dissolve the humour and digest it by the serosity of the blood Approved A Medicine to cure the Ague either in old or young TAke as much milk as will make you a quart of posset-ale and then take the young tops of Rosemary Marygolds Plantine and young Bay leaves of each two drams cut them small and boyl them in the posset-ale untill all the strength be out then drink a great draught thereof ever before the fit cometh and sweat upon it do this three times and it will cure Approved by many Another approved Medicine for an Ague and Feaver TAke of Dragon water and of aqua composita to the quantity of a quarter of a pint of each and put therein a pennyworth of London Treakle and half a quarter of an ounce of gross beaten Pepper warm all these together and continue stirring it with a knife and give it the Patient to drink as hot as he may suffer it a little before the fit cometh and let him lie down and sweat very well This hath cured many Another for the same TAke an Oxe-gall and as much aqua composita and put unto it a quarter of an ounce of pepper a little bruised and adde to it two pennyworth of Treakle and anoint the hands and wrists and stomack with the things aforesaid being all mingled together let this be done half an hour before the fit cometh and applied as hot as the Patient can suffer it and let him sweat well upon it and it will speedily cure him Prob. est An excellent Plaister for the same TAke red Rose water Venice Turpentine and Frankincense of each of them two pennyworth and mingle them well together then take a piece of white sheeps leather sit for both the wrists and strike the same upon them and apply them hot to both the wrists of the party grieved and let the same remain till it fall off of its own accord This hath cured those that have been troubled therewith two years who have taken the disease in forreign Countries For the tooth-Ach TAke a little cotton and dip it in the essence of Cloves which you may have at the Apothecaries and thrust it into the hollowness of the tooth and it will appease the pain presently and you will be well Prob. est To cause a good Appetite TAke Centory and boyl it in fair water and put into it one ounce of Sugar-candy Sugar and Anniseeds of each a like quantity boyl these well together and let the Patient drink thereof lukewarm every morning for six mornings together three spoonfuls at a time this will help although the party be never so farre spent A good Plaister to ease pain or a crick in the Back TAke white Archangell flowers and leaves a good quantity and of Comfry leaves and roots of Plantine one ounce bursa pastoris one ounce beat them altogether very well and put unto them a spoonfull of honey and fry them in a pan and divide it into four parts and make of every part a Plaister and lay it on the back of the Patient in four nights when he goeth to bed Prob. est A Remedy for one that is bound in his Belly TAke a good quantity of Hempseed and seeth it in fair running water and then strain it through a fair linnen cloth and let the Patient drink a good draught when he goeth to bed and it will make him laxitive Another for the same TAke a chicken and a pretty quantity of Cassula fustula and seeth them together in fair running water and let the Patient drink the broth and it will make him laxitive without pain A marvellous good Water to break the stone in the Bladder TAke two pints of the juice of Saxifrage the juice of Gromell and of the juice of Parsly each of them a pint and put thereto a quantity of eight or nine ounces of the best Vineger that is made of pleasant Wine and distill all these together and then put the distilled water into some glass or other vessel with a narrow mouth and let the Patient take one ounce at a time three times in a day morning noon and at night a little before he go to bed Prob. est Another drink to take after the stone is broken to avoid it in slivers TAke Rosemary and wilde thyme of each a handfull and seethe them in a quart of rain water untill the one half be consumed and then put in as much Sugar as will make it sweet and let the Patient drink often thereof every day untill he see his water being thick grow thin A good Medicine to staunch Bleeding at the Nose TAke a linnen cloth and wet it well in Vineger and wrap it about the members of him that bleedeth and his bleeding will soon cease Another for the same TAke Centory green Rue and red Fennel of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and strain them into ale and let the Patient drink thereof lukewarm and this will stop the bleeding of any wound cut or bruise A good Medicine against spitting of Blood TAke the juice of Betony and temper it well with Goats milk and give it the Patient to drink three daies together Prob. est Another for the same TAke Betony Mints Smallidge and Rue of each a like quantity and seeth them all together in new milk and let the Patient drink it as hot as he can suffer it Prob. est A singular good Oyl for all manner of Bruises Spleens Swellings in the legs or arms TAke a pint or somewhat more of pure Sallet Oyl and bruise a good quantity of Cammomill and put therein and put it into a glass and set it into some place where the Sun cometh that it may stand safe for ten or twelve daies but when it hath stood five daies then take it and strain it through a fine linnen cloth and set it again into his place aforesaid the remainder of the time aforesaid and then strain it again and set it the third time and let it stand till it be clean purified from any drugs and then put it into a clean glass and stop it close untill you have use for it and then anoint the place grieved two or three times a day chafing it before the fire and it will help you This Oyl stopped close will continue good twelve years A good Medicine for a Bruise or Cut. TAke roots of Loveage Alchoof Parsly and Anniseeds and beat them very fine in a mortar then take Barrows grease and boyl them together and then strain them and put to them as much unwrought wax as contains a Walnut and half as much rosin and then boyl them all together again and having so done strain it through a fine linnen cloth into a pan of water and let it stand till it be almost cold then take it and work it well in your hands till it be something short then put it into a piece of leather and keep it for your use A Drink to heal all manner
see arise and when it is half cold strain it through a fine linnen cloth and put it into a Viall glass and stop it close and anoint the eyes with this when occasion serves and it will cure Prob. est A rare secret for a pearl or web in the Eye TAke nine worms which you shall finde in an old hollow tree or timber with many legs called Hogs-lice stamp them with the juice of Solendine or Bettony then strain it and drink it warm fasting eat not in two hours after it use this three mornings together Prob. est For sore Eyes TAke Wood bettony and beat it to powder and take as much as will lie on a six pence each morning till they be well An admirable and perfect cure for the Falling Sickness which I have proved often with good success TAke the dung of a Peacock and dry it in an oven and make it into fine powder and into one ounce and a half of it adde half a quarter of an ounce of Amber peretah known by the name of Scuchenelle at the Apothecaries and adde also three leaves of pure gold of leaf-gold your Amber peretah will easily dissolve and your way to dissolve the gold is thus Do not touch it with your hand but lay your powder aforesaid upon the gold and still with your fore-finger and your thumb be stirring it about till your gold doth dissolve under the powder mix about half a spoonfull of this powder with a little black-berry water when the fit is coming and it will cure the force thereof give it the Patient for a time first and last and it will for ever cure it although it have reigned twenty years provided first you administer this drink following Take a good handfull of Camamill another of Wood-bettony half a handfull of Yarrow a few Marrygold flowers half a handfull of red Sage leaves green Elder leaves half a handfull of Licorish one ounce of Anniseeds one ounce Figges half a pound Raisins stoned half a pound boyl all these together in a pottle of fair running water to a pint and then put in two ounces of Sugar candy of the best after it is boyled and let it stand unstrained twelve hours then strain it and let the Patient drink thereof first and last a quarter of a pint at a time about one moneth and at times some of the former powder and with Gods blessing it will cure Prob. est This I have kept as a secret Another for the same TAke the brains of a Weezel and dry it to powder put it into some pure white-wine Vinegar and temper them well together with a knife and give it the Patient to drink first and last and it will help him Prob. est Also Galen saith that he knew many men in his time cured by drinking the powder of dead mens bones and in another place he saith that the skull of a dead man taken from the earth and washed very clean and dried in an oven and beaten to powder will also taken in their drink cure them although it have reigned many years but he saith it must be the skull of one that hath been slain or hanged and not of one that died by any sickness because maladies in the head in time of sickness will take away the vertue thereof Another for the same TAke Germander in May when it is blossom'd dry it in the shadow and make it into powder and when you will use it take the yeolk of an egge or two and stirre and break it with a spoonfull of the said powder then seeth it and give it the Patient to eat morning and evening eight daies let the Patient abstain from wine and carnall company of women and from all pulce beans or pease or any tares and from sallets and salt fish and from all other things that be hard of concoction and digestion This is a very pretious Receipt Another for the same TAke the blood liver and heart of a Mole and dry them to powder and let the Patient take one dram in a little pine water fasting and fast two hours after it use it six mornings together and it will cure For a woman that hath too much of her Flowers TAke the foot of a Hare burn it to powder and drink of it in red wine and Cinamon first and last nine daies and it will cure her A good drink to cause Fleam to be avoided TAke a good quantity of Hysope water a quart of good Muskedine three or four rases of good case Ginger pared clean and cut in small slices and twice as much Licorish scraped also then put thereto a good handfull of fine Sugar-candy bruised put them altogether in a big glass to stand and soak well and so let it stand for the space of twenty four hours together but shake it often in that time let the glass be well stopped and let the Patient drink this at his pleasure this hath cured such as could hardly speak for Fleam Pils good to stop the bloody Flux TAke Marmalet of Quinces two ounces and of Corall Cinamon Amber Shepherds purse Alchemet Acatia of each two drams powder them and searce them and mix them together into a mase for Pils take four of these Pils morning and evening Prob. est Another for the same TAke a quart of milk and set it on the fire and when it seethes put in a piece of Roch-allum then will arise a curd which when you have taken off drink the whey as hot as you can and if your stomack will bear it eat the curd also A pretious Medicine to cleanse the breast of Fleam TAke of white-wine and water of each one pint wine Vinegar ten spoonfuls English honey clarified with whites of egges six ounces Fennell Parsly roots and Licorish all mundified and then sliced of each one ounce Elâ—â— Campana powdred two drams Egrimony one ounce and a half and twelve figs cut in pieces Annise and Commine seed Hysope Thyme and Peniroyall of each one ounce and a half boyl all these together close covered till the one half be wasted or a third part and then strain it and drink thereof morning and evening till you be well For a Fistula the whole cure FIrst purge the humour offending then take the soles of old shoes dried burnt in a clean harth with oaken wood to a bright coal then lay it where it may consume to ashes alone then adde to the weight of the ashes of the sole and half so much weight of the powder of burnt Allum then grinde all these together on a Painters stone or in a mortar to fine subtill powder so put it close up for your use To tent the Fistula TAke of the Cream of morning milk of one Cow and set it by it self all night the next day cast away the greenish water from the bottom of that Cream then lay a spoonfull of the Cream on a trencher then mix so much of the powders therewith as will make the Cream
