds and the kernels of Peaches let them be cleane pilled in hote water and make oyle of them and let the oyle be put into the eares of the Patient so gréeued For the paine in the eares ¶ Take oyle of Roses and a little Vineger and put it to the eare then make a bagg of Camomell and Mellilot and lay it thereunto Also Goose greace béeing taken with a little hony asswageth the paines of the eares Also oyle of Almonds is very good for the payne in the eares Also if there be water in the eares take a little Goose greace and the iuice of Onyons commixed together and so lay it to the eares proued For deafnes in the eare ¶ Take a péece of gréene Ashe and put it in she fire and take the droppings of that water and take the droppings of a fresh water Eele the oyle of bitter Almonds of euery one a equall portion warme it by the fier and let it drop two or thrée drops in the eare so gréeued then take black Ewes wooll and dip the wooll therein and put it into the same eare and it will help the Patient so gréeued by Gods grace Also take Betony and Horehound stamp them in a morter and wring out the iuice and let the Patient lye on that side and so poure it into his eare and let him take his rest this hath béene proued For deafnes in the head ¶ Take a Hedghog and rost it and take the droppings therof and put it to the Patients eares so gréeued and stop it with black wooll et fiet Somtime there chanceth deafnes by wind which is in the eare the which causeth tynkling in the head then take a little Aloes in hot water or in white Wine and distill it into the Patients eare then put a little Eustorbium in pouder into the parties nose so gréeued to make him for to néese and to auoyd as much filthy humors as you may Another for deafnes in
with a staffe till it be well boiled then let it coole and put it in a boxe and at night vse to put a little thereof in the eye when thou goest to bed lying vpright Another for the pin and web in the eye ¶ Take an Egge and roste it hard and in the white thereof put as much Coporas as a pease then being hote wring it thorow a cloth and let it drop in the eye one good drop this hath often been proued good both for old and young For to cleere the eye-sight ¶ Take and chafe the greace of any maner of fresh fish water against the Sun till that you haue the slime thereof mingle it with Honny and therewith annoynt thine eyes For to cleere the eye-sight ¶ Take and drinke the iuyce of Rew and it will so cleer the eye-sight that if the Sun doo shine ye shal see the starres at noone daie Also take the gall of a Swine or els the gall of a white Cock and put it in a glasse and annoynt the eyes therwith nine daies and thy sight shall be as cleere and perfect as euer it was this bath beene prooued For the pearle in the eye ¶ Take white Ginger and rub it on a whetslone of Norway into a pewter sawcer and doo thereto white Wine and then take a feather and wash the eyes therewith proued A precious water for the pearle in the eye and for red bleered eyes and for to keepe a man young ¶ Take Lumuell of Gold of Siluer of Laten of Lead of Iron of Steele of Litargie of siluer and gold with a little Camomill and asmuch Colombine put these into the vrine of a male child and let it stand a day and a night the second day in warme white Wine the third day in the iuyce of Fennell the fourth day in the iuyce of Egges the fift day in womans milke the sixe day in red Wine the seauenth day in the white of Egs the eyght day put them together and still them then put the water very close in glasses for your vse This water destroyeth all euill in the eyes Also if it be drunke it keepeth a man young and is of wonderfull great vertue For bleered eyes ¶ The iuyce of Cowslips and the water thereof distilled being taken and the eyes annoynted therewith helpeth all blered eyes and taketh away the rednes For heate and swelling in the eyes ¶ Take white Bread and Southernwood sodden in water and therewith bathe the eyes and it will draw away the heate and swelling of the eyes without any paine Also for swelling or running of bloody eyes take and séeth red Snailes and gather the greace thereof and annoynt thy eyes therewith and they will be whole by Gods grace For smarting of the eyes ¶ Take Womans milk and the iuyce of Centory mingle them together and wash well the eyes there-with Also the iuyce of Betony is very good with white wine proued For a mans eye that is blew or black with a blow or a bruse ¶ Take the white of an Egge and Parsly and beat them together and make it as thick as an oyntment and lay it to the eye-lids all cold Also take the gall of a Hare temper it with Honny and annoynt the eyes therewith Also take red Snailes in water with Capons grease and annoynt the eyes therewith For running or waterie eyes ¶ Take of Betony and Hony a like quantitie fry theÌ„ and straine them through a cloth and annoynt the eyes there-with Take also Colombine and wring out the iuyce and annoynt the eyes therewith Also take a red Colwoort leafe and the white of an Egge and annoynt there-with the watery eyes when thou goest to bedde Also to make the eyes cléere and bright take the blood of small Birds and Honny and annoynt the eyes therewith and thou shalt cleerely sée For blood-shotten eyes ¶ Take the tops of white Woormwoode and the leaues of Filladane stainpe them and mixe them with the white of an Egge and Rose-water and make thereof a plaister then binde the same to your eyes at night when you goe to bed and it will helpe you For to driue blood from the eyes ¶ Take the powder of Commin of Warmote the white of an Egge make a plaister hereof vpon hard Flax and lay it to the eyes Also for to cléere the eyes take Wall-woort Rue red Fennell stampe them together and temper them well with white Wine and straine it through a linnen cloth and so drop it at night into thine eyes lying vpright in thy bed For bloody or watery eyes ¶ Take a quart of white Wine and put thereto the fatte of xvi péeces of Bacon the breadth and thicknes of a groat and a good sawcer full of Honny and put them in a Latin bason cléene scowred and sâ—ir them well together and couer them with another bason the space of nine dayes then take of the bason and ye shall find a creame breake the creame a little and poure out the water that is vnderneath softly into a glasse that water will helpe all manner of red eyes and watering vse it daily and put one drop into thine eyes twice a day Another for bloody eyes ¶ Take the iuyce of Rue and powder of Commin mingle them together then take Cotten and dip it well therein and lay it to the eyes and also annoynt the temples the browes and the lids of the eyes therewith Take also the rootes of red Feuell stampe them and wring out the iuyce then temper it with clarified Honny and make thereof an oyntment and annoynt thy eyes therewith and it will take away the rednes For the eyes that are blasted ¶ Take Tutty and Calamint and wash them with white Wine nine times then grinde them vpon a stone with some of white Wine and with Goose greace and Capons greace put hereof in the eyes early and late this hath béen proued A medicine for a mans eye that is broken with a staffe or brused with any stroke this hath been often proued ¶ Take a pinte of white Wine and a handfull of red Roseleaues and as much Commin as thou canst hold in thy hande and put all together then séeth it wel til most part be consumed then take that licquor and put it into a glasse and put thereof into thine eyes doo thus fiue or sixe dayes also wash the sore eyes therewith and at night make a plaister of the same leaues that be sod and lay them likewise vpon the sore eyes and thys will certainly heale the eye though the ball thereof be cutte or hurt with a rod or staffe or any other kind of bruse in the eye comming of what cause soeuer Proued For the itching of the eye ¶ Take the oyle of Tutly and annoynt the eyes therwith Also Sumace is good for the itching of the eyes caused of hote humors and wash them with that water before expressed A precious medicine proued for man woman or chyld that hath
and put a little of the same vpon a borde or trencher and take a stick or coale of fire and put it in the Brimstone and let the partie greeued holde his nose ouer the fume of the Brimstone and it shall breake the force of the cough and stoppings Also this is good for the pose and the rewme in the head as hath oft beene pooued To make a powder for the Cough ¶ Take Sugar-candie Enula Campana rootes dryed but nothing so much Enula campana as Sugar-candie theÌ„ take two or three crops of dryed Isope and one race of Ginger and beate all these together and afterwarde vse to eate of these powders till thou be whole To make a sirrop for the Cough ¶ Take a pynt of Isope water halfe a pynt of clipped Rosemary a quarter of a pound of Sugar-candie three spoonfuls of Anniséedes brused thrée sponfuls of Licoris sliced séeth al these together vpon a soft fire vntill it come to a sirrop then straine it and take a spoonfull thereof morning and euening and let it goe softly downe by gowlpes For the perrillous Cough ¶ Take white Horehound and stampe it and wring out the iuyce and mingle the iuyce with Honny and seeth it and gyue the sicke to drinke hereof Take also a Garlike head and rost it then take away the pills and eate it Also take a Colwoort leafe and strike the inner side thereof with May butter and lay it to the sicke mans stomacke or belly euery morning and euening and giue him no Milke Butter nor Cheese nor any kinde of salte meate nor fatte pottage nor Nuts nor Apples but make the partie pottage with leaues and rost him an Onyon and let him eate it with a little Pepper and Honny put therein and vse it osten and it will helpe him Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Sage and the iuyce of Rue of each like much and a quantitie of Commin and asmuch of the powder of Pepper and seeth them all very well in clarified Honny and so make an electuarie thereof and let the partie greeued vse of thys medicine daily thrée spoonfuls at night three in the morning vntill he be whole A good medicine to helpe the cough speedily ¶ Take two or thrée Garlick heads well pilled stamp them and put them into Hogs-greace or suet and stamp them well together and at night when thou goest to bedde warme well the soles of your féete and annoynt them with the said confection as hote as may be suffered and also the small of your legs and put a warme cloth about your feete and within thrée nights he shal be holpen Also take Brimstone and put it into powder and put a little thereof into a new layde Egge soft rosted and mingle it well together then put thereto of Bengemin as much as a fitch pease lightly stamped drinke it in the morning at your breakfast and at night A remedie for the dry cough ¶ Take a pound of Licoris and scrape it cleane then stampe it in a morter and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto three quarts of the best woort that may be gotten one ounce of Sugar and a quarter of an ounce of Ginger in powder a pynt of clarified Honny and seeth them all together till they bee halfe wasted then straine it through a cleane cloth into a faire vessell and let the party gréeued vse thereof first and last at night hote and in the morning cold till he be whole Another for the dry cough ¶ Take Anny-séedes Smallage seedes and Violet séedes of each a like much beate them all together in powder temper them with wine as the quantitie gyueth then seeth theÌ„ well till they wexe thicke and so vse it Also if you take the seedes of Nettles and seeth them in Oyle and afterward annoynt your hands and your féete therewith it will doe away the cough Also take the strrop of Violets and of Iniubes and drinke thereof Also it is very good to take first in the morning and last at night a losing of Diadragagant and after ward to drinke a draught of good Pâ—isan and thys is a present remedie for the cough when it procéedeth of a hote cause A dyer for them that haue the cold cough ¶ Yée must abstaine from Vineger and all salt meats from fruits and raw hearbes from Fish Lemmons and all kinde of grosse meats and too much replexion Also ye must drinke no Wine betwéene meales nor sléepe in the day time especiallie after meate For the stopping of the pypes and for fleame a medicine proued ¶ Take a good bowle-full of Barlie and put to the same a gallon of cleane Well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take that water and put thereunto asmuch good Woort with a penny-worth of Licoris brused but not made into powder and a good handfull of Isope another of Sage and boyle them altogether till one halfe of the liquor bee boyled in then straine that liquor through a cloth and that that commeth through the cloth put into a close vessell and let it stand a day and then let the patient drinke thereof a spoonefull or two euerie morning and so much likewise euery euening vntill he be well This hath béene often prooued For straitnesse in the pypes ¶ For straitnesse in the pypes or in the breast take dry Isope rootes of Enula campana of each one handfull sticks of Licoris scraped and soft brused foure vnces and boyle altogether in a gallon of running water till halfe be wasted then straine it and to all the aboue said liquor hote put halfe a pint of clarified hony and drinke therof milk warme a good draught euery day first and last A medicine for to stay a vomit ¶ Take halfe a pinte of running water an vnce of Suger and a good race of Ginger pick it and scrape it cleane and shred it in good handsome péeces and so put it to the water and the Suger and boile them together from halfe a pint to a quarter of a pint and so giue it to the party to drink for it will stay the vomit in a very little space For them that may not digest their meat ¶ Take Horshoue and Hilwate of each of these a like much wash them cleane and stamp them and put therto the powder of Pepper and séeth them together in faire water and let the Patient drink therof luke warme first and last For a vomit a remedy ¶ For them that haue vomit and for them that haue not their breath at will and hath stopping in their breasts take a dram and a halfe of the powder of Betony with a Goblet full of water and drink it fasting Another for the same ¶ Against the vomit caused of weakenesse heate or odor chollerick mingle the pouder of the thrée leaued Grasse with the white of an Egg and rost them
