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.

Divers and sundry WATERS for sore Eyes, as followeth.

A Water to be made in the beginning of May.

Take a pint of Fennel-water, and a pint of Celendine-water, and put them both together in a glasse, then put to them as much white Coperas as a hazle Nut, and so let it stand in the Sun two or three moneths; and then drop it into your Eyes evening and morn∣ing, and as oft as you think meet.

Another Water for the same, to be made at all times:

Take a new laid Egg and open one end, and put out all the meat, and fill up the shel with fair running water, and put to it as much Coperas as a little pease, and a little bruised Cummin, and boil them altogether in the shel upon a chasing-dish of coals; and at the first ri∣sing stir it in again, and at the second time scum it clean; and when it is wel boiled, strain it through a fair cloth, and wash the shel again, and then put it in again; and so drop this into your Eyes at night at your going to bed with a feather.

A speciall approved Water for the healing of sore Eyes.

Take a piece of white Coperas as big as the Kernel of an ha∣zle Nut▪ and make it fine into powder, the like quantity of Ho∣ney, then take an Egg and make a hole in the one end, putting out all

the meat; then put the Coperas and Honey into the empty shel, and fill it up with fair running water (not too full) then take a chasing∣dish with coals and put the Egg thereon, and so suffer it to boil; but if it boil too fast stir it with the point of your knife, and put a dram of water therein with your knife, and let it boil the space of an hour; afterward take a piece of linnen cloth and strain it, and so keep it in a Vial, and use it when you go to bed.

Another for the same.

Take the juice of red Fennel and a little English Honey, and boil it together, and with a feather anoint the Eye-lids when you go to bed, and use to eat conserves of Betony for the swimming in the head, and somtime the crops of red Fennel.

A Water for a sore Mouth, by Mrs. Downing.

Take a pottle of running water, put in it one handful of Wood∣bine-leaves, red Sage, red Fennel, red Nettles, Hysop, Plantain, Ribwort, five leav'd-grasse and Herbgrece, of each one handful, four or five slips of Rosemary, two peny worth of Roach allom, six spoonfuls of English Hony, set it on the fire, and scum it so long as any wil rise, and let it seeth half away; then every day wash the sore: as long as it bleedeth let him not drink.

To make a Water for a sore mouth, by Mr. Peterson.

Take a handful of Sage, of Celendine, of Woodbine, of Rew, of Smallage, of each of these half an handful, and seeth all these in a pottle of conduit water until half be wasted; then strain them hard, and put that straining over the fire, and put into it half a pinte of Honey and two ounces of Roach allom; and when it doth seeth, take it from the fire and scum it clean, and then set it on the fire again, and put to it three quarters of an ounce of fine beaten Greins, let it seeth a while, and then take it from the fire, and when it is cold put it into a Glasse, and therewith wash the sore.

A Water to destroy the heat of the palms of the hands, and of the soles of the feet.

Take twelve spoonfuls of Rose-water, one spoonful of Vineger, and

wet therein a linnen cloth, and wash the palms of the hands and the soles of your feet when you go to bed.

A Water to destroy the heat of the Face.

Take a quart of fair running water, and a quart of the strongest ale that may be gotten, and half a pound of Roach allom, and seeth it till it be half sodden away, and then put it up in a close Glasse or pot, and when you have need of it, take a linnen cloth that shal be four or five double, and wet it in the water, and lay it to the grief as warm as you may suffer it; and as it dries wet it again: Use this and it will help you. If you put it in a glasse when it cometh hot from the fire it will break it.

A Water for bleard Eyes.

Take the juice of Straw-berries in time of Summer, and fair Ho∣ney, seeth it and scum it, and melt it together; then take a drop thereof and put into thine Eye, and thou shalt have fair Eyes and clear.

A good Water for the Eyes, by Mrs. Skudamore.

Take Cummin: Wine sodden with Frankincense is good for running Eyes.

Item, restraining shal be made about the temples and forehead.

Item, pure Wax being clean tried and tempered with powder of Cummin, and oft emplaistred, doth away the tears and wetnesse of the Eyes.

A precious Water for the Eyes, by my Lady Heyden.

Take Fennel, Rew, Eye-bright, Vervain, Tormentil, Betony, red Roses, Endive of the Wood, Oculus Christi, Chicken-weed, Pimper∣nel, Celendine, Philage, called Mous-tail, or Weesel-tail, or Housleek, or little stone-crop, Pionies, Vine-leaves, Smallage, Egrimony wood∣bind with long sweet hangles, of all these a like quantity; then beat them in a morter, and lay them in white Wine four and twenty hours, and as long in a sucking Childes Urine, the third day in wo∣mans milk of divers mens children, the fourth day in liquid Honey; (and if the Honey be not liquid heat it on the fire) and then hand∣ful after handful put it into the Stillatory; and that Water which

cometh out reserve it preciously; drop it into your Eyes with a fea∣ther as you need.

This Water is entred before under the name of Mrs. Downing, sa∣ving that they differ somwhat in the Herbs. fol. 44.

A Water for the Stone, by Mrs. Parnel Dall in Smith-field.

Still Milk; and into a pottle of Milk put one ounce of Or••is, be∣ing beaten, and take Alesander-leaves, and so distil them all together.

A Water for the heat in the Back, by my Lady of Sussex.

Take the juice of Plantain, the juice of Housleek, and Womans milk, and the juice of Lemons, and Rose-water, of each a like quan∣tity, two or three spoonfuls of Vineger; herein wet a cloth, and lay it to your Back, and as it drieth you must renew it again.

A Water for them that be lunatick in the Head, by Mr. Edwards.

Take Polipody of the Oak, Wood-sage, Wormwood, and a Root called Osmond, of all a like quantity; dry them and beat them to powder, and put this powder into Cowslip-water, or into Pottage.

A Water for the swelling of ones Leg after an Ague.

Take distilled Plantain-water one quart, Camphire four ounces, white Vitriol two ounces, make these two in fine powder, and put it into the Plantain-water, and let it have a warm or two on the fire, and so keep it, and wash the place swelled with a cloth.

To make WOUND-WATER.

Take two gallons of Water, and three handfuls of Honey-suckle∣flowers

and leaves, and one great handful of Celendine, and one of red Sage, and one handful of Rosemary; seeth all these together till the Water be half consumed away, and then strain it from the Herbs, and put to it one pinte of Honey, and one ounce of Roach allom, and one ounce of Greins, seeth all these together; that done, put it in a fair pot.

An excellent water for any wound or cut.

Take a handful of sage, as much woodbines, as much Lilly leaves, seethe them together in a gallon of running water unto a pottle, then strain them, and seeth the water again, and put thereto a pint of hony and skimme it clean, then put into it a handful of beaten grains, then let them play a while, and afterward keep the water in a glasse, and it wil keep it much longer, and wash the wound every morning, noone, and night with this water. If the wound be corrupt, shake the glasse that the groundsops may make it more strong. And if it be a fresh wound, take the cleer water only. At every washing you must cover the wound with a plaister of wax, and lay over the wax a linnen cloth or else a bladder. Approved.

A good Water for the Collick and the Stone.

By Doctor Sherman.

Take the kernels of Peach stones, and the kernels of Cherry stones, and ashen keyes all bruised, and laid in white wine to steep a day and a night, and so distil them, and use to drink the water.

A preservative water against the stone.

By Mr. Buckbeard.

Water of Saxifrage, Pearstone water, avens water, ramsy water, water of bean flowers, water of unset leeks, water of Samphire, each of these must be stilled by themselves, then take of each of them half a pint, so much of Malmsey as of the rest, stil them all together; and of the water so distilled, take three or four spoonfuls when you neede.

A water to wash a red face.

Take the root of wagebrode, plantane, salt, and the roots of burrs, stamp them together with aisel and powder of bayes, and therewith wash thy face.

A water against the itch and scab.

Seethe herb bennet and hemlocks in running water, and in the seething, put thereto roch allom, and wash the scab with that water.

Another for the same.

Take honysuckle leaves and sage, seeth them together in running water, and wash therewith.

