afternoon this is good for the head and stomack A Cordial for a Breakfast fasting Eat a good peice of a Pomecitron preserved as big as your two fingers in length and breadth and so at three of the clock in the afternoon A Restoring Breakfast Take the brawn of a Capon or Pullet twelve Jordan Almonds blanched beat them together and strain out the juyce with a draught of strong broath and take it for a breakfast or to bedward A Medicine for any gripings of the Belly Take a pint of Claret wine put to it a spoonful of Parseley seed and a spoonful of sweet Fennel seed half a dosen Cloves a branch of Rosemary a wild Mallow root clean washt and scrapt and with the pith taken out with a good peece of Sugar set this on the fire and burn the Claret very well with all these things in it then drinke a good draught of it in the morning fasting and at three a clock in the afternoon To keep the Body Lapintine Take half a pint of running water put it in a new Pipkin with a cover then put into the water two ounces of Manna and when it is dissolved strain it and put to it four ounces of Damask Prunes eight Cloves a branch of Rosemary let all these stew together while they be very tender then eat a dosen of them with a little of the liquor an hour before dinner or supper then take a draught of broth and dine To make the China Broth for a Consumption Take China root thin sliced two ouncs steep it twenty four houres in eight pints of fair water letting it stand warm all the time being close covered in an earthen Pipkin or Iron pot then put to it a good Cockrell or two Chickens clean dressed and scum it well then put in five leaved grasse two handfuls Maiden-hair Harts tongue of either half a handful twenty Dates sliced two or three Mace and the bottome of a Manchet let all these stew together untill not above one quart remains then strain it and take all the flesh and sweet bones beat them in a stone Morter and strain out all the juyce with the broth then sweeten it with two ounces of white Sugar Candie in pouder and take thereof half a pint at once early in the morning warm and sleep after it if you can and two houres before supper at your pleasure when you steep the root slice two drachms of white Sanders and as much red Sanders and let them boyl in the broth A gentle Purge Take an ounce of Damask Roses eat it all at one time fast three quarters of an hour after then take a draught of Broth and dine Another Purge Take the weight of four or five pence of Rubarb cut it in little pieces and take a spoonfull or two of good Currants washt very clean so mingle them together and so eat them fast an hour after and begin that meal with broth you may take it an hour before if you will Broth for a Consumption Take a course Pullet and sow up the belly and an ounce of the conserves of red Roses of the conservs of Borage and Bugloss flours of each of them half an ounce Pine apple kernels and Pistaties of each half an ounce bruised in a morter two drachms of Amber pouder all mixed together and put in the belly then boyle it in three quarts of water with Egrimonie Endive and Succorie of each one handful Sparrowgrass roots Fennel roots Caper roots and one handfull of Raisins of the Sun stoned when it is almost boiled take out the Pullet and beat it in a stone Morter then put it into the liquor again and give it three or four walmes more then strain it and put to it a little red Rosewater and half a pint of white wine and so drinke it in a morning and sleep after it To prevent Miscarrying Take Venice Turpentine spread it on black brown paper the breadth and length of a hand lay it to the small of her back then give her to drinke a Caudle made of Muscadine and put into it the husks of twentie three sweet Almonds dryed and finely poudred For Boils or Kibes or to draw a Sore Take strong Ale and boil it from a pint to four spoonfuls and so keep it it will be an ointment To make Cammomile Oyle Shred a pound of Cammomile and knead it into a pound of sweet Butter melt it and strain it A Receipt for the Plurisie Take three round Balls of Horse-dung boil them in a pint of white Wine till half be consumed then strain it out and sweeten it with a little Sugar and let the Patient goe to bed and drink this then lay him warm For an Ague Take a pint of Milk and set it on the fire and when it boils put in a pint of Ale then take off the curd and put in nine heads of Carduus let it boil till half bee wasted then to every quarter of a pint put a good spoonful of wheat-flower and a quarter of a spoonful of grosse Pepper and an hour before the fit let the Patient drinke a quarter of a pint and be sure to lye in a sweat before the fit An excellent Balm for a green Wound Take two good handfuls of English Tobacco shred it small and put it into a pint of Sallet oyle and seeth it on a soft fire to simper till the oyle change green then strain it and in the cooling put in two ounces of Venice Turpentine For an Ach. Take of the best gall white Wine Vinegar and Aqua vitae of each a like quantity and boil it gently on the fire till it grow clammie then put it in a glasse or pot and when you use any of it warm it against the fire rub some of it with your hand on the akeing place and lay a linnen cloth on it doe this mornings and evenings To make a Searcloth Virosius Wax Spermaceti Venice Turpentine oyle of White Poppie oyle of Ben oyle of sweet Almonds For Wind in the Stomack and for the Spleen Take a handfull of Broom and boil it in a pint of Beer or Ale till it be half consumed and drinke it for the wind and the stomack and for the Spleen A most excellent Water for a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs Take a running Cock pull him alive then kill him when he is almost cold cut him abroad by the back and take out the Intrals and wipe him clean then cut him in quarters and break the bones put him into such a Still as you still Rosewater in and with a pottle of Sack a pound of Currants a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned a quarter of a pound of Dates the stones taken out and the Dates cut small two handfulls of wilde Thyme two handfuls of Orgares two handfuls of Pimperball and two handfuls of Rosemary two handfuls of Bugloss and Borage flours a pottle of new Milk of a red Cow still this with a soft fire
put into the glasse that the water doth drop into half a pound of Sugar Candie beaten very small one book of leaf gold cut small among the Sugar four grains of Amber greece twelve grains of prepared Pearl you must mingle the strong water with the small and drink four spoonfuls at a time in the morning fasting and an houre before supper you must shake about the glasse when you drinke it A Medicine good for the Liver Take Turpentine slice it thin and lay it on a silver or Purslane plate twice or thrice into the Oven with the bread till it bee dry and so make it into pouder every day take as much as will lye on a sixpence in an Egg. For a Bruise Take six spoonfuls of Honey a great handful of Linseed bruise these in a morter and boyle them in a pint of Milk an hour then strain it very hard and annoint your breast and stomack with it every morning and evening and lay a red hose upon it The eye-Eye-Water for all the Infirmities and Diseases of the Eye Take of the distilled water of the white wild Rose half a pound of the distilled water of Celendine Fennel Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of Cloves one ounce and a half of white Sugar-candy one drachm of Tutia prepared four ounces pulverise all these Ingredients each by themselves saving that you must bruise the Campihre with your Sugar-candy for so it breakes best then mix all the Pouders together in a paper put them in a strong glasse pour the distilled waters upon them and three pints of the best French white Wine that can be had shake it every day three or four times long together for a moneth and then you may use it remember to keep it very close stopt this is verbatim as it was had from the Lord Kelley A Medicine very good for the Dropsie or the Scurvy and to clear the blond Take four gallons of Ale drawn from the tap into an earthen Stand when the Ale is two dayes old then you must put in four handfuls of Brooklime four handfuls of Watercresses four handfuls of water-Mints with red stalkes half a peck of Scurvy-grasse let all these be clean picked and washed and dried with a cloth and â—hred with a knife and then put into a â—ag then put in the Ale and stop it close so that it have no vent stop it with rie â—aste the best Scurvy-grasse groweth by the water side it must be seven dayes after the things be in before you drink it Take two quarts of water and put in four ounces of Guaiacam two ounces of Sarsaparilla one ounce of Saxifrage put it into a Pipkin and infuse it upon the embers for twelve houres and then strain it and put it into the Ale as soon as it hath done working this being added makes the more Caudle For sore Eyes Take half a pint of red Rosewater put therein four penny of Alloesuckatrinay as much Bole armoniack in quantity let this lie four and twenty houres in steep then wash your eyes with it evenings and mornings with a feather and it will help them A Sirrup to strengthen the Stomack and the Brain and to make a sweet Breath Take rindes while they be new one pound of running water the value of five wine pints then seeth it unto three pints then strain it and with one pound of Sugar seeth it to a Sirupe and when you take it from the fire put to it four graines of