To destroy Rheum that it fall not into the eyes Take raw beef a fair slice as broad as your and and lay it in a pewter platter and put to asmuch aqua vitae as will cover the beef and â—t it on a chaffing dish of coles let it boil in â—qua vitae until it be ready as though it should â—e eaten then take it out of the Aqua vitae â—nd lay it to the neck of the grieved partie â—nd there let it remain and use it and it will â—ive the Rheum that doth offend the eyes â—roved Master Davies water for the clearing of the eye sight being much decayed Take two great handfuls of eye bright when is well sprunge up and in full flowring and â—â—e handful of Balm and still them together â—nd scum the water nine dayes then use every morning to wash your eyes and eye-browes therewith and use so quarterly nine dayes tother and it will cause you in short space to read without spectacles if you have used spectacles before time Probat To draw a mote out of the eye Take white sope and scrape a little of it into a Sawcer and dry it by the fire very dry and then put it into a little fair water but make it not too thin put it into the sore eye with a feather and its good for man or beast Probat A cure for the sight decayed Take 3. pintes of barly flower finely boulted make paste thereof with fair water or with distilled water of Tormentil and make your paste stiff and roul it like venison pastie and fill it full of the leaves flowers and Wyers of Tormentil and put thereto one peny of life-hony and close it and bake it with Cakes and when it s baked break it in small pieces and put it in a steane pot of ale of three gallons and drink no other drink neither at meat nor any other times for the space of two moneths and this shall restore the sight if possible Proâ—at A powder to clear â—he sight much decayed and near gone Take of the powder of eye-bright made of the leaves and Flowers stripped together and â—o fine powder four ounces of Mace one â—ince mingle them and take thereof the â—ight of three pence before meat water to preserve the eye-sight which hath been commended to be the best in the world Take Hepatis hircini sani recentis 4. ounces lâ—mi Aromatici melli one half ounce succi a one scrâ—ple Aquae Celidoniae six drams ue feniculi aquae Verbenae aquae Euphragiae of ch 4. drams Piâ—eris longi Nucis Moschat iGarioâ—orum of each grains fifteen Croci grains two â—is Rerismarini aliquantulum contusi Pugillum â—is Sarcocolle Aloes Hepatice one scruple of e gall of a Hen and of a Capon of each â—ee drams hony of roses one dram mingle em and distill them in a glass still first bruiâ—g them and putting to them one quarter of ounce of the best refined Sugar Some three four drops in each eye at a time is thought â—ficient it s also a fine smelling water with a â—tle smell not very easily perceived nor â—elling far off It s not much matter whether 〈◊〉 Liver of the Kid be of a he Kid or a â—e Kid but of the two the he Kid is â—ought to be the better A preservative for the eye sight Make comfits of Turnepseeds and eat a â—re of them after dinner and supper as â—ny immediately after the said meats It was â—ected that nine or ten of the said Comfits â—ould be eaten after meales they are to be â—led in Sugar To purge the head and preserve the sight Drink beer every morning a good draughâ—â—asting wherein the roots of dog fennell oâ— Motherwood is steeped the roots somwhat bruisâ—d and it will presently work in your eyeâ— and head Probat For all Infirmities in the eyes Take ground Jvy called Cill gee by the ground alias Ale-hoof Celendine and Daysies the Flowers leaves and roots of each one oâ— these herbs and a like quantity of theâ— stamped and strained and a little Sugar anâ— red rose water put thereto and dropped witâ— a feather into the eyes it taketh away all â—â—flamation and spots scabs scales Itch smaâ—â—ing or any grief whatsoever in the eyes yâ—â— although the sight were almost gone A gâ—od water for sore eyes Take a pint of running water half an haâ—â—ful of Singrene Leaves and a little of unicoâ—â— horn and boil it all together and pour out â— water and wash the eyes therewith Proved A precious Medicine for the eyes then which no better be for though a man had been ten years within eleven dâ—yes he shall be stored to his sight again of very truth Take smallach brown fennile vervi◠〈◊〉 â—etonie avence pimpernel strawbeâ—â— wisâ— Filago Eufrace Câ—lendine Sage of eâ—â— alike much and lay them all a night to sleep in a childs urine that is a virgin and after put â—t into a morter and put seven corns of pepâ—er and stamp it small and temper it with the sâ—me â—rine aforesaid and then strain it and keep it in boxes and anoint the eyes in the morning and Evening For sight of the eyes lost how to restore the same and to clear the eyes and to help the dimnâ—ss of tâ—em Take Eye-bright water made of all the whole Eye-bright and anoint the eyes ofteâ— and eat often the powder thereof and drink the water use it long sanat To cleanse the eyes and do away the pearl Take the red Roses and Maiden-â—air and Rue Vervine Eusrace Endive and Singâ—eâ—n Hill-worte red Fennel â—f each alike three ounces and wash them clâ—an and lay â—hem in white wine all day and all night and aâ—â—â—r distil them And the first will be like gold and the second like silver and the third like Eawm this is for the eyes a worthy water and a good c. To restore their eyes that are as though they did see and yet see not The decoction of Tormentil daily drunk three Moneths and no other dâ—ink and the same Tormentil every night laid plaâ—ster wise on the eyes doth it pro certo To kill the pin or webbe in the eye Take leaves of Celendine and stamp theâ— well and strain them and with a feather 〈◊〉 one drop of the same Juice into the eye of the patient and it will presently help A very good Medicine to kill a pearl or webâ—e the eye Take a good quantity of three leaved graâ—â— that beareth the honey suckles and bruiseâ— well in a Mortar or else in a wooden dish and then strain it let the party grieved put some of the same Juice into his eye and by using this twice or thrice a day for the space of siâ— or seven dayes together it will help him A good Medicine for eyes that be blood-shot and red Take Housleek and stamp it well then take a new laid egg and make a hole in the one end of it and draw out all the meat of it and put
together For the same It is good to drink every morning three â—â—nces of water of Bugloss wherein hath â—een sodden cloves And it is good to drink in a Morning four â—unces of Julep made of half a pound of â—awm water and three ounces of Sugar For the same It it good to drink every morning 3. ounces 〈◊〉 water of Bugloss wherein hath been sodden â—oves And it is good to drink in a morning 〈◊〉 ounces of Juâ—ep made of half a pound of â—arm water and three ounces of Sugar The â—onfection of Diajacinthy is singular and exâ—â—llent for trembling of the heart but it is for â—oble men not for poor folk â—or ach at the heart which are commonly a knot of worms Take unset leeks one handful chopped small â—â—d frie it with butter and bay salt and lay it 〈◊〉 the stomack upon a napkin Take a pinte of white wine English liquerice 〈◊〉 sugar boil it together in a pot close stoped take it fastingâ— To help a mad body Take the Flowers of Rose-mary of Burragâ— and of the roots of Buglosse of each a pound Saâ—â—ron two drams of Quinces four ounces 〈◊〉 the best white wine a quart mix them together let them stand a day put them over thâ— head fifteen days in an Horsmixon the mouâ—â— of the glass not covered quite then distil it Then take of it first and last a dram at a timâ— It is a precious secret it helpeth the treâ—bling of the heart For them that swound or are faint-hearted Take Rosemary Sage Betony and Marjerom of each an handful seethe them in a galloâ— of fair water till a quart be consumed theâ— take away the herbs and put to the said wateâ— a pinte of good hony then scum it well theâ— put in an ounce of Staechades tied in a fair linnen cloth Let it seethe a little then takâ— out the Staechades and add an ounce of Cinnamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmeggs and asmuch in Ginger in powder drink it warm thrice every day six or seven dayes â—â—fiet A potion for sainting Take of the confection of Alchermes two drams of garden blew violet water and excellent red rose water of each two ounces and Syrup of violets two ounces and an half and Syrup of Lymons one ounce mingle them well together and take hereof four or five spoonfuls at a time when you see eause or when you please The Stomack Remedies for all pains of the stomack For weakness of the Stomack TAke Pilulae Stomachiae two or three hours before meat more or lesse according to 〈◊〉 quantitie of the fulness of the stomack 〈◊〉 after give him every morning two hours 〈◊〉 ore meat and one hour after supper at every me a Lozenge of an Electuary called Diaga 〈◊〉 ga or another called Diacinimum which 〈◊〉 consume ventosities and with their comâ—â—â—table heat drive away the cold and windy â—â—mplexion of the stomack For windiness of the stomack Take in a morning two hours before meat a â—â—zenge of Aromaticum rosat and if ye have 〈◊〉 aching stomack and cold take every morn 〈◊〉 a Lozenge of Dianisâ— or Diacinimum and drink after it a spoonful of wine A present remedy for pain and ach in the stomack Maiden-hair bruised plaistered and laid to 〈◊〉 stomack sanat To help the pains of the stomack a rare secret Take every night last three drams of 〈◊〉 For a windie and cold stomack Take Aromaticum Garyophillat one ounce Electuar de aromatibus one ounceâ— Et Diattrion piperion one ounce Mix it together and take it first and last â— the quantity of three Nut kâ—rnels For pain of the stomack Take two drams of Diacinnaâ—on of Dianist 〈◊〉 Diagalanga and drink it with a little gooâ— wine an hour or two before meat drink a little Castor with good wine Another Drink two hours before meat three or 〈◊〉 ounces of the decoction of Mintes Anniâ—â— seeds cummin and fine frankincense Also drink an Electuary caâ—led Arcuâ—aticum whereof receive one Lozenge every mâ—rninâ— fasting To comfort the stomack after vomiting It is good to give unto the patient everâ— morning an ounce of Syrup of wormwood 〈◊〉 Mintes instead of which it is convenient 〈◊〉 take a Lozenge as Azromaticum rosatum or Diâ—galanga For the same Take evening and morning three hours before meat two Cloves in powder with a spoonâ—â—l of the Juice of mintes or half a spoonful 〈◊〉 Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloves 〈◊〉 d lignum aloes to the weight of a crown with 〈◊〉 ine two hours before meat â—n excellent purgation to avoid choler for men of all ages Take half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn dram of good Rubarb infused a night in wa 〈◊〉 of Endive with a little spikenard anâ— an â—unce of Syrup of violets mix all these things â—ith three ounces of Ptisan or whay and â—â—rink it warm A Medicine for winde in the stomack Take a spoonful of hony and two spoonâ—â—ls of rose-rosewater and set them upon a Chaffing 〈◊〉 sh of coales and as the scum ariseth take it â—ith a feather till be clear Then take it off â—â—e fire then take a groaâ—s weight of long â—epper asmuch of white asmuch of black â—â—d asmuch of cummin seed asmuch of ginger â—â—d beat all together in a Mortar not very 〈◊〉 all and put them into a box Then put in 〈◊〉 ony and rosewater unto them and mix them â—ogether with a knife and eat them after dinâ—er asmuch as a pease and you may keep it as â—â—ng as you will and ever as it dryeth put â—hereto more hony clarified with rose water To clear the stomack Take stale Ale and boil it and put it two branches of Hyssop to boil with it and drinâ— first and last A notable sauce to procure an appetite in them whicâ— be brought low to get them a stomack Take Vine leaves and stamp them aâ—â— strain them and put in Sugar to the juice aâ—â— Cinnamon powder with Sippets of mancheâ— boil them as sorrel sops eat them with chicken or what you will It is excellent 〈◊〉 a fever or other sicknesses To make Pulvis ducis out of Master Cogans Caj 〈◊〉 of the weâ—kness of the stomack pag. 194. Pulvis Ducis as he saith is usually â—â—de of on ounce of Sugar and one ounce of Cinnamoâ— finely powdred both and then mixed togegether And this Pulvis Ducis being mingled the quantitie of one dram with half a pint oâ— Aqua vitae well tempered together and thrâ—â— pints of rose-rosewater and so let run twice oâ— thrice through an Hyppocrates bagg anâ— thereof take oft-times in the week one spoonful in the morning fasting especially in winteâ— time is excellent good for a bad stomack of cold cause A drink for a bad stomack Brew Beer or Ale and when you tunne iâ— before it work take a pound of wormwood and asmuch of the roots of red docks the pi 〈◊〉 taken out and washed and put them in a bagâ— with a
those Trochiâ—kes he may make a powder of Sanguis draconis Bole armony white amber and red coral drinking one dram with plantain water as is aforesaid Another Medicine to stanch the said flux Take two ounces of old conserve of Roses of the seed of plantain two drams Sanguis draconis Bole armony of every one a dram and a half white Cortal and red one dram make a confection with Syrup of Mirtles and give it to drink morning and evening two houres afore meat at every time â—he quantity â—â— a mean chesnut An Irish Medicine to stay any flux Take a handful of Sage chop it small and put thereto the yelks of eggs and fry them with as little butter as may be and eat them as hot as you can and drink not of 4 hours and in four dayes after it helpeth For the bâ—oody flux Take â—owder of Comphry and make tosts of wheat bread and put them in red wine aâ—d powder of Cinnamon therewith and also eat it alone To cure the bloody flux Take of Rubard grated one ounce harts-horn burnt and made into powder half a dram mix them with Conserves of red Roses of the last year and make thereof two or three boles and let him take it at once this scoureth away the cause of the flux and bindeth him presently after To cuâ—e any dangerous flux which is â—f â—orce to bring a man in danger of a consumption Take fine wheat flour boulted finely and tye it in a linnen cloath of the bigness of two eggs and boyl it in a pottle of running water with a handful of mother of time whâ—n it is half boyled away then take up the flour whhich will be hard and in looking upon the flour you must take of a skim which will be on it then take some of the said flour and thicken a quantity of new milk boyled as a thin flour meat and drink it as ye see cause until you have recovered strength This will recover a man of the bloody flux even when he is tâ—ought past help and also to rost an egge stone hard and â—lit it and lay it hot to the fundament stayeth any monstrous flux and to wear napkins hot and to keep them as hot as one can well endure to the navel and fundament shiâ—ting them as they grow cold is excellent in thâ—s case For the bloody flux Womans milk drunk nine dayes togetheâ—â—â—sting cureth the bloody flux in any Another for the same Note that the powder of Misselden of the oak given in red wine helpeth that Flux â—â—hatum A sure experiment to cure the bloody flux when a man avoideth as it were black gobbets of flesh Take Cumphry Knotgrass sheppards purse Cinqufoil Plantain Ribwort strawberry leaves one handful the middle rinde of a black thorn of cinramon one half ounce broken in small pieces boyl all these in a pot of spring water with a wheat bread crust unto a quart and clarifie it and put nine spoonfuls of wine vinegar unto it with sugar and make a Iulep drink thereof morning and evening not drinking after of two hours Probatum The Bladder Remedies for its Distempers A medicine for the stone Take grommel seed paâ—sley seed red nettle Seed and saxiâ—rage all these made in powder by even portions or else take the Juice of alâ— these Herbes and of Lettuce and endive of all juices alike much and strain it through a Cloath and setâ— it in a vessel on the fire And take halfe so much of honey as of the Juices and cast them all together and seeth them till they be thick and keep it safe as Treasure for this is a gracious Electuary for the stone Of the cure of the stone in the Reines and bladder To break the stone Take the kernells that are within sloes and drie them on a tilestone then make of them a powder by it selfe After that take the roots of Alisander parsly parietary and Hollihocke of every one alike much and seethe them all in white wine or in the broth of Chickens then strain them out into a clean vessel and when ye drink of it adde asmuch of the said powder as ye think convenient half a silver spoonful or more for without doubt it hath great effect in bringing out the gravel Another expert medicine There groweth in the galls of some open a certain yellow stone sometimes in bignes of a Wallnut somewhat long and brittle if ye take that stone and make of it a powder and eat it in your potâ—age the weight of one scruple or more according to your strength It is a singular Medicine for them that cannot piâ—s for stopping of the conduites Another singuâ—ar Medicine Take the seed of Smalledge parsly Loâ—vage vage and Saxifrage the roots of Philipendula cherry stones gromel seed and broom seed of every one alike much make them in fine powder and when ye be diseased of the stone eat of this powder a spoonful at once in pottage or broth of Chickins and eat nothing after in two or three hours A goodly syrup to mundifie the reins Take the broth of a young chicken sodden till the bones fall assunder three pound Melon seed a little bruised an ounce parcely roots and Alisander roots three ounces Damask prunes Sebesten of each six in number great raisins half an ounce clean Liquerice â—o drams water of Borage endive and hops of each three drams and with sufficient white sugar boyl them all unto the consumption of half and morâ— and afterward strain them and make a goodly syrup This is a thing of excellent operation and an high secret in mundifying the reins and keep right diet the dose of it is one Cyath or a little cupfull in the morning early and sleep after it a little if yee would have the foresaid Syrup to purge more choler then put in a dram of fine Rubarb with a liter cassia A powder for the stone and Colick or either of them Imprimis Carawayseeds two ounces Gromel seeds two ounces Anniseeds two ounces Rubarb two ounces Liquerice four ounces Parslâ— seeds two ounces Fennâ—l seeds two ounces dryed in an oven Elecampana roots dryed as the Rubarb else neither of them will beat to powder bruise all these very small and Put to them asmuch sugar as the quantity of them all and searce them through a sieve then every morning take an heaped spoonful and put in your broth or what you like best If you cannot away with the Gromel put the more into of the other seeds for that doth more prevail either against the stone or Colick This receipt hath often been proved to be good either for the stone or Colick Another for the stone and to break it Take ripe elder berries and distil then and drink the water with sugar and it shall break and come out in one night Probatum Some four ounces of the water will serve at a time For the stone which letteth a man to make water Take Southernwood stamp it small
