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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.
Take a quart of Ale, one ounce of Cene, half an ounce of Licoras, half an ounce of Anniseeds, a few Raisons of the Sun, boil these together till your Ale be more then halfe consumed, then give it to the Patient to drink, as warme as he may, when his Fit is upon him, and go to bed, and keep him warm. This is to be used three several times, if his Fit go not away at the first. Probatum.
Take the Root of a blew Lilly and scrape it clean, and slice it, lay it in soak all night in Ale, and in the morning stamp it and strain it, and give it the Patient luke warm to drink, an hour be∣fore the Fit cometh.
Take Barley meal, or else the flower of wheat, and make a cake and bake it, and then take the juice of Hemlocks, and annoint the belly with it: Also you may take Oyle of Exceter, or Sallet Oil, and fry a few Oats therein, and lay it to the Patients stomack as hot as he can suffer it. Probatum.
Take Succory roots and leaves, Par∣sley roots, Endive leaves, Borrage leaves and Sorrel leaves, seethe all these together in a pottle of running water, and when it is well sodden, strain the water from the Herbs, then put to it a good piece of Sugar to make it pleasant, and two spoonful of Vineger, that it may be somewhat sharp: you may also put in Buglos.
Take a handful of good Bay Salt, and put it into a Mortar and bray it
very small, then put thereto as many of the biggest Cobwebs that you can get, as the quantity of four fingers, and beat them a good while, then put into them a good handful of Smallage clean pick∣ed, and so beat them all together very well into one substance; then take it out of the Mortar, and put thereunto two ounces of the best Venice Turpen∣tine unwashed, and temper them well together, and two hours before the A∣gue fit cometh, divide it into two parts, and bind it equally to both wrists on the place where the Pulse beateth, and roll it up well with a linnen cloth, that it stir not from the place, and tack it fast with a needle and thred, and so let it lye four and twenty hours, and it will alter the Fit of the Ague and drive it away; but if not, try the second time and no doubt but it will help. A little fresh butter will get off the Medicine from the wrists.
Take of Dragon Water, of Angelica Water, of Red rose Water, of each three
spoonfuls, three grains of Bezar Stone, the quantity of a Nutmeg of Mithrida∣tum, or else a spoonful of Jean Treakle, half a penny worth of English Saffron; Mingle all these together, and take it fasting, and sweat after it, and use this two or three mornings together.
Take one penny worth of Gore Tur∣pentine, of Rye Leaven the quantity of a Hasel Nut, being somewhat stale, a little course Mastick, and a little bay salt, both beaten small, one handful of Smallage, and a few Cobwebs shred smal; mingle all these with the Turpen∣tine, and spread the same upon a plece of white Sheeps leather on the rough side, being pricked full of holes, and three hours before you think your Fit will come, bind it to your wrists, and let it continue nine dayes or more.
Take a pottle of Ale, seethe it, and skum it, then put to it the tops of Cen∣tory, Mints, Sage, Wormewood and
Hysop of each a handful; boil all in the Ale, till half be consumed, then take the Herbs out with a spoon, then put a quantity of Sugar into the Ale, to allay the bitternesse of it, and so let it boil a little while again, then strain it through a fair cloath; that done, put thereto as much Treakle as the bignesse of a bean and then keep it in a fair glasse, and let the Patient drink thereof first and last, and drink not after for the space of an hour.
Take powder of Christal, and steep it in wine and give it the Nurse to drink: also take the root of Morsus Diabili with the Herb, and hang it about the Childs neck.
Take Bur-roots and red Nettle crops, and seethe them in stale Ale, and clari∣fient, let the Patient drink it a little before the cold fit cometh, and when he beg n••eth to swear, give him a pos∣set
of Ale made with Marigolds, and Fennel being clarified, and it helpeth in four or five Fits.
Take of Smallage and Fetherfew, of each a handful stamp them, and straine them, and take half so much (as the juice thereof) of small Ale, being mixt together, drink it in bed before the Fit cometh, and cover your self warm.
Take Endive, Sowthistle, Dandillion, Lettice, Sorrel, of each alike, stil them altogether, and the water thereof is very good for an Ague.
Take Soot. and yolks of Eggs, and bay Salt, and Pepper, being mingled wel toge∣ther, and lay it to both the wrists, and drink warm Ale.
Take three cloves of Garlick, and bruise them, a penny worth of Aqua vi∣tae, and half a pint of Ale, seethe them together; and drink it before the Fit cometh, as hot as you may.
Box leaves dryed and made into pow∣der, and Sheeps trecklings put in soak in strong Ale, and drunk, is very good.
Take a red Fennel root, and cut it ve∣ry smal, and take six and fifty cornes of Pepper beaten very small, and min∣gle them together, and bind them to your wrists half an hour before your Fit cometh.
Take a handful of Rosemary, a good root of Enula campane, a handful of Hysop, half a handful of Thime, six good crops of Sage, as much Mint, and as much Penniroyal, half a handful of Horehound, two ounces of Liquorice well bruised, and as much Anniseeds; Then take two gallons of the best strong Ale, and take all the Herbs aforesaid, and wring them asunder, and put them into an Earthen pot wel covered, and let them stand a day and a night; from thence put all into a brasse pot, and set it on the fire, and let it stand till it boil: then take it from the fire, and set your Limbeck on the pot, and stop it close with paste that there come no air out of it, and still it out with a soft fire. There is to be added to it by a new counsel, one handful of red Fennel.
Take of the best strong stale Ale, three gallons, of Licoras clean scraped and bruised half a pound, of Aniseeds clean dressed and bruised one pound.
Half your Cinnamon, your Lignum Adlo••s, the roots and seeds of Angelica must be reserved out of the Brasse pot, and knit in a linnen bag, and laid in the Receiver, whereinto your Liquor must run; and by and by the Alkanite must be put into the Receiver. Also receive out of your brasse pot all your Herbs and Flowers until the last draught come; your other Spices, Seeds, Roots and Gums must be put with your Ale into your brass pot, then set on your Limbeck, and close it fast with paste, and keep the head therof always cool with cold water, and draw it so long as it wil run good, which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire, if it burn, it is good; if not, take off your Limbeck charily, and powre out all your stuffe that is in your linnen bags in the Receiver, and all the rest of
your flowers and herbs, and put to them a gallon and a half of fresh Ale, and set on your Limbeck again, and draw it as before; and the Cinnamon and the Su∣gar that is left, must be put into the Receiver again: and when all is drawn out, put your first draught and your last together, and keep it for your use.
Take six gallons of the best strong Ale, the Ale wort must be so strong, that it will bear an Egge, and the Ale must be at least a week old, then take two pound of Anniseeds, two pound of Licoras scraped and bruised, Fennel seeds, Coriander seeds, Carraway seeds, Par∣sley seeds and Gromel seeds, of each a good handful, and (for any other Seeds or Spices use your discretion) then take of Lavender, Rosemary, Sage, Hisop, Savory, Sweet Marjerom, Standing Time, Mother-Time, Running Time, Burrage, Buglos, Succory, Endive, Let∣tice, Violet-leaves, Strawberry-leaves, Mugwort, Red Fennel, Peniroyal, Red Mints, Herb-grace, Germander, Avens,
Wormwood, Bay-leaves, Nep, Clary, Horehound, Comfrey, Marigold leaves, Mercury, Sowthistle, Sorrel, Plantane, Ribwort, Angelica, Carduus Benedi∣ctus Wood-Betany, Scabious, Balme, Liver-wort, Long-wort, Saint Johns-wort, Saint Peters-worts, Parsley, Dan∣dillion, Basil, Lavender Spike, Blood∣wort, Egrimony, Burnet, Garden Gal∣lingale roots, Setwal-roots, Polipodi∣um of the Oak, Pimpernel, Clivers, Shepherds-flowers, Knot grasse, Cinq∣foil, Long debeeff, Sparragus, Water∣cresses, Spinage, of each of these two handfuls, two or three heads of House∣leek. Put all the Seeds, Herbs and Roots to the Ale, and let them lye a steeping, all night, then still them in a Limbeck and draw of it so long as it runneth good; which is tried by casting a little of it into the fire; if it burn, it is good, or else not.
Take a brass pot of four gallons, and rub it very clean within side, then take three Gallons of good strong Ale, and a gallon of Wine lees, so that your pot
be not full by three fingers with your Herbs and Spices, as followeth. Take a pound of Anniseeds well bruised, and half a pound of Licoras scraped and bruised, and put it into the pot, then take a handful of Rosemary, a handful of Hisop, a good root of Enulacampana and scrape it well and slice it; half a handful of Unset Time, half a handful of Mints, a handful of red Fennel, a handful of red Sage, six good crops of Marjerom, and as much Peniroyal, a quater of a handful of Hartstongue, half a handful of Horehound; gather not the Herbs till the dew be off them, then wring all your Herbs asunder, and put your Spices and all in your pot, and let them stand all night, then set your pot upon a fire of Charcoals, and set on your Limbeck upon the pot; and stop your pot round about with paste, so that no air come forth; then make a little fire under the pot, and put cold water in the top of the Limbeck, and be sure you keep it alwayes full with cold water; and as soon as it begins to drop into the Receiver, abate the fire a little, and keep it so that it drop not too fast nor too soft; for if it drop too fast, it will
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be too hot of the fire; and if too soft, it will be too weak: you can draw but a quart of the best, and a quart of the second.
Take three gallons of Claret-wine with some Lees amongst it; for want of Wine, take very strong Ale, then take two pound of Anniseeds bruised, and four pound of Licoras clean scraped and bruised, one pound of great Raisons sto∣ned; Parsley and Fennel roots, of each a good handful, scraped and the pith ta∣ken out, with a root of Angelica, then stop it very close, and let it stand three dayes and three nights, then still it in a Limbeck, and keep the best by it self, and you must put as much Sugar candied into the glasse as is worth a shilling, and hang two grains of Musk in a cloth in it.
Take Rosemary and Hisop, of each a handful, Sage and Horehound, of each half a handful, one root of Enula cam∣pane, Marjerom and red Mints, of each six crops, Licoras and Anniseeds well bruised, of each two ounces; then take three gallons of strong Ale grounds, and set all these on a fire in a pan til it begin to seethe, then take it from the fire, and put it in a brasse pot, and set on your Limbeck, stopping it close with paste, and keeping a soft fire under it.
Take of Peniroyal a handful, of Straw∣berry leaves two handfuls, and Pimper∣nels three handfuls, and add these to the former Receipt.
Take Gallingale, Cloves, Squills, Ginger, Melilot, Cardomons, Mace, and Nutmegs, of each one dram; of the juice of Cellendine half a pint; mingle all these made into powder with the said juice and a pint of Aqua-vitae, and three pints of good White-wine, and put all these into a Stillatory of glasse, and let it stand all night, and on the morrow still it with an easie fire.
This Water is good, for by a secret na∣ture it dissolveth the grief of the Lungs without any pain, it purgeth Melancholy, it expelleth the stopping of the Urine, and it marvellously profiteth the stomack, conserveth Youth in his own state long, and preserveth memory. destroyeth the Palsie: it being given a man or woman labouring for life, one spoonful relie∣veth him: Of all Artificial Waters I think none better: In Summer use one spoonful thereof, in Winter two.
Take Oaken leaves and buds, Knot∣grass, Comfrey, and Clary, of each a∣like, and still them: this must be taken every morning two spoonfuls, but let it be a fortnight old, or else the fire wil not be out of it.
Take Comfrey, Knot-grass, and the flowers of Archangel; boile them in a little milk of a browne Cow, and drink of it every morning; it is very good.
Take of Fern that groweth on a house, and Camomile of each a handful, two or three slips of Unset Hysop, bruise 〈◊〉〈◊〉 these together, and seeth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them
in a quart of Rhenish or White-wine, with a handful of Currants, till it come to a pint; and after it is sodden, put in∣to it an ounce and a half of white Sugar candied, and let it melt of it self, then strain it through a fair cloath, and give it the Patient to drink warm morning and evening.
Take a handful of Knot-grasse, a handful of Archangel flowers, nine branches of Gromel, and stamp it with a pint of Ewe milk, and warm it bloud warm, and let the Patient drink it an hour before he riseth for nine dayes to∣gether.
Take your own water, and boil it well and scum it well, then take a quarter of an ounce of Oile of Bayes, and an ounce of Oyle of Roses, and boil it from a pot∣tle to a pint or a quart, and annoint therewith the rains of the back, and al∣so the Spleen vain in the foot.
Take Rose-water, and put thereunto Sanders and Rose leaves, and lay them in steep in your Rose-water one whole night, and it (being drunk) will take a∣way the heat, and greatly comfort the Reins: or wash the back therewith.
Take one Fennel root, and two Par∣sley roots, and pick out the piths of them, and put thereto one handful of Pellitory of the wal; and all these things being washed clean, seeth them in posset Ale, and drink thereof when you go to bed, and if you awake at midnight, drink of it also.
Take a good handful of the pith of the back of a young Ox or Heifer, slice ••t, and take out the stuff in it, and put
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it in a fair dish, put thereunto one, two or three of pure Dates, the skin within side taken off, and minced as fine as may be; then boile them in two or three spoonfuls of Rose-wa∣ter, then look what quantity of Dates, so the like of Raisons of the Sun, and red Currants, your Raisons must be minced smal, and the stones taken out, then boil your Raisons and Currants and Rose-water together till they be tender, and put in some crumbs of Bread, Cin∣namon, and Sugar, and Saffron small beaten to powder, then temper all these together in a fair dish, and have ready Pastionel, which is made of Su∣gar and yolks of Eggs, fine flower and butter, these work together into paste, and roll it as thin as you can, and make it into pieces, the fashion of a Pease cod, and bake them slenderly, and reserve them to your use, and when you list to eat of them, take one and heat it by the fire side in the morning, and eat it, and another 〈◊〉〈◊〉 noon.
Take some Comfrey roots, Knot∣grasse, Clary and Shepherds purse stamp them and strain them, with a little Mus∣kadine, and put thereto the rest of a pint of Muskadine, one Nutmeg grated, and two yolks of Eggs, and so drink of it cold.
Take a pottle of fair Spring-water, and put thereinto halfe a pound of Eringo roots, as new as you can get them, and meerly of themselves as they grow, with∣out any candying or confectioning, on∣ly bruise them very well before you put them into the pipkin of water, then take three good sticks of Licoras, and bruise them, and put them into the same water: let all these boil together over a temperate fire until half be consumed, then take it off, and every morning drink a pretty draught thereof for seven∣teen or eighteen dayes together.
Take Eringo roots, and conserve them, as you do Damask white and red Roses, in every respect, the pith be∣ing taken out, one pound and a half of Sugar is enough for every pound of Roots, and three pints of water, and stew them closely at the first, as you do your Roses; if you will add to them five or six graines of Ambergreece bea∣ten to fine powder, it will be much more cordial.
Take Fennel, Comfrey and Plantane, of each a handful, Anniseeds, Fennel seeds and Licoras, of each an ounce, Mastick two drams, Lapis dactilus two drams, boile these in two quarts of new milk till half be consumed, then strain it and drink of it morning and evening. After this drink, the space of an hour, take on the top of a knife this Electu∣ary:
Diatragacanth. frigid. one ounce, of
Sirrup of Violets one dram, mix them together, and take it as aforesaid.
Take Sage, Rosemary, Camomile and Maudlin, of each one handful, stamp them together, and frye them in May butter, and annoint the back with it warm.
This pain proceedeth of Rheumes that fall into the sinews of the Muscles, or of great labour, and such like occasi∣ons.
Seeth Nep in your broth, which draweth the noisome and grieved mat∣ter out of the neck, and driveth away all pain in the shoulders and back bones. Also silver Mountain seeds sod in water and drink thereof twice a week every time three or four ounces. It is very good against all weakness of the back and raines.
Take a pottle of the best White wine, three pints of Oyle of Saint Johns-wort, of the blossomes of Saint Johns-wort, Carduus Benedictus, Sage, Valerian, of each two pound, of Marjerom and Comfrey one pound, chop them, and stamp them small, and put them into the Wine and Oyle; then take new Wheat four ounces, dry it well and bruise it, and put it into the Wine and Oyle, stir it well and seeth it four and twenty hours upon the embers close co∣vered, sometimes stirring it, then boile it and stir it well, and when you perceive the wine is almost consumed, take it off and strain it, then set it on a soft fire, and take Venice Turpentine, Mirrhe, In∣cense and Mastick, of each four ounces, Ohbanum five ounces, Sanguis Draco∣nis one ounce, beat all these to fine pow∣der, and searse them through Lawn, put in the Turpentine a little before the rest, stirring it exceeding well, then set it a lit∣tle
on the fire, and off and on, keep∣ing it stirring till it be almost cold, then put it in a glasse bottle for your use. It is good for all manner of wounds.
Take Sassafras, Hartstongue, Betony, Centory, of each two handfuls, Pelito∣ry of Spain, Cinnamon, Ginger, Cloves, of each one ounce, Licoras two ounces, Spiknard one ounce, put all these in a gillon of White wine; and let it stand three dayes, and then drink of it the space of eight dayes.
Take a quart of Spring-water, and about some twenty leaves of a weed cal∣led Dithander, and put thereinto some ten or twelve Cloves, and boyl all these together till it come to a pint, and drink thereof.
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Take Romane Wormwood. common Wormwood, Garden Tansie, Fether∣few, Sowthernwood, Unset Leeks, Peach leaves, Herb-grace, of each one handful, wash them, and wring them, then take a pound of Barrowes grease or May butter, stamp all the Herbs in a Mortar very small, then min∣gle them with the grease, and make it up into balls as big as Tennis Balls, then put them in a Cellar seven or eight daies till they be all hoary, then break them into an Earthen pot, and boil them on a soft fire till the juice be consumed, then take it up and strain it, and keep it for your use: And when you use it, warm some of it, and annoint the belly before the fire morning and evening.
The party must be purged with Sir∣••ups which do cool, and Glisters. For a Purge, take eight and twenty damask
Pruins, and five or six Figs, seeth them in water, and take of this Decoction three or four ounces, temper Cassia therein, and the Oyl of Sweet Almonds five or six ounces tempered with Sugar, and drink the same at once. It loosen∣eth the body very gently, and may be given to children newly born. Like∣wise Manna decocted with sowre Dates, Pruins and Sugar, is good to give a stool.
Take Garlick, Salt and Rew, stamp them altogether, and in the manner of a Plaister lay it to the sore, and give the Patient Treakle to drink three times in a week till the danger be past. Pre∣batum.
Take a handful of Box, and stamp it, and strain it with a draught of milk, put into it a pretty quantity of Lobsters shell
beaten to powder, and some Unicorns horn, if you can get it, and drink thereof and wash the wound therewith.
Take Betony, Wild Sage, and Night Shade, of each a good handful, and a pint of running water, stamp the Herbs, and strain them therewith, and put thereto a penny worth of Treakle, and give the Patient to drink two or three mornings fasting.
Take Hysop, and cut it as small as you can, and put it into the wound, and put Cobwebs thereupon, or a linnen cloth clean washed and dryed and burnt to tinder and laid to the cut, doth stanch it without doubt.
Take Mastick and the hair of a Hare mixt with the white of a new laid Egg, and make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to the wound.
There is not a better thing then the powder of Bole Armoniack for to stanch the bleeding of a wound, the powder to be laid upon it; or for the Nose, to be put in with the blast of a quil.
Take the shavings of Parchment, and lay it to the wound, it stancheth and healeth.
Take dryed Vervain and make it into powder, and so lay it in the wound.
Take a little piece of linnen cloth, and a Spider, kill it not, but wrap it in the piece of linnen cloth, and put it up in the Patients Nostrils.
Take Orpine, which is chiefe of all Herbs to stanch blood, beat the Herb in your hand, chasing it till it be warm, it will stop all manner of bleeding.
Take the juice of red Nettles, with a little red Wine, and a little Vi∣triol, burnt or unburnt, and drink it.
Take a little lint, and make it round like a pease, and dip it into ink, and put it into the Nose, and it will stanch bleed∣ing straightwayes.
Take the Mosse of a Crab tree, and let the Patient smell to it as it cometh from the tree.
Take a quantity of green Coperas, as much Bole Armoniack beaten to fine powder and cast it into the wound.
Take Wine Vineger and the white of an Egg, and beat them together, and spread them on a linnen cloth, and for a man lay it on his privy members, and for a woman on her brest.
Take wild Tansie and bruise it small, and lay it on the wound, or make powder of it, and fill the wound full of it.
Take Betony and stamp it with as much salt as you can hold between your two fingers, and put it in your Nose.
Take the lean of salt Bief, so much as you think will goe into the wound, and lay it in the Embers of the fire, and let it roast till be red hot, and thrust it in∣to the wound hot, and bind it up fast, and if the wound be in the foot, bind him about the Anckle; if in the legg, about the knee, if in the knee, bind the thigh; if in the hand, about the wrists; if in the arme, about the bought of the arme with a g••od list or Garter two or three times about, and it will stanch bleeding.
Take Centory, green Rew, and red Fennel and stamp and strain them and drink it warmed.
Take an old clean linnen cloth, and wet it well in Vineger, then burn it, and take the powder thereof, and if it be a wound, cast it therein, and it will stop the bleeding immediately; but if the Nose bleed, then snuff up the powder in∣to the Nose, and it helpeth.
Take the crops of Southernwood, and crush them in your fingers and put it into the nose.
If your Nose do bleed unmeasurably, then tye your little finger very hard a∣bout the lower joint, and for the most part, it faileth not, but stayeth the same.
Take the juice of Betony, and temper it with Goats milk, and give it the Patient to drink three dayes together.
Take Smallage, Rew, Mints and Be∣tony, and seeth them well in good milk, and sup it warm.
Take an Herb called Periwinkle, and hold it between thy teeth, and it help∣eth.
Take Ambrosia and Bursa pastoris of each a handful, Parsley seeds the like, stamp them together, and drink the juice thereof with Goats milk.
The cause of pissing of blood may be superfluity of Humors, sharpness of U∣rine, Winds, Tumors, Impostumations, debility of the Kidneyes and Bladder, then is there a pain about the Privities, and the blood is congealed and separa∣ted from the Urine: In case the blood be much, and runneth out swiftly, then it signifies a broken Vein, otherwise an Ulcer; but if the Urine be like water that
flesh is washed in, then it is of a weak li∣ver; but if from superfluity of blood, then it is to be seen by the fulnesse of the body; if through sharpnesse of Hu∣mours the Patient is ever burning, there∣fore he must avoid all sharp, tart and salt things.
Phlebottomie is needlesse to those that be of so strong a nature, that (being over laden) are able to expel all super∣fluity through natural passages, as by bleeding at Nose, &c.
Quest. But why is Phlebottomie u∣sed?
Ans. When blood aboundeth, it is commonly in those that have a hot liver, full veines, a high colour and brownish, and not fat and corpulent: Also in those that eat and drink abundantly, live at ease, and use meats that ingender much blood, which when Nature cannot digest, it corrupteth the braines, from which issueth dangerous Diseases; and in these cases, this is a more sure reme∣dy, then to admit of inward Phy∣sick.
Also letting of bloed doth strengthen the brain, comfort the sight, warmeth the marrow in the bones, freeth the in∣ward parts of many infirmities, stayeth vomiting, oftentimes helpeth the flux or lask, cleereth the senses, restoreth sleep, r••neweth the spirits, because melancho∣ly blood is thereby diminished, cureth deasness reduceth lost voices, augment∣eth the powers and vertues of all the bo∣dy, being thereby rid of superfluities; the abundance of blood is known no less by the thicknesse and troubled matter consisting of the Urine, then by the signes before mentioned. And though the blood be not inflamed, but supera∣bundant, it causeth many dangerous dis∣eases; and if any in the morning about the dawning of the day do commonly sweat, it is a sign of Superfluity in the Veine••.
Thirdly, Where cold and bad blood is, there must be a Purgation precede Phle∣bottomiae, or else the cold blood will re∣main.
Lastly, Its good sometimes to be let blood that the blood may be led or drawn from one place to another.
First, when it is broken in length: Next, when it is broken overthwart. Thirdly, when it is oblick and crooked. Fourthly, when it is girded, and broken, and shivered in divers pieces, either legs or armes.
Albusences, and others later Writers, make the difference of Fractures; not ac∣cording to the bone fractured, but after the place affected; as if the Nose be broken, brain-pan, jawes, ribs, back∣bone, armes, legs, or other parts, which be not differences of Fractures, but of the place affected, according to na∣ture.
First, to respect, that the bones be put again in their former place.
Secondly, to be reduced to their natu∣ral,
and so conserved and kept without motion or hurt.
Thirdly, That the bone broken may be ingendred and conglutinated toge∣ther by ingendring of Callus.
Fourthly, To correct the Accidents that do come after the Fracture of the bones.
Be sure of help to hold the party at need; for the Legg or Arm let him sit in a Chair, and with annointing draw it out till the place be met, as tenderly as you may, having respect to the party grieved his complexion and na∣ture.
Look well to your rolling. First, it is very good to take the white of an egge and Oyle of Roses mixt together, and wet therein the linnen Cloathes which may cover the place broken, and some∣what more of the other, and roll it not.
hard, for it may cause dolour and flux of humours.
The first Roller upon the Fracture three or four times, and so to the second part upwards; the third Roller leek downward, and it must be half as low as the first; these Rollers should be wet in water and wine before you use them. If the pain be vehement, then the mem∣ber would be wrapped about with fine wooll well carded, or else with stuff wet in Oxicrotium.
Take Unguentum Populeum two oun∣ces, Bole Armoniack one ounce, mix these together with Oyle of Roses, and a little Vineger.
Take half a pint of running water, and set it on the fire, and put in fine Wax, a little Oyl of Roses and sine Barly meal, seethe them altogether, but not very thick, then make thereof a Plaister or Cere-cloth; strike it upon the cloth,
upon the bottom of a Pewter dish, over a Chafingdish and coals, and lay it luke∣warm to the arm or leg, a night and a day and it will asswage the humour of boy∣ning.
Take luke-warm Mell Rosarum, and Oyle of Roses, and a stamp of flax dipped in the Whites of Eggs, and so bind it up∣on the sore; Also apply about the place Bole Armoniack, Sanguis Draconis, and Olibanum, beaten with a little Oyl of Roses, Barley meal and Vineger round about the sore, and so comfort the Pati∣ent.
Make your Plaister of Oyle of Roses and Oyle of Mirtle melted together with a little wax, and when it is cold, put to it Bole Armoniack and Pompuleon, of each one ounce, of Wine two ounces, and lay it a handful broad upon the hurt and let it lye.
Take a pint of new Cowes milk, a pint of Rye-bread crumbs, a handful of French Poppy leaves shred small, two ounces of Oyle of Roses, three yolks of new laid eggs, and as much Saffron as the weight of a Groat, First boil the milk, the crumbs and the Poppy toge∣ther a good while, and then put in the rest, and spread it upon a faire linnen cloth.
Take Unguentum Pompuleum one ounce, Bole Armoniack one ounce, mix them together with a little Oyle of Roses, and a little Vineger.
Take the leaves and flowers of Hen∣bane, and put them in an earthen pot with May butter, and close the pot, and set it in a dunghil three months, then an∣noint the grieved place therewith.
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Take a red or black Cock, and pluck him quick, and whip him alive with small twigs a pretty while, then cut off his head and gut him, and cut him in quarters, and wipe him very dry with a fair cloth; then take an earthen pot and lay four or five splints to keep it from the bottom of the pot; then lay in the four quarters upon the splints, and lay between every quarter some of these Roots and Fruit following, Fen∣nel roots, Parsley roots, Succory roots of each two or three, two or three slips of Rosemary, two or three Dates quar∣tered, half a handful of Raisons of the Sun the stones taken out, six spoonfuls of Rhenish Wine, Malmesey or Muska∣dine, three or four whole Mace, cover the pot, and stop it close with paste, and set it in a pot or kittle of hot water, and let it boil softly with a temperate fire sour hours, then take it up and let it
run through a fair cloth without any forcing, then put it in a fair glasse or pot, and keep it close covered, and give to the Patient two or three spoonfuls at once, or in quantity as the stomack is a∣ble to take it, in some broth made of Mut∣ton or Veal, first in the morning, and as often in the day besides as he hath a sto∣mack to take it.
Take a pottle of fair water and six Calves feet, and put therein Betony, Long-wort, Liver-wort, Knot-grasse, Clary, Balm, with a quantity of Mace, Cinnamon and Ginger, and six Dates; let all these be sodden together till it come to a Jelly; and then take a quart of White-wine, or very pure claret, and put therein, and eat it at your plea∣sure.
Take the marrow of Venison, a pint of running water, three leaves of Cla∣ry, three leaves of Comfrey, one hand∣ful of Archange, a handful of Charnel,
theree Dates, a handful of smal Raisons, seeth altogether till it come to half a pint, then strain it, and put thereto a pint of white Bastard, and a quantity of Manus Christi.
Take a pint of Muskadine, and put thereto Hemp-seed and blanched Al∣monds, and Cap Dates, two or three whole Mace, and a Nutmeg, and three crops of Rosemary, and a little Saffron and red Rose-water, and boil them all together till half be boiled away, and af∣ter they be boiled, put thereto Mithrida∣tum about the quantity of a hasel Nut, but let it not seethe after, and let the party drink thereof at his going to bed at night.
Take a pottle of water, and a Chick∣ken, and two Fennel roots, two Parsley roots, three Dates, a handful of Cur∣rants, and boile them altogether, from a pottle to a pint, then take two spoonfuls of Hasel Nut kernels,
and eight blanched Almonds, stamp∣ed together with the Nuts, and strain them into the broth, and so drink it morning and evening.
Take a couple of eggs, and boil them hard, then take the shels only, and stamp them very small, then take six Dates stones, and one Nutmeg, and stamp them likewise, then take of Cene as much as the two former things do weigh, then searse it through a very fine Searse, then take the weight of four pence or six pence and drink it in a quantity of White Wine, Ale or Beere, in the morning as long as the things do last, and it will break it a∣way, with hot broth within one hour after.