Musk. For the burning in the Back Take the juyce of Plantain and womans Milk being of a woman Child put thereto a spoonfull of Rosewater and wet a fine cloth in the same and so lay it to your Back where the heat is A very good Medicine to stay the vomiting Take of spare Mince Wormwood and red Rose leaves dried of each half a handfull of Rye bread grated a good handfull boyle all these in red rose-Rosewater and Vinegar till they be somewhat tender then put it in a linnen cloth and lay it to the stomack as hot as you can indure it heating it two or three times a day with such as it was boyled with For weaknesse in the Back Take Nixe and Clary and the Marrow of an Oxe back chop them very small then take the yolks of two or three Eggs and strain them altogether then fry them use this six or seven times together and after it drink a good draught of Bastard or Muskadine To make a Cap for the pain and coldnesse in the Head Take of Storix and Benjamine of both some twelve pennyworth and bruise it then quilt it in a brown paper and wear it behinde on your head To make Pectorall Roules for a Cold. Take four ounces of Sugar finely beaten and half an ounce of searsed Licorice two graines of Musk and the weight of two pence of the sirupe of Licorice and so beat it up to a perfect paste with a little sirupe of Horehound and a little Gum-dragon being steeped in Rosewater then toul them in small rouls and dry them and so you may keep them all the whole year A proved Medicine for any one that have an Ague in their Breast Take the Patients own water or any others that is very young and set it over the fire put therin a good handfull of Rosemary and let it boyle then take two red clothes and dip them in the water then nip it hard and lay it on the breast as hot as it may be indured and apply it till you see the breast asswaged then keep it very warm For the running of the Reines Take the Pith of an Oxe that goeth down the back a pint of red Wine and strain them together through a cloth then boyle them a little with a good quantity of Cinnamon and a Nutmeg and large Mace a quantity of Ambergreece drink this first and last daily For Sun-burnt Take the juyce of a Lemon and a little Baysalt and wash your hands with it and let them dry of themselves wash them again and you shall find all the spots and staines gone For a Pin and Web and rednesse in the eye Take a pint of white Rosewater half a pint of white Wine as much of Lapis Calaminaris as a Walnut bruised put all these in a glasse and set them in the Sun one week and shake the glasse every day then take it out of the Sun and use it as you shall need A speciall Medicine to preserve the sight Take of brown Fennell Honeysuckles of the hedge of wild Dasies roots picked and washed and dryed of Pearl-wort of Eyebright of red Roses the white clipped away of each of these a handfull dry gathered then steep all these Hearbs in a quart or three pints of the best white Wine in an earthen pot and so let it lye in steep two or three dayes close covered stirring it three times a day and so still it with a gentle fire making two distillings and so keep it for your use
still being close pasted and a cold still A Medicine for the Stone in the Kidnies Take a good handful of Pellitorie of the wall a handfull of Mead Parsley or Saxifrage a handfull of wilde Thime a handful of garden Parsley three spoonfuls of Fennel Seeds six Horse Raddish roots sliced then shred all these together and put them in a gallon of new milk and let them stand and steep in a close pot one whole night and then still them milk and all together this must be done in May or June for then hearbs are in their best state and when it is taken you must put to two or three spoonfulls of this water as much White wine as Rennish and if you please a little Sugar and so take it two dayes before the change and two dayes after and two dayes before the full and two dayes after continuing taking the same all the yeare and the Patient undoubtedly shall find great ease and void many stones and much gravell with little pain To make Horse Raddish drinke Take half a pound of Horse Raddish then wash and scrape them very clean and slice them very thin crosse wayes on the root then put them into six quarts of small ale such as is ready for drinking which being put into a Pipkin close covered set on the Embers keeping it little more then bloud warm for twelve hours then take it off the fire and let it stand to cool untill the next morning then pour the clear liquor into bottles and keep it for your use drinking a good draught thereof in the morning fasting two houres after and the like quantitie at four in the afternoon this drink is excellent good against winds as also for the scouring and Dropsie being taken in time An excellent Sirrup against Melancholly Take four quarts of the juyce of Pearmains and twice as much of the juyce of Buglosse and Borrage if they be to begotten a drachm of the best English Saffron bruise it and put it into the juyce then take two drachms of Kermes small beaten to powder mix it also with the juyce so being mixt put them into an earthen vessell covered or stopt forty eight houres then strain it and allow a pound of Sugar to every quart of juyce and so boyle it to the ordinary height of a sirrup after it is boyled take one drachm of the Species of Diamber and two drachms of teh Species of Diamargariton frigidum and so few the same slenderly in a linnen bag that you may put the same easily into the bottle of Sirrup and so let it hang with a thread out at the mouth of the bottle the Species must be put into the Sirrup in the bag so soon as the Sirrup is off the fire whilst it is hot then afterwards put it into the bottle and there let it hang put but a spoonfull or two of Honey amongst it whilst it is boyling and it will make the scum rise and the Sirrup very clear You must adde to it the quantity of a quarter of a pint of the juyce of Balm An excellent Receipt for the Plague Take one pound of green Walnuts half an ounce of Saffron and half an ounce of London Triacle beaten together in a morter and with a little Carduus or some such water vapour it over the fire till it come to an Electuary keep this in a pot and take as much as a Walnut it is good to cure a Fever Plague and any infection An excellent Cordiall Take the floures of Marigolds and lay them in small spirit of Wine when the tincture is fully taken out pour it off from the floures and vapour it away till it come to a consistence as thick as an Electuary For a Bruise or Stich under the Ribs Take five or six handfuls of Cabbage stamp it and strain it after it is boyled in a quart of fair water then sweeten it with Sugar and drink of it a wine Glasse in the morning and at four in the afternoon for five or six dayes together then take a Cabbage lease and between two dishes stew it being wet first in Canary Wine and that lay hot to your side evenings and mornings An excellent Receipt for an Itch or any foule Scabs Take Fox gloves and boyle a handful of them in posset drink and drink of it a draught at night and in the morning then boyle a good quantity of the Fox gloves in fair running water and annoint the places that are sore with that water A Receipt good for the Liver Take Turpentine slice it thinne and lay it on a Silver or Purslane Plate twice or thrice in the Oven with the bread till it be dry and so make it into powder every day take as much as will lie on a six-pence in an Egg For Flegm and stopping in the throat and stomack D. T. Take oyle of Almonds Linseed oyle buds of Orange floures boyle all these in Milk and annoint the stomack well with it and lay a Scarlet cloth next to it For an extream Cold and a Cough Take of Hysop water six ounces of red Poppy water four ounces six Dates ten Figs and slice them small a handful of Raisins of the Sun the weight of a shilling of the powder of Licorice put these into the aforesaid waters and let them stand five or six houres upon warm embers close covered and not boyle then strain forth the water and put into it as much Sugar of Roses as will sweeten it drink of this in the morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon and when you goe to bed To distill Triacle water Take one ounce of Harts-horn shaved and boyle it in three pints of Carduus water till it come to a quart then take the roots of Elecampane Gentian Cipresse Turmentill and of Citron rindes of each one ounce Borrage Buglosse Rosemary floures of each two ounces then take a pound of the best old Triacle and dissolve it in six pints of white Wine and three pints of Rose-water so infuse altogether and distill it It is good to restore spirits and speech and good against swouning faintnesse Agues and Wormes and the small Pox. Triacle water Take three ounces of Venice Triacle and mingle it in a quart of spirit of Wine set it in horse-dung four or five dayes then still it in ashes or sand twice over after take the bottome which is left in the Still and put to it a pint of spirit of Wine and set it in the dung till the tincture be clean out of it and strain the clear tincture out of it and set it on the fire till it become to be a thick consistence it must be kept with a soft fire And so the like with Saffron To take away a Hoarsnesse Take a Turnip cut a hole in the top of it and fill it up with brown Sugar-candy and so roast it in the embers and eat it with Butter To take away the Head-ach Take the best Sallade oyle and the