in three pounds of white wine and one pound of red rose water boil it till come almost to a Syrup this Julep is so acceptable to nature that it supplyeth the use of meat and drink To make Triacle water Take three pints of Carduus water and put into it an ounce of hartshorn and boil it till it câ—me to a quart then take gentian roots roots Elicampane roots Cyperus roots Rinde of Pomegranates of each a ounce beat them into grosse powder of the herbs oâ— Carduus and Angelica one ounce of the flowers of rosemary Marigold Bur rage Bugloss of each of them half an ounce also one pound of Venice Triacle dissolved into six pints of whiâ—e wine and three pints of red rose water infuse all these things xxiiii hours together this still in a glasse still or another still that stills with water The vertue of this Triacâ—e water Take a spoonful or two at a time upon finding the stomack ill or upon fears or to drive away any thing from the heart to restore the spirits and speech and sowning and â—ainting ten grains in a spoonful of posset drink made of Ale going to bed is good against fears For a Surfet Take the grounds of strong Ale two gallons of the Lees of Sack two quarts a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds bruise them and put them together and distill the water then put into the water an ounce of Cinnamon a dozen bruised Cloves one Race of sliced Ginger a quarter of a pound of prunes dried fair but not washed 2. quarts of thunder baggs or corn rose leaves with the bottoms cut off Then sun it a Moneth and if the water be not of a deep Crimson then renew the Leaves and sun them a while longer take of these a spoonful at a time an hour after a second and an hour after a third To make a drink for all manner of Fevers and Impostumes and for sickness in mans body Take Hyssop Rosemary Violet Leaves Vervine Herb Iohn Mouseare Plantain Avence Sage and fetherfew of each an handful and wash them clean and put them into a Mortar and bruise them a little and put them into an earthen pot that was never occupied And put therein a gallon of good white wine and so let it stand all night covered and in the morning boil it till it come to a pottle and let it run through a hair sieve put it into a clean vessel covered and let the sick use these first and last nine dayes at evening warm and at morning cold every day and night half a pint and he shall be whole by the grace oâ— God A note of a diet prescribed by three dutch Doctâ—rs foâ— a man past cure so judged Take Hermodactils two ounces Sarsaparillae four of sassafras 2. ounces Sene Alexandriae four ounces Liquerice one ounce Anniseeds one ounce long pepper half an ounce of the leaves of Scabious one great handful of Egrimony half asmuch of Betonie half a handful of water Cresses and brook lime one great handful of scurvy grasse of the Sea two great handfuls of good Nâ—timegs one ounce Let all the wood be sliced and cut small and the herbs shred and all put into a bagg and hanged in a barrel with six gallons of new Ale to work with it and when it hath wrought stop it up and let it stand and settle eight dayes then drink continually of it and no other drink so long as it laâ—â—eâ—h your bâ—ead must be Bakers bread with Coriander and Anniseeds your breakfast of the bread and blaunched Almonds and raisins of the sun and your diet drink your dinner dry rosted Veal Hen Chicken Mutton or rabbet your supper as your breakfast or some small repast of dry rosted 〈◊〉 or Rabber continue this six weeks and beware of cold and if you keep your chamber have merry Company this Diet will cure any desperate disease in the body that is to be cured and many times indeed those which be past câ—re Probat A Medicine for the sweat Take three pints of Ale one ounce of Sugar six Sage leaves boil all these together and scum them clean And put thâ—rein a crâ—st of white bread or a few crums and seethe then a penâ—worth of powder of Maces and keep it warm in an carthen pot or in a pâ—wter pot and drink nine or ten â—poonfuls at your pleasure the twenty four hours and sometime drink Ale bloâ—d warm with a penywâ—ight of powder imperial at a time Use Manus Christi at your pleasure if you feel your self sick or faint at your heart Then take a great weight of the queens preservatives with a spoonful of the sâ—dden Ale aforesaid or else Ale blood warm or else on a knives point once in twenty four hours Also eat no manner of spices but Mace onely and drink no manner of wine in the said twenty four hours take no manner of cold nor take not too many oâ— clothes but competent To make the Queens preservative Take half an ounce of Triacle powder imperial two peny worth of powder Sedwall a peny worth mingle all these together and put it into a box and use it as aforesaid when need requireth and old people may eat the qâ—antity of a Nut to preserve them fasting in the morning For them that are poisoned a remedy Take the powder of Betony put in wine a â—poonfâ—l of powder to a draught of wine a 〈◊〉 boiled by the fire being drunk doth help them presently that have drunk poison before and whoso drink it in a morning fasting no poison can hurt him A Medicine diminishing all kinde of sickness if it be not unto death and prepareth the body for recovery of health Take of the best Triacle adding thereto a few drops of oleum Vitrioli and let it stand till thou use it then any lying sick not unto death give the weight of a French crown of the same Medicine and if he be not over weak give a little more Let him drink it hot with wine in the morning fasting four hours before he eat washing out of the cup also with wine which being also taken and well covered in his bed and wrapped about his bead and all covered onely his mouth there let him sweat four hours asmuch as its possible and not sleep in any wise these four hours Then change the sheetes and let them be very dry and warm then let him lie and not sweat before he rise or eat the space of three hours then let him eat some good thing and drink good old wine after his meat Then afterward the Physician may use either Medicine both purgative or corroborative as the necessity and occasion requireth This Medicine dimâ—nisheth the cause of all sickness and prepareth the body in the way of health speedily and never fails the Physitian See that he sweat plentifully without sudden cold and use good diet afterward An oil of the Philosophers drawn out of Turpentâ—ne Take of clear Turpentine eighteen ounces
with a mote 2â— Eye with a pearl in it 2â— Eye sight to restore ibid Eye with a pin or web in it 3â— Ear that hath a noìse in it 31 4â— Ear pained ibid Ear that hath an impostume in it 3â— Falling sickness 11 12 13 1â— Fainting 6â— Feaver 81 82 83 8â— Feaver to cool ibid. Fundament to cure 92 93 Flux 102 103 Flux humoral to stop ibid. 104 119 Flux cured by an Irish Medecine ibid. Flux that is desperate and bloody 105 106 Flowers to suppress 120 Flux red in women 123 Flux of the Matrix 120 118 French Pox 100 Gall diseased 75 76 Gonorrhoea 98 100 Green sickness 1â—2 Gout 128 131 132 133 134 Head ach 1 3 5 6 7 8 9 Head ach extream ib. 4 Head ach for ever to cure 7 Head to purge 9 28 Head to expell cold out of it 9 Hearing hindered through pain of the head 33 Hearing 35 36 Hoarsness 50 Heart weak 64 Heart trembling 65 Heart beating ibid. Heart that hath an ach or troubled with worms ib. Impostume 62 Iaundies 77 Iaundies black ibid. Iulep for the Liver 73 â—tching to kill 17 Kings evil 50 51 Liver diseased 72 73 Lues Venera 100 Legs swoln 113 Megrims 7 Mouth 43 Madness 66 Melancholy 78 Matrice 119 120 Matrice to cleanse 126 Mother 120 124 125 Menstruus overflowing 121 Menstruus to provoke 122 Miscarrying to prevent 26 Murre and cough 50 Milk coagulating in the brest 56 Nose that stinketh 41 43 Nature to restore 97 Nature to preserve from wasting 99 Oyl for an ach 135 Oyl for the Palsey 10 Oyntment for an ach in the back 97 Palseâ— 10 Phegm 4â— 58 59 Phtysick 57 58 61 63 Pox 100 Piss well 111 Powder to restore Nature and preserve it 97 Plâ—ster for the Gout 131 Pulvis ducis for the stomach 70 Rheum 45 Rupture 92 93 Reines to restore that are sore 98 101 Running of the Rains 99 Rains to mundify 108 Sight to preserve 9 17 Sight dim 19 20 25 Sight decayed 26 Sight to get though blind 28 29 Sâ—itch in the side 63 Swooning 66 Stomack that is weak 67 Stomack troubled with winde ib. 69 Stomack cold 68 70 Stomack pained ibid. Stomack to comfort after vomiting 68 Stomack to cleer 69 Stone 77 106 108 Stonâ— in the Reines 107 Stone to break 109 An oyntment for the back if the Stone come away painful 109 Stone to slip with a Pultis 110 113 114 Sir Traver Williams receit for the stone 114 Stone to prevent ibid. 115 Sâ—one in the kidnies 117 Sciatica 134 135 Spee hiess with the Palsey 10 Tooth ach 39 37 40 Teeth rotten and stinking 38 Tooth ach never to vex you more 39 Tâ—eth loose 40 Teeth to leave aching or faâ—l out 40 Teats of a woman impostumed 57 Termes to bring down 122 Voice hoarse 44 Voice hoarse of long continuanâ—e ibid. Vein broken to knit 69 Vrin that is sharp 111 Vâ—in that is hot and burning 112 Vrin that is foul or red 113 Vrin to provâ—ke ibidem Vomiting 68 White and Weaknesse of nature 124 125 Wheesing in the Chest 48 Water for the sight 18 27 Water that is pretious for many sicknesses 10 Walnuts preserved for a cough a consumption 47 Windy Colick 91 Web in the eye 24 A Table of the Remedies for childrenâ— Diseases For the Diseases of the head 139 For the diseases of the eyes 143 For the diseases of the ears 145 For the diseases of the Teeth and Mouth 146 For the diseases of the neck throat and breast 149 For the diseases of the Stomach 151 For the diseases of the Navel 156 For the diseases of the reins and bladder 158 For ruptures 159 For the small pox and measels 162 For agues and feavers ibid. For the diseases of the Cods 166 For the Shinglâ—s 166 For burning and scalding 169 For to kill and destroy lice Also the manner how to make divers sorts of most pretious Waters Balsomes Oyles with other rare and excellent Medicines with their uses Vertues and wonderful Operationâ— page 175 to the end CHOICE and RARE EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICK AND CHIRURGERY The Head the remedies for its distempers Head-ach Here followeth the brief description of inward and outward diseases of the body with the most wholsom and expert Remedies for the Cure thereof And first of the sickness of the Head ANd it is to be noted that the cure or remedy must be appropriated according to the nature and cause of the grief which if it be not rightly considered it would be but vain to apply any Medicine and therefore the right judgement of an expert Physician is very requisite needful in such cases as you may plainly conceive for the multipliâ—ity or diversity of causes in some diseases maketh the cure of more difficulty as also the methodical way of applying the same in observation of the circumstances of the Patients age constitution strength sex and the like which must of necessity be observed in the administring or prescribing of all medicines that should take effect perfectly to cure c. And now Headach chanceth oftentimes of divers and sundry causes as of blood choler flegm or melancholy or of ventosity and sometime of heat of the Sun or of too greaâ— cold of the air If it come of blood the Cephalick vain oâ— the right arm is to be cut or opened if the paiâ— continue on the vain of the forehead on thaâ— side the pain is then lay upon the place â—yl oâ— Roses Vineger and Rose-water or a bagge witâ— Roses sprinckled with Rose-water And it is to be noted aswell in this cause aâ— all other that if his belly be hard and bound first ye must give him an easie Clyster or else oâ— Cassiâ— newly drawn out of the Cane or some other easie Laxative to provoke the duty of thâ— Womb else all applications of medicines wilâ— be nothing worth at all If the Headach proceed of Choller there 〈◊〉 sharp pain and heat chiefly on the right side oâ— the Head Ye must give him morning and evening 〈◊〉 drink Sâ—rup of Violets with a mean draught 〈◊〉 Endive Water in a glass or of Cummin waâ—â—â— sâ—dden and cooled again And instead of the Syrups you may drink water of Endive Succâ—ry Puâ—slain and Nenupâ—ar mixed together 〈◊〉 one of them by himself two or three dayes at even and morn Then give a dram of Pilulae sine quibus at night to bedward or about midnight and the day following keep you iâ— your chamber Instead of these Pills it is good every morn to take an hour before Sun a medicine to drink that shall be made of half an ounce of Succo Rosarum mixt with two ounces of Endive water Instead of the said Succo Rosarum ye may take half an ounce of Dia prunis Laxative and ye must take heed in giving such purgations that the patient be strong for if he be weak ye may give him but half of the said pills or of the other Laxatives And if in
diminishing the quantity of the said medicines it worketh not with the patient as it should it is convenient to give him a common Clyster Another remedy for the same pain Ye must lay thereon a linnen clothe moisted in Rose-water Plantaine-water Morrel-water Vinegar or else take the juice of Lettice and Roses and a little Vinegar and warm it together and dip therein a linnen cloth and lay it to the pain For an extream Headaâ—h Pound Euphorbium with Vinegar and if the grief be on the right side of the head then â—ay it on the left or on the right when the pain â—s on the left side for it mitigates all pain very excellently but we must suffer the same to continue thereon no longer then the space of saying a Pater Noster and then wash it off Another Take nine or ten pieces of Zeduaria being smal cut it in parcels or else pound it somewhaâ— grossely infuse thereon clear water and theâ— put it into a glass and madesie clouts thereiâ— of the breadth of two fingers and apply them on the forhead and temples of the same and the same being dryed moisten them again For burning Headach Take a handful of Houslick beat it with womans milk and with a little Rose-water ti'â— it be like unto a poultis or pap and therewitâ— anoint your head For shooting in the Head Pound Poppy-seed with yelks of eggs till 〈◊〉 be like paste and lay it on the grief Against continual Headach and singing of the Ears Beat Elder leaves and Rose-leaves with oâ— of Ivy-leaves one amongst the other and depress the juice thereout tye these leaves oâ— the head and with the juice thereof anoint thâ— head For headach in the forepart Take Eldre leaves made hot between twâ— stones and applied to the temples And for the better understanding of the sickness chancing in the head ye shall know that sometime it chanceth because of other diseased members as of the stomack or of the mother of the rheums of the Liver or of the Spleen and not of any cause of the head it self therefore ye ought to cure such sickness by helping of the same members as shall be shewed here following And ye may know that the headach câ—mâ—th of diseases of the stomack when the patient hath great pain in the stomack of the Mother when the woman feeleth great pain in her belly of the reins when there is a great pain in the back of the Spleen when he feeleth pain and heaviness under the left side of the Liver when the pain is on the right side about the Liver which is beneath the ribs Remedies appropriate to the head of what cause soever the pain is Take a handful of Betony an handful of Camomil and an handful of Vervine leaves picked stamp them and seethe them in black wort or in Ale for lack of it and in the latter end of the seething put to it a little Cummin braid the powder of a Harts-horne and the yelks of two eggs and Saffron a little stir them well about and lay a plaister hot over all his forehead and temples This is an excellent remedy also for the Megrim it shall piâ—rce the better if ye add a little Vinegar Another Make a plaister of Bean flower Lineseed and oyl of Camomile or in lack of it Goosâ— grease or Ducks greâ—se and rub the place with Aqua vitae and after lay the plaister hot upon it Another Take Wormwood brayed well and boyled in water and binde it to his temple upon the grief It will mitigate the pain and cause him to have a pleasant sleep Another Take a spâ—onful of Mâ—stardseed and another of Bay berries make them in powder and stampe them with a handful of earth wormâ— split and scraped from their earth and a little oyle of Roses or of Camomile or Capcâ—s grease and lay it to the grief Also it is good to take the juice of Ivy-leaves mixt with oyl and Vinegar and so rub therewith your temples and your nostrils Pills for aâ—l pain of the head although inveterate Take Aloes epat washed three ounce Bryon Mâ—stic elect ana one ounce Diagrvâ— hâ—ee drams Let it â—e consected with juice of Coleworts The dose from two Scruples even unto four It taketh away all pain of the head and rejoyâ—â—th and comforteth the memory To remedy all manner of Headach and Megrim Camomile Betony Vervine leaves of each an handful stamp them seethe them in white Wine or Ale adding therto pounded Cummin-seed a little three spoonful of Vinegar the yelkes of two Eggs and a little Saffron fiat Emplastrum apponaâ—ur fronti c. sanabis A remedy teaching that one shall never feel Headach Take Pills of Aloes succotrine made in powder and mixt with the juice of Colewortâ— the bigness of a Bean at a time For the Headach Take Wormwood and Camomile of each like much one handful and as much of Maiden-wort and a half penny wâ—rth of Cummin and make it into powder and cast it tâ—gether and put it into a cloth of the breadth of a span and warm it against the fire and then lay it to his head c. For the Headach or Megrim Take Rosemary Lavender flowers winter Savory Camomile Bayes and Lavender with both new and old Mintes and Fennil seethe all these together in runing water and put thereto a good handful of Bay Salt then take some of the same liquor herbs and all and wash your seet twice therewith every morn and even for the sâ—ace of four dayes and in so doing it will take away any pain of the head although it be never so extream or grievous This hath been proved Another Take majerom-Majerom-water and hold your nose over it and then draw your winde hard unto â—ou untill such time as the winde hath entred into your â—ose divers times and your head will cease aking speedily For Dizziness in the head Take Pilulae Cochiae one ounceâ— temper it with twenty drops of oyl of Anniseeds and make seven pills of it and swallow them and keep warm in your Chamber till it have done working then eat any warm broth made of Veal Mutton or Chicken and comfortable Herbs After this purge so used this Electuaâ—y following Take Betony-flowers and Rosemary-flowers three ounces powder of Carduus benedictuâ— leaves powder of Marigold leaves one ounce boil them with one pound of beaten Sugar and half a pint of Bugles-water and Marjerom-water and Betony-water and Balm-water of each two ounce boil together over a gentle fire to the thickness of honey and use thereof as much as a Nut morning and evening till it be spent Probat Chew every morning Cloves fasting or whole Mace and use Coriander Comsits or the seeds prepared and use after meat Marmalade of Quinces to clâ—se the stomack and repress the vapors that fume up thence to the brain For the Headach and â—o stop the rheum Dry Wheat-bran and beaten Henbane seed and put them in a bag and lay them
half the Liquor be consumed then 〈◊〉 the Liquor from the herbs and put in 〈◊〉 Liquor pure English honey white 〈◊〉 and Penidies each of these eight ounces water five drams boil all this with an easie 〈◊〉 till it come to the thickness of a Syrup 〈◊〉 alwayes as the scum ariseth gather it off 〈◊〉 keep it to your use For wheesing in the Chest. Take a Toste of bakers bread and pour 〈◊〉 let oil on it upon either side as you woâ—â—â— butter a toste strew heaten Sugar on eitâ—â—â— side and use it first and last till you find eaâ—â— For delivering from Phlegm Take Hyssop and parsely and stamp theâ— temper them with wine or Ale and drink 〈◊〉 night and morning Another for wheesing of the Chest. Take spring water one quart put to it 〈◊〉 ounce of white Sugar candy and two ouncâ— of Liquerice pared and cut small in shiveâ—â— and half an ounce of pure Cinnamon a littâ—â— bruised let them steep in the water all nighâ— drink of it first and last until it be â—pent Pâ—â—bat Remedies for the Cough Take Hyssop great raiâ—ins and figgs of exâ—â—â— a handful Liquerice an ounce boil them 〈◊〉 water till the third part be wasted then giâ—â— it him to drink twice a day in the morniâ—â— two hours before meat and at night one hoâ—â— before supper immediately after it is gooâ— to eat a Lozenge of Diairis or Diapenidion Another remedie Take Sugar candy white pills of Diairis and â—iagragant of every one an ounce Liquerice â—wo drams make a powder and let him eat a â—oonful thereof morning and evening and â—rink after it three ounces of water of Hyssop â—r of scabious with Sugar and without Sugar In stead of these waters ye may take the â—roth of red cole worts without salt Another remedy Take Syrup of Liquerice and of Hyssop â—nd drink it evening and morning with a â—tisan or of one of the same Syrups with a â—â—oonful of Ptisan is good Another Take powder of Diairis simple and Liqueâ—â—ce of each a dram weight and with four â—unces of Sugar make an Electuary to be â—aten first and last after meat It is good to take Lohoc sanum with a stick â—f Liquerice at the coughing and after â—eat And there is another Loch called â—och de pino as good at all times as the â—ther is And it is good to anoint the brest â—orning and evening with oil of Lilies sweet â—lmonds and May butter without salt Remedie against the cough coming of a hot cause Take Syrup of violets and of Jubes and drink thereof morning and evening with a litle Ptisan sodden For the same It is good to take first and last a Lozenge of Diâ—tragagant and afterward to drink draught of good Ptisan A good receit against the Cough Take the root of Elicampane Horehound Hollihock of each alike much seethe theâ—â— altogether in white wine with a dozen of sat Figgs and a little Liquâ—rice drink of it a draught every day twice For the Cough and Murre Take Aqua vitae a sufficient quantitie temper it with Sugar candy A Medicine for hoarsness in the throat Take three or four figgs and cleave them in two every one and then put into them â— prettie quantity of Ginger finely beaten into powder and then roste them upon a clean hearth or tile stone and then let the partie eat them as hot as possible he can This harâ— holpen some that have been troubled with hoarsness four or