fire till the skum arise then take off the skum and take it from the fire then put thereto the powder of Coltsfoot and make it as thick as Conserves of Roses which use at your pleasure A precious Water for a Consumption Take a quart of Rosewater as much of womans milk Goats milk or Cowes milk put unto it twenty yolks of Eggs and mix them well together and thereof distil a Water and give the Patient thereof to drink first and last with a Cake to eat made with Gold and Pearle A Water good for a Consumption or weaknesse Take a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and the yolks of twenty eggs beat them very wel together and put thereto a pint of good Red Wine and two Manchets sliced so mingle all these things together and put them in a plain Still and still it with a soft fire and now and then stir it or else it will have a crust on it the Water may be taken at any time three or four spoonfuls with some Sugar the oftner the better COUGH For the Cough be it never so extreme Take a quart of new milk and a pint of strong Ale and make a posset thereof then take off the curd then take a quarter of a pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned and two big sticks of Licoras and two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruise them and seeth all in the posset Ale until half be sodden away then take it from the fire and put therein so much sweet Butter as the bignesse of a Hasel Nut but let it not seeth after and let the party drink thereof evening 〈…〉 or eight spoonfuls at a time as hot as he can Probatum For the Cough Take a head of Garlick and prick it full of Cloves then take half a handful of three leaved grasse and as much Goats grease put the Garlick head therein and wrap it in russet paper and so roast it in the ashes till it be soft then beat it in a Mortar and straine it then drink it in some Ale or Beer it is good for the Cough A Tisan for the Cough Take a quart of good old Ale and set it on the fire and skim it clean then take half a dozen of good Fennel roots and scrape them and take out the pithes and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in the Ale then take a quantity of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it to the rest then take a handful of Anniseeds and sift them cleane and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth together a pretty while and take a handful of smal Raisons wash and pick them clean and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth a walme or two after then take a penny worth of Sugar candied and put into it when it is almost sodden from a quart to a pint and when it is full sodden to a pint take it off and strain it and drink it at times convenient and put to this Tisan Sugar Honey and Powder of Elicampane root of each a little and some great Raisons the stones taken out and Parsley roots and two or three Figs. For the Cough if it be of the Lungs Take half a pint of Aquavitae of Anniseedâ—â— half penny worth and as much English Licoras scrape it and slice it thin run the Anniseeds very well and fan the dust out of them and put them in together and let them boil on a soft fire till half be consumed then strain it out and wipe the pot and put it in again and put to it three ounces of brown Sugar candied and set it against the fire till it be melted then take it off and use as often as you will drink For the Cough or Cold. Take a quart of Ale and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary and boil it then put to it a spoonful of Sugar and as much butter as an egg and brew them together and let the Patient drink thereof to bedward and keep warm For the Cough Stamp two handfuls of Centory and seeth it in three quarts of Ale to the half then stamp it again and seeth it and put thereto a pint of honey and so take every morning thereof three spoonfuls Another The Cough is a Messenger of all Diseases of the Lights and Brest through the grosness drought moisture spittle and other excrements for the Cough is a motion of the Lights the which by the aire and moving vertue of the Muscels that are within the brest is meet and made for to cough up all that which hurteth the lights and the Rhume provoketh the Cough most of all There are often perillous Coughs through Rhume that falls down out of the head upon the lights and into the brest which is very ill to get out It is good to purge the head with Cochia Pills and to drink sometimes a draught of Barly Water in the morning and eat something after it Then take this Potion Take Syrrup of Endive Honey of Roses and Sirrup of Steches of each half an ounce Water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and half tempered together This Powder is approved to stay the Rhume Take Spica of the Indies one quarter of an ounce Cinnamon one quarter of an ounce of the Scull of a man that dyed through violence three quarters of an ounce take every time it cometh one dram after meat in Wine or any decoction Physicians do commend Barly Water mixt with Julip of Violets CORNES For to take away Cornes First cut away the Corne and root him out then drop into the hole a drop or two of a black Snail and put thereto the powder of Sandyfer and it will wear the Corn away Also cut your Cornes away and lay a little piece of the red Cerecloth upon the hole and in three months it will wear it clean away CRAMP For the Cramp Take the little bones of the Hares hinder legges which are in the knee joints if you touch the place grieved therewith it helpeth Also take Hollioaks Oyl of Violets and of Swines grease of each a little quantity and make an Ointment of them and annoint the place Another Take the Flank wool of a sheep carded in flakes and dipped in Sallet Oyle and wrap it about your leggs or where it taketh you and it will heat the Cramp and ease it DEAFNESSE For Deafnesse an excellent Medicine TAke the juice of Betony with the most part of Camomile wet in it a lock of wool and stop it in the deaf ear and Water stilled of the same Herbs to be powred into the ears is a help for deafness For the Hearing Take Oyle of Roses and White Wine Vineger of each alike and mingle them together and at night in bed put one drop into the ear and stop it with black wooll and lye on the other side DROPSIE A very good Drink to cure the Dropsie Take of Peperitis Roots otherwise called
palenesse with full vaines stuffing of the head or nose swelling of the eyes pain in the throat motion to vomit swelling of the Almonds the Remedy is to use dry and warm Herbs as Sage Fennâ—â— Mints Rosemary Marjerom Time c. and after meat use something to close the stomack as prepared Coriander toasted Bread c. and walk in a morning fasting Hot Rheume the signes thereof are these viz. the face is red mixt with a pale or black colour great heat in the nose with itchings when the mouth and the throat is full of bitterness and sharpnesse and if the head be hot in feeling it s thus to be cured he must be let blood and use this Gargarism Take Sirrup of Jaunbes of Violets and Poppy seeds of each alike temper them with Barley water Or take Jaunbes Sebestians Violets white Poppy seeds and Quince kernels decocted in Barley water use it in the evening after meat it is passing good Also take Sirrup of Poppy seeds Sirrup of Mulberries of Roses and well water of each three ounces of Wine of Pomgranats one ounce make it warm and gargle therewith RICKETS For the Rickets in Children Cut the middle gristle of both the ears and with the blood annoint the belly and the Navel with a little Cotton wool then boil Harstongue and Liverwort in Milk or Broth for their usual Dyet Another Take Bay berries bruised and sweet Marjerom of each a handful and boil it in Beer with three or four blades of Mace and so drink it often Another When the former will not help take Fennel seeds and Dill seeds of each alike but most of Dill boile them in Beer and strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink often Probatum RUPTURE A Plaister to keep up the Rupture Take Knotgrass and Shepherds Purse of each one handful of Comfrey and Solomons seale of each half a handful beat them into an Oyl and thereof make your Plaister This Oyl will be preserved all the year in a Gally pot A Drink for the Rupture Take long Plantane Yarrow and Knotgrass of the redest colour of each a great handful Daisie roots Dovefâ—ot Mousear and Borage of each a small handful wash them very clean and shred them grosse then take three quarts of milk and two quarts of White Wine set the milk on the fire and when it doth seeth put in the Wine and as the Curd ariseth take it away and being clean put in the Herbs and let them boil gently a quarter of an hour then take it off and straine it and preserve it in Glasses and let the Patient drink thereof in the morning fasting and so in the evening almost a pint at a draught and do so one week Another Take Comfrey roots Daisie roots and Pollipodium of the Oak make them into fine powder and drink thereof every morning the weight of six pence the space of a fortnight fasting an houre after it For the Rupture in Children Take Frankinsence half an ounce Aloes a quarter of an ounce beat it small and mix it with the white of an egg unto an Oyntment and therewith annoint the child upon his Rupture morning and evening Also take the root of Aron halfe a pound in powder and give thereof unto the child every day for nine dayes together one dram with water of Parfoliata and tye the Rupture with a Boulster close upon it and unto it RESTORATIVE A Restorative Take Treakle Sallet Oyl Sugar candied Cinamon powder made with Licoras and Sugar of each a penny worth mingle all these together and take a quantity thereof as much as a Nut both morning and evening Another Take a quantity of Ale or Beer and put therein over night three or four sprigs of Rew and drink thereof evening and morning for a good space and it will keep your stomack in good order A restoring Medicine for any decay of the inner parts Take Live Honey and put thereto tops of Balme Cowslip flowers Borage flowers Bugloss flowers and tops of Gilly flowers and set this remain in the Honey the space of a Month stopping the pot very close that no aire come in let it stand all the said time in some warm place either in the. Sun or by the fire side then distil it in a glass Still with a little water and drink thereof every morning a good draught A Restorative made of an Herb called Rosâ—solis This Herb groweth in the Meadows in low Marish grounds and in no other places it is of Horseflesh colour and groweth very long and flat to the ground with a main long stalk growing in the midst of six branches springing out of the roots round about the stalk with a hoar colour and a main breadth and length and I do warn you in any wise not to touch this Herb when you gather it with your hands for then the vertue is gone you must gather it by the stalk and so pluck it out of the ground and put it in a glasse or pewter pot the leaves of this Herb are full of strength and vertue Take of this Herb as much as will fill a pottle pot but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua vitae and put them both together in a large vessel and let it stand being chopped just three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day strain it through a clean cloth into a glasse or pewter pot and put to it half a pound of Licoras beaten to fine powder and half a pound of Dates take out the stones of them and cut them into fine slices and mingle all these together and stop the glass or pewter pot close that no Aire come into it and drink of it at night to bedward half a spoonful with Ale and as much in the morning fasting for there is not the weakest man or body in the world that wanteth nature or strength or that is cast into any Consumption but it will restore them again and cause them to be strong and lusty and have a marvellous hungry stomack and that very shortly for he that useth this Medicine three times shal find a great change and comfort in it and as he feeleth himself so he may use it It cured one Mr. Stubbs who dwelt in Westminster and was in a great Consumption and very neer unto death being sick continually for eighteen weeks and all the Physicians in London had forsaken him and these things were sent him to drink from an outlandish man and in three times drinking of it he walked upon his feet RULES for Health A very good Rule for Mans Health to be used in every Month of the Year written 1607. In January use no Physick but warme clothing cat warm meats and drink White Wine fasting it is wholsom In February forbear Physick and letting of blood take no cold for fear of Agues which are easily gotten In March forbear grosse feeding purge by Potions Bathing or Blood-letting In April Physick is good upon occasion
