to bed and lye in the same cloathes and never change them in three dayes He may eat and drink what he lift so his Drink be warm For all manner of Aches and the Sciatica Take a handful of Herb-grace and bray it smal in a Mortar then take one ounce of Frankinsence and one ounce of Commin and beat them to Powder severally then take one pound of black soap and seeth it on the fire till it be melted then put in the aforesaid things and let them boile together till it be thick then take and spread it like a Plaister upon a cloath and lay it to the Grief as hot as may be suffered and so let it continue twelve houres then take it away and if the place be blistered lay that to it no more but prick the blisters with a needle and if it be not blistered then lay on a fresh plaister and let it ly twelve hours more and keep the place grieved and the Patient very warm Probatum est For any Ache whatsoever Take two great Onions and make holes in the tops and put into each one dram of Camphire so much of Frankinsense as a Walnut one pennyworth of English Saffron roast the Onion in the fire then pill it and strain it to an Oyle and put thereto so much of the marrow of a dead horses haunch bone and mingle it well together and annoint the place pained therewith A precious Remedy for any extreme Ache. Take a Whelp that sucketh the fatter the better and drowne him in water then take out his guts clean and fill his belly with black Soap and put him on a spit and roast him well and take the dropping thereof and put it in a Vessel and then lay the Patient in a sweat and annoint him therewith and cover him warm with clothes that he may sweat well then make a fire of Charkcoals in a pan and lay thereon a good handful of Sage and let him take the aire thereof in a close room and do this five times For all manner of Aches in Bones Joints or Sciatica Take Balme and Cinqfoil but most of all Betony Nep and Fetherfew stamp them and drink the juice with Ale or Wine Prebatum A very good Plaister for any Ache or swelling in the Joints Take of Stipticum Paracelsi and Calcithers of each alike spread it upon Leather and make a Plaister thereof then annoint the place grieved with Oyl of Roses and after lay on the Plaister Mr. Smart For an old Ache or Sciatica Take Harts-horn and chop it in reasonable smal pieces then put it in a Pipkin cover is with water and stop it close and set it in an Oven with Bread and when it is baked take out the Pipkin and when it is cold it will be a Jelly then warm some of it and annoint the grieved place with a warm hand and chafe it in often For an Ache. Take Aqua composita and Neatsfoot Oyle warm them and annoint the place therewith and lay warm cloaths thereon Another Take Paâ—sly and Wormwood of each a handful and seethe them in a quart of Ale with a quantity of sweet Butter and wash the place therewith and bind the Herbs to the place as hot as may be suffered Another Take Smallage stampt and put it into Aqua vitae and strain it and put thereto Boars grease and straine them together and annoint the place therewith morning and evening For an Ache or the Sciatica Take Neats foot Oyle and Aqua composita and annoint the place therewith then take wool newly taken from the Sheep and put thereon with warme cloathes Another Take the juice of Smallage Sorrel and of Woodbind leaves of each alike then take Honey and the white of an egg of each alike and mingle it together till it be thick and lay it on cold without any boiling at all Another Take as fat a Goose as you can get and when she is ready drest then take a couple of the fattest young sucking Cats you can get and flay them and cut them into gobbets and put them into the belly of the Goose and so roast it as long as it will drop then take the liquor and annoint the place pained therewith and bathe it wel before the fire as hot as you can suffer it and dip a brown paper therein and lay it hot thereunto with warm cloaths bound fast to it all night Do this for the space of three or four nights together AGUES For a Quartain Ague Take a quart of Ale one ounce of Cene half an ounce of Licoras half an ounce of Anniseeds a few Raisons of the Sun boil these together till your Ale be more then halfe consumed then give it to the Patient to drink as warme as he may when his Fit is upon him and go to bed and keep him warm This is to be used three several times if his Fit go not away at the first Probatum For an Ague Take the Root of a blew Lilly and scrape it clean and slice it lay it in soak all night in Ale and in the morning stamp it and strain it and give it the Patient luke warm to drink an hour before the Fit cometh For the Feaver Cake Take Barley meal or else the flower of wheat and make a cake and bake it and then take the juice of Hemlocks and annoint the belly with it Also you may take Oyle of Exceter or Sallet Oil and fry a few Oats therein and lay it to the Patients stomack as hot as he can suffer it Probatum For a hot Burning Ague Take Succory roots and leaves Parsley roots Endive leaves Borrage leaves and Sorrel leaves seethe all these together in a pottle of running water and when it is well sodden strain the water from the Herbs then put to it a good piece of Sugar to make it pleasant and two spoonful of Vineger that it may be somewhat sharp you may also put in Buglos An excellent Medicine for an Ague Take a handful of good Bay Salt and put it into a Mortar and bray it very small then put thereto as many of the biggest Cobwebs that you can get as the quantity of four fingers and beat them a good while then put into them a good handful of Smallage clean picked and so beat them all together very well into one substance then take it out of the Mortar and put thereunto two ounces of the best Venice Turpentine unwashed and temper them well together and two hours before the Ague fit cometh divide it into two parts and bind it equally to both wrists on the place where the Pulse beateth and roll it up well with a linnen cloth that it stir not from the place and tack it fast with a needle and thred and so let it lye four and twenty hours and it will alter the Fit of the Ague and drive it away but if not try the second time and no doubt but it will help A little fresh butter will get off
precede Phlebottomiae or else the cold blood will remain Lastly It s good sometimes to be let blood that the blood may be led or drawn from one place to another BONES How to use Fractured Bones four kinds of Factures First when it is broken in length Next when it is broken overthwart Thirdly when it is oblick and crooked Fourthly when it is girded and broken and shivered in divers pieces either legs or armes Albusences and others later Writers make the difference of Fractures not according to the bone fractured but after the place affected as if the Nose be broken brain-pan jawes ribs back-bone armes legs or other parts which be not differences of Fractures but of the place affected according to nature Four Directions in the Cure of Fractures according to the place fractured First to respect that the bones be put again in their former place Secondly to be reduced to their natural and so conserved and kept without motion or hurt Thirdly That the bone broken may be ingendred and conglutinated together by ingendring of Callus Fourthly To correct the Accidents that do come after the Fracture of the bones How the Bones out of joint ought to be put together Be sure of help to hold the party at need for the Legg or Arm let him sit in a Chair and with annointing draw it out till the place be met as tenderly as you may having respect to the party grieved his complexion and nature How Bones may be conserved after they be set in their natural place Look well to your rolling First it is very good to take the white of an egge and Oyle of Roses mixt together and wet therein the linnen Cloathes which may cover the place broken and somewhat more of the other and roll it not hard for it may cause dolour and flux of humours How the Rollers must be used The first Roller upon the Fracture three or four times and so to the second part upwards the third Roller leek downward and it must be half as low as the first these Rollers should be wet in water and wine before you use them If the pain be vehement then the member would be wrapped about with fine wooll well carded or else with stuff wet in Oxicrotium A defensive Medicine Take Unguentum Populeum two ounces Bole Armoniack one ounce mix these together with Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger If the place appear blistered Take half a pint of running water and set it on the fire and put in fine Wax a little Oyl of Roses and sine Barly meal seethe them altogether but not very thick then make thereof a Plaister or Cere-cloth strike it upon the cloth upon the bottom of a Pewter dish over a Chafingdish and coals and lay it luke-warm to the arm or leg a night and a day and it will asswage the humour of boyning For the Wound of Broken Bones Take luke-warm Mell Rosarum and Oyle of Roses and a stamp of flax dipped in the Whites of Eggs and so bind it upon the sore Also apply about the place Bole Armoniack Sanguis Draconis and Olibanum beaten with a little Oyl of Roses Barley meal and Vineger round about the sore and so comfort the Patient A Defensive against Boyning of a broken Bone in the Leg. Make your Plaister of Oyle of Roses and Oyle of Mirtle melted together with a little wax and when it is cold put to it Bole Armoniack and Pompuleon of each one ounce of Wine two ounces and lay it a handful broad upon the hurt and let it lye A Poultice for any Boyning inward Take a pint of new Cowes milk a pint of Rye-bread crumbs a handful of French Poppy leaves shred small two ounces of Oyle of Roses three yolks of new laid eggs and as much Saffron as the weight of a Groat First boil the milk the crumbs and the Poppy together a good while and then put in the rest and spread it upon a faire linnen cloth To asswage the swelling upon any broken Bone or out of joint Take Unguentum Pompuleum one ounce Bole Armoniack one ounce mix them together with a little Oyle of Roses and a little Vineger For the Bone ache Take the leaves and flowers of Henbane and put them in an earthen pot with May butter and close the pot and set it in a dunghil three months then annoint the grieved place therewith BODY To distil a Cock good for any weak Person Take a red or black Cock and pluck him quick and whip him alive with small twigs a pretty while then cut off his head and gut him and cut him in quarters and wipe him very dry with a fair cloth then take an earthen pot and lay four or five splints to keep it from the bottom of the pot then lay in the four quarters upon the splints and lay between every quarter some of these Roots and Fruit following Fennel roots Parsley roots Succory roots of each two or three two or three slips of Rosemary two or three Dates quartered half a handful of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out six spoonfuls of Rhenish Wine Malmesey or Muskadine three or four whole Mace cover the pot and stop it close with paste and set it in a pot or kittle of hot water and let it boil softly with a temperate fire sour hours then take it up and let it run through a fair cloth without any forcing then put it in a fair glasse or pot and keep it close covered and give to the Patient two or three spoonfuls at once or in quantity as the stomack is able to take it in some broth made of Mutton or Veal first in the morning and as often in the day besides as he hath a stomack to take it To preserve the Body Take a pottle of fair water and six Calves feet and put therein Betony Long-wort Liver-wort Knot-grasse Clary Balm with a quantity of Mace Cinnamon and Ginger and six Dates let all these be sodden together till it come to a Jelly and then take a quart of White-wine or very pure claret and put therein and eat it at your pleasure Another Take the marrow of Venison a pint of running water three leaves of Clary three leaves of Comfrey one handful of Archange a handful of Charnel theree Dates a handful of smal Raisons seeth altogether till it come to half a pint then strain it and put thereto a pint of white Bastard and a quantity of Manus Christi Another Take a pint of Muskadine and put thereto Hemp-seed and blanched Almonds and Cap Dates two or three whole Mace and a Nutmeg and three crops of Rosemary and a little Saffron and red Rose-water and boil them all together till half be boiled away and after they be boiled put thereto Mithridatum about the quantity of a hasel Nut but let it not seethe after and let the party drink thereof at his going to bed at night Another Take a pottle of water and a Chickken and
fire till the skum arise then take off the skum and take it from the fire then put thereto the powder of Coltsfoot and make it as thick as Conserves of Roses which use at your pleasure A precious Water for a Consumption Take a quart of Rosewater as much of womans milk Goats milk or Cowes milk put unto it twenty yolks of Eggs and mix them well together and thereof distil a Water and give the Patient thereof to drink first and last with a Cake to eat made with Gold and Pearle A Water good for a Consumption or weaknesse Take a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and the yolks of twenty eggs beat them very wel together and put thereto a pint of good Red Wine and two Manchets sliced so mingle all these things together and put them in a plain Still and still it with a soft fire and now and then stir it or else it will have a crust on it the Water may be taken at any time three or four spoonfuls with some Sugar the oftner the better COUGH For the Cough be it never so extreme Take a quart of new milk and a pint of strong Ale and make a posset thereof then take off the curd then take a quarter of a pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned and two big sticks of Licoras and two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruise them and seeth all in the posset Ale until half be sodden away then take it from the fire and put therein so much sweet Butter as the bignesse of a Hasel Nut but let it not seeth after and let the party drink thereof evening 〈…〉 or eight spoonfuls at a time as hot as he can Probatum For the Cough Take a head of Garlick and prick it full of Cloves then take half a handful of three leaved grasse and as much Goats grease put the Garlick head therein and wrap it in russet paper and so roast it in the ashes till it be soft then beat it in a Mortar and straine it then drink it in some Ale or Beer it is good for the Cough A Tisan for the Cough Take a quart of good old Ale and set it on the fire and skim it clean then take half a dozen of good Fennel roots and scrape them and take out the pithes and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in the Ale then take a quantity of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it to the rest then take a handful of Anniseeds and sift them cleane and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth together a pretty while and take a handful of smal Raisons wash and pick them clean and bruise them in a Mortar and put it into the Ale and let it seeth a walme or two after then take a penny worth of Sugar candied and put into it when it is almost sodden from a quart to a pint and when it is full sodden to a pint take it off and strain it and drink it at times convenient and put to this Tisan Sugar Honey and Powder of Elicampane root of each a little and some great Raisons the stones taken out and Parsley roots and two or three Figs. For the Cough if it be of the Lungs Take half a pint of Aquavitae of Anniseedâ—â— half penny worth and as much English Licoras scrape it and slice it thin run the Anniseeds very well and fan the dust out of them and put them in together and let them boil on a soft fire till half be consumed then strain it out and wipe the pot and put it in again and put to it three ounces of brown Sugar candied and set it against the fire till it be melted then take it off and use as often as you will drink For the Cough or Cold. Take a quart of Ale and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary and boil it then put to it a spoonful of Sugar and as much butter as an egg and brew them together and let the Patient drink thereof to bedward and keep warm For the Cough Stamp two handfuls of Centory and seeth it in three quarts of Ale to the half then stamp it again and seeth it and put thereto a pint of honey and so take every morning thereof three spoonfuls Another The Cough is a Messenger of all Diseases of the Lights and Brest through the grosness drought moisture spittle and other excrements for the Cough is a motion of the Lights the which by the aire and moving vertue of the Muscels that are within the brest is meet and made for to cough up all that which hurteth the lights and the Rhume provoketh the Cough most of all There are often perillous Coughs through Rhume that falls down out of the head upon the lights and into the brest which is very ill to get out It is good to purge the head with Cochia Pills and to drink sometimes a draught of Barly Water in the morning and eat something after it Then take this Potion Take Syrrup of Endive Honey of Roses and Sirrup of Steches of each half an ounce Water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and half tempered together This Powder is approved to stay the Rhume Take Spica of the Indies one quarter of an ounce Cinnamon one quarter of an ounce of the Scull of a man that dyed through violence three quarters of an ounce take every time it cometh one dram after meat in Wine or any decoction Physicians do commend Barly Water mixt with Julip of Violets CORNES For to take away Cornes First cut away the Corne and root him out then drop into the hole a drop or two of a black Snail and put thereto the powder of Sandyfer and it will wear the Corn away Also cut your Cornes away and lay a little piece of the red Cerecloth upon the hole and in three months it will wear it clean away CRAMP For the Cramp Take the little bones of the Hares hinder legges which are in the knee joints if you touch the place grieved therewith it helpeth Also take Hollioaks Oyl of Violets and of Swines grease of each a little quantity and make an Ointment of them and annoint the place Another Take the Flank wool of a sheep carded in flakes and dipped in Sallet Oyle and wrap it about your leggs or where it taketh you and it will heat the Cramp and ease it DEAFNESSE For Deafnesse an excellent Medicine TAke the juice of Betony with the most part of Camomile wet in it a lock of wool and stop it in the deaf ear and Water stilled of the same Herbs to be powred into the ears is a help for deafness For the Hearing Take Oyle of Roses and White Wine Vineger of each alike and mingle them together and at night in bed put one drop into the ear and stop it with black wooll and lye on the other side DROPSIE A very good Drink to cure the Dropsie Take of Peperitis Roots otherwise called
or a month at both times of the year as you see cause and take it every day or second day as you finde it work A Dyet Drink to heal Wounds Take of Egrimony two handfuls of Daisie leaves and roots Wild Angelica Ribwort Mugwort Wormwood Comfry Mints Canapit Speedwel Avens Bramble leaves Arcamilla or Sincle Scabious Betony and Dandillion of each of these a handful boil them all together in two gallons of running water some three hours till half be consumed then put into it a pint of White Wine and half a pint of honey then strain it out and so keep it letting the party drink thereof two or three times a day EYES A good Medicine to preserve the Eye-sight TAke green Barly before it be eared and distil it and use daily now and then to lay a little on your eyes of that Water and it will continue the sight A special good Poultice for sore Eyes that be much swelled and cometh by the Rheume Take a quantity of Bean flower some of an Apple finely scraped a little womans milk of Sorrel Water red Role-Water Plantane Water of each a little quantity mix all these together and make a Poultice thereof then spread it upon a fine linnen cloth somewhat thick and put it to the Patients Eyes cold A Plaister for sore eyes Take of the pap of a roasted Apple two spoonfuls the like quantity of new laid eggs of Saffron thirteen chives dryed and made into fine powder work these together to one substance and put thereto of Womans milk of a maiden child one spoonful of Rose water the like quantity of these make your Plaister and lay it to your eyes morning and evening and have in a readiness the powders of these stones following Lapis Calaminaris quenched nine times in White Wine Aloes Hepatica white Sugar candied Tucia prepared Camphire of each of these half a dram made fine to powder sow these in a fine cloth or fine silk and put it in a glasse of water and of this Water drop into your eyes morning and evening and lye upon your back when you drop it into your eyes Make your Water as followeth Take Roses Marigolds Plantane brown Fennel Eyebright Cellendine Tormentil Betony Scabious Fumetory Oaken buds of each of these two ounces mix all these in a glasse and put in the powders above said A very good Medicine for Eyes that be troubled with Pin or Web or other dimnesse Take the yolk of a new laid egg or two and beat it well until it cometh unto a great froth then let it stand so a little while and let the Oyl run into a sawcer and put the juice of Daisies with the blossomes leaves and roots being stamped and strained into the Oyl of Eggs and put a little clarified honey unto it and mix all these well together and let the Patient take every morning and evening into the ey that is grieved a drop put in with a feather let this be used so long as the pain lasteth Another for sore Eyes Take a little Rosewater and womans milk and mix them together whereof the Patient may use a drop at a time as above said And if the Patient be a man the womans milk must be of her that hath a daughter and if the Patient be a woman she must have the milk of her that hath a son sucking upon her For a Pearle Pin or Web in the Eyes Take a little Hony clarified as it cometh from the Hive and so drop it into your eye evening and morning and it will help Probatum A very good Medicine for sore eyes that cometh of the Megrim Take the white of an egg and beat it well then skim it and put to the Oyle some case Ginger finely beaten and some White Wine Vineger then take flax and dip it in the Oyl and lay it on your Temples and take heed that no part thereof come into your eyes Do this four or five nights or more when you go to bed and every time wash your eyes with the water that cometh of cutting of Vines Probatum A Water very comfortable for the Eye-sight Take of Rose leaves red Fennel Vervain Rew Cellendine and Eyebright of each a handful and so still them all together and you shall have a good Water for the eye sight Probatum To recover the Eye sight Take Smallage Rew Fennel Vervain Egrimony Betony Scabious Avens Houndstongue Eyebright Pimpernel and Sage of each a like quantity and distil all these together with a little Urine of a man-child and five grains of Frankinsence and drop of this water every night into the eyes and the sight will recover by Gods grace Probatum by Mr. Whaley For sore eyes and blind Take the white of a new laid egge strained from the yolk beat it well to an Oyl and take off the froth and put to the Oyle a spoonful of good White Wine Vineger and a spoonful of Rose water beat them all well together and with a little flax lay to each temple a Plaister but take heed it touch not the eyes use this three or four times to bedward it hath brought them to sight that were seven weeks blind Probatum For red Eyes Take a new laid egg or two and roast them very hard then without taking away the shels cut them in sunder and take out the yolks and scrape a little white Copperas and put it where the yolks were as much Copperas as a little pease is enough for one egg then strain the whites with the shels through a cloth into a sawcer and with this Oyl annoint your eyes when you go to bed For Eyes that be Bloodshed or have Pushes in them Make a toast of fine leven bread and lay it in Wine till it be soft then put it in a cloth and to bedward lay it in the cloth to the eyes and it will heal them For an Eye that hath been hurt so that the Ball was ready to fall out being swolne as big as an egge Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten and take it from the core then bear the white of an egg well and drop the juice of the Apple therein and bind it with a cloth to the eye and so dresse it twice a day till it be whole The gall of a Hart and clarified Hony well mingled together is very good for the Web in the eye it must be laid on with a feather For a Pin or Web in the eye Take White Wine and put it in a Bason that is bright and put Bay salt unto it and let it stand for nine dayes two of the dayes shake the Bason and at the ninth dayes end put it into a glasse and keep it for your use it is also good for red eyes An excellent Water for sore Eyes by Pearle Pin and Web Lash or Prick Take of Cellendine Herb-grace Betony brown Fennel Eyebright red Rose flowers Maidenhair or as many of those as you can get distil of each alike much
