of your fayrest and best coloured Peaches and with a wet linnen cloth wipe of the white hoare of them then perboyle them in halfe a pint of white wine and a pine and a halfe of running water and being perboyled pill off the white skin of them and then weigh them take to your pound of Peaches three quarters of a pound of refined sugar and dissolue it in a quarter of a pint of white wine and boyle it almost to the height of a Syrope and then put in your Peaches and let them boyle in the Syrope a quarter of an houre or more if neede should require and then put them vp and keepe them all the yeare To preserue Eringus Rootes TAke your Eringus Rootes fayre and not knottie one pound and wash them cleane and when they be washed set them on the fire and boyle them very tender pill off the outermost skinne of them but see you breake them not and as you pare them put them into cold water and let them remaine there till all be finished and then you must take to euery pound of Rootes three quarters of a pound of clarified sugar and boyle it almost vnto the height of a syrope and then put in your rootes but looke that they boyle very gently together with as little stirring as may bee for feare of breaking vntill they be ynough and when they bee cold put them vp and so keepe them To preserue Barberies TAke your Barberies very faire and well coloured and picke out euery stone of them and then weigh them and to euery ounce of Barberies you must take three ounces of hard sugar and with halfe an ounce of the pulpe of Barberies and one ounce of red Rose water you must disolue your suger and then boyle it to a syrope being so boyled put in your Barberies and let them boyle a quarter of an houre and then take them vp and as soone as they begin to waxe coole put them vp and they will keepe their colour all the yeare To preserue Goos-berries TAke of your large Berries but not thoroughly ripe and picke off all the staulkes from them and wash them cleane take a pound of them and set them on the fire till they bee hot and then take them off and let the liquor run from them then take ten ounces of hard sugar and foure ounces of suger Candie and clarify it with a pint of water and the white of an egge and boyle it to a thicke Syrope and then put in your Goos-berries and let them boyle one walme or two and so betwixt hot and cold put them vp keepe them all the yeare To preserue Damsins TAke of your Damsins large and well coloured but not thorough ripe for then they will breake and picke them cleane and wipe them one by one then weigh them and to euery pound of damsins you must take a pound of Barbery sugar white good dissolued in halfe a pint or more of water and boyle it almost to the height of a Syrope and then put in your Damsins keeping them with continuall scumming and stirring and that with a siluer spoone and so let them boyle vntill they be ynough vpon a gentle fire and when they be ynough take them vp keepe them all the yeare To preserue Raspises TAke of your fayrest and well coloured Raspises and picke of their staulkes very cleane then wash them but in any case see that you bruise them not then weigh them and to euery pound of Raspises you must take sixe ounces of hard sugar and sixe ounces of Sugar-candy clarifie it with halfe a pint of faire water and foure ounces of iuyce of Raspises being clarified boyle it to a weake Syrope and then put in your Raspises stirring them vp and down and so let them boyle vntill they bee ynough That is vsing them as your Cherries and so may you keep them all the yeare To preserue Enula Campana rootes TAke of your Enula Campana rootes wash them scrape them verie cleane and cut them thin vnto the pith the length of your little fingar and as you cut them put them into water and let them lie in water thirtie dayes shifting them twise euery day to take away their bitternes weigh them and to euery pound of rootes you must take xij ounces of clarified sugar first boyling your rootes as tender as a Chickin and then put them into your clarified sugar and let them boyle vpon a gentle fire vntill they be ynough and so let them stand off the fire a good while and betwixt hot and cold put them vp to your vse To preserue Saterion Rootes TAke your Saterion Rootes and picke out the faire ones keepe them by themselues then wash them and boyle them vpon a gentle fire as tender as a quodling then take them off and pare off the blackest skinne of them and put them as you pare them into faire water and so let them remaine one night and then weigh them and to euery pound of rootes you must take xj ounces of clarified sugar and boyle it almost to the height of a syrope and then put in your rootes but take heede they boile not too long for then they Will grow hard and tough and therefore when they bee boyled ynough take them off and set them a cooling and so keepe them according to the rest Heere endeth the Preseruatiues To make Manus Christi TAke halfe a pound of refined Suger and some Rose water and boyle them together till it come to sugar againe then stirre it about while it be somewhat cold then take your leafe gould and mingle with it then cast it according to art That is in round gobbets and so keepe them To Candy Ginger TAke very faire and large Ginger and pare it and then lay it in water a day and a night then take your double refined suger and boyle it to the height of Suger againe then when your suger beginneth to bee cold take your Ginger and stirre it well about while your suger is hard to the panne then take it out race by race and lay it by die fier for foure howers then take a pot and warme it and put the Ginger in it then tye it very close euery second morning stirre it about roundly and it will be rocke Candied in a very short space To Candy Rose leaues as naturally as if they grew vpon the Tree TAke of the fayrest Rose leaues red or dammaske and on a Sun-shine day sprinkle them with Rose water and lay them one by one vpon faire paper then take some double refined suger and beat it very fine and put it in a fine lawne searce when you haue layd abroad all the Rose leaues in the hottest of the sunne searce suger thinly all ouer them then anon the Sun will candy the suger then turne the leaues and searce suger on the other side and turne them often in the Sun sometimes sprinkling Rose water some times searsing
A CLOSET for LADIES and GENTLEVVOMEN OR The Art of preseruing Conseruing and Candying With the manner howe to make diuers kinds Syrups and all kind of banqueting stuffes Also diuers soueraigne Medicines and Salues for sundry Diseases AT LONDON Printed for Arthur Iohnson dwelling neere the great North dore of Pauls 1608. ⧠An especiall note of CONFECTIONARY To preserue Pippyns red TAke your best coloured Pippins and pare them then take a percer and bore a hole through them then make syrupe for them as much as wil couer them and so let them boyle in a broad preseruing pan put into them a pece of Cynamon sticke and so let them boyle close couered verie leasurely turning them very often for if you turne them not very often they will pot and the one side will not bee like the other and let them thus boyle vntil they begin to gelly then take them vp and pot them and you may keepe them all the yeare To Preserue Pippins white TAke faire large Pippins and after Candlemas pare them and bore a hole through them as you did for the red ones then make a weake Syrope for them and so let them boyle till they be tender then take them vp and boyle your syrope a little higher then put them vp in a Gally pot and let them stand all night and the next morning the Syrope will be something weaker then boyle the Syrope againe to his full thickenesse and so pot them and you may keepe them all the yeare If you please to haue them taste a pleasant taste more then the naturall Pippin put in one graine of muske and one droppe of the Chymicall oyle of Cynnamon and that will make them taste a more pleasant taste To preserue Pippins greene TAke Pippins when they be small and greene of the tree and pare three or four of the worst and cut them all to pieces then boyle them in a quart of faire water till they be pap then let the liquor come from them as you do from your quodiniacke into a bason then put into thē one poūd of sugar clarified and put into this as many greene Pippins vnpared as that liquor will couer and so let them boyle safely and when you see they be boyled as tender as a quodling then take them vp and pill of the outtermost white skinne and then your Pippins will be greene then boyle them in your Syrope againe till the Syrope be thicke and so you may keepe them all the yeare To preserue Apricockes TAke a pound of Apricockes and a pound of sugar and claryfie your sugar with a pint of water and when your sugar is made perfect put it into a Preseruing-pan put your Apricockes into it and so let them boyle gently and when they bee boyled ynough and your Syrope thicke pot them and so keepe them In like maner may you preserue a Pear-plum To preserue Mirabolans or Malacadonians TAke your Malacadonians and stone them and per boyle them in water then pill of the outward skin of them they will boyle as long as a peece of beefe therefore you need not feare the breaking of them and when they be boyled tender make Syrope for them and preserue them as you doe any other thing and so you may keepe them all the yeare To preserue Pomcitrons TAke your Pomcitrons one pound and a halfe and cut them some ◠halfes some in quarters and take the meate out of them and boyle them tender in