on a tyle and giue it to the Patient to eate Also for the vomit caused of retentiue weaknes take the pouder of gum Arabick and pouder of Canell For a man that vomiteth too much ¶ Take Roses and boyle them with strong Vineger and make a plaister therof and lay it to his stomack all hot Also vomiting commeth somtimes without great violence and therby one getteth health wherfore ye néed not giue him any remedy for it is a good action of the naturall vertue of the stomack somtime vomiting commeth by a great violent mouing of the vertue expulsiue of the stomack For the euill things contayned in the same a remedy one may well help a man to vomit giuing him water warme with a little oyle to drinke or else to put thy singer in his mouth very lowe or a feather wet in oyle the better to vomit and to mundifie the stomack if so be the person haue a wide throat and that vomiting dooth not hurt him much as they be that haue but small and strait throats and long necks and leane for all these are euill to vomit Somtimes vomiting commeth by weaknes of the stomack caused of a hot and euill complection ye shall cure it after this manner take sirop of Roses Quinces Mirtles with water sodden and cold againe or else water of Pursian to quench the thirst Also it is good to annoynt the stomack before dinner and supper with an oyntment of the oyle of Roses and Quinces and the iuice of Mints and a little wax or els make a plaister of Mints Roses Wormwood and oyle of Roses lay to his stomack as hot as ye may For to make a man cast and perbreake ¶ Take two parts of the iuice of Fenell and one part of hony and séeth it till it be thick and drink therof morning and euening and it will cause a man for to cast or perbreake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of spurge and vse to drinke thereof and it will cause you to cast Also the iuice of Stoncrop put into white wine causeth a man for to cast presently For to comfort the Patient after his vomiting ¶ Take and giue the Patient in the morning an vnce of the sirop of Wormwood or Mints in stéed of which it is conuenient to take a losing of AromaticuÌ„ rosatum or Diagalanga Also take euening and morning three houres before meate two Cloues in powder with a spoonfull of the iuice of Mints or half a spoonfull of Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloues and Lignum aloes the weight of a crown two houres before meate For one that abhorreth his meate ¶ Somtime there chaunceth in the stomack a disease called Fastidium or abhorring of meat wherby the person against his will taketh in hate all maner of meats that is offered vnto him like as the whole man taketh pleasure and delight in the same The cause of his disease is replection of chollerick humors or flegmatick grosse and viscouse which are in the stomack and the Patient hath great thirst a dry tongue the mouth bitter and sometime dooth vomit yellow choller And if the vaines be full let the Patient be let blood on the right arme and giue him to eat and drink such things as are fit for a party so gréeued also you may giue him the iuice of Pomgranets For to prouoke an appetite ¶ Take Sage Parsly Pepper and Mints and stampe them and temper them with Vineger as you doo make sauce for â—â—shes it will cause appetite also flesh eaten with Vineger comforteth and giueth appetite If Vineger be vsed with a full stomacke it vnbindeth the wombe with an emptie stomacke bindeth it It is good for them that be weake with sicknes if it be taken in this manner tost bread and wet it in Vineger and with the tost rub the mouth and nosthrils and bind it on the pulsable vaines for it comforteth the Patient and the appetite but for the appetite onely it were better wet in the iuice of Mints Also to them that haue lost their appetite by sicknes two drams of the powder of Betony with foure Ciote roots in drink taketh away both sadnes and euill tast of meats Also take and confect Cardomomum with the iuice of Mints and vse for to wet your meat therin it prouoketh appetite Against the letting of the breath ¶ Take and lay Orpiment vpon hote embers and let the Patient stoope downe and receiue the smoke therof through a pipe or funnell Also take three drams of Orpiment with reare Egs or with wine or womans milk once or twice in the wéek Against paine of the breath called Asma caused of cold take the powder of Philixendula with the powder of Gentiana and vse it in his meat and drink Another for the same ¶ Against the paine of the breath if it be of a long continuance take the powder of Gentiana with Wine and Barly water or else with meats or with new bread Also take two drams of Galbanum with a rere Egge or with Barly water Also to take Figs and seeth them in wine is good against the letting of the breath and against cold rume or humors in the breast Also Pancakes made of Docks with meat or Eggs is very good for letting of the breath called Asma if you cate therof An oyntment for the shortnes of the breath ¶ Take two vnces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and one vnce of May butter vnsalted a little Saffron and new Waxe and make an oyntment therwith and annoynt the breast eucning and morning Also for him that lacketh wind ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and Borage séeth them together in a péece of Pork and make therof pottage and eat and drink of this broth with wine or with Whey that is good For armes being consumed and fallen away ¶ Take Deare suet and thine owne water being dissolued in a basen warme then therewith wash thy armes euery day morning and euening For the mary being cold and numd in the armes ¶ Take thrée spoonfull of Mace thrée spoonfull of Aqua vita and three spoonfull of Vrine and thrée spoonful of Capons greace and put them all in a Porrenger and warme them on the sire and wash your armes morning and euening Also if that you be sore in any part of the armes take Roch Allom and Madder and boyle them with Conduit water from a pottell to a pint and so wash your armes For aking of the hands and deadnes of the fingers ¶ Take a handfull of red Sage as much red Fennell as much red Nettles with a quantity of Bay leaues in pouder and long Pepper stamp all these together in a Morter then straine the same through a Canuas cloth with Aqua vita and with this liquor annoynt thy hands when you goe to bed For swelling of wounds in the hand ¶ Take Wormwood stampe it and straine it and boyle it with Vineger and put therto Wheat bran and
make a plaister and lay it to the sore hands For wormes or heat in the hands ¶ Take Chickwéed and bruse it a little and séeth it in running water till the halfe be wasted and wash your hands as hot as the party can suffer it for the space of sixe daies and it will driue away the heat or wormes in the hands For to make your hands white ¶ To make the hands white and soft take Affodill in clean water till it wax thick and put therto powder of Cantarium and stir them together then put thereto rawe Eggs and stir them well together and with this oyntment annoynt your hands and within three or foure daies vsing thereof they will be white and cleane For itching of the hands with wormes ¶ Take and annoynt the place that itcheth with the iuice of Mints or of Rue and it shall put away the wormes Or else take the berries of the lesse Morrell and therwith annoyist the wormes and the hands For to make nailes to grow ¶ Take Wheate flower and mingle the same with honey and lay it to the nailes and it will help them For nailes that doe fall off ¶ Take powder of Egrimony and lay it there as the nayle was and it shall put away the aking and it will make the nails for to grow For clouen nailes ¶ Take Virgin Wax and Turpentine and mingle them together and lay it on the naile and as it waxeth or groweth cut it away and it will heale For nailes that are rent from the flesh ¶ Take the lesser Violet and stamp it and fry it with Virgin waxe and Frankensence and make a plaister and lay it to the naile all whole Also anoint the fingers with the pouder of Brimston Arsnick and Vineger and in short time you shall find great ease For stinch vnder the arme holes ¶ First pluck away the haires of the arme holes and wash them with white Wine and Rose-water that Cassia ligna hath béen sodden in and vse it thrée or foure times For to destroy the heat of the stomack ¶ Take faire cleare water and boyle it well and skim it and put therin shiuers of brown Bread and let them lye therin an houre till the water be almost cold and drink therof two or thrée dayes the oftner a day the better and eat gréene Parsly and Galingall and it shall help thée For to auoid fleame out of the stomack ¶ Take the pouder of Pellitory of Spaine and the pouder of Comin powder of long Pepper pouder of Ginger Musterd Vineger and mingle them together and chafe them en the fier till they waxe thicke and then as hot as you can suffer it put part thereof in your mouth gargling it in your throat vp and down but let none enter into your stomack doo this diuers times spetting it out by the space of an hower and this is a Gargarisme prooued For the stomack that is hot and swolne ¶ Take the roote of Smallage stamp it and put it in swéet Wine or in other good wine all a day and a night and straine it through a faire linnen cloth and put it in a cleane vessell and vse to drink a little thereof euery day fasting take this eight or nine dayes For rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take long Pepper Graines Saffron Ginger Aniséed Licoris and Suger and séeth them al in good Ale till it be thick and giue it to the party to drink and he shall be whole A plaister for rysing vnder the stomack ¶ Take Yarrow Milfoyle red Fenell red Mints Rue Borage Fetherfoy Cloteler Pellitory Egrimony of each of these a like much and the greace of a barow Hog that is a Sow kind and séeth them all together in good Ale and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the stomack as hot as it may be suffered two or thrée times and he shall be whole God willing the hetter the better for to be taken this hath béen proued For the gnawing of the stomack ¶ Take and séethe Betony in the iuice of Wormwood and let the party drinke it with warme water if his stomacke be not well Also drink wine that Nep hath béen sodden in next to the hart fasting very early For the stomack that aketh ¶ Take an hearb that is called Poleo and dry leaues and a handfull of Houseléeke and as much of this Poleo and put it in a vessell with faire water and let it boile on the fire till the third part of the water be sodden away and put therto stone Suger and a little honey and let the Patient drinke thereof sixe dayes fasting and he shall be whole For to force the stomack ¶ Take thrée parts of Cannell and one part of Mastick and one part of the parings of Pomgranets and halfe a part of Galingall and stamp all these together and temper it with hony that hath béen clarified on the fire and well scummed then vse as much of this as a Nut euery day during ten dayes together this hath béen proued For the wind chollick in the stomack ¶ Take a handfull of Time and wash it cleane and put it into a cup of Ale or Béere and let it stand all night then take thrée sticks of Licoris brused and let the party so gréeued drinke therof morning and euening Another for the same ¶ Take Onyons and put them into running water and change them into foure waters séething and when they are tender sod take them and wring them betwéen two trenchers and butter them and put theren grosse Pepper and so eate of them morning and euening vntill you doo find your selfe eased of your stomacke For fleame in the stomack ¶ Take red Nettles a good quantity a good quantity of clarified Butter and séethe them in faire running water till the hearbs be tender then take them vp and eate the hearbs and drinke the liquor proued For to make losings to comfort the stomack ¶ Take a pint of rose-Rose-water a quantity of Rubarb grate it vpon a Grater twice as much Setwell as much Calomus aromaticus asmuch Spignard a little Sinamon asmuch Enula campana as much Ginger and a little cleane water put to these Spices one penny-worth of Sugar and let all séeth on the fire till it waxe verie thicke and be well sodden then vse hereof both morning and euening For all manner of euill in the stomack ¶ Take Ashe seedes Linséedes Comin of euery of them a like much giue these to the sick to drink with hot Woort or else with faire hot water For the Feauer in the stomack ¶ Conserue of Roses is very good for the Feauer in the stomack also it is good for all euils in the stomack that is ingendred of hot humors For the swelling in the stomack ¶ Take the rootes of Fennell and the rootes of Smallage of each of them a like quantitie then stampe them and straine out the iuyce and temper the same with good Wine and vse to drinke thereof first and last
