for a Dropsie approved by the Lady Hobby who was cured her self by it Take Carawayes Smallage Time Hysop Watercresses Penniroyal Nettle tops Calamint Elecampane-roots of each one little handful Horse radish two pounds boil them in six quarts of running water until half be consumed then strain it boil it a new with a pottle of Canary Sack Liquorish twelve ounces sweet Fennel-seed one ounce bruised and a quarter of an ounce of Cumin-seed bruised boil all these above half an hour then strain it and keep it for your use nine spoonfuls in the morning fasting and as much at three or four a clock in the afternoon use it for some time together This the Lady Hobby proved by her self Dr. Adrian Gilberts most Sovereign Cordial Water Take Spearmint Broom-mint Mother of Time the Blossome tops of Garden Time red Penniroyal Scabious Celandine Wood Sorrel Wood Betony Angelica leaves and stalkes set Wall Leaves Peony leaves Egrimony Tormentil sweet Marjoram red Sage Rue Rossolis Angelica roots Elecampany roots set Wall Roots green Peniroyal Comfrey Blossoms and Leaves Juniper-berries of each a pound Balm Carduus Benedictus Dragon Feaverfew Wormwood of each two pounds steep all these in the lees of strong pure venient Claret Wine for nine dayes every day twice turning them to mingle them well in the Lees then distil them in a Limbeck with a red clear head with two pounds of shaved Harts horn and Ivory twelve ounces draw as long of it as you may in several pottle glasses the first is accounted the best and uncompounded and the perfectest against the Plague spotted Feavers small Pocks ordinary Feavers divers times experienced by my self either to prevent or in the time of these sicknesses If you will compound it because the water hath an ill taste then take the first gallon of the water and mix it with a pottle of the best Malaga sack and put into them three pounds of Raisins solis stoned Figs one pound and a half the flowers of Clove-gilly-flowers Cowslips and Marigolds blue Violets of each two pounds red Rose buds one pound Ambergreece Bezoar stone clarified Sugar Aniseeds Liquorish and what else you please These are Adrian Gilberts Receipts having had experience of them most constantly sure The uncompounded Water is the more excellent and if in time of infection one take two spoonfuls of it in good Bear or white Wine he may safely walk from danger by the leave of God If any of the former diseases attache any person then he must take four ounces of the first water and mix therewith either the syrups of Violets Clove-gilly-flowers or Angelica as the disease is one spoonful of the Syrup is sufficient for four ounces of the water so take it in three times For a swoln Face Take Oyl of Elder and plaintain-Plaintain-water of each one ounce beat them well together until they be exactly incorporated and therewith anoint the tumefied place twice or thrice in a day until the swelling be chased away Cock water for a Consumption Take a running Cock pull him alive then kill him cut him abroad by the back take out the entrails and wipe him clean then quarter him and break his bones then put him into a Rose-water still with a pottle of Sack Currans and Raisins of the sun stoned and Figs sliced of each one pound Dates stoned and cut small half a pound Rosemary flowers Wilde Time Spearmint of each one handful Organs or Wilde Marjoram Bugloss pimpinel of each two handfuls and a bottle of new milk from a red cow Distill these with a soft fire put into the Receiver a quarter of a pound of brown Sugar-candy beaten small four grains of Ambergreece fourty grains of prepared pearl and half a book of leaf gold cut very small you must mingle the strong water with the small and let the patient take two spoonfuls of it in the morning and as much at going to bed A precious Cordial for a sick body Take three spoonfuls of Mint water and as much of Muskadine and Wormwood water two or three spoonfuls of fine Sugar and two or three drops of Cinamon spirit beat these well together with two or three spoonfuls of Clove-gilly-flowers spirit and give the Patient now and then one spoonfull thereof especially when he or she goeth to bed Wormwood Cakes good for a cold Stomach and to help Digestion Take pure searced Sugar two ounces and wet it with the Spirit of Wormwood then take a little Gum Tragiganth and steep it all night in Rose water then take some of this and the wet sugar and beat them together in an Alablaster Mortar till it come to a paste like dough if you please put a little Musk to it then make it up in little cakes of the breadth of a groat or three pence lay them upon plates and dry them gently in an Oven and keep them in a dry place for your use and upon occasion hold one of them in your mouth to melt and swallow the dissolved juyce thereof for the infirmities aforesaid To make water of Life Take Balm leaves and stalks Burnet leaves and flowers Rosemary red Sage Taragon Tormentil leaves Rossolis red Roses Carnation Hysop Thyme red strings that grow upon Savory red Fennel leaves and roots red Mints of each one handful bruise these herbs and put them in a great earthen pot and pour on them as much white Wine as will cover them stop them close and let them steep for eight or nine dayes then put to it Cinamon Ginger Angelica seeds Cloves and Nutmegs of each one ounce a little Saffron Sugar one pound Raisins Solis stoned one pound Dates stoned and sliced half a pound the loins and legs of an old Coney fleshy running Capon the red flesh of the sinnews of a leg of Mutton four young Chickens twelve Larks the yolks of twelve Eggs a loaf of white bread cut in sops and two or three ounces of Mithridate or Treacle and as much Bastard or Muscadine as will cover them all Distill all with a moderate fire and keep the first and second waters by themselves and when there comes no more by distilling put more Wine into the Pot upon the same stuff and distil it again and you shall have another good water This water must be kept in a double glass close stopt very carefully it is good against many Infirmities as the Dropsie Palsie Ague Sweating Spleen Worms Yellow and Black Jaundies it strengtheneth the Spirits Brain Heart Liver and Stomach Take two or three spoonfulss when need is by it self or with Ale Beer or Wine mingled with sugar Dr. Atkinsons excellent Perfume against the Plague Take Angelica roots and dry them a very little in an Oven or by the fire and then bruise them very soft and lay them in Wine Vinegar to steep being close covered three or four days and then heat a brick hot and lay the same thereon every morning this is excellent to air the house or any clothes or to breath over
in the morning fasting To make Saffron Water Take seven Quarts of white Wine and infuse in it all night one ounce of Saffron dried and in the morning distill it in a Limbeck or glass body with a head and put some white Sugar-candy finely beaten into the Receiver for it to drop on Mr. Stepkins Water for the Eyes Take four ounces of white Rose water and two drams of Tutia in powder shake them well together in a glass vial and drop of it a little into the Eyes evening and morning it is very good for any hot Rheum A precious Water to revive the Spirits Take four gallons of strong Ale five ounces of Aniseeds Liquorish scraped half a pound sweet Mints Angelica Betony Cowslip flowers Sage and Rosemary flowers sweet Marjoram of each three handfuls Pelitory of the wall one handful After it is for two or three dayes distill it in a Limbeck and in the water infuse one handful of the flowers aforesaid Cinamon and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce Juniper berries bruised one dram Red-rose buds rosted Apples and Dates sliced and stoned of each half a pound distill it again and sweeten it with some Sugar-candy and take of Ambergreece Pearle red Coral Harts-horn powdered and leaf Gold of each half a dram put them into a fine linnen bag and hang it by a thread in a glass The Bishop of Worcesters admirably curing Powder Take black tips of Crabs claws when the Sun enters into Cancer which is every year on the eleventh day of June pick and wash them clean and beat them into fine powder which finely searce then take Musk and Civet of each three grains Ambergreece twelve grains rub them in the bottom of the Mortar and then beat them and the powder of the Claws together then with a pound of this powder mix one ounce of the magistery of Pearle Then take ten skins of Adders or Snakes or Slow worm cut them in pieces and put them into a pipkin to a pint and a half of Spring water cover it close and set it on a gentle fire to simmer onely not to boil for ten or twelve hours in which time it will be turned into a Jelly and therewith make the said powder into balls If such skins are not to be gotten then take six ounces of shaved Harts-horn and boil it to a Jelly and therewith make the said powder into balls the horn must be of a red Deer kil'd in August when the moon is in Leo for that is best The Dose is seven or eight grains in beer or wine To make Spirit of Castoreum Take Calamints four ounces Orange peels two ounces Nep half a handful Walnut blossoms half an ounce Rosemary flowers and tops of Sage of each one handful Castoreum one ounce white Wine one quart distil them in a Limbeck This Water is good for swounding fits weak stomachs and rising of the Mother A Water for the Stone Take a quart of clean pickt Strawberries put them in a glass pour on them a quart of Aqua vitae let them stand and steep and take two or three spoonfuls of it morning and evening with fine Sugar or white Sugarcandy It will keep all the year Approved To make Dr. Stephens Water Take a gallon of Claret wine or Sack Cinamon Ginger Grains of Paradise Gallingall Nutmegs Anniseed and Fennel-seed of each three drams Sage Mint red Roses Pellitory of the Wall Wilde Marjoram Rosemary Wilde Time Cammomile Lavender of each one handful bruise the said spices small cut and bruise the Herbs and put all into the Wine in a Limbeck and after it hath stood twenty four hours distil it gently and keep the first water by it self and so the second For a Tetter Take water of red Tar and wash it therewith This is an approved remedy A special water for a Consumption Take a peck of garden shell Snails wash them in small Beer put them into a great Iron dripping-pan and set them on the hot fire of Charcoals and keep them constantly stirring till they make