consumed then strain it and put into it one pennyworth of long Pepper Ginger half an ounce a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs boyl them altogether a little while beat your Ginger and Nutmegs to fine powder adde thereto also two penny-worth of Treakle four pennyworth of Methridatum and a quarter of a pint of good Angellica water keep this secret as your life If the party be infected take two spoonfuls warm and let him sweat well upon it if not one spoonfull every day is sufficient half in the morning the other at night this never failed any that took it For the Plurisie TAke a fair Pippin cut off the top and take out the core and fill it half full of the powder of Olibanum and then lay on the top again and roast it leisurely upon the embers see it do not burn and when it is enough roasted cut it in four parts with the Olibanum in it and give it to the Patient to eat and it will suddenly cause the Imposthume to break and it will cleanse it To make Oyl of Puppy which is good for any strain or bruise TAke a fat Spannell puppy if you can get one but let it be what puppy it will it must be fat and dress him as you dress a pig then take half a dose of yeolks of egges and two handfuls of Roman nettles cut very small three ounces of Venice Turpentine and three penny-worth of Saffron and beat them altogether and put them into the belly of the Puppy and sow it up and roast it and what droppeth from it save and it will become perfect oyl for the former uses A Poultis that will break a sore in twenty four hours TAke black-berry leaves and Mustard seed and beat them together till it be a Poultis Prob. est A Preparative to take before a Purgation the night before it is taken the dose is one dram in Diaprunis or posset-ale TAke Senna Turbith Diagredii of each three drams Epithimum Galingal of each one dram Salt gem six grains all fine searced and mixed and taken as aforesaid A Purgation which purgeth all aqueous humours TAke Rewbard Turbith Hermodactils Diagredii Senna Agarick Mechoacan Sugar of each two drams Cloves Fennell Ginger Anniseed Mastick of each one dram Saffron and Cinamon of each two scruples searce all these the dose is one dram in Succory water or Posset-ale To make Pils that purge the four humours TAke Mirabolaus and Rewbard of each four drams the juice of Egrimony and Worm-wood of each two ounces Hermodactils Agrick Coloquintida Aloes of each six drams Mastick red Rose leaves Salt gem Epithimum Annis and Ginger of each one dram searce them and mix them and compound them in a mortar with syrup of Roses to a mase for Pils the dose is one dram in five Pils taken in the pap of a roasted apple Pils of excellent vertue to purge all Flegmatick Feavers or Agues TAke Agarick Aloes Acorus Turbith of each one dram Esula half a dram Coloquintida one grain Salt gem Mastick Ginger Wormwood Lettice Raisins mundified Bdellium of each three drams let syrup of Roses be made up with these Pils the dose is two drams more or less according to the strength of the Patient if you adde these following they are good in tertian Agues Rubard two drams Spicknard half a dram Diagredii Mastick of each one dram mix these with those aforesaid the dose is half a dram more or less according to the strength of the Patient and the vehemency of the Feaver A Purgation that cleanseth the head brain and all the body of Melancholly TAke Senna six drams Ginger one ounce Bugloss one dram flowers thereof two drams infuse all in a close stopped ale-bottle of stone with a pint of whey of Goats milk boyl them in Balnea one hour and let it cool when it is boyled warm it in the morning and give it the Patient and it preserveth against all passions of the brain it also helps hearing smelling and seeing and strengtheneth all the body and doth unburthen the body of all humours that abound as choller fleam and melancholly this was the practice of Mathiolus Riolanus and Achaius For the Palsie TAke Rosemary Sage Herbmandlin of each a handfull Camomil-flowers three handfuls and with Sallet-oyl make oyl thereof as you make oyl of Roses and anoint the grieved parts therewith Purgations with Senna TAke Senna in some quantity with some Ginger in your broath for the pain of the head four drams may be given to children and to women with childe An Vnguent for the Piles BOyl in fresh butter Pilewort and Elder leaves or buds till it be a Salve make it yellow with Saffron and use it An excellent healing and cooling Plaister TAke Wax and Deer suet of each four ounces Lapis Caluminaris two ounces May butter two ounces Camphire one dram Oyl of Roses eight ounces mix them and melt them together and make your liquid Plaister A Plaister of Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline all green which cureth green wounds and old ulcers TAke Linseed oyl one