in Violet water and lay on the Eye the pap of aâ— Apple with some of that water a little Sugar and the yolk of an egg boile a together For an Ague in the Eye Lay on the eye a piece of fresh Biâ—â— two hours and drop on the Eye Alloâ—â— water and lay in the Temples leaverâ— rose-Rosewater Vineger and Nutmeg to stâ—â— the Rheume For a Pin and Web. Take Ground Ivy stamp and straâ— with red Rose water and drop it oâ— in the eye A very good Powder for a spot in the Eye Take of Alloes Sicatrina Sugar candied or very good Sugar of each a like quantity make it into fine powder and put it often into your eyes when you go to bed and Eyebright water in the morning and once more in a day For red or yellow Eyes Take the juice of Parsley and the white of an egge mingled together and a little Rosewater dip flax therein and lay it over your eye and it will help you For Eyes that be blasted Take Plantane Water and the white of an egg mix them well together and wash your eyes therewith and lay it on 〈◊〉 our eyes To clear the sight Take Cellendine Eyebright red Fennel Roses Seagreene Maidenhair and Rue of each two ounces then put thereto half an ounce of Alloes stilling all these in a Stillatory then wash your eyes therewith For red Eyes and for the Pearle Take white Ginger and rub it on a whetstone into a dish then take as much salt as you have powder and put them in White Wine and let them stand a day and a night then take the juice and liquor thereof with a feather and annoint your eyes To take away the Web in the Eye Take the gall of a Hare and a little quantity of purified honey temper them well together then take a feather and annoint your eyes therewith A Water for the Eyes Take of Tutty and Alloes Sicatrina of each six ounces made in fine powder four drams of fine Sugar in powder of white Rosewater and of the best white Wine unchanged twelve ounces mixt all together in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the Sun a month let not your glass be ful shake it once a day turning the bottom upwards then strain it through a fine cloth from the dregs and when you use it one drop is sufficient at a time use it morning and evening and if one drop be too little take two For sore Eyes Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water then strike away the froth with a feather then take a piece of rough canvass tow or flax then powr your whites on it then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillatum and scrape them both upon it and with a knife spread it Plaister wise as much of the one as of the other and so fast bind it to your forehead and in the morning when you rise take it not off suddenly but take it off with fair water Do this three nights together For Blood shotten Eyes Rheume or sore Eyes Take four spoonfuls of Rose water of white Copperas as much as a pease and of Allome and Sugar candied of each as much as a pease all in powder sometimes drop of this in the eye and sometimes wash the eye with it and lay Herbs to the wrists Also Rosewater Sugar and Saffron is very good Sugar candied is the best For a spot or itching in the Eyes Take Ground Ivy Cellendine and Daisies stamp them and strain out the juice then put to it a little Sugar and Damask Rose water and drop in the eye twice a day For sore eyes or for any part inwardly disquieted by any Ache Swelling Wound or Stroke Take the leaves of Woodbind and Plantane of each one handful also three or four Dittony leaves of Roach Allom well washed the quantity of an egg as much Verdigrease three spoonfuls of pure honey put all this into a vessel to be kept only for that purpose put to it a pottle of fair running water and after it hath boiled one quarter of an hour let it stand four or five hours powre out the clear and bury the grounds if it be too sharp put in some white Rose water If the lids be sore with Rheume or the eyes be red or burning drop in and wash the lids often with the white of an egge if it be for a horse put in more Verdigrease and Honey Another Take the Water of Roses Saxifrage and Fennel of each alike and put to them a small quantity of Verdigrease and boil it a little on the fire and when it hath setled take the clear and see you wash Auxungium Poecati seven or eight times and of that put in to your eye a little when you go to bed For Eyes blasted or swoln Annoint them with rape Oyle and lay to a Plaister of Flower Cream Hogs grease Rose water and Violet leaves bruised small and boil all to a Poultice and lay it to warm change it as waxeth dry Capons grease washed and Tutia prepared and mixed with it is very good to annoint sore eyes For Ache Strain or pain in the Head by sore Eyes Take of Plantane Wood Betony and Ragweed of each one handful put as much flower to it as will make it a paste the Herbs being first beaten small make it in a Cake and make it through warm on a Gridiron and lay it to the nape of the neck and let it lye twelve houres and lay fresh as you see cause A Purge for Choller when there is Pain in the Head or Rheume in the Eyes Take of Cene and of Ginger sliced one ounce two ounces of Cassia and six ounces of Sugar stamp them all together and boil them in a pint of Rose water till half be consumed then put in two ounces more of Sugar beat it well and keep it close Take of this Confection a quarter of an ounce in the morning and fast three hours after putting it into a draught of White Wine warmed strain it and so drink it and use it in the Spring and Fall once in ten days for two months or six weeks If you make but for one you need make but half this quantity It purgeth very gently For Eys that be troubled with sorenesse and rednesse Colewort leaves boiled in White Wine and Plaisters made of them and laid one the eyes is good for sore eyes that water much To wash them with the Water of Plantane is very good Also skivers or pricks of any kind boiled in fair water with red Roses amongst them save the fat and drop it in your eyes morning and evening is very good To take away spots of Blood in the Eye Take red Roses and seeth them and let them be set warm to your Eye it taketh away spots of blood it is good also for all Diseases in the Eye for redness in the eye that cometh with a blow or any other
violence you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs juice of Wood-betony and Egrimony and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes If that do not help it take wheat flowers the juice of Mallowes Mints Smallage and the Oyl of an egg and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to For hardnesse that hath been long in the Eye Take a Scruple of Alloes and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire then put of it in the eye Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister and lay it upon the eye Or take Roses Sage Rew and Cellendine of each alike mixt with a little salt and distil it and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye In stead of that water it is good to take the juice of Vervain Rue and a little Rose water For the Pin or Web. Take tops and crops of Herb Christopher stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May stamp them very small then take a good quantity of May Butter and stamp them together in a vessel and strain it out and set it in the Sun and put of these into your eyes it must stand a month in the Sun For a hurt in the Eye that cometh by a stroke Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plantane and put thereto the white of an egg and womans milk of a male child and Oyle of Roses and put it in your eye going to bed use this three or four times in a day Or take Egrimony and bray it and temper it with White Wine and an egg and make a Plaister and lay to the outside of the eye For a Pearl at the beginning Take a Race of good Ginger pare it clean and rub it on a Whetstone and make powder of it and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine then strain it through a fair cloth and put it into a glasse or Viol and after nine daies you may use it when you go to bed lying upright and likewise in the morning Do this six or seven times For eyes that are full of Rheume and bleared Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls and two of honey mix them together and when you go to bed put some in your eye Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel a branch of Cellendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten if one serve not take two put all these into half a pint of water cover it and put of it in your eye when you go to bed and an hour before you rise strayning it when you use it To preserve the sight long Take a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week To clear the sight Take the white of an egg made as clear as water and a spoonful of clarified Honey and some fine Sugar and mix them together and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor and rub the eye-lids therewith within and without For sore Eyes and Megrim in the Head Take the whites of new laid eggs and beat them to Oyl then take a spoonful of Rose water as much fine Sugar and as much strong Vineger made of Malmesey or White Wine put them to the Oyl and beat them together then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister dip it in the Medicine and bind on each Temple one with a cloth but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes Do this three or four nights and every morning the eyes will cleave together with Gum. For the Megrim in the eyes Take new milk and seeth it and put it into a bason and cover it with a platter and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes Or take three drams of the juice of Rue and put in your eyes and ears and stop your ears and lye down on that side For a Pearl and Web. Take Veinfrage Ivie Daisies Sickwort red Fennel Seagreene Pimpernel May butter bruise them in a Mortar and let them lye in the froth five â—ayes then make an easie fire and set 〈◊〉 over till it be melted then straine it through a fair cloth and put is into a Vial and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn It will destroy the Web and when your eye cleaveth together wash it with Rose water Another Take the leaves of Sage Hysop oculus Christâ— puiled downward drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice stamped with the Herbs and straine it in some Beeâ— and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together Or take the juice of Avens Southernwood and put this juice into Fenâ—â—â— water and put it in your eye For Eyes that be fair to look on and naught to see with Take Smallage Fennel Rue Vervaiâ— Betony Pimpernel Eyebright Sagâ— and Cellendine of each alike wash theâ—â— clean and stamp them then take thâ— powder of fifteen Pepper cornes and 〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine three spoonfuls of good Honey and fifteen spoonfuls of the Urine of a man child that is young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little then strain it and keep it in a vessel or glasse and put of it into your Eyes and if it dry up in the glasse put to it a little White Wine This is good for all kind of sore eyes in fifteen daies it helpeth For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take the strained juice of Pimpernel and drop into your Eye morning and evening This is good also for the Pin and Web or Pearle in the eye For a Pin and Web. Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees wipe them clean with a cloth â—hen stamp and strain them with womans â—ilk of a Girle for a man of a boy for 〈◊〉 woman the sorer the eyes be take the â—ore juice and the less milk Drop this â—â—to your eye with a feather evening and â—orning and twice in the afternoon For sore Eyes that cometh of a hot cause at of a Rheume Take Elder leaves and chase them between your hands and lay them to the nape of the neck For Bloodshotten Eyes Take a toast of leavened Bread House-leek and womans milk a spoonful oâ— Rosewater the pap of an Apple roasteâ— the yolk of a new layd egg and boilâ— them take the toast and lay it in reâ— Wine not mingled and let it lyâ— halfe an hour till it be soaked they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces for each eye one and the cloth must be between the eye and the toaâ— and dresse it thus when you go tâ— bed For Watering Eyes and darknesse sight Take May Butter and Honey of 〈◊〉 alike and boil them together and 〈◊〉 in the white of an egge and when it
the stopping of the Liver Lungs and Spleen and to comfort the Stomack Take two or three roots of Succory and Parsley Sage of Jerusalem Folefoot Violet leaves Scabious Egrimony and Scurvigrasse of each half a handful Conserve of Red Roses one ounce of Saffron one penny worth and a Date or two sliced and the pill taken away put all these into a Pullets belly ready drest and sow up the open places but put not in the roots boil it in sufficient water till the flesh be sodden from the bones and when it is half sodden put in the roots steeped before in Wine Vinegar put in also three or four large Mace blades of Raisons of the Sun one handful stoned and a few Currans and when it is sodden as aforesaid strain it and drink every morning a good draught thereof fasting For all Griefs of the Liver Take the leaves flowers and roots of Betony in Drink Conserve Electuary Sirrup or Potion or Powder is singular good for all Diseases of the stomack Liver Melt Kidnies Bladder the Obstruction of the Matrix the consumption of the Lungs Coughs Dropsies continual Feavers boile the leaves and flowers in Honey water to have present Remedy Also seeth the Herbs and Flowers of Camomile in Wine and drink it to help stopping of the Liver and Melt to purge Choler to expel Terms to help the torments of the small guts for Griefes of the Kidnyes or Bladder for difficulty of Breathing Sighing Wheezing to warm a cold stomack and to drive away any inward grief For the Liver and to comfort the Stomack Take a branch or two of Ciprus otherwise called French Wormwood and a little Barme and boile them in Ale and Drink it fasting LIPS For chopt Lips Take new Wax Mastick and white Frankinsence with Oyle of Roses all made into an Oyntment and annoint the lips and it will cure them presently LUNGS A Preservation for the Lungs Take a pint of Wormwood Water and Liverwort almost a handful and of Longwort a handful Sugar one ounce boile them all together till one part of four be sodden away and let the patient drink thereof three spoonefulls in the morning fasting and last at night alwaies warmed Probatum LEGGS For a sore Legge or old vlcer Take Littarge of gold two pound of Galbanum one ounce Verdigrease foure ounces Bdelium one ounce Mastick one ounce and half Opoponax and Aristologia of each one ounce old Oyl Olive one pound and half You must drie the gummes that they may be powdred and frie them with your Oyle then straine it and put thereto your Littarge Verdigrease and Aristologia one after another alwayes stirring it lest the Littarge sink to the bottome and so let it simber over the fire easily then put to it three peniworth of turpentine and of wax three ounces and so make it up for your use in a Plaister It hath cured the Lord Wharton and divers others with two or three dressings when no Chirurgian could find a Cure for them For a sore Leg. Take stone lime and slake it and put it in running water and put thereto of Quicksilver white lead and Bores grease of each one penny worth mingle all together and so annoint it To kill the Itch of the same and to skin it Take a gallon of good Ale and boil it to a pint and then a linnen cloth and wet it therein and wash the sore withal Another Take of Ale Allom of each one half penny worth and boil it together and melt a quantity of fresh Butter therein and annoint it therewith A Plaister for festered Legs being long sore Take March and Wild Tansie Plantane Morrel Honey and the white of an egg and the milk of a Cow of one colour and Barley flower bray the Herbs in a Morter and mingle all together and lay it on the sore A Plaister for sore Eyes broken or not Take a pint of Sallet Oyl one pound of unwrought Wax half a pound of white Lead boile all these together in a brasse pan with a soft fire till it be as thick as pitch stirring it with a stick then dip in it a piece of Lockrum and make thereof a Plaister MEGRIM For the Megrim TAke a handful of Wormwood and a handful of Betony and a handful of Archangel seeth them all together in a quart of good Ale and a pint of White Wine Vinegar the space of half an hour and lay it to your forehead as hot as you may suffer it and the longer you keep it thereto it is the better Another Take halfe a handful of the leaves of Rosemary and seeth them in Vinegar till they be soure then lay them upon a linnen cloth and cast thereon a little Rosewater and lay it to your sorehead as hot as you may suffer it A Plaister for the Megrim Take the Oyl of an egge and some Cummin seed and Frankinsence and wheaten flower and two Nutmegs beaten all small and mingled with the Oyl of the egg and make a Plaister thereof as big as a groat and lay it to the temples of the head MOTHER For the Mother and green Sickness Take great Garden wormes and slit them and wash them clean and then lay them in White Wine half an hour then take them out and lay them in an Oven to dry and when they are throughly dryed beat them into fine powder and drink it in White Wine in the morning fasting and fast two hours after it MOUTH For a sore Mouth Take the waters of the tops and leaves of red Brambles Rosemary Sage and Woodbind leaves all severally distilled of each a like quantity and put them all together into a great glass thâ—n put as much Allom small beaten into the same as will make it sharp and so keep it to use as occasion serveth either for a Canker in the mouth ranknesse of the Gums or any other sorenesse Another Take Treakle English Honey and burnt Allome of each alke then take tops of Rosemary red Sage Honey suckle leaves Bramble leaves and Fennel of each a handful stamp and strain the Herbs and take the juice and boil with the other things til it be somewhat thick then rub your mouth therewith For a sore Mouth or Throat Take Rue and red Sage of each one handful Groundsel and Sorrel of each a little cut them small and then stamp them then take as much Allome as a Walnut and as much Copperas as a small Nut and burn them to powder in a frying pan then take a like quantity of each of them unburnt and beat them small then take a pint of running water and put them all in it and boil it halfe away then take it from the fire and strain it then put to it three spoonful of English Honey and so keep it in a glasse and warm a little of it every time you use it dipping a cloth in it upon a little stick and so wash the mouth twice a day or more as you see occasion NOSE For