faire water then take two pounds of sugar being clarified and make Syrope for them ahd let them boyle in syrope a quarter of an houre very gently then take them vp and let your Syrope boyle til it be thicke and then put in your Pomcitrons and you may keepe them al they yere If you please you may pare some of them forsome delight the skin and some pared To preserue Cherries TAke of the best and fayrest Cherries some two pound and with a paire of sheeres clippe of the stalkes by the midst then wash them cleane and beware you bruise them not then take of fine barbarie sugar and set it ouer the fire with a quart of faire water in the brodest vessell you can get and let it seeth til it be somewhat thicke then put in your Cherries and stirre them together with a siluer spoone and so let them boyle alwayes scumming and turning them very gently that the one side may be like the other vntill they be ynough the which to know you must take vp some of the syrope with one Cherrie and so let it coole and if it will scarce run out it is ynough and thus being cold you may put them vp and keepe them all the yeare To preserue red Rose leaues TAke of the leaues of the fairest buds halfe a pound sift them clean from seeds then take a quart of faire water and put it in a earthen pipkin and set it ouer the fire vntill it bee scalding hot and then take a good many of other red Rose leaues and put them into the scalding water vntill they begin to looke white and then straine them and thus do vntill the water looke very red then take a pound of refined sugar and beat it fine and put it into the liquor with halfe a pound of Rose leaues and let them seeth together till they bee ynough the which to know is by taking some of them vp in a spoone as you doe your Cherries and so when as they be thorow cold put them vp and keepe them very close To preserue Oranges and Lymonds TAke your Oranges and Lymonds large and well coloured and take a raspe of steele and raspe the outward rind from them then lay them in water three dayes and three nightes then boyle them tender and shift them in the boyling to take away their bitternesse and when they bee boyled tenderly take two pound of sugar clarified with a pint of water and when your syrope is made and betwixt hot and cold put in your Lymonds and Oranges and there let them bee infused all night the next morning let them boyle two or three walmes in your Syrope let them not boyle too long in the sugar because the rinds will be tough take your Lymonds out and boyle your Syrope thicker and so when it is colde put them vp and keepe them all the yeare To preserue Quinces TAke your Quinces two pound core them then perboyle them pil off the outtermost white skin and then weigh them and put them into claryfied sugar one pound and then boyle them closly couered vpon a very gentle fire putting vnto them a sticke or two of good Cynnamon cut into small pieces and so stirre them continually that they may be well coloured on euery side and when the syrop is come to the height of a perfect gelly take them off the fire and so keepe them for the higher your syrope is the better will your Quinces keepe To preserue Peaches TAke a pound
a dram Aniseeds in fine pouder one ounce mingle with the rest then take of suger sixe ounces of Pennits an ounce and halfe Suger-candy one ounce powdred mingled with the former powder then take Gum-tragacant steeped in Rose water and bear it into past and so make it into long rowles and so drie them and keepe them To make Conserue of Borage flowers TAke of your Borage flowers well colored and picke the blacks from them then weigh them to euery ounce of flowers you must take three ounces of suger and beat them together in an Alabaster morter with a wooden pestle vntill they be verie fine so that you cannot discerne any suger in Iumps then take them out and put the conserue into a pipkin and heat it through hot and hauing thus done put them vp keepe them all the yeare To make conserue of Rosemary flowers TAke your Rosemary flowers fresh and good and picke them from the greene tuske weigh them and take to euery ounce of flowers three ounces of Suger-candy and beate them very fine vsing them in euery respect as you did your other Conserues To make Conserue of Buglosse flowers TAke your buglosse flowers and picke them as you did your borage flowers and then weigh them and to euery ounce of flowers you must take two ounces of hard sugar and an ounce of sugar Candie and beate them together till they be exceeding fine and then set them one the fire to dissolue the sugar and when it is dissolued and the conserue hot put it vp and keepe it all the yeare To make a Pomaunder TAke of Beazou in one dram and halfe of storax halfe a dram of Lignum aloes in fine powder halfe a scruple of Labdanum halfe an ounce powder all these very fine and searse them through laune and then take of muske a dram Amber greese ten graines Ciuet ten graines and dissolue them in a hot morter with a little rose water and so make them into a pomander putting into it six graines of Ciuet. To make Consaure of Barberies TAke of your Barberies which are very red and ripe and picke them from the stalks and then wash them and put vnto them a prettie deale of faire water and set them on the fire in an earthen pan and so scald them and being throughly scalded pulpe them thorough a fine searce and to euery pound of pulpe take a pound of pouder suger and boyle them til it be ynough that is till it wil cut like marmelade To make Consarue Cichorie flowers TAke of your Cichory flower new gathered for if you let them lie but one hower or two at the most they will loose their coulour and doe you very little seruice therefore ware them presently and to euery ounce of flowers you must take three ounces of dubble refined suger and beate them together in a morter of Alabaster and a wooden pestle vntil such time as they be thoroughly beaten for the better the flowers and suger be beaten the better will your Conserue be let this alwayes be for a generall rule and being very well brayed you must take them vp and put it into a chafer cleane scoured and set it on the fire til it be throughly hot and then take it off and put it vp â—nd keepe it all the yeare To keepe Cowecumbers in pickle all the yeare TAke foure gallons of Conduit water and put vnto it three quarts of bay salt two handfuls of Sage one handfull of sweete Marioram and foure handfulls of Dill let these boyle til it come to three gallons and then take it off and when it is almost cold put in a hundreth of Cowcumbers into that liquor into a butter barrel keepe them al the yeare but looke that alwaies the herbs lie vpon them and thus done it will be a most excellent sallet with oyle vineger and pepper An exceeding fine pill vsed for the goute TAke of Aloes two ounces Mastick three drammes Agricke halfe an ounce Ginger halfe a dramme let these be poudred very fine then take of the extraction of Rhubarbe three drammes and with white wine let them be incorporated into a masse of pills adding vnto them a droppe of oyle of cloues and as much or Nutmegges A Medecine for the Goute TAke of the slippes of starres to the number of foure and then take to euery stippe foure snayles and put them into an earthen pot sprinckle foure or fiue handfuls of salt vpon them and then put to them Sage Rue Wormewood and Hyssope of each foure handfuls and so distill them and when you haue distilled them put to them a quart of wine Vineger wherein an ounce of white Mercury is dissolued and so bath the place infected with the goute and it will ease them presently To make Syproupe of Pomcitrons TAke of Pomicitrons and cut them in halfes and iuyce them but beware you writing them not too hard least it be slimie and then take to euery pint of iuyce three quarters of a pound of refined suger and boyle it in an earthen pipkin till it come to the height of a Syrupe and take heed in any case that you boyle it not on too hot a fire least it burne and then when it is boyled ynough put it vp and keepe it all the yeare To make Syrupe of Violets TAke your Violets and pick the flowers and weigh them and then put them into a quart of water and steepe them vpon hot embers vntill such time as the flowers be turned white and the water as blew as any violet then take to that quart of infusion and take foure pound of clarified Suger boyle it till it come to a syrupe scumming them and boyling them vpon a gentle fire least it turne his colour and being boyled put the Syrupe vp and keepe it To make Syrupe of Liquorish TAke your Liquorish eight ounces and scrape it verie cleane and briuse it verie well and mayden haire one ounce Any feede and Fennell seede of each halfe an ounce steepe these in foure pintes of raine water halfe a day and then boyle it to a quart then take a pound and a halfe of clarified suger and boyle it with that liquor till it come to a Syrupe and then put it vp and keepe it To make Syrupe of Hore-hound TAke of Hor-hound two handfuls of Coults foote a handful of time peneriall and Calamint of each two drams of Liquorish one ounce and a halfe of figges and raysons of the sunne of each two ounces Pionye kernels a quarter of an ounce Aniseeds and Fennell seeds of each a quarter of an ounce boyle these in a gallon of faire water till it come to a pottell or three pintes and then straine it and take three pound of Suger and three egges and clarifie that liquor and so boyle it to a Syrupe and so keepe it all the yeare To make Syrape of Mayden haire TAke of Maiden heare sixe ounces of Liquorish one ounce scraped and sliced steepe these
