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 farthingworth 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 Wormwoood 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 Vervam 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 of each
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 Ale 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 Salendinâ— 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 precious 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 penniworth 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 ju ce together and put it into thine Ears Another for the same TAke Camomill Melil ot Marjoram Calamint Hysop Wormwood Pennyroyall Stechados 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 â—hy 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 â—nto 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 eare 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 wooâ—… 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 earther 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 four 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 corâ—oding or eating 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 a sawcy 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
with white Sugar-candy and give the Child so soon as it is born as much as a good big Pea or Nut This proved For a Child still born that was not long dead in the womb or if there be any life in it though not in appearance TAke of the blood of the String and sueeze out a drop as you cut the Navel string into a spoon and give it the Child in a little fair water and if life be in it it recovers in an hour or less Proved For to bring them down on a Woman in Child-bed though never so weak TAke half a Dosin of Piana seeds and beat them a little till the black hull come off and then beat this small and give her in a spoonful of Cardus-posset-drink sweeten it with a little sugar then give her a good draught of the Posset to drink as hot as she can and let her lie close and it will cause her to sweat and it will be a meanes to bring them and to drive an Ague away if she take it but three times every two hours Proved To make a Cordial to give one in a burning Fever or Ague in the time of their burning when it is at the height TAke some gross Mace oyl a quarter of a pint and sweeten it with an ounce or two penny-worth of the Syrop of Clove-gilli-flowers and give it him to drink And you may make another on this wise Take the juyce of an Orange and as much red rose-Rose-water and sweeten it with white Sugar-candy it will refresh the Spirits and cool and alay their drought Probotum est To make a Glister for one that is troubled with a sharp humour that causeth blood to proceed instead of Ordour TAke a pint and an half of Milk and boyl it into a pint with a handful of red Rose leaves and sweeten it with powdered Sugar and give it him and let him keep it as long as he can Probatum For an Itch that is vehement TAke of your Soap and Brimstone a like quantity and as much English honey and boyl these together till it be like an oyntment and then anoynt your wrists with it warm by the fire and lap clouts about them warm and anoint under your Arm-holes and under your Hams and in the bent of your Arms and do not shift you in a month nor pull off your clouts from off your wrists all the while and you shall be whole without any purge though your hands were all scabby Probatum For a Consumption TAke as much flour of Brimstone as you can take upon a Sixpence and pour three drops of Blood-warm Milk into a Spoon and mix it by degrees and till it be like Batter and your Spoon being full put to it good store of Sugar then drink the rest of the pinte of Milk blood-warm also sweetned with Sugar well this you may use as long as you please and at any time in the year for them that find a wheasing and shortness of breath it is very good you must fast an hour after it Proved A Medicine to ripen any Boyl or sore or a Push TAke a Spoonful of Molish-honey clarified Wheat-flower a Spoonful a yolk of an Egg-mix these altogether and apply it warm as blood morning and evening as thick as your finger till it break apply it It is very good to ripen a Plague-sore For the Spleen LEt the Party purge twice in a week with a Dram or the weight of Six pence of Pulvis Sanctus and the next week cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Emerod veins in the Fundament afterward use this Drink following for the space of seven or eight days TAke the inward bark of an Ash-tree two ounces of Polopodi-root or Fern that groweth on the sides of watry ditches one ounce Tamartock two good handfuls Liconish half an ounce Anniseed an ounce Let these be boyled in three quarts of small Beer till it come to two quarts whereof let the Party drink every morning and at night going to bed-ward a quarter of a pinte very warm And for Diet LEt them generally forbear Fish Bak'd-meats smoak'd-meats and new Beer use to eat good store of Broom-buds Capers for Sallets and after this course you shall cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Emerod veins in the Fundament An excellent Medicine for a Scald or Burn and chiefly for the Emerods TAke a pinte or a quart of Linced-oyl and put into it as many Crafish alive as it will hold then boyl them a quarter of an hour then strain the oyl from them and let them be very well beaten in their shels in a Morter then put them into the oyl again and let them boyl as formerly then strain them from the oyl as you can then fill your oyl as full of tops of Elder or young buds of Elder or the young fresh leaves and let it boyl in them till they be crisp'd like fry'd Parsly then strain it very hard from the Elder and reserve it for an excellent Medicine For the Whites to cleanse and stay them TAke of Purits Rossin or Gum of Lignum vita otherwise called of gum Guaicom rub it gently in a Morter so as it may be in a fine powder and thereof mingle as much as the weight of six pence in a draught of Milk and Sugar and take it cold so use it twice in a week for two weeks together and it will give you two stools or three cleanse and knit the weakness of the back For a Whitlow TAke a Snail out of his Shell and chop it very small and bind it to it and dress it twice in a day and it will quickly heal it For a cut of a finger or hand TAke some green Hysop and stamp it well in a Morter with some Sugar and so bind it on the hand For a Tetter or Ring-worm TAke ordinary white Coperas four ounces powdered fine and put to it a pinte of sharp white Wine vineger and shake them well together till the Coperas be well dissolved so weting linnen cloths in it and apply it to the place grieved For one that is costive in Child-bed there is no safer thing nor better TAke two ounces oyl of sweet Almonds or if the Party cannot take it you may make a Supository of Castle-soap cut with a wyre 〈…〉 For the Scyatica an approved Medicine TAke red seeded Nettles and whip the grieved party so far as his pain goeth till it be all over bubbled and so let him ly to sleep and the next day he shall be whole by the help of God though he were so bad he could not stir off the bed in five or six weeks out of your bed you must lash them gently not too hard and if it should come again use it again and if it come again use it again and be whole alwaies after For an extraordinary flux of Rheum in the Eys that hath been TAke stone pitch and spread it upon leather as broad as the palm
