The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

DRINK.

Dr. Deodates Scurbuttical Drink.

Take Roman, Wormwood, Car∣duus Benedictus, Scurvy-grasse, Brooklime, Water-Cresses, Water Trifoil, of each one handful, Dodder, Cetrach, Scolopendria, Burrage, Bug∣los, Sorrel, Vervain or Speedwel, of each half a handful, Elicampane root one ounce, Raisons of the Sun three ounces, slices of Oranges and Lem∣mons of each fifteen, boil, or rather infuse these in a double glasse, with so much white Wine, as will make a pint and a halfe of the liquor when it is done.

An excellent Drink for the Stomack and Brest, grief of the heart, the Palsie, Jaundies, the Rhume, the sorenesse of the Throat, the Pti∣sick, all faintnesse about the Heart and Stomack, and to make a good digestion, and to be of a good co∣lour.

Take the Powder of Pellitory of Spain and of Centory, Anniseeds, Lico∣ras, Graines of Paradise, Callamus, Gin∣ger, Cinnamon, mix all these, and use them evening and morning the quantity of halfe a spoonful in Wine or Ale.

A Dyet Drink to be taken in the Spring.

Take a quarter of a pound of Madder roots, two ounces of red Dock roots, of Scabious, Egrimony, Carduus Benedictus, Liverwort, of each a handful, of Cene two ounces, of Licoras, Anniseeds, Sassa∣parilla, Sassafrass wood, Lignum vitae and Hermodactilus, of each one ounce, put all these together into a rundlet of two gallons; bruise all the Herbs and

Spices, then put to it two gallons of Beer or Ale, and let it lye five or six dayes; then take Rubarb the weight of a Groat, and put it in a cloth, and steep it in a draught of Beer all night, and wring it into the Beer before you drink it.

A most excellent Diet Drink for the French Disease.

Take of good White Wine ten quarts, of good strong Beer as much, put there∣to of the Bark Guacum, two pound of Cene, one pound of Licoras scraped and heaten to powder, one pound of the root of Sassaparilla scraped and cut in pieces an inch long, and slit in the midst, one pound of Apples of Colliquintida, the kernels taken out; put all these things together into ordinary stone pots such as their mouthes may be so little, as may be stopped close with corks or dough, and being so stopped, boil them in such a Vessel, as they may be hanged in, and not touch the bottome in the boiling, and so let them be kept boiling continually without ceasing for the space of four and twenty hours from the time

they begin to boil, which you may do by having seething water ready in ano∣ther vessel, and being so well bruised, strain the liquor from the dregs, and put therein one ounce of pure Mithridatum, and so let the Patient drink so much as he can possible, and no other drink till he hath made an end of it, and let him not eat any bread but bisket made without salt, and every day a few Raisons of the Sun, and nothing else for the space of ten dayes; then if the Patient hath not drunk all this potion of drink, let him (if he be weak) eat of a Chicken roasted, or a rib of a neck of Mutton dry roasted once in four and twenty hours, until he hath made an end of this quantity of drink, the which being drank, the Cure (by Gods help) is perfectly wrought; This quantity of Drink hath been drunk in six dayes, and it hath done the Cure: after the Cure is done, in any case keep a good Dyet for a quarter of a year, and abstain from women, and over much drink.

An Excellent Drink to prevent Phy∣sick, being taken and used in the Spring and Fall, and approved by many who have found the successe to be accord∣ingly.

Take a gallon of Wort made of Malt, and put into it a good handful of Egri∣mony, and as much Goose-grasse, let them seeth in the Wort almost an hour, then strain it out, and put into the Wort of good Cene clean picked, and Anni∣seeds, both bruised, of each one ounce and half, and let them seeth one hour, and remain in the Wort, after take a good pot ful of the Wort, and put into it ten penny worth of the best Rubarb thin sli∣ced, then close up the pot with paste, and let it stand to infuse upon embers twelve hours, then put it again to the rest of the Wort; and tun it up as other Ale, and at the bunghole put in a good handful of red Dock roots scra∣ped and sliced; Drink of this in the Spring and Fall of the leaf, a draught or two in the morning, and fast after it two hours, and use it for three weeks or a month at both times of the

year as you see cause, and take it every day or second day as you finde it work.

A Dyet Drink to heal Wounds.

Take of Egrimony two handfuls, of Daisie leaves and roots, Wild Angelica, Ribwort, Mugwort, Wormwood, Com∣fry, Mints, Canapit, Speedwel, Avens, Bramble leaves, Arcamilla or Sincle, Sca∣bious, Betony and Dandillion of each of these a handful, boil them all together in two gallons of running water some three hours till half be consumed; then put into it a pint of White Wine, and half a pint of honey, then strain it out, and so keep it, letting the party drink thereof two or three times a day.