pint Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline both green in May and June of each three handfuls strip forth their stalks and bruise them then boyl them in the Oyl adde thereto white-wine let them all boyl till the herbs be very soft then strain them out and put the liquor to the fire again adde thereto Rosin and Wax bruised eight ounces boyl them till all be melted still stirring it then take it off presently mix therewith Venice Turpentine six ounces liquid Storax one ounce and so it is made A gentle Purge for Melancholly and to comfort the spirits TAke the juice of old Pippins and Burradge water of each as much as will make a draught heat it seething hot then infuse therein all night Senna four drams Manna and syrup of Roses of each one ounce Anniseed bruised four drams next morning strain it and drink it warm For the Rickets a disease common to Children TAke Egremony Scabions Coltsfoot Charnill Tamaris of each one handfull one pennyworth of Maidenhair a smal handfull of unset Hysop six tops of Spermint six leaves of Harts-tongue a little Liverwort and opening roots as Fennell Parsley Succory Spergrace scrape them clean and take the pith out of them sprinkle them with wine Vinegar when you have so done slice them and about half an hour after put them to the rest of the herbs and adde licorish half an ounce Anniseed a quarter of an ounce Raisins of the sun stoned and Currants and Figs of each two ounces boyl all these in a pottle of running water untill it come to a quart and let the childe drink thereof twice a day morning and evening constant and for a time at four a clock in the afternoon if the child be hot you may boyl in it two ounces of French barley A Beer for the same TAke Tamaris two handfuls Brooklime and Scurvy-grass and Watercresses of each four handfuls Egrimony Scabions Bettony of the
black and thick then make your tents of one inch long and no longer although the Fistula be never so deep and roul the tents well in the Medicine and tent your wound therewith twice in a day and it will work out in small pushes and wheals from the bottom cover the sore with a red Colwort leaf and when it is well digested heal it up with plaisters fir for it A vulnary potion for the Fistula TAke a quart of spring water and boyl therein Cloves bruised Pimpernell Egrimony red Colwort Valerian Mousear Dovefoot and wilde Tanzy washed and chopped of each one handfull boyl all in a pipkin close covered till half be wasted then adde to it two spoonfuls of Honey and one quart of white-wine then let it boyl one walm or two and strain it hard forth and keep it in a close Viall and drink of it morning and evening and at three in the afternoon in Summer cold and in Winter hot untill the Potion cometh out of the orefice of the Fistula which must be alway kept open with a Gentian tent A plaister to cure the Fistula TAke Latherage of Gold one pound oyl of Roses two pound white-wine Vinegar and old Urine of each half a pound boyl these till the Vinegar and Urine be consumed adde thereto in the boyling Wax two ounces Frankincense one ounce mix it and so use it A Lotion to wash or seering into the Fistula TAke Bolearmoniack four ounces Camphire one ounce white Vitrioll four ounces powder all these boil the Copras and Camphire in a close stopped pipkin till they be melted still stirring them till they grow hard then powder them and the Bolearmoniack together very fine and when you use it take a pottle of running water put it to the fire till it begin to boyl then take it from the fire and put therein three spoonfuls of the powder as much as the spoon will hold put all into a double Viall and shake it twice every day for fourteen daies before you use it let it stand and settle very clear and apply it as hot as the Patient can endure it if it be for a sore wet a double cloth four times double and apply it if for a Fistula use the searing morning and evening till you be well if you would have it stronger put into it one ounce of burned allum powdered This is approved either for Fistula or Pustels Cankers Scabs in the head or body and also green wounds Unto your Lotion for Fistula you may adde Strawberries Plantine red mader sharp dock of each one handfull let your Cloves be twelve in number and if you will six ounces of honey if the Patient vomit up his Lotion three daies together at the first taking there is fear of his cure but if he vomit not no fear of the cure let him drink it fourteen daies in his drinking thereof put in some Ginger to allay the winde of the hearbs An Implaister of Tapsus Barbatus which cureth all Cankers Fistulas Plague-sores hot Bruises Botches or Fellones TAke the juice of Smallidge and Cardus young Wormwood Mullin Walwort Pimpernell Dovefoot Plantine Egrimony Mugwort Sage Daises Night-shade and Fluellin of each one dram