Natura exenterata: or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her. Wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man. / Collected and preserved by several persons of quality and great experience in the art of medicine, whose names are prefixed to the book. Containing in the whole, one thousand seven hundred and twenty. Very necessary for such as regard their owne health, or that of their friends. VVhereunto are annexed, many rare, hitherto un-imparted inventions, for gentlemen, ladies and others, in the recreations of their different imployments. With an exact alphabetical table referring to the several diseases, and their proper cures.

Certain speciall Medicines for the Stone, the Chollick, and for the stopping of the Urine either by Stone or Strangury: For pain in the Throat, the Rheume, the Stitch, &c. approved and sent un∣to me by my Cosin Standish as follow∣eth.

For the Stone.

TAke Snails and lay the mouths downwards upon a Tile∣sheard, which lyeth upon Coals, take out the Snails when they are well dryed, and beat the shels to pouder, drink it in White-wine, and about two hours after shave some white Castle Soap into warm White-wine, wherof will arise a

froath which will fall again to the bottom of the Cup, then shake it together, and it will rise again, and drink it presently, the powder maketh it to break, and the drink with soap maketh it slip.

Probatum upon the Lord Marquess at Mr. Noats.

Another for the Stone.

TAke the claws of a Porker newly scalded, pare away the soft∣ness therof, then set them in some place to dry, or carry them about with you till they be very dry, then grate a quan∣tity of it upon some hard Grater, and therto put a quantity of the powder of Alexander-seed, and drink it with White-wine, or stale Ale, as oft as you shall think good▪

Probatum A. W.

Another.

TAke two or three Gizards of clean Capons, dry them in an Oven, or upon some Tile sherd, and therof make pouder and drink it with White wine or stale Ale, and for the Chollick wear continually before your belly a stomacher made of Wolves skin.

Dr. Smiths Medicine for the stopping of the Ʋrine, and to asswage the extream heat therof.

TAke a pint of Rhenish Wine, and with the yelks of two new∣laid eggs make a Cawdle, relish it with Sugar and Nutmeg to your best content, then dissolve therin half an ounce of white Castle Soap, and drink that Cawdle at three draughts warm, in the morning one, when you go to bed the second, the next morning the third, by this you shall find great ease, both of the stopping and pain, and great comfort, without any loathsom∣ness at all.

For the stopping of the Ʋrine either by the Stone or Stran∣gury.

MAke cleer Posset-Ale with White-wine or Ale, seeth in the Posset-Ale a great handfull of Parsley shread, and as much Pellitory of the wall shread, and when it is sodden scrape

in a quantity of white Castle-soap, but let it not come on the fire after the Soap is in, stir it together and give the Patient to drink when he is stopped a pint at a time as warm as he can drink it, and annoint the place grieved before a fire with oyle of Roses, or oyle of Lillies, and for want of these take Sal∣let Oyle, dip a cloath in the same Oyle, and lay it warm to the place grieved, and walk after it in your Chamber if you can, and it will help in short space, God willing.

Put in an Herb called Gromell if you can get it.

You may use the foresaid Herbs in a thin Alebery, and put in a peece of butter after it is sodden, and let not the drink come on the fire after the butter or soap is in it, for then it is binding, if you drink a small draught it will not do so much good as a great draught.

Proved upon Mr. Whithead being stopped 20. hours in extream pain, who within half an hour voidea great clods of blood and hard, and lived in ease long after, and then dyed of a Consumption.

For one that maketh blood-water before it come to the extream pain of the Strangury.

TAke an herb called Shepheards-pouch, and another called Knot-grass, of each a like portion, as much as you list to make the powder to serve all the year, you must gather them somwhat before Midsomer, or else soon after, and dry them out of the Sun, and drink the powder in Wine about the quantity of a little Walnut, or else in Ale when you go to bed, or in the morning when you rise, and use it till you be well:

Probatum:

A Medicine for the swelling in the throat.

TAke a good handfull of Vervine or two, cut it small and put it in a Morter, then take ounces of Commin-seeds and pound them very fine, and lay them upon a very fine linnen cloath, and apply it to the swelling, and use it till it be whole.

Another for the throat.

TAke Jewes-Eares which grow out of an old Elder and seeth them, and Collumbine leaves in milk with honey of Roses, or a few dryed Rose-leaves with a little Sugar, drink of this milk as hot as you can often times in the day and night, and lay of the said Jews-Eares in the Beer or Ale which you use to drink.

Also annoint your throat with oyle of Roses warm against the fire, and card and bast the wooll of the flank of a Sheep up∣on a cloath, and annoint the wooll with the aforesaid oyle, and lay it very warm to the throat.

Proved upon divers by Mrs. Eliz. Standish.

For a windy Stomach.

BOyl a little Camomile, wild Tyme, and wild Parsley which is called Saxifrage in posset-drink made with milk and White-wine, drink a good draught therof fasting, and to bed∣ward warm.

Proved by my Brother Roper and divers others, by me E▪ Standish.

For the wind▪Chollick:

TAke a new-laid Egg and lay it in the fire untill it be warm, then take off the top and put as much Brimstone as a Ha∣sell Nut very fine beaten into it, stir it together with your knife and sup it off.

Probatum.

Another for the same.

TAke a pint of Sack, and put it into a silver or pewter pot, set it in a Posnet of water to seeth, then put into the Sack seven or eight branches of Spearmint, and let them seeth together a good while, then clarifie a peece of sweet butter, and put in two spoonfuls of the clarified Butter into the Sack, and a peece of Sugar, but let it not boyl after the Butter and Sugar is put in, let them drink of this a good draught when they are in pain, and by that time the pint is drunk up they shall find ease.

Probatum.

A Drink for the Lungs.

TAke Burr roots, Maiden hair, and hearts▪tongue boyled in Ale, and drink therof morning and evening warm, annoint the breast with oyle of sweet Almonds, and annoint a Twilt of Wooll and lay it warm to the breast.

Probatum.

To stay the tickling of the Rheume in the night.

TAke a new sheet of brown paper, and cut it a hand in breadth, and so long as it may cover the mould of your head, baste upon it some fine Flax, and put a peece of Frankincense on a Chaffindish of Coals, and hold the Flax-side of the paper over the Frankincense, and lay it warm to your mould every night, and when you are laid in your bed eat a little Conserve of red Roses, and if the Rheume doth tickle you, then eat a little more, but speak not after you have eaten it, and this will stay the tick∣ling of the Rheume in thrice taking it.

Probatum.

For the Stitch.

TAke Camomile flowers, boyl them in Vinegar, twilt them wel in two baggs, and when the one is cold lay the other therto hot, and so apply them to the place one after another till the pain be eased. Also give the parry Cockle-seed that groweth in Corn beaten to powder in all his drink.

Another.

TAke a new wheaten Loaf hot out of the Oven, or else two wheaten Tostes, spread them with the best Treakle, and cleave the Loaf in the middle and so done, lay one of them on the Stitch, and a little above it, and the other on the pa••ties back against the place where the Stitch is, lay them too as hot as he can suffer it, and when they are cold toast them and spread them with Treakle again, also while this is a doing take an Ap∣ple and cut of the top and take out the Coar, put therin the powder of white Frankincense and lay on the top again, roast it with a soft fire, then give it the party to eat with a little Su∣gar, one in the morning, and another at night, this will help a

Stitch, or Bastard-plurisie being taken in time. Also warm white Frankincense and make it in rolls, swallow them like Pills in syrrop of Hoarhound or Hysop fasting:

Probatum.

To make the black Water to kill the Itch of a Wound new healed, or about a Wound; or any Itch elsewhere.

TAke the black water wherin the Smithes quench their Iron, and put therin as much red Sage as can well seeth in it, let them seeth till the strength of the Sage be in the liquor, then strain it and wring out the juice of the Sage hard into the liquor, then put in a good peece of roach Allome, and set it on the fire till the Alome be melted, keep this water, and twice or thrice a day wash the place that itcheth.

Probatum.

For a Ringworm or Tettar, or red Pimples in the face.

TAke a Sorrell root, wash, scrape it and slice it, and lay it in Vinegar all night, and therwith wash the place often, and the longer the root lyeth in the Vinegar the better it is.

To cleanse Corruption out of a Wound, and to make good flesh grow in the place.

TAke the water of Carduus benedictus warm, and wash the Wound morning and night, and wet Lynt in the same, and lay to the place half an hour at evening and morning before you lay on your Salve, if the wound have any holes in it, then dip the Tent in the same water, and roul the Tent in the pou∣der made of the leaf of the same herb being dryed, but you must boult the powder through Lawn, at night put in the Tent ro••∣led in the foresaid powder, and in the morning dip the Tent in Salve, this water and powder will keep the Wound from a Fistula, and from dead flesh. Probatum.

If it be an even Soar without holes you shall not need but to wash it with the said water, and take a peece of sheet▪ Lead, beat it as thin as you can possibly prick the lead with a Bod∣kin full of holes, put a Tape in every corner, turn the edge of

the lead outward from the Soar, scrape the smooth side of the lead till it look bright, lay it to the Soar, and bind it therto with the Tapes, take it off even and morne and wipe off, and scrape off the filth, but beware you come not neer the fire, neither keep it too warm.

Probatum upon one that had a soar legg 20. years, which this healed when other Salve could not.

To make Jelly of Harts horn:

TAke Raspood, Harts, or Stags horn, four ounces, of fair run∣ning water, put it together into a Pipkin and let it stand all night on the Embers, the next day bo••l it untill two parts of the water be consumed, and that it come to a Jelly: Then strain it through a Jelly-bag into a Skillet or Pipkin, beat the White of an Egg very well and put to it, season and sweeten it with 3. or 4. ounces of loaf Sugar, a large Mace, a stick of Cynamon, a Sprig of French Marjoram, a little sprig of Rosemary, and two spoonfuls of white Wine-vinegar, boyle these again together untill it hath the tast of the Spices, and then strain it again through a Jelly bagg into a dish or gally pot for your use.

Some use to boyl a Chicken or knuckle of Veal in the water before it be infused with the Harts-horn, the same being first strained, but for a weak stomach pure water is best.

A Vomit to cleanse the stomach.