five years together before To heal the Sâ—râ—fâ—â—a or disease called the King evâ—l Take barly â—lowre liquid pitch wax and oâ—â— â—live in equal quantitie boil it altogether with childs Urine and brought to a plaister and applyed Fiet To cure the Kings evil Mistris Athinson the wife of the man elseâ—here mentioned at the same time as her Husâ—and was cured of a broken vein affirmed that â—her certain knowledge the roots of Houndsâ—â—ngue cut in the shape of dice and put into a â—â—nen bagg of about two inches square unâ—â—l it be almost full and hang it about the neck â—f the partie grieved to lie upon the pit of â—e stomack and let it be renewed once in two 〈◊〉 three dayes as the vertue decaies It will â—reak the disease if not broken if broken it â—â—ll cure it especially if it run brown water white then with more difficultie Against shortness of winde Shortness of winde proceedeth oft-times of â—hlegm that is tough and clammish hanging â—â—on the lungs or stopping the conduits of the â—â—me being in the hollowness of the brest or 〈◊〉 catarrhous humors that drop down into the â—ungs and thereby cometh straitness of drawâ—â—g of breath which is called of Physicians â—yspnoea or Asthma And when the patient canâ—â—ot bend his neck down for fear of suffocation â—s called Orthopnoea for every one of these diâ—â—ases there be very wholsom Medicines deâ—ared before The receipt for Asthma Take an ounce of great raisins picked from the kernels two figgs the meat of a Date dry Hyssop maiden-hair Liquerice and the lungs 〈◊〉 a Fox washed in wine water of scabioâ—s of every one a dram Penidies two ounces with Syrup of Liquerice Let all be incorporated and make a Loch to eat a good whilâ— after meat with a stick of Liquerice To cure Asthmatick persons Take Lowes aâ—as in Latine Porcelliones and burn them to white powder upon a little stone and make them into an Electuary with life honey is excellent against the disease called Asthma An oyntment for shortness of breath Take two ounces of oil of sweet Almonds one of May butter unsalted a little Saffron and of new wax and make an oyntment wherewith ye shall anoint the brest morning and evening To break a sore brest Take a Lily root and a piece of leaveâ— sâ—ethe it in milk until the lilly be very 〈◊〉 aâ—d plaister like and so as warm as the parâ—â— can suffer it lay it morning and evening â—o keep the brest from breaking if it be not too far gone Take clay that is without stones and knead 〈◊〉 with sharp vinegar the yâ—lks of two eggs a â—ittle English Saffron and work it into the clay â—nd so take asmuch as will cover the redneâ— of â—t you must use it cold some brâ—sts will have â—o colour and such are not lightly saved from â—reaking To heal the breast Take as many Mallowes as will into a charger â—nd chop them and seethe them in ruâ—â—iâ—g â—ater till they be tender pour the waâ—er from â—hem and put them into a pottle of good Ale-drâ—ggs and a peny loaf of leaven brâ—â—d â—gâ—ated with a quart of white wine let thâ—se â—eethe together till you think it be thick â—nough then put thereto half a quarter of a â—ound of Deares suet and lay it to the sore as â—ot as the party can suffer it morning and â—vening and after that the heat be such as it â—ryeth this will help any sore in the breast or â—ny other places You must wash
stoned with a spoonfull of red 〈◊〉 chopped small Apply it plasterwise two houres before the fit For a burning fever a medicine approved â—â—ue Take six spoonfulls of fair running water and put it into a fair glass or other vessel anâ— put thereto one spoonful of bay salt 〈◊〉 picked from filth and let the salt melt 〈◊〉 the said water then put to it a pretty quantity of Saffron finely beaten and let the patient drink thereof in the beginning of his hearâ— and it will lay the heat and in short spacâ— drive away the fever and the sooner if thâ— siek be made soluble or loose bellyed and thiâ— approved to be true Another for a burning fever Take a handful of Câ—llendine a handful of bay salt an hard â—gge and a raw egge a râ—sted onion and a raw oniâ—n stamped altogether and make two plasters and binde them to the soles of your feet and with two plasters you shall have remedy A medicine to precure sleep in a fever Take of the seeds of white pâ—ppie two spoonfuls of the white seeds of Lâ—ttice being tâ—e best one spoonful make them into powder and drink it going to bed in a draught of clarified Mâ—ce ale warm and it will cause quiet sleep the ordinary use is two small spoonfuls to bedward Probat For the fever in Angine and for bloody matter Seeth parsly in white milk and pâ—t the â—ot milk to cold butter and it will be a posset you must use that posset ale first and last a week together It cuâ—eth also such as â—ake bloody water To make a breath to cool one in a fever Taâ—e fair water and put thâ—reto French barly boyl until the watâ—r be red thâ—n pour the red water from it and put into barly the hot water some Liquorice some cooling herb as Violet leaves and strawbeâ—ry leaves and put in some Lettice seeds and let it boil until the barly be very soâ—t then strayn the barly from it and let it cool and when it 's cold put in some vinegar and sugar and so drink it you must put in your vinegar and Sugar as you drink it For an Ague of long continuance Take of Seâ—a two ounces of Polypody oâ— the oak half an ounce Bay-berries half an ouâ—ce of Fenel seeds half an ounce of Aniseeds half an ounce of Liquerice half an ounce one red Dock root the pith taken ouâ— of scurvy grass one handful and a half bruise all this together in a mortar then put them in a Linnen bag and hang them in a gallon of nâ—w ale three dayes then drink thereof near a pint at eight in the morning fasting and at four in the afternoon till all be out A remedy to cure the new Ague and to cleanse the stomack by vomit Take a dram of pure Tobaâ—co and open the the Leaâ— if it be in roul and stâ—ep the leaves of the said dram all night in half a pinte oâ— white wine then strayn it and drink it next your heart and â—ast two hours after and you shal have youâ— stomack well purged and cleansed of Phlegm and choler This will our Engâ—â—sh garden Tobacco do Probatum also either steeped green but especially the dry Leaves of it as with esseth Mr. Parkinsons Herbal For an Ague if it be given before the first fit Take Dandelion stamp and strayn it and ouâ— Triacle or Mithridate to the juice and drink it on your good dayes two or three dayes as your good dayes do fall out and it will hâ—lp for it hath been proved many â—imes An excellent plaster to put away the Ague fit either Quotidian or tertian Take a good spoonful of Bay salt asmuch â—rankincense bruised both so small as you can and put to them the bigneâ—s of an â—gge of the root of white Briony and half an handful of Smalledge let the Briony and Smalledge be both pounded together and put with them your bay salt and Frankincense and lay it to both your wrestâ— of your arms a hand breadth so cold as may be two hours before the course of your fit being spread a good thickneâ—â— on two faiâ— clothes Let it be unremoved twentie four hours then renew it This helped a dozen at one time in my Lord Harringtous house A plaster to put away the new Ague Take the middle bark of a walnut tree well steepâ—d in rose vinâ—gar thâ—n stamp it with a spoâ—nful of bay salt and one spoonful of Olibanum and lay it on a cloth spread well and thick to the left hand wrest leâ—inâ— it ly there four and twenty hours Probatum What to give one in the fever or Ague Give them one dram of Theriaca Andromacâ—â— mix it with one ounce of Conserves of Red roses and with dragon water or water of Carduâ—â— Benedictus two ounces with one ounce of Syrup of Limons and take of this mixture one spoonful in your extremity at a time Leâ— blod if need require the sixth day of youâ— sickness in the Hepatica vein six or seveâ— ounces For a tertian Ague a soveraign drink proved Take vervine and Mouseare and Camomil one handful boyl them in a quart of Ale to a pint and strayn it into a pot and when your cold fit is upon your drink a good draught of it and in two drinkings it will help Prebatum For an ague Juice of Wormwood and sugar doth help the ague in short time A special medicine for the Ague Drink at the coming of the cold fit the distilled watâ—r of Germander and it helpeth surely To cure a fever Take spring water and boyl it either in silver or other clean skillet or in a pewter pot set in hot water and let it onely boil and no more and then cool it And let the patient make it his drink untill the fever be gone and if the party have a choice palate put in a little white sugarcandy to take away the taste of the water A diet drink for the Scorbutum or scurvy and to put away the malum habitum corporis Prâ—batum Take seven gallons of good middle ale wort and put it into a pan with seven handfus of Scurvy grass or for want thereof take three handfuls of pepper three handfuls of water Cresses and three handfulls of Brooklime boyl these being fair washed and pulled in pieces in the water until six gallons remain then order it as you would order beer and tunne it up in a barrel having ready a fine linnen bag wherein put a stone or plum with three ounces of Sena and one ounce of fine Rubarbe cut in small slices with the powder of grains long pepper anniseeds fennel seeds and Liquorice scraped and bruised flat one half ounce of spicknard and galingal vera beaten small one two ounces of the wood and rinde of pure sassafras half an ounce or one ounce if the wood be not vâ—ry good cut in smal pieces then sow them all in the bag and fasten a long double strong thread to the bagge and hang it so in
the barrel near the tunning hole see that it touch not the bottom by two inches fasten the thread to the top of the barrel then put barme to your said ale and after purging stop it up close and after three dayes sâ—tling drink continually of this drink and no other so long as it lasteth and â—at to your breakfast and supper pottage made of water Cresses and brooklime made with veal or mutton and eat what good meat you best like see it be rabbeâ— Capon Mutton or Veâ—â—l dâ—y rosted continue this diet twenty dayes or so long as your drink lasteth good and this by Godâ— grace will recover your health and abate the swelling of the â—pâ—een and cure perfectly the scorbutum or Lassitudo in man or woman The signs of this disease which comes of Melancholy are certain sâ—eckles appearing on the hand the armes and legs which will go away suddenly and come again the teeth are as it were eaten with cankers about the gums apt to bleed and impâ—stume they wax loose a weariness of the whole body and werinâ—ss of the Leggs with a swelling in them towards night and the stomack decreaseth by little and little and the patient if he have not help in time falleth into a dropsie or consumption A good drink to cleanse the blood Take water Cresses four hands Is Brooklime two handfuls scurvy gâ—ass half a peck sena two ounces Rubarb an ounce and a halâ— Liquerice an ounce sweet fennel seeds two ounces he miâ—dle baâ—k or â— barbâ—ry tâ—ee an ounce new wort three gaâ—loâ—s Bruisâ— all that is to be bruised Cut the Bubarb in thin slices and cut the Herbs small and put all together into a bag made o bouâ—el Clâ—ath and let it hang in the dâ—ink five dayes before you give it to the party and then cause him to take it every morning fasting and about the clock â—n the afternoon This drink is good against the scurvy whosoever takes this drink spring and fall needs no other Medicine A very good drink against the scurvy Take yellow Dock roots finely sliced Horsradish roots bruised small of each a pound and a half Succory roots their piths taken â—ut four ounces Egrimony and funâ—itory of each four handfuls water cresses six handfuls Scurvy grass a peck ginger bruised one ounce Nutmegs one ounce and half Anniseeds and â—assafras râ—ots of each one ounce wash and pick and dry the herbs with a clothe stamp them altogether in a stone Mortar and wring â—ut the juice and put the Herbs after they are â—trayned with the râ—st of the simples into a â—ag made of bowtel clothe and hang them in â— Vessel of five gallons of new ale and put in the juâ—ce that was strained out of the Herbs â—nd let it stand four or five dayes and then drink every morning fasting and every evenâ—ng half a pinte at a time and if the party please let him make new drink thereof some â—ime in the day To make a laxative beer of scurvy grass taught by Mr. Doctor Butler unto the Lady Finch which takes away the swelling of the egs and stomack ad makes to sleep well Take Fennel and Partly roots wash it scrape â—t and slice it and the piths taken out alike four ounces green asparagus roots whole foâ— ounces steep all this twenty four hours in quart of White wine and mix them with half 〈◊〉 pound of scurvy leaves clean picked wateâ— Cresses brooklime Egrimony each 〈◊〉 drams wrap all these leaves and roots in â— cloath and lay them in a pye of thick rye pastâ— made without butter and bake them twâ— hours in an oven after cut open the pye and leâ— the Herbs and roots cool bruise the roots and Herbs with the inside of the rye pye in a mortar take Saâ—saparilla sliced in the midst câ— short and bruised Polypodium Sena Alex. bruised a little three ounces of Rubarb thin sliceâ— one half ounce of sweet feÌ„nel Carroway seedâ— of each one ounce white fennel seeds bruiseâ— one half ounce Liquerice scraped and thin sliced one ounce mix all these ingredients together and put them into a bag run them 〈◊〉 in two gallons and a half of beer let theâ— work together for the first day and as they work let one squeeze the juce out of the baâ— twice and tâ—ice the second day let the baâ— hang continually in the drink by a thread to the bung then stop the vessel close When 〈◊〉 dayes old drink three quarters of a pint â—â— once two hours before dinner and two hours before supper use to eat the sprigs of Asparagus in a sallet often times or the roots boyled 〈◊〉 aforesaid in white wine and water A Medicine for a surfet Take a handful of Wormwood an handful of Sage an handful of Centory a handful oâ— Mintes and seethe them in a quart of Ale or beer and drink it blood warm in the morning fasting The Bowels Diseases of the Bowelâ— THe Colick and Iliaca passin come oftentimes both from one cause that 's to say of the opilation of the bowels and are diseases very eager and sharp and almost importable of pain whereof many times followeth defection of the strength with variety of medicines ye ought incontinent to help them First when the said pains come by stopping of the belly you must give him a mollificative Clâ—ster made of the decoction of Mallowes Violets beers anniseed and Fenugreek with Cassia and common hony and oil olive and afterward the Herbs of the said Clyster bruised and fryed â—ayed hot betwixt two linnen Clothes and applyed to the belly but if the pain cease not give him a suppository long enough made of hony and Sal gem For the winde Coâ—ick If it come through windiness and then the pain is changeable and moving from place to place and is known also by the rumbling which is a noise in the bowels with griping â—nd great pain A suppository for the winde Colick Take a dram of Rue in fine powder and half a dâ—am of cun min dried and powdred and with hony scummed make a suppository A plaster Take two handfuls of rue in fine powder mirthe and Cummin powdred of each half â— ounce four yelks of Eggs and make two plasters with honey and lay the one at night and the other in the morning upon the belly Water of Camomil or a decoction of the â—ame drunken is good Also a dried Acorn iâ— powder and given to drink in white wine is very good To cure a rupture in the belly Take the root of male comphry ground into powder one dâ—am of Polypodium of the oak asmuch of the root thereof of white daysie morâ—s asmuch And asmuch of the root oâ— Osmund which gâ—oweth in brooks all beaten into fine powder mingle them together and give the same to the patient to drink the space of nine dayes every morning together with four spoonfuls of Malmesey all this while let the patient wear the iron hoop with the â—russe and
warm to the nape of the neck To dry up and draw rheum out of the head A quilt made with Bay-salt dry Sage and Cummin is good for the rheum to draw it out and waste the humors and in like case is the leaves and flowers of Mustard-seed bruised and so laid to the crown of the head To purge the head and preserve the sight Drink Beer every morning a good draught fasting wherein the roots of Dog fennel or Motherwort is steeped the roots somewhat bruised and it will presently work in your eyes and head To expel a cold stomack or head and to expel a Consumption or either of them Take a pint of white wine Vinegar and half a pound of the best fine hard Sugar mix them and a head of Garlick trimmed clean bruised to mash then put them altogether into a pipkin and boil them softly till half be wasted and take thereof morning and evening a small quantity It will help the cold and expel a consumption An oyl to cure the cold Palsie and shaking Palsie Take a young cub Fox case him and gut him and chop him in peices and boil him in three gallons of water with a great handful of Her be-grace bruised and ever as the first scum ariseth scum it of and cast it away and all the rest of the scum and fat which riseth scum into a fair glass as long as you can get any and cover the glass close and anoint the place with the said ointment where the Palsie beginneth and you shall be cured And to anoint the shaâ—ing Palsie cureth it in a short time For quaking hands Take Fennel Rue and Wheat-bran seethe them in water and wash thâ— hands therewith also to wash thy hands in Claret wine is excellent for the same being often proved For them which aâ—e speechlesâ— with the Palsie Take sharp Mustard and give it to drink in Ale or Beer warm also Primrose roots cut in slices and a slice lâ—id under the tongue will help in the like case A precious water against many sicknesses Take Nutmeg Cloves Cresses-seed Cubebâ— Maces Grains Ginger and Cinnamon of each alike much and beat thâ—m to powder and put them in white wine a Limbeck and distill them with a soft fire This water drunk fasting helpeth all cold sicknesses putteth away all diseases in the eyes and redness and watering It helpeth the Spleen the Liver the Fistuâ—a in the body the Palsie the cold Gouâ— the Palsie with many other diseases and much comforteth the stomack For the falling Sicknessâ— Take a good handful of single Piony stamp them in a pottle of white wine having in it some Saffron within a cloth then give three spoonful of this three dayes before the change of the Moon and three dayes after the change the day of the change being not reckoned for one Take three spoonfuls of this three morâ—ings and three nights press well the juice ouâ— of the roots Hang a Piony root as neer the heart as you can Another Take the weight of half a crown in silver or half an ounce of red Fox Gloves and the like weight of Southernwood let them lie twelve hours a steep in a pint of Ale then strain it and give it blood warm fiâ—st and last do so for three daâ—es together about the time of the Moon your fit comâ—th If it be for a chiâ—de â— pint may be given at four dâ—aughts it maketh the party sick but it cureth For the Falling sickness or disease neer unto it Take one once of Piony root dryed and finely beaten and put it in a pint of Ale â—r Beer or both boil it and drink it morn and evening anâ— it will help you It is proved For the Falling sickness Take three nails made in the Vigil of Saint Iohn Baptist commonly called Midsummer eve drive them in the ground so deep that they be not seen in the place where the sick party fell naming the parties name whiles it is in doing It will drive away the disease which Misaldus credibly reported A powder against the Falling sickness Take of Christal prepared one dram Of red Coral prepared two scrupleâ— Of Pearl prepared one scruple Of Oâ—iental Smaragd prepared half a dram The half part of which is one dose in the water of our Ladies thistle Caeâ—ar accounted this for a great secreâ— and with which men that were somewhat aged as also those which have been long subject to this disease after purgation were cured Zacutus Lufitanus wiâ—nesseth and reporteth de Prax. Med. adm lib. observat 20. that he hath seen many and also of great age having this disease of the Falling sickness having tryed many remedies as well of an hidden as manifest quality which nothing profited or availed them onely with the syrup made of the green leaves of Tobacco and hony to have been cured taking of the same three ounces three hours after supper for fourty dayes if greeâ— Tobacc◠〈◊〉 wanting dry of good note or the best may be used instead thereof Another excellent Remedy for the salling evil Take a good handfuâ— of Piony roots and a handful of Misselto that groweth upon a blackâ—horn and a handful of Polypodium otherwise called in English Oakefearn and two good â—andful of Selendine if it be possible it may â—e had and stamp them very well and then â—et them to steep either in Ale or Beer for the â—pace of two hours or more and then put it inâ—o your earthen pot where it maybe kept close â—rom any air and let the party grieved drink a â—ood draught thereof every morning fasting â—nd last in the evening and let him use it for â—he space of fourteen or fifteen dayes and by Gods help it will cure him in short space Against the Epilepsie of Children Take Coriander prepared Mâ—stard-seed Nutmegs of each half a dram Piony-seed seven â—rams Diptamni two drams make thereof a â—owder and let it be given in the morn with â—ot wine Another expert against the Epiâ—epsie Take red Coâ—al the forepart of the skull of a man of grains of Piony of each one â—ram mix it and make a powder thereof of which powder must be given at three times at morn noon and night with some broth or â—ome water appropriated and if it help not at once then renew it in the same manner and â—ose as before It is found that many things have a natural vertue against the faâ—liâ—g eviâ— not of any quality elemental but by a siâ—gular property or rather an influence from heaven which almighty God hath given unto things here on earth as by these and other Saphiâ—es Smargdes red Coâ—al Piony Misseltoe of the Oak â—aken in the Moneth oâ— March and the Moon dâ—crâ—asing Time Savin Dill and the stone found in tâ—e belly of â— young Swallow and others these or one oâ— them hangâ—d about the neck of the child saveth and prâ—serveth it from the said sickness Take â—he root of Piony and make it inâ—o powder and â—ive it the