A water for a ring-worm.

Take a cleer latten bason, put therein a pint of vinegar distilled, take halfe an ounce of Bole Armoniack and rub it on the bottom of the bason in the vineger til it be all dissolved; then let it stand all day, and the water wil be blew, put it in a glasse, and therewith rub the ringworm.

Divers approved medicines and waters for eyes

First, The distilled water of eye-bright simple, compounded with nothing else.

Item. The wine of eyebright, which is made for the eyes by put∣ting the herb into the must, until it be at length perfect wine, whose use maketh the eyes of old men wax young again.

Item. A powder made of three parts of eyebright, and one part of mace, if a spoonful of it be taken every morning by it self, or with sugar or wine.

Also the powder thereof eaten with the yolk of an egge is of the same effect.

To make a blue water, being excellent to root out, and rot away dead flesh in a sore leg.

By Mr. Smith of the Exchequer, that dwelt at Charterhouse.

Take fair running water a gallon, and boil it with a pint of hony, one ounce of roch allom, til one quarter be consumed; then take it off the fire, and when it is between hot and cold, put to it an ounce of verdegreece and brew it, and labor it up and down til it be all of a

froth, and so let it stand a while and brew it again, and thus do five or six times a day, and when it is setled put it up and use it as need re∣quires.

To make good red water for any old wound or sore leg. My Lady Pagets water.

Take Bole Armoniack four ounces, Comfry one ounce, white co∣peras four ounces, boil your coperas and comfry together in a little black pot, until they become water, stirring them together til they be hard in seething; beat them in a mortar, then beat your Bole Armoni∣ack to powder by it self, & mingle them together, & keep your powder in a bladder: when you need to occupie the water, take a pottle of run∣ning water, and set it on the fire until it begin to seeth; take it from the fire, and take three spoonfuls of the powder, and put it into the water, and then put alltogether into a glass, and let it rest until it be clear in the uppermost part of the glass; then take the cleerest of the water and wash the sore therewith warm, and lay a linnen cloth four times double wet in the water upon the sore, and bind it fast with a roller and keep it warm. Do this evening and morning until it be whole; for it is an approved medicine; although the sore seem worse after the first dressing, fear it not, for it is a very good approved medicine.

A special good water for red bleared eyes.

By Mrs. Birch my mother.

First, take Lapis calaminaris, not the male but the female, which is the grayer in colour, and the better for this purpose, and prepare it thus; cast it into the fire til it be red hot, then take it out and quench it in white wine; do thus so often til you perceive it is clean without metal and dross, afterward lay it in the May Sun all the time of May; which done, you may keep it to serve this purpose as long as you wil. And when you wil use it, you must take part thereof, and grind it upon a Painters stone into such fine powder as wil easily goe through a fine lawne; put this powder into a glasse with white wine, and drop therof with a feather into the sore eyes at going to bed, first one drop and after a little pawse another drop; thus do with either eye if they be both sore. It wil smart sore, but it wil do exceeding much good; for it wil both stop the humor whence the soreness proceeds, wherein the operation of it is most excellent, and also heal the sorenesse and rednesse of the eyes in short space.

Ere you put it up in the glasse, straine it through a course linnen cloth once or twice, for otherwise it wil be too rough and sharpe for ones eyes.

Also when you use it, you must shake your glasse for to stir up the powder, for otherwise it will lye still at the bottom.

For lack of White Wine you may make it with Fennel Water, but White-wine is the better, for that will skin the sorenesse.

A good Water to asswage the great thirst in a Feaver.

Take a pint of Endife Water, then take a pint of Rose Water, an ounce of Vineger, boil them with sugar, and let the Patient drink a spoonful when he is thirsty.

A Water for the Itch.

Take fair rain water one pint, distil it, and when you will ••ocupy it, put to it green Coperas, and lay in it Plantane leaves pricked full of holes, and herewith wash the place where the Itch ••s, and lay some of the Plantane leaves upon it.

Idem.

Take Enula Campana roots, and seeth them in whey, and wash the Patient with it warm.

A good Water to wash and heal a Marmole.

Take a gallon of fair running water, and cast therein three or four handfuls of Sage, and seeth it unto a quart; and put thereto an half penny worth of Allom, and wash the Marmole therewith being warm, then cover the wound with lint, and lay a Plaister of the Sage above. Do thus ten or twelve dayes.

A Water for the evil in the throat or mouth

Take Fennel and boil it in water, when it is boiled, hold thy mouth over it, after drink of the Water and hold it in thy mouth till it be cold, then cast it up. Do thus three times a day for four dayes, and it will be whole.

A Water for the Stone.

Take Pellitory of the wall, and broom flowers, and distil them together, and drink of this Water as need requireth.

An approved good Water to draw water out of the Stomack.

Take two or three pieces of leavened bread, a pottle of vinegar, two handfuls of Sage, and put them all together in a stillatorie, and so still them, and make a water of them, and when you feel your self accumbred, drink one spoonful thereof in a morning.

A good water to wash all manner of sores, risings and swellings.

By Clement Warwick.

Take a gallon of the best Tanwesse, and thereto put one penny-worth of madder, and one penny-worth of roch allom, make a pow∣der of them, and boile it with th▪e Tanwesse till the powder be mel∣ted, and then take a linnen cloth, and make a rundel of it as much as your hand, and wet it in the Tanwesse, and roll it about the swel∣ling hard and fast, and so let it be still two dayes, and this will cleanse fait, and abate swelling.

A most Soveraigne Water, that Dr. STEVENS the Physician kept secret unto his death.

Take a Gallon of good Gascon wine, then take Ginger, Ga∣lingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Annis seeds, Fennel seeds, Caraway seeds, of every of them alike much, that is to say, a drachm; then take Sage, Mints, Red roses, Thime, Pellitory, Rosemary, wild Thyme, Camomile and Lavender, of every of them an handful; then bray the spices smal, and shred the herbs small, and put all in the wine, and let it stand so twelve hours and stir it divers times, then still it by Limbeck, and keep the first water by itself, for that is best; and then keep the second Water which is good, but not so good as the first.

The vertue of this water is this. It comforteth the spirits vital, and helpeth the inward diseases that come of cold, and against the shaking of the palsie, and cureth the contraction of the sin∣newes, and helpeth the conception of Women that be barren; it killeth the wormes within the body, cureth the old Cough, it

helpeth the Tooth ache; it comforteth the stomack very much, and cureth the old Dropsie, it helpeth the stone in the bladder, and in the reins of the back; it helpeth shortly the stinking breath. And whosoever useth this water now and then, and not too often, it pre∣serveth him in good liking, and shall make him to seem young very long: With this Water D. Stephens preserved his own life until ex∣treme age that he could neither ride nor go; and continued yet Bed-rid five years, when three Physicians judged it impossible for him to live one year. He did confesse a little before his own death, that if he were sick at any time, he never used other Medicine but on∣ly this water. And also the Arch Bishop of Canterbury used it, and found great ease and goodness in it; and lived till he was not able to drink off a cup, but sucked his drink through a hollow thing of silver. And Mr. Brown Serjeant at Law learned of the Arch Bishop, to keep himself and his friends with this water. It will be much better if it stand in the Sun all the Summer.

The Vertues of divers Waters, as followeth.

Hysop Water.

It is good for all manner of evils in the stomack and in the heart, and lungs for the brest and Maries.

Water of Betony.

It is good for all head ache to wash the temples therewith, and for filth about the heart.

Water of Dragons.

It is good for any Infection or Corruption in the aire that goeth into a man, and for the pestilence.

Water of Elder.

It is good for man or woman to drink against all manner of Jaundise.

Water of Endife.

It is good for to drink for all manner of Feavers and hot evils, for the Dropsie, the liver or stomack.

Water of red Fennel:

Is is good for all manner of evils in the eyes, and good for a prick.

Water of Wormwood.

It is good for wormes in the belly, and for grinding in the Womb, and windinesse of the Collick, for the liver, for the Spleen, for drunkennesse, for the eye sight, and for evil air of Plagues or Pestilence.

Water of Ditany.