Woodbine four handfuls stamp them and strain them put to as much Honey in measure as you have in juices then boyl them together in a new red pipkin close covered let them boyl softly still stirring it till it come to the thickness of Honey then take it from the fire and keep it in a new earthen pot close covered And when you make a Plaister for any the things aforesaid Take of this Honey four ounces wheat-meal two ounces boyl altogether one walm or two still stirring it for fear of burning then take it from the fire and put to it presently Venice Turpentine two ounces mix it well with the rest and when it is almost cold pour the whites of two egges well beaten thereto mix them together till it be cold and so it is made The Plaister is called Diaflosmos A Lotion to wash or seringe the grief withall before you apply the Plaister dress it twice a day either by bathe or searing hot TAke Night-shade Smallidge Egrimony Fluelline Sage Cardus of each one handfull Honey two ounces Plantine water and white-wine of each one pint boyl all these hearbs small cut till their substance be forth with the Honey Allum Wine and water and so strain it for your use A perfect Remedy for the Flux TAke a good handfull of Beans dry them in an oven or upon a tilestone and let them be so hard as the huls will skale off them and then bray them to fine powder and searce them then take a plot of good red wine and set it upon the fire and put the powder into the wine and stirre it well least it should grow to the pan wherein you boyl it and so do till it be so thick that you may cut it in slices when it is cold and let the Patient take two or three slices thereof blood warm every morning and evening for a certain space and this will cure Prob. est Falling sickness the cure FIrst every full Moon and change purge one day and vomit another then kill a Jay and dress him fill his body full of Commin and Anniseeds bruised then put the Jay so dressed into an oven after bread is drawn forth untill he be so dry that you must beat his body and sides and all into fine powder then take of this powder one dram in any thing what you please morning and evening till you be well as in broth or such like only with it make two plaisters as you do of Mastick of Sanguis Draconis spread it with a hot knife and lay them to the temple veins Fistula the cure TAke Vervine and dry it upon a tile and make powder thereof and make clean the sore with a linnen cloth and fill the wound full with the powder For the Gout TAke Arsmart and wet it in fair running water and lay it to the place grieved and when you take it away then bury it in a moist place in the ground and as that wasts the grief will wast also Another for the same TAke Mallows and Sengreen beat them and boyl them in water then strain them put oatmeal grots soked in Vinegar and sheeps-suet untried then boyl it to a poultess Proved Another for the same TAke Archangell red stamp it in a mortar with Vinegar and bind it to the place grieved and if it go not away mix a little Opium with it and it will not fail A good cooling Clyster to apply where it needs TAke a pottle of running water and Succory leaves and Sorrill and Strawberry leaves and Violet leaves and Mallows of each one handfull one pennyworth of French-barley sweet Fennell seed and the four cold seeds of each one pennyworth boyl all these to a pint and strain it and adde one ounce of Syrup of Roses and a piece of butter
a pint of water boyl them altogether six or seven walms adde to them in the boyling white Ginger powdered two drams Elna Campana one dram a little Saffron powdered drink thereof first and last at meals infuse therein Saxifrage For the green Sickness TAke a handfull of Cowslip-flowers dry them and beat them to powder and let the Patient drink one spoonfull of this powder in six or seven spoonfuls of Malmsie fourteen mornings fasting A Swelling the cure TAke May butter and wax a like quantity boyl them together with a little Aqua vitae dip double clothes therein and lay it to the grief very hot and it will draw out the water and presently swage the swelling Proved A Dianthos which will help all feebleness of the body the tisick the grief of the heart and of the Liver after long Sickness TAke Cloves Gallingall Ginger Spike Nut-megs of each two drams and a half Cara-way Anniseed Cardamonium of each two drams Licorish red Roses Violets and Rosemary-flowers of each four drams Honey cleansed and Rose-water a pritty quantity let those things which be to be powdered be beaten very fine and searced then mix them with the Honey and Rosewater and let it simper on the fire to a Confection the dose is three drams use this as a secret Prob. est A powder for Winde and Spleen TAke the rind of an Orenge Coliander seed Caraway seed Anniseed Fennell seed and Parsley seed of