then hold the bare of the said Pullet to the sore and the chicken will gape and labour for life and in the end he will dy then take another Pullet and do the like and so another as the Pullets do dy for when the poyson is drawn out the last chicken that is offered thereto will live the sore presently is asswaged and the party recovereth it is necessary to use the Medicine to drive away venome from the heart This is proved very true To make Plague water TAke a pound of Rosemary a pound of Salendine a pound of Sage and a pound of Balm a pound of Mugwort one pound of Rue one pound of Wormwood one pound of Dragon one pound of Scabias one pound of Pimpernel that grows among the corne one pound of Angelica and one pound of Betony put all these herbs together in a great pot with a narrow mouth and let them soak in white Wine three dayes and three nights closely stopped and then take the herbs out and styll them and keep the water in a fair glass and if any be sick of the Plague give him the value of ten spoonfuls blood-warm so soon as he doth feel himself sick and then let him walk if he be able if not lead him by the armes and keep him from eating and drinking one hour after and then let him go to bed and if he vomit it is the better for him and if it be possible that he take it before he sleep he shall escape by Gods grace and the elder the water is the better it is This water is good for the quartane Ague or any disease lying in the stomack taking it before the fit doth come and this water must be stylled in the month of May Contra vim mortis non est Medicamen in hortis To make Doctor Josephus Water TAke a pint of Water and a spoonful of French Barley half a handful of red Rose leaves two or three drops of the Oyl of Brimstone and a quarter of a pound of the finest refined Sugar the water and Barley to seeth together and then the scum to be taken off and so the other to be let cool so with the Rose leaves to stand all night and then to be well brewed all together but first the leaves and Barley strained from the Water For the Convulsion TAke one ounce of an Elke-hoof and half an ounce of English Liqueris two piana small roots two or three Fenel roots as many Parsly roots three or four roots of unset Hyssop a little quantity Herbegrass which is Rue a quart of small beer but boyl it till it come to a pinte then strain it and sweeten it with Syrop of Hyssop and give it the Party before and after the Fit For the moist Rhume in the Head TAke conserve of Roses two ounces Metridate two drams Bolearminak one dram of Olibinum one dram and an half Mastick half a dram beat these together with Syrop of Violets into the form electuary whereof take twice going to bed and in the morning the quantity of a Nutmeg Another for the same ROsemary flowers Elder flowers Bittony flowers Sage flowers of each two good handfuls Scurvy grass three handfuls China-roots three ounces an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two ounces of Coriander-seeds half a pound Fumitur three handfuls Epithimum Agramony Hartstongue of each two handfuls Harts-horn-shaving one ounce of Stringoroots four ounces Citron-seeds Musked half an ounce let these be boyled in a gallon and an half of Whey and let them first be infused two dayes in a gallon of white Wine then put the ingredience with the Wine to the Whey and let them be boyled gently the space of two hours and so next day drink thereof half a pint in the morning and so in the afternoon as long as it lasteth An approved Medicine for sore Eyes TAke six ounces of Lapis Callimnaris and heat that in a wooden fire and blow it red hot and then quench it in a pinte of pure white Wine in a Bowl or any other clean vessel nine times and then strain it out by it self through a fine linnen cloth and then take a handful of Houslick unwashed and stamp it in a clean Morter and strain it through a fine cloth then put the quench'd Wine and that both together and strain them again through a fine cloth and then take a feather and drop it in your eyes three or four drops at a time every morning and evening and by the grace of God you will find help in a very short time Probatum est A Medicine for Children that have the wormes approved by Mistris Isabel Dee in Moscoe TAke Wormseed and boyl it in Beer and then sweeten it with clarifyed Honey and let them drink of it every morning fasting For a pain in the stomack by a Cold. TAke two or three Turnips and wrap them in brown Paper weted and put them in Ember-ashes for two hours as ready for to eat and then scruze the juyce out of them betwixt two Trenchers and then mix it with Loaf-sugar with Cynamon and Nutmeg powdered and made like a Syrop and then drink four ounces of it at night when you go to bed Probatum est Mistris Fryerirs medicine for sore Eyes TAke a pine of white Wine two drams of Camphire out as small as may be half an ounce Omphacium that is pure oyl of green Grapes or for want of that your purest Sallet-oyl put the Camphire and the Oyl into a Basin let them stand covered two hours then put in your white Wine to them then take the stones called Lapides Culumanaris and heat three of them fire hot then put them so hot into the Wine covering your Basin very close while they are a cooling in the water heat three more fire hot take the other out and put in the hot ones and so heat them by course five or six times till the Wine is very hot and the Camphire well dessolved then take the clearest of it and the top when it is cold and reserve it in glasses For your use put two or three drops into the sore ey three times a day For a Fellon or a Whitlow FIrst take a quarter of a pinte of Milk and as much Leaven as an egg and let it boyl till it commeth to be as thick as a Poultess then take a penny-worth of oyl of Roses and mix with it and which is above half a spoonful and so apply it to the grieved place as hot as you can twice a day lay it too as you do a Poultess This is proved For one that is Bursten or a Child that hath been Bursten six years TAke oyl of Nip or Nep and anoynt the Party therewith and morning and evening take of the herbs and bind one boyl'd in Butter or dip Wool in the aforesaid Oyl this use six weeks until you be whole This proved For to keep a Child from having Convulsion fits TAke oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn beaten up
of your hand and as round and prick it full of holes with a point of a knife and lay it to the nape of your neck just upon the bone that sticketh out most and as long as it will ly on let it but in two or three days it helpeth some You may let it ly on as long as you please a quarter of a yeer and if it falleth off before your eyes be well you may wipe off the moisture of it and apply others as you shall see occasion Probatum To Cure a Catarack A Catarack is curable by making an Issue in the Nape of the Neck This is the manner how you shall discern a Catarack it will seem to be like many motes or little Flyes between them and the light and in the beginning beginneth to take away the true sight of the Eye and then it groweth into a Film which is counted uncurable when it covers the whole sight or bale of the Ey though at first it is curable although there is nothing to be seen on the out-side of the Ey as a purl or such like so that it is not to be helped being within the Ey though many books write of it without the handy Operation of some skilful Chyrurgion puting some silver Needle into one corner of the Ey and twisting the film about the Needle coucheth it under the sight of the Eye where it will afterward waste but it requires an Artist that is well skill'd in the couching a Catarack For a Consumption TAke the heart and lungs of a Calf new killed a Capon let these be bruised in a stone morter and boyled with an hundred Snails till the broth be as thick as pottage then put to it Harts tongue Maiden hair Hysope Scabias Sage of each an handful with China roots sliced and beaten two ounces of the juyce of Coltsfoot roots ten ounces the blood of a Pig newly killed and Conserve of red Roses one pound these being well mixed let them be distilled in Balneo with a very gentle fire and reserve it Another TAke a young Cock pull him alive and then slit him in the middle then wipe him with a clean cloth then take sops of white bread soaked in a quart of Burrage water put the sops in a common Still and lay the Cock with his bones broken upon the sopping putting thereto raisins of the Sun stoned and unwashed with a quantity of Dates this being distilled take thereof constantly a pretty quantity A Julip of D. Trench for the Mother fits Proved IN the time of yeer distil black Cherry water Pyon flower water Couslip water Rue or Herbgrace water then take of the waters of Couslip and black Cherry of each an ounce Aqua Histericae half an ounce Cinamon water one dram Sirup of Clove Gillyflowers three drams Take of these two spoonfuls at a time as often as you please Histerica is Castor To make the Salt of Coral TAke of the broken pieces of the reddest Coral you can get at the Druggist half a pound or as much as you please then put upon it of good wine Vineger distilled a gallon and presently you shall see it work up and down upon the Coral then set it in a great glass on the top of a warm Stove and let it stand three or four dayes then if you taste of the Vineger although it were sharp before it will have no strength but taste sweetish which is a signe it hath taken into the Vineger as much as it can then you may pour that off from the Coral and put on more Vineger and do as before till all your Coral be dissolved then put all your Vineger together and put it into a large flat pan well glased and lay into the Vineger in the pan two or three white lists half a yard long and let one half of them ly in the Vineger in the pan and the other half hang out and you shall see those lists which must first be very clean washed before you lay them into the Vineger by drops draw out all the Vineger in the pan which you must receive with setting an other large pan or pot under the ends of the Lists that hang out of the pan that they ly in And when you have so filtred your foresaid Vineger very clear from the dross of the Coral which you shall see remain at the bottom of the first pan you put your Vinegar into then you must set your clear Vinegar into the Oven being a little hotter then when Houshold bread is drawn but it must be put into a large clean Tinne Bason or Silver for it will pierce through any earthen vessel and so it must be breathed away gently till all the Vineger be gone and leave the Salt of Coral in the bottom being very gently dryed Then must you have in a readiness a pottle or two of plain distilled water and upon your formerly dryed salt of Coral if there be a quarter of a pound put a quart of distilled water and set it in warmth till it be melted like Sugar in it then lay in your clean washed lists of cloth into it being put into a flat Pan as formerly and let it run through those lists by drops to purify the salt and when all the water is come from the dross which will remain in the Pan the lists were put into then put your clear water into the Oven and let it breath away gently till it leave the salt of Coral dry and then disolve it in distilled water again and proceed with it as before and then it will be pure and prepared for your use whose vertues are many and some approved by practise as followeth The vertues of the salt of Coral IT is to be given to children of any age in Fevers the weight of twenty grains and gently covered to move sweat Also to women in child-bed that are in any Fever the weight of thirty grains Also in apparision of any small Pâ—x or the Measels it is never taken without good success It strengtheneth the Liver and helpeth it to make good blood being taken twice in a week in a little Posset-ale and continued so for the space of a moneth Also it helpeth children of Convulsions For Convulsion Fits TAke white Coperas dissolve it in a little warm distilled water and then with clean lists layed into it fylter it from his dross dand gently vapor away the water till it be ry then dissolve it again fylter it and lay it again in a Oven as before and it is prepared Hereof you may give unto a sucking child three grains in a spoonful of Posset-drink once or twice and it seldom or never faileth but cureth An excellent Vomit TAke the leaves of Assara-bacca being gathered in the beginning of June and run a threed through the leaves and let them hang thereon till thâ—y be dry in the shade so that you may powder them to fine Powder in a Morter and then searse them and keep the Powder