It is good for Poison, Venom and Pestilence.

Water of Centory.

It is good for the Liver, for the Milt, for Wormes in the womb, and for the sauce-flegme.

Water of Fumetory.

It is good for the Morphew, for scab or scall, for the Dropsie, for the liver, for the Maries.

Water of Marnbine.

It is good for the Gout, for the Lungs, Brest, and for the Collick.

Water of Balme.

It is good for the liver, for the Spleen, for the Marrow of the back; and also it cleanseth and dryeth away the Mo∣ther.

Water of Plantane.

It is good for the Flux, and for the hot Dropsie.

Water of Violets.

It is good for a man within, and for the reins of the back, and for the liver.

Water of Wood-binds.

It is good for all manner of heats, and also scaldings in the mouth, which break out of the stomack, and for a Canker.

To make Aqua Composita.

First in April or May, or betweene the Ladie dayes, when Herbs be in verrue and unseeded, Take a large handful of Hy∣sop, Sage buds, Rosemary, red Fennel, of Enula Campana a scant handful, of red mints and Horehound half an handful, Marjoram and Pennyroyal a scant handful, and all these same before written minced, and three handful of Licoras well scraped and minced, and as much Annis cleansed and bruised; and put all into a brasse pot of four gallons, and fill up the same with as mighty Ale as you can get, at the least four or five dayes old, so that the pot be full within three fingers of the under ring. And so let it steep all one night, and in the morning stir all well together, and set the pot upon the fire till it boile; then abate your fire till it leave boiling, and then set your Limbeck with wrought paste quickly upon your pot, and put a few great charcoales under it, and so s••eth it with a soft fire till it come: and set a clean quart glasse

under the pipe to receive your water. And ever tend it well that it run not too fast for taking fire, nor too soft for being weak; but ever as it may drop and not run, for that is ever best. But alwayes be sure to fill the Cisterne of the Limbeck a∣bove with water, or it will be too hot; for if it be not well tended, and the fire also, it will run white, and be in jeo∣pardy to set all on fire: keep ever the first part by it self, and the second that runs cleer by it self; and the last to distill a∣gaine. Put thereto the best white wine lees that may be gotten to make up the Ale, in every pot one Gallon; and put thereto Mace, Coriander, Caraway, red Fennel seeds, Centory that is ga∣thered between the Lady dayes, of every one of them a quartet of an ounce, all well bruised and put thereto. And when you would have a Gallon or two or more that should excel and be prin∣cipal, brew much of the second, and all the last that came white out of the Still, and being now double stilled together it will be very excellent.

To make a fine Damask Water.

Take Rose water two pound, Musk two grains, let it seeth in the Rose water, and distil it with a soft fire.

Take Rose water two pound, Saffron two ounces, seeth it in the Rose water between two platters, half a quarter of an hour then di∣still it and keep it close.

Take Rose water one pound and a half, Cloves beaten into fine Powder one ounce, and put into the Rose water two dayes before you distil it, and keep it close.

Take Rose water one pound and a half, Camphire one ounce, distil it with the Rose water with a soft fire, keep it by it selfe close. Then hast thou four Waters ready.

Now to make an excellent Water of these four Waters. First take a pound and half of the Musk Water, two pound of your Saf∣fron Water; of your Camphire Water half a pound, and of your Clove Water half a pound; put them all into one Still of Glas••e, and distil them with a soft fire; and this shall be excellent Damask Water.

Another Damask Water.

Take Rose water four pound, Rose leavs dryed two ounces, and put them into the Rose-water by the space of two days, then cast thereinto halfe an ounce of Marjoram gentle, one ounce of Benjamin, one ounce of Storax Calamint, and distil them with a soft fire.

How to make another Damask Water, proved by her that distilleth the Sweet Waters at Hampton Court.

Take of the best red Roses new gathered a good quantity, and strow them light in the bottom of your Still; then take Lavender, Spick, fine Marjorame and basil, the leaves of each mingled toge∣ther, of these four being mingled, take one handful and strow them light upon the Roses. Then take a little Damask Powder, and strow it lightly upon your green flowers, then take a handful of your Rose leaves, and strow them upon your Powder and greene flowers: Then take a quantity of Damask Powder, and strow it upon your uppermost Roses. These things above written being done, take six or seven Rose-leaves, and lay on every leaf the quan∣tity of half a grain of Civet, and lay them upmost of all, with the Civet upward, Then take and cover your Stillatory very close that no air get out, and distil them all together with a soft fire; and you shall make fine Damask Water.

To make Rose Water.

Take red Roses and pick them from the buds; then take Laven∣der, Marjerom and Basil the leaves of each two handful; then take five or six leaves of your Roses, and lay on them a little quantity of Civet; then take Damask Powder, and strow between every range; then distil them in your Stillatory with a soft fire in any wise.

To make Damask Water in winter.

Take a Pottle of good Ale new cleansed, and let it stand in an earthen pot all night, in the morning take it out, and put thereto a pint of running water, and a quarter of Cloves, two pence in Camphire, a good quantity of dried Lavender, and as much dryed Roses that were dryed in the Sun, and put all these together into a Stillatory and still them. It was taught the Queen by the Ambas∣sadors of Almain.

A Water for a Tetter or a Ringworm.

Mrs. Blow, which she had of George Birch.

First, take Gum Arabeck one dram, Sal Armoniack two drams, beat them to powder, and put therein six ounces of white wine Vine∣ger, and so boil them al together until it be half consumed, then strain it, and put it into a glasse and use it.

The making of white Water for the eyes. Mr. Birch his Water.

Take Gum Arabeck, Gum Dragagant, fine white Sugar candy, of the finest white Starch made of Wheat flower, of either of these two drams, and Camphire six grains, fine Venice Cerus washed oftentimes in Rose water three drams, of Sarcacolla one dram and a half; dry your Gums, and beat and searce them through a fine Searce, and so likewise your Starch and Sarcacolla; then take the white of an egg, and make little trochises thereof: take one of these tro∣chises dryed, the weight of a dram, and dissolve the same in two oun∣ces of white Rose water, one ounce of Eyebright-water, and one ounce of Fennel water.

A special good Water for the Web or Pearle in ones Eye.

By Mr. Vowel.

Take a quantity of the whitest Coperas about one penny worth infused in a platter of running water; let it stand in the same platter one day and one night, then put it into another plat••er, and then shift it every day for the space of one month at nine of the

clock in the morning, and six of the clock in the afternoon. This must be made in June, July or August, and must be set in some cham∣ber where the Sun shineth hotest.

Also white Rose Water, that is stilled by the self; and when you use the aforesaid water for any cause, then put into it three spoon∣ful of the Coperas water above specified, one spoonful of this Rose water, and so use it.

This Water is approved.

To make Balm Water.

Take a pound of Balme fair stripped, washed and dried clean, and put it into an earthen pot of a Gallon, and put thereinto a pottle of very good Sack, a pottle of as strong Ale as you can get, three ounces of Licoras bruised, and three ounces of Annis-seed bruised. So they being put together, let them stand twelve hours, and stir them together; then in the morning still them in a Limbeck; the first pint take out by it self, and so likewise the second. This Water is good for the Windy-Collick, and for the Spleen; and the water is good to wash the side for the Spleen.

A very good Medicine for sore eyes.

By Mrs. Downing, and Mrs. Dynne.

Take six drams of Lapis Tutiae, being prepared and beat••n into fine powder, and as much A••oes H••paticum, likewise beaten into fine powder, of fine Sugar half a pound, of Rose water one pint and a half, of good White-wine that is not sowre one quart; mix all these together, and put them into some Vessel * 1.1or glasse of a pottle, stop it close, and set it in the Sun one month, stirring it once in a day, that it may be well incorpora∣ted. At the monthes end straine it through a thick cloth into a clean glasse, and drop hereof into your eyes morning and evening, and as occasion shall serve.

A medicine to bee used for the Pox in the Throat.

Boile in posset Ale Marigold flowers, maydenhair, hearts horn, Liquorice and figgs; let all these be boiled from a quart to a pint, and given warme to the party, as oft as you will, to bring forth the small pox kindly, and keepe them out of the throat.