child to lick in a little pap and Sugar They that are of age may eat of it a good quantity at once and likewise of the black seeds of the same Piony Item the purple Violets that creepeth oâ— the ground in gardens with a long stalk and iâ— called in English Hearâ—sâ—ase drunk in water oâ— in water and hony helpeth this disâ—ase in â— young childe moreover the muskle of the Oak rased and given in milk and water and hony is good Also ye may still a water of the flowers of Linde it is a tree call in Latine Tilia take the same flowers and distill a water and let the patient drink thereof now and then a spoonful it is a good remedy Item the root of the Sea-thistle called Erigum in Latin eaten in broth or drunken 〈◊〉 exceeding good Some wâ—ite that Cichory is a singular remedâ— for the same disease it is meant by wilde Cichory growing in corns The flowers of Roseâ—ary â—ade a Conserve hath the same effect in curing this disâ—ase I could declare many other râ—mâ—dies commended of Authors but these are sufficieâ—t For the Falling sickness Take the skul of a dead man which is cleanly takâ—n out of the grave pulverizate very sâ—all add also hereunto five or six Piony kernels well pounded take hereof in the morn one dâ—am with wine and it is for this disease one of the best remedies An excellent Medicine sor the Apopâ—exia and Falling sickness Take Aqua vitae perfectly rectified without flegm one pint oyl of Vitriol one spoonful mix thâ—m and let the patient drink thereof every morn one spoonâ—ul and he shall be holpen although he have had it ten years and â—â—ll every hour And for Apoplexia ye shall give it in the said ordâ—r but if he cannot drink it so ye shall give it as you think good so that he have it in his body and prâ—sently he shall amend although he have had iâ— a long while and were lame over all his body c. For the Falling Evil. Take the secundum of a boy child dryed to powder in an Oven and the forepart of a dead mans skulâ— wash'â— in water of Betony and the seed or root of Piony dryed into powder and of Galingale all into several portions to the quantity of a spoonful of each moâ—e or less in the distilled water of Cowslipe flowers according to the strength of the patient and give to drink drink three dayes together and then rest three dayes and then drink it three dayes together again then rest three dayes and so till he have took it nine dayes The Eyes The Remedies for its distempers A Medicine to take all gummy matter or filth out oâ— the Eyes TAke Housleek otherwise called Singreeen and stamp it well and strain it through a fine linnen cloth and with the juice thereof wash the eyes often and it will both clear the sight and purge the eyes from all manner of filth and matter A powder for weeping and running eyes Take red Coral one dram Tutia half an ounce and burn them in a vessel of earth then put into it fine Pearl half a dram and beat it small into fine powder in a stone morter and search it through silk and put of it into the eye morning and evening and close up the eye till t is dry This is a great secret and is excellent for a pearl and dimness of sight For the Sight â— marvellous good water to recover the Eye sight â—he same being 〈◊〉 by any cause whatsoever Take three drams of Tutia made into â—hall powder anâ— like quantity of Aloes â—paticum and three drams of fine Sugar 〈◊〉 ounces of Rosewater and as much white â—ine mingle all these together and put them to a glass and stop it close and set it to and in the Sun by the space of a moneth â—â—â—rring it together once every day Then ke the quantity of six drops at a time of the me water and drop it into your eyes both orn and even and so continue for a short ace and it will cause your sight to come aâ—in and be as clear and as perfect as ever it as before This hath been proved by one hat recovered his sight having lost it a moâ—th before it was ministred unto himself most singular good Medicine to keep the Eyes clear cool and from redness and to kill the Itching of them Take a good handful of Housleck and two andfuls of Plantaine and stampe them well â—gether and strain them then let the juice and and settle for a little space and when it â—well settled power out the clearest from the â—sidue and put thereto half as much red ose water as is of the juice and half a quarter 〈◊〉 white Sugar candy beaten to fine powder and then take a piece as big as a Walnut or somewhat more of Lapis Calaminaris and let it slake ten or twelve times in the same water and let the patient take four or five drops aâ— he lyeth upright in his bed thereof and put iâ— into his eyes and it will help him This hatâ— been proved For running eyes of a cold Take Tutiae ten drams Coralli rubri mirabolaâ— citrini succoâ—â— aloes alike two drams piperis haâ— a dram fiat pulv and put often into the eye Here is a precious water for the sight and for thâ—â— that be fair clear blind Take Smallach red Fennel Rue Vervinâ— Betony Cinqfoile Pimpernel Euâ—race Sagâ— Selendine of each a quarâ—ern of a pound anâ— wash them clean and stampe them and dâ— them in a clean brazen pan and take fiâ—â—eâ—â— Pepper corns and bruise them all to powdeâ— and cast them to the Heâ—bs and a pint of gooâ— white wine and three spoonful of life hony and five spoonfuls of a man-childs urine that 〈◊〉 innocent and boil them altogether on thâ— fire a little and strain them A Medicine for them that may not well see and if the eyes be red Take the white Ginger and rub it on â— Whetstone in a clean basin and take thereâ—â— as much Salt as thou hadst of the powder anâ— temper them with white wine and let it stanâ— â—n the bason all a day and a night then do that clear that standeth above into a clean glass â—nd anoint thine eyes a liâ—tle therewith when â—hou goest to bed with a soft feather and do so often and forsooth he shall be hole on warranâ—ise For them that the Eye-lids be over-turned beneath Take Arnement and hony and the white of â—ggs of all alike much and temper them together then take hurden of Flax and wet â—hem in water and wring out the water clean â—nd lay these three things on the Hurds plaisterwise And if evil blood be within thy eyes â—t shall drive it out and heal them De ophthaâ—mia There happeneth sometime debility and â—ulness of sight which must be holpen accorâ—ing to the divers causes thereof as followeth Take Fennil Vervine Celidone Rue Eye-â—right and Roses of every one of them alike
painful aches of the ears For to make a man hear Take a red Onion and pick out the top and fill it full of fair hot Hens grease and lay the top on again and rost it in the Embers till it be tender and then quish out the oyl into the ears of the sick man or woman and then stop the ears with black wooll An approved Medicine for deafness Take sweet Sallet oyl half a pound add to it Wormwood Sorrel Anniseeds Perwinkle of each alike one dram dry all to powder the powder of the old Râ—ses one ounce as much of Coloquintida boiled well in the said oyl strain it and use it three drops at a time in the ear warm Another approved Take oyl of Castory and of bitter Almonds and of Roses let them be boiled in Aqua vitâ— till the Aqua vitae be wasted or consumed and so distil a drop at a time into the ear For deafness and for an Impostume of the ear to break it a rare secre Take the juice of young Elder buds and the inner rinde thereof either of them and use it helpeth For a man that may not well hear Take the block of an Ash and lay it to the fire and gather the water that cometh out oâ— both ends of the block and the juice of Jubarbe and white wine the grease of Eel of all these alike much and seethe them well together and put it into his ears till he be whole c. The Teeth Remedies for all their diseases Remedy for the Toothach PAain of the Teeth as Galen saith among other pains that are not mortal is the most â—ruel and grievous of them all It may come divers wayes of a cold or hot cause If it come of a hot cause the Gums are red and very hot wherefore it is very good to hold in his mouth water of Camphire or to seethe a little Camphire in Vinegar and hold in his mouth also take Henbane roots and seethe them in Vinegar and rose-Rosewater and hold in his mouth If it come of cold causes since in such casâ—s oft times there distilleth abundance of water into the mouth purge it with Piulae cochiae afterwards keep in your mouth warm wine wherein hath been sodden Pellitory Mintes and Rew. Another Take the middle barke of Elder Salt and Pepper of each alike much and stampe them together and lay it to the sore teeth Item Gum of Ivy with a little Lint dipped â—n Vinegar or Aqua vitae applyed is very good For rotten and stinking Teeth Stampe a quantity of Sage with as muâ—â— Salt and make thereof pretty pasties bâ—â— them in an Oven until â—hey wax black aâ— with the pouder thereof wash well your teeâ—â— both mornings and evenings Take the inner riâ—de of Elder and the innâ— rinde of the Withwinde and the inner rinâ—â— of Woodbinde then shred it small and pouâ—â— it small then pound into it pouder of Pepâ—â— and a little salt and pound it again then put iâ— into a linnen cloth and binde it fast a piece â— bigge as a Damson hold it between the forâ— teeth let the moisture run out when it doâ—â— stint running then take another ball so made and hold it between your teeth doing the likâ— and at the third or fourth ball it will help if â—â— come of rheum but if it come of blood yoâ— must let them bleed The decoction of Colocynth with sâ—rong Vinegar taketh away the pain of the teeth To draw Teeth take the brains of an Hare and seethe them in red wine and therewith anoint the Teeth that you would have ouâ— and they will fall out without pain Iâ—em The Gum of Ivy tempered with wax and put to a pained tooth will draw it out without pain To draw a tooth without pain rub it and none other with powder of the Gum of Ivy. A water to keep the teeth from stinking Take long Pepper Mintes Purslane Aristology roâ—unda salve green seethe all together in wine and use to wash thy teeth and it will â—eep them both white and sweet For the Toothach Take a spoonful of Aqua vitae and a spoonâ—ul of Triackle half a spoonful of Pepper in fine powder boil all these together upon a Chaffing-dish of coles and then put it into a box and put it into the Tooth where the pain is Fill the hollow Tooth with the gum of Ivy it will take away the Tooth-ach Touch the Tooth that aketh with the root of water Crowfoot ' incontinent it taketh â—way the pain and breaketh the tooth In â— vehement ach put a little of the juice of ground Ivy in thine ear on that side as thy ach is it will a little grieve thee but incontâ—nent thy Teeth shall cease aching Put the powder of red Coral in the hole of thy Tooth and it will fall out by the root Put Henbane seed upon coles and receive the smoak thereof into thy teeth by holding tâ—y mouth over it It killeth the worms and asâ—wageth the pain this hath beâ—n proved That thy Teeth never ake take the powder that cometh of filing of an Harts horn and let it seethe in water in a new earthen pot and so put it into thy mouth where thy grief is A medicine that the Tooâ—hach shall never vex you morâ— Take twenty leaves of Ivy a little long Peppeâ— and boil them with a handful of Salt in old wine and then put the liquor when it is well boiled into your mouth on that side that is vexed with the ach and you shall prove that the ach shall be destroyed in sempiternum A most expert and true Medicine for the pain of the Teeth and presently easeth the pain Take Lupines dryed let it be a little rubbed in your hands after put it into strong Vinegâ—r and boiled a little then strain it and press it out of which wash the mouth and gums for it is wonderful For a Tooth that is loose Take Gum of Ivy and red Vinegard and boil them together in a Pewter Sawcer till they be molten together wet therein a clouâ— and put down the Tooth therewith c. To help the Tooâ—hach of any sort Ivy berries sodden in white wine or in Vinegar this water being strained To fasten Teeth and to purge the head The roots of Pellitory of Spain chewed in the mouth fiet pro certo To make a Tooth â—eave aking or to fall out Stampe Neppe and put it into a cloth and lay it on the Tooth and it wilâ— either leave â—king or fall out The Nose The Remedies for its diseases Remedies for stinking of the Nose TAke Cloves Ginger and Calaminte of each a like and seethe them in white 〈◊〉 and therewith wash thy Nose after put â— powder of Piretrum to provoke you to 〈◊〉 and if there be repletion of Phlegm in â—e head first ye must purge it with pills of â—ochiae or of Hieâ—a Picra also if the stinking â—ome fâ—om the stomack fiâ—st help the stomâ—â—k as shall be
said hereafter in the remedies â—f the stomack The Mouth Remedies for its diseases To destroy a stinking breath TAke three handfuls of Cummiâ— beat them in a mortar to powder then take a pottle 〈◊〉 wine and put the powder into it and let it â—ethe till it come to a quart then drink first â—nd last of this wine by the space of fifteen â—ayes as you may suffer it Probatum est To make a sweet breath Take the juice of Mintes or the wateâ— Rue Cummin Coliander Liquorice Cinâ—â—mon alike four ounces seethe all these 〈◊〉 wine and give them to drâ—nk that hath 〈◊〉 stinking breath and surely it shall be sâ—eet Another for the same Take the powder of Sage one ounce 〈◊〉 mary blossoms three ounces Cloves and Gilâ—â— flowers five drams Cinnamon one dram and half Nutmegs one dram and a half Musâ— little quantity then take as much as is suâ—â—â—cient to make the said Compositions into Corporation like unto Marmelade and eaâ—â— this fasting and at night a little quantity aâ— time so shall your breath be sweet And you go into any suspicious place of the peâ—â—lence or any other corrupt air if you take â— this next your heart it shall defend you froâ— the jeopardy thereof For stench in the mouth Take Pulial Mountain make powder thereof and eat it fasting Another Take Costmary drink it every day fastinâ— wash thy teeth every night when thou goâ— to bed with Vinegar Another Take the juice of Gladin with old wine and wash thy mouth every morning and evening Another Take Mastick and Incense and seethe it in sweet wine and drink thereof early and late Another for the stench in the Nose Take the juice of Mintes and put it into â—hy Nose Another Drink the juice of Rue and five leaved Grass Another Take the juice of Ivy mingled with wine â—nd oyle Olive Probat To take away stinking of the mouth Ye must wash his mouth with water and Viâ—egar and chew Mastick a good while and then â—ash thy mouth with the decoction of Anniâ—eeds Mintes and Cloves sodden in wine Ye must wash your mouth before and after meat â—ith warm water for to cleanse the mouth â—nd to purge the humours from the Gums â—hich descend out of the head it is good evâ—ry morning fasting to wash your mouth and to â—ub the Teeth with a Sage leave pills of Ciâ—ron or with powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs forbear Lettice Raw fruit all tart meats and the chewing of hard things Also â—ll meats of evil digestion and vomiting The Breast Remedies for distempers thereof Remedies for diseases of the breast And first for hâ—arsness of the voice ye 〈◊〉 avoid all eagâ—r salt and sâ—arp things anâ— sleeping by day too much watching greaâ— cold much speaking and too lâ—ud crying 〈◊〉 sweet things are good as apples sodden wiâ—â— Sugar great raisins Figgs Almond milk whiâ—â— pills Sugar candy and the juice of Liqueriâ—â— For a hoarse voice Take the broth of red Coleworte aâ—â— mingle it with sâ—ven or eight Penidies and aâ— ounce of Syrup of Maiden-hair and give unâ—â— the patient whâ—n he goeth to bed Another Take Diairis simple and eat a Lozenge oâ— the same at morning and at night For hoarsness of long continuance Take Raisins Figgs Sugar Cinnamon anâ— Cloves of every one a little seethe them iâ— good wine of the which ye shall give to drinâ— morning and evening two ounces at a tiâ—â— â—xcept he have a fever It is good to take â—orning and evening a fpoonful of the Syrup of Juâ—ubes mixt with a root of Liquerice in â—anner of a Lohoch A Syrup for Cough rheums Catarres and other like diseases Take Althaea leaves seven handfuls stamp them in a mortar then take a pot that will hold seven pints boil in it these â—hings followâ—ng Liquerice two ounces Sage Rosemary Carduâ—s benedictus figgs raisins barly flower of each a handful succory leaves and roots a handful let all these boil one hour and a half then let it cool so that you may strain it then take the water and put in two or three pounds of French Mallowes setting it to boil on the fire again three hours or more then strain it as you did before then take the decoction and set it on the fire with asmuch hony or little less taking off the scum when it hath boiled a good space adâ— to it one ounce or as much as you wilâ— of Cinnamon Then take it immediately from the fire putting it forth and covering it close This secret is so excellent that if a man use it in winter warming it when he taketh it it is not possible for him to be vexed with Câ—ugh rhâ—um Catarrhes and like diseases A Medicine for the Cough Take the yelk of an Egg and put it into an emptie Egg shell and put to it five grains weight of the powder oâ— Saffron and roste the same very rear and to bedward sup it off warm being well stirred together it cureth the Cough or giveth much ease Against the Cough Take Anniseeds Licquerice of each an ounceâ— Hysop one handful sugar candy four ounces strong beer three pints boil altogether till half be consuâ—ed then strain forth the simples and give the patient every night when he goeth to bed four ounces warm For an old Cough Take Elicampane roots and boil them tender then pound it in a wooden mortar then rub it in through an hair sieve then take clarifâ—â—d hony and lay a course in the bottom of a stean then a course of sliced wardens then a course of the Elicampane and so again as long as you please And then put the stean into aâ— oven and bake them two or three hours then take it two or three times a day a spoonful at a time Another for a Cough with a rheum Take Brown sugar candy and put it pounded into a calves bladder and lay it in spring water 24 hours then cut the bladder and eat t with a Liquerish stick as the Cough doth trouble you â—preâ—erve Wallnuts for a cough or Consumption â—ake a pound of Walnuts before they be 〈◊〉 and paâ—e them very thin then steep 〈◊〉 in water a night then boil them in runâ—â— or standing water until they be so tender â—ou may put an hard rush through them 〈◊〉 stick in each end of every Walnut a 〈◊〉 Then lay them hot togethâ—r in a â—â—ney Bason then take a pound and a half â—ugar and strew upon them hot and cover 〈◊〉 and let them lie covered all night withâ—he warmth of the fire And the next day 〈◊〉 them up and put them into a pot A good Syrup for an old Cough and it mundiâ—eth the breast and the Lungs and for pain under â—he side coming of cold â—ake Liquerice scraped and bruised two â—ceâ— Maiden hair one ounce of Hysop dried 〈◊〉 an ounce put all this into four pintâ— of â—â—ing water and let them stand in that waâ—â—◠〈◊〉 one day and one night and then seethe 〈◊〉 till