course hairen searse and put it into a bagge and lay it amongst your clothes Tr make Aromaticum Lozenges TAke of fine suger halfe a pound boyle it with red Rose water vntill it come to the height of Lozenges and in the cooling put in of the spices of Aromaticum rosarum foure drams with a little Confectio Alchermes and so make them into Lozenges guilding them first and then cut them square with a knife for that purpose and when you guild them if your guilding will not sticke on wet them gently with a little Rose water but not too much in any case To make a Marchpane to yee it and garnish it after the Art of Comfit making TAke two pound of small Almonds blanched and beaten into perfect Past with a pound of suger finely searsed putting in now and then a spoonfull or two of Rose water to keepe it from oyling and when it is beaten to perfect Past rowle it thin and cut it round by a charger then set an edge on it as you doe on a tart then drie it in an Ouen or a backing pan then yee it with Rose water and suger made as thicke as batter for fritters when it is iced garnish it with conceits and sticke long comfits in it and so guild it and sure it To make all sorts of banqueting conceits of Marchpane stuffe some like Pyes Birds Baskets and such like and some to print with moulds TAke a pound of Almond past made for the Marchpane and drye it on a Chafindish of coales till you see it waxe white then you may print some with mouldds and make some with hands and so guild them then stoue them and you may keepe them all the yere They bee excellent good to please children To make all kinde of Birds and Beasts to stand on their legges in cast worke TAke Barbary suger clarifie it and boyle it to the height of Manus Christi then poure it into your mouldes they being seasoned as for your Quodiniacke let them stand a quarter of an houre and they will be colde and then you may take them out and guild them To cast all manner of frutage hollow in turnd worke and put them in their colours as Oranges Lymonds and such like TAke your Suger being boyled to the height of Manus Christi and put it into your Alabaster mouldes being made of three pieces turne it round about in your hand while it is hot and when it is colde take it out and put them in their naturall colors To make Prince bisket bread TAke a pound of very fine flower as much suger throughly searsed one ounce of annisseeds cleane pickt take eight egges and a spoonefull of Muskadine and beat all into batter as thicke as for fritters beat it thus in a bowle one houre then put it into your coffins of plate or frames of wood and set in an Ouen and let it remaine there one houre you may slice some of them when they bee a day old and drie them againe vpon a hurdle of wicker you may also take one of your loaues and wash it ouer with the yolke of an egge beaten with a little Rose water and while it is greene cast biskets and carrawaies on it and a little white candy and it will shew as if it did haile on it then spot it with golde and giue to whom you please To make the vsuall bisket solde at Comfitmakers TAke a peeke of flower and foure ounces of corriander seede one ounce of anniseed take three egges three spoonefulls of ale yeast and as much warme water as will make it as thicke as past for Manchets make it in a long roule and bake it in an Ouen one houre and when it is a day olde pare it and slice it suger it with searsed suger and put it againe into the Ouen and when it is drie take it out and new suger it againe and so box it and keepe it To make an especiall sweet Powder for sweet bagges TAke of the purest orris one pound of red and dammaske rose leaues of each two ounces of Cloues three drammes corriander feed one dram Ciprus and Callamus of each halfe an ounce Benzoin and Storax of each three drammes beat them all saue the Benzoin and the Storax and pouder them by themselues mixe it with the rest of the powder then take of Muske and Ciuet of each twenty graines Amber-greece ten graines mixe these with a little of the foresaid powder with a warme pestle and so by little and little you may mixe it with all the rest and so with Rose leaues dried you may put it vp into your sweete bagges and so keepe them seauen yeares To make an excellent Marmelate which was giuen Queene Mary for a New-yeares gift TAke a pound and halfe of Suger boyle it with a pintos faire water till it come to the height of Manus Christi then take three or foure small Quinces one good Orang pill both very well preserued and finely beaten three ounces of Almonds blanched and beaten by themselues Eringus roots preserued two ounces and a halfe stirre these with the suger till it will not sticke and then at the last put in of Muske and Amber dissolued in rose water of each foure graines of Cynamon Ginger Cloues and Mace of each three drammes of oyle of Cynnamon two droppes this being done put it into your Marme late boxes and so present it to whom you please To make another sort of Marmelate very comfortable and restoratiue for any Lord or Lady whatsoeuer TAke of the purest greene Ginger sixe drammes of Eringus and Saterion rootes of each an ounce and a halfe beate these very finely and draw them with a siluer spoone thorow a haire searse take of nut kirnells and almonds blaunched of each an ounce Cockes stones halfe an ounce all steeped in hony twelue houres and then boyled in milke and beaten and mixed with the rest then pouder the seedes of redde nettles of rocket of each one dramme Plantane seeds halfe a dramme of the belly and backe of a fish called Scincus marinus three drammes of Diasaterion foure ounces of Cantarides adde a dram beate these very finely and with the other powder mixe it and so with a pound of fine suger dissolued in rose water and boyled to suger againe mingle the powder and all the rest of the things putting in of leafe golde sixe leaues of pearle prepared two drammes oyle of Cynnamon fixe drops and being thus done and well dryed put it vp in your Marmelate boxes and guild it and so vse it at your pleasure To make a blaunch for any Ladies face TAke of white Tarter two drams Camphire one dramme Coperas halfe a dramme the whites of foure egges iuyce of two Lymonds oyle of tarter foure ounces Plantane water as much white Mercuri a pennyworth bitter almonds two ounces all must be powred and mixed with the oyle and water and then boyled vpon a gentle fire and straine it and so
foure and twentie houres in foure pintes of Conduit water and then boyle them to quart and then take two pound of clarified Suger and boyle it with that liquor vpon a gentle fire vpon Charcoales vntill it come to a Syrupe scumming it very often that it may be the clearer for the clearer it is the better it is and being boyled ynough put it vp To make Syrupe of Hyssop TAke of Hyssop one handfull of Figges Raysins Dates of each an ounce of Calamint halfe a handfull of French barley one ounce boyle these in three pintes of water to a quart and then straine it and then clarifie it with the whites of two egs and two pound of Suger and so boyle them to a Syrupe and being boyled ynough keepe them all the ye are To keepe Cherries all the yeare to haue them at Christmasse TAke of your fairest Cherries you can get but be sure that they bee not bruised and take them and rub them with a linnen clothe and put them into a Barrell of hay and lay them in rancks first laying hay in the bottome and then Cherries and then hay againe and then stoppe them vp close that no ayre may come neere them and lay them vnder a fetherbed where one lyeth continually for the warmer they are the better yet neere no fire and thus doing you may haue Cherries at any time of the yere To make a Syrupe of Mulberries TAke your Mulberries which are very ripe presse out the iuyce from them thorough a linnen cloth betweene two stickes and then to euery pint of iuyce take a pound of suger and boyle it to the height of a Syrup and then keepe it all the yeare long and if it waxe any thing thinner a moneth after you put it vp boyle it againe and then put it vp To make Syrupe of Lymonds TAke your Lymonds and cut them in halfes and betwixt your fingers iuyce them and the liquor that runnes from them wil be very cleare then take to a pint of iuyce a pound and a quarter of hard suger which is very white and boyle it to a Syrupe and it will keepe excellent well To make Syrupe of Roses sollitiue TAke of Dammaske Roses and pull them then take a gallon of water and when the water is hot put a good many Damaske Rose leaues and take them out when they looke white and doe so ten times and then the water will looke red and then to euery pinte of that liquor put a white of an egge and a pound of suger and clarifie it and boyle it to a Syrupe and keepe it all the yeare the thicker the Syrupe is the better it will keepe To make Syrupe of drie Roses TAke of red Roses dried foure ounces infuse them in a quart of faire water vpon hot embers till the roses haue lost their colour then take a pound and a halfe of Suger and clarifie your Liquor and Suger with two egges and then boyle it to the height of a Syrupe but take heed in any case that you set not your Syrupe vpon too hot a fire for then it will loose his colour and bee worth naught A Medicine to giue a woman in trauel to make her haue throwes TAke Coral amber date stones Pearle Piony seedes Saffron Commine beate all these in powder and put it into Malmesey and take Vnicornes home and put it into a spoone with a little