place of thy Head For the Rheume in the Head TAke and seeth Pimpernell in Wine and drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold this will help thee Or take and stew Onions in Water in a close pot and bath thy Head thy mouth and thy nose therewith and it will help thee For the weaknesse of the Brain TAke a handfull of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Hysop Betany the leaves and roots and the seeds and roots of Pyony wash all these said herbs and put them into a pottle of fair Water and let them seeth together untill the one half be wasted then take out the herbs and put to the said water almost half a pint of Honey clarified and let it boil well together with a dram of Stecados knit in a linnen cloth and let it boil till the sweetnesse of the Honey be boiled out then take out the Stecados and put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon three Nutmegs well bruised and put them to the same liquor and seeth them together a good while then strain it through a linnen cloth and so use to drink it morning and evening and it shall comfort thy Brain For hair that faileth on thy Head TAke and bray Lineseed and mingle it with oyl-Olive and when it is well beaten together anoint thy Head therewith three or four times and this will heal thee or take oyl of Tartar and warm it and then rub your Head with it or any place that is scald eight or nine dayes and the hair will come again An excellent medicine TAke a farthing worth of Pellitory of Spain and a quarter of Stavesacre seed and beat both together and then drink a draught of Malmsey and put a spoonfull of this powder into your mouth rolling it up and down till your mouth be hot and full of flegme and then spit it all out then take a stool and set before you and lay a cushion under your knees and set a bason under your mouth and gape as wide as you can and then the flegme will void from you out of all the members of your Head and if it come too fast hold over your Head to the bason and let it go use this once in a year and you shall be the better for it a long time A remedy for the Head TAke the juice of Ivy leaves mixt with Oyl and Vineger and rub therewith your temples and your nosthrills For lightnesse in the Head TAke small tents of linnen cloth and dip them in Cinamon water and put them into thy nosthrills and thou shalt be help't presently To purge the Head of evill humors TAke the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew a piece thereof on either side of thy mouth between thy Gumms and close thy mouth fast till the water cometh down then let the water go forth but hold the root still a quarter of an houre For pain in the Head TAke the juice of Ivy that groweth upon trees and oyl of Roses and mingle them together with Wine and anoint your Head therewith and this will make it leave aking Probatum For the Eyes FIrst if it do come of Rheume or corrupt blood purge Rheume and blood if it do come otherwise be let blood in a vein called Mediana and use locall waters as waters to mundifie the place and then use Salves sanative For a white that doth grow over the black of the Eye FIst purge the Rheum with Anacardine and Sternutations or Gargarices and then make a plaister made with the white of two Egs beat it well together and then put to it a little Honey and after that put to it Flax or Tow and to bedward lay it over the Eyes and let it lie all night and in the morning wash thine Eyes with cold water and a fine cloth do this three nights one after another and be whole For a bloodshotten Eye TAke the white of two new laid Egges and beat them to a watrish spome then put Tow unto it and three nights together lay it to thine Eye and bind it fast and renew it every night and wear a green cloth before thine Eye For a blast in the Eye MEddle not with it with medicines but wear before thine Eye a piece of black Sarsenet and eat neither Garlick nor Onions nor drink no Wines nor strong Ale and it will away A water to clear the sight TAke Fennell Vervain Roses Salendine and Rue of each two ounces and distill them and wash thine Eyes therewith for it is good for all manner of sore Eyes For blear Eyes TAke the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with water made of the white of an Egg and put it into thine Eyes and it shall put the blood and aking away A water to clarifie the dimnesse of the sight TAke the juice of Fennell and Salendine Rue and Eyebright of each two ounces Honey an ounce and a half Aloes Tyme and Sarcocell of each half an ounce the caul of a Capon Chicken or Cock two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Saffron of each a dram Sugar Candy six drams put all into a limbeck of glasse and distill it and of this water put into your Eyes and if you could get the liver of a Hee-Goat and mix with the said things in the distillation that water will be of much greater vertue and almost without comparison Another for the same TAke the green Walnuts husks and all from the trees with a few Walnut leaves and distill thereof a water to drop into your eyes A singer powder that drieth and taketh away the rednesse of the Eyes TAke Tutty prepared an ounce Antimonie half an ounce Pearles two drams red Corall a dram and a half pound all these together very fine and keep them in a box of Tyn and use when thou hast need A Regiment for them that have sore Eyes TAke heed that you alwayes keep your body loose and abstain from fire smoke wind dust and over hot and cold aire and from weeping and long reading of small letters from over long watching over much drinking of Wine and eating late for all these are noysome to the Eyes also all vaporous things as Onions Leeks Garlick Mustard Pease and Beans are very dangerous forbear day sleep and behold green things clear and precious To clear the sight or for rednesse of the Eyes TAke Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it with white Wine and let it so stand a day and a night then take off the thinnest ryne and wet your Eyes with a feather to bedward For a Pin and Web in the Eye IF there be a Pin and Web in the Eye or other blemish in the ball of the Eye take water of Pimpernell Vervain or Salendine To make a good water for sore Eyes TAke Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain torn Mintill Betany red Roses Endive Sowthistles call'd Chicken meat Pimpernell red Salendine Filago the leaves of Piony the leaves of white Vine March Egremony Sinkfoil called Woodbine
untill it be thick and spread it upon a little cloth of the bignesse of the Eyes and lay it to lukewarm one day and a night or untill you see them something asswaged and then wash them with Womans milk Probatum est I have known a woman heal many blind people with this medecine following TAke Daysie roots Betany flowers Pimpernell and red Fennel stamp them and strain them with stale Ase and drink of this evening and morning and lay outwardly to thy Eyes Rose-water Womans milk and the white of an Egg with Tow being well beaten together the drink will be better if you pound and put the juice of Cheslocks a worm so called that is between the bark and the body of trees commonly and then the juice of the said worm put into the sore Eyes healeth them A medicine wherewith one was holpen that had a prong thrust into the white of his Eye TAke the right ground Ivy Salendine the green of a Goose Tird Womans milk and put them together in a Glasse then when they be settled powr out the clearest and put it into thine Eyes and this will make thee whole A precions medecine for sore and dim Eyes TAke a handfull of Tyme a handfull of Vervain a handfull of Rose leaves a handfull of brown Fennell and when you have washed those herbs clean put them into a Stillitory and then put thereto a pint of white Wine and eight ponniworth of pure white Coperas and distill the same and put it into a glasse and use to wash your Eyes therewith Probatum est Another for sore Eyes TAke red Rue Smallage