may not well pisse ¶ Take Galbanum and lay it to the end of a mans yard and for a woman lay it to her nauell and being thus applyed it will help eyther man or woman Another for the same ¶ Take a fewe of the crops of red Nettles Shéeps tallow Senson of a house top and fry it well together and as hot as the man may suffer it lay it to his yard and for the woman lay it on her nauell all hot proued For one that may not well pisse ¶ Take a quart of white Wine and a good péece of stone Pitch Aniséeds Parsly séeds and a péece of Suger let it séeth from a quart to a pint and drinke it warme euening and morning and it shall help the party so gréeued For straightnes of pissing ¶ Take and séethe Camomell in wine or water and oftentimes drink thereof it easeth and profiteth greatly for the stopping of the milt and of the lyuer Proued Another for the same ¶ Take the leaues of Stamarch or Alisander and put them on a Tyle-stone beeing warme and lay it all hote to the priuie members and it will raise the straightnes of the pissing and abate the paine ther-withall prooued For Gomora passio ¶ Gomora passio is flowing of a mans séed against his will and commeth of diuers causes eyther for féeblenes of the rains or of plenty of blood or of a palsie in man this passion is perrilous for it maketh a man or woman vnlusty and their ioynts as sore as a man that is wery with trauailing and hath no will vnto a woman Take the séed of Lettice and make it in powder and drink it with water for it stoppeth the fluxe of kind that passeth forth in the Patients water against his will Also the powder of Mintes dryed in an Ouen best restoreth kind and restrayneth the errours of the flux Also Castorium boyled in the iuice of Agnus castus that is called Tutson and being drunk is good for the passion Also Amber orientall is a precious thing and Caldo plaistered and layd on the raines of the back Also temper the pouder of Camphire with Mustilage or Veriuice or the iuice of Morell and therewith annoynt clothes and lay to the yard For all euils in the bladder ¶ Take Ach Parsly Fenell and Pimpernell and by euen portions bray them together and temper it with warme water and drinke it for it will make the euils to passe and for to cast out the stone that is in the bladder proued Another for the same ¶ Take Porrets that neuer was set root and all bray them and temper them with Wine or with stale Ale and séethe it from a pottell to a quart and take of the powder of Philopendula an vnce and vse this nine dayes till thou féele thy selfe eased and this God willing will help you For a priuy malady that a man taketh of a woman ¶ Take a dead mans bones and burne them and make powder of them and lay the powder on the haire and thou shalt he whole by Gods grace Also if a mans flesh rise too much let him drink often Veruain and his flesh shall not rise nor he shall haue any liking vnto a woman Prooued A water for a canker in the nature of a woman or in the yard of a man ¶ Take an vnce of roch Allom and halfe an vnce of Verdigreace and put therein Smithes water into a glasse and let them boyle for the space of two houres and wash the sore place therewith To prouoke flowers in women ¶ To prouoke the flowers in women make a Fomentation of the decoction of the hearb called Tutson and of the hearb called Gentrum Galli Also take a gum that is called Serapini and mingle it with powder of Centory and lay it to the nauell Also let the woman bath her selfe in the water that Camomel hath béen sodden in and it will help her Also take the iuice of Marigolds drunken or eaten with a rere Egge and Meale made in Fritters dooth the like Also to cause the flowers to flowe in women take the iuice of Nettles and her vrine and put it in the matrice Also make a fume or smoake of Storax calamitae vpon coales and let the woman receiue the smoke with a Fonnell Also Wine mingled with the powder of Mirrh and Sothernwood causeth the flowers to flowe in women For the excessiue flowing of womens flowers ¶ The woman that is troubled héerewith must be bathed with the water that the hearb called Wooddip is sodden in and it will help her Another for the same ¶ Take and make a Suppository of the powder of Bole armoniacke and the powder of Sumac of Mastick and the iuice of Planten and put it into the conduit Another for the same ¶ Oaken leaues eaten stoppeth the lungs and excessiue flux in women and chéefly the water drunke that the middle rind is sodden in or the party therwith bathed Also to stop the flowers that flow aboundantly take and séeth fiue leaued Grasse with raiue water and so let the party bathe her selfe therwith For a woman that is in trauell with child ¶ Take Léeke blades and scald them in hot water and bind them to her nauell as hot as she may suffer it and it will doo out the dead child and when the child is forth say thrée times Quicunque vult ouer the woman and she shall be safe For sicknes that causeth a woman that she may not conceiue with child ¶ Take a Harts horne and burne it to powder and then take Goats milke and set it ouer the fire then cast of the powder afore said a quantity into the milke and drinke it off as hot as she may suffer it and this will ease her of her paine To make a woman soone to conceiue with child ¶ Take the wine that Nep hath been sodden in till the third part therof be consumed and giue it to the woman to drinke fasting for three dayes together and shée shall soone conceiue with child Prooued Also Ipocras saith that a woman being conceiued with a man childe is ruddy and her right side is corny about but if she be conceiued with a maid child shee is blacke and her left pap is corny about For a woman in trauell of child ¶ For the after throwes of a woman if it be the first childe take the house or bed that the child was in when it came out of the Mothers womb and wash that bed faire and cleane and then cast away that water and then take faire water and therwith séethe the house of the child and let it seethe a great while then take it out of the water and bury it where you will and the woman a quantity of that water to drink that it was sodden in and she shall neuer haue the after throwes againe A powder for women labouring with child ¶ Take Betony and make it in fine powder and giue the party therof for to drink and
it will cause her to haue good deliuerance quickly For the whites in women ¶ Take Galbanum an vnce Mastick two peny worth Galingall one vnce Cinamon two vnces Calamus aromaticus thrée vnces Cucubes two vnces long Pepper two peny worth white Pepper two peny worth beat all these together in a morter with a quarter and a halfe of white Suger and let it be fine powdered and let the Patient take it in the morning in warme posset Ale clarisied and one peny worth of Maces boiled in the Ale and at noone in her broth and at night with a little boyled milk the waight of a dram at a time To bring down womens flowers ¶ Take a spoonfull of the iuice of Isop and a spoonfull of the iuice of Germaunder and Sothernwood in like manner take the wild Tansy and wild Time and boile them in white wine and giue the Patient for to drink till she be whole For to make a woman to conceiue a child speedily ¶ Take Time and make oyle of the crops and braunches and it is good to anoynt the woman about the nauell the womb and the raines that is to comfort her and to make her cenceiue with child quickly Also to restore nature take Permaceti and Burras and grind them together and giue it her to drinke in Wine or Ale For to make a womans paps small that be great ¶ Take the séeds of Hemlocks and séeth them in Vineger and annoynt oftentimes the breast and papps and mingle the powder of Incence there-withall A medicine for paps that run and be sore ¶ Take Sorrell debays lap it in Woort leaues and put it in the embers halfe an houre then stampe it as small as you may and doo thereto Honey and Vineger and mingle them together and doo it in a boxe first lay a plaister of Garlicke vpon the sore so boyle it in Vineger thrée or foure times and it shall cease the running thereof For a woman that is troubled after her trauell with loosenes of her priuy parts ¶ Take a quantity of Venice Turpentine and roll it in Suger and giue it to her and cause her to swollow it downe not chewing it at all After that cause an Alebery to be made for her and put into it the powder of Camphire and giue it to her to eate and the Turpentine shall clense and the Camphire shall close your Camphire must be dryed in the shadow so that the wind and Sunne doo not come to it proued For to deliuer a dead child forth of the Mother ¶ To deliuer a dead child séeth this root of Aristologia longa in Wine and Oyle and make therwith a Fomentation Also to deliuer a dead child out of the Mothers womb and the web that is in the woman make an Inection or Pessaire of the iuice of this hearb Dittany and mingle the powder of the root therwith Also make a plaister of Hollihocks with a little Salt and Goose greace and lay it to the matrice For a mans fundament that goeth out ¶ Take the red Nettle crops and bray them small in a morter and doo them in an earthen pot and doo therto a good portion of white Wine and séeth them well together to the halfe and giue therof to the sick to drink first and last warme and lay the substance of the hearb to the fundament as hot as he may suffer it till he be whole Another for the same ¶ Take March and drink the iuice and lay a plaister therto for ihat disease Also against the paine of the fundament or of the matrice and of the bowels seeth the leaues of Hollihock in water and make a stew of that water and wash shée oftentimes Also make a plaister of Scabious and lay theron but the Patient must first receiue the smoake therof beneath For the fundament another ¶ For the small cliftes that bléedeth in the fundament lay thereto the powder of Anthera and annoynt them with water that Dragagant hath béen chafed in Another for the same ¶ Take blacke Beanes and grind them very small and searce them well and powder it on the fundament and then put it in againe then séeth the said meale in a panne and mingle it with white Wine and let it seethe till it be thicke and then spread it on a cloth plaister-wise and lay it as hot on the fundament as may be suffered and remoue it twice or thrice a day and renue it alwayes with fresh meale and you shall be whole God willing For the Pils and the Emerods and for the euils of the fundament ¶ Take Ekespire Tapsebarbe and bath the Patient in the same to the nauell or bind the hearb hote in a cloth and let the Patient sit thereon Also take dry Bulbecks and put into the fundament and it shall be all whole Also heale the fundament close with a leafe of S. Mary Capper and when one is dry then take another and it shall helpe you quickly by Gods grace For to help the piles ¶ Take English hony and the iuice of Wormwood or the small leaues or the rootes of Dasies pund very small and put them in a linnen cloth and put to the sore place and so vse it thus till thou be whole For the Pyles and Emerodes ¶ Take Muskle shelles and burne them in the fire and then take the white of them and make it in fine powder and put in a little English Homy and temper them together then lay it vpon a little linnen cloth and so lay it vpon the sore Piles To stanch the bleeding of the Pyles ¶ Drinke the iuyce of Milfoyle and it will helpe you Proned Or the powder of burn Garlicke and the Piles shall die Also take blacke Wooll black Sops and binde it to the piles and it will helpe you To destroy the Pyles ¶ Take oyle of Roses Frankensence Honny and make an oyntment of them and put it in with thy finger into the fundament and put Mirrh vnto the same and vse often to annoynt the fundament therewith and let the fume thereof goe vp into the fundament For pyles that doe greeue a man or woman ¶ Take the reddest and the newest Tarre that you can get and make it in a plaister vpō a new Lockeram cloth and make bolsters of some other thing and so put two tapes to euerie corner to tye about the patient and once a day dresse the same with cleane clothes Another for the Piles ¶ Take a great Onyon and cut out the core thereof and fill it full of Sugar and stoppe the hole againe and wrappe it in a browne paper and binde it fast with a pack-thred and roste it as you would rost a Warden and when it is rosted open it and lay it to the sore place as hote as the partie may suffer it Another for the pyles ¶ Take the rootes of Verueine and the rootes of the Bur and stampe them séeth them and so lay thē hote to the place but