the place beâ—ng broken with white wine at every dressing To heal any kinde of ach or sore brest Pare off a cap of the root of white Bryonie â—nd make a hole in the root as hollow as you â—an and cover the root close with the cap you â—ut off or with a piece of a tile-stone and cover â—ll again with earth letting it still grow and three dayes after open the said root and the hole will be full of water then take that water and put it in a glass and anoint the place where the grief is and use it A plaister for a sore brest Take wheat meal and pure life honey and claâ—ified bores grease of each like portions boil them a little and make a plaister and lay thereto Probat A medicine to skin a womans sore breâ—t which is â—aw Take a pint of sweet thick cream and put it into a pan with three spoonfuls of the juice of brown fennel boil it to an oil and therewith anoint the sore brests morning and evening till it be whole Probat To help the hardness in women brests Wheat flower honey oil olive and the juice abundantly of yellow Gilly flower together with the juice of rue Sanat For the aking of a womans brest Take Cinquefoil or five leaved grass and stamp them with swines grease and make thereof a plaister and lay it to well brayed together and it will take away the aking Another for the same Take and boil Rue and put there to flower â—f wheat and make thereof a Plaister and lay hereto â—â—r womens brests or swelling that cometh by cold in child birth Take and lay Chickweed upon a Tyleâ—one and rose leaves upon Chickâ—eed upon the rose leaves again so that hâ—re be of them two or three leaves then â—â—rinkle it with vineger and boil all these â—pon the tyle-stone And when it s well boilâ—d take another Tyle and lay upon thaâ— and â—ut it asunder and lay to the swelling and it â—ill take away the pain â—n approved Medicine for them that haâ—e cold in their brests Take oil of Camomil and Aqua composiâ—â— â—ingle them together against the fire chafe â—â—e breast well withall that it may enter into â—â—e Stomack and veines This hath holpeâ—â—any â—pproved Medicine for a sore brest that is broken Take Malâ—owes and boil them with sheeps â—llow till they be very tender then strain it â—â—d keep it in boxes and if the brest have â—eed to be tented take a piece of the stalk of â—â—e Mallowes that are â—â—dden and tent it withâ—â—l this is proved For bolning of a womans brest Take apples of the oak and stamp them with oil and lay it to the bolning For a very sore brest Take Hartshorn or a Buls horn for need and grate it into a pint of good white wine and give the woman to drink thereof and leâ— her sleep upon the same Medicine and it shall cease For coagulation of milk in a womans brest Take Egâ—miony Vervine Fennel and bray it altogether and lay it thereon and be whole c. A Soveraign Medicine for a sore brest Take a pottle of smiths water the elder it is the better if it smell a little so much the better also you must take a quarter of a pound of old alume and white salt asmuch as ye can hold on the two fingers from the second joynt forth two handfuls of Sage two Heads of housleek put all these into the water and seethe it till it come to a quart then let it stand with the Herbs in it and wash the sorâ— breast well with the Herbs and the wateâ— twice a day and at every time ye wash it lay upon the sore or sores green Sage leaves till it be whole this hath been proved and hâ—aled a breast so sore as it was thought uncurable Ye must warm the water and Herbâ— every â—ime ye dress the brest A medicine for the womanâ— brests if the sore 〈◊〉 of Milâ— Take Mallows as ye get to be holden in a â—harger and cut them small and seethe them â—n a Gallon of running water and when they â—esodden soft put thereto a potile of the â—roâ—nds â—f Ale and a quart of white wine â—nd two penny white loaves cutting off the â—rusts leavened make it thick and put into it â—eers Sueâ— or Sheeps Sueâ— and lay it upon a â—lew cloth or linen cloth and lay it warm to â—he sore brest every day as long as its sore â—nd it shall be healed by the grace of God A plaister for a postume on womens Teats Take Linseed and seethe it well and long 〈◊〉 fair running water then take fresh Sheeâ—s â—allow and fry the Linseed therein and eâ—â—n as hot as ye may suffer it lay it thereon Remedies for the Pthisick Pthisis is an ulceration of the lungs by â—hich all the body falleth into Consumption 〈◊〉 such casâ— that it wasteth all save the slâ—in yâ—â—ay know him that hath a Pthisick for â—rom 〈◊〉 to day he waxeh ever leaner and dryer â—nd his hair falleth and hath ever cougâ— and â—itteth sometimes matter and bloody strings â—ithall And if that which he spitteth be â—ut into a bason of water it falleth into the bottom for it is so heavy A remedy Take two oâ—nces of Pimpernel in powder and thereof make an Electuary with Sugar and use it every morning two drams with Pimpernel water three ounces Water of Snails distilled is proved good to them that be Pthsicke every morning in drink and for all them that are dry and lean Another First take a quantity of running water and boil it half away The ingredients that you are to put into the composition are two ounces of Anniseeds one ounce of Coliander seeds one ounce of Liquerice sliced one ounce of Sugar candy one handful of Coltsfoot half a pound of Raisins of the Sun one quarter of a pound of â—iggs and one handful of Liverwort a handful of Maidenhair a quantity of Hartstongue and two penniworth of Dates The composition made and put into the water boiled halâ— a way take it and strain it and scum it sweeten it and drink it For the cough and consumptâ—on of the lungs Take Fox Lungs fresh killed pull them from the Windepipes and the straines which hange by the same then wash the lungs in Sack or white wine lâ—â—ewarm three or four times until they be clean from the blood thâ—n dry them in a pot in an Oven after the baâ—câ— drawn forth so well dried beat them to powder Take Anniseeds Fennel seeds Maiden hairâ— of each like quantity of weight to your Fox lungs beat all these together to fine powder and see the sâ—me well mingled take also a like weight of Liquorice as the Fox lungs or somâ— deal more and lay it in water fourteen hourâ— first clean scraped and a little bruised then seethe your Liquorice in the same water until half be consumed and so strain the Liquor from the Liquorice and with the liquor seeth as much fine
stone to make it sink and hang the drink and drink it in the morning fast 〈◊〉 g and at four of the clock in the afterâ—â—on Probatum Another for the stomack â—â—ke cakes like apple cakes or Pasties in 〈◊〉 or May and fill them full of wormwood 〈◊〉 bake them hard the paste must be of â—eat meal undrest and brew a stand of strong 〈◊〉 beer And when it 's turned and given 〈◊〉 e â—urging â—akâ—â—he â—akes when they be 〈◊〉 d and cut them into quarters and put â—â—em into the barrel and stop it up close and â—hen it 's settled and clear drink a bowl full draught in the morning fasting and so use 〈◊〉 heat in the stomack which maketh the throaâ— sore â—â—ke an handful of Columbine Leaves and a â—â—ndfull of Cuarrnts boyl them in a pinâ—e of â—â—w milk then take out the Currants and the â—eaves and shred them together And eat â—â—e Currants and the leaves and then sup the â—ilk as hot as you can The Liver Remedies for its disâ—empers Against stopping of the Liver called opilaâ—iâ— DRink every morning the Syrup of Oxyâ—â— sqyllitick wiâ—â— half a dâ—aughâ— oâ— mo 〈◊〉 of the decoction of the roots of Smallâ— Fennel and Parsely Another for stopping of the Liver Take Venice Turpentine to the quantity a bean and put it into a spoon until it doe m 〈◊〉 and then put there to a liâ—â—le white sugar 〈◊〉 let them eat of it every day fasting Take a good haâ—dful of iver wort tâ—â— groweth upon stones and another of fumitoâ—â— with as much hearts tongue and drink the every day twice The liver of an hare dryed good for all diseases of the Liver also for tâ—â— heat of the Liver seethe Barberries in wheâ—â— and drink them Remedy If it come of gross blood give the patieâ— Medicins that do pierce and are suâ—til as is wiâ—â— of Pome-granates Srup of Endive with tâ—â— decoction of Cicers Then let him blood 〈◊〉 the Liver vein and everymorning eat a Lâ—â—zeng of Triasanâ—ali Sometime the said opilation cometh of â—â—bundance of somâ— humour viscouâ— coâ—d and 〈◊〉 egmatick stopping the veins of the â—iver â—â—d then the Urine as clear as water and then â—â—e patient must use the Syrup above written â— viz. Oxymel scylliticum A Iulep for heat of the Liver Take half a pound of rose water one quarâ—â—r of waâ—er of Endive and five ounces of â—â—gar make a Julep of which you shall drink â—â—sting a good draught And if he will needs â—rink between meals Let it be mingled with â—â—o parts of the waâ—er of the wâ—ll and if ye â—â—ill have it more cooling aâ—d unto it two â—unces of vinâ—ger or the juice of Pomegraâ—ate In stead of the said medicine too costâ—â— for poor folk you may make bâ—les of half â—n ounce of Cassia and three drams of the â—lectuary de succo rosarum and eat it three â—ours after midnight and steep it and so drink â—â— mix the said boles with whay or Eâ—dive â—ater and drink it at five in the morning but â—eep not after it A drink to cool the Liver Take an ounce of Sena Alexandrina a farâ—hing worth of Anniseeds and a sarthing worth â—f Liquerice and a dram of Rubarbe de Spain â—nd make a powder of the sâ—me with half an â—unce of Polypodie of the oak when the â—owder is fine boil it in three pints of white â—ine before you do put it in make ready â—hree roots that 's a Fennel root a parsly root a Mallow root washed fair and clean bruise these three roots and boil them in white wine from three pintes to a pinte upon a still fire and be sâ—re to stir it about and let not the flame nor smoak come to it This purgeth the Liver and spleen then strain it through a clean cloth and drink in the morning fasting in the second day of M or the first day of Sagittariâ—s And when ye drink it take a brown toste and wet it in vineger and smâ—ll to it fiet A good râ—câ—ipt for the dâ—opsie Take the salt of Wormwood three daies iâ— a moneth a spoonful at a time and you shall feel the dropsie water fall into your leggs every time you may take it away by setting your leggs up to the knees in hot water To purge dropsie water abuâ—dantly for the shedding oâ— nature called Gonorrhaaea verbatim out of Master Cogan Pag. 5. in Flower deluce Take a new laid Egg pouring out the white put into the yelk so much of the root of Flower deluce as was of the white after set the same Egg into the Embers which being sufficiently warmed sup off fasting in the morning And the patient shall after send forth aâ—uâ—dance of water and so be eased of the dropsie Or else you may take a dram or two oâ— the dry root made into powder and drunk in wâ—ay clarified â—or its good also to pâ—râ—e the dropsie water And if you put a little Cinnaâ—on to the juice of Floweâ—-deluce in the â—â—g yelk its a very good medicine for the â—â—dding of nature as hath been often proved For the Dropsie or Tympany Take the flower of Dane wort and of the â—â—â—ves and distill them in a stillatory and â—â—â—nk four or five spoonful at a time with the 〈◊〉 er of Herb grace in six or seven spoonfuls 〈◊〉 white wine one spoonful of the water of â—â—â—b grace will serve This is the excellentest â—â—dicine one can give for this will void the 〈◊〉 er out of the belly by usage Probâ—t by 〈◊〉 er for which propertie of daneworte Gerards Herball The Gall. Against diseases of the Gall. He gall is placed in the hollowness of the Liver to receive the superfluity of cho 〈◊〉 and to send it to the bowels to be avoid 〈◊〉 â—ith the grosse excrements to the intent to 〈◊〉 se the blood of the said choler To the 〈◊〉 ch cometh opilations in the parties about 〈◊〉 he liver or beneath it in it self nâ—xt the 〈◊〉 els causing great pain by reason whereof 〈◊〉 choler turneth again into the liver and 〈◊〉 e is mingled with the blood and spread 〈◊〉 ad into the veines of all the body and 〈◊〉 deth a disease named Iaundise Ictiritia If the Jaundise happen in an Ague befo 〈◊〉 the seventh day It is great danger of his liâ—e but if it appâ—ar on the sixth day being a daâ— judicial or critick of the â—gu oâ— after it is very good sign And thâ—n ye must succoâ— Nature with refreshing and diâ—â—sting the châ—â—ler with Syrup of violets given in the morâ—â—ing Syrup of Endive with watâ—r of Cicho 〈◊〉 Aftâ—r this purge choler and then give hiâ— a Lozenge of Triasandâ—l with Ruâ—arbe evâ—â—â— morning two hours before meat and d 〈◊〉 a little water of Endive and Cichory afore 〈◊〉 said Lozenge Moreover it is good to hath the Liver 〈◊〉 wash the patients eyes with vineger and 〈◊〉 mans milk anâ— drink a Ptisan made of b 〈◊〉 I querice prunes and roots of Fennel 〈◊〉
a little Nutmeg beat it well together and drink it mornings It s an admirable thing to cool it For feeble reins Take Burre roots and stamp them and boil thâ—m in stale Ale and drink thereof at evening hot and at morning cold To preserve nature from wasting Take acorns and steep them three dayes in wiâ—e vinâ—ger and dry them and let him drink the powder the cup is as good if not better then the Acorn its self so they may be both together For the running of the reins Take an handful of Cumphry a handful of Clary and so much of Mousear boil them in a quart of red wine with powder of Cinnaâ—on Saundâ—rs and Sugar and drink a good â—raught of thiâ— fasting For the running of the Reins Take white wine rosewater Plantain â—ater of each alike much in Quantitie one â—â—arter of a pint two Nutmegs grated two â—enny worth of Cinnamon pounded and asâ—uch of Bolearmony as a Nut beaten â—inal the â—hite of an Egg beaten to oil and put togeâ—â—er and for three dayes use it not but every 〈◊〉 shake it together in a glass and then take â— morning and evening provided that you 〈◊〉 a Syring now and then either with white â—ne or else rose water together or several â—nd this is a special remedy for the running of 〈◊〉 reins often times proved To knit a broken Vein One Master Atkinson having a broken vein his back could not be cured by any Doctor 〈◊〉 home to die having a continued issue of 〈◊〉 The Person of the parish advised him take a spoonful of the juice of Plaâ—tain â—ing which he did three or four times and was cured and is well and verifies this in Jâ—ly 1652. For the help of the disease called the French pox Take two peny worth of white wine and 〈◊〉 peny worth of honey one peny worth oâ— Roâ—h aâ—lame these three sorts to be boiled toâ—â—ther and the same to be placed where 〈◊〉 griâ—f doth lie or most offend A Diet drink â—o cure Lues venerea or any desperâ—â— disease in mans bodie Take seven gallons of spring water in â—rom pâ—t and put into it Sarâ—aparilla flicâ— and bruised three ounceâ— set it on the 〈◊〉 and let it infuse or boil very gently two houâ—â— thâ—n pâ—t into it fâ—ur ounces of chosen 〈◊〉 leaves and cods and half an ounce of 〈◊〉 beaten to powder and half an ounce Stychadâ—s and asmuch of Epithymum of choâ—â—â— liquâ—rice scraped sliced and bruised flat tâ— ouâ—ces of Camomile flowers one oâ—nce 〈◊〉 them into a pot and let them boil all together one hour or more then take it from the 〈◊〉 â—â—d strain it into an earthen pot and 〈◊〉 and till it be cold then pure it and 〈◊〉 bottles and drink thereof morning and eâ—â—ing a reasonable good draught Aâ— morbum Gallihidropicum cetera Acci e vini albi pounds 96 alias gallons 〈◊〉 lib. ss gyâ—yrrhiz iib. 2. Sea◠〈◊〉 â—ib â— Certâ—ciâ— guiaci lib. 2. Coloâ—â—â— one ounce coque in balneo Mariae per 24. horas iâ— non â—â—aporet exprime Colaturae ad Mitâ—ridatum optimum one ounce per duâ—s dies bibat â—â—antum potest nihil comedat per quatuâ—r 〈◊〉 postea comedat semel in die postea comedat 〈◊〉 in die Perficitur cura in duodecem diebus Pain of the reins is called Nephretica passio And cometh of some stone or gravel and it is most like unto the Colick in cuâ—e but in â—ourses they be clean contrary â—or the Colick beginneth of the lower paâ—ts on the right sâ—de and goeth up to the higher parts on the 〈◊〉 side oâ— the belly and it lieth rather more â—â—rward then backward but Neâ—hâ—etica Passio beginneth contrariwise above descending downward and ever lieth more toward the back Aâ—so Nephretica is painâ—uller a sore meat and the Colick is more grievous after And ofteâ— the Colick chanceth suddenly but Nephâ—â—tica contrary for commonly it cometh by little and little and evermore before one shall feâ—l pain of the back with difficultie of urine Item there is more difference for the Colick sheweth dryâ—ess as it were coloured but Nephretica is clear and white like water afterward waxeth thick and then appeareth in the bottom of the vâ—ssel like red sand or gravel Remedy â—or pain of the reins You must use things aperitive to cause you to make water but afore ye ought to loose the belly in taking an ounce of Cassia an hour before meat but if your belly be hard or bouâ—d you must take a Clyster before you take the said Cassia In stead thereof you may take Cowes milk with two yelks of Eggs in manner of a Clyster the Clyster must be great in quantitie Drink water of Pellitory of Cresses or of roots aperitive the which waters are good to purge the gravel and stone Likewise a very good Electuary for the â—â—me Philantropos or Lithontripon if one take â— dram or two after operation of a Clyster of Caâ—sia or a pill of ante Cibum and after to drink one of the sâ—id waters or else a little white wine warmed If ye will make a Julep take water oâ—â—intes and of Baâ—m of each half a pound Sugar a quartern and make a Julep of the which one may drink evening and morning after meaâ— a draâ—ght Every morning is good to take a Lozenge of the Elect. that followeth A nobâ—e Eâ—ectuary for the fluxe Take powder of Diagalanga a dram and a half of red corall and Masticke of each a scruple Trâ—chiskes of Terra sâ—gillata half a dâ—am the barkes of Citrons confite and quinces of each one three drames sugar dissolved in water of Mintes four ounces make an Electuary Oâ—ls of Wormewood Mint and of Narde and Masticke are very holsom to anoynt withall the belly and the stomack for the said flux And the things declared of the flux Lienteria be very good in this case taking ever after meat a morsel of Marmalade Red wine is very good in this flux to drink at meat with the water of a smith and likewise all spices are good in this case Medicines to restrain the flux of what cause sâ—ever it be Take the Peisel of an hart and dry it into powder and drink it the water of Oakbuds or the very acorns dryed and made in powder and drunk in â—ed wine is very good Remedie fâ—r the flux humoral called Diarhaea The said flux ought not to be restrained a sore the fourteenth day iâ— nature be not vâ—ry much infeâ—â—led And sometime it cometh of hot causes as of color and then the patient must drink beâ—ore his meat Syrup of Ribes Syrup of roses or syrup of Quinces and very smithes water After ye have purged the principal matter oâ— the disease the second Intention shall be by and by to stop the said Issue To stop the said flux Take trochiskes of white Amber and make them in powder and give a dram every morning and anon after drink an ounce or two oâ— plantain water Instead of