Vervain Maiden-hair Ivy Sengreen Walwort and red Fennell of each a handfull wash them clean and lay them in good white Wine a day and a night and after put them all into a stillitory and still them for the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like Balm and keep it in a glasse and use it A speciall medecine for Eyes first to clarifie the sight and curable to all Passions to Eyes as hath been proved many times and if the Eyes be therewith washed or else one drop of cleer water put therein it cleareth the sight and is much profitable to strained Eyes it will destroy a Pearl overcometh the Megrim and healeth any Eye that is smitten with a stroke TAke red Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervain Betany red Roses Grape leaves Appium Egrimony ground Ivy that groweth upon an oak and of all these take even portions and it must be put foure dayes and four nights in this manner following the first day and night in white Wine the second day and night in Water of a Manchild a Virgin the third day and night in Womans milk the fourth day and night in clean Honey and this done take all the herbs and put them into a stillitory and the water that cometh thereof ye shall put into a viall and use this as aforesaid and in this water put the fourth part of an ounce of Camphere beaten in a morter this is an excellent medicine To make a precious water for sore eyes and for all manner of sores as followeth TAke red Roses Smallage Rue Vervain Maidenhaire Eufrasia Eyebright Endive Sengreen Walwort red Fennel and Salendine of every one of these half a quartern wash them and lay them in good white Wine twenty four houres and then distil them and the first water will be like gold the second like silver and the third like balm keep it well in a viall or glasse for it is worth any Balm for any manner of evill or sore Eye and this hath been proved many times To make a water for sore Eyes which is excellent TAke the filing of Brasse of Iron Lead of Steel and of Gold and put it one day in the water of a clean Virgin to steep the second day put it in white Wine being hot the third day in the juice of Fennell the fourth day in the milk of an Ewe the fifth in red Wine the sixth day in three whites of Egges and then put it into a Stilletory and distill it with a soft fire and keep the water in a vessell this water is right excellent and precious for a mans sight and destroyeth the Leprosie A medicine for the Pearl and Flegme grown over the Eye TAke the Gall of an Hare and boil it with as much Honey as the Gall. Probatum est Medicines for the Ears For an Ear-wig or Worm in the Ear. TAke the Juice of Wormwood Rue and Sothernwood of each a like much and mingle them together and put it into the Ear and that will slay the Worm that is in any mans head within five nights at the furthest and lay some of the substance of the herbs plaister-wise To make one hear that is deaf TAke green Elm and lay it amidst the Fire and take the water that cometh out at the ends thereof a spoonfull and take a spoonfull of the juice of Sengreen and a spoonfull of Eels grease that is a kind of a black Eel of the gobbin next the navell and boil them together a little over the fire and then put the liquor into a glasse and put thereof into thine eares when thou art in bed and within a day thou shalt be whole but look that the liquor be milk-warm or take the juice of Betany and let it rest a good while and then take black Sope and the juice together and put it into thine Ears Another for the same TAke Camomill Melil ot Marjoram Calamint Hysop Wormwood Pennyroyall Stethados Mints of each a handfull boil them in running water one houre and dip a cloth therein and hold it hot to the Eare that the heat may enter into thy head and after stop thy Ears with cotton or black wooll that no cold may enter and this will help the hearing A water to help the hearing TAke and distill Sorrell or Wormwood in a common stilletory and take foure drops of either of the same waters whether you will and put into the ear lukewarm For pain in the Ears or for default of hearing TAke the oyl of sweet Almonds and drop it into thine ear and it helpeth the pain speedily also milk sodden and put into a stone pot with a narrow mouth and the sore ear holden over the pot that the vapor of the milk may ascend into the care this taketh away the pain and breaketh the imposthume of the head this is proved trrue Another for the same TAke the oil of a silver Eel with black wool of a Ram betwixt the hinder legs and the flank it helpeth presently the pain and will cause the Ear to run Also the oyl of a Weasle or Mole helpeth the hearing very well but you must make it in this sort when the Weasle or Mole is stripped of his skin then put the said Weasle or Mole into an earthen Jug and stop the Jug very close and put the pot into seething water and let
it will fall out A Water for the Teeth TAke and distill the Water of Mother wort and hold it in thy Mouth a good while and it will kill the Pain of the Teeth and the stinking thereof Also Water of Vervain or Hysope Water will do the like For the Tooth-ach TAke Henbane-seed and the Powder of Amber of each a like much and lay them on a glowing tile and make a Pipe that thy Breath may go through to the sore Tooth and this will kill the Worms and put away the Tooth-ach For a Canker and Tooth ach TAke Smalladge and Sorrell Leaves Alum and Glasse and make thereof a Powder and lay it to the Sore wheresoever it be and for the Tooth that is hollow and aketh take the Flowers and Leavos of Pellitory and stamp it with Salt and fill the hollow Tooth therewith and be whole For the Tooth-ach Take Ivy Berries and seeth them well in Vineger and when they be well sodden sip some of the liquor as hot as you may suffer it and hold it in your Mouth till it be cold and then cast it out and take new and do so three or fout times and it will ease you For the Tooth-ach TAke and rost an Egge hard and put therein a Spoonfull of Salt and two Spoonfulls of Vineger or good Aleger and temper them well together till they be a Pap then strain it and with a little fine Cloth put some thereof into your Mouth and when you have spit out the corruption refresh the same with more and it will take away the Pain shortly To make Childrens Teeth come TAke the Brains of a Hare and seeth them and anoint the Gummes therewith and take the Brains of a Hen likewise and rub the Gummes therewith and this shall make the Teeth grow without akng To fasten the Teeth TAke and seeth the Roots of Vervain in old Wine and wash thy Teeth therewith and this will make them fast For Worms in the Teeth TAke Henbane seed and lay it upon a flat Stone and set it upon a Chafingdish of Coals and let the smoke go into your Mouth and this will will kill the Worm shortly For the Tooth-ach TAke the inner Rine of an Eldar Tree and bruise it a little and put thereto a little Pepper and make it in Balls and lay it to your Teeth and be whole THe cause of these impediments may come either by an humor descending out of the Head to the Teeth or Gummes or by corroding or eatiâ—g of Worms or corruption of Blood lying and being upon and betwixt the Teeth or it may come by drinking of hot Wines eating of hot Spices or hot Apples Pears Cherries and such like and it may come of a hot Liver or Stomach and ever beware of pulling out of thy Teeth for pull out one and pull out more but if it be hollow pull it out for it will rot still more and more do what thou canst Medicines for the Gummes For the Gummes that be gnawn and fretted with Humors TAke Cloves and seeth them in Rose water then dry them and make Powder thereof with Rose water or Roses for that is best then dry it again in the Sun do this three or four times and then temper the Powder again with Rose water or with the Juice of Roses and anoint thy Gummes therewith A Water for a Canker in the Gumms TAke half a Pint of white Wine and a quarter of a Pint of Water