hath the 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 eat 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 save 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 M … 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 soon 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 Set well 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 nor 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 Pepp r with the crops of Time if it be eaten two hours before dinner and two hours before supper it preserveth a man from op 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 handfull 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 pottage 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
at night and it will help you A good Medicine for the Heart and Swowning TAke the powder of Cloves with the juyce of Borage a spoonfull at a time and it will help you Also the powder of Ginger and powder of Cummin put in meats is good for the same A comfortable Medicine to restore the spirits of the Heart and to mend the disposition of the Etick or Consumption as followeth TAke a quarter of an ounce of Gold foyle and half an ounce of Manus Christi beat them in a mortar together untill none of the Gold be seen and keep it till you have need to use it which must be in manner following Take a quart of pure Rose water and boyl it with a quantity of Penidos keep it in a faire glasse and when you will use it take in the morning the weight of the foresaid powder and put in your mouth and drink it down with five or six spoonfulls of the foresaid water For swelling or rising about the Heart SEeth Oyl Olive by it self then take as much Honey and seeth it by it self then seeth them together a little while and when it is cool put it in a box and this is very good for the Heart 〈…〉 For fatnesse about the Heart TAke the juice of Fennell and Honey and seeth them all together untill they be hard and then eat thereof evening and morning and thou shalt be whole To put away venom from the heart TAke Bolearmoniack and Sanguis Draconis of each three ounces and of the best Cinamon four ounces and mingle them altogether in powder and so receive it and it will put away Venom from the Heart For Gnawing about the Heart TAke Sage leaves and as much yarrow and grind them together and temper them with Ale and then strain and drink thereof Things good for the Heart SAffron Borage Hearts horn Mustard Cloves Galingale Nutmegs red Roses Violets Maces Sugar good Wine moderately taken Mirth and good ayre that day you eat of Piony or drink thereof you shall not swound Against Swounding BOrage eaten with flesh or in pottage is good for them that fall in their Swounding or be faint at the Heart or have Cardiack Passion at the Heart Against Swounding TAke water that Roses hath been sodden in and the powder of the same with a raw Egge Or take Rose VVater that Sweet VVater hath been sodden in this is very good Medicines for the Belly To dissolve a hard Belly TAke and stamp Mallows and Mercury together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to thy Navell and it shall dissolve the matter in the womb in short time Or take the juice of Rue and drink it with stale Ale or Wine or fair Water and use to drink of this and it will help thee in short time For any hard Belly that is sore MIngle Pennyroyall and Ginger together and bind them plaisterwise to thy Belly and be whole For Diseases of the Belly whatsoever they be TAke Wormwood Rew Motherwort Lavender Cotton and the gall of an Oxe Cow or Calf stamp the herbs and put the Gall thereto and lay it to the bottom of thy Belly and be whole A Drink to destroy all evills in the Belly or Body within fifteen dayes TAke Scabias Mugwort Smallage Devills-bit Herb-Ivy Wormwood Fumitory Fetherfew and Spiknard stamp all these and seeth them in white Wine and clarifie it with whites of Eggs drink of this nine dayes and be whole Medicines for the Collick For the Wind-Collick TAke Winter-Savory stamp it and strain it with strong Ale drink this warm and immediately the pain will cease as if it were sweep'd away There have been divers helpt with this which have had such pain with the Wind-Collick that they have swowned severall times in a day Also a cupping-glasse set upon the top of the Navell is a present remedy Also Camomill Rosemary Sage and Salt rosted under the embers and laid to the Navell is a present Remedy Emmets eggs dried in an oven made in powder and drank helpeth the Wind-Collick immediately For the Collick of the Stomach see after For the Strangullion CUt off the top of an Onyon and take out the core then put into the place a pretty quantity of this powder following Take Betany and Centory of each a like quantity and make powder thereof putting in a little Butter then put on the top again and put it in hot embers and rost it then lay it to your Navell as hot as you may suffer it and be whole To make a precious Water for the Strangullion TAke a peck of Hawes when they be ripe and half a peck of Hips and beat them in a mortar to powder then take two gallons of Lees of Malmsey or Sack a penniworth of long Pepper and a half-penniworth of graines put all these together and distill them in a Stilletory or Limbeck take the water thereof and drink it luke-warm first and last For the Collick a precious Medicine proved TAke Saxifrage Maidenhaire unset Time and Parsley seed and seeth all these together in Malmsey strain it and drink it warm Or take Time Mints Woodroof Vilipendula and Setwall make pottage herewith and you shall find great ease For all evills within the Bladder TAke Fennell seeds Parsley seeds and Smalladge seeds bruise them and temper them with faire running Water and drink this first and last at your pleasure For one that hath much wind in his Belly TAke Juniper berries ere they wax black and drie them in the ayre and keep them all the year and use the powder thereof in your drink and pottage Or take the roots of Elecampane the roots of Pellitory of the garden and Fennell roots of each a like quantity and as much of Sothernwood wash them and bray them a little and seeth them all together in a gallon of Wort and drink thereof For the Collick TAke Flower and Ale and drink it unsod with a little Sugar and this will make you go to the stool and ease your Collick and Strangullion Or take Hempseed and drie it and make powder thereof and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine Or take Dill seed Anniseed and Cummin of each a like quantity beaten into fine powder eat it in your pottage it will help you A soveraine Medicine for the Collick and Stone TAke Parsley seed Fennell seed Anniseed Cummin seed Plantain seed of each of them a quarter of an ounce an ounce of Nutmeg foure ounces of fine Sugar beat all these seeds into powder and searse them and let the Sugar be beaten with Ale then take of the powder as much as an Hasell 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