no noise at all then with a knife and cloth pick them out and wipe them clean then bruise them in a stone Mortar shells and all then take a quart of Earth Worms rip them up with a knife and scoure them with Salt and wash them clean and beat them in the Mortar then take a large clean Brass pot to distill them in put into it two handfulls of Angelica on them lay two handfuls of Celandine a quart of Rosemary flowers of Betony and Agrimony of each two handfuls Bears-foot Red dock leaves the bark of Barberries and Wood Sorrel of each one handful Rice half a handful Funugreek and Turnerick of each one ounce Saffron dryed and beaten into powder the weight of six pence Harts-horn and Cloves beaten of each three ounces when all these are in the Pot put the Snails and Worms upon them and then pour on them three gallon of strong Ale then set on the Limbeck and paste it close with Rye dough that no air come out or get in and so let it stand one and twenty hours and distill it with a moderate fire and receive the several Quarts in several Glasses close stopt The Patient must take every morning fasting and not sleep after it two spoonfuls of the strongest water and four spoonfuls of the weakest at one time fasting two hours after it Syrup of Pearmains good against Melancholly Take one pound of the juyce of Pearmains boil it with a soft fire till half be consumed then put it in a glass and there let it stand till it be settled and put to it as much of the juyce of the leaves and roots of Borage Sugar half a pound sirup of Citrons three ounces let them boil together to the consistence of a sirup Tincture of Ambergreece Put into half a pint of pure spirit of Wine in a strong glass Ambergreece one ounce Musk two drams stop the glass close with a cork and bladder and set it in hot horse-dung twelve dayes then pour off the spirit gently and put as much new spirit on and do as before and pour it off clean after all this the Ambergreece will serve for ordinary uses One drop of this Tincture will perfume any thing besides it is a great Cordial Dr. Price and Mâ— Fenton the Chyrurgion their excellent Medicine for the Plague after Infection Take assoon as you finde your self sick as much Diascordium as the weight of a shilling with ten grains of the powder called Speciei de gemmis well mingled together and streight after this let the party drink a good draught of hot posset ale made with Carduus Benedictus Sorrel Scabiosa and Scordium within eight hours after the first taking of it the party must take the Diascordium and Posset again as aforesaid and in like sort the third time within eight hours after but not above three times nor the third time if the party mend after the first or second taking Doctor
drink very often in Winter warm in Summer cold and let them beware of drinking much strong Beer Ale or Wine for they are hot and great driers up of Milk and so are all Spices and to much Salt or salt meat To keep Iron from Rusting Take Lead filed very small and put so much Oyl Olive upon it as will cover it in a pot then make your Iron very clean first and anoint the Iron with the said Oyl after it hath stood nine dayes and it will never rust To make Golden Colour without Gold Take the juyce of Saffron flowers when they are fresh on the ground but if you cannot get them then take Saffron dried and powdered and put to it Yellow and Glistering Auripigment that is scaly and with the Gall of a Hare or Pike fish which is better mix them together then put them in a glass Vial close stopped which set in a warm Dunghil for certain dayes then take it out and keep it for your use To make Golden Letters without Gold Take Auripigment one ounce fine Crystal one ounce beat them to powder severally then mix them and then temper them with the whites of eggs and so write with it To make Silver Letters without Silver Take Tin one ounce Quicksilver two ounces melt them together then beat them well with Gum water and so write with it To make the Face Fair. Take fresh Bean blossoms and distill them in a Limbeck and with the water wash your face A wound Drink Take Southernwood Wormwood Bugle Mugwort White bottle Sanicle Plantane Dandelion Chinquefoil Ribwort Wood Betony Clary roots Avens called Herb Bennet Hawthorn buds Agrimony Oak leaves and buds Bramble buds wilde Angelica Mints Scabious Strawberry leaves Violet leaves Comfrey of each twenty handfuls gather them in May and dry them in a room without much fire turn them often that they may not become musty and when they are dry put them up in Canvas bags severally Then take of these several herbs so dried of each three handfuls and put them into two quarts of running water and one quart of white Wine boil them to three pints strain the liquor from the herbs and put thereto one pint of Honey which boil again taking away the froth then strain it and keep it in a glass bottle close stopped and take thereof in the morning fasting and at night last two or three spoonfuls at one time This water wil not continue good above three or or four weeks at the most It cureth old sores green wounds Impostumes Fistulas and stencheth bleeding Tent no wound but search and cleanse it in a tent and cover the place with a clean cloth During the cure the Patient must keep a spare diet and abstain from Wine and strong Drink For Worms in Children Take three pound of Prunes Sena one ounce and a half sweet Fennel-seed one ounce and a half Rhubarb half an ounce tie all these in a bag with a stone to it and put them into a great quantity of water then put the Prunes on the top and let it stew six or seven hours till the liquor be even with the Prunes so drink of the liquor two or three spoonfuls and eat of the Prunes in the morning fasting and at four a clock in the afternoon A Green Salve Take one pound of Butter Bees-wax five ounces Rosin one pound and a half Frankincense four ounces Oyl of Bayes two ounces Deer suet one ounce and a half Verdigreese one ounce and a half boil the butter a little then boil the Wax in it and stir it now and then take it off the fire put in the Oyl of Bayes set it on the fire again then put in the Deer suet and let it boil one walm for if it have more it will turn black and when it is off the fire put in the Verdigreese powdered then strain it into pots and keep it for your use A Receipt for the Kings Evil Fistula sore Breasts Legs or other sores Take Samnil Agrimony Avens wilde Bugle red Dandelion Wood Betony Ribwort Wilde Clary roots and leaves Mugwort Plantain Wormwood and Bugle beaten and bruised of each two handfuls boil them in six quarts of White Wine until their vertue be extracted very softly then with your hand squeeze all the juyce out of them into the Wine then strain the liquor out and set it on the fire and clarifie it with so much Honey as will make it dainty pleasant and not sharp then let it boil a little more and when it is cold put it in bottles close stopped and it will last a year whereof give the Patient six spoonfuls at a time in the morning fasting and at four a clock in the afternoon To ease Womens Childe-bed throws that are taken with cold a week or two after their Delivery Take one or two spoonfuls of Oyl of sweet Almonds newly drawn either in Posset drink or in a Caudle warm morning and evening it will help For Womens swounding fits after delivery of Childe Take the powder of White Amber as much as will lie on a three pence and give it in Mace Ale warm An approved Medicine to speed a Womans Delivery in difficult Travel and to send out the after-burthen safely Take Cinnamon two drams and a half one dram and a half of white Amber Myrrhe two scruples Castoreum one scruple Borax half a scruple Saffron five grains powder and mix them whereof give one dram at a time in white Wine and Sugar and sweat after it This hath been often tried with much good success An approved Medicine for the Megrum Take one spoonful and a half of the white of an Egg beaten very clear White Wine Vinegar one spoonful of Pepper and Frankincense of each two drams powdered and one spoonful of Honey mix them with so much Wheat flour as will make it into paste whereof make two plaisters and lay them to the temples of the head and change it duly every morning and evening For to ease Head pain Take red Rose leaves dried mix them with Wheat flowers Vinegar Oyl of Roses and some Housleek boil them till they be thick spread it on a linnen cloth and lay it to the Forehead and Temples and it will ease the pain To cure a Sheck Dog that hath the Mangie Take four ounces of Tar mix it with someâ—fresh greese so as it may run then put to it some Brimstone powder half a spoonful of Gun powder pouder'd and two spoonfuls of Honey mix them well and therewith anoint the Dog in the Summer time tie him in the hot Sun that the oyntment may soke into him in the Winter time lay him on thick fresh Hay and there keep him that the heat of his body may heat and melt it Thrice dressing will cure him Dr. Goffes Receipt to preserve a Woman with childe from miscarrying and abortion Take a fillet of Beef half rosted hot from the fire then take half a pint of Muscadine Sugar Cinamon Ginger Cloves