To keep the Pox from pitting in the face when they are come out, and begin to die.

Take half a pint of Malmsey, and a quantity of sperma ceti, accor∣ding to the proportion of the Malmsey, let it be set upon the coales while it be melted, and then take it warm and bath their fa∣ces still as it dries in, and it makes the Roves come off, and keeps it from pitting.

A black Salve and a powder, to heale any old Sore or Ʋlcer where the bone is not corrupt.

By Mr. Birch.

Take fine sallet oyle one pint, new wax half a pound, red lead grownd in fine powder, half a pound; boil all these together upon a soft fire, alwaies stirring the same with a spattle, untill it turneth into a black colour, then take it from the fire, and stirre it untill it be cold.

The Powder. Idem.

Take lead and beat it into thin plates, then file it into powder, steep it five or six dayes in wine vineger, changing the vineger two times a day, then take and powre the vineger from the lead and dry it, and when it is dry, beat it in a mortar, and grind it a good while together until it be as fine as you cannot feele it be∣twixt

your fingar and your thumbe. So keepe it for your use.

First, you must cleanse the sore from all corrupt and dead flesh, either with precipitat, or burnt allom, or with Unguentum aegyptiacum or Apostolorum mixt with precipitat; when it is cleane, then cast on your powder, and upon that lay on your plaister, and assure your self it wil heal it: The plaister wil heale it alone, if it be not farre gone.

An ointment for all wounds of what kind soever, so they be new and greene.

By Mr. Birch.

Take Venice Turpentine, Gum Elemnae, of either one ounce and a half, sheeps tallow one ounce, of old Guilts grease two oun∣ces, dissolve this together upon a soft fire, and so melted together, strain them: of this oyntment take half an ounce, and of oyle of St. Johns wort one drachm, dissolve these together, and dip lint in this oyntment, and put it in the wound, and apply the black plai∣ster over it, and so bind up the place.

And this oyntment may be applied unto old sores also, as well as to new, laying first this oyntment thereto, and then a plaister made of the black salve next before written.

A medicine for a Wound.

Take two great handfuls of Celendine, and one of Mercurie, one gallon of running water; boile these til halfe be consumed, and the herbs very tender, and put in a pint of white wine, foure great spoonfuls of honey, as much Roch allom as the quantity of an egge: Consume a pint of it at the least.

The Diet.

By Mr. Cooper.

Take Cortex guasi one pound, Sarsaparilla four ounces, sassa∣••••asse two ounces, Radix Cheni two ounces, Jujubes, Sebestien, four ounces, Raisins of the Sun the stones taken out, one pound, Da∣mask prunes four ounces, Currans four ounces, Maidenhair one ounce, Liquorice four ounces, Ginger one ounce, Juniper berries

two ounces, beat your Cortex, Sarsaperilla, Sassafrass and Radix Cheni into fine powder, and searce them, and infuse them six hours in four quarts of white wine, three quarts of March-beer, and three quarts of ordinary beere, and the liquorice bruised, then seethe them in Balneo Mariae, with all the other parcels put to the rest, and in the top of your lid there must be a hole, and this bag must hang in the pot being close stopped; and in the bag must be Cinna∣mon one graine bruised, Cloves one graine whole, Rubarb three graines whole, musk, civet and ambergreece of each three graines, and when it is halfe boiled in, then you shall adde to it four oun∣ces of China, one ounce of mithridatum letting them seeth one walm and then take it out of the Balneo Mariae, and set it upon hot em∣bers close stopped eight hours, and then strain it, and drink no other but this for six dayes, taking a quarter of a pint at a draught bloud warm, as nature wil beare.

And your diet must be two meals a day, either mutton, chicken, or rabbet rosted dry, and your bread bisket; and after the six dayes you shal take broth made with Mutton, adding these herbs, bur∣rage, maidenhair, harts tongue and liver wort, with Raisins of the Sun the stones taken out, damask prunes, mace and grated bread. And you shal take two spoonfuls of this jelly following; Take a red Cock of a year old, pul him quick, and slit him in the middest, then break the bones of him and wash him clean from his blood, and dry him with a fair cloth; so done, take a handful of nepe, as much of Harts-tongue, a quantity of pennyroyal, halfe a pound of Rai∣sins of the Sunne, half a pound of Currans, two ounces of Ma∣nus Christi, one ounce of Sugar candy, six angels or more, and put these into the Cock, closing the sides together, and after take a pint and a halfe of Muscadine; put in the same with the Cock into a pewter pot, closing the lid that no air go out, and set the same into a brasse pot full of water; and as the water seetheth away, so fil it up, letting the pewter pot stand therein four and twenty houres, then strain it and keep it close, and use it as before.

You must eat roasted Hares farsed with these herbs following, Mercurie with the curled leaf, mugwort and valerian.

Then you must perfume three dayes together with Fran∣kinsence, Bay leaves, Nutmegs, Benjamin, of each a quantity, and muske a graine.

Take three mornings this powder following; the scrapings of Cyprus a dram and a halfe, long pepper, Nutmegs, fine wood of alloe of each of them a scruple, the kidneys of a Hare dried and not burnt, and make them in powder, and drink it three times with Muscadine.

Weare upon your left arme an eagles stone, and lay to the reins of the back the white of an egge, beaten with five or six drops of vi∣neger of Solis.

Take the powder of Cordial Dicalamintum and Diagalanga of each the weight of fourteen pence, Diamosco dulcis the weight of five pence, Aromaticum Rosarum, of each the weight of seven pence, Sugar four ounces; water of Wormwood a quantity; seeth them to a perfect heighth, and so put to your powder when it cooleth, and so gild these Lozenges.

A medicine for the pricking of a sinew.

Annoint the sinew pricked with oyle of eggs luke warme, and it will heal it.

A medicine for the strangurie.

Take a good handful of the crops of red nettles, stamp them, and straine them with a little new milk as it cometh from the Cow, and drink thereof every morning.

For any bruise or rednesse in the eyes.

Take white sugar candy very finely beaten into a powder, then take some of that powder into a goose quil, and blow it into the brui∣sed eye, and it is a ready cure.

Probatum.

To make an excellent Perfume.

Take three ounces and a half of Benjamin, and lay it a night in Rose water, then beat it fine, and take half a pound of Damask Roses, the whites being cut off, then beat them fine in a stone mortar, then take the Benjamin, and put to the Roses, and beat them together till they come to a Paste, then take it out and mingle it with half a quar∣ter of an ounce of musk kindly beaten, then put to halfe a quarter of an ounce of Civet, as much Ambergreece, and mould these with an ounce of the best Sugar finely searced, then make them in little cakes, and lay a Rose leafe on both sides of them, then lay them a drying upon a board that hath no savour, where no aire cometh.

A purge for the head and stomack.

Pilula coctiva a scruple, Pilula aggrativa halfe a scruple, a little syrup of Sticadine or Betony, make it into three pills, and take i at night or morning fasting.

For the head and stomack Rheume.

Take a Sage leaf wel washed, and it is very good to chew it in ones mouth.

A cooling drink.

Take a Gallon of whey, and boil it until it cometh unto a pottle, with a handful of Sorrel, Borage blossomes or Borage leaves a hand∣ful, boil the formost together until it come unto a pottle, straine it through a jelly bag; being strained, season it with Sugar candy, and juice of Lemmons until it be to your liking.

For a splent of a horse.

Take a stick and beat it down, then prick it with a little bod∣kin, after take a stammel cloth and double it, and between the double put some mastick, then take a whole brick, draw it upon it, until it show through the stamel, and then its sufficient.

To stanch blood.

Take toad roden, or the slime of toads in March, and put it into a coule or keele, and for nine dayes together steep some linnen cloths therein, and as often as they dry, dip them in again, these cloaths being used as before nine dayes together, you may keep them many years, use then this to the place where the bleeding is, take as much as wil fit the place, and it will stay it; if not, being dry, then draw the cloth through a little warme water, and use it as before, be the bleeding inward or outward, it will stay it.