be thick and spread it upon a little cloth of the bignesse of the Eyes and lay it to lukewarm one day and a night or untill you see them something asswaged and then wash them with Womans milk Probatum est I have known a woman heal many blind people with this medecine following TAke Daysie roots Betany flowers Pimpernell and red Fennel stamp them and strain them with stale Ale and drink of this evening and morning and lay outwardly to thy Eyes Rose-water Womans milk and the white of an Egg with Tow being well beaten together the drink will be better if you pound and put the juice of Cheslocks a worm so called that is between the bark and the body of trees commonly and then the juice of the said worm put into the sore Eyes healeth them A medicine wherewith one was holpen that had a prong thrust into the white of his Eye TAke the right ground Ivy Salendinâ— the green of a Goose Tird Womans milk and put them together in a Glasse then when they be settled powr out the clearest and put it into thine Eyes and this will make thee whole A precious medecine for sore and dim Eyes TAke a handfull of Tyme a handfull of Vervain a handfull of Rose leaves a handfull of brown Fennell and when you have washed those herbs clean put them into a Stillitory and then put thereto a pint of white Wine and eight penniworth of pure white Coperas and distill the same and put it into a glasse and use to wash your Eyes therewith Probatum est Another for sore Eyes TAke red Rue Smallage Vervain Maiden-hair Ivy Sengreen Walwort and red Fennell of each a handfull wash them clean and lay them in good white Wine a day and a night and after put them all into a stillitory and still them for the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like Balm and keep it in a glasse and use it A speciall medecine for Eyes first to clarifie the sight and curable to all Passions to Eyes as hath been proved many times and if the Eyes be therewith washed or else one drop of cleer water put therein it cleareth the sight and is much profitable to strained Eyes it will destroy a Pearl overcometh the Megrim and healeth any Eye that is smitten with a stroke TAke red Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain Betany red Roses Grape leaves Appium Egrimony ground Ivy that groweth upon an oak and of all these take even portions and it must be put foure dayes and four nights in this manner following the first day and night in white Wine the second day and night in Water of a Manchild a Virgin the third day and night in Womans milk the fourth day and night in clean Honey and this done take all the herbs and put them into a stillitory and the water that cometh thereof ye shall put into a viall and use this as aforesaid and in this water put the fourth part of an ounce of Camphere beaten in a morter this is an excellent medicine To make a precious water for sore eyes and for all manner of sores as followeth TAke red Roses Smallage Rue Vervain Maidenhaire Eufrasia Eyebright Endive Sengreen Walwort red Fennel and Salendine of every one of these half a quartern wash them and lay them in good white Wine twenty four houres and then distil them and the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like balm keep it well in a viall or glasse for it is worth any Balm for any manner of evill or sore Eye and this hath been proved many times To make a water for sore Eyes which is excellent TAke the filing of Brasse of Iron Lead of Steel and of Gold and put it one day in the water of a clean Virgin to steep the second day put it in white Wine being hot the third day in the juice of Fennell the fourth day in the milk of an Ewe the fifth in red Wine the sixth day in three whites of Egges and then put it into a Stilletory and distill it with a soft fire and keep the water in a vessell this water is right excellent and precious for a mans sight and destroyeth the Leprosie A medicine for the Pearl and Flegme grown over the Eye TAke the Gall of an Hare and boil it with as much Honey as the Gall. Probatum est Medicines for the Ears For an Ear-wig or Worm in the Ear. TAke the Juice of Wormwood Rue and Sothernwood of each a like much and mingle them together and put it into the Ear and that will slay the Worm that is in any mans head within five nights at the furthest and lay some of the substance of the herbs plaister-wise To make one hear that is deaf TAke green Elm and lay it amidst the Fire and take the water that cometh out at the ends thereof a spoonfull and take a spoonfull of the juice of Sengreen and a spoonfull of Eels grease that is a kind of a black Eel of the gobbin next the navell and boil them together a little over the fire and then put the liquor into a glasse and put thereof into thine eares when thou art in bed and within a day thou shalt be whole but look that the liquor be milk-warm or take the juice of Betany and let it rest a good while and then take black Sope and the ju ce together and put it into thine Ears Another for the same TAke Camomill Melil ot Marjoram Calamint Hysop Wormwood Pennyroyall Stechados Mints of each a handfull boil them in running water one houre and dip a cloth therein and hold it hot to the Eare that the heat may enter into â—hy head and after stop thy Ears with cotton or black wooll that no cold may enter and this will help the hearing A water to help the hearing TAke and distill Sorrell or Wormwood in a common stilletory and take foure drops of either of the same waters whether you will and put â—nto the ear lukewarm For pain in the Ears or for default of hearing TAke the oyl of sweet Almonds and drop it into thine ear and it helpeth the pain speedily also milk sodden and put into a stone pot with a narrow mouth and the sore ear holden over the pot that the vapor of the milk may ascend into the eare this taketh away the pain and breaketh the imposthume of the head this is proved trrue Another for the same TAke the oil of a silver Eel with black wooâ—… of a Ram betwixt the hinder legs and the flank it helpeth presently the pain and will cause the Ear to run Also the oyl of a Weasle or Mole helpeth the hearing very well but you must make it in this sort when the Weasle or Mole is stripped of his skin then put the said Weasle or Mole into an earther Jug and stop the Jug very close and put the pot into seething water and let
seeth all these in a pint of white Wine strain it and drink thereof foure spoonfulls morning and evening warm 〈…〉 Medicines for the Side For Wind in the Side TAke the leaves of Holly and dry them and make powder thereof but do not burn them and give the Patient thereof to drink in Beer or Ale and it will ease immediatly Proved by my Lady Coplin For a Stich in the Side TAke the urine of him that is sick Wormwood and Cummin and seeth them well together and by the fire therewith anoint thy side and after with the oil of Bay Also Endive Water water of Divells-bit water of Mallows and water of Carduus benedictus are all good for the Stitch. For a Stich in the left Side TAke a quantity of Cummin and steep it in a pottle of Malmsey then take and fry them together in a Pan and put it into a linnen bag and lay it hot to your side and it will help you Another for the same TAke and stamp Wormwood Mints and Camomill Mallows red Roses Sage Cummin and white Bread Crums and boil all these in red Wine or in stale Ale and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the side This is proved To know when one hath a Stitch whether it be of the Wind or the Plurisie TAke Wormwood and lay it on a tile-stone before the fire and when it is neare hot sprinkle it with good Malmsey and put it in a linnen cloth and lay it to when you feel the Stitch if it be but a Wind it will take it away in two hours but if it be the Plurisie it will augment the pain and then seek other remedy For a Stitch at the Hart. TAke and distill Endive Water and when the fire is out of it drink thereof one ounce at a time for this will help all Stitches of the Heart if you will use it Medicines for the Pleurisie TAke Broom Flowers Scabias and Carduus Benedictus of every one a like portion mingle them together and let the Patient every morning and evening take a good draught and annoint the ribs with oyl of Broom Flowers for this is good Another singular remedy for the same TAke three ounces of the water of Lady-thistle called Carduus Benedictus one spoonfull of white Wine and fix inner whites of Eggs well braid mingle them together and lay them plaister-wise upon the ribs as hot as you may suffer it Another for the same TAke two good handfulls of Horse-dung two races of Ginger in powder then wrap the dung and the Ginger together in a linnen cloth then put them in a pot to boyle with a quart of white Wine untill the third part be consumed and drink thereof evening and morning and after you have drunk the said Wine cover you well and sweat A Regiment for the Pleurisie THe Patient ought not to drink wine nor eat flesh but must be content to drink Tysants Barley water and weak drink and to eat Barley hulked and milk of Almonds clarified rosted Apples and great Raisins as long as the Fever doth last And to help him to spit it is good to use often white pills of Diadragaganton Sugar Candy and other things mentioned in the Remedies of the Cough For the Pleuresie THe common practice is to let the Patient blood and to administer to him Tysants and to give the syrup of Violets in the which is dissolved Cassia newly drawn half an ounce of Manna elect 1.3 give this to the Patient after he is let blood this hath holpen many Also this is very good for the Pleurisie Take a hollow Apple and put therein a good quantity of Olybanum and put the Apple in the hot embers and so let it stand till it be rosted and then give it to the Patient this hath helpt many without letting blood A Pleurisie cometh of cold humors and if it be not far past give the Patient Malmsey wherin hath been sodden Camomil to drink this hath helpt many without letting blood Medicines for the Lungs