leaves Thyme Pellitorie Rosemary wild Thyme wild Majoram Organy Pennymontain Pennyroyall Cammomile Lavender Avans of each of them a handful then beat the Spices small and the hearbs and put all into the wine and let it stand for the space of twelve houres stirring it divers times Then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first water by it self for it is best then will there come a second water which is good but not so good as the first The Vertues of this Water be these It comforteth the Spirit vitall and preserveth greatly the Spirit vitall and preserveth greatly the youth of man and helpeth all inward diseases coming of cold and against shaking of the Palsie it cureth the contract of Sinnews and helpeth the conception of the barren it killeth the Worms in the Belly it killeth the Gout it helpeth Tooth ach it comforteth the stomack very much it cureth a cold Dropsie it breaketh the stone in the back and in the reins of the back it cureth the Canker it helpeth shortly the stinking Breath and whosoever useth this water oft it preserveth them in good liking This Water will be the better if it stand in the Sun all the Summer and you must draw of the first water but a pint and of the second as farre as it will run untill the whole gallon of Wine and Hearbs be all done out but the last water is very small and not half so good as the first if you doe draw above a pint of the best water you must have of all things more as is before said To stanch the bleeding of a Wound Take a Hounds turd and lay that on a hot coal and binde it thereto and that shall stanch bleeding or else bruise a long Worm and make pouder of it and cast it on the wound or take the ear of a Hare and make pouder thereof and cast that on the wound and that will stanch bleeding For spitting of Blood after a Fall or Bruise Take Bittanie Vervain Nosebled and five leaved grasse of each alike and stamp them in a Morter and wring out the juyce of them and put to the juyce as much Goats milk and let them seeth together and let him thâ—t is hurt drinke of that liquor seven dayes together till the waxing of the Moon and let him drink also Osmorie and Cumferie with stale Ale and he shall be whole For to heal him that spitteth Bloud Take the juyce of Bittanie and temper that with good Milk and give the sick to drink four dayes and he shall be whole For to know whether he that hath the Flux shall live or die Take a pennie weight of Trefoyle seed and give it him to drinke in Wine or water and doe this three dayes and if it cease he shall live with the help of Medicine if not he shall die For to stanch the bleeding of a Vein Take Rue and seeth it in water and after stamp it in a Morter and lay it on the Vein then take Lambs wooll that was never washed and lay that thereon and that shall stanch bleeding For a Vein that is evill smitten Take Beanes and peel away the lacke and seeth them well in Vinegar and lay them on the Vein hot in manner of a Plaister For one that pisseth Bloud Take and seeth Garlick in water till the third part be wasted away let him drinke of the water and he shall be whole For a Woman travelling with child Take and give her Titany to drink in the morning and shee shall be delivered without peril or else give her Hysop with water that is hot and shee shall be delivered of the child although the child be dead and rotten and anon when shee is delivered give her the same without Wine or binde the hearb Argentine to her nostrils and she shall be soon delivered or else Polipodie and stamp it and lay that on the womans foot in manner of a Plaister and she shall be delivered quick or dead or else give her Savorie with hot water and shee shall be delivered For one that hath surfeited and cannot digest Take the bottome of a wheaten loafe and tost it at the fire till that be very brown and hard and then take a good quantity of Aqua vitae and put that upon the same so tosted and put that in a single linnen cloth and lay that at the breast of the Patient all night and with the help of God he shall recover and he shall vomit or purge soon after A Water to comfort weake eyes and to preserve the sight Take a gallon and a half of old wheat fair and clean picked from all manner of soil and then still it in an ordinary still with a soft fire and the water that comes of it must be put in a glasse then take half a pound of white Sugar Candie and bruise it in a morter to pouder and after three dayes when the water hath been in a glasse then put in the pouder Candie then take an ounce of Lapis Stewsie prepared and put it into the glasse to the rest of the stuffe then take an ounce of Camphire and break it between your fingers small and put it into the glasse then stop the glasse close and the longer it stands the better it will be For tender Eyes or for Children Take a little piece of white Sugar Candie as much as a Chesnut and put it into three or four spoonfulls of White-wine to steep then take it out again and dry it and when it is dry bruise it in a clean Morter that must taste of no spice then put it upon a piece of whitepaper and so hold it to the fire that it may be through dry and then fearce it through a little sieve For hot Eyes and red Take slugs such as when you touch them will turn like the pummel of swords a dozen or sixteen shake them first in a clean cloth and then in another and not wash them then stamp them and put three or four spoonfuls of Ale to them and strain it through a dry cloth and give it the partie morning and evening first and last For Cornes Take fair water half a pint Mercurie sublimate a penniworth Allum as much as a Bean boyle all these together in a glass Still till a spoonfull be wasted and alwaies warm it when you use it this water is also good for any Itch Tetter Ringworm or Wart A Searcloth for a Sore or Sprain or any Swelling Take Vervain seven ounces of Siros seven ounces of Camphire three drachms of oile of Roses ten ounces let the Wax and the Oyle boil till the Wax be melted then put in your Siros tinely beaten stirring itâ— one the fire till it look brown Then put in the Camphire finely beaten and let it boil two or three walmes and then dip in your cloths A Poultess for a Swelling Take a good handfull of Violet leaves and as much Groundsel half a handfull of Mallows and half a handful of
of Verdigrease very finely beaten to pouder and when you put in your Turpentine and Verdigrease stir it well or else it will run over and so stir untill it leave boyling Then put it in an earthen pot stopping the pot very close with a cloth and a board on the top and set it in a dunghil of horse-muck twenty one dayes then take it up and put it into a kettle and let it boil a little taking heed that it boil not over then strain all through a course cloth into an earthen or gally pot and when all is strained put to it half a pound of Oyle of Spike and cover the pot close untill you use it and when you use it make it warm in Winter and use it cold in Summer An approved Medicine for any ach in the joynt whatsoever Take half a pound of Rosin half a pound of Frankincense of Olibanum and Mastick of each one ounce Wax Deer Suet Turpentine of each two ounces Camphire 2 drachms beat the Olibanum Mastick Rosin and Frankincense and Camphire in pouder then put it in a brass pan with a pottle of white Wine and put in the Wax and Deer Suet into it and when it doth boil put in your Turpentine and let it boil a quarter of an hour then take it from the fire and let it stand and cool untill the next day then work it with your hand to work out the Wine annointing your hands first with Oyle then make it up in rouls then as need shall serve take thereof and spread it with a warm knife upon a fleshie side of a Sheeps skin and apply it warm to the grieved place and take it not off untill it fall off of it self pricking the Plaister full of holes A Searcloth to be used against Carbuncles red Sores Biles Swellings or any hot Causes Take a wine pint of pure Sallet oyle and put it into an earthen pot that is very large and set it upon a very soft fire of Charcoal and when it beginneth to boyl stir it with a Hasel stick of one yeares shooting then put into it two ounces of Venus Sope that is pure white half a pound of red Lead one quarter of a pound of white Lead letting it boil very softly stirring it continually with this Hazle stick for the space of two or three houres you shall know when it is boyled by this drop one drop thereof upon a board and it will be stiffe when it is enough then take it from the fire and put into it half an ounce of oyle of Bayes then let it boil again a little then let your cloathes be readie cut of a reasonable size to dip them in it then you must have two sticks which must be hollow in the middle to strip the cloathes through then lay them abroad untill they be cold upon a board then roul them up and keep them and when you use them lay them upon the place grieved and let them lie twelve hours then take it off and wipe it and lay the other side and let that lye as long Plague Water to be taken three times for the first helpeth not Take a gallon of white Wine Ale or Beer and to that quantity take a quarter of a pound of each of these Hearbs following Rosewater a quarter of a pint Rue Sage Vervain Egrimonie Betonie Sallendine Carduus Angelica Pimpernel Scabios Valerian Wormwood Dragons Mugwort all these hearbs must you shred in grosse together and steep it in the aforesaid liquor the night before you distill it in a Rosewater still and then keep the first water by it