A medicine truly approved for the Stone.

Take the lees of white or Rhenish wine, and without any other ingredients, distil it until it comes unto a pottle of Aqua vitae, divide the pottle of Aqua vitae into two glasses that are wide at the top, and of a gallon a piece, into each of which glasses, put every day a quart of Strawberries until the glasses be full, and let these glasses being close stopped be put into the Sunne for two months, after which, straine the Aqua vitae from the Strawberries through a cloth or strainer, and being from the Strawberries, put into each of those glasses of Aqua vitae, a quart of muskadine, and a pound of Su∣gar candy, and then stop them close, and put them into the Sunne again as long as you please.

The use of it.

You must take it in this manner, if you will prevent any fit, you must take three spoonfuls of this water, and two of parsley water in the morning, and fast two houres after it: If the fit be upon you, then take five spoonfuls of this water alone or more, as you shall think sit: it is fittest to be taken in the morning, and fast two houres after it, or the last you take when you go to bed, two spoonfuls of this, and two spoonfuls of parsley water to prevent the stone.

Divers good Medicines to stanch the bleeding of a wound.

Take Terrasigillata and beat it into powder, and put it into the wound: And if it stanch not therewith, lay to it a white of an egge and flax, and put the powder upon it.

Another for the same.

Take the white moss of an Appletree, and dry it on the fire in a fire shovell, and make it into powder, and so put it into the wound.

And if the patient be hot, you must wet the neck with a little fair water in your hand.

Another to stanch the bleeding at the Nose, or of a wound.

Take egge shells, and burne them upon an hot brick or tyle in the fire, and beat them into powder, and put it into the wound; or if they bleede at the nose, blow it up into the nostrils with a quill.

Also the soft down of Carduus benedictus being beaten to pow∣der, or feathers being laid to the wound, will stanch the bleed∣ing.

Another for the bleeding of a wound.

Write these four letters, AOGL with the blood of the wound, about the wound.

To stanch bleeding.

The powder of Bole Armoniack being put into the wound doth stanch bleeding, or otherwise being blowne up into the nose.

Another to stanch it.

Take the knots of knotwormes, and split them, and wash them with white wine, and dry it into powder, and cast thereof into the wound, and it will stanch the bleeding.

To stanch bloud of a vein or wound.

Take the haire of Hares skin, and temper it with the white of an egge, and lay it to the wound, and it will stanch it.

Another for the same.

Take linnen cloth and burn it into ashes, and take thereof and▪ mix it with sugar and so cast it into the wound.

A black Salve, very good for any green or old cut or wound.

Take a pint of Sallet oyle, halfe a pound of white lead very finely beaten, foure or five penny worth of mastick, halfe a quar∣ter of a pound of fine rosen, as much of Benjamin, halfe as much of dry balsom, the like of Storax, all finely beaten, as much vir∣gins wax as a walnut, boile all these together, until they be so stif••e, that when it is cold it wil make rolls.

Item. Take two handfuls of Angelica and stampe it, put thereto three pots of Beere, take three or foure spoonfuls of sheeps dung, of the newest, then stirre it well together, and then straine it, and put thereto halfe a pinte of Muskadine, or Malmsey, and so give to drink: you know the use of it.

A medicine for the tooth ach.

Take a live Mowle, and put him in a brasse pot, and there let him die, then cut him asunder and take out the guts, and dry the blood with a cloth, then cut him in quarters, and hang him on a thred drying by the fires side; when ye would use it, lay the fleshy side of it with bladders of Saffron, with a cloth to your sore.

Take the heartes of six Mowles, put them upon a new tile-stone made red hot, then lay these hearts upon this stone, until they be burnt to coales, then beat them into powder; you know the use of it.

For a child that hath a Cough.

Take six spoonfuls of Malmsey, one spoonful of Capons grease, a pennyworth of Saffron, beat it into powder; put all these together and warme it, then annoint the stomack, and ••he soals of the feete, dip a little clout when ye lay it to the sto∣mack

it will heale it in three times laying.

An excellent medicine or oyntment for any bruise, straine or pains in the joynts.

Take two handfuls of Rosemary, as much of Isope, halfe as much of the herb you call adders tongue, halfe a handfull of Egri∣monie, stirre them together, then take a pound of sweete Hogs grease or barrows grease clarified, halfe a pound of rosen finely beaten and searced; then boile the herbs in the Hogs grease, and rosen, untill they bee a perfect oyntment, then straine it.

For the falling sicknesse.

Take the jaw bone of a man or a woman, and beat it into a fine powder, and if a woman have the falling sicknesse, then use the jaw bone of the man; and if it be a man, then use the jaw bone of a woman, so much of the powder as will cover a six pence, put it into wine or any other liquid thing which you shall like of, and drink it; you may use it as often as you will, but especially at spring and fall.

For the dropsie.

Drink your own water morning and evening.

To purge the head and helpe concoction in the stomack. John Ferne∣lius his Pills.

Take of the best allom six drammes, mastick and red Rose leaves of each two drammes, powder them all, and with a sufficient quantitie of Syrup of Roses, or Syrup of Wormwood, so much as wil make the powder into paste, then make it into pills, and take of them three or foure before supper an houre.

To cure a galled horse.

Take of the leaves of the herb Arsmart, and rub the galled place with it, then throw it away, and as the leaves of the Ar∣smart rotteth, the sore will heal.

Doctor Rowlands water for all manner of sores of the eyes whatsoever.

Take Rose water, Celendine water, Rue water of each six ounces, Stibium one ounce small powdered, put it into a glasse, and let it stand, and when you wil use it, take the clear water, and drop it into the eye.

A plaister to strengthen ones stomack.

Take juice of Rue with honey of squills, which is the sea onion, a spoonful at a time, it is good for the falling sick∣nesse, or the vertigio in the head; the honey of squills it self is good for any winds or rheumes or cold flegms.

For the falling sicknesse.

Honey of squills, and a little powder of Pionie roote, that beareth the seed, is good for the falling sicknesse or winde; and the powder of the wood of Misselto with honey of Squills is also good.

For the trembling of the heart.

The juice of a Lemmon with a little Treacle or Mithridate, with a little Alchermes as big as a pins head.

Pills for the running of the reins.

Take of Olibanum, Myrrhe, Mace of each two drammes, Saffron, Camphire, of each halfe a dramme, make it into

a small powder, then take half a sheet of paper, annoint it with Tur∣pentine, and dry it by the fire, until you can make it all into a pow∣der; then take these two powders, and mingle them with so much washed Turpentine as will serve, and beat it in a Mortar well to a paste, which keep; of this make pills as big as a pease, and take thereof three or four at night.

To make the face fair.

Take the flowers of Rosemary, and boil them in White wine, then wash your face therewith, and drink of that water, so shall you make your face fair, and your breath sweet.

To cure Poisoning.

Take new milk, and drink as much as you can, and that will help.

For the Wormes.

Take Garlick, and make a Plaister between two cloths, and lay it a∣bove and beneath the navel, and so let it lye all night, and it is a pre∣sent cure for a child; or Alloes is also good.

For a Pin or Web in the Eye.

Take the tops of red Hemlock that groweth by the wall, and pound it, mix it with bay salt, and lay it to the contrary arm-wrist to the eye; if one wrist will not do it, lay it to both, and it will cure it.

For a Canker.

Take white Coperas, and Allom, first wash them in fair wa∣ter, then burn them, and beat them to powder; take as much of the one as of the other, and mix it with honey, and lay it upon the Canker.

For an old or green Wound.

Mix a pint of oyle, with half a pound of red lead beaten, and finely searsed, which powder as you shake it into the Oyle, stir it to keep it from setling; and when it turneth tawny by boiling, then its almost ready; if it be stiff when it dropt into the water, its at best; to make the Searcloth put a cloth between two sticks, and dip it in the oyle as it boileth, and let it cool, and lay upon the sore.

For the Yellow Jaundies.

Take worms, wash off the earth, and then dry them upon a tile, then beat them into a powder, mix it with Turmerick and Saffron, of each a little quantity, and put them into two or three spoonfuls of drink, which drink morning and evening: it wil add something to the speedy recovery, if you slit a warm pigeon, and lay it to the soals of the feet.

