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TAke Barrowes grease, a lap ful of Archangel leaves, flowers, stalks and all, and put it into an earthen pot, and stop it close, and paste it; then bury it in a horse dunghil nine dayes in the latter end of May, and nine dayes in the beginning of June, then take it forth and strain it, and so use it.
Take two ounces of Mastick, two oun∣ces of Vermillion, half a pound of Fran∣kinsence, one penny worth of Rosen, beat every one of these into fine pow∣der by it self, then mingle them altoge∣ther; and if they look not red enough, put in more Vermillion; and when you will use this Medicine, take a spoonful of this Powder, and put it into a cha∣sing dish of quick coals, and let the Pa∣tient sit on a stool close covered, and the Chafingdish put under the stool, which must be shifted three times before the Patient rise from the stool; and the Pa∣tient must sit Evening and Morning up∣on the stool (as aforesaid) all naked, saving a sheet about his neck to cover him before, even to the feet, and ano∣ther behind him of like length, and up∣on the sheets two blankets; and by that time two spoonfuls of the Powder be spent, the Patient will sweat and be faint, and when the Patient hath sate out the third Chafingdish, he must go
to bed, and lye in the same cloathes, and never change them in three dayes. He may eat and drink what he lift, so his Drink be warm.
Take a handful of Herb-grace, and bray it smal in a Mortar, then take one ounce of Frankinsence, and one ounce of Commin, and beat them to Pow∣der severally; then take one pound of black soap, and seeth it on the fire till it be melted, then put in the afore∣said things, and let them boile toge∣ther, till it be thick; then take and spread it like a Plaister upon a cloath, and lay it to the Grief as hot as may be suffered, and so let it continue twelve houres, then take it away, and if the place be blistered, lay that to it no more, but prick the blisters with a needle; and if it be not blistered, then lay on a fresh plaister, and let it ly twelve hours more, and keep the place grieved and the Patient very warm. Probatum est.
Take two great Onions, and make holes in the tops, and put into each one dram of Camphire, so much of Frankin∣sense as a Walnut, one pennyworth of English Saffron; roast the Onion in the fire; then pill it, and strain it to an Oyle, and put thereto so much of the marrow of a dead horses haunch bone, and mingle it well together, and annoint the place pained therewith.
Take a Whelp that sucketh (the fat∣ter the better) and drowne him in wa∣ter, then take out his guts clean, and fill his belly with black Soap, and put him on a spit and roast him well, and take the dropping thereof, and put it in a Vessel, and then lay the Patient in a sweat, and annoint him therewith, and cover him warm with clothes, that he may sweat well, then make a fire of Charkcoals in a pan, and lay thereon a good handful of Sage, and let him take
the aire thereof in a close room; and do this five times.
Take Balme and Cinqfoil; but most of all Betony, Nep and Fetherfew, stamp them, and drink the juice with Ale or Wine. Prebatum.
Take of Stipticum Paracelsi, and Cal∣cithers, of each alike, spread it upon Leather and make a Plaister thereof, then annoint the place grieved with Oyl of Roses, and after lay on the Plaister. Mr. Smart.
Take Harts-horn, and chop it in rea∣sonable smal pieces, then put it in a Pip∣kin, cover is with water, and stop it close, and set it in an Oven with Bread, and when it is baked, take out the Pip∣kin, and when it is cold, it will be a Jelly;
then warm some of it, and annoint the grieved place with a warm hand, and chafe it in often.
Take Aqua composita and Neatsfoot Oyle, warm them, and annoint the place therewith, and lay warm cloaths thereon.
Take Pa••sly and Wormwood, of each a handful, and seethe them in a quart of Ale, with a quantity of sweet Butter, and wash the place therewith, and bind the Herbs to the place, as hot as may be suffered.
Take Smallage stampt, and put it in∣to Aqua vitae, and strain it, and put thereto Boars grease, and straine them together, and annoint the place there∣with morning and evening.
Take Neats foot Oyle and Aqua com∣posita,
and annoint the place therewith, then take wool newly taken from the Sheep and put thereon with warme cloathes.
Take the juice of Smallage, Sorrel, and of Woodbind leaves, of each alike, then take Honey and the white of an egg, of each alike, and mingle it toge∣ther till it be thick, and lay it on cold without any boiling at all.
Take as fat a Goose as you can get, and when she is ready drest, then take a couple of the fattest young sucking Cats you can get, and flay them, and cut them into gobbets, and put them into the belly of the Goose, and so roast it as long as it will drop, then take the liquor and annoint the place pained therewith, and bathe it wel before the fire, as hot as you can suffer it, and dip a brown paper therein, and lay it hot thereunto with warm cloaths bound fast to it all night. Do this for the space of three or four nights together.