each one spoonfull dry all these and beat them to powder and searce it then mix them with fine Sugar take thereof in the morning fasting at noon before dinner and after dinner and before supper and after supper going to bed in a little Anniseed water and you will finde much good A rare Sear-cloth or Plaister for a sore breast or any other sore or sprain or ach which I have often had experience of TAke half a pound of Virgins wax and half a pint of Oyl of Roses and half a pint of Oyl-olive melt them altogether upon a soft fire of Char-coal then let it cool in a pan till it be half cold then take half a pound of white-lead and beat it fine and put it into the Oyl abovesaid and to the wax and stirre them together on the fire and cause them softly to boyl half an hour then take two ounces of Frankincense and two ounces of Myrrh and two ounces of Gum Olibanum and two ounces of Mastick beat them to powder very fine and put them into the abovesaid Oyl and Wax and cause them to boyl another half hour stil stirring it till it be black then adde a quarter of an ounce of Camphire when you have taken it from the fire so dip in your clothes for sear-cloths or work it up for plaisters for your use Proved often for what is abovesaid A white tost steeped in white-wine Vinegar applied to a strain is a speedy remedy for that grief For the Tooth-ach TAke a piece of the root of Crowfoot and put it into the hollow tooth if there be any if none be hollow apply it often to the tooth that aketh and that will cure Again take the powder of red Corall put it into the tooth that akes and it will soon fall out Again Take Organy that grows close to the ground and tastes like Aqua vitae bruise it and lay it to the tooth Also bruise bursa pastoris and do the same To make Teeth white and to fasten the Gums and to comfort the roots and to make the breath sweet TAke Vinegar of Squils and dip a piece of linnen cloth into it and rub the teeth and gums therewith For Lues Venera or French-Pox FIrst prepare the body with purgations as this Pulvis Arthreticus the dose is one dram augment as you see good not exceeding above a dram and half but a dram and a quarter is a good dose or a dram of that and half a dram of Jallop And then use this Diet-drink with Lignum vitae for every pint of water an ounce of Lignum vitae and put in some Carduus Benedictus let them drink half a pint at a time morning and evening let their diet be chicken or such meat And then next use Turbith Mellerares begin at three grains use it to a dram but no further till you make a Salavation or Flux at the mouth And then make a lotion for the mouth to wash that daily let the Salavation continue three weeks or a moneth till you be sure the ulcer be clean To stay Vomiting TAke Mints Shepheards purse Plantine and Knotgrass and Comfry of each one handfull shred them small and boyl them in a quart of red Wine or Claret drink of this Wine and plaister the herbs to the stomack in a double cloth A Vomit for any disease TAke and Elder bough and scrape off all the outmost rind clean then take some of the inside rind and stamp it and strain it into strong Ale which is old and drink it lukewarm this will soon cause the Patient to vomit To stay Vomiting TAke Mints Shepheards-purse and Comfry of each one handfull chopped small boyl them in a quart of red Wine or Claret drink of the Wine and lay the herbs plaister-wise to the stomack in a double cloth Prob. est To force one to make Water which is stept in Sickness INfuse and mix ten drops of oyl of Juniper in two ounces of Parsley water and drink it blood-warm it will cure at once or twice taking A Water to inject or serindge into the secrets of men or women TAke water and white-wine of each one quart Woodbine leaves and flowers of each two handfuls Sage Rosemary and Water-cresses of each half a handfull cut small boyl all these together half an hour then put in Allum powdered four drams and two small spoonfuls of honey and boyl them about two walms and keep it for your use To cause one to make Water TAke Saffron in powder and pure ball sope as much of one as another mingle it together spread it upon the fleshy side of white leather make thereof plaisters and lay upon the navill of the Patient and give him to drink as much of the powder of the herb golden rod as will lie on a six pence in a glassfull of Renish wine or white-wine An excellent salve for a deep Wound or cut which requireth tenting TAke the yeolk of a new laid egge and honey the quantity of a Wallnut the same quantity of pure Turpentine beat them altogether and lay them to the wound with fine lint and this will cure it in a short space Another for a green Wound TAke wheat-flower and milk and temper them well together seeth them till they be thick then take the white of a new laid egge and beat it well with the aforesaid stuff and it will keep it from rankling and heal it An excellent Medicine for a green Wound being applied plaister-wise or to make a sear-cloth for any Ach and it is
