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 filver 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 lifts 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 grairs Also in apparision of any small Pox 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 and gently vapor away the water till it be â—…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 they 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 in a Glass close stopped Hereof you may give to a man
place of thy Head For the Rheume in the Head TAke and seeth Pimpernell in Wine and drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold this will help thee Or take and stew Onions in Water in a close pot and bath thy Head thy mouth and thy nose therewith and it will help thee For the weaknesse of the Brain TAke a handfull of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Hysop Betany the leaves and roots and the seeds and roots of Pyony wash all these said herbs and put them into a pottle of fair Water and let them seeth together untill the one half be wasted then take out the herbs and put to the said water almost half a pint of Honey clarified and let it boil well together with a dram of Stecados knit in a linnen cloth and let it boil till the sweetnesse of the Honey be boiled out then take out the Stecados and put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon three Nutmegs well bruised and put them to the same liquor and seeth them together a good while then strain it through a linnen cloth and so use to drink it morning and evening and it shall comfort thy Brain For hair that faileth on thy Head TAke and bray Lineseed and mingle it with oyl-Olive and when it is well beaten together anoint thy Head therewith three or four times and this will heal thee or take oyl of Tartar and warm it and then rub your Head with it or any place that is scald eight or nine dayes and the hair will come again An excellent medicine TAke a farthing worth of Pellitory of Spain and a quarter of Stavesacre seed and beat both together and then drink a draught of Malmsey and put a spoonfull of this powder into your mouth rolling it up and down till your mouth be hot and full of flegme and then spit it all out then take a stool and set before you and lay a cushion under your knees and set a bason under your mouth and gape as wide as you can and then the flegme will void from you out of all the members of your Head and if it come too fast hold over your Head to the bason and let it go use this once in a year and you shall be the better for it a long time A remedy for the Head TAke the juice of Ivy leaves mixt with Oyl and Vineger and rub therewith your temples and your nosthrills For lightnesse in the Head TAke small tents of linnen cloth and dip them in Cinamon water and put them into thy nosthrills and thou shalt be help't presently To purge the Head of evill humors TAke the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew a piece thereof on either side of thy mouth between thy Gumms and close thy mouth fast till the water cometh down then let the water go forth but hold the root still a quarter of an houre For pain in the Head TAke the juice of Ivy that groweth upon trees and oyl of Roses and mingle them together with Wine and anoint your Head therewith and this will make it leave aking Probatum For the Eyes FIrst if it do come of Rheume or corrupt blood purge Rheume and blood if it do come otherwise be let blood in a vein called Mediana and use locall waters as waters to mundifie the place and then use Salves sanative For a white that doth grow over the black of the Eye FIst purge the Rheum with Anacardine and Sternutations or Gargarices and then make a plaister made with the white of two Egs beat it well together and then put to it a little Honey and after that put to it Flax or Tow and to bedward lay it over the Eyes and let it lie all night and in the morning wash thine Eyes with cold water and a fine cloth do this three nights one after another and be whole For a bloodshotten Eye TAke the white of two new laid Egges and beat them to a watrish spome then put Tow unto it and three nights together lay it to thine Eye and bind it fast and renew it every night and wear a green cloth before thine Eye For a blast in the Eye MEddle not with it with medicines but wear before thine Eye a piece of black Sarsenet and eat neither Garlick nor Onions nor drink no Wines nor strong Ale and it will away A water to clear the sight TAke Fennell Vervain Roses Salendine and Rue of each two ounces and distill them and wash thine Eyes therewith for it is good for all manner of sore Eyes For blear Eyes TAke the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with water made of the white of an Egg and put it into thine Eyes and it shall put the blood and aking away A water to clarifie the dimnesse of the sight TAke the juice of Fennell and Salendine Rue and Eyebright of each two ounces Honey an ounce and a half Aloes Tyme and Sarcocell of each half an ounce the caul of a Capon Chicken or Cock two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Saffron of each a dram Sugar Candy six drams put all into a limbeck