precede Phlebottomiae or else the cold blood will remain Lastly It s good sometimes to be let blood that the blood may be led or drawn from one place to another BONES How to use Fractured Bones four kinds of Factures First when it is broken in length Next when it is broken overthwart Thirdly when it is oblick and crooked Fourthly when it is girded and broken and shivered in divers pieces either legs or armes Albusences and others later Writers make the difference of Fractures not according to the bone fractured but after the place affected as if the Nose be broken brain-pan jawes ribs back-bone armes legs or other parts which be not differences of Fractures but of the place affected according to nature Four Directions in the Cure of Fractures according to the place fractured First to respect that the bones be put again in their former place Secondly to be reduced to their natural and so conserved and kept without motion or hurt Thirdly That the bone broken may be ingendred and conglutinated together by ingendring of Callus Fourthly To correct the Accidents that do come after the Fracture of the bones How the Bones out of joint ought to be put together Be sure of help to hold the party at need for the Legg or Arm let him sit in a Chair and with annointing draw it out till the place be met as tenderly as you may having respect to the party grieved his complexion and nature How Bones may be conserved after they be set in their natural place Look well to your rolling First it is very good to take the white of an egge and Oyle of Roses mixt together and wet therein the linnen Cloathes which may cover the place broken and somewhat more of the other and roll it not hard for it may cause dolour and flux of humours How the Rollers must be used The first Roller upon the Fracture three or four times and so to the second part upwards the third Roller leek downward and it must be half as low as the first these Rollers should be wet in water and wine before you use them If the pain be vehement then the member would be wrapped about with fine wooll well carded or else with stuff wet in Oxicrotium A defensive Medicine Take Unguentum Populeum two ounces Bole Armoniack one ounce mix these together with Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger If the place appear blistered Take half a pint of running water and set it on the fire and put in fine Wax a little Oyl of Roses and sine Barly meal seethe them altogether but not very thick then make thereof a Plaister or Cere-cloth strike it upon the cloth upon the bottom of a Pewter dish over a Chafingdish and coals and lay it luke-warm to the arm or leg a night and a day and it will asswage the humour of boyning For the Wound of Broken Bones Take luke-warm Mell Rosarum and Oyle of Roses and a stamp of flax dipped in the Whites of Eggs and so bind it upon the sore Also apply about the place Bole Armoniack Sanguis Draconis and Olibanum beaten with a little Oyl of Roses Barley meal and Vineger round about the sore and so comfort the Patient A Defensive against Boyning of a broken Bone in the Leg. Make your Plaister of Oyle of Roses and Oyle of Mirtle melted together with a little wax and when it is cold put to it Bole Armoniack and Pompuleon of each one ounce of Wine two ounces and lay it a handful broad upon the hurt and let it lye A Poultice for any Boyning inward Take a pint of new Cowes milk a pint of Rye-bread crumbs a handful of French Poppy leaves shred small two ounces of Oyle of Roses three yolks of new laid eggs and as much Saffron as the weight of a Groat First boil the milk the crumbs and the Poppy together a good while and then put in the rest and spread it upon a faire linnen cloth To asswage the swelling upon any broken Bone or out of joint Take Unguentum Pompuleum one ounce Bole Armoniack one ounce mix them together with a little Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger For the Bone ache Take the leaves and flowers of Henbane and put them in an earthen pot with May butter and close the pot and set it in a dunghil three months then annoint the grieved place therewith BODY To distil a Cock good for any weak Person Take a red or black Cock and pluck him quick and whip him alive with small twigs a pretty while then cut off his head and gut him and cut him in quarters and wipe him very dry with a fair cloth then take an earthen pot and lay four or five splints to keep it from the bottom of the pot then lay in the four quarters upon the splints and lay between every quarter some of these Roots and Fruit following Fennel roots Parsley roots Succory roots of each two or three two or three slips of Rosemary two or three Dates quartered half a handful of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out six spoonfuls of Rhenish Wine Malmesey or Muskadine three or four whole Mace cover the pot and stop it close with paste and set it in a pot or kittle of hot water and let it boil softly with a temperate fire sour hours then take it up and let it run through a fair cloth without any forcing then put it in a fair glasse or pot and keep it close covered and give to the Patient two or three spoonfuls at once or in quantity as the stomack is able to take it in some broth made of Mutton or Veal first in the morning and as often in the day besides as he hath a stomack to take it To preserve the Body Take a pottle of fair water and six Calves feet and put therein Betony Long-wort Liver-wort Knot-grasse Clary Balm with a quantity of Mace Cinnamon and Ginger and six Dates let all these be sodden together till it come to a Jelly and then take a quart of White-wine or very pure claret and put therein and eat it at your pleasure Another Take the marrow of Venison a pint of running water three leaves of Clary three leaves of Comfrey one handful of Archange a handful of Charnel theree Dates a handful of smal Raisons seeth altogether till it come to half a pint then strain it and put thereto a pint of white Bastard and a quantity of Manus Christi Another Take a pint of Muskadine and put thereto Hemp-seed and blanched Almonds and Cap Dates two or three whole Mace and a Nutmeg and three crops of Rosemary and a little Saffron and red Rose-water and boil them all together till half be boiled away and after they be boiled put thereto Mithridatum about the quantity of a hasel Nut but let it not seethe after and let the party drink thereof at his going to bed at night Another Take a pottle of water and a Chickken and
drink a good draught for three mornings together and it will cause the Stone to break and provoke Urine abundantly For the Stone Collick Take a half penny worth of Summer Savory seeds and of Parsley seeds of Bay berries of Gromel of each a half penny worth and boil them in a posset of White Wine and drink For the wind Collick Take the water of Heraff and the root of a red Dock the inner pith taken away and the neather bark of an Ash of one years growth and pound them and strain them with the said water and so drink it first and last Another Take Parsley seeds and bruise them and seeth them in Sack and drink it warm when you have your pain Also Carduus Balsam is excellent An excellent Medicine for the Collick or Sâ—one Take Pellitory Unset Leeks and Mallowes of each a like stamp them and put thereto a pennyworth of Neats foot Oyl and fry them well together in manner of a Plaister put them in a linnen bag and apply it to the Raines of the back but for the Collick apply it to the Navel and it will help within an hour CONSUMPTION For a Consumption Take a couple of Marrow bones and seeth them and put in a great handful or two of Unset Leeks cut small with the roots and blades fair washed and when they be washed and sodden take them forth and strain them and take out the Marrow and put it into the broth then take a half penny worth of Ginger as much Pepper a penny worth of Cinnamon a half penny worth of Cloves and Mace a quarter of a pound of Sugar let all be very small beaten and put into the broth and drink it warme morning and evening as the stomack will bear it A Soveraign Medicine for man or woman in a Consumption First take a red Cock and kill him and flea him and cut him in four quarters but wash them not then take six cap Dates and cut them in four quarters and take half a score of large Mace and six whole Cloves then put in three or four pieces of old Gold and stamp the bones of the Cock then take a pewter pottle pot and lay in one quarter and lay upon it some of every Spice and a piece of old Gold and so upon every quatter until the last be put in and you may if you will put to the said Ingredients Amber Coral and Pearle but no kind of Licoras neither first nor last and when it is perfectly boiled put thereto a dozen or sixteene Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out Then take so much Rye dough as will stop the pots mâ—uâ—h close and thick enough of the paste so that no water may enter into it then take a good great brasse pot and set it on the fiâ—e that the pewter pot and the Ingredients that is in it may stand covered with water at least two handfuls and put some heavy weight upon the pewter pot that it be not overthrown in the boiling and let it seeth continually from five of the clock in the morning untill eight of the Clock at night then take it off and open the Pewter pot and let the Patient take of that Syrrup a spoonful at a time And when you make it for a woman you must use these Herbs Hartstongue Motherwort Mugwort Mother Time and Comfrey but no Herbs must be used for a man And if the woman be hot in the liver take Liverwort and if troubled with the Stone take a little Pellitory of the Wall A very excellent Water for a Consumption Take a red Cock and pluck him alive then quarter him and take out his bowels very clean and wipe him very dry with a linnen cloth then put the quarters into a pottle of the best Sack and pâ—t into them Rosemary Time Penniâ—oyal and Pimpernel of each of these one small handful of Dates the stones being taken out half a pound of Currans one pound let them lye and steepe in the Sack two houres then still them in a Stillatory and of the Water thereof use two spoonfuls one hour before you go to Dinner and so likewise before Supper and it will much restore your body This was used by the Lord Chief Justice Popham For a Consumption Take a pound and half of Prok fat and lean and boil it in water and put in some Oatmeal and boil it till the heart of the meat be out and then put in two penny worth of milk and boil it a quarter of an hour and give the Patient a draught in the morning in the afternoon and at night and now and then some Barley water and by Gods grace it will help Another Take a fair earthen pot and put therein a gallon of Claret Wine and then take a Capon well flesh'd but not fat and gut him and put in his belly half a handful of Mace and as much Raisons and Curransâ— then cover