before it be broken A very good Oyntment Take Rosasolis Sallet Oyl and Neats Foot Oyl and boil them all together over the fire To make the green Oyntment Take one pound of Sheeps suet and melt it and skim it and put thereto one ounce of Verdigrease and half an ounce of Sal gemmi in fine powder and stir it well together then take it from the fire and put it into a clean box and keep it for it may be kept many years It is good for Cankers and to heal old Wounds and to fret away dead flesh and it will keep a Wound from festering It is good for Morphew and for Scabs and there is no Oyntment that worketh so strongly as this doth Probatum To make another green Oyntment Take of Sage Rue of each a pound of Wormewood Bay leaves of each half a pound of Mellilot Herbs and flowers of Camomile flowers of Spike Rosemary red Rose leaves Saint Johns wort and Dill of each one good handful of Marsh Mallowes two handfuls chop these Herbs and Flowers as small as may be and stamp them and weigh them and put thereto the weight of pure sheeps suet chop it small and mince your Herbs and it together and stamp it in a stone Mortar to one substance that there be no suet seen but all green put it in some fair pot or pan and put thereto a pottle and a pint of Oyl Olive and work all these together in the pan with your hand to one substance and cover it close with some clay or paste about the edges that no air come in nor out and let it stand so seven daies then undo it and take it forth and put it a clean pan and set it on a soft fire alwayes stirring it till the Herbs begin to wax parched and then strain it into some â—air pan and then put into it these Oyls following Oyle of Roses Oyl of Camomile Oyl of White Lillies Oyl of Spike and Oyl of Violets of each one ounce stir them all together and resurve them to your use The Infirmities that this Oyntment is good for are these for Stiches Bruises Aches Palsies shrinking of Sinewes Gouts and Sciaticaes the Ache of the Back Lamenesse Plurisies the Cough the soles of the feet being annointed for extreme pain in the head make a cap for the crown of the Head of linnen cloth and lay in it the wool of a quick Sheep plucked from the flanks and cods pick out all the moates and make it cleane and card it then straine it with this Oyntment and baste it and lay it some what warm to your Head It is good for the Cholick and for the Spleen and for the cold Dropsie of the Liver If you will have it to be more pleasant of sent and more nourishing add thereunto of the Gums of Labdanum one ounce and a half bruised fine to powder of the Gum called Storax Cremitie three quarters of an ounce beaten well to fine powder mingle the other stuffe and this together and strain it and keep it to your use An Oyntment for the heat of the Raines or elsewhere in the Body Take Oyl of Roses six ounces of clear white Wax two ounces scraped as fine as may be dissolve these together on the fire and skim them as clean as may be then have a dish ful of Rose water and three spoonfuls of Rose Vineger mixt together strain your other stuff into it and labour it a long time in the liquor and last of all have ready Camphire a dram in fine powder and work it till it be cold This is a good Oyntment for the back head or eyes An Oyntment for a Bruise or Ach. Take of Dill Vervaine Mugwort Henbane the tops of Camomile Lavender of every one a like quantity then take May butter and shred the Herbs small and put them in the May Butter and stamp it well in the Butter then let it stand a fortnight and then fry it well but take heed you burne it not and then strain it and keep it to your use A very good Oyntment for all Aches and shrinking of Sinewes for blasting of the Face and for greene Wounds Take of Mellilot white Dothet Adderstongue Valerian of each three handfuls May butter well clarified in the Sun four pound your Herbs must be shred small and then stamped very wel by themselves and after stamped againe with your clarified butter and so let it stand six or seven dayes then boil it over a temperate fire until the Butter be green stirring it alwayes till it be taken from the fire then strain it and keep it to your use The white Dothet doth grow in moorish grounds where Rosasolis growes and groweth very neer the ground like a Plantane but a more yellowish greene leaf it beareth a blue flower on a tall stem and smal no Herbal maketh mention of this Dothet An Oyntment for any Swelling or Sore It is good for many things Take three good handfuls of Rosemary and as much of Hisop stripped Rosen as much as a Walnut and one pound of fresh May butter boil them all together until it be green then strain it into pots A very good Oyntment for any Ache. Take two pound of fresh new butter and clarifie it till it be clear then take a handful of the youngest Bay leaves of Camomile red Sage and Herb grace of each two handfuls chop the Herbs then boil them in the clarified butter a pretty while till it be green then straine it and keep it for your use and when you use it let the place pained be well chafed therewith against the fire You must also put in it with the rest a handful of Smallage An Oyntment for a Wrench or Strain Take the white of an egg and a spoonful of Honey and beat it to an Oyle then boil Bove wort with Sallet Oyl or Butter to an Oyl and mingle it together An excellent green Oyntment for a strain or Bruise Take a handful of Camomile of Bay leaves four handfuls of Smallage foure handfuls and a half of red Sage four handfuls of Herb grace three handfuls chop the Herbs and stamp them then take five pound of fresh Ewes Butter and boil it and when it riseth take it from the fire and let it stand then take off the skum cleane and then put in the Herbs together keeping it stirring and when it is well boiled take it off and let it stand till it be cold then strain it into an earthen pot well glaz'd and keep it to your use it will continue a year or two An Oyntment for Legs that itch with heat or to cool or heal any Sore running of a hot humour Take a handful of Houseleek stamp it very small and migle it with thick Cream and annoint the sore therewith A Soveraign Oyntment to strengthen Sinewes and good for Lameness Take half a pound of Swines grease half a pint of Sack Camomile and Betony of each a handful as much Sage half
cloth and lay it to till it heal the Patient For swelling in the Joints Take Groundsel Daisies Brooklime Chickweed Petty Moral Herb Bennet take of each of these alike and fry them with Sheeps Suet and put thereto crumbs of soure wheat bread and so bind it to with a cloth warm For any Swelling that lookâ—th red or for the Ague fallen into any part of the Body Take Houndstongue Camomile Daisie leaves and roots Plantane leaves and roots and Adderstongue of each a handful pick them clean but wash them not chop them small and stamp them then take a pound of fresh butter of Sheeps Suet half a pound set them over the fire and so let them boil until it look green then strain it out and keep it in an earthen vessel to use all the yeare For a Swelling Take three handfuls of Mallowes and a pottle of running water and boil the water and Mallowes together then bath the swelling therewith a good while then take a good quantity of Suet of the Kidney of a fat Sheep chopt and so boile that together with the Herbs againe and being hot lay it on a red piece of cloth all night and the next morning renew it and so from time to time till it be asswaged Another Take two quarts of Barley and two gallons of running water a pound of Boars grease four new laid eggs a handful of Bay salt of the tops of Rue Sage Camomile Rosemary of each a handful a quart of new Barm chop all the Herbs together then let it boil to two quarts and when it is boiled sufficiently then stop it close until it be in good case to lay to the place pained on a piece of new red cloth and renew it as occasion shall require It is called by the name of the Jewes Bath and is an excellent thing for this purpose For a white Swelling Take Woodbind flowers Water and Wheat flower and make thereof a thin paste first annoint the Swelling with Oyl of Linseed then lay on a plaister of paste FALLING SICKNES Divers and sundry Remedies for the Falling Sicknesse Take powder of Hawthorne and drink it with Wine it healeth the Falling Evil. The braines of a Fox unto Infants cureth this Disease Also Powder made of Opoponax Castorum Antimonium and Dragons is a most Soveraign Medicine The like vertue hath Antimonium alone with Castorum Or Antimonium alone received with water The ashes of a dead mans skull drunk is wonderful good Five leaved grasse drunk three and thirty times together doth perfectly heal this Disease The red stone found in a Swallow healeth the falling Evil. It hath been proved that Mistletow drunk healeth this Disease Piony tied about the Patients neck keepeth him from falling Also cut a Frog through the midst of the back with a knife and take the liver and fold it in a Colewort leaf and burn it in a new earthen pot wel stopped and give the ashes thereof unto the Patient in his sickness to drink with good Wine and if he be not healed at once do so by another Frog or more and without all doubt it wil heal him A Rhadish stampt and bound to the braines will heal one of this Disease The bloud or gall of a Lamb drunk with Wine cureth it The stone that is found in a Harts head stamped and given to the sick party doth the like The braines of a Camel mixt with Oyl of Roses wherewith annoint the Patient before and behind over all his body doth heal it which is a wonderful experiment and true The dung of a Peacock taken in drink doth the same also Take Mares piss new made and heat it and let the party grieved drink thereof as warm as he may this will help by Gods grace with three or four 〈◊〉 â—aking Probatum A good Medicine for the Falling Sicknesse Take young Ravens when they be fledged before they touch any ground flea the skin and feathers off clean and pull out all the guts and entrels and wipe it very clean and then put it into an Oven and dry it that you make powder thereof then beat flesh and bones together very fine and searse it and take a quantity as you think good and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine when the Fit begins and by Gods grace it will help Probatum STITCH For the Stitch in the side Take Camomile Spieremint Wormwood and Southernwood of each a handful then put a few cold ashes in the bottom of a pewter dish and upon them hot embers then clap the dish Herbs and all over with a linnen cloth and lay to the side somewhat higher then the paine is and it will drive away the pain downwards For the Stitch of the Stomack or Heart Take young Broom of one yeares growth distil it and drink it and it will help the Stitch and if it be in such time of the year that you cannot get the water then take Broome and make powder thereof and drink it in Ale or Beer For all manner of Stitches in any part of the Body Take Mousear and Shee Holm Stitchwort and Spieremint of each alike and dry them upon a tile and make powder of them and drink it with Ale or Beer Another Take some wool and baste it on a piece of linnen cloth then take Oyle of Camomile and warm it and sprinkle it thereon and lay to the pained place being first annointed with the Oyl SWEAT To cool a Sweat withal Take a Chicken and boil it in fair running water then take Burnet Burrage Marigold leaves Parsley and Sorrel of each a handful then boil all these together with a little salt then take the yolk of a new laid egge and put to halfe a pint of the broth and drink it hot To abate too much sweating Take Balm Burrage and Rosemary of each alike and steep it four and twenty hours or more in Ale or Beer and drink thereof evening and morning Also the water of the Decoction of Strawberries is good to be drunk for overmuch heat or sweating SLEEP To make one sleep Take a handful of Betony a handful of Rosemary and a handful of red Rose leaves brown bread crumbs two spoonfuls of womans milk two spoonfuls of Rosewater a spoonful of Vinegar and boil all them together and lay it to the temples of the Head Another Take an Onion and roast it soft and take Camomile and shred it and lay it upon the Onion and so bind it upon the nape of the neck A good Medicine to make one sleep Take a pint of Milk and seeth it and let it cool then take the Cream thereof and the white of an egge and a little womans milk and a little Rosewater beat them all together and spread them on a cloth and so lay it to the forehead A Medicine of Doctor Cranmers to bring sleep Take twenty or thirty Almonds or more and beat them with a spoonful of Poppy seed that is white then take two handfuls of white
Poppy leaves and as much of Lettice leaves and seeth them from a quart to a pint and with that water strain the Almonds to make Almond milk to drink and let them that cannot sleep drink of it last to bedward For one that cannot sleep in sicknesse but raves Take the juice of Houseleek a good quantity as much womans milk and as much Rose vinegar or else rose-Rose-water and vineger and mix them well together and then wet flax in it milk warm and bind it to the temples of the Patient and also wet flax therein and make round together like a ball and bind it in the palmes of the hands and it wil give great ease Another to make one steep Take the white of a new laid egg and beat it with a spoon until it cometh to an Oyl then let it stand a while and take the froth of it from the Oyl and put thereto rose-Rose-water Vineger and womans milk and lay it to the Patients forehead in a linnen cloth and when it is dry lay on more Probatum Another for one that cannot sleep Take Oyl of Roses and put thereto a little good Vineger and heat them wel together and put it on a Cloth and bind it to the forehead it is a comfortable Remedy TASTE Losse of Taste THe signes of the Humour that causeth this Infirmity viz. The Blood yeildeth a sweet taste Phlegme also somewhat sweetish with much spettle humidity of the head of the tongue and of the whole body Choller causeth bitternesse saltnesse and a salt phlegme if no taste then is the mouth of the stomack troubled with many superfluous humours If Melancholy then is the taste tart There may also be sure signs taken from the tongue if it be white it s not only a sign of cold but also that the stomack head and liver are full of phlegme if red then the malady is of blood and hot Rheumes yellownesse is a sign that choller is the cause of all if a blackish lead colour it signifies Melancholy unlesse in hot Feavers then must the Patient be dyeted according to the grief TEETH For Tooth ache Take running water and put into it a Rosemary branch a branch of Sage and a branch of Rue and let it lye three or four hours and then wash your mouth with the water For a swelling in the cheek or Tooth ache and good for the Stomack Take a handful of Bay salt a quantity of Cloves Mace and Nutmegs and put it in a bag and warme it good and hot and lay it to the place grieved A Powder to keep Teeth clean and without Ache. Take dry Sage Allom Pepper and Bay Salt of each a like weight and make all these in powder and preserve it in a box and take a Sage leaf with the Powder and rub your gums with it when you please A Medicine for the Tooth ache Take Fetherfew and stamp it and strain it and drop a drop or two into the contrary ear to the pain and then lye still a half hour after To make a Tooth fall out Take the roots of Marigolds and put it in thy mouth on that Tooth that aketh For any Swelling that cometh by Tooth ache Take a quantity of Sage and Woodbind leaves and seeth them very tender in White Wine and a little Honey then wash the inside of your mouth with the water thereof and lay the Herbs to the outside of the grief very warm For the Tooth ache Take every night a little salt and let it malt in your mouth and when it is melted gargarise it well in your mouth then spit out then take five leaves of Rosemary and chew it wel and hold it to your teeth A hollow Tooth cured for ever Lint shaved and dipped in Oyl of Camphire then roll it in Bole Armoniack and burnt Allom being beat very small and make it into balls like paste and stop the hollow tooth and lay lint thereon and let it remain in the Tooth four our five houres then take it out and wash the Tooth cured for ever To keep Teeth from rotting Take white salt and in the morning fasting hold it under your tongue till it do turn to water and with that water wash your Teeth To make the Teeth white Take one drop of the Oyl of Vitriol and wet the Teeth with it and rub them afterwards with a course cloth although this Medicine be strange yet feare it not Of the Teeth Some men have thirty two Teeth some eight and twenty and some have thirty The Physicians write that the foremost Teeth are engendred of pure and superfluous moisture of the Scull the middest of a reasonable good humor and the hindmost of a grosse humidity All Imposthumes or Corruption of the Gums or Teeth if there be much blood and moisture with it then that part is to be purged with yellow Marabus and sowre Dates according to his ability and wash the mouth with this water viz. Take blossomes or pills of Pomgranats Acorn cups and Roses of each one ounce and boil them in water and wash the mouth with Vinegar and Allome For loose Teeth The cause is blowes thrusts defluctions that fall out of the head into the Teeth which loosen their roots or of great drowth after long sicknesse the corruption of the mouth and teeth may also cause the same The Remedy is Take half an ounce of Allome Rose buds half an ounce Bedegar Red Wine one pint boil them unto the one half and take this into your mouth warm often and hold it a good while therein for it is very good Also to wash the mouth often with Rosemary and Wine is very good TYMPANY For the Tympany in a Woman Take a handful of the blossoms of the Marygold that is yellow stamp it and strain it and give the juice thereof to the sick in a draught of Ale and drink the same fasting An Oyntment for the same Take the herbs stalks and leaves of the said Marigolds chopt small and fry them Goose grease take the liquor that cometh of the frying of the herbs and annoint the Patient all over the belly and in short time the Disease will vanish away A Plaister for the same Then take the Herbs so fryed and lay on a Plaister of black wool and bind it over all the belly which will help likewise The like for a Man Take the Marigold that hath black grounds and use them for a man as the other in all respects TETTER A good Medicine to kill a Tetter Take Lemmons and distil them rinds and all and with the water thereof wash the Tetter and sometimes annoint it with the juice of Ribwort TONGUE For a sore Tongue Seeth five leaved grass in Vinegar and gargarise therewith to help a sore mouth tongue or throat Of the Tongue The swelling of the Tongue is of blood or of phlegme that falleth out of the head If it be of a cold phlegme the tongue and face is alwayes white and the mouth full of
Fennel seeds Coriander seeds Carraway seeds Parsley seeds and Gromel seeds of each a good handful and for any other Seeds or Spices use your discretion then take of Lavender Rosemary Sage Hisop Savory Sweet Marjerom Standing Time Mother-Time Running Time Burrage Buglos Succory Endive Lettice Violet-leaves Strawberry-leaves Mugwort Red Fennel Peniroyal Red Mints Herb-grace Germander Avens Wormwood Bay-leaves Nep Clary Horehound Comfrey Marigold leaves Mercury Sowthistle Sorrel Plantane Ribwort Angelica Carduus Benedictus Wood-Betany Scabious Balme Liver-wort Long-wort Saint Johns-wort Saint Peters-worts Parsley Dandillion Basil Lavender Spike Bloodwort Egrimony Burnet Garden Gallingale roots Setwal-roots Polipodium of the Oak Pimpernel Clivers Shepherds-flowers Knot grasse Cinqfoil Long debeeff Sparragus Water-cresses Spinage of each of these two handfuls two or three heads of House-leek Put all the Seeds Herbs and Roots to the Ale and let them lye a steeping all night then still them in a Limbeck and draw of it so long as it runneth good which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire if it burn it is good or else not To make another Aqua-composita Take a brass pot of four gallons and rub it very clean within side then take three Gallons of good strong Ale and a gallon of Wine lees so that your pot be not full by three fingers with your Herbs and Spices as followeth Take a pound of Anniseeds well bruised and half a pound of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it into the pot then take a handful of Rosemary a handful of Hisop a good root of Enulacampana and scrape it well and slice it half a handful of Unset Time half a handful of Mints a handful of red Fennel a handful of red Sage six good crops of Marjerom and as much Peniroyal a quater of a handful of Hartstongue half a handful of Horehound gather not the Herbs till the dew be off them then wring all your Herbs asunder and put your Spices and all in your pot and let them stand all night then set your pot upon a fire of Charcoals and set on your Limbeck upon the pot and stop your pot round about with paste so that no air come forth then make a little fire under the pot and put cold water in the top of the Limbeck and be sure you keep it alwayes full with cold water and as soon as it begins to drop into the Receiver abate the fire a little and keep it so that it drop not too fast nor too soft for if it drop too fast it will be too hot of the fire and if too soft it will be too weak you can draw but a quart of the best and a quart of the second Another way Take three gallons of Claret-wine with some Lees amongst it for want of Wine take very strong Ale then take two pound of Anniseeds bruised and four pound of Licoras clean scraped and bruised one pound of great Raisons stoned Parsley and Fennel roots of each a good handful scraped and the pith taken out with a root of Angelica then stop it very close and let it stand three dayes and three nights then still it in a Limbeck and keep the best by it self and you must put as much Sugar candied into the glasse as is worth a shilling and hang two grains of Musk in a cloth in it AQUA VITAE To make Aqua Vita for a cold stomack Take Rosemary and Hisop of each a handful Sage and Horehound of each half a handful one root of Enula campane Marjerom and red Mints of each six crops Licoras and Anniseeds well bruised of each two ounces then take three gallons of strong Ale grounds and set all these on a fire in a pan til it begin to seethe then take it from the fire and put it in a brasse pot and set on your Limbeck stopping it close with paste and keeping a soft fire under it To make Aqua-vitae to avoid Flegme Take of Peniroyal a handful of Strawberry leaves two handfuls and Pimpernels three handfuls and add these to the former Receipt AQUA MIRABILIS How to make a precious Water called Aqua Mirabilis Take Gallingale Cloves Squills Ginger Melilot Cardomons Mace and Nutmegs of each one dram of the juice of Cellendine half a pint mingle all these made into powder with the said juice and a pint of Aqua-vitae and three pints of good White-wine and put all these into a Stillatory of glasse and let it stand all night and on the morrow still it with an easie fire This Water is good for by a secret nature it dissolveth the grief of the Lungs without any pain it purgeth Melancholy it expelleth the stopping of the Urine and it marvellously profiteth the stomack conserveth Youth in his own state long and preserveth memory destroyeth the Palsie it being given a man or woman labouring for life one spoonful relieveth him Of all Artificial Waters I think none better In Summer use one spoonful thereof in Winter two BACK A good Medicine to strengthen the Back Take Oaken leaves and buds Knot-grass Comfrey and Clary of each alike and still them this must be taken every morning two spoonfuls but let it be a fortnight old or else the fire wil not be out of it Another Take Comfrey Knot-grass and the flowers of Archangel boile them in a little milk of a browne Cow and drink of it every morning it is very good For the Rains of the Back and Stomack Take of Fern that groweth on a house and Camomile of each a handful two or three slips of Unset Hysop bruise 〈◊〉 these together and seeth 〈◊〉 them in a quart of Rhenish or White-wine with a handful of Currants till it come to a pint and after it is sodden put into it an ounce and a half of white Sugar candied and let it melt of it self then strain it through a fair cloath and give it the Patient to drink warm morning and evening To strengthen the Back Take a handful of Knot-grasse a handful of Archangel flowers nine branches of Gromel and stamp it with a pint of Ewe milk and warm it bloud warm and let the Patient drink it an hour before he riseth for nine dayes together For the Raines of the Back Take your own water and boil it well and scum it well then take a quarter of an ounce of Oile of Bayes and an ounce of Oyle of Roses and boil it from a pottle to a pint or a quart and annoint therewith the rains of the back and also the Spleen vain in the foot For the pain of the Back and heat of the Back Take rose-Rose-water and put thereunto Sanders and Rose leaves and lay them in steep in your Rose-water one whole night and it being drunk will take away the heat and greatly comfort the Reins or wash the back therewith To cleanse the Back and purge the Raines Take one Fennel root and two Parsley roots and pick out the piths of them and put thereto one handful