A most Soveraign Water, which hath all the ver∣tues of Venice Treacle or Mithridate, and far surpasseth them.

Take a Composition made by the best Apothecaries called, Antidotus magnu•• Mathioli, take of it two ounces, and put it into the best Spirit of Wine, and let it stand a whole week, and stir it often, and it will be an Amber colour; then poure off the clear, and put unto it the equal weight of Sirrup of the rind of Pomecitron, and keep it close. This Water is most excellent against all poisons, and helpeth when all other Remedies fail; if you take three or four or more spoonfuls, as occasion re∣quireth, and sweat upon it; for it pierceth quickly through the whole body, and draweth the poison from the heart; it is good in the Plague time; and if you take a spoonful of it, it preserveth you from all▪ poison or infectious air; it strengthneth the heart, brains, stomack and all the inward parts wonderfully; and it is the best water to drive any venom from the heart in the Plague time or in infectious airs; take a linnen cloth and dip it into it, and smell unto it, and take some of the Antidote, and as much of the Water, and put some Cloves, Benjamin, Amber-greece and a little Musk unto it until it be thick like a paste, and smell unto it. And you may be sure, that using the Water in the morning, and smelling often unto it, no

Plague shall hurt, nor infect you, as hath been proved by experience upon those that have been stung with Snakes, and almost past all cure and sense, and understanding, yet have been by this recovered.

Against the Inflamation of the Cods, or Falls, or Bruises.

Take White-wine-Vineger and Rose water, of each a like, mingle it, and apply it with a cloth, and lay upon it a plaister, called, Dia∣palma; and if need be, do it again, for it is a certain Remedy.

For sore Eyes.

Take a pint of White-wine, and put into it four ounces of Ca∣lamint stone, being heat six or seven times one after the other, and then beat the stone into powder, and keep it in the water. The use is thus: Take a little in a spoon, and before you put it out of the glasse into the spoon, shake the glasse that the stone may arise, and make the Water thick, and then put it into the spoon; and being there, put your eye as neer as you can unto it, and shake your eye lid up and down that it may wash into your eye; and this is a perfect cure.

Another.

Take of Tutia preparata one ounce, Scuttlebone a quarter of an ounce, a pint of White-rose-water, mix these together, and drop some of the water into the eyes morning and evening, and with all wash the pit of the neck with fair water.

To stay a loosenesse.

Take an ounce of Scuttlebone, and boile it in a pint of milk, and drink it, it is a present Remedy.

For the Tooth ache.

Take the juice of green Burrage, and poure it into the eare of that side the pain is, and lye on the other side, that it may con∣tinue in the ear some time, and it will give present ea••e.

For a Tooth that is rotten and aketh:

Take an ordinary earth worm, and dry it into a powder, take of that powder, and put it into the Tooth when you go to bed, and put wax upon the Tooth to keep it in, and by morning the corrupt part of the tooth will waste away, and the good will remain.

For the Stone.

Distil the Herb Rue in May, and drink every morning ten spoon∣fuls of the water for fifteen dayes together; if you sweeten it with a little Sugar-candy, it will be the more pleasant, it is a perfect Re∣medy.

For the Falling sicknesse.

Take Frogs and Flea them, then dry them in a tin pan and beat them being dryed into a powder, drink of this powder for a year to∣gether in all the drink you drink.

For the wind in the Stomack.

By Mr. Jo. Digby.

Take a piece of Cork, and burn it, and then beat it into a powder, take that powder, and put it into a pretty quantity of beer or wine, and then drink it, and it will give present ease.

An approved Medicine for a Stitch.

Take a handful of Mallow leaves, and an handful of Camomile, on ounce of Anniseeds, put them into a pottle of running water, boil them until the water be half wasted, then take the Water clean from the herbs, and put the water into a bladder, and apply it unto the place pained as hot as it can be suffered, and when it is cold, pour it out of the bladder into a Posnet, and make it hot, and use it as before; and in this manner apply it as often as you please.

To take away a Corn.

Take a plaister of Burgany Pitch, the Corn being pared, put the plaister unto it, either upon the toe or sole of the foot, if any Corne be there.

Another for the same paine, if it comes by a Plu∣risie.

Take a toast of Ry-bread, or of Wheat and Rye; and when it is toasted hot put it into Treakle, and set it over a chafing-dish with coals and make it hot, and apply it to the place, grieved as hot as it may be suffered.

To make Viper-Wine.

Take eight Gallons of Sack which is the best Wine, and to that quantity put in thirty, or two and thirty Vipers; but prepare them first in this manner. Put them into bran for some four dayes, which will make them scowre the gravel and eathy part from them, then stop your Vessel or glasse you put them in very close until six months be past, in which time the flesh of the Vipers and vertue of them will be infused into the wine, although the skins will seem full, after which time you may take them out if you please, and drink of the wine when you please best to drink it.

An excellent Purge.

Take of Antimony, Scammony, Cream of Tartar all prepared.

For men,	10▪ grains,	12 grains,	7 grains.
For women,	8 grains,	10 grains,	6 grains.
Young men,	6 graines,	8 graines,	5 grains.
Children 6 years old,	3 grains,	6 graines,	4 grains.
Children 1 year old,	1 graine,	4 graines,	3 grains.

To bind the humors, heal the defects in the rains, and expel wind.

Take a small Wine glasse of Muscadine, put therein a spoonful of Mastick in powder, drink so much in the morning fasting, and like∣wise in the evening, fasting two hours after it.

A gentle Purge to purge the stomack of viscous hu∣mors:

Take a pint of White-wine, put it in a close earthen pipkin, put thereto an ounce of Rubarb finely sliced, let it stand on the embers simbring away till a third part be consumed, then take forth the Ru∣barb, and crush forth all the juice between two plates, and put in∣to the liquor half a quarterne of Currants, letting it stand over the fire til they be plump, then take it off; being cooled, take two or three spoonfuls in the morning, and if you please in the evening, fast∣ing only two hours after it, use it as often as you please.

To cure any sore, (if the bone be not defective,) swelling or paine.

Take of Craw-fishes eyes, called Crabs eyes, two ounces finely beaten, put it into a pint of the strongest White-wine-Vinegar, being in a long, round, and narrow necked glasse, unstopped untill the powder be qualified and setled, then stop it, letting it stand until it be clear, and take of it three spoonfuls morning, noon and evening, fasting after some two hours; to the wound keep a moist cloth dip∣ped in Plantane water: for swellings or pains, to bathe it with Wine-vineger is good.

For the Stone, or to make one make Water.

Take five living hive Bees, bruise them in a spoonful of Beer, and then put the Beer from them; drink the spoonful of Beer, and it will give present ease.

For a Consumption.

Take water and Oat-meal, and put into it five Cloves of a head of Garlick finely minced, and put into it a handful of Currants fine picked and washed, and boile them together to a Broth, and eat it morning and evening.

For the Gout.

Take any Brine that is very salt, boil it, and when it is very hot, put it into a kettle, or something that will continue the heat, then put some sticks over the Brine, upon which the diseased part may lye over the brine, as over a Bath, and cover the legs so lying with some cloathes, that the Bath may work the better upon the part affect∣ed: and after an hour or two you may leave the Bath, but keep the part warm.

Adde to this a drink made of Ale of indifferent strength, in which you must put when the Ale is first barrelled up, this that followeth, Bake some red Sage in a Pye, and when it is well baked, pound it all together; then put it in a bag, and hang it in the Ale; until the Ale be ready to drink, then drink it as oft as you please.

For the Dead Palsie.

Take Aquavitae, and boil in it some quantity of red Sage, and when it is hot and smoaking, let the place affected, some sticks be∣ing put over the liquor, lye over it, as over a Bath, and cover it that all the vapor of the Bath may be kept in the better to work upon the diseased part. Its a kind Medicine.

For the Tooth ache.