the pot and set it on the fire and let it seeth till the half be consumed then put the Capon into a Mortar with some of his broth and bray his bones and all then let it seethe one walm after and passe it through a Jelly bag into a close Vessel then take a Goblet full and put thereto the yolks of six new laid Eggs the strainet taken away and seethe it well and then give the Patient to drink as hot as he can suffer it in the morning fasting likewise before noon and before he goeth to bed and ere three Capons be spent by the grace of God he shall be much amended To restore one that is in a Consumption Take three pints of new milk and one pint of very good Red Wine and four yolks of Eggs beat them with the milk and Wine and put to it as much fine Manchet crumbâ— as will make it thick like thin batter and put in one quarter of an ounce of beaten Mace and distil all these with fire and draw a pint of water out of it and take one spoonful of the water in Pottage or drink morning and evening To nourish one in a Consumption Take a Chicken and take out his bones and wash it in White Wine and put it into a pipkin without liquor with a few Currant and then still it five on six hours upon Embers without coals then take a spoonful thereof and drink with thin broth For a Consumption Take Coltsfoot Burnet leaves Wood-Betoby leaves red Rose leaves Comfrey roots of each one handful pick'd and sliced boil them in running water from three quarts to three pints then strain them and put into the liquor two pound of good Sugar and the whites of two new laid eggs then boil it a quarter of an hour and take off the skum and take of this Sirrup seven spoonfuls in the morning fasting and at night to bedward Probatum For a Consumption or Cough of the Lungs Take three spoonfuls of English Honey and three of fair water mixed together set it on the
apart by themselves and not altogether then take of each water a like quantity and put them together in a glasse and let the party grieved lye upright one half quarter of an hour in the morning at noon and at night and drop into his eyes at each time one or two drops and close the eys afterwards For sore Eyes Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten and cut out the core and then strain it through a fine cloth into some fair thing and of the juice of that Apple drop into your eye that is sore morning and evening A precious Water to clarifie the Eyes and to take away the Pearle in the Eye Take red Roses Smallage Rew Vervain Maidenhair Ewfrace Endive Seagreen red Fennel Hillwort and Cellendine of each like quantity then wash them clean and lay them in good White Wine the space of a day and then distil them the first water will be like Gold the second like silver and the third like Balme for any sore and it is precious for Ladies in stead of Balm water For heat in the Eyes Take a new laid egg open the top and let out all that is in the shell and divide the yolk from the white and then put in the white again into the shell and put thereto as much of the juice of Houseleek strained as there is of the white of the egge and so much Roach Allome as a hasel nut then set the egg shall with the things aforesaid in it upon some embers and so let it boil and when it is boiled the white will be smewhat hard then take it off and let all the water run from it and that water drop into eyes that be sore morning and evening The juice of Slowes being dropped into the eyes is as good a Medicine as may be and so is the juice of Cellendine but they must be severally used A very good Water for a Blast or Rheume in the Eyes Take Callaminaris stones and burne them well in the fire and when they be very hot quench them six or seven times in pure White Wine and Rosewater then leave the stones in the liquor two or three dayes and after apply it to your eyes Mrs. Meggs Receipt An Oyntment for sore eyes and such as be blasted Take the powder of Callaminaris and put thereunto the grease of a fat Pullet that never laid egg and some White Sugar candied finely beaten to powder and some Oyl of Almonds mix all these well together and use it as occasion is offered Mrs. Meggs For a Pearle in the Eye Take a quantity of Pearlwort as much Heyhowd and a less quantity of Ground Ivy and stamp them thereto put a spoonful of life Honey and about two or three drops of Rosewater strain these and drop the juice often in the eye Another for the same Take white Hemlock and Ground Ivy a little quantity sowre leaven and a little Bay salt and stamp them then put thereto a little Vineger and thereof make a Plaister upon Sheeps leather and lay it to the wrist of the contrary side To stay the hot Rheume in the Eye Take Bole Armoniack powdered the white of an egge well beaten and thereof make a Plaister and lay it to the temples Another for the same Wet a Cloth in the juice of House-leek and lay it upon the brow For heat in the Eyes Take White Wine wherein Lapis Callaminaris hath been seven times quenched and drop it into the eyes when you go to bed with a feather For the black or white Pearle in the Eye Take a handful of Ground Ivy and stamp it and strain it with some fasting spettle and temper it with a little clarified Honey and drop it in your eye Take Sugar candied and beat it small and searese it fine and blow it with a quill into your eye Take Coperas and beat it very fine and blow it in the eye Take Wormwood and beat it then take the white of an egg and beat it and take off the froth then make a pellet of flower and wet it and warm it and lay it to the eye For sore Eyes Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water then take away the skum with a feather then take a piece of rough canvass as broad as ones forehead and put upon your canvass Tow or Flax then powre your egge upon it then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillata and so bind it fast to your Temples when you go to bed but lye not upon the sore eye side and in the morning when you rise take it off suddenly but soak it first with fair water lest it grieve you when you take it off Do this three nights together Another Take the Oyle of a Goose wing a little English Honey and beat them well together in a sawcer then strain it through a clean cloth and drop it into the eye with a feather Probatum For heat in the Eyes Take a piece of a new white loaf and put it into running water and wrap it in a linnen cloth and lay it to the Eyes For a Pin or Web in the Eyes Boil in egg-shell water the stones of Raisons of the Sun and Goose dung new taken and strained therein is very good Capons grease washed in Plantane water and Tutia prepared mixt in it is very good for a sore eye For Bleare Eyes Take the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with the water aforesaid and put into your eye will take away the blood and aking For Blood-shotten Eyes Take the blood of a stock Dove or for want of it of a Pigeon and drop a little into your eyes and wet a cloth therein and lay it on the Eye helpeth the blood shotten eye whether by stroak or otherwise Sometimes the paine cometh of Choler and then the patient feeleth great heat sharp prickings much paine and commonly there appeareth no gumme in the Eye if there do it is yellow therefore the Patient ought to be purged as hath been said in the Remedies of the head proceeding of the cause of Choler And in the beginning of the redness lay Tow or Flax dipped in the white of an egg well beaten with Rose-water and Plantane water To recover the sight Take three drams of Tuttie made into very fine powder as much of Alge Epatum or Epaline in powder two drames of fine Sugar six ounces of rose-Rose-water as much of pure White Wine mixt all together and put it into some clean Vessel of Glasse and being well closed and stopped set it in the Sun a month together stirring it once every day then take four or five drops of the same water and put it into the Eyes morning and evening this in short space will cause the sight to come againe as faire as ever before For swelling of the Eyes Take a Quince and seeth it in water til it be soft then pare it bruise it and mingle it with the yolk of an egg
and the crumbs of white bread dipped in the fame Water and put thereto a little womans milk and two penny worth of Saffron bray them together and lay it over your forehead and the eyes Sometime such pain chanceth because of phlegme and then the Patient feeleth great pain and heavinesse in the eyes and in this case you must purge the phlegme as hath been said in the Remedies of the head grieved with the excess of phlegme To clarifie the sight or for redness of the eyes Take Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it in White Wine and set it so stand a day and a night then take of the thinnest and wet your eyes with a feather when you go to bed to resolve the Gum you must wash your eyes with houselee sometimes the pain cometh because of ventosity or wind and then the Patiene feeleth such pain as it were beating between the ears with a Hammer for which it is good to make a Decoction of Camomile flowers Mellilote and Fennel seeds in water and White Wine and therein wet a fourfold linnen cloth well pressed down and lay it upon the eyes often Otherwhiles there chanceth pain in the eyes by outward accidents as wind dust or heat milk well beaten with the white of an egge is good and sometimes the same pain cometh of striking and then drop in your eye the blood of a Pigeons wing which blood will take away spotted marks and rednesse of the face For a great pain in the Eye Take half an ounce of Oyl of Roses the yolk of an egge and a quarter of an ounce of Barley flower and a little Saffron mixt together and put it between two linnen cloths and lay it to the pain or else take the crumb of white bread one ounce and seeth it with Nightshade and Morral water then mix with the same bread yolks of eggs Oyl of Roses and Camomile of each an ounce and a half of Linseed one ounce and use it as aforesaid A very good Water to strengthen the sight and to prevent a Catherick Take Eyebright Vervain Tormentill of each two pound Cellendine Egrimony Wood Betony Honey suckle flowers White or Red Roses Vine leaves Pimpernel Fennel Rue Oculus Christi Chickweed Smallage and Clover of each a pound beat them small and steep them in a gallon of White Wine twelve hours then fill your Still reasonable full and put to it three great spoonfuls of Honey a pint of new milk and half a pint of Urine of a man child then still it and draw about a pint and a half of a Still For an Eye that is very full of pain Take of Violet leaves a quarter of a handful of Daisies roots and all half as many wash them and dry them very well in a cloth then stamp them and put to it a spoonful of red Rose water and strain it then take the white of a new laid egg well beaten and take away the froth then put that to the things aforesaid with half a quarter of a spoonful of Honey and drop this in the eye morning and evening and twice or thrice a day and at night lay on the eye the pap of a roasted Apple or of a rotten Apple and put a little juice of Houseleek amongst it and a little fine Sugar candied lay it upon the Eye two or three nights if the pain be great lap upon it a piece of fresh Bief two or three hours and so again as you see cause Lay to your neck behind Elder leaves and Woodbetony dryed between two tiles sprinkled with a little Vinegar and strew on good store of beaten Pepper when it is hot lay it on a thin cloth and so lay it to the neck night and morning four or five times Also make blisters behind the ears if you see cause If there grow a skin upon the eye put in Allome Water with the juice of Cellendine in it or if it be much the juice of Ground Ivy drop this in twice a day and the white powder once a day For Blood-shotten Eyes If the Violet Water will not help take five or