Cream and boil it in a cleane Vessel and ever stir it till it become curdy and that it turne into an Oyle then straine it through a cloth and the Oyle will come from the curd For Burning with Fire Gun-powder Scalding or the like Take Snow water or running water and put thereinto fine Sallet Oyle and beat them well together so done bathe the place grieved twice or thrice and so rest that the fire may be taken out then make this Oyntment following Take of Daisies roots and leaves of Balme and of Alehoofe of each two handfuls of Valerian and Orpine leaves of each one handful beat all these together very fine in a stone Mortar after they have been well washed and dryed then take of fresh Butter unsalted two pound of Barrowes grease one pound and a pint of Neats foot-Oyle boil all these together till the water of the Herbs be consumed by which time it will be a perfect Oyntment then take it from the fire straine it and preâ—â— it well out and keep it well in an earthen pot it will last seven years and when you use it take Primrose leaves and pare away the ribs and after the sore place is well annointed lay the smooth side upon the place grieved all over and so lay on fine linnen and change it often For a Burning Take half a pint of Cream two handfuls of Wild Daisies with their roots a few Rosemary tops and a little Sugar boil them together till they become an Oyl then strain it and annoint the place therewith but first wash it with Whey For a Burning or Scalding Take Maiden wort and stamp it seeth it in fresh butter and strain it and annoint the place Another Take one handful of Barrowes grease and two handfuls of Groundsel and two or three handfuls of Houseleek stamp the Herbs together then put to them new sheeps dung two handfuls of Goose dung two handfuls and stamp them altogether and being hot strain them through a cloth into an Earthen pot and with the liquor annoint the burned place Another Take Plantane Waybred Daisies and the green bark of Elder and green Goose dung and Oyl Olive stamp them together and wring them through a cloth and bath the hurt with a fether CANKER To kill the Canker TAke Herb-grace Ribwort Fether-few Groundsel Parsley Sorrel leaven Boares grease of each a handful and a little bay salt shred all these together and seeth them in the dregs of Ale with some Verjuice For a Canker in a womans brest Take the dung of a white Goose and the juice of Cellendine and bray them well in a Mortar together and lay thereof to the sore and this will stay the Canker and heal it For a black Canker in a womans brest Take pild Garlick and Rye meal beat them together and boile them in Wine Vineger till it be thick as pap then lay it on the fore and change it three times a day till it be white then take Pimpernel and stamp it with a little Honey and lay it to the brest and it will heal it For a Canker in the Nose Mouth or Throat Take of Rosemary stripped from the stalks and of red Sage leaves of each a like dry them and burn them in a clean chafingdish then rake a pretty piece of Allome and burn it very fine and make your Herbs very small and then with some Honey temper it altogether and make it pretty soft and annoint the place with it three times a day in the morning fasting after dinner and after Supper let the water out of your mouth if you can but if it go downe it will not hurt you and before you annoint it wash it with Orange pils out in pieces and laid in water if you make it bleed it is the better This Medicine wil look very black but it is very good For a Canker in the mouth Take six spoonfuls of honey clarified with as much water boil it over the fire till the water be consumed still stirring it and when it is clarified put to it a pint of the best and strongest White Wine and a piece of Roch Allome of the bigness of a Hasel Nut and a spoonful of Bay salt let all these seeth together the space of a quarter of an hour then take dry Rose leaves Woodbind leaves and Sage of each a handful and let them seeth a quarter of an hour more together upon a Chafingdish and coals and let the Patient wash the sore with the liquor and lay the leaves upon it and if the Liquor be too thick to wash your mouth take fair running water and White Wine Vinegar and a spoonful of Honey to be sodden together with the Herbs aforesaid For a Canker or Itch over the Body First take of Quicksilver of Sallet Oyle of Oyl de Baies of each two pennyworth a quantity of Quicksilver to kil the Quicksilver add a little bay salt or Salt peter mingle all these together and so use it CAUDLE To make a Caudle of great vertue Take a pint and a half of the strongest Ale may be gotten twenty Jordan Almonds clean wiped but neither washed nor blanched two Dates minced very small and stamped then take the pith of a young Bief the length of twelve inches lay it in water till the bloud be out of it then strip the skin off it and stamp it with the Almonds and Dates then strain them all together into the Ale then boil it until it be a little thick give the party in the morning fasting six spoonfuls and as much when he goeth to bed CHILDREN For a child that is Jaw fallen or Roof fallen Take a handful of Chickweed and lap it in a red Cole leaf or else in a linnen cloth and roast it in hot embers and it will be a green Salve then lay thereof to the bone in the neck as hot as may be suffered Also take sowâ— leaven of white bread and crum it on the mould of the Childs head as a Plaister and by Gods grace it will raise up the bone or mold within nine hours For scowring of a Child that will take nothing inwardly Take a handful of Pimpernel and dry it between two tiles and lay it to the soles of the feet An approved Medicine to cure Children that are weak limbed and cannot go By Dr. Deodate Take Sage Sweet Marjerom and Dane wort of equal quantity beat them a long time together and strain the juice out of them which juice put into a double Vial glass so that the glasse be full of it then stop it with paste very close and cover it with thick paste all over then set it in an Oven and there let it stand so long as a great loaf requires time to be throughly baked then take it out and let it be cooled then break the paste round about it and if the juice be grown thick break the glass and take it out in another dish and keep it in a gally pot and
and the crumbs of white bread dipped in the fame Water and put thereto a little womans milk and two penny worth of Saffron bray them together and lay it over your forehead and the eyes Sometime such pain chanceth because of phlegme and then the Patient feeleth great pain and heavinesse in the eyes and in this case you must purge the phlegme as hath been said in the Remedies of the head grieved with the excess of phlegme To clarifie the sight or for redness of the eyes Take Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it in White Wine and set it so stand a day and a night then take of the thinnest and wet your eyes with a feather when you go to bed to resolve the Gum you must wash your eyes with houselee sometimes the pain cometh because of ventosity or wind and then the Patiene feeleth such pain as it were beating between the ears with a Hammer for which it is good to make a Decoction of Camomile flowers Mellilote and Fennel seeds in water and White Wine and therein wet a fourfold linnen cloth well pressed down and lay it upon the eyes often Otherwhiles there chanceth pain in the eyes by outward accidents as wind dust or heat milk well beaten with the white of an egge is good and sometimes the same pain cometh of striking and then drop in your eye the blood of a Pigeons wing which blood will take away spotted marks and rednesse of the face For a great pain in the Eye Take half an ounce of Oyl of Roses the yolk of an egge and a quarter of an ounce of Barley flower and a little Saffron mixt together and put it between two linnen cloths and lay it to the pain or else take the crumb of white bread one ounce and seeth it with Nightshade and Morral water then mix with the same bread yolks of eggs Oyl of Roses and Camomile of each an ounce and a half of Linseed one ounce and use it as aforesaid A very good Water to strengthen the sight and to prevent a Catherick Take Eyebright Vervain Tormentill of each two pound Cellendine Egrimony Wood Betony Honey suckle flowers White or Red Roses Vine leaves Pimpernel Fennel Rue Oculus Christi Chickweed Smallage and Clover of each a pound beat them small and steep them in a gallon of White Wine twelve hours then fill your Still reasonable full and put to it three great spoonfuls of Honey a pint of new milk and half a pint of Urine of a man child then still it and draw about a pint and a half of a Still For an Eye that is very full of pain Take of Violet leaves a quarter of a handful of Daisies roots and all half as many wash them and dry them very well in a cloth then stamp them and put to it a spoonful of red Rose water and strain it then take the white of a new laid egg well beaten and take away the froth then put that to the things aforesaid with half a quarter of a spoonful of Honey and drop this in the eye morning and evening and twice or thrice a day and at night lay on the eye the pap of a roasted Apple or of a rotten Apple and put a little juice of Houseleek amongst it and a little fine Sugar candied lay it upon the Eye two or three nights if the pain be great lap upon it a piece of fresh Bief two or three hours and so again as you see cause Lay to your neck behind Elder leaves and Woodbetony dryed between two tiles sprinkled with a little Vinegar and strew on good store of beaten Pepper when it is hot lay it on a thin cloth and so lay it to the neck night and morning four or five times Also make blisters behind the ears if you see cause If there grow a skin upon the eye put in Allome Water with the juice of Cellendine in it or if it be much the juice of Ground Ivy drop this in twice a day and the white powder once a day For Blood-shotten Eyes If the Violet Water will not help take five or six cornes of Cummin seeds bruised as many blades of Saffron put in a fine rag let it soak in a spoonful of red Rose water strain it and put to it a spoonful of Womans milk and drop this often into the eye For a very great Pearle in the Eye Put in the Eye a little clarified Honey and a little fine Ginger in it and sometimes the powder of white Sugar candied half an hour before you put in either put in a little fresh grease For a Rheume in the Eyes Make Eggshell Water with the juice of Houseleek as much white Copperas as a pease twice as much Honey this is good if you perceive the Humour to be very hot also it is good with Snow water and if the Humour be cold make it with half stilled water and half Eyebright Water if between both make it with fair water To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Take Woodbind bruised and lay it to your Temples For a Pin or Web in the Eye Take Herb Christopher stamp it and strain it and put in a little honey drop it in twice a day also lay on his eye white bread milk and Violets made in a Poultice also take Cellendine Daisies roots and all brown Fennel Cliver Betony Plantane Sorrel twice as much as the rest there must be of each a handful a pint of new milk a dram of white Coperas in powder two great spoonfuls of Honey do not draw it dry drop it in the eye three or four times in two hours and lay a wet cloth upon the eye To bring away the Rheume from the Eye Set the feet in Camomile sod in water two houres if you can then lap them in a blanket two houres keeping it warme with warm clothes For any spot in the Eye Take the scraping of a whetstone and Bay salt made very fine and put thereof twice a day into your Eye For a Pin and Web. Roast an egg and put in a piece of Copperas as big as a Pease and nine Cummin seeds strain it and put in a little Honey Alloes Sicatrina made in powder and strained with a little Rose water is very good for any sore eyes Capons grease washed with Plantane water and Tutia prepared and mixt together is very good for sore eyes to annoint them with it To stay the Rheume in the Eyes Make water seething hot and wet a good big cloth in it and lay it all over the forehead when it beginneth to wax cool wet another and lay to it hot and do so half an hour together against the fire For a prick in the Eye with a thorne and to drive out the thorne or stubble Take he treddle of an egg and put it in your eye and biod it in For a Bâ—â—iâ—â— in the Eye Lay to the Temples a piece of raw fresh Bâ—ef and to the eye put
〈◊〉 cold put it into your eye and it will cleer up your fight Or take the leaves of red Roses and temper it with the whites of eggs and lay it to your eye when you go to bed For an excessive pain in the Eyes when the Flux of Humors be sharp in them Take milk hot as it cometh from the Cow cover it with a Bason then take the dew from the Bason with a feather and put it in a glasse and therewith dresse your Eyes For sore Eyes that be in the morning full of pain and water so that they will not open without great washing Take a new laid egg and roast it hard then take a little white Copperas and a little roach Allome and a little Sandifer then strain the juice and drop thereof into your eye evening and morning and wet a linnen cloth and lay over your eyes For Eyes that have skins over them or great pain in them Take black Snailes and make an Oyl and put thereto White Sugar candied and Lapis Calaminaris being first burned five or six times and thus prepared put in your eyes evening and morning with a feather Or take Daisie roots Betony flowers of Pimpernel red Fennel stamp and strain them with stale Ale and drink thereof evening and morning and lay outwardly to your eyes Rose water womans milk and the white of an egg wet Tow or Flax therein and lay it to your eyes the Drink will be the better if you put in the juice of Clestocks a worm so called A Medicine that helped one that had a thrust in the Eye Take the right ground Ivy and Cellendine and the green of a Goose turd and womans milk put them all together in a glasse and when it is setled put the clearest in your eyes An Oyle for burning of the Eyes Take the white of an egg well beaten together with the juice of Daisie roots and Houseleek put them into an egg-shell and roast it hard and thereof will come an Oyl wherewith annoint the place pained Dr. Cademans Water for the Eyes Lapis Tutiae prepared half an ounce white Vitriol half a scruple red Rose water Plantane water of each one ounce Egrimony water half an ounce mingle them together and let them boil gently then clear it very well An excellent good Eye Salve Take a pound of May Butter and set it in the Sun to clarifie and alwayes when it is melted powre the clear butter from the curds and whey that will be in the bottome thus do from day to day until no more will come out then put as much of the Herb Christopher small chopt as will be steeped in it then set it again in the Sun in a glasse for the space of a month in which time it will be rotten then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and so keep it in some Gally pot or Glasse that will not drink it up and every evening as much as a small Wheat corne being put into the eye will destroy any speck or Pin and Web or any scale or thicknesse For and of the Eyes in general In all causes of the eyes observe the Nature of the person his age the time of the year the sicknesse he hath had before c. It is alwayes good in all pains of the Eyes that the Patient keep in a dark place free from aire lye high in bed that the Rheume tarry not in the Eyes but may fall down to the cheeks seasonable sleep doth digest and congeal the matter all vexatio is to be avoided as sorrow anger ill favors c. Also all vaporous meats And this is a general rule that so long as the pain lasteth you shall lay upon the Eye the white of an egg brayed with Oyl of Roses for it stayeth the course of the humours and asswageth all pain or the white of an egge braied with womans milk if the eye be red Of the Vthalmia of the Eyes This Disease is caused from the Flux of certain humours be they mixt or not as from Choler Phlegme Blood or Melancholy the signes whereof are these If it proceed of bloud then are the Eyes and their veines puff'd up red the Temples of the Head do beat the uppermost Eye-lids do swell the Eyes are moist yet with little pain but so moist that in the sleep the Eyes do bake up If it proceed of Choler then is there much pricking burning with great pain and swelling and not so red as the former but moist and burning that thereby sometimes the Apple of the eye is perished If it proceed of phlegme then is there a compression and ponderosity in the Eyes with great pain without heat or rednesse and by reason of the great moistness some soreness and swelling If of Melancholy then is there also great ponderosity with a sallow colour with rednesse or compression they do not bake together in their sleep for that the Catarrhe or Rheum is too dry For the rednesse of the Eyes Take half an ounce of Tutia make it glowing hot and quench it fifteen times in Rose water then bruise it small and put into it a quarter of an ounce of Callamint stones three cloves and half a pint of Malmesey and mix them together This Collyria is for all redness of the Eyes Of Watry and running Eyes If the Cause be inward from any disease of the brain and not through heat you may perceive by this viz. The Patient alwayes feels some heavy puffing up of the vains in the forehead and Temples of the head and this reflux is for the most part augmented by neesing falling both into the Eyes and sharpnesse in the throat But if this humour be through heat it bites the eyelids and makes the hair to fall off but if through cold then contrary In case it be through heat the party must be purged with Pills of Cochiâ— Aâ—â—â— with Succo Rosarum or with Pills of the five kinds of Mirabilans and keep a good Diet. If his grief come of a cold Cause it s very convenient to eat a good deal of Fennel seed every morning and chew Rew and Valerian in the mouth and annoint the eyes with the spittle Also if it proceed from the brains this is excellent Take prepared Bloodstone one quarter of an ounce Roses burnt Ivory red and white Curral Amber yellow Mirabilans of each one dram the juice of the Spirits of Frombois four ounces temper them together and keep them close stopped put thereof daily into your eyes and annoint your Eye-lids therewith This dries the Rheume marvellously and strengthneth the eyes from taking any moisture Also take the juice of Fennel and of Rue of each one ounce and of a childs Urine halfe an ounce Alloes three drams let it seeth a little then strain it and put a drop thereof into your eye It cleanseth drieth and sharpneth the sight Also roast three Apples take away the skin and cores then temper them with the yolks of three new laid eggs