Take a naile of iron or a bodkin, and heat it red hot in the fire, and being so hot, lay the nail or bodkin end wayes, North and South, then take a Load-stone and draw it over the iron several times, and when your tooth is pained, stroke your gums with that iron naile or bodkin being cold, and it is a present remedy to take away the pain. This nail or bodkin you may carry about with you, and use at any time when you have pain.

For the Stone.

Take of the stone that is in a fishes head, called Amanete, beat it in∣to a powder, and take as much of it as wil cover a groat, or therabouts, and put it into some posset drink, made of what you like best, only a spoonful, and after you have taken that spoonful, then to wash it down, take two or three spoonfuls more of that posset, or any other.

To stanch bleeding.

Take the root of a nettle, and hold it in your mouth, and it will stay bleeding: Or pound the leaves of nettles, and lay them in their juice in the wound, and it will also stay the bleeding.

For the Stone:

Take a quart of Dil, White or Rhenish-wine, and put unto it an ounce and a half of Salt-peter, and of roots of Parsley two, and two of Fennel, the pith being taken out, and so let them stand six houres; then morning and evening take half a pint of it, and drink it, and it is a present cure or ease for the stone.

To cure the grating of the Stone in the Ʋ∣reters, or the Yard.

Take a pint of milk from the Cow, put into it a good quan∣tity of Sallet Oyle and Sugar, and stir them together, and as you drink it, stir it, that the Oyle may be truly mixed with the Milk, that it may more assuredly carry the Oyle into the Ureters. This will most certainly heal it, although it be extremely galled by the motion of the Stone or Gravel; drink a pint, or half a pint mor∣ning and evening.

For an Ague.

Take a quart of strong Ale, put into it a penny worth of long pepper, a penny worth of Ginger sliced: boile these together, untill it come a to pint; then powre out the Ale, and sweeten it with Sugar to your likeing, and being sweetned, put into it a halfe penny worth of Mustard; stir it well, and drink a pint, or half a pint of it, an hour or half an hour before your Fit comes, and use some moderate Exercise after it, and after it keep your selfe warme, and it is an assured Cure for most that shall take it.

A Medicine for the sorenesse of any Leg.

By Mrs Minne.

Take a quart of good ale, and put in it two spoonfuls of English honey, and as much turpentine, and seethe them well together till it be thick; then wet lint in it, and lay it to the fore: then lay this Plaister following upon it.

The Plaister for the same.

Take a quarter of a pound of sheeps suet and shred it fine with some Bay leaves, melt it and strain it; put to it an ounce of En∣glish wax, as much turpentine, a quarter of an ounce of rosin, as much English honey, seethe them well together till they be well melted, and strain it; then set it over the fire, and put to it a quar∣ter of an ounce of May butter, and four spoonfuls of sallet oyl, and stir it well together til it be thick.

A very good Salve for a green wound.

By Mrs. Jones.

Take a-pint of oyl Olive and set it to the fire in a pan, then put to it half a pound of red lead, and stir it continually until such time as it looketh something blackish; then drop a little upon the side of a sawcer, and if it be stiffe make it up in roles.

A Plaister to heal all manner of biles, sores, or swelling of Legs.

Take a pound of oyl Olive (the older the better,) half a pound of wax and somewhat more (as it cometh: from the cake) then take half a pound of white Lead in fine powder; boile all these together in a brass pan til it wax black; then make it up as before.

For the same.

Take oatmeal and cows milk and make grewel, and put therein the juice of sengreen and sheeps tallow, and let them boil together till they be thick, then make a plaister and lay it about the sore.

Another.

Take sheeps tallow one pound, boile it in a pan until it be well melted, then set it down and put thereto two pound of oatmeale and stir it wel together; and when you have need to use it, do it on a linnen cloth, and chafing the swelled place at the fire, lay it up∣on it, and it shall certainly heal it by Gods blessing.

An Oyntment to heale Scabs, Blisters and Pushes upon the Legs.

Take an handfull of water-cresses, and two pound of sheeps suet that cometh off the kidney, and cut them together as small a•• pie∣meat, and put them together in a pan, and seethe them a good space till the suet be melted, and stir them well about together for hanging to the pan, and then take them off, and strain them into a fair bason, and then put it up into an earthen pot. When need re∣quires, take part out of it and put into a sawcer, and warm it upon the fire, and with a feather annoint the places where the sores be, and then wrap about it a linnen cloth, and thus use it once every day till it be whole.

For the Plague or Pestilence.

Take an onion or two, and cut out the core, and fill it with good treacle, and roast it in brown paper, and when it is roasted strain it in ale or beer, and drink it warm; and if you feel any rising, lay that which is strained to the sore (hot) and so lie down to sweat.

A Medicine for the plague. Mrs. Limsey.

Take a plaister of Galbanum and lay it to the kernell that cometh of the Plague, and it will hold him still, that it go not in again, if it be in the lask, armhole or neck: If it be laid to betimes, it is most precious.

Probatum est.

Another.

If you feel any pricking, rising, or sore of Plague under the ears, arms, in the lask, or in any other part, take a chicken, pluck the vent

bare, and hold the vent of the chicken to the rising or sore til the chic∣ken die, then take another chicken and hold it to the sore in like manner til it be dead, & so one after another til one remain alive on the sore, and thereby ye shal perceive that the sore is drawn out of the patient by reason of the said chickens; and if it be for a man, take a hendrel, and for a woman take a cockrel, and then take the dead chickens, and put in the earth for the infection of any man or person.

To gather and ripen a sore or bruise.

Take a Lily root and seethe it in fair water, then strain away the water, and mix it with a little Guilts grease and lay it to the sore.

Idem.

Take linseed, oatmeal, and the yolk of an egge, hony, and boile all these together in cow milk til it be fully thick, and lay it to the sore.

An ointment to break a sore.

Take a handful of gentian and stampe it, and strain it, and put to it half a pint of May butter, and as much virgins wax as a walnut, and so boil them on the fire; and put to as much wheat meal as a walnut; stir them all together, and when it boiles take it off and strain it; stir it til it be cold, and put it up in a vessel.

A salve to heal the sore.

Take a quantity of sheeps suet, and as much of deers suet, and a quarter of as much virgins wax, three spoonfuls of wool oyl, and as much rosen as a walnut, boil them together upon the fire, straine it and stir it til it be cold, and put it up into boxes.

To heal a cut or wound.

Take unset Leeks and stamp them wel, then mingle them with hony, and lay it to your wound.

Idem.

Take rosen, wax and turpentine, of each an ounce, a quarter of an ounce of hony, a little sheeps tallow, and a little tarre.

Idem.

Take a handful of Sage, as much of Wood-binds, as much of Ce∣lendine, and seeth them together in a gallon of running water, unto a pottle, and then strain them; and then seeth the water again, and put thereto a pint of honey, and skim it clean; and then put thereto a handful of beaten Allom, a penny worth of beaten grains; and then suffer them to play a while on the fire, and afterward keep the water in a glasse, and it will preserve much longer; and wash the wound every day at morning, noon and night, (if you will) with the Water; and if the wound be corrupt, shake the glasse that the grounds may make it stronger, And if it be a fresh wound, take the clear water; at every washing you must cover the wound with a Plaister of Vir∣gins wax, and over the wax lay a linnen cloth, or else a bladder.

Probatum est.

Tents for Wounds.

Take white Roses, Campion, Celendine, Plantane, Smallage, whites of egs mixt with juice of the Herbs, and labor them in; and so let it stand all night; and the next day put to it a good quantity of ho∣ney, and burnt Allom and Coperas, of each a little.

To keep a wound clean.

Take Wood-binds, Celendine, Sage, of each a like, seeth them in a quart of water with Allom; boil them to a pint, strain them, and put a little honey to them, and give it a walm on the fire again.

A Syrrup for wounded folks.

Take Tormentil, Egino and Dictamnum; in Summer the leaves, in Winter the roots, and a little red Mints; seeth them in a little Beer or Ale together.

For a cut either of Sinnew or Vein.

Take Turpentine, and beat it in fair water til it be white, then put away the water, and take the yolk of an egg and beat them together; so make a Plaister and lay it to the sore.