TAke three roots of yellow Daffadillies, wash them and cut them small, seeth them in Ale or Beer till half be consumed, put therto a little Saffron, and boyl it together, strain it, and drink therof after you have broken your fast, use it when you need, and not else.

To stay a Vomit.

TAke sower Leaven and Vinegar, stir them well together till they wax moist, then take a handfull of Mints and cut them small with as much Wormwood, and work all these together very perfectly, so make a Plaister therof in a linnen cloath, warm it well on both sides, and so lay it on the stomach, and it will stay it.

The Receipt of the Wound-drink.

TAke Southernwood, Wormwood, Bugloss, Mugwort, Wood bet∣tony, Sanicle, Plantane, Dandelyon, Ribwort, white Bottles, Bramble-buds, Egremony, wild Angelica, Comfery, Mints, Sca∣bious, Strawberry-leaves, Cinkfoyle, Violet-leaves, Dafies, Ho∣ney Succles-Avens, Hawthorn-buds, Oake-leaves, Take of these of each a handfull, put to them a pottle of White-wine, and a gallon of clear running water, boyl altogether till one half be consumed, then strain the liquor clean from the herbs, then put to it a quart of honey, and boyl it again, and being cold, put it into glasses or bottles stopped close, and keep it for your use; viz. Let the Patient drink 5. spoonfuls at a time luke warm every morning fasting, and three spoonfuls last of all at night, untill he have drunk a quart therof.

This drink is effectuall for Soars, new or old Wounds, womens Breasts, putrified bones, for ach in the stomach, to break any Im∣postume, to stanch blood of Veins broken in the body, it hath caused Bullets to fall out of the flesh, that long continued therin, with many other rare Effects.

For the Stone.

TAke a quart of running water, and a quarter of a pound of the best blew Currants, and wash them clean, and boyl them to a pint, then strain the Currants in a cloath, or bruise them with a Trencher, then take the yolk of an egg new laid, and beat it well, then take half a pint of the water, and brew it with the yolk, and drink it in the morning fasting, and a like quan∣tity a little before supper, this do a quarter of a year toge∣ther.

For a soar Throat.

TAke a pint of Claret-wine, a quarter of brown Sugar∣candy, one ounce of Mace, one handfull of Rosemary-tops, boyl these to half a pint, and strain it through a cloath, so take two spoonfull luke-warm, and gargle with it, then drink it down.

Flos Ʋnguentorum.

THe intreat is called Flower of Oyntments, for it is good for all manner of maladies that are written hereafter. That is to say, for ould wounds, and for amongst all entreats it is most clensing and well soaking, and ingendreth flesh, and it healeth more in a sevenight then any other in a Month, and it suffer∣eth no corruption in a wound, nor no ill flesh to be engendred therein, and it is good for the head-ake, and for singing in the brain, and for all manner of head-aches, and for all manner of Impostumes in the head, and in the body, and for the boyling in the Eares or in the cheeks or sinews, sprong shrunk, or stark, and it draweth out any thorne, or broken bone, or any thing that is in a wound, it is good for the pricking or biting of a venemous beast, and it rotteth and healeth all man∣ner of botches without, it is good for a Cankar, or noli me tangere, and it draweth all manner of Ach out of the Liver, Spleen or Reins, it breaketh the impostume, it is good for boyling in the members, it ceaseth flux menstrous if it be layd to a womans Na∣vell, it healeth fair e the Emrods, and it is specially good to make a Cere cloth for Gouts and Aches, and for pestell botches. And this intreat is called flos unguentorum, for it cometh of Jesu Christi by an Angell to a house of Religion at the red hill in Almayn, which wrought there many marvails, and never had other medicine but this, and it is made thus following.

Take Rosin and Perison of each halfe a pound, Virgin wax and Frankincense of each a quarter of a pound, of Mastick an ounce, of Harts suet a quarter of a pound, of Camphire two drams, melt that is to be melted, and pound that is to be pounded, and finely serced, and boile them over the fire, and strain them through a Canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine, with all the other Medicines together, then let it seeth till all the white wine be almost consumed, and then let it coole, untill it be no hotter then blood, then put thereto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine, ever stirring it untill it be thorough cold, but e∣ver beware that your stuffe be no hotter then blood, when you put to your Turpentine, for if it be hot, it marreth all your stuffe, and make it up in roles, and keep it to your use, for the most best and preci∣ous salve that can be made.

For the Morphew, white, or black, if it be curable.

TAke one ounce of fine Verdegrice, and one ounce of Sulphur vivum, and beat them both into very fine pouder, and take two Sheeps heads that are fat, take out the brains and wash them away, then wash the heads clean, and seeth them till they be tender, then take them from the fire, and let them stand till they be cold, and then gather off the fat and meddle it with the pouder all cold, and put it into a box, and use it being new. An∣noint the sick therewith against a fire at night, when he shall go to bed, and in the morning wash it away with good Vinegar, three dressings hath cured divers. It is not to be melted, but an∣noint the Patient it being cold. It shall be good every annoyn∣ting to use one suit of linnen, for it will not out.

For a Scald or a Burne.

TAke one pound of new Butter unsalted, put to it a pretty quantity of Ale-hoofe, and of the green Bark of young El∣der as much, with a yellow Dock root pickt very cleane, boile all well in the Butter untill it look like a Salve. Then put to it some new Sheeps dung, and when it is well incorporated to∣gether, strain it and keep it for your use.

Annoint the Place therewith melted, or made warm, with a Feather, and annoint the outside of a Primrose leafe with the same, ha∣ving first knocked down the seams, so apply it to the place, and dress it in that manner, morning and evening, and it will make a perfect Cure.

Probatum est, Mr. Spiller.

A Receipt for the Sciatica, or other paine in the Bones.

TAke halfe a pound of the best yellow Bees wax, halfe a pound of Pitch, 2 d. halfe a pound of Deers suet, 6 d. halfe a pound of Rossen 2 d. halfe a pound of Frankencense, 4 d. two ounces of Mastick 6 d. beat all these Gumms severally, and searce them severally thorow as fine a search as you can, being first very finely beaten.

To stay the Humor.

TAke a pint of Verjuice, a good quantity of Red Sage, and boyle it from a pint to halfe a Pint.

A Medicine to kill a Ringworme.

TAke halfe a pinte of Running water, a good pretty peece of Tobacco, and boile them together to a quarter of a pint.

An easie Plaster for the Gout.

TAke Black-soap as much as you think good, and the yelks of raw Eggs, halfe as much as the Soap; and mix them well in a dish till the Soap hath lost his proper colour. Then take fine flax, and spread it upon it, and lay it to the grieved place, then take the whites of Eggs mixt with Wheat flower, dyp a lin∣nen cloth therein, and lay it upon the Plaister, and bind it fast, and remove it not in foure or five dayes.

Of all Medicines for the Gout this is the best as I have often proved both of men and women, it is more pre∣tious then Gold, &c.

To make Gelly of Harts-horne.

TAke three ounces of Harts-horne shaven thin, put it in five pints of water, boile it till it come to a pint, with a peece of leane Veale, if you make it without Veale, you must put in halfe an ounce of Harts-horne more, and so season it with what you please▪

A Receipt for the Stone.

Mr. Hicks Apothecary.

TAke of your Alkekengie Berries, otherwise called winter Cherries growing in Gardens: Take them and open them, and with the seeds, fruit and lease, altogether bo••le them either

in broth posset drink or Mace Ale, and drink of it a good draught warm, morning and evening, and it will dissolve the stone in the Kidneys and purge Gravell exceedingly.

For such as cannot make water.

Mr. Hicks.

TAke of your Holliocks white or red, flowers and leaves, and distill them in an ordinary still, and reserve the water, and take of this about a quarter of a pint at a time mixed with a little fine Sugar, and it shall cause you to make water in your greatest extremity.

Probatum est.

Doctor Fryer his Receipt which he used in the time of the Infection of the Plague, and all other contagious sickness.

TAke Cinamomi one dram, terrae sigillatae verae six drams, Mir∣rae three drams, Cornu Monocerotis one dram, Sem. & corti∣cum Citri, radicum Dictamni, Tormentillae, Zedioariae, sanguis Tortae Coralls rubri ana. two drams Santali flacci Iiiii. Santali rub. I ii. Benalbi & rubi, florum heliotropii ana: one dram Rasura eboris sca∣biosae sem: ocimi ossis de cor cerviana. I ii. boli orientalis two drams, Sushari albi L iii. Syrupe acetositatis citri q. s. fiat electu∣arium.

The Dose for Children is one dram, which is a French Crown waight, and for elder two drams. It is to be given both before for preservation and otherwise to drive forth the infection by sweat.

Let the Apothecary be carefull to put in good Druggs.

A Drink for a Surfet in the stomach.

TAke clarified Ale, and put therein six Sage leaves, and as many Marygold leaves, of Parsley roots, and Fennell roots, as many as you shall think fit, but rather put in a little red

Fennell instead of the roots, and leave the roots out, put in also a crust of bread and a peece of Sugar, and seeth the third part away, and so drink it.

Doctor Monfords Cordiall water,

TAke of Angellica leaves a quarter of a pound, Carduus be∣nedictus three ounces, of Balme, and Sage of each two oun∣ces, Licoris clean scraped halfe a pound, Angelica seeds three ounces and halfe, sweet Fennell-seeds, foure ounces and halfe, of the spices Aromat Rosatum & diam••schum dulcis, of each six drams, bruise the seeds, and Licorise, and ••clip the Herbs, and steep them in sixteen pints of good Sack, two daies close stopped in a still or Limbeck. Then distill it with a gentle fire according to Art, After the water you have distilled hath stood two dayes, dissolve twelve ounces of Sugar Candie in red Rose water, and mingle it therewith.

To make Cynamon water.

TAke an Ale Gallon of the best Sack, and Sugar, one pound, Ginger one ounce, beat your spice and Sugar, and lay them one night and a day, in steep in your Sack, and stir them well together foure or five times, and then the next day distill it, and save the strongest by it selfe, and the weakest by it felfe, you must stop your still very close, when you lay your spice in steep that no strength go forth:

Pills to purge the Head and Stomach.