and put thereto an Ounce of burnt Alum and take a quantity of five leaved Grasse otherwise called Cinque-Foyl and put all these into a clean earthen Pot and set it over the Fire and let it seeth to the half and scum it clean then strain the Liquor into some Vessell and keep it in a Glasse till thou have need to occupy it Another for the same TAke Herb Grasse and wash it clean and dry it with a Linnen Cloth and stamp it in a Morter and put thereto strong red Vineger then strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth three times folded of an Ell broad wet it in the same Medicine and lay it to the Sore within the Mouth and if it be a very great Canker take Alum and beat it very small in a Morter and put it to the said Medicine to the value of a handfull of Herb Grasse and this will heal thee To make a Gumme hard to hold the Teeth TAke clean Rose water and daily wash thy Gummes and Teeth therewith and it will fasten thy Gummes to thy Teeth For rotting of thy Gummes TAke the Water of great Sage and wash thy Mouth and Gummes therewith and it will help the rotting of thy Teeth and the shaking of them if thou use it often in a day and hold it in thy Mouth Medicines for the Face For asawcy stain'd Face like a Leper YOU must give him a Purgation as is said in the pain of the Head coming of Choller then dip Cloths in Alum water which must be made as followeth take a pound of Alum Glasse the juice of Purslain of Plantine and Verjuice of Grapes or Crabs of each a Pint with the whites twenty one Egges well beaten together then mingle them altogether and distill it in a Stillitory this Water is for the Pimples Scurfes Chafings Wheals and Heats dip your Cloth therein often and lay to the rednesse THe cause of these Impediments doth come of a venemous matter ascending out of the Stomach meeting with Rheum that would descend from the Head and meeting both together do cause the Vapors to break out in the Face For a Copper Face TAke Litarge of Silver and Brimstone of each a like much and seeth them in Vineger and then wet a Linnen Cloth therein and lay it to the Sore putting a little Rose water to it A Diet for a Copper Face ABstain from all Salt things Spices Fried Meats and Rosted Meats from drinking of Wine for it is very ill also Onyons Mustard and Garlick be very bad instead of which you must take Purslain Sorrell Lettice and Hops Borage otherwise Succory or Endive in your pottage Also it is necessary to be laxative and sleeping to lay your head high For a red Face TAke Sowthistles Borage Purslain Sorrell Barley Parsly Roots and Licoras and boil all together in running Water and drink it first and last For Worms in the Face TAke of Rosine three parts and the fourth of unwrought VVax one spoonfull of Honey half a spoonfull of May Butter try them all together on the fire then strain it through a fair Cloth into a dish of fair Water and when it is so cold that you may stir it with your hand work it well against the Fire as you do an Electuary and in working thereof put in as much white Coperas as a Nut as you do occupy it made into Powder then strike it on a Cloth as you do other plaisters and lay it to the Face and within three dayes you shall know whether there be
Pipes stopped and so the Dropsie breedeth TAke two parts of Cinamon and the third part of Galingall and the same quantity of Ginger and put that Powder into a spoonfull of Hysope Water and drink it fasting and be whole Things evill for the Stomach ALl sweet things for they make the Stomach well old cheese honey marrow of bones not well sodden to ear e're thou art hungry to eat many sorts of meat at one sitting to drink e're thou be athirst to eat bread not well baked heavinesse anger dread thought raw flesh over-great travell all fried meats much bathing after meat too much casting to eat when thou art over-hot and all milk is naught â—ave Goats milk For burning in the Stomach TAke Sorrell Cinque-foil Borage and Violet Leaves and stamp them together and strain them into Ale and make a posset thereof and drink it next your hart when you feel your self grieved and when the heat is gone make posset Ale of Mercury and that will restore you to heat again and bring you to good temper To make one Vomit TAke an Oken Leaf and lay it upon your tongue the rough side downward and hold close your mouth and this will make you Vomit Probatum est A precious Medicine for all Winds in the body the Strangullion and the Stone TAke the Root of a white Lilly that never bare flower and bruise it and seeth it in a pint of white Wine and put into it two spoonfulls of Anniseeds and Sugar and let it seeth till it be more then half sodden away and give it to the sick that is in pain and it shall â—oon ease him of the great pains A precious Powder for Digestion TAke Ginger Cinamon and Galingale of each one ounce of Anniseeds Caraway seeds and Fennell seeds half an ounce long Pepper Grains Maces Nutmegs of each two ounces of Setwell one ounce make all these in fine Powder and put to them two pound and a half of fine Sugar and use this Powder before meat and after at your pleasure it is good to comfort the Stomach and against Wind. For the Stomach that cannot Digest â—or have Appetite to Meat TAke and drink often Sorrell Water or Angelica Water or Betany Water or ground Ivy Water for all these are good for the same Medicines for the Liver An Ointment for the Liver that makâ—th good Digestion and keepeth the body from Putrifying TAke Oil of Roses and Oil of VVormwood of each two ounces and set them over the fire and when they begin to boil put thereto an ounce and a half of fine Mastick and when the Mastick is dissolved strain it while it is warm in the morning and make a plaister thereof and lay it to your side and be whole A Restorative for the Liver and the Lungs if they be rotten it will restore it again and do away the Gleme from the Heart and comfort the same TAke Fennell Roots and Parsly roots and pill away the Bark and pull out the pith and cast it away then mince them small and put into a brazen pot three quarts of water and set it on the fire and put the roots therein then take Figs and cut them small and pound them and put a quantity of Honey to it and let it boil a while then take it down and clarifie it through a cloth into a vessell of glasse and stop it fast that no air go out and let the sick drink of it hot in the morning and cold at night a good draught For one that hath his Liver cloven to his ribs TAke a shelfull of the juice of Betany and a quarter of a pint of white Wine and a spoonfull of honey and Pepper corns temper these together and drink thereof and it will help you For the heat of the Liver TAke Liver-Wort and five-leaved Grasse Succory Endive Buglosse and Borage and seeth all these in Whey and drink of this as often as you will and this will help you For one that is Liver brent TAke Sowthistle Dadelion and Rib-Wort and seeth them in water with Licorish untill the one half be wasted and drink of this at all times saving at meat For the stopping of the Liver TAke Ivy Berries and Egrimony Harts Tongue Liver-Wort and the bark of an Ash of all these a little quantity and put them to double as much Polypodion as of any one of the rest and make thereof pottage broth or syrupe If the Liver be opilated the face will swell and pain will be in the right side To preserve a man from stopping of the Liver TAke a Fig and grosse Peppâ—r with the crops of Time if it be eaten two hours before dinner and two hours before supper it preserveth a man from opâ—lations of the Liver Also the Liver of a Hare dried and made into powder is good for all diseases of the Liver For the Liver TAke a good handrull of Liver-Wort that groweth upon the stones and another of Fumitory and as much of Harts Tongue and seeth them in Whey clarified and drink it every day twice If the Liver be hot because of too much bloud the Patient hath red urid hasty Pulse his Veins great full he