self being the weaker and therefore fitter for Children it helpeth all Fevers Agues and Plagues being thus taken seven spoonfuls or thereabout of the strongest bloud warm and give it to the partie to drinke in an ague or fever an hour before the fit come and so to sweat either by exercise or in your bed but your stomack must be emptie and if it be taken for the Plague then put into it a little Diascordium or Methridate A defensive Plaister Take the white of an Egg and Bole-Armoniack spread it on leather A Sirrup for a Cold. Take Coltsfoot Water Hysop water and Honey put Liquorice Annise seeds and Elecampane put thereto the juyce of Fennel and boil them well To stay the bleeding of a Wound Take a Charcoal red hot out of the fire and beat it to pouder A Poultesse Take Milk Oatmeal and red Rose-leaves and a little Deers Suet. For the running of the Reines Take cups of Acornes and grate them and grate some Nutmeg put this in Beer and drink For a Poultesse Take Linseed and beat it to pouder boyle it in Milk with Mallowes and Sheeps Suet. For a Blast Take a good quantity of Vervin and boyle it in Milk and wash the Blast therewith very well then bind the Hearbs very close to it some few houres after wash it again the Milk being warmed and so bind it up again the oftner it is done the better and in a day or two it will be well if it be taken before it fester For a Blast Take a good quantity of Vericon being green with as much Dill chop them together and boyle them in Bores grease as much as will cover them and for want thereof so much May Butter and when they be boyled together let them stand two or three dayes and then boyle it a little and so strain it through a cloth A Balsamum Take in the latter end of September good store of Honeysuckle berries and put them in a body of a glasse Still stopped and set it in hot horse-dung eight dayes distil it in Balm then when you have drawn the water forth pour the water into the stuffe again stop it close and put it in the dung four and twenty houres then set it in ashes and distil both water and oyle with a great fire as much as will come forth and at last separate the water from the oyle in Balm To make an excellent Oyle of Hypericon Take floures leaves and seeds of Hypericon as much as you list beat them together and infuse them in white Wine that they may be covered therewith and set them in the Sun for ten dayes then put thereto so much Oyle Olive as all the rest doth weigh and let it stand ten dayes more in the Sun but look that you weigh the Oyle to know how much it is then put thereto for every pound of Oyle two ounces of Turpentine and one drachm of Saffron and of Nutmegs and Cloves of each half an ounce of Mirrh and Rosin of each an ounce and of the root of Briony two ounces put them all in a vessel of glasse and mix them well together and set them in a vessel of hot water and then set thereto a head of glasse and Receiver well shut and boyle it so long until no more will distil from it which will be about four and twenty houres then take it out and strain
the morning and another at night For a man that hath no taste in meat or drink Take a pottle of clear Water and a good handful of Dandilion and put it in an earthen pot and seeth it till it come to a quart and then take out the Hearbs and put in a good quantity of white sugar till you think it be somewhat pleasant and then put it into a vessel wherein it may coole and then take twenty or thirty Almonds blanch them and beat them in a Morter and when the Water is cold put it to the Almonds and then strain it through a clean Cipris bag without compulsion and if it he thick let it run through again and so keep it in a vessel and drink of it often at all times as you please To preserve a man from the Plague Take Aloe epaticum and Aloe succatrine fine Cinnamon and Myrrh of each of them three drachms Cloves Mace Lignum Aloe Mastick Bole Armoniack of each of them half a drachm let all these things be well stamped in a clean Morter then mingle them together and after keep them in some close vessel and take of it every morning two penny weight in half a glasseful of white Wine with a little water and drink it in the morning at the dawning of the day and so may you by the grace of God goe safely into all infection of the air and Plague For a Tetter or Ring-worm Take Mercury a quarter of an ounce Camphire one penny weight make them into pouder and rub them in a fair porrenger then take and mix them with the water of the Vine four or five spoonfuls stir them well together then put as much more water to that then strain it through a cloth and take Poppey seeds one quarter of an ounce beat that in a stone Morter with a spoonful of the water of the Vine putting a little and a little till you have spent the quantity of a pint then put to half an ounce of the Milk of Coker-nut so mix them well together with your first Receipt and strain them as you make Almond milk through a fair cloth then keep it in a glasse for your use To keep ones body loose whensoever you need Take two ounces of Sirupe of Roses one ounce of Sine one pennyworth of Annise seeds one stick of Licorice one pint of Posturn water seeth them altogether till it seeth to half a pint then strain them forth then boyle the two ounces of Sirupe of Roses and drink it warm For a red Face Take Brimstone that is whole and Cinnamon of either of them by even proportion by weight beat them into small pouder searse it through a fine cloth upon a sheet of white paper to the quantity of an ounce or more and so by even proportions in weight mingle them together in clean clarified Capons grease and temper them well together until they be well mollified and then put them to a little Camphire to the quantity of a Bean and so put the whole confection in a glasse For a young Child to make water Boyle Organy in fair water and lay it warm to the Childs Navel A Medicine for the falling of the Vvula into the Throat Take a red Colewort leaf whereof cut away the middle rind then put the leaf into a paper and let it be burnt in hot embers or ashes then take the leaf out and lay it hot on the top or crown of the bare head and it will draw it up into his place and rid you of your pain A Medicine for the heat of the soles of the feet that cometh by rheume or bloud Take a quantity of Snailes of the garden and boyle them in stale Urine then let the Patient bath and set his feet therein and using that often he shall be cured Gascons own Pouder Take of pouder of Pearl of red Corral of Crabs eyes of Harts horn and white Amber of each one ounce beat them into fine pouder and fearce them then take so much of the black toes of the Crabs clawes as of all the rest of the pouders for that is the cheif worker beat them and fearce them finely as you doe the rest then weigh them severally and take as much of the toes as you doe of all the rest of the five pouders and mingle them well together and make them up into balls with jelly of Hartshorn whereunto put or infuse a small quantity of Saffron to give them colour let them lye till they be dry and fully hard and keep them for your use The Crabs are to be gotten in May or September before they be boyled The dose is ten or twelve grains in Dragon water Carduus water or some other Cordial water The Apothecaries in their composition of it use to put in a drachm of good Oriental Bezar to the other pouders as you may see in the prescription following This is thought to be the true composition invented by Gascon and that the Bezar Musk and Ambergrice were added after by some for curiosity and that the former will work without them as effectually as with them The Apothecaries Gascon Pouder with the use Take of Pearles white Amber Harts-horn eyes of Crabs and white Corral of each half an ounce of black thighs of Crabs calcined two ounces to every ounce of this pouder put a drachm of Oriental Bezar reduce them all into very fine pouder and searce them and with Hartshorn jelly with a little Saffron put therein make it up into a paste and make therewith Lozanges or Trochises for your use You must get your Crabs for this pouder about May or in September before they shall be boyled when you have made them let them dry and grow hard in a dry air neitheir by fire nor Sun Their dose is ten or twelve graines as before prescribed in the former page The Pouder prescribed by the Doctors in their last London Dispensatory 1650. called by the Pouder of Crabs clawes Take of prepared Pearles eyes or stones of Crabs of red Corral of white Amber of Hartshorn of Oriental Bezar stone of each half an ounce of the pouder of the black tops of the clawes of Crabs to the weight of all the former make them all into pouder according to Art and with jelly made with the skins or castings of our Vipers make it up into small Tablets or Trochisces which you must warily dry as before prescribed and reserve for your use The Countesse of Kents Pouder good against all malignant and pestilent Diseases French Pox Small Pox Measels Plague Pestilence malignant or scarlet Fevers good against Melancholy dejection of Spirits twenty or thirty grains thereof being exhibited in a little warm Sack or Hartshorn jelly to a man and half as much or twelve graines to a Child Take of the Magistery of Pearles of Crabs eyes prepared of white Amber prepared Hartshorn Magistery of white Corral of Lapis contra Parvam of each a like quantity to these pouders infused
