each halfe a pound Cloves and Mace foure ounces Saffron to the weight of twelve pence red Wine and water of each two pintes boyle all these things together till the liquor be wasted away and so make a Plaister thereof it is very good for to breake an Impostume The white Musilage Plaister TAke pure good Oyle eight pound Litarge of Lead five pound and a halfe Musilage of March mallow rootes of Fennicrick and Linseed two pound boyle all these together to the forme of a Plaister with a soft fire ever stirring it well then take and wash it in three or foure waters and it will be very white it is good to ripen and draw A Spiced Plaister for the same TAke Wax and Perosine of each one pound Cressine halfe a pound Colophonie two ounces Frankinsence and Goats suet of each foure ounces Cloves and Mace Oyle of Turpentine and Oyle of Spike of each one ounce Saffron halfe an ounce red Wine two pound dissolve them over a soft fire and so make your Plaister An excellent Plaister for old Sores TAke Litarge of Gold one pound Oyle of Roses two pound white Wine a pint Urine a pint Vineger half a pint Waxe Frankensence and Myrrhe of each two drams set them on the fire to boyle and so make your Plaister according to art A Sparadrope for the same TAke oyle of Roses a pound white Waxe three ounces Litarge of Gold foure ounces boyle all these in forme of a Plaister A very good drying Plaister TAke of Jacobs Plaister halfe a pound of Vnguentum Lapis Caluminaris one pound mixe them and so make a Plaister Oliver Wilsons Plaister TAke a pottle of Oyle Wax two pound and a quarter white Lead in powder 2. pound of Storax callamitick one ounce Bengawin one ounce Labdanum one ounce Mastick one ounce of Camphere foure drams dissolve them and so make a Plaister To make another Sparadrope TAke Oyle a quart white Lead one pound the grounds of Urine foure ounces of white Copperas two ounces white Wax three ounces Vineger a pint Camphere three penny-worth boyle all these together and so make a plaister To make the Mellilote Plaister TAke Rozin eight pound Wax two pound Sheepes suet one pound the juyce of Mellilote a gallon cleane strained let your Rozen and Sheepes suet be molten and cleane strained into a faire panne and then put to your juyce of Mellilote and set it over the fire and stirre it well together till it be like a plaister then take it off the fire and put unto it a pottle of red Wine by a little and a little ever stirring it till it bee almost cold and then labour it well in your â—ands for feare of heaving out the Wine and so make it up in rolles and keepe it for your use To make a Seare-cloath TAke Waxe one ounce and a dram of Euforbium and temper it with oyle Olive at the fire and make thereof a Seare-cloath to comfort the Sinewes To make a Plaister called Flowesse TAke Rozen and Perosine of each halfe â— pound Virgin-wax and Frankensence of each a quarter of a pound Mastick one ounce Harts-tallow a quarter of a pound Camphere two drams beat all these to a powder and boyle them together and straine it thorow a faire cloth into a pottle of white Wine and boyle them all againe together and letting it coole a little then put to it foure ounces of Turpentine and stirre them all together till it be cold and so make it in rowles according to Art Another Plaister for the same TAke two pound of Waxe two pound of Rozen foure pound of Perosine a quarter of a pound of Deeres suet two ounces of Cloves two ounces of Mace a quarter of an ounce of Saffron one pound and a halfe of Olibanon and a Gallon of red Wine and put all these into a faire Panne and set it over the fire foure or five houres till yee suppose that the Wine be sodden away and then take it off the fire and stirre it till it be cold and rowle it in balls and keepe itto use To make the Playster Occinicione TAke a quarter of a pound of Comin as much Waxe as much Pitch as much Rozen and of Saffron one ounce and a halfe of Masticke one quarterne Galbanum halfe a quarterne Turpentine one ounce Incense halfe an ounce Myrrhe but a quarter Sal-armoniac a little first take the Salt and let it lye in good Vineger and stamped in a Morter till it be well moystned all Night and more then take the Vineger and the Gums therein and set it on the fire till the Gummes be well melted then straine it and set it on the fire againe and let it seeth untill the Vineger the second part thereof be wasted and so that there be but the third part left then melt the Pitch and scumme it and put thereto the liquour that is left then melt the Waxe and put it to the Rozen and the Turpentine and then take the Masticke Incense and Myrrhe but looke that all the Gums be beaten into powder before that you cast it in and see that you stirre it apace when that they be well molten and medled looke that you have a faire Bason of hot water and sodainely cast it in then wring it out of the water then chafe it against the fire as if it were Waxe and annoynt your hands with oyle of Bay and looke yee have the Saffron in fine powder and the other that was not put in before and when you have put in all the eight Powders make it up in Rowles this is an excellent Plaister for divers occasions To make a Plaister Inplumhie TAke Oyle one pound Litarge halfe a pound and looke that the Litarge bee fine then set it on the fire and let it boyle untill it waxe browne but not so long that it waxe blacke then take it from the fire and make it in Balles and so keepe it A Plaister of Camphere TAke Camomill oyle halfe a pound white Waxe foure ounces Ceruse one pound Camphere halfe an ounce and so make your Plaister To make a noble Plaister that as soone as thâ— Plaister is warme and laid to the place thâ— paine will be gone and it is called a Spicâ— Plaister TAke Waxe two pound Deere Suet one pound Perosine foure pound Cloves and Mace two Ounces Saffron one ounce Rozen two pound Pitch foure ounces now melt that which is to be molten and powder and serse that which is to be powdered and sersed and melted altogether over a soft fire except your Cloves and Saffron and then take a quart of red Wine and by a little and a little poure it to the salve stirring it well together and when it is cleane molton straine it into a cleane Pan and then put to it your powder of Cloves Mace and Saffron casting it abroad upon the said Ingredience and stirring it well till it be cold then make it into rolles This is a very comfortable Plaister To
To make Vnguentum Apostolorum TAke Yellow Rozen two pound Verdigrease three ounces Wax one pound Oyle a pint you must set the Oyle Wax and Rozen over the fire then put to your Verdigreace made into fine powder and stirre it till it be cold and so it is finished Vnguentum Basilicum TAke Oyle halfe a pound Waxe Colophonie of each two ounces Turpentine Pitch Perosine and Cowes suet of each two pound and a half Frankensence and Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce and so make your Unguent The golden Vnguent called Vnguentum Aureum TAke yellow Waxe foure ounces Oyle one pound Turpentine Colophonie and Rozen of each one ounce Frankensence and Masticke of each halfe an ounce Saffron a dram and so make an Unguent To make a drying Vnguent called Vnguentum Calaminaris TAke the Stone called Lapis Calaminaris Deeres Suet and Waxe of each foure ounces oyle of Roses halfe a pound Camphere two drams and so make your Unguent according to Art To make the white Oyntment called Vnguentum Album Rasis TAke oyle of Roses halfe a pound Waxe two ounces Ceruse sixe ounces the whites of three Egges and Camphere a dram and after these things be melted and commixed together you must wash it with rose-Rose-water To make Vnguentum Lytargerii TAke oyle of Roses one pound Litarge of Lead one pound Vineger halfe a pound Camphere two drams and so make your Unguent To make Vnguentum Lypeione TAke the juyce of Honey-suckles a quart Honey a pinte white Copperas halfe a pound and so make your Unguent To make the Incarnative Vnguent TAke oyle of greene Balme two pound Waxe and Perosine of each halfe a pound Deeres suet foure ounces Frankensence and Myrrhe of each two ounces of Turpentine foure ounces the yolkes of foure Egges and so make your Unguent Another Incarnative Vnguent TAke Deeres suet oyle of Roses Rozen Pitch Litarge of Gold Frankensence and Myrrhe of each foure ounces and so make your Unguent To make Vnguentum Viride TAke Ossingie Porsine one pound Verdigreace two ounces Sall gemme halfe an ounce and so make your Unguent Another Vnguent TAke burnt Allom and Vineger of each two ounces Ossingie Porsine sixe ounces and so make an Unguent A drying Vnguent TAke oyle of Roses one pound Waxe sixe ounces Litarge of Gold and Silver Bdelium gum Armoniack red Corall Dragons bloud Deeres suet Masticke of each two ounces Camphere halfe an ounce and so make your Unguent An Vnguent against the Morphew TAke quicke Brimstone sixe drams oyle of Tartary foure drams Ceruse Unguentum Cytrium of each two drams oyle of Roses