as big as a Walnut and so use it For the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins FIrst purge the humor with new drawn Cassia one ounce extracted mix therewith two drams of washt Turpentine and one scruple of pulvis athriticus into bole then next day saving one dissolve six drams of Confecti humach in Fumitory-water adding two scruples of pulvis Sanctus and half a dram of Cream tartar mix them and after the body is thus purged use restringing Medicines For a Gunshot if there be a Flux of blood TAke Bolearmoniack one ounce and terra sigalatum one dram and myrrh one dram pulverized fine and a dram of Vitriolum album or white Copras and this will be a stringum powder mix with this the white of egges and make it as it were an ungent and so use it two daies and then undress And then secondly take spirit revini or spirit of wine one ounce and Melle rosarum half an ounce and one dram of Aegyptiacum mix them together and put them into a poringer and heat them hot and dip in a pleget of lint and so lay it to the wound till you see the wound digested or that the wound be cleared and after it is digested use to incarnate or breed flesh Vnguentum Basilicon warm upon a pleget of lint and that is sigitrising of the wound For a Fracture in the Scull or wound in the Head TAke spirit Revinum and Melle rosarum heal and dip a pleget of lint and so lay on the wound but if the perecranium ly bare mix in some mire aloes of each about a scruple among the other medicines or if the wound be on any part of the body use the same intention if the bone lie bare do the same as aforesaid A good Medicine to destroy Heat in the Face or any other place although is be St Anthonies fire TAke a pottle of Smiths water and a handfull of Sage Elder leaves two handfuls or the green bark thereof Allum two pennyworth seeth all these together from a pottle to a pint then take it and put it into a Gallypot and let the Patient when he goes to bed anoint his face therewith and the next morning he will finde ease it will help him five or six daies Headach or Megrim the cure or a good cool water to be used for the Head if it be over hot or for any such distemper TAke Violet leaves red Rose leaves Letice and Willow leaves of each two handfuls and a little Henbane Vinegar white Poppey and a little Mandrake and distill them together in a Stillitory and so keep this water close stopped in a glass untill you have occasion to wash your head An excellent hot water for the Head if it be over-cold or any such distemper TAke Bettony Camomill Rue Savery Pennyroyall Marjerum Origanum Fennell and Elnacampana of each a like quantity and distill them also and use it as the former For a pain in the Head TAke a Rose-cake and cut it fit to lay to your forehead and wet it well in Vinegar and put thereto a good quantity of the powder of Nutmegs and the powder of Cloves and let the same be bound very hard to the temples of the Patient and this will speedily help him Another for the same TAke the juice of Rue and put into the nosthrils of the Patient and it will expell fleam cleanse the brains and mitigate the pain of the head and this hearb sodden in Wine will do the same Another to purge the Head TAke Pellitory of Spain and chew the root thereof in your mouth four or five daies at several times and this will take away the pain of the head and fasten your teeth and gums For winde in the Head TAke a good handfull of the flowers of Camomill and half a handfull of the powder of Cinamon mingle them together and make two little bags of the breadth of your ears and put both the powder and the flowers therein and bind it close to both your ears This Prob. est For Heart-burning TAke five or six corns of good Pepper and bruise them in your mouth and let them go down your throat This will help forthwith Hoarsness the cure TAke three or four Figs and cut them in the middle asunder and then put into every one of them a pritty quantity of Ginger fine beaten to powder and then rost them upon a clean hearth or upon a tilestone and let the Patient eat them as hot as he can endure them This hath cured some which have been troubled with hoarsness four or five years Headach of rheume the cure TAke one Nutmeg Cubebs Piony seed Setwell roots Marjerum Angellica roots of each two drams dry them and powder them fine and make them up with Honey into a mase for Pils take thereof five small ones every morning for fourteen daies For the same Approved TAke four ounces of gray sope and bray therein the whites of two egges and put it in a box and when you have use for it spread it on a cloth double and lay it to the forehead