Plantaine Smalladge Hearbe bennet Sengreene Violet leaues and the leaues of Tutseine Marigolds and grinde all these together and wring out the iuyce and put it in a little Wheat-flower and Honny and the white of an Egge and meddle all these together and lay it vp-the sore all cold For swelling in the legges ¶ Take three spoonefuls of rose-Rose-water and thrée spoonefuls of Fennell water and three spoonefulls of good Wine vinegar and put them together colde and skimme off the fome of it and then take a linnen cloth and dip it in and lay it to the sore place For a leg be it neuer so sore ¶ Take the most part of a Cow-turd and lay it vpon a cloth plaister-wise and lay it to the sore place and if there be a hole in the legge make a tent of the same and put it into the hole and lay the plaister thereto and let it lye till that it doo come off it selfe and you shall finde great ease For a sore legge ¶ Take the flowers of Cammomell a handfull of Sothernwood Mallowes Groundsel Sage a handfull of each of these beate them small in a morter and boyle them in milke and put in the séething thereof the seede of Fenicréeke in powder halfe an ounce Anniséedes Fennell séede in powder of each an ounce and a little May butter boyle all these together and when it is but warme put into it foure or fiue yolks of Eggs and mingle them all together and lay it to the sore legge and in the boyling put thereto a pinte of good red Wine and it will be the better Another for a sore legge proued ¶ Take Celondine Sage and Woodbind a handfull séethe them in a gallon of running water to a pottell and then straine it and séethe it againe and put thereto a pint of boney a handfull of the powder of Allom a penny-worth of Graines beaten in fine powder and skimme it till it be very cleare and then kéepe it in a glasse till such time as you shall haue néede to vse it then take a cloth and wet it therein and wash the sore therewith oftentimes For paine in the feete ¶ Against the paine of the féete if any hath béene brused or erushed take and eate the roote of the middle Mugwoort with honey and it will ease the paine thereof Also let the party annoynt his féete with the iuyce of Clary very often and it will helpe him For the swelling of the feete ¶ Against swelling and aches of the féete bruse the flowers of Plantaine with Salt and lay thereto Also stamp the leaues of Plantaine and lay thereon Also take the iuyce of an Onyon beeing mingled with the greace of a Hen in manner of an oyntment and annoynt your feete often therewith Also bathe your féete in the water that Elder leaues was sodden in For cornes in the toes ¶ Take of vnslaked Lime a little and quench it with strong Vineger and when you will occupie it pare the corne and mingle it with Rose water and lay it too Also take the gall of a Swine being dried but first wash it with hot water and strew the powder thereon Also take and cutte away the corne and drop into it a drop or two of a black Snayle and put thereto the powder of Sandfer and it taketh away the corne Also take Marigolds stamped and lay vpon the sore euening and morning and it profiteth or else pare your corne and lay thereto Turpentine and red Waxe boyled together and make a plaister therof and it helpeth the corne of the toe Rules for blood letting GAlien Ipocias and Auicenna and other Maysters of Phisicke accord and say that letting blood of the veine and that is called Fleobatomatum or it is ventosing caruing or cutting and letting blood of any of these wise is good for mans health of body for blood immingled with other humors that is too much or else corrupted by the cause of much sicknes it is therefore good to know which veines in a man should be let blood and for what sicknes The veine in the forehead is good for the frensie and aking of the head and for the Meigrim and for the Morphew and seab in the face for the Postumes in the eyes both hot and cold The veine in the hart is good for a mans minde and for the Rume that is within the forehead and for the watring eyes The veines in the temple is good for the Meigrim and for the head ache of the eyes and that hath long lasted for the sicknes of the eyes for ache in the eyes and for the great heate in the temples The veines behind the eares is good for the blaines and pimpels of the head for the Meigrim and ache of the head it helpeth mans minde it is good for Tooth-ache and for the gums and for all vices in the mouth and it purgeth the rume of the head The veines in the corner of the eyes next the nose is good for the Meigrim and for all the sicknes of the eyes and for the sight Cephica tum prius apta The veine in the toppe of the nose it purgeth the braine it is good for ache and flux of the eyes and for the ache of the nose The veine in the chéekes is good for the Meigrim and for spots or scabs in the head The veine in the mold is best for to bléed and for to wash thy head with the same blood The veines of the ouer-lippe and the nether be good for hot blaines in the mouth and for apostums and for hot euils in the mouth or gums The veine vnder the tongue is good for postumes and rumes of the head and gums and all maner of vice of the eyes mouth tongue tooth-aking blaines of the nese mouth gums and for the apostumes and swellings vnder the throat The veines vnder the chinne is good for the Kings euill and for Sauce-fleane for spots and blains in the face and other ache of the eyes the gums and for ache in the nose The veins of the neck before is good for the Squinancie and for all manner of apostumes and swellings that come from the head to the eares or to the gums that causeth the toothach whē the breath beginneth to be short The veine of the liuer that is called Basilica it is good for the Iaundise and for chafing of the lyuer and for all manner of dropsie and it is good for all euils in the breast and aking of the backe shoulders sides and slomack and for the Postume that is called Pleusis The head veine that is called Cephanica it is good for the Meigrim and for head ache and for madnes of the minde for ache and all other vices in the eyes téeth tongue the Squinancie and other euils that come to the throat The hart veine that is called Cardieca vt medium it is gentle Purgations for it draweth blood and humors of all the body but namely it is good for sicknes and Purgations of the
red flowers of Archangell and a quantity of Dandelion and seethe the same in Mutton and cate the Mutton and drinke the Broth and you shall finde ease Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Balme a handfull of Rosemary a handfull of Mallowes a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Walflowers and all manner of swéet herbes that ye can finde and seeth them in a tankerd of water with halfe a pecke of wheaten branne and when it is sodden straine the hearbes through a cloth as you would doo a bucke and set it on the fier and with other water straine it and so bath you and sweate and you shall be whole God willing For aking of the ioynts ¶ Take March Mallowes and sweete milke Linséedes powder of Comin the whites of Egges Saffron and white greace and fry all these together and lay it to the aking of the toynts this hath been proued For ache in any place an oyntment ¶ Take and chafe a Stere till he scummer then take that dung and fry it with Shéepes sewet or else with Sallet oyle and it will come to a fine oyntment and then annoynt the place therewith proued Also take the oyle of Mace and annoynt the ache with-all and it will helpe you For ache in the bone or ioynt ¶ Take a pricked Harts skinne sliuer or draw him and cut it in small péeces bones flesh and all take that and wash it clcane that no blood be therein then take cleane water and set it ouer the fire and as it séethes scum away the fat and saue it and let it seeth till that no fat will ceme of him and then cast away the flesh and put it in a boxe and annoynt the greace where the ache is and it shall be whole and doo this thrée or foure times A medicine for all aches ¶ Take halfe a pinte of Wooll oyle a quarter of a pinte of Neates-foote oyle and halfe a pound of Barrowes greace first set the Barrowes greace vpon the fire and skum it cleane put in your Neates-foot oyle and beate them all thrée together being on the fire then scum it cleane and put in your Wooll oyle and beate them all together then boyle them together and take them off the fire and vse it at your neede A medicine for all aches in the bones ¶ Take the gall of an Ore and set it on the fire and seeth it and scumme it till it be very cleane and put it into a glasse and stoppe it close then take Neates-foote oyle and gather it very fine and put it into a glasse also and stop it close then take Aqua vitae in an other glasse and stop it close then take of the oyle and waters aforesaid of each euen portioned two times so much portion of the Aqua vitae and put them together in one vessell so warme it and annoynt your gréefe and it shall helpe you God willing Another medicine for the ache ¶ Take Swans greace Goose greace Heus or Capons greace of each of these a quantity but the more of Swanns greace then of all the rest and when they are mingled together then take a pinte of Malmesie and a handfull of Lauender spike Rosemary as much and let your Malmesie seethe till it be almost wasted and then put all together with a little Bores greace and so boyle them and vse them for your ache and it shall ease you For him that is fallen broken ¶ Take a Trusse and trusse the party so straight as he can and it will very much helpe him Also take the iuyce of Madder the iuyce of redde Nettles the iuyce of Hemp the iuyce of Bugle the iuyce of Camphire the iuyce of Cawle of each of these two Sawcerfuls of Wine foure Sawcerfuls of Honey three Sawcerfuls boyle them all together and skimme them well and then take it downe and dunke thereof daily first and last sixe spoonefuls at once the space of fouretéene dayes A plaister for a man that is broken ¶ Take of Bugle of Cawle of each a like much stampe them small with a little of the haire of a Hares skin then take an vnce of Wax and melt it with a spoonfull of butter and put to your Bugle and Cawle and the haire and stampe it with a little Bole armoniack and fry them all together and stir it and make therof a plaister and lay it on a péece of leather and lay it straight vpon the place of your sore and so serue it three or foure dayes and so giuen the space of twelue dayes For a man or a child that is welnie broken and to heale them ¶ First make sixe pellets in this manner take the roote of Polipodij and the roote of Betony the crop and roote of Daisies of euery one an vnce and make powder thereof then take Bole armoniacke an vnce and a halfe of Honey clarified an vnce of these make a plaister and if it be too thinne put more powder thereto and if it be too thicke put thereto more Honey and take and rowle it and make pellets thereof as many as yee may make thereof then take more of the roote of Polipodij and the roote of Betony and the crops and rootes of Daisies of each two vnces and punne them as you doo Gréene-sawce and put that iuyce into a quart or more of Ale that is stale and boile it to a pinte and straine it through a cloth then boyle it againe with Suger thrée penny-woorth and when the Suger is molt then put it in a glasse and euery day eate a pellet thereof morning and euening last and drinke euery time the quantity of three spoonrfull of your drinke in the glasse then if your drinke be doone you must make more but you must vnderstand that the sicke man must lye vpright sixe dayes and that he be bound wisely and faire and that hée eate laxatiue meates for strayning of the humours and it shall heale him mightily and surelie prooued If a man childe bee newe broken this will cure him ¶ Take the roote of Camphiere and the leafe of Osmond and the young roote of Elme leaues Auence and leaues of Madder and the leaues of Castire of each of all these a like much these must be sodde altogether in newe Ale with a good quantitie of clarified Honny and skimme it and put it into a pot and euery day drinke thereof fasting and also at euening and binde it vp very straight For broken bones in what place soeuer they bee ¶ Take a newe tyle and maile him in the fire and make it all to pouder then tye it in the fire againe till it be redde let it kéele and take that pouder the iuyce of Daisies and the iuyce of Camphire by euen portions and melt al together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the bone that is broken and euerie day renew it thereto Item take Daifie and Camphier and Egrimonie and temper them with Vinegar and lay thē
thereto and it shall helpe them so greeued For the bone ache and to take it away ¶ Take Sperewort Oliues Crofoote hearbe Christopher Walwoort Henbane Hony-suckle-flowers Culrage Rosemarie Mallowes redde Woort-leaues red Onions and Ribwoort still all them by themselues and after meddle altogether saue onely the Sperewoort which must be medled with halfe a part of the other Waters meddle them before the heate of the fire with your hande and annoynt the place there-with oftentimes To knit a broken bone ¶ Take Auence Camphire Egrimonie and temper them with Vinegar and lay it to the bone Also take Daisies the crops of Hempe and redde Colewoorts and redde Nettles and Bramble-leaues Sothern-wood Tansie Pimpernell Betonie Buglosse Madder wash them and beate them small and drinke the iuyce thereof both morning and euening For all manner of bones that aketh ¶ Take a pinte of White-wine and the gall of an Ore boyle them well and skimme them cleare then take crummes of white Bread and put them thereto and make thereof a plaister and lay the same to the gréefe foure or fiue times and it shall helpe you For broken bones ¶ Take Crey-land that is burnt and grinde the same to powder and put thereto the iuyce of Daisies and the iuyce of Camphier and strew on the powder till it be thicke and lay it to the place plaister-wise and the broken bone shall knit againe verie shortlie and become whole To make an oyntment for burning of Gunpowder or for scalding with water ¶ Take a quarte of Bores greace and two handfulls of Groundswell and two or thrée heads of Housleeke and stampe the hearbes together and then put to it of newe shéepes dunge two handfuls and as much of Goose dunge and stampe altogether and fry them and being hote straine them through a cloth into an earthen pot and with the same liquor annoint the sore that is burnt with Gun-powder To take away a heate or burning with Gunpowder ¶ Take a good quantitie of House-leeke stampe it and wring out the iuyce then take the white of sixe Egges and beate them in a dish till they be thin and then take off the scum and put the rest together and wash the sores with a linnen cloth and after lay a wet cloth on the sore A remedy for burning or scalding or any hurt with an hand-gunne ¶ Take the dunge of Geese of one nights making and fresh Butter vnsalted or else clarified Sheepes suet frie the same in a frying panne a good while vntill your suet be almost consumed then put them in a course liunen cloth and straine them into a small vessell then take a feather and dip it in the liquor and annoynt the place where the patient is so burned or scalded and when you haue so doone wette a fine linnen cloth in the sayde liquour and couer the sore withall and