and temper it with small Ale and use to drink it every morning fasting and it shall break the stone When you have used this drink eight or nine times together then put a little Galbanum into the end of your yard and that will draw out the stone An oyntment for the back if the stone come painfully from you Take red dock roots and May butter and beat them together in a morter very well and fry a little in a fryingpan and then strayn them and anoynt the back A Pultis to cause the stone to slip when it s broken Make a Pultis of oatmeal and white wine vinegar and after its made put to it a convenient quantity of Aqua composita and apply it to the place where you feel the stone to lie and it will cause the stone to slip forward or downward A medicine to avoid the stone in the bladder Take a pinte of white wine and put it in a pan and boil it and put thereto asmuch powdâ—r of Nutmegs and drink it with Ale evening and morning and you shall be whole Probat For the stone Take Coliander seed Parsley seed Broom seed Allexander seed the seed of Asnen keyes Hasel nut keyes red bramble berries Ivy berries of each of them alike quantitie and dry them beat them to fine powder altogether and searce them fine Let the partie make a posser of white wine as clear as may be and put in asmuch of this powder as will go into an hasel nutshel and take it three or four mornings together fasting and if you please you may seethe your powder in your posset drink and so take it probat Also the Syrup of Althea commonly called the Syrup of Mallowes and put in posset drink and drink it and it will cause water presently Probat A Soveraign Medicine for them that cannot pisse well proved by the Lady of Northumberland Take Alexander seeds and Parsly seed of each alike much and beat them tâ—gether in a Mortar and seethe it in Malmesey and seethe withall unset time and parsly Leaves and seethe it from a pottle to a quart and strain it drink it warm To make one make water presently Take the inner skin or pill oâ— the Gizem â—f a Dove dry it to powder and give it to drink with white wine I think the skin of one Gizern is scarce enough To procure a man to pisse well Take the kernels of Ash keyes dryed and made into fine powder and drink a scruple of the powder fasting in seven spoonfuls of white wine warm To procure urine that is stopped Take Borrage rooâ—s mundified and sliced and boil them in clarified posset Ale made with Ale and white wine and drink a good draught thereof with a little Sugar at any time in your infirmity Probat A special receipt to help sharpness of urine Make Posset drink of a pint of milk and a pint of Ale then take three roots of Housleek and pick the leaves stamp and strain them and put the juice into the posset drink Let it boil a walm or two then drink it warm at any time of the day morning and evening but not at meales and as oft as you think good An Injection for burning of urine Take of fountain water four pound Passul exacinat five ounces foliorum Plan-taginis five handful foliorum fragariae Poligoni rosarum one pulgil quatuor seminum frigid majorum mundatorum one ounce Aluminis three ounces boil them and add two pound of the decoction Mellis rosati colati six ounces I doubt the Allume is of the most for smarting which if it be somewhat lesâ—e may be put in next the Mel rosarum I think the lesse to be with the most but that is a good wholsome cleansing healing and mitigating thing so that there can be no hurt with it but the waste of it A powder for the heat of urine Take Seminis Portulacâ— one ounce Endiviâ— Seminis Lactucae Scariolae acetosae one half dram Seminum communium frigidor majorum one ounce Papaveris albi half one ounce Sacchari ad duplum fâ—at traâ—ea And a little before dinner and supper eat a spoonful of this powder for this purpose but if the patient have a shaking ague withall then the coldness of the powder is apt to draw on the 〈◊〉 and to make his fits come often as hath been proved Fâ—r them which make very foul or red water Take the juice of Ribwort and drink it warm with Ale once or twice a day also for man that pisseth blood seethe garlick in water till two parts be wasted and let him drink â—f that water and he shall be whole To provoke urine and a asswage the belly Dry Pellitory into powder and drink a â—â—oonful of the powder in white wine first and â—ast and it shall asswage you you may take â—eslâ— sometimes as now and then half a spoonful with a Messe of pottage or broth A receipt for the stone Drink the distilled water of bean fâ—owers at â—â—l times when you feel heat in your back â—hich will bring away all gravell and loose â—ones it s not good to use it too often lest â—â— should break the stones too fast â— good Medicine for one that cannot pisse by reason of the stone Take Snayls that carry shells a good handâ—â— lay them in the fire and they will creep â—ur of their shells then take the shels and beat â—hem to powder and let the party drink the â—owder in some posset ale or such like drink For the stone Take white Saxifrage roots Parsly Pierstone the Kernels of Ashen keyes of each an handful of Ringus roots two handfulâ— bruise them well in a Mortar and then boil them with siâ— gallons of Ale or beerwort so long as wort is usually boiled then put all into a vâ—ssel and when it shall be stale enough drink every morning next your heart half an ale pint This being very often or every day taken you shalâ— never be troubled with the stone though you had been much troubled with it before A receipt for the stone used by Sir Trever Williams Take the quantity of a Walnut of the best Leaven and half so much of bay salt put them together in a pinte of milk and stir them with a spoon until they dissolve Then let them stand covered all night then strain it and drink it in the morning fast one hour after and for that space keep your self walking To prevent the stone Take a peny pot worth of white wine and put into it the quantity of a small nut of the finest castle sope scraped very small and then warm it a little by the fire and then drink it and walk after it one hour take this two dayes in a week or in a moneth as you finde your self by your water To make a water for the stone In the Moneth of May or in the beginning of June when oxen go to grasse you shall take of their dung not too frâ—sh nor too
inâ—â—lerable pain is called suffocation because 〈◊〉 it is choaked ovâ—rcharged with some evil â— superfluous matter as by stopping of due â—gâ—tions or too much abstenence of Venus â—hereby often chanceth shortness of breath â—â—in of the head swooning trembling of the â—â—art contraction of members and otherwhiles â—â—th without remedy A drink for pain of the mother Take one dram of Mithridate and dissolve in an ounce and a half of water of wormwooâ— and give it her to drink afore she go to meâ— four hours Another to provoke the flux of the Matrice See the Marigolds nept and savine in good alâ— and drink it with a good quantity of Saffrâ— and a little honey and sugar Item fifteen blaâ— seeds of Piony drunken in wine with safirâ— purgeth the Matrice of humors and other fâ—teen of the red seeds stancheth it again or aâ—other Flux of â—he mother These Heâ—bs aâ— good to purge the Matrice Rue Piony Savinâ— Betony nept Valerian Maydenhair Horâ— hound Savary Parsley Gromel Alisader Marigolds Smalledge and Time The Terms or flowers their Râ—â—medies Fâ—r suppression or retaining of the flowers or Mâ—â—struus If the blood be too gross and thick you muâ— every month give her the syrup of sumitoâ—â— with the decoction of borage and bugloss aâ—â— â—ther bath her self with fresh water hot And â—hen she goeth out of the bath into the bed â—e must receive the aforâ—said Syrup and deâ—â—tion of the Herb called Rubea tinctorum or â—â—adder sâ—dden in clear water In stead of Syâ—ps ye may take the very juice or decoction the Herbs And if the womans blood be slimie cold â—nd Phlegmatick then she must drink Syrup of â—â—echados and of oxymel diuretick and afterâ—â—rds take the pills called Faetidae and of Aquae â—â—rick and every morning after she must â—â—ke a dram of Trochiskes of Mâ—rrhe with two â—â—nces of the decoction of Iuniper berries â—d thereupon drink two ounces of water of â—â—gwort Moreover it is a proved expert Medicine â— give the first day of the new Moon a â—â—im of powder made of Borax which theâ—â—ldsmiths do occupie with asmuch Cinnamon â—â—d a little water of smallage It is good to help and provoke the said purtion by such things as open which must be â—en at such time of the Moon as the said woâ—â—n were wont to have the same â— the overflowing of the menstruus and for the retaining of the same To provoke the termes a most expert â—â—dicine and secret A certain herb called â—â—riâ—n not that with coâ—s and stones in the â—â—t but that which hath a root like the hand â— man with fingers and the root of one â—â— drieth and groweth in the end of the â—â—r the other a green root Take three leaves otherwise one or two otherwise threâ— green roots of that Herb dayly and give it foâ— nine dayes in broth or rosted or fryed without broth as you will and it shall effâ—ct anâ— give of the dry roots in the same and theâ— shall cease c. A most approved Experiment to provoke the Menstruiss Take of tryphera magna the quantity of great Nut and put to it the Sal gem the quantity of a filbird nut let them be mixed anâ— tempered with white wine or eat it with Rueâ— For the dropsie and to provoke the flowers aâ—â— urine Cantharides the head and other things tâ—ken away burnt and brought to a powdeâ— the dose is a dram with white Wine in thâ— evening Probatum est Item a gum called Serapine mixed with tâ—â— juice of Savine or Centory and it causeth a deaâ— childe to issue forth To bring down womens termes Bruise the roots of Celendine and wear the in your socks next to your bare feet and will cause them to break and come down witâ— in four dayes or lesse in plentiful manner which then presently take away A medicine for the green sickness and to causeâ—â— flowers Take Nep unset Hyssop Lavender Cotteâ— â—ngelica leaves mother of time French Malâ—wes Germander Fetherfew of each a good â—ndful boil them in two gallons of spring â—ater to one gallon then strain it then put to two good sticks of Liquerice scraped and â—uised flat and one pint of pure clarified â—â—y then boil it again four or five walmes â—â—d drink thereof fasting and one hour before â—pper and use exercise A medicine to stop over much abundance of Flowers Take Shepherds purse knotgrass and red â—changel a little quantity pound them aâ—der and not all together then take the juice each of them and put one spoonful of â—â—e juice of every one of them into six spoonâ—â—â— of stale Ale for Ale is better then Beer this case and drink it of and use this drink â—orning and evening To make this Electuary take red Coral in â—â—e powder two ounces a half white Coral fine powder two ounces Sanguis Draconis fine powder three ounces put to it two â—â—nces of conserve of red roses and mingle â—â—em well together of this Electuary first take â—â—e quantity of three beanes morning and â—â—ening to bedward and within one quarter of hour after take of the drink aforesaid cold warm will hinder the force of it this is a â—â—ble Electuary and drink in that case For the red Flux in women Take a dram of Persicum Philonium in a sufficient quantity of plantain water to carry down as a Vehiculum which is the Physicianâ— word to carry things down drink this fasting and anoint the Navel and the belly about the Navel and all the back over with Vnguentum Comitâ—ssae make two plasters the one for thâ— belly about the Navel and the other for thâ— other for the whole back parts and applâ— them thereto and wear them nights and dayâ—â— for a good while you must take the Phy oniuâ— Persicum divers dayes together in manneâ— aforesaid for four or five dayes together and stay to see what good you finde if you havâ— not found it stay before and if it be nâ—â— stopped then you must take it again and 〈◊〉 the ointment and plaster still until it stoâ— and if this will not help it and stop it nâ—thing will do it as one Master Berâ—ington â—â— confidently assure out of his own practise For the whites proved Take a pint of spring water and stone theâ— in half a pound of prunes and put therâ— with them two spoonfuls of sugar and â—â— mornings together drink three or four spoâ—â—fuls of the water and fast an hour after For rising of the Mâ—ther Take some knops of Amber otherwise led Succinum and cast them upon a chafâ— dish of coalâ— until they make a great smotâ—â— and then hold your mouth open over chaffing dish and receive the fume 〈◊〉 as you can and cast a good linnen cloth abâ— your head and face to keep in the fume that as little go by as may be A specia mediâ—ine for the mother or winde or spleen which riseth about the heart Take Fenugreek Liquerice Fennel seeds Anniseeds Alisander seeds
〈◊〉 purged two times prepaâ—ing fiâ—st the matteâ— to digestion with Syrup of Staecados and duobus radicibus with the one half of vvaters of Sage primeroses and Marjerom in manner of spiced â—ulep with Cinnamon taken five continuaâ— mornings tvvo hours after ye eat any otheâ— meat And after that ye must receive a draâ—â— of pills called Arthâ—eticae or Hormodactyl or oâ— both together equal portions or take half 〈◊〉 ounce of Diacarthami tvvo hours after night and of Diaturbith of every tvvo drams vvitâ— a little Syrup of Hyssop The rest of the said curation shall be accomplished with the applying of divers locaâ— remedies whereof there be sundry sorts herâ— declared ye ought to rub the place that is sorâ— with oyl of roses and a little vinegar and after sprinkle upon the same fine powder oâ— Myrtles Another plaster also as hereafter followeth A plaster for the gout Take the Emplaster called Melilot two ounces of Populeon an ounce and an half red roses myrtles and Flowers of Camomile of every one a dram make a plaster and lay upon the gouty ioynt Another Take oyl of roses crums of bread yelks of Eggs and cowes milk with a little Saffron seethe them a little together afterward spread them upon clouts and lay upon the sore Another Make Lye of the Ashes of Rosemary or of oak or of bean-stalks and boyl it in sage molâ—in prime rose Camomile and Melilor and receive the fume upon the sore place or wet clouts in the said decoction and lay them upon the pain All the said Remedies are very good to asswage the pain of the gout after the which done it is good to goe about the comforting of the joynts and sinews and to that intent apply oyl of Camomile and of Althea or Holihock oyl of a Fox oyl of earth wormes oyl of primerose turpentine wherewithal or with one or two of them ye may anoynt the sore place and comfort both the joynts and sinewes marvellously also this oyntment that followeth is singular good for the same purpose Tâ—ke five or six handfuls of Walwort and seethe them wel in wine then strayn them and with a little wax oil of spick and Aqua vitâ— make an oyntment wherewith ye must anoynt the place morning and evening every day Medicines for the gout appropriate in all cases Take Cowes dung and seethe it in sweet milk and lay a plaster to the gout hot aâ—so the yelks of eggs womans milk linsâ—ed and Saffron altogether in a plaster swageth the diseases of the gout And if ye be disposed to break the skin and so let the humors issue as by such many one is easâ—d ye shall make a plaster of bâ—ack sope and Aqua vitae which will blister it withâ—ut any great pain Also very old hard cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gamon of bacon and afterward stamped with a little of the brâ—th and made in manner of a plaster is a singular remedy for diseases of the gout and was first practised by Galen the prince of all Physicians A Medicine to ease the gout and to bring down any swelling in feet leg â—r arm Take a quart of milk fâ—om the Cow and crum into it a peny white Loaf and put into 〈◊〉 asmuch Dears suet as a pullets egge and boyl â—t to the thickness of a pultis and spread it wâ—ll and thick on a cloath so broad as will cover the gâ—ie and renew it once in twenty four hours and if your paâ—n cease not use it so as long again and it will cure the grief and draw out streaks oâ— blood This medicine cured one in such extremity and pain of the gout when he continually crved and could neither go nor ride and never grieved since so perfectly was he cured For lâ—gs swollen of any manner of disease Take pellâ—â—ory and seethe it well in white Wine and wash the legâ— in the water and lay the Herbs about the Lâ—gs plasterwâ—sâ— and it will asswage within five hours Pâ—obatum est For the gout Take half a peck of snails a quart of bay salt and put them in a bowl and bruise them together then take them and put them in a bag and let them drop in any thing so you preserve the oyl To cure and ease the gout Apply to the gouty place a pultiss made of barly and brooklemp hot in the time of extremity and let it lye twenty four hours A pultis of barly to asswage swelling in the legs to moâ—lifie the hardness Boil in a gallon of water one quart of hulled barly very tender and put therein a good Allume stone and being tender drain the water from it and to bedward lay it on a cloth a good thickness and lay it over the swelling reasonable warm leeting it lie twenty four hours and uâ—e it three or four dayeâ— togetheâ— Probat For the Gout Take Caro Costinum an ounce and dissolve 〈◊〉 in white wine and drink it about half a pint and use the partie as after a purge and thâ— effect is wrought by purging approved by many Gent. A medicine for the Sciatica For a man take the urine of a man childâ— and let it stand in some vessel for nine dayeâ— and then separate the clear urine from thâ— thick and put it into a vessel and put to thâ— clear urine a good quantity of the juice 〈◊〉 Cullerage male Culrage which hath spotteâ— leaves of a black colour and boil it togetheâ— till half be consumed and it will be an oyntment with which anoint the patient by thâ— fire and he shall be cured which hath been often tryed And for a woman take the urine of a femalâ— childe and of the â—uice of Culrage withouâ— spots and do as for the man An experienced medicine for the Sciatica Take Jvy Mugwort Wallwort and the Inner rinde of an Elder tree and seethe them in fair water with a good quantity of salt and bath the sore place well therewith three or four times a day for the space of nine dayes â—ogether and doubtless this will cure it An excellent oil for an ache onely to be made in the moneth of May oil of Rosemary Flowers Take a thin glass of a pottle and fill the glass â—ull of Rosemary Flowers very finely and purely picked put no liquor at all thereto but the pure Flowers onely and stop the glass very close that no air get therein then set the said glasâ— in the sun against a wall out of the winde and there let it stand all the said moneth of May In the end of May you shall â—ind the said Flowers dissolved into a very sâ—eet oil which oil clarifie it into another glasâ—â—rom the grounds And this said oil stop close and keep it diligently for its an excellent and proved remedy against any manner of ache in the Joynts or otherwise A powder for the Sciatica Take Betony Ceâ—taury one two ounces Ditâ—anie rue one 6 ounce make all these into fine powder searced and kept in
vertue or â—ebilitie of the grieved patient 〈◊〉 shal be good for the nurse to eat a Electuary made after this sort Take mintes Cinnamon Cummin rose leaves dried Mastick fenâ—grâ—ck valerian Ameoâ— dorâ—â—ici zedâ—arii cloveâ— Saâ—â—ders and lignum aloes of evâ—ry one a dâ—aâ— Muâ—k half a dram make an Electuary with clarified hony and let her eat it and give the childâ— asmuch as half a nut every day to swallow A pâ—aster Take an ounce of wax and a dram of Euphâ—â—bium at the Apothecaries and temper it with oil olive on the fire make a cerecloth to comfort the back bone and siâ—ewes Take lie of ashes and seethe therein bay-berries and asmuch piony seeds in a close vessel to the third part and wash the childe often with the saâ—â— Iâ—em a bath of savory Marjoram time Sage Nepte Smallage and mintes or some of them is very good and wholsome Also to rub the back of the childe and limbs with oil of Roses and spike mixt together warm and in stead of it ye may take oil of bayes Of the Cramp or Spasmus This disease is often seen among children and cometh very lightly as of debility of the Nerves and cords or else of grosse humours that suffocate the same the cure of which iâ— delared by Authors to be done by frictions and ointments that comfort the sinewes and dissâ—lve tâ—e matter as oil of Flower de luce and the roots of Piony â—tem oil of Camomil Fenugreck and Melilote or the herbs sodden Betony wormwood Vervine and time are exceâ—ding gâ—od to wash the childe in Iâ—em the plasteâ— of Euphorbium written in the Cure of the Palsie Of Starkness and stiffness of the Limbes When a young childâ— is so taken with a cold I esteem it best to bath the body in luke warm water wherein hath been sodden Marjâ—ram and time Hyssop Sage Mintes anâ— such other good and comfortable herbâ— then to relieve it with meats of good nourishment according to the age and necessity and if need be when ye see the limbs yet stark make an ointment after this form Take a good handful of nettles and stamp them then seethe them in oil to the third part in a double vessel keep that ointment in a dry place for it will last a great while and it is a singular remedy â—or the stiffness that cometh oâ— cold and whoso anointeth his hands and fâ—et with it in the morning shall not be grieved with cold all the day after The seeds of nettles gathered in Harvest and kept for the same intent is exceeding good sodden in oil or fryed with swines grease which thing is also very good to heal the kibes of heel called in Latine Perniones When the cause cometh not by extream cold but of â—ome other affection of the sinewes and cords iâ— best to make a bath or a fomentation of â—erbs that resolve and comfort the sinewes â—ith relaxation of grosse humours The Eyes Remedies for their Distempers in Children â—â—mours and to open the pores as by examplâ— thus Take Mallowes Hollihock and dill of each a â—â—ndful or two seethe them in the water of â—eatâ—feet or in the broth of flesh without 〈◊〉 with a handful of bran and Cummin in â—hich ye shall bath the childe as warm as he â—ay suffer and if ye see necessity make a â—â—aster of the same Herbs and lay it to the 〈◊〉 with a little goose grease or ducks grease it may be got oil of Camomil of Lilies and 〈◊〉 dill clothes wet in the said decoction and 〈◊〉 about the members helpeth Of blood â—â—otten eyes and other infirmities The cause is often too much crying for the â—hich drop into the eye a little of the juice Morrel otherwise called Morel and to â—noint the forehead with the same and if 〈◊〉 eye swell to wet a cloth in the juice and 〈◊〉 white of Eggs and lay it to the grief 〈◊〉 the humour be clammish and tough and cleaveth to the corners of the eye so that the childe cannot open them afâ—er his sleep it shall be removed with the juice oâ— Housleek dâ—opped on the eye with a feather When the eye is bloodshot it is a singular remedy to put in the blood of a young pâ—gâ—on or a dove or a paâ—riâ—ge â—â—ther hot from the bird or else dried and made in powder as subti◠〈◊〉 may be possible A plaster for swelling and pain of the eyes Take Quâ—ices aâ—d crums of white bread and seeâ—he it in watâ—r till they be soft theâ— stamp them and with a little 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 yelks of two Eggs make a plaster to thâ— childes eyes and â—oâ—ehead ye may let him receive the fume oâ— that decoction It is alsâ— good in the Meg im For watring eyes Hartshorn brent in powder and washeâ— twice Guiacum otherwise called Lignum Sancâ— Corticum thuris Antimony of each one part musâ— the third part of one part make a fine powdeâ— and use it with the juice or water of Fennel The Ears Remedies for Distempers of the Ears of Childrâ—n For pain in the Ears IT is good to drop into the Ears the juice 〈◊〉 organy and milk For swelling in the Ears Painters oil which is oyl of Linseed is exceeding good for the swelling of the earâ— and for pain in the ears of all causes If ye see the Apostume break and run ye may cleanse it with the juice of smallach the white of an Egg barley flower and honey which is a common plaster to mundifie a sore When the â—ars have received water or any otâ—er lâ—quor It is good to take and stamp an onyon and â—ring out the juice with a little goose grease â—nd drop it hot into the ears as may be suffered and lay him down on the contrary side an â—our after that cause him to neese if his age â—ill suffer with a little pellitory of Spain or â—eesing powder and then incline his ear downward that the matter may issue For worms in the Ears Take Myrrhe aloes and the seed of Colocynthis â—â—lled Colloquintida at the Apothecaries a â—uantity of each seethe them in oil of roses â—nd put a little in the Ear. Myrrhe hath a great â—ertue to remove the stench that is caused in â—he ears by any putrifaction and the better 〈◊〉 oil of bitter Almonds or ye may take the 〈◊〉 of wormwood with hony and salt 〈◊〉 For winde in the Ears and tinckling Take Mirrhe and Spicknard Cummin Dill 〈◊〉 oil of Camomile and put a drop into the 〈◊〉 Eaâ—s They that have not all these may take some of them and apply it according to discretion To amend deafness ye shalâ— make an ointment of a Hares gall and the grease or dropping of an Eel which is a soveraign thing to recover hearing For neesing out of measure Anoint the head with the Juice of Purcelaine Sorrel and nightshade or some of them and make a plaster of the white of an Egg and the juice with a little oil of roses and emplaster the