170 Râ—hume in the head 179 Another for the same 179 For the Ring-worm 208 S MEdicines for Sciaticae 105 Another approved 193 Another 193 Sciatica in the hips 105. Stone and Strangury 99. For all manner of Gouts and the Sciatica and Consumption of the members Strangullion 76. A water for the Strangullion 76. Swage and cool a swoln sore Leg 121. For a swelling in any place 121. For a scald or burn and chicfly for the Emerods 190. For a swelling in a mans body 137 For to get out the fire by a scalding 148. To stop bloud in a vein 148. To stop bloud suddainly in a wound 148. To stop bloud if the Master-Vein be cut 14â— Salt of Corall to make it and excellent vertues thereof as to cure the fevers in Children and women in Child-bed 197. For the Wind in the Side 66 Stich in the side 66 Stich in the left side 66 Another for the same ibid. To know when one hath a stitch whether it be of Wind or Plurifie ibid Stich at the heart ibid Asswage a swelling 157 For a scab in man or woman 161 For the itch in the hands that come of Worms 161 To destroy all manner of scabs dry or moyst 162 For the dry scab 162 To make one sleep 166 Pain in the Stomach by cold 181 Medicines for the stone c. 88 89 90. For the Spleen 54 For the wasting of the Spleen and for the Dropsie 54 Medicines for the Stomach 56 57 58 59 60 61. T TO make Teeth white 29 To keep teeth from wormes 29 A regiment for the teeth 30 31. Another 32. To take away the tooth-ach in half an hour 32 A noteable medicine for the tooth-ach 32 To make teeth white 32 For the tooth-ach 32 To remove teeth 33 Water for the teeth 33 For a Canker and tooth-ach 33 To make childrens teeth come 34 To fasten teeth 35 For wormes in teeth 35 For tooth ach 35 For a sore throat that 's inflam'd 45 46 For hoarsenesse in the throat 45 46 Canker in the throat 46 For Quinsie in the throat 46 Canker in the throat 46 For stopping of pipes 47 To kill a Tetter or ring-worm 192 Medicines for the thighes that be stiffe 113 For the aking bones of the thigh 113 To knit the sinews and veins in the thigh 114 To make an oyntment to asswage the swelling and to keep sinews from shrinking 114 For thighes that be swollen 114 For sinews shrunk in the thighes 114 V FOr an Vncom 13 An excellent vomit 199 W MEdicines for the Wormes 80 The Wormes in young children 80 Medicines for all sorts of wounds and sores 153 A good water for every sore 153 To heal a wound 158 A water to heal all manner of wounds in a short space 159 To heal a wound in ten daies 160 To make that flesh shall not grow in a wound 160 Diet for him that is wounded 160 For warts to take away 165 Medicines to take away Wens 171 Against wind in the Stomach 174 Against the wormes in children 18 206 Felon and Whitlow 183 Another 205. For the whites to cleanse and stay them 191 214 For a wound that 's full of blood 141 Water to comfort the Vitalls most excellent 143 Y REmedy for a mans Yard 99 Against the erection of the yard 100 To heal a mans yard that is sore 100 For the swelling in any yard 100 For the pain in a mans yard thorough gravell 101 A water for a sore yard 101 For being burnt with a harlot 102 For a mans stones that hang down long 102 For him that cannot make water 102 103 104 Medicines for the Head A remedy for the universall pain of the Head FIrst beware of all things which do hurt the Head as Garlick Onions Chiboles Wine stooping downe with thy Head extreame labour and such like and beware of surfeiting and drunkennesse and purge thy Head with Gargacies and sternutations and purge thy Head and thy stomack twice per week with pills of Coch or such like and be whole A remedy for the Head whatsoever the pain be TAke an handfull of Betanie an handfull of Cammomell and a handfull of Vervain leaves picked stamp them and seeth them in black Wort or in Ale for want of Wort and in the latter end of the seething put to it a little Cummin brayed the powder of a Harts-horn and the yolks of two Egges and Saffron a little and stir them well together and lay a plaister hot over all the forehead and Temples This is an excellent remedy also for the Megrim it shall pierce the better if you shall add to the medicine a little Vineger For pain in the Head TAke Rue Heyhoad Camomell flowers Betany Vervain Mints Hillwort red Fennell Wormwood and Sothernwood of each a handfull and wash them and shred them small and seeth them in water and mingle the herbs with wheat bran and make a plaister and lay it on thy mold as hot as thou canst suffer it and bind it on with a Kerchief and thou shalt be whole in short space For all manner of Head-aches TAke the greace of a Hart and mingle it with Oat meal and Sorrell and temper them well then lay it plaisterwise to thy temples This is proved To purge the Head TAke the juice of Primrose and milk of a Cow and with a quill blow it into thy nostrills and this will purge the head A water for the Rheume in the Head and how to put away the Palsie TAke a red Onyon and break it small and seeth it in a little Verjuice and put thereto a little Honey clarified and when they be well sod together put thereto a great spoonfull of Mustard and let it seeth long together then lay the sick upright and he shall find ease Do this three dayes twice per day and be whole For the Megrim in the Head TAke sowr Bread and Chickweed and bray them together and boil it in Vineger and so bind it to the grieved place or take and seeth Barley well in water and as it seeths put in Betanie and other good herbs for the Head and when they be well sodden bind them to thy head To stop and dry up Rheume TAke Cummin-seed a Nutmeg and a little Bay-salt every one beaten to powder alone and spread the same upon hurds of Flaxe in a cloth and hold the same over the perfume of Frankincense and lay it hot to your Head For a scalded Head TAke the liver of a Thornback and seeth it by it self and six Elacampana roots and seeth them by themselves in water three houres and put thereto three handfulls of Houseleek stamped and strained through a cloth and make an ointment thereof and anoint the Head therewith and if the hair be gone take a handfull of Wooll and bray it hot to powder then take two spoonfulls of Honey and anoint thy Head therewith where it is pilled and thy hair will soon come again as thick as in any other place
a like quantity bray them well together and the first day lay them in white Wine the second day lay them in the Urine of a man-child the third day lay them in the Milk of a woman that feedeth a man-child the fourth day in clean Hony and then distill them with a clean fire softly and keep that water well for it is excellent For a hurt in a mans Eye that cometh with a stroke TAke Betany two handfulls and beat it small in a mortar and put thereto the white of an Egge and break it with the other in a mortar and take of the same liquor and put it into thine Eye and lay some upon the Eye and bind it fast and do so nine dayes and be whole Another for the same TAke Egremony and bray it and temper it with white Wine and an Egge and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the outside of thine Eye and if were almost out it would heal it without doubt For the Eyes that run full of water and be bleared TAke of the juice of Rue foure spoonfulls and two of Honey and mingle them together and when you go to bed put thereof into your Eyes and keep it in together and use this and it will help thee Or take two or three roots of red Fennell and the leaves also and a branch of Salendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten flat and if one be not great enough take two races put all these into half a pint of running water and cover it and use to put of this water into your Eyes when you go to bed and an houre before you rise in the morning when you take thereof strain it To save a mans sight a long time good TAke a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a fig or two three dayes in a week and this will save thy sight To draw Rheume back that falleth into the Eye TAke an Egge and rost it hard and slit it into two parts and lay it hot to the nape of the neck and thou shalt find ease presently A medicine for sore Eyes and for the