vse to doe thys twice or thrice a day For burning or scalding ¶ Take halfe a pounde of Sheepes suet and as much of the erindels of Sheepes dunge and a quarter of a pound of the inner rindes of Elder-trees and fry them altogether and drawe it through a cloth into a pewter dish and it will be fast chafe it against the sore For burning a medicine proued ¶ Take the white of Hennes dunge and of shéepes dunge of grounde Iuie of House-leeke sheepes suet and boyle them all together and straine them and so annoynt the burning sore and take a Rose-campion leafe and lay it aloft vpon the place and a thinne cloth vpon that and it shall helpe it For burning a remedie ¶ Take a quantitie of Bores greace and put the same into a frying panne and wring out the greace reseruing the suet then take not fullie halfe so much Rape-oyle and put it thereto with two or thrée spoonefuls of cleere Vinegar and Water labouring them all very well together and so reserue it to your vse but stoppe it very close till such time as you neede and this shall helpe you For burning with sire ¶ Take blacke Varnish and all to annoynt the place with a feather and it will both stay the heate and heale it as faire as euer it was this you may vse till you be whole For burning or scalding ¶ Take a good handfull of auence and asmuch of Sheepes dunge and frye them well together in May butter and straine it and vse to annoynt the greeued place with the same colde twise a day and annoynt it first with gray or blacke Sope and it will helpe thee this oyntment must bee spred vpon a flaren cloth it you can get it Another for burning or scalding ¶ Take Oyle-oliue and beate the same with water till it were verie white and annoynt the sore place there-with For burning or scalding ¶ Take Snowe-water and that will asswage the heate and then take the white of an Egge and clippe the haires of a Cunnies skinne and dip them in the white of the Egge and lay it to the burnt place and it will heale it and it will cause the skinne to be more faire then all the other proued For all bruzes a Medicine ¶ Take Planten Drpin Camphire Holli-hocke and flower and make a plaister and lay it to the sore Also take the grounds of Ale or Beere and Wheate-branne and Chicke-weede and lay it to the greefe three or foure times a day vpon a redde cloth not too thinne For a bruze ¶ Take Pitch Rozen and wrought Waxe and Bores greace or Swines greace of each a like much boile all these together in a pan till it come to a salue and then strike it vppon a linnen cloth and lay it to the bruse and let it lie foure or fiue dayes thereto and you shall finde great ease Another medicine for a bruse ¶ Take halfe a pound of Shéeps sewet cleane tried and as much vnwrought War two vnces of Rezen and a spoonfull of Frankensence in fine powder and well searced then boyle them all together and skim it cleane with a feather and when it is boyled take it from the fire and when it is halfe cold then wet or dip a linnen cloth in the same so that euery part be through wet and lay it abreade till it be through cold and role it vp and it may be kept all the yeare and vse it as neede shall require for this is a precious Seare-cloth for all manner of ache or bruses Prooued Another for the same ¶ Take Mallowes Smallage bruse Wort Planten the more of Smallage and temper it with Shéeps sewet and make this salue in May and you may kéepe it all the yeare after and vse it as your néede doth require For all manner of botches ¶ Against botches mingle this hearbe Timbalaria with Sheeps dung and lay it thereto plaister wise and it shall ripen the botch quickly Another for the same ¶ Also to ripe botches confect fiue or sixe dramms of Electrium with Barly meale and the white of an Egge and lay it to the botch
and it will ripen the same For to breake the botch ¶ Take Bramble leaues Elder leaues and Musterd séed and stampe them all together and then take of it and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out all the venome Another for the same ¶ Take one spoonfull of Honey the iuyce of Spurge two spoonfuls and a halfe of Wheaten flower a good quantity and one spoonfull of Turpentine temper all these together and lay it to the botch and it helpeth For byting of a Serpent ¶ Against byting of a Serpent or venemous Beast take two drams of the powder of Egrimony with two measures of Wine that is called Ciates and it will cast out the venome Another for the same ¶ Take Centory and stampe it with his owne water and giue the sick to drinke it is as good for Beast as men for the biting of an Adder Also beare Veruaine about thée and the Serpent as some report shall haue no power to hurt thee Another for the byting of a Serpent ¶ Take and seethe two or thrée handfull of Veruaine and wash the place therwith and stamp the leaues and lay therto and it will abate the swelling therof and bray this hear be Veruaine with Honey and lay it often therto and it will resounder and heale it faire againe Also the iuyce of Cinkfoyle being drunk putteth out all venome so dooth the iuyce of Plantaine For the byting of a mad dogge ¶ Take of the séede of Boxe and stampe it and temper it with water and giue it to the party so gréeued and it helpeth them God willing Also take Sauery and temper it with bread and lay it thervnto and it hath the same vertue Also stampe long Plantaine and lay it to the gréeued place and will cure the sore Proued Another for the same ¶ Take Walnuts and stampe them with salt and an Onion they be good for the biting of a mad doggs béeing layed thereto Also Betony that is gréene being laide thereto helpeth the biting of a mad dogge in very short space For biting of venomous Beasts ¶ Take Garlicke and bray it and lay it to the place so bitten and it will in short time cure the same Also if Garlick be eaten it putteth foorth the venome in the body and clenseth the same Also take the powder of Aristialogia roâ—unda with the iuice of Mints Also if the roote of Brusewoort be brused and laide thereto it healeth the biting of venomous Beasts For a man or woman that is in a consumption ¶ Take a brasse pot and fill it with water and set it on the fire and put a great carthen pot within that pot and then put in these parcels following Take a Cock and pull him aliue then slea off his skin then beate him in peeces take Dates a pound slit out the stones and lay a layer ouer them in the bottoms of the pot and then lay a péece of the Cocke and vpon that some more of the Dates then take Succory Endiue and Parsly roots and so euery layer one vpon an other and put in fine gold and some pearle and couer the pot as close as may be with corse dowe and so let him distill a good while and so reserue it to your vse till such time as you haue néede thereof For a weake person in a consumption ¶ Take a quart of red Rose-water and a pottell of the strapings of the milk of a Cowe 2. d. of fine Manchets the yolkes of thirty Egs halfe a pound of Raisons of the sunne Cinamon one vnce Nutmegs one vnce Mace halfe an vnce Cloues a quarter of on vnce of long Pepper halfe an vnce your bread must be fine grated and your Raisons stoned and your Dates scraped and all your other spices beaten all together then put in your Eggs and milke so stirred together and then last of all your Rose-water and so distill it in a Limbeck of glasse and so reserue it to your vse and as neede requireth to vse it For to restore health in a consumption ¶ Take a handfull of Yarrow and slampe it and straine it into a dish and put thereto the yolke of an Egge and a little Suger fine beaten and with this iuice being heate luke warm temper therwith as much of Wheat flower as will make Past then the Past being well wrought make thereof little cakes as bigge and as thick as an old testorne and bake them vpon a a little shard and being baked let the Patient eate one of the cakes euery day thrée times or as much as he or she can cate and by the prouidence of God it shall make them strong and mighty this hath béen proued For a consumption in the raines ¶ Take Clary leaues and prick them and fry them with two or thrée yolkes of Egs and put thereto Saffron dried vpon a stone and grind it small and put all together and fry them with fresh butter and eate it warme next your hart and it will helpe you God willing For one that is in a consumption ¶ Take a great number of young Nettles that springeth at the roote and wash them cleane and stampe them and straine them till you haue a pinte of the iuice therof then put them in a faire skillet and set it ouer the fire and let it séethe till it waxe some-what redde then take it from the fire and put thereto a quart of Malmesey and brew them together a good space then take the yolkes of sixe newe layde Egges and beate them together then brew it againe and put therto as much sugar as wil make it sweet then let the partie so groeued take euery night and morning a reasonable draught thereof blood-warme and by the grace of GOD it shall ease the partie so greeued in verie short space ¶ To helpe to restore him that is in a consumption ¶ Take a Cocke which is neither fat nor leane and wring his necke and hang him vp by the legges and let him beat him selfe to death with his winges and when hee is colde flea him and take out the bowels then cut off his neeke and legges and sée that his body within he well dryâ—d with a cloth and quarter him and at foure stills still the quarters beeing first well hacked and chopped and the water that shall come out of the Cock béeing stilled you must giue the patient in his brothes or drinks beeing blood-warme and within short time by Gods grace it will restore him or her But remember that the partie gréeued doo neither eate nor drinke in all the time any meats or brothes dressed with hote spices or sharpe sauces A notable restoritie and electuarie for a man that is wasted or consumed called the electuary of life practized by M. Baltazar ¶ Take two pounde of Dates and wash them cleane in Ale or Beere then cut them and take out the stones and the white skinnes and cut them small and bray them very small
vertue if it be stamped and the iuyce medled with Porkes greace and lay it plaister-wise on the Canker it sleieth and healeth mightily Another remedy for the Canker ¶ Take as much Allam as a Nut halfe a glasse full of Honie and a pint of Red wine and seeth them together till it come to the third part then straine it through a cloth and wash the sores there-with Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of vnset Leekes with the rootes and a small quantitie of Yarrow ten or twentie branches therof and boile them in white-wine vntill they be all very softe and then straine them and clarifie them and let the patient drinke of it morning and euening blood warme For to kill the Canker in a mans bodie ¶ Take the roote of Dragons and breake it in small peeces and dry it and make it in powder and take nine pennie waight of the powder and put it in Wine and séeth it well and then let the sicke drinke thereof warme a good draught fasting in the morning for thrée daies together Another for the same ¶ Take two handfulls of Sage and as much Wood-binde leaues with the rootes of a wilde Vine this beeing stamped and strained take a little Honny with a peece of Alam beeing warmed and so wash the sore place where the Canker is For the Canker another remedie ¶ Take Christall and make it in fine powder and the powder of Harts-horne burnt with asmuch of the rinde of a Poungranet and the iuyce of Night-shade and giue all these to the partie eyther man woman or child For the Chollick and the stone ¶ Take a handfull of Sapifrags a handfull of Pellitorie of the Wall a handfull of vnset Isope a handfull of vnset Time and seeth all these hearbes well together with a quarte of good Malmesey to a pint and the powder of whole Egge-shels and as much of the powder of Hasell-nut shells when you haue put the liquor from the hearbes then put in the powder to the same and let the patient drinke thereof warme in the morning fasting and it will helpe him For the collick a remedy ¶ Take white Time Parsley bruse them and strayne them with stale Ale and set it to the fire and make it warme and put thereto a good quantity of Graines and so drinke it Also take Broome seede that is gréene and giue it to the party to drinke being dried and made in powder and when the paine is vpon him vse it A medicine for the collick ¶ Take a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a handfull of white salt and séethe them then dippe in two or thrée handfuls of blacke Shéeps wooll and bind the same from the nauell to the bottome of your belly as warme as you can suffer it For the collica passio ¶ Take the roote of Quintfoyle and long Pepper grind them small in powder and drinke it in good Ale Also take Time and Saffron stampe them together and put thereto a little good Ale and straine it through a cloth and then giue it to the Patient to drinke and it shall ease him forthwith Also make a plaister of the hearbe Philopendula being sodden with the afore-said hearbes For the collica passio ¶ Take the crums of cleane wheaten bread and white Vineger and the pouder of Comin boile all them together and make a plaister therof and as hot as the sicke may suffer it lay it néere to the belly and he shall soone be eased of his paine Also take Turmentile and Treakle de bayes and eate it and drinke of the water of Elderne flowers stilled Another for the same ¶ Take vnset Léekes and cut away the faces and all then take the white of the Léeke and bray it small with May butter and fry it lay it very hot to the nauell being bound with a cloth For the collick and the stone ¶ Take the gréene pith of an Elder stalke that is betwéene the barke and the stalke and stamp it small and drinke it with good stale Ale and it