of glasse and distill it and of this water put into your Eyes and if you could get the liver of a Hee-Goat and mix with the said things in the distillation that water will be of much greater vertue and almost without comparison Another for the same TAke the green Walnuts husks and all from the trees with a few Walnut leaves and distill thereof a water to drop into your eyes A singer powder that drieth and taketh away the rednesse of the Eyes TAke Tutty prepared an ounce Antimonie half an ounce Pearles two drams red Corall a dram and a half pound all these together very fine and keep them in a box of Tyn and use when thou hast need A Regiment for them that have sore Eyes TAke heed that you alwayes keep your body loose and abstain from fire smoke wind dust and over hot and cold aire and from weeping and long reading of small letters from over long watching over much drinking of Wine and eating late for all these are noysome to the Eyes also all vaporous things as Onions Leeks Garlick Mustard Pease and Beans are very dangerous forbear day sleep and behold green things clear and precious To clear the sight or for rednesse of the Eyes TAke Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it with white Wine and let it so stand a day and a night then take off the thinnest ryne and wet your Eyes with a feather to bedward For a Pin and Web in the Eye IF there be a Pin and Web in the Eye or other blemish in the ball of the Eye take water of Pimpernell Vervain or Salendine To make a good water for sore Eyes TAke Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain torn Mintill Betany red Roses Endive Sowthistles call'd Chicken meat Pimpernell red Salendine Filago the leaves of Piony the leaves of white Vine March Egremony Sinkfoil called Woodbine
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 at night and it will
help you A good Medicine for the Heart and Swowning TAke the powder of Cloves with the juyce of Borage a spoonfull at a time and it will help you Also the powder of Ginger and powder of Cummin put in meats is good for the same A comfortable Medicine to restore the spirits of the Heart and to mend the disposition of the Etick or Consumption as followeth TAke a quarter of an ounce of Gold foyle and half an ounce of Manus Christi beat them in a mortar together untill none of the Gold be seen and keep it till you have need to use it which must be in manner following Take a quart of pure Rose water and boyl it with a quantity of Penidos keep it in a faire glasse and when you will use it take in the morning the weight of the foresaid powder and put in your mouth and drink it down with five or six spoonfulls of the foresaid water For swelling or rising about the Heart SEeth Oyl Olive by it self then take as much Honey and seeth it by it self then seeth them together a little while and when it is cool put it in a box and this is very good for the Heart For fatnesse about the Heart TAke the juice of Fennell and Honey and seeth them all together untill they be hard and then eat thereof evening and morning and thou shalt be whole To put away venom from the heart TAke Bolearmoniack and Sanguis Draconis of each three ounces and of the best Cinamon four ounces and mingle them altogether in powder and so receive it and it will put away Venom from the Heart For Gnawing about the Heart TAke Sage leaves and as much yarrow and grind them together and temper them with Ale and then strain and drink thereof Things good for the Heart SAffron Borage Hearts horn Mustard Cloves Galingale Nutmegs red Roses Violets Maces Sugar good Wine moderately taken Mirth and good ayre that day you eat of Piony or drink thereof you shall not swound Against Swounding BOrage eaten with flesh or in pottage is good for them that fall in their Swounding or be faint at the Heart or have Cardiack Passion at the Heart Against Swounding TAke water that Roses hath been sodden in and the powder of the same with a raw Egge Or take Rose VVater that Sweet VVater hath been sodden in this is very good Medicines for the Belly To dissolve a hard Belly TAke and stamp Mallows and Mercury together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy Navell and it shall dissolve the matter in the womb in short time Or take the juice of Rue and drink it with stale Ale or Wine or fair Water and use to drink of this and it will help thee in short time For any hard Belly that is sore MIngle Pennyroyall and Ginger together and bind them plaisterwise to thy Belly and be whole For Diseases of the Belly whatsoever they be TAke Wormwood Rew Motherwort Lavender Cotton and the gall of an Oxe Cow or Calf stamp the herbs and put the Gall thereto and lay it to the bottom of thy Belly and be whole A Drink to destroy all evills in the Belly or Body within fifteen dayes TAke Scabias Mugwort Smallage Devills-bit Herb-Ivy Wormwood Fumitory Fetherfew and Spiknard stamp all these and seeth them in white Wine and clarifie it with whites of Eggs drink of this nine dayes and be whole Medicines for the Collick For the Wind-Collick TAke Winter-Savory stamp it and strain it with strong Ale drink this warm and immediately the pain will cease as if it