TAke of Aloe Cicatrina one ounce, three races of Ginger bea∣ten, and searsed both through a fine searse, mingle therewith two spoonfulls of English hony, and a peniworth of Mithridatum or Treakle, work them to a paste with fine searsed Sugar, And if you please make them up into pills, seven or eight of these pills taken going to Bedd is sufficient at once, or else you may keep your paste in little boxes, and take the quantity aforesaid, either in the pith of an Apple or in Sugar sopps.

An excellent plaister for the Back.

TAke of gum Galban▪ and of gum Armoniack of each halfe an ounce, lay them in strong Vinegar a night and a day, and then boyle them till the Vinegar be wasted, and then strain it. Then take a thing called Gallie muscata, and Alipta musca∣ta, of each halfe an ounce, and of fine Labdanum halfe an ounce beaten in pouder, then put all them into the gummes with a little Turpentine, and boile them againe, and all to stirr it in the cooling, and mix them well together, and so spread it upon Leather, and cover it with red Sarsenet, and use it all the time of need.

A Medicine to keep up the pallate of the mouth.

TAke a piece of wheaten leaven and Commine seed, beaten in a Morter, a quantity of Bay-salt and red Rose Vinegar, and red Rose water, and put them into a bagg of cloth, and lay it to the mold of the head.

To dry up the rheume in the head.

TAke a quantity of dried Rose-leaves, the flowers of Camomile, Basill, Marjorum, all dryed, a quantity of Cloves and Mace gross bruised, a Nutmeg, and a quantity of Dill-seed, all quilt in a cap.

For Mrs. Dyx.

SEeth a little while, a good spoonfull of Conserve of Roses in halfe a pint of milk, then put to it two good spoonfulls of Su∣gar-candie, or good Loafe Sugar in pouder, and brew them well together there till the Sugar be dissolved, and drink it all off, to bed▪ward, good and warme, and by little gulps at once, and follow this a while, and I hope it will in time stay your Rheume.

Scabious.

TAke Scabious and beat it and distill it, and then beat more of the Hearbs, and put in the water that was distilled to it, and

let it stand twelve hours, and then distill it again, and then boyle the water with Sugar-candy, and so take it three or four times in a night or a day, according to your stomach,

You must boyl the Barley in fair water, and when it begins to break you shall put out that water, then putting thereto a sufficient quantity of water, so that there be left a full quart, when it is boyled, then boyle the things which are sent with the other according to your Note, and being taken off and strained to a pint therof, put in both the Glasses of Syr∣rops.

The China Broath.

TAke Manna one ounce and an half, dissolve it in a little warm beer, and when it is melted strain it out, and add half a dozen drops of that liquor in the little glass to correct the windness of it, d••ink then before you eat, half an hour, or somthing more, as it works diminish or encrease the Doses in the beer brewed with herbs, the ordinary quantity should be a handfull, and a quarter of a handfull of it to a handfull of the other, and add many Gold-flowers when you have them and some Balm, and in the same vessell with the beer hang China prepared three onnces:

Somtime use Scurvigrass, boyling the herbs, or the juice of the herbs, a pint of the juice in two gallons of Wort.

Make broath with half an ounce of China, two drams of Co∣rall set over a few Embers in the morning, put in a peece of meat or a Chicken, after scuming add a peece of the bot∣tom of a Maucher, a sprig of Tyme, Rosemary, or a few Sage leaves, Raisons of the Sun stoned a handfull, and Currants a few, boyle them to a pint and a half, drink of it in the morn∣ing, and at four in the afternoon, or immediatly before meat.

Remember Enula Campana two parts, and one part of Dock-roots powdered:

Take green Walnuts, shels and all, and let them be stilled, and drink the water therof alone, or with a little Treakle, and it is good against any infection.

To draw out Infection.

Take a handfull or two of Elder-leaves, and stamp them, and put therto half a dozen of Eggs, shels and all, and a good deal of the Loom of a Wall, and a spoonfull of black Soap, temper all these together in the manner of a Salve, and lay it to the hollow place of the soles of your feet, and let it lye some i••▪ hours and it will draw the infection our of your body.

For the biting of a mad Dogge, for Man, or Beast.

TAke of Hobgoblines (which growes most commonly in Heathes about the black Lings) of Perewinckles (which growes among the Hayes commonly of Gardens) and Box leaves dryed and powdered, of each a like quantity, mixed together either in broath or posset-ale three daies before the change, or three daies after the change of the Moon in the morning fasting.

To make Popylion.

TAke the buds of the Popler Tree, pure water, take Hen∣bane, take Plantane take Mor••ll—take Orpen, take Houslike, take Sempervive, take Endine, take Violets, take Water-creases, take Dayses the white and red, take Rib∣wort, take Penigrass, take Stone-crop, take Aragon, take Ton∣now.

To make Oyle of Exeter Bawme.

TAke a a pound of Cowslip flowers and steep them in Oyle Olive, and Calamint, Featherfew, Sage, Egremony, Southerwood, Pellitory, Camomile, Heyniff, Pellitory of Spain, Flowers of Lillies, of each an handfull, foure pound of Lawrell-leaves gathered in June, and stamp them al∣together til they are smal, then take the said flowers of Cowslips and wring out the Oyle, then stamp them with the other herbs,

then put therin White-wine a day and a night, in as much as they may be steeped in, then take the said Herbs, Wine, and Oyle altogether, and boyl them on the fire till the wine and water of the herbs be wasted away; and thus shall you prove it: Take a spoonfull of liquor at the pans bottom, and when you see no water in the spoon, then is your Medicine enough, or else set it again on the fire, then strain it through a strong linnen cloath, and when it is cold put it in a glass and stop it well, and it will serve you three years.

For to help a man or woman that is bursten in the space of seven daies, and never cut him, and if he be an angry man nine daies at the most.

TAke a broad Pawncher with a Tap before, another behind e∣ven against the soar, and sow within the Pawncher a good great ball of linnen cloath before the soar, and then bind fast the Taps within the great of the legg, and then seven or nine daies he shal drink 24. spoonfuls of Comfery with three spoonfuls of liquor which come from the Apothecaries called Aqua deco∣ctus Diabolus, so that the quantity of the liquor be 27. spoonfuls in all, and look you take red Comfrey for the man, and white for the woman, & let the sick drink this liquor at morning 27. spoon∣fuls, and noon, at evenings the same quantity, and use the same seven or nine daies, and look for one thing that he be well trussed, and just when he walks, but when he lyeth still; it is on great charge, so that he lyeth still, stirs not up soon, nor go about hastily, no•• sit down hastily, and beware that he come not upon any Horse in that time when he is in cure that he eates not Apples, Nuts, or cold Milk, for all things that are cold are contrary for him, and when he eats hot meats, let him beware of smelling meats and drinks, Goose-flesh, new Ale made with Oatemeal, nor eat not to much of no manner of meats at one meal, but wisely govern thy self till thou beest whole. And this Medicine hath healed many.

Probatum est.

For a Fistula.

TAke butter without salt, and Verjuce without salt if you can get it, if not take the other, and with this warm, bath the out

side of the wound, and if there be a hollowness fill it with Neats∣foot oyle, and lay it over all; thus dress once or twice a day, that is approved good for a Fistula.

For the pain in the back.

TAke Shepheards-purse Knot grass, and Cumfery, all green, and boyl them in broath for the party to eat.

Take Lettis-seed and dry it, and beat it to a powder, searce it fine, and take half a spoonfull at a time in posset-ale.

A Medicine for the Cough.

A handfull of Horehound, one handfull of Nip, a handfull of Hysop, a handfull of Tyme, a handfull of Balm, boyl all these in a quart of running water, and put in half a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, a stick of English Licorace bruised, and a peece Elicampana as big as ones finger, boyl all these toge∣ther from a quart to a pint, and strain it out: then put into that Licorace a pound of Sugar, then boyl it up to a syrrop, then put it into a glass, and let the party take it on a Licorace stick.

To make a Poultice.

TAke a pint of Cream, and thick it with grated bread, and seeth it while it be thick, then put in two spoonfuls of honey, and two spoonfuls of oyle of Roses, spred some of it upon a cloath, and lay it on as broad as the Plaister.

A Receipt for the stopping of the Ʋrine.

TAke three pints of Hawses, and pick the stalks and the tops, take half a pint of red Dog-berries, or sweet Btyer berries, take half a pint of Sloes, and half a pint of Cherry-stones, take a dozen of Medle••s, bruise all these together, and being bruised put them into eight pints of White wine, then stop up all these together in an earthen pot, and let them so stand a day and a night, and every eight hours, stir them and then stop them up again, and put it into an ordinary Still and still that, and this must be done about Michaelmas time, and when the party hath need let her take four spoonfuls at a time.

This Water wil last eight years, and it is best when it is old.

For an Oyntment.

DIll vervine, St. Johns wort, May wort, and Lavender Cotten, & Rose-mary tops and Bay leaves tops wild Mallows, Rew, Burrage Red sage, the leaves of Lavender, Cammomill, Mother-Tyme, Elder flowers, Smalledge and Feather-few, Sallendine, Roman wormewood, of every one of these hearbs a handfull mingled with foure pound of Hoggs grease, a pint of Sallet oile.

An approved pouder for the Stone.

TAke the seeds of Broom, the crops of red Nettles, the crops of red Tyme, the budds of red Oke, the Lights of a Fox, the flowers of Elders, Hipp berries, Stone Crop, ashen keys, Orange pills, Parsley seed, Saxifrage, gather all these same in their due time, drye and beat them severally into pouder, and put these pouders into sundry Boxes or Bladders, take of each a like quan∣tity, mix it well and keep it for your use.

If you find it to be the stone in the Kidneys, take three spoonfulls of distilled milk-water in a Glass, put to it over night as much pouder as will lye upon a Groat, cover it all night in the morn∣ing put to it six spoonfull of white wine, stirre it well together, drink it sasting, fast and use moderate exercise an houre after, If it be for the stone in the Bladder, in stead of milke water, and wine, use only Beer or Ale a like quantity over night and in the morning.

For them that make bloody Ʋrine.

TAke Sallet oile, Ki••chin Sugar, Aquavitae of each a spoon∣full, beat them well together, and so l••t the party greived drink it morning and evening thrice together; also take as much Parsel, seeds beaten very small as will lie upon six pence, and drink it in posset ale or any other liquor between the former Drinks about two or three houres after every of them.