shall breake winde For a man that is costife ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and séethe them with Pork and make therof pottage and let the party eate therof and drink Whay and it shall make him sollible Also take the iuyce of Walwoort and mingle it with honey and drink it For the dropsie proued ¶ Take two pound of sage Ryall and two pound of water Carsen and two pound of Isope take these hearbes and bray them in a morter and wring out the iuyce thereof and then take Wheate flower and blend it with the iuyce and make a loafe thereof and bake it in an Ouen and all hot breake him into two or three gallons of good stale Ale and let there be no dregs therein and so let it stand all night and stop it close and let the sicke drinke thereof at all times and he shall be whole Also take Borage and Langdebéefe and Parsly and Scabiâ—us and of water Cresses as much as of the other hearbes a handfull of Smerewoort and vse this pottage with that drink and he shall be whole Another for the dropsie proued ¶ Take foure penny waight of Scamony and two penny waight of Rubarb sixe penny waight of Scene and a penny waight of Setwell and a penny waight of Spignard and a penny waight of the pouder of Camomell and an vnce of Suger and bray all these spices in a morter of brasse and mingle therwith the Suger then let the sicke vse this medicine thrée daies fasting a good spoonfull at once and it will make him for to haue a good stomack and doo away all euils For the Dropsie if it be curable or no. ¶ Take Barly meale and the iuyce of Spinage and of Marigolds and make thereof a plaister and lay it three times vnto a mans liuer and if the plaister be dry soone hée is curable and if it dry not hee is vncurable For the Dropsie another proued ¶ Take a handfull of the tender crops of Broome and stampe them and straine them in a quart of stale Ale and boyle it till it be halfe wasted then put thereto some Sinamon and Ginger and set the patient vpright in a chaire so that his feete touch not the grounde by two foote and a halfe then put vnder his feete a panne of coales and lay ouerthwart the pan a payre of tonges or two and lay thereon geene Broome and let him sette the soles of his feete thereon and giue him of the drinke blood warme and so let him sweat well when he goeth to bed and by Gods grace it will helpe him For a Dormitorie ¶ Take a quarter of a pounde of Almonds blended and a halfe pound of Hempseede three times washed in cleane water and sixe Dates and stampe them altogether and put thereto good stale Ale and take an ounce and a halfe of Poppy seede brused and let it lie in Ale three or foure howres and then séeth them together and
make thereof a playster and lay it to the sore and it will ease you For a hardnes in the body ¶ Against the hardnes of the body take a good quantitie of Lilly rootes with an hearbe called Brancha vrsina and the roote of Mallowes and Holly-hock and temper them altogether in Wine and Oyle twelue dayes and then straine it and in stratning put thereto waxe and oyle and make an oyntment therof and therewith annoynt the hard-bound body Against heate in the bodie ¶ Take and eate ripe Berries and drinke the iuyce thereof it is very good for them that haue ouer-much heate for it cooleth them and an electuary made of these Berries is verie good for them that is gréeued with ouermuch heate in the body Also take the distilled water of Oxe dunge it is very good and profitable for the same A medicine for the Blacke Iaundies ¶ Take Gentiana long Pepper Calomus aromaticus Anence Reysons Currons white Sope of Spaine of each of these one ounce and two spoonefuls of Musterd-séed and boyls all them in a quart of Wine till the third part be wasted Another for the same ¶ Take Angell towchis and grinde them small but first wash them as cleane as ye may then put thereto a quantitie of Neates-foote oyle and a quantitie of Vineger drinke this medicine cold thrée times and it will cause you to cast out all the sicknes in your body presently Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Sage Parsely Gromwell of each a like much and make pottage thereof with a péece of good Porke and eate no other meate that day prooued For the yellow Iaundies and greene sicknes ¶ Take of Iuorie made into small powder halfe an ounce of Turmericke thrée quarters of an ounce as much of Saffron as the weight of a groate compounde all these well together and vse to drinke of thys potion first in the morning and last in the euening with a draught of good stale Ale but if you take it for the blacke Iaundies you must first purge melancholy and for she gréene Iaundies without purging and this medicine will helpe both as hath béene proued For the yellow Iaundies ¶ Take a great white Onion and make a hole where the blads goeth out to the bignes of a Chesnut and then take Treacle of Iane asmuch as will fill the hole then take halfe an ounce of English-Hony being beaten so compound the Treacle and Saffron together and put it into the Onion and sette them against the fire and rost it well that it doo not burne and when it is rosted straine it through a cloth and giue the iuyce thereof to the sicke thrée dayes together and it shall help them Another for the same ¶ Take a redde Docke roote and scrape it and lay it in a quart of strong Ale all night Another for the same ¶ If the patient drinke the Sope of Spaine and the shauings of Iuory it is very good for the yellow Iaundies being either olde or young To expell the venim of the Iaundies ¶ Take of running water a pint of Endiue and Succory of each halfe a handfull let them boyle till the halfe be wasted then straine it and put thereto of Rubarbe one dramme and a halfe and of Spignard a halfe-penny weight fine beaten of Sugar three ounces and let it boyle a little and then take it off and let it stande close couered all night and the next day earlie strains it and giue the sicke to driuke thereof fasting and abstaine from meate two howres after For the Iaundies in young children ¶ Take of Rubarbe of Turmericke the waight of tenne pence of white sugar Candy as much of Spignard the waight of three pence make all these in fine powder and mixe it together and thrée dayes together take thereof in white Wine or Rennish Wine Another for the same ¶ Take Turmerick Saffron a penny waight the shauing of Iuory foure pence weight the shauing of Harts-horne as much a spoonefull of the iuyce of Capilly veneris made into powder and drinke it in Wine and put thereto a pretty quantitie of Sugar and it helpeth the same For an Impostume ¶ An Impostume is a swelling or aking out of kind and it is either of a corrupt humor that must be broken out or else of superfluitie of a humor that should nourish that limme First there must bee giuen a Purgation after that repercussions a maturatiue The remedie ¶ Take Holly-hock Licoris Lintséede dry Figges Lillierootes and Iiniper berries séeth them long in water after doe away the licoris the Iiniper berries and bray well the other then put thereto Barly meale Lintseed Fenegréek and boile al these together well and annoynt it first with fresh Butter and this ripeth postumes within without and it is good in an harde and dry impostume though it waxe as hard as a stone repercutions to smite inward the matter againe shoulde not be vsed in children nor in old men neither where matter is wooddish or seruent nor where the water is much now and then in the burning of sicknes in the nigreforiis as gréeueth when the postume or botch commeth of nobler lim or member then it is on then shal he be riped there and not driuen away frō destinary dread of the better member the which abréeding of the postume and of the venimous matter thereof repercutions must be taken in time ere that the matter be ful seged and ere it be corrupt and rotten and that is good commonly with the iuyce of cold hearbs as petty morrell purslaine of the wood and vmbelicus veneris with oyle of roses and a little aysell a little Bole armoniack and cold oyntments as Popilion or vnguentum album or the colde oyntment Iusquinianus and Poppy and lead and seeth greene Plantaine and Vinegar and the white of an Egge To breake an impostume ¶ Take a Lilly roote and an Onion and boyle them in cleane water till they be soft and then stampe them fry them with Swines greace and lay it to the impostume as hote as the patient may suffer it To ripen an impostume ¶ Take Worme-wood Mallowes Mugwoort of each a good handfull stampe them and mingle them with a quarter of a pounde of Swines greace and fry them and put to it a handfull of Wheaten branne and a little White wine of Honey foure ounces boyle them till they be thicke and lay it hote to the sore place For an Itch or breaking out ¶ Take an ounce of Quick-siluer two ounces of Baies and mingle them well together vntill that you can see no Quicksiluer and put it into a boxe and annoynt the patience once in 24 howres and it shall kill the itch Another for the same ¶ Take Frankensence and bray it small in a Morter and meddle it with Oyle de Bay and there-with annoynt thee all ouer and it will destroy the itch For all itches ¶ If the itch be in the heate of the wriste then let
for to dissolue into water for so it will in time so that the stone stand in a moist place but you must remember to close your stone round about that the water passe not by when it is in moistnes set your stone hanging a little aside and make a little gutter for the water to run into the glasse in the which glasse it must be congealed vntill it come to earth therfore to stop your glasse that nothing doo goe out but that all may come to earth again and thus with that earth grind it and dissolue it and congele it two or thrée times for it is better and then this earth will doo great wonders all diseases it will run through and all wounds and cause the same for to heale surely and being drunke with your Aurum potabile and as much of that earth as a Hasell nut drunk and this will expulse all wicked humors out of thée that no ill can grow in the body if you so vse it but once a wéeke with the portion Also your first water must be stilled often and that remayneth still in the glasse must be put into the earth for that is earth if the Phisition doo well skill vpon the triplicities and who hath the great gouernance in man of the triplicities as for the earth Taurus Capricorne and Virgo and for the ayre Aquarius Libra and Gemeni and for the fire Leo Sagitarius Aries and for the water Cancer Scorpio and Pisces then who so can know the complexions in them and minister accordingly he shall doo great wonder with these medicines Quintisans and as for the earth being so vsed as aforesaid it will dissolue siluer of it selfe and also gold and also heale many incurable diseases in man or woman that haue long raigned and béene most vncurable for to be healed Laus deo To make Aurum potabile et Quintescena ¶ Take Tartar the best you can get and fine calcenate it very white then take a part about a pound and let it drinke foure pound of Aqua vitae rectified by little and little giue the Tartar to drink of the Aqua vitae this must be done in a glasse or Limbeck set vpon ashes with a little fire and euer kéepe it close and so being congeled in maner somwhat liquid then dissolue it with more Aqua vitae rectified and by and by it will dissolue and looke as it were Azure right in colour then take of this water ordained of God for to comfort his creatures put it in a vessell of glasse againe faire being dissolued cleane then take fine Duckat gold but beware of the same gold take an vnce first fined in a teste and then fine beaten in fine shéetes then take pure fine life hony foure spoonfuls and take a quarter of Gentiana fine searced to pouder the gold Gentiana and hony must be ground finely and put to the Quintescens halfe an vnce of fine mother pearle grind all strongly together vpon a Marble stone and put all into your water or Quintescens put all into your glasse and set it in stilling with a gentle fire and let it still vp and downe ten or twelue daies and then kéepe it close and safe for it is good let it still in most balnes in any case and then it is done Some doe vse to make oyle of gold in this manner they doo take vineger and put filing of gold in it or leafe gold so let it stand in the Sunne when it is hot twelue dayes and there will arise vpon the vineger as a scum the which you must gather with a feather and as you gather it you may put it into your Aurum potabile or els grind it with your hony pearle and Gentiana for this gold is better for this is one of the Philosophers great secrets hidden this is a vertuous Quintescens or water of life to heale all infirmities as leaprosies and as many as be in man that is hard for to heale and if a man be a dying and haue but one dram nature within him giue him but one spoonfull of it and if his time be not ordained of God it shall help him certainly and will procure him for to liue longer by Gods prouidence prouided for man Note this noble deuine plaister which hath a number of vertues in him as heereafter followeth ¶ Take Galbanum an vnce Aromatici thrée vnces Appoponaci an vnce new Wax twenty vnces oyle Oliue a pound Litarge of gold thirtéene vnces Olibane two vnces myrrh an vnce gréene Copperis as vnce Aristologia longa an vnce Mastick an vnce Bedely two vnces Orimandi calamita foure vnces make all these into pouder euery one seuerally by himselfe take a pot of earth and your Galbanum Armoniaci Appoponaci and put it in white vineger very strong and couer the pot till such time that all be molten in them after straine it through a strainer then put it in a cleane vessell and set it on a gentle fire and temperate and let them simper together vntill all your vineger be consumed then take your oyle Oliue and put it in the same pot and so stir them together on a gentle fire continually and when all is molten then put in your lytarge of gold made in powder and as you put it in you must be euer stirring of it that it may consume in the substance and thus you must vse it vntill it come to blacknes then put in your Bedely Olibanum Aristologia longa Myrth Mastick your Verdigreace Copperis and your Calamita let it be all in very fine pouder and when it is sod and well boiled it will be black and red and put a little on a stone or cloth and if it be hard then it is sodden well then let him séeth vntill such time as he be hard and so prescrue it then anoynt your hand with oyle Oliue and so take it forth then make it in roles as Past and put it in a péece of Geates skinne well and cleane made then put it in a vessell of Lead to kéepe made like a boxe close for this is the precious diuine plaister of all the world none like it it is a Kings iewell of health for it is good for all diseases both old and new and shall giue new flesh and good that he had no better before if a man be broken let him make a plaister and lay it to nine dayes it shall knit sure for euer againe by Gods grace The black plaister for all manner of griefes ¶ Take a pot of oyle Oliue a part of red Lead boyle these together and stir them with a slice of wood continually vntill it be black and somwhat thick then take it off the fire and put it in a peny worth of red Wax and a pound of Rozen and set it to the fire againe but you may not blase it and stir it then take it off and let it stand vntill it be cold and make it in a lump it is good