Megrim in the head TAke the white of a new laid Egge clean taken from the yolk and a spoonfull of white Ginger and a spoonfull of strong white Vineger made of Malmsey or white Wine and a spoonfull of clean Rose water but first the white of the Egge must be well beaten and then to the oyl of the Egge put your other things above written and beat them all together then take Flax as much as will make two plaisters for either Temple one with a cloth and dip it into the medicâ—ne and bind upon every Temple one with a cloth and take heed the medicine do not touch your Eyes and do this three or four nights together and every morning the Eyes will cleave together with the Gumme but this medicine hath brought to sight them that were eight weeks stark blind For a Pearl and Wb in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger and grate it upon a whetstone and then beat fine a little white Coperas and put to it and when the Patient goeth to bed put some of it with a quill into his Eyes and when it hath been there a little while take ground Ivy beaten and strained with womans Milk and put three or foure drops into your Eyes evening and morning after the white Coperas hath been in your Eyes half an hour Probatum est A Medicine to clear the sight TAke clean Rose water a quantity in a sawcer and take clean Myrrhe as much as a nut and break it to powder small and bind it in a clean linnen cloth and let it lie in the Rosewater twelve hours and then the water will wax somewhat red of the Myrrhe then take of this water and put it into your Eye and this will clear the sight very well Probatum est To make a precious water for sore Eyes that be fair to look on and yet cannot see with them TAke Smallage and red Fennell Rue Betany Vervain Pimpernell Eyebright Sage and Salendine of every one of these a quartern and wash them clean and stamp them in a very fair vessell and take the powder of fifteen Pepper corns and a pint of good white Wine and three spoonfulls of good live Honey and fifteen spoonfulls of the water of a man child that is very young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little and then strain it through a clean cloth and keep it in a vessell or glasse well stopped and when you will occupie it put some of it into your Eyes with a feather and if it dry away in the glasse then put a little white Wine to it and this is good for all sore Eyes if thy Eyes be never so sore in fifteen dayes it will heal thee Probatum est For a Pearl and Web in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger beaten fine into powder searse it and seeth it a great while in good white Wine and put it into a faire vessell of Latten well stirred and let it stand in the vessell till it look green then put it into a glasse and when you have need of it use it with a little white Coperas at the dressing Or for the Web in the Eye take the gall of an Hare and clarified Honey by even portions and mingle them together and lay it on the Web and within three nights the Web shall break and save the sight Probatum est A Medicine for any that have the small Pox fallen into their Eyes TAke Pimpernell and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into your Eyes where the small Pox is with a feather morning and evening and this is a speciall good Medicine for a Pin a Web or a Pearle in the Eye For a Pin and a Web. TAke the Ivy leaves that grow upon an Ash tree wipe them clean with a cloth and stamp them and strain them with Womans milk if it be a man that hath a Pearl in the Eye strain it with the milk of a woman that nurseth a Girl if a woman have a Pearl then with the milk of a Boy and the sorer the Eye is the more of the juice you must take and lesse of the milk and drop this Medicine into thine Eye with a feather morning and Evening and twice in the afternoon This is proved For sore Eyes TAke the juice of Houseleek Womans milk Rose water or Woodbine water and the white of a new laid Egge well beaten the froth taken away and beat all these together and dip in Flax and lay it to your Eyes when you go to bed Probatum est For Eyes that are swoln TAke two spoonfulls of Womans milk one spoonfull of Rose water the pap of a rosted Apple and the yolk of a new laid Egge and boil all these together in a sawcer upon a chafing-dish of coals untill it
Bacon wheaten Bran and the Roots of a Vine and seeth all these together in Brine wherein Flesh hath been laid to Salt and let the hot Vapor thereof ascend to the sore place through an instrument like a Funnel made of Wood and this done wash this sore place with this Water following Take the inner Bark of the Roots of black Thorn and seeth it in a Pint of white Wine Vineger and a Pint of Water of the Bark twelve Ounces of Roch Alum two Ounces seeth these together in a stone Cruse in a Kettle of water closely stopped till half be wasted then strain them and put of this Liquor into the Sore This helped a child of twelve years old that the Canker had eaten through the Roof of his Mouth into his Nose But if the Canker be not very corrosive take Woodbine Sage Lavender Rosemary and Salendine and seeth these in running water and white Wine till half be wasted and then strain them and put to this stained Liquor a little Alum and Myrrhe Honey and Sarcacoll when these be a little sodden then strain them again and rub thy Mouth therewith often in a day For the falling of the Evola TAke a little Pepper and Salt and put it up therewith or else take and seeth a little Pepper in Ale ad dip a Linnen Cloth therein and put it up therewith also take a handfull of Fetherfew and rub it between your hands then lay it to the Crown of the Head and it will draw up the Evola For a Canker in the Mouth TAke Rosemary Sage and running Water and seeth them well together and put to them Roch Alum and wash thy Mouth therewith or take Woodbine leaves and stamp them and put thereto a little running Water and strain out the Juice thereof then put to the same a little white Coperas and wash thy Mouth therewith and it will be whole For a Canker in the Mouth TAke a sawcer full of wodbine-Wodbine-water and put thereto as much Alum as a Hasell Nut and then take of Mell-Roset as much again as the Alum is and put to it a spoonfull of good Vineger and boil all these together upon a Chafingdish and wash the Canker therewith Medicines for Teeth To make Teeth white TAke Vineger of Quinces and dip a little piece of Cloth in it and rub thy Teeth and Gums therewith the said Vineger fasteneth the Teeth and Gums comforteth the Roots of the Teeth and maketh sweet Breath To keep the Teeth sweet clean and from danger of Worms or a Regiment Ach TAke a Pint of White Wine two Ounces of Alum and a quarter of an Ounce of Honey boil them together and wash your Mouth therewith every Morning A Regiment for the Tooth-ach YOu must wash your Mouth before and after Meat with warm Water to cleanse the Mouth and purge the Humors from the Gums which descend out of the Head it is good every Morning to wash the Mouth and to rub the Teeth with a Sage Leaf or with Powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs You must forbear Lettice and raw fruits all tart things and the chewing of hard things also all Meats of evill digestion and vomiting and straining of your self For the Tooth-ach TAke the Root of Henbane and seeth it in Vineger and hold in thy Mouth the Decoction thereof and the pain of the Teeth will away straight or take Hysope and make a decoction with Vineger and wash your Mouth and Teeth therewith being hot and the