and take the marrow thereof and anoint the nipple therewith To dry up Milk in a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Aqua vitae and a quantity of sweet Butter melt and temper them together and anoint the Breast therewith laying a brown paper betwixt them and so do as often as the paper drieth till the Milk be dried up this is also good to keep the Ague out of the Breast To make a woman have a nipple that hath none and would give suck Take a Wicker Bottle that hath a little mouth and fill it full of hot water and stop it close til the bottle be through hot then let out the water and set the mouth of the bottle close to the Nipple as long as there is any heat in the bottle it will cleave fast To heal the Nipple of a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Cream and put it into the juyce of Valerian stamped and strained and as much of the juyce of sea-green used in like sort boil all these together till it come to be as Butter then take it and put it into a box and anoint the Nipple therewith three or four times a day and lay a Walnut shell or some other hollow thing over it to keep the clothes from it till it be whole or else make a Posset Ale of Alom and lay the curd to the Nipple warm till the childe doth suck and then lay on again A Medicine for Worms in young Children Take a Plaister of white Leather or brown paper and spread it with Honey warm it a little against the fire but first strew some of the best Aloes Succotrinae thereon then lay it all over the Stomach of the Childe warm the like plaister is to be laid on the Childes Navil at the same time if you have no Honey mix the juyce of Plantain and lay it on the leather Dr. Forsters Infusion purging Choller Take Damask Roses two ounces or Rhubarb two drams and a half of Spikenard one scruple of Orcin one scruple cut all small and infuse in a quart of clarified whey all night in the morning strain gently and put to it one ounce of Syrup of Roses or Syrup of Violets Dr. Fosters Infusion purging Melancholly Take Fumitory Epithymum flowers or leaves of Borage and Bugloss of each a good half handful Polypody of the Oak one ounce Sena half an ounce Fennil-seed two drams Whey three pints infuse and boil to a quart whereunto adde two ounces of Syrup of Roses solutive the dose is half a pound you may quicken a draught with a dram of Electuary of Roses An opening purging Julip and cooling for Choller and hot Humors Take of Barley two little handfuls of Savory with the roots Maidenhair Liverwort Sorrel each half a good handful of roots of Grass of Fennil each half an ounce of the four cold seeds each two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Succory water unto sixteen ounces in which infuse half an ounce of Sena Tamarindes and Polypody of each three drams Jalap and Hermodactils of each two drams Fennil-seed Anniseed and Liquorish of each one dram Currans bruised half an ounce of Borage Bugloss and Rosemary flowers of each one dram infuse these warm then boil them until five ounces of the Succory Water be consumed then strain it and adde the expression of four scruples of Rhubarb infused in three ounces of Manna and syrup of roses one ounce of the Christals of Tartar one dram mingle them the Dose is four or five ounces every morning Doctor Mores Powder or grosly prepared Drug to be taken in mornings and after Meals to mend Concoction comfort the Brain break Winde and make sweet Breath Take Liquorish cut small Anniseed Comfits with one skin of Sugar of each two ounces sweet Fennil seed Comfits with one skin of Sugar Corianders prepared and Caroway-seed of each one ounce of white Ginger Cinamon Calamus Aromaticus and Nutmegs of each one ounce cut very small of the Lozenges of Aromaticum Rosatum of Manus Christies with Chymica Oyl of Cinamon Cloves and Lozenges of Dâ—ambra cut into small pieces each half an ounce to be taken about a spoonful at the time aforesaid Lucatello's Balsam admirable for all Wounds Take Venice Turpentine one pound Oyl Olive three pints Sack six spoonfuls yellow Wax one pound natural Balsam half an ounce Oyl of Saint Johns-Wort red Sanders powdered of each one ounce wash the Venice Turpentine three times in red Rose-water then slice the Wax thin and set it on the fire in a big Skillet and when it is well molten put the Turpentine to it and stir them well together till they boil a little take it off the fire and let it cool till the next day then cut it into thick slices and pour all the water out of it then set it on the fire again and when it is molten stir it well and put it into the aforesaid Oyls Sack Balsam and Sanders and stir them well together that they may incorporate then â—et it boil again for a short space take it off the fire and stir it well for the space of two hours that it may become thick and when it is cold put it up in several Gallipots and when you use it apply it tented into a deep and hollow wound if it be onely a slit cut anoint the wound with it and binde it fast on with the cloth A Purge by Dr. Mayhern Take of the best Sena six drams of Rhubarb two drams Cream of Tartâ—r half a dram of sweet Fennil-seed as much and a little Cinamon infuse all these one night in half a pint of white Wine in the morning let it boil one walm or two strain it and put of the best Manna an ounce dissolve it over the fire then strain it again then put to it an ounce of Salatine syrup of Roses so drink it fast two hours after from meat and drink sleep and then drink nothing but thin broth An approved Medicine to beautifie the Face or to take away Pimples or Heat in the Face Take a fair earthen Pipkin and put into it a pottle of clean running water and an ounce of white Mercury beaten to white powder then set it on the fire and let it boil until one half be consumed and keep it close covered saving when you stir it then take the whites of six new laid egs beaten half an hour or more and put it into the liquor after it is taken from the fire you must put in also the juyce of Lemons being very good and half a pint of new Milk and a quarter of a pound of bitter Almonds blanched and beaten with half a pint of Damask Rose-water strain all these together through a strainer and let it stand three weeks before you use it and I will warrant you fair c. An excellent water for the Eyes that are red or full of Rhume Take young Hazle Nuts when they are so soft that you may thrust a pin through
them still them in a Rose still Husks Shells and all and with the water wash your eyes To cure a Wound though the Patient be never so far off Take a quart of pure Spring water and put into it some Roman Vitriol and let it dissolve then if you have any blood of the wound either in linnen or woollen or silk put the cloth so blooded in the water and rub the cloth once a day and if the wound be not mortal the blood will out if it be it will not Let the patient keep his Wound clean washing it with white Wine when ever you wash the cloth the party wounded shall sensibly finde ease let the cloth be constantly in the water To make Oyl of Swallows Take swallows as many as you can get ten or twelve at the least and put them quick into a Mortar and put to them Lavender Cotton Spike Cammomil Knot-grass Ribwort Balm Valerian Rosemary tops Woodbine tops strings of Vines French Mallows the tops of Alehoof Strawberry strings Tutsane Plantain Walnut leaves tops of young Bayes Hysop Violet leaves Sage of vertue fine Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Mother of Time of each of these a handful two of Cammomil and two of red Roses beat all these together and put thereto a quart of Neats-foot Oyl or May Butter stamp them all together and beat them with one or two ounces of Cloves and put them all together in an earthen pot stop it very close with a piece of dough round about so close that no air can come out set them nine days in a cellar and then take them out and boil them six or eight hours on the fire or else in a pan of water but first open your pot and put in half a pound of Wax white or yellow whether you will and a pint of Sallet Oyl and strain them through a Canvas cloth To make Lead Plaister Take two pound and four ounces of the best and greenest Sallet Oyl with a pound of good red Lead and a pound of white Lead beat them well into dust then take twelve Ounces of Castle-Sope incorporate all these well together in a well glassed and great earthen pot that the Sope may come upwards set it on a small fire of coals the space of one hour and a half alwayes stirring it with an iron ball or round Pommil then make your fire somewhat bigger until it be the colour of Oyl then drop a little on the board and if it cleave neither to your finger nor the board then it is enough then take the clothes and make them into what breadth or size you please in Searcloth let not your cloth be course but of a reasonable new Holland and when you have dipped them then rub them with a Slick-stone it will last two years and the elder the better as long as it will stick it is good The vertues of the Leaden Plaister 1. If it be laid to the Stomach it provoketh appetite and taketh away any grief in the same 2. If laid to the belly it is a present remedy for the ache 3. If laid to the Reins of the back it cureth and healeth the Bloody Flux the running of the Reins heat in the Liver or weakness of the Back 4. Itâ— healeth all bruises and Swellings it taketh away aches it breaketh Fellons Pushes and other Impostumes and healeth them 5. It draweth out any running Humour without breaking of the skin and being applied to the Fundament it healeth any disease there growing 6. The same laid to the head is good for the eyes 7. The same laid to the Belly of a Woman provoketh the Tearms and maketh apt for Conception For the Stone and Gravel Take and dry the roots of red Nettles make them into powder and drink a spoonful of the powder in a draught of white Wine something warm and it will break the Stone though it be never so great with speed use it every day until the Stone and Gravel be all broken and consumed A thing of small price and great vertue A drink to purge the body being very good for them that have the Scurvey or are inclined to it Take a pottle of fine running water and a pint of Rhennish Wine for a young body and for any elder take a quart set it on the fire put into it three or four slices of Horse Radish a great handful of Water Cresses and a handful of Brooklime both a little bruised slice in two or three Oranges outsides and insides let them boil all together better then half an hour then have ready a greater quantity of scurvey-grass bruised or a pint of the juyce of Scurvy-grass ready strained and put into the liquor and set over the fire again then there will arise a curd which being taken off put it into the drink when it is cold three or four Lemons more or less as best pleaseth the taste sweeten it with Sugar and drink a Wine draught in the morning and at four a clock in the afternoon and then walk and use some exercise after it The party that hath the scurvy and whose legs are much swelled may put into the drink some Juniper berries bruised half an ounce or thereabouts Dr. Bates his Medicine against a Consumption Take Liverwort two handfuls Succory six Endiffe Borage Colts-foot of each six handfuls shred these finely put them in a gallon of new Milk let them steep all night in the morning distil them in a glass still then take three spoonfuls of red Rose-water three spoonfuls of this water with half a pint of red Cows Milk and as much Sugar of Roses as will sweeten it To make Gascony Powder Take the black tips of Crabs claws gotten when the Sun is in Cancer pick out from within them all the fish beat them to as fine a powder as you can then searse it through a very fine searse take an ounce of this powder and put to it half an ounce of the Magestical of Pearl and as much of the Magestical of Coral mix them well together then put a little rose-Rose-water in a glass in which you must hang a little Saffron in a bag and a little Musk and Ambergrece in another let them hang in Rose-water two or three dayes till the vertue of them be gone into the water then put your powder either into a Silver Porringer or a white earthen one and put as much of the Rose-water as will moisten your powder then dry it in the Porringer by a gentle fire and so wet your powder three or four times and as often dry it after this make a Gelly as followeth Take a Viper alive in May or June cut off his head and tail above the Navil pull off his skin and with a clean cloth rub it dry and so you may hang them up and take two of those skins and slice them small with a little Harts-horn and make a Gelly of them you need not make much then when your powder is dry wet it