and lay it warm to the eyes Also if deflux cause much pain take unwashed sheeps wool burn it to ashes in a close stopped pot bruise it as small as may be and mix it with the white of an egge and lay it on your forehead and temples This asswageth the Catarrhe very quickly and abateth the pain A Plaister for the Temples or sore Eyes Take Alloes Mirrhe Mirtle leaves Acatia of each one dram Mastick and Frankinsence of each half a dram beaten small together and make it to a Plaister with the white of an egg Likewise he ought to purge with Pills of Cochia which be sharpned with the Trocisies of Alhandaly Also with the Confection of Hierâ— and such like Oyle of linnen being made thus is very good for sore Eyes viz. set it a fire with a candle and lay the linnen upon an even piece of iron tin or silver and put it out quickly and you shall find a drop of Oyle the which take up with a feather This healeth marvellously well the Imposthume of the eyes taketh away the pain and is good for a Fistula and Wounds in the Eyes FACE To take away the Scars or Pockholes or redness in the Face TAke a good quantity of Lemmons and slice them rinds and all and distil them laying them on fair sticks that they touch not the bottom of the Still and with the Water that cometh thereof annoint the face and it will soon take away the rednesse and scars of the face For a sawcie Face Take a pottle of White Wine and a quarter of a pound of Cinnamon cleane rubbed and winnowed then seeth it in the White Wine till it be half sodden away and then put it into a pot and drink it evening and morning till the Patient be cured Probatum An approved good Medicine to cool and repel the redness of the face that proceedeth of heat Take a quantity of running water and a quantity of Brimstone and as much Allome beaten small together put them with the water into a glasse fast stopped and so let it stand every morning and evening take a little out into a sawcer and with a linnen rag wash your face therewith and so let it dry in with wiping For Spots in the Face For a mans or a womans face that seemeth as they were drunken take Water-cresses and cut them small and put them in a small earthen pot and put fair Spring water thereto and let them boil together and drink of that water morning and evening To make the Face fair Take the flowers of Beanes and distil them and wash the face with the water Some say that the Urine of the party grieved is very good to wash the face and to keep it from blemishing If the face be washed with the water that Rice is sodden in it taketh away the Pimples and cleanseth the face For heat in the face Seeth white Copperas in running water and let it stand till it be cold and then put in a little Camphire and every morning and evening take a little of that water in a sawcer and with a little cloth dipt in it wash and bathe your face therewith and let it dry in of it self A Drink for the Heat or Rednesse in the Face Take four handfuls of Wild Tansie and boil it in two Gallons of small wort let it stand until it be almost cold then put to it a little Barme and let it work and when it is ripe put it in a close vessel and so let it stand three or four dayes then you must drink of it every day twice so long as you use it An excellent Water for the same Take twelve Lemmons and pare them to the very juice four new laid egges shells whites and yolks beaten all together six spoonfuls of pure English Honey Temper all together and distil them with a very soft fire and receive the water thereof in a glasse for your use putting thereto a little Mercury to make it keep and continue An excellent Lac Virginis to make the Face Neck or any part of the Body fair and white Take of Alumen Plumosi half an ounce of Camphire one ounce of Roach Allome one ounce and a dram Sal gemmi half an ounce white Frankinsence two ounces Oyle of Tartar one ounce and a half make all these into most fine powder and mix it with one quart of rose-Rose-water then set it in the Sun and let it stand there nine dayes often stirring it then take Littarge of Silver half a pound beat it fine and fearse it then boil it in one pint of White Wine Vinegar until one third part be consumed ever stirring it with a stick while it boileth then distil it by a Filter or let it run through a thick Jelly bag then keep it by it self in a glass Vial and when you will use these Waters take a drop of the one and a drop of the other in your hand and it will be like milk which is called Lac Virginis wash your face or any part of your body therewith It is most precious for the same Probatum Dr. Walmesley For the Pimples in the Face Take Wheat-flower mingled with honey and vinegar lay it upon them and it cleanseth them To dry up any Pimples or heat in the Face Take Virgin Wax one ounce and a half May Butter three ounces meâ—â— them then put to them Cerus half an ounce Bole Armoniack a scruple a little Rose water to wash it after these are melted together annoint the Pimples with it twice a day FELLON To ripen a Fellon or Boil Take Rue Sage and the fat of rusty Bacon of each a like quantity and stamp them all together and lay it on a linnen cloth warm to the Grief Another Take an Onion roasted put thereto Honey and Wheat flower and so beat it all together and lay it to the sore To kill a Fellon Take an egg and roast it hard and take the yolk thereof and take an Onion and roast it soft and beat the yolk and the Onion together and lay it to the sore and it will kill the Fellon A Soveraign Salve to heal the Fellon Take of the Soot of a house that is on the Beams and break it to powder and take the yolk of an egg and bray them together then lay it on a clean cloth and lay it on the sore and this will heal it An excellent Poultice to take away the anguish of a Fellon and to break it speedily Take milk and put therein crumbs of White Bread and boil them together very tender to a Poultice then take it from the fire and put therein the yolk of an egg and have ready some white Lilly roots wrapped up in a brown paper and roasted very tender first bruise the roots into a pap then mingle them well with the other things and so apply it warme to the griefe and when it is broken use healing Salve For a Fellon Take Verjuice and crumbs of browne bread
leaves Camomile and Setwal of each a handful stamp them all together very smal then take a pint or more of May Butter and half a pint of Neats foot Oyle stirre them all together and then put them into a Pipkin or liltle earthen pot with a cover and close it well with Paste that no air issue out then put that earthen pot into a brasse pot with water in it and boil them two hours then take them out and set them as deep as you can in a muckhil two dayes then take them up and boil them two hours again then take them out and let them cool and straine them through a linnen cloth and when they be setled powre out the watrish bloud from them and keep them pure and clean and lay them warm to the place grieved LEPROSIE For curing the Leprosie Take half a pint of English Honey and a good handful of Herb-grace beat it very smal and put it into the Honey and boil them very well together till the one half be consumed then straine it through a clean cloth and with a feather annoint the sores therewith A Drink belonging to the same Medicine Take an ounce of Elicampane roots one ounce of Fennel roots when they be picked and pithed one ounce of Burrage roots picked and pithed one ounce of Niprial picked and pithed then take a pottle of stream water and boile all these roots till one half be consumed then put in so much English Honey as will sweeten it to your taste then straine it and put it in a glasse bottle then take a penny worth of Quicksilver and kill it well with fasting spittle and then put it into the Drink when it is through cold and let the Patient drink thereof five spoonfuls in the morning fasting and so much when he goeth to bed and by Gods help it will cleanse him LASK For a Lask Take a good quantity of Wheat flower and put it in a bag seeth it very well then take the same and put it out of the bag and so much as is soft scrape away with a knife the rest will be very hard scrape it and make pap with milk and give it to the Patient twice or thrice a day and it will help Probatum To stay a Lask or Bloody Flux Take a sew old Beanes and parch them over the fire in a pan and then beat them into a powder then make an Aleberry of Sack or Ale and put some of the powder therein and seeth them well together then let the Patient drink thereof warm and with twice drinking it will help Another Take milk somewhat hot and put it in a dish then take Red Wine and put it in another dish and let the Patient suck it out of both dishes with two quils or reeds both together and in so doing it turneth into a curd and stoppeth the Flux To stay a Scouring Take a handful of Rice wash it in red Rose water and dry it well and beat 〈…〉 powder and make pap of it and bod it with Cinnamon and eat it Another Take Virgin Wax and make it into Pills and give it in the pap of an Apple three at one time For a Lask or Flux Take the neather Jaw of a great Pike and beat it into fine powder and drink it in Beer or Ale or in your pottage and it will help To procure Looseness Seeth Mallowes and red Nettles in fair water and let the Patient sit over the hot fume thereof LIVER For cooling of the Liver Take French Barley and boil it in a quart of fair water when it is boiled take it forth of that water and put it in three pints of fresh water then take of Violet leaves Strawberry leaves of each a handful Succory Bugloss Borage of each half a handful one good stick of Licoras half a handful of Raisons of the Sun stoned one spoonful of Anniseeds let all these boil from three pints to a quart then take the Liquor and strain it and put a handful of Almonds into it and when you drink of it take a spoonful of Rosewater and drink with it and take it two hours before you eat in the morning at the least and likewise two houres before Supper For the heat of the Liver Infuse and steep Bread reasonably leavened in water and a little Vineger and eat thereof fasting an hour or two before other meats and use Sallets of Succory roots sodden till they be tender Doctor Hills counsel for cooling the Liver Take Barly one handful of Sorrel Succory and Endive of each one handful a stick of Licoros bruised Raisons of the Sun one handful Anniseeds half a handful seeth all these in a quart of faire water till halfe be wasted away then strain it and drink of it in the morning three times in a week at least A Drink to cleanse the Liver Take a quart of Rhenish Wine and put thereto one ounce and half of Cene seeth it from a quart to a pint then strain it and put thereto three branches of white Mint three penny worth of white Rose water two Nutmegs sliced with a knife six penny worth of white Sugar candied and four penny worth of Angel Gold and seeth it a little and let the Patient take it morning and evening A good Medicine for the Liver Take Ivory and burn it in a clean earthen vessel and when it is burnt take sweet Barly Wort and put therein of the Ivory as you please or put it into Ale and drink it nine dayes together Also drink the juice of Liverwort A Drink to mitigate all heat of the Liver and Spleen Take of Liverwort Maidenhair Endive the flowers of Winter Gilliflowers picked clean from the stalks great Comfrey Tarragon of each four ounces of Spinage Water a pottle of Licoras cleane scraped and thin sliced two ounces of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced one ounce boil all these together stirring it now and then and then put in fine Sugar candied one ounce and half finely beaten to powder then let it boil half away alwayes stirring it and put it in some close glasse and reserve it to your use of this you must take a good draught every morning and fast an hour after it A Broth to cool the heat of the Liver Take Violets Time Parsley Water-cresses red Nettle Crops and Clivers and red Fennel of each alike but somewhat â—esse of the Water cresses red Nettle crops and Fennel then the rest shred all the Herbs and make broth with Chicken Capon or Mutton For the heat of the Liver Take three pints of Whey Egrimony Boâ—age and Bugloss of each one handful boil all together half an hour then stram it through a fine linnen cloth drink a good draught of this in the morning fasting and at three of the clock bâ—â— before you drink thereof take Smallage and stamp it and strain it and take two spoonfuls of the juice thereof and put it into your drink before you drink it Against
together and drink three spoonfuls of this every morning for the space of nine dayes together This preserves you from the Plague and if you be infected it wil expel it and if it come to a Botch stamp the leaves of red Brambles with Mustard and Honey and make a Plaister and lay it to the Sore Probatum An excellent thing to defend the Plague Take twenty leaves of Rue two Walnuts and two figs and a graine of Salt in the morning fasting with a little Wine A good Preservation against the Plague Take of the best Hungâ—ria or Roman Vitriol with a little Amber and dissolve it in Vineger of the best then take a litle Rosewater and mingle therewith and every morning take half a spoonful thereof and cast it on a brick made hot in the fire and let the chamber where any abide be perfumed every day and t will take away all corruption and poison out of the Chamber so that the Spiders will nor endure of all outward Medicines there is none better then this by the advice of Doctor Matthias a Germane and Doctor Butler of Cambridg A Water for the Plague Take Turmentile Scabious Betony of each a like quantity distil them together and they will make the best water for a Surfet or any manner of poisonoâ—s Disease if you drink it in the morning fasting A Water to be made in May good against the Plague or Surset Take Cellendine Rosemary Rue Pellitory of Spain Scabious Angelica Pimpernel Wormwood Mugwort Betony Egrimony Balme Dragon and Turmentile of each half a pound shred them somewhat smal and put them into a narrow mouthed pot and put to them five quarts of White Wine stop it close and let it stand three daies and nights stirring it morning and evening then take the Herbs from the Wine and distil them in an ordinary Still and when you have distilled the Herbs distil the Wine also wherein is vertue for a weak stomack Take of either of these three or four spoonfuls in the morning or any other time as occasion serveth walking after it till you shall feel your selfe inclining to sweat then go to bed or betake your self otherwise to rest An approved Medicine for the Plague Take a root or smal handful of Saxifrage or Meadow Parsley one good spoonful of Sassafrass wood smal beaten one half root of Tormentile or Setwal Elder berries one good spoonful or a handful of the leaves of Rue red Sage and red young Bramble leaves of each a handful two spoonfuls of old black Ivy berries Harts horne scraped very small as much eight Figs dryed eight Races of white Ginger and two Oranges stamp them all together in a Mortar steep them all at least twelve hours in a quart of White Wine and half a pint of White Wine Vinegar then strain them through a fine cloth and drink every morning a spoonful fasting and take nothing in two hours after and as much at night if you be to go abroad into any infectious place carry in your mouth one half root of Tormentil taking the wind as much as you can of all infectious persons and places This is to be done before you be infected and when you are infected you must keep your self warm and out of the ayre for twelve dayes drinking this as before and if there be any great danger you may drink a spoonful every three or six hours and it will with Gods blessing bring the Infection out in Sores which being done the worst is past only take heed of cold to drive in the Sores again and use warm Poultices which may draw them to a head ripen and so break them A Preservative against the Plague Take of Sage Rue Elder leaves and red Bramble leaves of each a handful stamp them all together and strain them through a cloth with a quart of White Wine then take a quantity of Ginger and mingle it together and drink thereof morning and evening a spoonful nine dayes together For the Party Infected If you be infected before you have drunk the aforesaid Medicine then take a spoonful of Scabious Water as much of Betony and a quantity of fine Treakle put it together and drink it and it will expel the Venom To break the Botch Take Bramble leaves Elder leaves and Mustard seed and stamp them all together then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Sore A Medicine for the Plague Take three slips of Herb grace and siz spoonfuls of Vinegar and beat them together then strain them and put thereto one ounce of Treakle and one ounce of Sugar and stir them together and set it on the fire and make a Sirrup thereof then take a Sage leafe and every morning take as much as a bean upon the same leaf and eat it A Drink against the Plague Take one ounce of Sorrel Water as much Dragon water and a dram of Treakle and put thereto a dram and a halfe of Powder Imperial and give it to the Patient in Ale within four and twenty hours after he is infected Another Take a handful of Savory and boil it in a quart of Wine Vinegar with a spoonful of graines beaten being put therein and drink it every morning with Sugar fasting Another Take in the morning fasting one dry Figge one Walnut and four or five leaves of Rue chopt all together and eat it and after drink a cup of Wine PILES A good Medicine for the Piles or Emrods Take a very old and hard white Dogs turd which will be on the top of Mole-hills and seeth it in Sallet Oyl very thick and so put up the Piles therewith and it will help very quickly A Plaister to mitigate the pains of the Piles and Emrods Take the pap of an Apple and put thereunto the yolk of a new laid egge work them well together then put in nine cleaves of Saffron small ground of Linseed twenty cornes finely ground these boil all together on the Embers alwayes stirring it of this make a Plaister and lay it to your grief A Medicine for the Piles Take a good handful of Mullet leaves and a good handful of Elder leaves and stamp them very smal in a Mortar and boil them in fresh butter very well so that it may be very strong of the leaves then strain it and keep it for your use For the Piles Take a fair great Pippin or other Apple and cut off the top and take out the core then fill the same with Capons grease and the powder of Saffron and roast the apple in the Embers till it be soft then stamp it and make thereof a Salve and spread the same upon a piece of leather and lay it on the Sore being well warmed Another Take a pint of Sallet Oyl Rosemary tops Sowthernwood Hisop Lavender Camomile and Costmary of each almost a handful and a good handful of red Rose buds stamp all these herbs in a stone Mortar then put them into the Oyl and let it stand nine dayes then boil
take White Wine dregs and of good Ale as much more your Mallowes being shred put it into your dregs and put in some Deers Suet and Sheeps Tallow melted and crumbs of brown bread boil all these together till it be thick alwayes stirring it to keep it from burning then lay it warm every dressing upon a woollen cloth it dissolveth hardnesse and swelling The Lady Farnchams Poultice Another Poultice to mollifie and dissolve Take the crumbs of white bread seeth them in milk and put to it Oyl of Camomile and a little Saffron then take it from the fire then put to it the yolks of two new laid egges and so make of it a Poultice and lay it to the sore An approved good Poultice to lay to an Ache or Pain Take a good handful of Mallowes another of Smallage a handful of Linseed as much of Oatmeal grets pounded together a pottle of well water halfe a pint of milk and Deeres Suet as much as an egge or else so much of Sheeps Tallow then boil all these together till it be thick then lay it to the Patient where the pain is being spread upon a linnen cloth A very good Poultice for Wind gotten into joints Take Wormwood and Dill dryed and beaten to fine powder of each one handful of Sheeps dung three handfuls of Camomile flowers half a handful of Cummin seeds two ounces seeth them all in Lye and let it boil together until it be very thick then spread it upon leather and lay it upon the place grieved warm but first annoint it with Oyle of Rue Mr. Smart A Poultice for a Bruise or Strain Take Claret Wine Balme and Rose-leaves boil them together till they be thick then lay them to the Sore as hot as the Patient can suffer it A Water to wash the place before you apply the Poultice Take Mallowes and Smallage of each a handful boil them in a quart of Vineger to a pint then wash the place pained as hot as you can suffer it An excellent Poultice for the Ague in a Womans brest or Legs Take Houseleek Smallage and Mallowes of each two handfuls shred them small then take a handful of Linseed and bruise it finely in a Mortar take also a handful of Oatmeal or wheaten bran some Roses of a Rose cake every leaf pulled from another Sheeps Tallow one pound shred it well then put all these into a gallon of running water and boil them together till they become thick then put thereto a quart of Cowes milk and let it boil stall till it be as thick as a Plaister â—tirring it often then when the leng or brest is washed with the water also â— said spread the Poultice on a cloth all abroad and lay it to the leg or brest aâ— hot as may be suffered and let it lye so till it be dry and hard and then renew it but if the leg or brest be not very hot and red it shall not need A Poultice for any Swelling Take of Violet leaves and Groundsel of each a handful of Mallowes and Chickweed of each halfe a handful shred them smal and let them seeth wel in running water and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted and spread it on a cloth and so lay it on the place pained and bind it fast and shift it twice a day till it be cured PURGE The Manna Purge Take half an ounce of the best Cene lay it in soak in a pint and a half of Posset Ale on the Embers in a close covered pot two hours then put it into a posnet and put to it a Parsley root or two one Fennel root two spoonfuls of Anniseeds a stick or two of Licoras scraped and bruised a few Raisons stoned boil all together to half then strain it and put into it one ounce of Manna and four penny weight of Rubarb being grated and put in a clout and laid in soak in the aforesaid liquor with the Manna one hour when the Manna is melted wring the Rubarb strain it and put to it three spoonfuls of the Sirrup of Roses and drink it blood warm in the morning and eat a mess of Mutton pottage after it To Purge the Moon being in Scorpio Cancer or Pisces Michocanum two drams which is two six penny weights grate at with a Grater and pound it smal steep it in a penny pot of White Wine all night and in the morning about six of the Clock warm it milk warm and drink it off and half an hour after take eight or ten spoonfuls of Mutton broth with a few Raisons or Currans in it and it will work downewards and purge away moist humours causing Phlegme to breed in the body Of Catapusia being small seeds you must take two and twenty or four and twenty of them in quantity and take off the outer hulls and beat the inner graines small in a Mortar or pewter dish then mingle it with a little Ale or White Wine which is best warm it a little and take it as abovesaid and it wil void as the other And if you should at any time have any continuing Lask by occasion of Medicine or otherwise seeth a little Rice without any salt or butter and eat it with a little Cinnamon and it shall presently stop it Another to purge Phlegme Take a handful of Groundsel wash it clean and boil it in a pint of Ale skim it then put in half a handful of Raisons or Currans and two ounces of Sugar candied boil all together again to half a pint or lesse then strain it and drink it milk warme fasting at six a Clock and fast till eleven then take some Mutton broth Another Take Encampane roots and make Conserves of it use it in this manner first wash the roots clean then slice them in pieces as big as your little finger seeth them in fair water until they be tender then take them up and pound them and strain them through a haire sieve then set them over the fire and put to them the double or trebble weight of Sugar and when it is perfectly incorporated or mingled take it off and keep it in a Gally pot The time to gather the roots is when the leafe falleth away A Dyet Drink to Purge withal Take Anniseeds Licoras Cene Hermodactilus of each one ounce of Sassaparilla five ounces scrape away the outside of it and bruise it a little and cut it the length of an inch then bruise your Licoras and put your Anniseeds to it and put them in a pot to steep in two gallons of Conduit or running water four and twenty hours then boil them until a third part be consumed then put in your Cene and half an hour after put in your Hermodactilus the outside being pared away and slice them as you do a Race of Ginger and withn an hour after take it from the fire and let it rest in the pot two hours then strain it in a bag as you strain Hypocras so let your first