were sweep'd away There have been divers helpt with this which have had such pain with the Wind-Collick that they have swowned severall times in a day Also a cupping-glasse set upon the top of the Navell is a present remedy Also Camomill Rosemary Sage and Salt rosted under the embers and laid to the Navell is a present Remedy Emmets eggs dried in an oven made in powder and drank helpeth the Wind-Collick immediately For the Collick of the Stomach see after For the Strangullion CUt off the top of an Onyon and take out the core then put into the place a pretty quantity of this powder following Take Betany and Centory of each a like quantity and make powder thereof putting in a little Butter then put on the top again and put it in hot embers and rost it then lay it to your Navell as hot as you may-suffer it and be whole To make a precious Water for the Strangullion TAke a peck of Hawes when they be ripe and half a peck of Hips and beat them in a mortar to powder then take two gallons of Lees of Malmsey or Sack a penniworth of long Pepper and a half-penniworth of graines put all these together and distill them in a Stilletory or Limbeck take the water thereof and drink it luke-warm first and last For the Collick a precious Medicine proved TAke Saxifrage Maidenhaire unset Time and Parsley seed and seeth all these together in Malmsey strain it and drink it warm Or take Time Mints Woodroof Vilipendula and Setwall make pottage herewith and you shall find great ease For all evills within the Bladder TAke Fennell seeds Parsley seeds and Smalladge seeds bruise them and temper them with faire running Water and drink this first and last at your pleasure For one that hath much wind in his Belly TAke Juniper berries ere they wax black and drie them in the ayre and keep them all the year and use the powder thereof in your drink and pottage Or take the roots of Elecampane the roots of Pellitory of the garden and Fennell roots of each a like quantity and as much of Sothernwood wash them and bray them a little and seeth them all together in a gallon of Wort and drink thereof For the Collick TAke Flower and Ale and drink it unsod with a little Sugar and this will make you go to the stool and ease your Collick and Strangullion Or take Hempseed and drie it and make powder thereof and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine Or take Dill seed Anniseed and Cummin of each a like quantity beaten into fine powder eat it in your pottage it will help you A soveraine Medicine for the Collick and Stone TAke Parsley seed Fennell seed Anniseed Cummin seed Plantain seed of each of them a quarter of an ounce an ounce of Nutmeg foure ounces of fine Sugar beat all these seeds into powder and searse them and let the Sugar be beaten with Ale then take of the powder as much as an Hafell nut and let the Patient use to drink thereof morning and evening four times a week warm with Wine or Beer but Wine is best and when the pain cometh drink it with Malmsey Another FRie Pellitory and Butter together and bind them to thy Navell and this will suddenly cease the pain Or take a Lapwing and burn her in the fire 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 feeds 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 Alc 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 Gnts. TAke the water of Flower-de-luce and drink it luke-warm twiceor 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 slower 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 â—…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 Plantano 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 yolks of five Pgs 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 cat them divers times in a day Also the durg 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 of this evening and morning and drink nothing
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 meditine 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 soâ—e and Aqua vita 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 Wormâ— within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropfie 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 too aften 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-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 will bring the speech again For the Palsie TAke and stamp 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 beat 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 off the feathers of the tayle or hinder part till the rump be bare then hold the bare of the said Pullet to the sore and the