even to the ears dress it so twice a day for five daies you will finde ease at twice dressing Megrime pain or winde in the Head the cure TAke a piece of Methridate as big as a good hazel nut and put it in your mouth and let it there melt without chawing holding your breath as much as you can and as it melts receive it into your stomack This will be present help Another for the same or for any Imposthume or Feaver in the Head TAke the roots of Pellitory of Spain one dram Spicknard half a dram beat them together and boyl them in good Vinegar then let them cool put thereto honey and mustard of each a sawcer full mix them together and let the Patient put half a spoonfull thereof in his mouth and hold it there a while then spit it forth renew it so twelve times when you go to bed drink a little down use it three daies and you will be well Lice or Scabs in childrens Heads the cure TAke red Sage chop it small and boyl it in fresh butter with Pepper powdered when it is so boyled together strain it and keep it for your use A good Medicine for the black Jaundies TAke the Gall of a Raven and dry it well and beat it to powder then take a pritty quantity thereof and temper it either with Ale or Beer and let the Patient drink thereof every morning fasting for six or seven daies together and it will presently help him Prob. est Another for the same TAke of the roots and leaves of Strawberries and eat them every morning fasting for the space of eighteen daies together Prob. est The same made into pottage or broth and taken fasting will do the same either for black or yellow especially for yellow Another for the yellow Jaundies TAke a good handfull of red Nettle crops seeth them well in a pint of Ale and
dissolve the humour and digest it by the serosity of the blood Approved A Medicine to cure the Ague either in old or young TAke as much milk as will make you a quart of posset-ale and then take the young tops of Rosemary Marygolds Plantine and young Bay leaves of each two drams cut them small and boyl them in the posset-ale untill all the strength be out then drink a great draught thereof ever before the fit cometh and sweat upon it do this three times and it will cure Approved by many Another approved Medicine for an Ague and Feaver TAke of Dragon water and of aqua composita to the quantity of a quarter of a pint of each and put therein a pennyworth of London Treakle and half a quarter of an ounce of gross beaten Pepper warm all these together and continue stirring it with a knife and give it the Patient to drink as hot as he may suffer it a little before the fit cometh and let him lie down and sweat very well This hath cured many Another for the same TAke an Oxe-gall and as much aqua composita and put unto it a quarter of an ounce of pepper a little bruised and adde to it two pennyworth of Treakle and anoint the hands and wrists and stomack with the things aforesaid being all mingled together let this be done half an hour before the fit cometh and applied as hot as the Patient can suffer it and let him sweat well upon it and it will speedily cure him Prob. est An excellent Plaister for the same TAke red Rose water Venice Turpentine and Frankincense of each of them two pennyworth and mingle them well together then take a piece of white sheeps leather sit for both the wrists and strike the same upon them and apply them hot to both the wrists of the party grieved and let the same remain till it fall off of its own accord This hath cured those that have been troubled therewith two years who have taken the disease in forreign Countries For the tooth-Ach TAke a little cotton and dip it in the essence of Cloves which you may have at the Apothecaries and thrust it into the hollowness of the tooth and it will appease the pain presently and you will be well Prob. est To cause a good Appetite TAke Centory and boyl it in fair water and put into it one ounce of Sugar-candy Sugar and Anniseeds of each a like quantity boyl these well together and let the Patient drink thereof lukewarm every morning for six mornings together three spoonfuls at a time this will help although the party be never so farre spent A good Plaister to ease pain or a crick in the Back TAke white Archangell flowers and leaves a good quantity and of Comfry leaves and roots of Plantine one ounce bursa pastoris one ounce beat them altogether very well and put unto them a spoonfull of honey and fry them in a pan and divide it into four parts and make of every part a Plaister and lay it on the back of the Patient in four nights when he goeth to bed Prob. est A Remedy for one that is bound in his Belly TAke a good quantity of Hempseed and seeth it in fair running water and then strain it through a fair linnen cloth and let the Patient drink a good draught when he goeth to bed and it will make