six cornes of Cummin seeds bruised as many blades of Saffron put in a fine rag let it soak in a spoonful of red Rose water strain it and put to it a spoonful of Womans milk and drop this often into the eye For a very great Pearle in the Eye Put in the Eye a little clarified Honey and a little fine Ginger in it and sometimes the powder of white Sugar candied half an hour before you put in either put in a little fresh grease For a Rheume in the Eyes Make Eggshell Water with the juice of Houseleek as much white Copperas as a pease twice as much Honey this is good if you perceive the Humour to be very hot also it is good with Snow water and if the Humour be cold make it with half stilled water and half Eyebright Water if between both make it with fair water To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Take Woodbind bruised and lay it to your Temples For a Pin or Web in the Eye Take Herb Christopher stamp it and strain it and put in a little honey drop it in twice a day also lay on his eye white bread milk and Violets made in a Poultice also take Cellendine Daisies roots and all brown Fennel Cliver Betony Plantane Sorrel twice as much as the rest there must be of each a handful a pint of new milk a dram of white Coperas in powder two great spoonfuls of Honey do not draw it dry drop it in the eye three or four times in two hours and lay a wet cloth upon the eye To bring away the Rheume from the Eye Set the feet in Camomile sod in water two houres if you can then lap them in a blanket two houres keeping it warme with warm clothes For any spot in the Eye Take the scraping of a whetstone and Bay salt made very fine and put thereof twice a day into your Eye For a Pin and Web. Roast an egg and put in a piece of Copperas as big as a Pease and nine Cummin seeds strain it and put in a little Honey Alloes Sicatrina made in powder and strained with a little Rose water is very good for any sore eyes Capons grease washed with Plantane water and Tutia prepared and mixt together is very good for sore eyes to annoint them with it To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Make water seething hot and wet a good big cloth in it and lay it all over the forehead when it beginneth to wax cool wet another and lay to it hot and do so half an hour together against the fire For a prick in the Eye with a thorne and to drive out the thorne or stubble Take he treddle of an egg and put it in your eye and biod it in For a Bâ—â—iâ—â— in the Eye Lay to the Temples a piece of raw fresh Bâ—ef and to the eye put
and lay it warm to the eyes Also if deflux cause much pain take unwashed sheeps wool burn it to ashes in a close stopped pot bruise it as small as may be and mix it with the white of an egge and lay it on your forehead and temples This asswageth the Catarrhe very quickly and abateth the pain A Plaister for the Temples or sore Eyes Take Alloes Mirrhe Mirtle leaves Acatia of each one dram Mastick and Frankinsence of each half a dram beaten small together and make it to a Plaister with the white of an egg Likewise he ought to purge with Pills of Cochia which be sharpned with the Trocisies of Alhandaly Also with the Confection of Hierâ— and such like Oyle of linnen being made thus is very good for sore Eyes viz. set it a fire with a candle and lay the linnen upon an even piece of iron tin or silver and put it out quickly and you shall find a drop of Oyle the which take up with a feather This healeth marvellously well the Imposthume of the eyes taketh away the pain and is good for a Fistula and Wounds in the Eyes FACE To take away the Scars or Pockholes or redness in the Face TAke a good quantity of Lemmons and slice them rinds and all and distil them laying them on fair sticks that they touch not the bottom of the Still and with the Water that cometh thereof annoint the face and it will soon take away the rednesse and scars of the face For a sawcie Face Take a pottle of White Wine and a quarter of a pound of Cinnamon cleane rubbed and winnowed then seeth it in the White Wine till it be half sodden away and then put it into a pot and drink it evening and morning till the Patient be cured Probatum An approved good Medicine to cool and repel the redness of the face that proceedeth of heat Take a quantity of running water and a quantity of Brimstone and as much Allome beaten small together put them with the water into a glasse fast stopped and so let it stand every morning and evening take a little out into a sawcer and with a linnen rag wash your face therewith and so let it dry in with wiping For Spots in the Face For a mans or a womans face that seemeth as they were drunken take Water-cresses and cut them small and put them in a small earthen pot and put fair Spring water thereto and let them boil together and drink of that water morning and evening To make the Face fair Take the flowers of Beanes and distil them and wash the face with the water Some say that the Urine of the party grieved is very good to wash the face and to keep it from blemishing If the face be washed with the water that Rice is sodden in it taketh away the Pimples and cleanseth the face For heat in the face Seeth white Copperas in running water and let it stand till it be cold and then put in a little Camphire and every morning and evening take a little of that water in a sawcer and with a little cloth dipt in it wash and bathe your face therewith and let it dry in of it self A Drink for the Heat or Rednesse in the Face Take four handfuls of Wild Tansie and boil it in two Gallons of small wort let it stand until it be almost cold then put to it a little Barme and let it work and when it is ripe put it in a close vessel and so let it stand three or four dayes then you must drink of it every day twice so long as you use it An excellent Water for the same Take twelve Lemmons and pare them to the very juice four new laid egges shells whites and yolks beaten all together six spoonfuls of pure English Honey Temper all together and distil them with a very soft fire and receive the water thereof in a glasse for your use putting thereto a little Mercury to make it keep and continue An excellent Lac Virginis to make the Face Neck or any part of the Body fair and white Take of Alumen Plumosi half an ounce of Camphire one ounce of Roach Allome one ounce and a dram Sal gemmi half an ounce white Frankinsence two ounces Oyle of Tartar one ounce and a half make all these into most fine powder and mix it with one quart of rose-Rose-water then set it in the Sun and let it stand there nine dayes often stirring it then take Littarge of Silver half a pound beat it fine and fearse it then boil it in one pint of White Wine Vinegar until one third part be consumed ever stirring it with a stick while it boileth then distil it by a Filter or let it run through a thick Jelly bag then keep it by it self in a glass Vial and when you will use these Waters take a drop of the one and a drop of the other in your hand and it will be like milk which is called Lac Virginis wash your face or any part of your body therewith It is most precious for the same Probatum Dr. Walmesley For the Pimples in the Face Take Wheat-flower mingled with honey and vinegar lay it upon them and it cleanseth them To dry up any Pimples or heat in the Face Take Virgin Wax one ounce and a half May Butter three ounces meâ—â— them then put to them Cerus half an ounce Bole Armoniack a scruple a little Rose water to wash it after these are melted together annoint the Pimples with it twice a day FELLON To ripen a Fellon or Boil Take Rue Sage and the fat of rusty Bacon of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and lay it on a linnen cloth warm to the Grief Another Take an Onion roasted put thereto Honey and Wheat flower and so beat it all together and lay it to the sore To kill a Fellon Take an egg and roast it hard and take the yolk thereof and take an Onion and roast it soft and beat the yolk and the Onion together and lay it to the sore and it will kill the Fellon A Soveraign Salve to heal the Fellon Take of the Soot of a house that is on the Beams and break it to powder and take the yolk of an egg and bray them together then lay it on a clean cloth and lay it on the sore and this will heal it An excellent Poultice to take away the anguish of a Fellon and to break it speedily Take milk and put therein crumbs of White Bread and boil them together very tender to a Poultice then take it from the fire and put therein the yolk of an egg and have ready some white Lilly roots wrapped up in a brown paper and roasted very tender first bruise the roots into a pap then mingle them well with the other things and so apply it warme to the griefe and when it is broken use healing Salve For a Fellon Take Verjuice and crumbs of browne bread
Head through Melancholy It is described thus It is not so great as the former but with a drynesse and sadnesse the heat is more evident in the left side of the face then in the right it causeth disquietness and unnatural sleep it causeth fearful faintheartedness and carefulness the colour of the face is red and blue with a soure taste in the mouth if the Patient be old and if it be about Autumne then the signes are more sure Glisters are good in this case Of the paine in the Head caused by cold The signes are wearisomness of all parts as if the body were beaten and broken to pieces the paine is not extreme without any swelling or thirst sleepinesse much spitting at the mouth and moisture at the nose palenesse of colour and somewhat sullen the eyes run and the mouth out of taste In such cases use warm and dry Medicines and purging is very needful in this Infirmity Also this Wine following is excellent for this purpose Take Rosemary two handfuls Nutmegs one ounce dryed Betony two ounces Cloves two drams being cut very small put thereto eight quarts of good Rhenish Wine let it stand three dayes then for a weak stomack drink a good draught at the beginning of meals but for the Head ache at the latter end This Wine is very good for a cold and moist braine and hurtful for young folks and hot complections The Dyet must be strong Wine but very little left it disturb the Head once in eight dayes wash the head with the decoction of Camomile Marjerome and Steches and before meales rub the head with warme cloaths and after meales take a little Marmalade to hinder the vapour in ascending to the head But because the Laxative Medicines through their own power do not expel all humours for which they be given without such things as convey their operation towards some certain members which one desireth to purge therefore take this Oximil following and if you put thereto Nutmegs Piony seeds or Cubebs then doth it only purge the head and no other part of the body and if you put thereto Tamariscus and Caper roots then it purgeth the Melt and so for all the rest but because we speak now only of the head these are the Simples or Herbs that do conduct the Medicines thereto viz. Nutmegs Cubebs and Piony Penniroyal Marjerom Balsome wood and Seeds Frankinsence Beaver Codd Labdanum Mellilot Squils Spicknard Hisop and Pepper Oximel that is called at the Apothecaries Compositum or Diareticum Take Fennel roots and roots of Smallage of each two ounces the seeds of Parsley of Butchers broom Sparage Smallage and Fennel of each one ounce take out the pith or core of the roots chop them and seeth them in a quart of water till they be mellow then strain them through a cloth and add the Decoction of three ounces of sharp Vinegar twelve ounces of Honey let them seeth to a Sirrup it doth attenuate all tough slimes it driveth them out of the members opens the obstructions of the Liver Melt and the Kidnies and expelleth them A very good Medicine for Paine or Wind in the Head which much hindreth the Hearing Take one Clove of