Ringworm 170 Rehume in the head 179 Another for the same 179 For the Ring-worm 208 S MEdicines for Sciatica 103 Another approved 193 Another 193 Sciatica in the hips 105. Stone and Strangury 99. For all manner of Gouts and the Sciatica and Consumption of the members Strangullion 76. A water for the Strangullion 76. Swage and cool a swoln sore Leg 121. For a swelling in any place 121. For a scald or burn and chiefly for the Emerods 190. For a swelling in a mans body 137 For to get out the fire by a scalding 148. To stop bloud in a vein 148. To stop bloud suddainly in a wound 148. To stop bloud if the Master-Vein be cut 141. Salt of Corall to make it and excellent vertues thereof as to cure the fevers in Children and women in Child-bed 197. For the Wind in the Side 66 Stich in the side 66 Stich in the left side 66 Another for the same ibid. To know when one hath a stitch whether it be of Wind or Plurisie ibid Stich at the heart ibid Asswage a swelling 157 For a scab in man or woman 161 For the itch in the hands that come of Worms 161 To destroy all manner of scabs dry or moyst 162 For the dry scab 162 To make one sleep 166 Pain in the Stomach by cold 181 Medicines for the stone c. 88 89 90. For the Spleen 54 For the wasting of the Spleen and for the Dropsie 54 Medicines for the Stomach 56 57 58 59 60 61. T TO make Teeth white 29 To keep teeth from wormes 29 A regiment for the teeth 30 31. Another 32. To take away the tooth-ach in half an hour 32 A noteable medicine for the tooth-ach 32 To make teeth white 32 For the tooth-ach 32 To remove teeth 33 Water for the teeth 33 For a Canker and tooth ach 33 To make childrens teeth come 34 To fasten teeth 35 For wormes in teeth 35 For tooth ach 35 For a sore throat that 's inflam'd 45 46 For hoarsenesse in the throat 45 46 Canker in the throat 46 For Quinsie in the throat 46 Canker in the throat 46 For stopping of pipes 47 To kill a Tetter or ring-worm 192 Medicines for the thighes that be stiffe 113 For the aking bones of the thigh 113 To knit the sinews and veins in the thigh 114 To make an oyntment to asswage the swelling â—nd to keep sinews from shrinking 114 For thighes that be swollen 114 For sinews shrunk in the thighes 114 V FOr an Vncom 13 An excellent vomit 199 W MEdicines for the Wormes 80 The Wormes in young children 80 Medicines for all sorts of wounds and sores 153 A good water for every sore 153 To heal a wound 158 A water to heal all manner of wounds in a short space 159 To heal a wound in ten daies 160 To make that flesh shall not grow in a wound 160 Diet for him that is wounded 160 For warts to take away 165 Medicines to take away Wens 171 Against wind in the Stomach 174 Against the wormes in children 18 206 Felon and Whitlow 183 Another 205. For the whites to cleanse and stay them 191. 214 For a wound that 's full of blood 141 Water to comfort the Vitalls most excellent 143 Y REmedy for a mans Yard 99 Against the erection of the yard 100 To heal a mans yard that is sore 100 For the swelling in any yard 100 For the pain in a mans yard thorough gravell 101 A water for a sore yard 101 For being burnt with a harlot 102 For a mans stones that hang down long 102 For him that cannot make water 102 103 104 Medicines for the Head A remedy for the universall pain of the Head FIrst beware of all things which do hurt the Head as Garlick Onions Chiboles Wine stooping downe with thy Head extreame labour and such like and beware of surfeiting and drunkennesse and purge thy Head with Gargacies and sternutations and purge thy Head and thy stomack twice per week with pills of Coch or such like and be whole A remedy for the Head whatsoever the pain be TAke an handfull of Betanie an handfull of Cammomell and a handfull of Vervain leaves picked stamp them and seeth them in black Wort or in Ale for went of Wort and in the latter end of the seething put to it a little Cummin brayed the powder of a Harts-horn and the yolks of two Egges and Saffton a little and stir them well together and lay a plaister hot over all the forehead and Temples This is an excellent remedy also for the Megrim it shall pierce the better if you shall add to the medicine a little Vineger For pain in the Head TAke Rue Heyhoad Camomell flowers Betany Vervain Mints Hillwort red Fennell Wormwood and Sothernwood of each a handfull and wash them and shred them small and seeth them in water and mingle the herbs with wheat bran and make a plaister and lay it on thy mold as hot as thou canst suffer it and bind it on with a Kerchief and thou shalt be whole in short space For all manner of Head-aches TAke the greace of a Hart and mingle it with Oat meal and Sorrell and temper them well then lay it plaisterwise to thy temples This is proved To purge the Head TAke the juice of Primrose and milk of a Cow and with a quill blow it into thy nostrills and this will purge the head A water for the Rheume in the Head and how to put away the Palsie TAke a red Onyon and break it small and seeth it in a little Verjuice and put thereto a little Honey clarified and when they be well sod together put thereto a great spoonfull of Mustard and let it seeth long together then lay the sick upright and he shall find ease Do this three dayes twice per day and be whole For the Megrim in the Head TAke sowr Bread and Chickweed and bray them together and boil it in Vineger and so bind it to the grieved place or take and seeth Barley well in water and as it seeths put in Betanie and other good herbs for the Head and when they be well sodden bind them to thy head To stop and dry up Rheume TAke Cummin-seed a Nutmeg and a little Bay-salt every one beaten to powder alone and spread the same upon hurds of Flaxe in a cloth and hold the same over the perfume of Frankincense and lay it hot to your Head For a scalded Head TAke the liver of a Thornback and seeth it by it self and six Elacampana roots and seeth them by themselves in water three houres and put thereto three handfulls of Houseleek stamped and strained through a cloth and make an ointment thereof and anoint the Head therewith and if the hair be gone take a handfull of Wooll and bray it hot to powder then take two spoonfulls of Honey and anoint thy Head therewith where it is pilled and thy hair will soon come again as thick as in any other
