¶An excellent good Medicine to heale the French Pox.
TAke Goacum Capium halfe a pound, Salsa perilla two ounces, Barke of Goacum two ounces, Licquorice one ounce, Annise seedes one ounce, Fennell seede one ounce, Seeny one ounce, and of Betany, Scabions, Smallege, Pellitory of the wall, Penyroyall, Harts-toong, Mayden∣here, wild Mints, or red Mints, red Sage, Oculus Christi, Li∣uerwort, and of the hearbe Mercury, of euery one of them a good handfull, cleane picked and washed, and then put all these together to sleepe for the space of one whole night, in three gallons of faire running Water, or else in two gallons of pure white Wine, and one gallon of strong Ale, then take them, and boyle them all together, vntill it be consumed to three quarts, then straine it through a fine linnen cloth, and put it into a close vessell.
¶Note this, that if you boyle it in water, it will continue but sixe or seuen dayes, but being boyled in Wine, and Ale, twenty dayes, which is too short a space for the party which is sicke and diseased, to vse it.
This must be drunken by the sicke person both morning and euening, and at meate, and you must put into euery three quartes of the water, one quarter of an ounce of Coloquin∣tida, and let the party which is sicke vse it, vntill such time as it hath scowred the body very well, and if it do not purge well, then take this Medicine following.