A Receipt to make Black salve.

TAke eight ounces of oyle Olive foure ounces of Bees wax; foure ounces of red Lead, put the oyle and the wax being cut into a Skillet, and melt them together, then put the red Lead into the oile and wax, and boile them with a soft fire, alwayes stirring it, and so continue it boyling till it turnes black, and begin to smell, then take it off the fire and sk••m it, and let it stand till it be could, and then make it up in a thick rowle for so it will keep the better.

A Medicine to cure any Whitlaw.

TAke a pint of butter or halfe a pint as you think you shall have occasion often to use it, and boile the butter in a fry∣ing pan, till the Butter be black, then take it off the fire, and skum it, and when you have scummed the butter clean, then put in as much Sorrel into the frying pan with the butter, as you think will drink up all the butter in the pan, and let them boyle together so long as the butter and the Sorrell become a salve, then spread it upon a Cloth the breadth of the wound, and apply it to the soare as hot as you can well indure it, change your plaster once every twenty four hours, do this without omis∣sion some three weeks or a moneth together, & you shall see the wound clense and heale, then when you shall find by the plaster that the wound be perfectly cleansed, take halfe a peck of white or gray salt, and a gallon of running water, boile these toge∣ther a good while, till the salt be all melted into the water, then wash or dab the soar with this water, as hot as you can well indure it once or twice, having twenty foure hours distance be∣twixt every washing, and after every such washing, apply a∣gaine the plaster above said, then take the plaster off againe, ha∣ving laid the accustomed time, and after that lay no more pla∣sters: but only a clean cloth every day one, and this with the help of God will cure you without all faile, provided alwayes when you see the wound look of a fresh and lively colour as it will do when the plasters have drawn and eaten out all the cor∣ruption and putrified flesh, that then you keep the wound somewhat open, with a little ball of Lint, that so it heale not too fast, and you are cleane without any doubt or danger.

Probatum est.

A water to cure any ould Ʋlcer.

TAke halfe a pound of Bolearmonack a quarter of a pound of white Copperace two ounces of Roach Allom, then take your Allom and Coperace, and beat them smal, and set them on the fire in an unnealed Pipkin which is a Pipkin unburnt if you can get one, and then stir them together till they be both moul∣ten, then when they are cold, put them up with the Bolearmo∣nack into a cleane Morter, and beat them into a sine pouder altogether, then make the water as followeth.

Take a pottle of running water and set it on the fire in a clean Skillet till it be scalding hot readie to seeth, then put your water into a new earthen Vessell or Pitcher, then put two spoonfulls of powder into the water, and stir the pouder well up and down the water in the setling while the water is hot, that so the strength of the pouder may goe into the water, and when the water hath stood some three daies a settling, then skim off the uppermost froth upon the top of the water, and poure out the water very clean and gently from the Dregs and bottom into another clean pot or Pitch∣er, and when you have occasion use it in this manner, take two or three spoonfulls, and take it as hot as the party can well endure it, and so wash and dab the sore well withall, then get as much fresh water into another sawcer as will well wet a cloth two or three times double to cover the sore withall, and so apply it, and let it lye to the next dressing, alwayes use the water as hot as the Patient can endure it.

To stop the bleeding at the Nose.

TAke strong wine Vinegar in a Chafindish of coales, put three or foure cloths into the Vinegar upon the coles till they be hot, bath then his or hir privie parts a good while, and it will help immediately.

For the Emerodes.

TAke scraped Lead and lay in Vinegar, and take Gilts grease and grind it on a stone together, and spread it on a cloth, and lay it to the place and it will cure you.

To make a water for the stone.

TAke a Gallon of new milk of a Red Cow, and put therein a handfull of Pellitory of the wall, a handfull of wild Tyme, a handful of Saxifrage a handful of Parsley, two or three Radish Roots sliced, and halfe an handfull Philupendule roots sliced let all these lye in the milk one night, and in the morning, put the milk and herbs into a still and distill them with a moderate fire of Charcole, when you are to use the water take a draught of Rennish or white wine, and put into the wine five spoonfull of the distilled water, a little Sugar and Nutmeg sliced, drink it of in the morning fasting and fast two hours, and keep your self walking and going up and down, the next day meddle not with it, but the third day do as you did the First day, and for every other day for a weeks space.

This water must be made in the Moneth of May.

To make Jelly of a Cock.

TAke a Cock pull and wash him very clean, break the bones very well, take two Gallons of water and boile him in it▪ untill it come to a pint and a halfe, of Nutmegs and Mace a spoonfull, the Mace whole, and the Nutmegs sliced the Nut∣meg and Mace put in at first, then strain your liquor from the meat, then let it stand untill it be cold, then with a Knife skim of the fat on the top of it, then if any dregs or thickness be in the botome, take it of also, then put it into a Pipkin with such quantity of Cynamon and Ginger sliced as you shall think fit, then put to it a pound of the best loafe Sugar a sponfull of Cori∣ander seeds prepared, as being steeped a night in Sack, white wine or Rose water a quarter of a pint of Rose water, then boile them all very well together for halfe an houre or more the•• take the whites of foure Eggs very well beaten, poure them into the Pipkin as it boiles, still stirring of it, untill the white of

the Eggs grow black. Then take it off the fire, then put in to your gelly bag a branch of Rosemary, wetting the bag with Rose∣water, put into the bag a handfull of hard feathers upon the Rosemary, then put in the gelly into the bag, and when it is run through, put it in againe, and so do three or foure times be∣fore the fire, the last 〈◊〉〈◊〉 let it run into the thing you will keep it, as in some Gally p•••• for winter, and Glass for Sum∣mer.

The black Salve.

TAke two or three hundred Snailes, shells and all, and stamp them very small, then take a gallon of new milk and put them in it, put in halfe a pound of Aniseeds beaten, one ounce of small Mace beaten, a quarter of an ounce of Cloves, set them upon a soft fire of Coles and keep it with stirring untill more then halfe the liquor be consumed, then set it by a cooling, then take two pound of good pitch, a pound of Parrosen, and a pound of Rosen, halfe a pound of Wax, a pound of Turpentine foure pound of Sheeps suet tried, set altogether upon a▪ soft fire, and put into the milk that was before boild, and so let it boile till the moisture of the milk be boild away, then straine it and keep it for any old sore, bruise or thorn, or to take the Ague out of a soare▪

Probatum est.

A Soveraign and approved Medicine for the S••yatica.

TAke one pound of new Wax, a pound of Pitch, a pound of Deers Suit, a pound of Rosen, a pound of Frankincense, foure ounces of Mastick, beat all these gums severally, through as fine a Ce••rce as you can get, then take your Deers suet, wax and Pitch, and set them on the Fire in a brass pan till they be melted, then put in your rosen till it be melted, then your Fran∣kincense till it be melted, and lastly your Mastick till it be mel∣ted, and besure that the one be melted before you put in the o∣ther, then stir them well together, and when they begin to boile and rise, the gums being throughly melted, take it from the fire, for if you take not heed, it will run over, then take a strong Canvas cloth, yet somewhat fine, and sow it like a gelly bag, and

so straine all the former stuffe into a faire pan that ought not to be above two fingers thick, and when it is cold cut it into peeces, and lay it up close, and it will keep good seaven years.

Probatum, Tho. Fuller.

For a Mad Dogge.

PImpernell, Rue, Sage, and Saxifrage in pouder and given in drink▪

Another.

BUckthorne or Way thorne the berries, or the inward rin•• in drink.

A Purge.

PVlvis Sanctus one dram in white wine or posset Ale.

For the heat of the face.

FUmitory one pottle, bitter Almonds an ounce, sublimate in sine pouder litarge and ceruse ana. two drams, and one dram of Camphire in dust, beat your Almonds and straine the Fumitory water through them, then infuse the rest in that wa∣ter and strain it as you use it annoint your Morter and Pestill with oile of sweet Almonds and that will beat your Camphire to dust.

For deafnesse.

CAstarum in pouder, Mithridate, and oile of bitter Almonds mixt, wherein dip a little tent of black wooll, and remove it once in twenty foure hours▪

For the Splene.

MElilote Camomile ana. three handfuls Parcely Roman Worme wood, Plantane, Ditany ana. one M: beaten smal Rosen one pound, Wax twelve ounces, Sheeps suet one pound, white wine one pint, melt them and let them stand seven daies,

then boile them and strain them, take hereof the quantity of a Wal-nut and spread it upon Leather, and let it lie till it f••ll off of it self.

A very good Purge.

SUc••ory water and white wine, ana a quarter of a pint, Ru∣barb a quarter of an ounce, Agarick one dram, Sene, three drams, Lignnum aloes, Mace, Cynamon ana. two drams, slice your Rubarbe and Agarick smal and bruise the rest, but not your sene, put them in a Pipkin over the embers all night, close stopped, then boile them to halfe, strain it and dissolve therein one ounce of Manna. Then strain it againe and take it fasting at six a clock in the morning, and fast till one, but drink often, after it begins to work, warme broth.

Probatum.

For a Consumption.

TAke two pound of Parsneps and pulp them, put to them halfe a pint of faint Cynamon water, or else Muscadel, pnt to them two pound of Sugar answerable to your pulp, boile them to the consistance of an Electuary then then ad to it three drams of Aromaticum Aromatiumgiri one shilling six pence, Rosatum Dia cordanabatis, each one shilling, girilatum one shilling six pence, Dimargaridicum one shilling six pence, Ca∣lidum ana. three drams, Red Sanders halfe an ounce, Oile of Anniseeds a scruple, Oile of Cynamon twelve drops, take hereof morning and evening the quantity of a Nutmeg upon a Knives point.

Probatum Mr. Hutton.

A Balsom.

TAke old oile Olive three ounces of clear Venice Turpentin eight ounces of clean picked Wheat one ounce and a halfe of Saint Johns wort, with little holes in the leaves, like prick∣ings of Needles two ounces, of the root of Carduus benedictus, and Valeriana each one ounce, of Frankincense two ounces, beat both the roots and the Herbs together somewhat grosly, and put them in an earthen pott with as much Sack as will co∣ver

them, and so let them stand in steep two dayes, then put the Oile and Wheat into it, and seeth them altogether untill the wine be consumed, then take it of the fire and straine it softly, putting into that which is strained, the Turpentine and Fran∣kincense, and so boile it together a little, then take it off and keep it in a Glass close, till you have use for it, the older it is the better it will be.