of each 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 bindit 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 medicine 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 say 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
Pipes stopped and so the Dropsie breedeth TAke two parts of Cinamon and the third part of Galingall and the same quantity of Ginger and put that Powder into a spoonfull of Hysope Water and drink it fasting and be whole Things evill for the Stomach ALl sweet things for they make the Stomach well old cheese honey marrow of bones not well sodden to ear e're thou art hungry to eat many sorts of meat at one sitting to drink e're thou be athirst to eat bread not well baked heavinesse anger dread thought raw flesh over-great travell all fried meats much bathing after meat too much casting to eat when thou art over-hot and all milk is naught â—ave Goats milk For burning in the Stomach TAke Sorrell Cinque-foil Borage and Violet Leaves and stamp them together and strain them into Ale and make a posset thereof and drink it next your hart when you feel your self grieved and when the heat is gone make posset Ale of Mercury and that will restore you to heat again and bring you to good temper To make one Vomit TAke an Oken Leaf and lay it upon your tongue the rough side downward and hold close your mouth and this will make you Vomit Probatum est A precious Medicine for all Winds in the body the Strangullion and the Stone TAke the Root of a white Lilly that never bare flower and bruise it and seeth it in a pint of white Wine and put into it two spoonfulls of Anniseeds and Sugar and let it seeth till it be more then half sodden away and give it to the sick that is in pain and it shall â—oon ease him of the great pains A precious Powder for Digestion TAke Ginger Cinamon and Galingale of each one ounce of Anniseeds Caraway seeds and Fennell seeds half an ounce long Pepper Grains Maces Nutmegs of each two ounces of Setwell one ounce make all these in fine Powder and put to them two pound and a half of fine Sugar and use this Powder before meat and after at your pleasure it is good to comfort the Stomach and against Wind. For the Stomach that cannot Digest â—or have Appetite to Meat TAke and drink often Sorrell Water or Angelica Water or Betany Water or ground Ivy Water for all these are good for the same Medicines for the Liver An Ointment for the Liver that makâ—th good Digestion and keepeth the body from Putrifying TAke Oil of Roses and Oil of VVormwood of each two ounces and set them over the fire and when they begin to boil put thereto an ounce and a half of fine Mastick and when the Mastick is dissolved strain it while it is warm in the morning and make a plaister thereof and lay it to your side and be whole A Restorative for the Liver and the Lungs if they be rotten it will restore it again and do away the Gleme from the Heart and comfort the same TAke Fennell Roots and Parsly roots and pill away the Bark and pull out the pith and cast it away then mince them small and put into a brazen pot three quarts of water and set it on the fire and put the roots therein then take Figs and cut them small and pound them and put a quantity of Honey to it and let it boil a while then take it down and clarifie it through a cloth into a vessell of glasse and stop it fast that no air go out and let the sick drink of it hot in the morning and cold at night a good draught For one that hath his Liver cloven to his ribs TAke a shelfull of the juice of Betany and a quarter of a pint of white Wine and a spoonfull of honey and Pepper corns temper these together and drink thereof and it will help you For the heat of the Liver TAke Liver-Wort and five-leaved Grasse Succory Endive Buglosse and Borage and seeth all these in Whey and drink of this as often as you will and this will help you For one that is Liver brent TAke Sowthistle Dadelion and Rib-Wort and seeth them in water with Licorish untill the one half be wasted and drink of this at all times saving at meat For the stopping of the Liver TAke Ivy Berries and Egrimony Harts Tongue Liver-Wort and the bark of an Ash of all these a little quantity and put them to double as much Polypodion as of any one of the rest and make thereof pottage broth or syrupe If the Liver be opilated the face will swell and pain will be in the right side To preserve a man from stopping of the Liver TAke a Fig and grosse Peppâ—r with the crops of Time if it be eaten two hours before dinner and two hours before supper it preserveth a man from opâ—lations of the Liver Also the Liver of a Hare dried and made into powder is good for all diseases of the Liver For the