sixe drams the white of an Egge as much Vineger as needs and so make your Unguent An Vnguent called Rosye TAke Rozen Turpentine and Honey of each halfe a pound Linseed and Fenecrick of each one ounce Myrrhe one ounce Sercoll one ounce let them all be made in fine powder and so make an Unguent thereof An Vnguent for Vlcers in the Arme. TAke Litarge of Gold and silver Ceruse of each two ounces Bole-armoniac half an ounce Lapis Calaminaris Dragons blood of each one ounce Frankensence and Mastick of each halfe an ounce Tartarie Sall-gemme and Camphere of each two drams Turpentine washed in rose-Rose-water and Waxe of each two ounces oyle of Elders half an ounce oyle of Bayes two drams oyle of Violets and of Poppie of each foure drams and so make your Unguent it is an excellent oyntment An Vnguent against Cabes TAke Storax liquide two ounces Bay-salt in fine powder and oyle of Roses of each one ounce the juyce of Orenges as much as shall need and so make your Unguent according to Art An Vnguent called the gift of God TAke Orras powder Sall-gemme Sall-Nitrie of each one ounce a Stone called Lapis Magnates two ounces Lapis Calaminaris two ounces Waxe one pound Oyle three pound and so make your Unguent according to Art A precious Vnguent TAke Ceruse washed one ounce in an ounce of Vineger burnt Lead foure ounces Litarge two ounces Myrrhe one ounce Honey of Roses two ounces oyle of Roses sixe ounces the Yolkes of sixe Egges and Waxe as much as needs and so make your Unguent Another Vnguent against Cabes TAke the juyce of Sallendine Femitary Borage Scabious and Dockes of each three ounces Litarge of gold washed Ceruse burnt Brasse Brimstone Bay salt burnt Allom of each halfe an ounce oyle of Roses two ounces Storax liquide Turpentine of each one ounce Vineger foure ounces Ossingie Perosine one pound and a halfe and so make your oyntment To make the greene Oyntment called Vnguentum Viride TAke Waxe one pound Perosine one pound Frankensence halfe a pound gum Arabic halfe a pound Verdigrease two ounces Honey foure ounces oyle Olive two pound and so make your Unguent An Vnguent to increase Flesh TAke the gum Dragagant and dissolve it in Rose-water and make an Unguent An Vnguent to heale the Serpigo TAke Pepper Bay-salt Tartary Verdigreace Allumines ynke of each halfe an ounce Ceruse Litarge and Quicksilver well killed of each two drams of Ossingie Perosine as much as needs An Vnguent for Fistulaes TAke Myrrhe Masticke Alloes and Epatick of each two ounces the juyce of Salendine Planten Honey of Roses and Vineger of each a like quantity and make it an Unguent An oyntment for a greene Wound TAke oyle of Turpentine one ounce the oyle of Vulpinum one ounce oyle of Camomill two ounces and make thereof an Unguent A cold Vnguent TAke oyle of Roses and Waxe of each two ounces the juyce of red Gowrd leaves Night-shade leaves of each two ounces Ceruse washed burnt Lead washed in Rose-water or Planten water of each halfe an ounce Frankensence two drams melt all together and decoct it a little and then take it from the fire and put it into a Leaden Morter wherein you must labour it a good while and so make your Unguent An Vnguent for a sawse-fleame Face TAke May butter one pound Hony-suckle flowers three handfuls stampe the flowers and the Butter together and lay it in fuse for sixe dayes space then melt it and straine it and put thereto quicke Brimstone the weight of twelve pence finely powdered and so reserve it for your use An Vnguent for the Piles TAke Mollene Archangell red Fennell stamped small of each a like quantity and as much Ossingie as of the Hearbes Mixe all these together and lay it â— rotting a weeke space then straine it and keepe it for that use Another Vnguent for the Piles TAke Yarrow and May butter and stampe them together and apply them as hot as may be suffered To make Vnguentum Lipcium TAke a quart of Juyce of Honey suckles and a pinte of Hony and halfe a pound of white Coperas and seethe them on the fire and let them boyle till it waxe blacke then put in your Copperas in fine powder To make Vnguentum Fanscome TAke Waxe one pound Rozen Colophonie of each two pound Pitch one pound Cowes suet one pound May-butter halfe a pound
of the sand or gravell in the bladder for it will breake the Stone within him Jtem this water being drunke sustaineth and lightneth all the members of man of what Disease soever he be grieved with 10. To make water of Sage the tenth Water TAke Sage and Pollyon of each a like quantity and breake them in a morter and put them in a Stillatorie and distill Water sthereof this waterdrunke fasting eateth away all manner of sicknesse Item this wate r sodden with Castory and drunke fasting of all Medicines in the world it prolongeth most a mans life Item if a man be fore-spoken doe this nine dayes and he shall be whole but it must be taken with warme water Item this water being drunke fasting draweth away all evill in the stomacke or wombe Item it is good against the Scabbes and causeth a man to have good blood and good colour in the face Item this water being drunke hote in the morning or in the day healeth any manner oâ— evill in a man within three dayes if the Patient be in any wise curable To make Aqua Vitae TAke Isope Rosemary Violet Verven Bitony Hearbe-Iohn Mouseare Planten Avence Sage and Fetherfoy of each a handfull and washing them put them in a gallon of white Wine and so let it stand all night cleane covered and then on the morrow distill it and keepe the water well This water is good for the Megrim in the Head and for the Impostume in the head and for the Dropsie in the Head and for the Fever in the head and for all manner of Aches and sicknesse in the Head To make Aqua Magistralis TAke the rootes of Pyonie the rootes of Turpentine the crops of Fennell of Egrimonie Honysuccle Celondine Rewe Chickweed Pimpernell Phillippendula the tender leaves of the Vine Eufraâ—e Sowthistle Red-roses Strawbery leaves and Verven of each alike quantity and bray them in a Morter and put them in good white Wine nine dayes and then put thereto a pinte of womans milke that doth nurse a Man-child and as much Urine of a man-child of a yeare old and as much pured Hony and put them all together and let them stand three dayes so and then distill them in a Stillatorie and keepe well this water in a Glasse vessell that no Ayre come thereto and if you will occupie this water wash thine eyes therewith and use it and if ever man be holpen of the disease of the Eyes this will helpe him in short time A precious Water for Eyes that seeme faire and yet be blind TAke Smalledge red Fennell Rew Verven Byttony Egrimony Sinck-â—oile Eufrase Sage Pimpernell and Selondine of each a quarterne and wash them cleane and stampe them small and put them in a brasse Pan and powder of Tuttie of Pepper of Ceruse and a pinte of white wine and put it to the Hearbes and two or three spoonfuls of Hony and seven spoonfuls of the water of a Man-child and temper them together and boyle them over the fire a little and straine it thorow a cloth and put it into a Glasse and stop it well till you will occupy it and when you will use it put it into thine eyes with a Feather and if it waxe thicke temper it with white wine and then use it often A Water that will helpe onâ— that is troubled with sore eyes being debarred of sight TAke of Rosemary Smalledge Rewe Verven Mather Eufrase Endive Houseleeke Fulwort red Fennell and Selandine of each a like half a quarterne and wash them cleane and lay them in white Wine a day and a Night and then distill them in a Stillatorie the first water will be like Gold the second like Silver and the third will be like Balme and that is good for all sores of the eyes To make another Aqua Vitae TAke Nutmegs Gallingale Spikenard of Spaine of each two penny-worth and of Cloves Graines Ginger of each one penny-worth two penny worth of Annys take and bray them all in a brasse Morter and then take a handfull of wild Sage and of the other Sage Rosemary Isope Savery puliall royal puliall of the Mountaine Sothernwood Hore-hound Worme-wood and Egrimony Bettony Jvie leaves of each a like handfull and two pennyworth of Quibebes and bruise all these in a Morter then take three Gallons of good red Wine and put it into a brazen pot and then put the Spices and Hearbes therein and set the Stillatory above and close it well and take faire Paste and put it about the brinkes hard with thy hand and make it cleave well and sadly thereto and when it doth begin to waxe hot put cold water above in the Stillatorie and when it doth waxe hot let the water runne out at the Conduite and put in new cold water and so doe as oft as yee shall thinke good but looke that the fire be not too great for if it be then will the water come up and if there come up smoake of the Stillatorie with the Water then is the fire too much and if it be not then it is well tempered The making of Waters in colours and first of greene Waters TAke