An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs TAke the Lungs of a Fox and wash them clean in fair water and lay them in Vineger two daies and then hang them up to dry the shortest way is to dry them in an Oven and then take a few crops of Hysope Elecampana roots and a few crops of Hoarhound and a good quantity of Anniseeds and a good quantity of Licoras and one ounce of Sugar-Candy and bray all together and searse it and then you may chuse whether you will eat the Powder in apples in pottage or in meat To make a Water that is restorative for a man that if his Lungs be wasted will restore them again and gather Nature again TAke Fennell roots and Parsley roots and wash them clean and pill of the utter bark of the roots and the hard roots that is within them and cast it away and make them small then take a brazen pot and put therein three quarts of water and put the roots therein and seeth it over the fire then take Figs and mince them small and Licoras small and put them together and make them boil well then take Sorrell and stamp it and put it thereto and let it boil well and then take it down and strain it through a cloth into some Vessell of earth and stop it well and fast that the breath go not out and let the sick drink thereof hot evening and morning cold For the Cough of the Lungs TAke a handfull of Figs and seeth them in Ale or Beer untill they be somewhat tender then slit them asunder and put them in a linnen bag and so lay them on your Stomach warm and when they be cold warm them again in the same liquor To comfort the Lungs TAke and distill our Lady Thistle and drink the water thereof twice a day and it will comfort the Lungs Also the Water of Chervell doth the like To open the Lungs TAke Hysope VVater and drink thereof twice a day evening and morning at each time one ounce and a half or two ounces and it will help you For the Impostumation of the Lungs TAke and drink VVater of Camomill twice a day at each time an ounce and it will help thee Fennell water will do the like Approved For heat or drought in the Lungs DRink water of great Plantain twice a day and it will kill the heat of the Lungs Water of blue Violets doth the like Medicines for the Heart For trembling of the Heart without a Fever TAke the maw of an old Cock drie it and make powder thereof and drink the same powder in red Wine or sweet Wine for it is very good put a little Saffron thereto For the Heart that beateth or trembleth in mans body and cometh of thought BRay Corall in a mortar of brasse as small as you can then searse it and mingle it with Sugar very fine beaten use to take of this powder first in the morning and last
whole For the swellings in a mans Yard TAke Leeks with the tails and wash them clean and stamp them and fry them in Barrows-grease and make a Plaister and lay it all about the yard and be whole Or take Betony and seeth it in Wine and stamp it and make a Plaister and lay it to the Cods and it will asswage the swelling of them this is well proved For pain in ae mans Yard through Gravel or Champise as followeth TAke Pellitory and Boares-grease and fry them together well and make two Plaisters thereof and lay one between the Navel and the Yard and the other on the Reines of the back and anon thou shalt deliver water and gravel which before thou mightst not do but by drops this will help thee without doubt To make a water for a sore Yard TAke and put Allom in fair water and seeth it till it wax tough then put it in a pewter Box this will cleanse a sore and make it fair For burnign with a Harlot IF a man be burnt with a Harlot and do meddle with another woman within one day she shal be burned If one be burned let him wash his secrets two or three times with white Wine or Sack and water but if the matter have continued long go to some expert Chyrurgion to have help or else thy Guts will burn and fall out of thy belly For a mans Stones that hang down long TAke the fatness of a Conney and anoynt thy Cods and Stones therewith and then wrap thy Sones in a Conny-skin do this nine times and labour not in nine dayes and be whole For him that cannot make water TAke Rue Grommel and Parsley and stamp them and mingle them with white Wine and give the sick thereof to drink warm Or take the juyce of Cinquefoil and drink it with Posset ale and it will make you make water anon For one that cannot make water TAke the stones and Kernels of Peches and Medlers as much of the one as of the other and make them into Powder very fine and scarse them this done take fine Sugar the weight of all this and mingle all this together and let the Patient drink thereof with good white Wine and he shall be whole incontinent To make one make water TAke six or seven Berries of Ivy and stamp them and strain them with Ale and give the sick to drink therof and he shall make water straight To make one make water TAke a pinte of good Ale and put therein of Honey even as it cometh out of the Hive with Bees wax and all and strain it with the Ale then give it the Patient to drink and within one quarter of an hour he shall make water with this was one holpen that lay three dayes and never made water To make one make water TAke a pinte of white Wine and a good spooonful of Sivil Soap finely scraped and the yolks of two Eggs well put from the whites beat all these together with the Wine and then strain it and warm it luke-warm and drink hereof as often as you shall feel pain and this will help you for it is well proved A Medicine for the Scyatica THis Infirmity cometh of hard lying on the Huckle-bones or lying upon the ground or upon a forme or such like it may come by a stripe or by a fall and it will run from the Huckle-bone to the knee and from the knee to the anckle and from the anckle to the little toe and then it is past cure and otherwhiles this Gowt will have a reflexion ro the Reines of the back and to the Flank and it may come of a gross Flegmetique humour The chiefest remedy is to anoint the place with oyl of Turpentine and Aqua vitae compounded together and use to anoint the place often against the fire and a scarcloth of pitch is good For the Scyatica TAke oyl of Olive May butter gall of a Bul and red Onyons and boyle these together and lay it to the hips where the paine is this is a good Medicine Or take a red cloth and Anoynt it with Clarified Honey and thereupon strew the powder of Cummyn and as hot as you may Bind it to the sore and be whole For the Scyatica in the Hip. TAke a Pottle of wine Lees and wine dregs and sower bread and Cow-dung and boyl these well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the paine as hot as you may suffer it and this will heal you For the Scyatica Passion TAke a Gallon of Urine and seeth it well and scum it well untill it be cleer and then take it downe and let it stand untill it be cold and then put the cleer therof into a faire Pot and put away the dregs and then take the same cleer Urine and put it over the fire and put therein a quart of black dew Snails and boyl them together until the Snails be wasted then strain it through a hair sive and keep the same liquor in an earthen pot and aniont the hipp and the legg therwith before a hot fire and let the liquor be warm For all manner of Gouts and consumed members and for the Scyatica passion TAke a pound of Riote of red docks that men make brogys of and wash them clean and dry them in the sun untill the water be away then cut them small and bray them in a morter and boyl them in a quart of strong vineger untill half be wasted and then with the same anoint the aking place and it will amend then keep it in a vial of glass or els it will dry away This Medicine is very excellent for the diseases abovewritten for it hath been very well proved Medicines for the fundament A Remedy for falling out of the Fundament FIrst beware of taking cold in that place and beware of costiveness and keep your arse and buttocks warm and sit not upon the cold earth nor upon stones nor upon no hard thing but take something under the buttocks not only for falling out of the Longation or arsgut for all other infirmities that may be engendred in the Longation For the figge in the fundament THis Impediment is a Impostumation or lump of flesh growing in the Longation and it doth come of melancholy humors the which doth descend to the Longation or fundament and for remedy purge the matter with confection of hamock or with the pills of Lapides Lazule or with Vera Rufini then take of the powder of a dogs head burned and mix it with the juyce of pimpernel and make tents and put into the fundament For him that his fundament goeth out TAke bay leaves and boyl them in a pot of water and as hot as you can suffer it you must sit over it to the intent the fume of the water may go up into the body and with your finger put it up by little and little and when it is hot heat an Oaken board and sit on it as hot
bone of a Hare and as long as you have the same about you next to your skin you shall not have the Cramp Another for the Cramp TAke two spoonfuls of May-butter and two spoonfuls of Ruejuyce and temper them together till they be a salve and anoint the place therewith Medicines for all kind of sores and wounds and first to draw a sore TAke and beat Oatmeal in a Morter small and then put it into milk and seeth it well together with a handful of Rose-flowers unstild if you may have them or else of them that are stilled and not burned and seeth them till they be like Pap together and then lay them warm to the sore as the Patient may suffer it evening and morning and this will dry it A good water for every sore TAke a quart of ashes made of an Ash and a pottle of vineger and a pound of Madder half a pound of Allom-glass and seeth all these together until they be half wasted then take it from the fire and let it stand and spurge then take the water that is clear above and put it into a Vial and put that water into a sore and this will heal it without any more cost A Plaister for that swelling which is called an Vncome TAke Rue and Smalledge of each an handful a good gobet of fat Bacon such as is very much smoaked or resty as they call it and dress the said Bacon in squares as big as your finger and beat all these together till it be dissolved and meet to spread upon leather or cloth and lay it to the sore and it will both draw it and heal it when it is broken A soveraine plaister for any Ach. TAke a quart of Malmsey and a spoonful of Sallet-oyl a good handful of Onyons pilled broken and bruised and an ounce of pepper finely beaten then seeth all these together till they be thick and spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the place where the pain is and this will take away the Ach. A Medicine or Oyntment called Flos Unguentorum TAke Rosin and per Rosin of each half a pound Virgin wax and Frankincense of each a quarter of a pound Mastick an ounce Harts tallow a quarter of a pound and Camphire two drams melt that which is to be molten and powder that which is to be made in powder and searce them fine and boyl them over the fire and then strain them through a Canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine then boyl the wine with all the other ingredients together till the wine be consumed then let it cool till it be but bloud-warm then put thereto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine evermore stiring it till it be thorow cold but ever beware your stuff be no hotter then bloud when you put in your Turpentine and Camphire for if it be it marreth all your stuff then when it is cold make it up in rolls and keep it for your use for the best medicine and precious salve that ever was or can be made To make Salus Populi which is good for Blanes and to skin all sores in three days and is good for him that feareth the Hemeroids TAke of Salendine two handfuls Allom one handful and grind them together like sauce then take Weathers tallow or Harts tallow a pound of oyl of Roses half a pound and melt them together and boyl the herbs therein until it sink down to the bottom and it wax somwhat black then strain it and keep it to your use This Oyntment is hard and therefore when you will use of it put it in a spoon and melt it over the fire and understand it must not be put in old sores but there as it scaldeth the skin off and when there riseth any pimples white black blew or red this Salus Populi dryeth well and healeth well and destroyeth the wild fire A special Medicine for a Bruise TAke a great handful of Rue the white and Yolks of five Eggs half a pint of Honey and a handful of wheat flower temper all these together and make it thick and so lay it to the place that is bruised upon a fair cloth heated hot against the fire and let it ly twenty four hours and then lay on a fresh To asswage any Swelling where-ever it be TAke two handfuls of Penyrial and set it in the strongest Ale you can get til it be tender then take it and press it from the herbs and lay it unto the swelling as hot as he can suffer it and so use it two or three days and it will be good A marvellous Salve to heal and draw TAke Betony Plantane and Smallage the juyce of them one pound then take four ounces of Wax that cometh of the honey two ounces of incense white and clean two ounces of pitch two ounces of Rosin melt these by themselves upon a soft fire that done put the juyce of the herbs to it and boyl it together until the juyce be wasted and alwaies stir it then take it from the fire and strain it through a clean cloth then take two ounces of Turpentine and temper it with the rest and when it is cold keep it as gold To heal a wound TAke the flowers of herb John and put them in a glass and put thereto as much oyl Olive as will cover the herbs and then stop the glass close and put it in the Sun for the space of twenty days or more then it will be a fine coloured oyntment and very good for green wounds and when you will use it warm it a little at the fire and then wet your Lint therein and lay it to the wound and it will be whole A water to heal all manner of wounds in short space which is a thing that every man ought to have in his house seeing it is of so great vertue TAke a pound of new yellow wax or as much as you will and melt it in a clean pan and then pour it out into some other vessel wherein must be Malmsey Muscadel or good Claret-wine and then take the wax out and pour it again upon the wine and do so seven times then take the said wax and melt it on the fire and put into it a handful of Brick beaten into fine powder and stir it well together and then put it into a crook't-neckt glass such as Stillers call the Bag-pipe-glass you must clay it well about the midst of the glasses neck and let it distil first with a little fire and then more and last with a good great fire and then when all the things be cold put it out of your recipient and pour it into a Viol well stoped with wax and searcloth so that in no case the ayre go out no sun nor fire come to it for it is so fine of himself that it will vanish away straight and when you will occupy it you must wet and moyst the wound with a fine linnen cloth and so bind it to
the wound To heal a wound in ten days TAke Camphire and stamp it with Boars-grease put it into the wound and this will heal it in ten days without fail To make that flesh shall not grow too much in a wound TAke the Lightes or Lungs of a Sheep hot and lay it upon the wound and the flesh shall rise equal with the skin A Diet for him that is wounded TAke heed you eat no Cheese Butter Eggs nor Fish of the Sea nor Fruit but fine and light meats as Capons Chickens Rabbets Pheasants and Partridge Lamb Lark and such like Medicines for the Itch in man or woman THis I do advise every man for this matter to ordain and prepare a sharp pair of nailes to scratch claw rent and tear the skin and the flesh that the corrupt blood may run out and then use purgations stoves and sweats and beware you reverberate not the cause inward with any oyntment nor claw not thy skin with filthy fingers but wash thy hands to bed-ward For a Scab on man or woman TAke Mallows and Wormwood and boyl them well together and with the said water and herbs warm as thou mayst suffer it all to wash thy Body and this will heal thee in short time For the Itch in the hands that come of worms TAke the seed of Henbane and cast it on a Chafing-dish of coals but first wash thy hands and then hold them over the fire as hot as you may suffer it a good while and then put thy hands into a Bason of cold water and thou shalt see the wormes creep out into the water do this three or four times and be whole To destroy all manner of Scabs dry or moyst TAke the juyce of Scabias and Vineger and one part of Garlick and seeth altogether till it do turn to an oyntment and anoint the Scabs therewith and be whole For the dry Scab THis infirmity commeth to man after his complexion by superabundant humors or by lying with an infectious person having the said infirmity or by aridity or dryness of choller or melancholy the which doth engender a dry Scab which is the worst among all the kind of Scabs The Remedy TAke Mercury mortifyed with Fasting-spittle three ounces incorporate it with the oyl of Bayes and anoint thy body therewith Or take Mercury mortifyed three ounces of the powder of Brimstone two ounces of the powder of Elicampana two ounces Confect it together with Barrows-grease and anoint thy body oft Medicines for the Falling-sickness that doth not foam in the mouth but by Vrine and Egestion or both at once defileth himself THe cause of this infirmity many Authors in divers matters be of sundry opinions but for this matter I do say that forasmuch as it is one of the kinds of the Falling-sickness it doth take his Original of a Rheumetick humour opilating the cels of the Brain the Brain so opilated and stopped the Patient lyeth pittifully unto the time that Nature hath removed the Cause A Remedy FOr this matter a great circumspection must be had first in the diet of the Patient for the Patient not onely in this kind of Falling-sickness but in all other kinds must abstain from white meats Beef Hares-flesh and Venison also they must beware of climbing up to high places they must eat no Sallets Onyons nor Garlick Raisons Gibboles or Scalions or such like things The Patient must beware of eating of Water-fowles and fatness of fish as Eels Conger and Salmon and such like and then use the seeds and roots of Piony as well in meats as drinks and so wear the seeds about thy neck and purge thy head and do as it is specifyed in the Chapter named Epilepsia next following THere be three kinds of Falling-sickness which men be infected with to wit Epilepsia who in their falling foam at the mouth and this is the common kind of the Falling-sickness They which have the Analepsia shall when they fall defile themselves and not foam at the mouth They which have Tatalepsia whether they be taken open-ey'd or half closed for the time they shall see nothing For the Falling Sickness TAke Rue and Wormwood of each of them a handful and make it powder and blow some of it into his nose that doth fall and he shall presently rise Medicines for Warts THis Infirmity doth come of gross evil humors to remedy which Take a pair of Cissers and cut off the heads of the Warts and then rub them with Garlick and Bay salt and stamp both together do this six or seven times and lay over them a plaister of lead To take away Warts TAke the juyce of red cole-stocks and lay it on the Warts and this will heal them Or take a white Snail without a house and anoint thy Warts withal and they will go away Or take Egrimony and Verjuyce and put them together and lay it to the Warts three nights being stamped and it shall drive them away and heal them Medicines to make one sleep TAke of the Oyl of Violets an ounce of Opium half an ounce incorporate these together with womans milk and with a fine linnen cloth lay it upon thy Temples Or take leaves of Henbane stamp it and lay it to thy Temples Or else use to eat Lettice seeds white Poppy seeds of Mandragon seeds and of Sander of each three drams but above all things mirth is best to bedward To make one sleep TAke ground Ivy and Sengreen of each a like quantity and stamp them and temper them with womans milk and lay it to thy Temples and this will make thee sleep well Medicines for an Ague for a Fever Tertian TAke the buds or leaves of Willows red Sage and Fetherfew of each an handful seeth them in a quart of Milk till the herbs be well sodden then crush the herbs and wring them in a cloth and lay them to your pulse as warme as you can suffer it and this will help the Ague Another for the same THe Medicines which do help a Fever causon will help a fever tertian first purge choler and three or four hours before the fit doth come I do thus I cause a man to ly in his doublet and a woman in her wastcoat then do I cause them to put on a pair of gloves and with two garters I do bind the wrists of their arms and do lay their arms and hands into the bed and do cast on clothes and do bring them into a sweat before the fit doth come three or four hours and out of a goose quill one put into another they do take their drink because they shall take no aire into the bed then do I give them first an Altery and suffer them to drink as much possit Ale as they will and when the burning doth begin I do withdraw the clothes and this I do three courses and have made many hundreds whole so and on their good daies I do not suffer them to go into the Aire For the quartane