Malmesey and giue it to her and presently let her drinke a draught of the Malmesey with the powders aforesaid warming of it a little A Medicine for the falling downe of the matrisse to the bearing place TAke Chicke-weede and seeth it in an earthen pot then lay of it vpon a peece of scarlet as hot as the partie may suffer it let her take it to the priuie place and as one plaster coooleth so lay another and vse it Another for to be taken to the Nauell and to the backe right against the Nauell for the same TAke a redde Onyon and roast it very tender then take of Allysander seedes and bruise them in a wooden dish and mingle the Onyon and the bruised seedes together and lay it vpon a peece of linnen cloth so lay it to the Nauell a little warme rowle that on and let it lie on xxiiij houres then change it and take a new one till it be whole It is good for the Midwife to hold muske belowe tyed in a little Lawne to draw downe the Child Take Torch-wort and lay a leafe of it to the Crowne of a womans head warme to stay other flowers A Medicine for a woman after burden if neede be to bring it downe TAke Sowtherwood and wash it cleane and stampe it and straine it in strong Ale and giue it her to drinke warme To stop the Whites in women FRy Hemlock in fresh swines grease lay it as hotte as shee may suffe it to the secret place For a Teter TAke Oates and seeth them in water and where the Teter is hold ouer the reeke thereof as hot as may be laying a cloth ouer it to keepe in the reeke so that the cloth doe not touch the Teter vse this fiue times morning and euening To make a Seare-cloth for an Ache that is nextly come TAke Boares grease Camphire and waxe and boyle them altogether and so make a Seare-cloth thereof and lay it to the griefe For a Felon or an Andcome TAke Hearbe-grace rustie Bacon sower leauen and Snayles that be with shel on their backes taking them out of their shels and beate all these together lay it to the greefe For to heale any if they be scalded with hot liquor TAke Alehose and Auens Sheepe suet and Sheeps dunge and Goose dung and when you haue washed the hearbes breake them altogether a little and so frie them together and then straine it make plasters thereof and lay it to the griefe warme it a little when you lay it too laying new plasters to it twise a day you may take the iuyce of Houseleeke and Sallet oyle and water and beat them together and wash the grease before you vse this plaster A Medicine for the Whites TAke a quart of new milke of a red Cow x. spoonfuls of red Rose water a Pomgarnet pill beaten and a little Cynamon beaten and seeth it halfe away sweeten it with suger and drinke a draught morning and euening two Whites of egs beaten A Medicine for them that are giuen to bleeding MAke a posset take of the curd and take Liuer-wort and beat it and put the iuyce thereof into the Posset drinke and drinke it morning and euening warme For the heate in the Kidneys TAke Houseleeke and Plantine and not wash them but wipe them with a cloth and beate them and straine them and put to the iuyce thereof red Rose water and wine Vineger and womans mâ—lke and take the hearbs and put them into clothes and tye the clothes with thread like a couple of balles and you must when you
doe vse it haue one to doe it for you in the morning when you are in your bed and the partie must take the balles and dippe them in this liquor and so bath your Kidneys and as soone as one of the balles is hot with doing of them take the other and so vse it an houre euerie morning A Medicine for the Stone TAke Pelitorie of the wall Smaladge Holihockes Mallowes Tansie Saxifrage of each a handfull chop them small and quilt them in a little linnen bag then take three pints of creame halfe a pint of Malmsey a quarter of a pint of running water and let them on the fire and when it doth seeth then put in the bag of hearbes into the potte and when the bagge is thoroughly hotte wring it betweene two trenchers ouer the pot to saue the liquor then lay the bag to the greefe as hotte as you may suffer it and as soone as it cooleth make it hot againe in the same liquor and so apply it to the greefe For the Woormes TAke a handfull of Basill mintes a handfull of Lauender Cotten as much of Wormewood Peach leaues as much Fertherfue a handfull of vnset Leeks a handfull and boyle them together in three spoonfuls of of wine Vineger and of his owne water as much and quilt them in a bagge and so lay it warme betweene his Nauell and his stomacke To heale a sore Breast that comes with the infection of the milke TAke Mallowes and Saffron and seeth them in milke and when it hath sodden a good while put in some crummes of leauen bread and boyle them well together and a little before you take it vp put some Salet oyle into it you must let it boyle till it comes to a Poultis and so lay it warme to your breast and if you perceiue this that will not helpe your breast without it be broke you must rost a Lillie roote and lay it to your breast where you will haue it breake and when it is broken you must tent it with leauen and milk sodden thick together and make a plaster thereof and lay it to the place where it is broken you must dresse it twise a day laying the Poultis all about your brest sauing the place that the plaster lyes on you must dresse it both with new Poultis and a new plaster twise euerie day vntil it beginneth to heale and then once a day is sufficient To stench bleeding at the Nose TAke Bolerminake and the white of an egge and Vineger and beate them together and make Plasters thereof and lay them to your Temples To stench Bleeding of a wound TAke of vnset Hyssope and bruise it a little and take the powder of the bone that is to be found in a Capers head and strew the same powder on the Hyssope and lay it to the wounde Another for to stanch the bleeding of a wound TAke Hogges dunge hot from the Hogge with Suger and lay it to the wound For the weakenesse in the backe TAke Clarie and Dates the pith of an Oxe and chop them together then put them to your creame and egges and grated bread and Frie them together and straw Suger on it and eate it in the Morning fasting and you must put some white Saunders in it also when you temper it together For the Wormes TAke Mares milke and drinke it as hot as you can haue it from the Mare in the morning fasting To know whether a Child hath the Wormes or no. TAke a peece of white Leather and pecke it full of holes with your knife and rub it with Worme-word and spread hony on it and starwe the powder of Alesackatrina and lay it on the Childs Nauell when he goeth to bed and if hee haue the wormes the plaster will sticke fast and if he haue them not it will fall off For one that is bruised with a fall TAke stone Pitch and beat it and drinke it with whit wine or Sack or Malmesey and if you haue none then take some other liquor then melt Parmacitie anoynt the place where the bruise is For the winde Collicke TAke Parsley seed bruise them and seeth them in Sack and drink it warne when you haue your paine For the Gout that is newly come TAke Rhubarbe and grate it and mingle it with Conserue of redde Roses and eate thereof query morning fasting a prettie quantitie A Water to wash a sore TAke of Plantane and Woodbind leaues and white Roses and still them together and when the water is stilled put a quantity of Camphire into it and so let it lye in the water continually For the shrinking of the Synewes TAke the marrow of a Horse bone and the crops of Elders and as much of Sage and chop them together and boyle them in the marrow and then straine out the hearbes and put to the liquor one spoonefull of hony two spoonfuls of Aqua composita and a quantity of Pepper boile it againe and keepe it for your vse For the Pyles TAke a quantitie of Ragwort and a quantitie of ground Iuie and the marrow of the hinder Legge of a Bullocke and beate the marrow and the herbes together and boyle them on a soft fire and straine them and keepe it for your vse A Salue to take dead flesh out of a sore TAke a spoonefull of Vineger and a spoonefull of hony and aquantitie of Verdigrease and as much Allom and boyle all these together and keepe it for your Vse For the staying of the Fluxe TAke a new layd egge and take off a little of the toppe of it and poure out a little of the white and fill vp the egge with Aqua composita and stirre it together and rost it and sup vp the egge in the morning fasting till you be well vse this Another for the same MAke Rise pottage with Almond milke you must not blaunch the Almonds and make little Balles of Virgines wax make them lesse than Pease and when you doe eate of the pottage take three or foure of the Balles and put them in euery spoonfull as you doe eate it For the Gowte TAke an earthen pot and put into it a quart of Aquacomposita and take two handfulls of Hen-bane and breake it and put it into it and set the pot in the earth all the month of May and it will come to an oyle and at the end of May you must take it vp and keepe it for your vse you must couer the pot verie close when you set it in the ground and when you annoint the greese therewith you must doe it against the fire For the Pyles TAke Martylmasse Beefe and drie it and beat it to powder and then put it into a Chasindish of coales and set it in a Chaire and sit ouer it For an Ague IF it be for a childe take two spoonfulls of good ale and seeth it and scum it and one spoonfull of the Syrupe of roses and let him drinke it luke warme If for