white Wine a pinte the water of Roses and Planten of each sixe ounces Orpiment one ounce Verdigrease halfe an ounce c. Another greene Water TAke the waters of Honey-suckles Planten and Roses of each halfe a pinte Orpiment Allome Ceruse and Verdigrease of each two drams white Wine Juyce of Planten of each halfe an ounce and it is done Waters for old Vlcers TAke white Wine and running Water of each a pinte Frankensence and Allome of each one ounce Decocted in Balme for three houres space and it is done A good Drinke for the Gummorium Passio TAke Bursa Pastoris Planten of each two handfuls take the Juyce thereof in a pinte of good Ale and drinke it three times in a day for three dayes A Water for old Vlcers in the Armes TAke Smiths water a quart burnt Allome one pound Salarmoniac one ounce Galls two ounces Tartary Copperas of each one ounce distill all these with shreds so keepe the water to your use A Water for a Canker TAke Bugle Fennell and Rosa-Solis of each a like and take as much in quantity of Honey suckle flowers as of all the other hearbes and let them be cleane picked and so distilled in a Stillatorie and keepe it close for it is a precious water A Femitorie Water IS to be drunke in the Morning at Noone and at night it is much worth against Dropsies and Sweating sicknesse it purgeth Fleame and Choller and Melancholy and it bringeth forth heate and dry Sicknesse and it is good for the paine of the Head to wash it and drinke it A Water of Rosemariâ— IT hath more vertues in it then a man can tell one is if a man have an Arrow or Jron within him wet a tent and put into the wound and drinke the same water and it shall avoyd out and it helpeth all Wounds inward and
outward the Canker the Fester and it killeth the Wormes in man or Child and all manner of Impostumes inward and outward it helpeth the Tysicke and Fluxe white or bloody it is a great helpe for a woman with Child to drinke thereof also it maketh cleane the Face or any where if yee wash it therewith Water of Verven IF if it be distilled in the later end of May it hath vertue to spring Choller and to heale Wounds and to cleere the Eye-sight it is a principall thing to compound Medicines A Locion for a sore Mouth YOu must take of honey-suckle-Honey-suckle-water halfe a pinte Planten and rose-Rose-water of each foure ounces Honey of Roses two ounces Alloes one ounce white Copperas and Vineger of each halfe an ounce and so use it A Water for a sore mouth TAke Lapis Calaminaris beaten into fine powder and put in a pinte of white Wine then take a pottle of water and Rosemary boyle it in the water till it be halfe sodden away then straine the water from the Rosemary and put it into the white Wine and so it is done A compound Water TAke first Pimpernell Rew Valerian or Sedwall Alocelipis cap and breake them and lay them in this said water following Take Isop Pulyall Royall Anniseedes and Centorie and beate them in a morter and after put them in a Stillatory and distill water of them which is very vertuous and let them boyle together and after that straine them that the water may goe from them and close this water in Vials of glasse the space of nine dayes and give it to him that hath the Falling-evill foure dayes fasting after it six houres and this is the truest medicine for this Disease that wee can sinde except the mercy of God and this Water drinking is good for the Palsie if it be drunke fasting also it is good for all Gowtes likewise in the time that they be mortified in the members and limbes of a man it is very helping to Wounds that are festered if they be washed therewith it destroyeth all manner of Fevers Behly Water TAke Water a pottle Suger-Candy foure ounces let them seethe then put in foure ounces of Verdigrease in fine powder and let it seethe A good Barley water for all Diseases of the Lungs or Lights TAke half a pound of faire Barly a gallon of Water half an ounce of Licorice Fennell-seed Violets and Parsley-seed of each a quarter of an ounce red Roses a quarter of an ounce dry Hysop and Sage of each a penny-weight sixe leaves of Harts-tongue a quarter of an ounce of Figs and Raysins boyle all these in a new pot of cold Water and then straine them cleare from it and drinke it The same cooleth the Liver and all the members driveth away all evill heat slaketh thirst is the cause of much evacuation it purgeth the Lights and Spleene the Kidneyes and Bladder and it causeth to make water well and more especially it is good for all Agues that come of heat A good Drinke for the Pox. TAke Selendine and English Saffron the weight of a halfe-penny and a farthing-worth of Graines a quarterne of long Pepper a penny-weight of Mace and a little stale Ale then stampe your Herbe and pound your Saffron and mingle them well together and so drinke it next your heart A very good Drinke for the Cough TAke a quart of white Wine and boyle it with Lycorice Anniseeds and Suger-candy of each a like quantity putting therein tenne Figs of the best and boyle it untill it be halfe consumed and so preserve thereof to drinke Evening and morning three or foure spoonefuls warmed A restorative made of the Herbe Rosa Solis with other things but they must bee gathered in June or July THis herbe Rosa Solis groweth in Marish ground and in no other place and it is of a hoary colour and groweth very lowe and flat to the ground and it hath a meane long stalke growing in the middest of it and seaven branches springeth out of the roote round about the stalke with leaves coloured and of a meane length and breadth and in no wise when this Hearbe should be gathered touch not the Hearbe it selfe with your hands for then the vertue thereof is gone yee must gather and plucke it out of the ground by the stalke yee must lay it in a cleane basket the Leaves of it is full of strength and nature and gather so much of this hearbe as will fill a pottle pot or glasse but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua Composita and put them both in a large pot or vessell and let it stand hard and fast stopped three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day open it and straine it through a faire linnen-cloath into a cleane glasse or pewter pot and put thereto a pound of Sugar small beaten one pound of Licorice beaten to powder and one pound of Dates the stones taken out and they cut in small pieces then mingle them altogether and stop the glasse or pewter pot well so that no ayre come into it in any wise Thus done yee may drinke of it at night when yee goe to bed one spoonefull mixt with Aqua Vitae or stale Ale and as much in the morning fasting and there is not the weakest body in the worlâ— that is wasted by Consumption or otherwise but it will restore him againe and make him to be strong and lusty and to have a good stomacke and that shortly and hee or shee that useth this three times together shall finde great remedy or comfort thereby and as the patient doth feele himselfe so he may use it How to make Doctor Stevens precious Water which Dr. Chambers and others made tryall of and did approve the vertue of it TAke a gallon of Gascoigne wine then take Ginger Galingall Cinamon Nutmegs graines of Paradise Cloves Mace Anniseeds Fennell-seed and Carraway-seed of every of them a dram then take Sage red Mints Rose leaves Tyme Pellitory of Spaine Rosemary Peny-mountaine otherwise wild Tyme Camomill and Lavender of every of them a handfull then beat the Spices small and bruise the hearbes and put all into the Wine and let it stand the space of twelve dayes stirring it divers times then distill it in a Limbeck and keepe the first pinte of the water for it is the best and then will come a second kind of water keepe that close in a violl of glasse and set it in the Sun a certaine space The vertues of this Water be these It comforteth the spirits and preserveth the youth of a man and helpeth the inward Diseases commeth of cold and against the shaking of the Palsie It cureth the contraction of Sinewes and helpeth the Conception of women that be barren It killeth the Wormes in the belly It helpeth cold Gouts It helpeth the Tooth-ache It comforteth the Stomack very much It cureth the cold Dropsie It helpeth the stone in the Bladder and the Reynes in the back It