reviveth him in 〈…〉 use one spoonful à week fasting in the winter two spoonfuls A Water for fainting of the Heart Take Bugloss and red Rose-water of each one pint Milk half a pint Anniseeds and Cinnamon grosly bruised of each half an ounce Maiden-hair two handfuls Harts tongue one handful both shred mix all together and distill it in an ordinary still drink of it morning and evening with a little sugar A Surfeit Water Take half a bushel of red Corn Poppy put it into a large dish cover it with brown paper and lay another dâ—sh upon it set it in an Oven after brown bread is baked divers times till it be dry which put into a pottle of good Aqua vitae to which put Raisins of the sun stoned half a pound six figs sliced three Nutmegs sliced two flakes of Mace bruised two races of Ginger slâ—ced one stick of Cinnamon bruised Liquorish sliced one ounce Anniseed Fennill-seed and Cardamums bruised of each one dram put all these into abroad glasse body and lay first some Poppy in the bottom then some of the other Ingredients then Poppy again and so till the glasse be full then put in the Aqua vitae and let it infuse till it be strong of the spices and very red with the Poppy close covered of the which take two or three spoonfulls upon a Surfeit and when all the liquor is spent put more Aqua vitae to it and it will have the same effect the second time but no more after D. Butlers Cordial Water against Melancholly c. Most approved Take the flowers of Cowslips Marigolds Pinks Glove-gilly-flowers single stock Gilly-flowers of each four handfulls the flowers of Rosemary and Damask Roses of each three handfulls Borage and Bugloss flowers and Balm leaves of each two 〈◊〉 put them in a quart of Canary Wine into a great Bottle or jugg close stopped with a Cork sometimes stirring the flowers and wine together adding to 〈◊〉 Anniseeds bruised one dram two â—utmegs sliced English Saffron two penniworth after some time infusion distill them in a cold Still with a hot fire hanging at the Nose of the Still Ambergreese and Musk of each one grain then to the distilled water pat White Sugar candy finely beaten six ounces and put the glass wherein they are into hot water for one hour Take of this water at one time three spoonfuls thrice a week or when you are ill it cureth all melancholly fumes and infinitely comforts the spirits The admirable and most famous Snail Water Take a peck of garden shell Snails wash them well in small Beer and put them in an hot Oven till they have done making a noise then take them out and wipe them well from the green froth that is upon them and bruise them shells and all in a stone Mortar then take a quart of earth worms scowre them with salt slit them and wash them well with water from their filth and in a stone Mortar beat them to pieces then lay in the bottom of your distilled pot Angelica two handfuls and two handfulls of Celandine upon them to which put two quarts of Rosemary flowers Bears foot Agrimony red Dock Roots Bark of Barberries Betony wood sorrel of each two handfuls Rue one handful then lay the Snails and Worms on the top of the Hearbs and Flowers then pour on three Gallons of the strongest Ale and let it stand all night in the morning put in three ounces of Cloves beaten six penniworth of beaten Saffron and on the top of them six ounces of shaved Harts-horn then set on the Limbeck and close it with paste and so receive the water by pints which will be nine in all the first is the strongest whereof take in the morning two spoonfuls in four spoonfuls of small Beer and the like in the afternoon you must keep a good Diet and use moderate â—â—ercise to warm the blood This Water is good 〈…〉 Obstructions whatsoever It 〈◊〉 a Consumation and Dropsie the stopping of the Stomach and Liver It may be 〈◊〉 with Milk for weak people and 〈◊〉 with Harts-tongue and Elecamâ—ane A singular Mint Water Take a still full of Mints put Balm and Penniroyal of each one good handful steep them in Sack or Lees of Sack twenty four hours stop it close and stir it now and then Distill it in an ordinary still with a very quick fire and keep the still with wet clothes put into the Receiver as much sugar as will sweeten it and so double distill it Distillings A most excellent Aqua Coelestis taught by Mr. Philips Apothecary TAke of Cinnamon one dram Ginger half a dram the three sorts of Saunders of each of them three quarters of an ounce Mace and Cubebs of each of them one dram Cardamon the bigger and lesser of each three drams Setwell-roots half an ounce Anniseed Fennil-seed Basil-seed of each two drams Angelica roots Gillyflowers Thime Calamint Liquorish Calamus Masterwort Penniroyal Mint Mother of Thime Marjoram of each two drams red Rose-seed the flowers of Sage and Betony of each a dram and a half Cloves Galingal Nutmegs of each two drams the flowers of Stechados Rosemary Borage and Bugloss flowers of each a dram and half Citron Rindes three drams bruise them all and put in their Cordial Powders Diamber Aromâ—â—â—cam Diamuscum Diachoden the spices made with Pearle of each three drams infuse all these in twelve pints of Aqua vitae in a glass close stopped for fifteen dayes often shaking it then let it be put in a â—â—â—â—beck close stopped and let it 〈◊〉 distiâ—â—ed gently when you have 〈…〉 in a cloth two drams of 〈…〉 â—alf a dram of Ambergreese and 〈…〉 twelve grains of gold and so 〈◊〉 it to your use Hypocras taught by Dr. Twine for Winde in the Stomach Take Pepper Grains Ginger of each half an ounce Cinnamon Cloves Nutmegs Mace of each one ounce grosly beaten Rosemary Agrimony both shred of each a few crops red rose leaves a pretty quantity as an indifferent gripe a pound of Sugar beaten lay these to steep in a gallon of good Rhennish or White Wine in a close vessel stirring it two or three times a day the space of three or four dayes together then strain it through an Hypocras strainer and drink a draught of it before meat half an hour and sometimes after to help digestion Marigold flowers distilled good for the pain of the Head Take Marigold flowers and distill them then take a fine cloth and wet 〈◊〉 the aforesaid distilled water and so lay it to the forehead of the Patient and being so applied let him sleep if he can this with Gods help will cease the pain A water good for Sun-burning Take water drawn off the Vine dropping the flowers of white Thorn Bean-flowers Water Lilly-flowers Garden Lilly-flowers Elder-flowers and Tansie flowers Althea flowers the whites of Eggs French Barley The Lady Giffords Cordial Water Take four quarts of Aâ—â—a Vitae Borrage and Poppy-water 〈◊〉 each a pint two
altogether then beat the yolks of six new laid eggs and put them into the Wine on the fire then take the Cock-treading of twelve eggs and the white of one egg and beat them to an Oyl take off the white froth from it and put this Oyl into the Wine and brew all well together with as much powder sugar as will make it of an indifferent sweetness whereof let the said woman take four spoonfuls at a time when she feeleth any pain to begin in her back or belly To make Childrens Teeth come without Pain Proved Take the head of a hare boild or rosted and with the brains thereof mingle honey and butter and therewith anoint the childes gums as often as you please Dr. Mays Juice of Liquorish to stay Rheum and preserve the Lungs Take six little handfuls of the tops of Hysop Rosemary flowers one little handful of the leaves of Coltsfoot four little handfuls stamp and take the juyce of them and put to it a pint of Hysop-water or running water unto all these put four ounces of Liquorish finely beaten and searsed then set it on the fire and boil it till it be as thick as cream then strain it through a fine strainer and set it again to the fire and stir it continually till it boil and put into it boiling four ounces of Yellow Sugar-candy let it boil till it rise from the bottom which stirring and when you may handle it make it up in Cakes and Roles as you please To kill a Felon quickly Take a little Rue and Sage stamp them small put to it Oyl of the white of an Egg and a little Honey and lay it to the sore A Remedy for the pain in the Stomach Take a pottle of white Wine eight ounces of Currans and four ounces of Elicampane-roots sliced a sprig of Marjoram and Spearmint boil all these together till the Currans be soft adding to it one spoonful of sweet Fennel-seed bruised Drink of the liquor every morning fasting at four a Clock in the afternoon and when you go to bed the quantity of six spoonfuls While you drink this apply to your stomach one spoonful of Conserve of Roses two penniworth of Mithridate Cinnamon Cloves and Nutmegs of each one spoonful and a penniworth of Saffron mix these together with rose-Rose-water and Wine Vinegar and put them in a Linnen Bag and warm it and lay it to the Stomach To cure Diseases without taking any thing at the Mouth Take one pound of Aloes Hepatica Myrrhe four ounces both beaten very fine Aqua vitae and Rose-water of each one pinte after one nights infusion distil them in Sand twenty four hours very softly and in the end make a great fire and there will come a Balsome wherewith if you rub the Stomach with a warm cloath dipped therein it will purge Phlegm and Choler and all Worms which infect the brain and breed the Falling sickness it expelleth corrupruptions of the Stomach it helps digestion and appetite it