him laxitive Another for the same TAke a chicken and a pretty quantity of Cassula fustula and seeth them together in fair running water and let the Patient drink the broth and it will make him laxitive without pain A marvellous good Water to break the stone in the Bladder TAke two pints of the juice of Saxifrage the juice of Gromell and of the juice of Parsly each of them a pint and put thereto a quantity of eight or nine ounces of the best Vineger that is made of pleasant Wine and distill all these together and then put the distilled water into some glass or other vessel with a narrow mouth and let the Patient take one ounce at a time three times in a day morning noon and at night a little before he go to bed Prob. est Another drink to take after the stone is broken to avoid it in slivers TAke Rosemary and wilde thyme of each a handfull and seethe them in a quart of rain water untill the one half be consumed and then put in as much Sugar as will make it sweet and let the Patient drink often thereof every day untill he see his water being thick grow thin A good Medicine to staunch Bleeding at the Nose TAke a linnen cloth and wet it well in Vineger and wrap it about the members of him that bleedeth and his bleeding will soon cease Another for the same TAke Centory green Rue and red Fennel of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and strain them into ale and let the Patient drink thereof lukewarm and this will stop the bleeding of any wound cut or bruise A good Medicine against spitting of Blood TAke the juice of Betony and temper it well with Goats milk and give it the Patient to drink three daies together Prob. est Another for the same TAke Betony Mints Smallidge and Rue of each a like quantity and seeth them all together in new milk and let the Patient drink it as hot as he can suffer it Prob. est A singular good Oyl for all manner of Bruises Spleens Swellings in the legs or arms TAke a pint or somewhat more of pure Sallet Oyl and bruise a good quantity of Cammomill and put therein and put it into a glass and set it into some place where the Sun cometh that it may stand safe for ten or twelve daies but when it hath stood five daies then take it and strain it through a fine linnen cloth and set it again into his place aforesaid the remainder of the time aforesaid and then strain it again and set it the third time and let it stand till it be clean purified from any drugs and then put it into a clean glass and stop it close untill you have use for it and then anoint the place grieved two or three times a day chafing it before the fire and it will help you This Oyl stopped close will continue good twelve years A good Medicine for a Bruise or Cut. TAke roots of Loveage Alchoof Parsly and Anniseeds and beat them very fine in a mortar then take Barrows grease and boyl them together and then strain them and put to them as much unwrought wax as contains a Walnut and half as much rosin and then boyl them all together again and having so done strain it through a fine linnen cloth into a pan of water and let it stand till it be almost cold then take it and work it well in your hands till it be something short then put it into a piece of leather and keep it for your use A Drink to heal all manner
of Bruises TAke Egremony Betony Plantine Sage Roses Jvyleaves and Parsly of each a like quantity and stamp them altogether and mingle them with white-wine and let the Patient drink thereof and it cureth Prob. est A Medicine for a Burning or Scalding approved TAke the inner-bark of Elder the leaves of Alexander and the leaves of Dasies boyl them in Hogs-grease then strain them well and anoint the grief with a feather and cover it with a red Colwort-leaf and you will be well A speedy Remedy for a Woman in Child-birth TAke a Date-stone and grate it to powder and give a woman in travell to drink in white-wine and she will have a speedy deliverance Another for the same TAke Polipodium or Oke-fearn and stamp it very well and make thereof a Plaister and apply it to her feet that is in travell and it will cause a speedy deliverance of the child dead or alive Prob. est A good Medicine for to help the Kidneys and to cause the reins of the Back to grow strong TAke Buglas water that is distilled and put thereto a good quantity of clean Rose-water and a good piece of fine Sugar and drink thereof every morning fasting this will restore nature and strengthen Very much approved An excellent good Salve for any new cut or wound that will not cease Bleeding TAke a good quantity of the blades of Leeks and stamp them very well and put thereto a good quantity of Wheat-flower and a good quantity of honey and mix them well together but let it not come near the fire and lay it cold upon the cut or wound this will staunch the blood immediatly and will also