feeleth his spittle mouth tongue sweeter then it was wont to be wherefore it is good to be let bloud of the Liver Veine on the right arm and to use Lettice or Sorrel Purslain and Hops in portage and sometime to drink of the water Medicines for the Jaundise TAke Cows milk and white Wine of each a pint and distill them and keep the water that cometh thereof and give the sick to drink thereof two ounces in the morning two hours before meat and likewise after supper when he goeth to bed For the black Jaundise TAke Enula Cumpana roots and seeth them in milk then take the milk and strain it through a piece of cotton and give the sick to drink thereof This did help a gentlewoman that was sixteen years troubled with the Jaundise and could not be holpen For children take Turmerick and Ivory of each two Drams of Saffron two scruples seeth these in milk and give it to the children that have the black or yellow Jaundise Another for the Jaundise TAke Hempseed and bruise it and then boil it in good strong Ale or Beer and scum it very clean and let the sick drink of this drink and eat the sodden seed For the black Iaundise SEeth the inner bark of a Walnut tree in Ale or Beer and in the same drink quench steel being made red hot at least forty times and drink of this five or six ounces at a time hot evening and morning this is proved excellent good Also Goats dung or Fallow Deers dung strained into milk and given to the sick hath holpen the black Jaundise For the yellow Jaundise TAke Elecampane roots and the inner bark of a Barberie of each six ounces of Salendine roots eight ounces of English Saffron the weight of a groat seeth all these
ashes of her and give it the Patient to drink with Wine somwhat warm and this will ease the Collick For the Collick of the stomach TAke of Broom feeds a spoonfull and a half so many Barberries with the hulls off and half a spoonfull of Anniseeds and a quarter of a spoonfull of Licoras and as much white Sugar Candy of all these beaten together into powder take a quantity first in a morning and last in an evening Medicines for the Wormes TAke and eat Garlick and it will kill all Worms in mans Belly Or take of the juyce of Lavender-Cotton and put to it the powder of Wormseed and drink it three times every morning fasting but drink not in an houre or two after and this will destroy the Wormes For Worms in young children TAke Setwell you must buy it at the Apothecaries and make it into fine powder and give the child to drink as much as a small Walnut in a cup of Malmsey and it will destroy all Worms Or Take Garlick Wormwood Mints Fetherfew Tansey and stamp them all together with the gall of an Oxe then fry them together and put them in a linnen cloth and lay them to the Navell as hot as may be suffered or seeth them in Vineger and lay them to likewise Or take the gall of a Bull and dip some Wool therein and lay it upon the Navel of the child and it will make the worms come forth Or take Honey and spread it on a tost of bread and cast good Worm-seed thereon and give it the childe fasting Worms in the Belly TAke the pils of Oranges and dry them and make them in powder and drink it in Malmsey or stale Alc there is nothing better A Medicine for the Guts For the Guts that fret TAke twelve leaves of Rue nine Pepper corns and as much Dill-seed as thou may'st take up with thy two fingers stamp them and temper them together with fair water and it will help thee For wind in the Guts TAke Honey pitch and Butter and seeth them together and anoint thy belly therewith against the fire For pain of the Guts TAke Tansey Rue and Sothern-wood and eat it with salt fasting and be whole For the cough in the Gnts. TAke the water of Flower-de-luce and drink it luke-warm twiceor thrice a day an ounce at a time Also water of Camomil doth the same drunk as aforesaid The water of Vine leaves is good against stitches and also against Impostumes in the Guts A Medicine for the Navel A plaister for swelling of the Navel TAke Cowes dung and dry it to powder Barly flower and Bean flower of each a portion the juyce of Knot-grass a good quantity and of Cummin a little make a Plaister of Ale and lay it to thy Navel and it will heal thee Or take Cowes dung and seeth it in the Milk of the same Cow and lay it on the grief this is also marvellous good for a suddain Ach and swelling in the Bagg For a Childs Navel sore with crying TAke a little Bean-flower and the ashes of fine linnen clouts burned and temper it with red Wine and Honey and so lay it to the sore Medicines for the Back For the weakness of the Back TAke flower of Barley and Beans and oyl of Roses the yolk of an Egg and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy back in the day time and it will do you much good Or take slower of fine Rice and Wheat flower and temper it with Claret wine and Sugar and put thereto a little of the powder of Clare and Nut-megs and make a Cake thereof and bake it well and eat thereof this is good For pain of the Back TAke fresh Cow dung and fry it in Vinegar and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to thy Back and within four or five times dressing thou shalt be whole For pain in the reins of the Back TAke and seeth the leaves of red Willow and as hot as the sick may suffer it lay it to the reins of thy Back and within four or five times dressing thou shalt be whole Medicines for the Flux of the Belly To restrain the Flux whatsoever the cause be TAke the pisle of an Hare and dry it and make powder thereof and drink it Also â—…e water of Oken-buds or the very Acorns dryed and made in Powder and drunk with red Wine is very good Also the maw of a young Leveret is very good drunk with the juyce of Plantano A good Medicine for the bloody Flux TAke a pennyworth of Honey and a penny-worth of Wheat flower and three spoonfuls of Chalk and the yolks of five Pgs and half a pennyworth of Saffron and make a Cake thereof and eat thereof four dayes and be whole Or take the root of the red Nettle and stamp it and delay it with water or Ale then strain it and drink thereof and be whole for over For all manner of Fluxes that be curable TAke the seed of Plantane and the blossoms of red Roses in Powder of each alike much and give the sick half a spoonful at once with warm Whey first and last three days together and it will heal him Or take and drink the water that stone hath been scalded in first and last and be whole To stop a Lask in Children TAke the seeds of Plantane and make powder thereof and give it to the Child to drink in red Wine or in Ale and it will stop the Flux Proved true Or take Almonds and blaunch them and fry them in a Pan and cat them divers times in a day Also the durg of a stoned Horse that goeth to house fryed in Malmsey and laid to the Navel will stop a Lask To stop the bleeding of the Fundament TAke Aloes and Mirrhe of each a like much and make them into Powder and with a little Pile of Almonds anoint the sore and then cast the Powder thereon and put upon the Fundament with a hot Scarlet cloth and this will help thee To make a man have a Lask TAke Salt and Soap and lay it to thy belly plaister-wise and it will make the have a Lask straight Or take the gall of an Ox and anoint thy belly and stomack therewith and it will make thee Laxative To keep a man Laxative TAke Mallows and Mercury a good quantity and stamp them together and fry them with May-butter or fresh butter and then strain it and keep it in a Box and anoint your belly therewith evening and morning and it will keep you soluble For the Bloody-flux TAke the jaw-bones of a Pike and make powder of them and eat of this powder dry or take it with red Wine first and last and it will stop the Flux for it hath holpen when nothing else could help Another for the same TAke red Beans and boyl them in red Wine till it wax thick but first dissolve a little Allom in the Wine then let the Patient eat of this evening and morning and drink nothing