pain will away Another for the same TAke Wheat Bran and good stale Ale and make it thick like Mustard and let it soke therein a quarter of an hour then strain it and put thereto the Powder of Pepper a good quantity and some of the Juice of Rue and make it somewhat thick and put it into a little bag of linnen cloth and lay it between thy Cheek and thy Teeth and lie down on that side and let the Water run out of thy Mouth and use it three or four times and thou shalt never have the Tooth-ach more or take Hounds tongue and stamp it and frie it with Butter and make a Plaister thereof and bind it to thy Cheek on that side that the pain is and thou shalt be whole Proved An approved Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Berries of Ivy and the scraping of a Harts Horn and boil it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to thy Check and hold the Liquor thereof in thy Mouth and thou shalt be whole Or take Pepper Salt and the Roots of Primrose and dry them all together and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith To take away the Tooth-ach in half an hour TAke Henbane Seed Smallage Seed and Poppy Seed of each the weight of a Penny and make Pellets thereof as big as a Vache with a quantity of Aqua vitae and lay it unto thy Teeth that ake and the pain shall cease straight A notable Medicine for the Tooth-ach TAke Pellitory of Spain both of the Leaf and of the Root wash it and stamp it and thereof make three Balls every Ball as big as a Plumb and lay the first Ball between the Teeth and the Gummes the space of a miles riding and even as the water ingendreth in thy Mouth spit it out whole and put in another Ball as thou diddest at the first and likewise the third and so let the Water run out of thy Mouth still and be whole straight To make Teeth white TAke Flower of Rie Salt and Honey and mingle them well together and therewithall rub thy Teeth every day twice or thrice and then wash them clean with Water and they will be clean Or take green Branches of Broom and burn them and make thereof a Powder and burn Alum and mix them together and then temper them with fair Water and rub thy Teeth therewith and it will do away the blacknesse of them For the Tooth-ach TAke the green part of the Eldar Rine not the uttermost nor the innermost but the green in the middle between both and Sage Rue and Ginger and a good deal of Salt then grind them all together in a mortar and seeth it in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and lay to the Cheek and be whole Another for the same TAke a Pint of the strongest Vineger thou canst get and a handfull of Sage the Root of a red Nettle the quantity of a Fingers length and as much of the Rine of an Oke and cut them in little pieces and so let the Vineger and all the rest seeth together from a Pint then let the Patient chew it on the sore Tooth and so dresse 〈…〉 Evening and Morning half of it at each time and this shall help him for ever Probatum est For to remove a Tooth TAke the Root of a Mulberry Tree and lay it in Vineger three dayes and three Nights and then dry it in the Sun and make Powder thereof and rub thy Teeth therewith and
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 bedward 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 plaister 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 her 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
feathers and all then take the ashes of her and give it the Patient to drink with Wine somwhat warm and this will ease the Collick For the Collick of the stomach TAke of Broom seeds 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 Ale 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 Guts TAke the water of Flower-de-luce and drink it luke-warm twice or 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 flower 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 … 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 Plantane 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 yorks of five Egs 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 eat them divers times in a day Also the dung 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
whole For the swellings in a mans Yard TAke Leeks with the tails and wash them clean and stamp them and fry them in Barrows-grease and make a Plaister and lay it all about the yard and be whole Or take Betony and seeth it in Wine and stamp it and make a Plaister and lay it to the Cods and it will asswage the swelling of them this is well proved For pain in ae mans Yard through Gravel or Champise as followeth TAke Pellitory and Boares-grease and fry them together well and make two Plaisters thereof and lay one between the Navel and the Yard and the other on the Reines of the back and anon thou shalt deliver water and gravel which before thou mightst not do but by drops this will help thee without doubt To make a water for a sore Yard TAke and put Allom in fair water and seeth it till it wax tough then put it in a pewter Box this will cleanse a sore and make it fair For burnign with a Harlot IF a man be burnt with a Harlot and do meddle with another woman within one day she shal be burned If one be burned let him wash his secrets two or three times with white Wine or Sack and water but if the matter have continued long go to some expert Chyrurgion to have help or else thy Guts will burn and fall out of thy belly For a mans Stones that hang down long TAke the fatness of a Conney and anoynt thy Cods and Stones therewith and then wrap thy Sones in a Conny-skin do this nine times and labour not in nine dayes and be whole For him that cannot make water TAke Rue Grommel and Parsley and stamp them and mingle them with white Wine and give the sick thereof to drink warm Or take the juyce of Cinquefoil and drink it with Posset ale and it will make you make water anon For one that cannot make water TAke the stones and Kernels of Peches and Medlers as much of the one as of the other and make them into Powder very fine and scarse them this done take fine Sugar the weight of all this and mingle all this together and let the Patient drink thereof with good white Wine and he shall be whole incontinent To make one make water TAke six or seven Berries of Ivy and stamp them and strain them with Ale and give the sick to drink therof and he shall make water straight To make one make water TAke a pinte of good Ale and put therein of Honey even as it cometh out of the Hive with Bees wax and all and strain it with the Ale then give it the Patient to drink and within one quarter of an hour he shall make water with this was one holpen that lay three dayes and never made water To make one make water TAke a pinte of white Wine and a good spooonful of Sivil Soap finely scraped and the yolks of two Eggs well put from the whites beat all these together with the Wine and then strain it and warm it luke-warm and drink hereof as often as you shall feel pain and this will help you for it is well proved A Medicine for the Scyatica THis Infirmity cometh of hard lying on the Huckle-bones or lying upon the ground or upon a forme or such like it may come by a stripe or by a fall and it will run from the Huckle-bone to the knee and from the knee to the anckle and from the anckle to the little toe and then it is past cure and otherwhiles this Gowt will have a reflexion ro the Reines of the back and to the Flank and it may come of a gross Flegmetique humour The chiefest remedy is to anoint the place with oyl of Turpentine and Aqua vitae compounded