Take a Legg of Veal, and wash it ve∣ry clean, and put it into a gallon of fair spring water, set it over the fire, and skumme it very cleane,
and then put in a quarter of a pound of the best red Currants you can get, and half a handful of the Roots of Orpine, the skin being clean pick'd off, and some grated bread to thicken; let it boil soft∣ly over the fire till it cometh to a pottle, and then put in half an ounce of Coral very finely beaten, and half an ounce of Cinnamon finely beaten, and let it be stirred when the Spices be put in; and this you must drink three times a day, being boiled three or four walmes after the Spices be put in. You must drink it in the morning fasting, and an hour be∣fore Dinner, and an hour before Sup∣per. It must be very warm when you drink it, and in the morning fast two hours after you have taken it. This is good for a weak back, for the Mother, and for the Whites, and for the running of the Rains.
Every two or three hours give the Pa∣tient a spoonful of Syrrup De Corticibus Citri, and therein three or four drops of Aqua Coelestis.
Take a piece of a knuckle of Veal, set it on the fire in a convenient quantity of water, one Fennel root scraped, and the pith taken out, one Parsley root scraped the pith taken out, Camomile, Penni∣royal, Burrage and Bugloss, of each a handful, Raisons of the Sun stoned, three pieces of large Mace, and a piece of Cin∣namon bruised a little, one Nutmeg quartered: Let these boil till it hath a good taste of the meat, then strain out a pint of this Broth in a Bason, and put to it four spoonfuls of Oyle of Rew, the yolk of one new laid egge, three penny worth of Sugar candied; stir all these well, and give it with a Glister-pipe blood warm, about eight of the Clock in the morning and four in the after∣noon.
Take six spoonfuls of Wine Vineger, and twelve spoonfuls of water, and two spoonfuls of Honey, clarifie them toge∣ther, and add thereto one spoonful of Mustard.
Boil Lillies in new milk, and lay it on to break it, and when it is broken, tent it with a Mallow stalk, and lay on it a Plaister of Mallowes boiled in Sheeps tallow. These are to be used if you can∣not keep it from breaking.
Take Oyle of Roses, Bean flower, the yolk of an Egg, a little Vineger, temper
all these together, then set it afore the fire that it may be a little warm, and then with a feather strike it upon the Brest morning and evening or any time of the day when she feels the pric∣king.
Take of Avens, Plantane, Ribwort, Bugloss, Primrose leaves, Cuckoe Sor∣rel, Bramble leaves, and a yellow flow∣er like to Dandillion, but somewhat less, Daisies, roots and all, Sanacle, Worm∣wood, Strawberry leaves, Herb Ro∣bert, Egrimony, Cinqfoil, of each a good handful, not too much wormwood, for making it bitter; boil all these in a pottle of White-wine, and make it some∣what sweet with Honey, then strain it and wring out all the juice as neer as you can, then drink a good draught thereof in the morning and at night till it is done, and lay to the sore a Primrose leaf, or a Plantane: And when the brest is sore or hard, take Polipodium, Plantane and great Raisons, beat them smal, and lay it all about the Brest upon a cloth.
Take Groundsel, Daisie leaves and roots, course Wheat chessel, make a Poultice thereof with the parties owne water, and lay it warm to the Brest.
Take Hysop, Figs and Honey boile them in Wine, from a pottle to a quart, drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold.
Take stale strong Ale or Beer grounds, a small peece of Allome, and a little Ho∣ney, and boil them together, then take a piece of woollen cloth, and cut two holes in it for the two nipples, and dip it in the liquor, and lay it to the brests very hot, lay a piece of black wool upon the nipples.
Take Rew and seethe it in Verjuice, and so drink it.
Take the whites of two new laid eggs and beat them very well; also take a handful of Violet leaves, and pound them very fine, and put them to the whites of the Eggs, and take as much wheat-flower as will make it as thick as a Plaister, and temper it well altogether and spread it upon a cloth, and lay it upon the brest, and it will ease the pain, and take away the swelling. Also Snow∣water and Sallet Oyle, &c. Pro∣batum.
The cause may be of heat or drowth, or of some cold quality of the brest, that the blood which should alter into milk be dryed out.
Again, the want of milk, may be for
want of meat, or use of such meats as may dry the blood; or by bad digesti∣on of the stomack, &c. use a good Diet, and eat green Marjerom in the morning fasting.
Take running water a gallon, Ferne roots scraped clean, and sod in the wa∣ter till it be halfe consumed, and then stamp them and strain them, and then put it between a linnen cloth, and lay it to the bruise or squat as hot as may be suffered, and it will help: you may wash the place pained with the liquor so that the skin be not bro∣ken.
Take Lyons Claw, that is, Predalian or our Ladies Mantle, and Sage, and Par∣sley, of each one handful, of Auni∣seeds, Fennel seeds, Hysop seeds, and
the root of Elicampane about two oun∣ces, seethe them in two pound of water until the third part be consumed; drink this, and it loseth all congealed blood in the body, and expelleth it in the Urine.
Take of Scala Coeli one pound, Rose∣mary flowers four ounces, Pomgranat rinds two ounces, Sallet Oyle two pound, White Wine halfe a pint, bruise the Scala Coeli and the Pomgranate rinds, and in the Oyle and the Wine with the Rosemary flowers, infuse them ten dayes in the Sun; after that, boil them till the Wine be consumed, then strain it, and unto the Oyl being strain∣ed, put these things following, Mastick, Olibanum, of each four ounces, Aloes one ounce. Cassia four ounces, Venice Turpentine twelve ounces, Verdi∣grease one ounce; boil these in the Oyle until the Gummes be dissolved, then straine it, and keep it to use, and remember that in the end of
the boiling the Verdigrease be put in, and let the Turpentine be put in last, not letting it boil after, but only with the heat dissolve it self.
Take Rosemary tops, Toutswaine leaves, Plantane leaves, of each two handfuls, Stone pitch and Turpentine, of each one pound, a pint of Sallet Oyl, a quarter of a pound of Wax, two oun∣ces of Olibanum; the Herbs must be beaten very small in a Mortar, and then boile them together in a Pipkin six or se∣ven hours till it come to be as stiff as Soap, and when it is so boiled, it must be strained through a linnen cloth, and so put up in to Gally pots, the Olibanum must not be put in till the other be boil∣ed sufficiently.
Take half a pint of Sallet Oyl, a quar∣ter of a pound of White-lead, two oun∣ces of Cerus. First, set the Oyl on the
fire in an earthen pan, and when it is ready to boil, put in the White-lead, being in fine powder, so let it boil a quarter of an hour, then put in your Cerus being beaten small, and stir it while it seethes, then drop a drop in cold water, and if it will roll, it is boil∣ed enough; then powre it all into a Bason of cold water, and when it is cold enough to touch, annoint your hands, and roll it up in little rolls.
Take young Bay-leaves and Worme∣wood, of each a quarter of a pound, a pound and a half of Suet of a Loyne of Mutton, a quart of Oyle Olive, of Oyle of Spike two ounces, shred your Herbs smal and your Suet, then put them in a stone pot, and powre the Oyles upon them, and cover it very close, and so let it stand close covered two dayes; then boil it till the Liquor be very green, that the goodnesse is out of the Herbs, then strain it, and reserve it for your use.
Take a pound of Butter out of the Charn-milk, and set it on the fire, and clarifie it, then take a handful and a half of red Sage, as much Camo∣mile, as much Herb-grace, and half as much Smallage, some young Bay-leaves, chop all the Herbs small, and put them into the clarified butter, and boile them on a soft fire, stir∣ring it until it be green, then strain it, and keep the Liquor for your use.
Take the grounds of Ale or Beere, Wheat Bran and Chickweed, and lay it to the grief three or four times a day upon a red cloth.
Take Oatmeal and seethe it in sweet Cowes milk, until it be as thick as pap, and put it into a pan with a quantity of Sheeps suet, and boile them well,
and then make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to the grief as hot as you can suf∣fer it.
Take two handfuls of Cumin seeds, and seeth them in good Wine from a pottle to a pint, and then drink of it fifteen days together morning and even∣ing.
This Infirmity proceedeth, First, when the Gums are putrified: Secondly, from hallow teeth: Thirdly, Stinking humors that fall downe from the head to the Pannicles of the mouth, and make the spettle to stink. Fourthly, Stinking slime of the stomack. Fifthly, the cor∣ruption of the Lights. Sixthly, Stink∣ing matter and purulency. Seventhly, stopping in the Nose, or some exulcerati∣on of the same.
If it be from any of these causes pro∣ceeding from the Head, then it is of heat; then purge the head, and wash the mouth often with Plantane water.
Also take green Oaken leaves, and dry them, and beat them to powder, and take one dram sod in Wine.
Take Sage and seeth it in running wa∣ter, and wash the wound with the wa∣ter as hot as you can suffer it, and it will take away the heat immediately, then take Sage, and Hartstongue leaves, and Sheeps dung, and fry it with Sheeps su∣et, and annoint the place therewith with a feather, and let it lye still; then take Sheeps dung and dry it to powder, and strew it twice a day, and annoint it twice a day; but take heed of picking any of it away, left there be holes in the skin ever after: And to asswage the stiffness, when you can abide it no longer, then bathe
it a little in Sage water; but the less ba∣thing, the sooner it will be whole.
Take black Soap, about the bignesse of the sore, and spread it upon a linnen cloth like a Plaister, and so lay it upon the sore, and within half a day it will draw out the fire, and then lay healing Salve to it.
The Oyle of Cream and Snow wa∣ter, is good to wash the place so hurt.
Take the whites of two Eggs, and one yolk, and beat them well together and scum off the froth, then melt three spoonfuls of Barrowes grease, and take three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage, and put thereto, and stir it well toge∣ther till it be cold, then make thereof a Salve.
Take the fat of dryed Bacon, and hold it between a pair of Tongs red hot, and let it drop into a pot of faire wa∣ter, and of the dropping make your Plaister.
Take the second pill of a young Elme tree, and lay it in fair water the space of twelve hours or more, then fill out the water and warm it on the fire, and annoint the Patient therewith, and let it drink in the water, and when it is dry, then take new with the juice of Plantane as much of the one as of the other, and then annoint it therewith after the first water.
Take a quart or a pint of new Cream, and boil it in a cleane Vessel, and ever stir it till it become curdy, and that it turne into an Oyle,
then straine it through a cloth, and the Oyle will come from the curd.
Take Snow water, or running water, and put thereinto fine Sallet Oyle, and beat them well together, so done, bathe the place grieved twice or thrice, and so rest that the fire may be ta∣ken out: then make this Oyntment following: Take of Daisies, roots and leaves, of Balme, and of Alehoofe, of each two handfuls, of Valerian and Orpine leaves, of each one handful, beat all these together very fine in a stone Mortar after they have been well washed and dryed, then take of fresh Butter unsalted two pound, of Barrowes grease one pound, and a pint of Neats foot-Oyle; boil all these together, till the water of the Herbs be consumed, by which time it will be a perfect Oyntment, then take it from the fire, straine it, and pre•••• it well out, and keep it well in
an earthen pot, it will last seven years, and when you use it, take Primrose leaves and pare away the ribs, and after the sore place is well annointed, lay the smooth side upon the place grieved all o∣ver, and so lay on fine linnen, and change it often.
Take half a pint of Cream, two hand∣fuls of Wild Daisies, with their roots, a few Rosemary tops, and a little Sugar, boil them together till they become an Oyl, then strain it, and annoint the place therewith; but first wash it with Whey.
Take Maiden wort and stamp it, seeth it in fresh butter, and strain it, and an∣noint the place.
Take one handful of Barrowes grease, and two handfuls of Groundsel and two or three handfuls of Houseleek, stamp
the Herbs together, then put to them new sheeps dung two handfuls, of Goose dung two handfuls, and stamp them al∣together, and being hot, strain them through a cloth into an Earthen pot, and with the liquor annoint the burned place.
Take Plantane, Waybred, Daisies, and the green bark of Elder, and green Goose dung, and Oyl Olive, stamp them together, and wring them through a cloth, and bath the hurt with a fe∣ther.
TAke Herb-grace, Ribwort, Fether-few, Groundsel, Parsley, Sorrel, leaven, Boares grease, of each a hand∣ful, and a little bay salt; shred all these together, and seeth them in the dregs of Ale with some Verjuice.
Take the dung of a white Goose, and the juice of Cellendine, and bray them well in a Mortar together, and lay there∣of to the sore, and this will stay the Canker, and heal it.
Take pild Garlick and Rye meal, beat them together, and boile them in Wine
Vineger till it be thick as pap, then lay it on the fore, and change it three times a day till it be white, then take Pim∣pernel and stamp it with a little Honey, and lay it to the brest, and it will heal it.
Take of Rosemary stripped from the stalks, and of red Sage leaves, of each a like; dry them, and burn them in a clean chafingdish, then rake a pretty piece of Allome, and burn it very fine, and make your Herbs very small, and then with some Honey temper it altogether; and make it pretty soft, and annoint the place with it three times a day, in the morning fasting, after dinner, and af∣ter Supper; let the water out of your mouth if you can, but if it go downe it will not hurt you; and before you an∣noint it, wash it with Orange pils out in pieces, and laid in water; if you make it bleed it is the better. This Medicine wil look very black, but it is very good.
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Take six spoonfuls of honey clarified, with as much water, boil it over the fire till the water be consumed, still stirring it; and when it is clarified, put to it a pint of the best and strongest White Wine, and a piece of Roch Allome of the bigness of a Hasel Nut, and a spoon∣ful of Bay salt, let all these seeth toge∣ther the space of a quarter of an hour, then take dry Rose leaves, Woodbind leaves, and Sage, of each a handful, and let them seeth a quarter of an hour more together upon a Chafingdish and coals, and let the Patient wash the sore with the liquor, and lay the leaves upon it, and if the Liquor be too thick to wash your mouth, take fair running water, and White Wine Vinegar, and a spoonful of Honey to be sodden together with the Herbs aforesaid.
First take of Quicksilver, of Sallet Oyle, of Oyl de Baies, of each two pennyworth, a quantity of Quicksilver; to kil the Quicksilver, add a little bay salt,
or Salt peter, mingle all these together and so use it.
Take a pint and a half of the strongest Ale may be gotten, twenty Jordan Al∣monds clean wiped, but neither washed nor blanched, two Dates minced very small, and stamped, then take the pith of a young Bief, the length of twelve inches, lay it in water till the bloud be out of it, then strip the skin off it and stamp it with the Almonds and Dates, then strain them all together into the Ale, then boil it until it be a little thick; give the party in the morning fasting six spoonfuls, and as much when he go∣eth to bed.
Take a handful of Chickweed, and lap it in a red Cole leaf, or else in a lin∣nen cloth, and roast it in hot embers, and it will be a green Salve, then lay thereof to the bone in the neck, as hot as may be suffered. Also take sow•• leaven of white bread, and crum it on the mould of the Childs head as a Plaister, and by Gods grace it will raise up the bone or mold within nine hours.
Take a handful of Pimpernel, and dry it between two tiles, and lay it to the soles of the feet.
Take Sage, Sweet Marjerom and Dane wort of equal quantity, beat them a long time together, and strain the juice out of them, which juice put into a double Vial glass, so that the glasse be full of it; then stop it with paste very close and cover it with thick paste all over, then set it in an Oven, and there let it stand so long as a great loaf requires time to be throughly baked, then take it out and let it be cooled, then break the paste round about it, and if the juice be grown thick, break the glass and take it out in another dish, and keep it in a gally pot, and when you will use it, take of it the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much marrow of an Ox leg. m••••t it together and mingle it well, and morn∣ing and evening annoint, (as warm as can be suffered) the hinder parts of the Childs thighes and legges, and also his knees, chafing it well with your w••rme. hands; and in a short
time his limbs shall be exceedingly strengthned, and be enabled (by Gods blessing) to go and walk.
Tye a Nutshel full of the Salve of Mal∣lowes on the Navel, and let it lye there∣upon til it be soaked in. Do this once, twice, or thrice, till it be amended.
The Salve of Mallowes is thus made: Take Mallow leaves and pound them, then melt fresh Butter, and boil the Mallow leaves therein till it be green, then strain and use it.
Or give the child Sirrup of Violet••, being heat, or Sirrup of Damask Roses, a quarter of an ounce at a time.
Give to the child both morning and evening a spoonful of Plantane water to drink; if the Child be old, give it the more, and give it no drink but such wherein Gold hath been three times quenched, Also annoint the stomack with the Oyle of Mastick and Oyl of
Mints, towards his Navel downe∣wards.
Also take the juice of broad Plantane, and Wine Vineger, of each a like quan∣tity, and mix therewith Barley meal till it be somewhat thick, then cool it a lit∣tle, and spread it upon a woollen cloath, and apply it upon the belly warm and when it is cold, heat it a∣gain.
Also take a new laid egg, and take a way the threeds (as some call it) the two white spots that are joyning to the yolk, and beat it a good while, then with meal make a Cake and bake it in a pan, then beat it in a Mortar, and put powder of Cinnamon unto it, and bake it again, and let the child eat thereof now and then.
Take a handful of Stone crop, Wild Time, Garden Time, Parsley, Saxi∣frage, Pellitory of the wall, of each a
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handful, four or five Rhadish roots, a little of Philip Pimperlow, scrape the roots, and slice them, and put all these in∣to a gallon of new milk of a red Cow, and let it stand twelve hours, and then distil it with a soft fire, and take five spoonfuls of this Water, and put it into a good draught of Rhenish or White Wine, then warm it milk warm, and with the juice of a Lemmon and some Nutmeg and Sugar, drink this fasting in the morning, and fast four or five hours after, and walk up and down; take this every third day. Probatum.
Take a flint stone, and cast it into the fire until it be red hot, then put it into a pot of drink, and there will arise a great foame, let the Patient drink thereof.
Take the Herb Eve, and Holly without prickles, dry them by the fire upon a pa∣per, and being well dryed, make them into a powder, and drink so much thereof at a time as will ly upon a Gro••t in White Wine or Ale, it is exceeding good.
Take a quantity of Conserves of Red Roses, three Pepper cornes, and beat them small; also take the seeds of U••••set Time, with Anniseeds, beat them small, and put them into the Con∣serve of Roses, and mingle them well together, then put it into a Gally pot, and when your pain first cometh upon you, take the quantity of a small Walnut, and presently after as much Green Ginger as a Hasel Nat.
Take Parsley, Pellitory of the wall, Saxifrage, Wild Time, Eyebright, of each two handfuls, twenty Rhadish roots scraped and sliced; steep all in a pottle of Red Cowes milk all night, then distil them in the hottest of May, and use it as followeth, Take nine spoonfuls of the water, and nine of Rhenish Wine, the juice of a Lemmon, half a Race of Ginger finely minced, and sugar it as you please for a draught:
drink this thrice a week fasting, and use presently moderate exer∣cise.
Take a quantity of Parsley roots a∣bout two handfuls, boil them in run∣ning water till they be soft, then take out the pith and stamp them well, and put them in a pottle of stale Ale, then strain them from thence, and drink there∣of for the space of nine dayes at the least.
Take a quart of White Wine, and boil it in an earthen pot, and when it begins to boil, put into it a handful of Mother Time, and let it boil half a quarter of an hour, then put unto it a head of Gar∣lick stamped in a Mortar, then boil them together a little space, then strain it, and give the Patient to drink, and let him drink as much as he can when the grief is upon him; but if it cease or break not, then take about a penny
worth of Honey unto halfe a pint of the Drink, and by Gods grace it will help.
Take a good quantity of Wormwood and tops of Rosemary as much, and boile them in Sack, and put them in a linnen cloth, and lay it warme to the belly where the griefe is, and (by Gods grace) it will help pre∣sently.
Take a spoonful of the powder of Holland, which is to be had at the Apo∣thecaries, and put it into a good quantity of stale drink, and make it luke warme, and so drink it. Or else take the weight of a French Crowne thereof in some warm broth after the manner of a Pur∣gation; for it is not only good to break the wind presently, but it will purge al∣so, and cause some stools. Probatum.
Take Wormwood and Tansie, of each three branches, seven or eight leaves of brown Sage, stamp all these together and strain them into a quantity of Ale, and then drink it luke warm twice if it be need.
Take some leaves of the Herb called Dandillion, and pound them small and strain them into stale Ale or Beer, and so drink some three or four times: It is not only good against the Collick and Stone, but also against a hot burning Fever.
Take Coriander, Caraway, Fennel, Spicknard and Anniseeds, of each one ounce and a half. of Grome•• seeds and Licoras one ounce; beat all these into fine powder, and let the Patient drink a
scruple in White Wine a little warmed, and walk one hour after it fasting, and do this every morning and evening; and put thereto six drops of the juice of Juniper berries, and you shall find it excellent in operation. Probatum.
Take Parsley roots, Marsh Mallow roots, and red roots, of each alike, stamp them, and put them into a pint of White Wine, and strain it, and let the Patient drink a good draught for three mor∣nings together, and it will cause the Stone to break, and provoke Urine a∣bundantly.
Take a half penny worth of Summer Savory seeds, and of Parsley seeds, of Bay berries, of Gromel, of each a half penny worth, and boil them in a posset of White Wine, and drink.
Take the water of Heraff and the root of a red Dock, the inner pith taken a∣way, and the neather bark of an Ash of one years growth, and pound them, and strain them with the said water, and so drink it first and last.
Take Parsley seeds and bruise them, and seeth them in Sack, and drink it warm when you have your pain. Also Carduus Balsam is excellent.
Take Pellitory, Unset Leeks and Mal∣lowes, of each a like, stamp them, and put thereto a pennyworth of Neats foot Oyl, and fry them well together in man∣ner of a Plaister, put them in a linnen bag, and apply it to the Raines of the back, but for the Collick apply it to the Navel, and it will help within an hour.
Take a couple of Marrow bones and seeth them, and put in a great handful or two of Unset Leeks cut small, with the roots and blades fair washed, and when they be washed and sodden, take them forth and strain them, and take out the Marrow, and put it into the broth, then take a half penny worth of Ginger, as much Pepper, a penny worth of Cinna∣mon, a half penny worth of Cloves and Mace, a quarter of a pound of Sugar; let all be very small beaten, and put into the broth, and drink it warme morn∣ing and evening as the stomack will bear it.
First take a red Cock and kill him, and flea him, and cut him in four quarters, but wash them not, then take six cap
Dates and cut them in four quarters, and take half a score of large Mace, and six whole Cloves, then put in three or four pieces of old Gold, and stamp the bones of the Cock, then take a pewter pottle pot, and lay in one quarter, and lay upon it some of every Spice, and a piece of old Gold, and so upon every quatter until the last be put in, and you may (if you will) put to the said Ingredients, Amber, Coral and Pearle, but no kind of Licoras neither first nor last, and when it is perfectly boiled, put thereto a dozen or sixteene Raisons of the Sun, the stones taken out; Then take so much Rye dough as will stop the pots m••u••h close, and thick enough of the paste, so that no water may enter into it; then take a good great brasse pot, and set it on the fi••e, that the pewter pot, and the Ingredients that is in it may stand covered with water at least two handfuls, and put some heavy weight upon the pewter pot that it be not over∣thrown in the boiling, and let it seeth continually from five of the clock in the morning, untill eight of the Clock at night; then take it off and open the Pewter pot, and let the Pa∣tient
take of that Syrrup a spoonful at a time.
And when you make it for a woman, you must use these Herbs, Hartstongue, Motherwort, Mugwort, Mother Time and Comfrey, but no Herbs must be used for a man. And if the woman be hot in the liver, take Liverwort; and if troubled with the Stone, take a little Pellitory of the Wall.
Take a red Cock, and pluck him alive, then quarter him and take out his bow∣els very clean, and wipe him very dry with a linnen cloth; then put the quar∣ters into a pottle of the best Sack, and p••t into them Rosemary, Time, Pen∣ni••oyal and Pimpernel, of each of these one small handful, of Dates, the stones being taken out, half a pound, of Currans one pound, let them lye and steepe in the Sack two houres, then still them in a Stillatory, and of the Water thereof use two spoon∣fuls one hour before you go to Din∣ner, and so likewise before Supper, and
it will much restore your body. This was used by the Lord Chief Justice Po∣pham.
Take a pound and half of Prok, fat and lean, and boil it in water, and put in some Oatmeal, and boil it till the heart of the meat be out, and then put in two penny worth of milk, and boil it a quar∣ter of an hour, and give the Patient a draught in the morning, in the afternoon and at night, and now and then some Barley water, and by Gods grace it will help.
Take a fair earthen pot, and put there∣in a gallon of Claret Wine, and then take a Capon well flesh'd. but not fat, and gut him, and put in his belly half a hand∣ful of Mace, and as much Raisons and Currans••, then cover the pot and set it on the fire, and let it seeth till the half be consumed, then put the Capon into a Mortar, with some of his broth, and bray his bones and all, then let it seethe
one walm after, and passe it through a Jelly bag into a close Vessel, then take a Goblet full, and put thereto the yolks of six new laid Eggs, the strainet taken away, and seethe it well, and then give the Patient to drink as hot as he can suf∣fer it, in the morning fasting, likewise be∣fore noon, and before he goeth to bed; and ere three Capons be spent, by the grace of God he shall be much amen∣ded.
Take three pints of new milk, and one pint of very good Red Wine, and four yolks of Eggs, beat them with the milk, and Wine, and put to it as much fine Manchet crumb•• as will make it thick like thin batter, and put in one quarter of an ounce of beaten Mace, and distil all these with fire, and draw a pint of water out of it, and take one spoonful of the water in Pottage or drink morning and evening.
Take a Chicken, and take out his bones, and wash it in White Wine, and put it into a pipkin without liquor, with a few Currant, and then still it five on six hours upon Embers without coals, then take a spoonful thereof and drink with thin broth.
Take Coltsfoot, Burnet leaves, Wood-Betoby leaves, red Rose leaves, Comfrey roots, of each one handful pick'd and sli∣ced, boil them in running water, from three quarts to three pints, then strain them, and put into the liquor two pound of good Sugar, and the whites of two new laid eggs, then boil it a quarter of an hour, and take off the skum, and take of this Sirrup seven spoonfuls in the morning fasting, and at night to bed∣ward. Probatum.
Take three spoonfuls of English Ho∣ney, and three of fair water mixed toge∣ther, set it on the fire till the skum arise, then take off the skum, and take it from the fire, then put thereto the powder of Coltsfoot, and make it as thick as Con∣serves of Roses, which use at your plea∣sure.
Take a quart of Rosewater, as much of womans milk, Goats milk, or Cowes milk, put unto it twenty yolks of Eggs, and mix them well together, and thereof distil a Water, and give the Patient thereof to drink first and last, with a Cake to eat made with Gold and Pearle.
Take a gallon of new milk of a red Cow, and the yolks of twenty eggs, beat them very wel together and put thereto
a pint of good Red Wine and two Man∣chets sliced; so mingle all these things together, and put them in a plain Still, and still it with a soft fire, and now and then stir it, or else it will have a crust on it; the Water may be taken at any time three or four spoonfuls with some Sugar, the oftner the better.
Take a quart of new milk, and a pint of strong Ale, and make a posset thereof; then take off the curd, then take a quar∣ter of a pound of Raisons of the Sun sto∣ned, and two big sticks of Licoras, and two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruise them, and seeth all in the posset Ale, until half be sodden away, then take it from the fire, and put therein so much sweet Butter as the bignesse of a Hasel Nut, but let it not seeth after; and let the party drink thereof evening 〈…〉〈…〉 or eight
spoonfuls at a time as hot as he can. Probatum.
Take a head of Garlick, and prick it full of Cloves, then take half a handful of three leaved grasse, and as much Goats grease, put the Garlick head therein, and wrap it in russet paper, and so roast it in the ashes till it be soft, then beat it in a Mortar and straine it, then drink it in some Ale or Beer, it is good for the Cough.
Take a quart of good old Ale, and set it on the fire and skim it clean, then take half a dozen of good Fennel roots, and scrape them, and take out the pithes, and bruise them in a Mortar, and put them in the Ale; then take a quantity of Licoras scraped and bruised and put it to the rest, then take a handful of An∣niseeds, and sift them cleane, and bruise them in a Mortar, and put it into the Ale, and let it seeth together a pret∣ty while, and take a handful of smal Rai∣sons,
wash and pick them clean, and bruise them in a Mortar, and put it into the Ale and let it seeth a walme or two after, then take a penny worth of Sugar candi∣ed and put into it, when it is almost sod∣den from a quart to a pint; and when it is full sodden to a pint, take it off and strain it, and drink it at times convenient, and put to this Tisan, Sugar, Honey, and Powder of Elicampane root, of each a little, and some great Raisons, the stones taken out, and Parsley roots, and two or three Figs.
Take half a pint of Aquavitae, of Anni∣seed•••• half penny worth, and as much English Licoras, scrape it and slice it thin, run the Anniseeds very well, and fan the dust out of them, and put them in toge∣ther, and let them boil on a soft fire till half be consumed, then strain it out, and wipe the pot, and put it in again, and put to it three ounces of brown Sugar can∣died, and set it against the fire till it be melted, then take it off, and use as of∣ten as you will drink.
Take a quart of Ale, and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary, and boil it, then put to it a spoonful of Sugar, and as much butter as an egg, and brew them together, and let the Patient drink thereof to bedward, and keep warm.
Stamp two handfuls of Centory, and seeth it in three quarts of Ale to the half, then stamp it again and seeth it, and put thereto a pint of honey, and so take every morning thereof three spoon∣fuls.