Garlick pill it and make three or four holes in it then dip it in fine English Honey and put it in your ear and lye on the other side and put in black wool after it and continue this eight dayes and it will expel the pain expulse the Humour at the nose and restore the Hearing For a White Scurf or Scabbed Head Take White wort Cellendine Ground Ivy. Mercury Wormwood and an Herb called Dead mens Bells growing in Woods like Leek blades of each of these alike and stamp them and mingle them with fresh grease And burne green Ash to ashes and mix it with fresh grease and annoint the place eherewith To heal a Scald Head Take Lye that is made with the bark of an Ashen tree and wash the head therewith and annoint it with Quicksilver killed in Barrowes grease and fasting spittle Another Take yolks of eggs and put thereunto as much Turpentine then fry them in Swines grease and stir them well together in the frying to a Salve and so lay it to the sore head Another Take the roots of the small reeds that grow in ditches burn them to ashes and apply the ashes wet in Vinegar to the sore Head This healeth the sore and maketh hair to grow The bark of an Ashen tree being well boiled in water with the Lye thereof sometimes wash the Head to cleanse it whiles the other Medicines be applyed to the same Another Take black Snailes and stamp them very well and in stamping them there will be an Oyle come from them and with the same Oyle annoint the sore head For a sore Head First wash the head with pisse and then annoint it with the dripping of a wild Duck being roasted guts and all HOARSNESSE Against Hoarsnesse Put Sugar and the powder of Hisop in figs and roast them on the coals and eat them and it will open the pipes JAUNDIES A good Medicine for the Black Jaundies TAke the Berries of Ivy that groweth upon a tree and of the whole leaves of Ground Ivy and Mugwort and put them in a woollen cloth and then put it into an Oven when the Bread is drawne out and when it is dry make powder thereof and take Saffron and powder of Gallingale and use all these in pottage and eat thereof Another for the Black Jaundies Take the gall of a Raven grated into powder take some of it in a spoonful of Ale or Beer temper it together and drink it in the morning fasting A Medicine for the yellow Jaundies Take a little Athanatia and eat it in the morning fasting three mornings will be enough It is much like Mithridatum Another Take a handful of red Nettle crops and feeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same three or four daies together in the morning fasting IMPOSTHUMES For an Imposthume Take powder of Cene Alexandria one ounce Ginger Cinnamon Mace Coliander seeds Anniseeds and Licoras of each the weight of eight pence of Sugar two ounces of Spurge seeds blanched twelve beat them all smal to powder and put them into a quart of Claret and let it be brewed out of one pot into another oftentimes in a day by the space of three dayes before you use it then let it run through a Jelly bag then take half a pint of the said Drink and when you shall have need to use it warm it at the fire and drink it after your first sleep and so ly still till it work and offer to come and then go to a close stool til it be clean come away and then make a Plaister of red Mints red Fennel Wormwood and Sage of each a handful and a good handful of Cummin seed and beat them small together put thereto a good sawcer full of Wine Vineger and set them all on the fire in
quantity of Beets and a quantity o Mercury one ounce of Coriander seeds one ounce of Cummin seeds bruise the seeds and seeth them and the Herbs all together in a pottle of running water and let it seeth till halfe be consumed then strain it and take three spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and three spoonfuls of Honey and half a handful of Bay salt bruised so put it into a Glister pipe and use it For the Stone Take the inner bark of Elder and seeth it in Beer or Ale til it have a good strength of the Elder then strain it and drink it morning and evening and it will break the Stone A very good drink for the Stone Take a pint of White Wine and half a pint of Ale and make thereof with milk a pottle of posset drink and take away the curd very clean and boil in it two or three roots of Mallowes Marsh Mallowes are the best and some Licoras till a quarter be boiled away then drink half in the morning and the rest at night For the Stone or strongurion Take half an ounce of Anniseeds a quarter of an ounce of Licoras Calamus Aromaticus French Gallingal Mirrh Gum Arebeck Gum Traganthum Diatria Papira or Piperion Pine Apple kernels white Orris roots Storax Benjamin Cipresse and Labdanum of each a small quantity then beat them all together take also half an ounce of large Mace white Archangel Mead Parsley and Garden Parsley Camomile Mallowes Fennel and Spiere Mint of each halfe a handful then take three quarts of White Wine and put them together in a brasse pot or a Posnet and boil them a pretty while then take it off and strain it through a cloth and put it in earthen vessels and keep it cool it will drink the better and take six spoonfuls morning and evening for three dayes together when you find your self ill and do not foreslow the taking of it Probatum A Plaister to apply to the side for the Stone Take Mallowes Herb grace Pellitory of the wall the green tops of Fennel and Camomile of each two handfuls seeth them in water till they be tender then presse out the water from them then stamp them very small and put in Oyle of Lillies Oyl of Camomile Oyl of Dill Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oyle of Scorpions of each one ounce let them boil on a Chafingdish and coals a good while then put to it as much wheat flower as wil make it thick like a Plaister spread it between two cloths and apply it to the Patients side as hot as may be endured For the Stone Take the weight of a French Crown of Pulvis Hollandi drink it in a quantity of White Wine stirring it well in the cup that it may not curd drink it in the morning betimes or at what time the Patient pleaseth keeping himself warme in his chamber all that day for it will give him three or four stooles and drink some warm broth after it and use this once a Month. More belonging to the former Medicine Take once a week after the former eight spoonfuls of Deal Wine and eight spoon fuls distilled from the berry of the Hawes make it sweet with Sugar and slice half a Lemmon into it and some sliced Ginger For the Stone in the Kidneyes There is great pain in the raines of the back which draweth downwards stirring encreaseth the pain they are much inclined to vomiting the body is bound Urine raw and watrish often provoking to pisse but not without pain the Urine avoids with gravel sand and slime yea sometimes mixt with blood To know it from the Chollick first it s not so sharp as the paine of the Chollick Secondly The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above and stretcheth downwards and a little more towards the back Thirdly the pain is most of the Kidneyes fasting the Chollick otherwise All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone are good for the Kidnies but not for the Chollick Lastly there is found in the Urine gravel or sand and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts To restrain the growing of the Stone or Gravel Take Turbith one dram and an half Hermodactilus one dram Diagridy six graines Salt of India two grains Ginger half a scruple Annis and Mastick of each three grains Sugar Pellets one ounce white Sugar half an ounce steep them together in three ounces of Water of Smallage or Maidenhair all night and wring it out well and drink it if the matter be in the stomack then take a Vomit that it run not towards the Rains This Vomit may be made of reddish Orange seeds the middlemost rind of Elder and Nux Vomica SIRRUP To make a Sirrup for one that is short winded Take a good handful of Hisop a handful of Horehound and seeth them in a quart of running water to a pint then strain it through a fair cloth and put in Sugar to make it pleasant Use this morning and evening with a Licoras stick some three spoonfuls at a time To make Sirrup of Roses Your liquor must be ready to seeth then put therein as many Roses as will be well steeped in the same water and cover it close and when the Roses be throughly white then strain it and set it on the fire again and so you must use it thirteen times and to every pint of your water or liquor you must put into it a pound of Sugar and let it stand together for the space of one night steeping and skim it clean and seeth it over a quick fire a quarter of an hour then take the whites of egges and beat them well together then take the pot off the fire and put into it the whites of your egges and then set it on the fire again and let it seeth a good space then let it run through a Jelly bag til it will stand still upon your nayl To make a comfortable Sirrup Take a handful of Egrimony and seeth it in a pint of Water till half be confumed then take out the Egrimony and put in a good handful of Currans seeth them till they be ready to break then strain them and make a Sirrup of them then set it on a chafingdish and coales and put thereto a little white Saunders and drink it either hot or cold Sirrup of Sugar candied Take Sâ—gar candied and put it into a clear bladder and tye it but so as it may have some vent then put it into a bason of water so that the water come not over the top of the bladder and cover it with a pewter dish and let it stand all night and in the morning take of it with a Licoras stick Doctor Deodates Scorbuttical Sirrup Take of the juice of Garden Scurvigrass Brooklimes and Watercresses of each six ounces and after it hath stood till it be clear take sixteene ounces of the clearest and of the juice
in then take two handfuls of Fordy Almonds blaneh and bruise them and mingle them with a gallon of Cute and put them into the Bastard and roll it well for half an hour and lot wo dayes you may broach it and it will be perfect good A Parrel to the same Basturd First Parrel him with the whites of eight new laid Eggs beat them wel with a handful 〈…〉 and a pint of the same Bastard and put them into the Bastard then beat it an hour with a parting staff then-take one pennyworth of Allome and burn it and mingle it with a pint of running water and put it into the Pipe and then give it a stroak more and roll it well and a dozen upon the Bung stop him close and broach him if you have occasion two hours after To make Tyre that is excellent Take a good Butt of Malmsey and overdraw him one quarter and then fill him with fat Balâ—ard and two gallons of Cute then Parrel him as you did the Malmsey with the same things and after the same manner and â—o beat him and keep him close and in two or three dayes you may broach him To make Muskadine of Jane Take a Burt of Jane or good Malmsey and fill him up with sat Bastard and Parcel him as you did the Malmsey and beat him well one hour 〈◊〉 he be fine A Parrel for the Muskadine When it comes to be fine within four hours after take six new laid eggs beat them shels and all with one handful of Bay salt put to them a quart of old Sack one handful of white Sugar candy beaten small then beat them all together very well then overdraw the Butt eight or ten gallons then bear the Butt an hour then put in the Parrel and then bear him again gently half an hour and stop him close and broach him within twenty four hours A Parrel for Malmsey It must be Parrel'd as your Muskadine saving only you must take yolks in stead of Whites or also use them all 〈◊〉 alike For 〈…〉 Overdraw him one 〈…〉 fill him up with pleasant sat Bast and 〈…〉 gallons of Râ—d 〈…〉 two gallons of 〈…〉 it wel and it shal help it presently For Bastard that drinketh hard You must put in