expurgeth all dross in the bottom of the Stomach it cureth the Gout being mixed and well beaten with Aqua Vitae and applied warm to the Gouty place and left long on it To break the Stone Take Cammock roots dry them in an Oven beat them to powder searse it and put as much thereof as will lie on a groat into half a pint of White Wine half a sliced Lemon a top or two of Rosemary and some Sugar let them lie in steep all night in the morning stir them well together and drink it off and walk thereupon a good while Use this three or four mornings together and it will make the Stone break and void away in gravel but if the Kidneys be ulcerated then use the Medicine following viz. To help Vlceration in the Kidneys Take two drams of China-root sliced small Golden Rod Maiden-hair Pauls Betony Mousear Agrimony Comfrey Scabious Bugle red Bramble leaves Pelitory of the Wall Marsh Mallows and Plantain of each half a handful then take one spoonful of French Barley a stick of Liquorish sliced small one handful of Raisins of the Sun stoned boil all these softly in a pottle of running water to a quart then take it from the fire and put to it two ounces of Conserve of red Roses stir them together and let it run through a fine cloth and keep it close stopt in a glass and drink thereof blood-warm every morning and evening twelve spoonfuls at a time for two three or four weeks more or less as you see occasion and finde ease or pain A Special Medicine for one that cannot swallow although no inward Medicine can be taken for it Take the soiling of a Dog that is hard and white powder it and mingle it well with English Honey spread it thick upon a linnen cloth and hold it to the fire and lay it all over the Throat down to the Channel bone use fresh morning and evening binde it hard to and by Gods grace it will help To draw up the Vvula Take a new laid Egg and roste it till it be blue and then crush it between a cloth and lay it to the crown of the head and once in twelve hours lay new till it be drawn up A Purge for Children or Old men Take one spoonful of Spirit of Tartar prepared with Sugarcandy and Rose water put it in a little broth and give it either of them it purgeth gently it comforts the heart and expelleth Phlegm and Melancholly For a Noli me tangere Take the Herb called Turnsol cut it in small pieces and put it in a bottle and pour so much Aqua vitae on it as will cover it four fingers stop the bottle and set it in the Sun ten dayes and in the night in the Chimney corner but not too near the fire then pour of the Aqua vitae and keep it close then calcine the dregs remaining in the bottle between two calcining pots well luted which will be done in a day then put the calcined ashes into the said Aqua vitae and they will all dissolve Keep this as a great Treasure and give one spoonful thereof to the party fasting in white Wine and wet a cloth in the said Liquor and binde it on the sore place and without fail it will dry it up It helpeth also those that are troubled with the Gravel and Stone given as aforesaid with white Wine and it is very excellent for those that have the Dropsie Palsie or are taken with a Quartane Ague To make the Face fair and for a stinking Breath Take the flowers of Rosemary and seethe them in white Wine with which wash your face if you drink thereof it will make you have a sweet breath For heat in the Face redness and shining of the Nose Take a fair linnen cloth and in the morning lay it over the grass and draw it over till it be wet with dew then wring it out into a fair dish and wet the face therewith as oft as you
please as you wet it let it dry in May dew is the best An excellent Oyl to take away the Heat and Shining of the Nose Take twelve ounces of Gourd-seed crackle them and take out the kernels peel off the skin and blanch six ounces of bitter Almonds and make an Oyl of them and anoint the place grieved therewith you must alwayes take as much of the Gourd-seed as of the Almonds use it often For Heat or Pimples in the Face Take the Liverwort that groweth in the Well stamp and strain it and put the juyce into Cream and so anoint your face as long as you will and it will help you Proved Also the juyce of Liverwort drunk in beer warm is good for the heat of the Liver To take away Hair Take the shells of fifty two Eggs beat them small and still them with a good fire and with the water anoint your self where you would have the hair off Or else Cats Dung that is hard and dryed beaten to powder and tempered with strong vinegar and anointed on the place Dr. Friers Receipt for sweating in the face Take a little handful of Penniroyal and as much Cinquefoil and seethe them in white Wine or Vinegar if you take Vinegar put a little to it when it is sodden this done you must hold your head over it and cast a sheet over your head and keep in the air close as long as you can endure it and so ten or twelve times a day An approved Medicine taught by Dr. Blacksmith for the Cough Take the roots of Folefoot and dry them in an Oven and powder them then heat a Tile red hot and strew it thereupon then set the bottom of a tunnel upon it and let the patient receive the same morning and evening An approved Medicine for the same by Doctor Blacksmith Take a pint of Hysop-water and a quarter of a pound of Sugar-candy a spoonful of Anniseed bruised and a small stick of Liquorish sliced and bruised put them together and let them stand all night boil it a quarter of an hour upon a fire then strain and take of it two or three spoonfuls at a time warm you may take it at any time best at night when you go to bed or in the morning For the Kidneys swlon with cold or other Accident Take the Oyls of Roses and Quinces of each two drams and warm them in a saucer or porringer and anoint the place therewith against the fire lest you take cold in the doing of it A Vomit for an Ague Take blue Lilly-roots sliced small and bruised and steep it in as much Vinegar as will cover them and when the Patient feels his fit coming let him drink a draught of it in Ale and keep him very warm while it worketh A restorative Bag for a cold or windy Stomach Take Rose leaves Rosemary tops and flowers red Mints and Borage flowers of each one handful warm them in a platter on a chasing-dish of coals and ever as you stir it sprinkle it with Sack and Rose water and when it is as hot as can be put it in a cloth or silk bag and lay it to the bottom of the Stomach as hot as can be endured and keep your self from studying or musing and it will comfort very much A Drink for cold Rhumes or Phlegms Take the Roots of Fennel Comfrey Parsley and Liverwort Harts-tongue Mousear Horehound Sandrake Maiden-hair Chinquefoil Hysop Bugloss and Violet leaves of each one handful wash and dry them very clean Raisins of the Sun eight ounces Anniseeds four drams Liquorish two drams Elecampane-root two drams half a pint of Barley washed and bruised boil these in a pottle of fair water until half the liquor be consumed strain it and put to it one quart of White or Renish Wine and one ounce of Sugarcandy and boil it again till half be consumed take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a clean glass and drink thereof every morning and evening a draught first and last and by Gods grace it will make you well and sound Approved For Rhume in the Throat Make a Cap of brown paper perfume it with Frankincense and apply it hot to the head then take the hard Eggs and lay them hot to the Nape of the Neck and anoint the Throat with Oyls of Rice and sweet Almonds and lay your self to sweat and after sweating mix Mell Rosarum Syrup of Mulberries Plantain water together and gargle the throat therewith In want of the said Syrup use Woodbin water A Remedy for the Stone Take a quart of Milk Ale and white Wine of each four ounces make them into a clear Posset drink the curd taken off to which put Parsley-roots Mallow leaves and Pellitory of the wall of each one handful Water-Cresses one handful and a half all small shred two sprigs of Time and Liquorish one ounce bruised boil all together to the consumption of a quart and take a draught thereof in the morning or at any time before meat sweetened with sugar to your taste A Broth for the Cough of the Lungs devised by Dr. Brasdale Dr. Atkinson and Dr. Fryer for the Lord Treasurer Take one paper of the prepared China Roots and steep it in six pints of fair water three hours then boil it unto three pints in an earthen pipkin then boil a Chicken and one ounce of French Barley together in a Pipkin six or seven Walmes and scum it then put away the water and put the Barley and the Chick to the China with the China in the paper a little green Endive twenty Raisins of the Sun stoned a little crust of Bread and a little Mace boil them together unto a pint and half strain it and let the party drink every day two draughts thereof one in the morning fasting and another at four a clock in the afternoon use it as often as you see cause For a Burning or Scalding Take Alehoof one handful the yolk of an Egg and some fair water stamp them and strain it and therewith wash the grieved place till the fire be out Or boil some Alehoof and Sheeps Suet together with Sheeps Dung and Plantain leaves till they come to a salve and apply it To Pâ—â—cure Sleep â—ruise a handful of Anniseeds and steep them in red Rose-water and make it up in little bags and binde one of them to each Nostril and it will cause sleep To sharpen a sick mans Appetite and to restore his Taste Take Wood or Garden Sorrel one handful and boil it in a pint of white wine vinegar till it be very tender strain it out and put to it Sugar two ounces and boil it to a Syrup and let the Patient take of it at any time A comfortable Juleb for a Feaver Take Barley-water and White Wine of each one pint Whey one quart put to it two ounces of Conserve of Barberries and the juices of two Lemons and two Oranges This will cool and open the body and