draw forth all the bruised blood and make clean the wound Pro. est A very good way to make a salve called the Black salve which cureth all old sores and ulcers be they never so foul TAke a gallon of stale Ale which is strong two handfuls of Woodbine leaves half a handfull of seeded Nettles as many Colworts which have ragged leaves upon them red Onions and Garlick pilled of each half a pound one pound of unset Leeks one handfull of the powder of a rotten post which is of Oak and stamp all these well together in a mortar and put them altogether into the Ale with half a pound of Roch-allum and then set them over a soft fire to boyl till the one half be consumed or more then strain the same through a fine linnen cloth into an earthen pot that is clean then take one pound of Virgins wax half a pound of Rosin half a pound of nerve oyl that is good and green and a good quantity of stone honey and put them and mingle them with the rest then let it stand four or five daies then take it and boyl it again till it be half consumed then take it off the fire and put it up into a clean pot and stop it close for your use Prob. est A perfect way to set a bone or to heal a broken bone in man or beast TAke the juice of Comfry roots and wilde Daises boyl them with Turpentine and yellow wax and make a flat Plaister therewith and lay it to the grief and set splinters about it and rowl it to keep it stiff once in five daies untill it be whole also let the Patient drink the juice of the roots nine daies with the use of the Plaister Prob. est A proved Medicine against the grief of the lungs and spitting of Blood TAke of the herb Tussilago called at the Apothecaries Vngula Caballina in plain English Coltsfoot incorporate it well with the Lard of a Hog chopped with a new laid egge boyl all together in a pan and give this to the Patient nine mornings to eat this will also make one fat Against a stinking Breath TAke Rosemary leaves with the blossoms if you can get them and seeth them in white-wine with a little myrrh and Sinamon and use it often in your mouth and you shall finde a marvellous good effect And Commin powdred and boyl'd in white wine half the quantity boyld away and take half a pint at a time mornings and evenings This will cure in fifteen daies A proved Medicine for an ach or sore Breast TAke Frankincense fine wrought wax Boars grease and Rosin of each of them a like quantity and seeth them together to a cake and spread it on a cloth as broad as the sore or pain and let it lie twenty four hours or twenty or twelve at least Another for the same TAke a handfull of Mallows seeth them very soft in fair water and then strain them from the water and shred them smal then put them in a dish with Boars-grease and mingle them together and heat them very hot and lay it on a linnen cloth and apply it plaister-wise to the breast hot as you can three or four times a day and this will help you as hath been proved A Remedy against the Biting of a mad dog and the raging of madness which will follow the party bitten TAke the blossoms of flowers of wilde thistle dried in the shade and beaten into powder and take the quantity of half a nutshell full in a smal quantity of white-wine and drink it and in thrice taking of it you will be whole Approved A Remedy for one that spits blood by the breach of a Vein in the Breast TAke Mice-dung beaten into powder as much as will lie upon a groat and put it into half a glassfull of the juice of Plantine with a little Sugar and give the Patient thereof to drink morning and evening continuing it with Gods help he shall in a short space be sound Prob. est A good Oyntment for a Bruise TAke a pound of May butter without salt and set it on the fire and when it is boyled scum off the froth and then put into it one handfull of Rosemary Bayleaves Fennell Wormwood Smallidge of each a handfull shred them smal and boyl them in the butter till it look green then put into it Bees-wax Rosin Frankincense of each one pennyworth and let them melt but not boyl in it when they are melted strain them it is good for a Sprain or Bruise or any old Ach. An approved Medicine to staunch Blood at the nose or any Vein that is cut TAke feathers and burn to powder and lay upon the Vein that is cut and take a wet cloth and lap it round about the members and lay it on cold three times and it will staunch blood wherever A Composition of a most excellent and pretious Oyntment to heal presently any Scalding or Burning with fire hot water or powder or whatsoever else being presently applied at which time it will work the best effect and hinder all blistering and breakings out the excellency of it cannot be parellelled TAke a wine pint of Oyl-olive and put into a clean pipkin then gather some of the Elder tree sprigs no bigger then the top of your finger and a