Ague TAke a spoonfull of mustard and as much Treacle as a bean and let the sick drink thereof with vineger and he shall be whole Or take his own urine and scum it cleane then take the juyce of Camomil the juyce of sage or the powder of them both and the powder of Galingale and Licoras and let them boyl together a little while and drink thereof often fasting For the ague Mr Willoughbies Medicine TAke a handfull of the herbs called Shephards purle and halfe a handfull of Houseleeke and as much sinkfoyl and the like of Groundsel and beat them with two spoonfuls of bay-salt then divide it into four parts and lay two parts to the wrists of the hands one halfe hour before the fit doth come and when you feel it come take knot grass and stamp it and straine it with a pint of stale Ale and let the sick drink it luke-warm he must ly down as soone as the herbs be bound to his arm For the byting of a mad Dog TAke mints and a clove of garlick and salt and stamp them together and make a plaster thereof and lay to the bitten place and this will heal it Another for the same TAke Egremony Plantane and the white of an egg and bean them well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore place and this will heal it For the biting of all kind of venemous beasts and other things TAke the juyce of Vervaine and drink it and with this many have been holpen Also the black that is of the Crabs feet well beaten into powder do very well help the same being drunk For the biting of a mad Dog TAke a quantity of Vervaine as much of Rue and as much of Plantane with Treacle and stamp it and strain it with good wine or stale Ale and give it unto the Patient Also take any of those herbs and stamp them with Bay-salt and bind it fast to the wound and it will draw out the venome Dr Wood and Dr Nichols are of this opinion To kill a Tetter or Ring-worm TAke Fetherfew and stamp it and strain it with Vinegar and rub the Tetter therewith and this will kill it in short time For a Ring-worm TAke Juniper berries _____ ounces and stamp them and seeth them in a sufficient quantity of water until half be consumed then strain it and put to the said water swines grease clean tryed three ounces of Turpentine half an ounce seeth all these over the fire again a little time then take it off and when it is cold put the said water away and to the rest put of Brimstone finely powdered one ounce and so make an oyntment this is very good Medicines to take away Wens TAke Snails to the number of forty and seeth them in a pint of running water as you do Perywinckles and let them rest in the water until they be cold and then scum off the fat with wool or with a linnen cloth and lay it to the Wen and in short time it will be whole and gone Or take a stone or two of fine Jet and make the same in powder and put it in Ale or Pottage and give him to drink that hath a Wen and this will asswage it in short time For stinging of an Adder TAke Garlick pill it and fry it in oyl Olive or in May butter or in any other thing without salt but May butter is best and lay it unto the place that was stung and change it twice a day and this will kill the Venome and make the place whole For an Adder that is crept into a Mans Body TAke green Rue and temper it with mans urine be it man or beast that hath the worm crept into him and give it him to drink For him that hath Eaten or Drunken Poyson TAke the bark of a Walnut Tree and put away the innermost Rind and stamp it in a Morter as small as you can and lay it in Ale and in the morning strain it and give the Patient to drink thereof fasting and this will make him cast out all the Venome in short time To avoid poysoning with wicked meats and to keep thee from Drunkenness TAke the seed of Lettice and drink it fasting with clear runing water or take Betony and dry it and make Powder thereof and use this every morning fasting in a little stale Ale and this will keep thee from Drunkenness and save thee from poysoning For biting or stinging of any venemous Beast TAke one handful of Plantane and one handful of Rosemary and stamp them together then mingle it with a little sower Leaven and fry it with a little Butter sweet and when it is a little through warm then lay it plaister-wise unto the sore place but first you must bath the place well with warm Vineger Probatum For Man or Woman that is poysoned TAke Rue and Worm-wood and stamp it and drink the juyce thereof and eat Hasel-nuts for they be very good for the same Or take Goats-milk and mince and seeth them together with Treacle and drink it hot three dayes and be whole For the wind in the Stomack TAke Cummin-seed Fennel-seeds and Anniseeds and make them in Powder seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof first and last five dayes and you shall find great ease therein Medicines for the Plague or Pestilence Against the Plague TAke three ounces of the liquor of the inner rind of an Ash-tree and styll it with three ounces of white Wine and give the Patient to drink of it every three hours and within four and twenty hours he shall be whole by the Grace of God A Medicine that was sent by the Queens Majesty to my Lord Major of London for the Plague TAke a handful of Sage vertue a handful of Herb grace a handful of Elder-leaves and a handful of red Bramble-leaves and stamp them together and strain them in a cloth with a quart of white Wine and a quantity of white Vinegar and take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them together and drink thereof evening and morning a spoonful nine dayes together after the first spoonful they shall be made safe for four and twenty dayes and after the ninth spoonful for a whole year by the grace of God And if it happen one to be sick of the Plague before he hath drunk of this Medicine Then take the water of Scabias a spoonful of Betony water a quantity of Treacle put it altogether and it will put out the venome And if it fortune the Botch to appear then take Bramble-leaves Elder-leaves and Mustard-seed and stamp them together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will draw out the venome and heal the Patient Another for the same AMong the excellent and approved Medicines for the Pestilence there is none more worthy or available When the sore appeareth then take a Cock-pullet and pluck oft the feathers of the tayle or hinder part till the rump be bare
in a Glass close stopped Hereof you may give to a man or woman ten grains and temper it well with conserve of Barberries or any other conserve and after it doth work let them drink still between times a good draaught of Posset-drink For the Tooth-ach TAke the green Bark of the Elder-tree after you have scraped off the upper gray Bark being gathered in the Spring let it be gently dryed in the shade so as it may be powdered whereof take a quarter of an ounce Bay-salt well dryed Pellitory of Spain and Euphorbium of each the weight of six-pence let all of them be beaten together into very fine Powder and thereof ty up so much in a little thin Lawn Tiffine or Sarcenet as will make the quantity of an ordinary Button which you must let the Party hold between his teeth laying it on the pained Tooth and so hanging down the head let the Rhume run out of the mouth till the pain cease With this onely Medicine M. Clark in Sheer-lane got forty pound in a year having many coming to him in the mornings and paying ten groats each of them and so departing holpen Or take the Powder of Spanish-flies and lay them on a piece of sower Leven well moystened with sharp Vinegar and press them well into the Leven being the bigness of a Shilling and so lay them under each ear and when they are fast bound let them lie still the space of six or eight hours in which time it must raise a Blister which when you take it off you must dip and let it run as long as you can laying on it a Colewort-leaf until it be whole and this will also help For the Mother TAke Sneesing-powder the weight of six-pence Castorium the weight of two-pence mingle them together then moysten the Powder well with oyl of Amber and taking a little on the end of ones little finger stroak it into the nose when the Party hath her Fit and it will cause her sneese and cease the Fit Also for the preventing the Fit THe Party should use twice in a week at her going to bed to take two good Pills of Assa-fetida Or else Take of the Briony root dry the weight of six-pence and boyl it in a pinte of white Wine and then strain it and put some sugar to it and make three draughts of it taking it three times in a week each other morning and you shall find it a singular Remedy For the Spleen LEt the Party purge twice in a week with a Dram or the weight of six-pence of Pulvis Sanct … and the next week let them cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Hemeroid-veins in the fundament and afterward use this drink following for the space of seven or eight dayes Take the Inner Bark of the Ash-tree two ounces the Polipody-root or Fearn-root that groweth on the sides of watery ditches one ounce Tamerickt wo good handfuls Liqueorish half an ounce Anniseeed one ounce Let these be boyled in three quarts of small Beer till it come to a pottle whereof let then Party drink morning and at night going to bed a quarter of a pinte very warm And for Diet let them generally forbear Fish Baked-meats Smoak-dryed-meats and new Beer use to eat good store of Capers and Broom-buds for Sallets And after this course you should cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Veins in the Fundament called the Hemeroid veins For a Tertian Fever TAke young Plantane with the root young Vervane with the root Cinkefoyl with the root of each of them three roots with the herb of red Fennel red Sage Rosemary of each three slips Let these be boyled in a pinte and a half of Posset-ale or whey till that come to a pint and in the latter end of the boyling put into that a dram of the salte of wormewod and then let that be strained Whereof the patient must make three good drafts three howers before the fit be exspected each hower a draft as hot as he can drink it and at the second day of taking that the cure is done This cureth the fever that cometh every other day To dry up milk in the brests USe nothing but the plaister of Diachilon spread upon thin leather and let it ly on three or four days and it faileth not For sore Nipples TAke of the rosin of the Firre tree and when that is finely powdered strew that upon the sore nipples and then cover them with little cups fitted hollow for to cover the nipples like a thimble with a little brim unto it and it will skin it This powder also being finely beaten and with a quill blowen into the eye will take away the pin and web or any excrescens on the surface of the eye For one that is Costive in Childbed THere is nothing safer nor better then to give the party two ounces of the oyle of sweet almondes Or if the party cannot take that you may give her a suppositer of Cassel sope which is alway to be had for the manner of the cutting the sope you may do that by the holding a Cytern wyer fast at both ends and then sawing it through it without breaking out of the sides as it will do if you cut with a knife For to Clense and stay the whites TAke of the purest rosin or gum of Lignum vitae otherwise called the gum of Guaicum rub it gently in a Morter so as it may be in a fine powder and thereof mingle as much as the weight of six pence in a draught of milk and sugar taking that cold and so use that twice in a week for two weekes together and that will give two or three stooles clense and knit the weakness of the back perfectly For a Whitelow on the finger TAke a snaile out of his shell and chop it very small and bind that to it and dress it twice in a day and that will quickly help it For a cut hand or finger TAke some green hysop and stamp that well in a morter with some sugar and so binde that to the wound To stay the bleeding of the nose TAke nettles stamp them and juice them which you may take cold a good spooneful or two holding that in your mouth as long as you can and then take some more fresh and also stamp them and lay them al over your forehead being a little moistned or sprinkled with vineger Also thus YOu should in the moneth of March take two or three cloths as big as handkerchiefs and wet them very well in the spawn of froggs and hang them up to dry in a stove and then dip them very well again and dry them and do so three or four times and when at