of White Lillies two of Dragon leaves two of Rue two of Wormwood two of Mints one of Sweet Marjoram one of Pellitory of Spain one of Feaverfew one of Angelica one of Betony stamp well these herbs and put them into a great pottage pot and boil them in two quarts of running water till the water be consumed then put to it two quarts of Cowslip flowers that have been steeped in Oyl Olive four weeks and have been kept in the Sun all that time and two quarts of White Wine and also two quarts of Oyl Olive boil them together one or two hours till you think it almost dry then strain in the Oyl from the herbs and put it into a glass and blow the uppermost of the Oyl into the glass for the very bottom is not so good A Medicine for the Worms Take a little fresh Butter and Honey melt it and anoint therewith the childe from the Stomach to the Navil then take powder of Mirrhe and strew it upon the place so anointed cover it with a brown paper and binde a cloth over it and so anoint the childe three nights one after another This Mirrhe is also good to swallow in a morning for shortness of breath and to chew it in the mouth for Rhumes A Powder for the winde in the Body Take Anniseed Caroway-seed Jet Ambergreese red Coral dried Lemon or Orange peels new laid Egg shells dried Dates stones pillings of Goose-horns of Capons and Pigeons dried Horse radish-roots of each half a scruple in fine powder well mixed and take half a scruple thereof every morning in a spoonful of Beer or white Wine To make Oyl of Eggs. Take twelve yolks of eggs and put them in a pot over the fire and let them stand till you perceive them to grow black then put them in a press and press out the oyl This oyl is good for all manner of burnings and scaldings whatsoever To make Oyl of Mustard seed Take two pounds of Mustard seed and four pounds of Oyl Olive grinde them together and let them so stand nine dayes and then stir it well and keep in boxes This Oyl is good for the Palsie Gout Itch c. To make Oyl of Fennel Take a good quantity of Fennel and put it betwen two iron Plates and make them very hot in the fire then press out the liquor This Oyl will keep a great while it is good for the Tissick and for Burnings or Scaldings To make Oyl of Rue Cut Rue leaves small and put them into a pot with some Oyl Olive and let them stand twelve dayes then boil them till they be wasted to the third part then strain it and keep it close This Oyl is good to keep away all causes of Pestilences in man woman or childe To make Oyl of Cammomile Stamp a good quantity of Cammomile flowers in a Mortar put them in a pot with some Oyl Olive and let them stand twelve dayes then boil it a little on the fire then take it off and press it out hard and put the juyce into glasses and put to them more Cammomile flowers stamped small and let them stand for your use A Sovereign Medicine for a Fistula Take pure Rosin one pound Sheep Suet the bigness of a great Egg or somewhat more in Winter and set them on a fire in a pot till it be ready to boil then pour it in a pan of cold water and work it with your hands rubbed with butter till it become so small as packthred scrape it on a cloth and spread it thin then cut it out small and narrow and when you use it roul it up small like tents The Powder Take an Ox-horn and steep it nine dayes in water shift every day into fresh water then take it out and fill it full of black Soap and fry it over the fire in a Frying-pan and the horn will melt away and burn to powder dip the end of ten tents in this powder The Water Take Allum and white Copperas of each half a pound beat them into fine powder and mix them well together and put them in an earthen pot and let them boil on a soft fire till they be hard and will boil no longer then beat them to powder Two spoonfuls will make a gallon of water and one spoonful will make a pottle but let the water seethe first then take it off and at first sprinkle a little of the powder lest it flame up and after the rest wet a fair cloth and dress the sore twice a day If green Copperas be used two pound must be put to one pound of Allum When the sore is dressed it must be tented as aforesaid if need require and lay on a cloth still wet in the said water As the water comes hot from the fire put in one spoonful of the said powder by degrees A special Medicine for a Looseness Burn three Nutmegs to ashes in the flame of a wax candle and when they are thorowly burnt rub them to powder and mix it with the like quantity of Bean flower and Cinamon finely beaten and searsed then make up into a paste with the white of an Egg and a little red Wine and make the paste into small round pills fit for swallowing and dry them hard in a clean fire and when you take them drink a little red wine after it For an Vncomb or sore Finger Shred one handful of Smallage very small and put to it one spoonful of Honey the yolk of an Egg and a little Wheat flower to make it thick then spread it on a cloth and lay it to the sore twice a day For the same in young Children or any other in the beginning Take Celandine and bruise it well between your hands and binde to your Navil and the soles of your feet hang it once in twenty four hours till they be well A Medicine for the Purples proved Take Purple Silk and shred it as small as you can and put it into a spoon and put a little Ale or Beer unto it lukewarm and so take it and drink after it a little and so do five mornings together and fast an hour after it Dr. Twines Almond Milk Take a pot of water when it is boiled and stood to be clear then boil therein Violet leaves Strawberries the whole herb with the root of each a pretty handful Sorrel a good root all well washed a crust of white bread raisins of the Sun stoned two ounces boil all these from a pottle to a quart and with fifty Almonds blanched and thirty Pompion Kernels all well beaten draw an Almond Milk sweetned with good â—ugar to your liking and drink a good draught thereof morning and evening towards the quantity of a pint Dr. Blacksmiths Almond Milk Take of the roots of Ruscus Gramen Sparagus and Succory each three drams Barley prepared half a handful of the leaves of Mallows Violets five leaved Grass Strawberries Borage Bugloss Maiden-hair of each half a handful sliced
Liquorish two drams boil all these in three pints of fair running water to a quart or less then take the weight of a French Crown of the Kernels of each of the three cold seeds and beat them with a few Almonds and white Rose-water and Sugar and make Almond Milk Dr. Atkins excellenâ—t Receipt of Almond Milk to cool and cleanse the Kidneys Take a pint and a quarter of Barley-water and in that boil Althea Iringus Gramen and Sparagus Roots each a French Crowns weight Strawberries and five leaved Grass both Leaves and Roots each a few boil them till the Barley-water be but a pint then strain out the Barley-water and take a French Crowns weight a piece of the four cold seeds and peel off the husks then beat the seeds with the Almonds and strain them forth together with the Barley-water and put to it a little Rose water and Sugar and make it an Almond Milk A Receipt for the Stone Take a gallon of new Milk Wilde Time Sassafras Pellitory of the Wall Philipendula roots Saxifrage of each one handful Parsley leaves two handfuls three or four Radish-roots and as many Parsley roots Anniseeds one ounce cut and slit the roots bruise the hearbs and seeds and put them to infuse in the milk a whole night the next morning distil it in a Rose distiliatory Take ten or twelve spoonfuls of the water and as much White or Rhenish Wine a little Sugar and a sliced Nutmeg It is very good every full and change of the Moon to take morning and evening to prevent sickness and at any time if need require For the green sickness Take Aloes and Rhubarb of each four ounces finely beaten and searsed prepared Steel four drams mix these together with Claret Wine and make them into twenty seven pills and take every morning in three of them using exercise till all be gone and drink after them at each time a glass of Claret wine For any sore Breasts or Paps Take a pottle of running water Sage two good handfuls small minced and a quantity of Oatmeal-greats small beaten boil all these to the thickness of white bread dough but let it not burn to then put to it three spoonfuls of honey and a little saffron stir it well together and boil it to a quart somewhat stiff This Pultess will break and heal it soon and draw away the pain without breaking It will cure any sore Breast or Pap if it be not a Canker or Fistula A Syrrup lasting many years good for Swounding and Faintness of Heart it comforteth the weak Brain and Sinews it may be used as much as half a nut at once at your pleasure Take Borage Bugloss white Endive one little handful of Rosemary-flowers Time Hysop Winter Savory of each one little handful break these between your hands and seethe them in three quarts of water to three pints then strain it and put to it a pint of good Malmsey one ounce of whole Cloves powder of cinamon half an ounce powder of Ginger a quarter of an ounce one Nutmeg in powder Sugar half a pound or more let them seethe upon a soft fire well stirred for burning to until it come to the thickness of Honey then take it up and let it cool and put it in pots or glasses at your pleasure Prescribed by Dr. Twine An approved Medicine for a woman in Labor to make come prove safe deliverance Take powder of Cinamon one dram powder of Amber half a dram finely beaten mingle it with eight spoonfuls of Claret Wine and so let her drink it To know how much Bezar Stone must be taken when one is heart sick Take Bezer Stone the weight of three Barley corns or five at a time once in six or ten hours and give it in a spoon with Carduus Bean-water Borage or Bugloss Ale or Beer Doctor Stevens excellent water wherewith he cured many Diseases following Take one gallon of Gascoign Wine Ginger Gallingal Cammomil Nutmegs Grains of Paradise Cloves Anniseeds Caroway seeds of each one dram then take Sage Mint red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary Penniroyal Montanum Cammomil Babin Harts-tongue Lavender Avance of each a handful bray the spices small and let it stand so twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first by it self for it is best then will there come a second water which is good but not so good as the first for it is fainter The vertues of this water is to comfort the Vital Spirit greatly and preserve the youth of man or woman and helps the inward diseases that come of cold helpeth the shaking of the Palsie and cureth contractions of Sinnews it strengthneth the Marrow in the bones it helpeth the conception of Women that are barren it killeth Worms in the body and cureth the cold Gout and Tooth-ache and it helpeth the Stone in the bladder and the pain in the Reins of the Back and will make one seem young a long time one spoonful of this