Sugarcandy and take it fasting till you be well A plaister for the distemper of the Liver TAke Oyl of Roses two ounces Wax three ounces Vnguentum Populion half an ounce melt them together on the fire well mixed then take it from the fire and put it in a mortar and adde thereto red Sanders steeped in rose-Rose-water one spoonfull and Camphire prepared one dram work all these together with pestel till they be wrought together when it is cold make a plaister thereof and lay it on the right side against the Liver Prob. est A Leglifium for a Gunshot BOyl up with St Johns wort Centory Bayes Wormwood and Rosemary of each one handfull and to a gallon of water adde a quart of Aqua vitae and use it in this manner As for a Fomentation heat it hot and dip red clothes of cotton into it and lay upon the wound as big as will lie on the wound or member as hot as the Patient can endure it and that will bring out and evacuate all that intused blood that is in the wound For the Cough of the Lungs or Tisick Proved TAke four ounces of double refined Sugar and two ounces of the flower of Brimstone half an ounce of Gum-dragon steep the Gum in Rose-water all night the next morning beat the Sugar very small and put the Sugar and flower of Brimstone into the Gum-dragon and Rosewater and work them well together till they come to a paste then make it into little cakes as big as a six pence then put them into a pewter dish and dry them in a window by the Sun or by the shelving of the fire and when they are so dry put them in Papers and lay them where they may have the ayr of the fire eat this at your pleasure An approved Medicine for one that is molten within by travel or any other labour TAke a quart of good Claret wine and seeth therein a good quantity of avence and make a posset with the same Wine and let the Patient drink three or four times thereof warm when he goeth to bed and it will cure him Prob. est For the Morphew TAke Mustard-seed and Salt and stamp them together with Vinegar and let the Patient anoint the place where the grief is and it will cure in a short space For the same TAke green Copras and put it to steep in fair running water and let it remain a day and a night and then strain it through a fine cloth and when occasion serveth anoint the place often where the Morphew is and it will cure Prob. est An excellent Medicine for a woman troubled with the Mother TAke Lovage and Elisanders of them an ounce roots and leaves of Smallidge one ounce and of the roots of Buglass Burâ—â—ge and Parsley Fennell and Succory of each of them one ounce of Maidenhair Harts-tongue wilde thyme and wilde marjerum of each of them 2 ounces of Cummin seed Coriander seed Carroway seed Smallidge seed and Dill seed of them 3 spoonfuls and a good quantity of Raisins of the Sun and bray them altogether and steep them in white-wine or ale for the space of twenty four hours together and then strain them and let the Patient drink this first and last for a certain space this will cure Prob. est For a sharp humour in the Matrix after a miscarriage TAke a quart of posset-ale boyl therein Motherwort Mugwort Mother of thyme Camomill of each one handfull mader-root one ounce boyl these together till half be wasted and close covered be sure when it is boyled put in a pint of white-wine and drink a porringer full night and morning so soon as the Patient hath miscarried and this will cure Prob. est An excellent remedy for a Canker in the Mouth TAke a good quantity of red Sage and twelve crops of Rosemary and a like quantity of Honey-suckles white Dasies and Sinkfoyl and boyl them altogether in a pint of fair water untill it be half consumed then take a little Roch-allum and burn it to powder put half a spoonfull of Honey therein and then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and when it is cold put it into some glass or earthen thing that it may be stopped close and let the Patient wash his mouth therewith and it will cure To increase Milk in a womans breast TAke Crystall and beat it fine into powder mingle it with as much Fennell seed likewise beaten into fine powder and a little fine Sugar and let the woman drink thereof often warm with a little white-wine and this will restore her milk again although it be clean gone from her Prob. est An excellent good water to kill the canker and scurf in the Mouth TAke a good quantity of white-wine and Solendine red Sage Rosemary stripped and Hysope and Woodbine leaves of each of them one handfull and boyl them in white-wine untill one half be consumed then strain it and wring forth the juice clean and then take half an ounce of Allum a quarter of an ounce of white Copras and two or three spoonfuls of Honey and mingle it with the juice aforesaid and set it one the fire again and let it seeth a little while and take it off and strain it again and then put it into a Viall and when you will use it wash the grief two or three times a day either with a fine cloth upon the end of your finger or else upon a sticks end if the place cannot be come at other waies This hath holpen many Another for the same Approved TAke a quantity of running water and a handfull of Woodbine leaves Bramble leaves and Colibine leaves as many and a little Rosemary and boyl them together till the water be half consumed then put in two or three spoonfuls of Honey a piece of Roch allum three or four spoonfuls of Wine Vinegar and wash your mouth with the sodden hearbs three or four times a day this will cure Prob. est For Numness in the Joints LEt the Patient drink every morning fasting one ounce of Camphire in a draught of Bettony water wherein infuse a little Stechadoes this will cure in a moneths time To provoke womens Menstrues TAke so much of the powder of Aristolochy rotunda Myrrh and â—avine mixed as will he on a shilling in warm wâ—iâ—e-wine adde thereto one race of Ginger grated To stop their much flowing TAke the shels of new laid egges and pill off the inner filme boyl it one hour in water and drink that powder at twice in red wine when it is dried and beaten to powder and at every time of drinking let her go to the newest mole-hill and put away the earth with her foot and sit down on the place and make water in the hole so made and during the cure let her eat Ising-glass let her use this till she be well A singular good Oyl for all manner of bruises spleens and swellings in the legs or arms TAke a pint of pure Sallet-oyl
Germander and Neep of each a good quantity and boyl them in a pottle of fair running water and let it boyl till half be consumed and then strain it and adde two spoonfuls of good wine Vinegar and three or four ounces of fine white Sugar to sweeten it and let the Patient drink every morning and evening three daies together a good draught Prob. est For the Palsie TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves of each of them a like quantity if it be in winter Primrose roots beat them both together and strain them with Ale and give it to the Patient to drink a good quantity at a time and this will cure Prob. est For lameness in the side coming by the Palsie TAke Sage and Hysope and boyl a good quantity together in fair running water and bathe the side that is grieved well therewith then take the hearbs and binde them as hot as may be suffered to the place grieved and this will help Prob. est A soveraign drink if it be taken in time to preserve against the Plague TAke a dram and half of the powder called Imperial one dram of Treakle and Dragon water and Sorrell water of each a dram drink it with Ale in the morning fasting although the party have been infected with the plague twenty four hours before yet by Gods grace he shall escape This hath been truly proved Another for the same TAke a good handfull of winter Savory and boyl it in a quart of good wine Vinegar with a spoonfull of grains being beaten and put to it and adde also a good quantity of fine Sugar and take a good draught thereof morning and evening and if you must of necessity come into the place where any infectious persons are it is good to smell to the roots of Angellica Gentian or Valerian and likewise a piece of Arras root kept in your mouth as you walk any of these are very good and cordial Prob. est Another for the same TAke an Onion and make a hole in it and take out the inner core then take Dragon-water Treakle and Pepper bruised and put them altogether into the Onion and rost it in the embers and then bruise it and strain it into pure Malmsie and give it to the Patient to drink this is a present remedy if it be given before the heart be infected Prob. est A good plaister to draw the Plague-sore to a head and to break it TAke a good handfull or two of Mallows one handfull of Linseed one handfull of sower dow and two or three Lilly roots and stamp all these together very smal and boyl them in a quart of white-wine lees untill it be thick then lay it one inch thick or more upon a piece of leather that is somewhat broader then the sore and let the borders of the leather be plaistered with Shoemakers wax and that will cause it to cleave fast this will break it in a short space Prob. est A soveraign Medicine to cure the Plurisie TAke Brooklime Sheeps suet and a little fair water and fry them together in a frying pan and make a plaister thereof and lay to the side of the Patient and this will draw forth all the corruption Prob. est Another for the same TAke Aqua vitae and Capons grease of each a pritty quantity and