last they be wel dryed reserve them And when you have occasion to use them you may tear off a peece and spriknle it with a little vineger and lay it on cold upon the forehaed and if that do not stay it the party must presently be let blood before he grow too weak For a Cough TAke Turnips and put them into an Earthen glased pot and cover it with a cover of the same or a peuter dish and paste that close together then set them into the bakers oven with the houshold bread and then they wil be wel stewed And then press out the juyce and make it into a syrup with sugar and take of it often in a day a spoonful at once letting it melt down your throat by degrees and that wil recover you from your cough For the wormes in Children TAke gum Dragaint a dram put to it a quarter of a pint of Rosewater let it stand twenty four howers stirring of it often and with this muscilage moisten some fine powdered sugar working them together into a paste of which paste take the quantity of twenty grains and mix with it nine or ten graines of the powder of Mercurius dulcis and make that into a little cake and let it dry in a Stove and give it to children of five six or seven and to elder you may give twelve graines The Composition of the Emplastrum Diachilon to dry up milke in the brests TAke Linseed oyl two pintes and a half Litharge of Lead in fine powder two pound mix the oyl and the Litarge together and let them boyl til they be knit and com to a reasonable stifnes then put in twelve ounces of the muscilage made with Marshmallow roots Fennigreek seed and Linseed then boyle it til al the muscilages moisture be boyled away then put in half a pound of wax rosin one pound melt them with the rest which being done put into the same in the cooling cerufe one pound stir them up together and then make them up into roules and reserve them When you put in your muscilage put it in a spoonful at once til you have put it al in lest it make the medicine run over For any red inflammation or that which is called saint Anthonies fire which usually doth come in the Legs and somtime in other Places TAke one ounce of the Lapis Medicamentosus and boyle it in a quart of fair water til half a pint be wasted and then let it stand together all night next morning you should dip a linnen cloth in it warm and lay it on the place til it be dry and then lay on another and you shall keep wet clothes to it til it be wel which usualy is two or three dayes For a Tetter or Ringworm TAke ordinary white copperas four ounces powder it fine and put to it a pinte of the sharpest wine vineger and shake them wel together til the copperas be dissolved and so wetting linnen cloths in it apply it to the place FINIS
a like quantity bray them well together and the first day lay them in white Wine the second day lay them in the Urine of a man-child the third day lay them in the Milk of a woman that feedeth a man-child the fourth day in clean Hony and then distill them with a clean fire softly and keep that water well for it is excellent For a hurt in a mans Eye that cometh with a stroke TAke Betany two handfulls and beat it small in a mortar and put thereto the white of an Egge and break it with the other in a mortar and take of the same liquor and put it into thine Eye and lay some upon the Eye and bind it fast and do so nine dayes and be whole Another for the same TAke Egremony and bray it and temper it with white Wine and an Egge and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the outside of thine Eye and if were almost out it would heal it without doubt For the Eyes that run full of water and be bleared TAke of the juice of Rue foure spoonfulls and two of Honey and mingle them together and when you go to bed put thereof into your Eyes and keep it in together and use this and it will help thee Or take two or three roots of red Fennell and the leaves also and a branch of Salendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten flat and if one be not great enough take two races put all these into half a pint of running water and cover it and use to put of this water into your Eyes when you go to bed and an houre before you rise in the morning when you take thereof strain it To save a mans sight a long time good TAke a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a fig or two three dayes in a week and this will save thy sight To draw Rheume back that falleth into the Eye TAke an Egge and rost it hard and slit it into two parts and lay it hot to the nape of the neck and thou shalt find ease presently A medicine for sore Eyes and for the Megrim in the head TAke the white of a new laid Egge clean taken from the yolk and a spoonfull of white Ginger and a spoonfull of strong white Vineger made of Malmsey or white Wine and a spoonfull of clean Rose water but first the white of the Egge must be well beaten and then to the oyl of the Egge put your other things above written and beat them all together then take Flax as much as will make two plaisters for either Temple one with a cloth and dip it into the medicâ—ne and bind upon every Temple one with a cloth and take heed the medicine do not touch your Eyes and do this three or four nights together and every morning the Eyes will cleave together with the Gumme but this medicine hath brought to sight them that were eight weeks stark blind For a Pearl and Wb in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger and grate it upon a whetstone and then beat fine a little white Coperas and put to it and when the Patient goeth to bed put some of it with a quill into his Eyes and when it hath been there a little while take ground Ivy beaten and strained with womans Milk and put three or foure drops into your Eyes evening and morning after the white Coperas hath been in your Eyes half an hour Probatum est A Medicine to clear the sight TAke clean Rose water a quantity in a sawcer and take clean Myrrhe as much as a nut and break it to powder small and bind it in a clean linnen cloth and let it lie in the Rosewater twelve hours and then the water will wax somewhat red of the Myrrhe then take of this water and put it into your Eye and this will clear the sight very well Probatum est To make a precious water for sore Eyes that be fair to look on and yet cannot see with them TAke Smallage and red Fennell Rue Betany Vervain Pimpernell Eyebright Sage and Salendine of every one of these a quartern and wash them clean and stamp them in a very fair vessell and take the powder of fifteen Pepper corns and a pint of good white Wine and three spoonfulls of good live Honey and fifteen spoonfulls of the water of a man child that is very young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little and then strain it through a clean cloth and keep it in a vessell or glasse well stopped and when you will occupie it put some of it into your Eyes with a feather and if it dry away in the glasse then put a little white Wine to it and this is good for all sore Eyes if thy Eyes be never so sore in fifteen dayes it will heal thee Probatum est For a Pearl and Web in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger beaten fine into powder searse it and seeth it a great while in good white Wine and put it into a faire vessell of Latten well stirred and let it stand in the vessell till it look green then put it into a glasse and when you have need of it use it with a little white Coperas at the dressing Or for the Web in the Eye take the gall of an Hare and clarified Honey by even portions and mingle them together and lay it on the Web and within three nights the Web shall break and save the sight Probatum est A Medicine for any that have the small Pox fallen into their Eyes TAke Pimpernell and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into your Eyes where the small Pox is with a feather morning and evening and this is a speciall good Medicine for a Pin a Web or a Pearle in the Eye For a Pin and a Web. TAke the Ivy leaves that grow upon an Ash tree wipe them clean with a cloth and stamp them and strain them with Womans milk if it be a man that hath a Pearl in the Eye strain it with the milk of a woman that nurseth a Girl if a woman have a Pearl then with the milk of a Boy and the sorer the Eye is the more of the juice you must take and lesse of the milk and drop this Medicine into thine Eye with a feather morning and Evening and twice in the afternoon This is proved For sore Eyes TAke the juice of Houseleek Womans milk Rose water or Woodbine water and the white of a new laid Egge well beaten the froth taken away and beat all these together and dip in Flax and lay it to your Eyes when you go to bed Probatum est For Eyes that are swoln TAke two spoonfulls of Womans milk one spoonfull of Rose water the pap of a rosted Apple and the yolk of a new laid Egge and boil all these together in a sawcer upon a chafing-dish of coals untill it
it will fall out A Water for the Teeth TAke and distill the Water of Mother wort and hold it in thy Mouth a good while and it will kill the Pain of the Teeth and the stinking thereof Also Water of Vervain or Hysope Water will do the like For the Tooth-ach TAke Henbane-seed and the Powder of Amber of each a like much and lay them on a glowing tile and make a Pipe that thy Breath may go through to the sore Tooth and this will kill the Worms and put away the Tooth-ach For a Canker and Tooth-ach TAke Smalladge and Sorrell Leaves Alum and Glasse and make thereof a Powder and lay it to the Sore wheresoever it be and for the Tooth that is hollow and aketh take the Flowers and Leavos of Pellitory and stamp it with Salt and fill the hollow Tooth therewith and be whole For the Tooth-ach Take Ivy Berries and seeth them well in Vineger and when they be well sodden sip some of the liquor as hot as you may suffer it and hold it in your Mouth till it be cold and then cast it out and take new and do so three or four times and it will ease you For the Tooth-ach TAke and rost an Egge hard and put therein a Spoonfull of Salt and two Spoonfulls of Vineger or good Aleger and temper them well together till they be a Pap then strain it and with a little fine Cloth put some thereof into your Mouth and when you have spit out the corruption refresh the same with more and it will take away the Pain shortly To make Childrens Teeth come TAke the Brains of a Hare and seeth them and anoint the Gummes therewith and take the Brains of a Hen likewise and rub the Gummes therewith and this shall make the Teeth grow without akng To fasten the Teeth TAke and seeth the Roots of Vervain in old Wine and wash thy Teeth therewith and this will make them fast For Worms in the Teeth TAke Henbane seed and lay it upon a flat Stone and set it upon a Chafingdish of Coals and let the smoke go into your Mouth and this will will kill the Worm shortly For the Tooth-ach TAke the inner Rine of an Eldar Tree and bruise it a little and put thereto a little Pepper and make it in Balls and lay it to your Teeth and be whole THe cause of these impediments may come either by an humor descending out of the Head to the Teeth or Gummes or by corâ—oding or eating of Worms or corruption of Blood lying and being upon and betwixt the Teeth or it may come by drinking of hot Wines eating of hot Spices or hot Apples Pears Cherries and such like and it may come of a hot Liver