A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery collected and practised by the Right Honorable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased ; as also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying, &c. ; published by W.I., Gent.
Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651., W. J. (W. Jar)
Gratiosa Cura. A Water for a Cut or a Sore.
Take Honeysuckles the knots nipt off, floures of Celendine, floures of red Sage, of each three spoonfuls, Five-finger, Cam∣phery such as is to knit bones, Daisies with the roots thereon, Ladder of Heaven, blossomes of Rosemary, Setwell, Hearb∣grace, Smalledge, red Roses with the knots on, or else red Rosecakes, Adder∣tongue, of each of these one handfull, seeth all together in six gallons of water that runneth towards the East, untill two gallons be sod in, then strain them, and Page 98 put to the water three quarts of English Honey, one pound of Roch Allum, one pennyworth of Madder, one pennyworth of long Pepper, seeth all together untill one gallon be consumed, then cleanse the water.