Liver TAke a good handrull of Liver-Wort that groweth upon the stones and another of Fumitory and as much of Harts Tongue and seeth them in Whey clarified and drink it every day twice If the Liver be hot because of too much bloud the Patient hath red urid hasty Pulse his Veins great full he feeleth his spittle mouth tongue sweeter then it was wont to be wherefore it is good to be let bloud of the Liver Veine on the right arm and to use Lettice or Sorrel Purslain and Hops in portage and sometime to drink of the water Medicines for the Jaundise TAke Cows milk and white Wine of each a pint and distill them and keep the water that cometh thereof and give the sick to drink thereof two ounces in the morning two hours before meat and likewise after supper when he goeth to bed For the black Jaundise TAke Enula Cumpana roots and seeth them in milk then take the milk and strain it through a piece of cotton and give the sick to drink thereof This did help a gentlewoman that was sixteen years troubled with the Jaundise and could not be holpen For children take Turmerick and Ivory of each two Drams of Saffron two scruples seeth these in milk and give it to the children that have the black or yellow Jaundise Another for the Jaundise TAke Hempseed and bruise it and then boil it in good strong Ale or Beer and scum it very clean and let the sick drink of this drink and eat the sodden seed For the black Iaundise SEeth the inner bark of a Walnut tree in Ale or Beer and in the same drink quench steel being made red hot at least forty times and drink of this five or six ounces at a time hot evening and morning this is proved excellent good Also Goats dung or Fallow Deers dung strained into milk and given to the sick hath holpen the black Jaundise For the yellow Jaundise TAke Elecampane roots and the inner bark of a Barberie of each six ounces of Salendine roots eight ounces of English Saffron the weight of a groat seeth all these
which was sore grieved with the Stone who was holpen with this drink following Take the blossoms of Haws and distyl them then take the water thereof and seeth it and put therein Grommel-seed Saxifrage-seed and Parsly-seed of each an ounce of Goats blood Hares blood and Fox blood of each of them seven Drams seeth all these in a quart of the water in a close pot of Pewter or earth in a Kettle of water the space of six hours then strain it and drink thereof every day This is an excellent hing To deliver the Stone a Medicine that never fails TAke the roots of red Nettles and wash them clean in many waters and then bray them small and lay them in red Wine twelve hours then give the sick thereof to drink six spoonfuls of the liquor and let him rest on a bed 3 hours and then give him twelue spoonfuls and 3 hours after give him twenty spoonfuls and anon he shall make water and deliver the Stone Or take white Thorn buds in May and distyl them and take a pinte of the same water and half a pinte of Malmsey and boyl it a little at the fire but if you put in a little Honey withal it will be the better and then drink it to bed-ward Proved by Master GAGE To break the Stone TAke a quantity of a Jet-stone and two races of Ginger and the shells of Egs hatched under a Hen when the Chickens be out but first take away the filme of the shels and put them altogether in a Morter with the piece of a stone that cometh out of an Ox gall or with Parsley-seed if you cannot get the stone and make Powder of all these together and drink of it with warm Ale in a spoon as often as you shall think good and it will break the Stone and ease you of the Collick and cause you to make water easily An excellent Medicine for the Stone TAke Selgreen Planten Fetherfew and Tansey and pound them all apart and keep every Liquor by it self in a Glass then take of each of them a like quantity and boyl it with Bean-flower and Honey to make it Plaister-wise and then take a double swadling-band of linnen cloth and spread the Plaister thereupon and so lay it to the pain and round about the back and use it so a fortnight or three weeks for this is a special good Medicine and well approved Another for the same TAke a Goat and keep him three dayes fasting then put him in a Tub full of holes and the fourth day give him nothing but Grommel Parsley Alexander Salendine Saxifrage Hawberries and Watereresses and make him to lick prepared Salt and give it him with Wine to drink and so keep him with that food a whole week in the foresaid Tub and all the water he maketh you must through the holes of the Tub receive it into some vessel then take this water and put thereto Holly Berries Ivy Berries and Hawthorn Berries of each half a handful of Juniper Berries of flowers of Starewort of Cras-foot of each half a handful of the seeds of Parsley Saxifrage Elysander Radish Philipendula Nettles the Berries of Kneeholm Asparagus Fennel-seed and Anni-seed of each half an ounce of the roots of Kneeholm of Asparagus and Water-cresses of each of them four ounces of Grommel-seed and Smallage-seed eight ounces Bruise all these feeds small and chop the herbs and put them into the foresaid Goats water the space of twelve dayes into some warm place