which was sore grieved with the Stone who was holpen with this drink following Take the blossoms of Haws and distyl them then take the water thereof and seeth it and put therein Grommel-seed Saxifrage-seed and Parsly-seed of each an ounce of Goats blood Hares blood and Fox blood of each of them seven Drams seeth all these in a quart of the water in a close pot of Pewter or earth in a Kettle of water the space of six hours then strain it and drink thereof every day This is an excellent hing To deliver the Stone a Medicine that never fails TAke the roots of red Nettles and wash them clean in many waters and then bray them small and lay them in red Wine twelve hours then give the sick thereof to drink six spoonfuls of the liquor and let him rest on a bed 3 hours and then give him twelue spoonfuls and 3 hours after give him twenty spoonfuls and anon he shall make water and deliver the Stone Or take white Thorn buds in May and distyl them and take a pinte of the same water and half a pinte of Malmsey and boyl it a little at the fire but if you put in a little Honey withal it will be the better and then drink it to bed-ward Proved by Master GAGE To break the Stone TAke a quantity of a Jet-stone and two races of Ginger and the shells of Egs hatched under a Hen when the Chickens be out but first take away the filme of the shels and put them altogether in a Morter with the piece of a stone that cometh out of an Ox gall or with Parsley-seed if you cannot get the stone and make Powder of all these together and drink of it with warm Ale in a spoon as often as you shall think good and it will break the Stone and ease you of the Collick and cause you to make water easily An excellent Medicine for the Stone TAke Selgreen Planten Fetherfew and Tansey and pound them all apart and keep every Liquor by it self in a Glass then take of each of them a like quantity and boyl it with Bean-flower and Honey to make it Plaister-wise and then take a double swadling-band of linnen cloth and spread the Plaister thereupon and so lay it to the pain and round about the back and use it so a fortnight or three weeks for this is a special good Medicine and well approved Another for the same TAke a Goat and keep him three dayes fasting then put him in a Tub full of holes and the fourth day give him nothing but Grommel Parsley Alexander Salendine Saxifrage Hawberries and Watereresses and make him to lick prepared Salt and give it him with Wine to drink and so keep him with that food a whole week in the foresaid Tub and all the water he maketh you must through the holes of the Tub receive it into some vessel then take this water and put thereto Holly Berries Ivy Berries and Hawthorn Berries of each half a handful of Juniper Berries of flowers of Starewort of Cras-foot of each half a handful of the seeds of Parsley Saxifrage Elysander Radish Philipendula Nettles the Berries of Kneeholm Asparagus Fennel-seed and Anni-seed of each half an ounce of the roots of Kneeholm of Asparagus and Water-cresses of each of them four ounces of Grommel-seed and Smallage-seed eight ounces Bruise all these feeds small and chop the herbs and put them into the foresaid Goats water the space of twelve dayes into some warm place stirring them every day two or three times then put them together into a Styll and hang in the mouth of the Styll a little Musk Cynamon and Cloves because of the loathsomness of the Goats water and so distyl the water and give the Patient that hath the Stone three ounces at a time this is the most Soverain water can be found for it melteth and voideth the Stone without pain This holp a Scholler at Eaton-Colledge whom all the Physitians gave over as one incurable Of the Stone THe Stone is engendered by reason of a great heat that is about the Reins straightness of the Conduit and abundance of gross and slimy humors or Brentcholer which by the said excess of heat is as one would say baked or dryed as Clay in the Furnace and so at last becometh a hard stone Therefore it is chiefly to be noted that without the mending of the foresaid causes all that you do minister to break the Stone is either hurtful to the Patient or else small effect therefore it is good to keep a sober diet And note that alwaies whatsoever they be are nought in this case All kind of Pulses as Pease Beanes and such like all gross flesh and water-fowls and fowls of great bodies and all Fruits except ripe Prunes are might and all Shell-fish except Grevise and Shrimps also all Pepper and hot spices and all meats salt or sower but especially boware of hard Cheese for that is oftentimes the onely cause of the Stone and you must not lie on your back and you must keep your Reins cold and let your back be untrussed in summer An approved Medicine for the Stone and Strangury TAke most of Licoras then Anniseeds Colianedr Grommel Fennel Parsley and Alicander-seeds then dry all these seeds and pound them severally by themselves and note that Licoras Anni-seeds and Grommel-seeds be Restoratives and when they are all in Powder mix thereto powder of Syre to the quantity of one half of one parcel of the scowrers also mix thereto white Sugar-candy to the quantity of your Licoras with a Nutmeg or two use this powder fasting in clear Ale in your Broths and all suspected meats Remedies for a Mans Yard IF this Impediment be of any interial cause use to drink Milk or else drink oft a good portion of the water of Hawes and inject into the Yard the water of Comphry if the Impediment be betwivt the head and skin of the Yard wash the head of the Yard divers times with white Wine and after that use the powder of a rotten Post or any siceative Medicines is good or else Populion or Vnguentum ei Epsiacon is good For the Erection of the Yard above Nature TAke first and anoint the Yard and Godds with oyl of Juniper and the oyl of Campheret is good and so is Agnus Castus braid and made in a Plaister and laid upon the Stones This Impediment doth come of the inflamation of the Reins of the back or of inflamations of the Veines of the Yard and Stones or of too much use of Venerious acts To heal a mans Yard that is sore TAke Turpentine and the yolk of an Egg of each a like much well beaten together with Saffron and anoint the sore Yard therewith Or take and seeth the powder of Lynseed in sweet Milk till it be thick and lay it to the Yard Plaister-wise and anoint it with the juyce of Morrel and Plantane and be whole For the swellings in a mans Yard TAke
spoonfull of Honey and then strain these through a Cloth and with Liquor scour the Canker with a fair Cloth on a sticks end and wet a cloth double and lay it plaisterwise to your Throat and be whole For Hoarsenesse in the Throat TAke Penyryall and seeth it in running water and then take of it at night a dish full somewhat hot with a little Sugar melted in it and within two or three times dressing you shall be clean again For Hoarsenesse of a long continuance TAke Raisins Figs Sugar Cinamon Cloves of every one a little and seeth them in good VVine of the which you shall give the Patient Ounces at a time Morning and Evening except she have a Feaver or for a Child that hath the Cough Take Oyl of Roses and chafe well his Stomach when he goeth to bed and then lay a warm Cloth to his Stomach and he shall be whole To heal a Quinsie in the Throat TAke one pound of the Water of Scabias and one ounce of Aqua vitae and mingle them together and wet Cloths therein and so lay it it to the sore and this will kill it in three or four dayes For the dry Cough TAke half a pound of Licoras and scrape it clean and bruise it well and put it into an earrhen Pot and put thereto three quarts of fine Wort and one Ounce of Sugar of Ginger beaten two drams and a Pint of Clarified Honey and seeth all these hogether till half be wasted and then strain it through a Cloth into a clean Vessell and let the sick drink thereof first and last at Evening hot and Morning cold For stopping of the Pipes TAke two drams of