beate it fine and mingle it with the same powder and so keepe it close that no winde come at it vsing it first and last with posset drinke made with White wine or strong Ale and when you cate your pottage or other broth put some in it if you bee sore pained and if you haue any stone it will come away by shiuers and if it doe so when you think that your water beginneth to cleare again take this drinke following and it will clense your bladder and it will leaue no corruption therein The drinke ¶ Take Rose-mary and wilde Time and séeth them in running water with as much Sugar as will make it sweete from a quart to a pint vse the quantitie of your hearbes according to your discretion so that it may sauour well of them and so vse it nine mornings sixe or seauen spoonefuls at a time For the Tissicke well proued ¶ Take a handfull of Fennell rootes as much Parsley rootes as many Alisander rootes halfe a handfull of Borrage rootes and pull out the pith of all the sayde rootes then take halfe a handfull of Penny-riall as much of Violet leaues and as much of Cinckfoyle as much Succory Endiue Hollihockleaues Mallow leaues and redde garden Mints of all these a like quantitie as of those next before halfe a handfull of Licoris stickes scraped brused and beaten to fine powder a gallon of fayre running water boyle therein all these simples and boile these séedes following with them that is thrée spoonesuls of Annyseedes as much Fennell seede as much Coliander seede and Comin seede a good handfull of Dandelion rootes and so boyle altogether from a gallon to a pottle and let the patient drinke thereof first and last and it will quickly help him Another for the Tissicke ¶ Take a quart of running water with a handful of Isope two ounces of Annyseedes asmuch Licoris beaten both togeather halfe an ounce of Fennell seede beate all these togeather very sine with a quarterne of white Sugar and so boyle them altogether vnto a pint and then straine them and so let the partie drinke thereof first and last and it will doo him good For a Tissicke or colde another ¶ Take two ounces of Licoris scraped and brused of Figs three ounces of Egrimony Hore-hounde Enula campana of each a handfull and boyle them altogether in a gallon of Water vntill the halfe be wasted then straine the hearbes from the iuyce and vse it early and late for this hath béene proued Also for the dry Tissick take and stamp Fennell rootes and drinke the iuyce thereof with white Wine For the Tissicke another experiment ¶ Take Radish rootes make them cleane and cutte them thin and cast them into an Ouen and bake them then beate them into powder so small as you can then drinke thereof euerie morning fasting and at night when you goe to bedde and wet your meate in the same powder as you weuld doo in salte and it will doo you very great ease shortly To make the mother of Treakle ¶ Take a pint of Honny put thereto the iuyce of red Fennell séeth it on the fire vntill it come to a pinte then take it of and put thereto a penny-woorth of Sinamon in powder two raises of Ginger a Nutmeg and a little Mace and stirre them well together and when it is cold put it into a boxe and gather your Fennell in May. Also to make Treakle for all manner of poyson take one ounce of Betony in powder 4. ounces of Centory in powder and 2. ounces of the powder of Rew medle these together and temper them with clarified Honny and kéepe it in a glasse The golden treate that healeth all bruses ¶ Take Colosony pitch and Rozen and two ounces of oyle three ounces of liquid Pitch 1. ounce of Olibanū Auti vnguenti Allam of each two ounces of Wine as much as suffiseth and boyle all these together and so receiue them to your vse as you neede and it helpeth For to make a white treate called Apostolicen ¶ Take oyle Oliue litarge of Leade Golde and Siluer stampe it and put it in the oyle through a cloth and stirre it till it be harde and this is a good treate for to heale all manner of woundes be they newe or old thys kinde of treate hath often béene proued good To make a treat called Emanuell ¶ Take Veruaine Bittany Pimpernell Centorie the more Gratia dei of each one handfull hearbe Iohn Auence Celondine Acus muscata alaluia Plantaine Spurge Egrimonie of each one handfull grinde all in a morter and put thē in a gallon of Wine and boyle them in a pan till the third part be wasted then straine it through a Canuas cloth and set it oner the fire and put thereto Waxe foure ounces Pitch asmuch Rozen as much Olibanum two ounces Mastick two ounces Mirrhe two ounces Aloes two ounces Turpentine two ounces Sheepes sewet halfe a pound boate them all in powder and boyle them all together saue the Turpentine the which must be put in last of all then straine the same through a cloth and keepe it till you haue neede thereof and this is a speciall healer of all wounds and sores bruses and broken bones and Apostumes that be broken also it hath a special vertue to draw clense and reengender good flesh it healeth and doth away all kinde of aches whatsoeuer all Cankers and Festers it healeth Morimals it passeth all other oyntments and if you will haue it soft put thereto a quantitie of oyle of Roses so much as you thinke good Proued A good entreat called the greene treat of Iane. ¶ Take a pint of the iuice of Smallage a pint of the iuice of Waybright as much of Plantaine put them together in a vessell and put to it a quarter of a pound of Wax and as much of Frankensence or Rozen made into powder make your Wax into small péeces and boile them altogether and euer stir them and to know when it is boyled inongh drop a drop vpon a Bason and if there be any moisture in it when it is cold then put to it a pound of Turpentine and stir them till they be well medled together then strain it and put into it a quart of white Wine and let it stand while it be cold and so vse it Another intreat called Gratia dei ¶ Take Wax May butter or other butter without salt of each one vnce then take of Frankensence two vnces melt them together and straine them and this is the making of this entreat which is called Gratia dei A good entreat for wounds ¶ Take Betony Pimpernell and Veruaine of each a handfull boile them in a pottell of very good white Wine vntill it be halfe consumed then straine it through a course canuas then put the liquor ouer the fire againe and in the boyling put to it halfe a pound of Rozen a pound of Frankensence in powder and alwayes stir it that the powder goe not to
much of white Copper is fine beaten a penny-worth of graines brused then let them boyle altogether three or foure walmes ouer the fire and let the skimme as it riseth be wel taken off with a feather and when it is colde put the same into an earthen pot or bottle so that it may be kept close from ayre and for a greene wound take of the thinnest and for an olde wounde of the thickest couer the sore rather with Veale or Mutton skimme them with Docke leaues when that you haue dressed them with thys aforesaid water To make water imperiall another way ¶ Take a handfull of Dragon of Scabions of Endiue a handfull of Pimpernell a handfull of Worme-wood of Rew a handfull a handfull of Tansie as much Fetherfoy asmuch of Daisie leaues as much of Cowslyps as much of Maydenhayre as much Sinckfoyle as much Dandelyon as much Time as much Bawme of each of these hearbes a handfull as I sayd before then take of Treakle a pound of Bole Armoniack foure ounces and when you haue all these hearbes together you must take and shread them a little but not too small then take the Treakle the Bole armoniack and mingle them and the hearbes together then put them in a stillitory and still them and it is made A very good remedy to take away Warts ¶ For to take away Warts take the séede of Briony with the leaues burne them and make Ashes of them and meddle the ashes with the iuyce of the same hearbe like an oyntment and annoynt your Warts often and they will fall away The dunge of an Eagle if it be often rubbed vpon the Warts dooth likewise doo away the same very quickly Another remedie for Warts ¶ Take the iuyce of hearbe Wart-wort and annoynt any Wart or Ring-worme there-with and it helpeth For to doe away Warts ¶ Take Elder berries and stampe them then wringe out the iuyce and with the same vse once or twise a day to annoint thy Warts and it will quickly doo them cleane away Thys experiment hath béene proued For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take and binde fast the Wenne then take Verdigreace Sulphur Sope oyle of Egges Allam and Honny and temper them together and lay thereto and it shall doo away the Wem and also for to heale it well and cleane within three or foure times dressing For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take a quantitie of vnslackt Lime and mixe the same very well with as much blacke Sope and annoynt any Wen therewith and the Wenne will fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt the place with oyle of Balme and it wil perfectly heale the same How to helpe one that is blasted ¶ Take the white of a Hennes Egge and put it in a brazen Morter then put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Copperis and grinde them well togeather till it bee as small as an oyntment with which annoynt the sore face and it will case the paine and take away the swelling and when it is welnye whole annoynt the place with a little Popilium and that will make the skinne faire and well againe An excellent remedy to helpe the rewme ¶ Rub the leafe of a Marygold betweene your fingers and put the same into your nose and let it stay there a little while and it will bring forth aboundance of humors out of the heade it will helpe the Rewme within a little while if you vse it This hath béene prooued Another speciall remedie for the Rewme ¶ Take a little sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oaken leaues then cut them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre as you can suffer the same holding the sticke betweene your teeth in thys manner hold your mouth ouer a dish or poringer and there wil great aboundance of humors auoyde out of your mouth But within a while washe in faire water the leaues on the sticke and then holde them in your mouth againe Doe thus for the space of an howre and vse it thrée or foure times a day for thrée or foure dayes together or vntill you haue auoyded so much watry humors as you thinke good This is the best and presentest remedy for the rewme that euer was heard of And hee that proues it shall finde it and excellent helpe A soueraigne water against melancholly and drinke to comfort the stomacke ¶ Take a pounde of Aqua vitae and put thereto a quart of Redrose water put into it as much Licoris sliced and scraped as you may hold in both your hands but if it be English Licoris you may take lesse put thereto as much Anniseede as you thinke will be sufficient to make it taste well thereof stew all these with a soft fire well couered with an earthen pot that the ayre doo not goe out to your iudgement till that a pinte thereof be consumed let it not boyle in any case but stewe softly this done take it from the sire and let it scand and coole and when it is cold draw it from the seede and Licoris and put it into the wicker glasse or bottle but bruse it that your water may be as cleere as you can and when neede requireth occupy it To make artificiall oyle of balme for woundes ¶ Take Balme Rewe Fetherfoy Sowthistle Nettles Briany leaues Bramble leaues Sage leaues Cinckfoyle of each of all these a handfull take all these simples and lay them in oyle Oliue one whole night and take the water that commeth of a Vine stalke and blacke Suailes gum Arabeck gum Edere of each of these one ounce you must take the seed of the Ashe trée and beate the seedes and the gummes very fine together Afterward you must put the oyle and the hearbs into the Still and throwe thereupon a quarter of a pound of the oyle of Roses and two ounces of Aqua vitae and so distill it with a soft fire but you must still it at the least twice or thrise Thys oyle will heale all wounds very soone A greene balme to incarnate wounds and to dry vp filthy vlcers ¶ Take of fine Aqua vitae Venice turpentine oyle of Roses of euery of them a pint boyle them with a soft fire of coles and after a waume or two put in of Verdigreace made in fine powder an ounce and a halfe and boyle it to a good perfect substance and so vse it to your sore wounds and filthy vlcers and it shall helpe them very shortly To make artificiall Balme ¶ Take of gum Elempine sixe ounces Aloes Mirrhe Castore Apponace of each two ounces Storax calamite Olibanum Mastick Cacabre of each foure ounces Munge Bedelii gum of the Fig trée of each two ounces and a halfe make euery one of them in powder by themselues that will be powdered The spices take of Lignum aloes three ounces Zilobalsami Carpobalsami Spignard Cloues Sinamon Calamus aromatici nut aromatici Nutmegs Galingall Setwell graines Cardomomus both of