boyl them together then take a little black wool and dip it therein and lay it as hot as may be suffered to the grief and this will give ease speedily Prob. est For the French Pox an Oyntment good TAke Allum Verdigrease English Honey that is good and wine Vinegar that is both strong and sharp of each a like quantity mix them well together to an Oyntment anoint the grief therewith often and it will both dry and heal Prob. est An excellent Receipt called Moses water very good for the French Pox or any other disease growing out in sores or scurfs TAke six gallons or more of the purest white-wine that may be gotten and as much stale Ale and a pound and half of Sarsaprila of Licorish and Scena of each of them two pound and two pound of the bark of Guyacum Coloquintida four ounces let all these be boyled together for the space of twenty four hours over a soft fire and put therein with the rest a little Backma maria and when it is well boyled put therein one ounce of Methridatum then take it off and put it into some earthen pot and stop it up close and when you will use it take a good quantity thereof at a time three times a day fasting at three a clock and going to bed and this will cleanse both inward and outward parts of the body and cause the body to be sound after it when that is done make more and use it often Prob. est For the small Pox. TAke Milk Saffron and English honey and seeth them together and give it to the Patient and let him be kept warm and this will bring out the disease Prob. est An excellent good Purge for any manner of disease TAke half an ounce of Senna one spoonfull of Anniseeds half a dram of Licorish one spoonfull of Fennell seeds a few Raisins of the Sun the stones picked out boyl them together in a quart of fair running water and let it boyl till the one half be consumed then strain it and adde thereto one dram and half of Diaphenicon and shake the same well together and let the party which desireth to purge drink a pritty quantity thereof every morning fasting blood-warm and it will purge him well without causing any sickness Prob. est Another Purge for the stomack TAke young Mallows and Mercury of each of them a good handfull or somewhat more Senna one dram and three spoonfuls of Anni-seeds and put them into one pint of white-wine and as much strong Ale and let them stand one night the next day seeth them together again untill the one half be consumed then strain it and give the Patient a good draught thereof in the morning fasting and if he sleep a little after it it will be never the worse Another Purge for all parts of the body TAke two drams of pure Turpentine and wash it very well in Fennell water and bruise it and dissolve it in a mortar with a pestill and put thereto half the yeolk of a new laid egge and one dram of Smallidge water and beat them altogether till it be like Milk and let the Patient sip it off and this will work effectually in all parts of the body For the Pestilence TAke the water of Bettony and Pimpernell and Turmentill or Scabions mix it together and drink it nine daies fasting and fear no Pestilence Doctor â—urgess his Receipt against the Plague and for any symptome of it or the small Pox or Measels or for the beginning of the Ague or Feaver TAke three pints of Malmsie Sage and Herb-grace of each one handfull boyl them altogether till the third part be
one for the same TAke fine powder of Virga aurea and put one spoonfull of it into a new laid egge soft rosted and give it the Patient in a morning fasting and let him fast four hours after it and he will suddenly make water use this for ten or twelve daies and the Patient will void the Stone without any pain Prob. est To cure a Cough that comes by cold suddenly TAke aqua vitae and Sallet-oyl and loaf Sugar mingle them together when you go to bed take a quantity of it and in the morning when you arise also it will take away your cough and ease your lungs Proved To cure the Wind chollick TAke Sea-horse pisfle Harts horn and enula campana of each one dram finely powdered take as much of this in a morning fasting as will lie on a groat or somewhat more in a cup of Anniseed water Prob. est Consumption a noted Cure TAke a quarter of a pound of Jordan Almonds blanched and beat small adding thereto in the beating some Rosewater one or two spoonfuls then take the thigh of a rosted Capon flay off the skin beat it in a mortar alone then take fourteen Dates stoned skinned and picked and beat them alone then put them all in a pint of Rosewater with some Sugar and boyl them three walms then take Sinamon two drams Lignum and Aloes both powdered one dram put them in your Decoction and stirre them well together and put it up into some Viall and take the quantity of a Walnut at once in the morning fasting the first three mornings adde to it every time two grains of Bezor A Diet-drink for the same THe first week in May infuse in your usual drink Succory Devils bit Scabions water cresses Lungwort Polipodium Coltsfoot Pennyroyal Liverwort of each two handfuls bruised and put in a fine linnen cloth bag and so put it in your drink when it is new tunned to work therein and this you will finde very good drink no other drink for fourteen daies To make an Incision to take out a corrupt Coar TAke Rose alger and powder it fine and mix it with Hogs-grease and lay it on so broad as you will have the Coar come out A perfect cure for a Canker TAke a pint of white-wine Vinegar and take Strawbery leaves Colibine leaves red Sage leaves Woodbine Violet and red briar leaves of each a handfull and set your Vinegar upon a soft fire and put in your herbs and let them boyl till they be soft then strain your leaves hard out and keep it in a Viall for your use Another for the same TAke running water a pint Woodbine Bramble Colibine leaves of each a handfull and a little Rosemary boyl all these together till half the water be wasted then strain it and adde thereto two or three spoonfuls of Honey and a little of Roach-allum three or four spoonfuls of white-wine Vinegar and so wash the mouth with the herbs three or four times a day Chollick the cure TAke Gum hederue warm it that it may spread and spread it upon a piece of Scarlet as big as a shilling or broader and apply it to the navil Your best Gum is sweet clear and soft Prob. est For the Consumption Proved TAke Diascordium Flower of brimstone Conserve of red Roses and make this into little bals and lay one of them under your tongue when you go to bed and let it dissolve in your mouth also take Coltsfoot and white amber and Anniseeds altogether in a pipe mornings and evenings A good Remedy for the biting of a mad Dog TAke Nightshed Bettony and wilde Sage each of them a handfull and one pint of fair running water and stamp the herbs and strain them with the water and then put thereto a pennyworth of good Treakle and give it the Patient to drink three or four mornings together fasting and this will help him speedily Prob. est An excellent Diet-drink for any disease TAke a new earthen pot and fill it full of fair running water only wanting about a quart of being full and then adde thereto about a quart of white-wine and set the pot over a soft fire of coales and put into the pot a pound of good Licorish scraped clean and sliced and half a pound of Anniseeds bruised half a pound of Lignum vitae which you may have at the Turners and one ounce of the bark which is of the same tree which you may have at the Apothecaries adde thereto a small quantity of China and Saxifrage and a little Centory let all these boyl on the fire about two hours or untill you see a good part of the liquor consumed then strain it into another clean earthen vessell and stop it close and drink a good draught thereof morning and evening and at noon a while after dinner Prob. est A most excellent Wine made of Sage for to be drunk at all times if you wash your mouth therewith it will help the Tooth-ach and pains of the gums it is good for the Palsie and for the Cramp and for Lunatick persons it restoreth sinews shrunk it expelleth ill humors out of the body it is also good against the Plague and Pistilence TAke a good quantity of Sage both white and red and boyl it very well in Muskedine and then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and with a tunnell put it into a glass and stop it close and when the Patient will use it let him drink a good draught thereof morning and evening for a certain space and according to the grief wherewith he is troubled and this will perfectly heal all the diseases aforesaid Prob. est An excellent Medicine for the Dropsie TAke roots of kneeholm and Parsly roots and Fennell roots of each of them finely scraped and sliced a good handfull of Juniper Berries half a handfull and of Anniseed and Alexander seed each of them a spoonfull boyl all these together in three pints of clear posset-ale boyling to a quart then take a handfull of dead Bees and stamp them in a wooden dish and strain them into this posset-ale and so let the Patient drink every five hours a good draught thereof and this will help him in a short space A Medicine for a deaf and pained Ear. TAke earth-worms and fry them with Goose-grease and drop a little thereof warm into the ear grieved this used nine or ten times will cure Prob. est Another for the same and hath cured some which could not hear almost at all and were troubled therewith twenty years TAke a Hedgehog and flay him and rost him and let the Patient put some of the grease or fat that comes from him into his ear and he will recover his hearing in a short space Prob. est A comfortable powder to cause one to Digest his meat TAke Pellitory of Spain Centory Anniseeds Licorish grains of Paradise Ginger Cinomon of each of them a like quantity and beat them and searce them into fine powder and