it three or four gallons of running water and as much skimmed milk then beat them wel and give him a Parrel of the yolks of six eggs with a pint of water and put it into the Wine and beat the Butt well half an hour and when he is fine you shall rack him into a cleer Pipe and put into him two gallons of Honey water and stop him close and roll him and within two dayes broach him To make a Pipe of Ossey Take a Pipe of Eager Bastard then take a Butt of smal Sack but first you must roll the Pipe of Bastard and draâ—â— him half into another Pipe then take your small Butt of Sack fill up your Bastard therewith within ten or twelve inches if your Bastard be but small take the lesse Sack for the Ossey must drink somewhat fat then to take away the eagernesse which is a principal thing take five gallons of new milk and two gallons of water and that shall make it white and well coloured and wel in drinking and then you must beat it or else it wil faint in the Pipe then take half an ounce of Orris and two ounces of Cloves and beat them smal and bang them in a bag three dayes in the midst of the Pipe and that shal give it a right sent and taste and at three dayes end with-draw him from his Bastard Lees to good Sack Lees and parrel him thus Take twelve whites of eggs and a handful of White Salt well beaten together with a gallon of White Wine which is in the Trace then put it into the Butt with your beating staff and fill him up and let him lye til he shew fine and then it wil seem for Ossey which is excellent Or with the two Pipes you may make or draw mingled together four Butts of exceeding good Malmsey To shift Wines and Malmseyes and put off your ill Wines If you have two principal good Butts of Malmseyes you may make two and a half with eight gallons of pleasant fat Bastard and with the Lugs you have of Clarret White and Sack and if you put a gallon of Red Wine to every Butt it will do well and you shall have the more Cute or you may use Cute two gallons of Spainsh Cute wil go further then five of Candy Cute but Candy Cute is more natural for Malmesey then the other then Parrel him with eight whites of eggs and a handful of salt beaten together then put them into the Wine and beat the Butt half an hour and stop him very close and in two dayes you may broach him A pleasant Sent for Red Wine Take two ounces of Brimstone half an ounce of Callamus mix them together with half a pint of Burrage water melt the Brimstone into a pan and let the rest be with it therein then put in so many Cloves as wil soak it up and burne the Cloves in the Cask throw away the ashes then your Wine being rackt put into it a pint of Damask Rose-water then roll it wel half an hour stop it close and let it lye two dayes then broach it This shal give it or any other Gascoin Wine a most pleasant sent and taste For to make Match Take one pound of Brimstone half a pound of Coriander seeds Anniseeds two ounces of Cloves and Nutmegs one peniworth Orris one penniworth one penniworth of Cammomile grate them and beat all these together Also for parrelling a Hogshead of White Wine take two gallons of milk and the whites of four eggs and a handful of Bay salt these being well parrelled and put into the Hogshead will do the work Also if you have a Butt of Sack that doth begin to be long take two penny-worth of Roach Allom burne it then beat it smal with the whites of six eggs and one handful of Bay salt if it begin to boile give it the Parrel aforesaid Also if you have a Pipe of Malaga that pricketh over-draw it ten gallons and put in Chalk in this manner you may help it away Roll it well and put therein two gallons of Stone-Honey clarified and beaten with a quart of Conduit water and that shall fine the Wine again and in two dayes close stopped it shal be perfect For Bastard that pricketh First draw it out into a fresh Pipt and fresh Lees then take three gallons of the best Stone Honey clarifie it and beat it with a quart of the same Bastard then take a peck of Frumety well boiled as for pottage then mingle the Honey and beat it together then put it into the bag and let the bag be long that it may reach almost to the bottom then put into another little bag one pennyworth of Anniseeds of Coriander seeds and
the Medicine from the wrists A good Medicine to remove or avoid a Burning Fever Take of Dragon Water of Angelica Water of Red rose Water of each three spoonfuls three grains of Bezar Stone the quantity of a Nutmeg of Mithridatum or else a spoonful of Jean Treakle half a penny worth of English Saffron Mingle all these together and take it fasting and sweat after it and use this two or three mornings together For the Ague Take one penny worth of Gore Turpentine of Rye Leaven the quantity of a Hasel Nut being somewhat stale a little course Mastick and a little bay salt both beaten small one handful of Smallage and a few Cobwebs shred smal mingle all these with the Turpentine and spread the same upon a plece of white Sheeps leather on the rough side being pricked full of holes and three hours before you think your Fit will come bind it to your wrists and let it continue nine dayes or more Another Take a pottle of Ale seethe it and skum it then put to it the tops of Centory Mints Sage Wormewood and Hysop of each a handful boil all in the Ale till half be consumed then take the Herbs out with a spoon then put a quantity of Sugar into the Ale to allay the bitternesse of it and so let it boil a little while again then strain it through a fair cloath that done put thereto as much Treakle as the bignesse of a bean and then keep it in a fair glasse and let the Patient drink thereof first and last and drink not after for the space of an hour For all Feavers and Agues of sucking Children Take powder of Christal and steep it in wine and give it the Nurse to drink also take the root of Morsus Diabili with the Herb and hang it about the Childs neck For an Ague Take Bur-roots and red Nettle crops and seethe them in stale Ale and clarifient let the Patient drink it a little before the cold fit cometh and when he beg nâ—eth to swear give him a posset of Ale made with Marigolds and Fennel being clarified and it helpeth in four or five Fits Another Take of Smallage and Fetherfew of each a handful stamp them and straine them and take half so much as the juice thereof of small Ale being mixt together drink it in bed before the Fit cometh and cover your self warm Another Take Endive Sowthistle Dandillion Lettice Sorrel of each alike stil them altogether and the water thereof is very good for an Ague Another Take Soot and yolks of Eggs and bay Salt and Pepper being mingled wel together and lay it to both the wrists and drink warm Ale Another Take three cloves of Garlick and bruise them a penny worth of Aqua vitae and half a pint of Ale seethe them together and drink it before the Fit cometh as hot as you may Another Box leaves dryed and made into powder and Sheeps trecklings put in soak in strong Ale and drunk is very good An approved Medicine for an Ague Take a red Fennel root and cut it very smal and take six and fifty cornes of Pepper beaten very small and mingle them together and bind them to your wrists half an hour before your Fit cometh AQUA COMPOSITA How to make a Special Aqua Composita to take for a Surfet or cold stomack Take a handful of Rosemary a good root of Enula campane a handful of Hysop half a handful of Thime six good crops of Sage as much Mint and as much Penniroyal half a handful of Horehound two ounces of Liquorice well bruised and as much Anniseeds Then take two gallons of the best strong Ale and take all the Herbs aforesaid and wring them asunder and put them into an Earthen pot wel covered and let them stand a day and a night from thence put all into a brasse pot and set it on the fire and let it stand till it boil then take it from the fire and set your Limbeck on the pot and stop it close with paste that there come no air out of it and still it out with a soft fire There is to be added to it by a new counsel one handful of red Fennel A Receipt of G. K. to make Aqua composita Take of the best strong stale Ale three gallons of Licoras clean scraped and bruised half a pound of Aniseeds clean dressed and bruised one pound Of each smal cut one ounce Fennel seed Carraway seed Sassafras seed Piony seed Winter savory seed Seed of Anodinum Seed of Ameos Of each one ounce Ginger Nutmegs Gallingal Great Gallingal Bruised of each half an ounce Cloves Long Pepper Cubebes Callamint aromaticus Of each two ounces Cinnamon bruised Ivy roots sliced Enula campana roots dried and thin sliced Roots of Tussilage Of Bay berries bruised first blanched one ounce Of each a quarter of an ounce Setwal Spiknard Mace Lignum Aloes Of each a handful Roots of Angelica sliced and of the seeds bruised Ligna Cassia sliced Juniper berries bruised or the Wood thin sliced Red Rose flowers Flowers of Sticardue Saint Johns wort The Herb Canapitis Diptamnus Cretius Pimpernel Phillipendola Scabious Betony Egrimony Plantane Oamomile flowers of each an ounce The Wood or Tree called Tamariscus The roots of Sassaparilla bruised The roots of Orpine The Roots of Gentian sliced two drams one ounce Of the Gum of Mirrh Of Olibanum Of Mastick Of Alkanite Of Sugar four ounces The order of drawing this Aqua Composita Half your Cinnamon your Lignum Adloâ—s the roots and seeds of Angelica must be reserved out of the Brasse pot and knit in a linnen bag and laid in the Receiver whereinto your Liquor must run and by and by the Alkanite must be put into the Receiver Also receive out of your brasse pot all your Herbs and Flowers until the last draught come your other Spices Seeds Roots and Gums must be put with your Ale into your brass pot then set on your Limbeck and close it fast with paste and keep the head therof always cool with cold water and draw it so long as it wil run good which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire if it burn it is good if not take off your Limbeck charily and powre out all your stuffe that is in your linnen bags in the Receiver and all the rest of your flowers and herbs and put to them a gallon and a half of fresh Ale and set on your Limbeck again and draw it as before and the Cinnamon and the Sugar that is left must be put into the Receiver again and when all is drawn out put your first draught and your last together and keep it for your use The best way to make Mrs. Bells Aqua-composita Take six gallons of the best strong Ale the Ale wort must be so strong that it will bear an Egge and the Ale must be at least a week old then take two pound of Anniseeds two pound of Licoras scraped and bruised