or Stomach and ever beware of pulling out of thy Teeth for pull out one and pull out more but if it be hollow pull it out for it will rot still more and more do what thou canst Medicines for the Gummes For the Gummes that be gnawn and fretted with Humors TAke Cloves and seeth them in Rose water then dry them and make Powder thereof with Rose water or Roses for that is best then dry it again in the Sun do this three or four times and then temper the Powder again with Rose water or with the Juice of Roses and anoint thy Gummes therewith A Water for a Canker in the Gumms TAke half a Pint of white Wine and a quarter of a Pint of Water and put thereto an Ounce of burnt Alum and take a quantity of five leaved Grasse otherwise called Cinque-Foyl and put all these into a clean earthen Pot and set it over the Fire and let it seeth to the half and scum it clean then strain the Liquor into some Vessell and keep it in a Glasse till thou have need to occupy it Another for the same TAke Herb Grasse and wash it clean and dry it with a Linnen Cloth and stamp it in a Morter and put thereto strong red Vineger then strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth three times folded of an Ell broad wet it in the same Medicine and lay it to the Sore within the Mouth and if it be a very great Canker take Alum and beat it very small in a Morter and put it to the said Medicine to the value of a handfull of Herb Grasse and this will heal thee To make a Gumme hard to hold the Teeth TAke clean Rose water and daily wash thy Gummes and Teeth therewith and it will fasten thy Gummes to thy Teeth For rotting of thy Gummes TAke the Water of great Sage and wash thy Mouth and Gummes therewith and it will help the rotting of thy Teeth and the shaking of them if thou use it often in a day and hold it in thy Mouth Medicines for the Face For a sawcy stain'd Face like a Leper YOU must give him a Purgation as is said in the pain of the Head coming of Choller then dip Cloths in Alum water which must be made as followeth take a pound of Alum Glasse the juice of Purslain of Plantine and Verjuice of Grapes or Crabs of each a Pint with the whites twenty one Egges well beaten together then mingle them altogether and distill it in a Stillitory this Water is for the Pimples Scurfes Chafings Wheals and Heats dip your Cloth therein often and lay to the rednesse THe cause of these Impediments doth come of a venemous matter ascending out of the Stomach meeting with Rheum that would descend from the Head and meeting both together do cause the Vapors to break out in the Face For a Copper Face TAke Litarge of Silver and Brimstone of each a like much and seeth them in Vineger and then wet a Linnen Cloth therein and lay it to the Sore putting a little Rose water to it A Diet for a Copper Face ABstain from all Salt things Spices Fried Meats and Rosted Meats from drinking of Wine for it is very ill also Onyons Mustard and Garlick be very bad instead of which you must take Purslain Sorrell Lettice and Hops Borage otherwise Succory or Endive in your pottage Also it is necessary to be laxative and sleeping to lay your head high For a red Face TAke Sowthistles Borage Purslain Sorrell Barley Parsly Roots and Licoras and boil all together in running Water and drink it first and last For Worms in the Face TAke of Rosine three parts and the fourth of unwrought VVax one spoonfull of Honey half a spoonfull of May Butter try them all together on the fire then strain it through a fair Cloth into a dish of fair Water and when it is so cold that you may stir it with your hand work it well against the Fire as you do an Electuary and in working thereof put in as much white Coperas as a Nut as you do occupy it made into Powder then strike it on a Cloth as you do other plaisters and lay it to the Face and within three dayes you shall know whether there be
spoonfull of Honey and then strain these through a Cloth and with Liquor scour the Canker with a fair Cloth on a sticks end and wet a cloth double and lay it plaisterwise to your Throat and be whole For Hoarsenesse in the Throat TAke Penyryall and seeth it in running water and then take of it at night a dish full somewhat hot with a little Sugar melted in it and within two or three times dressing you shall be clean again For Hoarsenesse of a long continuance TAke Raisins Figs Sugar Cinamon Cloves of every one a little and seeth them in good VVine of the which you shall give the Patient 〈…〉 Ounces at a time Morning and Evening except she have a Feaver or for a Child that hath the Cough Take Oyl of Roses and chafe well his Stomach when he goeth to bed and then lay a warm Cloth to his Stomach and he shall be whole To heal a Quinsie in the Throat TAke one pound of the Water of Scabias and one ounce of Aqua vitae and mingle them together and wet Cloths therein and so lay it it to the sore and this will kill it in three or four dayes For the dry Cough TAke half a pound of Licoras and scrape it clean and bruise it well and put it into an earrhen Pot and put thereto three quarts of fine Wort and one Ounce of Sugar of Ginger beaten two drams and a Pint of Clarified Honey and seeth all these hogether till half be wasted and then strain it through a Cloth into a clean Vessell and let the sick drink thereof first and last at Evening hot and Morning cold For stopping of the Pipes TAke two drams of Methridatum and a spoonfull of Claret Wine stirred together and so drink it fasting and by and by drink a Pint of Claret Wine after it and then fast two hours after without Meat or Drink and take this twice a week for two or three weeks together and use in all your Meats and Broths white Pepper grossely beaten For the Cough a good Medicine TAke a half penny worth of Licoras a spoonfull of Aniseed a sawcer full of the Juice of Fennell and one ounce of Sugar Candy seeth all these in white Wine or Sack from a quart to a pint then strain it and give the Patient thereof to drink For the Cough and Pursinesse TAke of the Powder of the Lungs of a Fox and Sugar Candy and temper it in Rose water and drink thereof Or take white Sugar Candy and Rose water and drink it for it is very good for the Cough if it come of the Inflammation of the Lungs For the Chyne Cough TAke the Root of Horse Hoof and the Root of Cumfrie of each a like much and wash them in fair Water then stamp them and seeth them in fair water till half be consumed then take two parts of that Liquor and a third part of Honey and boil them and scum them clean and when it is well sodden put it into some Boxes and let the sick use three spoonfulls at a time every day fasting and to bedward A very good Medicine for the Cough TAke a brown Loaf before you put it in the Oven and make a hole in the top of it and put therein a good handfull of Rosemary and cover it again with the same Paste and being baked take it out of the Oven and mingle it with half an Ounce of the Powder of Enula Campana Roots of Licoras three parts of Sugar Candy as much as of the Rosemary of round Pepper and long Pepper of each half on Ounce take of this Evening and Morning and in your Pottage and will help the Cough with great successe for it hath been well tried Medicines for the Breast For sore Breasts when they be broken TAke Wheat Flower and two Yolks of Egges and the Juice of Plantain and mingle them all together till they be thick like a sawce and if there be holes in the Breasts make Tents that will suffice the holes and dip them in the same and put them in the holes and lay a plaister thereupon For sore Breasts TAke a handfull of Figgs and stamp them untill the Kernells be broken then take a little fresh greace and temper it with the Figgs and make a plaister thereof and lay it as hot as the Patient can suffer it unto the Breast and it will take away the anguish and if it be apt to break then it will break or els not An healing Salve for sore Breasts that be broken TAake Sorrell the Boyes call it Wood sowre and lap it in Wort Leaves and rost them in the Embers half a quarter of an houre then stamp them and put thereto Honey and Vineger and put them in a Box but first lay to the sore Breasts a plaister of Garlick and Meal boiled together in Vineger two or three times and lay it thereto For swelling of Womens Breasts TAke Line-seed bruised and the white of an Egge or the Juice of Smallage and mingle them well together and lay them plaister-wise to the swelling of the Breast and if she lose her milk give her to drink the Juice of Vervain and she shall have Milk enough and this will also heal your Breast For abundance of Milk in a Womans Breasts TAke Popilion and Lineseed Oyl and seeth them together and dip cloaths therein and so lay them to the Breast taketh away the abundance of Milk and the hardnesse of the Breast presently also Chickweed sodden in Plantain Water and laid Plaisterwise to the Breast drieth up the Milk and taketh away the hardnesse thereof green Wheat being stamped and strained with Oyl bringeth to Women Milk abundantly without measure For all manner stopping of the Breasts TAke the Gum of a Cherrie tree and dissolve it with old VVine and let the sick sup thereof and it will void all hoarseness and straightnesse of the Breast and Lungs Also take Figgs and slit them on the outside and stop them full of Mustard and seeth them in white VVine and eat of the Figges for this is very good For all Diseases of the Breast and to clear the Voice TAke a good quantity of VVoodstonne and grind them not too small and then put them into an earthen Pot and put thereto new Ale as it is cleansed and mingle them so that the Ale be a good deal above the Slonne and bury it in the Earth and cover it well with the same earth and so let it stand nine daies then give to him that needeth a little cupfull hot at night and cold in the morning To clear the Breasts TAke Sentory Pilliall Rew Hysope and red Morrell in stale Ale and strain it then put into the clear liquor Cinamon and Cloves and seeth them well and drink thereof nine daies at evening hot and at morning cold and be whole Also take Angelica Water and drink it at evening and morning an ounce at a time and it will greatly help thee For sore Breasts TAke