strain it through a clean cloth and let the Patient drink thereof first and last for four or five daies together Prob. est For the Itch. TAke five or six spoonfuls of Barrows grease and a penny-weight of quicksilver and a handfull of bay Salt and six spoonfuls of fasting spittle and bray them altogether untill the quicksilver be consumed away let the Patient anoint himself therewith and it will destroy the Scabs Prob. est Another for the same TAke sweet butter unwrought wax Vinegar Brimstone a little Rose-water red Cloves whole boyl them together till they be like a Salve and anoint your body therewith three sundry nights and no more Yellow Jaundies a sure and quick cure TAke Plantine water one pint Ivory powdered two drams Saffron so much as will make it yellow boyl them all two or three walms then strain it and drink a good draught morning and evening A pretious Medicine to destroy an Imposthume in the body TAke Tanzy one handfull and wash it Maiden-hair flowers that grow in wheat one handfull bruise them alone take either of their juices one spoonfull mix them with three ounces of Camomill water distilled drink thereof warm very early a pritty draught this will purge the disease downward without pain take of the powder of Maidenhair in your ordinary broth three times a day also the roots of Scabions half a pound stamped and mix therewith some powder of Boral well together and drink thereof a draught in Camomill water three times a day and the Imposthume will break and spit forth Prob. est To ripen and maturate an Imposthume TAke the roots of Mallows and Lillies and boyl them in water till they be tender stamp them with fresh Hos-grease and meal and apply it hot To kill the Itch. MOrtifie Quicksilver with fasting spittle and mix it with as much Hogs-grease as will make it blackish anoint the palms of your hands and the soales of your feet when you go to bed and in the morning wash it with this water Take Indive water and Vinegar of each a like Roch-allum powder of Enula campana boyl them together and wash the grief therewith and this will cure and stop the fluxion of blood Jaundies Black and Yellow the cure TAke Earth-worms wash them in four or five waters very clean strip all the earth out with your finger and stamp them small put stale Ale unto them and stamp them hard out and drink it with Saffron it cureth at three times How to know the Kings-evil or a Disease so called and also the Cure TAke one ounce of pure yellow wax or somewhat more and one ounce of Turpentine and a good quantity of sheeps suet clarified and made pure boyl all these together very well and then put therein the quantity of two good handfuls of the finest and purest Barley-flower very clean without any pulce or seeds of any manner of weeds temper this flower and the other things together then put therein the quantity of three spoonfuls of the Urine of a male Childe being not above three years old then boyl it again with the residue of the things before mentioned then let it cool and put it into some Gallypot for your use and stop it close when you do use it take it and spread it upon a fine linnen cloth or a piece of leather and lay it to the grief and this will cure Prob. est You may know it certainly by this following rule TAke a ground-worm and lay it alive upon the place grieved then take a green Dock-leaf or two and lay them upon the worm and then binde the same about the neck of the Patient at night when he goes to bed and in the morning when he riseth take it off again and if it be the Kings-evil the worm will be turned into powder or dust or else he will be and remain dead in his own former form A soveraign Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs TAke a handfull of Raisins of the Sun and let them be clean washed and stoned and a pennyworth of Maidenhair and one spoonfull of Anniseeds bruised smal ten or twelve Figs and three quarters of a pound of Portugall Sugar and three pints of fair running water boyl all these together till half be consumed then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and every morning drink thereof two spoonfuls luke-warm Prob. est A good Medicine for a sore Leg that doth fester or rankle TAke Smallidge roots and Southernwood Houseleek and Violet-leaves and roots and Waybroad leaves of each a good quantity and a good quantity of Honey and temper it well wich the hearbs and strain them through a fine linnen cloth and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and renew it twice every day and alway before you lay on your plaister wash the sore well with white-wine or oyl of Roses and in time of your cure put alwaies into your drink daily two or three Sage leaves this hath cured many Prob. est Another for the same TAke two white Herrings out of the pickle and open them and lay the insides of them to the soles of your feet when you go to bed and renew them in the morning use this five or six times and it will cure Prob. est A very good drink made of whey which will cool the extream heat of the Liver and Stomack TAke Violet leaves Sinckfoil Succory Endive Scabions and Femitory leaves of each a good handfull and seeth them in a pottle of good whey which hath been boyled and let it continue till the third part be consumed then strain it through a fine cloth and let the Patient drink a good draught thereof morning and evening for a certain time and this will cure For any disease in the Liver TAke the Liver of a Hare well dried and beat into powder and drink it in Ale or Beer or Wine and this will do much good To preserve the Lungs TAke the Lungs of a Fox and dry it well and bâ—â—t it into powder and then put a quarter of a spoonful thereof into Almond milk or into Veal or Mutton broth and let the Patient eat it and this will mightily preserve the Lungs For the Cough of the Lungs TAke green Box and dry it and powder it and searce it take so much at once as will lie on a groat in a draught of warm white-wine morning and evening till you be well which will be as soon as you see your self avoid blood then leave taking your Medicine For heat in the Liver the cure TAke Liverwort Maidenhair and Harts-tongue and Scabions and Strawberry-leaves of each two handfuls Egrimony and Hop buds of each half a handfull boyl all these in a gallon of wort to the consumption of a quart then strain it and put it to the fire again with the white of an egge and one spoonfull of pure Honey let it boyl again then with a spoon scum off the white of the egge and put in some
consumed then strain it and put into it one pennyworth of long Pepper Ginger half an ounce a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs boyl them altogether a little while beat your Ginger and Nutmegs to fine powder adde thereto also two penny-worth of Treakle four pennyworth of Methridatum and a quarter of a pint of good Angellica water keep this secret as your life If the party be infected take two spoonfuls warm and let him sweat well upon it if not one spoonfull every day is sufficient half in the morning the other at night this never failed any that took it For the Plurisie TAke a fair Pippin cut off the top and take out the core and fill it half full of the powder of Olibanum and then lay on the top again and roast it leisurely upon the embers see it do not burn and when it is enough roasted cut it in four parts with the Olibanum in it and give it to the Patient to eat and it will suddenly cause the Imposthume to break and it will cleanse it To make Oyl of Puppy which is good for any strain or bruise TAke a fat Spannell puppy if you can get one but let it be what puppy it will it must be fat and dress him as you dress a pig then take half a dose of yeolks of egges and two handfuls of Roman nettles cut very small three ounces of Venice Turpentine and three penny-worth of Saffron and beat them altogether and put them into the belly of the Puppy and sow it up and roast it and what droppeth from it save and it will become perfect oyl for the former uses A Poultis that will break a sore in twenty four hours TAke black-berry leaves and Mustard seed and beat them together till it be a Poultis Prob. est A Preparative to take before a Purgation the night before it is taken the dose is one dram in Diaprunis or posset-ale TAke Senna Turbith Diagredii of each three drams Epithimum Galingal of each one dram Salt gem six grains all fine searced and mixed and taken as aforesaid A Purgation which purgeth all aqueous humours TAke Rewbard Turbith Hermodactils Diagredii Senna Agarick Mechoacan Sugar of each two drams Cloves Fennell Ginger Anniseed Mastick of each one dram Saffron and Cinamon of each two scruples searce all these the dose is one dram in Succory water or Posset-ale To make Pils that purge the four humours TAke Mirabolaus and Rewbard of each four drams the juice of Egrimony and Worm-wood of each two ounces Hermodactils Agrick Coloquintida Aloes of each six drams Mastick red Rose leaves Salt gem Epithimum Annis and Ginger of each one dram searce them and mix them and compound them in a mortar with syrup of Roses to a mase for Pils the dose is one dram in five Pils taken in the pap of a roasted apple Pils of excellent vertue to purge all Flegmatick Feavers or Agues TAke Agarick Aloes Acorus Turbith of each one dram Esula half a dram Coloquintida one grain Salt gem Mastick Ginger Wormwood Lettice Raisins mundified Bdellium of each three drams let syrup of Roses be made up with these Pils the dose is two drams more or less according to the strength of the Patient if you adde these following they are good in tertian Agues Rubard two drams Spicknard half a dram Diagredii Mastick of each one dram mix these with those aforesaid the dose is half a dram more or less according to the strength of the Patient and the vehemency of the Feaver A Purgation that cleanseth the head brain and all the body of Melancholly TAke Senna six drams Ginger one ounce Bugloss one dram flowers thereof two drams infuse all in a close stopped ale-bottle of stone with a pint of whey of Goats milk boyl them in Balnea one hour and let it cool when it is boyled warm it in the morning and give it the Patient and it preserveth against all passions of the brain it also helps hearing smelling and seeing and strengtheneth all the body and doth unburthen the body of all humours that abound as choller fleam and melancholly this was the practice of Mathiolus Riolanus and Achaius For the Palsie TAke Rosemary Sage Herbmandlin of each a handfull Camomil-flowers three handfuls and with Sallet-oyl make oyl thereof as you make oyl of Roses and anoint the grieved parts therewith Purgations with Senna TAke Senna in some quantity with some Ginger in your broath for the pain of the head four drams may be given to children and to women with childe An Vnguent for the Piles BOyl in fresh butter Pilewort and Elder leaves or buds till it be a Salve make it yellow with Saffron and use it An excellent healing and cooling Plaister TAke Wax and Deer suet of each four ounces Lapis Caluminaris two ounces May butter two ounces Camphire one dram Oyl of Roses eight ounces mix them and melt them together and make your liquid Plaister A Plaister of Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline all green which cureth green wounds and old ulcers TAke Linseed oyl one pint Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline both green in May and June of each three handfuls strip forth their stalks and bruise them then boyl them in the Oyl adde thereto white-wine let them all boyl till the herbs be very soft then strain them out and put the liquor to the fire again adde thereto Rosin and Wax bruised eight ounces boyl them till all be melted still stirring it then take it off presently mix therewith Venice Turpentine six ounces liquid Storax one ounce and so it is made A gentle Purge for Melancholly and to comfort the spirits TAke the juice of old Pippins and Burradge water of each as much as will make a draught heat it seething hot then infuse therein all night Senna four drams Manna and syrup of Roses of each one ounce Anniseed bruised four drams next morning strain it and drink it warm For the Rickets a disease common to Children TAke Egremony Scabions Coltsfoot Charnill Tamaris of each one handfull one pennyworth of Maidenhair a smal handfull of unset Hysop six tops of Spermint six leaves of Harts-tongue a little Liverwort and opening roots as Fennell Parsley Succory Spergrace scrape them clean and take the pith out of them sprinkle them with wine Vinegar when you have so done slice them and about half an hour after put them to the rest of the herbs and adde licorish half an ounce Anniseed a quarter of an ounce Raisins of the sun stoned and Currants and Figs of each two ounces boyl all these in a pottle of running water untill it come to a quart and let the childe drink thereof twice a day morning and evening constant and for a time at four a clock in the afternoon if the child be hot you may boyl in it two ounces of French barley A Beer for the same TAke Tamaris two handfuls Brooklime and Scurvy-grass and Watercresses of each four handfuls Egrimony Scabions Bettony of the