an old body then take three spoonfulls of good ale and two spoonfulls of the Syrupe of roses To make a fresh Cheese TAke a quantitie of new milke and set it on the fire and let it boyle and take halfe a dozen yolkes of egs and beat them and stirre them in the milke on the fire then take it off the fire and keepe it stirred vntill it be luke warme and then put runnet into it and stirre it and let it stand vntill it be gathered together take vp the curd and put into it Cinamon and Ginger and stir it about make dishes of it as you thinke good A Medicine for a Pestilent Ague or to driue any thing from the heart MAke a posset with white wine and take away the curd take horse dung of a stone Horse as hotte as you can get it from the horse and straine it with the Posset drinke and put a little Meâ—hâ—idate and Cardus Benedictus water and Vnicornes horne and if you haue no Vnicornes horne then put Iuorie or Sea-horse tooth and giue it to the sicke to drink fasting in the Morning warming it and you must put the Vnicornes horne into the spoone and take it with some of the Posset Drinke and so drinke the Posset presently after it and vse this two or three mornings A Medicine for the sorenesse in the throat that commeth with the Rhume TAke halfe a pint of Hony-suckle water and two Iewes eares of Plantane Sinckefield halfe a handful and a few columbine leaues these must bee sodde with as much white Suger-candy as will bring the liquor to a Syrupe you must put in a little Howell Cynnamon and so take it in the morning and in the euening and at such times as your throat is drye Another for the falling of the Eualow or other paine in the throat TAke a handfull of redde Sage a spoonefull of Dill seede a piece of leauen boyle these in a little newe milke vntill it be thicke then lay it on foure fine clothes lay one cloth to the nape of the neck and another to the throat and to each temple one and bind the clothes and doe this as often as neede shall require for it hath bene proued A salue for a greene wound TAke a pound of Rosin halfe a pound of wax foure ounces of old Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease boyle them altogether vpon a soft fire and straine them A Water to beale all sores in legges and Vlcers TAke a pound of roch-allom foure ounces of greene Coperas beate them somewhat small and put them in a pan on the fire euer stirring them vntill they bee molten and dryed againe readie to be powdred and beat them againe in fine powder and keep them to your vse When you will make your water set a pottell of faire Conduit water ouer the fire vntill it boyleth fast then take it away and assoone as it leaueth boyling cast abroad your powder vpon the water the which will make it to boyle as long as your water riseth so long cast your water in and when it leueth rising and is black in the bottome then it is perfect then if you see a dangerous sore Legge first cast you powder presently thereon and lay thereto three or foure fold of linnen cloth wet in the water and rowle it vp doe so till the vlcer be cleane A very good water for a sore mouth TAke of Conduit water a pint one handfull of Hyssope of whit wine and of Almonds a pound of Roses three ounces seeth them altogether till the hearbs be tender then take it from the fire and straine it and keepe it and keepe it for your vse you must alwaies wash your meat and rubbe it after meate and in the morning A Castile to breake any swelling that is readie to breake TAke of Commine of Hyssope and of quick lime a like quantitie bray them together in a morter till it bee verie fine when you would open an impostume lay it as bigge as an haysell Nutte vpon the next place and binde it very hard and let it remaine there foure houres then take it off for it will make the place dead and then you may let out the matter without griefe to the patient A Catitus Plaster TAke of Litrage of gould powdred verie fine coÌ„mon oyle hogs grease a pound white Coperas foure ounces put them all together in a brasen panne and seeth it ouer a verie soft fire of coales and trie it continually vntill it come to a bodye and in the boyling you must cast into it one ounce of good Rose water or two and now and then a spoonefull and wheÌ„ it is come to a good body take it off the fire and stirre it till it be cold and readie to be made vp in a rowle and then make it vp To make Populier TAke of Populer buddes a pecke of Hogges grease foure pound seeth them both together a quarter of an houre then take it off straine it if it be two thin put in a little waxe Basilicon TAke Pitch Rosin Waxe sheepe suet common oyle a like quantitie beat these small and put them in a brasen panne and melt them all together then take them of the fire and straine them through a course linnen colth for the pitch will not be molten this is good for all manner of sores and when you will put in a tent mix it with the yolke of an egge Maturacum poultnis TAke Onyons garlicke dowe Lillie roots a like quantitie rost them all in a wet cloth vnder ashes and then put them in a morter and beat them small this is good for all impostumes to breake them out A Medicine to heale old sores TAke Plantine bramble tops Orpin Betonie Egremonie of each one handfull straine them and put thereto Rosin and waxe of each a quarter of a pound fresh Hogs grease and sheepe suet of each foure ounces boyle them all together till the iuyce be confirmed then straine it keepe it to raise flesh and heale old sores A Plaster to heale old sores after they be made cleane and filled with flesh TAke Sallet oyle halfe a pint Lead a quarter of a pound boyle these vntill they be blacke and keepe them for your vse To clense a sore and take away the dead flesh TAke Woodbinde flowers white Roses Plantine and still them together and when it is stilled then six pennsworth of Camphire and put it into a quart of the water and set it in the Sunne for ten or twelue dayes and so wash the sore withall A Medicine for a sore abroate TAke a pint of milke halfe a handfull of Collumbine leaues halfe a handfull of Gasell and halfe a score leaues of Sinkefield two Iewes eares and so the partie must vse it euening and morning and gargase it in his throate A Medicine that wil heale any wound or sore and keepeth it without proud flesh or dead flesh TAke halfe a pound of wax a quarter
of a pound of Sheepe suet a quarter of a pound Rosin and a quarter of a pound of Turpentine halfe a pint of Sallet oyle two handfull of Bugle which groweth in the wood a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Mallowes a handfull of Valerin a handfull of Grunsell and a handfull of balme stampe and straine the hearbes and put the iuyce into the foresaid things being a while boyled then seeth them together a quarter of an houre then take it from the fire and let it stand till it be cold then take away the Smallage from the bottome then take some of your Balme water and put into it so much as wil make it greene and let it boyle together a halfe quarter of an houre and so take it to your vse A Glister TAke Camamile Betonie Dil Pellitorie of the wall Hyssope Rue of each a handfull boyle these in the broth of a sheeps head til the broth be very slippery then take a pinte of the broth strayned and put two of the Pilles of Diabes for each a crowne waight and a halfe Diaca tholice Diaphenicon of each halfe an ounce oyle of Camomile oyle of Dill of each an ounce a little salt and a Glister if you will haue it breake wind put into the aforesaid Common seed fenell seed Anniseedes of each bruised two good handfuls and boyle all together and straine it and make it as aforesayd and put in the Glister To take away the heate of a burne or out of a Scalde TAke egges and rost them hard as a stone then take out the yolks of them then take a frying panne and put in the yolks of the hard egges and so let it frye til it cone to an oyle then straine it and anoynt the burne withall then take a bladder and anoynt it with sallet oyle and lay it to the burne To make another Glister TAke running water and ij handful of Carmon a handfull of Mallowes a handfull of Wormewood a handfull of Marcury an ounce of Commine two ounces of Fennell seedes two ounces of Aniseeds and beat all your seedes and set your hearbs a boyling and straine them A Medicine for one that is broken TAke a quantitie of Comfrie a quantitie of Knehome a quantity of knotted grasse a quantity of Riberuorum and a quantitie of Polipodie and stampe them altogether and straine them in ale and then giue the Patient the same to drinke colde and trusse him vp with some bolster and let his dyet be but competent eschewing all slipperie meats as butter and such like prouided alwayes that the Patient keepe his bed sixe or seauen dayes lying vpon his backe and sometimes hold his belly with his hand To make a Poultis for swelling TAke the crome of manchet and seeth it in milke till it bee thicke then put in a piece of new butter about the quantitie of a wale nut or somewhat more For the Rhewme TAke a little quantitie of Masticke and as much of Pellitorie of spaine cut in small peeces sew them in a litle bag of linnen cloth keepe the bag in your mouth till the Pellitory and the Mastick be consumed and spit in the meane time as much as you can For the toothache and the rhume TAke a quantitie of Gum ot Iuie put it in a little bag of linnen then wet your bag in Aqua vitae or vineger keepe it in your mouth till the Gum of Iuy be consumed holde the bag ouer or vpon the hollow tooth A water for the eyes TAke a pint of white wine then heat a stone called Lapis Calaminaris redde hot nine or