except Nature wil remedy of it self In May rise early and walk in the fields with a light breakfast and use Physick upon occasion In June if Physick take it early in the morning with small dyet clarified whey with cold Herbs is very good In July use cold herbs cold meats no Physick no extreme exercises use Rivers rather then Bathes In August use moderate Dyet beware of surfetting or cold after heat for fear of Plurisies sleep not in the day In September use Physick if need require and bathe or bleed and use fruits if they be sound and ripe In October use hot meats and drinks to nourish blood and beware of cold for fear of Agues In November use hot meats and drinks and wholsome Wine provide warm clothing and go dry foot In December use none but Kitchen Physick and warm clothing use merry company and good Hospitality SALVE To make an especial good Salve TAke Sallet Oyl one ounce fresh and unwasht Butter one ounce Sheeps Suet one ounce Virgin Wax one ounce Rosen beaten to very fine powder four ounces Mastick four drams beaten very fine Olibanum one ounce beaten to very fine powder honey half an ounce boil them all together till they come to six ounces and then put it into a Gally pot and put thereto some reasonable quantity of Venice Turpentine To make a very good Balsom Take bal fa pint of the best Aqua vitae a quart of the best Wine Vineger foure ounces of Storax Mirrh one ounce Galbanum one ounce Gum Dragon one pound eight graines of Musk as much of Ambergreece three pound of the best Sallet Oâ—le old and sweet half a pound of Oyâ—e of Lawrel of the best Oyl of Spâ—ke one ounce Oyle of Hypericon and Oyl of Juniper berries of each two ounces Oyl of Peter one ounce half a pound of Virgin Wax four ounces of red Saunders and a quarter of an ounce of Saffron An approved Salve for any Greene Wound Take a pound of Butter half a pound of Sheeps Suet a penny worth of Rosen of Frankinsence and Turpentine of each two penny worth boil all together a good while except the Turpentine for that must be put in afterwards and boil but little then strain it into a Bason of fair water and then strain it out for your use A white Salve to heal a cut or green Wound Take a quantity of Mutton Suet and almost half as much Rosen shred the Suet very small and melt it on a soft fire and when it is well melted beat the Rosen and put it in and let it boil together stirring it continually till it be cold To make an excellent Salve Take the roots of Marsh Mallowes wash and pick them clean then slit them and take out the inner part of the pith and cast it away and take the outer part that is faire and white and cut them into small pieces bruise them in a Mortar and take of them half a pound and put it in a new earthen pan and then put thereto Linseed and Fenicreek of each two ounces a little bruised in a Mortar then take Malmesey and White Wine of each a pint and stir all these together and let them infuse two or three dayes then set them on a soft fire and stir it well till it wax thick and like a skum then take it off and straine it through a new canvass and thus have you ready the Mustellage for Plaister Tâ—en take fine Oyl of Roses a quart and wash it well with White Wine and Rose water then take the Oyl clean from the water and Wine and set it on the fire in a brasse pan alwayes stirring it and put thereto Littarge of Gold and Silver of each eight ounces Cerus six ounces red Coral Bole Armoniack and Sanguis Draconis of each two ounces and let them be finely powdered and searsed then put them into the Oyl over the fire alwayes stirring it and let not the fire be too big for burning of the stuff and when it begins to wax thick put in ten ounces of the aforesaid Mustellage by a little at ounce or else it will boil over the pan and when it is boiled enough you shall perceive by the hardnesse or softnesse of it dropping a little of it on a sawcer or cold stone then take it off and when it is cold make them in Rolls and lap them in parchment and keep them for your use This Plainter resolveth humors in swolne legs To make a Salve for all manner of Wounds Take the juice of Smallage and Plantane of each alike honey and the white of an egge alike put Wheat flower to them and stir them till they be thick and let it come to no fire at all and so lay it to the Sore and by Gods grace it will heal it A good Salve for greene Wounds or old Sores Take half a pound of Sheeps Suet as much Barrowes grease as much Wax as much Rosen and a pint of Sallet Oyl set them all on a soft fire and when they be melted put in the Rosen finely beaten boil them all together and skim them then put in two pennyworth of Verdigrease and last of all two ounces of Turpentine and so let them boil a walm or two more then take it up and keep it for your use if it be an old Sore put four pennyworth of Verdigrease and three ounces of Turpentine SCIATICA For the Sciatica First take as fat a Goose as you can get and when she is ready drest then take a couple of the fattest young sucking Cats you can get and flea them and cut them into gobbets and put them in the belly of the Goose and so roast it as long as it will drop then take the liquor and annoint the place pained with it and bathe it before the fire as hot as you can suffer it and dip a brown paper therein and lay it hot to the place with warme cloathes to keep it fast to all night Do thus for the space of three or four nights together For the cold Sciatica orbenumnesse of the Thighs or Legs Take a pint of Aqua vitae a pint of Wine Vinegar a quarter of a pound of Oyl of Bayes the juice of four or five handfuls of Sage a Sawcer full of good Mustard the Gall of an Ox bladder and chafe them in the bladder an hour or more that the Oyl may be well mingled with the rest and anoint the place therewith against a good fire and let the Patient go warm into bed and sweat Probatum A Soveraigne Medicine for the Sciatica Take half a pint of Aqua vitae halfe a pint of White Wine Vinegar and one Oxe Gall almost a handful of Bay salt and a handful of the tops of Rosemary and shred them very small and put them in a little Pipkin all together and let it be ready to boil up and then take it off and chafe the place pained with it with your hand so long as the
of each one handful of Auni-seeds Fennel seeds Hysop seeds and the root of Elicampane about two ounces seethe them in two pound of water until the third part be consumed drink this and it loseth all congealed blood in the body and expelleth it in the Urine An excellent Balme to cure any bruise though Bones be broken therein and it is very good to cure wounds Take of Scala Coeli one pound Rosemary flowers four ounces Pomgranat rinds two ounces Sallet Oyle two pound White Wine halfe a pint bruise the Scala Coeli and the Pomgranate rinds and in the Oyle and the Wine with the Rosemary flowers infuse them ten dayes in the Sun after that boil them till the Wine be consumed then strain it and unto the Oyl being strained put these things following Mastick Olibanum of each four ounces Aloes one ounce Cassia four ounces Venice Turpentine twelve ounces Verdigrease one ounce boil these in the Oyle until the Gummes be dissolved then straine it and keep it to use and remember that in the end of the boiling the Verdigrease be put in and let the Turpentine be put in last not letting it boil after but only with the heat dissolve it self For any Bruises Aches or any such like pain Take Rosemary tops Toutswaine leaves Plantane leaves of each two handfuls Stone pitch and Turpentine of each one pound a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of Wax two ounces of Olibanum the Herbs must be beaten very small in a Mortar and then boile them together in a Pipkin six or seven hours till it come to be as stiff as Soap and when it is so boiled it must be strained through a linnen cloth and so put up in to Gally pots the Olibanum must not be put in till the other be boiled sufficiently For a Bruise or Strain or Green Wound Take half a pint of Sallet Oyl a quarter of a pound of White-lead two ounces of Cerus First set the Oyl on the fire in an earthen pan and when it is ready to boil put in the White-lead being in fine powder so let it boil a quarter of an hour then put in your Cerus being beaten small and stir it while it seethes then drop a drop in cold water and if it will roll it is boiled enough then powre it all into a Bason of cold water and when it is cold enough to touch annoint your hands and roll it up in little rolls An excellent Remedy for Bruises and Aches which come of cold Take young Bay-leaves and Wormewood of each a quarter of a pound a pound and a half of Suet of a Loyne of Mutton a quart of Oyle Olive of Oyle of Spike two ounces shred your Herbs smal and your Suet then put them in a stone pot and powre the Oyles upon them and cover it very close and so let it stand close covered two dayes then boil it till the Liquor be very green that the goodnesse is out of the Herbs then strain it and reserve it for your use Another Take a pound of Butter out of the Charn-milk and set it on the fire and clarifie it then take a handful and a half of red Sage as much Camomile as much Herb-grace and half as much Smallage some young Bay-leaves chop all the Herbs small and put them into the clarified butter and boile them on a soft fire stirring it until it be green then strain it and keep the Liquor for your use For a Bruise or Strain Take the grounds of Ale or Beere Wheat Bran and Chickweed and lay it to the grief three or four times a day upon a red cloth For a Bruise or Sore unripened Take Oatmeal and seethe it in sweet Cowes milk until it be as thick as pap and put it into a pan with a quantity of Sheeps suet and boile them well and then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the grief as hot as you can suffer it BREATH A good Medicine for a stinking Breath Take two handfuls of Cumin seeds and seeth them in good Wine from a pottle to a pint and then drink of it fifteen days together morning and evening Of a stinking Breath how it cometh This Infirmity proceedeth First when the Gums are putrified Secondly from hallow teeth Thirdly Stinking humors that fall downe from the head to the Pannicles of the mouth and make the spettle to stink Fourthly Stinking slime of the stomack Fifthly the corruption of the Lights Sixthly Stinking matter and purulency Seventhly stopping in the Nose or some exulceration of the same If it be from any of these causes proceeding from the Head then it is of heat then purge the head and wash the mouth often with Plantane water Also take green Oaken leaves and dry them and beat them to powder and take one dram sod in Wine BURNING An excellent Medicine for Burning or Scalding Take Sage and seeth it in running water and wash the wound with the water as hot as you can suffer it and it will take away the heat immediately then take Sage and Hartstongue leaves and Sheeps dung and fry it with Sheeps suet and annoint the place therewith with a feather and let it lye still then take Sheeps dung and dry it to powder and strew it twice a day and annoint it twice a day but take heed of picking any of it away left there be holes in the skin ever after And to asswage the stiffness when you can abide it no longer then bathe it a little in Sage water but the less bathing the sooner it will be whole For a scalding or burning with fire Take black Soap about the bignesse of the sore and spread it upon a linnen cloth like a Plaister and so lay it upon the sore and within half a day it will draw out the fire and then lay healing Salve to it The Oyle of Cream and Snow water is good to wash the place so hurt For Burning or Scalding Take the whites of two Eggs and one yolk and beat them well together and scum off the froth then melt three spoonfuls of Barrowes grease and take three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage and put thereto and stir it well together till it be cold then make thereof a Salve To heal a Burning or Scalding Take the fat of dryed Bacon and hold it between a pair of Tongs red hot and let it drop into a pot of faire water and of the dropping make your Plaister For Burning in the fire Take the second pill of a young Elme tree and lay it in fair water the space of twelve hours or more then fill out the water and warm it on the fire and annoint the Patient therewith and let it drink in the water and when it is dry then take new with the juice of Plantane as much of the one as of the other and then annoint it therewith after the first water To make Oyle of Cream for Burning or Scalding Take a quart or a pint of new
when you will use it take of it the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much marrow of an Ox leg mâ—â—t it together and mingle it well and morning and evening annoint as warm as can be suffered the hinder parts of the Childs thighes and legges and also his knees chafing it well with your wâ—rme hands and in a short time his limbs shall be exceedingly strengthned and be enabled by Gods blessing to go and walk To loosen the Belly of young Children Tye a Nutshel full of the Salve of Mallowes on the Navel and let it lye thereupon til it be soaked in Do this once twice or thrice till it be amended The Salve of Mallowes is thus made Take Mallow leaves and pound them then melt fresh Butter and boil the Mallow leaves therein till it be green then strain and use it Or give the child Sirrup of Violetâ— being heat or Sirrup of Damask Roses a quarter of an ounce at a time For the Lask of young Children Give to the child both morning and evening a spoonful of Plantane water to drink if the Child be old give it the more and give it no drink but such wherein Gold hath been three times quenched Also annoint the stomack with the Oyle of Mastick and Oyl of Mints towards his Navel downewards Also take the juice of broad Plantane and Wine Vineger of each a like quantity and mix therewith Barley meal till it be somewhat thick then cool it a little and spread it upon a woollen cloath and apply it upon the belly warm and when it is cold heat it again Also take a new laid egg and take a way the threeds as some call it the two white spots that are joyning to the yolk and beat it a good while then with meal make a Cake and bake it in a pan then beat it in a Mortar and put powder of Cinnamon unto it and bake it again and let the child eat thereof now and then COLICK For the Collick and Stone Take a handful of Stone crop Wild Time Garden Time Parsley Saxifrage Pellitory of the wall of each a handful four or five Rhadish roots a little of Philip Pimperlow scrape the roots and slice them and put all these into a gallon of new milk of a red Cow and let it stand twelve hours and then distil it with a soft fire and take five spoonfuls of this Water and put it into a good draught of Rhenish or White Wine then warm it milk warm and with the juice of a Lemmon and some Nutmeg and Sugar drink this fasting in the morning and fast four or five hours after and walk up and down take this every third day Probatum A good Medicine for the Wind Collick Take a flint stone and cast it into the fire until it be red hot then put it into a pot of drink and there will arise a great foame let the Patient drink thereof Another Take the Herb Eve and Holly without prickles dry them by the fire upon a paper and being well dryed make them into a powder and drink so much thereof at a time as will ly upon a Groâ—t in White Wine or Ale it is exceeding good For the Collick in the stomack Take a quantity of Conserves of Red Roses three Pepper cornes and beat them small also take the seeds of Uâ—â—set Time with Anniseeds beat them small and put them into the Conserve of Roses and mingle them well together then put it into a Gally pot and when your pain first cometh upon you take the quantity of a small Walnut and presently after as much Green Ginger as a Hasel Nat. For the Collick and Stone Take Parsley Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage Wild Time Eyebright of each two handfuls twenty Rhadish roots scraped and sliced steep all in a pottle of Red Cowes milk all night then distil them in the hottest of May and use it as followeth Take nine spoonfuls of the water and nine of Rhenish Wine the juice of a Lemmon half a Race of Ginger finely minced and sugar it as you please for a draught drink this thrice a week fasting and use presently moderate exercise A Preservative against the Collick and Stone Take a quantity of Parsley roots about two handfuls boil them in running water till they be soft then take out the pith and stamp them well and put them in a pottle of stale Ale then strain them from thence and drink thereof for the space of nine dayes at the least Another Take a quart of White Wine and boil it in an earthen pot and when it begins to boil put into it a handful of Mother Time and let it boil half a quarter of an hour then put unto it a head of Garlick stamped in a Mortar then boil them together a little space then strain it and give the Patient to drink and let him drink as much as he can when the grief is upon him but if it cease or break not then take about a penny worth of Honey unto halfe a pint of the Drink and by Gods grace it will help For the wind Collick Take a good quantity of Wormwood and tops of Rosemary as much and boile them in Sack and put them in a linnen cloth and lay it warme to the belly where the griefe is and by Gods grace it will help presently Another for the same Take a spoonful of the powder of Holland which is to be had at the Apothecaries and put it into a good quantity of stale drink and make it luke warme and so drink it Or else take the weight of a French Crowne thereof in some warm broth after the manner of a Purgation for it is not only good to break the wind presently but it will purge also and cause some stools Probatum To break the Wind Collick Take Wormwood and Tansie of each three branches seven or eight leaves of brown Sage stamp all these together and strain them into a quantity of Ale and then drink it luke warm twice if it be need For the Collick and Stone and burning Fever Take some leaves of the Herb called Dandillion and pound them small and strain them into stale Ale or Beer and so drink some three or four times It is not only good against the Collick and Stone but also against a hot burning Fever An approved good Medicine for the Collick and Stone Take Coriander Caraway Fennel Spicknard and Anniseeds of each one ounce and a half of Gromeâ— seeds and Licoras one ounce beat all these into fine powder and let the Patient drink a scruple in White Wine a little warmed and walk one hour after it fasting and do this every morning and evening and put thereto six drops of the juice of Juniper berries and you shall find it excellent in operation Probatum Another Take Parsley roots Marsh Mallow roots and red roots of each alike stamp them and put them into a pint of White Wine and strain it and let the Patient
the belly of a fat Goose and put salt grease thereunto with Pepper and Mustard seed of Pellitory Dragon Wormwood Garlick and Bears Suet of each two ounces of Wax two ounces oast it and keep the dripping Also mingle the ashes of Colewort leaves burnt with fresh Hogs grease and annoint the Gout therewith and it will ease it in three dayes For the Gout Take Tansie and Wormwood of each alike Sheeps Suet according to your Herbs fry them till they be green and when you will use it put a spoonful of Linseed therein and if it be the hot Gout lay it cold if the cold Gout lay it hot Another Take Tobacco leaves a good quantity and put them into your own Urine or milk and set it on the fire till it be hot then bathe the pained place throughly a good space then lay some of the leaves thereon and bind it up and lye down For the Gout and the Palsie Take dead Horse bones dryed in the fields and wash them clean and feeth them long and take the fat of them that seethes aloft and swims on the top and therewith annoint any Gout or Palsie of what cause soever it come and it will help For the Gout Take the juice of Broom flowers and the juice also of Scala Coeli and Honey of each a like quantity seethe them together till it be of the thickness of Honey and therewith annoint the place One in London got much money by this Medicine For the Gout and Palsie Stamp Pellitory of Spain or Mastratia and seeth it in wine and apply it but if it be green then stamp it and soak it eighteen dayes in Wine and then boile it well and put thereto Oyle and Wax it is a special remedy GUMMES For Vlcers or any Infection of the Gums Take Labdanum Frankinsence Mastick and Curral of each a like quantity and make them into powder and lay them to the place infected it confirmeth hardneth and cleanseth the Gums and Jawes and when the sore is well mundified then it doth also incarnate and ingender flesh Also this is highly commended Take Cipresse leaves or Mints halfe an ounce a pint of well water boiled to the one halfe dip a cloth in it and apply it to the griefe and this defendeth the Gums from all bad Rheumes HEART For Faintnesse at the Heart TAke the flowers of Centory a good handful clean picked from the green of Cene leaves clean picked from the stalks a dram and half and of pure Cinnamon well bruised a quarter of an ounce of White Wine a pint and some Sugar as you lift put all these in a pot close covered and set it in another pot of hot liquor for the space of an houre then let it stand all night and in the morning strain it into a faire pot and put good store of Sugar to it and let it simper til it come to a Sirrup of this you may take two or three spoonfuls at a time in the morning fasting A very Soveraigne Medicine for one that hath taken cold at the Heart Take the Oyl of bitter Almonds and Wax Capons grease and rose-Rose-water boil all together then take black wool newly plucked off the Sheeps neck and wet it in the liquor and put it in a quilted bag and lay it very hot to the stomack when you go to bed HEAD A Medicine for the Headache Take Elder leaves and a good quantity of Bay salt and stamp them together and lay it to the nape of the neck and by Gods help it shall take away the pain For pain in the Head Take Camomile Rosemary and Betony of each a like quantity and as much leaven as Herbs beat them together then take a Nutmeg beaten very small and so much Wine Vineger as will incorporate into a paste which you must apply warm unto the hinder part of the head and to your forehead changing it evening and morning For Head Ache. Take a piece of leaven the bignesse of an egge and put to it two spoonfuls of White Wine Vinegar and two spoonfuls of red Rose-water and a few red Rose leaves mix them together and warm them then take them and spread them on two brown papers then grate Nutmeg upon it and lay it upon a fire slice on the coals till-it be very hot then take it and lay it to the parties temples at night when he goeth to bed For the Head Ache sundry Medicines The juice of Ground Ivy cast into the nostrils purgeth the head and taketh away the pain If the Rheume come of a cold cause lay hot Callamint or running time bruised to the head Hisop boiled on embers and laid to the head stoppeth the Rheume The juice of Coleworts cast into the nostrils cleanseth and purgeth the head The juice of onions cast into the nostrils also doth the like This Plaister was proved for dizziness in the head and is good for any ache in the head Take of Opium and of Saffron of each one dram of Roses four drams and thereof with Vinegar make a Plaister He that useth to take three Pills of Alloes and the juice of Coleworts the bignesse of a bean shall never have the Head ache For the Head Ache. Take an Herb called Alehoofe and fill a frying pan therewith heat it hot as you are able to endure it and lay it to the aking place and it will remove the pain then take more and lay it to the place that aketh and at last it wil drive it clean away Another Take the whites of two new laid eggs a little Aquavitae and the juice of House-leeks beat all together and therein wet some fine tow and then lay it upon the temples Of giddinesse in the Head This Disease is caused by much frequenting the Sun and the head being over heated as also from the stomack if it be overcharged with any superfluity whereby the mouth of the stomack is hurt and so sendeth bad vapours to the head but if it proceed from blood which may be knowne by the redness of the eyes the fulnesse of the veines then the party must have the veine opened behind the ear and bleed four ounces and purge with seven drams of Reb steeped in Whey all night Of the pain in the Head For the most part this pain of the Head proceedeth of the intemperature of the four humours namely of Blood Phlegme Choler and Melancholy If it proceed from Choler the sign is evident viz. belching or breaking of wind upward with loathsomnesse and thirst drynesse of the mouth tongue and nostrils the pain is pricking sharp and rather in the right then in the left side of the head heat over all the body but especially in the nostrels no appetite no sleep the Pulses quick and lusty the Urine reddish the face yellow the surest notes are if the time of the year be hot and dry the Patient young and hath used hot and dry things to use cooling Medicines and a good cooling dyet Of heat in the