The Cough is a Messenger of all Diseases of the Lights and Brest, through the grosness, drought, moi∣sture, spittle, and other excrements; for the Cough is a motion of the Lights the which by the aire and moving
vertue of the Muscels that are within the brest is meet, and made for to cough up all that which hurteth the lights, and the Rhume provoketh the Cough most of all. There are often perillous Coughs through Rhume that falls down out of the head upon the lights, and into the brest, which is very ill to get out. It is good to purge the head with Cochia Pills, and to drink sometimes a draught of Barly Water in the morning, and eat something after it. Then take this Potion, Take Syrrup of Endive, Honey of Roses, and Sirrup of Steches, of each half an ounce, Water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and half, tem∣pered together.
This Powder is approved to stay the Rhume; Take Spica of the Indies one quarter of an ounce, Cinnamon one quarter of an ounce, of the Scull of a man that dyed through violence, three quarters of an ounce: take every time it cometh, one dram after meat in Wine or any decoction.
Physicians do commend Barly Water mixt with Julip of Violets.
First cut away the Corne and root him out, then drop into the hole a drop or two of a black Snail, and put thereto the powder of Sandyfer, and it will wear the Corn away.
Also cut your Cornes away, and lay a little piece of the red Cerecloth upon the hole, and in three months it will wear it clean away.
Take the little bones of the Hares hinder legges which are in the knee joints, if you touch the place grieved therewith it helpeth.
Also take Hollioaks, Oyl of Vio∣lets and of Swines grease of each a little
quantity and make an Ointment of them and annoint the place.
Take the Flank wool of a sheep card∣ed in flakes, and dipped in Sallet Oyle, and wrap it about your leggs, or where it taketh you, and it will heat the Cramp and ease it.
TAke the juice of Betony with the most part of Camomile, wet in it a lock of wool, and stop it in the deaf ear: and Water stilled of the same Herbs, to be powred into the ears, is a help for deafness.
Take Oyle of Roses and White Wine Vineger, of each alike, and mingle them together, and at night in bed put one drop into the ear, and stop it with black wooll, and lye on the other side.
Take of Peperitis Roots, otherwise called Horse Rhadish, three ounces, slice them by the length very thin, of Licoras scraped and bruised two ounces, Winter Savory, Time, Penniroyal, the tops of Nettles of each a small handful; of Smal∣lage roots, Fennel roots, of each one ounce, of sweet Fennel seeds bruised three ounces, infuse all these things one night in two quarts of fair water, and three pints of Canary Wine, then boil all together the next day one quarter of an hour, then take it from the fire and let it run through a clean cloth and so drink a smal draught thereof in the mor∣ning fasting, and as much in the after∣noon at three a clock and fast two hours after it, and so continue taking it until you be wel. Mr. Smart.
Take Scruvey grasse otherwise called Sold Mella, and stamp it and straine it with White Wine, drink every morning some four or five spoonfuls blood warm, and fast one hour or two after it, and do the like every evening; this you must do two or three months together, taking now and then a little Mithrida∣tum upon the point of a knife, and keep your self very warme, and wash those parts of your body that are swelled with this that followeth: Take Water∣cresses and Brooklime, and boil them, and wash the places therewith that are detected, and let it dry in.
Take a pitcher full of two gallons of new Ale, then take Setwal, Calamas Aro∣maticus and Gallingale, of each two pen∣ny worth, of Spiknard four penny worth, stamp all, and put them into a big, and hang it in the pot, and when it is four dayes old, then drink it morning and e∣vening.
Take one ounce of Sassaparilla, cut in small pieces, a quarter of an ounce of Sassasrasse, Hermodactulus half an ounce sliced, Anniseeds and sweet Fen∣nel seeds of each half an ounce bea∣ten, Licoras one quarter of an ounce, Raisons of the Sun two ounces, the stones taken out; boil all these in three quarts and a pint of fair water, Wine measure; then take it off the fire, and put to it one ounce and a quarter of Cene, and let it stand twelve hours, then strain it, and take at your rising in the morning, and a little before Din∣ner, and a little before supper, and at going to bed, a quarter of a pint to a draught, and use it three dayes toge∣ther, or more if need require.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TAke green Barly before it be eared, and distil it, and use daily now and then, to lay a little on your eyes of that Water, and it will continue the sight.
Take a quantity of Bean flower, some of an Apple finely scraped, a little wo∣mans milk, of Sorrel Water, red Role-Water, Plantane Water, of each a little quantity, mix all these together, and make a Poultice thereof, then spread it upon a fine linnen cloth somewhat thick, and put it to the Patients Eyes cold.
Take of the pap of a roasted Apple two spoonfuls, the like quantity of new laid eggs, of Saffron thirteen chives dryed and made into fine powder; work these to∣gether to one substance, and put thereto of Womans milk of a maiden child one spoonful, of Rose water the like quan∣tity; of these make your Plaister, and lay it to your eyes morning and evening, and have in a readiness the powders of these stones following, Lapis Calamina∣ris quenched nine times in White Wine, Aloes Hepatica, white Sugar candied, Tucia prepared, Camphire, of each of these half a dram, made fine to powder, sow these in a fine cloth or fine silk, and put it in a glasse of water, and of this Water drop into your eyes morning and evening and lye upon your back when you drop it into your eyes. Make your Water as followeth, Take Roses, Mari∣golds, Plantane, brown Fennel, Eyebright, Cellendine, Tormentil, Betony, Scabious Fumetory, Oaken buds, of each of these two ounces, mix all these in a glasse, and put in the powders above said.
Take the yolk of a new laid egg or two, and beat it well until it cometh unto a great froth, then let it stand so a little while, and let the Oyl run into a sawcer, and put the juice of Daisies, with the blossomes, leaves and roots being stam∣ped and strained, into the Oyl of Eggs, and put a little clarified honey unto it, and mix all these well together, and let the Patient take every morning and e∣vening into the ey that is grieved, a drop put in with a feather, let this be used so long as the pain lasteth.
Take a little Rosewater and womans milk, and mix them together, whereof the Patient may use a drop at a time as above said. And if the Patient be a man the womans milk must be of her that hath a daughter; and if the Patient be a wo∣man she must have the milk of her that hath a son sucking upon her.
Take a little Hony clarified as it com∣eth from the Hive, and so drop it into your eye evening and morning, and it will help. Probatum.
Take the white of an egg, and beat it well, then skim it, and put to the Oyle some case Ginger finely beaten, and some White Wine Vineger, then take flax and dip it in the Oyl, and lay it on your Temples, and take heed that no part thereof come into your eyes. Do this four or five nights or more, when you go to bed, and every time wash your eyes with the water that cometh of cutting of Vines. Probatum.
Take of Rose leaves, red Fennel, Ver∣vain, Rew, Cellendine, and Eyebright, of each a handful, and so still them all
together, and you shall have a good Wa∣ter for the eye sight. Probatum.
Take Smallage, Rew, Fennel, Ver∣vain, Egrimony, Betony, Scabious, Avens, Houndstongue, Eyebright, Pimpernel and Sage, of each a like quan∣tity and distil all these together with a little Urine of a man-child, and five grains of Frankinsence, and drop of this water every night into the eyes, and the sight will recover by Gods grace. Pro∣batum by Mr. Whaley.
Take the white of a new laid egge, strained from the yolk, beat it well to an Oyl, and take off the froth, and put to the Oyle a spoonful of good White Wine Vineger, and a spoonful of Rose water, beat them all well together, and with a little flax, lay to each temple a Plaister, but take heed it touch not the eyes; use this three or four times to bedward, it hath brought them to sight that were seven weeks blind. Probatum.
Take a new laid egg or two, and roast them very hard, then without taking a∣way the shels cut them in sunder, and take out the yolks, and scrape a little white Copperas, and put it where the yolks were, as much Copperas as a lit∣tle pease is enough for one egg, then strain the whites with the shels through a cloth into a sawcer, and with this Oyl annoint your eyes when you go to bed.
Make a toast of fine leven bread, and lay it in Wine till it be soft, then put it in a cloth, and to bedward lay it in the cloth to the eyes, and it will heal them.
Take a rotten Apple that is throughly
rotten, and take it from the core, then bear the white of an egg well, and drop the juice of the Apple therein, and bind it with a cloth to the eye, and so dresse it twice a day till it be whole.
The gall of a Hart and clarified Hony well mingled together is very good for the Web in the eye; it must be laid on with a feather.
Take White Wine and put it in a Ba∣son that is bright; and put Bay salt unto it, and let it stand for nine dayes, two of the dayes shake the Bason, and at the ninth dayes end put it into a glasse and keep it for your use; it is also good for red eyes.
Take of Cellendine, Herb-grace, Betony, brown Fennel, Eyebright, red Rose flowers, Maidenhair, or as ma∣ny of those as you can get, distil of
each alike much apart by themselves, and not altogether, then take of each water a like quantity, and put them to∣gether in a glasse, and let the party grieved lye upright one half quarter of an hour in the morning at noon and at night, and drop into his eyes at each time one or two drops, and close the eys afterwards.
Take a rotten Apple that is throughly rotten, and cut out the core, and then strain it through a fine cloth into some fair thing, and of the juice of that Ap∣ple drop into your eye that is sore morn∣ing and evening.
Take red Roses, Smallage, Rew, Vervain, Maidenhair, Ewfrace, Endive, Seagreen, red Fennel, Hillwort, and Cellendine, of each like quantity, then wash them clean, and lay them in good White Wine the space of a day, and
then distil them, the first water will be like Gold, the second like silver, and the third like Balme for any sore, and it is precious for Ladies in stead of Balm water.
Take a new laid egg, open the top, and let out all that is in the shell, and divide the yolk from the white, and then put in the white again into the shell, and put thereto as much of the juice of Houseleek strained, as there is of the white of the egge, and so much Roach Allome as a hasel nut; then set the egg shall with the things aforesaid in it, up∣on some embers, and so let it boil, and when it is boiled, the white will be sme∣what hard; then take it off, and let all the water run from it, and that water drop into eyes that be sore morning and evening.
The juice of Slowes, being dropped into the eyes, is as good a Medicine as may be, and so is the juice of Cellendine; but they must be severally used.
Take Callaminaris stones, and burne them well in the fire, and when they be very hot, quench them six or seven times in pure White Wine and Rosewater, then leave the stones in the liquor two or three dayes, and after apply it to your eyes. Mrs. Meggs Receipt.
Take the powder of Callaminaris, and put thereunto the grease of a fat Pullet that never laid egg, and some White Su∣gar candied finely beaten to powder, and some Oyl of Almonds, mix all these well together, and use it as occasion is offered. Mrs. Meggs.
Take a quantity of Pearlwort, as much Heyhowd, and a less quantity of Ground Ivy, and stamp them, thereto put a spoonful of life Honey, and about
two or three drops of Rosewater, strain these, and drop the juice often in the eye.
Take white Hemlock, and Ground Ivy a little quantity, sowre leaven and a lit∣tle Bay salt, and stamp them, then put thereto a little Vineger, and thereof make a Plaister upon Sheeps leather, and lay it to the wrist of the contrary side.
Take Bole Armoniack powdered, the white of an egge well beaten, and there∣of make a Plaister, and lay it to the temples.
Wet a Cloth in the juice of House∣leek, and lay it upon the brow.
Take White Wine, wherein Lapis Callaminaris hath been seven times
quenched, and drop it into the eyes when you go to bed, with a feather.
Take a handful of Ground Ivy, and stamp it, and strain it with some fasting spettle, and temper it with a little clari∣fied Honey, and drop it in your eye. Take Sugar candied, and beat it small, and searese it fine, and blow it with a quill into your eye. Take Coperas, and beat it very fine, and blow it in the eye. Take Wormwood and beat it, then take the white of an egg and beat it, and take off the froth, then make a pellet of flow∣er, and wet it, and warm it, and lay it to the eye,
Take the whites of two eggs, and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water, then take away the skum with a feather, then take a piece of rough can∣vass, as broad as ones forehead, and put upon your canvass Tow or Flax, then powre your egge upon it, then take
Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillata, and so bind it fast to your Temples when you go to bed, but lye not upon the sore eye side, and in the morning when you rise take it off suddenly, but soak it first with fair water, lest it grieve you when you take it off. Do this three nights together.
Take the Oyle of a Goose wing, a lit∣tle English Honey, and beat them well together in a sawcer, then strain it through a clean cloth, and drop it in∣to the eye with a feather. Proba∣tum.
Take a piece of a new white loaf, and put it into running water, and wrap it in a linnen cloth, and lay it to the Eyes.
Boil in egg-shell water, the stones of Raisons of the Sun, and Goose dung
new taken and strained therein is very good.
Capons grease washed in Plantane wa∣ter, and Tutia prepared mixt in it is very good for a sore eye.
Take the juice of Wormwood and mingle it with the water aforesaid, and put into your eye will take away the blood and aking.
Take the blood of a stock Dove, or for want of it, of a Pigeon, and drop a little into your eyes, and wet a cloth therein, and lay it on the Eye, helpeth the blood shotten eye, whether by stroak or otherwise. Sometimes the paine cometh of Choler, and then the pa∣tient feeleth great heat, sharp prick∣ings, much paine, and commonly there appeareth no gumme in the Eye; if there do, it is yellow: there∣fore the Patient ought to be pur∣ged, as hath been said in the Re∣medies of the head proceeding of
the cause of Choler: And in the be∣ginning of the redness, lay Tow or Flax dipped in the white of an egg well beaten with Rose-water and Plantane water.
Take three drams of Tuttie made in∣to very fine powder, as much of Alge Epatum, or Epaline in powder, two drames of fine Sugar, six ounces of Rose-water, as much of pure White Wine mixt all together, and put it into some clean Vessel of Glasse; and be∣ing well closed and stopped, set it in the Sun a month together, stirring it once every day; then take four or five drops of the same water, and put it into the Eyes morning and evening; this in short space will cause the sight to come againe as faire as ever be∣fore.
Take a Quince, and seeth it in water til it be soft, then pare it, bruise it, and mingle it with the yolk of an egg and the
crumbs of white bread dipped in the fame Water, and put thereto a little wo∣mans milk, and two penny worth of Saffron, bray them together, and lay it over your forehead and the eyes. Some∣time such pain chanceth because of phlegme, and then the Patient feeleth great pain and heavinesse in the eyes, and in this case you must purge the phlegme, as hath been said in the Reme∣dies of the head grieved with the excess of phlegme.
Take Salt and Ginger, and make it in fine powder, and temper it in White Wine, and set it so stand a day and a night, then take of the thinnest, and wet your eyes with a feather, when you go to bed: to resolve the Gum, you must wash your eyes with houselee; sometimes the pain cometh because of ventosity or wind, and then the Patiene feeleth such pain as it were beating between the ears with a Hammer, for which it is good to make a Decoction of Camomile flowers, Mellilote and Fennel seeds in water and
White Wine, and therein wet a four∣fold linnen cloth well pressed down and lay it upon the eyes often. Other∣whiles there chanceth pain in the eyes by outward accidents, as wind, dust or heat; milk well beaten with the white of an egge is good: and sometimes the same pain cometh of striking, and then drop in your eye the blood of a Pige∣ons wing, which blood will take a∣way spotted marks and rednesse of the face.
Take half an ounce of Oyl of Roses, the yolk of an egge, and a quarter of an ounce of Barley flower, and a little Saf∣fron mixt together, and put it be∣tween two linnen cloths, and lay it to the pain; or else take the crumb; of white bread one ounce, and seeth it with Nightshade, and Morral water, then mix with the same bread yolks of eggs, Oyl of Roses and Camomile of each an ounce and a half, of Linseed one ounce, and use it as aforesaid.
Take Eyebright, Vervain, Tormentill of each two pound, Cellendine, E∣grimony, Wood Betony, Honey suckle flowers, White or Red Roses, Vine leaves, Pimpernel, Fennel, Rue, Ocu∣lus Christi, Chickweed, Smallage and Clover, of each a pound, beat them small, and steep them in a gallon of White Wine twelve hours, then fill your Still reasonable full, and put to it three great spoonfuls of Honey, a pint of new milk, and half a pint of Urine of a man child, then still it, and draw about a pint and a half of a Still.
Take of Violet leaves a quarter of a handful, of Daisies roots and all, half as many, wash them and dry them very well in a cloth, then stamp them, and put to it a spoonful of red Rose water, and strain it, then take the white of a new laid egg well beaten, and take away the froth, then put that to the things
aforesaid with half a quarter of a spoon∣ful of Honey, and drop this in the eye morning and evening, and twice or thrice a day; and at night lay on the eye the pap of a roasted Apple, or of a rotten Apple, and put a little juice of Houseleek amongst it, and a little fine Sugar candied, lay it upon the Eye two or three nights; if the pain be great, lap upon it a piece of fresh Bief, two or three hours, and so again as you see cause. Lay to your neck behind, Elder leaves and Woodbetony dryed between two tiles sprinkled with a little Vinegar, and strew on good store of beaten Pep∣per; when it is hot, lay it on a thin cloth, and so lay it to the neck night and morning four or five times. Also make blisters behind the ears if you see cause. If there grow a skin upon the eye, put in Allome Water with the juice of Cellendine in it, or if it be much, the juice of Ground Ivy; drop this in twice a day, and the white powder once a day.
If the Violet Water will not help take
five or six cornes of Cummin seeds brui∣sed, as many blades of Saffron put in a fine rag, let it soak in a spoonful of red Rose water, strain it, and put to it a spoonful of Womans milk, and drop this often into the eye.
Put in the Eye a little clarified Honey, and a little fine Ginger in it, and some∣times the powder of white Sugar candied: half an hour before you put in either, put in a little fresh grease.
Make Eggshell Water, with the juice of Houseleek, as much white Copperas as a pease, twice as much Honey; this is good if you perceive the Humour to be very hot; also it is good with Snow water: and if the Humour be cold, make it with half stilled water, and half Eyebright Water; if between both, make it with fair water.
Take Woodbind bruised, and lay it to your Temples.
Take Herb Christopher, stamp it, and strain it, and put in a little honey, drop it in twice a day; also lay on his eye white bread, milk and Violets made in a Poultice; also take Cellendine, Dai∣sies, roots and all, brown Fennel, Cli∣ver, Betony, Plantane, Sorrel twice as much as the rest, there must be of each a handful, a pint of new milk, a dram of white Coperas in powder, two great spoonfuls of Honey, do not draw it dry: drop it in the eye three or four times in two hours, and lay a wet cloth upon the eye.
Set the feet in Camomile sod in water two houres if you can, then lap them in a blanket two houres,
keeping it warme with warm clothes.
Take the scraping of a whetstone and Bay salt made very fine, and put thereof twice a day into your Eye.
Roast an egg, and put in a piece of Copperas as big as a Pease, and nine Cummin seeds, strain it, and put in a little Honey; Alloes Sicatrina made in powder, and strained with a little Rose water, is very good for any sore eyes. Capons grease washed with Plantane water, and Tutia prepared and mixt to∣gether is very good for sore eyes to an∣noint them with it.
Make water seething hot, and wet a good big cloth in it, and lay it all over the forehead, when it beginneth to wax cool, wet another, and lay to it hot, and do so half an hour together against the fire.
Take he treddle of an egg, and put it in your eye and biod it in.
Lay to the Temples a piece of raw fresh B••ef, and to the eye put in Violet water, and lay on the Eye the pap of a•• Apple, with some of that water, a lit∣tle Sugar, and the yolk of an egg boile a together.
Lay on the eye a piece of fresh Bi•••• two hours, and drop on the Eye Allo•••• water, and lay in the Temples leaver•• Rosewater, Vineger and Nutmeg to st•••• the Rheume.
Take Ground Ivy, stamp and stra•• with red Rose water, and drop it o•• in the eye.
Take of Alloes Sicatrina, Sugar can∣died, or very good Sugar, of each a like quantity, make it into fine powder, and put it often into your eyes when you go to bed, and Eyebright water in the mor∣ning, and once more in a day.
Take the juice of Parsley and the white of an egge mingled together, and a little Rosewater, dip flax there∣in, and lay it over your eye, and it will help you.
Take Plantane Water and the white of an egg, mix them well together, and wash your eyes therewith, and lay it on 〈◊〉〈◊〉 our eyes.
Take Cellendine, Eyebright, red Fen∣nel,
Roses, Seagreene, Maidenhair and Rue, of each two ounces, then put thereto half an ounce of Alloes, stilling all these in a Stillatory, then wash your eyes therewith.
Take white Ginger, and rub it on a whetstone into a dish; then take as much salt as you have powder, and put them in White Wine, and let them stand a day and a night, then take the juice and liquor thereof with a feather, and annoint your eyes.
Take the gall of a Hare, and a little quantity of purified honey, tem∣per them well together, then take a feather, and annoint your eyes there∣with.
Take of Tutty and Alloes Sicatrina, of each six ounces made in fine powder, four drams of fine Sugar in powder, of
white Rosewater, and of the best white Wine unchanged, twelve ounces mixt all together in a glasse, stop it close, and let it stand in the Sun a month, let not your glass be ful shake it once a day, tur∣ning the bottom upwards, then strain it through a fine cloth from the dregs, and when you use it, one drop is suffici∣ent at a time use it morning and even∣ing, and if one drop be too little, take two.
Take the whites of two eggs; and beat them with a spoon till they be as thin as water, then strike away the froth with a feather, then take a piece of rough canvass tow or flax, then powr your whites on it, then take Bole Armoniack with Terra Sigillatum, and scrape them both upon it and with a knife spread it Plaister wise, as much of the one as of the other, and so fast bind it to your forehead, and in the morning when you rise take it not off suddenly, but take it off with fair water. Do this three nights together.
Take four spoonfuls of Rose water, of white Copperas as much as a pease, and of Allome and Sugar candied, of each as much as a pease all in powder, some∣times drop of this in the eye, and some∣times wash the eye with it, and lay Herbs to the wrists. Also Rosewater, Sugar, and Saffron is very good, Sugar candied is the best.
Take Ground Ivy, Cellendine and Daisies, stamp them and strain out the juice, then put to it a little Sugar and Damask Rose water, and drop in the eye twice a day.
Take the leaves of Woodbind and Plantane, of each one handful, also three or four Dittony leaves, of Roach Allom
well washed, the quantity of an egg, as much Verdigrease, three spoonfuls of pure honey, put all this into a vessel to be kept only for that purpose, put to it a pottle of fair running water, and af∣ter it hath boiled one quarter of an hour let it stand four or five hours; powre out the clear, and bury the grounds; if it be too sharp, put in some white Rose water. If the lids be sore with Rheume, or the eyes be red or burning, drop in, and wash the lids often with the white of an egge; if it be for a horse, put in more Verdigrease and Honey.
Take the Water of Roses, Saxifrage and Fennel, of each alike, and put to them a small quantity of Verdigrease, and boil it a little on the fire, and when it hath setled, take the clear, and see you wash. Auxungium Poecati seven or eight times, and of that put in to your eye a little when you go to bed.
Annoint them with rape Oyle, and lay to a Plaister of Flower, Cream, Hogs grease, Rose water and Violet leaves bruised small, and boil all to a Poultice, and lay it to warm, change it as waxeth dry. Capons grease washed, and Tutia prepared and mixed with it is very good to annoint sore eyes.
Take of Plantane, Wood Betony and Ragweed, of each one handful, put as much flower to it as will make it a paste, the Herbs being first beaten small, make it in a Cake, and make it through warm on a Gridiron, and lay it to the nape of the neck, and let it lye twelve houres, and lay fresh as you see cause.
Take of Cene and of Ginger sliced
one ounce, two ounces of Cassia, and six ounces of Sugar, stamp them all to∣gether, and boil them in a pint of Rose water till half be consumed, then put in two ounces more of Sugar, beat it well, and keep it close: Take of this Confecti∣on a quarter of an ounce in the morning and fast three hours after, putting it into a draught of White Wine warmed, strain it, and so drink it, and use it in the Spring and Fall once in ten days for two months or six weeks. If you make but for one, you need make but half this quantity. It purgeth very gently.
Colewort leaves boiled in White Wine and Plaisters made of them, and laid one the eyes, is good for sore eyes that water much.
To wash them with the Water of Plantane is very good.
Also skivers or pricks of any kind boil∣ed in fair water with red Roses amongst them, save the fat and drop it in your eyes morning and evening is very good.
Take red Roses and seeth them, and let them be set warm to your Eye, it ta∣keth away spots of blood; it is good al∣so for all Diseases in the Eye; for red∣ness in the eye that cometh with a blow or any other violence; you must lay to it by and by Towe wet in Rosewater and white of eggs, juice of Wood-be∣tony and Egrimony, and after the pain is mitigated you must lay a Plaister upon it made of a raw egg, Barly flower and the juice of Mallowes. If that do not help it, take wheat flowers, the juice of Mallowes, Mints, Smallage, and the Oyl of an egg, and make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to.
Take a Scruple of Alloes, and melt it in Water of Cellendine at the fire, then put of it in the eye.
Or take powder of Cummin mixt with Wax like a Plaister, and lay it upon
the eye: Or take Roses, Sage, Rew and Cellendine, of each alike, mixt with a little salt, and distil it, and thereof put a drop or two evening and morning in your eye. In stead of that water, it is good to take the juice of Vervain, Rue, and a little Rose water.
Take tops and crops of Herb Christo∣pher, stalks and leaves a good quantity in the beginning of May, stamp them very small, then take a good quantity of May Butter, and stamp them together in a vessel, and strain it out, and set it in the Sun, and put of these into your eyes, it must stand a month in the Sun.
Take Pimpernel Cellendine and Plan∣tane, and put thereto the white of an egg, and womans milk of a male child, and Oyle of Roses, and put it in your eye going to bed; use this three or four times in a day.
Or take Egrimony and bray it, and temper it with White Wine and an egg, and make a Plaister, and lay to the out∣side of the eye.
Take a Race of good Ginger, pare it clean, and rub it on a Whetstone, and make powder of it, and put the same powder into some Gascoin Wine, then strain it through a fair cloth, and put it into a glasse or Viol, and after nine daies you may use it, when you go to bed, ly∣ing upright, and likewise in the morning: Do this six or seven times.
Take the juice of Rue four spoonfuls, and two of honey, mix them together, and when you go to bed put some in your eye.
Or take two or three roots and leaves of red Fennel, a branch of Cel∣lendine, and a good race of white Gin∣ger pared and beaten; if one serve not, take two, put all these into half a pint of
water, cover it; and put of it in your eye when you go to bed, and an hour be∣fore you rise, strayning it when you use it.
Take a crop of Rue, and another of Camomile, and eat them fasting with a Figg two or three dayes in a week.
Take the white of an egg made as clear as water, and a spoonful of clarifi∣ed Honey, and some fine Sugar; and mix them together, and keep it in a close vessel seven or eight weeks, then take Cotton and dip it in the liquor, and rub the eye-lids therewith within and with∣out.
Take the whites of new laid eggs, and beat them to Oyl, then take a spoonful of Rose water, as much fine Sugar, and as much strong Vineger made of Malme∣sey
or White Wine, put them to the Oyl and beat them together; then take Flax as much as will make a Plaister, dip it in the Medicine, and bind on each Temple one with a cloth, but take heed the Medicine do not touch the eyes. Do this three or four nights, and every mor∣ning the eyes will cleave together with Gum.
Take new milk, and seeth it, and put it into a bason, and cover it with a plat∣ter, and with the dew that cometh wash your eyes and browes.
Or take three drams of the juice of Rue, and put in your eyes and ears, and stop your ears, and lye down on that side.
Take Veinfrage, Ivie, Daisies, Sick∣wort, red Fennel, Seagreene, Pimper∣nel, May butter, bruise them in a Mor∣tar, and let them lye in the froth five ••ayes, then make an easie fire, and set 〈◊〉〈◊〉 over till it be melted, then straine it
through a fair cloth, and put is into a Vial, and put thereof into your eye the quantity of a wheat corn. It will de∣stroy the Web, and when your eye clea∣veth together, wash it with Rose wa∣ter.
Take the leaves of Sage, Hysop o∣culus Christ•• puiled downward, drink the juice of this with Monks pease otherwise called Wood-lice, stamped with the Herbs, and straine it in some Bee••, and let the Patient drink it first and last three or four dayes together.
Or take the juice of Avens, Southern∣wood, and put this juice into Fen•••••• water, and put it in your eye.
Take Smallage Fennel, Rue, Vervai•• Betony, Pimpernel, Eyebright, Sag•• and Cellendine, of each alike, wash the•••• clean and stamp them, then take th•• powder of fifteen Pepper cornes, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pint of good White Wine, three spoon∣fuls
of good Honey, and fifteen spoon∣fuls of the Urine of a man child that is young; then put all these together, and let it boil over the fire a little, then strain it, and keep it in a vessel or glasse, and put of it into your Eyes; and if it dry up in the glasse, put to it a little White Wine. This is good for all kind of sore eyes, in fifteen daies it helpeth.
Take the strained juice of Pimpernel, and drop into your Eye morning and e∣vening. This is good also for the Pin and Web, or Pearle in the eye.
Take Ivy leaves that groweth upon Ash trees, wipe them clean with a cloth, ••hen stamp and strain them with womans ••ilk, of a Girle for a man, of a boy for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 woman; the sorer the eyes be, take the ••ore juice, and the less milk. Drop this ••••to your eye with a feather evening and ••orning, and twice in the afternoon.
Take Elder leaves, and chase them be∣tween your hands, and lay them to the nape of the neck.
Take a toast of leavened Bread, House∣leek and womans milk, a spoonful o•• Rosewater, the pap of an Apple roaste•• the yolk of a new layd egg, and boil•• them, take the toast, and lay it in re•• Wine not mingled, and let it ly•• halfe an hour, till it be soaked, they put it into a fine cloth of two pieces, for each eye one, and the cloth must be between the eye and the toa•• and dresse it thus when you go t•• bed.
Take May Butter and Honey, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 alike, and boil them together, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the white of an egge, and when it 〈◊〉〈◊〉
cold, put it into your eye, and it will cleer up your fight.
Or take the leaves of red Roses, and temper it with the whites of eggs, and lay it to your eye when you go to bed.
