The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

Oyle of Ivy.

53 Is excellent against the Pestilence, and all man∣ner of Poison, it stoppeth the bloody Fluxe, and helpeth all diseases either of the Bladder, or Reines, and drunke with Wine it restraines womens Fluxe, with this Oyle anoint the Belly of a woman from her Navell to the Reines of her back, and downe to the Matrice, and it will strengthen the Mother, and dry up the Moisture therein, and prepare it for Conception: if those that can∣not make water doe drinke foure, or five drops of this Oyle, and anoint the region of the Bladder therewith, it helps them presently; it expelleth the Wind in the Guts, and stayeth the running of the Reines, it is good against the Water betweene the Skin and the Flesh, it killeth Worms, and helpeth all sick Members, pain in the Hips, Gout, and Cholick, and Chops in the Hands, or Feet.