Methridatum and a spoonfull of Claret Wine stirred together and so drink it fasting and by and by drink a Pint of Claret Wine after it and then fast two hours after without Meat or Drink and take this twice a week for two or three weeks together and use in all your Meats and Broths white Pepper grossely beaten For the Cough a good Medicine TAke a half penny worth of Licoras a spoonfull of Aniseed a sawcer full of the Juice of Fennell and one ounce of Sugar Candy seeth all these in white Wine or Sack from a quart to a pint then strain it and give the Patient thereof to drink For the Cough and Pursinesse TAke of the Powder of the Lungs of a Fox and Sugar Candy and temper it in Rose water and drink thereof Or take white Sugar Candy and Rose water and drink it for it is very good for the Cough if it come of the Inflammation of the Lungs For the Chyne Cough TAke the Root of Horse Hoof and the Root of Cumfrie of each a like much and wash them in fair Water then stamp them and seeth them in fair water till half be consumed then take two parts of that Liquor and a third part of Honey and boil them and scum them clean and when it is well sodden put it into some Boxes and let the sick use three spoonfulls at a time every day fasting and to bed ward A very good Medicine for the Cough TAke a brown Loaf before you put it in the Oven and make a hole in the top of it and put therein a good handfull of Rosemary and cover it again with the same Paste and being baked take it out of the Oven and mingle it with half an Ounce of the Powder of Enula Campana Roots of Licoras three parts of Sugar Candy as much as of the Rosemary of round Pepper and long Pepper of each half on Ounce take of this Evening and Morning and in your Pottage and will help the Cough with great successe for it hath been well tried Medicines for the Breast For sore Breasts when they be broken TAke Wheat Flower and two Yolks of Egges and the Juice of Plantain and mingle them all together till they be thick like a sawce and if there be holes in the Breasts make Tents that will suffice the holes and dip them in the same and put them in the holes and lay a plasster thereupon For sore Breasts TAke a handfull of Figgs and stamp them untill the Kernells be broken then take a little fresh greace and temper it with the Figgs and make a plaister thereof and lay it as hot as the Patient can suffer it unto the Breast and it will take away the anguish and if it be apt to break then it will break or els not An healing Salve for sore Breasts that be broken TAake Sorrell the Boyes call it Wood sowre and lap it in Wort Leaves and rost them in the Embers half a quarter of an houre then stamp them and put thereto Honey and Vineger and put them in a Box but first lay to the sore Breasts a plaister of Garlick and Meal boiled together in Vineger two or three times and lay it thereto For swelling of Womens Breasts TAke Line-seed bruised and the white of an Egge or the Juice of Smallage and mingle them well together and lay them plaister-wise to the swelling of the Breast and if she lose her milk give het to drink the Juice of Vervain and she shall have Milk enough and this will also heal your Breast For abundance of Milk in a Womans Breasts TAke Popilion and Lineseed Oyl and seeth them together and dip cloaths therein and so lay them to the Breast taketh away the abundance of Milk and the hardnesse of the Breast presently also Chickweed sodden in Plantain Water and laid Plaisterwise to the Breast drieth up the Milk and taketh away the hardnesse thereof green Wheat being stamped and strained with Oyl bringeth to Women Milk abundantly without measure For all manner stopping of the Breasts TAke the Gum of a Cherrie tree and dissolve it with old VVine and let the sick sup thereof and it will void all hoarseness and straightnesse of the Breast and Lungs Also take Figgs and slit them on the outside and stop them full of Mustard and seeth them in white VVine and eat of the Figges for this is very good For all Diseases of the Breast and to clear the Voice TAke a good quantity of VVoodstonne and grind them not too small and then put them into an earthen Pot and put thereto new Ale as it is cleansed and mingle them so that the Ale be a good deal above the Slonne and bury it in the Earth and cover it well with the same earth and so let it stand nine daies then give to him that needeth a little cupfull hot at night and cold in the morning To clear the Breasts TAke Sentory Pilliall Rew Hysope and red Morrell in stale Ale and strain it then put into the clear liquor Cinamon and Cloves and seeth them well and drink thereof nine daies at evening hot and at morning cold and be whole Also take Angelica Water and drink it at evening and morning an ounce at a time and it will greatly help thee For sore Breasts TAke
help you A good Medicine for the Heart and Swowning TAke the powder of Cloves with the juyce of Borage a spoonfull at a time and it will help you Also the powder of Ginger and powder of Cummin put in meats is good for the same A comfortable Medicine to restore the spirits of the Heart and to mend the disposition of the Etick or Consumption as followeth TAke a quarter of an ounce of Gold foyle and half an ounce of Manus Christi beat them in a mortar together untill none of the Gold be seen and keep it till you have need to use it which must be in manner following Take a quart of pure Rose water and boyl it with a quantity of Penidos keep it in a faire glasse and when you will use it take in the morning the weight of the foresaid powder and put in your mouth and drink it down with five or six spoonfulls of the foresaid water For swelling or rising about the Heart SEeth Oyl Olive by it self then take as much Honey and seeth it by it self then seeth them together a little while and when it is cool put it in a box and this is very good for the Heart For fatnesse about the Heart TAke the juice of Fennell and Honey and seeth them all together untill they be hard and then eat thereof evening and morning and thou shalt be whole To put away venom from the heart TAke Bolearmoniack and Sanguis Draconis of each three ounces and of the best Cinamon four ounces and mingle them altogether in powder and so receive it and it will put away Venom from the Heart For Gnawing about the Heart TAke Sage leaves and as much yarrow and grind them together and temper them with Ale and then strain and drink thereof Things good for the Heart SAffron Borage Hearts horn Mustard Cloves Galingale Nutmegs red Roses Violets Maces Sugar good Wine moderately taken Mirth and good ayre that day you eat of Piony or drink thereof you shall not swound Against Swounding BOrage eaten with flesh or in pottage is good for them that fall in their Swounding or be faint at the Heart or have Cardiack Passion at the Heart Against Swounding TAke water that Roses hath been sodden in and the powder of the same with a raw Egge Or take Rose VVater that Sweet VVater hath been sodden in this is very good Medicines for the Belly To dissolve a hard Belly TAke and stamp Mallows and Mercury together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy Navell and it shall dissolve the matter in the womb in short time Or take the juice of Rue and drink it with stale Ale or Wine or fair Water and use to drink of this and it will help thee in short time For any hard Belly that is sore MIngle Pennyroyall and Ginger together and bind them plaisterwise to thy Belly and be whole For Diseases of the Belly whatsoever they be TAke Wormwood Rew Motherwort Lavender Cotton and the gall of an Oxe Cow or Calf stamp the herbs and put the Gall thereto and lay it to the bottom of thy Belly and be whole A Drink to destroy all evills in the Belly or Body within fifteen dayes TAke Scabias Mugwort Smallage Devills-bit Herb-Ivy Wormwood Fumitory Fetherfew and Spiknard stamp all these and seeth them in white Wine and clarifie it with whites of Eggs drink of this nine