together and use to anoint the place often against the fire and a scarcloth of pitch is good For the Scyatica TAke oyl of Olive May butter gall of a Bul and red Onyons and boyle these together and lay it to the hips where the paine is this is a good Medicine Or take a red cloth and Anoynt it with Clarified Honey and thereupon strew the powder of Cummyn and as hot as you may Bind it to the sore and be whole For the Scyatica in the Hip. TAke a Pottle of wine Lees and wine dregs and sower bread and Cow-dung and boyl these well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the paine as hot as you may suffer it and this will heal you For the Scyatica Passion TAke a Gallon of Urine and seeth it well and scum it well untill it be cleer and then take it downe and let it stand untill it be cold and then put the cleer therof into a faire Pot and put away the dregs and then take the same cleer Urine and put it over the fire and put therein a quart of black dew Snails and boyl them together until the Snails be wasted then strain it through a hair sive and keep the same liquor in an earthen pot and aniont the hipp and the legg therwith before a hot fire and let the liquor be warm For all manner of Gouts and consumed members and for the Scyatica passion TAke a pound of Riote of red docks that men make brogys of and wash them clean and dry them in the sun untill the water be away then cut them small and bray them in a morter and boyl them in a quart of strong vineger untill half be wasted and then with the same anoint the aking place and it will amend then keep it in a vial of glass or els it will dry away This Medicine is very excellent for the diseases abovewritten for it hath been very well proved Medicines for the fundament A Remedy for falling out of the Fundament FIrst beware of taking cold in that place and beware of costiveness and keep your arse and buttocks warm and sit not upon the cold earth nor upon stones nor upon no hard thing but take something under the buttocks not only for falling out of the Longation or arsgut for all other infirmities that may be engendred in the Longation For the figge in the fundament THis Impediment is a Impostumation or lump of flesh growing in the Longation and it doth come of melancholy humors the which doth descend to the Longation or fundament and for remedy purge the matter with confection of hamock or with the pills of Lapides Lazule or with Vera Rufini then take of the powder of a dogs head burned and mix it with the juyce of pimpernel and make tents and put into the fundament For him that his fundament goeth out TAke bay leaves and boyl them in a pot of water and as hot as you can suffer it you must sit over it to the intent the fume of the water may go up into the body and with your finger put it up by little and little and when it is hot heat an Oaken board and sit on it as hot
as you can suffer it and it wil help you For the falling out of the fundament TAke a red Nettle and bray it well and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto a good portion of white wine and seeth it until it be half wasted and of the liquor give the patient to drink first and last warm and lay the herbs to the fundament as hot as he may suffer it and use this and be whole Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids THe Emerods or the Piles the which be the vains in the extreame parts of the Longation to whom doth happen divers times 2 sundry passions the first is like paps and tetts and they will bleed and they be the very Emerods the other be like wartes and they will itch water and smart and they be called the Piles and in the same place doth breede other infirmities as is aforesaid The cause of this Impediment doth â—ome of malicious humours in the Maw and Entrails or it may come of a cholerick humor For the Piles or Hemeroids TAke a pint or a quart of Linseed-Oyl and put into it as many Cray-fish alive as it will hold then boyl them a quarter of an hour then strain the oyl from them and let them be very well beaten in their shells in a Mortar and then put them into the oyl again and let them boyl as formerly then strain them hard from the oyl and cast them away then fill the oyl with as many of the young tops or tender buds of Elder or the young fresh leaves and let them boyl in them till they begin to be crips like fryed Parsly then strain that very hard from the Elder and reserve that for an excellent medicine to anoint the Piles or moistning a little Cotton keep it close trussed up and it will quickly help them It is also a soverain medicine for any Burning or Scalding For the Emrods TAke an onyon and cut off the top thereof and take out the hart of the onyon and fill up the place with the juyce of unset leeks and then rift it in the fire and with the juyce thereof anoint the sore and lay all hot thereto Or take bran of wheat and fry it in sheeps tallow and put it in a bagg or pocket and lay it to the sore or let the sick sit thereon and this will help you For the Piles TAke Scabias and boyl it in water until the water be consumed almost and let him that is sore hold his fundament over the fume of the said water as hot as he can suffer it and be whole For the Piles TAke aqua vitae cold and wash the piles therewith and take cotton linnen and burn it and lay the powder thereof to the piles upon a linnen cotton cloth as often as you be greived Or take wormwood and grind it in a morter small and then fry it in Oyl Olive and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it and this will cease the bleeding and aking For the Emeraoids that have pappes TAke and bind about the Pap a red silk thred and cut away the pap above the head and leave the thred fast and lay a plaister of Wormwood upon the same and this will heal it Probatum est For the Piles TAke a quart of White Wine and the tops of Elder buds and Honey and boyl them well together then strain them and wash the place therewith and this will heal you in short space For the Hemeroids TAke the juyce of red Nettle leaves and a little Deer suet and heat them together in a Sawcer till it be somwhat green and anoint the place with it For the Hemeroids an approved Medicine TAke a gray Cat and cut her Throat and save her blood then flea her and rost her and save the grease then fry the grease and the blood together and lay it to the sore thrice as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will help him An excellent Medicine for the Hemeroids or Piles TAke and stamp Dandelion and Daysies together and strain out the juyce thereof into good Ale and drink thereof and it will help thee A Glister TAke of Endive of Succory of Violet Leafs of each a handfull of Cummin seeds and Anniseeds being bruised small of each a little boyl them in sufficient water as will boyl them tender then strain the herbs from the liquor and take three parts of the water and one part of milk putting into it a little salt a spoonfull of Honey and as much Oyl Olive if you wil make it stronger you may put in an ounce of Cassia Fistula extract Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe THe Brooklime Horehound herb John Sheeps Tallow Swines Grease and a Horse turd that is new made beat it all together and lay it to the sore For aking of the Bones of the Thighes TAke a pint of white Wine and the Gaul of an Oxe and boyl them well and scum them clean then take crums of white Bread and put thereto and make it in a plaister and lay to the sore two or three times and be whole To knit the synews and veins