feathers and all then take the ashes of her and give it the Patient to drink with Wine somwhat warm and this will ease the Collick For the Collick of the stomach TAke of Broom seeds a spoonfull and a half so many Barberries with the hulls off and half a spoonfull of Anniseeds and a quarter of a spoonfull of Licoras and as much white Sugar Candy of all these beaten together into powder take a quantity first in a morning and last in an evening Medicines for the Wormes TAke and eat Garlick and it will kill all Worms in mans Belly Or take of the juyce of Lavender-Cotton and put to it the powder of Wormseed and drink it three times every morning fasting but drink not in an houre or two after and this will destroy the Wormes For Worms in young children TAke Setwell you must buy it at the Apothecaries and make it into fine powder and give the child to drink as much as a small Walnut in a cup of Malmsey and it will destroy all Worms Or Take Garlick Wormwood Mints Fetherfew Tansey and stamp them all together with the gall of an Oxe then fry them together and put them in a linnen cloth and lay them to the Navell as hot as may be suffered or seeth them in Vineger and lay them to likewise Or take the gall of a Bull and dip some Wool therein and lay it upon the Navel of the child and it will make the worms come forth Or take Honey and spread it on a tost of bread and cast good Worm-seed thereon and give it the childe fasting Worms in the Belly TAke the pils of Oranges and dry them and make them in powder and drink it in Malmsey or stale Ale there is nothing better A Medicine for the Guts For the Guts that fret TAke twelve leaves of Rue nine Pepper corns and as much Dill-seed as thou may'st take up with thy two fingers stamp them and temper them together with fair water and it will help thee For wind in the Guts TAke Honey pitch and Butter and seeth them together and anoint thy belly therewith against the fire For pain of the Guts TAke Tansey Rue and Sothern-wood and eat it with salt fasting and be whole For the cough in the Guts TAke the water of Flower-de-luce and drink it luke-warm twice or thrice a day an ounce at a time Also water of Camomil doth the same drunk as aforesaid The water of Vine leaves is good against stitches and also against Impostumes in the Guts A Medicine for the Navel A plaister for swelling of the Navel TAke Cowes dung and dry it to powder Barly flower and Bean flower of each a portion the juyce of Knot-grass a good quantity and of Cummin a little make a Plaister of Ale and lay it to thy Navel and it will heal thee Or take Cowes dung and seeth it in the Milk of the same Cow and lay it on the grief this is also marvellous good for a suddain Ach and swelling in the Bagg For a Childs Navel sore with crying TAke a little Bean-flower and the ashes of fine linnen clouts burned and temper it with red Wine and Honey and so lay it to the sore Medicines for the Back For the weakness of the Back TAke flower of Barley and Beans and oyl of Roses the yolk of an Egg and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy back in the day time and it will do you much good Or take flower of fine Rice and Wheat flower and temper it with Claret wine and Sugar and put thereto a little of the powder of Clare and Nut-megs and make a Cake thereof and bake it well and eat thereof this is good For pain of the Back TAke fresh Cow dung and fry it in Vinegar and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to thy Back and within four or five times dressing thou shalt be whole For pain in the reins of the Back TAke and seeth the leaves of red Willow and as hot as the sick may suffer it lay it to the reins of thy Back and within four or five times dressing thou shalt be whole Medicines for the Flux of the Belly To restrain the Flux whatsoever the cause be TAke the pisle of an Hare and dry it and make powder thereof and drink it Also … e water of Oken-buds or the very Acorns dryed and made in Powder and drunk with red Wine is very good Also the maw of a young Leveret is very good drunk with the juyce of Plantane A good Medicine for the bloody Flux TAke a pennyworth of Honey and a penny-worth of Wheat flower and three spoonfuls of Chalk and the yorks of five Egs and half a pennyworth of Saffron and make a Cake thereof and eat thereof four dayes and be whole Or take the root of the red Nettle and stamp it and delay it with water or Ale then strain it and drink thereof and be whole for over For all manner of Fluxes that be curable TAke the seed of Plantane and the blossoms of red Roses in Powder of each alike much and give the sick half a spoonful at once with warm Whey first and last three days together and it will heal him Or take and drink the water that stone hath been scalded in first and last and be whole To stop a Lask in Children TAke the seeds of Plantane and make powder thereof and give it to the Child to drink in red Wine or in Ale and it will stop the Flux Proved true Or take Almonds and blaunch them and fry them in a Pan and eat them divers times in a day Also the dung of a stoned Horse that goeth to house fryed in Malmsey and laid to the Navel will stop a Lask To stop the bleeding of the Fundament TAke Aloes and Mirrhe of each a like much and make them into Powder and with a little Pile of Almonds anoint the sore and then cast the Powder thereon and put upon the Fundament with a hot Scarlet cloth and this will help thee To make a man have a Lask TAke Salt and Soap and lay it to thy belly plaister-wise and it will make the have a Lask straight Or take the gall of an Ox and anoint thy belly and stomack therewith and it will make thee Laxative To keep a man Laxative TAke Mallows and Mercury a good quantity and stamp them together and fry them with May butter or fresh butter and then strain it and keep it in a Box and anoint your belly therewith evening and morning and it will keep you soluble For the Bloody-flux TAke the jaw-bones of a Pike and make powder of them and eat of this powder dry or take it with red Wine first and last and it will stop the Flux for it hath holpen when nothing else could help Another for the same TAke red Beans and boyl them in red Wine till it wax thick but first dissolve a little Allom in the Wine then let the Patient eat
the other is not ready take a little of the Lard of a Barrow For one that is burned with a Match TAke the same Match and burn it to powder and strew the same powder upon the place and this will heal it in short space For burning with Gun-powder TAke Sheeps sewet and Sheeps dung and fry them both together and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith twice every day and do not wash the sore with any thing for the medicine vvil fall away of it self as it doth heale and do not change the medicine in any wise For burning with Wild-fire TAke the dregs of Wine and Vineger and an Egg both the white and yolk by even portions and mingle them well together and lay it to the sore untill it be whole To get out the fire of burning or scalding TAke the whites of new laid Eggs after the quantity of the sore and put them in a peuter dish and with a stone of Roch Allum labour it about till it come all to a froth then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter and lay it next the sore and then lay the froth upon the same a good thicknesse and so bind it with a cloth foure times dresse it evening and morning and the fire will be out Medicines to stop Bloud To stop Bloud in a Veine TAke a handfull of Leaves of the little Burrs that stick upon a mans Coat and are called Strachantes and bray these Leaves and lay them to the wound and it will stop the bloud To stop bloud in a wound suddainly TAke Paper Flax or Linnen cloth which is next thy hand and burn it and put it into the wound the ashes thereof hot and the bloud shall stop straight Or if you will stamp nettle roots and lay them to the wound it shall be no more To stop bloud if the Master-Veine be cut or the wound very large TAke red nettles or red Colwort Leafs stamp them with Hogs dung well tempered together and lay it on the wound and this will stench the bleeding quickly Or take dried Vervain made in Powder and put the Powder into the wound and it will help For a wound that is full of Bloud TAke red Nettles and stamp them with Vineger and lay them upon the wound and it will cleanse the wound and do away the bloud To stop bleeding at the Nose or in any other place upon the suddain IF it be a man that bleedeth take a Leather point and tye about his stones very hard and this wil stop the bleeding straight Or if his Arm or Leg be cut bind the other Arm or Leg very hard and the bloud will run to the other side that is most pained Medicines for the Morphew TAke Mustard made of white Vineger and let the Patient annoynt himself withall where the Morphew is nine nights and this will help him Or take and bray Sorrell and strain it clear then put to it as much sugar and honey as you do juice and boil them well together over the fire and then let them seeth till the sugar have the tast then put to it one ounce of Vineger and so dresse it and keep the medicine to eat Another for the same TAke an ounce of very good sope and a penyworth of Aqua vitae and put them both into a Morter and grind them well together then take a handfull of Eglantine and stamp it and strain it and put some of the juice to the sope and Aqua vitae and then take a course Canvas cloth and rub where the Morphew is and after annoynt the place with this medicine and be whole For the black Morphew THere be two kind of Morphews the white and the black the white is named Alborus and for remedy for the black Morphew take this rule that if the place be pricked and will not bleed then it is not cureable but if it will bleed take of Rapes and Rocket of each an ounce and an half and stamp it with Vineger and after that wash the place Or take of the earth of Africk and mix it with Vineger and wash the place oft therewith and it will heal thee A most excellent Water to comfort the Vitalls and preserve other parts of the body made by Doctor Stephens TAke a gallon of good Gascoygne Wine Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds Fennell seed a Dram Sage Mints red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary wild Time Camomile Lavender of each one handfull then bruise the spices and the herbs small and put all into the Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Lymbeck according to the art and the first water is of more strength then the second and both be the better by the standing in the Sun The vertues hereof Be to comfort the spirits vitall helps to the inward diseases of cold the Palsey the contraction of Sinews the conception of Women killeth the Worms within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropsie comforteth the Stomach helpeth the stone in the Bladder and in the reins of the Back slackneth a stinking breath Whosoever useth this water ever anon and not toe after it preserveth him in good likeing and maketh him seem young very long with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life untill such extreme Age that he could neither go nor ride and kept him five years when other Phisitians judged it impossible for him to live one year To make Cinamon Water TAke Rhenish Wine a quart and Spanish wine a pint Rosewater a pint and a half Cinamon bruised a pound and a half let these stand infused the space of four and twenty hours then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck of Glasse and receive the first Water by it self Also if ye be so disposed to make the same Water weaker take three pints of Rosewater and a pint and a half of Rhenish Wine and so distill the same and you shall have to the quality of the stuffe the quantity of the Water which is three pints but the first Water is the best and so reserve it to your use both morning and evening To make Cinamon Water another way TAke three quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and half a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receive to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the chiefest of all the other as is manifest by practise Medicines for the Palsie that take away the Speech TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves and if it be in winter take leaves and roots and all of each a like quantity beat them together and strain them with Ale and give it the sick to drink a spoonful or two at a time and it