dayes and be whole Medicines for the Collick For the Wind-Collick TAke Winter-Savory stamp it and strain it with strong Ale drink this warm and immediately the pain will cease as if it were sweep'd away There have been divers helpt with this which have had such pain with the Wind-Collick that they have swowned severall times in a day Also a cupping-glasse set upon the top of the Navell is a present remedy Also Camomill Rosemary Sage and Salt rosted under the embers and laid to the Navell is a present Remedy Emmets eggs dried in an oven made in powder and drank helpeth the Wind-Collick immediately For the Collick of the Stomach see after For the Strangullion CUt off the top of an Onyon and take out the core then put into the place a pretty quantity of this powder following Take Betany and Centory of each a like quantity and make powder thereof putting in a little Butter then put on the top again and put it in hot embers and rost it then lay it to your Navell as hot as you may-suffer it and be whole To make a precious Water for the Strangullion TAke a peck of Hawes when they be ripe and half a peck of Hips and beat them in a mortar to powder then take two gallons of Lees of Malmsey or Sack a penniworth of long Pepper and a half-penniworth of graines put all these together and distill them in a Stilletory or Limbeck take the water thereof and drink it luke-warm first and last For the Collick a precious Medicine proved TAke Saxifrage Maidenhaire unset Time and Parsley seed and seeth all these together in Malmsey strain it and drink it warm Or take Time Mints Woodroof Vilipendula and Setwall make pottage herewith and you shall find great ease For all evills within the Bladder TAke Fennell seeds Parsley seeds and Smalladge seeds bruise them and temper them with faire running Water and drink this first and last at your pleasure For one that hath much wind in his Belly TAke Juniper berries ere they wax black and drie them in the ayre and keep them all the year and use the powder thereof in your drink and pottage Or take the roots of Elecampane the roots of Pellitory of the garden and Fennell roots of each a like quantity and as much of Sothernwood wash them and bray them a little and seeth them all together in a gallon of Wort and drink thereof For the Collick TAke Flower and Ale and drink it unsod with a little Sugar and this will make you go to the stool and ease your Collick and Strangullion Or take Hempseed and drie it and make powder thereof and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine Or take Dill seed Anniseed and Cummin of each a like quantity beaten into fine powder eat it in your pottage it will help you A soveraine Medicine for the Collick and Stone TAke Parsley seed Fennell seed Anniseed Cummin seed Plantain seed of each of them a quarter of an ounce an ounce of Nutmeg foure ounces of fine Sugar beat all these seeds into powder and searse them and let the Sugar be beaten with Ale then take of the powder as much as an Hafell nut and let the Patient use to drink thereof morning and evening four times a week warm with Wine or Beer but Wine is best and when the pain cometh drink it with Malmsey Another FRie Pellitory and Butter together and bind them to thy Navell and this will suddenly cease the pain Or take a Lapwing and burn her in the fire feathers and all then take the
a Barrow For one that is burned with a Match TAke the same Match and burn it to powder and strew the same powder upon the place and this will heal it in short space For burning with Gun-powder TAke Sheeps sewet and Sheeps dung and fry them both together and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith twice every day and do not wash the sore with any thing for the meditine vvil fall away of it self as it doth heale and do not change the medicine in any wise For burning with Wild-fire TAke the dregs of Wine and Vineger and an Egg both the white and yolk by even portions and mingle them well together and lay it to the sore untill it be whole To get out the fire of burning or scalding TAke the whites of new laid Eggs after the quantity of the sore and put them in a peuter dish and with a stone of Roch Allum labour it about till it come all to a froth then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter and lay it next the sore and then lay the froth upon the same a good thicknesse and so bind it with a cloth foure times dresse it evening and morning and the fire will be out Medicines to stop Bloud To stop Bloud in a Veine TAke a handfull of Leaves of the little Burrs that stick upon a mans Coat and are called Strachantes and bray these Leaves and lay them to the wound and it will stop the bloud To stop bloud in a wound suddainly TAke Paper Flax or Linnen cloth which is next thy hand and burn it and put it into the wound the ashes thereof hot and the bloud shall stop straight Or if you will stamp nettle roots and lay them to the wound it shall be no more To stop bloud if the Master-Veine be cut or the wound very large TAke red nettles or red Colwort Leafs stamp them with Hogs dung well tempered together and lay it on the wound and this will stench the bleeding quickly Or take dried Vervain made in Powder and put the Powder into the wound and it will help For a wound that is full of Bloud TAke red Nettles and stamp them with Vineger and lay them upon the wound and it will cleanse the wound and do away the bloud To stop bleeding at the Nose or in any other place upon the suddain IF it be a man that bleedeth take a Leather point and tye about his stones very hard and this wil stop the bleeding straight Or if his Arm or Leg be cut bind the other Arm or Leg very hard and the bloud will run to the other side that is most pained Medicines for the Morphew TAke Mustard made of white Vineger and let the Patient annoynt himself withall where the Morphew is nine nights and this will help him Or take and bray Sorrell and strain it clear then put to it as much sugar and honey as you do juice and boil them well together over the fire and then let them seeth till the sugar have the tast then put to it one ounce of Vineger and so dresse it and keep the medicine to eat Another for the same TAke an ounce of very good sope and a penyworth of Aqua vitae and put them both into a Morter and grind them well together then take a handfull of Eglantine and stamp it and strain it and put some of the juice to the soâ—e and Aqua vita and then take a course Canvas cloth and rub where the Morphew is and after annoynt the place with this medicine and be whole For the black Morphew THere be two kind of Morphews the white and the black the white is named Alborus and for remedy for the black Morphew take this rule that if the place be pricked and will not bleed then it is not cureable but if it will bleed take of Rapes and Rocket of each an ounce and an half and stamp it with Vineger and after that wash the place Or take of the earth of Africk and mix it with Vineger and wash the place oft therewith and it will heal thee A most excellent Water to comfort the Vitalls and preserve other parts of the body made by Doctor Stephens TAke a gallon of good Gascoygne Wine Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds Fennell seed a Dram Sage Mints red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary wild Time Camomile Lavender of each one handfull then bruise the spices and the herbs small and put all into the Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Lymbeck according to the art and the first water is of more strength then the second and both be the better by the standing in the Sun The vertues hereof Be to comfort the spirits vitall helps to the inward diseases of cold the Palsey the contraction of Sinews the conception of Women killeth the Wormâ— within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropfie comforteth the Stomach helpeth the stone in the Bladder and in the reins of the Back slackneth a stinking