good to be taken inwardly upon the point of a knife for the Lungs TAke a quart of Ale and two pennyworth of fresh butter one pennyworth of good honey boyl all together till half be wasted keep it close covered while it is boyling Use this as a treasure Another plaister for a green Wound or for a Wound that is over-healed and sore underneath TAke a good quantity of Barly-meal and the white of an egge and honey and mingle them well together and lay it plaister-wise to the wound and it will cure immediatly For one that is brought low in sickness TAke Egrimony Bettony red Sage Fennell roots the inside Liverwort Indive and Succory of each of these one handfull boyl them in four pints of milk till half be consumed then strain it and let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint at a time morning and evening lukewarm For Weakness in the back TAke Clary Dates the pith of an Ox Cream and Egges and bread grated mingle them all together and fry them mix with them white Sanders strew Sugar upon them and give it to the Patient fasting in the morning A salve for a green Wound TAke a pound of Rosin half a pound of Wax four ounces of old Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease boyl them all together upon a soft fire and strain them for your use A good remedy for one that cannot make Water TAke three or four hive Bees kill them and dry them upon a hot slate then bruise them to fine powder then put the powder into a quart of Ale and give to the Patient a pritty quantity at a time Prob. est To heal Wounds and sores and also to draw TAke Rosin Frankincense of each four ounces white wax and Olibanum of each three ounces Harts-suet and Mastick of each one ounce Venice Turpentine half an ounce white-wine a pint melt the Rosin Frankincense and Suet together then strain it into a pan and adde to it then the white Wax the Olibanum and the Mastick powdered and the Wine then boyl all together till the Wine be consumed then take it from the fire and stirre it till it be almost cold then put in the Turpentine and make it up in a roul and keep it in parchment or leather A Water to heal all sores and ulcers TAke a pound of Roch-allum four ounces of green Copras beat them and set them on the fire untill they be melted then let them dry again then beat them into fine powder then set a pottle of spring-water over the fire till it boyleth fast then take it off and when it ceaseth boyling cast your powder abroad on the water so long as the water shall rise till it appear black in the bottom then it is perfect wherein dip a cloth and lay it double to the ulcer or wound first laying on the wound some of the powder and roul it up A Medicine to kill all manner of Worms in the body TAke Plantine leaves and roots and groundsel of each a like quantity stamp and strain it and give it the Patient to drink mixed with a pint of good Malmsie warm together give this to the Patient for the space of three or four daies together and this will kill worms in the maw or elsewhere Another for the same which will speedily kill the Worms TAke Aqua Composita that is made of herbs and wash the Patients breast therewith then take a little powder of myrrh and beat it very small and searce it fine and strew that also upon the breast after it hath been well washed and then lay on a warm cloth upon the breast and set it remain twenty four hours together This hath been proved For Winde and shooting in the head TAke Egrimony and Cinamon bray them and put them in Ale and lay it it to the temples of your head and as the pain removes so remove your medicine An unguent to heal a green Wound at the first dressing TAke Aloes siccatrine fine powdered and the powder of perrosin of each a like quantity mix them and grind them with the white of an egge and lay it on a pleget of lint and apply to the wound A plaister to cure and heal a Wound TAke Letherage of Gold one pound Oyl of Roses two pound white-wine Vinegar and old Urine of each half a pound let them boyl till the Vinegar and Urine be consumed adde to it in the boyling Wax two ounces Frankincense one ounce mix it well and apply it Prob. est For a Woman in Travell TAke a Date-stone and grate it into fine powder and give it the Patient with white-wine and God willing she shall be dclivered without danger Prob. est Thus have I discharged my Conscience to my Countrey not hiding any thing from them which hath been imparted unto me I have given you the generall Method of Physick and Chyrurgery with three hundred rare Receipts suitable for to cure any Disease incident to the body of man which secrets have most of them been kept from the sight of the world still to keep creatures in blindness and to advance their own interest which in this Treatise I have endeavoured to take off and that the poor may not perish for want of help by reason of their poverty here is a Garden to which they may go and cure any Disease curable with small cost FINIS Courteous Reader THese Books following are Printed and sold by Simon Miller at the Star in 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incision which is made according to the length of the Vein is very expedient when we intend to renew the blood-letting and that not only upon the same day but on the next day also because that when we bend the elbow both the labia or lips of the Vein do separate and divide themselves But in what form soever we make the incision yet notwithstanding the Vein must be pierced in the middle without wholly cutting asunder of the same because the lips of the Vein might chance to be inverted inwards and then the blood cannot result out of the apertion but run downwards along by the arm or both the ends of the Vein may be drawn inwards without deliverance of any blood from it or at least in the first very little This is not enough neither but we must well observe this method after the thrust and apertion is made in the Vein and when the blood issueth thereout We shall know when the Vein most commonly is well opened when as in the first the blood rusheth and as it were leapeth out in great haste but many times through the affrighting of the Patient it immediatly altereth unto droping the reason is because then the blood is drawn inwards When this chanceth at any time unto us we must with patience abide and somewhat unbinde it and encourage the Patient causing him to move his fingers and to turn and crush the staff in his hand Sometimes the apertion in the Vein is ample enough but because the blood is gross it cannot issue thereout and for that purpose it is good to put in a little oyl into the apertion to make the blood issue forth And if the Patient be weak and feeble it is not good to draw too much blood at once but rather to renew the Phlebotomy the second time certain hours after nay if need require the third time rather then to over-charge the Patient with too great a Phlebotomy at one time The Chyrurgion must not in such a case alway follow the advice of the Physician For it might chance that before we could detract such a quantity of blood as the Physician did ordain the Patient might chance to be debilitated and in danger to fall into great faintness and swouning whereon the Chyrurgion must well consider This you may easily perceive when the Patient waxeth pale and oppressed at his heart his pulse diminishing and when the blood runneth down by his arm When at any time this chanceth the Chyrurgion must then immediatly cease bleeding laying his thumb upon the apertion of the Vein and lay the Patient upon his back with his head on a cushion sprinkling cold water on his face and give him a little wine in his mouth and cause him to smell to some Vineger and have a little patience till he reviveth and come to himself for as soon as he shall come to his former strength we may then finish the Phlebotomy Some there are which in any sort cannot endure Phlebotomy how low soever they sit although it be on a bed or although you do continually hold Vineger before their nose or give them wine to drink yet notwithstanding let them lie prostrate on the bed with their head reasonable high they can then very well endure and abide the aforesaid Phlebotomy although we draw a great quantity of blood from them After that we have detracted a reasonable quantity of blood out we must then dissolve and make loose the ligature and crush out the blood of the Vein lest that the blood congeal therein and coagulate and so exulcerate If there appeareth any little parcel of pinguedity or fat we must then gently thrust it in again with the head of a pin and not cut it off and then wipe away the blood that cleaveth and is dried or exciccated to the arm Then lay a little comprese on the apertion which is madefied in cold water and winde the ligâ—â—â—re twice or thrice about the elbow like a burgundian cross without tying both the ends fast before you have caused the Patient to bend his arm to lay the ligature thereafter This ligature must not be too stiff bound because the cicatrice by that means may quickly be situated on the apertion of the Vein The arm being thus bound if the Patient be able to walk he must wear his arm before on his breast in a scarf and if he lieth on a bed he must gently lay the same beside him without much moving of the aforesaid arm neither must he lie thereon for some have in their sleeps had their arm violently to bleed with great danger of their lives Blood issueth sometimes so violently out of some parts of the body that with no comprese or ligature we can restrain the same When this happeneth we are then constrained to lay above on the top of the apertion the one half of a green bean and the comprese thereon and so bind it together Sometimes there remaineth a nigredity or blackness and viridity or greenness about the apertion but thereof ensueth no evil unless any other accident chanceth thereunto When we do intend to renew the Phlebotomy we must then lay on the incision salted oyl because that hindreth the curing of the wound and the salt keepeth the blood from coagulation where-through the apertion of the wound is stopped And if the wound were so stopped that the blood would hardly issue thereout we must not then rigorously stretch out the arm which the Patient did carry on his breast doubled neither must we depress the Vein with great violence to get the blood thereout because such violence might cause great pain and inflammation But we must rather with a small prinet or searching iron remove that blood which therein is exciccated and dried or rather once again make an incision When we desire to make an apertion in the Veins or Arteries of the temples of the head of the forehead or under the tongue we must then cause the Patient to wring about his neck a table napkin or a towell thereby to cause the blood to ascend on high and the Veins to swell which we intend to open And when as we intend to open the Veins of the hands or feet we must bathe them in warm water because through calidity and warmth of the water the aforesaid Veins might erect themselves and the blood Vein being opened the blood may the better issue forth Thus have I as fully as may be given Rules of bleeding and the use thereof that a weak capacity may attain thereunto Some again there be which desire bleeding with horse-leeches and that you may not be left without the manner how to use them observe these following Rules Of bleeding by Horse-leeches YOu may know them thus they are little and perpusill creatures like a worm of the longitude of a finger or thereabout neither are they of any great crassitude or thickness unless it be when they are sucking of blood The end of their head hath a round hole