Probatum est.

A Poultice.

TAke Wormewood, boile it, then chop it, then boil it againe in the same water, then mix with it Rye-me ale and a little Honey, and Hogs grease and applye it.

Take a peece of Bullocks horn within an inch of the head, frye it with black sope to pouder.

Take as much suet as the quantity of an Egge to a pound of Pionie Rosen, heat them and put them into water and make them up in rowles

A Diet Drink to drie up humors.

SArsapirilla three ounces, Lignum Gguiacae six ounces, Cortex guiaci one ounce flos stecados three drams, Epithimum three drams, Liquor is three drams, Raysons of the Sun one ounce, boild six hours in two gallons of Conduit water in Balneo Ma∣riae, drink it at all times fot a Moneth.

Take two drams of Passer from the Apothecary, and take the red Dock root, and boile it in wine, and take of the seeds of Pionie, and beat it into pouder, and put it into the wine and so drink a good draught.

Corne being black to recover the colour.

SCreen it once or twice a week with the cha••f and all if it be very black take the lome of a Clay wall, dry it in an Oven, and beat it to pouder, and put it into the Corne with the Chaff, and so screen them together.

To keep Wheat after it is cleane.

WHen it is in the loft for the first moneth, you must be ••ure to Screen it once a week, and after to turne it once a week if it lies very thick, you must set sticks in it an end to give it Ayre.

A true Receipt of Mr. Gaskins Cordiall pouder, with directions how to use it.

TAke the rags of pearle or seed pearle, of red Corrall, of Crabs Eyes, of Hawthorne, of white Amber, Ana a like••, quantity, being all severally beaten into fine pouder, and searced thorough a fine searce, then take so much of the tips or toes of the Crabs Cl••wes, as of all the rest of the pouder, for it is the maine agent of the work beat and cearse them as you do the rest of the pouders, then weigh them severally, and take so much of the tips or toes as of all the other fine pouder and mix them together, then make it up in balles with some jelly of Harts∣horne wherein you may infuse some Safron more or less as you desire to have them coloured, so let them lye untill they be drye and fully decoct▪ and then use them as you have occasion, if you can have the Crabs leggs before they be boild; it will be much better otherwise they may serve being boild, so that they be in season, which is in May or September, this pouder being finely shaven o•• scraped with a Knife, may be taken in a spoon∣ful of Dragon water or Carduus water ten grains at a time, wash∣ing it down with another spoonfull of the same water but for a yongue child two grains may suffice. It is good to prevent the small Pox, and to put forth a disease, it recovereth those that are fallen into a Consumption, if it be taken daily for a good time together, it is good and excellent in all violent and burn∣ing feavers, and against all sorts of poison, it serveth especially against the Pestilence of the Plague, it doth extirpate the ve∣nome of the infection, wherein no terra Lemnia sigillata, Beasors stone or Unicorns horn, though taken in a double quantity can match it, it helpeth quotidian tertian and double tertian Ague, but for the quartan it is not much commended, only it may comfort the spirits, and mitigate the fits, but in any other A∣gues, it is equall to any animal or vegetable medicine whats••∣ever,

it is good for the trembling or passion of the heart, it being taken in time it preserveth a man from all diseases and infections, and it worketh scarce with any sensible motion, for it neither provoketh nor giveth any offence at all to the heart, smel, taste, or stomach, it lasteth long▪ and decayeth not.

Flower of Sluphur as much as you can take upon a six pence at twice, and as much Benjamin as a pease, take them in a rere Egg, the Benjamine broken as small as pins-heads, take it first and last for a Cold.

For bleeding at the Nose.

TAke Frankincense two drams, Aloes one▪ dram, make them into fine powder, and mix them with the White of an Egg, untill it be as thick as honey, then commixe the soft hairs of a Hare with it, and apply it to the Nose and to the Nostrill which bleedeth.

Another approved.

TAke the blood which commeth out of the Patients Nose, and burn it in an earthen pot, then make it to powder, take of it three drams, Bolearmoniack one ounce, Camphir one scruple, with the White of an Egg, and a little Vinegar, make it thick like honey, and lay it to forehead, and put it to the Nose.

Another approved.

TAke the Moss of Willow, the soft hairs of the belly of a Hare smal cut, Sanguis Dragonius in powder a dram, mix them with the white of an Egg, add to them if you please the fine powder of Pom∣granates, there must be a linnen cloath dipped into the foresaid Medi∣cine and put it up the Nose.

For the Stomach grief.

DRink the seeds af Hollihocks in White-wine to cleanse the stomack of rotten s••inking Flegm and Melancholy.

A good Medicine for the stone approved by Mrs. Cranmer.

TAke one handful of pellitory of the wal one handful of Saxi∣frage one handful, of wild tim e one handfnl, of garden parsly foure or five redish roots sliced, foure sponfulls of fenell seed bruised, ••••reed, wash all these hearbes togeather and dry them in a faire linnen cloath and shreed them a little when they be dried and at night take a gallon of new milk warm from the cow and put it in an earthen pot and put all the hearbes into it, and the fennell seed with it stopping it very close, and the next morning put it into a common still and keep a reasonable fire all day under it and stir it often, you must take foure spon∣fuls of this water and three spoonfuls of White-wine with a little sugar in it warmed luke warme at the fire to be taken three dayes before the full and three dayes before the change through the year.

This is to be still'd in July to serve all the year, Two Stilfnlls will serve all the year. This Medicine for the stone is to be taken in any time of the Moone when you feele paine.

TAke one sponfull of an hearb called the golden rodd rub∣bed to powder to the yelk of an egg rere rosted sup it up fast∣ing three mornings together this Medicine is to be taken in any time of the Moon when any pain is felt fasting an houre after you ••ake it.

proved by Mrs. Vrsula Atkins

For the biting of a madd Dogg, for either Man or Beasts.

TAke three ounces of pilled Garlick, six ounces of Rue, of Lon∣don treacle foure ounces of scraped Time foure sponfulls boile them in a large potle of strong ale that is stale close cover∣ed with a soft fire, boile it to three pints strain this and give nine spoonfulls to drinck every morning for nine dayes.

The wound drink to be made in the midst of May.

SOuthernwood, Wormwood, Bugloss, Mugwort, Sannacle, Plantane, Dandelyon, Wood-bettony, Ribwort, white Bot∣tle, Dasy-roots, and Honey-succles,, Avence, Hawthorn Buds, Egremony, Oaken-leaves, Bramble, and wild Angelica, Cum∣fry, Mints, Scabious, Strawberry-leaves, Cinkfoil, Violet leaves, you must take of these one handfull, and put them into a pottle of White-wine, and a gallon of clear running water, boyl them altogether till half be consumed, then strain out the liquor from the herbs, then put to it a quart of Honey and boyl it again, and so put it in a glass close stopped, and when you need it take three spoonfuls therof first in the morning, and last in the evening, untill he hath drunk a quart therof.

The Virtues.

IT is very good for soars new or old, for wounds in the body, laying upon them a plaister of honey and wax, for womens breasts, and putrified bones causing them to scale, for ach in the stomach, and to break an Impostume, causing it to run out, it draweth bullets out of a Soldiers body, and healeth the place of the Issue, also it hath been divers times approved for the stopping of blood.

Take Araperlia and Sene two drams of each, of Bettony and Ermodactila •• three drams, of Bersonica, Carduus Sanctus, and of herb Maartitica one dram and a half of each, of Species Aromaticorum, and Rosati, and of Ginger one dram and a half of each, all these must be beaten to powder and mixt together, make an Electuary of these with a pound of Virgin honey well scummed, and of this give every morning betimes, or more or less according to the complection, for it should give but three Stools a day, and continue to take it 15. or 20. daies, as there shall be occasion, you need not keep your Chamber, nor be too precise in dyet.

A Poultice to asswage pain, and to ripen a Soar.

TAke a pint of milk and thick it with Oatmeal, put to it Lil∣ly-roots, first boyl them very soft, then bray them small with a spoon, and a little oyle of Roses, temper them well toge∣ther,

and apply it very warm.

Probatum.

A Digestive to heal a bite where it is broken and runs.

TAke Venice Turpentine▪ and wash it very well with fair wa∣ter, mix it with Wheat-flower, the yelk of an Egg and a lit∣tle Chalk finely scraped, temper these to a Salve, take a like quantity of each, but a little Turpentine.

To make a Powder of Paracelsus.

TAke two ounces of green Copperace, burn it in a Crusible til the pot be reasonable hot, then take Orpimint, Verdugrease of each an ounce, roch Alome one ounce, and burn it till it be white, bruise all into very fine powder, and mix them well toge∣ther, keep it close, it will last seven years good, it hath no peer in working, for put therof into a Wound where dead fl••s••••is, and a plaister about it, and it will cleanse, heal, and dry, take it not out of the soar till it come of it self, this powder never deceiveth the Surgeon nor the Patient, for it doth no harm in the Wound, for it gathereth, healeth, and dra••eth, but not without biting, for if this were without biting, then it passed all M••dicines:

Put all these things, into the Crusible together, and boyl them moderatly till they may be made in powder.

A Medicine to cleanse the Gumms.

TAke Sage of Virtue, dry it and pound it to powder, and mix it with powder of Alome and a little Sugar, rub your Gumms or Mouth with it, it prevents much harm.

For a Perl in the Eye.

TAke roots and leaves of Dayses, and three leaved grass, wash them clean, stamp them and strain them, then put in a lit∣tle Honey, Beer, and white Sugar-candy, and a little roch A∣lome, drop it often in the day into the eye,

To make Oyle of Ipericon.