glasse half full with the tops of Poppy floures which groweth in the Corn set this in the Sun a fortnight and so keep it all the year and annoint the Temples of your head with it For a Cough Take Sallade oyle Aqua vitae and Sack of each an equall quantity heat them altogether and before the fire rub the soles of your feet with it To make a Jelly of Harts-horn Take a quart of running water and three ounces of Harts-horn scraped very fine then put it into a stone Jug and set the Jug in a Kettle of water over the fire and let it boyle two or three houres untill it jelly then put into it three or four spoonfuls of Rose-water or white Wine then strain it you may put into it Musk or Ambergreece and season it as you please To make a Glister Take half a quart of new Milk or three quarters set it on the fire and make it scalding hot then take it off and put into it a yoalk of a new laid Egg beaten two ounces of brown Sugar Candie or Black Sugar give it the party bloud-warm To make a Glister Take the bone of a neck of Mutton or Veal clean washed set it on the fire to boyl in three pints of fair water and when it is clean scummed then put in the roots of Fennel and Parsely clean washed and scraped of either of them the Roots bruised a handfull of Cammomile and Mallows a handfull let all these boil together till half be wasted then strein it take three quarters of a pint of this broth brown Sugar Candie two ounces of Oyle of Flaxseed two ounces mingle all these together and take it for a Glister bloud-warm when it is in your body keep it half an hour or three quarters of an hour or an hour if you can A Comfortable Cordial to cheer the Heart Take one ounce of conserve of Gillifloures four grains of the best Musk bruised as fine as flower then put it into alitle tin pot and keep it till you have need to make this Cordiall following Viz. Take the quantitie of one Nutmeg out of your tin pot put to it one spoonfull of Cinnamon water and one spoonful of the Sirrup of Gilliflours Amber-greece mix all these together and drink them in the morning fasting three or four houres this is most comfortable A Cordial for Winde in the Stomack or any Part. Take six or eight spoonfuls of Penny-royall water put into it four drops of oyle of Cinnamon so drinke it any time of the day so you fast two houres after Restoratives Take a well flesht Capon from the barn-door and pluck out his Intrals then wash it within with a little white-wine then flea of all the skin and take out his bones and take the flesh onely cut it in little peeces and put it into a little stone bottle and put to it an ounce of white Sugar-candie six Dates slit with the stones and piths taken out one large Mace then stop the bottle up fast and set it in a Chafer of water and let it boil three houres then take it out and pour the juice from the meat and put to it one spoonful of red Rose water and take the better part for your breakfast four hours before dinner and the other part at three a clock in the afternoon being bloud-warm Another Restorative Take half a pint of Claret wine and half a pint of ale and make a caudle with a new laid egg put in half a Nutmeg cut into two peeces then take it off the fire and put in seven grains of Ambergreece drinke this for two breakfasts for it will increase bloud and strength Another Restorative Take two new laid Eggs and take the whites clean from them and put the yolks both in one shell then put in two spoonfulls of Claret wine seven grains of Amber-greece small bruised and a little Sugar Candie stir all these together and make them bloud-warm and sup them up for a breakfast three or four hours before dinner Another Restorative Take a young leg of Mutton cut off the skin and the fat take the flesh being cut into small peeces and put it into a stone bottle then put to it two ounces of raisins of the Sun stoned large Mace an ounce and half of Sugar Candie and stop the bottle very close and let it boil in a Chafer three hours and so put the juice from the meat and keep it in a clean glasse it will serve for three breakfasts or if he will he may take some at three a clock in the afternoon being made warm A restoring Broath Take two ounces of Chene roots first slit very thin then put it in a new Pipkin with five pints of running water being close covered and so set it upon embers all night long where it may be very hot but not seeth then put to that water a great cock Chicken and when it is clean scummed put into it two spoonfuls of French Barly six Dates slit with the pithes and stones taken out two ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned large Mace let all these boyle together till half be consumed then take out the Cock and beat the flesh of it in a clean Morter and a little of the broth then strain it altogether throughout a hair Collender then put in two spoonfuls of red Rose-water and sweeten it with white Sugar-candy drink of this broth being made warm half a pint in the morning early fasting and sleep after it if you can drink a good draught at three of the clock in the afternoon this broth is very good for a Consumption and the longer they taste it it is the better A Strengthening Meat Take Potato roots roste them or bake them then pill them and slice them into a dish put to it lumps of raw marrow and a few Currans a little whole Mace and sweeten it with Sugar to your taste and so eat it in stead of buttered Parsnips Broath for a Consumption Take three Marrow bones break them in pieces and boil them in a gallon of water till half be consumed then strain the liquor through a Collender and let it stand 〈◊〉 it be cold then take off all the fat clean and put the broth into a Pipkin and put to it a good Cock chicken and a knuckle of Veal then put into it the bottome of a white loaf a whole Mace two ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned six Dates slit let all these boil together till half be consumed then strain it instead of Almonds take a few Pistaties kernels and beat them and strain them with your broths as you doe Allum milk and so sweeten it with white Sugar and drink half a pint early in the morning and at three a clock in the afternoon and so continue a good while together or else it will doe you no good Another Cordiall Take a preserved Nutmeg cut it in four quarters eat a quarter at a breakfast and another in the
A proved Medicine for the yellow Jaundies Take a pint of Muscadine a pretty quantity of the inner bark of a Barberry tree three spoonfuls of the greenest goose dung you can get and take away all the white spots of it lay them in steep all night on the morrow strain it and put to it one grated Nutmeg one penniworth of Saffron dried and very fine beaten and give it to drink in the morning To make Pectorall Roules Take one pound of fine Sugar of Licorice and Annise seeds two spoonfulls of Elicampane one spoonful of Amber and Corrall of each a quarter of a spoonfull all this must be very finely beaten and fearsed and then the quantity that is set down must be taken mix all these pouders together well then take the white of one egg and beat it with a pretty quantitie of Musk then take a Brasen morter very well scoured and a spoonful on two of the Pouders and drop some of the Egg to it so beat them to a paste then make them in little roules and lay them on a Plate to dry A Plaister for a sore Breast Take crums of Whitebread the tops of Mint chopped small and boil them in strong Ale and make it like a Poultess and when it is almost boyled put in the pouder of Ginger and oyle of Thyme so spread it upon a cloth it will both draw and heal A Medicine for the dead Palsie and for them that have lost their speech Take Borage leaves Marigold leaves or flours of each a good handfull boil it in a good Ale Posset the Patient must drinke a good draught of it in the morning and sweat if it be in the arms or legs they must be chaffed for an hour or two when they be grieved and at meals they must drink of no other drink till their speech come to them again in Winter if the Hearbs be not to be had the Seeds will serve An approved Medicine for an Ach or Swelling Take the flours of Cammomile and Rose leaves of each of them a like quantitie and seeth them in white Wine and make a plaister thereof and let it be laid as hot as may be suffered to the place grieved and this will ease the pain and asswage the swelling An approved Medicine for a stinking Breath Take a good quantity of Rosemary leaves and flours and boil them in white Wine and with a little Cinnamon and Benjamin beaten in pouder and put therein and let the Patient use to wash his mouth very often therewith and this will presently help him A good Broth for one that is weak Take a part of the neck of Lambe and a pretty running fowl and set them on the fire in fair Spring water and when it boyleth scum it well so done put in two large Mace and a few Raisins of the Sun stoned and a little Fennel root and a Parsley root and let them boil if the party be grieved with heat or cold in the stomack if heat put in a handfull of Barlie boyled before in two waters and some Violet leaves Sorrel Succorie and a little Egrimonie if cold put in Roseâ—â—â—y Thyme a Lillie Marigold leaves Boâ—â—ge and Bugloss and boyle this from lour pints to lesse then one A Receipt for Purging D. T. Take the leaves of new Sene six ounces of chosen Rubarb one ounce and half leaves of Sage red Dock roots of each an ounce of Barberies half an ounce Cinnamon and Nutmegs of each an ounce Annise-seeds and Fennel seeds of each six drachms of Tamarisk half an ounce Cloves and