stirring them every day two or three times then put them together into a Styll and hang in the mouth of the Styll a little Musk Cynamon and Cloves because of the loathsomness of the Goats water and so distyl the water and give the Patient that hath the Stone three ounces at a time this is the most Soverain water can be found for it melteth and voideth the Stone without pain This holp a Scholler at Eaton-Colledge whom all the Physitians gave over as one incurable Of the Stone THe Stone is engendered by reason of a great heat that is about the Reins straightness of the Conduit and abundance of gross and slimy humors or Brentcholer which by the said excess of heat is as one would say baked or dryed as Clay in the Furnace and so at last becometh a hard stone Therefore it is chiefly to be noted that without the mending of the foresaid causes all that you do minister to break the Stone is either hurtful to the Patient or else small effect therefore it is good to keep a sober diet And note that alwaies whatsoever they be are nought in this case All kind of Pulses as Pease Beanes and such like all gross flesh and water-fowls and fowls of great bodies and all Fruits except ripe Prunes are might and all Shell-fish except Grevise and Shrimps also all Pepper and hot spices and all meats salt or sower but especially boware of hard Cheese for that is oftentimes the onely cause of the Stone and you must not lie on your back and you must keep your Reins cold and let your back be untrussed in summer An approved Medicine for the Stone and Strangury TAke most of Licoras then Anniseeds Colianedr Grommel Fennel Parsley and Alicander-seeds then dry all these seeds and pound them severally by themselves and note that Licoras Anni-seeds and Grommel-seeds be Restoratives and when they are all in Powder mix thereto powder of Syre to the quantity of one half of one parcel of the scowrers also mix thereto white Sugar-candy to the quantity of your Licoras with a Nutmeg or two use this powder fasting in clear Ale in your Broths and all suspected meats Remedies for a Mans Yard IF this Impediment be of any interial cause use to drink Milk or else drink oft a good portion of the water of Hawes and inject into the Yard the water of Comphry if the Impediment be betwivt the head and skin of the Yard wash the head of the Yard divers times with white Wine and after that use the powder of a rotten Post or any siceative Medicines is good or else Populion or Vnguentum ei Epsiacon is good For the Erection of the Yard above Nature TAke first and anoint the Yard and Godds with oyl of Juniper and the oyl of Campheret is good and so is Agnus Castus braid and made in a Plaister and laid upon the Stones This Impediment doth come of the inflamation of the Reins of the back or of inflamations of the Veines of the Yard and Stones or of too much use of Venerious acts To heal a mans Yard that is sore TAke Turpentine and the yolk of an Egg of each a like much well beaten together with Saffron and anoint the sore Yard therewith Or take and seeth the powder of Lynseed in sweet Milk till it be thick and lay it to the Yard Plaister-wise and anoint it with the juyce of Morrel and Plantane and be 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 a 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 Kercels of Peches and Medlers as much of the one as of the other and make them into Powder very fine and searse 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 searcloth 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 as you can suffer it and it wil help you
between two dishes and thereof will come a water and be in the dish then take it out and put it in a glasse and then dresse new till you have some quantity of the Water for six Eggs will not make above a spoonfull at once This is a proved medicine to drive away the pain of the Gout when it cometh For the Gout TAke the milk of a Cow of one color and small Planten Leaves and flower of clean Wheat-meal and boyl them together and make a plaister and lay it to the sore and this will help thee in short space A speciall medicine for the Gout TAke a young Whelp in the moneth of May and strip him out of his skin and dresse him clean then take a quantity of Water-frogs and put them in his belly when his guts be out and sow up his belly then rost him and take the dripping in an Iron Vessell and when it is cold put it in a glasse and therewithall annoynt the disease and you shall be whole by Gods grace For the Gout a proved medicine TAke Civill sope and two penniworth of Camphire a sawcer full of womans Milk of a man child then put the Sope and Camphire into the milk til it be thick then put it into a clean box or vessell and let it stand twenty four hours and then annoynt the Patient therewith cold and ever lay the medicine above the sore to draw it downwards This was proved upon Sir John Wilton and many others For the Gout TAke Cows horn coming of a red or brinded Cow a good quantity and make it warm in a frying pan and put thereunto half a spoonfull of the powder of a rotten post or pole of Older wood and stir them together and bind them on the place aggrieved hot or bloud-warm