handfull of the smallest and young leaves scrape off lightly the upper rinde of the sprigs and cast it away then scrape off the second rinde which is green and reserve about a handfull of that which together with the leaves put into a pipkin with the oyl take also a few Plantine leaves and leaves of Sengreen and put them in also and adde also a sixth part of strong white-wine Vineger two or three spoonfuls of Urine about two inches of a cotton candle without the wick let all these boyl together at a soft fire stirring it now and then then strain it through a course linnen cloth and put that which you strain out into the pipkin again and put to it a little yellow wax and let it melt together still stirring it till it come to an ointment or salve which you may keep in a Vial or box when you will use it spread it thin upon a paper or linnen cloth and lay it to the place burned and let it lie twenty four hours if you do apply it in this sort presently upon the scald or burning it will take out the fire and hinder blistering and redness and healeth it in half a quarter of an hour it is also soveraign against the swelling or inflammation of the legs and also for any heat whatsoever Prob. est Doctor Matthias or the Lukatella Oyl or Balsom called Cordius Balsom THe vertues of it are many as followeth 〈◊〉 It is very effectual against the watering of the Lungs taking the quantity of a hazel nut in the morning fasting It is also good to heal a wound inward or outward being searing inwardly and applied to the outward with fine linnen cloth or lint as hot as may be indured It doth draw forth broken bones or any thing which may putrifie or fester if the brain be not touched It is good against burnings scaldings bruises or cuts It taketh away pains or griefs that proceed of moisture as Aches in the bones or sinews first anointing the part grieved and then applying a warm cloth It also helpeth the headach anointing the temples or nosthrils therewith and taking a little quantity inward It is also good against the winde chollick or a stitch in the side applying thereto warm with hot clothes a quarter of an hour It expelleth poyson and helpeth a surfeit by taking one ounce at once four mornings together It helpeth the biting of a mad dog or any other mad beast the quantity of one ounce taken in a little warm Sack It is also good against the Plague anointing the lips and nosthrils in the morning It is also good for a Fistula or Ulcer It is good for one infected with the Plague or smal Pox or Measels presently taken in hot broth a quarter of an ounce four mornings together sweating after it It is good also for worms or a canker It doth help digestion anointing the stomack and navil therewith going to bed It stauncheth the bleeding of fresh wounds laying a Plaister of lint upon the wound and tying it hard on This Balsom will do no good if any thing be applied before or between it to the wound or grief you may keep it twenty years the longer the better Prob. est for all these things The way to make this Balsom Take a pint and half of Sallet-oyl and beat it with one pint of Sack Venice Turpentine one pound beat it in Damask-rose water still pouring it out till the Turpentine look white yellow wax four ounces melt it in a great earthen pot or pipkin and adde to it the former ingredients stirring them altogether till they boyl then take it from the fire put in one ounce of red Sanders then let it boyl one hour then take it off and keep it in a gallypot for your use which you may do by Plaister as well as by fommatation and tents Prob. est for the griefs aforesaid The way to prepare your Sanders is thus Take your quantity of Sanders and make paste thereof with the sharpest wine Vinegar you can get and roul it round and bake it with white bread and let it after stand a while to dry and when it is thorow dry pound it well and searce it for your use Another direction Take your Sack set it on the fire put into it the wax and let them boyl together till the wax is well melted then put into it half your Oyl but let it not boyl after the Oyl is in then take it off and let it cool and when it is cold put from it the Sack and pour in the rest of your ingredients letting them well melt but not boyl then take it off again and as it is cooling put in your red Sanders and put it up into a new vessel which was never used if you have any of the naturea Balsom put some of it therein A special good black Plaister or sear-cloth to lay to any wound or to ease any ach or swelling or to draw out any thorns approved by the Lady Grimstone TAke Sallet oyl and Neatsfoot oyl of each half a pint and put therein half a pound of red lead beaten very smal and as you strew it in a little at once stirre it well then set it on the coals of a soft fire and let it boyl till it look black then put in as much rosin as contains the bigness of an egge beaten smal stirre it well all the time it is boyling let it not boyl too fast least it boyl over drop a little upon a pewter dish and if it rowl off without hanging then it is enough and so may you make plaisters or dip in clothes without fremes for sear-clothes take Sallet-oyl in want of Neats-foot Prob. est Another for a combustion or Burning with Gun-powder TAke out the fire first by linseed-oyl and water beaten together more water then oyl Plantine water is best you may for your use dip in lane or fine Holland clothes Then take of Vnguentum album half an ounce and Vnguentum poppillion and warm them in a porringer and with a feather anoint the combustion then lay on dry clothes upon the combustion And then if any spungy flesh arise Take spirit revinum one ounce and put in seven drops of oleum vitriolum and with a probe armed with lint dip it in the medicine and wash the Ulcer therewith spreading a cloth with Vnguentum album and lay over it and so do till your cure be done A special Remedy for a weak Back TAke a new laid egge and put out al the yeolk and then take as much white amber as will lie on a groat heapt and put it into your egge with Muskedine and drink it in the morning as soon as you can and lie one hour or two after it and if you can sleep and at the two hours or thereabouts and after you have taken it take a draught of candle made with whites of egges and no yeolks A Direction how to make a wholsom mess of Broth
black and thick then make your tents of one inch long and no longer although the Fistula be never so deep and roul the tents well in the Medicine and tent your wound therewith twice in a day and it will work out in small pushes and wheals from the bottom cover the sore with a red Colwort leaf and when it is well digested heal it up with plaisters fir for it A vulnary potion for the Fistula TAke a quart of spring water and boyl therein Cloves bruised Pimpernell Egrimony red Colwort Valerian Mousear Dovefoot and wilde Tanzy washed and chopped of each one handfull boyl all in a pipkin close covered till half be wasted then adde to it two spoonfuls of Honey and one quart of white-wine then let it boyl one walm or two and strain it hard forth and keep it in a close Viall and drink of it morning and evening and at three in the afternoon in Summer cold and in Winter hot untill the Potion cometh out of the orefice of the Fistula which must be alway kept open with a Gentian tent A plaister to cure the Fistula TAke Latherage of Gold one pound oyl of Roses two pound white-wine Vinegar and old Urine of each half a pound boyl these till the Vinegar and Urine be consumed adde thereto in the boyling Wax two ounces Frankincense one ounce mix it and so use it A Lotion to wash or seering into the Fistula TAke Bolearmoniack four ounces Camphire one ounce white Vitrioll four ounces powder all these boil the Copras and Camphire in a close stopped pipkin till they be melted still stirring them till they grow hard then powder them and the Bolearmoniack together very fine and when you use it take a pottle of running water put it to the fire till it begin to boyl then take it from the fire and put therein three spoonfuls of the powder as much as the spoon will hold put all into a double Viall and shake it twice every day for fourteen daies before you use it let it stand and settle very clear and apply it as hot as the Patient can endure it if it be for a sore wet a double cloth four times double and apply it if for a Fistula use the searing morning and evening till you be well if you would have it stronger put into it one ounce of burned allum powdered This is approved either for Fistula or Pustels Cankers Scabs in the head or body and also green wounds Unto your Lotion for Fistula you may adde Strawberries Plantine red mader sharp dock of each one handfull let your Cloves be twelve in number and if you will six ounces of honey if the Patient vomit up his Lotion three daies together at the first taking there is fear of his cure but if he vomit not no fear of the cure let him drink it fourteen daies in his drinking thereof put in some Ginger to allay the winde of the hearbs An Implaister of Tapsus Barbatus which cureth all Cankers Fistulas Plague-sores hot Bruises Botches or Fellones TAke the juice of Smallidge and Cardus young Wormwood Mullin Walwort Pimpernell Dovefoot Plantine Egrimony Mugwort Sage Daises Night-shade and Fluellin of each one dram Woodbine four handfuls stamp them and strain them put to as much Honey in measure as you have in juices then boyl them together in a new red pipkin close covered let them boyl softly still stirring it till it come to the thickness of Honey then take it from the fire and keep it in a new earthen pot close covered And when you make a Plaister for any the things aforesaid Take