Aqua vitae shall do more good to a man that is sick then four spoonfuls of any other and this Aqua vitae shall be better if it stand in the Sun all Summer long For the Falling Sickness Take half a peck of Peony roots cleanse rub wash and stamp them and as you stamp them put in Sherry Sack let them be beaten very small and then put to them a pottle of Sherry Sack stir all well together and let it stand close covered twenty four hours then pour of the clearest into bottles and take thereof a little draught every change of the Moon for three mornings one morning after another A Pultess to break a Bile or Imposthume Take Sorrel one handful twelve Figs quartered half a pint of Sorrel juyce boil and break these together till it be very tender and put to it some Wheat flower and when it is well boiled put to it a good piece of butter and lay it warm to the place twice a day till it be drawn enough A Remedy for Worms in Children Take one spoonful of juyce of Lemons powdered Saffron half a scruple and a little Sugar and give this same quantity to the Patient three mornings together For Worms Dr. Wetherborn Take Rhubarb one dram Wormwood half a dram Corralline one scruple Currans one good handful beat them all to a Conserve and mix it with Syrup of Violets to an Electuary and give a childe the quantity of a Walnut thereof every other morning fasting An Oyntment to heal any Bruise or Wound Take Sage Self-heal Smallage Sothernwood Plantain Time Ribwort Rue Parsley Marigold leaves Mercury Wormwood Betony Scabious Valerian Comfrey Lions-tongue Buck-horn of each one handful wash them clean and put them into a Sieve to drain all night and when they are dry chop them very small and put to them two pounds of unwashed Butter well beaten then boil it till half be consumed then strain it into the pot you mean to keep it in It is
keep it in a glass close stopt for your use An Electuary for the passion of the Heart Take Damask Roses half blown cut off their whites and stamp them very fine and strain out the Juyce very strong moisten it in the stamping with a little Damask rose-Rose-water then put thereto fine powder Sugar and boil it gently to a thin Syrup then take the powders of Amber Pearl and Rubies of each half a dram Ambergreece one scruple and mingle them with the said sirup till it be somewhat thick and take a little thereof on a knifes point morning and evening A Drink for a hot Feaver Take Spring-water and red Rose-water of each one pint and a half the juice of three Lemons and white Sugar-candy one ounce and mix them together and give the Patient thereof six or eight spoonfuls at a time often in a day and night until the unnatural heat be extinguished For the Cholick Take equal portions of Honey and Wine put them on a fire and put thereto ground Wheat-meal and a pretty quantity of bruised Cummin-seeds and as much Sorrel boil all together for a pretty while then put them into a linnen bag and apply it to the belly as a plaister Or take a pretty bundle of Time and boil it with a little slice of Ginger in a pint of Malmsey till the third part be wasted and drink thereof as warm as you can For stopping of the Vrine Take the shells of quick Snails wash them and dry them clean and beat them into fine powder whereof take a pretty quantity in White Wine or thin broth For the Stone in the Kidneys Take a pottle of new Ale and as much Renish Wine and put into it two whole Lemons sliced with the peels and all and put to them one Nutmeg beaten and two handfuls of Scurvey-grass beaten and strained into the Ale and half a penniworth of grains of Paradise bruised put all together in a little stand with a cover and after three dayes drink of it with a taste It is also good against the winde Cholick proceeding from the Stone To make Hair grow thick Take three spoonfuls of Honey and a good handful of Vine sprigs that twist like Wire and beat them well and strain their juyce into the Honey and anoint the bald places therewith For the Rhume or Cough in the Stomach Take a pint of Malmsey or Muscadine and boil it in five ounces of Sugarcandy till it come to a Syrup and in the latter end of the boiling put to it five spoonfuls of Horehound distilled water and so suck it from a Liquorish stick bruised at the end Use this onely to bed-ward For the Sciatica Take a pound of yellow Wax six spoonfuls of the juyce of Marjoram and red Sage two spoonfuls of the juyce of Onions of Anniseeds Cloves Frankincense Mace and Nutmegs of each one penniworth and as much Turpentine boil these together to the consistence of a Salve and so apply it For the Piles Roste quick Snails in their shells pick out their meat with a pin and beat them in a Mortar with some powder of Pepper to a Salve then take the dried roots of Pilewort in powder and strew it thin on the Plaister and apply it as hot as you can suffer it To Procure sleep Chop Cammomile and crumbs of brown bread small and boil them with White Wine Vinegar stir it well and spread it on a cloth and binde it to the soles of the feet as hot as you can suffer it You may adde to it dried red Rose leaves or red Rose cakes with some red Rose water and let it heat till it be thick and binde some of it to the Temples and some to the Soles of the feet A good Purge Take Diacatholicon and Syrup of Roses Laxative of each one ounce mix them well together in a penny pot of white Wine and drink it warm early in the morning This purgeth Choller Phlegm and all manner of watry humours For a Fellon in a Joynt Dry Bay salt and beat it into powder and mix it with the yolk of an Egg and apply it to the grieved place in the beginning before the Fellon be broken but if it be first broken then take the juyce of Groundsel the yolk of an Egg a little Honey and Rye flower mix them well together and so apply it To heal a fresh Wound with speed Take the leaves of Columdine Nettles Plantain Ribwort wilde Tarras Wormwood red Roses Betony Violets of each one handful wash them clean and beat them well with the White of an Egg and strain out the juyce through a cloth to which juyce put the quantity of two Walnuts of Honey and half an ounce of Frankincense stir them well together and put it in a box and use it plaister wise Or take Rosin Wax fresh Butter Barrows grease well tried of each a little quantity oyl them well and put it into a bason of cold water and work it with your hands into little rolls spread it on a cloth and apply it If the wound be deep tent it with lint For the pricking of a Needle or Thorn Take boulted Wheat-flower and temper it with red Wine boil them together to the thickness of a Salve and lay it on so hot as you can suffer it This will open the hole draw out the filth and ease the pain For to kill a Corn. Take of the bigness of a Walnut of Ale yeast that is hard and sticks to the tub side put to it a little dried salt finely powdered work them well together and put it in a close box make a plaister of some of it and binde it to the Corn. For Bruises Swellings broken Bones Take Brooklime Chickweed Mallows Smallage Groundsel of each one handful stamp them with a little Sheeps tallow Swines grease and Copin put thereto wine dregs and a little Wheat bran stir them well together over the fire till they be hot so apply it to the place grieved For Burning or Scalding Take Goose dung and the middle bark of an Elder tree fry them in May butter strain them and therewith anoint the burnt or scalded place To help Deafness Take a piece of Rye dough the bigness of an Egg and of that fashion bake it dry in an Oven cut off the end and with a knife cut out the paste and make it hollow then put into it a little Aqua Composita and stir it and so hot as you can endure it apply it to the deaf ear till it be cold you must keep your head very warm If both ears be grieved make two of them and use those three times For the Cholick Take half a sheet of white paper anoint it all over with Oyl Olive and strew thereon gross pepper and so lay it to the belly from the navil downward For the yellow Jaundies Take Pimpinel Groundsel Sheebroom with the tops of each one handful boil them in a quart of Ale till half be consumed then divide it into three
boil your Quinces in Apple-water as you do your Plums To make Quiddony of all kindes of Plums Take your Apple-water and boil the Plums in it till it be red as Claret Wine and when you have made it strong of the Plums put to every pint half a pound of Sugar and so boil it till a drop of it hang on the back of a spoon like a quaking gelly If you will have it of an Amber colour then boil it with a quick fire that is all the difference of the colouring of it To make Marmalet of Oranges or Orange Cakes c. Take the yellowest and fairest Oranges and water them three dayes shifting the water twice a day pare them as thin as you possible can boil them in a Water changed five or six times until the bitterness of the Orange be boiled out those that you preserve must be cut in halves but those for Marmalet must be boiled whole let them be very tender and slice them very thin on a Trencher taking out the seedes and long strings and with a Knife make it as fine as the Pap of an Apple then weigh your Pap of Oranges and to a pound of it take a pound and half of Sugar then you must have Pippins boiled ready in a Skillet of fair water and take the Pap of them made fine on a Trencher and the strings taken out but take not half so much Pippins as Oranges then take the weight of it in Sugar and mix it both together in a silver or earthen Dish and set it on the coals to dry the water out of it as you do with Quince Marmalet when your Sugar is Candy height put in your stuff and boil it till you think it stiff enough stirring it continually if you please you may put in a little Musk in it Touching Pastrey and Pasties To make Sugar Cakes TAke three pound of the finest Wheat Flower one pound of fine Sugar Cloves and Mace of each one ounce finely searsed two pound of Butter a little Rose water knead and mould this very well together melt your Butter as you put it in then mould it with your hand forth upon a board cut them round with a glass then lay them on papers and set them in an Oven be sure your Oven be not too hot so let them stand till they be coloured enough To make clear Cakes of Plums Take Plums of any sorts Raspiss are the best put them in a stone Jug into a pot of seething water and when they are dissolved strain them together through a