est Remedies to provoke Menstruum Mulieris TAke powder of Peeter Bittony Yarrowseed in white Wine and drinke it Another Take Mugwort Selondine Marigold Verven Nippe of each nine crops three dayes before the change and three dayes before the full of the Moone Another Take Germander and the rootes of red Madder and seethe it in Ale and give it her to drinke or else take Radishes Et semen pionae red Sanders and Suger and use it as aforesaid Another Take Cotula Fetuda the which is like Camomill but it stinketh and make a fomentation thereof Another Take the Juyce of Mercury and Honey and flower of Cockle as much as will incorporate it and make thereof little balls and give her one or two of them and she shall have Menstruum also it shall after dispose her to conceive for it hath seldome failed and is well proved Another Take the blacke seed of Pionie and bruise them one by one to the number of nine and picke of the blacke huskes and in a Morter breake them to powder eate and drink the said powder at times afore said in the second Medicine Pro eadem Another Take the rootes of Gladion and Arsmart and seethe them in good white Wine or Vineger and when they be well sodden take them from the fire and let the woman sit over it so that the ayre may strike up and none goe away for this is proved Another Take Bittonie Puliall Royall Centory of each a handfull seethe them with Wine or water till the two parts be wasted and then clense it thorow a cloth and drinke it Another Take Balme Margerom Isope and Marigolds a handfull seethe them from a pottle to a quart upon a soft fire and so take it and drinke it every morning fasting and if it be bitter put thereto Suger and use it Remedies to stop Menstruum Mulieris TAke the blackest holly-hocks that yee can get and take the flowers thereof and make them in powder and drinke them and wash the place with the water of Lovage Another Take the water of Oake leaves distilled halfe a pinte of rose-Rose-water and Syrrupe of Quinces sixe ounces and let her drinke thereof first and last Another Take Horse-dung and seethe it in good Vineger and put it into little bagges of linnen cloth and lay the one upon the Reines of the backe and the other betweene the Navill and the privie place as warme as shee may suffer it and let her drinke it every Morning and Evening with a little Synamon till shee be whole Another Take the rootes of Gladium and seeth them well in Wine or water and receive the fume thereof It never failed To stop white Menstruum and red TAke the Juyce of Planten and of Bursa Pastoris and two whites of Egges well beaten among the Juyce and put thereto Bole-armoniack one ounce and of Terra sigillata one ounce and a portion of Beane flower and make it thicke upon the fire and draw thereof a Plaister upon thin cloth and lay it to her Backe and Navill Another for the white TAke the inner rinde of the Sloe tree Sumatch Balestianes the rinde of the Pomegranate Planten Knot-grasse the inner rinde of the red Bryer and a little French-Bolearmoniack and boyle all these in red Wine till halfe be consumed and let her drinke it fasting Et restringet fluxum Menstruum Another Take the foote and Legge of a Hare and bake it to powder haire and all and drinke it and it restraineth the same The vertue of Fearne THe Root is good to be drunke and laid to Plaister-wise for the Wounds that are made with Reedes and in like manner the roote of the Reede drunke and laid Plaister-wise to the sore where Fearne sticketh The Powder is good to be strowed upon moyst Sores which are hard to be covered with skin and ill to be healed the Juyce pressed out of the Fearne roote laid to with Rose-water or other cold water is good for all manner of burning or scalding perfectly and sure To take away heate and inflamation of a Member TAke the waters of Planten and Purslaine of each two ounces and the water of a little hearbe called Verniculaâ—is two ounces Litarge and Ceruse in fine powder of each foure drams and Camphere three graines mixe all these together and so use them A Locion for a sore Mouth TAke running water a pinte Vineger halfe a pinte Honey foure ounces Bay leaves one ounce Galingale one dram Let all these be decocted to the forme of a Syrope A preparative TAke Syrope of Violets Endiffe and of Femitory of each two ounces and of common Decoction foure ounces To make Vergent milke by D. Yaxley TAke Litarge of Leade one pound with Vineger a pinte laid in fuse three dayes and then drawne with woollen shreds and so keepe it in a Viall by it selfe close then take foure ounces of Conduit-water and one ounce of Allome and one dram of Camphere and melt all over the Fire and keepe the water by it selfe in another Viall and when you will use it put both these waters together of each a like quantity and it will be like milke It taketh away the spottes and Freckles in the Face if it be often applyed thereto A comfortable Powder for the Heart TAke Synamon Ginger of each three ounces graines of Paradice long Pepper of each two drams Saffron one dram Suger foure ounces and so make your Powder A Remedy that breaketh the Stone TAke a pound of Grâ—mmell a pound of Saxifrage seed and a pound of Coriander with a quarter of a pound of Soras white and red and grinde all these in a Morter very small and so keepe it using to eate thereof in your Pottage every day a spoonefull Another Take Time Damsons Beane-Cods Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage a like quantities and sleepe them one night in white Wine then distill them and use to drinke thereof Another remedy for the Stone and to cause the voydance of Vrine TAke Pellitorie of the Wall Sothernwood and seeth them in Water or white Wine with a quantity of Sheepes Suet till it bee tender then put the hearbes and tallow in a linnen bag and lay it warme to the bottome of the belly using this you shall finde remedy A proved Medicine to avoid the Vrine that hath beene long stopped TAke Radish rootes one if it be of bignesse and strong is sufficient and scrape it very cleane and lay it in white Wine a night in steepe then straine the Wine and give the Patient to drinke and he shall voyd water A very good water for the stone proved THe water of Strawberries with the leaves distilled and so used by draughts as other drinke To breake the Stone DRy the stones of a Cock a yeare old and â—eate them into fine powder and give the diseased thereof to drinke in white Wine but if he have the Charward then give it to drink with good water Doctor Argentines Medicine for the Stone TAke the
quantity boyle all these together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the griefe Another Take a lapfull of Nettles another of Neppe seethe them in Chamber-lye and put therein a handfull of Bay-salt and a quantity of blacke Soape and let them boyle well together and lay it to the griefe For Sore Eyes TAke Fennell rootes white Daisie rootes and leaves and lay it in white Wine and wash your Eyes with it To stoppe a great Laske TAke a pottle of faire water and put therein a Cony fleyed well washed and quartered and let it be well skimmed when it doth seethe then take a good handfull of Almondâ— unblanched and the stones of great Raisins and beat them in a Morter with some of the broth in the Pot and unâ—trained put them in then take halfe an ounce of whole Cinamon a handfull of Blackberry leaves a handfull of Planten with the rootes thereof the Pot being cleane skimmed put the aforesaid gredience therein and let all boyle till it come to a quart then straine the broth and let the Patient drinke thereof Morning and Evening or at other convenient times in the day Analliter if the aforesaid Broth be warmed with a gad of Steele when it is cold it is so much the better To cause one to make Water TAke Parceley and seethe it in white Wine and drinke it Morning and Evening For the Wind Collicke TAke Commin-seede or fine Cod seede and beat them to Powder and put it into Ale Beere or white Wine and drinke it and it will make one Laxative For to make a Water for the same TAke Broomeseed and beate it to Powder and drinke it with Muskadine or any other Wine For to bind on from the Laske TAke a penny-worth of Roch Allome and seeth it in a pinte of white Wine and drinke it For to skinne a sore Finger TAke Nervall Oyle or Rose Oyle or Camomill Oyle or Pompilion and annoynt your Finger or shinne with it and it will be whole For a vehement Cough in young Children TAke the Juyce of Parcely powder of Commin Womens milke and mixe them together then give the Child to drinke thereof and afterward make this Oyntment following Take the seed of Hempe or Flaxe and Fennycrick and seethe them in common water then presse out with your hands the substance of the Hearbs which you shall mingle with Butter and so annoynt the Childes brest with it as hot as may be For a broken Head TAke unwrought Waxe and a little Sugar and running Water and boyle it in a Sawcer and make a Plaister and be w ho le For Chilblaines in the Feet or Hands TAke Sheeps Suet and unwrought Wax and Rozen and boyle it in a Sawcer and make a a Salve and it will heale them To kill the Tooth-ache or a Ring worme or a Tetter TAke Oyle of Broome and annoynt the Gums at the roote of the Tooth where the paine is It must bee used after this manner Take a piece of old Broomesticke the older the better and light it and hold it downeward and it will drop that which is yellow and annoynt your Gummes with it or put it in the hollow Tooth For a Stitch. TAke Groundsill and dry it and put sweet Butter into it and put it where the paine is as hot as may be suffered Or take Oates the blackest that you can get and fry them with red