of the Thighes or elswhere when they be broke TAke great worms of the earth and put them in sallet oyl and with a little Spodonesos that Pedlers have to sell work them together and lay them to the wound and let it lie nine daies and remove it not and it will knit both Sinews and Veins together This is proved To make an ointment to asswage the swelling and to keep Synews from shrinking TAke clean Barrows Grease and a good quantity of Sage and boyl them together upon a chafingdish of coals and when the Sage is dry strain it through a cloth and annoint the place therewith For Thighes that be swollen TAke Hens dung or Pigeons dung and Sheeps tallow and Chickweed and Smalladge and beat all together and fry it with lees of Malmsey and so lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the swelling For Synews that be shrunk in the Thighes or elswhere TAke young Swallows out of the nest to the number of twelve then take Rosemary Lavender-Cotton and Strawbery leaves strings and all of each a handfull and bray the Swallows in a Morter guts feathers and all with the herbs till they be small and then fry it again in a Frying Pan with May butter and then strain it and when you will occupie it chafe it against the fire Medecines for an ach or swelling in the Knee TAke Rew and Lovage and stamp them together and put thereto honey and lay it to the sore Or take Lovage Smalladge and Sheeps tallow and lees of white Wine and boyl all together and lay it to the sore on a cloth Or take Milk and Oatmeal and dry Rose leaves and seeth them together and lay them to the sore hot and be whole For an Ach that doth come of an old bruise TAke a pottle of
Running Water and a pint of Bay Salt and boil them till half be wasted then thick it up with Bran and lay it to the sore Or take and seeth the juice of Nightshade in Butter and Oil and scum off the froth and keep the same for a precious Jewell to use when you have need Or take and seeth Oatmeal in white Wine and lay it plaisterwise to the sore Knee and it wil help thee shortly For the Gout in the Knee TAke the milk of a Cow of one colour and wheaten flower and seeth it untill it be thick like a plaister and put thereto the juice of Smallage and lay it to the Gout and be whole Medicines for Legs Medicines for the Legs that be swollen TAke Wormwood Sothernwood and Rue of each a like much and stamp them together and fry them with fair Honey till it llegin to wax dry and as hot as you may suffer it lay it to the Legs or Hands and this will asswage the swelling A Psaister for swollen Legs or when you have no feeling in them TAke a pound of Pitch and half a pound of Wax and half a pound of Dears sewet or Sheep sewet and boil all these together then strain them through a linnen cloth and so make a plaister of white Leather of the bignesse of the fore place and let it lie to the sore three or four daies and then if it be not whole make another plaister and lay it again and so dresse it till it be whole for this will bring the feeling again and mollifie the humor and asswage the swelling For a sore Leg. TAke unwrought Wax and a little sheeps Tallow and seeth them together with a little white Coperas and strike it on a cloth and so lay it to the sore Or take Elder Leaves those that grow one side the leaf longer then the other on the stalk then the other doth these be very good for a sore Leg both to heal and these be leafs best for mankind A Pultis for a sore Leg which is swollen red and doth prick and ake TAke Housleek Maslows Lilly roots and Smallage dry red Rose Leafs of each a good handfull Oatmeal two handfulls Lineseed Vinecreet seed of each a handfull good Ale dregs and Vineger of each a pint or more white Wine a pottle more or lesse seeth the foresaid stuffe very softly and make thereof a Pultis and lay it to the Leg. A Medicine for a Leg that is swollen and is not red but will pit after ones finger TAke Chickweed and Pellitory of each an handfull and instead of Vineger take dregs of Wine and put thereto Sheeps tallow a pound chopped and Cows milk at your pleasure and seeth them as before written untill it be soft and bind it to the swollen Leg. Another for the same TAke a quart of red Wine and crums of Rie bread and seeth them together till it be like a plaister as hot as you can suffer it lay it to the sore Leg upon a fair cloth and when that is done take another and so till you have taken four and this will help you To heal a sore Leg coming of an old cause TAke flowers of Camomill or Camomill and a good handfull of Mallows of Wormwood of Grunsell and Sage of every one half a handfull and beat all small in a Morter and seeth it in Milk and put thereto in the seething Vincreeck seed in powder half a handfull of Anniseeds and Fennell seeds one ounce a little May-butter four or five yolks of Eggs and seeth all together and the same Eggs in the latter end of the seething and so let it seeth till you come to a thicknesse You may in the latter end of the seething put in a pint of red Wine to comfort the Synews take the Camomill and Mallows of each a handfull beaten in a Morter with Oatmeal and Milk sodden together and let it boil to a thicknesse For a Veine or Synew sprung in the Leg or elswhere TAke Dill Vervain Mallows and the crops of red Nettles and seeth all these in running Water and after chop them small and lay them hot to the Leg as he can suffer it The best Medecine for aking of bones in the Legs or Joynts or elswhere TAke a quarter of a pound of Dill and beat it to powder and put thereto a quart of good white Wine and let it seeth till half be wasted away then put thereto a pint of Oyl Olive and let them seeth together and then strain it and keep it to annoint the sore place withall and this will cease the pain anon this is called Oleum Vnamico keep it well in a glasse for this is proved For a swollen Leg. TAke Oatmeal and seeth it in Milk as you would make pottage therewith and put thereto a handfull of Mallows chopped small and the juice of Sengreen and sheeps sewet and let it boyl together till it be thick and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the sore Leg and be whole For a red swelling in the Foot TAke and seeth Beane meal and Barley meal with water right thick and well and make a plaister and lay it to the swelling Or take Turpentine and Vineger Honey white Wine and Bran and seeth all these together well untill they be thick and then lay it to the swelling Or take else Parsley Sage and Rue and stamp with Lard of fat Bacon and gray snails and lay it to the sore and it will gather to a head Or take Rose leafs and Lineseed Milk and Oatmeal and fry all these together and lay it to the sore For an ach in the Feet or if his limbs were taken from him TAke wool Oyl or rather other Oyl and put thereto a good quantity of Aqua vitae and beat it together and chafe it against the fire and all to rub the sore and dead place and in short time it wil be whole For great aking of Bones in the Feet or elswhere the best Medicine TAke Baldare one ounce and put it in your pottage and eat thereof for this is very good for aking of Bones and also to restore a man that is in a Consumption in short time if you will use it To cool a hot sore Leg and to abate the swelling TAke red Coal Leaves Sage and Smallage well stamped medled together with sowre dough and Honey and lay it to the sore Or take horse Dung newly made and wring out the juice thereof and annoint the sore therewith a good while and then take Violet Leafes and Housleek and stamp them and strain them and put to that juice sweet Cream and annoint the sore therewith and it will destroy the great heat For a swelling in any place TAke Hogs Dung Pigeons Dung and Sheeps Tallow Chickweed and Smallage and put all these together in Lees of Malmsey or in Malmsey or for lack of this in his own water and when it is wel boyled lay it hot to the sore swelling and this