breath Whosoever useth this water ever anon and not too aften it preserveth him in good likeing and maketh him seem young very long with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life untill such extreme Age that he could neither go nor ride and kept him five years when other Phisitians judged it impossible for him to live one year To make Cinamon Water TAke Rhenish Wine a quart and Spanish wine a pint Rosewater a pint and a half Cinamon bruised a pound and a half let these stand infused the space of four and twenty hours then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck of Glasse and receive the first Water by it self Also if ye be so disposed to make the same Water weaker take three pints of Rosewater and a pint and a half of Rhenish Wine and so distill the same and you shall have to the quality of the stuffe the quantity of the Water which is three pints but the first Water is the best and so reserve it to your use both morning and evening To make Cinamon Water another way TAke three quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and half a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receive to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the chiefest of all the other as is manifest by practise Medicines for the Palsie that take away the Speech TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves and if it be in winter take leaves and roots and all of each a like quantity beat them together and strain them with Ale and give it the sick to drink a spoonful or two at a time and it will bring the speech again For the Palsie TAke and stamp a
chicken will gape and labour for life and in the end he will dy then take another Pullet and do the like and so another as the Pullets do dy for when the poyson is drawn out the last chicken that is offered thereto will live the sore presently is asswaged and the party recovereth it is necessary to use the Medicine to drive away venome from the heart This is proved very true To make Plague water TAke a pound of Rosemary a pound of Salerdine a pound of Sage and a pound of Balm a pound of Mugwort one pound of Rue one pound of Wormwood one pound of Dragon one pound of Scabias one pound of Pimpernel that grows among the corne one pound of Angelica and one pound of Betony put all these herbs together in a great pot with a narrow mouth and let them soak in white Wine three dayes and three nights closely stopped and then take the herbs out and styll them and keep the water in a fair glass and if any be sick of the Plague give him the value of ten spoonfuls blood-warm so soon as he doth feel himself sick and then let him walk if he be able if not lead him by the armes and keep him from eating and drinking one hour after and then let him go to bed and if he vomit it is the better for him and if it be possible that he take it before he sleep he shall escape by Gods grace and the elder the water is the better it is This water is good for the quartane Ague or any disease lying in the stomack taking it before the fit doth come and this water must be stylled in the month of May Contra vim mortis non est Medicamen in hortis To make Doctor Josephus Water TAke a pint of Water and a spoonfnl of French Barley half a handful of red Rose leaves two or three drops of the Oyl of Brimstone and a quarter of a pound of the finest refined Sugar the water and Barley to seeth together and then the scum to be taken off and so the other to be let cool so with the Rose leaves to stand all night and then to be well brewed all together but first the leaves and Barley strained from the Water For the Convulsion TAke one ounce of an Elke-hoof and half an ounce of English Liqueris two piana small roots two or three Fenel roots as many Parsly roots three or four roots of unset Hyssop a little quantity Herbegrass which is Rue a quart of small beer but boyl it till it come to a pinte then strain it and sweeten it with Syrop of Hyssop and give it the Party before and after the Fit For the moist Rhume in the Head TAke conserve of Roses two ounces Metridate two drams Bolearminak one dram of Olibinum one dram and an half Mastick half a dram beat these together with Syrop of Violets into the form electuary whereof take twice going to bed and in the morning the quantity of a Nutmeg Another for the same ROsemary flowers Elder flowers Bittony flowers Sage flowers of each two good handfuls Scurvy grass three handfuls China-roots three ounces an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two ounces of Coriander-seeds half a pound Fumitur three handfuls Epithimum Agramony Hartstongue of each two handfuls Harts-horn-shaving one ounce of Stringoroots four ounces Citron-seeds Musked half an ounce let these be boyled in a gallon and an half of Whey and let them first be infused two dayes in a gallon of white Wine then put the ingredience with the Wine to the Whey and let them be boyled gently the space of two hours and so next day drink thereof half a pint in the morning and so in the afternoon as long as it lasteth An approved Medicine for sore Eyes TAke six ounces of Lapis Callimnaris and heat that in a wooden fire and blow it red hot and then quench it in a pinte of pure white Wine in a Bowl or any other clean vessel nine times and then strain it out by it self through a fine linnen cloth and then take a handful of Houslick unwashed and stamp it in a clean Morter and strain it through a fine cloth then put the quench'd Wine and that both together and strain them again through a fine cloth and then take a feather and drop it in your eyes three or four drops at a time every morning and evening and by the grace of God you will find help in a very short time Probatum est A Medicine for Children that have the wormes approved by Mistris Isabel Dee in Moscoe TAke Wormseed and boyl it in Beer and then sweeten it with clarifyed Honey and let them drink of it every morning fasting For a pain in the stomack by a Cold. TAke two or three Turnips and wrap them in brown Paper weted and put them in Ember-ashes for two hours as ready for to eat and then scruze the juyce out of them betwixt two Trenchers and then mix it with Loaf-sugar with Cynamon and Nutmeg powdered and made like a Syrop and then drink four ounces of it at night when you go to bed Probatum est Mistris Fâ—…yerirs medicine for sore Eyes TAke a pine of white Wine two drams of Camphire cut as small as may be half an ounce Omphacium that is pure oyl of green Grapes or for want of that your purest Sallet-oyl put the Camphire and the Oyl into a Basin let them stand covered two hours then put in your white Wine to them then take the stones called Lapides Culumanaris and heat three of them fire hot then put them so hot into the Wine covering your Basin very close while they are a cooling in the water heat three more fire hot take the other out and put in the hot ones and so heat them by course five or six times till the Wine is very hot and the Camphire well dessolved then take the clcarest of it and the top when it is cold and reserve it in glasses For your use put two or three drops into the sore ey three times a day For a Fellon or a Whitlow FIrst take a quarter of a pinte of Milk and as much Leaven as an egg and let it boyl till it commeth to be as thick as a Poultess then take a penny-worth of oyl of Roses and mix with it and which is above half a spoonful and so apply it to the grieved place as hot as you can twice a day lay it too as you do a Poultess This is proved For one that is Bursten or a Child that hath been Bursten six years TAke oyl of Nip or Nep and anoynt the Party therewith and morning and evening take of the herbs and bind one boyl'd in Butter or dip Wool in the aforesaid Oyl this use six weeks until you be whole This proved For to keep a Child from having Convulsion fits TAke oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn beaten up with white Sugar-candy and give the Child so soon as it