Head through Melancholy It is described thus It is not so great as the former but with a drynesse and sadnesse the heat is more evident in the left side of the face then in the right it causeth disquietness and unnatural sleep it causeth fearful faintheartedness and carefulness the colour of the face is red and blue with a soure taste in the mouth if the Patient be old and if it be about Autumne then the signes are more sure Glisters are good in this case Of the paine in the Head caused by cold The signes are wearisomness of all parts as if the body were beaten and broken to pieces the paine is not extreme without any swelling or thirst sleepinesse much spitting at the mouth and moisture at the nose palenesse of colour and somewhat sullen the eyes run and the mouth out of taste In such cases use warm and dry Medicines and purging is very needful in this Infirmity Also this Wine following is excellent for this purpose Take Rosemary two handfuls Nutmegs one ounce dryed Betony two ounces Cloves two drams being cut very small put thereto eight quarts of good Rhenish Wine let it stand three dayes then for a weak stomack drink a good draught at the beginning of meals but for the Head ache at the latter end This Wine is very good for a cold and moist braine and hurtful for young folks and hot complections The Dyet must be strong Wine but very little left it disturb the Head once in eight dayes wash the head with the decoction of Camomile Marjerome and Steches and before meales rub the head with warme cloaths and after meales take a little Marmalade to hinder the vapour in ascending to the head But because the Laxative Medicines through their own power do not expel all humours for which they be given without such things as convey their operation towards some certain members which one desireth to purge therefore take this Oximil following and if you put thereto Nutmegs Piony seeds or Cubebs then doth it only purge the head and no other part of the body and if you put thereto Tamariscus and Caper roots then it purgeth the Melt and so for all the rest but because we speak now only of the head these are the Simples or Herbs that do conduct the Medicines thereto viz. Nutmegs Cubebs and Piony Penniroyal Marjerom Balsome wood and Seeds Frankinsence Beaver Codd Labdanum Mellilot Squils Spicknard Hisop and Pepper Oximel that is called at the Apothecaries Compositum or Diareticum Take Fennel roots and roots of Smallage of each two ounces the seeds of Parsley of Butchers broom Sparage Smallage and Fennel of each one ounce take out the pith or core of the roots chop them and seeth them in a quart of water till they be mellow then strain them through a cloth and add the Decoction of three ounces of sharp Vinegar twelve ounces of Honey let them seeth to a Sirrup it doth attenuate all tough slimes it driveth them out of the members opens the obstructions of the Liver Melt and the Kidnies and expelleth them A very good Medicine for Paine or Wind in the Head which much hindreth the Hearing Take one Clove of Garlick pill it and make three or four holes in it then dip it in fine English Honey and put it in your ear and lye on the other side and put in black wool after it and continue this eight dayes and it will expel the pain expulse the Humour at the nose and restore the Hearing For a White Scurf or Scabbed Head Take White wort Cellendine Ground Ivy. Mercury Wormwood and an Herb called Dead mens Bells growing in Woods like Leek blades of each of these alike and stamp them and mingle them with fresh grease And burne green Ash to ashes and mix it with fresh grease and annoint the place eherewith To heal a Scald Head Take Lye that is made with the bark of an Ashen tree and wash the head therewith and annoint it with Quicksilver killed in Barrowes grease and fasting spittle Another Take yolks of eggs and put thereunto as much Turpentine then fry them in Swines grease and stir them well together in the frying to a Salve and so lay it to the sore head Another Take the roots of the small reeds that grow in ditches burn them to ashes and apply the ashes wet in Vinegar to the sore Head This healeth the sore and maketh hair to grow The bark of an Ashen tree being well boiled in water with the Lye thereof sometimes wash the Head to cleanse it whiles the other Medicines be applyed to the same Another Take black Snailes and stamp them very well and in stamping them there will be an Oyle come from them and with the same Oyle annoint the sore head For a sore Head First wash the head with pisse and then annoint it with the dripping of a wild Duck being roasted guts and all HOARSNESSE Against Hoarsnesse Put Sugar and the powder of Hisop in figs and roast them on the coals and eat them and it will open the pipes JAUNDIES A good Medicine for the Black Jaundies TAke the Berries of Ivy that groweth upon a tree and of the whole leaves of Ground Ivy and Mugwort and put them in a woollen cloth and then put it into an Oven when the Bread is drawne out and when it is dry make powder thereof and take Saffron and powder of Gallingale and use all these in pottage and eat thereof Another for the Black Jaundies Take the gall of a Raven grated into powder take some of it in a spoonful of Ale or Beer temper it together and drink it in the morning fasting A Medicine for the yellow Jaundies Take a little Athanatia and eat it in the morning fasting three mornings will be enough It is much like Mithridatum Another Take a handful of red Nettle crops and feeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same three or four daies together in the morning fasting IMPOSTHUMES For an Imposthume Take powder of Cene Alexandria one ounce Ginger Cinnamon Mace Coliander seeds Anniseeds and Licoras of each the weight of eight pence of Sugar two ounces of Spurge seeds blanched twelve beat them all smal to powder and put them into a quart of Claret and let it be brewed out of one pot into another oftentimes in a day by the space of three dayes before you use it then let it run through a Jelly bag then take half a pint of the said Drink and when you shall have need to use it warm it at the fire and drink it after your first sleep and so ly still till it work and offer to come and then go to a close stool til it be clean come away and then make a Plaister of red Mints red Fennel Wormwood and Sage of each a handful and a good handful of Cummin seed and beat them small together put thereto a good sawcer full of Wine Vineger and set them all on the fire in
a pan and so stir them till they are almost dry and then put them into a bag and lay the same to your stomack so that your stomack be not full of meat JULIP A most excellent Julip to refresh and cool any body distempered with heat or drougth in Agues or hot Diseases Take of Barley water a quart and put it into a fair bottle of glasse and let drop into the same some Oyl of Vitrioâ— or for want of that Oyl of Sulphur and then shake it well all together to disperse the Oyl and when you have perfectly tempered it then take two very good Pomgranats and cut them in two and squeece all the juice of them into it through some Colender or Strainer to keep out the kernels or husks or for want of Pomgranats as much Sirrup of Violets or Sirrup of Lemmons as the juice of two Pomgranats may be then take six penny worth of white Sugar candied and beat it very small and put it also in the Barley water and let it dissolve therein and drink thereof as need requires It is the best Julip that ever was made by the Art of man ITCH To take away or kill the hot Itch. Take Brimstone and as much Allom with a spooneful of white lead beat them small into powder then take a quantity of Cream and put the powder therein and beat them well together and therewith annoint the place that itches For an Itch. Take a pint of Borus two penny worth of Quicksilver and four penny worth of Frankinsence put these together and stir them with your finger and so annoint the hands and feet KIDNEYES Of the Kidneyes THe Kidneyes are fastned very strongly to the Back bone and that on the left side is right under the Melt and that on the right side a little higher so that sometimes it doth touch a great part of the liver and they have sundry veins from the liver whereby they draw blood with water and also some part of the gall unto them separating the same blood from the water and keeping so much of the blood as sufficeth for sustenance and vents through the Conduits whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descending into the Bladder The Diseases of the Kidneyes are divers as Imposthumes Ulcers c. which appears by pissing of Blood or like blood as if flesh were washed in it which Diseases arise either of heat cold or gravel c. The signes of cold Diseases are these There is no great pain nor heat nor thirst neither is the water high colourred but much in quantity because it is not wasted through unnatural heat which Agues Winter and the Gravel augmenteth for these Diseases a good Diet must be kept all grosse and slimie meats being avoided and likewise all cold Herbs exercise presently after meat is very hurtful Pain of the Kidneyes through Wind which spreadeth it self abroad and the pain is more after one hath eaten then before and is augmented through windy things when the meat is half digested therefore all windy things are to be avoided and annoint the back with Oyl of Rue and Oyl of Lillies likewise Conserve of Betony and the confected roots of Pimpernel Erinringo roots and Callamint is very good Pain in the Kidnyes through heat is when the Patient hath great thirst and a bad stomack maketh very little Urine and high coloured and sometimes there is fat swimming upon it and the rather in young cholerick hot men this is most dangerous for through the heat which is mixed with a tough thick phlegmatick matter the stone of the Kidney may grow therefore the Liver Veine must be opened and Glisters administred whereby the gots may be cleansed use cool Herbs and purge with Manna and Succo Rosarum Also use Saxifrage Parslye Cantharides roots of Fennel Butchers broom c. which are of a secret quality to convey the Medicine to the Kidnyes Also Sirrups of Water Lillies and of Vinegar and all things that cool the Liver and Spleen KNEES For pain in the Knees Take a Sheeps head newly killed and slit it and put into it a good handful of Plantane as much Camomile and so much Sage and so much Rosemary boil all well together until it be very tender then take out the bones very clean and chop all the flesh and herbs well together then put in a handful of Oatmeal grâ—ts and so boil it again until the Oatmeal be very tender and so lay it to the Knees as hot as you may suffer it and so use it as you see cause For ache in the Knees Take Rue and Lovage of each alike stamp them and mix them with Honey and fry them together and lay a Plaister thereof warm to the sore For swelling in the Knees and Legs Take Lilly roots and red Cole of each alike seeth them in clean running water and strain the Herbs then take the milk of a Cow and Wheat meal and temper it with the aforesaid Herbs and let it over the fire and stir it well till it be thick and then lay it on with a cloth For Aches and Swelling in the Knees Take a quart of Malmsey of Time one handful and boil it together and when it is half boiled put in a piece of sweet butter and let it boil together from a quart to a pint and when you go to bed bathe your knees therewith and let a cloth be wet therein four or five times double very warm and lay it so warme to your knees six or feven times LAMENESSE For such as be stiff in their Limbs or Lame TAke five black Sheeps heads a lapful of Arsemart as much Mallows as much Balm two good handfuls of Herb grace four handfuls of Fetherfew as much Lavender Spike two handfuls of Wormwood two handfuls of Savage one handful of Smallage and two handfuls of Rosemary all these will be as much as will fill a good sheet put them all into a Lead into running water a great deal and pull off the stalks of the Herbs and let them seeth a whole day you must not skin the sheeps heads but cleave them in sunder and let the wool be on still cutting off the hornes and seeth the Heads until the bones fall asunder then take out the bones and skim off the fat and keep it to annoint the Patient withal and the Patient must sit in the water up to the brests and wash and bathe himself therein and when he hath so done by the space of an hour or as long as he can endure it then lay him in a hot sheet into his bed and there let him sweat and so keep him close from the aire two or three dayes A Soveraigne Medicine for Lamenesse in the Joints to supple any sore and to bring it into Joint which hath been long out and for aches Take four or five young Swallowes out of the Nest being Flege and put them into a stone Mortar and stamp them feathers and all then take Lavender Cotton Wild Strawberry
it half an hour and when it is almost boiled put into it a quarter of a pint of Aquavitae and so keep it to your use Another When they come forth and swel much bathe them with the water that Mallowes Fenicrick and Onions have boiled in very warm and after the bathing apply unto it this Plaister following Take the finest and inner part of a roasted Onion beat it in a wooden dish with May Butter and a little powder of Saffron and annoint the Sore To heal the Piles and Emrods Take the leaves of green Elder and boil them in a pint of water and four spoonfuls of White Wine then take a piece of cloth three fingers broad and take the leaves so boiled as hot as you can suffer them and so apply it a good while then rub it with a little May butter Probatum For the Piles or Emrods Mrs. Wing Take Oystershels as thick as you can get them and the newest and burn them in the fire till they be red hot then take the inner white of those shels and beat them in a Mortar very smal then sift them through a piece of Lawne then take some Linseed Oyl in a sawcer and warm it and annoint the Piles first with that Oyle then strew the powder thick upon the Piles then take a cleane rag and dip it in the Oyl and lay it upon the Piles and dresse it so twice every day this is a sure and an approved Medicine and faileth not to help Probatum PLAISTER To make the Black Plaister Take a pint of Oyl Olive and halfe a pound of red Lead and boil them together and stir them with a slice of wood continually until it be black then take it from the fire and put in a pennyworth of red _____ and a quarter of a pound of Rosen and set it on the fire againe the fire may not blaze and stir it then powre a little of it on the side of a dish and if it stick to the dish it is enough then let it stand until it be cold and then make it up in rolls for your use It is good for any ache new wound that bleedeth or an old Sore and to stanch blood An excellent Plaister Take Harts suet four ounces Rosen and Perosen of each half a pound white Wax and Frankinsence of each foure ounces first melt the Suet and Wax together and then powder the Gums and put thereunto and when they have relented together strain them through a canvass cloth into another vessel and put thereunto a pottle of White Wine and set it on the fire again and boile them to the consuming of the Wine clean away stirring it with a staff then take it from the fire and when it is almost cold put to it four ounces of Turpentine well washed in White Wine two drams of Camphire well powdered then make up your Rolls and lap them in Parchment This Plaister is good for Wounds both new and old for Bruises and for Aches and it doth mundifie Ulcers and old Sores without pain and comforteth the members that it lyeth on It is good both for Fistulaes and Cankers that are ulcerate A drying Plaister Take Oyl of Roses eight ounces white and red Lead of each three ounces Cerus six drams Littarge of Gold Sanguis Draconis and Bole Armoniack of each one ounce Camphire one dram make all these into fine powder and mix it with the Oyle and set it on a soft fire alwayes stirring it and let it boil til it be Plaister like This Plaister is good to dry all Sores in the legs An excellent Plaister for any Sore old or new Take the yolk of an egg as much ordinary Turpentine and as much Herb grace chopt and stamped mingle all these well together and spread them on a cloth and lay them to the Sore A Plaister for all manner of Swellings in any place Take Parsley Herb Christopher and crumbs of sowre bread beat them small together and boil them in White Wine and make thereof a Plaister and lay it to warm To make Parracelsus Plaister Take Gum Galbanum and Opoponax of each one ounce Amoniacum and Bdelium of each two ounces beat them smal and put them in an earthen Pipkin glazed and powre on them as much White Wine Vinegar as will serve to steep the Gums in so let them stand one day and one night the next morning boil them in the same Vinegar on a gentle fire of coals and when they be throughly melted pour them out hot into a bag and wring them well and cast away that which remaines in the bag then take the liquor so strained and let it boil in a pot till the Vinegar be consumed clean away and in boiling you must stir it continually lest the Gums burn to the bottom Then take Oyl Olive one quart new Wax halfe a pound put them into an earthen pot glazed such a one as is of sufficient bigness and set it over a fire of Cozls and let it melt softly then put into it one pound of Littargy finely beaten into powder stirring them continually with a wooden slice and when they be all well mixed together and of the colour of tawny then take it from the fire then take of the aforesaid Gums that were first boiled the quantity of a nut and put thereto and so by little and little put in all the Gums and being well mixed together then set it over the fire again take heed withal lest the matter be over heated and run into the fire for it is very hot of it self then put into it these things following Take of the two kinds of Astrology rotunda Calaminaris Mirrh and Frankinsence of each of them one ounce beat them into powder then put them into the said matter and powre upon the same one ounce of Oyle of Bayes and last of all put into it four ounces of the best Turpentine then boil all together and stir it continually and when you would know whether it be sodden enough or no put a little thereof into cold water if it be not soft that it will not cleave unto your fingers it is enough but if it cleave it is not enough but let it boil until it is enough then take it from the fire and pour it into a Bason of cold water then annoint your hands with Oyl of Roses and work it well with your hands two or three hours and make it into Rolls and keep it It is good for old and new Sores it draweth and cleanseth it wil not suffer any Sore to putrifie but if there be dead flesh in the Sore before it be laid on it will not take it away It is good for sinewes cut or pricked with thornes it will draw out of Wounds Iron Wood or Lead and it is good for the biting of venemous Beasts it is also good for Biles Fistulaes Cankers Shingles and for Saint Anthonies fire Sir Thomas Porter hath found by often experience a speedy help