and lap it with a woollen cloth next to the medicine and a linnen cloth over all to keep in the medicine wash off this medicine when you take it off with Farrow Cow milk warmed Another for the Gout TAke four ounces of the Oyl of Lineseed four ounces of Oyl of Worms and the like quantity of the best Treacle and mix them well together and annoynt the place aggrieved and also spread it on a linnen cloth and bind it on all night For the Gout VAlerian Coltsfoot Oylof Shomakers patches Deers sewet and as much of Neatsfoot Oyle as the other two melt the Oyls and Deers sewer and then put in the two herbs being chopped small and boil them all together with a gentle fire half an hour and then strain them through a course cloth and keep this oyntment in a box Annoynt the place aggrieved with this oyntment and lay it on a plaister of the Oyl of Shomakers patches only spread upon thin brown paper warmed Medicines for the Dropsie TAke a portion of water Cresses and Sage the greatest part of Mugwort Hysope red Fennel of every one of these a like portion wash all these clean and let the water run from them then take the same herbs and put them in Past of a great pie and the same Pie to be baked in an oven and when it is baked take it out and all hot put it into a pot of ale clear drawn after the portion of your herbs Also you must cover your pot to the intent the strength of the herbs come not out but remain in your pot still and work in the Ale to make it so much the stronger then draw off the said Ale daily and let the sick drink thereof at all times when you will day or night when he desireth to drink and within nine daies he shall be whole An excellent medicine for the Dropsie made for Queen Elizabeth by Doctor Adrian and Doctor Lasye TAke Polypodium Spicknard Squant Ginger Marjoram Galingall Setwell of every one one penny weight Seeny the leaves and cods so much as all the rest grosly broken into powder and so put them into a bag and hang it with a packthread in an earthen pot of two gallons of Ale and every four daies cover the Ale with new Barm and drink no other drink the space of a whole week and this shall purge all ill humors in the body this drink will not let the bloud putrifie neither flegme to have domination nor choler to burn nor melancholy to have exaltation it doth multiply bloud and helpeth all evill it purgeth the rheume and mightily helpeth it it defendeth the Stomach and nourisheth it profiteth and preserveth youth and engendreth good colour comforteth the fight and nourisheth the mind For the Dropsie that swelleth TAke and eat water Cresses and Raysons and this shal make the malady come down to the Legs and Toes then when it is in the Legs or Feet take the green bark of Older in Winter and the Crops in Summer and Oatmeal and lay it to thy Legs being sodden in fair water and this will heal thee For a swelling in a mans body TAke Betany and Sentory of each a like much and make Powder of them and put of the powder in your drink and in your pottage and it will bring the swelling out of your body into Legs and Feet then take Salendine and bruise him in a Morter and lay him to the soles of your feet and it will take away all the swellings of the Body through the soles of your Feet by water running and it is called a Dropsie Medicnes for a Canker TAke Walwort and Waybred Self-green Housleek and Smallage of each a like much stamp them together in a leaden Morter and strain them through a cloth and mingle the juice with wheat flower and honey and the white of an Egg and stir all these and lay it to the sore For a Canker Fistula Wart new sores old sores or wounds TAke a galâ—…n and an half of running Water and a peck of ashes made of green ashen wood and sift them clean and make thereof a gallon of Lie and put thereto a gallon of Tanwoose and a pound of Madder and seeth all these to a gallon and let your Pan be so great that it be little more then half full and when it riseth in the seething stir it with a ladle that it run not over then let it stand three or four hours till it be clear and then let all that is clear strain through a good clean cloth and then wet a ragged cloth and with a long Lint lay it to the sore and this will heal the diseases aforesaid Medicines for burning or scalding TAke unslaked Lime as much as you think good and slake it in common Oyle and then take it out as dry as you can and incorporate it with Oyl of Roses and it will be as it were an oyntment which you shal annoynt the place with and in eight or ten daies it will be whole and not leave any mark or scart upon the skin and when the party is first burned or scalded because the other is not ready take a little of the Lard of
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 Seabs The Remedy TAke Mercury mortifyed with Fasting-spittle three cunces 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 Saliets 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
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 there of 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 sixpence 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 Sanctus 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