tenne times in the fire and quench it eurey time in the wine the last time you quench your stone stirre it about in the wine then keepe your water in a cleane glasse and let it stand vse to put in your eye one drop or two morning and euening For the eyes TAke Rosemary Housleek reedle Fennill and rost an egge and take out the yolke beat these herbs together and straine them For paine in the head TAke of the best sallet oyle you can get the flowers of wilde primroses and put them into the oyle and then set it on the fire and let it boyle halfe an houre very softly then put it in a glasse and set it in the sunne three weekes and then rub your temples euening and morning E. C. A Gargas for to purge the head TAke a pint and a halfe pint of wine vineger Musterd seedes Ginger Cloues Nutmegs Pellitory rootes about the quantitie of one ounce when they are beaten put it into the liquor and stir them together for the space of a weeke then gargas it euery morning before you vse the oyle to your head For a pinne and web TAke the oyle compacted of the bone of the Gooses wing rub it in the palme of your hand that no shiuers of the bone do sticke in it and put it in with the poynt of a pinne for the bignesse of a pinnes head is ynough at once For a swelling TAke Barrows grease Sutherenwood and Aqua vitae and boyle it together and when you haue boyled it straine it in a panne For a bone ach TAke two or three handfuls of Camamill a quarter of a pound of Sheepes suet chopt small and a piece of stonie pitch of the quantitie of a Wall nut and a piece of leauened bread in it crumbled very smal boile it in your owne water vntil it be very thicke that you may spred it vpon a cloth like a plaster and lay it on the place where the ach is for xxiiij howers and so dresse it three times if you doe it will take away the ach A medicine to heale an old sore or a new TAke a quarter of a pound of Rosen and melt it in a pan till it haue left cracking and then take halfe as much waxe and a little Turpentine and sheepes suet choped small and a spoonefull of oyle oliue and boyle them al together and when you haue done so straine them in a paile of water and make it vp euen as you will occupie it and drawe your plasters thin and dresse it three times a day that is to say at morning noone and euening till it bee almost whole then dresse it but twice a day morning and euening but if there be any coare that doth hinder the healing of it take a little Mercurie and put it in two spoonefulls of water and when the Mercurie is melted in the water and congealed together take a fether drop in two or three drops and lay a plaster vpon the wound and it will bring forth the core For an Andcom TAke halfe a dozen knottes of a yong Oke and put them in a fire-pan and burne them to a red cole and take Bores grease and fine fuet and two or three cornes of salt and stamp them very fine and so make a plaster of it and if it doe draw and heale too fast lay lint vnderneth the
salue and you must dresse it twice in the Winter dayes and thrice in the Summer dayes The Copie of Doctor Stephens water TAke a gallon of the best Gascoine wine then take Ginger Gallingall Cynnamon Nutmeegs Graines Cloues Aniseeds Fennell seeds Garaway seeds of euery of them a dram weight then take wilde Time Hisope Lauender Sage mynts red Roses garden Time Pellitorie of the wale and Rosmarie of euery of them one good handful bray the hearbs very small and stamppe the spices all together very small put all together into the wine and close it fast twelue houres and stirre it diuers times then still it in a Limbecke and keepe the first water for it is the best and then keepe the second for it is good but not so good as the first E. C. A dram weight of the seede of Colembyn brused with halfe a peny weight of Safron drunken with wine is good for the Ianders then goe to bed and prouoke sweat the flowers distilled is good for the same purpose and against swondings Pymypinell THis herbe is good against the pestilence to bee taken fasting in a morning and good against the stone the rootes sodden condited in suger may profit them that haue cold stomacks and are troubled with two much fleame the Collicke and stone this roote any way taken is good against poyson Mouseare is hot and drie some vse to giue the iuyce of this common Mouseare to hinder the colde of a quartan Ague some vse togather the roots in May and drie it and giue it to them that bee broken it is good for the bloody flix the great scouring of the Mother for wormes both outward and inward common flixes for vomitting of choller and spitting of blood and brusting and specially for breaking of the braine panne The Iuyce of Coste-mary drunken killeth both small and great wormes in the belly it is good for a colde Mother it strengthneth the stomacke whether it be drunken or laid to and stayeth vomiting the herbe of his nature whether it be strawed or else perfume be made thereof driueth away Serpents and it is good against their poysons and it helpeth and strengthneth the head To take out the heat of a burne TAke the fatte of hogges guts and Sheepes tirdles and boyle them and put them in a pot and this will heale the partie and take out the fire and will keepe good a hole yeare this hath beene prooued To take the heat out of the face TAke running water and elder flowers Plantane white Daysie rootes and herbe Robert put them in the running water and wash your face morning and euening therewith A Medicine for a canker in ones mouth prooued TAke running water a handfull of wood binde leaues a handfull of Bramble leaues a handfull of Collumbind leaues a little Rosemary and boyle them together vntill halfe the water be wasted then put two or three spoonfuls of hony and a piece of roch Allom three or foure spoonfuls of wine vineger and wash your mouth with the sodden hearbs therof three or foure times euery day The Diet drinke FIrst buy a diet pot of the common sorte such a one as will cost eight pence or tenne pence then put into it halfe a pound of Liquorish scraped and bruised halfe a pound of Aniseedes bruised three quarters of a pound of Lignum vitae bought at the Turners and one ounce of the barke of the same wood which is to be bought at the Apothecaries halfe a pound of Raysons of the Sunne the stones taken out a good handfull of Scabias an ounce of Chiny two ounces of Salyprilla a quantity of white wine then fill vp your potte with faire water sauing a pint then couer your potte with his couer and close it round about the brimme with past then set it on a soft fire of coales and let it boyle three houres till the fourth part bee wasted then strayne it and let it settle and then put the cleerest into bottles and drinke it Morning and Euening a good draught and so vse fourteene or fifteene dayes If you put a little of the wood into the fire and there fry out of it like oyle then you shall be sure it is good For the head ach TAke two handfuls of Veruine Betonie Camamill rootes Letcie Checmete of each sort two handfuls dride Roses put them to powder of Nutmegs boyle this in white wine take out the hearbs then and frie them in oyle oliue and straine them in a cloth and make an oyntment therof and therwith anoint the head To make the rhume medicine TAke fiue quarts of Hyssop water it must bee stilled when the Hysop beareth flowers and one pound of English Liquorish cleane scraped and cut in litle pieces bruise them then put it to the water and boyle them till halfe bee consumed away then straine it in shallow pans set it in the sun stir it now and then and somtimes set it ouer the fire vntil you see it wax blacke but do not boyle it and it will wax stife with standing in the Sunne that you may make it in little cakes A salue for a cut TAke sixe ounces of Deere suet foure ounces of Wax foure ounces of Rosin and stampe and straine Velerian and take the iuyce as much as you think wil make the saule looke greene and boyle them together till it come to a salue A medicine for the stopping of the liuer very good for them that haue the Ianders TAke Parsley rootes Fenell roots Asperigon roots Kneeham roots Succory rootes of each the weight of halfe a crowne in siluer of Docke roots the weight of xij pence a little Liquorish halfe a handful of Raysons of the sun stoned boyle this in three pintes of water vnto a quart and make Almond milke with the liquor and take two partes of sweete Almonds and one parte of bitter sweeten it with Suger or els with syrupe of Sucory and drink a draught three morninges togethere fasting three houres after it vse this euery moneth you may put in Batly husked Saxifrage Maiden-haire Liuerwoort For the Wormes THe powder of Coralina to the weight of three pence in siluer giuen in the water of Couchgrasse A Medicine for a quartan or a tertian Ague TAke the herbes and rootes called Harts-horne Plantan and Orpine and beat them with a little white wine and a little bay salt and so lay it on a cloth vpon your wrist but bee sure it lie on the pluces on both armes changing it euery twentie foure houres but be sure that you lay it two houres before the fit cōmeth and hang nine rootes of the Harts-horne about your necke in a silke bag so that it may lie vpon the hollow of your stomacke and let it hang till your Ague be gone you must not wash neither herbes nor rootes and you may take the roots whē you cannot get the herbs and vse them so For the Canker in the mouth or rawnesse or in the lower parte of
