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ELlebore white, the roote causeth to vomite vp mightely all superfluous, slimie, venemous, and noughtie humors, and is good against the falling sickenesse, frensie, olde paine of the head, madnesse, sadnesse, the goute, the sciatica, all sortes of dropsies, poyson, and all colde diseases that be hard to cure, and such as will
not yeelde to any medicine. 2 The roote with oyle or oyntments, is good against all roughnesse of the skinne, wilde scu••ffe, knobs, foule spots and leapry. 3 The same cut in slices and put into fi∣stulaes, taketh away their hardnesse. 4 The powder causeth snee∣sing, and purgeth the braine. 5 The same put in as a pessarie, draweth downe the termes or dead birth. 6 The same boyled in vineger and holden in the mouth, swageth tooth-ache. 7 And put into drie medicines, it doeth cleare and sharpen the sight. 8 The roote punned with meale & hony, killeth mise & rats, and such like, and driueth them away: and likewise waspes & flies, if it be boyled in milke and they eate thereof, for then they swell and breake. It is not good to be giuen vnprepared, nor to yong, old, or sicke folke: they that be weake, that spit blood, or be grieued in their stomacke, nor to women with childe, nor in winter, but in sommer only, and before supper. 9 Put it into the greater end of a radish roote one night, then presse it hard out, and take one dram of it in milke or frumentie to helpe the falling sicknesse, vertigo, melancholie, mad∣nesse, white leapry, windes in the guts, dropsie, tympany, goutes, quartens, cough, and many such like griefes. 10 It is giuen fa∣sting by it selfe, or with sesame seedes, or with broth, or with sod∣den barley, or with mede, or with pottage, or with a lentill broth, or any such like supping. 11 Some giue it with a great deale of broth or supping. 12 Some giue a little meate immediatly before it, especially to them that are weake, & so it may be taken without ieopardy. 13 Vomit to cause, put a suppositor of it into the funda∣ment. 14 Steepe the roote 24. houres in wine, or Oximel, and drie it, and drinke halfe a dram of the powder of it with wine to helpe madnes, melancholy, & such griefes as be writtē of in black Ellebore. 15 But to take it without danger, steepe it ii. dayes in wine, or seeth it in the broth of flesh, and take a siat thereof to purge both vpwarde & downeward. 16 Put it into the nose with Mar∣gerom to cleanse the braine and head. 17 The roote sodden with lee, or mixt with any ointment killeth lice and nits, and taketh a∣way the scurfe of the head. 18 The blacke wilde Ellebore doeth the like things & effects. 19 Ellebor white, healeth the scab & mor∣phue, & tetters, purgeth choller & flegme, and being applied, it cu∣reth ye Emerods. 20 The powder put into grewel, killeth worms. 21 Mixe i. dram wt syrup, of ii. parts of hony, & i. part of vineger, to
purge flegme and melancholie to helpe madnesse and reume, and to worke both vpward and downeward. 22 It is corrected with long pepper, hysope, daucus, and aniseede. 23 It worketh better and with lesse danger, if it be boyled with the broth of a Capon or any other meate, and then the broth drunke. 24 Head skalde, ap∣ply white Ellebore with as much swines grease. 25 Vomite to cause, take one scruple with pease broth, or one penie waight with some broth. 26 Steepe two drams in two ounces of aqua vitae, in a close vessell 14. dayes, then streine it and drinke two drams of it with one ounce of wine to comfort and purge the body. 27 Head wormes & falling of the haire, stampe it with swines grease, and apply it all ouer the head. 28 Head to purge, blowe powder of Ellebore, Pepper, & Castory into thy nose. 29 Mixe the iuice with course meale as it commeth from the millstone and butter, and apply it to the stomacke to purge vpward, and on the nauell to purge downeward. 30 Leapry, or any other deformi∣tie of the skinne, seethe it with Louage and Fenell in wine, and wash therewith. 31 Steepe white Ellebore in milke, and put white Arsnike to it, and sprinckle it to kill Flease. 32 Eares paine, seethe it halfe in vineger and put it in. 33 Face freckles and other spots, seethe one ounce in halfe a pinte of strong white vineger to the one halfe, then mixe therewith hony three spoone∣full, Mercurie sublimate one peny waight, and seethe it till it be∣come thicke, and anoint therewith the morphue, freckles, stay∣nings, and all deformities of the skinne.