forehead and temples with the milk of a woman oil of roses and vineger a little The Teeth To help the breeding of them IF it come of cold Rheum make a plaster oâ— Mastick Frankincense Mirrhe wine anâ— apply it to the former part of the head â—fume of the same received in flax and laid upon the childs head is wholsom To procure easie breeding of Teeth Anoint the gums with the brains of an harâ— mixt with asmuch capons grease and honeâ— or any of these things alone is exceeding gooâ— to supple the gums and the sinewes And when the pain is intolerable wiâ—â— Apâ—stume or Inflâ—mmation of the gums mâ—kâ— an ointment with oil of Roses with the juâ—â—â— of Morrel otherwise called nightshade and in lack of it anoint the jawes within with a lâ—ttle fresh butter and hony For lack of thâ— harâ—s brain ye may take the conniâ—â— for they be also of the kinde of hares whâ—se Mawes are of the same effect in Medicine as the Mawes of Haâ—es If the gums apostume or swell with soâ—t flesh full of matter and painful the best shall be to anoint the sore place with the brain of an haâ—â— and Câ—pons grease equally mixed together and after that ye have used this once or twice anoint the gums and apostumations with hony If this help not tâ—ke turpentine mixt with a little hony in equal portion And make a bath for the head of a childe in this manner following Take the flowers of Camomil dill of each an handful and seethe them in a quart of pure running water until they be tender and wash the head afore any meat every morning for it purgeth the superfluity of the brain the seames of the skull and withdraweth humours from the sore place finally comforteth the brain and all the vertues animal of the childe The mouth The Remedies of its Distempers in Chidren To cause easie breeding of Teeth TAke red Coral hanged about the neck where upon the childe should often labor his gums It helpeth children of the falling evil and is very good to be made in powder and drunken against all manner of bleeding of the nose or Fundament Remedies for the canker in the mouth of Children Take drie red roses and Violets of each a like quâ—ntity make them in powder and mix them with a little hony this medicine is very good in a young sucking childe and many times healeth without any other thing at all But if there be great pain and heat in the sore ye shall make a juice of purcelaine lettuce and nightshade and wash the sore with a fine piece of silk this will abate the brenning asswage the pain and kill the venome of the ulcer but if ye see the Cankâ—r yet encrease with great corruption and matter ye shall make an ointment after this manner Take Mirrhe galias or in default of them open apples dried Frankincense of each a like much of the black berries growing on the bramble taken from the bush while they be green the third part of all the rest make them all in powder and mix them with asmuch hony and saâ—fron as is sufficient and use it Another stronger Medicine for the Canker in the mouth of Children Take the root of Celidonie dried the rinde of Pomegranate dried red Coral in powder and the powder of an hâ—râ—shorn of each alike â—och alâ—oâ—n a liâ—tle fiâ—st wash the place with wine or warm water aâ—d hony and afterward put on the aforesaid powder very fine and subtile The Neck the throat and breast Remedies for their Distempers in Children Another singular medicine for the Canker in the mouth of all ages TAke Hyssop Sage rue of each one good handful seethe them in wine and water to the third part then strain them out and put in it a little white Copper as according to the necessity that is to say when the sore is great put in the more when it is small ye make take the lesse then add to it a quantity of hony clarified and a spoonful or two of good Aqua vitae wash the place with it for it is a singular remedy to remove the malice in a short while which done ve shall make a water incarnative and healing thus Take Ribwort Betony and daisies of each a handful seethe them in wine and water and wash his mouth two or three times a day with the same juice Of Quinsie and swelling of the Thrâ—at The Quinsie is a dangerous sickness both in young and old It is an inflamation of the neck swelling and great pain sometime it lyeth in the very threat upon the Weasand pipe and then it is exceeding perillous for it stoppeth the breath and strangleth the patient anâ—n otherwhiles it breaketh out like a bouch on the one side of the neck and then also with very great difficulty of breathing but it choketh not so soon as the first doth and it is more obedient to receive Curation The signes are apparent to sight that the Childe cannot cry neither swallow down his meat and drink without pain Remedy It is good to anoint the grief with oil of Dill or oil of Camoâ—il and lilies and to lay upon the head hot clouts dipped in the waters of rosemary Lavender and Savory the chiefest remedy commended of Authors in this â—utragious sicknâ—ss is the powder of a swallow brent with feathers and all and mixt with hony whâ—reof the patient might swallow down a little and the rest anointed upon the pain Iâ—em another experiment for the quinsie and swelling under the ears Take the Mushrom that groweth upon an Elder Tree called in English Jews ears heat it against the â—fire and put it hot in any drink the same drink â—s good and wholsom for the Quinsie Some hold opinion that who so useth to drink with it shall never be troubled with this disease and therefore carry it about with them in journies Of the Cough Stamp blaunched Almonds and wring them out with the juice of Fennel or water of Fennel and give it the childe to feed with a little sugar First anoint his head over with hony and press his tongue with your finger holding down his head that the same may issue Against the great Cough and heat in the body Take heads of white poppie and gum Dâ—agaganâ— of each alike much long Cucumer seeds asmuch as all seethe them in whey with raisins and Sugar and let the childe drink of it twice or thrice a day luke warm or cold The Stomack Its Remedies in Children For straitness of winde AGainst the straitness of winde which is no quinsie the consent of Authors do attribute a great effect to Linseed made in powder and tempered with hony for the Childe to swallow a little at once For vomiting It is very good to wash the stomack with warm water of roses wherein a little Musk hath been dissolved for that by the odour and natural heat giveth a comfort to all the spiritual Members And then it is good to râ—st
present help To keep the small pox out of the throat Take Diaprunis the quantity of a good Nutâ—â—gg and dissolve it in broth and give it â—â—â—o the partie grieved in the morning fasting For chafing of the skin In the beginning ye shall anoint the places â—â—th fresh Capons grease then if it will not â—â—al make an ointment and lay to the place An ointment Take the root of Flower-deluce dried of 〈◊〉 roses dried Galingale and Mastick of each â—â—ke quantity beat them into most subtil â—â—wder then with oil of Roses or of Linâ—â—â—d make a soft ointment Item bean flower barly flower and the â—â—wer of fitches tempered with a little oil of â—es maketh a soveraign ointment for the â—â—me intent Of small Pox and Measils The best and most help in this case is not 〈◊〉 meddle with any kinde of Medicines but 〈◊〉 nature â—ork her operation notwithstandinâ— if they be too slow in coming out it shall bâ— good for you to give the childe to drink sâ—â—â—den milk and saffron and so keep him close anâ— warm but in no case to administer any thinâ— that might represse the swelling of the skin 〈◊〉 to cool the heat that is within the Members If the wheales be outragious and great 〈◊〉 decoction of water Betony is approved goâ—â— in the said disease Likewise the ointment made mention of in the cure of scabs is â—â—â—ceeding wholsome after the sores are ripâ—â— moreover it is good to drop into the patienâ— eye five or six times a day a little rose Fennel water to comfort the sight left it hurt by continual running of the matter Tâ—â— water must be ministred in the Summer coâ—â— and in the winter luke warm The same roâ—â—â—water is good to gargle in the mouth if tâ—â— childe be then pained in the throat And lâ—â— the conduits of the nose should be stoppedâ— is expedient to let him smell often to a spun wet in the juice of savory strong vineger anâ— little rose-water Fevers in Children their cure To take away the spots and scars of the small poxes and measils THe blood of a Bull or of a hare is much commended of Authors to be anointed â—ot upon the scars and also the liquour that â—â—â—eth out of sheepes clawes or goats clawes â—oâ— in the fire Fevers If the Fever use to take the childe with a â—â—â—at shaking and after hot whether it be â—â—tidian or Tertian it shall be singular good â—o give it in drink the black seeds of Piony â—â—de in fine powder searced and mingled with â— little sugar Also take plaintain fetherfew 〈◊〉 Vervine and bath the childe in it once or â—â—ice a day binding to the pulses of the hand â—â—d seet a plaster of the same Herbs stamped â—â—d provoke the childe to sweat afore the fit â—ometh Some counâ—el in a hot Fever if be a â—â—ak patient to take dry roses and powder â—â—em then temper the powder with the juice 〈◊〉 Endive or Purcelain rose water and barly â—â—wer and make a plaster to the stomack Item an ointment for his temples arms and â—â—ggs made of oil of roses and Populeon of â—â—ch alike much A good Medicine fâ—r the ague in Children Take Planâ—ain with the root wash it thâ— seeth it in faiâ— running water to a thiâ—d paâ—â— whereof â—e shall give it a dâ—aught if it be 〈◊〉 age to drink with suffiâ—ient Sugar and lay tâ—â— sâ—dden Herbs as hot as may be suffered the pulses of the hands and feet this mâ—â—â— be dâ—ne a liâ—tle afore the fit after cover with clothes The oil of nettles is exceediâ—â— good to anoint the members in a cold shakiâ—â— ague Codds The cure of their Diâ—â—stempers in Children Of the swelling of the Codds TAke a quart of good Ale and set it on 〈◊〉 fire to seethe with the crums of broâ— bread strongly leavened and a handful Cummin or more in powder make a plasâ—â—â— with all this and sufficient bean flower and â—â—â—ply it to the grief as hot as may be sâ—ffered Another Take Cowes dung and seethe it in miâ—â— then make a plaster and lay it meetly hot 〈◊〉 on the swelling Another Take Cummin Anniseeds and Fenugreâ—k of each a like portion seethe them in Ale and â—tamp them then temper thâ—m with fresh May â—utter or else oil olive and apply to the sore Another Take Camomil Holihock Linseed and Fenuâ—â—reek seethe them in water and grinde all toâ—â—â—her then make a plaster with a handful of â—ean flower Another in the beginning of the grief If there be much inflammation or heat in the â—odds ye may make an ointment of plantain â—he white and yelk of an Egg and a portion of 〈◊〉 of Roses stir them well about and apply it 〈◊〉 the grief twice or thrice a day when the â—in is intolerable and the childe of age or of â—â—rong complexion if the premisses will not â—elp ye shall make a plaster after this sort Take Henbane leaves a handful and an half â—â—llow leaves an handful seethe them well in â—ear water then stamp and stirre them and â—ith a little of the broth bean flower barly â—ower oil of roses and Camomil sufficient â—ake it up and set it on the swelling luke â—arm Henbanes is exceeding good to resolve â—he hardness of the stones by a secret quaâ—â—tie notwithstanding iâ— it come of winde it â—â—all be better to use the said plasters that are â—ade of Cummin Shingles their Cure Of the Erisipelas or Shingles THe remedies for burning are also good in this case Take at the Apothecaries oâ— unguent Galeni an ounce and half oil of roseâ— two ounces unguent Populeon one ounce thâ— juice of plantain and nightshade one ounce oâ— more the whites of three Eggs beat them all together and ye shall have a good ointmenâ— for the same purpose Item the dung of a Swan or goose with the white and yelk of an Egg is good Item doveâ— dung stamped in salt oil or other is a singulaâ— remedy for the same purpose Of burning and scalding When ye see a member burnt or scalded Take a good quantity of time which is madâ— of water and salt not too exceeding eager oâ— strong but of a mean sharpness and with â— clout or spunge â—ath the member in it cold at least blood warm three or four hourâ— together the longer the better for it shalâ— asswage much of the pain open the pores cause also the fire to vapour and give a greaâ— comfort to the weak member then anoint thâ— place with one of these Medâ—cines Take oil of roses one part sweet cream twâ— parts hony half a part make an ointment anâ— use it Item a soveraign Medicine for burninâ— and scalding is thus made take a dozen or more of hard rosted Eggs and put the yelks in a pot on the fire by themselves without liquor stir them and bray them with a strong hand till there arise as it were a froth or spume of oil to the mouth of the vessel then presse the yelks and
purgation as hath a propertie to attenuate the humours and draw down the belly which done you shall give the patient that is obstructed in the Liver of this oil the weight of one dram first mingling it with a prettie quantity of the water of Endive or Succory or Egrimony and if you seek to help the spleen take the like quantity of this oil and give it as before to drink with the water of Maiden hair â—r of Wal-fearn or of Tamariss which is an Herb so called this Medicine is of an approved truth An Antidote or confection called Theodoretâ— Anacardies taken out of Nicoiaâ—s Myrepsus a Greek Author Take of spici nardi fol. which is a leaf of India Cloves Saffron Cinnamâ—n Epiâ—hymi which is a Herb like a round Lace growing in some Countries upon time the flowers of Mucus odoraâ—us which the Apothâ—caries call Squinantum Myrabolanorum which is a little hard fruit and somewhat long of each of these three drams of Aloes flavae twelve drams of Chestnuts Ginger Mastickes of each one dram of Irâ—â—s the best six drams Anacardij Agarici of each one dram of the roots of Asarabacca half a dram of the seeds of parcely one dram of Costus half a dram of pepper three drams of Fennel seed one ounce of the juice of Fennel one ounce pound â—he green Fennel in a mortar and then soak or infuse the same in vineger three dayes then seethe it well and strain it handsomly And let all the other things be well pounded and made in a powder and finely searced to the which add or put asmuch clarified hony or sugar as shall suffice and seethe all together unto a reasonable thickness that is until the Medicine be brought unto the thickness of hony or Triacle The effects of this medicine followeth This medicine is good for any strong disease as for the falling evil for those that be vexed with an evil spirit for the headach for the diseases of the brest for the plurifie shortness of winde the inflammation â—r Apostumation of the â—â—ngs And those that have sowre belâ—hing and also for â—hose that have an evil disease about their stomack or belly It is profitable also to those that have a languishing after a long disease and that have an ill colour It helpeth those that have the yellow Jaundise and that have the dropsie proceeding from the Lungs It helpeth the tissick and pain of the reins of the back And the continual grief of the colick it strengthneth them that be troubled in all their body it helpeth also the inordinate strange and long diseases and agues that cometh by course and with order if it be given between the courses It easâ—th the gout of the feet if it be given before the accidents comeâ— and in especial it profiâ—eth much for womens diseases in which number are accâ—unted the Strangury or the purching that happeneth througâ— the mother or the suffocation of the mother or troubles of the same And it profiteth also those women with childe that are in danger of abortion It looseth also the belly It healeth the stirring or rising of the mother the inflammation also and raging of it And to speak aâ—solutely and in â—ew words it is the gift of God for whosâ—ever shall use it to eat of it shall finde good successe And any shall use it once or twice in the spring time and harvest so he offend not over much in diet he shall not be subiect to diseases for taking fasting the quantity of a filberd nut it will soon dissolve all evil humours The making of a precious water called for the vertue Aqua mirabilis and Preâ—iosa otherwise the admirable water of England Take Galingale Cloves Cubebs Ginger Meliâ—ote Cardamomum Macis Nutmegs Cinnamon of each of these a dram then take of the juice of Celendine half a pinte Mix all the spices being beaten together into the powder with the said juice of Celendine Then take a pintâ— of good Aqua vitae and three pintes of good white wine or sack and put all together into a stillatory of glass let it stand inâ—used a night and in the morrow distill it with a very sober fire the first pint that cometh is best the rest that runneth iâ— good but not so good as the first The vertue of this water This water hath a secret nature it dissolveth the swelling oâ— the Lungs without any grief and the Lungs being perished it presently cureâ—h it and it comforteth and suffereth not the Lungs to putrifie he shall not need to be let blood that useth it and suffereth not the heart to â—e hot neither melancholy or Flegm to be about it nor to have domination above nature It also expelleth the rheum and pâ—rfecteth the stomack and comforteth youth in its own estatâ— engendâ—eth a good colour and keepeth and comforteth the visage and memorie helpeth the palsie of the Limbs and tongue And this water to be given to any person in extremity one spoonful delivereth them Of all waters artificial it is the best in summer use fasting once a week the quantity of a spoonful and in the winter you may take two spoonful to prevent the diseases and sicknesses aforesaid A marvellous water to heal the leprosie and all spots of the face or elsewhere and to make one look young and to have a good colour Take the filing of gold silver iron brasse lead and the powder of Storax and put all together to sleep a whole day in the urine of a maid male childâ— being warm and as long in pure white wine and the third day in the juice of Fennel the fourth day in whiâ—es of Eggs then take all the liquour with the filings and powder and still it with a slow fire and keep the water in a glass and it shall have all the vertues before specified By a day is meant xxiiii hours A comfortable water or medicine for these diseases as followeth that is to say it cureth the stoâ—â— in the bladder and the reins of the back It helpeth a stinking breath it comforteth and helpeth the spirits and inward diseases that cometh of cold It is good for the stomack and shaking palsie and cureth the contraction of the â—â—eweâ— and helpeth the conception of women that are barren It killeth worms in the body it helpeth the cold Cough it comforteth the stomack much it cureth the cold Dropsie whoso useth this Medicine every moneth and not too often it will make him seem young again Take a gallon of good and pure gascoin wine of the best you can get Ginger Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Galingale Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Cinnamon Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Nutmegs Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Grains Of