Take milk hot as it cometh from the Cow, cover it with a Bason, then take the dew from the Bason with a feather, and put it in a glasse, and therewith dresse your Eyes.
Take a new laid egg and roast it hard, then take a little white Copperas, and a little roach Allome, and a little Sandifer, then strain the juice, and drop thereof into your eye evening and morning, and wet a linnen cloth, and lay over your eyes.
Take black Snailes, and make an Oyl, and put thereto White Sugar candied, and Lapis Calaminaris, being first burn∣ed five or six times, and thus prepared, put in your eyes evening and morning with a feather.
Or take Daisie roots, Betony, flow∣ers of Pimpernel, red Fennel, stamp and strain them with stale Ale, and drink thereof evening and morning; and lay outwardly to your eyes Rose water, wo∣mans milk, and the white of an egg, wet Tow or Flax therein, and lay it to your eyes; the Drink will be the better, if you put in the juice of Clestocks, a worm so called.
Take the right ground Ivy and Cel∣lendine, and the green of a Goose turd, and womans milk, put them all together in a glasse, and when it is setled, put the clearest in your eyes.
Take the white of an egg well beaten together with the juice of Daisie roots and Houseleek, put them into an egg∣shell and roast it hard, and thereof will come an Oyl, wherewith annoint the place pained.
Lapis Tutiae prepared half an ounce, white Vitriol half a scruple, red Rose wa∣ter, Plantane water, of each one ounce, Egrimony water half an ounce, mingle them together, and let them boil gently, then clear it very well.
Take a pound of May Butter, and set it in the Sun, to clarifie; and alwayes when it is melted powre the clear butter from the curds and whey that will be in the bottome; thus do from day to day, until no more will come out, then put as much of the Herb Christopher, small chopt, as will be steeped in it, then set it
again in the Sun in a glasse for the space of a month, in which time it will be rotten, then strain it through a fine lin∣nen cloth, and so keep it in some Gally pot or Glasse that will not drink it up, and every evening as much as a small Wheat corne being put into the eye, will destroy any speck or Pin and Web, or any scale or thick∣nesse.
In all causes of the eyes, observe the Nature of the person, his age, the time of the year, the sicknesse he hath had before, &c. It is alwayes good in all pains of the Eyes, that the Patient keep in a dark place, free from aire, lye high in bed, that the Rheume tarry not in the Eyes, but may fall down to the cheeks, seasonable sleep doth digest and congeal the matter; all vexatio is to be avoided, as sorrow, anger, ill favors, &c. Also all vaporous meats. And this is a general rule, that so long as the pain lasteth, you shall lay upon the Eye the white of an egg, brayed with Oyl of Ro∣ses, for it stayeth the course of the hu∣mours,
and asswageth all pain: or the white of an egge braied with womans milk, if the eye be red.
This Disease is caused from the Flux of certain humours be they mixt or not, as from Choler, Phlegme, Blood or Me∣lancholy, the signes whereof are these:
If it proceed of bloud, then are the Eyes and their veines puff'd up red, the Temples of the Head do beat, the up∣permost Eye-lids do swell, the Eyes are moist, yet with little pain, but so moist, that in the sleep the Eyes do bake up.
If it proceed of Choler, then is there much pricking, burning with great pain and swelling, and not so red as the for∣mer, but moist and burning, that there∣by sometimes the Apple of the eye is pe∣rished:
If it proceed of phlegme, then is there a compression and ponderosity in the Eyes with great pain, without heat or rednesse. and by reason of the great moistness, some soreness and swelling.
If of Melancholy, then is there also great ponderosity with a sallow colour,
with rednesse or compression: they do not bake together in their sleep, for that the Catarrhe or Rheum is too dry.
Take half an ounce of Tutia, make it glowing hot, and quench it fifteen times in Rose water, then bruise it small, and put into it a quarter of an ounce of Callamint stones, three cloves, and half a pint of Malmesey, and mix them toge∣ther.
This Collyria is for all redness of the Eyes.
If the Cause be inward from any dis∣ease of the brain, and not through heat, you may perceive by this, viz. The Pa∣tient alwayes feels some heavy puffing up of the vains in the forehead and Tem∣ples of the head, and this reflux is for the most part augmented by neesing, fal∣ling both into the Eyes, and sharpnesse in the throat.
But if this humour be through heat, it bites the eyelids, and makes the hair to
fall off; but if through cold, then con∣trary. In case it be through heat, the party must be purged with Pills of Co∣chi•• A•••••• with Succo Rosarum, or with Pills of the five kinds of Mirabilans, and keep a good Diet.
If his grief come of a cold Cause its very convenient to eat a good deal of Fennel seed every morning, and chew Rew and Valerian in the mouth, and an∣noint the eyes with the spittle.
Also if it proceed from the brains, this is excellent, Take prepared Bloodstone, one quarter of an ounce, Roses, burnt I∣vory, red and white Curral, Amber, yellow Mirabilans, of each one dram, the juice of the Spirits of Frombois four ounces, temper them together, and keep them close stopped, put thereof daily into your eyes, and annoint your Eye∣lids therewith. This dries the Rheume marvellously, and strengthneth the eyes from taking any moisture.
Also take the juice of Fennel and of Rue, of each one ounce, and of a childs Urine halfe an ounce, Alloes three drams, let it seeth a little, then strain it, and put a drop thereof into your eye. It cleanseth, drieth, and sharpneth the sight.
Also roast three Apples, take away the skin and cores, then temper them with the yolks of three new laid eggs, and lay it warm to the eyes.
Also if deflux cause much pain, take unwashed sheeps wool, burn it to ashes in a close stopped pot, bruise it as small as may be, and mix it with the white of an egge, and lay it on your forehead and temples. This asswageth the Ca∣tarrhe very quickly, and abateth the pain.
Take Alloes, Mirrhe, Mirtle leaves, Acatia, of each one dram, Mastick and Frankinsence, of each half a dram bea∣ten small together, and make it to a Plai∣ster with the white of an egg.
Likewise he ought to purge with Pills of Cochia, which be sharpned with the Trocisies of Alhandaly.
Also with the Confection of Hier••, and such like. Oyle of linnen being made thus, is very good for sore Eyes; viz. set it a fire with a candle, and lay the linnen upon an even piece of iron, tin
or silver, and put it out quickly, and you shall find a drop of Oyle, the which take up with a feather. This healeth marvellously well the Imposthume of the eyes, taketh away the pain, and is good for a Fistula and Wounds in the Eyes.
TAke a good quantity of Lemmons, and slice them rinds and all, and di∣stil them, laying them on fair sticks, that they touch not the bottom of the Still, and with the Water that cometh there∣of, annoint the face, and it will soon take away the rednesse and scars of the face.
Take a pottle of White Wine and a quarter of a pound of Cinnamon cleane rubbed and winnowed, then seeth it in the White Wine, till it be half sodden a∣way, and then put it into a pot, and drink it evening and morning till the Pa∣tient be cured. Probatum.
Take a quantity of running water, and a quantity of Brimstone, and as much Allome beaten small together, put them with the water into a glasse fast stopped, and so let it stand, & every morning and evening take a little out into a sawcer, and with a linnen rag wash your face therewith, and so let it dry in with wi∣ping.
For a mans or a womans face that seemeth as they were drunken, take Water∣cresses,
and cut them small, and put them in a small earthen pot, and put fair Spring water thereto, and let them boil together, and drink of that water mor∣ning and evening.
Take the flowers of Beanes and di∣stil them, and wash the face with the water.
Some say, that the Urine of the par∣ty grieved, is very good to wash the face, and to keep it from blemish∣ing.
If the face be washed with the wa∣ter that Rice is sodden in, it taketh away the Pimples, and cleanseth the face.
Seeth white Copperas in running wa∣ter, and let it stand till it be cold, and then put in a little Camphire, and every morning and evening take a little of that water in a sawcer, and with a little cloth dipt in it, wash and bathe your face therewith, and let it dry in of it self.
Take four handfuls of Wild Tansie, and boil it in two Gallons of small wort, let it stand until it be almost cold, then put to it a little Barme, and let it work, and when it is ripe, put it in a close vessel, and so let it stand three or four dayes; then you must drink of it every day twice, so long as you use it.
Take twelve Lemmons, and pare them to the very juice, four new laid egges, shells, whites and yolks beaten all to∣gether, six spoonfuls of pure English Honey: Temper all together, and di∣stil them with a very soft fire, and receive the water thereof in a glasse for your use, putting thereto a lit∣tle Mercury to make it keep, and conti∣nue.
Take of Alumen Plumosi half an ounce, of Camphire one ounce, of Roach Al∣lome one ounce and a dram, Sal gemmi half an ounce; white Frankinsence two ounces, Oyle of Tartar one ounce and a half; make all these into most fine pow∣der and mix it with one quart of Rose∣water, then set it in the Sun, and let it stand there nine dayes, often stirring it, then take Littarge of Silver half a pound beat it fine, and fearse it, then boil it in one pint of White Wine Vinegar, until one third part be consumed, ever stirring it with a stick while it boileth, then distil it by a Filter, or let it run through a thick Jelly bag, then keep it by it self in a glass Vial, and when you will use these Wa∣ters, take a drop of the one, and a drop of the other in your hand, and it will be like milk which is called Lac Virginis, wash your face or any part of your body therewith. It is most precious for the same. Probatum Dr. Walmesley.
Take Wheat-flower mingled with ho∣ney and vinegar, lay it upon them, and it cleanseth them.
Take Virgin Wax one ounce and a half, May Butter three ounces, me•••• them, then put to them Cerus half an ounce, Bole Armoniack a scruple, a little Rose water to wash it; after these are melted together, annoint the Pimples with it twice a day.
Take Rue, Sage, and the fat of rusty Bacon, of each a like quantity, and stamp them all together, and lay it on a linnen cloth warm to the Grief.
Take an Onion roasted, put thereto Honey and Wheat flower, and so beat it all together, and lay it to the sore.
Take an egg and roast it hard, and take the yolk thereof, and take an O∣nion and roast it soft, and beat the yolk and the Onion together, and lay it to the sore, and it will kill the Fellon.
Take of the Soot of a house that is on the Beams, and break it to pow∣der, and take the yolk of an egg, and bray them together, then lay it on a clean cloth, and lay it on the sore, and this will heal it.
Take milk, and put therein crumbs of White Bread, and boil them together very tender to a Poultice, then take it from the fire, and put therein the yolk of an egg, and have ready some white Lilly roots, wrapped up in a brown paper, and roasted very tender, first bruise the roots into a pap, then mingle them well with the other things and so apply it warme to the griefe, and when it is broken use healing Salve.
Take Verjuice and crumbs of browne bread, and kernels of gray Soap, and seeth all together till it be somewhat thick, then spread it upon a cloth, and lay it to the Fellon, and it will both kill the Fellon, and heal it.
Take Bay salt, and beat it, then take the yolk of an Egg, and beat them together, and lay it to the joint.
Take twelve Snailes in the Garden, and beat them shels and all until they come to be a Salve; then lay them to the fore, and it will both kill, draw and heal. Also bruise Raisons, and lay them to the fore.
Take the biggest and fowlest Spider you can finde, and a quantity of black Soap, and one clove of Garlick, and bray them all together, and lay it to the Fel∣lon as neer as you can, where you think it will break, and so let it lye four and twenty hours, then take it off, and heal it with some other Salve.
Also take Sage, Rue, Bay salt,
Snailes and Bacon, and beat them toge∣ther, and then lay it to the Fellon, and it will help.
Also make a Poultice of Bean flower, or of Wheat flower and honey, and ap∣ply it every morning and evening.
First mingle the milk of Wortwort. with fresh Hogs grease, and boil them together a little, and incorporate them, and put thereto powder of Mirrhe, and annoint a Tent therewith, and put it into the hole of the Ulcer.
Take the seeds of red Coleworts, the feed of Tansie and Cabbage, of each a like quantity, and of the great Madder, and make it into Pills and give thereof to the Patient thrice a day, and keep a Colewort leaf upon the Sore.
Take Figs and stamp them with Shoo∣make••s Wax, and lay it to the sore on lea••••er, and it will heal.
Take a pint of Malmesey, and a pint of Aquavitae, and flower, pound Par∣sley, and straine the juice into it, and drink it. And take Allome and Withy leaves, and boil them together in run∣ning water, and wash the wound there∣with.
Take posset curd made of strong Ale, lay it to the wound; and if it look yellow, then there is dead flesh.
Take a quart of Ale or strong Beer, and a handful of Sage, and a piece of Allome, as much as a Walnut, and let it seeth till it come to a pint, and there∣with wash the wound.
Clarifie some Honey, and put it into the sore, and lay a Plaister over it, and in two or three dressings it will cleer the Sore, and take out the dead flesh.
Take of Honey, of Oyl Olive, and of Wheat-flower, of each a spoonful, and the yolk of an egg, and mix them well together, and spread it on a cloth, and so lay it on the sore, and it will draw and cleanse it.
Take the powder of the flowers of Pomegranats, and drink it in red Wine.
Take Sperma Caeti and drink it, and truss up your self with a piece of black Cotton.
Make a Caudle of Oatmeal, and put to it scraped chalk, brown Pepper finely beaten, then boil them together, and let the Patient drink thereof three or four times, and it will help.
Take four or five eggs, and roast them hard until they be blue, then take a pint of Red Wine, and mix the yolks of the egges with it, then seeth it,
and after it is sodden, put an ounce of Cinnamon into it, and let the Patient drink thereof two or three times in a day, and it will help.
Take Camock roots, make them in fire powder, and drink them in posset Ale, or put it into a cake as you do Spice, and eat it.
Take linnen cloth, and make it like a Pill, and steep it in Aquavitae, and con∣vey it into the Fundament, and in three or four dressings it helpeth.
Take a great Apple, and cut out the core, and put therein pure Virgin Wax, then wet a paper, and lap it therein, the•• rake it up in the Embers, and let it ro•••• till it be soft; then eat of it as your sto∣mack will give leave.
Take an ounce of Ingibus Sirrup, one ounce of Sirrup of Violets, half an ounce of Sirrup of Roses, and half an ounce of Hisop.
Take an Onion and core it, and put therein a little Mithridatum, and bruised Pepper, and then roast it soft, then take a pint of White Wine, and seeth it with a little white Sugar, and then straine it with the Onion, and give it the Patient to drink.
Take of fine Ginger the weight of eight pence, of Elicampane roots, the weight of four groats, Anniseeds and Licoras, of each the weight of seven groats, and of Sugar candied four oun∣ces; make all these into powder, and eat ••t dry morning and evening.
Apply Rue and red Mints with Oyl of Roses, and very strong Vineger to the nostrils, and it helpeth.
Also burn thine own hair and mingle it with Vineger, and a little pitch, and ap∣ply it to the nostrils.
TAke Snailes with shells on the•••• backs, Barrel Soap, leaven, Bay•• salt and Honey, and pound them all to gether, and lay it to the grieved place.
Take the grease of a fat Cat, of a Goose, of a Gray, of a Fox, and the marrow of a Harts horn, Ivy, Sage, Rue, Virgins Wax, Frankinsence, the yolks of roasted eggs and Snailes, put them all in an earthen pot with a hole in the bottom for that purpose, and close it a∣bove with paste that no aire issue out, and put under the same pot another whole pot, and close them together, and put the neathermost in the ground, and compasse it about with fire, and there will distil a wonderful good Oynt∣ment out of the uppermost pot, which will be good for the cold Gout.
Take the juice of the wild Cowe••m∣ber roots, green Grapes and Pellitory, the leaves and Berries of Ivy, Juni∣per berries, Euforbium Castorium, the fat of a Graye, of a Goose, of a Heron, of a Fox, of a Beare, then take a fat Cat, and pull off her skin,
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and take out her guts, and fill her with all the aforesaid things; and let it roast well upon a spit, and save the dripping, and resolve a little Wax therein, and use it.
Also a dog killed of thirty dayes old, and annoint the grief with the blood of the dog, it is very good.
Also take a fat Cat, and flea her, and pull the flesh from the bones, stamp it well, and put it into the belly of a fat Goose, and put salt grease thereunto with Pepper and Mustard seed, of Pel∣litory, Dragon, Wormwood, Garlick, and Bears Suet, of each two ounces, of Wax two ounces, oast it, and keep the dripping.
Also mingle the ashes of Colewort leaves burnt, with fresh Hogs grease, and annoint the Gout therewith, and it will ease it in three dayes.
Take Tansie and Wormwood of each alike, Sheeps Suet according to your Herbs, fry them till they be green, and when you will use it, put a spoonful of Linseed therein; and if it be the hot
Gout, lay it cold; if the cold Gout, lay it hot.
Take Tobacco leaves a good quantity, and put them into your own Urine, or milk, and set it on the fire till it be hot, then bathe the pained place throughly a good space, then lay some of the leaves thereon, and bind it up, and lye down.
Take dead Horse bones, dryed in the fields, and wash them clean, and feeth them long, and take the fat of them, that seethes aloft, and swims on the top, and therewith annoint any Gout or Palsie, of what cause soever it come, and it will help.
Take the juice of Broom flowers, and the juice also of Scala Coeli and Honey of each a like quantity, seethe them to∣gether, till it be of the thickness of Ho∣ney,
and therewith annoint the place. One in London got much money by this Medicine.
Stamp Pellitory of Spain or Mastratia and seeth it in wine, and apply it, but if it be green then stamp it, and soak it eighteen dayes in Wine, and then boile it well, and put thereto Oyle and Wax, it is a special remedy.
Take Labdanum, Frankinsence, Ma∣stick and Curral, of each a like quantity, and make them into powder, and lay them to the place infected, it confirmeth hardneth, and cleanseth the Gums and Jawes, and when the sore is well mun∣dified, then it doth also incarnate and in∣gender flesh.
Also this is highly commended, Take Cipresse leaves or Mints halfe an ounce,
a pint of well water, boiled to the one halfe, dip a cloth in it, and apply it to the griefe, and this defendeth the Gums from all bad Rheumes.
TAke the flowers of Centory, a good handful, clean picked from the green of Cene leaves clean picked from the stalks, a dram and half, and of pure Cinnamon well bruised a quarter of an ounce, of White Wine a pint, and some Sugar as you lift; put all these in a pot close covered, and set it in another pot of hot liquor for the space of an houre, then let it stand all night, and in the morning strain it into a faire pot, and put good
store of Sugar to it, and let it simper til it come to a Sirrup, of this you may take two or three spoonfuls at a time in the morning fasting.
Take the Oyl of bitter Almonds and Wax, Capons grease and Rose-water, boil all together; then take black wool, newly plucked off the Sheeps neck, and wet it in the liquor, and put it in a quil∣ted bag, and lay it very hot to the sto∣mack when you go to bed.
Take Elder leaves, and a good quan∣tity of Bay salt, and stamp them toge∣ther, and lay it to the nape of the neck, and by Gods help it shall take away the pain.
Take Camomile, Rosemary and Be∣tony, of each a like quantity, and as much leaven as Herbs, beat them toge∣ther, then take a Nutmeg beaten very small, and so much Wine Vineger, as will incorporate into a paste, which you must apply warm unto the hin∣der part of the head, and to your fore∣head, changing it evening and mor∣ning.
Take a piece of leaven, the bignesse of an egge, and put to it two spoonfuls of White Wine Vinegar, and two spoonfuls of red Rose-water, and a few red Rose leaves, mix them together, and warm them; then take them, and spread them on two brown papers, then grate Nut∣meg upon it, and lay it upon a fire slice on the coals till-it be very hot, then take it, and lay it to the parties temples at night when he goeth to bed.
The juice of Ground Ivy cast into the nostrils purgeth the head and taketh a∣way the pain.
If the Rheume come of a cold cause, lay hot Callamint or running time brui∣sed to the head.
Hisop boiled on embers, and laid to the head, stoppeth the Rheume.
The juice of Coleworts cast into the nostrils cleanseth and purgeth the head.
The juice of onions cast into the no∣strils, also doth the like.
This Plaister was proved for dizziness in the head, and is good for any ache in the head: Take of Opium and of Saffron, of each one dram, of Roses four drams, and thereof with Vinegar make a Plai∣ster.
He that useth to take three Pills of Alloes, and the juice of Coleworts the bignesse of a bean, shall never have the Head ache.
Take an Herb called Alehoofe and fill
a frying pan therewith, heat it hot, as you are able to endure it, and lay it to the aking place, and it will remove the pain; then take more, and lay it to the place that aketh, and at last it wil drive it clean away.
Take the whites of two new laid eggs, a little Aquavitae, and the juice of House∣leeks, beat all together, and therein wet some fine tow, and then lay it upon the temples.
This Disease is caused by much fre∣quenting the Sun, and the head be∣ing over heated, as also from the sto∣mack, if it be overcharged with any superfluity whereby the mouth of the stomack is hurt, and so sendeth bad vapours to the head; but if it proceed from blood, which may be knowne by the redness of the eyes, the fulnesse of the veines, then the party must have the veine opened behind the ear, and bleed four ounces, and purge with
seven drams of Reb steeped in Whey all night.
For the most part this pain of the Head proceedeth of the intemperature of the four humours; namely, of Blood, Phlegme, Choler and Melancholy.
If it proceed from Choler, the sign is evident, viz. belching or breaking of wind upward with loathsomnesse and thirst, drynesse of the mouth, tongue, and nostrils, the pain is pricking, sharp, and rather in the right, then in the left side of the head, heat over all the body, but especially in the nostrels, no appe∣tite, no sleep, the Pulses quick and lusty, the Urine reddish, the face yel∣low; the surest notes are, if the time of the year be hot and dry, the Patient young and hath used hot and dry things, to use cooling Medicines, and a good cooling dyet.
It is described thus, It is not so great
as the former, but with a drynesse and sadnesse the heat is more evident in the left side of the face, then in the right, it causeth disquietness and unnatural sleep, it causeth fearful faintheartedness, and carefulness, the colour of the face is red and blue, with a soure taste in the mouth, if the Patient be old, and if it be about Autumne, then the signes are more sure. Glisters are good in this case.
The signes are wearisomness of all parts, as if the body were beaten and broken to pieces, the paine is not ex∣treme without any swelling or thirst, sleepinesse, much spitting at the mouth and moisture at the nose, palenesse of colour, and somewhat sullen, the eyes run, and the mouth out of taste. In such cases use warm and dry Medicines, and purging, is very needful in this Infir∣mity.
Also this Wine following is excellent for this purpose. Take Rosemary two handfuls, Nutmegs one ounce, dryed Betony two ounces, Cloves two drams,
being cut very small, put thereto eight quarts of good Rhenish Wine, let it stand three dayes; then for a weak sto∣mack, drink a good draught at the be∣ginning of meals, but for the Head ache at the latter end.
This Wine is very good for a cold, and moist braine, and hurtful for young folks and hot complections.
The Dyet must be strong Wine, but very little, left it disturb the Head, once in eight dayes, wash the head with the decoction of Camomile, Marjerome and Steches, and before meales, rub the head with warme cloaths, and after meales take a little Marmalade to hin∣der the vapour in ascending to the head. But because the Laxative Medicines, through their own power, do not expel all humours for which they be given, without such things as convey their o∣peration towards some certain members which one desireth to purge, therefore take this Oximil following; and if you put thereto Nutmegs, Piony seeds or Cubebs, then doth it only purge the head, and no other part of the body; and if you put thereto Tamariscus and Caper roots, then it purgeth the Melt, and so
for all the rest, but because we speak now only of the head, these are the Simples, or Herbs that do conduct the Medicines thereto; viz. Nutmegs, Cubebs and Piony, Penniroyal, Marjerom, Balsome wood and Seeds, Frankinsence, Beaver Codd, Labdanum, Mellilot, Squils, Spick∣nard, Hisop and Pepper.
Oximel, that is called at the Apotheca∣ries Compositum, or Diareticum, Take Fennel roots, and roots of Smallage, of each two ounces, the seeds of Parsley, of Butchers broom, Sparage, Smallage and Fennel, of each one ounce, take out the pith or core of the roots, chop them and seeth them in a quart of water till they be mellow, then strain them through a cloth, and add the Decoction of three ounces of sharp Vinegar, twelve oun∣ces of Honey, let them seeth to a Sir∣rup; it doth attenuate all tough slimes, it driveth them out of the members, opens the obstructions of the Li∣ver, Melt, and the Kidnies, and ex∣pelleth them.
Take one Clove of Garlick, pill it and make three or four holes in it, then dip it in fine English Honey, and put it in your ear, (and lye on the other side, and put in black wool after it, and con∣tinue this eight dayes, and it will expel the pain, expulse the Humour at the nose, and restore the Hearing.
Take White wort, Cellendine, Ground Ivy. Mercury, Wormwood, and an Herb called Dead mens Bells, grow∣ing in Woods like Leek blades, of each of these alike, and stamp them, and mingle them with fresh grease.
And burne green Ash to ashes, and mix it with fresh grease, and annoint the place eherewith.
Take Lye that is made with the bark
of an Ashen tree, and wash the head therewith, and annoint it with Quicksil∣ver, killed in Barrowes grease, and fasting spittle.
Take yolks of eggs, and put there∣unto as much Turpentine, then fry them in Swines grease, and stir them well to∣gether in the frying to a Salve, and so lay it to the sore head.
Take the roots of the small reeds that grow in ditches, burn them to ashes, and apply the ashes wet in Vinegar to the sore Head. This healeth the sore, and maketh hair to grow.
The bark of an Ashen tree being well boiled in water, with the Lye thereof, sometimes wash the Head to cleanse it, whiles the other Medicines be applyed to the same.
Take black Snailes, and stamp them
very well, and in stamping them, there will be an Oyle come from them, and with the same Oyle, annoint the sore head.
First wash the head with pisse, and then annoint it with the dripping of a wild Duck, being roasted guts and all.
Put Sugar and the powder of Hisop in figs, and roast them on the coals, and eat them, and it will open the pipes.
TAke the Berries of Ivy, that grow∣eth upon a tree, and of the whole leaves of Ground Ivy and Mugwort, and put them in a woollen cloth, and then put it into an Oven when the Bread is drawne out; and when it is dry, make powder thereof, and take Saffron and powder of Gallingale, and use all these in pottage, and eat thereof.
Take the gall of a Raven grated into powder, take some of it in a spoonful of Ale or Beer, temper it together, and drink it in the morning fasting.
Take a little Athanatia, and eat it in the morning fasting, three mornings will be enough. It is much like Mithri∣datum.
Take a handful of red Nettle crops, and feeth them in a pint of Ale, and drink the same three or four daies toge∣ther in the morning fasting.
Take powder of Cene Alexandria one ounce, Ginger, Cinnamon, Mace, Co∣liander seeds, Anniseeds and Licoras, of each the weight of eight pence, of Su∣gar two ounces, of Spurge seeds blan∣ched twelve, beat them all smal to powder, and put them into a quart of Claret, and let it be brewed out of one
pot into another, oftentimes in a day by the space of three dayes before you use it, then let it run through a Jelly bag, then take half a pint of the said Drink, and when you shall have need to use it, warm it at the fire, and drink it after your first sleep, and so ly still till it work, and offer to come; and then go to a close stool til it be clean come away, and then make a Plaister of red Mints, red Fennel, Wormwood and Sage, of each a handful, and a good handful of Cum∣min seed, and beat them small together, put thereto a good sawcer full of Wine Vineger, and set them all on the fire in a pan, and so stir them till they are almost dry, and then put them into a bag, and lay the same to your stomack, so that your stomack be not full of meat.
Take of Barley water a quart, and put it into a fair bottle of glasse, and let
drop into the same some Oyl of Vitrio••, or for want of that, Oyl of Sulphur, and then shake it well all together to disperse the Oyl, and when you have perfectly tempered it, then take two ve∣ry good Pomgranats, and cut them in two, and squeece all the juice of them into it through some Colender or Strain∣er to keep out the kernels or husks; or for want of Pomgranats, as much Sir∣rup of Violets, or Sirrup of Lemmons, as the juice of two Pomgranats may be; then take six penny worth of white Su∣gar candied, and beat it very small, and put it also in the Barley water, and let it dissolve therein, and drink thereof as need requires. It is the best Julip that ever was made by the Art of man.
Take Brimstone, and as much Allom, with a spooneful of white lead, beat them small into powder, then take a quantity of Cream, and put the powder therein, and beat them well together,
and therewith annoint the place that itches.
Take a pint of Borus, two penny worth of Quicksilver, and four penny worth of Frankinsence, put these toge∣ther, and stir them with your finger, and so annoint the hands and feet.
THe Kidneyes are fastned very strong∣ly to the Back bone, and that on the left side is right under the Melt, and that on the right side a little higher, so that sometimes it doth touch a great part of the liver, and they have sundry veins from the liver, whereby they draw blood with water, and also some part of the gall unto them, separating the same
blood from the water, and keeping so much of the blood as sufficeth for sustenance, and vents through the Conduits, whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe, descending into the Bladder.
The Diseases of the Kidneyes are di∣vers, as Imposthumes, Ulcers, &c. which appears by pissing of Blood, or like blood, as if flesh were washed in it, which Diseases arise either of heat, cold or gravel, &c.
The signes of cold Diseases are these, There is no great pain, nor heat, nor thirst, neither is the water high colour∣red, but much in quantity, because it is not wasted through unnatural heat, which Agues, Winter and the Gravel augmenteth; for these Diseases a good Diet must be kept, all grosse and slimie meats being avoided, and likewise all cold Herbs; exercise presently after meat is very hurtful.
Pain of the Kidneyes through Wind, which spreadeth it self abroad, and the pain is more after one hath eaten then before, and is augmented through windy things, when the meat is half digested, therefore all windy things
are to be avoided, and annoint the back with Oyl of Rue and Oyl of Lillies; likewise Conserve of Betony, and the confected roots of Pimpernel, Erin∣ringo roots and Callamint is very good.