Mace of each half a drachm beat them into a grosse pouder and hang them in a linnen Bag in six gallons of new Ale so drinke of it fasting in the morning and at night To comfort the stomack and help Windiness and Rheum Take of Ginger one penniworth Cloves four penniworth Mace seven penniworth Nutmegs four penniworth Cinnamon four penniworth and Galingale two penniworth of each one ounce of Cubebs Corall and Amber of each two drachms of Fennel seed Dill seed and Carraway seed of each one ounce of Liquorice and Annise seeds of each an ounce all beaten into fine pouder one pound and a halfe of fine beaten Sugar which must be set on a soft fire and being dissolved the pouders being well mixed therewith till it bee stiffe then put thereunto half a pint of red Rosewater and mix them well together and put it into a gallie pot and take thereof first in the morning and last in the evening as much as a good Hasell Nut with a spoonfull or two of red Wine To make a Callice for a weak Person Take a good Chicken and a peece of the neck end of Lamb or Veal not so much as the Chicken and set them on the fire and when they boyl and are well scummed cast in a large Mace and the piece of the bottome of a Manchet and half a handful of French Barlie boyled in three waters before and put it to the Broth and take such hearbs as the partie requireth and put them in when the broth hath boyled half an hour so boyl it from three and a half to one then cast it through a strainer and scum off all the fat so let it cool then take twenty good Jordan Almonds or more if they be small and grind them in a Morter with some of the broth or if you thinke your Broth too strong grinde them with some fair water and strain them with the broth then set it upon a few coals and season it with some Sugar not so much and when it is almost boyled take out the thickest and beat it all to pieces in the morter and put it in again and it will doe well so there be not too much of the other flesh For the Gout Take six drachms of Cariacostine fasting in a morning and fast two houres after it you may roll it up in a Wafer and take it as Pills or in Sack as you conceive is most agreeable for the stomack this proportion is sufficient for a woman and eight drachms for a man and take it every second day untill you find remedie for it it is a gentle purge that works onely upon winds and water The Poultesse for the Gout Take a pennie loaf of Whitebread and slice it and put it in fair water two Eggs beaten together a handfull of Red-rose leaves two penniworth of Saffron dryed to pouder then take the bread out of the water and boil it in a quantity of good Milk with the rest of the Ingredients and apply it to the place grieved as warm as you can well indure For them that cannot hear Put into their eares good dried Suet. A Soveraign Water good for many Cures and the health of Bodies Take a gallon of good Gascoign wine White or Claret then take Ginger Galingall Cardomon Cinnamon Nutmegs Grains Cloves Annise seeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds of each of them three drachms then take Sage Mints red Rose
these in a gallon of fair water unto a pottle and when the liquor is boyled half away strain it forth and then put in your Rubarb and Agarick in a clean thin handkercher and tye it up close and put it into the said liquor and then put in two pound of fine Sugar and boil it to the height of a Sirrup and take of it the quantity of six spoonfulls or more or lesse as you find it worketh in you To make drinke for all kind of Surfets Take a quart of Aqua or small Aqua vitae and put in that a good handfull of Couslip flours Sage flours a good handfull and of Rosemary flours a handful sweet Majoram a little Pellitorie of the wall a little Bittanie and Balm of each a prettie handful Cinnamon half an ounce Nutmegs a quarter of an ounce Fennel-seed Annise seed Colliander seed Carraway seed Gromel seed Juniper berries of each a drachm bruise your spices and seeds and put them into your Aqua or Aqua vitae with your hearbs together and put to that three quarters of a pound of very fine Sugar stir them together and put them in a glasse and let it stand nine dayes in the Sun and let it be stirred every day it is to be made in May steeped in a wide mouth'd glasse and strained out into a narrow mouth'd glass A Medicine for the Reins of the Back Take Housleek and stamp and strain it then dip a fine linnen cloth into it and lay it to the reins of the back and that will heal it A Medicine for the Ache in the Back Take Egrimonie and Mugwort both leaves and roots and stamp it with old Bores grease and temper it with Honey and Eysell and lay it to the back For a Stitch. Take Roses and Cammomile of each a handfull and oyle of Roses and oyle of Cammomile of both together a saucerfull and a quantity of Barlie flower boil all these together in milk and then take a linnen bag and put it therein and lay the plaister as hot as may be suffered where the stitch is To make a Salve for Wounds that be cankered and doe Burn. Take the Juyce of Smallage of Morrels of Waberd of each alike then take the white of Eggs and mingle them together and put thereto a little Wheat flower and stir them together till it be thick but let it come nigh no fire but all cold let it be laid on raw to the sore and it shall cleanse the wound A Medicine for Bone-ach Take Brooklime and Smallage and Daises with fresh Sheeps tallow and fry them together and make thereof a Plaister and lay it to the sore all hot For Sinews that are shrunk Take young Swallows out of the nest a dozen or sixteen and Rosemarie Lavender and rotten Strawberie leaves strings and all of each a handfull after the quantity of the Swallows the feathers guts and all bray them in a morter and fry all them together with May Butter not too much then put it into an earthen pot and stop it close nine dayes then fry it again with May Butter and fry it well and strain it well when you shall use it chase it against the fire A Water for the biting of a mad Dog Take Scabios Matsiline Yarrough Nightshade wild Sage the leaves of white Lillies of each a like quantity and still them in a common still and give the quantity of three or four spoonfulls of the Water mingled with half a spoonfull of Triacle to any man or beast that is bitten within three dayes after the biting and for lack of the water take the juyce of these Hearbs mingled with Triacle it will keep the sore from rankling take Dittanie Egrimonie and rustie Bacon and beat them fine together and lay it unto the wound and it will keep it from rankling To kill a Fellon Take red Sage white Sope and bruise them and lay it to the Fellon and that will kill it To breake a Felon Take the grounds of Ale and as much Vinegar the crumbs of leavened bread and a little Honey and boil them altogether till they be thick and lay that hot to the joynt where the Felon is and that will heal it Doctor Stevens Soveraign Water Take a gallon of good Gascoign wine then take â—â—â—ger Galingal Cancel Nutmegs grains Gloves Annise seeds Carraway seeds of each a drachm then take Sage Mints red Roses Thyme Pellitorie Rosemary wild Thyme Cammomile Lavender of each one handfull then bray both the Spices and the hearbs and put them all into the Wine and let them stand for twelve hours divers times stirring them then still that in a Limbeck but keep that which you still first by it self for that is the best but the other is good also but not so good as the first The Vertues of this Water are these It comforteth the spirits Vitall and helpeth the inward diseases which come of cold and the shaking of the Palsie that dureth the contraction of sinnews and helpeth the conception of women that be barren it killeth worms in the body it cureth the cold cough it helpeth the toothach it comforteth the stomack it cureth the cold Dropsie it helpeth the stone it cureth shortly the stinking breath and who so useth this water enough but not too much it preserveth him in good liking making him young Doctor Willoughbies Water Take Galingal Cloves Cubebs Ginger Melilot Cardamome Mace Nutmegs of each a drachm and of the juyce of Celendine half a pint and mingle all these made in pouder with the said juyce and with a pint of good Aqua vitae and three pints of good white Wine and put all these together in a still of glasse and let it stand so all night and on the morrow still it with an easie fire as may be The Vertue is of secret nature it dissolveth the swelling of the Lungs without any grievance and the same Lungs being wounded or perished it helpeth and comforteth and it suffereth not the bloud to putrifie he shall never need to be let bloud that useth this Water and it suffereth not the heart to be burnt nor melancholly or flegm to have dominion above Nature it also expelleth the Rheum and purifieth the stomack it preserveth the visage and the memorie and destroyeth the Palsie and if this water be given to a man or woman labouring toward death one spoonfull relieveth in the Summer time use once a week fasting the quantity of one spoonful and in Winter two spoonfuls A Medicine for them that have a pain after their child bed Take Tar and fresh Barrows grease and boil it together then take Pigeons dung and fry it in fresh grease and put it in a bag For the drinke Take a pint of Malmsey and boil it and put Bay berries in it and Sugar the Bay berries must be of the whitest and put therein some Sanders Take some fair water and set it over the fire and put some ground Malt in it when they