of this Honey four ounces wheat-meal two ounces boyl altogether one walm or two still stirring it for fear of burning then take it from the fire and put to it presently Venice Turpentine two ounces mix it well with the rest and when it is almost cold pour the whites of two egges well beaten thereto mix them together till it be cold and so it is made The Plaister is called Diaflosmos A Lotion to wash or seringe the grief withall before you apply the Plaister dress it twice a day either by bathe or searing hot TAke Night-shade Smallidge Egrimony Fluelline Sage Cardus of each one handfull Honey two ounces Plantine water and white-wine of each one pint boyl all these hearbs small cut till their substance be forth with the Honey Allum Wine and water and so strain it for your use A perfect Remedy for the Flux TAke a good handfull of Beans dry them in an oven or upon a tilestone and let them be so hard as the huls will skale off them and then bray them to fine powder and searce them then take a plot of good red wine and set it upon the fire and put the powder into the wine and stirre it well least it should grow to the pan wherein you boyl it and so do till it be so thick that you may cut it in slices when it is cold and let the Patient take two or three slices thereof blood warm every morning and evening for a certain space and this will cure Prob. est Falling sickness the cure FIrst every full Moon and change purge one day and vomit another then kill a Jay and dress him fill his body full of Commin and Anniseeds bruised then put the Jay so dressed into an oven after bread is drawn forth untill he be so dry that you must beat his body and sides and all into fine powder then take of this powder one dram in any thing what you please morning and evening till you be well as in broth or such like only with it make two plaisters as you do of Mastick of Sanguis Draconis spread it with a hot knife and lay them to the temple veins Fistula the cure TAke Vervine and dry it upon a tile and make powder thereof and make clean the sore with a linnen cloth and fill the wound full with the powder For the Gout TAke Arsmart and wet it in fair running water and lay it to the place grieved and when you take it away then bury it in a moist place in the ground and as that wasts the grief will wast also Another for the same TAke Mallows and Sengreen beat them and boyl them in water then strain them put oatmeal grots soked in Vinegar and sheeps-suet untried then boyl it to a poultess Proved Another for the same TAke Archangell red stamp it in a mortar with Vinegar and bind it to the place grieved and if it go not away mix a little Opium with it and it will not fail A good cooling Clyster to apply where it needs TAke a pottle of running water and Succory leaves and Sorrill and Strawberry leaves and Violet leaves and Mallows of each one handfull one pennyworth of French-barley sweet Fennell seed and the four cold seeds of each one pennyworth boyl all these to a pint and strain it and adde one ounce of Syrup of Roses and a piece of butter
as big as a Walnut and so use it For the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins FIrst purge the humor with new drawn Cassia one ounce extracted mix therewith two drams of washt Turpentine and one scruple of pulvis athriticus into bole then next day saving one dissolve six drams of Confecti humach in Fumitory-water adding two scruples of pulvis Sanctus and half a dram of Cream tartar mix them and after the body is thus purged use restringing Medicines For a Gunshot if there be a Flux of blood TAke Bolearmoniack one ounce and terra sigalatum one dram and myrrh one dram pulverized fine and a dram of Vitriolum album or white Copras and this will be a stringum powder mix with this the white of egges and make it as it were an ungent and so use it two daies and then undress And then secondly take spirit revini or spirit of wine one ounce and Melle rosarum half an ounce and one dram of Aegyptiacum mix them together and put them into a poringer and heat them hot and dip in a pleget of lint and so lay it to the wound till you see the wound digested or that the wound be cleared and after it is digested use to incarnate or breed flesh Vnguentum Basilicon warm upon a pleget of lint and that is sigitrising of the wound For a Fracture in the Scull or wound in the Head TAke spirit Revinum and Melle rosarum heal and dip a pleget of lint and so lay on the wound but if the perecranium ly bare mix in some mire aloes of each about a scruple among the other medicines or if the wound be on any part of the body use the same intention if the bone lie bare do the same as aforesaid A good Medicine to destroy Heat in the Face or any other place although is be St Anthonies fire TAke a pottle of Smiths water and a handfull of Sage Elder leaves two handfuls or the green bark thereof Allum two pennyworth seeth all these together from a pottle to a pint then take it and put it into a Gallypot and let the Patient when he goes to bed anoint his face therewith and the next morning he will finde ease it will help him five or six daies Headach or Megrim the cure or a good cool water to be used for the Head if it be over hot or for any such distemper TAke Violet leaves red Rose leaves Letice and Willow leaves of each two handfuls and a little Henbane Vinegar white Poppey and a little Mandrake and distill them together in a Stillitory and so keep this water close stopped in a glass untill you have occasion to wash your head An excellent hot water for the Head if it be over-cold or any such distemper TAke Bettony Camomill Rue Savery Pennyroyall Marjerum Origanum Fennell and Elnacampana of each a like quantity and distill them also and use it as the former For a pain in the Head TAke a Rose-cake and cut it fit to lay to your forehead and wet it well in Vinegar and put thereto a good quantity of the powder of Nutmegs and the powder of Cloves and let the same be bound very hard to the temples of the Patient and this will speedily help him Another for the same TAke the juice of Rue and put into the nosthrils of the Patient and it will expell fleam cleanse the brains and mitigate the pain of the head and this hearb sodden in Wine will do the same Another to purge the Head TAke Pellitory of Spain and chew the root thereof in your mouth four or five daies at several times and this will take away the pain of the head and fasten your teeth and gums For winde in the Head TAke a good handfull of the flowers of Camomill and half a handfull of the powder of Cinamon mingle them together and make two little bags of the breadth of your ears and put both the powder and the flowers therein and bind it close to both your ears This Prob. est For Heart-burning TAke five or six corns of good Pepper and bruise them in your mouth and let them go down your throat This will help forthwith Hoarsness the cure TAke three or four Figs and cut them in the middle asunder and then put into every one of them a pritty quantity of Ginger fine beaten to powder and then rost them upon a clean hearth or upon a tilestone and let the Patient eat them as hot as he can endure them This hath cured some which have been troubled with hoarsness four or five years Headach of rheume the cure TAke one Nutmeg Cubebs Piony seed Setwell roots Marjerum Angellica roots of each two drams dry them and powder them fine and make them up with Honey into a mase for Pils take thereof five small ones every morning for fourteen daies For the same Approved TAke four ounces of gray sope and bray therein the whites of two egges and put it in a box and when you have use for it spread it on a cloth double and lay it to the forehead even to the ears dress it so twice a day for five daies you will finde ease at twice dressing Megrime pain or winde in the Head the cure TAke a piece of Methridate as big as a good hazel nut and put it in your mouth and let it there melt without chawing holding your breath as much as you can and as it melts receive it into your stomack This will be present help Another for the same or for any Imposthume or Feaver in the Head TAke the roots of Pellitory of Spain one dram Spicknard half a dram beat them together and boyl them in good Vinegar then let them cool put thereto honey and mustard of each a sawcer full mix them together and let the Patient put half a spoonfull thereof in his mouth and hold it there a while then spit it forth renew it so twelve times when you go to bed drink a little down use it three daies and you will be well Lice or Scabs in childrens Heads the cure TAke red Sage chop it small and boyl it in fresh butter with Pepper powdered when it is so boyled together strain it and keep it for your use A good Medicine for the black Jaundies TAke the Gall of a Raven and dry it well and beat it to powder then take a pritty quantity thereof and temper it either with Ale or Beer and let the Patient drink thereof every morning fasting for six or seven daies together and it will presently help him Prob. est Another for the same TAke of the roots and leaves of Strawberries and eat them every morning fasting for the space of eighteen daies together Prob. est The same made into pottage or broth and taken fasting will do the same either for black or yellow especially for yellow Another for the yellow Jaundies TAke a good handfull of red Nettle crops seeth them well in a pint of Ale and
a pint of water boyl them altogether six or seven walms adde to them in the boyling white Ginger powdered two drams Elna Campana one dram a little Saffron powdered drink thereof first and last at meals infuse therein Saxifrage For the green Sickness TAke a handfull of Cowslip-flowers dry them and beat them to powder and let the Patient drink one spoonfull of this powder in six or seven spoonfuls of Malmsie fourteen mornings fasting A Swelling the cure TAke May butter and wax a like quantity boyl them together with a little Aqua vitae dip double clothes therein and lay it to the grief very hot and it will draw out the water and presently swage the swelling Proved A Dianthos which will help all feebleness of the body the tisick the grief of the heart and of the Liver after long Sickness TAke Cloves Gallingall Ginger Spike Nut-megs of each two drams and a half Cara-way Anniseed Cardamonium of each two drams Licorish red Roses Violets and Rosemary-flowers of each four drams Honey cleansed and rose-Rose-water a pritty quantity let those things which be to be powdered be beaten very fine and searced then mix them with the Honey and Rosewater and let it simper on the fire to a Confection the dose is three drams use this as a secret Prob. est A powder for Winde and Spleen TAke the rind of an Orenge Coliander seed Caraway seed Anniseed Fennell seed and Parsley seed of each one spoonfull dry all these and beat them to powder and searce it then mix them with fine Sugar take thereof in the morning fasting at noon before dinner and after dinner and before supper and after supper going to bed in a little Anniseed water and you will finde much good A rare