Pain in the Kidnyes through heat is, when the Patient hath great thirst and a bad stomack, maketh very little Urine, and high coloured, and sometimes there is fat swimming upon it, and the rather in young, cholerick, hot men, this is most dangerous, for through the heat which is mixed with a tough thick phleg∣matick matter, the stone of the Kidney may grow; therefore the Liver Veine must be opened, and Glisters admini∣stred whereby the gots may be clean∣sed, use cool Herbs, and purge with Manna and Succo Rosarum. Also use Saxifrage, Parslye, Cantharides, roots of Fennel, Butchers broom, &c. which are of a secret quality to convey the Me∣dicine to the Kidnyes. Also Sirrups of Water Lillies and of Vinegar, and all things that cool the Liver and Spleen.
Take a Sheeps head newly killed, and slit it, and put into it a good handful of Plantane, as much Camomile, and so much Sage, and so much Rosemary, boil all well together until it be very tender, then take out the bones very clean, and chop all the flesh and herbs well toge∣ther; then put in a handful of Oatmeal gr••ts, and so boil it again until the Oatmeal be very tender, and so lay it to the Knees as hot as you may suffer it, and so use it as you see cause.
Take Rue and Lovage, of each alike, stamp them, and mix them with Honey, and fry them together, and lay a Plaister thereof warm to the sore.
Take Lilly roots and red Cole, of
each alike, seeth them in clean running water, and strain the Herbs, then take the milk of a Cow and Wheat meal, and temper it with the aforesaid Herbs, and let it over the fire, and stir it well till it be thick, and then lay it on with a cloth.
Take a quart of Malmsey, of Time one handful, and boil it together, and when it is half boiled, put in a piece of sweet butter, and let it boil together from a quart to a pint, and when you go to bed bathe your knees therewith, and let a cloth be wet therein four or five times double, very warm, and lay it so warme to your knees six or feven times.
TAke five black Sheeps heads, a lap∣ful of Arsemart, as much Mallows as much Balm, two good handfuls of Herb grace, four handfuls of Fether∣few as much Lavender Spike, two hand∣fuls of Wormwood, two handfuls of Sa∣vage, one handful of Smallage, and two handfuls of Rosemary; all these will be as much as will fill a good sheet, put them all into a Lead, into running wa∣ter a great deal, and pull off the stalks of the Herbs, and let them seeth a whole day; you must not skin the sheeps heads, but cleave them in sunder, and let the wool be on still, cutting off the hornes, and seeth the Heads until the bones fall asunder, then take out the bones, and skim off the fat, and keep it to annoint the Patient withal, and the Patient must sit in the water up to the brests,
and wash and bathe himself therein, and when he hath so done by the space of an hour, or as long as he can endure it, then lay him in a hot sheet into his bed, and there let him sweat; and so keep him close from the aire two or three dayes.
Take four or five young Swallowes out of the Nest being Flege, and put them into a stone Mortar, and stamp them feathers and all, then take Laven∣der Cotton, Wild Strawberry leaves, Camomile and Setwal, of each a hand∣ful, stamp them all together very smal, then take a pint or more of May Butter, and half a pint of Neats foot Oyle, stirre them all together, and then put them into a Pipkin or liltle earthen pot with a cover; and close it well with Paste that no air issue out, then put that earthen pot into a brasse pot with water in it, and boil them two hours, then take them out, and set them as deep as you can in a muckhil two dayes, then
take them up, and boil them two hours again, then take them out, and let them cool, and straine them through a linnen cloth, and when they be set∣led, powre out the watrish bloud from them, and keep them pure and clean, and lay them warm to the place grieved.
Take half a pint of English Honey, and a good handful of Herb-grace, beat it very smal, and put it into the Honey, and boil them very well together till the one half be consumed, then straine it through a clean cloth, and with a fea∣ther annoint the sores therewith.
Take an ounce of Elicampane roots, one ounce of Fennel roots, when they be picked and pithed, one ounce of Burrage roots picked and pithed, one ounce of Niprial picked and pithed, then
take a pottle of stream water, and boile all these roots till one half be consumed, then put in so much English Honey as will sweeten it to your taste, then straine it, and put it in a glasse bottle, then take a penny worth of Quicksilver, and kill it well with fasting spittle, and then put it into the Drink when it is through cold, and let the Patient drink thereof five spoonfuls in the morning fasting, and so much when he goeth to bed, and by Gods help it will cleanse him.
Take a good quantity of Wheat flow∣er, and put it in a bag, seeth it very well, then take the same, and put it out of the bag, and so much as is soft, scrape away with a knife, the rest will be very hard, scrape it, and make pap with milk, and give it to the Patient twice or thrice a day, and it will help. Proba∣tum.
Take a sew old Beanes, and parch them over the fire in a pan, and then beat them into a powder, then make an Aleberry of Sack or Ale, and put some of the powder therein, and seeth them well together, then let the Patient drink thereof warm, and with twice drinking, it will help.
Take milk somewhat hot, and put it in a dish, then take Red Wine, and put it in another dish, and let the Patient suck it out of both dishes with two quils or reeds both together, and in so doing it turneth into a curd, and stoppeth the Flux.
Take a handful of Rice, wash it in red Rose water, and dry it well, and beat 〈…〉〈…〉 powder, and make pap of it, and bod it with Cinnamon, and eat it.
Take Virgin Wax, and make it into Pills, and give it in the pap of an Apple, three at one time.
Take the neather Jaw of a great Pike, and beat it into fine powder, and drink it in Beer or Ale or in your pottage, and it will help.
Seeth Mallowes and red Nettles in fair water, and let the Patient sit over the hot fume thereof.
Take French Barley, and boil it in a quart of fair water, when it is boiled, take it forth of that water, and put it in three pints of fresh water, then take of Violet leaves, Strawberry leaves, of each a handful, Succory, Bugloss, Borage, of
each half a handful, one good stick of Licoras, half a handful of Raisons of the Sun stoned, one spoonful of Anniseeds, let all these boil from three pints to a quart, then take the Liquor and strain it, and put a handful of Almonds into it, and when you drink of it, take a spoonful of Rosewater and drink with it, and take it two hours before you eat in the morning at the least, and likewise two houres before Sup∣per.
Infuse and steep Bread reasonably lea∣vened in water, and a little Vineger, and eat thereof fasting an hour or two before other meats, and use Sallets of Succory roots sodden till they be tender.
Take Barly one handful, of Sorrel, Succory and Endive, of each one hand∣ful, a stick of Licoros bruised, Raisons of the Sun one handful, Anniseeds half a handful, seeth all these in a quart of
faire water till halfe be wasted away, then strain it, and drink of it in the morning three times in a week at least.
Take a quart of Rhenish Wine, and put thereto one ounce and half of Cene, seeth it from a quart to a pint; then strain it, and put thereto three branches of white Mint, three penny worth of white Rose water, two Nutmegs sliced with a knife, six penny worth of white Sugar candied, and four penny worth of Angel Gold, and seeth it a little, and let the Pa∣tient take it morning and evening.
Take Ivory, and burn it in a clean earthen vessel, and when it is burnt, take sweet Barly Wort, and put therein of the Ivory as you please, or put it into Ale, and drink it nine dayes together. Also drink the juice of Liverwort.
Take of Liverwort, Maidenhair, Endive, the flowers of Winter Gilliflowers pick∣ed clean from the stalks, great Comfrey, Tarragon, of each four ounces, of Spi∣nage Water a pottle, of Licoras cleane scraped and thin sliced two ounces, of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced, one ounce, boil all these together, stirring it now and then, and then put in fine Sugar candied one ounce and half, fine∣ly beaten to powder, then let it boil half away, alwayes stirring it, and put it in some close glasse, and reserve it to your use: of this you must take a good draught every morning, and fast an hour after it.
Take Violets, Time, Parsley, Water∣cresses, red Nettle Crops, and Clivers and red Fennel, of each alike, but somewhat ••esse of the Water cresses, red Nettle crops and Fennel then the rest; shred all the
Herbs, and make broth with Chicken, Capon or Mutton.
Take three pints of Whey, Egrimony, Bo••age and Bugloss, of each one hand∣ful boil all together half an hour, then stram it through a fine linnen cloth; drink a good draught of this in the mor∣ning fasting, and at three of the clock: b•••• before you drink thereof, take Smal∣lage, and stamp it and strain it, and take two spoonfuls of the juice thereof, and put it into your drink before you drink it.
Take two or three roots of Succory and Parsley, Sage of Jerusalem, Fole∣foot, Violet leaves, Scabious, Egrimo∣ny and Scurvigrasse, of each half a hand∣ful, Conserve of Red Roses one ounce, of Saffron one penny worth, and a Date or two sliced and the pill taken away, put all these into a Pullets belly ready drest,
and sow up the open places, but put not in the roots, boil it in sufficient water till the flesh be sodden from the bones, and when it is half sodden, put in the roots steeped before in Wine Vinegar, put in also three or four large Mace blades, of Raisons of the Sun one handful stoned, and a few Currans; and when it is sodden as aforesaid strain it, and drink every morning a good draught thereof fasting.
Take the leaves, flowers and roots of Betony in Drink, Conserve, Electuary, Sirrup, or Potion, or Powder, is singu∣lar good for all Diseases of the stomack, Liver, Melt, Kidnies, Bladder, the Obstru∣ction of the Matrix, the consumption of the Lungs, Coughs, Dropsies, conti∣nual Feavers, boile the leaves and flowers in Honey water, to have present Remedy.
Also seeth the Herbs and Flowers of Camomile in Wine, and drink it to help stopping of the Liver and Melt, to purge Choler, to expel Terms, to help the tor∣ments of the small guts, for Griefes
of the Kidnyes or Bladder, for difficulty of Breathing, Sighing, Wheezing, to warm a cold stomack, and to drive away any inward grief.
Take a branch or two of Ciprus, other∣wise called French Wormwood, and a little Barme, and boile them in Ale and Drink it fasting.
Take new Wax, Mastick and white Frankinsence with Oyle of Roses, all made into an Oyntment, and an∣noint the lips, and it will cure them pre∣sently.
Take a pint of Wormwood Water, and Liverwort almost a handful, and of Longwort a handful, Sugar one ounce; boile them all together till one part of four be sodden away, and let the patient drink thereof three spoonefulls in the morning fasting, and last at night, alwaies warmed. Probatum.
Take Littarge of gold two pound, of Galbanum one ounce, Verdigrease foure ounces, Bdelium one ounce, Mastick one ounce and half, Opoponax and Aristo∣logia of each one ounce, old Oyl Olive one pound and half. You must drie the gummes that they may be powdred, and frie them with your Oyle, then straine it and put thereto your Littarge, Verdi∣grease
and Aristologia, one after ano∣ther alwayes stirring it, lest the Lit∣targe sink to the bottome, and so let it simber over the fire easily, then put to it three peniworth of turpentine, and of wax three ounces, and so make it up for your use in a Plaister.
It hath cured the Lord Wharton and divers others with two or three dressings when no Chirurgian could find a Cure for them.
Take stone lime, and slake it, and put it in running water, and put thereto of Quicksilver, white lead, and Bores grease of each one penny worth, mingle all to∣gether, and so annoint it.
Take a gallon of good Ale, and boil it to a pint, and then a linnen cloth, and wet it therein, and wash the sore withal.
Take of Ale, Allom, of each one half penny worth, and boil it together, and melt a quantity of fresh Butter therein, and annoint it therewith.
Take March, and Wild Tansie, Plantane Morrel, Honey, and the white of an egg, and the milk of a Cow of one colour, and Barley flower, bray the Herbs in a Mor∣ter, and mingle all together, and lay it on the sore.
Take a pint of Sallet Oyl, one pound of unwrought Wax, half a pound of white Lead, boile all these together in a brasse pan with a soft fire till it be as thick as pitch, stirring it with a stick, then dip in it a piece of Lockrum, and make thereof a Plaister.
TAke a handful of Wormwood, and a handful of Betony, and a hand∣ful of Archangel, seeth them all toge∣ther in a quart of good Ale, and a pint of White Wine Vinegar, the space of half an hour, and lay it to your fore∣head as hot as you may suffer it, and the longer you keep it thereto it is the bet∣ter.
Take halfe a handful of the leaves of Rosemary, and seeth them in Vinegar till they be soure, then lay them upon a linnen cloth, and cast thereon a little Rosewater, and lay it to
your sorehead; as hot as you may suf∣fer it.
Take the Oyl of an egge, and some Cummin seed, and Frankinsence and wheaten flower, and two Nutmegs beat∣en all small and mingled with the Oyl of the egg, and make a Plaister thereof as big as a groat, and lay it to the temples of the head.
Take great Garden wormes, and slit them, and wash them clean, and then lay them in White Wine half an hour, then take them out, and lay them in an Oven to dry, and when they are through∣ly dryed, beat them into fine powder, and drink it in White Wine in the mor∣ning fasting, and fast two hours af∣ter it.
Take the waters of the tops and leaves of red Brambles, Rosemary, Sage and Woodbind leaves, all severally distilled, of each a like quantity, and put them all together into a great glass, th••n put as much Allom small beaten into the same as will make it sharp, and so keep it to use as occasion serveth ei∣ther for a Canker in the mouth, rank∣nesse of the Gums, or any other sore∣nesse.
Take Treakle, English Honey and burnt Allome, of each alke, then take tops of Rosemary, red Sage, Honey suckle leaves, Bramble leaves and Fennel of each a handful, stamp and strain the Herbs, and take the juice and boil with the other things til it be somewhat thick, then rub your mouth therewith.
Take Rue and red Sage, of each one handful, Groundsel and Sorrel, of each a little, cut them small, and then stamp them, then take as much Allome as a Walnut, and as much Copperas as a small Nut, and burn them to powder in a frying pan, then take a like quantity of each of them unburnt, and beat them small, then take a pint of running water, and put them all in it, and boil it halfe away, then take it from the fire, and strain it, then put to it three spoonful of English Honey, and so keep it in a glasse, and warm a little of it every time you use it, dipping a cloth in it up∣on a little stick; and so wash the mouth twice a day, or more as you see occasi∣on.
TAke the juice of lake Mints, and the juice of Rue, each a like quan∣tity, and put it into the Nostrels when you go to bed, and it will help.
Take beaten Mastick, and mix it with the white of an egg to a paste, and spread some of it upon a cloth, then thrust downe the Navel, and apply it thereto, and when it is dry, renew it a∣gain.
Take a white Lilly leaf out of his Oyl, and apply it, its very good.
TAke of Garden Mallowes two hand∣fuls, stamp them small, and put to them a quart of Oyle Olive, and let it stand nine dayes, then boil them till it wax green, then strain it, and keep it in a box for your use.
This keepeth open, draweth and as∣sw ageth the paines of Imposthumes, and mollifieth, it being laid hot with moist
wool, then take a fine linnen cloth, and dip it in the Oyntment, and lay it warme to the sore, and bind it fast.
Also Mallowes made in a Plaister ri∣peneth greatly, and mitigath the pain of Imposthumes, and especially in ripening of womens breasts.
Take of Poplar buds half a pound clean picked, and stamp them small, and weigh them, and look what they weigh put the like weight of pure Hogs grease, and half the weight more, then stamp them together in a stone Mortar to one substance, and then put it in an earthen pot, and cover it close that no air come to it, and let it stand so six dayes till it be hoary, then take it forth, and put it in a clean pan, and let it boil on a soft fire, alwayes stirring it till the Herbs be parcht, then strain it, and keep it for your use. It will allay all the heat a∣bout a mans body, and procure sleep.
In like manner make Oyl of Marsh Mallowes.
Take the flowers of Saint Johns wort, and pick away the green husks very clean, and take a quart o•• the purest Sallet Oyl, and put it in an earthen pipkin, and put in it as many of the flowers as will make it thick, then set it on hot embers and there let it boil very softly, and when you think the strength is boiled out, strain out the flowers very hard, and if they be boiled enough they wil be as harsh as herbs f••ied in a frying pan with butter, and when you have strained out all very clean, put in as many fresh flowers as you did before, and let them boil in the like manner, and so shift it till your Oyl look as red as a Ruby, then strain out all the flowers, and put it in a glasse, and keep it close stopped,
This Oyl is very good for any greene Wound or any bruise in any part of a mans body; you must take heed you do not over boil it, and it is good for a∣ny ache.
Take a quart of White Wine, four pound of Oyle Olive, two pound of Tur∣pentine, the leavs and flowers, or seeds of Saint Johns wort two great handfuls, and bruise them, and put them with the other things into a great double glasse, and set it in the Sun eight or ten dayes, then boil the same glasse in a kettle of water with some straw in the bottom, which done, strain the liquor from the Herbs, then put into the liquor the like quantity of Herbs, flowers and seeds, as you did before, but no more Wine not Oyl, use it as you did before, and then you have a great Secret.
Take of the best Oyle Olive three pound, of the best Turpentine three pound, white Frankinsence half a pound, Wheat sweet and clean picked, Hiperico and Saint Johns wort, of each halfe a pound, Valerian four ounces, Carduus Benedictus four ounces, of White Wine
or Sack a quart, take the Herbs and cut them small, then put them into a tinned pot that hath as narrow a mouth as may be, then powre in the Wine, and let them stand in sleep six hours, then powre in your Oyl, and stop up your pot very close that no aire can get forth, set the same on a soft fire of coales without smoak or flame, let it boil very softly, stirring it now and then with a wooden slice, and having stirred it, stop it up a∣gain, and so let it boil till the Wine be consumed, which you shall know in this manner, by dropping the Oyl into the hot coales, the which Wine being not consumed, will hisse in dropping on the coals, and being consumed it will not hisse but burn very clear. And so the Wine being consumed, take it from the fire, and straine the liquor through a thick canvass cloth: then make clean your pot, and put the liquor (that ran through the canvass) therein, and set it on the fire again, then put in your Tur∣pentine and Frankinsence, the Frankin∣sence must be beaten and searsed, and let them boil very softly, stirring it with your slice the space of a quarter of an hour, then take it from the fire, and
strain it through another strainer. This Oyle must be put into a Glasse bottle, and the mouth stopt very close.
First you must wet a fine linnen cloth in White Wine, and wash the wound with the Wine being warme, and the bloud and corruption being cleansed, fill the wound with the Oyl, as warm as the Patient can suffer it, then lay a linnen cloth wet in the Oyle upon the Wound, and upon that another cloth wet in the White Wine, and so dresse it morning and evening. If the Wound be deep, take a Sirenge, and spurt in the Wine to cleanse it. And thus may you cure deep Wounds without any Tent. The Wound being come to a Plaister, to skin it, take of the said Oyl one ounce, of Turpentine one ounce, of Virgins Wax one ounce, boil them together till the Turpentine and Wax be melted, and thereof make a Plaister to skin the Wound and keep it in a pot very close stopped for your future use.
Take a quantity of Adderstongue, chop it smal, and in the chopping of it, sprinkle on it some White Wine, then put the Adderstongue into a quantity of Sallet Oyle, according to the quan∣tity of your Adderstongue, and boile it very well, then strain out the Herbs, and put in fresh Herbs so prepared as a∣foresaid, and boil it again. Thus do three several times, and keep it for your use.
Take a gallon of sweet Butter unsalt∣ed, well washed in the month of May, and a handful of Broom flowers, and bruise them in a Mortar, set the Butter and them over the fire, and boil them well, and strain them into a Gally pot. This is good for a woman in her Child-bed, and it is good for a sore Brest, before it be broken.
Take Rosasolis, Sallet Oyl and Neats Foot Oyl, and boil them all together over the fire.
Take one pound of Sheeps suet, and melt it, and skim it, and put thereto one ounce of Verdigrease, and half an ounce of Sal gemmi in fine powder, and stir it well together, then take it from the fire, and put it into a clean box, and keep it, for it may be kept many years. It is good for Cankers, and to heal old Wounds, and to fret away dead flesh, and it will keep a Wound from festering. It is good for Morphew and for Scabs, and there is no Oyntment that worketh so strongly as this doth. Probatum.
Take of Sage, Rue, of each a pound; of Wormewood, Bay leaves, of each half a pound, of Mellilot Herbs,
and flowers, of Camomile flowers, of Spike, Rosemary, red Rose leaves, Saint Johns wort and Dill, of each one good handful, of Marsh Mallowes two hand∣fuls, chop these Herbs and Flowers as small as may be, and stamp them and weigh them, and put thereto the weight of pure sheeps suet, chop it small, and mince your Herbs and it together, and stamp it in a stone Mortar to one sub∣stance, that there be no suet seen, but all green, put it in some fair pot or pan, and put thereto a pottle and a pint of Oyl Olive, and work all these together in the pan with your hand to one sub∣stance, and cover it close with some clay or paste about the edges that no air come in nor out, and let it stand so seven daies, then undo it and take it forth, and put it a clean pan; and set it on a soft fire, al∣wayes stirring it till the Herbs begin to wax parched, and then strain it into some ••air pan, and then put into it these Oyls following; Oyle of Roses, Oyl of Ca∣momile; Oyl of White Lillies, Oyl of Spike, and Oyl of Violets, of each one ounce, stir them all together, and re∣surve them to your use.
The Infirmities that this Oyntment is
good for, are these; for Stiches, Bruises, Aches, Palsies, shrinking of Sinewes, Gouts, and Sciaticaes, the Ache of the Back, Lamenesse, Plurisies, the Cough, the soles of the feet being annointed; for extreme pain in the head, make a cap for the crown of the Head of linnen cloth, and lay in it the wool of a quick Sheep, plucked from the flanks and cods, pick out all the moates, and make it cleane and card it, then straine it with this Oyntment, and baste it, and lay it some what warm to your Head. It is good for the Cholick, and for the Spleen, and for the cold Dropsie of the Liver. If you will have it to be more pleasant of sent, and more nourishing, add there∣unto of the Gums of Labdanum one ounce and a half bruised fine to powder, of the Gum called Storax Cremitie three quarters of an ounce beaten well to fine powder, mingle the other stuffe and this together, and strain it, and keep it to your use.
Take Oyl of Roses six ounces, of clear
white Wax, two ounces scraped as fine as may be, dissolve these together on the fire, and skim them as clean as may be, then have a dish ful of Rose water, and three spoonfuls of Rose Vineger mixt together, strain your other stuff into it, and labour it a long time in the li∣quor, and last of all have ready Camphire a dram in fine powder, and work it till it be cold. This is a good Oyntment for the back, head or eyes.
Take of Dill, Vervaine, Mugwort, Henbane, the tops of Camomile, Laven∣der, of every one a like quantity, then take May butter, and shred the Herbs small, and put them in the May Butter and stamp it well in the Butter, then let it stand a fortnight, and then fry it well, but take heed you burne it not, and then strain it, and keep it to your use.
Take of Mellilot, white Dothet, Ad∣derstongue, Valerian, of each three handfuls, May butter well clarified in the Sun four pound, your Herbs must be shred small, and then stamped very wel by themselves, and after stamped againe with your clarified butter, and so let it stand six or seven dayes, then boil it over a temperate fire until the Butter be green, stirring it alwayes till it be taken from the fire, then strain it, and keep it to your use.
The white Dothet doth grow in moor∣ish grounds where Rosasolis growes, and groweth very neer the ground like a Plantane, but a more yellowish greene leaf, it beareth a blue flower on a tall stem and smal; no Herbal maketh men∣tion of this Dothet.
Take three good handfuls of Rosema∣ry, and as much of Hisop stripped, Ro∣sen as much as a Walnut, and one pound of fresh May butter, boil them all toge∣ther until it be green, then strain it in∣to pots.
Take two pound of fresh new butter, and clarifie it till it be clear, then take a handful of the youngest Bay leaves, of Camomile, red Sage and Herb grace, of each two handfuls, chop the Herbs, then boil them in the clarified butter a pretty while till it be green, then straine it, and keep it for your use, and when you use it, let the place pained be well chafed therewith against the fire. You must also put in it with the rest a handful of Smallage.
Take the white of an egg and a spoon∣ful
of Honey, and beat it to an Oyle, then boil Bove wort with Sallet Oyl or Butter to an Oyl, and mingle it toge∣ther.
Take a handful of Camomile, of Bay leaves four handfuls, of Smallage foure handfuls and a half, of red Sage four handfuls, of Herb grace three handfuls, chop the Herbs and stamp them, then take five pound of fresh Ewes Butter, and boil it, and when it riseth, take it from the fire, and let it stand, then take off the skum cleane, and then put in the Herbs together, keeping it stirring, and when it is well boiled take it off, and let it stand till it be cold, then strain it into an earthen pot well glaz'd, and keep it to your use, it will continue a year or two.
Take a handful of Houseleek, stamp it
very small, and migle it with thick Cream, and annoint the sore therewith.
Take half a pound of Swines grease, half a pint of Sack, Camomile and Be∣tony, of each a handful, as much Sage, half a handful or Bay leaves, halfe an ounce of Cloves, chop the Herbs small, and beat the Spice small, and let it boil all night on the Embers, then strain it out, and use it.
Take Sage and Rue cleane picked of each a pound, of Bay leaves and Worm∣wood of each half a pound, of Rose∣mary three handfuls, Camomile flow∣ers one good handful, Dill and Spike of each a handful, of sheeps Suet, the skin picked off, three pound, of sweet Sallet Oyl three pints and a half, the Herbs must be chopt smal, and the Su∣et minced as fine as may be, then beat
the Herbs and Suet together into one substance, put it into an earthen pan, and put thereto your Sallet Oyl, and work it with your hands until it be well mingled together, then cover it with a dish, and close it with paste, and and so let it stand six or seven dayes, then take it forth, and put it into a broad pan, and put thereto one ounce of Mace smal beaten, then boil it with a soft fire, and stir it well till the leaves be par∣ched, put into it three ounces of Oyl of Licoras, two ounces of Oyl of Spike, then strain it, and put it into a glasse for your use.
Take the leg bones of a male Deer, and break them, so as the marrow may bee taken out, and put it in a Posnet, then put to it a pretty quantity of Daisie roots, and the l••ke of Elder buds or leaves, as much Camomile and a little Balm, all clean picked, then put in the marrow, and let them boil a pretty while, then strain it, and keep it for your use.
Take a pound of Rosemary leaves and flowers, one pound of running Mallows leaves and flowers, and a good handful of Camomil••, but wash them not, gather them when the dew is off the ground, chop them very small, and stamp them with a wooden pestle, put to them a quart of May Butter well clarifi••d in the Sun, stamp them all together til they be all wel mingled, then put them in an ear∣then pot and stop it close, and let it stand nine dayes, and then feeth it on the fire, and stir it wel for burning, and when it is greene, strain it through a Canvasse cloth, and keep it for your use.
Take young Bay leaves and Worm∣wood, of each halfe a pound, red Sage and Rue, of each a pound, all must be gathered in the heat of the day, pick them clean, but wash them not, beat
them very small in a great Mortar like greene sawce, then take three pound of new Sheeps suet, clean picked and shred smal, beat all these together til they be wel incorporated, then put to them a pottle of the best Oyl Olive, work it wel with your hands til it become all of one substance and colour, put it into a new earthen pan, and let it stand there close covered in some cool place eight dayes, then boil it on small coals almost a whole day stirring it wel, and after it hath boiled four hours or more, put to it four ounces of the best Oyl of Spike; and to know when it is throughly boiled, take a drop thereof in a sawcer, and if it be a fair green colour, take it off, and strain it through a new piece of course canvass, and put it up in Gally pots, it wil last seven years.
It cureth all Straines, Swellings, A∣ches, Kibes, Cramps, Scaldings, Bur∣nings of all sorts, all outward pains or griefs, easeth the Sciatica and Gout, with all kinds of swellings in the face or throat.
Take Camomile, Bayes, Mary gold, Dill and Mallow leaves of each a like, chop them, and boil them in fresh butter or Sallet Oyle, and so strain it forth, and when you use it, warm it, and so annoint the place.
Take of Rosen and Perosen, Virgin Wax and Frankinsence, of each a quarter of a pound, of Mastick one ounce, Harts Tallow or Deers Suet one ounce, of Camphire two drams, Olibanum four ounces, the Rosen, Perosen, Frankinsence, Mastick and Olibanum must be beat apart in a Mortar into very fine powder, and searsed, then melt your Wax and Deers Suet, being first cut in small pieces toge∣ther, stirring them very well with a clean stick for fear of burning to, then put in your powder of Rosen when they be throughly melted, shaking it in by little and little, and likewise your powder of Perosen, Frankinsence and Mastick, one
after another, stirring it continually to∣gether till all the Powder be melted, in no wise suffering it to boil, but so soon as you perceive it to be throughly melt∣ed, take it off and strain it through a strong course cloth into a pottle of White Wine boiled seething hot, so long as any thing may bee gotten through the cloth, and so stir it till it be no warmer then bloud warm, then put thereunto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine and your Camphire, stil stir∣ring it, and when it is cold, make it up into rolls of a reasonable size, and put it up in parchment to keep, and so you may keep it a long time, if you keep it dry; if you find any knots in it in the rolling of it up, by reason of the negli∣gent stirring of it, take them out. And for a Fistula, put therein four ounces of Mirrhe. In the Mortar before you do grind the Camphire, you must grind three or four Almonds, and take them out with a feather, and stamp your Cam∣phire therein, and grind it very small, and take it out with a feather, &c.
It is good for old and new Wounds, for amongst all others it is most cleansing and wil ingender good flesh, and it heal∣eth more in a night, then any other in a month, and suffereth no corruption in a wound, nor any ill flesh to be ingendred. It is good for a Festure and Canker. It draweth all manner of ache out of the Liver, Spleen and Reins of the back. It breaks Imposthumes, it is good for the Head ach & for the singing in the brain, and for all manner of Imposthumes in the head or body, for blowing in the ears, or for sinews that be strained or shrunk. It draweth out any thorne or broken bone, or any evil thing that is in a wound; it is good for the stinging or bi∣ting of any venemous beast; it rotteth all manner of Botches, and healeth the same without fear; it is good for the _____ _____ of the Members, the Flux, the Menstrous, if it be laid to a womans Navil; it helpeth the Emrods, and is very good to make a Cerecloth for the Gout, all Aches and Pestilent Botches. If you lay this Plaister to a little Sore or
Wound, one Plaister wil serve twice, if it be clean wiped; also if you lay it to any place where the skin is not broken, you may let it lye thereunto til by the moi∣sture that it draweth from the sore place it falleth off; and so from time to time you must do it til you find release of pain, and being driven thin upon a cloth you must lay it that it may cover all the sore.