Vineger and lay it as hot as may be suffered where the paine is For an Ache or a Bruise TAke oyle of Peeter it must be used after this manner Take a stoole and when that you are Rising or going to Bed sit with your Backe towards the fire you must have a great fire and where the paine is you must rub it with some of the Oyle all downewards and they that doe dresse you must dry their hands well against the fire and chafe it To make white Teeth TAke Lemmons and make stild water of them and wash your Teeth with it for it is a soveraigne thing Or if you will not make the water take the Liquor of them which is also good for the same purpose but the water is better because it is finer so that in the Stilling it lose not his force A Medicine for a swelling in the Cheekâ— TAke a pinte of white Wine and halfe a handfull of Camomill flowers and seethe them in the white Wine and wash your cheeke both within and without as hote as you can suffer it To make a Perfume suddenly in a Chamber where a sicke man lyeth TAke a little Earthen Pot and put into it a Nutmeg two scruples of the sticke of Cloves and two of the sticke of Cinamon and foure of storax Calamint Rose-water or water of Spike or some other sweet water and seethe it then put it into a pot-shard with a few hot Ashes and coales under it and set it in the Chamber and the smoake thereof shall give a sweet amiable and hearty savour To make a cleere voyce TAke Elder-berries and dry them in the Sunne but take heed they take no moysture then make powder of them and drinke it every Morning fasting with white Wine A Medicine for the Mother TAke a pinte of Malmsie a little quantity of Commin-seede and Coriander-seed and a Nutmegge beate these together and then seethe them to halfe a piâ—te with a little white Suger-candie you must take a spoonefull at a time A Medicine for a Stitch or Bruise TAke three quarts of small Ale and one penny-worth of Figs and one pennyworth of great Reisons and cut the stones out of them and one penny-worth of Licorice of Isope of Violet leaves and of Lettice of each one handfull and seethe them from three quarts to three pints and straine it and so let the person drinke it and after make this Plaister following Take a quantity of horse dung and a quantity of Tarre fry it and put a little Butter and Vineger into it and make a Plaister and lay it to the side For the bloody Fluxe TAke of Suger rosset made of dry Roses of Trissendall of each one ounce and a half mixe these together and eate it with meat or drinke it with drinkes but the best remedy J could find is to take three handfuls of St. Johns woort as much Planten and as much Cressis and seethe these in a gallon of Raine water or red Wine to a pottle and straine it then put to it two ounces of Sinamon beaten and drinke thereof often Also take a Spunge and seethe it in a pint of Muskadine and wring it and let the Patient sit over it close as hot as they can suffer it and cover them warme Remedies for the Itch. TAke of Salt-water a gallon and seethe it with three handfuls of wheaten bread crums that is leavened and wash your body with the water Or wash your body in the Sea two or three times Or else take the bran made of Cockle-seeds three handfuls and of the powder of
halfe a pound Carab one ounce mixe all these in an Earthen dish on the fire with Oyle of Roses in forme of a Liquid Unguent and that yee shall lay upon the place grieved as hot as yee may suffer it and change it Morning and Evening and yee shall see it worke a marvailous effect Moreover when the Pelichie commeth forth a diseased let him bee folded in the same remedy very hot and in foure and twenty houres yee shall be holpe if yee be first well purged for this is a great secret which J have revealed This word Pelichy is as it were certaine spots like those which we call Gods tokens the which commonly come to those that have the Pestilent Feaver To make a maturative Plaister of great vertue This maturative doth open an Impostume without Instrument and paine And the order to make it is this TAke the yolkes of Egges two ounces white Salt finely ground one ounce Hens dung that is liquid and red like Honey one ounce Mixe all these well together without fire and when you will bring an Impostume to seperation and breake it lay on this Plaister Morning and Evening a little and in short time it will draw forth the Impostume and breake it and heale it without any other helpe Keepe this as a great secret for J have oftentimes made proofe thereof and it never failed A Plaister called Bessilicon TAke white Waxe Rozen Pine Cowes suet Stone-pitch Turpentine Olibany of each of these one ounce and of good Oyle as much as will serve the turne and make it into a Plaister Another Plaister for the same TAke Balme Bittony Pimpernell of each of them a handfull lay them in a Fuse in a pottle of white-wine Vinegar two dayes then let them be boyled strongly till the third part be consumed put thereto Rozen one pound white Waxe foure ounces Masticke one ounce Turpentine one pound and so make your Plaister The Mellilote Plaister TAke Mellilote tenne handfuls let it be small stamped and laid in Fuse foure dayes in a pottle of white Wine and then boyl it strongly till the third part bee consumed then let it coole and put thereto Rozen two pound Perosine one pound and Waxe one pound Deere suet one pound Masticke one ounce Frankensence foure ounces and so make your Plaister according to Art The Musilage Plaister TAke March Mallow rootes Fenecricke and Linseed of each one pound lay them in fuse in three quarts of water three dayes then boyle it over the fire a little and so straine it to a Musilage and then take thereof one pound and of Lytarge of Lead foure pound of good Oyle sixe pound put all over the fire in a great vessell and so let it boyle with a soft fire ever stirring it till it come to the forme of a Plaister accordingly Another Plaister for the same TAke the Juyce of Bittony Planten and Smalledge of each one pound Waxe Rozen and Turpentine of each one pound Pitch foure ounces and so make your worke and dissolve it to a Plaister A Plaister of Camphere TAke common Oyle one pound Waxe foure ounces Seruse one ounce Camphere one ounce and so make it into a Plaister it is a very soveraigne thing A Spiced Plaster TAke white Waxe one pound Perosine one pound Colophony foure ounces Rozen one pound Deere suet one pound Cloves and Mace foure ounces Saffron one ounce red Wine and water of each a quart boyle these altogether till they come to a Plaister A Plaister called Apostolicum TAke white Lead and red of each one pound Oyle foure pound stirre them altogether and boyle them with a soft fire to the forme of a Plaister according to Art A Drying Plaister TAke Oyle of Roses Deeres suet of each one pound Terra Sigillata Lapis Calaminaris Seruse of each one pound Sanguis Draconis three ounces and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine foure ounces Camphere halfe an ounce and so by Art make a Plaister A Plaister for the Gowt Arteticke TAke Oxium and Saffron of each one dram in fine powder tempered in the yolkes of three Egges hard boyled and oyle of Violets or Roses Plaister-wise applyed to the painfull place upon a little sheeps leather and let it lye on till it come off of it selfe Probatum est A Plaister to stake paine TAke crummes of white Bread foure ounces temper them with sweet Milke and the yolkes of foure Egges hard boyled and take of oyle of Roses three drams and in the making put thereto a little Turpentine and Saffron two drams in fine powder and so use it A Plaister against the coldnesse of the Nerves TAke Waxe two ounces Euforbium Castoris of each halfe an ounce Sheepes suet and Pitch of each one ounce Turpentine a dram and so make your worke according to Art A good cold drying Plaister TAke Oyle one pound Waxe ten ounces Seruse and Lytarge of Gold of each foure ounces boyled with a soft fire in a Furnace will turne to a Plaister A red Plaister TAke Waxe Deeres suet of each one ounce Lapis Calaminaris Bole-armony of each one dram Turpentine one ounce Camphere a dram mixe all these together and so make a Plaister A blacke Plaister TAke of Waxe and Oyle of each a pound Ceruse and Litarge of each five ounces Terra Sigillata one ounce boyle altogether till it be blacke and like a Plaister A blacke Plaister for old Sores TAke Litarge of Gold and Ceruse of each one ounce the Cinders of Jron Quilled story Fererie fixe drams Oyle of Roses foure ounces new Waxe one ounce strong Vineger two drams mixe them well together and so make it according to Art A Plaister to dissolve hard things TAke Gum Armoniack Serapine Bdelium Oppoponacie of each one ounce oyle of Spike five drams Turpentine two drams the mell of Fennicrick and Linseed of each one ounce the mell of Lupianes as much as needs and so make your Plaister Another blacke Plaister for the same TAke Oyle one pound Waxe and Ceruse of each halfe a pound and so make a Plaister according to Art A Plaister against old Sores TAke Oyle twelve ounces Litarge of Gold halfe a pound Vineger sixe ounces Ceruse Colophonie Perosine Pitch Goates Suet of each two ounces Dragons bloud Terra sigillata of each one ounce Waxe two ounces and a halfe and so with a soft fire make a Plaister it is an approved Remedy A cooling Plaister TAke Litarge of Lead one pound Oyle foure pound wine Vineger two pound and so boyle them to a Plaister and apply it A Plaister to draw an Impostume TAke Galbanum and Gum Armoniack of each one pound dissolved in Vineger and foure pound of Suger for foure dayes together and then boyled untill the Vineger bee consumed with a soft fire and so make your plaister A Plaister made for the Lord Marke de Wise TAke Virgin-wax two pound of Perosine so much Galbanum and Gum-armoniack of each halfe a pound Pitch foure ounces Deeres suet and Ceruse of