you will keepe it in and when it beginneth to be colde then put thereunto foure ounces of venis turpentine and stirre all together vntill it be through cold and keepe it close couered Another THe wine of eyebright is made for the eyes by putting the herbes into the muste vntill it be perfit wine whose vse make the eyes of olde men looke yong for it is hot and drie and the powder of it beaten with the yolke of an egge it worketh the same effect the powder receiued in wine if the wine be too strong put in fenell water or sugar A medicine against the stone in the backe or bladder or for the weakenesse of the backe which is called the running of the raynes TAke venis Turpentine and wash it in rose water either redde or damaske vntill it looke white then diuide it into small balles as you may easily swallow to the full quantitie of thret hasell nuts or there about then rowle them in sugar to make them the more esie to be taken then swallow them in the morning fasting and fast foure hours after them take these three or foure seuerall mornings together and in your water you shall finde much grauell To take away the pocke-holes or any spot in the face TAke white rose water and wette a fine cloth therein and set it al night to freeze and then lay it vpon your face till it be drie also take three poppies the reddest you can get and quarter them taking out the garbitch then still them in a quarte of new milke of a red Cowe and with the water thereof wash your face To make Snow TAke the whites of fiue or sixe egs a handfull of fine sugar and as much rose water and put them in a pottle of cream of the thikest that you can get beat them all together as the snow riseth take it off with a spoone you must beat it with a sticke clouen in foure then must you take a loafe of bread and cut away the crust and set it vpright in a platter then set a faire rosemarie branch in the loafe and cast your snow vpon it with a spoone A medicine for the Piles TAke the hearbe called Torchworte is groweth hie bearing a yellow flower blowing out of the stalke the leaues looke boare Take the iuyce boile it with fresh butter a little while keepe it close and vse it euening and morning If a cowes vdder be stung or bitte with a snake or such ltke Take Lauender and wash it cleane and seeth it in chamber-lye a good while and wash it euening and morning warm you may put a little fresh butter in it and milke out the milke when you doe it A medicine for a cold or burne or a sore approued TAke water-sucke leaues otherwise called Hogwort leaues alliehouse daisies rootes and leaues and all and a little Rosemary and wash them and stampe them and boyle them in creame vntill it is butter then straine them and apply it warme to the burne pricke the water-sucke leaues and lay them vpon it dressing it twice a day or three times if need To heale a sore put Turpentine Rosin wax in it dressing it with linte For the stich TAke stich-wort bay leaues holly without prickles of each a like quantitie the iuyce graines beaten drinke it in ale warme For the swelling TAke the grounds of good Ale glouers shreddes and white bread crumbes and sage boyle them lay it to warme it will swage the swelling and the ache it hath beene proued For the tooth-ache TAke organny that groweth close to the ground that tasteth like aqua-vitae bruise it lay it to the tooth Bursa pastoris will doe the like For a bite or Fellon or sore leg SEeth a pint of ale to two spoonfuls like a syrope pricke a piece of leather with a pin it wil heale it without breaking if it be broken take linte to the whole with some salue let it lie foure twenty houres lay it to cold For the scrathes of a horses leg TAke vineger mustard seede gunpowder boyle them wash it hotte three or foure times proued For the Gowt TAke Mallowes and sengren beate them and boyle them in water then straine them put oate-meale groats soked in vineger and sheepes suet vntryed then boyle it to a poltesse proued For the Ague TAke a red onyon cutte small sixe and fiftie graines of pepper beaten small bind it to the wrist halfe an houre before the sit proued For the Gowt TAke a fat whelpe of a hound scald him like a pigge garbage him in the side take then red nettles stamped with two ounces of brimstone and foure ounces of turpentine foure yolkes of egges stuffe the belly and sow it vp rost it with a soft fire saue the dripping oynt the place it is good for sinewes and crampe it will driue it away for the like effect oyle netles white wine boyle them apply them hotte For the Ciatica TAke the gail of a Bull a quart of wort boile it to a pint thē put in a pinte of vineger frankyncense one ounce in powder of hony halfe a pound of commin halfe a pound in powder boyle it thicke spread it on leather lay it to hot two or three dayes lay a linnen cloth betweene the skin and the plaister the plaister will serue many times proued For the tooth-ach ALlom as big as a walnut garlicke an handfull twentie beanes an handfull of bay salt pepper beate it together lay it to the wrestes twentie foure houres or more For to stoppe the bleding of a wound THe wooll of an incke-horne sanguis draconis boll armonycke and the whites of egs layd on towe For a Consumption either for old folke yong folke or children TAke longwort liuerwort hartes tongue of each an handfull red mints red sag mother of time of each an handfull parsley and fenell rootes the piths out of each halfe an handfull liquorish on ounce annise seedes on ounce sceeney two ounces turbet on ounce tappe dates two ounces synamon on ounce nutmegs two ounces white suger candy soure ounces rubarb on ounce sliced stamppe your spices and your seedes beate your other poite cary stuffe shred your herbs fine boile it in iij. quarts of renish wine to a pottell strain it drink foure times a day a quarter of a pinte at a draught warm put in a peniworth of aqua-vitae as much safron beaten fine after it is boyled if the patient be laxatiue leaue out your rubarb sceeney turbith boile it in wort it is best in wort for children for aged folkes that be weake boyle in the stone of a Bore or a ramme or a horse is best on stone is enough for one time you may take one to purge and another not to purge the second receipt is enough purge first To make one make water TAke the stones and kernels of peaches and medlers beat them fine sift them through a searce put in sugar drinke it in white
three ounces Comen three ounces Turpintine two ounces mingle all these well vpon the fire then spread it vpon a lynnen cloth and make thereof a playster and lay it hot to his head the which will asswage the swelling heale the hurte A secret remedie against the plurisie OPen a white loafe new baked in the middle and spread it wel with good Treacle on both partes vpon the crummy sides and heate it at the fire then lay one parte vpon the place of the disease and the other parte on the other side of his bodie directlie and so bind them that they stir not leauing them so a day and a night or vntill the impostume breake and then take away the bread and immediatlie the patient will spit forth the putrifaction of the impostume and when he hath slept a little let him eate and by Gods helpe he shall shortly be well A very good remedy for a wound with a sword staffe stone or such like TAke Taxus Barbatus stampe it and take the iuyce of it and if the wound bleede wipe it and make it cleane washing it with white wine or water then put the iuyce vpon the wound and the hearbe vpon it out of the which you tooke the iuice then binde vp the wound and in one day you shall see a wonderfull effect Against the disease or griefe of the flanks and the collicke passion experimented and prooued diuers times TAke halfe a glasse or lese of the iuyce of Barberies when they be very ripe and red and put into it as much red Corrall as will lie vpon ij groats well broken into powder and giue the patient to drinke thereof Another perfect remedy for the same disease and to make a man pisse within halfe an houre that hath not made water in three or foure dayes and will breake the stone within ten or twelue dayes TAke fine pouder of Virga Aurea and put a spoonful of it into a new layde egge soft rosted and giue the patient thereof in the morning to his breakefast and let him not eate in foure houres after and then shall hee make water in lesse then halfe an houre and let him vse this for the space of tenne or twelve dayes as aforesaid the patient shall voyde the stone without any paine or griefe A remedy for spitting of blood occasioned by the breach of some vayne in the breast TAke mise dung beaten in powder as much as will lie vpon a groate and put it into halfe a glasse full of iuyce of plantane with a little sugar and so giue the patient to drinke therof in the morning and euening continuing the same he shall be found Against the griefe of the lungs and spitting of blood a remedy experimented and tryed TAke an hearbe called farfara or Tussilago of the Apothecaries Vngula cabellina in English called Colts foote in French pat de lion incorporate it well with the larde of a hogge chopped and a new layd egge boyle all together in a panne and giue the patient of it to eate nine mornings this is also good to make one fatte Against stincking of breath TAke Rosemary leaues with the blossoms if you can get them and seeth them in white wine with a little myrhe and Cynamond and you shall finde a marueilouse effect if you vse it often in your mouth Against the biting of a mad dogge and the rage or madnes that followeth the partie bitten TAke the blossomes or flowers of wilde thistles dryed in the shade and beaten into powder halfe