TAke half a pound of sweet butter, a pint of new Cow-dung, and boil them both together till it come to a Salve, then lay half of it upon a woollen cloth, and lay it to the nape of the neck, and when it is cold apply the other half warm.
Take White Wine and Sider, and take
a good deal of red Sage, and boil them well to the one half, and wash the Pa∣tient where he shaketh, and if his Head shaketh, wash the neck as hot as may be suffered, and keep his neck warm and his joints at all times.
Take a handful of Sage, of Southern, wood, Spike of Lavender, of each alike. boile these in a gallon of running water, and strain it into a stone pot when it is boiled away to a pint and half, then eve∣ry morning take three or four spoonfuls thereof luke warm, and gargarise there∣with, and put it forth again. Also take some of the same water warm, and chafe the place with a spunge.
This shaking is a continual strife of natural powers, which are raised with∣out ceasing. It hapneth; first by look∣ing from a great height, by sudden fear or sudden joy, or much cold or great heat, or much bleeding; for remedy, use three leaved grasse, Cummin and
Steches by Glister or otherwise; of Oyls, use Oyl of wild Cow••umbers, Oyl of Dil, of Clivers Artico, which Herb is very good against the shaking Palsie.
Take half a handful of Rue, as much of Fetherfew, and one handful of Mari∣golds, a handful of Burnet, a handful of Sorrel, a quantity of Dragons, either the root or the crop, as the time of the year requireth; and then take a pottle of running water, and let them boil over the fi••e till half the water be consumed, then take it from the fire and let it cool, and when it is almost cold, straine it through a fair linnen cloth, and then let the sick body drink thereof, and if it be too bitter, put thereto a quan∣tity of loaf Sugar, or else powder of Li∣coras.
This hath been proved of a certain by great men, and hath holpen almost an hundred Persons in divers places; and where there were three persons in one
house sick, two of them drunk thereof, and the third would not, and he dyed, and the two that took it lived, and this was proved of a certain. This Medicine must be given betimes before the Purples do appear, and it will cease by the grace of God.
Take a handful of Sage vertue, a handful of Hens grease, a handful of El∣der leaves, a handful of red Bramble leaves, and stamp them all together, and strain them with a fine cloth into a quart of White Wine, and then take a quan∣tity of Ginger, and mingle them all to∣gether, and drink thereof a spoonful e∣very day fasting for ten dayes together, and for the first spoonful you shall be safe for four and twenty hours, and af∣ter the ninth spoonful you shall be safe for all the yeare after. And if it shall happen that any be strucken with the Plague before this Medicine be taken, then take water of Scabious and water of Betony, and a quantity of fine Treakle, and put them together, and drink it, and it will put out all the Venom, and if
the Sore do appear, then take leaves of Elder, and make a Plaister thereof with Mustard seed stamped together, and lay it to the Sore, and it will draw out all the Venome, and (by Gods grace) reco∣ver the party.
Take Turmentile, Scabious, Dittony, Pimpernel of each a like quantity, distil them all together, and drink of it.
It taketh one like the Ague, with cold: as soon as it taketh them and complain of it, take five, seven or nine leaves of Garden Spurge, nine is the most, stamp them small in a dish, and put to it warm milk or Posset Ale, and let the sick bo∣dy drink it, and presently go to bed and sweat; then take a great Onion and take out the core, and put into it Mithri∣datum, then lay on the top again, and rost it very soft, then beat it very small in a dish, and put to it three spoonfuls of White Wine Vinegar, and as much
Sugar as will make it pleasant to take, and as soon as the stomack is purged, give him of the Onion as much as you can, for that will draw out ••he Sore in four and twenty hours (by Gods grace) and keep the Patient very hot and warm, and give him hot Broths and Drinks, and keep him in a sweat four and twenty hours, and after keep him very hot, and when the Sore is come out, roast an O∣nion with Treakle and Viegar, and lay it to the Sore to draw it out, and have a Chirurgion to launce it.
For the rest of your houshold, give them every day Mithridatum and Trea∣kle, and take Centory and Madder, and boil it in Beer, and let them drink now and then thereof.
Take a pint of Dragon water, three pints of the best Malmesey or Muskadine, boil therein of Rue and Sage, of each a handful, and let it boil till one pint be boiled away, then strain it, and after∣wards set it on the fire again, and put
thereto long Pepper, Ginger and Nut∣megs beaten to powder, of each one ounce, boil all these a little more, and then take it from the fire, and put there∣in of the best Mithridate one ounce, of London Treakle two ounces, and a quar∣ter of a pint of the best Angelica Wa∣ter, and use it as followeth. If you think your self to be infected, take one spoonful of this at a time morning and e∣vening luke-warm, but if not infected, take it but once or twice a week at the most, half a spoonful at a time, in any Plague time; and when they that are in∣fected take this, let them lye down and sweat two or three houres in the bed; and when they be well dryed, and warm kept, let them drink none but warme Drinks or Caudles, and so by Gods assi∣stance they shall be well. This Drink will keep good half a year if it be close kept.
Take of White Wine one quart, and put therein the juice of these Herbs fol∣lowing, of Elder leaves, Rue leaves, Wormewood and Scabious, and put in a
spoonful of good Treakle, and the pow∣der of a good Race of Ginger, stir all together, and drink three spoonfuls of this every morning for the space of nine dayes together: This preserves you from the Plague, and if you be infected, it wil expel it; and if it come to a Botch, stamp the leaves of red Brambles with Mustard and Honey, and make a Plaister, and lay it to the Sore. Probatum.
Take twenty leaves of Rue, two Wal∣nuts, and two figs, and a graine of Salt in the morning fasting with a little Wine.
Take of the best Hung••ria or Roman Vitriol, with a little Amber, and dissolve it in Vineger of the best, then take a litle Rosewater, and mingle therewith, and every morning take half a spoonful thereof, and cast it on a brick made hot in the fire, and let the chamber where any abide be perfumed every day, and t will take away all corruption and poi∣son
out of the Chamber, so that the Spiders will nor endure; of all outward Medicines, there is none better then this, by the advice of Doctor Matthias a Germane, and Doctor Butler of Cam∣bridg.
Take Turmentile, Scabious, Betony, of each a like quantity, distil them toge∣ther, and they will make the best water for a Surfet or any manner of poisono••s Disease, if you drink it in the morning fasting.
Take Cellendine, Rosemary, Rue, Pellitory of Spain, Scabious, Angelica, Pimpernel, Wormwood, Mugwort, Betony, Egrimony, Balme, Dragon, and Turmentile, of each half a pound, shred them somewhat smal, and put them into a narrow mouthed pot, and put to them five quarts of White Wine, stop it close, and let it stand three daies and nights, stirring it morning and e∣vening,
then take the Herbs from the Wine, and distil them in an ordinary Still, and when you have distilled the Herbs, distil the Wine also, wherein is vertue for a weak stomack. Take of ei∣ther of these three or four spoonfuls in the morning or any other time, as oc∣casion serveth, walking after it till you shall feel your selfe inclining to sweat, then go to bed, or betake your self other∣wise to rest.
Take a root or smal handful of Saxi∣frage or Meadow Parsley, one good spoonful of Sassafrass wood smal beaten, one half root of Tormentile or Setwal, Elder berries one good spoonful, or a handful of the leaves of Rue, red Sage, and red young Bramble leaves, of each a handful, two spoonfuls of old black Ivy berries, Harts horne scraped very small as much, eight Figs dryed, eight Races of white Ginger, and two Oranges, stamp them all together in a Mortar, steep them all at least twelve hours in a quart of White Wine, and half a pint of White Wine Vinegar, then strain them through
a fine cloth, and drink every morning a spoonful fasting, and take nothing in two hours after, and as much at night; if you be to go abroad into any infectious place, carry in your mouth one half root of Tormentil, taking the wind as much as you can of all infectious persons and pla∣ces. This is to be done before you be infected, and when you are infected, you must keep your self warm and out of the ayre for twelve dayes, drinking this as before; and if there be any great danger, you may drink a spoonful every three or six hours, and it will with Gods blessing bring the Infection out in Sores, which being done, the worst is past; only take heed of cold to drive in the Sores again, and use warm Poultices which may draw them to a head, ripen, and so break them.
Take of Sage, Rue, Elder leaves and red Bramble leaves, of each a handful, stamp them all together, and strain them through a cloth with a quart of White Wine, then take a quantity of Ginger, and mingle it together, and drink thereof
morning and evening a spoonful nine dayes together.
If you be infected before you have drunk the aforesaid Medicine, then take a spoonful of Scabious Water, as much of Betony, and a quantity of fine Trea∣kle, put it together, and drink it, and it will expel the Venom.
Take Bramble leaves, Elder leaves and Mustard seed, and stamp them all together, then make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to the Sore.
Take three slips of Herb grace, and siz spoonfuls of Vinegar, and beat them to∣gether, then strain them, and put there∣to one ounce of Treakle, and one ounce of Sugar, and stir them together, and set it on the fire and make a Sirrup there∣of, then take a Sage leafe, and every morning take as much as a bean upon the same leaf, and eat it.
Take one ounce of Sorrel Water, as much Dragon water, and a dram of Treakle, and put thereto a dram and a halfe of Powder Imperial, and give it to the Patient in Ale within four and twenty hours after he is infected.
Take a handful of Savory, and boil it in a quart of Wine Vinegar with a spoonful of graines beaten being put therein, and drink it every morning with Sugar fasting.
Take in the morning fasting one dry Figge, one Walnut, and four or five leaves of Rue chopt all together, and eat it, and after drink a cup of Wine.
Take a very old and hard white Dogs turd, which will be on the top of Mole∣hills, and seeth it in Sallet Oyl very thick and so put up the Piles therewith, and it will help very quickly.
Take the pap of an Apple, and put thereunto the yolk of a new laid egge, work them well together, then put in nine cleaves of Saffron small ground, of Linseed twenty cornes finely ground, these boil all together on the Embers al∣wayes stirring it, of this make a Plaister and lay it to your grief.
Take a good handful of Mullet leaves, and a good handful of Elder leaves, and
stamp them very smal in a Mortar, and boil them in fresh butter very well, so that it may be very strong of the leaves, then strain it, and keep it for your use.
Take a fair great Pippin or other Ap∣ple, and cut off the top, and take out the core, then fill the same with Capons grease and the powder of Saffron, and roast the apple in the Embers till it be soft, then stamp it, and make thereof a Salve, and spread the same upon a piece of leather, and lay it on the Sore being well warmed.
Take a pint of Sallet Oyl, Rosemary tops, Sowthernwood, Hisop, Lavender, Camomile and Costmary, of each al∣most a handful, and a good handful of red Rose buds, stamp all these herbs in a stone Mortar, then put them into the Oyl, and let it stand nine dayes, then boil it half an hour, and when it is almost boiled, put into it a quarter of a pint
of Aquavitae, and so keep it to your use.
When they come forth and swel much, bathe them (with the water that Mal∣lowes Fenicrick and Onions have boiled in) very warm, and after the bathing, apply unto it this Plaister following, Take the finest and inner part of a roast∣ed Onion, beat it in a wooden dish with May Butter, and a little powder of Saf∣fron, and annoint the Sore.
Take the leaves of green Elder, and boil them in a pint of water, and four spoonfuls of White Wine, then take a piece of cloth three fingers broad, and take the leaves so boiled as hot as you can suffer them, and so apply it a good while, then rub it with a little May but∣ter. Probatum.
Take Oystershels, as thick as you can
get them, and the newest, and burn them in the fire till they be red hot, then take the inner white of those shels, and beat them in a Mortar very smal, then sift them through a piece of Lawne, then take some Linseed Oyl in a sawcer, and warm it, and annoint the Piles first with that Oyle, then strew the powder thick upon the Piles, then take a cleane rag and dip it in the Oyl, and lay it up∣on the Piles, and dresse it so twice every day, this is a sure and an approved Medicine, and faileth not to help. Pro∣batum.
Take a pint of Oyl Olive, and halfe a pound of red Lead, and boil them toge∣ther, and stir them with a slice of wood continually until it be black, then take it from the fire, and put in a pennyworth of red _____ _____ , and a quarter of a pound of Rosen, and set it on the fire againe, the fire may not blaze, and stir it, then powre a little of it on the side of a dish,
and if it stick to the dish it is enough, then let it stand until it be cold, and then make it up in rolls for your use. It is good for any ache, new wound that bleedeth, or an old Sore, and to stanch blood.
Take Harts suet four ounces, Rosen and Perosen, of each half a pound, white Wax and Frankinsence, of each foure ounces, first melt the Suet and Wax to∣gether, and then powder the Gums, and put thereunto, and when they have re∣lented together, strain them through a canvass cloth into another vessel, and put thereunto a pottle of White Wine, and set it on the fire again, and boile them to the consuming of the Wine clean away, stirring it with a staff, then take it from the fire, and when it is al∣most cold, put to it four ounces of Tur∣pentine well washed in White Wine, two drams of Camphire well powdered, then make up your Rolls, and lap them in Parchment. This Plaister is good for Wounds both new and old for Bruises and for Aches; and it doth mundifie
Ulcers and old Sores without pain, and comforteth the members that it lyeth on. It is good both for Fistulaes and Cankers that are ulcerate.
Take Oyl of Roses eight ounces, white and red Lead, of each three ounces, Ce∣rus six drams, Littarge of Gold, Sanguis Draconis and Bole Armoniack, of each one ounce. Camphire one dram, make all these into fine powder, and mix it with the Oyle, and set it on a soft fire al∣wayes stirring it, and let it boil til it be Plaister like. This Plaister is good to dry all Sores in the legs.
Take the yolk of an egg, as much or∣dinary Turpentine, and as much Herb grace chopt and stamped, mingle all these well together, and spread them on a cloth and lay them to the Sore.
Take Parsley, Herb Christopher, and crumbs of sowre bread, beat them small together, and boil them in White Wine, and make thereof a Plaister, and lay it to warm.
Take Gum, Galbanum and Opopo∣nax, of each one ounce, Amoniacum and Bdelium, of each two ounces, beat them smal, and put them in an earthen Pipkin glazed, and powre on them as much White Wine Vinegar as will serve to steep the Gums in, so let them stand one day and one night, the next mor∣ning boil them in the same Vinegar on a gentle fire of coals, and when they be throughly melted, pour them out hot into a bag, and wring them well, and cast away that which remaines in the bag, then take the liquor so strained, and let it boil in a pot till the Vinegar be consumed clean away, and in boiling you must stir it continually lest the
Gums burn to the bottom. Then take Oyl Olive one quart, new Wax halfe a pound, put them into an earthen pot glazed, such a one as is of sufficient big∣ness, and set it over a fire of Cozls, and let it melt softly, then put into it one pound of Littargy finely beaten into powder, stirring them continually with a wooden slice, and when they be all well mixed to∣gether, and of the colour of tawny, then take it from the fire, then take of the a∣foresaid Gums that were first boiled, the quantity of a nut, and put thereto, and so by little and little put in all the Gums, and being well mixed together, then set it o∣ver the fire again, take heed withal, lest the matter be over heated and run into the fire, for it is very hot of it self; then put into it these things following, Take of the two kinds of Astrology rotunda. Calaminaris, Mirrh and Frankinsence, of each of them one ounce, beat them in∣to powder, then put them into the said matter, and powre upon the same one ounce of Oyle of Bayes, and last of all put into it four ounces of the best Tur∣pentine, then boil all together, and stir it continually; and when you would know whether it be sodden enough or
no, put a little thereof into cold water, if it be not soft that it will not cleave unto your fingers it is enough; but if it cleave it is not enough, but let it boil until it is enough, then take it from the fire, and pour it into a Bason of cold water, then annoint your hands with Oyl of Roses, and work it well with your hands two or three hours, and make it into Rolls and keep it.
It is good for old and new Sores, it draweth and cleanseth it wil not suffer a∣ny Sore to putrifie, but if there be dead flesh in the Sore before it be laid on, it will not take it away. It is good for si∣newes cut or pricked with thornes, it will draw out of Wounds, Iron, Wood or Lead, and it is good for the biting of ve∣nemous Beasts, it is also good for Biles, Fistulaes, Cankers, Shingles, and for Saint Anthonies fire. Sir Thomas Porter hath found by often experience a speedy help for bones out of Joint, so that laying on two or three of these Plaisters, hath heal∣ed in fifteen dayes Armes out of Joint; when you do lay up this Salve, keep it in an Oyly paper.
Take a fair Costard, and cut off the crowne, and pick out the core, but make no hole through, and then put in all these powders, of Bores tooth the weight of four pence, of the Powder of Rubarb grated fine as may be, the weight of three pence, of Cinamon the weight of a penny, of the powder of white Su∣gar candied the weight of two pence, put all these into the Apple, and cover him again, and lay him on a tile on the Embers, and roast him till he be soft as may be, then cut it in sunder, and give the sick party in the morning half of it to eat, and fast two hours after it, then eat some good broth, and take the other part of the Apple the next day, so that both the dayes are good to take a Me∣dicine on.
Take a quantity of Horse dung which is kept in the Stable, strain it with Ale, then put to it a good quantity of Trea∣kle and some Ginger, and let the Patient drink thereof morning and evening luke∣warm as much as he can endure.
Take a good handful of Brooklime, and shred it very smal, and boil it in fair water till it be very tender, then take a quantity of Sheeps suet and wheaten bran, and boil them together till it be thick, and so lay it to his side where the pain is, as hot as may be endured.
Take a quart of White Wine, put to it two handfuls of Cummin, as much Oaten bran newly bolted, bruise the Cummin, and boil all to a Poultice, and put it in two bags hot, lay one to the side pained, and when it cooleth, lay to
the other, and so continue changing them three or four hours.
Or take Earth-wormes and fry them in Vinegar, and spread them, and lay them to the pained side.
The Plurisie cometh of cold humours, therefore beware you take not much cold or any cold thing. Malmesey sod with Camomile is very good.
A sweet Apple roasted, and eaten with powder of Licoras and Sugar can∣died, is good to be eaten in the morning and at night. A sweet Apple also is best with Olibanum. Also a Plaister of Pitch is very good laid to the side.
Annoint the place where the paine is with the Oyl of Linseed.
Take four Spanish Balls newly gathe∣red from a Horse, stamp them and strain them with a pint of White Wine,
and as much beer, & put to that a penny worth of Treakle being first melted, and give the party to drink thereof twice a day, and not to eat nor drink one hour before nor after: if you be sure it is the Plurisie, let him blood within three dayes, but if he be longer before he be let blood, be sure you let him blood on that arm on that side where the pain is. Also if when after blood letting he fall worse again, this Drink is a very good Medicine for that Sicknesse taken by o∣vermuch labour or lying on the ground.
There must be laid also to the side that the stitch is on, for the Plurisie, this fol∣lowing:
Take a pint of new milk, make batter of it with wheaten flower, as thick as you do Fritters, put to it three spoonful of Honey, and a groats worth of Saf∣fron, boil it to a Poultice, and spread half, and then grate it over with Nut∣megs, and lay it warm to the side, and when it hath been on twelve hours, then lay to the other half, and make more if you see cause.
Also if you boil a piece of leaven, as big as a good Apple, in Vinegar, the quan∣tity of four spoonfuls, and as much Rose∣water,
and a few Rose leaves to a Poul∣tice, spread it, and grate it thrice over with Nutmegs, and lay to the pained side: It is also very good for the Plurisie, or for any pain in the side.
If you take two handfuls of Horse-dung, two Races of Ginger powdered, boil them in a quart of White Wine be∣ing bound in a cloth, boil it to the one half, then drink a good draught morn∣ing and evening, and after you have drunk it, cover your self warm and sweat; this way is also very good. If the par∣ty be costive, give him gentle Purgati∣ons, as Cassia Fistula, or use Supposito∣ries or Glisters.
For this Sicknesse Tessers are good, and the water of Mallowes, Violets, Borage or Bugloss, Sugar candied also.
Take also of the Water of Broom flowers, Scabious and Carduus Benedi∣ctus, of each three spoonfuls, put in Su∣gar candied, and let the party drink so much morning and evening, and an∣noint the side with Oyl of Broom flow∣ers.
Hold in thy breath as long as possibly thou canst do, and then if thou canst not let thy breath pass from thee without coughing, assuredly thou either hast it, or art in danger of having it forth∣with.
Thou must be let blood forthwith, then take the quantity of a Walnut of Carduus Balsom, and eat it upon a knifes point, and take again presently the like quantity of the same Balsom, and melt it in a sawcer at the fire, and with a soft clean linnen cloth dipped in the Balsom, wash and bathe thy left side well, as hot as thou art able to suffer it, then warme the said cloth, and lay it double over the place pained, and bind it on, and ly down to rest, and by Gods blessing thou shalt find it a present Cure.
When any get a pricking pain about the ribs with a Cough and an Ague, then use this Glister, Take sixteen ounces of Broth wherein a Lambs head or Calvs feet have been sodden, put therein one ounce of Sugar, the yolk of one egg, two ounces of Sallet Oyle, salt one dram and halfe, temper them well together and use it.
Take Birdlime and spread it on a piece of Glovers leather on the Allome side, and lay it on as far as the swelling goeth, and let it lye four and twenty hours, and then renew it again.
Take fine boulted flower, and temper
it with White Wine, and boil it toge∣ther till it be thick, then lay it on the Sore as hot as may be suffered, and it will open the hole, and draw out the anguish, help the aking, and heal it: for want of White Wine take Ale or Beer. It is good to heal a Boil or Whit∣low.
Take a good quantity of Marsh Mal∣lowes, or of other, if you cannot get them, and boil them in clean water, then cut them small, and take White Wine dregs, and of good Ale as much more, your Mallowes being shred, put it into your dregs, and put in some Deers Suet and Sheeps Tallow melted, and crumbs of brown bread, boil all these together till it be thick, alwayes stirring it to keep it from burning, then lay it warm every dressing upon a woollen cloth, it dissol∣veth hardnesse and swelling. The Lady Farnchams Poultice.
Take the crumbs of white bread, seeth them in milk, and put to it Oyl of Ca∣momile and a little Saffron, then take it from the fire, then put to it the yolks of two new laid egges, and so make of it a Poultice, and lay it to the sore.
Take a good handful of Mallowes, a∣nother of Smallage, a handful of Linseed, as much of Oatmeal grets pounded to∣gether, a pottle of well water, halfe a pint of milk, and Deeres Suet as much as an egge, or else so much of Sheeps Tal∣low, then boil all these together till it be thick, then lay it to the Patient where the pain is, being spread upon a linnen cloth.
Take Wormwood and Dill dryed and
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beaten to fine powder, of each one handful, of Sheeps dung three handfuls, of Camomile flowers half a handful, of Cummin seeds two ounces, seeth them all in Lye, and let it boil together until it be very thick, then spread it upon lea∣ther, and lay it upon the place grieved warm: but first annoint it with Oyle of Rue. Mr. Smart.
Take Claret Wine, Balme and Rose∣leaves, boil them together till they be thick, then lay them to the Sore as hot as the Patient can suffer it.
Take Mallowes and Smallage, of each a handful, boil them in a quart of Vine∣ger to a pint, then wash the place pain∣ed as hot as you can suffer it.
Take Houseleek, Smallage and Mal∣lowes,
of each two handfuls, shred them small, then take a handful of Linseed, and bruise it finely in a Mortar, take al∣so a handful of Oatmeal or wheaten bran, some Roses of a Rose cake, every leaf pulled from another, Sheeps Tallow one pound, shred it well, then put all these into a gallon of running water, and boil them together till they become thick, then put thereto a quart of Cowes milk, and let it boil stall till it be as thick as a Plaister, ••tirring it often, then when the leng or brest is washed with the water a∣lso •• said, spread the Poultice on a cloth all abroad, and lay it to the leg or brest a•• hot as may be suffered, and let it lye so till it be dry and hard, and then renew it, but if the leg or brest be not very hot and red it shall not need.
Take of Violet leaves and Groundsel, of each a handful, of Mallowes and Chickweed, of each halfe a handful; shred them smal, and let them seeth wel in running water, and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted, and spread it on a cloth, and so lay it on the place
pained, and bind it fast, and shift it twice a day till it be cured.
Take half an ounce of the best Cene, lay it in soak in a pint and a half of Pos∣set Ale on the Embers in a close covered pot two hours, then put it into a posnet, and put to it a Parsley root or two, one Fennel root, two spoonfuls of Anniseeds, a stick or two of Licoras scraped and bruised, a few Raisons stoned, boil all together to half, then strain it, and put into it one ounce of Manna, and four penny weight of Rubarb being grated and put in a clout, and laid in soak in the aforesaid liquor with the Manna one hour, when the Manna is melted wring the Rubarb, strain it, and put to it three spoonfuls of the Sirrup of Roses, and drink it blood warm in the mor∣ning, and eat a mess of Mutton pottage after it.
Michocanum two drams, which is two six penny weights, grate at with a Gra∣ter, and pound it smal, steep it in a pen∣ny pot of White Wine all night, and in the morning about six of the Clock, warm it milk warm, and drink it off and half an hour after take eight or ten spoonfuls of Mutton broth, with a few Raisons or Currans in it, and it will work downewards, and purge away moist hu∣mours causing Phlegme to breed in the body.
Of Catapusia being small seeds, you must take two and twenty or four and twenty of them in quantity, and take off the outer hulls, and beat the inner graines small in a Mortar or pewter dish, then mingle it with a little Ale, or White Wine which is best, warm it a little, and take it as abovesaid, and it wil void as the other.
And if you should at any time have a∣ny continuing Lask by occasion of Medi∣cine or otherwise, seeth a little Rice with∣out any salt or butter, and eat it with a
little Cinnamon, and it shall presently stop it.
Take a handful of Groundsel, wash it clean, and boil it in a pint of Ale, skim it, then put in half a handful of Raisons or Currans, and two ounces of Sugar candied, boil all together again to half a pint or lesse, then strain it, and drink it milk warme fasting at six a Clock, and fast till eleven, then take some Mut∣ton broth.
Take Encampane roots, and make Conserves of it, use it in this manner, first wash the roots clean, then slice them in pieces as big as your little finger, seeth them in fair water until they be tender, then take them up, and pound them, and strain them through a haire sieve, then set them over the fire, and put to them the double or trebble weight of Sugar, and when it is perfectly in∣corporated or mingled, take it off, and keep it in a Gally pot. The time
to gather the roots is when the leafe fal∣leth away.
Take Anniseeds, Licoras, Cene, Her∣modactilus, of each one ounce, of Sassa∣parilla five ounces, scrape away the out∣side of it, and bruise it a little, and cut it the length of an inch, then bruise your Licoras, and put your Anniseeds to it, and put them in a pot to steep in two gal∣lons of Conduit or running water four and twenty hours, then boil them until a third part be consumed, then put in your Cene, and half an hour after put in your Hermodactilus, the outside be∣ing pared away, and slice them as you do a Race of Ginger, and withn an hour after take it from the fire, and let it rest in the pot two hours, then strain it in a bag as you strain Hypocras, so let your first draught in the morning be luke∣warm fasting, and at Dinner and at Sup∣per what you think good, for you must drink no other Drink till that be spent.
Take of the juice of Scurvigrass foure pound, of Watercresses two pound, of Brooklime one pound, of Water Mints half a pound, of dry Wormwood four handfuls, of the roots of Madder four ounces, of the roots of Monks Rubarb three ounces, roots of Horse Rhadish one ounce and a half, the roots of Saxifrage one ounce, of Cene four ounces, of Ju∣niper berries half an ounce, of Anniseeds, Coriander seeds and Ginger, of each six drams.
Take a pint of the Whey of Goats milk, of Cene half an ounce, of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced, Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds well dusted and lightly bruised, of each of weight of four pence, let them stand one hour, or one hour and half on warm embers in in∣suling; the next morning to a draught hereof put a spoonful of Sirrup of Roses, and as this agreeth with you, so take it three or four dayes together, or every o∣ther day.
Take a pottle of the same Whey, boile therein of Betony, Colts foot and Hisop, of each one handful, and drink there of as you have occasion.
Take halfe a pint of Malmesey, or somewhat more, and half a quarter of an ounce of Cene, and two Races of Ginger sliced, then put them both into the Malmesey, and stir it well a good while, and let it stand all night, and then strain it, and drink it, and keep your Chamber, and you shall have four or five stools.
Take clarified Whey, and put into it a handful of Violet leaves, and half a handful of Polipodium of the Oak called Oak fernes, and drink a good draught of it luke-warm, and wash after it.
Seeth Mallows and red Nettles in fair water, and let the party sit over the hot fume thereof.
Take Aron or Wakerobbin, one dram of the powder thereof with two drams of Sugar, is good to cut gross humours, to purge the stomack of Phlegme and Me∣lancholy.
Or else the root either green or dry, one dram thereof being taken in drink with as much Treakle, is a very special good Purgation.
Fetherfew dryed into fine powder, and two drams thereof taken with Honey or sweet Wine purgeth by the stool Phlegm Melancholy, and Sadness.
Also take Peniroyal with Honey and Aloes to purge Melancholy, and for the Cramp.
Drink the Seeds of Hollioaks.
Also Cene the cods and leaves in pow∣der one dram, doth purge Phlegm and Melancholy.
The great Garden Dock leaves drunk in Wine, purgeth Phlegme, Choler and Water.