foure times together Another for the same TAke a quantity of Broome-seed Grouncel-seed Parcely-seed Alexander-seed Ashenkey-seed Lepthorne-seed or Berries Phillipendula dryed Saxifrage dryed Mouseare dryed Growobicke dryed mixe all these together in your drinke and drinke it Morning and Evening fasting Another Take Civet and rub your Navill therewith and champe Rosemary in your mouth and it easeth the Collick incontinently A most excellent Medicine for the Collicke and Stone with other vertues TAke Pimpernell Mustard Crowfoot Gauriophe Mastick and bruise them all well together and then mingle them with the blood of a Goat and put thereto good Vineger or a little Alligre and let them stand certaine dayes after your discretion and put them into a Stillatory and distill a water thereof this water is good for the Stone or gravell whether that it be red or white plaine or sharpe or if it be hardened If the Patient doe drinke thereof every day fasting the Stone will breake and goe away like sand Also if Scald heads bee washed therewith it will heale them and there shall grow new haire and if the Scabs be washt therewith of what nature soever it bee hee shall be whole with three dayes or nine at the furthest Also this Water drunke fasting makes a man to have a good colour and good blood Also this water drunke with Castorie twice in one day destroyeth all Palsies which is not dead in the sinewes and members before for it comforteth the sinewes principally This water is very much approved For the Collicke and Stone TAke halfe a pint of white Wine and a good quantity of white Sope scrape it and put it into the wine and make it luke warme and then drinke it once twice or thrice or as often as the Patient needs A Powder for the Collicke and Stone TAke Parcely-seed Saxifrage Alisander and Coriander-seeds the kernels of Cherry-stones Smallage-seed Lovage the rootes of Phillipendula of each a dram Bay-berries and Ivie-berries of each a dram put to all these as much Ginger as they all weigh and adde thereto half an ounce of Commin this powder is to be taken in Ale halfe a dram at once thrice a day A speciall Remedy for the Stone TAke the stones of Medlers lay them upon a hot Tyle-stone and after that you have rubbed and dryed them in a faire linnen cloth then being thorowly dryed beat them into a powder and put to it a quantity of Time and Parcely and place it upon the fire with Beere and Butter and throw in halfe a spoonefull of the said powder and hereof you must drinke a good draught fasting in the morning and eate nor drinke nothing else for the space of three houres after Another Take a quantity of Anniseeds Lycorice Fennell-roots and Parcely-rootes Raysins and Currans and let all these be boyled in Whey from a pottle to a quart and so strained and drinke it A Powder for the Stone TAke the Seed of Gromell Broome Saxifrage Alisander Parcely and Fennell of all these seeds a like quantity beat them very well together and so drinke halfe a spoonfull of that Powder or a spoonfull at a time in a draught of good Ale making it luke warme in any wise before you drinke it To make the Stone slip downe the narrow passages betweene the Kidney and the Bladder TAke a great handfull of Pellitory of the wall and the like quantity of Mallowes boyle them in a frying-pan with a good quantity of fresh Butter so that they be not parched nor dry And when you see by the frying that some good part of the vertue of the herbes is gone into the butter take the hearbes so fryed somewhat fat with the butter and lay it the length of halfe a yard or more betweene the fold of a Napkin and in bredth about 6 or 7. Inches then clap the fattie side of the napkin all along from the back-bone to your flanke above the hippe especially on that side where the paine is as hot as may be suffered when it is cold apply a fresh one and in three or foure times doing the passage will bee inlarged whereby the Stone will slip downe and the paine cease A Posset drinke against the Stone TAke Pellitory of the wall three crops of Lavender Cotton three Parcely roots and one Fennell root the pithes taken out and they scraped and washed stampe the hearbes and rootes together then put thereto one pinte of Rhenish or white Wine straine the wine from the herbes and with a pint of new Milke make a posset thereof drinke freely of it Morning and evening first and last at the new and full of the Moone and walke well upon it Also take the hearbe Hartshorne boyled in white Wine and drunke in the morning fasting is good against the Stone and strangurie To make haire grow TAke and seeth Mallowes rootes and all and wash the place where Haire lacketh and it shall grow For to take away Haire TAke Horsleeches and burne them to powder and mingle it with Eysell and touch the place where the Haire groweth and it shall grow no more there Approved To make a barren woman beare Children TAke of these little Sea fishes called in Latine Pollipodes and roste them upon the coales with Oyle and let the woman eate of them and it shall profit and helpe very much having in the meane time the company of a man To make a woman have a quicke Birth TAke leaves of Dictarij and stampe them or else make powder of them and give the woman that laboureth drinke of it with a little water and she shall be delivered incontinent without any great paine or griefe For all manner of Lamenesse or swellings TAke a handfull of Time a handfull of Lav ender cotten and a handfull of running Strawberies that be like to a string and so cut them small then beate them in a Morter with foure or five young Swallowes taken out of the nest very fligge and quicke beat them together untill ye see never a feather of them whole that done take a penny-worth of May butter clarified and mingle it in the Morter with Hearbes and so let it stand foure and twenty houres before they sceth when you ha ve sodden it use it as before you are taught as well in preserving of it as in using of it For to stay the Laxe or Fluxe TAke Plantane otherwise called Weybred-leaves and rootes and wash them in faire water and then stampe them and take a good quantity of the Juyce and put it to old Ale and make a Posset therewith and after take the ale Posset and clarifie it upon the fire perfectly and then let the Patient drinke it blood warme in the morning and evening without taking of othtr drinke the space of two houres either before or after For the sweating Sicknesse YEe must take a good spoonfull of Treacle three spoonfuls of Vineger five spoonfuls of water and two spoonfuls of the juyce of Sinckfoyle swing them together and drinke
suffice make thereof a Plaister for the Spleene Another Take the tops of Acornes Rose leaves Coriander seed and Commin seed prepared of each one ounce Strado Arabiae Galanga of each two ounces Salinter I. Saltpeeter one ounce terrified mixe them and put them in a bagge quilted or basted quadrantwise and lay it to the place grieved Another Take Camomill flowers wheat bran and a pint of white Wine boyle them all together and put them in a bag then take oyles of Violets of Linseed and of Lillies of each a penniworth annoynt therewith and put your bagge hot thereto A Drinke for the Spleene TAke the juyce of Licorice one ounce Fennell-seed Anniseed and Juniper of each an ounce pound them all in a Morter together and so drinke it in your drinke Another Take three spoonfuls of the juyce of Ivie leaves in white Wine or else of the Juyce of Egrimony and drinke of it three or foure mornings fasting and it will helpe you To dissolve the hardnesse of the Spleene AMoniacum dissolved in very sharpe Vineger and spred upon leather Plaister-wise and applyed to the Spleene will mollifie the hardnesse thereof and it may lye thereto seven weekes and never be removed A soveraigne Medicine for the Spleene and to clense the body TAke Harts-tongue wilde Hoppes Lettice and Borage with the flowers of Fumitory and Parcely rootes seethe all these in Whay and clarifie it with whites of Egges straine it and drinke it first in the morning and last at night