To make a green Salve.

By Wilsons Wife.

Take Rosemary, Time, Lavender, Dill, Bawme, Brooklime, Yar∣row, Lovage, Smallage, Vervain, Camomile, Orpine, Plantane, Night∣yard, Herb Robert, Lingua Serpentina, otherwise called Adders∣tongue, Polipody, otherwise called Fern that groweth on an old oak, Wood-binds, otherwise called Hony-suckles, Daisies, Comfrey, of each a handful. All these Herbs must be taken and beaten smal, and put in a quart of Verjuice, or more if need be; straine these together, and take the juice thereof; then take two pound of new wax, a pound of Colofony, a pint of Oyle Olive, a pound of pitch, a pound of May butter, and seeth all these together till they be molten; and it must be well stirred upon the fire for run∣ning over, till it be thick and molten all. Then take a gallon of running water, and put the water in a clean vessel; and after take a yard of linnen cloth called minster of the strongest for a strainer, and two persons to hold the strainer over the water, and another with a ladle to take the Salve, with the other things together sodden, and strain all into the Water, then let it be c••ld, then take i•• up, and make thereof round balls as ye think best, then take the oyl or May Butter, and chafe your hands withall, and work the balls of wax in rolls.

For to make the Oyntment for the same.

First, Take the juice of all those Herbs above written for the Salve, Herbs and all, and shred them as Herbs to the pot, and put them all in a pan, and take a gallon of oyl Olive, and two pound of May but∣ter, and half a pound of new Wax, and put all these together in the pan with the Herbs, and let them stand all together nine dayes, and stir them once every day; then seeth it on the fire till the wax and the Butter be molten together, then strain it into a clean vessel, and leave nothing in the strainer: this is sufficient for the Oyntment. If ye cannot have all these herbs, take as many as may be gotten. God help in every cure. Amen. This must be made between May and Bartholomew Tide. Put your Oyntment in any earthen pot that hath had oile or fresh grease in before.

How you shall use a Fraction, otherwise called a broken bone.

If the leg or arm be broken above the knee or the elbow, then take running water, as hot as you can suffer it, so that it seeth not; and if it be over hot, then take a quantity of water that is cold, and put there∣to, so that the Patient may suffer it, then take a clean linnen cloth, and

put it into the hot water, and then bathe the broken place with the cloth and the hot water together, till the flesh be hot under your hands, and change the colour into red; then take a cleane linnen cloth and dry the place that is hurt; then take heed how you set the bone right. You must lay him right upon his back in his bed where he shall rest; if the leg be broken beneath the knee, then let a man take the foot and the heel in his hand, and strain them right out, so that the knee and the half of his leg, the ankle and the two great toes, and both his heels be right set, every joint with the other, then it must needs be sure set.

Then must you make a Plaister of your Salve, and lay it upon the place that is hurt, as close as you can; then you must take a lin∣nen Roller of half a quarter broad, and Roll the place that is hurt three or four times about with the Roller, as close as you can; and then set on the Splints, as hereafter in the next leaf by the signs fol∣lowing: and these suffice both for legs and armes.

For a mans Ribs that be broken.

You must bathe him in warm water, as is aforewritten; then set him upon a stool upright, and lay one of these Plaisters upon the sore place, then roll him hard with a Roll of a quarter of a yard broad, of good stiff cloth, and so let it lye eight or nine dayes ere you open it, then dresse it again in like manner (except the water) until he be whole; but he must beware for straining of himself.

If the Channel bone be broken, bath it with water, and lay on a Plaister, and set on a splint that is made therefore, and roll it hard a crosse, and truss up his arm with a Napkin to his brest, and every eight or nine dayes renew the P••aister till it be whole; also take heed that ye eat neither milk nor butter for none of these same Fracti∣ons.

Also these Fractions that be broken, in what place soever they be, let no Oyntment come neer the place that is broken, for the Oynt∣ment will let the knitting: spare no Oyntment in other places near unto it at all times when you op••n it; for it will comfort the sinews and vains, and ease the Patient of pain and unquietnesse.

And for to set the legs sure, you must take five splints, an inch broad, and an inch and a quarter and half quarter long; and line your splints with white cotton for ease of the leg, then lay on each side of the leg two ••plin••s, and one splint under the l••g; and then make three bo••••s of a Bow-string, and also th••ee pipes of an Elder stick,

every pipe being three inches long; and when the first bout is on the legge, then put the bouts double through the pipe, then take a little round stick made fit for the same; and when it is through the pipe, then whirle it as strait as the leg may en∣dure it with the stick; and the other two bouts to be used in like manner, which is thus done to keep the splints fast to the legges, and every pipe to be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with the stick.

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The Figure and Proportion of the three Elder Pipes into which the little round stick is to be put.

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This is the Figure and Compasse of a splint to be made for the Brandle-Bone in length and breadth.

A Drink to knit these Fractions.

First, Take Comfrey, the leaves in Summer, the roots in winter, and stamp them, and strain them with a pint of Ale, and let him drink a draught blood warm next his heart nine mornings; for lack of Comfrey take Daisies in like manner.

For all manner of aches that come of colds, or bruises that fall down into any place by means of an Ague.

Take the Oyntment, and annoint the place that is diseased five or six dayes, then bathe him in warm water, and lay a Plaister upon it; and let it ly on six daies; if need be, take it off, and make a new Plaister.

Do the like to all sinews sprung or wrinched.

A ready Remedy for any wound or cut, o∣therwise called Wound-water.

Take a handful of Sage, as much of Wood-binds, as much of Ce∣lendine, and seeth them together i•• a gallon of running water to a pottle, and then strain them, and then seeth the water again, and put thereto a pint of honey, and skim it clean, and then put to it a handful of beaten Allome, and a penny worth of beaten graines, and then suffer them to play a while on the fire; and af∣ter put the water in a glasse, and it will preserve much longer; and wash the wound every day at morning, noon and night (if you will) with the water; and if the wound be corrupt, shake the glasse that the grounds may make it the more stronger; and if it be a fresh wound, take the clear water: at every washing you must cover the wound with a Plaister of Wax, and over the wax lay a linnen cloth, or else a bladder.

Probatum est.

To stanch a Wound that bleeds excessively.

Take a piece of Martlemas bief, or of salt bief, as much as will cover the wound, and broi••e it on the fire upon a Gridiron,

and lay it in the wound as hot as the Patient may suffer it. And for lack of bief, take red nettle tops bruised in the hands, with a little gray salt, or else a piece of salt Bacon, and lay it to the wound in like case; which Bacon is a good healer.

For pricking of a Thorn or Nail.

Take Wheat-flower and Red-wine or Claret-wine and Honey, and make thereof a Plaister, and it will keep the sore from festring, and make it whole in a short time.

For a Felon.

Take Rue and bruise it, and put to it the yolk of an egg, and two or three cornes of gray salt, and a little Honey and Wheat-flower, and make a Plaister of it, and lay it to the sore, and it will make it whole.

To make a Plaister for a man or woman that hath a weak stomack, and cannot digest.

Take Mints green in the time of the yeer; and for lack of green, take dry Mints, and Wormwood in like manner a good handful, or two handfuls of each, and White-bread crumbs, and boil them well with Malmesey upon the fire, so that they burn not; and then make two linnen bags, and fill each of them with these Herbs when they be sodden, and sow up the bags, and wring the bags as dry as you can, and then lay one of them to the stomack, as hot as you may endure it.

A Medicine for a Scald head.

Take running water, and flower of Rye or Wheat, and scrape chalk and rosen, and a little honey, and boil them together upon the fire till it be very thick, and strike it upon a strong linnen cloth, as you do a Plaister, and clip the hair as close as you can, and then lay the Plaister on it twenty four hours, and let it be pulled off as shortly as you can, and then clip the hair down againe, and lay on more where you see most need; and when you take off the Plaister, then annoint it over with honey afterward, and cover it till it be whole, and it shall be whole within three plaisters.

Notes

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  This Vessel or Glasse must be so big, as when all the stuff is in it, it be not half full, to the end there may be room enough to stir the same.