Take two gallons of new small Ale, and put unto it a good handful of En∣glish Madder, a handful of Dock roots bruised, two handfuls of Scurvigrasse, a handful of Scabious, two ounces of Cene, two ounces of Anniseeds, two or three sticks of Licoras finely scraped, and all those things bruised, then put them into the new Ale, and let them work there∣in, so let it stand two or three dayes, and then drink thereof morning and evening.
Take a pennoworth of Aquavitae, Oyl of Exeter, three ounces of Sage, of Herb grace, Clerk Robert, of each a handful, stamp them small in a Mortar, then take your Aquavitae, and straine them together a good while, then take a spoonful thereof, and annoint the Sore place against the fire.
Take the toast of a Wheaten loaf, and butter it, and toast it again, and butter it twice more, then toast it againe and butter it with Soap, and hold it against the fire till it lather, then lay it to the side where the pain is.
Take one handful of Cummin seeds, as much of Anniseeds, two handfuls of
Rue, seeth these together in running wa∣ter from a pottle to a quart, put to it half a pint of White Wine Vinegar be∣fore it be cold, dip a Spunge in it, and wring some of the liquor out of it, and lay it to the Patients side as hot as may be suffered, and when it beginneth to wax cold take a new.
Take a handful of Plantane, and a handful of Parsley, and stamp and strain them into a little raw Cream, and min∣gle it well together, and annoint the place grieved therewith.
Take a Boares pisle, and dry it, and make powder of it, and drink it in Ale or Beer.
Take two handfuls of Salt, and put it into a pint and halfe of water, and stir it well together, then set it upon the fire and let it boil well, and in the boil∣ing you must skim it, so that there be not any skim seen, and when the Small Pocks are come well forth, and that the Swelling doth assuage you must take a fine cloth, and both them with this Brine, being warme, three times a day: And when they begin to grow brown, use this Oyntment, take a piece of Bacon, and roast it upon a spit, and set a dish of fair water under it, putting thereto some Rose water, and let the Bacon drop into it as it doth roast, and when it is roasted, take the dripping and the water and work it well together, and it will be a very white Oyntment, then put it in∣to a Gally pot, and twice a day annoint the places with a feather, but in any case lay not on too much, for that will make
them moist, and make them stay on the longer.
Take fair water in a Posnet, and put thereto half a pound of Butter, then set it on the fire, and let it boil softly, and skim off all the froth very clean, then take it off the fire, and let it stand till it be throughly cold, then powre the water from it and put it in clean water, and set it upon the fire again skimming it very clean, and do this nine times to∣gether, but every time your butter must be cold before you put it into a new wa∣ter, and the last time being very cold, take it clean away from the water, and put Rosewater to it, and work them ve∣ry well together, and put it up into a Gally pot, and with a feather twice or thrice a day annoint the rednesse of the face; and if these Medicines be used as they should be, it will take away the red∣nesse, and make the face not to have a∣ny holes in it.
Take red Rose water, white Sugar candied beaten very fine, and brest milk, and temper these very well toge∣ther, and with a feather dresse the eyes, and it will keep them from the Small Pocks If it be for a man, you must take the milk of a Girle; if for a woman the milk of a boy.
When the Pocks are white at the first coming out, let a woman (that gives suck) milk some of her milk upon them, and apply a paper thereupon and do this every day, and they will not pit.
Also take a new laid egge, and it in fresh butter, and then poure it in∣to cold water, and being cold put it into a pot, and put Rosewater thereunto, and stir it so long till it become like an Oynt∣ment, and with it annoint the sace, and the eyes especially, and it will preserve the sight from the Pocks; and when as any one hath Pockholes, annoint them
with Barrowes grease betimes, and it will help.
Also for them that have the Small Pocks falne into the eyes, let them take Pimpernel and stamp it, and strain it, and take the juice thereof and drop it into the eyes where the Small Pocks are with a feather morning and evening, this is a special good Medicine for a Pin and Web or Pearle in the eyes.
Also for the Small Pocks or Meazels take Dragon root, it purgeth all the in∣ner parts, or the distilled water given to drink with Treakle is very good to drive them out.
Also Figs eaten before meat, provoke sweat, and thereby expel all stinking hu∣mors, and therefore are good for the Meazels or Smal Pocks, and to be given to Children to bring them out speedily.
Also an excellent Medicine to drive them out, seeth Fumetory in Rue water, and drink it.
Also to heal the Pocks or any Scabs, seeth Houndstongue in Red Wine, and drink thereof, and also apply it to the Sores.
Also to drive out the Smal Pocks,
drink a spoonful of Sallet Oyl with three spoonfuls of Malmesey, and the quantity of a Hasel nut of Treakle in it.
Also to take the print of the Small Pocks out of the Sore, take one ounce of Sperma Ceti, and as much Deers Suet, and melt them together, and when the Small Pocks are ripe, an∣noint the face therewith with a feather, and if the Pocks be in the throat, then give the Patient a little Sirrup of Black∣berries, such as grow upon Briars, but take them when they are red, and pound them, and strain them, and put as much Sugar thereunto as there is of the juice, and seeth them together till they be boiled away to the one halfe, then give the Patient a little in a spoon three or four times in a day, and that by Gods help will cure them; and the very like may be done with Gooseberries before they be too ripe, and these may be taken and made into Sir∣rup, and kept seven yeares if you will.
Make a Posset with Ale and milk, and
take away the curd, then take a red Fer∣nel spout, and boil it well together, then strain it, and put thereto a quanti∣ty of Nutmegs and Treakle, and En∣glish Saffron mingled warme toge∣ther.
TAke milk and a flint stone, and make it red hot, and quench it twice in the milk, and take Vervain and Collom∣bine leaves, and seeth it in the milk, and fine Honey, and so give it to the Patient to drink,
Take the paring of the threshold and Sallet Oyl, and fry them together, and lay it warm to the Patients throat.
TAke a good handful of the inner rind or bark of the Sloe-bush, the outermost black skin or rind being cut or scraped away; then put the same into a quart of the purest and strongest Ale you can get, and let the same boil well from a quart to a pint, when it is so boiled, take the rind out of the Ale, and let it stand until it be cold, then divide it in∣to two parts, and drink it two mor∣nings together, and fast after it every morning two or three hours. Proba∣tum.
Take half an ounce of Venice Turpen∣tine, and let it be wel washed in Plantane Water or Rose water 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a••d then mix it
with fine white Sugar, and make thereof four or five balls, of which you must eat three in a morning fasting, and drink White Wine or Rhenish Wine immedi∣ately after.
Take two handfuls of Hisop, strip it from the stalks, rowle it in a brown pa∣per somewhat wet, then lay it to roast under embers until it be roasted very soft but not burned, then take it off, and lay it upon a linnen cloth, and so lay it up∣on the mould of the Head as hot as may be suffered, and so put it fresh three or four times, letting it lye from the even∣ing to the morning.
Take of Rosemary, red Sage, sweet Marjerom, of each a handful, of Betony
half a handful, seeth them in a quart of Balme Water until it cometh to a pint, then strain it, and make up the Deco∣ction with Sugar; and for the Lungs you must put in some Hysop, and a few Anniseeds and Licoras before you boil it.
Take of Licoras one ounce, of Cassia in the Cane, and Cena Alexandrina of each four ounces, sweet Fennel seeds one ounce, Madder roots two ounces, of large Mace ten pence in weight, of Cin∣namon fourteen pence in weight, Hermo∣dactilus three ounces, of Polipodium three ounces, of Coriander seeds three ounces prepared, two or three yellow Dock roots, use but the rind; a good hand ful of Scabious, a handful of Egrim••ny; All these are to be used thus, the Polipo∣dium scraped, the Licoras scraped and bruised, the Madder roots scraped and sliced, the Hermodactilus sliced, Mace bruised in a Mortar with the Cinnamon and Licoras.
Then put all these Simples together in a bag, with a pound weight to cause it to sink, but let it not touch the bot∣tom, then tun four gallons of good Ale, and about a week after you have tunned it, drink thereof first and last and con∣tinue it a Month or six weeks toge∣ther.
Take the roots of white Beets stamp∣ed and strained, and put the juice of them into a glass, and snuff up there∣of into your nose with a quill every morning twice in a Month, and it wil help.
Rheume is nothing else but a defluxi∣on that falls from the head into the throat or brest, which doth otherwhiles so stop the pipes of the Lights and throat that its ready to choak, also these Rheumes fall into the nose, and cause the pawse.
These Rheums are caused divers waies; as from gross meats which cause vapours,
or of cold, or from a sharp North wind which bloweth suddenly after a South wind.
The cold Rheumes are knowne by these signes following, as wearinesse, heavinesse of the whole body, sleepiness, heavinesse of the head and forehead, palenesse with full vaines, stuffing of the head or nose, swelling of the eyes, pain in the throat, motion to vomit, swelling of the Almonds; the Remedy, is to use dry and warm Herbs, as Sage, Fen∣n••••, Mints, Rosemary, Marjerom, Time, &c. and after meat use something to close the stomack, as prepared Coriander, toasted Bread, &c. and walk in a mor∣ning fasting.
Hot Rheume, the signes thereof are these, viz. the face is red, mixt with a pale or black colour, great heat in the nose with itchings, when the mouth and the throat is full of bitterness and sharp∣nesse, and if the head be hot in feeling, its thus to be cured, he must be let blood, and use this Gargarism.
Take Sirrup of Jaunbes, of Violets and Poppy seeds, of each alike, temper them with Barley water: Or take Jaunbes, Sebestians, Violets, white Poppy seeds
and Quince kernels decocted in Barley water, use it in the evening after meat, it is passing good.
Also take Sirrup of Poppy seeds Sirrup of Mulberries, of Roses, and well water of each three ounces, of Wine of Pom∣granats one ounce, make it warm, and gargle therewith.
Cut the middle gristle of both the ears, and with the blood annoint the belly and the Navel with a little Cotton wool, then boil Harstongue and Liverwort in Milk or Broth for their usual Dyet.
Take Bay berries bruised and sweet Marjerom, of each a handful, and boil it in Beer, with three or four blades of Mace, and so drink it often.
When the former will not help, take Fennel seeds and Dill seeds, of each a∣like, but most of Dill, boile them in Beer and strain it, and sweeten it with Sugar and drink often. Probatum.
Take Knotgrass and Shepherds Purse, of each one handful, of Comfrey and Solomons seale, of each half a handful, beat them into an Oyl, and thereof make your Plaister. This Oyl will be preser∣ved all the year in a Gally pot.
Take long Plantane, Yarrow and Knotgrass of the redest colour, of each a great handful, Daisie roots, Dove∣f••ot, Mousear and Borage, of each a small handful, wash them very clean, and shred them grosse, then take three quarts
of milk, and two quarts of White Wine, set the milk on the fire, and when it doth seeth put in the Wine, and as the Curd ariseth take it away, and being clean, put in the Herbs, and let them boil gently a quarter of an hour, then take it off and straine it; and preserve it in Glasses, and let the Patient drink thereof in the morning fasting, and so in the evening almost a pint at a draught, and do so one week.
Take Comfrey roots, Daisie roots, and Pollipodium of the Oak, make them in∣to fine powder, and drink thereof every morning the weight of six pence the space of a fortnight, fasting an houre after it.
Take Frankinsence half an ounce, A∣loes a quarter of an ounce, beat it small and mix it with the white of an egg unto an Oyntment, and therewith annoint the child upon his Rupture morning and e∣vening.
Also take the root of Aron halfe a pound in powder, and give thereof unto the child every day for nine dayes toge∣ther, one dram with water of Parfoliata, and tye the Rupture with a Boulster close upon it, and unto it.
Take Treakle, Sallet Oyl Sugar can∣died, Cinamon, powder made with Li∣coras and Sugar, of each a penny worth, mingle all these together, and take a quantity thereof as much as a Nut both morning and evening.
Take a quantity of Ale or Beer, and put therein over night three or four sprigs of Rew, and drink thereof evening and morning for a good space, and it will keep your stomack in good order.
Take Live Honey, and put thereto tops of Balme, Cowslip flowers, Borage flowers, Bugloss flowers, and tops of Gilly flowers, and set this remain in the Honey the space of a Month, stopping the pot very close that no aire come in, let it stand all the said time in some warm place, either in the. Sun or by the fire side then distil it in a glass Still, with a little water, and drink thereof every morning a good draught.
This Herb groweth in the Meadows in low Marish grounds, and in no other places; it is of Horseflesh colour, and groweth very long and flat to the ground with a main long stalk growing in the midst of six branches springing out of the roots round about the stalk with a hoar colour, and a main breadth and length; and I do warn you in any wise not to touch this Herb when you gather it, with
your hands, for then the vertue is gone: you must gather it by the stalk, and so pluck it out of the ground, and put it in a glasse or pewter pot; the leaves of this Herb are full of strength and vertue.
Take of this Herb as much as will fill a pottle pot, but wash it not in any wise, then take a pottle of Aqua vitae, and put them both together in a large vessel, and let it stand (being chopped) just three dayes and three nights, and on the fourth day strain it through a clean cloth into a glasse or pewter pot, and put to it half a pound of Licoras beaten to fine powder, and half a pound of Dates, take out the stones of them, and cut them into fine slices, and mingle all these together, and stop the glass or pewter pot close that no Aire come into it, and drink of it at night to bedward half a spoonful with Ale, and as much in the morning fasting, for there is not the weakest man or body in the world that wanteth nature or strength, or that is cast into any Consumption, but it will restore them again, and cause them to be strong and lusty, and have a mar∣vellous hungry stomack, and that very shortly; for he that useth this Medicine
three times shal find a great change, and comfort in it, and as he feeleth himself, so he may use it.
It cured one Mr. Stubbs who dwelt in Westminster, and was in a great Con∣sumption, and very neer unto death, be∣ing sick continually for eighteen weeks, and all the Physicians in London had for∣saken him; and these things were sent him to drink from an outlandish man, and in three times drinking of it he walked upon his feet.
In January use no Physick but warme clothing, cat warm meats, and drink White Wine fasting, it is wholsom.
In February forbear Physick and let∣ting of blood, take no cold for fear of A∣gues, which are easily gotten.
In March forbear grosse feeding, purge by Potions, Bathing or Blood-letting.
In April Physick is good upon occasi∣on, except Nature wil remedy of it self.
In May rise early and walk in the fields with a light breakfast, and use Physick upon occasion.
In June, if Physick, take it early in the morning with small dyet; clarified whey with cold Herbs is very good.
In July use cold herbs, cold meats, no Physick, no extreme exercises, use Rivers rather then Bathes.
In August use moderate Dyet, beware of surfetting or cold after heat for fear of Plurisies, sleep not in the day.
In September use Physick if need re∣quire, and bathe or bleed, and use fruits if they be sound and ripe.
In October use hot meats and drinks to nourish blood, and beware of cold for fear of Agues.
In November use hot meats and drinks and wholsome Wine, provide warm clothing, and go dry foot.
In December use none but Kitchen Physick and warm clothing, use merry company, and good Hospitality.
TAke Sallet Oyl one ounce, fresh and unwasht Butter one ounce, Sheeps Suet one ounce. Virgin Wax one ounce, Rosen beaten to very fine powder four ounces; Mastick four drams beaten very fine, Olibanum one ounce beaten to ve∣ry fine powder, honey half an ounce, boil them all together till they come to six ounces, and then put it into a Gally pot, and put thereto some reasonable quantity of Venice Turpentine.
Take bal fa pint of the best Aqua vitae, a quart of the best Wine Vineger foure, ounces of Storax, Mirrh one ounce, Gal∣banum one ounce, Gum Dragon one pound, eight graines of Musk, as much of Ambergreece, three pound of the
best Sallet O••le old and sweet, half a pound of Oy••e of Lawrel of the best, Oyl of Sp••ke one ounce, Oyle of Hypericon and Oyl of Juniper berries, of each two ounces, Oyl of Peter one ounce, half a pound of Virgin Wax, four ounces of red Saunders, and a quarter of an ounce of Saffron.
Take a pound of Butter, half a pound of Sheeps Suet, a penny worth of Rosen of Frankinsence and Turpentine, of each two penny worth, boil all together a good while except the Turpentine, for that must be put in afterwards, and boil but little, then strain it into a Bason of fair water, and then strain it out for your use.
Take a quantity of Mutton Suet, and almost half as much Rosen, shred the Su∣et very small, and melt it on a soft fire, and when it is well melted, beat the Rosen, and put it in, and let it boil to∣gether,
stirring it continually till it be cold.
Take the roots of Marsh Mallowes, wash and pick them clean, then slit them and take out the inner part of the pith, and cast it away, and take the outer part that is faire and white, and cut them into small pieces, bruise them in a Mor∣tar, and take of them half a pound, and put it in a new earthen pan, and then put thereto Linseed and Fenicreek of each two ounces a little bruised in a Mortar, then take Malmesey and White Wine of each a pint, and stir all these to∣gether, and let them infuse two or three dayes, then set them on a soft fire, and stir it well till it wax thick and like a skum, then take it off, and straine it through a new canvass: and thus have you ready the Mustellage for Plaister; T••en take fine Oyl of Roses a quart, and wash it well with White Wine and Rose water, then take the Oyl clean from the water and Wine, and set it on the fire in a brasse pan alwayes stirring it, and put thereto Littarge of Gold and
Silver, of each eight ounces, Cerus six ounces, red Coral, Bole Armoniack, and Sanguis Draconis, of each two oun∣ces, and let them be finely powdered and searsed, then put them into the Oyl over the fire alwayes stirring it, and let not the fire be too big for burning of the stuff, and when it begins to wax thick, put in ten ounces of the aforesaid Mu∣stellage by a little at ounce, or else it will boil over the pan, and when it is boiled enough you shall perceive by the hardnesse or softnesse of it, dropping a little of it on a sawcer or cold stone; then take it off, and when it is cold, make them in Rolls, and lap them in parch∣ment, and keep them for your use. This Plainter resolveth humors in swolne legs.
Take the juice of Smallage and Plan∣tane, of each alike, honey and the white of an egge alike, put Wheat flower to them, and stir them till they be thick, and let it come to no fire at all, and so lay
it to the Sore, and by Gods grace it will heal it.
Take half a pound of Sheeps Suet, as much Barrowes grease, as much Wax, as much Rosen, and a pint of Sallet Oyl, set them all on a soft fire and when they be melted, put in the Rosen finely beat∣en, boil them all together and skim them, then put in two pennyworth of Verdi∣grease, and last of all two ounces of Turpentine, and so let them boil a walm or two more, then take it up and keep it for your use; if it be an old Sore, put four pennyworth of Verdigrease, and three ounces of Turpentine,
First take as fat a Goose as you can get, and when she is ready drest, then take a couple of the fattest young suck∣ing Cats you can get, and flea them, and
cut them into gobbets, and put them in the belly of the Goose, and so roast it as long as it will drop, then take the liquor and annoint the place pained with it, and bathe it before the fire as hot as you can suffer it, and dip a brown paper therein, and lay it hot to the place with warme cloathes to keep it fast to all night. Do thus for the space of three or four nights together.
Take a pint of Aqua vitae, a pint of Wine Vinegar, a quarter of a pound of Oyl of Bayes, the juice of four or five handfuls of Sage, a Sawcer full of good Mustard, the Gall of an Ox bladder, and chafe them in the bladder, an hour or more, that the Oyl may be well mingled with the rest, and anoint the place there∣with against a good fire, and let the Patient go warm into bed and sweat. Probatum.
Take half a pint of Aqua vitae, halfe a pint of White Wine Vinegar, and one Oxe Gall, almost a handful of Bay salt, and a handful of the tops of Rosemary, and shred them very small, and put them in a little Pipkin all together, and let it be ready to boil up, and then take it off, and chafe the place pained with it, with your hand so long as the Patient shall be able to endure it, and do it very warm against the fire, and then take Nerve Oyle, and anno•••••• it and then take a Scarlet cloth, and bind it up or cover it warm, and this do morning and even∣ing.
Take Virgin Wax, Deers Suet, Rosen, Pitch, and Barrowes grease, of each alike, and boil them together until they be half consumed, then do it abroad upon
a linnen cloth somewhat thin, and lay it to the place grieved as hot as may be suffered.
Take a pint of Sallet Oyle of the best you can get, and half a pound of red Lead, and as much Rosen as a Walnut, boil all together upon a soft fire till it be somewhat black, stirring it continually, and when it is cold rowle it up, and keep it for your use. You may keep it seven years, and it will be exceeding good if you keep it from the hear of the fire. Probatum.
Take Olibanum and Sallet Oyle with Wax, Rosen and Stone Pitch, and boil them together.
Take six ounces of Wax, three ounces of Rosen, two ounces of Mastick, Ar∣moniacum, Galbanum and Olibanum of each one ounce, of Fenicreek, Worm∣wood, Camomile and Cummin, of each of these in powder one ounce, Oyl of Castorum and Oyle of Camomile flow∣er: of each one ounce, of Vinegar five ounces; melt the Rosen, and Wax, and the Oyles together, and then put in the Galbanum and Armoniack steeped in Vineger and strained, and so put in the powder last of all, stirring it to∣gether, and thereof make your Cere∣cloth.
Take one pound of Galbanum finely beaten to powder and searsed, as much fine Rosen beaten and searsed, as much Pitch, of Sheeps Suet four ounces, of
Cummin two ounces, Labdanum one ounce, of Cloves one ounce, of Mace one ounce, of Saffron half an ounce.
Take Brimstone and scrape it fine and mingle it with May butter, and annoint a Tent or a little lint throughly, and put it into the Sore or Cut, and it help∣eth.
Take the burned Ashes of a Rhadish and strew it upon the Sore, and it will dry and heal.
Take Spurge and shred it small, and boil it in Whey, and thicken it with Oatmeal, and lay it warme to the Sore, it is also good for a womans brest.
Also for the breaking of a Sore or Boil, take Coriander seeds made into fi••e
powder, and mix it with Honey, and this being implaistered upon a Boil or a Carbunkle will in a short time de∣stroy it. Or take a little of a Calves curd.
Take Ashen Keyes, Stitchwort, Saxi∣frage, Mother-time, Broom flowers, Hawes, Hips, Bramble leaves, Pollipodi∣um of the Oak, Pellitory on the wall, put all these together of each alike, and Still them, then to every pottle of water put half a pound of Anniseeds, and so let them stand four and twenty hours, then put them into the Still again, and still them all together, then drink of it as you need, and if it happen that the gra∣vel come too fast and will not avoid, then stil Ivy berries and Parsley, and drink two spoonfuls of it, and it will avoid the stone if it be never so great.
Take a handful of Pellitory on the wall, a handful of Parsley, and a handful of Parsley seeds a little bruised, boil these things in a quart of White Wine until a third part be wasted, then strain it, and wring into it the juice of a Lemmon or two, then with this Wine and some milk make a Posset as clear as you can, and drink thereof a good draught twice or thrice a day, but not with meat, nor when the stomack is empty from meat.
Take a Chicken or a piece of Veal, three young Mallowes, Marsh Mallows are the best if you know them, one hand∣ful of Violet leaves, or of Mercury, or of Pellitory of the wall, one handful of A∣pothecary Barley scalded, half a handful of great Raisons stoned, boil these in water until the meat be enough, then take of this broth, without thickning or
seasoning with a little Sugar, three hours before dinner.
Take a quantity of Normandy glasse being clean without rust or canker, burn it in the fire a good space, then beat it in a Mortar, then take an old Cambrick cloth, and sift it very fine, and give the Patient a spoonful or two of the same powder to drink in Malmesey, being pained, and it will help by Gods grace. Probatum.
Take a gallon of new milk from the Cow that is all red, and thereinto put one handful of Pellitory of the wall, wild Time, Saxifrage and Parsley, of each a handful, two or three Rhadish roots sli∣ced, steep all these in milk one night to∣gether, and in the morning distil them with a moderate fire, then take of that Water six spoonfuls, and six spoonfuls of Rhenish or White Wine, and a lit∣tle Sugar, and some slices of Nutmegs, make it luke-warm, and drink it fasting,
and fast after it three houres, using tem∣perate exercises. Take this two or three dayes together every fortnight or oftner if need require. The best time to distil this Water is towards the end of May.
Take two or three unset Leeks, and stamp them, and strain them, and drink it in Malmesey in the morning, strain as much as the Patient will drink at twice; after this, to bedward take some Sack and Sallet Oyle, and beat it, and drink it hot, that will make the Stone slide.
Take Saxifrage, Philippendula, Peni∣royal and Parsley seeds, and stamp them together, and strain them into a cleane Vessel, and let the Patient drink there∣of with racked Rhenish Wine. Pro∣batum.
Take Ivy berries, and stamp them wel, and put it is White Wine, and give the Patient to drink thereof, and let the Pa∣tient make Water through a cloth, and you shall see the avoiding of Stones and Gravel.
Take Foxes bloud and Hares blood of both alike quantity, and dry them in an Oven, then beat it to powder, and seeth it in a little White Wine, and drink it as warm as you can suffer it.
Take a good handful of Mallowes, as much of Camomile, and as much Pelli∣tory of the wall, three or four crops of Herb-grace, a quantity of Beets, and a quantity o Mercury, one ounce of Co∣riander seeds, one ounce of Cummin seeds, bruise the seeds and seeth them and the Herbs all together in a pottle of running water, and let it seeth till halfe
be consumed, then strain it, and take three spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl, and three spoonfuls of Honey, and half a handful of Bay salt bruised, so put it into a Glister pipe and use it.
Take the inner bark of Elder, and seeth it in Beer or Ale til it have a good strength of the Elder, then strain it, and drink it morning and evening, and it will break the Stone.
Take a pint of White Wine, and half a pint of Ale, and make thereof with milk a pottle of posset drink, and take a∣way the curd very clean, and boil in it two or three roots of Mallowes, Marsh Mallowes are the best, and some Lico∣ras till a quarter be boiled away, then drink half in the morning, and the rest at night.
Take half an ounce of Anniseeds, a
quarter of an ounce of Licoras, Calamus Aromaticus, French Gallingal, Mirrh, Gum Arebeck, Gum Traganthum, Diatria Papira, or Piperion, Pine Apple kernels, white Orris roots, Storax, Benjamin, Cipresse and Labdanum, of each a small quantity, then beat them all together, take also half an ounce of large Mace, white Archangel, Mead Parsley and Garden Parsley, Camomile, Mallowes, Fennel and Spiere Mint, of each halfe a handful, then take three quarts of White Wine, and put them together in a brasse pot or a Posnet, and boil them a pretty while, then take it off, and strain it through a cloth, and put it in earthen vessels, and keep it cool it will drink the better, and take six spoonfuls morning and evening for three dayes together when you find your self ill, and do not foreslow the taking of it. Probatum.
Take Mallowes, Herb grace, Pellitory of the wall, the green tops of Fennel and Camomile, of each two handfuls, seeth
them in water till they be tender, then presse out the water from them, then stamp them very small, and put in Oyle of Lillies, Oyl of Camomile, Oyl of Dill, Oyl of sweet Almonds, and Oyle of Scorpions, of each one ounce, let them boil on a Chafingdish and coals a good while, then put to it as much wheat flower as wil make it thick like a Plaister, spread it between two cloths, and apply it to the Patients side as hot as may be endured.
Take the weight of a French Crown of Pulvis Hollandi, drink it in a quanti∣ty of White Wine, stirring it well in the cup that it may not curd, drink it in the morning betimes, or at what time the Patient pleaseth keeping himself warme in his chamber all that day, for it will give him three or four stooles, and drink some warm broth after it, and use this once a Month.
Take once a week after the former,
eight spoonfuls of Deal Wine, and eight spoon fuls distilled from the berry of the Hawes, make it sweet with Sugar, and slice half a Lemmon into it, and some sli∣ced Ginger.
There is great pain in the raines of the back, which draweth downwards; stir∣ring encreaseth the pain, they are much inclined to vomiting, the body is bound, Urine raw and watrish, often provoking to pisse, but not without pain, the U∣rine avoids with gravel, sand and slime, yea sometimes mixt with blood.
To know it from the Chollick, first its not so sharp as the paine of the Chol∣lick.
Secondly, The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side, and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side, but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above, and stretcheth downwards, and a little more towards the back.
Thirdly, the pain is most of the Kid∣neyes fasting, the Chollick otherwise. All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone, are good for the Kidnies,
but not for the Chollick.
Lastly, there is found in the Urine gravel or sand, and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts.
Take Turbith one dram and an half, Hermodactilus one dram, Diagridy six graines, Salt of India two grains, Gin∣ger half a scruple, Annis and Mastick, of each three grains, Sugar Pellets one ounce, white Sugar half an ounce, steep them together in three ounces of Water of Smallage or Maidenhair all night, and wring it out well, and drink it; if the matter be in the stomack, then take a Vomit that it run not towards the Rains. This Vomit may be made of reddish O∣range seeds, the middlemost rind of El∣der and Nux Vomica.
Take a good handful of Hisop a hand∣ful of Horehound, and seeth them in a quart of running water to a pint, then strain it through a fair cloth, and put in Sugar to make it pleasant. Use this morning and evening with a Licoras stick some three spoonfuls at a time.
Your liquor must be ready to seeth, then put therein as many Roses as will be well steeped in the same water, and co∣ver it close, and when the Roses be throughly white, then strain it, and set it on the fire again, and so you must use it thirteen times, and to every pint of your water or liquor you must put into it a pound of Sugar, and let it stand toge∣ther for the space of one night steep∣ing, and skim it clean, and seeth it over a quick fire a quarter of an hour, then
take the whites of egges, and beat them well together, then take the pot off the fire, and put into it the whites of your egges, and then set it on the fire again, and let it seeth a good space, then let it run through a Jelly bag, til it will stand still upon your nayl.
Take a handful of Egrimony, and seeth it in a pint of Water till half be confu∣med, then take out the Egrimony, and put in a good handful of Currans, & seeth them till they be ready to break, then strain them, and make a Sirrup of them, then set it on a chafingdish and coales, and put thereto a little white Saunders, and drink it either hot or cold.