during the space of a Moneth and by Gods helpe it will cure your Spleene and clense your blood and comfort you many wayes for your health For Ache in the Backe TAke a great Onyon or two and roast them in the embers then stampe them and straine them out of the Ju yce and mix it with as much Malmesie as Juyce and drinke thereof blood warme first and last Probatum To stay the Backe and helpe him that consumeth TAke the rootes of Parcely Fennell Camphere and of Borage Planten Bursa Pastoris and Knotgrasse and make broth with them of young Hennes Capon Mutton Rabbets and Veale and put thereto a Date or two and yee may seethe them in posset Ale made of white Wine Another Take white Archangell Cumfrey flowers white Lillies white Roses white Holly hockes Knot-grasse and Clary stampe them and take a pottle of Muskadine and a pint of Ale with the pith of an Oxe backe and three capped Dates the stones taken out and beating them in a morter small then put in some of your Muskadine and grind it with some of your Ale and stirre it and boyle the rest thereof take also the yolkes of three new layd Egges the strings taken out and beat them well together and put thereto of Sinamon two penniworth and of whole Mace one penniworth and seethe all these to a quart and so use it Another Take the pith of an Oxe backe and scald it then straine it out of the skin and shred Nippe and beat it in a Morter very small putting thereto a quart of Milke and straine it and then seethe it with five or sixe Dates and a graine of Amber-greece and the powder of Ginger and let the Patient use it very often It is proved To take away the paine of the Reynes of one that is low brought TAke three quarts of white Wine and boyl therein a red Cocke and put thereto a handfull of red Nip a quantity of Clary and the rootes of red Fennell Harts-tongue a sticke of Synamon bruised Dates great and small Raisins with a few Prunes seeth all these together till the strength of the Cocke be in the broath and put therein one ounce of Manus Christi and use this Morning and Evening luke warme For Ache in the Backe and Legges TAke the marrow of an Oxe and oyle Olive three spoonefuls and the yolkes of Egges and Butter Pepper one ounce then take the milke of a woman and mingle it together and anoynt the sicke therewith For the Bladder and the Reynes TAke the seedes of Planten beaten in a Morter and seeth them in Wine and drinke thereof alone A Plaister for the Reynes TAke Callamint Camomill Wormewood Peritory Holyhockes and bray them in a Morter with Oyle Butter or Deere and Sheeps suet and grease of a Boare or Barrow hogge with a quantity of Commin and lay it on a Plaister both behind and before For all Diseases in the Backe TAke the rootes of Daisies of Planten of Bursa pastoris of Centimodum and the Cups of Acorns a handfull and of Bole-armoniack two ounces and of Harts-horne burnt and also a Bucke Conie that is fat and let all these be sodden together in white Wine and water as much Wine as water till the Cony be consumed from the bones of the flesh then take away the flesh and the bones from the broth and so let the broth stand till it come to a jelly and when you are in your bed cause your Backe to be therewith annoynted by a Chafingdish of coales three nights together and lay thereon a warme linnen cloth and it shall helpe you by Gods grace For paine in the bladder and to make it whole for ever TAke three rootes of Smalledge and wash them faire and cleane and cut them small and seethe them in a quart of faire water till three parts of the water be consumed then straine it and take foure drams of the powder of Bittony and put thereto and drinke the said water Against running of the Reynes TAke one pound of Jordaine Almonds and blanch them and parch them and grind them very small and make Almond milke thereof with a pinte of rose-Rose-water and a pinte of Planten water and then seethe it with Suger and Sina mon and when it is cold put thereto a dramme of Masticke in fine powder and use thereof to eate and be whole Probatum est A Syrope for the Backe TAke the rootes of Ennila Compana cleane scraped and slice them thin and lay them in faire running water three dayes and shift them every day then at three dayes end take them out and put them in a gallon of faire running water with a quart of Honey of Lycorice one ounce scraped cleane and sliced and of Anniseeds one ounce cleane rubbed from the dust let all these be boyled with a soft fire and take out the rootes out of the liquour washing them one by one and when they be cut lay them on a faire dish and so let them lye 24. houres and then take the rootes and weigh them and for every pound of your rootes take a pottle of Muskadine or white Bastard and put your rootes therein and put thereto two pound of fine white Suger two or three whole Maces boyle all these to a Syrope with your rootes and then put it into a Pot and when you will use it let the Patient eate of the rootes and drinke a spoonfull of the Syrope with your rootes after it Morning and Evening Probatum
the space of sixe or seven houres Probatum est Another Take a pinte of Ale and put therein one penny-worth of long Pepper and foure or five field Daysie rootes and then seeth the same well together and then let the Patient drinke the same as hote as he may â—uffer it and walke till he sweat if he be able or else layd downe and covered very warme that he may sweat well Also Burre-leaves and Baysalt beaten together and bound about the wrist of the Patient is good for the same Another Take a quart of Red-wine and a quart of Milke and still them and give it to the Patient to drinke when the Axis come upon him but the milke must be taken as it commeth from the Cow For a cold Ague TAke a spoonefull of Vineger a spoonefull of Aqua Vitae and a little Treacle with long Pepper and warme this blood-warme and so let the sick person drinke it when the fit commeth and let him walke if he be able if not laid downe and made to sweate A Plaister to take the Ague or any other ache out of a Womans Brest in the time of her Child-bearing if it come TAke the yolke of an Egge and a little quantity of Wheate flower and a quantity of Honey as much as the yolke of the Egge and beat these together till it be like a Salve then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Brest that is grieved and it will heale it without doubt Probatum est To kill the Paulsie DRinke the roote of Valerian in powder and it will destroy the Palsey so that ye eate no Hogge flesh A remedy for the Dropsie SCrape an Elder roote very cleane and breake it in many pieces or shred it into white Wine and let it steepe therein then drinke the Wine and it will heale your Disease whole Against stopping of the Pipes TAke Hisope Mintes Rose-mary Daiâ—ies and Consond of each like quantity and seeth them with Ale in Lycorice and use it Morning and Evening Against Hoarsenesse TAke a good quantity of Verven and seeth it with Lycorice in faire water then straine the water and use no other drink with yonr meate untill you find remedy For the yellow Jaundise TAke the reddest Docke rootes that ye can get and being washed cleane put them into a vessell of good Ale and when it is stale let the diseased drinke no other drink to his meate but Ale and it shall helpe For Wormes in the Bellie AGainst the Wormes in the Bellie take Onyons and pill them cut or slice them small powre Spring-water over them Let it stand all Night and in the Morning drinke that water and it driveth away all wormes powre the same water upon the Earth where the Wormes are and within halfe an houre they will all creepe out of the Earth Another Likewise if one eate Garlicke Fasting it killeth and driveth out Wormes out of the Body Or else drinke distilled water of Knot-grasse or Shanie-grasse the same killeth wormes also how beit it worketh more in young then in old folkes Another Take Mares-milke and drinke it as hote as you can have it from the Mare in the morning fasting An approved Remedy for a Woman that hath her Throwes before her time SEeth a good handfull of whole Chervill in a quart of Claret Wine and when the Hearbes bee well sodden wring them into the Wine and clense it and make thereof an Hypocras with Sugar Cynamon and Ginger and give her thereof to drinke warme at times needfull And it shall expulse the paine Approved A Powder for the Strangury TAke Ivie Berries dryed over the Fire between two stones and Alisander seedes of each a like quantity and make a Powder thereof to be used in a draught of good Ale For the Collicke and Stone TAke unset Leekes unset Time and Parcely and make pottage of it with Mutton it is also good for the Mother For a Megrim in the Head TAke a cloath and warme it very hot and chase the nape of your necke and your temples a mornings For the Tooth-ache TAke nine Pepper-cornes and five Cornes of Bay-salt and some English honey and breake your Pepper-cornes and beate them all in an Oyster shell