of each a like quantity clarifie them severally then take of the root of Comfery dry it and make pouder of it take the pouder of Anniseseed and Cummin-seed but twice as much Cumminseed as Anniseseed boyle these pouders in the Butter and unwrought Wax upon a soft fire a good while together then put in your juyce and let it boyle one walm or two then take it from the fire and stir it altogether till it be cold take hereof and spread it and lay it to his Codds as hot as he can suffer it and use this till he be whole this plaister is most excellent for a Child that is burst at the Navill Gratiosa Cura A Water for a Cut or a Sore Take Honeysuckles the knots nipt off floures of Celendine floures of red Sage of each three spoonfuls Five-finger Camphery such as is to knit bones Daisies with the roots thereon Ladder of Heaven blossomes of Rosemary Setwell Hearbgrace Smalledge red Roses with the knots on or else red Rosecakes Adder-tongue of each of these one handfull seeth all together in six gallons of water that runneth towards the East untill two gallons be sod in then strain them and put to the water three quarts of English Honey one pound of Roch Allum one pennyworth of Madder one pennyworth of long Pepper seeth all together untill one gallon be consumed then cleanse the water For the Wind Collick Take the floures of Walnuts and dry them to pouder and take of them in your Ale or Beer or in your Broth as you like best and it will help you To make a soveraign Oyle of a Fox for the numme Palsie Take a Fox new killed cased and bowelled then put into the body of Dill Mugwort Cammomil Campits Southernwood red Sage Origanum Hop Staecad Rosemary Costmary Cowslip floures Balm Bettony sweet-Majoram of each a good handfull chop them small and put thereto of the best Oyle of Castor Dill and Cammomill of each four ounces mix the Hearbs and Oyles together and strew over them Aphronitum a good handfull put them all into the Fox and sow up his belly close and with a quick fire roast him and the Oyle that droppeth out is a most singular Oyle for all Palsies or numnesse Approved To comfort the Brain and procure sleep Take brown bread crums the quantity of one Walnut one Nutmeg beaten to pouder one drachm of Cinnamon put these into a Napkin with two spoonfuls of Vinegar four spoonfuls of Rosewater and one of womans milk For the weaknesse in the Back Take the Pith of an Oxe back put it into a pottle of water then seeth it to a quart then take a handful of Comphelly one handful of knotted Grasse one handful of Shepherd spurse put these into a quart of water boyle them unto a pint with six Dates boyled therein For a Canker in any part of the Body Take Filberd Nut leaves Lavender-cotton Southernwood Wormwood Sage Woodbine leaves sweet-Bryar leaves of each a like quantity of Allum and Honey a good quantity seeth all these till they be half sodden wash the sore with it For an old Bruise Take one spoonful of the juyce of Tansie and as much Nip two pennyworth of Sperma Ceti put it into a little Ale and drink it Oyle of Foxes or Badgers for Ach in the Joynts the Sciatica diseases of the Sinews and paines of the Reines and Back Take a live Fox or Badger of a middle age of a full body well fed and fat kill him bowell him and skin him some take not out his bowels but onely his excrements in his guts because his guts have much grease about them break his bones small that you may have all the marrow this done set him a boyling in salt Brine and Sea water and salt water of each a â—â—nt and a half of Oyle three pints of salt three ounces in the end of the decoction put thereto the leaves of Sage Rosemary Dill Origany Majoram and Juniper Berries and when he is so sodden as that his bones and flesh do part in sunder strain all through a strainer and keep it in a vessel to make Linaments for the ach in the joynts the Sciatica diseases of the Sinnews and pains of the reins and back To make the Leaden Plaister Take two pound and four ounces of oyle Olive of the best of good red Lead one pound white Lead one pound very well beaten into dust twelve ounces of Spanish Sope and incorporate all these well together in an earthen pot well glased before you put them to boil and when they are well incorporated that the Sope cometh upward put it upon a small fire of coals continuing the fire for the space of one hour and a half still stirring it with an Iron Ball upon the end of a stick then make the fire somewhat bigger until the redness be turned into a gray colour but you must not leave stirring it till the matter be turned into the colour of oyle or somewhat darker then drop of it upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the finger it is enough then make it up into rouls it will keep 20 yeares the older the better The Virtue of the Plaister The same being laid upon the stomack provoketh appetite it taketh away any grief in the stomack being laid on the Belly is a present remedie for the Collick and laid unto the reins of the Back it is good for the bloudie Flux the running of the Reins the heat of the Kidnies and weaknesse of the back the same healeth all swellings bruises and taketh away ach it breaks Felons pushes and other Imposthumes and healeth them the same draweth out any running humour without breaking the skin and being applied to the fundament it healeth any disease there growing being laid on the head is good for the Vvula it helpeth the head-ake and is good for the eyes For a pricking of a Thorn take fine Wheat flower boulted temper it with Wine and seeth it thick lay it hot to the sore A Medicine for the Plague Take a pint of Malmsie and burn it well then take about six spoonfuls thereof and put to the quantity of a Nutmeg of good Triacle and so much spice grains beaten as you can take up with the tops of your two fingers mix it together and let the partie sick drink it bloud-warm if he be infected it will procure him to cast which if he doe give him as much more and so still again and again observing still some quantity till the partie leave casting and so after he will be well if he cast not at all once taking is enough and probably it is not the sickness after the partie hath left casting it is good to take a competent draught of burnt Malmsie alone with Triacle and grains it will comfort much Another Medicine for the Plague Take of Setwel grated one rooâ— of Jane Triacle two spoonfuls of wine Vinegar three spoonfuls of fair water three spoonfuls make all
in a Morter then mix them three well together after that take as a thing most needful the root of Angelica and Pimpernel of each the weight of sixpence make them to pouder and mix them with the rest then compound therewith five or six simples of Unicorns horn or for want thereof of Hartshorn and take as much weight as all these fine pouders come to of fine Triacle and stamp it with the pouders in a Morter until all be well mixed and hang to the Pestle and then it is perfectly made then put the Electuary in a stone pot well nealed and so it will continue twenty or thirty yeares and the longer the better How to use this Electuary First when one is infected with the Pestilence let him take so soon as he can or ever the disease infect the heart one crown weight in gold of this Electuary and so much of fine Triacle if it be for a man but if it be for a woman or child take lesse and let them be well mixed together and if the disease come with cold then give him this Electuary with half a pint of white Wine warm and well mixed together but if it come with heat then give it him with Plantain water or Well water and Vinegar mixt altogether and when he hath drunk the same let him goe into his naked bed and put off his shirt and cover him warm but let his bed be well warmed first and a hot double sheet wrapped about him and so let him sweat seven eight or ten houres as he is able to endure for the more he doth sweat the better because the disease fadeth away with the sweat but if he cannot sweat then heat two or three Bricks or Tiles and wrap them in moist clothes wet with water and salt and lay them by his sides in the bed and they will cause him to sweat and as he sweateth let it be wiped from his body with dry hot clothes being conveyed into the bed and his sweat being ended shift him into a warm bed with a warm shirt and all fresh new clothes using him very warily for taking of cold and let his clothes that he did sweat in be well aired and washed for they be infectious and let the keeper of the sick beware of the breath or air of the party in the time of his sweating therefore let her muffle her self with double old cloth wherein is Wormwood Rue Fetherfew crums of soure bread and Vinegar and a little Rosewater beat all these together and so put it into the muffler made new every day while you doe keep him and let the sick party have of it bound in a cloth to smell on while he is in his sweat then after doe it away and take a new and because he shall be faint and distempered after his sicknesse he shall eat no flesh nor drink Wine the space of nine dayes but let him use the Conservatives for his health as Conserve of Buglosse Borage and red Roses and especially he shall drink three or four dayes after he hath sweat morning and evening three ounces of the juyce of Sorrel mixed with an ounce of Conserve of Sorrel and so use to eat and drink whatsoever is comfortable for the heart also if one take the quantity of a Pea of the said Electuary with some good Wine it shall keep