fair cloth and take to a pint of that a pound of sugar put to as much colour as will melt it and boil to a Candy height boil the liquor likewise in another Posnet then put them seething hot together and so boil a little while stirring them together then put them into glasses and set them in an Oven or Stove in a drying heat let them stand so two or three weeks and never be cold removing them from one warm place to another they will turn in a week beware you set them not too hot for they will be tough so every day turn them till they be dry they will be very clear To make Paste of Oranges and Lemons Take your Oranges well coloured boil them tender in water changing them six or seven times in the boiling put into the first water one handfull of Salt and then beat them in a wooden Bowl with a wooden pestle and then strain them through a piece of Cushion Canvas then take somewhat more then the weight of them in sugar then boil it dry and fashion it as you please To make Rasberry Cakes Take Rasberries and put them into a Gallipot cover them close and set them into a skillet of water aud let them boil till they are all to mash then rub them through a strainer of Cushion Canvas put the liquor into a silver bason and set it upon a very quick fire and put into it one handfull or two of whole Rasberries according to the quantity of your liquor and as you shall like to have seeds in your paste Thus let it boil very fast till it be thick and continually stir lest it burn then take two silver disâ—es that are of a weight and put them into your scales in the one put the Raspis stuff and in the other double refined Sugar finely beaten as much as the weight of Raspiss stuff then put as much water to the Sugar as will melt it set it upon the fire and let it boil till it be very high candied then take it from the fire and put your Raspis stuff into it and when your Sugar and Rasberries are very well mixt together and the Sugar well melted from about the dish which if it will not do from the fire set it on again but let it not boil in any case when it is pretty cool lay it by spoonfuls in plates and put it into your stuff keeping temperate fire to it twice a day till it be candied that will turn them joyn two of the pieces together to make the cake the thicker To make Paste of Genoa Citrons Take Citrons and boil them in their skins then scrape all the pulp from the coar strain it through a piece of Cushion Canvas take twice the weight of the Pulp in Sugar put to it twice as much water as will melt it that is half a pint to every pound of Sugar boil it to a candy heightâ— dry the Pulp upon a Chafing dish of Coales then put the Syrup and the Pulp hot together boil it with stirring until it will lie upon a Pie-plate set it in a warm stone Oven upon two Billets of wood from the heat of the Oven all one night in the morning turn it and set it in the like heat again so turn it every day till it be dry To make a French Tart. Take a quartern of Almonds or thereabouts and peel them then beat them in a Mortar take the white of the breast of a cold Capon and take so much Lard as twice the quantity of the Capon and so much Butter or rather more and half a Marrow-bone and if the bone be little then all the Marrow with the juyce of one Lemon beat them all together in a Mortar very well then put in one half pound of loaf sugar grated then take a good piece of Citron cut it in small pieces and half a quarter of Pistanius mingle all these together take some flower and the yolks of two or three Eggs and some sweet Butter and work it with cold water To make Cakes of Pear-plums Take to a pound of the clear or the Pulp a pound of Sugar and boil it to a Sugar again then break it as small as you can and put in the clear when your sugar is well melted in it and almost cold put it in glass plates aud set them into your stove as fast as you can with coals under them and so
gallon of Liquor one Lemon and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs it must boil till the scum rise black that you will have it quickly ready to drink squeeze into it a Lemon when you tun it It must be cold before you tun it up To make Syrup of Rasberries Take nine quarts of Rasberries clean pickt and gathered in a dry day and put to them four quarts of good Sack into an earthen pot then paste it up very close and set it in a Cellar for ten dayes then distill it in a Glass or Rose-still then take more Sack and put in Rasberries to it then when it hath taken out all the colour of the Raspiss strain it out and put in some fine Sugar to your taste and set it on the fire keeping it continually stirring till the scum doth rise then take it off the fire let it not boil skim it very clean and when it is cold put it to your distilled Raspis but colour it no more then to make it a pale Claret Wine This put into bottles or Glasses stopt very close To make Lemon Water Take twelve of the fairest Lemons slice them and put them into two pints of White Wine and put to them Cinamon two drams Gallingale two drams of Rose leaves Borage and Bugloss flowers of each one handfull of yellow Saunders one dram steep all these together twelve hours then distill them gently in a Glass Still until you have distilled one pint and an half of the Water and then adde to it three ounces of Sugar one grain of Ambergreese and you will have a most pleasing cleansing Cordiall water for many uses To make Gilly-flower Wine Take two ounces of dried Gilly-flowers and put them into a pottle of Sack and beat three ounces of Sugar-candy or fine Sugar and grinde some Ambergreece and put it in the bottle and shake it oft then run it through a gelly bag and give it for a great Cordial after a weeks standing or more You make Lavander Wine as you do this The Lady Spotswood Stomach water Take white Wine one pottle Rosemary and Cowslip flowers of each one handful as much Betony leaves Cinnamon and Cloves grosly beaten of both one ounce steep all these three dayes stirring it often then put to it Mithridate four ounces and stir it together and distill it in an ordinary Still Water of Time for the passion of the heart Take a quart of white Wine and a pint of Sack steep in it as much broad Thime as it will wet put to it of Galingale and Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Cloves Mace Ginger and grains of Paradise two drams steep these all night the next morning distill it in an ordinary Still drink it warm with sugar A Receipt to make damnable Hum. Take species de Gemmis Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Laetificans Galeni of each four drams Loaf Sugar beaten to powder half a pound small Aqua vitae three pints strong Angelica water one pint mix all these together and when you have drunk it to the Dregs you may fill it up again with the same quantity of waters The same powders will serve twice and after twice using it it must be made new again An admirable Water for sore Eyes Take Lapis Tutiae Aloes Hepatica fine hard Sugar of each three drams beat them very small and put them into a Glasse of three pints to which put red Rose-water and white Wine of each one pint set the Glass in the Sun in the Moneth of July for the whole Moneth shaking it twice in a day for all that while then use it as followeth put one drop thereof into the Eye in the evening when the party is in bed and one drop in the morning an hour before the Patient riseth Continue the use of it till the Eyes be well The older the VVater the better it is Most approved A Snail Water for weak Children and old People Take a pottle of Snails and wash them well in two or three waters and then in small Beer bruise them sheâ— and all then put them into a gallon 〈◊〉 red Cowes Milk red Rose leaves dried the whites cut off Rosemary sweet Marjoram of each one handful and so distill them in a cold still and let it drop upon powder of white Sugarcandy in the receiver drink of it first and last and at four a clock in the afternoon a Wine glass full at a time Clary water for the Back Stomach c. Take three gallons of midling Beer put it in a great brasse Pot of four gallons and put to it ten handfuls of Clarey gathered in a dry day Raisins of the Sun stoned three pounds Anniseeds and Liquorish of each four ounces the whites and shells of twenty four eggs or half so many if there be not so much need in the back the shells small and mix them with the whites 〈…〉 the bottoms of three white lâ—â—ves put into the receiver one pound of white Sugarcandy or so much fine loaf Sugar beaten small and distill it through a Limbeck keep it close and be seldom without it for it reâ—â—eth very much the stomach and heart â—trengtheneth the back procureth Appetite and Digestion driveth away Melancholly sadness and heaviness of the heart c. Dr. Montfords Cordial Water Take Angelica leaves twelve handfuls six leaves of Carduus Benedictus Balm and Sage of each five handfuls the seeds of Angelica and sweet Fennil of each five ounces bruised scraped and bruised Liquorish twelve ounces Aromaticum Rosatum Diamoscus dulcis of each six drams the Hearbs being cut small the seeds and Liquorish bruised infuse them into two gallons of Canary Sack for twenty four hours then distill it with a gentle fire and draw off onely five pints of the spirits which mix with one pound of the best Sugar dissolved into a Syrup in half a pint of pure red rose-Rose-water Aqua mirabilis Sir Kenelm Digby's way Take Cubebs Gallingale 〈◊〉 Mellilot flowers Cloves 〈◊〉 Ginger Cinnamon of each one 〈◊〉 bruised small juyce of Celandine 〈◊〉 pint juyce of Spearmint half a 〈◊〉 juyce of Balm half a pint Sugar one pound flower of Cowslips Rosemary Borage Bugloss Marigolds of each two drams the best Sack three pints strong Angelica water one pint red Rose-water half a pint bruise the spices and flowers and steep them in the Sack and juyces one night the next morning distill it in an ordinary or glass still and first lay Harts-tongue leaves in the bottom of the Still The Vertues of the precedent water This Water preserveth the Lungs without grievances and helpeth them being wounded it suffereth not the blood to putrifie but multiplieth the same this water suffereth not the heart to burn nor melancholy nor the 〈◊〉 to be lifted up above nature it expelleth the Rhume preserveth the Stomach conserveth Youth and procureth a good colour it preserveth Memory it destrâ—yeth the Palsie if this be given to one a 〈◊〉 a spoonful of it