every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Cloves Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Maces Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Anniseeds Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Carrawayseeds Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Then take Sage Mintes roses pellitory rosemary of every of them gather an handful and most of the roses rosemary wilde time Camomil Lavender pâ—nyroyal Then break the spice small and bruise the Herbs and put all the wine and let it stand twelve hours and stir it divers times together in the wine and still it by a Limbeck and keep the first water by it sâ—lf for it is the best and keep the sâ—cond by it self but not sâ— good as the first and use this as you have need thereof A water called the mother of the bawme Take Tuâ—penâ—ine six pounds olibanum two ounce Aloes citrine cubâ—bs Mastick Cloves galingale Cinnamon Nutmegs of everich one ounce gum of the fig-â—ree and of the juice of each three ounces then make the drugs in powder and put all into a Limbeck of glasâ— wâ—ich you must joyn to the capitel with hot flower ashes and whites of eggs so that no breath come out and let it still with a slow fire â—nd the first water will be white and clear the second like hony and the third like bawm which you shal receive into three receptories These be of vertue as they be in order they will burn in fire and a drop will turn a vessel of milk as Bawm it self will two drops thereof powred into the ears will take away the great noise that some have in their headâ— likewise in the eyes will heal all watrie and red eyes and other diseases of the face it câ—reth any impostume green wounds and ulcers scabs and all other superfluous humours and the tooth-ach ye any fisâ—ula or canker in nine dayes also the noâ—i me tangerea the small pox if you wash the places therewith it is good for all old hurts and for dry blowes of staves or stones It healâ—th strengtheneth and all other things rectifieth the â—iâ—ewes it is so hot and penetrative that it will run through your head without grief to you It healeth all painâ— of the Leggs and joints with all other diseases that come of cold and it is as precious as bawm it self To make the water of life Take Balm leaves and stalkes Burnet leaves and flowers a handful of Rosemary tormentil Leaves and roots rosa solis a handful red roses a handful Carnations a handful Hyssop a handful and â—smuch of time red stringes tâ—at grow upon saverie one handful red Fennel Leaves and roots red mintes a handful pâ—t all these Herbs in a great pot of earth glassed And put thereto asmuch white wine as will cover the herbs and let them soak therein eight or nine dayes Then take an ounce of Cinnamon asmuch ginger asmuch of Nuâ—meggs Cloves and saâ—iron a little a quantity of Anniseeds of great raisins one pound half a pound of dates the hinder part of a good old Conny a good fleshie running Capon the red flesh with the sinewes of a legg of mutton four young pigeons a dozen of Larkes the yelks of twelve Eggs a loafe of white bread cut in sops in Muskadel or bastard â—s much as sufficeth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck and put thereto Mithridate two or three ounces or else asmuch perfect Triacle and distill it with a moderate fire And keep the first water by it self and the second alone and where there cometh no more water with strings then take away the Limbeck and put into the more wine upon the same stuff and still it again and you shall have another good water and 〈◊〉 shall remain good in the first ingredience of this water You must keep this waâ—er in a double glass warily for it is restorative of principal Members and defendeth against all pestilential diseases and against the palsie dropsie spleen yellow or black Jaundise worms agues and sweatings and pestilential sorrowes melancholy and strengâ—hneth and fortiâ—ieth the spirits and strings of the brain the heart and Stomack and the Liver taking a spoonful or two or three at a time by it self or with Ale or wine and Sugar it helpeth digestion and breaketh winde stoppeth lask and bindeth not To make water of Rosemary Take Rosemary flowers and in the midst of May ere the sun arise in the morning take the Rosemary and strip the Leaves from the stalks and take four or five great roots of Elecampane and an handful or two of Sage and beat the Rosemary the roots and Sage together in a stone mortar till they be very small â—hâ—n take it up and take three ounces of Cubebs and half a pound of Anniseeds and beat the spices in a mortar of brasse every spice by it self then take all the Herbs and all the spices and put them in four or six gallons of white wine then put all these spices herbs and wine in an earthen pot and stop the pot close so that no air come thereto with a cover made of earth and set the same pot in the ground by the space of fifteen dayes then take it and still it in a stillatory of tin otherwise called a Limbeck with a soft fire A notable water of great vertue Take Fennel Eyebright Endive Betony Silermontain Rosemary rue Maidenhair of each an handful and let all these steep in good white wine xxiiii hours and afterward distill all together and keep the first water as silver the second as gold and the third as bawm This will heal all swelling and running of the ears and falling of the hairs off the head and browes it healeth all diseases of the eyes and killeth the worms in the teeth and maketh the breath sweet It breaketh the impostume in the head if it be put into the ears with bumbast a cloth steeped therein and laid upon the stomack easeth the pains of the same and likewise mollifieth the hardness of the spleen Also it taketh away all spots of the face if you mingle a little thereof with white wine and put thereto a little Roch Allom. An excellent water against the Colick the mother and all pains in the belly Take Cinnamon two drams Cloves two drams galls one dram grains two drams Nutmeggs one dram beat all these to grosse powâ—er and put them in a stillatory covered over â—ith Muscadel or good Malmesy and let it â—tand so xxiiii hours then still it with a slow fâ—re and you shall have a very sweet and wholsome water which you shall use thus Take â— cup of pleasant and strong wine and pour five or six drops of this water into it and let the patient drink
it up also four or five drops thereof poured into a great quantity of warm water will make it have a pleasant smell to wash hands or other things To make a special Aqua composita to drink for a cold or suâ—fet in the stomack well proved Take a handful of Rosemary and a good root of Elecampana and an handful of Hyssoâ— half an handful of time half a handful of Sagâ— six good crops of red Mints and as many 〈◊〉 penyrial half a handful of Horeâ—ound six crop of Marjerom two ounces of Liquerice weâ—â— bruised asmuch Anniseed and take three galons of good strong Ale and take all the saiâ— Herbs wringing asunder and put them into thâ— Ale in a brasse pot well covered and close anâ— let them stand till they begin to boil theâ— take them from the fire and set upon it you Limbeck and stop it just with paste that therâ— cometh no air out and so keep it forth with soft fire as Aqua vitae is made put more therâ—to half an handful of red Fennel half handful of Hartstongue and half an ounce 〈◊〉 Maces A marvellous Ba'm made by art most laudable Take fine turpentine one pound of oil of bay four ounces oâ— galbanum four ounces of guâ—â— arabick four ounces of pure Frankincense 〈◊〉 Miâ—rh of gum Jvy and of Lignum aloes 〈◊〉 each four ounces of Galâ—â—gale zedoary oâ— Gingeâ— of the white Dittany of leaves of Conjoliâ—â— minor of Nutmeggs of Cinnamon of each on dram of Musk and Ambergrease of each onâ— dram all these bâ—at together pour upon 〈◊〉 pints of the best Aqua vitae distill it secunduâ— arâ—em The vertues are thâ—se it breaketh and diâ—solve â—n the stâ—ne in the kidneys causeth thâ— patient to pisse which otherwise is letted 〈◊〉 a piece of flesh it helpeth consumption sciâ—tica or ach in the head fowl scurse wounds iâ— the head It helpeth the plurifie Give on dram with water at a time helpeth any swelâ—ng in any part of the body the coldness in â—â—e head it helpeth hot sickness aswell as cold Take a Borrage more and boil him in half pinte of wine and half a pint of rosewater 〈◊〉 drunk fasting in the morning It com 〈◊〉 the heart and brain it healeth the â—emorie and wit it purgeth the evil blood â—â—covereth Phrensiness 〈◊〉 making of Venice Balsam and the vertues thereof Take a handful of the flowers of Dogsâ—â—ngue of St. Iohn Worâ—t the flowers a handâ—â—l white wine somewhat more then a quarter 〈◊〉 a pint of gum Elemie one ounce five penyâ—orth of saffron one penyworth of venice â—urpâ—ntine one ounce of Candied oil or 〈◊〉 oil half a pinte If the flowers of the Herbs are not infused 〈◊〉 the oil then boil it in the white wine by â—â—emselves and then boil the gum Elemie in â—â—e oil by it self and then clarifie it and cast â—way the dreggs and then boil it again all toâ—ether and last of all put in the saffron and 〈◊〉 Turpentine when you are ready to take 〈◊〉 boiling a little and so clarifie it again â—nd when it is almost cold put it into a glass to â—â—e The best way is to infuse the flowers of the Herbs with red roses or Damask in sallet â—â—il for a year or less The gum Elemie will â—â—il in the oil a quarter of an hour and after 〈◊〉 boiling it together it will be a quarter of a 〈◊〉 hour the flowers are to be strained out â—odden in wine or the oil The vertues of it are as followeth It will cure all diseases coming of cold eiâ— pains or achs in the head or the deaâ—ness iâ— the eare the same Ballam 〈◊〉 waâ—med and anointing the place gâ—ieved and a warm cloath applied thereunto And for tâ—e ears to lip â— little black wool in the same Balsom and 〈◊〉 then thâ—rewith This is good for the gâ—avâ— and pain in making of 〈◊〉 and the Coâ— lick to take the same in a little Mutâ—oâ— broath to the quantity of a great bâ—an and drink it every morâ—ing fasting and anâ— in thâ— place grieved Moreover for all cold Ague drink but half an ounce in broath before the fit comes Again for pain or swelling of the Spleen or Milt and for the mother Anoinâ— the leâ—t side therewith well warâ—â—d and iâ— will dissolve all hardness cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneyeâ— and bladder It câ—reth all aches in what parâ— of the body soever rubbing the place grieveâ— with a Cloath first well warmed and then anoint it with the same Balsam being made warm and binde the place with a warm Cloath afterward It cureth all Lameness and shrinking of the sinews and all green wounds suddenly It hath more vertues then I have here written To make the most eâ—dellent water of Treacle or Mithridate which is a most precious remedie against all outward and inward poysons or pestilence Take of excellent venice Triacle or Mithridate one pound which put into three pounds of Ardent water rectified to be there digested in a furnace of Circulaâ—ion And in a circulating vâ—ssâ—l the fire all that while be verâ— soft and slender which done pour it into a Cucurbite and put on the Alembick and distill the same so long in a balneo Mariae as ye may see the Liquor issue out clear and bright but when ye see the colour thereof become clear and yellowish then take away the receiver and keep that clear water by it self to be drank in such times of need as is asoresaid To draw out another Liquor from the sâ—â—is whence this Liquor was distilled superâ—â—ctum Take the Cucurbite with the saecis from whence this liquor was distilled and lute the said still over then set it upon Ashes and make a hot fire and draw from it such liquor as will distill And receive the said liquor into a bladder which set under the nose oâ— the Aleâ—bick and keep it and therewith anoint the skin or outward parts and they shall be preserved from the Contagion as aforesaid To make Cinnamon milk or liquor after another sort most precious for a restorative Take the waters of Bugloss Borrage Balme and of the lesser Cenâ—aury of each a pound and an half into the which put of Cinnamon welâ— choyce of the best sort two pound well beaten to powder first which then steep in the said waters together in one glass vessel 15. dayes And after that distill it upon hot ashes first with a lent fire so long as any Liquor will issue clear and fair which clear liquor keep apart but when ye see certain drops issue like unto whey or milk then change the receiver and reserve therewith all that milk liquor by it selâ— for it is most excellent of which if ye give unto any aged or weak person or to a woman in childbed thereof a spoonful or a spoonful and a half it doth wonderfully strengthen them A ba'm for a wound Take good white wine one pinte oil olive half a pinte St. Iohns
of sweet yellow wax twelve ounces of the ashes of the vine tree six ounces these put all together into a Retortartly luted and fenced which after the setting into the ashes distill according to art maintaining a stronger and stronger heat unto the end of the work which you shall perceive by the neck of the Retort within wax curded which is a marvellous signe the distillation is performed It healeth wounds in four times dropping in the person that cannot pisse two drams helpeth presently It helpeth the stitch in the side and many other griefes c. For to make the white plaster Take two pound and four ounces of oil Oliffe of the best of good red lead one pound of white lead one pound very well beaten into dust then take 12. ounces of Spanish sope and incorporate these all together into an earthen pot well closed and when they are well incorporated that the sope cometh upwards put it upon a small fiâ—e of coles continuing the fire for the space of an hour and an half still stirring it with an iron or the end of a stick Then make the fire a little bigger until the redness be turned into a grey colour but you must not â—eave stirring it until the water be turnâ—d into oil somewhat darker then drop it on a wooden trencher if it cleave not unto the fingâ—r or trencher then make it up in rols it will last twenty years the older the better The vertue of this plaster The same being laid to the mouth of the stomack helpeth digestion taketh away the offence and grief that riseth in the stomack It helpeth the Colick in the belly being applyed thereto It s good for the flux if it be applyed to the reins of the back It easeth the heat of the kidneys and weakness of the back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away aches it doth break â—ellons pushes and other pushes and impostumes and healeth them draweth out any running humour withouâ— breaking the skin and applyed to the fundament helpeth any diseases there growing its good for the falling of the willow or palate being laid to the crown of the head It also easeth the head-ach being applyed to the temples or forehead It s good against the rheum that falleth into the eyes being applyed to the belly of a woman it helpeth conception A plaster proved on Sir William Farrington Knight of a grievous Marmole that was on his Legg and could not be remedied it was so horrible of stink till a French man healed it with this following Take one pound of Litarge of gold make powder of it as you can â—earse it then take one quarter of oil of Roses and a pint of white wine and half a pint of urine well clarified and half a pint of vineger and temper all these together on the fire but put in the urine last then make a plaster of it and lay to the Marmole and it will heal Marmole Canker fester wound all other sores and if you put thereto one ounce of Virgin wax Libanum and one ounce of Mirrhe it will be the more fine and the more precious Probatum A plaster called plaster Emanuel chief for impostumes and other malodies it hath more vertues then man can tell I healeth wounds anon Take Litarge one pound and one dram of gum Armoniak a dram of Galbanum Mirrhe two drams Verdigreece one dram Frankincense one dram Bdellion one dram Mastick half a dram Opoponax half a dram Arisâ—olâ—gie three ounces of old oil olive one pound and an half Take the gums and beat thâ—m â—mall and fry them in a skillet on the fire and cleanse them And then do thereto thy Litarge and thy verdigreece and do in these things by and by one after another alwayes stir it well and last put in the Aristologie and so boil it unto a plaster this plaster may soon heal Marmole on the legs and all manner of diseases and impostumes this plaster cometh of God and not of man An approved Medicine against the plague against Carbuncles hot impostumes and such like it will break them expel the poison causeth health Take Ivy Berries dryed in the shadow and after dryed and made into powder and drink them with plantain water It hath helpt the plague in two dayes Probat The partie must sweat in bed and must change the linnen being aired every four and twenty hours It hath holpen the plague in one day and a night An approved Syrup by the Lady Harrington Take a pint of vineger and more then a pint of running water one pound of Sugar and let it seethe till the Sugar be melted Then take a good quantity of Succory and put it to the vineger and water and let it seethe from a pint to half a pint For Venom or poison Triacle in all causes especially Andromachus Triacle with the Snakes flesh in it And the root of Affodil having in it vertue to quicken and strengthen doth cherish the heart by defending it from poison and keeping it in strength A Medicine for the plague or for any Ague Take the best Mithridate half an ounce or one ounce London triacle one ounce Jeane triacle one ounce powder of Saffron one scruple Florum sulphuris or white brimstone in fine powder half an ounce Mix all these well together with the distilled water of Wormwood to the form of an Electuary and give the patient to drink five spoonfuls of the Wormwood water with the Quantity of three Nuts of the aforesaid Electuary bloodwarm in bed and it certainly cureth the Ague or plague by sweat and driveth out the botch and saveth his life which is infected Probat To ripen and break the botch Take the black roots of Crowfoot pound them and lay on a Cloath to the risen If the place be white it is deadly but this plaister will presently c. Against all pesti ent sicknesses or plague and to break the botch and to cure c. Take the â—uice of scabious in Ale and give it to the patient warm with a little Triacle and take the root of Scabious stamped with swines grease and spread it on a cloath cold as thick as you can and lay it to the plague sore or any other impostume It must not be changed in twenty four hours Scabious which is also called Divels bit is best for the plague sore To help assuredly divers diseases thats to say to preserve the body from all diseases being drank first and to kill Impostumes to make good colour to resist the plague and to help it to heal the Pâ—isick it breaketh the stone in the reins it hâ—lpeth the spleâ—n it purgeth the belly It maketh good colour and expelleth all corrupt blood It healeth wounds in the belly it cleareth the sight Take one pint of Gentian and two parts of Centaury stamp them together and put white wine to them Let them soke five dayes then distill them keep the water distilled in a close vessel use