TAke eight pound of Oyle Olive, two pound of the best White wine, if you can get, Ipericon buds eight handfuls, o∣therwise called St. Johns-wort, which you must bruise in a stone Morter with the said Oyle and Wine, then put them in a glass very close stopped, and set it in the Sun the space of two daies, then boyl them in Balneo Mariae, stuffing it well with Hay that the glass stir not in the boyling, after it hath boyled half an hour, strain the said oyle through a cloath, and put new fresh buds of Ipericon into it as aforesaid; thus you must do three times, setting it alwaies in the Sun, then strain it all, and put to every pound 12, ounces of Venice Turpentine the clearest and whitest you can get, 6 ounces of Almonds, Dictani gentiana, Tor∣mentilla, Callamint, Aromatico, Carlina, Cardio sancto of each four drams, of red Earthworms four ounces, often washed in good White-wine, beat all these in a Morter, but not the worms, then put all these into the oyle, putting to every pound three pennyworth of Saffron, then put into it three handfuls of fresh buds of Ipericon, so being mixed altogether, you must set it in the Sun forty daies or in an Oven, after that it must be strain∣ed into a vessell of glass▪ well closed up, and so keep it, the oul∣der it is the better it is.

The Virtues.

IT is hot and dry, it maketh found, and healeth all Wounds in a short time, and Sinews being cut: It is good for burning, it easeth the passion of the stomach, provoketh Urine, easeth the pain of the bladder and the lowest part of the belly; It is good for Worms in Children, the gout, and deafness in the Eare.

And thus you must use it, take a little in a silver spoon, wet a little fine cloath in it, and wring it into the Wound, and burn a linnen cloath, and quench it in the Oyle, and lay it to the Wound, and bind it up.

To make oyle of Roses, Violets, or of any Herb or Flower.

TAke a glass of a pint or a quart, and fill it half full of oyle Olive, and then fil it up with your flowers, and let it stand in

the Sun nine or ten daies, then cleanse it, and put it in fresh, and it will be stronger if it be made of Roots or Leaves, they must be bruised before.

Oyle of Swallows.

TAke young Swallows, beat them feathers and all, and take a handfull of the crops of Rosemary, of Lavander Cotten, of Strawberry leaves strings and all, of each a handfull, beat the herbs and Swallows together, and put to them a quantity of May butter, boyl them in an earthen pot, stop it close, and let it stand nine daies, then boyl it again, and strain it, and put it into a glass:

To make Oleum Benedictum, or the Blessed Oyle.

TAke of oyle two pounds, Storax, and Callamint, Labda∣num, Olibanum, Saffron, Gumm Arrabeck, Madder, Gum of the Ivy Tree, Alloes Cicatrina, Mastick, Cloves, Gallen∣gall, Cynamon, Nutmegs, Cubebes, of each two ounces, Gum Ellimpin, one pound of Myrrhe, Bdellium half an ounce, Gal∣banum six ounces, Spike an ounce, Rozen of the Pine-tree, Ar∣moniack, Oppoponax, of each two drams, beat all to powder that is to be beaten, and mixt it with the Oyle, and put all in a Stillary of glass with the Head and Receiver so closed, that no aire can come forth, setting your Limbeck on a soft fire twelve hours, encreasing your fire from six hours to six, till all be distil∣led; this done beat all the residence in the bottom of the Still to fine powder, and with the same Oyle distil the second, and the third time as aforesaid, and it shall be as it were Balm.

The virtue of this Oyle.

IT is good against Cramps, Palsies, pains of the Joynts, Colds, Catarrs, green Wounds and Ulcers, it comforteth the Spirits, openeth Obstructions, one drop in the Eare helpeth the hea∣ring. A Rosecake dipped in it and layd to the Temples, heals the Megrim, and taketh away the swimming of the head, one ounce drank in sweet Wine three daies together cureth the disease of the Lungs, and Quartain Feavers: If you give a spoonfull with Wine thirty daies together with a little powder of Popy-root, it helpeth the falling sickness, so that if the Cor∣ronal

Commissure be also annointed, it easeth the pain of the French-pox, and is good against the sting of any venemous Beast, and for all diseases of the sinews.

To make Oyle of Earthworms.

TAke of Earthworms half a pound, of good oyle Olive two pound, of sweet wine two ounces, boyl altogether til the Wine be consumed, then strain it and keep it: It is good to comfort the sinews that are cold, and it helpeth the pains in the joynts.

The virtue of the Oyle of Dill.

IT mittigateth pain, openeth Pores, provoketh sweat, resolveth Vapours, Impostumes, swellings, and hardness in any place, and if the back-bone be annointed, it easeth the pains, and growing of Feavers.

The virtue of the Oyle of Rew.

IT i•• hot, opening, resolving, and mittigating pain, it healeth the Reins, Bladder, and Matrix, and taketh the pain away, and also the Chollick if the belly be annointed therwith: A Glister made of it is good for the sinews, it helpeth the Cramp, and put∣••eth away cold humours.

Oyle of Elder-flowers.

IT suppleth and cleanseth the skin, healeth the weakness of the Liver, and the stopping of the same, and greatly assages the Pains of the joynts.

Oyle of Leaves, and Flowers of Camomile.

IT is good against the Plurisie, openeth the Pores, resolveth Vapours, correcteth the evil quality of humours, is good for the sinews, and abateth the pain marvelously.

The virtue of Oyle of sweet Mints.

IT comforteth a weak Stomach, stayes Vomits, moves appetite, helps concoction, and taketh away loathsomness.

Oyle of Wormwood.

IT is hot and comforteth the parts too much cooled, chiefly the sto∣mach, it also provoketh appetite, taketh away obstructions and kil∣le••h worms.

Oyle of Roses, and Rose-buds.

ARe good against Inflammations, it cooleth the burning and boyling of the stomach, and fretting of the bowels, if it be given in a Gli∣ster, and to annoint the Teeth it taketh away the ach.

Oyle of Violet flowers.

ARe good against all Inflammations and heat.

Oyle of water Lilly-flowers.

ARe more cooling then oyle of Violets, and helpeth the heat of the Reins:

A Medicine for the T••sick, stopping of, or in the Breast; and to open the Pipes.

TAke Parsley-roots, Fennel roots, pick them and seeth them in White, or Renish Wine, till they be soft, with some ••uniper berrics, and when it is well sodden, strain it, and put to the Wine some Pellitory of Spain, and drink it morning and evening eight daies together.

For Warts.

TAke the yelk of an Egg, roast it hard, and stamp it with Oyle O∣live, or Oyle of Violets, make a plaister of it, and apply it to the Warts.

A Drink which is marvellous in working, and much commended of all Surgeons for a Fistula in the body, and it will cast out broken bones.

TAke the roots and leaves of Plantane, Strawberry leaves, Hempseed, fine Bay-leaves, Sorrel-leaves, the roots and leaves of Tormentile, the root of the gre••t Mallow, the root of the great Coal, a good quantity of Tansey, boyl all these toge∣ther in White-wine, and put therto clarified Honey, and strain it, drink this evening and morning, till it come clear out of the Fester, and keep it open with the root Gentian, and lay theron a Coal leaf; this is a marvellous drink in working.

Probatum.

A drink of such force, as being given to the wounded or diseased with the Fistula, it wipeth out all filthiness in them, and healeth the Wound or Fistula,

TAke red Coleworts, Fenerick, Parsley, Southernwood, Tan∣sey, Hemp, Strawberry-leaves, sweet Bryer-leaves, Plan∣tane leaves, Smallege, red Madder, Crows bill, Alome, Nuts▪ boyl altogether in White wine, and put therto a little Honey, give it to the Patient to drink early, and late, and annoint the Wound without when he hath drunk of the said Potion, and lay to the wound a leaf of red Coleworts, and keep the same continually over it, for it openeth the Wound: This is ap∣proved also.

A powder for a Fistula.

TAke six soles of of old Shooe; rubbed very clean, not wa∣shed, burn it on a clean Hearth with an Oaken fire brand, taking away all the ashes or peeces of the coal; or lumps of the Shoo-soles unburnt, then weigh your ashes, and put to it half so much in weight of green Coperace, half so much in weight of burnt Alome, as of the Copperace; add of the brass Coal beaten to powder, half so much as of the burnt Alome, this brass coal may be found amongst Sea-coals, and shall be discerned by the heavines of them, and hardness, and collou•• wi••hin like Oare of Gold or Brass: beat off all the black coale clean, and stamp a small peece of the yellow onely▪

wherof take the quantity before said, grind every one of these a∣part on a Painters stone, as fine as you can, then grind them over altogether, and keep it for your use close bound up in parchment.

The use of it.

TAke of the Cream of a red Cow one spoonfull, let it stand in a Sawcer twelve hours, and pour away the Whay in the bottom, then take of the powder aforesaid, so much as will make the Cream a liquid Salve of a gray collour, put up this in a little gally glass close stopped, then having cleansed the Soar with a dry Tent, not using any cleansing water, make your Tent an Inch long at the uttermost, then take of this liquid Salve on the point of a knife, and spred it on the Tent, and so put it in the soar, and cover it with a cleansing plaister to keep in the Tent, and dress the Patient twice a day; If it run excessively thrice a day, and if the mouth close up too soon, add to the Salve a little more Alome.

Probatum.

The first Dyet-drink to cure the Fistula, and many other griefs.

TAke of Salsaparilla, of Saxifrage, Wood-root, of each four ounces, Cheny root one ounce, Egremony, Coltsfoot, and Scabious, of each four handfuls, two pennyworth of Marsh-mallow-roots, of Bettony, of Ladies Mantle, of Senacle, of each one handfull, one Columbine-root, shred the Woods above written, and put them together with the herbs into three gal∣lons of running water, boyl them therin till one gallon be con∣sumed, then strain out the woods and herbs with a skimmer, and put to the aforesaid water one other gallon of water, and boyl it till half be consumed, then strain this said drink through a strainer, putting therin a pottle of White-wine, and a pint and a half of honey, boyling it a little again, and skim it ve∣ry clean, then take it off the fire, putting therin two ounces of Sene, and three quarters of on ounce of Rueberb, and let it stand in it, then drink of it.

The second Dyet-drink to cure the Fistula, and divers other Imperfections.