the great and small Cucubes rootes of Cipres Mustacastaline which is the coddes of the Muske of each two ounces Rewpenticon 2. drams flowers of rosemary 2. ounces Iuniper berries Enula campana of each dried an ounce Bay-berries halfe an ounce beat all together in grosse powders then take of the séed of fennell perfly tansie Carret Coriander and Caroway séed of each one ounce wormwood sage dried basill Rosemary Margerum Penniriall Mints Secades Egrimonie a like quantitie of each then take Figges of Algarie Dates the stones taken away Reysons of the sunne Almonds of each foure ounces then take oyle of Turpentine 2. pynts oyle of Mastick oyle Bennet oyle of Castore oyle of Tartor oyle of Dyll oyle of Exceter of each halfe a pint oyle of Spike oyle of Nard of each foure ounces pure Aqua composita the waight of all the former stuffe and first boyle them in the bodies of two Limbecks of glasse fast luted with the crownes of theyr couers downeward in Balnaeo mariae that is a Cawdron of water a day a night then take off theyr caps and set them aright and distill it with an easie fire in these two Limbecks all your stuffe being deuided into euen portions as before lute them strongly and distill them with a sofe fire sixe howres then in the rest increase your fire by little and little til the water be passed then shall you sée white oyle and last of all yellow oyle kéepe euery of them by themselues the fourth is in the bottome keepe the as an excellent remedy for all wounds it helpeth suddainly without suffering the wound to putrifie or cast matter but confoundeth it and helpeth it straight The vertue of this Balme It is most excellent for Gowtes Palsies Cramps wounds akings sinewes cut hurt or shrunke the falling sicknesse Apoplexia the turning of the braine the biting of dogs or any other venimous things for the Timpany to annoynt the belly and the first water is good for all wounds and all retten and filthy vlcers as hath beene prooued The receit of the water of health by G. K. ¶ Take red Rose flowers Cammomile flowers Lauender flowers Buglosse flowers Isope flowers Rosemary flowers sage flowers secados flowers balme flowers time wild time peniriall Margerū winter sauery pimpernell S. Iohn woort Philopendula eyebright horehound dittany bittany scabies turmentill planten auence maidenhaire mints rue sapifrage Harts-tung Ensras Brasill Canepithy Piony Iuniper berries Bay leaues or berries take of all these flowers a maine handfull if they be gotten if not then take thrée gallons of mighty strong Ale or thrée gallens of Gascoigne wine then take these spices Anniséede two pound Licoris two pound Fenell séede two vnces Cinamon two vnces Caraway seede two vnces Galingall two vnces Setwell two vnces Angelica two vnces Ciperus two vnces Ginger Nutmegs of each one vnce Enula campana one vnce Calamus aromaticus one vnce Ireus one vnce Lignum aloes two vnces Cloues one vnce Cucubes one vnce Graines one vnce long Pepper one vnce Spignard one vnce Mace one vnce Amis amonium one vnce Suger half a pound Alkenet two vnces Olibanum Mastick Basill séede Marierum seed of all these halfe an vnce and doo by the drawing of this water of health in all respects as by your Aqua composita your flowers and hearbs must be dried and shred on a chopping boord a good handfull of each at the least and your Aniséede must be well beated and dusted and your Licoris must be scraped and sliced cleane and then all the rest of your other spices and seeds must be beaten fine in a brasen morter each to his quantity Also you may put therto thrée grains of ciuell Musk for it will make it to drink the more plesanter and for diuers infirmities this water is good as to breake wind in the belly for them that cannot relish or disgest their meats and for diuers other cold causes this water will make a man to liue long and to kéepe and preserue a man long in health and to make a man to looke young againe For to make pety Balme ¶ Take fine meat oyle a pint and put it in a clean pan and séeth it well ouer the fire then doo thy hands in cold water and let it drop thereon and it will creame and when it leaueth creaming doo it to the fire againe and let it séethe well and doo so thrée or foure times with your hands then take halfe an vnce of Masticke as much of Frankensence as much of Rozen a quarter of an vnce of Verdigreace make all these into powder by themselues then doo them into the oyle and let them séethe well together and stir it well and skim it cleane then let it coole then doo it in a pewter vessell and this is a good balme For to make aqua vitae perfectissima per G. K. ¶ Take the roote of Sapifrage Persly Alisander Fenell Time Isope Peniriall Rosemary Lauender Primrose Mints Rue Betony Sauein Sage Auence Calamint of each of these hearbs halfe a quarterne then take Galingall Pepper long Pepper Cloues Nutmegs of each of these one vnce of Canell Mace Cucubes of each of these two vnces Setwell Pellitory of Spaine Lignum aloes of each halfe an vnce stamp thy hearbs and pouder thy spices and doo them in a gallon of good red Wine and mingle thy hearbs and spices together in the Wine and let them stand all a night in stéepe and on the morrow distill them into a Limbeck this water hath many faire vertues and it comforteth man or woman and kéepeth them from all maladies that be cold Also it is hot at the first distilling and at the third distilling it helpeth man or woman in their kindly heates Also it comforteth a cold stomack and destroyeth both scabbe and scall Also it healeth all olde sores if it be kindly vsed it is good for the deafnes of the eares by putting a little therof into thy eare it driueth away the stinking of the breath Also it is good for the falling euill for the palsie in the tung for that palsie maketh a man sodainly dombe Also it healeth the palsie of other members that trembleth Also for biting or stinging of Scorpions or Adders or other venemous beasts for no venim can come néere vnto it Also it is good for the toothache of cold rewme and for a cold feauer being drunk before the axis it is good for to wash the emerods and old sores called Noli me tangere and for the Collica passio and who so drinketh it for the vanity of the head it also healeth the saucefleume in the face Also it purgeth the stomack of all corruptions and for stone and for all gowtes it destroyeth the gnawing within the belly and suffereth no wind to bréed in mans body To make Aqua vitae for cold causes ¶ Take good Gascoigne wine and distill it in a glasse or Serpentine and that water that burneth doo it by it selfe and
distill it with a moderate fire and keepe the first water by it selfe and the second water alone also and when there commeth no more water with strings take away the Limbecke and put into the pot more Wine vpon the same stuffe and still it againe and you shall haue an other good water and shall so remaine good In the first ingredience of this water you must kéepe a double glasse warily for it is a restoratiue of all principall members and defendeth against all pestilentiall diseases as against the Palsie Dropsie Splene yellow or black Iaundise for wormes in the belly and for all agues be they hote or cold and all manner of swellings and pestilentiall sorrowes in man or melancholly and flegmaticke and it strengthneth and comforteth all the sprites and strings of the braine as the hart the milt the liuer and the stomacke by taking thereof two or three spoonefuls at one time by it selfe or with Ale Wine or Béere and by putting a pretty quantity of Suger therein also it helpeth disgestion and dooth breake winde and stoppeth laske and bindeth not and it mightily helpeth and easeth man or woman of the paine of the hart burning and for to quicken the memory of man take of this water thrée spoonfuls a day in the morning and an other after hee goeth to dinner and the third last at night The electuary of life ¶ And if a man be sicke at the stomack or in the belly or at the hart or in the head or were bitten with any venomous euill beast or poysoned and a man were by the way trauailing or in the house and he had all these sicknesses so that he had with him this Lectuary that is made of fiue things to eate there of or drinke thereof in water thrée or foure spoonefuls he should by Gods help 〈◊〉 quickly whole so that hee vse it for fifteene dayes fasting and when he goeth to bed least he should not be whole of all his sicknesses in the body and if he 〈◊〉 drinke the ofâ—… 〈◊〉 a day the better and there be the fiue thingeâ— to make thâ—… electuary with Scoâ—loglo Moâ—re Gâ—ntiaâ—… Grandorer and Iâ—laout as much of the one as of the other and stamp them and straine them and mingle them with honey that hath beene well boyled on the fire and scummed cleane and thâ—… 〈◊〉 making of this Lectuary and when as need requireth you may vse it 〈◊〉 A good powder called the powder of life ¶ Take the séede of Smallage and the bones of a Mouse and the roote of Turmentile the roote of Quintfoile and the roote of Philopendula the séede of Gromwell and the séede of Sapifrage the séede of Alisanders and the séede of Sowthistle of each of these seedes a like much and then take Licoris and Galingall Cannell and Ginger of each a like much then bray them in a morter and mingle them together and vse therof then doo thereto a quantity of Auence of Saffron and a quantity of Maces and this is the making of this powder for all manner of sicknesse in mans body or in the womb or if a man be ouercome by the way it will destroy all manner of poison and venome and the dropsie and palsie and also the wallowing about a mans hart FINIS A Table of all such matters as are contained in thys Booke FOr all parts of the head and the diseases thereof Fol. 1 Very good remedies for them that cannot sléepe 9 For all manner of paine in the eares 10 For all manner of disseases in the eyes 11. For the diseases in the nostrils and the nose 15 For the diseases comming by tooth-ache 16 Howe to keepe the téeth cleane 18. How to helpe the paine in the gums the bléeding thereof 18 For blysters in the mouth and swelling of the lips eodem Howe to helpe a stinking breath 20. For the tongue and the palsie thereof 20 For to doe away sunne-burning 21 How to helpe all manner of red pimpled faces 22 How to helpe any one that is iawfalne 23 For choller and shortnes of breath eodem For a hoarce voyce and to open the pipes eodem For a sore throat and for the Quinsie in the throat 24. How to helpe all manner of colde Coughes 25. How to stay a vomit and how to make one cast 27 How to prouoke a good appetite 28 A remedy against the shortnesse of breath eodem For griefes in the armes and hands 29 For all kinde of diseases in the stomake eodem For the paine of the Bulke 32 For spetting of blood eodem For all manner of paine or incombrances in the breast 33 A remedy against hart-burning 35 Remedies against swounding 37 Remedies against the paines of the liuer the lunges and the diseases of the milt 38 Against all paines in the gutts and belly eodem Against the diseases comming of the Splene 39 For paine in the sides and for the plurasie 45 Against all aches in the backe and paine in the raines 46 For all manner of impostumes in the body 48 Against the disease called the Mother eodem For all manner of paine in the priuie members 49 Howe to helpe the fundament and the piles 54 For to helpe the pilles and Emerods eodem For euils in the flankes 57 Against all manner of paine in the knees eodem Against all aches in the legges 58 Against the paine in the feete and for cornes on the toes 59 Certaine necessary rules for purging and letting blood 62 Against all diseases through the body beginning of agues 63 Against all manner of hote or cold Agues 64 Against all manner of aches in the bodie 65 For a man that is broken eodem For all manner of broken bones 66 Against burning with Gun-powder or scalding 67 Against all manner of bruses 68 A present remedy for to breake a botch eodem For the byting of a mad dogge or the biting of any venimous beast or Serpent 69 To helpe one that is in a consumption eodem How to helpe the Sciatica passio 71 To helpe the Crampe and to haue a good colloure 72 Against the Canker a speciall remedy eodem Against the Collick and the stone diuers remedies 73 Against the Collica passio and for costiffenes eodem Howe to helpe the Dropsie in a man or woman 74 For a Dormitorie eodem Howe to drawe a bile from one place to another eodem To drawe a Dart out of a mans body 75 Howe to helpe the falling sicknesse eodem To cure a Fistula eodem Howe to stop a flixe or laxe 76 To drawe fire out of any sore and to fret away dead flesh 77 Against all manner of Goutes eodem Against the greene Sicknes and gnawing or aking of ioynts diuers remedies 78 Against heate in the body 79 Remedies against the black or yellow Iaundies eodem Against all impostumes in the body 80. To destroy all itches or breakings out eodem To destroy a Tetter or Kingworme 81. For the kernels or Kings euill eodem For