another as you cut them and lay them in a row between two dishes and thereof will come a water and be in the dish then take it out and put it in a glasse and then dresse new till you have some quantity of the Water for six Eggs will not make above a spoonfull at once This is a proved medicine to drive away the pain of the Gout when it cometh For the Gout TAke the milk of a Cow of one color and small Planten Leaves and flower of clean Wheat-meal and boyl them together and make a plaister and lay it to the sore and this will help thee in short space A speciall medicine for the Gout TAke a young Whelp in the moneth of May and strip him out of his skin and dresse him clean then take a quantity of Water-frogs and put them in his belly when his guts be out and sow up his belly then rost him and take the dripping in an Iron Vessell and when it is cold put it in a glasse and therewithall annoynt the disease and you shall be whole by Gods grace For the Gout a proved medicine TAke Civill sope and two penniworth of Camphire a sawcer full of womans Milk of a man child then put the Sope and Camphire into the milk til it be thick then put it into a clean box or vessell and let it stand twenty four hours and then annoynt the Patient therewith cold and ever lay the medicine above the sore to draw it downwards This was proved upon Sir John Wilton and many others For the Gout TAke Cows horn coming of a red or brinded Cow a good quantity and make it warm in a frying pan and put thereunto half a spoonfull of the powder of a rotten post or pole of Older wood and stir them together and bind them on the place aggrieved hot or bloud-warm and lap it with a woollen cloth next to the medicine and a linnen cloth over all to keep in the medicine wash off this medicine when you take it off with Farrow Cow milk warmed Another for the Gout TAke four ounces of the Oyl of Lineseed four ounces of Oyl of Worms and the like quantity of the best Treacle and mix them well together and annoynt the place aggrieved and also spread it on a linnen cloth and bind it on all night For the Gout VAlerian Coltsfoot Oyl of Shomakers patches Deers sewet and as much of Neats foot Oyle as the other two melt the Oyls and Deers sewet and then put in the two herbs being chopped small and boil them all together with a gentle fire half an hour and then strain them through a course cloth and keep this oyntment in a box Annoynt the place aggrieved with this oyntment and lay it on a plaister of the Oyl of Shomakers patches only spread upon thin brown paper warmed Medicines for the Dropsie TAke a portion of water Cresses and Sage the greatest part of Mugwort Hysope red Fennel of every one of these a like portion wash all these clean and let the water run from them then take the same herbs and put them in Past of a great pie and the same Pie to be baked in an oven and when it is baked take it out and all hot put it into a pot of ale clear drawn after the portion of your herbs Also you must cover your pot to the intent the strength of the herbs come not out but remain in your pot still and work in the Ale to make it so much the stronger then draw off the said Ale daily and let the sick drink thereof at all times when you will day or night when he desireth to drink and wit bin nine daies he shall be whole An excellent medicine for the Dropsie made for Queen Elizabeth by Doctor Adrian and Doctor Lasye TAke Polypodium Spicknard Squant Ginger Marjoram Galingall Setwell of every one one penny weight Seeny the leaves and cods so much as all the rest grosly broken into powder and so put them into a bag and hang it with a packthread in an earthen pot of two gallons of Ale and every four daies cover the Ale with new Barm and drink no other drink the space of a whole week and this shall purge all ill humors in the body this drink will not let the bloud putrifie neither flegme to have domination nor choler to burn nor melancholy to have exaltation it doth multiply bloud and helpeth all evill it purgeth the rheume and mightily helpeth it it defendeth the Stomach and nourisheth it profiteth and preserveth youth and engendreth good colour comforteth the sight and nourisheth the mind For the Dropsie that swelleth TAke and eat water Cresses and Raysons and this shal make the malady come down to the Legs and Toes then when it is in the Legs or Feet take the green bark of Older in Winter and the Crops in Summer and Oatmeal and lay it to thy Legs being sodden in fair water and this will heal thee For a swelling in a mans body TAke Betany and Sentory of each a like much and make Powder of them and put of the powder in your drink and in your pottage and it will bring the swelling out of your body into Legs and Feet then take Salendine and bruise him in a Morter and lay him to the soles of your feet and it will take away all the swellings of the Body through the soles of your Feet by water running and it is called a Dropsie Medicnes for a Canker TAke Walwort and Waybred Self-green Housleek and Smallage of each a like much stamp them together in a leaden Morter and strain them through a cloth and mingle the juice with wheat flower and honey and the white of an Egg and stir all these and lay it to the sore For a Canker Fistula Wart new sores old sores or wounds TAke a galâ—â—n and an half of running Water and a peck of ashes made of green ashen wood and sift them clean and make thereof a gallon of Lie and put thereto a gallon of Tanwoose and a pound of Madder and seeth all these to a gallon and let your Pan be so great that it be little more then half full and when it riseth in the seething stir it with a ladle that it run not over then let it stand three or four hours till it be clear and then let all that is clear strain through a good clean cloth and then wet a ragged cloth and with a long Lint lay it to the sore and this will heal the diseases aforesaid Medicines for burning or scalding TAke unslaked Lime as much as you think good and slake it in common Oyle and then take it out as dry as you can and incorporate it with Oyl of Roses and it will be as it were an oyntment which you shal annoynt the place with and in eight or ten daies it will be whole and not leave any mark or scarr upon the skin and when the party is first burned or scalded because
the other is not ready take a little of the Lard of 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 medicine 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 sope and Aqua vitae 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 Worms within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropsie 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 toe after 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
then hold the bare of the said Pullet to the sore and the 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 Salendine 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 spoonful 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 Fryerirs medicine for sore Eyes TAke a pine of white Wine two drams of Camphire out 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 clearest 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