him from the infection therefore when one is sick in the house of the Plague then so soon as yee can give all the whole houshold some of this Receipt to drink and his keeper also and it shall preserve them from the infection yet keep the whole from the 〈◊〉 as much as you can beware of the clothes and bed that the sick party did sweat in To make Balm water Take four gallons of strong Ale and stale half a pound of Licorice two pound of Balm two ounces of Figs half a pound of Annise seeds one ounce of Nutmegs shred the Balm and Figs very small and let them stand steeping four and twenty houres and then put it in a Still as you use Aqua vitae To make Doctor Stephens Water Take one gallon of good Gascoign Wine of Ginger Galingal Nutmegs Grains Annise seeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds then take Sage Mints red Roses garden Thyme Pellitorie Rosemary wild Thyme Penniroyall Cammomill Lavender of each one handful bray your Spices small and chop the hearbs before named and put them with the spices into the Wine and let it stand twelve houres stirring it very often then still it in a Limbeck closed up with course paste so that no air enter keep the first water by it self it is good so long as it will burn An Ointment for any Strain in the Joynts or for any Sore Take three pound of fresh Butter unwashed and set it in an Oven after the bread be drawn out and let it stand two or three houres then take the clearest of the butter and put it into a Posnet then take the tops of Red nettles as much as will be Moistned with the butter and chop them very Small and put them in the butter set it on the fire and boyle it softly five or six houres and when it is so boyled put thereto halfe a pint of the best oyle Olive and then boyle it a very little and take it off and strain it into an earthen pot and keep it for your use If you thinke good instead of Nettles onely you may take these hearbs Cammomile Rosemary Lavender Tun-hoof otherwise Ale-hoof Five finger Vervain and Nettle tops For an Ague Take the inner bark of a Walnut tree a good quantity boyl it in beer untill the beer look black and then take a good draught and put it into a pot then take six spoonfuls of Sallet Oyle for an extream Ague brew it too and fro in two pots then drinke it and let the party labour to any exercise untill he sweat then let him lye down upon a bed very warm untill he hath done sweating this doe three times when the Ague cometh upon him A Pouder against the Wind in the Stomack Take Ginger Cinnamon and Gallingal of each two ounces Annise seeds Carraway and Fennel seeds of each one ounce long Pepper Graines Mace and Nutmegs of each half an ounce Setwel half a drachm make all in pouder and put thereto one pound of white Sugar and use this after your meat or before at your pleasure at all times it comforteth the stomack marvellously carrieth away wind and causeth good digestion For a Pin and Web in the Eye Take the white of an Egg beat it to oyle put thereto a quarter of a spoonful of English Honey half a handful of Daisie leaves and in winter the roots half a handful of the inner rind of a young Hazle not above one yeares growth beat them together in a Morter and put thereto one spoonful of Womans Milk and let it stand infused two or three houres and strain all through a cloth and with
then put in a large Mace and so let it to boil while the Chicken be tender then take the Chicken out and beat it all to pieces in a stone morter and put it in again and so let it boil from four pints to a little more then half a pint then caâ—â— it through a strainer and season it To boil a Chicken Partridge or Pyton Take your Chicken and set it a boiling with a little of the neck of Mutton and scum it well then put in a Mace and 〈◊〉 let it boil down and when it is almoâ—â— boiled have some few hearbs perboiled as Lettice Endive Spinage Marigoâ—â— leaves for note these hearbs are usualâ—â— used to be boiled which by course wiâ—â— hold their colour in boyling and put soâ—â— of these foresaid hearbs to the Chicken and Mutton if you thinke your broth strong enough take out your mutton if you see it not put a little piece of sweet Butter and a little verjuyce and a very little Sugar and Salt so serve it in with sippets A Broth to drinke Take a Chicken and set it on and when it boils scum it then put in a Mace and a very little Oatmeal and such hearbs as the partie requires and boil it well down and bruise the Chicken and put it in again and it is a prettie broth and to alter it you may put in half a dosen Prunes and leave out the hearbs or put them in so when it is well boyled strain it and season it A Broth to eat on Fasting dayes Take fair water and set it a boyling and when it boileth put to it so much streined Oatmeal as you thinke will thicken it and a large Mace a handfull of Raisins of the Sun as many Prunes and as many Currants if your quantity require it so boil it and when it is boiled season it with Salt and Sugar and a piece of sweet Butter if the time will allow it and for an alteration when this broth is boiled put in a quantity of cream and it will doe well To make Ponado The quantity you will make set on in a posnet of fair water and when it boyles put a mace in and a little piece of Cinnamon and a handfull of Currants and so much bread as you think meet so boil it and season it with Salt and Sugar and Rosewater and so serve it To make a Caudle Take Ale the quantity that you mean to make and set it on the fire and when it is ready to boil scum it very well then cast in a large Mace and take the yolks of two Eggs for one messe or one draught and beat them well and take away the skin of the yolks and then put them into the Ale when it seeths be sure to stiâ— them well till it seeth again for a youngling then lel it boil a while and put in your Sugar and if it be to eat cut three or four tosts of bread thin and toste them dry but not brown and put them to the caudle if to drinke put none To make Almond Butter Blanch your Almonds and beat them as fine as you can with fair water two or three houres then strain them through a linnen cloth boil them with Rose-water whole Mace and Annise seeds till the substance be thick spread it upon a fair cloth draining the whey from it after let it hang in the same cloth some few houres then strain it and season it with Rose-water and Sugar To stew Beef Take a good Rumpe of Beef cut from the bones shred Turnips and Carroots small and Spinage and Lettice put all in â—pan and let it stew four houres with so much water and a quart of white Wine â—s will cover it when it is stewed enough then put in a wine glasse full of Elder vinegar and serve it in with sippets To Souce a young Pig Take a young Pig being scalded boil it in faiâ— water and white Wine put thereto some Bay leaves some whole Ginger and some Nutmegs quaâ—tered a few whole Cloves boil it throughly and leave it in the same broth in an earthen pot To boyl Flounders or Pickrels after the French Fashion Take a pint of white Wine the tops oâ— young Thyme and Rosemary a little whole Mace a little whole Pepper seasoned with Verjuyce Salt and a piece oâ— sweet Butter and so serve it this brotâ— will serve to boyl fish twice or thrice in or four times To make flesh of Apricocks Take Apricocks when they are greeâ— and pare them and slice them and taâ—â— half their weight in Sugar put it to theâ— so put them in a skillet and as much water as you thinke will melt the Sugar so let them boil and keep them with stirring till they be tender and so take them off and scum them very clean so put them forth of the skillet and let them stand take as much Sugar as you had before and boil it to a Candie height and then put in your Apricocks and set them over a soft fire but let them not boyl so keep them with oft stirring till the Sirupe begin to jellie then put them in glasses and keep them for your use To make flesh of Quinces Take Quinces pare them and core them and cut them in halfs boyl them in a thin Sirupe till they be tender then take them off and let them lye in Sirupe then take Quinces pare them and quarter them take out the cores put as much water to them as will cover them then boil them till they be very tender and then strain out the liquor clean from them and take unto a pint of that liquor a pound of Sugar put as much water to the Sugar as will melt it then boyle it to a Candie height then stir the Quinces that are in the Sirupe as thin as you can when your Sugar is at a full Candy height put in a pint of the liquor then set it over a soft fire stirring it leisurely till the Sugar be dissolved then put in half a pound of your slices keeping it still stirring but not to boil you must take the Jellie of Quince kernels that have lain in water two or three hours take two good spoonfuls of it and put it to the flesh so keep it stirring leisurely till it begin to jellie upon the spoon then put it into thin glasses and keep it in a stove To dry Cherries Take the fairest Cherries stone them take to six pound of Cherries a pound of Sugar put them into a skillet straining the Sugar amongst them as you put them in then put as much water to them as will boil them then set them upon a quick fire let them boil up then take them off and strain them very clean put them into to an earthen pan or pot so let them stand in the liquor four dayes then take them up and lay them severally one by one upon silver dishes or earthen dishes set them into an oven after the bread being taken out