violence you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs juice of Wood-betony and Egrimony and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes If that do not help it take wheat flowers the juice of Mallowes Mints Smallage and the Oyl of an egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to For hardnesse that hath been long in the Eye Take a Scruple of Alloes and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire then put of it in the eye Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister and lay it upon the eye Or take Roses Sage Rew and Cellendine of each alike mixt with a little salt and distil it and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye In stead of that water it is good to take the juice of Vervain Rue and a little Rose water For the Pin or Web. Take tops and crops of Herb Christopher stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May stamp them very small then take a good quantity of May Butter and stamp them together in a vessel and strain it out and set it in the Sun and put of these into your eyes it must stand a month in the Sun For a hurt in the Eye that cometh by a stroke Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plantane and put thereto the white of an egg and womans milk of a male child and Oyle of Roses and put it in your eye going to bed use this three or four times in a day Or take Egrimony and bray it and temper it with White Wine and an egg and make a Plaister and lay to the outside of the eye For a Pearl at the beginning Take a Race of good Ginger pare it clean and rub it on a Whetstone and make powder of it and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine then strain it through a fair cloth and put it into a glasse or Viol and after nine daies you may use it when you go to bed lying upright and likewise in the morning Do this six or seven times For eyes that are full of Rheume and bleared Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls and two of honey mix them together and when you go to bed put some in your eye Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel a branch of Cellendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten if one serve not take two put all these into half a pint of water cover it and put of it in your eye when you go to bed and an hour before you rise strayning it when you use it To preserve the sight long Take a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week To clear the sight Take the white of an egg made as clear as water and a spoonful of clarified Honey and some fine Sugar and mix them together and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor and rub the eye-lids therewith within and without For sore Eyes and Megrim in the Head Take the whites of new laid eggs and beat them to Oyl then take a spoonful of Rose water as much fine Sugar and as much strong Vineger made of Malmesey or White Wine put them to the Oyl and beat them together then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister dip it in the Medicine and bind on each Temple one with a cloth but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes Do this three or four nights and every morning the eyes will cleave together with Gum. For the Megrim in the eyes Take new milk and seeth it and put it into a bason and cover it with a platter and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes Or take three drams of the juice of Rue and put in your eyes and ears and stop your ears and lye down on that side For a Pearl and Web. Take Veinfrage Ivie Daisies Sickwort red Fennel Seagreene Pimpernel May butter bruise them in a Mortar and let them lye in the froth five â—ayes then make an easie fire and set 〈◊〉 over till it be melted then straine it through a fair cloth and put is into a Vial and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn It will destroy the Web and when your eye cleaveth together wash it with Rose water Another Take the leaves of Sage Hysop oculus Christâ— puiled downward drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice stamped with the Herbs and straine it in some Beeâ— and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together Or take the juice of Avens Southernwood and put this juice into Fenâ—â—â— water and put it in your eye For Eyes that be fair to look on and naught to see with Take Smallage Fennel Rue Vervaiâ— Betony Pimpernel Eyebright Sagâ— and Cellendine of each alike wash theâ—â— clean and stamp them then take thâ— powder of fifteen Pepper cornes and 〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine three spoonfuls of good Honey and fifteen spoonfuls of the Urine of a man child that is young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little then strain it and keep it in a vessel or glasse and put of it into your Eyes and if it dry up in the glasse put to it a little White Wine This is good for all kind of sore eyes in fifteen daies it helpeth For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take the strained juice of Pimpernel and drop into your Eye morning and evening This is good also for the Pin and Web or Pearle in the eye For a Pin and Web. Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees wipe them clean with a cloth â—hen stamp and strain them with womans â—ilk of a Girle for a man of a boy for 〈◊〉 woman the sorer the eyes be take the â—ore juice and the less milk Drop this â—â—to your eye with a feather evening and â—orning and twice in the afternoon For sore Eyes that cometh of a hot cause at of a Rheume Take Elder leaves and chase them between your hands and lay them to the nape of the neck For Bloodshotten Eyes Take a toast of leavened Bread House-leek and womans milk a spoonful oâ— Rosewater the pap of an Apple roasteâ— the yolk of a new layd egg and boilâ— them take the toast and lay it in reâ— Wine not mingled and let it lyâ— halfe an hour till it be soaked they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces for each eye one and the cloth must be between the eye and the toaâ— and dresse it thus when you go tâ— bed For Watering Eyes and darknesse sight Take May Butter and Honey of 〈◊〉 alike and boil them together and 〈◊〉 in the white of an egge and when it
a pan and so stir them till they are almost dry and then put them into a bag and lay the same to your stomack so that your stomack be not full of meat JULIP A most excellent Julip to refresh and cool any body distempered with heat or drougth in Agues or hot Diseases Take of Barley water a quart and put it into a fair bottle of glasse and let drop into the same some Oyl of Vitrioâ— or for want of that Oyl of Sulphur and then shake it well all together to disperse the Oyl and when you have perfectly tempered it then take two very good Pomgranats and cut them in two and squeece all the juice of them into it through some Colender or Strainer to keep out the kernels or husks or for want of Pomgranats as much Sirrup of Violets or Sirrup of Lemmons as the juice of two Pomgranats may be then take six penny worth of white Sugar candied and beat it very small and put it also in the Barley water and let it dissolve therein and drink thereof as need requires It is the best Julip that ever was made by the Art of man ITCH To take away or kill the hot Itch. Take Brimstone and as much Allom with a spooneful of white lead beat them small into powder then take a quantity of Cream and put the powder therein and beat them well together and therewith annoint the place that itches For an Itch. Take a pint of Borus two penny worth of Quicksilver and four penny worth of Frankinsence put these together and stir them with your finger and so annoint the hands and feet KIDNEYES Of the Kidneyes THe Kidneyes are fastned very strongly to the Back bone and that on the left side is right under the Melt and that on the right side a little higher so that sometimes it doth touch a great part of the liver and they have sundry veins from the liver whereby they draw blood with water and also some part of the gall unto them separating the same blood from the water and keeping so much of the blood as sufficeth for sustenance and vents through the Conduits whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descending into the Bladder The Diseases of the Kidneyes are divers as Imposthumes Ulcers c. which appears by pissing of Blood or like blood as if flesh were washed in it which Diseases arise either of heat cold or gravel c. The signes of cold Diseases are these There is no great pain nor heat nor thirst neither is the water high colourred but much in quantity because it is not wasted through unnatural heat which Agues Winter and the Gravel augmenteth for these Diseases a good Diet must be kept all grosse and slimie meats being avoided and likewise all cold Herbs exercise presently after meat is very hurtful Pain of the Kidneyes through Wind which spreadeth it self abroad and the pain is more after one hath eaten then before and is augmented through windy things when the meat is half digested therefore all windy things are to be avoided and annoint the back with Oyl of Rue and Oyl of Lillies likewise Conserve of Betony and the confected roots of Pimpernel Erinringo roots and Callamint is very good Pain in the Kidnyes through heat is when the Patient hath great thirst and a bad stomack maketh very little Urine and high coloured and sometimes there is fat swimming upon it and the rather in young cholerick hot men this is most dangerous for through the heat which is mixed with a tough thick phlegmatick matter the stone of the Kidney may grow therefore the Liver Veine must be opened and Glisters administred whereby the gots may be cleansed use cool Herbs and purge with Manna and Succo Rosarum Also use Saxifrage Parslye Cantharides roots of Fennel Butchers broom c. which are of a secret quality to convey the Medicine to the Kidnyes Also Sirrups of Water Lillies and of Vinegar and all things that cool the Liver and Spleen KNEES For pain in the Knees Take a Sheeps head newly killed and slit it and put into it a good handful of Plantane as much Camomile and so much Sage and so much Rosemary boil all well together until it be very tender then take out the bones very clean and chop all the flesh and herbs well together then put in a handful of Oatmeal grâ—ts and so boil it again until the Oatmeal be very tender and so lay it to the Knees as hot as you may suffer it and so use it as you see cause For ache in the Knees Take Rue and Lovage of each alike stamp them and mix them with Honey and fry them together and lay a Plaister thereof warm to the sore For swelling in the Knees and Legs Take Lilly roots and red Cole of each alike seeth them in clean running water and strain the Herbs then take the milk of a Cow and Wheat meal and temper it with the aforesaid Herbs and let it over the fire and stir it well till it be thick and then lay it on with a cloth For Aches and Swelling in the Knees Take a quart of Malmsey of Time one handful and boil it together and when it is half boiled put in a piece of sweet butter and let it boil together from a quart to a pint and when you go to bed bathe your knees therewith and let a cloth be wet therein four or five times double very warm and lay it so warme to your knees six or feven times LAMENESSE For such as be stiff in their Limbs or Lame TAke five black Sheeps heads a lapful of Arsemart as much Mallows as much Balm two good handfuls of Herb grace four handfuls of Fetherfew as much Lavender Spike two handfuls of Wormwood two handfuls of Savage one handful of Smallage and two handfuls of Rosemary all these will be as much as will fill a good sheet put them all into a Lead into running water a great deal and pull off the stalks of the Herbs and let them seeth a whole day you must not skin the sheeps heads but cleave them in sunder and let the wool be on still cutting off the hornes and seeth the Heads until the bones fall asunder then take out the bones and skim off the fat and keep it to annoint the Patient withal and the Patient must sit in the water up to the brests and wash and bathe himself therein and when he hath so done by the space of an hour or as long as he can endure it then lay him in a hot sheet into his bed and there let him sweat and so keep him close from the aire two or three dayes A Soveraigne Medicine for Lamenesse in the Joints to supple any sore and to bring it into Joint which hath been long out and for aches Take four or five young Swallowes out of the Nest being Flege and put them into a stone Mortar and stamp them feathers and all then take Lavender Cotton Wild Strawberry