TAke of Sarsaparilla, and Saxifrage root of each four ounces, Cheny roots, Madder roots, Tormentile roots, and Sene, of each two ounces, three quarters of an ounce of Rueberb, halfe an ounce of Cynamon, one ounce of Hearts-horn finely scra∣ped, large Mace three quarters of an ounce, shred these very small, take of Bettony three handfuls, of Sabious, of Coltsfoot, Egremony, Ribwort, Mousehair, Ladies Mantle, green Mercu∣ry, and Marsh mallow leaves, of each one handfull, of sweet Marjoram and Peniroyal of each half a handfull, put these herbs in a bagg, and dry them in an Oven after the bread is drawn, and when they are very well dryed, mingle them together with the Woods above written, then divide them into three e∣qual parts, putting one third part into three gallons of Ale in a little bag, and make it sink a little below the yeast, and let it not sink to the bottom, and when the same has stood so one day, then may you drink therof, when, and at what time you please.

Probatum.

A white water to cure the Fistula, and many other Soars.

TAke 3. pints of the distilled water of Elder, put it in an ounce of Mercury, stop it close up into a bottle, letting it stand half a year before you use it, the older it is the better.

Another to cure the Fistula, Tetter, Pegus, and Scald.

TAke of Mercurie dicipium, and boyl it in a pint of running water, till half be consumed, or put it into the distilled wa∣ter of Elder, but boyl it not then, and wash the soars therwith, and after take Brimstone and Alome, add Sallet oyle, and min∣gle it together very well, and then annoint the soars therwith.

To make Pills approved good for the Chollick.

TAke of Aloes the weight of seven shillings, of Agarick the weight of two shillings eight pence, of Mastick the weight of two shillings six pence, you must grate the Agarick and searce it, and then take the weight above written, the other you may beat fine in a stone Morter, and use them without searcing.

The making of Oximel to make up the Pills.

TAke twelve sponfuls of fair water, four spoonfuls of good Wine-vinegar, boyl it well together, then put in a spoonful of English Honey, of the purest you can get, then let it boyl throughly wel, for the better you boyl it the longer it will keep, then take as much of this liquor as wil work up the pouder be∣fore written, in a Morter like unto past, then roul it up in a lump, and so keep it, you may take two g••eat Pills at a time so big as you may wel swallow in the pap of an apple, or without it if you can; if you take them a quarter of an hour before supper, they wil work most on the head, if you can take them late at night; or by three of four of the clock in the morning, it wil work most on the stomach.

How to make the Pills aforesaid to work upon every humour as need shall require.

IF you will have them to work most upon Choller, then add thirteen penyweight of the powder of Rueberbe, and abate fourteen pennyweight of Alloes: If you will have them purge Flegm most, then take fourteen pennyweight of Turbet in pow∣der, and leave out the Rueberb: If you will have them purge Melancholy most, then take sixteen pennyweight of the powder of Cene, and leave out the Rueberbe, and Turbet; If you wil have them to work effectually on the head, you must make up your Pills with the syrrop of Sticados, and leave out your Oxi∣mel, if to work on the Matrix, then make them up with the syr∣rop of Mugwort: If you wil have them work away wind, add to any of those afore w••i••ten, three or four drops of the oyle of An∣niseeds when you make up your Pills. I have proved all those waies, and find them very good.

Syrrup of Bysons good for all stoppings and stitches com∣ing of Feavers, and for the yellow Jaundice, and for Feavers coming of Choller and Flegm.

TAke the juice of Endive and Smallage, of each one quart, the juice of Burrage, Landbofe, and wild Hops of each one pint, let them be wel clarified, then take the leaves of red Ro∣ses two ounces and a half, one of good Licorace, Spiknard the weight of eight pence, Anniseeds, Fennel-seeds, and Smal∣ledge seed, of each the weight of twelve pence, then boyl them together to the third part upon a soft fire, and let it run through a bag at aforesaid, till it be clear, then take two quarts of the same liquor, and put therto two pound and a half of fine Su∣gar, and so let it boyl to a syrrop as is aforesaid.

Syrrup of Roses to allay thirst in a burning Ague, to com∣fort the stomach, and to let corruptions from ingendring.

TAke three pints of Damask Rosewater, two pound of Sugar, and let them boyl together on a soft fire til it be come to a syrrup, and keep it as aforesaid.

Syrrup of Violets good for the Diseases aforesaid, as also for the dry Cough, and Rheume in the throat, the stich in the side, and comforteth the Liver and Heart.

TAke three quarts of water of Violet flowers, and two pound of fine Sugar, and boyl them together as you do the syrrop of Roses as aforesaid.

A Syrrup to comfort the stomach.

TAke Wormwood, Mints, and Motherwort, seeth them in fair water, and make a syrrup of the water, and take half a spoonful every day

To make syrrup of red Roses.

TAke two pound of red Roses, and put them in an earthen pot anneiled within, with a narrow mouth, put to it five pints of Conduit water being made hot, stop the pot very close, and so leave it the space of 8. hours, then strain the water from the Ro∣ses, and take other two pound of Roses, and put them in the same pot, and put the water that was strained from the Roses to

them being made hot as the first, and close the pot well, and when it hath remained so other eight hours, strain the liquor again from the Roses into a fair Skillet, and put three pounds of pure Sugar unto it, and when you have clarified it with the White of an Egg, set it on a soft fire of Charcoal, till it com∣eth to the thickness of a syrrup, then put it in a glass wel cover∣ed, that it take no aire.

A Pill to expell the Chollick, and to preserve the Li∣ver. by Mrs: Napper.

TAke of the powder of Rueberb the weight of a French Crown and a half, of the powder of red Rose-leaves half so much, of Mastick the like, of Mace, Cloves, Nutmegs, and Ginger, of each six grains, make these up into a mass for Pils with the syr∣rup of Sticados, or Violets.

An excellent Medicine for the Stone by William Hamp∣ton.

TAke the Roes of red Herrings, and Prick-holly leaves, and dry them in an Oven, beat them severally into dry pow∣der, searce them, and put them together of like quantity, put therto the powder of Grummel-seeds, and Broom-seeds of like quantity, but half so much as of the powder aforesaid, mix them together, and use therof ••aily a spoonful in a draught of Beer, Ale, or Wine, White, or Renish, evening and morning, you may use it in your broath, the oftner the better, have al∣waies a good deal of this powder in store, and keep it dry in a Pipkin by the fire-side.

Another for the same by Dr. Nicholas.

TAke of the Gum of the Cherry-tree, Damson tree, or Peach-tree but the Cherry-tree is best, put the same Gumm into a cup of White-wine, or Claret-wine, and so let it lye all night, and drink it in the morning, and in like case steep that in the morning that you mean to drink at night, and so use it three or four daies together, and it will break the Stone, and keep you long without pain of the same disease.

To make the Syrrup de quinque Radicibus.

TAke Parsley roots, Sparagus roots, Bruskus roots, alias Knee∣holme, Saxifrage roots, Fennel roots, of each a like quantity, boyl the roots in fair water till they be tender, then let the wa∣ter run through a clean strainer from the roots, and let it stand a pretty while, and settle, pour out the clearest of the water into a clean vessell which is very sweet: If you have a quart of wa∣ter put to it two pound of Sugar, and boyl it upon a soft fire, til it come to a syrrop, then take it off the fire, and let it stand and settle, and when the grownds are settled, then pour it in a smal vessel to be kept: This syrrup is good to open the Liver; you may also put to it Germander roots, or the leaves: This syrrup is to be taken with the Decoction of Barley:

A Syrrup to cool Choller.

TAke Fennell roots, Parsley roots and Burrage roots, wash them clean and take out the piths, boyl them in fair water till they be tender, then strain the water from the roots, and let it settle a while, then take the clearest of it, and put therto a good quantity of Vine∣gar, if your water be a quart, put to it half a pint of Vinegar, and so moderate your Sugar as you may make a syrrup of it, this syrrup will open and cool.

To avoid Choller and Flegm.

TAke a quarter of a pound of Licorace sliced, two ounces of Anni∣seeds, and steep them in three pints of running water four and twenty hours, and drink therof when you are disposed.

For the yellow Jaundice.

TAke all the water of the Patient after the first-sleep, and make a Cake of it of Rye-meal, make a good fire of wood, and put the Cake into the fire, and let it be consumed before the fire be stirred, this to be done before ••ight a clock in the morning.

A syrrup for the Lungs.

TAke Scabious Egrimony, Lungwort, Maiden-hair, Cham∣pits, Hysop, Burrage, Bugloss, Harts▪tongue, Endive, Succo∣ry, a pe••ce of Parsley, and Fennel-roots, three crops of Tyme, twenty Raysons of the Sun stoned, a stick of the best Licorace sliced smal, one spoonful of Anniseeds, one spoonful of Barley clean washed, flowers of the whitest Genedis, three soft Figs, and boyl all these in three pints of pure water, till a third part of it be consumed, then straine it, and put thereto, the best syrrup of Roses, and the best syrrup of Violets, of each half an ounce, white Sugar-candy three ounces, boyl all toge∣ther so long as any skim ariseth, then strain it through a strai∣ner and keep it, then take five or six spoonfuls of it in the mor∣ning luke-warm, as need shall require.

For the weakness in the back by William Hamp∣ton.

TAke one ounce of very good Bole-armoniack, one ounce of Terra sigillaat which is red, two ounces of Nutmegs, one spoonful of Anniseeds, beat all these very small, then mingle them together, and take an Egg and lay it before the fire, til the yolk be throughly warm, then lay the yolk upon a Tren∣cher, and take away the White from it, then take one spoon∣ful of the aforesaid pouder, and a spoonful of white Sugar can∣dy, and mingle them well with the yolk of the Egg, and so eat of it in the morning, fasting after it two hours.

To cool an extream heat in the Liver.

TAke Violet flowers and the leaves, and boyl them in clarified Ale, then take two or three new-laid Eggs, break them, and lay them in water, then take the yolks of them, and make a Caudle of the said Ale, the herbs and flowers being strained out, and so season it with a litlte Sugar.

A Syrrup for the Liver.

TAke halfe a pint of faire water, as much good Vinegar, and a pretty quantity of the powder of Rubarb, seeth them in Sugar, and make a sirrup of it.

For the stopping of the Liver.

TAke the broth of a Chicken, of Mercury, and Succory, of each halfe a handfull, a few great Raisons stoned, boile them all together, then take a few bitter Almonds, blanch them, and beat them, and with the same liquor make Almond milk, use to drink thereof every morning first.

A cold water for the Liver.