a nut-shell full put into white wine and drinke it and in thrice taking it you shall be whole A thing tried and experimented A medicine for waterish eyes TAke a redde colelease and anoint the leafe with the white of an egge when you goe to bedde lay the same to your eyes A medicine for sore eyes TAke a litle ground Iuy and straine it womans milke together and let it be somewhat greene of the Iuy and then drop a drop or two into the eyes Another for the same TAke Fannell water stilled and liue hony and mingle them together and put a drop or two into the eye these are approued To make water for the eyes to kill the heat of any sore TAke redde sage and boyle it in Smithes water vntill the third part bee consumed then straine out the sage very hard and put into it a quantitie of the liquor a peny worth of Allome and as much of white coperas after you haue taken it from the fire and annoynt your eyes therwith Another for the same TAke the leaues of redde brambles and of plantan and hony-suckles and boyle all them in running water from a quart to a pinte and vse it to the sore A medicine for the pinne and webbe in the eye TAke the white of an egge being hotte take out the yolke cleane and put thereto a good quantitie of sugar-candy then straine it hard through a cloth and therewith make a water and euery day two or three times droppe it into the eyes A medicine to cleare the sight TAke red rosewater cleane mirhe as much as a nutte and breake it into powder and binde it in a linnen cloth and let it lie in the water xij houres then take of this water and put in your eyes and it will cleare your sight For a pearle in the eye TAke red Fennell and the leaues and roots of white dasies vse them without any liquor and put together three spoonfulls of either of them then take one good spoonfull of clarified hony and two or three spoonfuls of womans milke and drop this into your eye three or foure times a day and if there bee any sight in the eye this will cure it For eyes that are blasted TAke a tost made of broune bread and lay it in redde wine that is not mingled and let it lie vntill it be soked halfe an houre then put it into a fine cloth in two pieces for each eye one and the fine cloth must be betweene the eye and the tost dresse it when you goe to bedde at night To purge the head and eye sight TAke the iuyce of Hei-hoo and put it into your nostrels the fleame shall follow and the running water For the eyes that be red and sore TAke Fennell Verueine Roses Salendine and Rue of each two ounces and distil it all together and when neede is then put a droppe or two into the sore eye for it is good for all manner of diseases in the eye Against the payne of the eyes TAke the yolke of an egge rosted hard and layd to with rose oyle and saffron the iuyce of Basill put in For to see well TAke eye bright red Fennell of each halfe a handfull of Rue one quarter of a handfull cause these to be distilled and wash your eyes daily with the water For the taking in the legge TAke a peice of soure leauen and as much barme and as much blacke sope and temper them all together
Canker that eateth mans flesh TAke wheate branne of the smallest powder the iuyce of smallege the iuyce of woodbine and burnt allam beate into powder and a little hony mingle all these together and make a plaister of it and lay it to the sore and it shall destroy the Canker For a bruise TAke Virgin waxe and commen seede well beaten mixe them together and lay it to the bruise plaster wise For a white scalde TAke sallet oyle beaten with the whites of egges till they be thorowly wrought together cut away the heare and so annoynt the head and lay a bladder vpon it A medicine against all stiches TAke linseede and boyle it in newe milke and make a plaster thereof and lay it to the place grieued A medicine for a sore breast TAke groundsill and chop it small the grounds of small beere wheaten branne and sheepes suet beaten in morter and boile them altogether and lay it plaster wise to your breast A medicine for swelled brests TAke white wine wheat bran new bolted rose leaues old and new seeth them vntill they be thicke then lay it to the brest as hotte as she may suffer it from euen till morning and shift it againe To breake the fleame of the brest TAke butter without salt and hony of each a quantitie faire bitter Almonds blanch them and beat them fine and eate a little euery day A very good medicine for any ache or sore brest often approued TAke Frankinsence fine wrought Waxe Bores grease and Rosin of euery one of them a like quantitie and seeth them together to a cake spread it on a cloth as broad as the sore or paine is and lay it too foure and twenty houres or twelue at the least An approued medicine for a sore brest TAke a handfull of mallowes seeth them very soft in faire water and then let the water runne away from the mallowes then choppe or shred them then put them in a dish with bores grease and heate them very hot and lay it in a plaster of linnen cloth to your breast as hotte as you can suffer three or foure times a day heating it this hath beene approued very good A remedie for the paines of the breast TAke hysope parsley sage stamp them together and lay them to the breast and they will be whole Another for the sloping of the breast TAke Rewe and seeth it with allegant and drinke it three or foure times A medicine for the bloody flixe TAke as much fine linnen cloth as wil make a suppositary being rapped together button wise then wet the same in the best aqua vitae or aqua composita and let the partie greeued conuey the same into his fundament and it wil helpe them by the grace of God within three or foure dressings this is approued and hath holppen many that haue beene brought low and thought past cure Doctor Smithes medicine for the collicke and stone TAke posset ale made of Rennish wine boyle Camamill running time parcelie pellitorie of the wall with a good spoonefull of commen seedes till the thrid part and more be consumed then strain them with suger sufficient drinke a good draught warme and vse it as occasion serueth A medicine for the Chin-coffe for a child TAke boares grease and warme the soules of the feete to the fire and chafe them with that and go to bed and keepe it warme and lappe cloths to it To stay a Laxe TAke halfe a quarter of a pound of almonds and parch thē vpon two new tiles beate them in a morter and take a quarter of faire water and set it on the fire and put halfe a handfull of knot-grasse and halfe a handfull of plantine leaues and let them seeth a good while then take the water and straine the foresaid almonds therewith and make an almond milke thereof put in a peece of suger then take date stones and beate them to pouder as smal as may be and put some of that pouder into the almond milke so drinke it luke warme An excellent medicine for a child that cannot part with his water or vrine TAke three or foure hiue bees kill them then drie them vpon hot flat being thorough drie bruise them to smal pouder then put the pouder into a quarte of small ale giue the sicke to drinke and he shall haue present remedie A medicine for the paine of swelling in the stomacke TAke a good quantitie of rosemary flowers boyle them in whit wine and as hot as may be suffered applie it to the stomacke An approued medicine for the spleene TAke a quarte of claret wine a pint of oyle of oliffe two good handfulls of camamill being shred small and boyle the wine and camamill together from a quarte to a pinte and annoynt the hardnes of the spleene morning and euening therewith and it will dissolue A medicine for a fellon or and come TAke Rustie bacon and Colewort leaues stamp them together then take a peece of dogges leather being pricked full of holes and spread it vpon the lether laying it to the soare twice a day and when it beginneth to heale but once a day A medicine for the ytch of the body TAke sweete butter vnwrought waxe vineger brimstone a little Rose water red cloues hole boyle them together till they be like a salue then annoynt the flesh three sundry nights by the fire therewith and no more A medicine for the Canker in the body TAke bollarmoniacke roch allom and hony then beate them to pouder take twise as much of the allom as of the bollarmoniacke and stirre them together till they come to a salue and so annoynt the soare A medicine for the heate or ache in the body or legges or else where TAke red docke rootes and take out the ouer pith and seeth them in running water then draw the water from them and beate it with thick creame and so annoynt the place that is greeued or with a cloth dipped in the same and layd ouer the place A medicine good to clense the body TAke bawme and lay it in white wine till it be well steeped and then distill it the water thereof is good for any disease that is in the body but you must distill the wine and all together drinking a spoonefull or two in the morning prooued A medicine for a fistula TAke veruon and dry it vpon a tile and make pouder thereof make cleane the soare with a linnen cloth and fill the hole full of the pouder A remedie for one that vometeth to much TAke coliander seedes fine beaten in powder and drink it with minte water To make a scare cloth for all manner of aches TAke a pound of vnwrought waxe halfe a pound of rosin two ounces of frankinsence a pounde and halfe of sheepes suet and boyle them altogether and straine them in a faire bason and then put them in a chafindish of coales and dip a lynnen cloth therein and so lay it to the soare A medicine for