Patient shall be able to endure it and do it very warm against the fire and then take Nerve Oyle and annoâ—â—â— it and then take a Scarlet cloth and bind it up or cover it warm and this do morning and evening CERECLOTH To make a Cerecloth Take Virgin Wax Deers Suet Rosen Pitch and Barrowes grease of each alike and boil them together until they be half consumed then do it abroad upon a linnen cloth somewhat thin and lay it to the place grieved as hot as may be suffered A singular Cereeloth for all Bruises Aches and Wounds whatsoever Take a pint of Sallet Oyle of the best you can get and half a pound of red Lead and as much Rosen as a Walnut boil all together upon a soft fire till it be somewhat black stirring it continually and when it is cold rowle it up and keep it for your use You may keep it seven years and it will be exceeding good if you keep it from the hear of the fire Probatum To make a Cerecloth for an Ache. Take Olibanum and Sallet Oyle with Wax Rosen and Stone Pitch and boil them together A Cerecloth for all Members that be out of Joint-or any consuming member and grieved with cold moistness that consumeth it bringeth the Member again to his natural place Take six ounces of Wax three ounces of Rosen two ounces of Mastick Armoniacum Galbanum and Olibanum of each one ounce of Fenicreek Wormwood Camomile and Cummin of each of these in powder one ounce Oyl of Castorum and Oyle of Camomile flower of each one ounce of Vinegar five ounces melt the Rosen and Wax and the Oyles together and then put in the Galbanum and Armoniack steeped in Vineger and strained and so put in the powder last of all stirring it together and thereof make your Cerecloth To make a good Cerecloth Take one pound of Galbanum finely beaten to powder and searsed as much fine Rosen beaten and searsed as much Pitch of Sheeps Suet four ounces of Cummin two ounces Labdanum one ounce of Cloves one ounce of Mace one ounce of Saffron half an ounce SORE For a new cut or Sore Take Brimstone and scrape it fine and mingle it with May butter and annoint a Tent or a little lint throughly and put it into the Sore or Cut and it helpeth To dry up and to heal a Sore Take the burned Ashes of a Rhadish and strew it upon the Sore and it will dry and heal To break a Sore that is swoln Take Spurge and shred it small and boil it in Whey and thicken it with Oatmeal and lay it warme to the Sore it is also good for a womans brest Also for the breaking of a Sore or Boil take Coriander seeds made into fiâ—e powder and mix it with Honey and this being implaistered upon a Boil or a Carbunkle will in a short time destroy it Or take a little of a Calves curd STONE A Water for the Stone Take Ashen Keyes Stitchwort Saxifrage Mother-time Broom flowers Hawes Hips Bramble leaves Pollipodium of the Oak Pellitory on the wall put all these together of each alike and Still them then to every pottle of water put half a pound of Anniseeds and so let them stand four and twenty hours then put them into the Still again and still them all together then drink of it as you need and if it happen that the gravel come too fast and will not avoid then stil Ivy berries and Parsley and drink two spoonfuls of it and it will avoid the stone if it be never so great A present Remedy to avoid the Stone Take a handful of Pellitory on the wall a handful of Parsley and a handful of Parsley seeds a little bruised boil these things in a quart of White Wine until a third part be wasted then strain it and wring into it the juice of a Lemmon or two then with this Wine and some milk make a Posset as clear as you can and drink thereof a good draught twice or thrice a day but not with meat nor when the stomack is empty from meat When the Stone is avoided and the pain ceased to preserve you from the like again make a Broth and break fast three dayes every week thus Take a Chicken or a piece of Veal three young Mallowes Marsh Mallows are the best if you know them one handful of Violet leaves or of Mercury or of Pellitory of the wall one handful of Apothecary Barley scalded half a handful of great Raisons stoned boil these in water until the meat be enough then take of this broth without thickning or seasoning with a little Sugar three hours before dinner For the Stone and to provoke Vrine Take a quantity of Normandy glasse being clean without rust or canker burn it in the fire a good space then beat it in a Mortar then take an old Cambrick cloth and sift it very fine and give the Patient a spoonful or two of the same powder to drink in Malmesey being pained and it will help by Gods grace Probatum An approved Medicine for the Stone Take a gallon of new milk from the Cow that is all red and thereinto put one handful of Pellitory of the wall wild Time Saxifrage and Parsley of each a handful two or three Rhadish roots sliced steep all these in milk one night together and in the morning distil them with a moderate fire then take of that Water six spoonfuls and six spoonfuls of Rhenish or White Wine and a little Sugar and some slices of Nutmegs make it luke-warm and drink it fasting and fast after it three houres using temperate exercises Take this two or three dayes together every fortnight or oftner if need require The best time to distil this Water is towards the end of May. For the Stone Take two or three unset Leeks and stamp them and strain them and drink it in Malmesey in the morning strain as much as the Patient will drink at twice after this to bedward take some Sack and Sallet Oyle and beat it and drink it hot that will make the Stone slide A present Remedy for the Stone in the back or Bladder Take Saxifrage Philippendula Peniroyal and Parsley seeds and stamp them together and strain them into a cleane Vessel and let the Patient drink thereof with racked Rhenish Wine Probatum A Medicine for the Stone Take Ivy berries and stamp them wel and put it is White Wine and give the Patient to drink thereof and let the Patient make Water through a cloth and you shall see the avoiding of Stones and Gravel For the Stone Take Foxes bloud and Hares blood of both alike quantity and dry them in an Oven then beat it to powder and seeth it in a little White Wine and drink it as warm as you can suffer it To make a Glister for the Stone Take a good handful of Mallowes as much of Camomile and as much Pellitory of the wall three or four crops of Herb-grace a
Licoras of each two penniworth bruise them well and put them into the little bag then line him to the side of the other Bag and sink them and put into the Pipe a branch of Rosemary then stop it close and at two dayes end draw it up to the middle and there let it hang two dayes then leisurely take it out and stop it close and in one day after broach it PERFUMES The Kings Perfume boiled TAke six spoonfuls of Rose water and as much Ambergreece as weigheth two Barly Cornes as much Civet in weight as much Sugar as weigheth two pence beaten in fine powder All these boiled together in a Persuming pan is an excellent Perfume The Queens Perfume Take four spoonfuls of Spike water and four spoonfuls of Damask water thirt Cloves and eight Bay leaves shred as much Sugar as weigheth two pence All these boiled make a good Perfume To keep your house apt to take Perfumes and to take away grosse Aiâ—es Take Cypress wood or Juniper in chips and throw them on a fair pan of coales deck your house with flowers and brush and Iprinkle it with vinâ—gar and Rose water and keep your windows and doors close till the house be perfumed and then set up your Perfumes King Edwards Perfume to make your house smell like Râ—semary Take three spoonfulâ— of perfect Rosemary and as much Sugar as halt a Walnut beaten in small powder All these boiled together in the Perfuming pan upon hot embers with a few coles is a very sweet Perfume Such Herbs as are good for Perfumes Sweet Basil dryed in the Sun Sweet Marjerom young red Mints the Pills of Lemmons dryed and powdered All these are good for Perfumes every one will smell severally A sweet Perfume to burn Take Benjamin three ounces Labdanum one ounce Ambergreece three ounces Civet one ounce mingle all these together with Gumdragagant and roll it and make it three square with Fusses dissolved in Rosewater mingle with the same Another Perfume to boil and burn Take Benjamin and Storax of each an ounce Labdanum and Fusses of each an ounce and half a dram of Civet to be burnt beat them in a white Mortar and to boil put them in Rosewater It is also a good Perfume for Gloves A fine and sweet Oyl Take Musk twelve graines Civet six graines Ambergreece eight grains Benjamin six graines a few Cloves Storax Callamint three grains Grind all these together with Oyl of Sweet Almonds First wash your Gloves with Fusses dissolved a day in Damask water A Perfume for Gloves Take your Gloves and wash them well in Damask water then stretch them fair and softly and lay them in a fair linnen cloth or sheet folded eight folds that the Rosewater may dry in by leisure Then take Oyl of Sweet Almonds upon a store and with your hands annoint your gloves and rub them well over and stretch them forth by little and little and before they be throughly dryed take the powder of Sanders mixed with a little Ambergreece and strow the powder finely fearced upon them and let them lye in a box in a sheet of white paper Another Perfume for Gloves Take your Gloves or any other leather and wash them well in Rose or Damask water then wring them out of the water and dry them Do so three or four times then take Gumdragagant steep it in fine Damask water all night and so strain it and mingle it with a quarter of an ounce of Ambergreece and as much fine Musk. First grind your Ambergreece with the Oyle of Trobyn and then mix all together within and without and lay a paper betwixt the Gloves Glove by Glove and dry them under a feather bed A Perfume in Powder Take Ireos Storax Callamint Lignum Aloes Laudanum graines or seeds of Juniper as much of each sort as you will beat together as much of one sort as of another Cast the Perfumes into the fire and then you shall see whether it wil smell well or not To make an Oyl Perfume for Gloves that shall never out Take Benjamin two ounces of Storax and Calamint of each an ounce the powder of Benjamin and Storax must be finely beaten by themselves that done take a pound of sweet Almonds and mingle it with the Storax and Benjamin upon a Marble stone and then put it into an earthen pâ—t with moâ—e Oyle then put in your gloves powdered and so let it stand very close covered And when you will perfume a paire of Gloves take a little fair water in a spoon and wipe your Gloves very fine with it Take another spoon and dip it in your Oyl and rub it on your Gloves and let them dryâ— this is excellent Perfumes sweet and good Take Gumdragagant and lay it in Rose-water until it be dissolved and liquid then powder the things hereafter written Take Laudanum an ounce Benjamin an ounce Lignum Aloes a quarter of an ounce Coles of Willowes twoÌ„ ounces and half beat all these together and make paste of it with the Gum and make as many balls or cloves as you will then dry it in the shadow A Receipt to make a Perfume to preserve mankind from the Infection of the Plagueâ— and also to burn in Chambers Chests and Presses for preserving of clothes bedding and hangings Take pure old Juniper shave it thin as may be one ounce of the flower or herb of Saint Johns wort half an ounce of the Gums of Olibanum Mastick and pure chosen Mirrhe of each one ounce your Gums grind great your Saint Johns wort hack it small your shavings of Juniper in like sort then mix them all together and put them in so me convenient vessel then add thereunto pure Venice Turpentine as much as will make it like a piece of paste then use it at your pleasure taking the quantity of halfe a Nutmeg at a time and burn it on a tile stone in your Chamber when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise A Receipt for a Perfume Take Musk Ambergreece and Civet of each a quarter of an ounce of Orange flowers one ounce grind all these things very smal on a stone then mingle them well together with half aâ— ounce of Oyl of Beanes and for want thereof one ounce of sweet Almonds and then apply it to the leather or other use you will put it to FINIS