Sear-cloth or Plaister for a sore breast or any other sore or sprain or ach which I have often had experience of TAke half a pound of Virgins wax and half a pint of Oyl of Roses and half a pint of Oyl-olive melt them altogether upon a soft fire of Char-coal then let it cool in a pan till it be half cold then take half a pound of white-lead and beat it fine and put it into the Oyl abovesaid and to the wax and stirre them together on the fire and cause them softly to boyl half an hour then take two ounces of Frankincense and two ounces of Myrrh and two ounces of Gum Olibanum and two ounces of Mastick beat them to powder very fine and put them into the abovesaid Oyl and Wax and cause them to boyl another half hour stil stirring it till it be black then adde a quarter of an ounce of Camphire when you have taken it from the fire so dip in your clothes for sear-cloths or work it up for plaisters for your use Proved often for what is abovesaid A white tost steeped in white-wine Vinegar applied to a strain is a speedy remedy for that grief For the Tooth-ach TAke a piece of the root of Crowfoot and put it into the hollow tooth if there be any if none be hollow apply it often to the tooth that aketh and that will cure Again take the powder of red Corall put it into the tooth that akes and it will soon fall out Again Take Organy that grows close to the ground and tastes like Aqua vitae bruise it and lay it to the tooth Also bruise bursa pastoris and do the same To make Teeth white and to fasten the Gums and to comfort the roots and to make the breath sweet TAke Vinegar of Squils and dip a piece of linnen cloth into it and rub the teeth and gums therewith For Lues Venera or French-Pox FIrst prepare the body with purgations as this Pulvis Arthreticus the dose is one dram augment as you see good not exceeding above a dram and half but a dram and a quarter is a good dose or a dram of that and half a dram of Jallop And then use this Diet-drink with Lignum vitae for every pint of water an ounce of Lignum vitae and put in some Carduus Benedictus let them drink half a pint at a time morning and evening let their diet be chicken or such meat And then next use Turbith Mellerares begin at three grains use it to a dram but no further till you make a Salavation or Flux at the mouth And then make a lotion for the mouth to wash that daily let the Salavation continue three weeks or a moneth till you be sure the ulcer be clean To stay Vomiting TAke Mints Shepheards purse Plantine and Knotgrass and Comfry of each one handfull shred them small and boyl them in a quart of red Wine or Claret drink of this Wine and plaister the herbs to the stomack in a double cloth A Vomit for any disease TAke and Elder bough and scrape off all the outmost rind clean then take some of the inside rind and stamp it and strain it into strong Ale which is old and drink it lukewarm this will soon cause the Patient to vomit To stay Vomiting TAke Mints Shepheards-purse and Comfry of each one handfull chopped small boyl them in a quart of red Wine or Claret drink of the Wine and lay the herbs plaister-wise to the stomack in a double cloth Prob. est To force one to make Water which is stept in Sickness INfuse and mix ten drops of oyl of Juniper in two ounces of Parsley water and drink it blood-warm it will cure at once or twice taking A Water to inject or serindge into the secrets of men or women TAke water and white-wine of each one quart Woodbine leaves and flowers of each two handfuls Sage Rosemary and Water-cresses of each half a handfull cut small boyl all these together half an hour then put in Allum powdered four drams and two small spoonfuls of honey and boyl them about two walms and keep it for your use To cause one to make Water TAke Saffron in powder and pure ball sope as much of one as another mingle it together spread it upon the fleshy side of white leather make thereof plaisters and lay upon the navill of the Patient and give him to drink as much of the powder of the herb golden rod as will lie on a six pence in a glassfull of Renish wine or white-wine An excellent salve for a deep Wound or cut which requireth tenting TAke the yeolk of a new laid egge and honey the quantity of a Wallnut the same quantity of pure Turpentine beat them altogether and lay them to the wound with fine lint and this will cure it in a short space Another for a green Wound TAke wheat-flower and milk and temper them well together seeth them till they be thick then take the white of a new laid egge and beat it well with the aforesaid stuff and it will keep it from rankling and heal it An excellent Medicine for a green Wound being applied plaister-wise or to make a sear-cloth for any Ach and it is
of the stomack Being laid to the belly it will cure the Cholick Being laid to the reins of the back helpeth the running of the reins It is also good for the bloody flux and for the heat of the kidneys and weakness of the back It healeth all swellings of the breast and taketh away all Imposthumes or any aches It breaketh all swelling pustils It draweth away all running ulters not breaking skin It being applied to the fundament it healeth all defects there And being applied to the head it helpeth all pains there and of the eyes TAke four pound of Oyl-olive of the best red lead and white lead of each one pound and twelve ounces of Spanish sope incorporate all these well together in a good glazed earthen pot over a soft fire the space of one hour and half untill the matter be turned something darker then the Oyl was by nature let it boyl till that by dropping it upon a trencher it will neither cleave to the trencher nor to your fingers then it is enough then take some long linnen clothes about eight fingers long and dip them therein and when they begin to be cold smooth them upon a Table with a slick-stone and keep them for your use they will keep twenty years the older the better Mrs Harris her black Salve good for any sprain or swelling TAke of Wax three quarters of a pound a pint of good Sallet-oyl melt them on a soft fire and then take them off the fire and adde to it white lead half a pound finely beaten and searced then set it on the fire again and let it boyl half an hour then take it from the fire again and adde to it Frankincense Mastick the finest drops of Olibanum of each two ounces and also Myrrh two ounces beat them all fine and searce them and put them in and set it on the fire again let them boyl half an hour more then put in half a quarter of an ounce of Camphire and let it boyl till it be black be alway stirring it then take it from the fire and stirre it till it be cold and keep it for your use It is good also for any wound Prob. est Another rare Sear-cloth for the same TAke a quart of pure sweet Oyl and one pound of red lead very finely beaten boyl it in a bel-mettle skillet upon a soft charcoal fire about half an hour stirring it with a wooden stick then dip a piece of linnen cloth in it and cool it if it stick not to your fingers then it is enough then dip in linnen clothes into it and hang them upon a pack thread in the shadow untill they be dry then lay papers between every sheet and so keep it for your use Approved Anoint the grief with that Oyntment wherein is Detainder four handfuls page 119. before you apply the Plaister To cure a Strain in the arm in a short time TAke some Wormwood and fresh butter and mix them together and anoint the grief therewith and bind the arm well and in a day or two it will cure To make a Balsom that will cure all manner of Sores or green wounds the best that ever was TAke two ounces of Venice Turpentine beat it in Rose water and Spring water together three or four times till it look white then take two ounces of Virgins wax cut small boyl them together in a pint of Canary Sack let it boyl half an hour then take it off and put in half an ounce of red Sanders beaten small so it is made The juice of an Onion will take away a Scald For a Stitch. TAke a dry Acorn beat it to powder and as much Treackle as a hazel nut mix them together and give them to the Patient in a quantity of white wine going to bed and it will help A good Pill to cause Sleep and ease pain TAke Cinamon Cassia ligna Opium of each two drams Myrrh and both the Peppers one dram Castory half a dram Saffron one scruple fine powdered and made to a mash for Pils the dose two Pils no bigger then a small tare To break a Stone TAke the shell or thin rinde of Acorns the hips of a briar red holy briars and Nutmegs all dried and powdered drink thereof morning and evening in white-wine half a spoonfull at once for six daies or more For all Sickness Feavers Imposthumes or any other disease in mans body TAke Hysop Bettony Rosemary Violets Vervine St Johns wort Avence Mous-ear Plantine Feverfew of each one handfull washed clean and stamped in a mortar put them in a clean earthen pot which is new with a gallon of white-wine let it stand close covered to infuse all night in the morning boyl it close covered to the consumption of half then strain it through a hair sive into a double viall and let the sick drink thereof morning and evening a good draught and this powder following is to be taken therewith Take Gallingall and Nutmegs of each four drams Ginger one ounce Cloves Cinamon of each two drams Licorish six ounces Sugar four ounces all powdered and searced mix one spoonfull of this powder with one pint of the liquor aforesaid take first the simple liquor six daies and six nights then other four daies and nights use this powder with it and this with Gods blessing will cure you if ever you be cured To help any hurt in the Skull TAke the juice of Pimpernell and wet therein pieces of linnen cloth and apply it often to the grief and it will soon cure To help shrunk Sinews or hard ach in them TAke Oyl of Roses four drams Spermaciti one ounce melt them together and anoint the grief therewith twice every day then lay on also plaister-wise clothes wet butter wax and Aqua vitae use this till you be well A drink to be made in the spring for the green Sickness or any other grief TAke Senna six ounces Wormwood Balm of each two handfuls Anniseed and Fennel seed of each three ounces the juice of Scurvy-grass three pints Water-cresses and Brooklime of each a pint bruise all these and tie them up in a linnen cloth with a stone to sink it put it into four gallons of new Ale out of the tun and let them work together till it be four daies old then drink thereof in the morning fasting half a pint and if it do not purge you three or four stools a day take as much at night use it till you be well Scurvy the cure First a Purge TAke Senna Alexandrum of each four drams Epithimum two drams Raisins of the Sun ston'd one ounce Fennell seed Anniseed and Ginger of each half a dram infuse them all night in warm whey pritty hot in the morning wring it out hard and give it to the Patient A drink to take after it TAke Scurvy-grass and Devils-bit Water-cresses and Brooklime of each one handfull Wormwood half a handfull stamp and strain them and take a quart of white-wine allayed with