draught in the morning be luke-warm fasting and at Dinner and at Supper what you think good for you must drink no other Drink till that be spent A Purging Ale Take of the juice of Scurvigrass foure pound of Watercresses two pound of Brooklime one pound of Water Mints half a pound of dry Wormwood four handfuls of the roots of Madder four ounces of the roots of Monks Rubarb three ounces roots of Horse Rhadish one ounce and a half the roots of Saxifrage one ounce of Cene four ounces of Juniper berries half an ounce of Anniseeds Coriander seeds and Ginger of each six drams Another Take a pint of the Whey of Goats milk of Cene half an ounce of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds well dusted and lightly bruised of each of weight of four pence let them stand one hour or one hour and half on warm embers in insuling the next morning to a draught hereof put a spoonful of Sirrup of Roses and as this agreeth with you so take it three or four dayes together or every other day Another Take a pottle of the same Whey boile therein of Betony Colts foot and Hisop of each one handful and drink there of as you have occasion A very easie Purgation Take halfe a pint of Malmesey or somewhat more and half a quarter of an ounce of Cene and two Races of Ginger sliced then put them both into the Malmesey and stir it well a good while and let it stand all night and then strain it and drink it and keep your Chamber and you shall have four or five stools Another Take clarified Whey and put into it a handful of Violet leaves and half a handful of Polipodium of the Oak called Oak fernes and drink a good draught of it luke-warm and wash after it To procure Looseness Seeth Mallows and red Nettles in fair water and let the party sit over the hot fume thereof A Purge Take Aron or Wakerobbin one dram of the powder thereof with two drams of Sugar is good to cut gross humours to purge the stomack of Phlegme and Melancholy Or else the root either green or dry one dram thereof being taken in drink with as much Treakle is a very special good Purgation To purge Phlegme and Melancholy Fetherfew dryed into fine powder and two drams thereof taken with Honey or sweet Wine purgeth by the stool Phlegm Melancholy and Sadness Also take Peniroyal with Honey and Aloes to purge Melancholy and for the Cramp To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Phlegm and Melancholy Drink the Seeds of Hollioaks Also Cene the cods and leaves in powder one dram doth purge Phlegm and Melancholy To purge Phlegme and Choler The great Garden Dock leaves drunk in Wine purgeth Phlegme Choler and Water A Purging Drink Take two gallons of new small Ale and put unto it a good handful of English Madder a handful of Dock roots bruised two handfuls of Scurvigrasse a handful of Scabious two ounces of Cene two ounces of Anniseeds two or three sticks of Licoras finely scraped and all those things bruised then put them into the new Ale and let them work therein so let it stand two or three dayes and then drink thereof morning and evening PAINE For pain in the Joints Take a pennoworth of Aquavitae Oyl of Exeter three ounces of Sage of Herb grace Clerk Robert of each a handful stamp them small in a Mortar then take your Aquavitae and straine them together a good while then take a spoonful thereof and annoint the Sore place against the fire For the pain under the side Take the toast of a Wheaten loaf and butter it and toast it again and butter it twice more then toast it againe and butter it with Soap and hold it against the fire till it lather then lay it to the side where the pain is For paine in the side that cometh of Wind. Take one handful of Cummin seeds as much of Anniseeds two handfuls of Rue seeth these together in running water from a pottle to a quart put to it half a pint of White Wine Vinegar before it be cold dip a Spunge in it and wring some of the liquor out of it and lay it to the Patients side as hot as may be suffered and when it beginneth to wax cold take a new POISON For the Poison of a Toad or other Poison Take a handful of Plantane and a handful of Parsley and stamp and strain them into a little raw Cream and mingle it well together and annoint the place grieved therewith PISSING For pissing a bed Take a Boares pisle and dry it and make powder of it and drink it in Ale or Beer POCKS A Medicine for the Small Pocks Take two handfuls of Salt and put it into a pint and halfe of water and stir it well together then set it upon the fire and let it boil well and in the boiling you must skim it so that there be not any skim seen and when the Small Pocks are come well forth and that the Swelling doth assuage you must take a fine cloth and both them with this Brine being warme three times a day And when they begin to grow brown use this Oyntment take a piece of Bacon and roast it upon a spit and set a dish of fair water under it putting thereto some Rose water and let the Bacon drop into it as it doth roast and when it is roasted take the dripping and the water and work it well together and it will be a very white Oyntment then put it into a Gally pot and twice a day annoint the places with a feather but in any case lay not on too much for that will make them moist and make them stay on the longer Another to take away the Redness Take fair water in a Posnet and put thereto half a pound of Butter then set it on the fire and let it boil softly and skim off all the froth very clean then take it off the fire and let it stand till it be throughly cold then powre the water from it and put it in clean water and set it upon the fire again skimming it very clean and do this nine times together but every time your butter must be cold before you put it into a new water and the last time being very cold take it clean away from the water and put Rosewater to it and work them very well together and put it up into a Gally pot and with a feather twice or thrice a day annoint the rednesse of the face and if these Medicines be used as they should be it will take away the rednesse and make the face not to have any holes in it For the Small Pocks in the Eyes Take red Rose water white Sugar candied beaten very fine and brest milk and temper these very well together and with a feather dresse the eyes and it will keep them from the Small Pocks If it be for a man you must take the
of Oranges and Lemmons of each four ounces make it to a clear Sirrup with so much fine Sugar as will serve the turne STRAINE For a Strain Take of Elland leaves Sage Fennel Fetherfew and Mallowes of each a handful and seeth them in thick milk till the milk be almost consumed and then lay it to the place very warm SUPPOSITORY To make Suppositories for such as be bound and costive Take English Honey white Soap and some Salt mixt together and fryed then make a roul or peg thereof and put it in the Fundament it will make the Patient go to stool within an hour and a half for so long or until it work he must keep it in his body Another Take a long piece of Coperas being white and smooth it and annoint it with some butter and so minister it to the Patient and let him keep it in his body an hour and half if it work not before and he shall find great ease and helpâ— These kind of Suppositories will serve twice or thrice at the least SINEWES A good Medicine for Sinewes that be shortned or shrunk Take the head of a black Sheep Camomile Barly leaves of Sage of each one handful and bray them together in a Mortar and then boil them all together till they be well sodden then let it stand to cool and then draw it through a Strainer and lay it on the place grieved and by Gods grace it shall soone amend For shrinking of Sinewes Take Hogs dung and half a pound of Oyle of Roses seeth it in a new earthen pot and apply it as hot as you can endure it The Composition of a Cerot to mollifie Sinewes anâ—â— Joints that have been long displaced Take the leaves of Mallowes cleane picked from the stalks eight handfuls of Gentian three handfuls of Archangel one handful then take of Oyl Olive a pint of Oyl of Roses Oyl of Camomile and Oyl of Dill of each half a pint boil all together and in boiling of them strow on one ounce of Anniseeds and one ounce of graines beaten into fine powder and when they be well sodden beat them in a Mortar with yolks of eggs For a Sinew that is strained Take Groundsel Brooklime Fitch Bruisewort Nepe Petty Morral and Hemlock of each alike stamp them and boil them in a pan over the fire and lay it to the Sore as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will case the aking and swelling and heal it in a little space For Sinewes that be shrunken or grown together Take the water of shell Snailes and Shoomakers Oyl of each alike and temper them wel together then take new Snailes and seeth them in running water and gather off the Oyle and put it to the other Oyle and temper them well together STOMACK For the pain in the Stomack Take Mackerel Mints two handfuls and of sowr leaven one handful and an half stamp them very small and put to it a good quantity of Mace beaten to fine powder and so much Wine Vinegar as shall incorporate all into a liquid paste which you must spread upon a linnen cloth apply it warm to the Stomack twice a day For heat in the Stomack Take a pint of stale Ale and half a pint of Endive Water and put thereto as much Sugar as will make it sweet then set it on the fire and skim it clean then take a piece of a white loaf as much as an apple the crust taken away and three or four whole Mace then let it seeth one walm after and then take and drink it duke warm the bread taken away whensoever you feel the heat in your stomack To make one have a stomack to his meat Seeth Centory in fair water and let the Patient drink it luke-warme fasting three dayes each day three spoonfuls it purifieth the stomack and brest also A good Powder to digest well Take Centory and Pellitory of Spain Anniseeds Licoras Grains of Paradise Ginger and Cinnamon of each alike beaten and searsed into fine powder and drink thereof morning and evening half a spoonful in Wine or Ale To make Hipocras for a weak Stomack Take a pint of Aqua vitae and put it in a glass then take two ounces of Cinnamon and one ounce of Ginger of Cloves and of Graines of each two penny worth of Nutmegs one Penny worth beat them all together into grosse powder and put them all into the glasse to the Aqua vitae and shake it very often for nine dayes together and then drink it with Wine or Ale half a spoonful or a quarter with halfe a pint of Ale To cleanse the Stomack from rotten Flegm and Melancholy Drink the seeds of Hollioaks Also the cods and leaves of Cene in powder one dram taken with broth of a Chicken or Mutton doth purge phlegm and Melancholy For a cold and stopping in the Stomack Take one handful of sweet Marjerom a few Marigold flowers a penny worth of Caraway Comfits a penny worth of Parsley seeds two penny worth of Dates a half penny worth of Raisons of the Sun boil all these in a quart of White Wine till halfe be boiled away then put in two ounces of brown Sugar candied and a little Mithridate SHINGLES For the Shingles Take the gteen leas of Colts foot stamped and mingled with Hony and apply it and it will help SPOTS To cleanse the skin from allscars and spots Make balls of a little bignesse of the juice of the inner parts of a Pumphin and bean flower dry them in the shadow and wash therewith before the fire SWELLING For a Swelling Take two handfuls of Wheaten meal and a pint of Cow milk and a handful of Rue and shred it small with a spoonful of fresh grease and boil them all together till they be thick then lay it on the swelling For Swelling in the Legs Take a handful of Archangel a handful of red Fennel and two handfuls of Mallowes and a handful of Brooklimes then seeth all these Herbs together in a gallon of running water to a pottle then bathe the leggs with the water hot and lay the Herbs on For all Swellings and Wrenchings c. Take a pint of Milk Oatmeal dryed Rose leaves Mellilot flowers of each a handful and a little Deers Suet and seeth it till it be as thick as pap then lay it to the hurt as hot as may be suffered For swelling in the Legs Take Wormwood Parsly Camomile Cummin and Ash rods of every one a handful and seeth them in the Patients Urine and make a plaister and apyly it For swelling of Sinewes Take Smallage Lovage Groundsel Brooklime Sengâ—een and Bruisewort stamp them and put thereto a little wheaten bran Sheeps Tallow and some Barrowes grease fry them well together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the place grieved For Swellings or Bruises Take milk wheaten meal red Roses and Camomile of each a handful seeth all these together until they be thick then spread it on a
moisture then rub the tongue with Sirrup or Wine of Pomgranats and Dates boiled in sweet Wine of each alike and purge the Head and use Barley water boiled with Pruines Barberries Cinamon use this as a cooler Also preserved Raspices or any thing made of them is to be used THIRST To abate excessive thirst Take a pottle of fair water Endive Succory Violet leaves and Borage of each a handful Lillies half a handful two Fennel roots two Parsley roots and seeth them from a pottle to a quart and put a little Sugar to it and drink it as you shall see cause Also seeth the leaves of Rosemary in well water and drink it cold with a little of a Pomgranat Also hold Purslain under the tongue VEYNES To knit Veines TAke Frankinsence one pound Mastick one ounce Bole Armoniack two ounces beat all into fine powder and mingle it with the white of an egge then spread it on a linnen cloth and apply it To mollifie Veines that be dry and stiff Take Oyl of Camomile and Oyle of Linseed and mingle it with Capons grease finely tried mix them together and this wil open the Veynes For straining of a Vein Take half an ounce of Coral and beat it fine and drink it in red Wine morning and evening For a broken Vaine in the Stomack to knit it or for any inward bleeding and casting of bloud c. Take the leaves of Plantane Shepherds Pouch of each one handful of Harts-horn half a handful of Nettles and Mints of each of them as much as you can hold betwixt two fingers of Barley the outer skin taken off three spoonfuls of Yarrow half a handful and one quarter of an ounce of Cinamon boil all these in two quarts of fair water till half be consumed then strain it and put to the liquor strained as much Sugar as wil make it sweet let it boil a little againe then put thereto as much White Wine Vineger as wil make it sharp and let the Patient take three or four spoonfuls ever in time of thirst boil an equal quantity with a black Hen drawne and washed but not pulled and then put an equal quantity of the broth and the juice of Mutton half roasted and boil them between two dishes until there remain no taste of rawness And if the Patient cast any more presently take two spoonfuls of the juice of Mints one spoonful of White Wine Vineger and as much soure leaven as two Walnuts boil them to the consumption of the juices then make thereof a slat cake and strow upon it fine powder of Nutmegs and apply it hot to the brest and give the Patient two spoonfuls of the Cordial following about three of the Clock and between nine and ten at night and at eight in the morning and fast one hour and an half before and two houres after at the least And give a Suppository made with two Positives of Honey and one of falt every day if the Patient cannot go to stool Diacatholicon half an ounce Consectionum de Hameck halfe an ounce comixt in a penny pot of White Wine Lotian water good for a heat A little Cinamon and Ginger and Venice Turpentine made into Pils and take three every morning Ising-glasse and Saffron boiled in a red Cowes milk and drunk three times for the same Church-yard wormes washed and sliced dried and drunk in Beer five several times or mornings is good for a sore throat as the Kings Evil c. VOMIT A Vomit for the Green Sicknesse Take one handful of Groundsel and one ounce of Currans boil them in a quart of Ale until it come to the quantity of a draught then strain it and drink it blood-warm and fast two hours after it and when the Patient hath once vomited drink Posset Ale between every Vomit until it cease To stay Vomiting Take Mint Water and Carduus Benedictus of each a pint bruise two Nutmegs and let them boil to a pint and make it sweet with Sugar and drink it first and last Another Take Cloves and boil them in faire water or beer and put Sugar thereto and drink it A Vomit Take an ounce of Green Ginger as much of Treakle and as much of Malmsey put these together and drink them bloud warm UFULA For falling of the Vfula Roast an egge hard then cut it long wayes and take out the yolk and fill the place full of Cummin seed fine beaten and lay it to the nape of the neck as hot as may be endured then take a good quantity of Sage and boil it in milk and so drink it warm as can be suffered keeping the head warm For a child that is Jaw fallen and Roof fallen See before in Children A Water for a sore Mouth or the falling of the Vfula Take Bramble tops Ivy berries green Rose leaves and some Allome seeth all these in drink and make thereof a Lotian and gargarise therewith For the falling of the Palate of the Mouth Take of Cummin in powder two great handfuls of white salt four of the powder of Camomile flowers three and the powder of three Nutmegs mingle these together and put them into a bag of linnen cloth cut round and then quilt it and use to lay it on the mould of your head all the day and night if need so require URINE To make a mans or womans water run strong from them Take of Gromel seed half an ounce of Cene cleane picked from the stalks a quarter of an ounce of Ginger scraped and sliced thin of Cinnamon scraped and bruised of each one dram of Damask Pruines the stones taken out seven of White Wine a pint put all in the Wine and cover it close and stop it with paste and set that in another pot of hot liquor for the space of one hour or more that the pot may be hot then take it forth and when it is cold strain it and after put in Sugar to make it toothsome and then drink it For one that cannot hold his Water Drink Neâ—e a little before Supper and also for pissing a bed in a cold cause drink three drams of the powder of Frankinsence in Ale An excellent approved Medicine for the hard and slow passage of Vrine in man or woman Take two quarts of good Wort and boil it in a skillet by it self without any Hops till it come to a pint and a half then when it is cold take it and put Barm to it till it be ripe drink and ready to cleanse then take drink barmâ— and all and boil it againe and boil in it the quantity of two Nutmegs of Civil Soan then skim it very clean and drink thereof at night when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise when it is done make more To cleanse the Vreters or Conduits of Vrine and to open them See before in Stone WATER A Water to cure all manner of Wounds and Sores be they never so stinking and all manner of Cankers in the nose 〈◊〉
Licoras of each two penniworth bruise them well and put them into the little bag then line him to the side of the other Bag and sink them and put into the Pipe a branch of Rosemary then stop it close and at two dayes end draw it up to the middle and there let it hang two dayes then leisurely take it out and stop it close and in one day after broach it PERFUMES The Kings Perfume boiled TAke six spoonfuls of Rose water and as much Ambergreece as weigheth two Barly Cornes as much Civet in weight as much Sugar as weigheth two pence beaten in fine powder All these boiled together in a Persuming pan is an excellent Perfume The Queens Perfume Take four spoonfuls of Spike water and four spoonfuls of Damask water thirt Cloves and eight Bay leaves shred as much Sugar as weigheth two pence All these boiled make a good Perfume To keep your house apt to take Perfumes and to take away grosse Aiâ—es Take Cypress wood or Juniper in chips and throw them on a fair pan of coales deck your house with flowers and brush and Iprinkle it with vinâ—gar and Rose water and keep your windows and doors close till the house be perfumed and then set up your Perfumes King Edwards Perfume to make your house smell like Râ—semary Take three spoonfulâ— of perfect Rosemary and as much Sugar as halt a Walnut beaten in small powder All these boiled together in the Perfuming pan upon hot embers with a few coles is a very sweet Perfume Such Herbs as are good for Perfumes Sweet Basil dryed in the Sun Sweet Marjerom young red Mints the Pills of Lemmons dryed and powdered All these are good for Perfumes every one will smell severally A sweet Perfume to burn Take Benjamin three ounces Labdanum one ounce Ambergreece three ounces Civet one ounce mingle all these together with Gumdragagant and roll it and make it three square with Fusses dissolved in Rosewater mingle with the same Another Perfume to boil and burn Take Benjamin and Storax of each an ounce Labdanum and Fusses of each an ounce and half a dram of Civet to be burnt beat them in a white Mortar and to boil put them in Rosewater It is also a good Perfume for Gloves A fine and sweet Oyl Take Musk twelve graines Civet six graines Ambergreece eight grains Benjamin six graines a few Cloves Storax Callamint three grains Grind all these together with Oyl of Sweet Almonds First wash your Gloves with Fusses dissolved a day in Damask water A Perfume for Gloves Take your Gloves and wash them well in Damask water then stretch them fair and softly and lay them in a fair linnen cloth or sheet folded eight folds that the Rosewater may dry in by leisure Then take Oyl of Sweet Almonds upon a store and with your hands annoint your gloves and rub them well over and stretch them forth by little and little and before they be throughly dryed take the powder of Sanders mixed with a little Ambergreece and strow the powder finely fearced upon them and let them lye in a box in a sheet of white paper Another Perfume for Gloves Take your Gloves or any other leather and wash them well in Rose or Damask water then wring them out of the water and dry them Do so three or four times then take Gumdragagant steep it in fine Damask water all night and so strain it and mingle it with a quarter of an ounce of Ambergreece and as much fine Musk. First grind your Ambergreece with the Oyle of Trobyn and then mix all together within and without and lay a paper betwixt the Gloves Glove by Glove and dry them under a feather bed A Perfume in Powder Take Ireos Storax Callamint Lignum Aloes Laudanum graines or seeds of Juniper as much of each sort as you will beat together as much of one sort as of another Cast the Perfumes into the fire and then you shall see whether it wil smell well or not To make an Oyl Perfume for Gloves that shall never out Take Benjamin two ounces of Storax and Calamint of each an ounce the powder of Benjamin and Storax must be finely beaten by themselves that done take a pound of sweet Almonds and mingle it with the Storax and Benjamin upon a Marble stone and then put it into an earthen pâ—t with moâ—e Oyle then put in your gloves powdered and so let it stand very close covered And when you will perfume a paire of Gloves take a little fair water in a spoon and wipe your Gloves very fine with it Take another spoon and dip it in your Oyl and rub it on your Gloves and let them dryâ— this is excellent Perfumes sweet and good Take Gumdragagant and lay it in rose-Rose-water until it be dissolved and liquid then powder the things hereafter written Take Laudanum an ounce Benjamin an ounce Lignum Aloes a quarter of an ounce Coles of Willowes twoÌ„ ounces and half beat all these together and make paste of it with the Gum and make as many balls or cloves as you will then dry it in the shadow A Receipt to make a Perfume to preserve mankind from the Infection of the Plagueâ— and also to burn in Chambers Chests and Presses for preserving of clothes bedding and hangings Take pure old Juniper shave it thin as may be one ounce of the flower or herb of Saint Johns wort half an ounce of the Gums of Olibanum Mastick and pure chosen Mirrhe of each one ounce your Gums grind great your Saint Johns wort hack it small your shavings of Juniper in like sort then mix them all together and put them in so me convenient vessel then add thereunto pure Venice Turpentine as much as will make it like a piece of paste then use it at your pleasure taking the quantity of halfe a Nutmeg at a time and burn it on a tile stone in your Chamber when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise A Receipt for a Perfume Take Musk Ambergreece and Civet of each a quarter of an ounce of Orange flowers one ounce grind all these things very smal on a stone then mingle them well together with half aâ— ounce of Oyl of Beanes and for want thereof one ounce of sweet Almonds and then apply it to the leather or other use you will put it to FINIS