TAke Endive, Liverwort, Pettimorell, Fumitory, Scabious Sorrell, Burrage, Violets, and Sanders of each one hand∣full, put thereto a quarter of red Vinegar, still them together, and you shall receive a Soveraign water to cool the Liver.

For heat of the Liver.

TAke a penniworth of Succory roots, seeth them in a quart of new milk till they be soft, then strain out the roots, and eat them with Vinegar, and put a spoonfull or two of Vinegar in the said Milk to make it have a Curd, and straine the whay, and drink it:

For the biting of a Madd-Dogg, by Dr. Nicholas, and Dr. Wood.

TAke a quantity of Veruine, as much Rew, as much Plantane with some Treackle, stamp all these together with good wine or strong Ale, and give it to them that be bitten to drink, also take the aforesaid Herbs with Treackle, and Bay salt, and stamp them well together, and bind it fast to the place bitten and it will draw out the venome; This drink must be taken twice or thrice, and the Medicine in like case as often applied,

Probatum est.

A Medicine for the Plurisie when one is in extremity, by the Lady Fortescue.

TAke the Dung of a Horse or Gelding that standeth in the house at hard meat, and put a good quantity of it, when it is new made in Beer or Ale, bruise the dung well therein, then strain it through a clean cloth, and take as much of it, as will make a good draught, and put to it the quantity of a Nut∣meg in Treacle, and stir it till the Treacle be dissolved in it, then warme it, and drink it in the morning fasting, and at night when you go to Bed, so it be two hours after your meat, and let your Medicine be made fresh every day if you can; If not you may make at it one time to serve two dayes, so you make it strong enough, and put Treacle to every draught as much as is aforesaid, and keep it in a Glass vessell. By that time you have taken this drink four or five timas, you shall find ease, Al∣so for th•• stich, that cometh with the Plurisie, you must take dung, and fry it in fresh butter, and if your stich be on the right side under your small ribbs lay this Medic••ne at the side of your back directly against it, so it be not directly against the heart, for the Medicine will remove the stich to the place where it is laid. Therefore it must not be laid neer the heart, for drawing it to that place but any where else you may lay it, I have pro∣ved it this hath done great good for the Plurisie, as also for an inward cold, when other Medicines would not heale it. The drinkis also good for any stith or wind that will not easily be broken or dissolued. I have given this to a young Child when the red gumm hath been driven in, and the child ready to dye, and yet it hath recovered.

Probatum est.

To know when one feeleth a stitch whether it be wind or •• Plurisie, Dr. July.

TAke Wormewood, and lay it on a Tyle-stone before the fire, and cast a good deale of Bran on it, and when it is very hot sprinkle it with Malmsey, and put it in a linnen cloth, and ••ay it where you feel your stitch, If it be a wind, it will ease you in two hours, If it be a Plurisie it will augment the paine, and then you must use some other remedie. As letting blood

fomentations, and oyntments, use not Oile of Dill at the first for it is too hot.

A Receipt for the Plurisie.

TAke a good handfull of brook lime, as much of Violet leaves a pint of Flax-seed, and so seeth them together in a reaso∣nable quantity of faire running water, untill they be fit for a Poultice, then thicken it with Bran, and in two baggs the one after the other apply them as warm as may be endured for the space of an houre and half:

Probatum est.

An excellent Medicine for the Plurisy.

TAke a sweet Apple, and cut it asunder in the midst, and cut out the Coar on both sides of the Apple, and stop both the sides full with good Frankincense, and close them together a∣gaine, Then inclose them with a little paste, and wrap it with paper, and rost it tender, and so eat it.

A Pouder to preserve from, and to cure the Plague.

TAke an Egge, and make a hole in the top of it, take out the white, and yolk of it, fill the shell with the weight of two French Crowns in Saffron, roast the said Egg under the Em∣bers untill it shall begin to wax yellow, then take it from the fire, and beat the shell, and Saffron in a Morter together, with half a spoonfull of Mustard seed: Take of the pouder a French Crown weight, and as soon as you suspect your selfe to be infe∣cted dissolve it into ten spoonfulls of Posset Ale, and drink it Lukewarme, then to go bed and provoke sweating:

For those that be well.

TAke a Tost every morning, butter it on the one side, and put Vinegar on the other side, and put s••me of the afore∣said pouder on it:

For a Child.

TAke new milk from a Cow as hot as you can, and put in Saf∣fron and give it the child presently, and so let it lye down and sweat.

An approved Medicine to preserve from the Plague.

TAke the finest cleare Aloes you can buy, in colour like to Liver, and therefore called Hepatica, & of Cynamon Miche of each weight of three French Crowns, of Cloves, Mace, Lignum Aloes, Bole-orientall, Mastick, of each halfe an ounce, mingle them together, and beat them into a very fine pouder, of which take every morning fasting the weight of foure pence in white wine alaied with water, and by the grace of God you shall be safe from the Plague. The simples are to be had at the Apo∣thecaries, except Bole orientall, which is used instead of Bole-Armoniack.

A generall Medicine for all sorts of people taken with the Plague, to be had without cost.

TAke of the root of Butter Burr, otherwise called pestilent work one ounce, of the root of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce, of Sorrell one handful, boile all these in a quart of water to a pint, then strain it, and put thereto two spoonfulls of Vinegar, two ounces of good Sugar, boile all these together till they be well mingled. Let the infected drink of this so hot as he may suffer it a good draught, and if he chance to cast it up ag••ine, let him take the same quantity by, and by, and provoke himselfe to sweat and he shall find great help.

If a Soare do appeare.

THen make a poultice with two handfulls of wheaten bread, two ounces of sweet Butter, of the herb called the devils bitt, halfe a handfull, with sufficient water, after it is made, put to the poultice six or eight▪ Onions rosted under the Embers, and mingle them, and lay this ho•• to the place, and shift it twice or thrice a day. Also it is good to take the weight of eight pence of Mithridate in the morning in warme drink.

To preserve some, and to expell the Plague.

TAke of Saffron ten grains, of Wall-••ut Kirnells, and Figgs two ounces, one dram of Mithridate, and a few Sage leaves stamp these together, and the water of Pimpernell, make it up together, and take ten grains thereof in the morning, it will preserve, and out of those that be infected it will expell,

Probatum est:

To make of a Pill to purge grosse flegme, and to bring down the redds.

TAke Allo••s, Agarick, Mastick, Epithium, Mirrh gum Amo∣niack, and a little Saffron, and make them with sirrup of Mug∣wort.

Pills to purge the head and Stomach.

TAke of Mastick four drams of Agarick, and Turbith of each three drams, of Cynamon, Cloves, and Anniseeds of each one dram, of Saffron two scruples, of the best Aloes one ounce, make the Masse with the sirrup of Sticados, or juice of Worme∣wood.

To procure a stomach.

TAke Violet and Straw-berry leaves, Burrage, Sorrel, wild-Mallows, and Currants, and put them all in a quart of white wine, and a quart of water, and boile them to one quart, and drink thereof morning and evening.

To comfort the weakness of the Stomach, and also the Head.

TAke of Bittony water, and Plantane water, of each one quart, a good Nutmeg bruised, a branch of Rosemary, three budds of the Pomgranate flower, which is not blown out, Sugar Candie two ounces, boile all these from two quarts to three pints, very leasurely boyling it. Then keep it in a clean ves∣sell, and take of the clearest of it, morning and evening being

made bloud-warm six fpoonfulls three dayes together.

For the wind in the Stomach.

TAke of prepared Anniseeds three ounces, Fennel-seeds one ounce and a halfe, of Coriander seed prepared one ounce, of Comine, and Caroway seeds, of each one dram, of Sesly-seeds steeped in white wine one dram, of Cytron pil, Cynamon one dram, four scruples of fine Sugar, a double quantity to all these, of this powder take halfe a spoonfull after meals, and drink not after it, and it may be used oftner, or seldomer, as there is occasion, and if need be at other times.

A very good Plaister for the Stomach.

TAke of Muskadel, and Sack of each halfe a pint, and ra∣ther more of the Muskadel, Tenn Dates, and stone them, and boile these together till they be very soft, then stamp them in a Morter, and put to them Sallad Oile, and Butter, and put them into the Pos••et with their liquor again, then take the pou∣der of Mastick, and Cloves, and a little Barly flower, and let all these boile together till it be thick like a plaister, and laying the same on a cloth. Apply it to the stomach as hot as you can suffer it.

Probatum est.

For a hot Stomach.

EAte green Purslain to moisten a hot stomach, and to asswage the swelling of the mouth rising from the stomach.

From an Ach in the Stomack.

TAke a peece of Pine Apple with the juice of▪Purslain to as∣swage the gnawing of the mouth of the stomach, and to strengthen the weaknesse of the body, and to hold down the corruption of humors.

For the same.

TAk Nutts of a Pine Tree, being cleansed, eaten, or drunk in the decoction Raisons, or with the seeds os Cowcumbers.

It provoketh Urine helpeth the sharpnesse of the Kidnies, and Bladder, and the gnawing of the stomach.

For weak abhorring stomacks.

MIx the pouder of red and white Sanders with oile of Ro∣ses, and apply it to the stomach.

For the same.

TAke the pouder of Rewbe••b in white wine, it is good against the windines, wambling, and weakness of the stomach, and all paines thereof, it is good against all Cramps, grief of the liver, and Milt, It ceaseth the griping, and gnawing of the belly, the Kidnies, and Bladder. It mitigates the Ach in the breast, and of the Mother, and Scyatica, it helpeth spitting of blood, and Cureth the bloudy flux, and Lask, one dram of it being taken with hydromel for the same purpose with Sirrupus actolus a∣gainst the Liver.

A Plaister for the Splene by Doctor Hill.

TAke gum Armoniack, and Delium, of each one ounce, roots of Irres Galbanum, Bay-berries, and Storax of each halfe an ounce, Frankincense two drams, Pepper one dram, Turpentine three ounces, white wine as much as is sufficient to dissolve the gummes in, and make a Plaister to apply to the splene. The gummes must be dissolved in white wine over a soft fire: Then add the Frankincense and Turpentine, and last of all the other things beaten to pouder. This Plaister is good against the hardness of the Splene comming of a cold cause, or if there be any windinesse therein,