then make little balls of lint and dippe them in the Honey and lay it unto your tooth or rub your teeth with Allome beaten For a sore Brest TAke a Red-rose cake and white Wine in a dish and set it on a Chafingdish of coales and turne the cake up and downe in the dish and lay it to the brest as hot as may bee suffered and use this three or foure times till it be whole For a sore eye that burneth and is watrie TAke Hemlockes and distill them and take the watet and lay it to your eyes and take a little Lint and dippe it in the water and so lay it unto your eyes as you lye upright in your bed Another Take ground Ivie beaten câ—reth the Web in the Eye putting it in once a day For to stoppe the Bloody Fluxe TAke a pinte of Milke and a pinte of water and let them boyle together over the Fire untill it come all to a pinte and let the Patient drinke it Morning and Evening A Remedy for a Fellon THis infirmity doth come of a venemous matter and other while it commeth of an interiall cause or of an exteriall the interiall cause commeth of some evill humour the exteriall cause doth come of some venemous stinging of an evill humour eate Treacle and make a Plaister of Treacle and lay it upon the place or take the white of a rawe Egge and put in salt to it and beate it well together and make a Plaister thereof Another Take Rew and Soape Soote and Boares greace and stampe them together and lay it to the Fellon A Medicine well proved for the Megrim TAke the Juyce of Night-shade and as much Vineger with crummes of leavened Bread and the white of two Egges a quantity of Bolearmoniac a quantity of Sage and Dragons tayle All these are to be made Plaister-wise upon Flaxe and lay it upon your griefe also Village to be stilled is very good For to heale a sors Eye hurt with the small Pockes TAke the Marrow of the pinions of a Goose-wing cold a quantity of Honey new taken out of the Combe in the hive and mingle it together and lay it on the Patients Eye-lidde and it will heale it For a sore Eye with a Pinne or a Web. TAke white Allom and running-Running-water and boyle it together in an Egge-shell till it be halfe consumed For a sore Eye that â—tcheth and pricketh TAke Running water a quart and put in white Copperas a Rose-mary sprigge and a spoonefull of Hony and let it boyle to a pinte and then drop a little into the Eye and keepe it after from Rubbing or touching For a Sciatica or Ache in the Bones TAke of Rew and red Nettles of each a a handfull Commin blacke Sope and Frankensence of each a
Brimstone two ounces boyle these in a pottle of white wine Vineger and wash your body therewith three or foure times Or take a quantity of Brimstone and a quantity of Allome and burne them on a fire-shovell over the fire beat them very small and boyle them with Bores-greace and so annoint the Itch. To kill Lice or Itch. TAke Quicksilver two penniworth and kill it with fasting-spittle in a dish beating it well together and put thereto foure penny-worth of Oyle of Bayes and so annoint the place this receipt will kill both Itch and Lice in the head or body To cure the Crampe MAke a Ring of an Oxe or Cowes horn or of a Sea-horse tooth or of the Pizle of a Sea-horse and weare it It is proved For a paine or swelling in the Privie parts TAke white wine Vineger and Cow-dung boyle them to a Poultis and when it is ready put thereto oyle of Roses and if the griefe proceed of a cold cause put thereto some Camomill flowers applyed very hot Another Take Commin-seeds beaten into to powder Barly-meale and Honey of each a like quantity then fry them together with a little Sheeps suet heat it and bind it as a plaister to the Cods Remedies for Burning or Scalding TAke five or sixe spoonefuls of Sallet oyle and as much of Running water beat them together till they bee well incorporated then anoynt the place therewith and lay thereon a Doek leafe it will both coole and heale Another Take of the herbe Periwinckle fry it in a pan with fresh Butter fresh Greace and Sheepes dung newly made when it is well fryed straine it through a cloath and it will be like Salve then spred it on a Linnen cloth as broad as the sore is and apply it thereto It will cure it though it were scalded and burnt to the bone if it be taken in time renewing the plaister Morning and evening Remedies for the Piles TAke Martlemasse beefe dry it and beat it to powder then put it into a chafingdish of coales and set it in a chaire and sit over it Another Burne two or three Brickes red hote put them into a Pan in a close Stove and sprinckle Vineger upon them letting the party sit close over it that hee may receive the fume thereof into his fundament doing this three or foure times if need require will helpe it A Remedy for the Cappes TAke the oyle of sweet Almonds one ounce and anoynt the place therewith or any of these things following is good the powder of the rinde of Pomegranets the Marrow of a Calfe or a Hart the fat of a Capon Goose or Ducke and such like To kill a Tettâ—r or Ringworme TRose dâ— Arsmeg is good and if it come of Blood exhaust two or 3. ounces of blood or more if need require and that Age time and strength will permit and if it bee Lupte cut off the heads of them and rub them with Salt and Garlick stampt together and then lay over them a plate of Lead Approved remedies for the Shingles TAke rose-Rose-water planten-Planten-water and white Wine of each of them halfe a pinte put all these together and wash the place often therewith Or else take of red Wormes that come out of the Earth and bray them in a morter and put to them a little Vineger and so make plaisters c. Or else take flowers of Camomill Rose-leaves and Violets the weight of each of them one ounce of Myrtles and Sumack of each of them an ounce and a halfe seethe all these in white Wine and make a plaister and lay it to the place or else make aâ— oyntment of Ceruse J have taken Hous-leâ—k and have stampt it with a little Camphere and put to it white Wine and have layd it to the place and have healed the Patient also the Oyle of Roses or the Oyle of Violets is good for this impediment mixt together with thâ— whites of Egges and the juyce of Planten For the Colliâ—ke and gripings in the Belly GIve the patient Jeane Treacle and powâ—er of Cloves well sodden in good Wine anâ—â—â—t them drinke it very warne Or take the root oâ— Lilly and Horehound and seethe it in Wine and give the patient Probatum est A Plaister for tâ—e same TAke Lynseed and stâ—mp it and Dock leaves and seethe them well in water and make a plaister and lay it to the griefe very warme For a Scurffe in the Body THis Infirmity doth come of a Cholericke and Melancholick humour For this cure J take two ounces of Bores grease then J doe put in one ounce of the powder of Oyster shels burnt and of the powder of Brimstone and three ounces of Mercury mortified with fasting spittle compound all these together and annoynt the body three or foure times and take an easie Purgâ—tion A Remedy for a wild running Scab TAke Mercury mortified with fasting spittle three ounces incorporate it with oyle of Bayes and anoynt the body or else take Mercury mortified three ounceâ— and of the Powder of Brimstone two ounces the powder of Enula Campana two ounces confect these together with Barrowes grease and anoynâ— often therewith For a Timpany TAke a pinte of Broome Ashes eyther of greene or dry and a quarter of an ounce of Sinamon bruised sift the Ashes and let a pinte thereof and the bruised Sinamon lye in steepe all night in a pottle of White Wine then let it run through a gelly bag twice or thrice till it run cleere put in some Sugar and a tost unto it drinke thereof thrice a day in the Morning fasting and an houre before Supper and an houre after Supper For one that is in a Consumption TAke foure ounces of Shavings of Harts-horne one ounce of the Shavings of Ivory put it in a Pipkin with a Gallon of faire water let it stand on the fire twelve houres in fusing and boyling softly close covered then take twenty Egges in their Shells crack their Shells and put them in a dish with Salt and let them stand an houre and purge themselves then pull them from their shells washing them till they be cleane then put them in the Pipkin to the Harts-horne and let it boyle two houres then put in a good handfull of Raisons of the Sun stoned halfe an ounce of â—iquorice scraped and sliced and a blade or two of Mace boyle all these till it come to a quart of Liquor then put in halfe a pinte of white Wine sixe spoonfuls of Rose-water two penny-worth of Saffron powdered boyle all a little while then straine it or run it through a gelly bag if you please you may sweeten it as you like it put a little Salt in it when it is cold it will be a Jelly you may take it cold or warme three or foure spoonfuls at a time in the Morning fasting at foure of the clock in the afternoone and when you go to bed If you doe think this too troublesome you may boyle the Egges in Broth or Milke