Take S••gar candied, and put it into a clear bladder, and tye it, but so as it may have some vent, then put it into a bason of water, so that the water come not over the top of the bladder, and cover it with a pewter dish, and let it stand all night, and in the mor∣ning
take of it with a Licoras stick.
Take of the juice of Garden Scurvi∣grass, Brooklimes and Watercresses, of each six ounces, and after it hath stood till it be clear, take sixteene ounces of the clearest, and of the juice of Oranges and Lemmons, of each four ounces, make it to a clear Sirrup with so much fine Sugar as will serve the turne.
Take of Elland leaves, Sage, Fennel, Fetherfew and Mallowes, of each a handful, and seeth them in thick milk till the milk be almost consumed, and then lay it to the place very warm.
Take English Honey, white Soap and some Salt mixt together, and fryed, then make a roul or peg thereof, and put it in the Fundament, it will make the Patient go to stool within an hour and a half, for so long or until it work, he must keep it in his body.
Take a long piece of Coperas, being white, and smooth it, and annoint it with some butter, and so minister it to the Patient, and let him keep it in his body an hour and half, if it work not before, and he shall find great ease and help•• These kind of Suppositories will serve twice or thrice at the least.
Take the head of a black Sheep, Ca∣momile, Barly, leaves of Sage, of each one handful, and bray them together in a Mortar, and then boil them all toge∣ther till they be well sodden, then let it stand to cool, and then draw it through a Strainer, and lay it on the place grie∣ved, and by Gods grace it shall soone amend.
Take Hogs dung and half a pound of Oyle of Roses, seeth it in a new earthen pot, and apply it as hot as you can en∣dure it.
Take the leaves of Mallowes cleane
picked from the stalks eight handfuls, of Gentian three handfuls, of Archangel one handful, then take of Oyl Olive a pint, of Oyl of Roses, Oyl of Camomile and Oyl of Dill, of each half a pint, boil all together, and in boiling of them, strow on one ounce of Anniseeds, and one ounce of graines beaten into fine powder, and when they be well sod∣den, beat them in a Mortar with yolks of eggs.
Take Groundsel, Brooklime, Fitch, Bruisewort, Nepe, Petty Morral and Hem∣lock of each alike, stamp them, and boil them in a pan over the fire and lay it to the Sore as hot as the Patient may suffer it, and it will case the aking and swelling, and heal it in a little space.
Take the water of shell Snailes and Shoomakers Oyl, of each alike, and tem∣per them wel together, then take new Snailes and seeth them in running water,
and gather off the Oyle and put it to the other Oyle; and temper them well together.
Take Mackerel Mints two handfuls, and of sowr leaven one handful and an half, stamp them very small, and put to it a good quantity of Mace beaten to fine powder, and so much Wine Vinegar as shall incorporate all into a liquid paste, which you must spread upon a linnen cloth; apply it warm to the Stomack twice a day.
Take a pint of stale Ale, and half a pint of Endive Water, and put thereto as much Sugar as will make it sweet, then set it on the fire, and skim it clean, then take a piece of a white loaf as much as an apple, the crust taken away, and three or four whole Mace, then let it seeth one walm after, and then take and drink
it duke warm (the bread taken away) whensoever you feel the heat in your stomack.
Seeth Centory in fair water, and let the Patient drink it luke-warme fast∣ing, three dayes, each day three spoon∣fuls, it purifieth the stomack and brest also.
Take Centory and Pellitory of Spain, Anniseeds, Licoras, Grains of Paradise, Ginger and Cinnamon, of each alike, beaten and searsed into fine powder, and drink thereof morning and evening half a spoonful in Wine or Ale.
Take a pint of Aqua vitae, and put it in a glass, then take two ounces of Cinna∣mon and one ounce of Ginger, of Cloves and of Graines, of each two penny worth, of Nutmegs one Penny worth, beat them all together, into grosse pow∣der,
and put them all into the glasse to the Aqua vitae, and shake it very often for nine dayes together, and then drink it with Wine or Ale, half a spoon∣ful or a quarter with halfe a pint of Ale.
Drink the seeds of Hollioaks.
Also the cods and leaves of Cene in powder, one dram taken with broth of a Chicken or Mutton, doth purge phlegm and Melancholy.
Take one handful of sweet Marjerom, a few Marigold flowers, a penny worth of Caraway Comfits, a penny worth of Parsley seeds, two penny worth of Dates, a half penny worth of Raisons of the Sun, boil all these in a quart of White Wine till halfe be boiled away, then put in two ounces of brown Sugar candi∣ed, and a little Mithridate.
Take the gteen leas of Colts foot stamped and mingled with Hony and ap∣ply it, and it will help.
Make balls of a little bignesse of the juice of the inner parts of a Pumphin and bean flower, dry them in the sha∣dow and wash therewith before the fire.
Take two handfuls of Wheaten meal, and a pint of Cow milk, and a handful of Rue, and shred it small with a spoon∣ful of fresh grease, and boil them all to∣gether
till they be thick, then lay it on the swelling.
Take a handful of Archangel, a hand∣ful of red Fennel, and two handfuls of Mallowes, and a handful of Brooklimes, then seeth all these Herbs together in a gallon of running water to a pottle, then bathe the leggs with the water hot, and lay the Herbs on.
Take a pint of Milk, Oatmeal, dryed Rose leaves, Mellilot flowers, of each a handful, and a little Deers Suet, and seeth it till it be as thick as pap, then lay it to the hurt as hot as may be suf∣fered:
Take Wormwood, Parsly, Camomile, Cummin and Ash rods, of every one a handful, and seeth them in the Patients Urine, and make a plaister, and apyly it.
Take Smallage, Lovage, Groundsel, Brooklime, Seng••een and Bruisewort, stamp them, and put thereto a little wheaten bran, Sheeps Tallow, and some Barrowes grease, fry them well together and make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to the place grieved.
Take milk, wheaten meal, red Roses and Camomile, of each a handful, seeth all these together until they be thick, then spread it on a cloth, and lay it to till it heal the Patient.
Take Groundsel, Daisies, Brooklime, Chickweed, Petty Moral, Herb Bennet, take of each of these alike, and fry them with Sheeps Suet, and put thereto crumbs of soure wheat bread, and so bind it to with a cloth warm.
Take Houndstongue, Camomile, Dai∣sie leaves and roots, Plantane leaves and roots, and Adderstongue, of each a handful, pick them clean, but wash them not, chop them small and stamp them, then take a pound of fresh butter, of Sheeps Suet half a pound, set them over the fire, and so let them boil until it look green, then strain it out, and keep it in an earthen vessel to use all the yeare.
Take three handfuls of Mallowes, and a pottle of running water, and boil the water and Mallowes together, then bath the swelling therewith a good while then take a good quantity of Suet of the Kidney of a fat Sheep chopt, and so boile that together with the Herbs againe, and being hot, lay it on a red piece of cloth all night, and the next morning renew it, and so
from time to time till it be asswaged.
Take two quarts of Barley, and two gallons of running water, a pound of Boars grease, four new laid eggs a hand∣ful of Bay salt, of the tops of Rue, Sage, Camomile, Rosemary, of each a handful, a quart of new Barm, chop all the Herbs together, then let it boil to two quarts, and when it is boiled sufficiently, then stop it close until it be in good case to lay to the place pained on a piece of new red cloth, and renew it as occasion shall require.
It is called by the name of the Jewes Bath, and is an excellent thing for this purpose.
Take Woodbind flowers, Water, and Wheat flower, and make thereof a thin paste, first annoint the Swelling with Oyl of Linseed, then lay on a plaister of paste.
Take powder of Hawthorne, and drink it with Wine, it healeth the Falling Evil.
The braines of a Fox unto Infants, cu∣reth this Disease.
Also Powder made of Opoponax, Ca∣storum, Antimonium and Dragons is a most Soveraign Medicine.
The like vertue hath Antimonium a∣lone with Castorum.
Or Antimonium alone received with water.
The ashes of a dead mans skull drunk is wonderful good.
Five leaved grasse drunk three and thirty times together, doth perfectly heal this Disease.
The red stone found in a Swallow hea∣leth the falling Evil.
It hath been proved that Mistletow drunk healeth this Disease.
Piony tied about the Patients neck keepeth him from falling.
Also cut a Frog through the midst of the back with a knife, and take the liver, and fold it in a Colewort leaf, and burn it in a new earthen pot wel stopped, and give the ashes thereof unto the Patient in his sickness to drink with good Wine, and if he be not healed at once, do so by another Frog or more, and without all doubt it wil heal him.
A Rhadish stampt and bound to the braines will heal one of this Dis∣ease.
The bloud or gall of a Lamb drunk with Wine cureth it.
The stone that is found in a Harts head stamped and given to the sick party doth the like.
The braines of a Camel mixt with Oyl of Roses, wherewith annoint the Pa∣tient before and behind over all his body doth heal it, which is a wonderful experi∣ment, and true.
The dung of a Peacock taken in drink doth the same also.
Take Mares piss new made, and heat it, and let the party grieved drink there∣of
as warm as he may, this will help by Gods grace with three or four 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••a∣king. Probatum.
Take young Ravens when they be fledged before they touch any ground, flea the skin and feathers off clean, and pull out all the guts and entrels, and wipe it very clean, and then put it into an Oven, and dry it that you make pow∣der thereof, then beat flesh and bones together very fine, and searse it, and take a quantity as you think good, and let the Patient drink it with Ale or Wine when the Fit begins, and by Gods grace it will help. Probatum.
Take Camomile, Spieremint, Worm∣wood and Southernwood, of each a hand∣ful, then put a few cold ashes in the bot∣tom of a pewter dish, and upon them
hot embers, then clap the dish, Herbs and all over with a linnen cloth, and lay to the side somewhat higher then the paine is, and it will drive away the pain down∣wards.
Take young Broom of one yeares growth, distil it, and drink it, and it will help the Stitch; and if it be in such time of the year that you cannot get the wa∣ter, then take Broome and make pow∣der thereof, and drink it in Ale or Beer.
Take Mousear and Shee Holm, Stitch∣wort and Spieremint, of each alike, and dry them upon a tile, and make pow∣der of them, and drink it with Ale or Beer.
Take some wool, and baste it on a piece of linnen cloth, then take Oyle of
Camomile, and warm it, and sprinkle it thereon, and lay to the pained place, be∣ing first annointed with the Oyl.
Take a Chicken and boil it in fair run∣ning water, then take Burnet, Burrage, Marigold leaves, Parsley and Sorrel, of each a handful, then boil all these toge∣ther with a little salt, then take the yolk of a new laid egge, and put to halfe a pint of the broth, and drink it hot.
Take Balm, Burrage and Rosemary, of each alike, and steep it four and twen∣ty hours or more in Ale or Beer, and drink thereof evening and morning.
Also the water of the Decoction of Strawberries is good to be drunk for o∣vermuch heat or sweating.
Take a handful of Betony, a handful of Rosemary, and a handful of red Rose leaves, brown bread crumbs, two spoon∣fuls of womans milk, two spoonfuls of Rosewater, a spoonful of Vinegar, and boil all them together, and lay it to the temples of the Head.
Take an Onion and roast it soft, and take Camomile and shred it, and lay it upon the Onion, and so bind it upon the nape of the neck.
Take a pint of Milk and seeth it, and let it cool, then take the Cream thereof and the white of an egge, and a little womans milk, and a little Rosewater, beat them all together, and spread them on a cloth, and so lay it to the forehead.
Take twenty or thirty Almonds or more, and beat them with a spoonful of Poppy seed that is white, then take two handfuls of white Poppy leaves, and as much of Lettice leaves, and seeth them from a quart to a pint, and with that wa∣ter strain the Almonds to make Almond milk to drink, and let them that can∣not sleep, drink of it last to bed∣ward.
Take the juice of Houseleek, a good quantity, as much womans milk, and as much Rose vinegar or else Rose-water and vineger, and mix them well toge∣ther, and then wet flax in it milk warm, and bind it to the temples of the Patient, and also wet flax therein, and make round together like a ball, and bind it in the palmes of the hands, and it wil give great ease.
Take the white of a new laid egg, and beat it with a spoon until it cometh to an Oyl, then let it stand a while, and take the froth of it from the Oyl, and put thereto Rose-water, Vineger and wo∣mans milk, and lay it to the Patients fore∣head in a linnen cloth, and when it is dry lay on more. Probatum.
Take Oyl of Roses, and put thereto a little good Vineger, and heat them wel together, and put it on a Cloth, and bind it to the forehead, it is a comfortable Remedy.
THe signes of the Humour that cau∣seth this Infirmity; viz. The Blood yeildeth a sweet taste: Phlegme also somewhat sweetish with much spettle, humidity of the head, of the tongue, and of the whole body. Choller causeth bit∣ternesse, saltnesse, and a salt phlegme; if no taste, then is the mouth of the sto∣mack troubled with many superfluous humours; If Melancholy, then is the taste tart. There may also be sure signs taken from the tongue; if it be white, its not only a sign of cold, but also that the stomack, head and liver are full of phlegme; if red, then the malady is of blood and hot Rheumes; yellownesse is a sign that choller is the cause of all; if a blackish lead colour, it signifies Me∣lancholy, unlesse in hot Feavers, then must the Patient be dyeted according to the grief.
Take running water, and put into it a Rosemary branch, a branch of Sage, and a branch of Rue, and let it lye three or four hours, and then wash your mouth with the water.
Take a handful of Bay salt, a quanti∣ty of Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs, and put it in a bag and warme it good and hot, and lay it to the place grieved.
Take dry Sage, Allom, Pepper and Bay Salt, of each a like weight, and make all these in powder, and preserve it in a box, and take a Sage leaf with the Pow∣der, and rub your gums with it when you please.
Take Fetherfew, and stamp it, and strain it, and drop a drop or two into the contrary ear to the pain, and then lye still a half hour after.
Take the roots of Marigolds, and put it in thy mouth on that Tooth that aketh.
Take a quantity of Sage and Wood∣bind leaves, and seeth them very ten∣der in White Wine and a little Honey, then wash the inside of your mouth with the water thereof, and lay the Herbs to the outside of the grief very warm.
Take every night a little salt, and let it malt in your mouth, and when it is
melted, gargarise it well in your mouth, then spit out, then take five leaves of Rosemary, and chew it wel, and hold it to your teeth.
Lint shaved and dipped in Oyl of Camphire, then roll it in Bole Armoni∣ack, and burnt Allom, being beat very small, and make it into balls like paste and stop the hollow tooth, and lay lint thereon, and let it remain in the Tooth four our five houres, then take it out, and wash the Tooth: cured for ever.
Take white salt, and in the morning fasting hold it under your tongue till it do turn to water, and with that water wash your Teeth.
Take one drop of the Oyl of Vitriol, and wet the Teeth with it, and rub them afterwards with a course cloth, although
this Medicine be strange, yet feare it not.
Some men have thirty two Teeth, some eight and twenty, and some have thirty.
The Physicians write, that the fore∣most Teeth are engendred of pure and superfluous moisture of the Scull, the middest of a reasonable good humor, and the hindmost of a grosse humi∣dity.
All Imposthumes or Corruption of the Gums or Teeth, if there be much blood and moisture with it, then that part is to be purged with yellow Mara∣bus and sowre Dates according to his a∣bility, and wash the mouth with this wa∣ter, viz. Take blossomes or pills of Pomgranats, Acorn cups and Roses, of each one ounce, and boil them in water, and wash the mouth with Vinegar and Allome.
The cause is blowes, thrusts, deflucti∣ons
that fall out of the head into the Teeth, which loosen their roots, or of great drowth after long sicknesse, the corruption of the mouth and teeth may also cause the same.
The Remedy is, Take half an ounce of Allome, Rose buds half an ounce, Bede∣gar Red Wine one pint, boil them unto the one half, and take this into your mouth warm often, and hold it a good while therein, for it is very good.
Also to wash the mouth often with Rosemary and Wine is very good.
Take a handful of the blossoms of the Marygold that is yellow, stamp it and strain it, and give the juice thereof to the sick in a draught of Ale, and drink the same fasting.
Take the herbs, stalks and leaves of the said Marigolds chopt small, and fry them
Goose grease, take the liquor that com∣eth of the frying of the herbs, and an∣noint the Patient all over the belly, and in short time the Disease will vanish a∣way.
Then take the Herbs so fryed, and lay on a Plaister of black wool, and bind it over all the belly, which will help likewise.
Take the Marigold that hath black grounds, and use them for a man, as the other in all respects.
Take Lemmons and distil them rinds and all, and with the water thereof wash the Tetter, and sometimes annoint it with the juice of Ribwort.
Seeth five leaved grass in Vinegar, and gargarise therewith to help a sore mouth, tongue or throat.
The swelling of the Tongue is of blood or of phlegme that falleth out of the head:
If it be of a cold phlegme, the tongue and face is alwayes white, and the mouth full of moisture, then rub the tongue with Sirrup or Wine of Pomgra∣nats, and Dates boiled in sweet Wine, of each alike, and purge the Head, and use Barley water boiled with Pruines, Bar∣berries, Cinamon, use this as a cooler. Also preserved Raspices, or any thing made of them is to be used.
Take a pottle of fair water, Endive, Succory, Violet leaves and Borage, of each a handful, Lillies half a handful, two Fennel roots, two Parsley roots, and seeth them from a pottle to a quart, and put a little Sugar to it, and drink it as you shall see cause.
Also seeth the leaves of Rosemary in well water, and drink it cold with a lit∣tle of a Pomgranat.
Also hold Purslain under the tongue.
TAke Frankinsence one pound, Ma∣stick one ounce, Bole Armoniack two ounces, beat all into fine powder, and mingle it with the white of an egge, then spread it on a linnen cloth, and ap∣ply it.
Take Oyl of Camomile, and Oyle of Linseed, and mingle it with Capons grease finely tried, mix them together, and this wil open the Veynes.
Take half an ounce of Coral and beat it fine, and drink it in red Wine morning and evening.
Take the leaves of Plantane, Shepherds Pouch, of each one handful, of Harts∣horn half a handful, of Nettles and Mints, of each of them as much as you can hold betwixt two fingers of Barley, (the out∣er skin taken off,) three spoonfuls, of Yarrow half a handful, and one quarter of an ounce of Cinamon, boil all these in two quarts of fair water till half be consumed, then strain it, and put to the liquor strained as much Sugar as wil make it sweet: let it boil a little a∣gaine, then put thereto as much White Wine Vineger as wil make it sharp, and let the Patient take three or four spoon∣fuls ever in time of thirst; boil an equal quantity with a black Hen drawne and washed, but not pulled, and then put an equal quantity of the broth and the juice of Mutton half roasted, and boil them between two dishes, until there remain no taste of rawness. And if the Patient cast any more, presently take two spoonfuls of the juice of Mints, one
spoonful of White Wine Vineger, and as much soure leaven as two Walnuts, boil them to the consumption of the juices; then make thereof a slat cake, and strow upon it fine powder of Nut∣megs, and apply it hot to the brest, and give the Patient two spoonfuls of the Cordial following about three of the Clock, and between nine and ten at night, and at eight in the morning, and fast one hour and an half before, and two houres after at the least. And give a Suppository made with two Posi∣tives of Honey, and one of falt, every day, if the Patient cannot go to stool.
Diacatholicon half an ounce, Conse∣ctionum de Hameck halfe an ounce, comixt in a penny pot of White Wine.
Lotian water good for a heat.
A little Cinamon and Ginger and Ve∣nice Turpentine made into Pils, and take three every morning.
Ising-glasse and Saffron boiled in a red Cowes milk, and drunk three times for the same.
Church-yard wormes washed and sli∣ced, dried and drunk in Beer five several times or mornings, is good for a sore throat, as the Kings Evil, &c.
Take one handful of Groundsel, and one ounce of Currans, boil them in a quart of Ale, until it come to the quan∣tity of a draught, then strain it, and drink it blood-warm, and fast two hours after it, and when the Patient hath once vo∣mited, drink Posset Ale between every Vomit until it cease.
Take Mint Water and Carduus Bene∣dictus, of each a pint, bruise two Nut∣megs, and let them boil to a pint, and make it sweet with Sugar, and drink it first and last.
Take Cloves, and boil them in faire water or beer, and put Sugar thereto, and drink it.
Take an ounce of Green Ginger, as much of Treakle, and as much of Malm∣sey, put these together, and drink them bloud warm.
Roast an egge hard, then cut it long wayes, and take out the yolk, and fill the place full of Cummin seed fine bea∣ten, and lay it to the nape of the neck as hot as may be endured, then take a good quantity of Sage, and boil it in milk, and so drink it warm as can be suf∣fered keeping the head warm.
Take Bramble tops, Ivy berries, green
Rose leaves, and some Allome, seeth all these in drink, and make thereof a Lo∣tian, and gargarise therewith.
Take of Cummin in powder two great handfuls, of white salt four, of the powder of Camomile flowers three, and the powder of three Nutmegs, mingle these together, and put them into a bag of linnen cloth cut round, and then quilt it, and use to lay it on the mould of your head all the day and night, if need so require.
Take of Gromel seed half an ounce, of Cene cleane picked from the stalks, a quarter of an ounce, of Ginger scraped and sliced thin, of Cinnamon scraped and bruised of each one dram, of Da∣mask Pruines the stones taken out seven,
of White Wine a pint, put all in the Wine, and cover it close, and stop it with paste, and set that in another pot of hot liquor for the space of one hour or more, that the pot may be hot, then take it forth, and when it is cold strain it, and after put in Sugar to make it toothsome, and then drink it.
Drink Ne••e a little before Supper, and also for pissing a bed in a cold cause, drink three drams of the powder of Frankinsence in Ale.
Take two quarts of good Wort, and boil it in a skillet by it self without any Hops, till it come to a pint and a half, then when it is cold take it and put Barm to it till it be ripe drink, and ready to cleanse, then take drink, barm•• and all, and boil it againe, and boil in it the quantity of two Nutmegs of Civil Soan, then skim it very clean, and drink there∣of
at night when you go to bed, and in the morning when you rise; when it is done make more.
To cleanse the Ʋreters or Conduits of Ʋrine, and to open them. See be∣fore in Stone.
TAke a handful of red Sage, a handful of Cellendine, and as much Wood∣bind leaves, take a gallon of running water, and put the Herbs into it, and let it boil to a pottle, then strain it, and take the liquor and set it over the fire a∣gain, then put thereto a pint of English Honey, and a good handful of Roach Allome finely beaten, a penny worth of graines grosly bruised, and let them hoil
all together three or four walmes, and then skim it off with a feather, and when it is cold, put it in an earthen pot or bottle, so as it may be kept close: and for a green wound take of the thin∣nest of the water, and for an old wound the thickest, the Water first being well shaken together, and after you have well cleansed the old sore with White-Wine, then take fine lint and wet it in the water, and oft times bathe the wound, and with the lint cover the wound, and if there be any holes in the wound, fill them with lint made like a Tent, and so cover the wound with a piece of bladder, the more better to con∣tinue your lint with moisture, and dresse your wound twice a day.
Take a penny worth of Barley, a penny worth of Raisons of the Sun, a penny worth of Anniseeds, a half penny worth of Licoras, two quarts or more of water, boil all together till halfe be consumed, then strain it, and when it is cold, drink it, your Licoras must be sliced into small pieces.
Take a gallon of good Gascoigne Wine, then take Ginger, Gallingal, Cin∣namon, Nutmegs, Graines, Cloves, Mace, Anniseeds, Fennel seeds, Carra∣way seeds, of each a dram, then take red Mints, red Rose leaves, Garden Time, Pellitory of the wall, Smal Mar∣jerom, Rosemary, Peniroyal, Sage, Wild Time, Camomile, Lavender, A∣vens, of each one handful, then bruise them all in a Mortar, and beat your Spi∣ces small, and then put your Spices and Herbs into your Wine, and let it stand twelve hours, stirring it oftentimes, and then still it in a Limbeck. The first pint is the best, the second is good.
It comforteth the spirits, and preser∣veth greatly the youth of man, it help∣eth the inward Diseases coming of cold, it helpeth the shaking of the Palsie, it cu∣reth the distraction of the Sinewes, and helpeth the Tooth ache; it comforreth the stomack very much, it cureth the
Raines of the back, the Canker and cold Dropsie; it helpeth forth the Stone in the bladder, also it helpeth a stinking breath, and the Conception of a woman that is barren; a spoonful of this Water to some is sufficient, to others two or three once in ten dayes sufficeth.
Take a gallon of fair running water, a pottle of White Wine, of Wormwood, Motherwort, Bramble buds, Hawthorn buds, Basil, Mints, Avens, Egrimony, Bovewort, Wood Bugloss, Woodbind, Plantane, Ribwort, Daisie roots, Beto∣ny, Wild Angelica, Sanicle, White Bot∣tles, Scabious and Dandillion, of each one handful, and put them into the Wine and water, and let them boil to∣gether till the half be consumed, then strain out all the Herbs, and boil the li∣quor with a quart of English Honey ve∣ry softly till it be clean skimmed, then take it from the fire, and when it is cold put it into a glass, and keep it for to wash any green wound, which it will care, although never so dangerous, drinking also at a time three spoonfuls of it.
Take Woodbind leaves and Sage, of each a handful, boil them well together in a little water, and put in a piece of Allome and a little Honey, and wash the wound therewith, laying a little lint to it, and it wil heal it.
Take brown Sage, brown Fennel, Rose∣mary, Violet leaves, Liverwort, Harts∣tongue, Bryar leaves, Plantane leaves, Woodbind leaves, five leaved grasse, E∣grimony, Wild Tansie, of each one handful; take all these Herbs, and boile them in an earthen pot with a pint of White Wine, and three pints of running water till it comes to a quart, then take the Herbs and strain them in a bason, then take as much Allome as three Wal∣nuts, and put it in the water, and let it boil up, then take it, and put it in a ba∣son till it be almost cold, then put in a quarter of a pint of live Honey, and pre∣sently
put it in bottles, and stop it very close.
Take of the tender leaves of green An∣gelica four handfuls, of the like leaves of Carduus Benedictus two handfuls, of the like leaves of Balm and Sage, of each one handful and an halfe; let all be shred small, Licoras bruised five ounces, the seeds of Angelica two ounces, the seeds of sweet Fennel three ounces, let both be bruised well, the Spices of Aro∣maticum Rosarum, & Diamoschum Dulce, of each half an ounce, infuse them all in six quarts of good Sack four and twenty hours, then distil them in a Limbeck with a soft fire according to Art, and draw forth of the best water a pot∣tle: whereunto after two dayes put half a pound of the finest Sugar, dissolved in half a pint of good red Rose water in a fair pipkin on the fire, when the Rose∣water is hot with the Sugar, then put in your hot water, and let it stand over the fire till it be throughly hot, then take it off, and put it in glasses, and keep it as excellent to comfort the spirits, and
against infection, you may draw forth of good smaller water a quart.
Take one pound of good Cinnamon, and bruise it a little, and lay it a soaking four and twenty hours in four pints or four-pound of Rosewater, a pint and half of Muskadine or white Wine, then put it into a Limbeck glass to distil up∣on hot ashes, or else in a pot of hot water.
This Water is good against the pain of the Spleen, the pain in the head, the Mother, to provoke Urine, to stay vo∣miting, to expel all venemous colds. You may take four pints of White Wine, putting to it half a pound of Cinnamon, and use it as aforesaid.
Take black Soap, mixed with unsla∣ked
Lime made into powder, lay it to the Wen or Curnel, and by Gods grace it will help.
Take the crumbs of Barley bread, the bignesse of an egge, and as much White Wine Vinegar as will make it into a soft paste, and spread it upon a cloth, then take an old wooden ladle, and set it a∣gainst the fire and it will sweat, then take a feather and wipe the sweat off the la∣dle, and annoint the Wen therewith, then take a plaister of the paste and lay it on the Wen, and dresse it three times a day after the Sun is risen, and before the going down of the same, every time fresh paste, and divers times the ladies sweat. Probatum.
Take a handful of Marigolds blowne, of them that have black in the midst, and half a handful of Rosemary leaves strip∣ped downward, and half a handful of Pellamountain, half a handful of Hysop,
half an handful of Valerian, all stripped downward as before, and all these Herbs must be boiled in six ounces of unwasht Butter over a soft fire till the one half be confumed, then strain the Oyntment through a clean cloth, then put the Oynt∣ment over the fire, and put in an ounce of Bee Wax, and hoil it again half a dozen turnes, then put it in a fair pot, and keep it to your use.
Take a good quantity of the best Am∣ber, and beat it exceeding small to pow∣der, then searse it through a fine piece of Lawne, and so drink it in some broth or caudle, and it will by Gods grace presently help the Patient to be deli∣vered.
Take young Southernwood, Betony, Caunapitum, Centory, the roots of Cel∣lendine,
St Johns wort, with the stowers, of each of these as big as your thumb, yet put but one root of Cellendine, of White Wine a pint and half, of Raisons of the Sun (the stones taken out) half a hand∣ful cut in pieces, these boil until a third part be wasted, then strain it, and put to it three and forty blades of Saffron made to powder, of Graines the weight of two pence beaten, then boil it a lit∣tle again; and of this drink a draught in the morning fasting, with as much Treakle as a Hasel Nut, and at night a draught without Treakle.
Take fasting every morning of one Cowes milk, one pint hot from the Cow with a few Mints bruised in it, and let the party stirre about af∣ter it.
Take seven or nine Lice out of a cleane bodies head, and put them into bread and Butter, or Conserves of Roses, or
into Ale or Beer, or any other thing you shall think fit, so that the party grieved may eat them all alive, and know not of it for loathing the Medicine.
Take thre sticks of a fig tree, and three sticks of a Walnut tree, and a handful of red Sage, and a good handful of Pe∣niroyal, a pound of Raisons of the Sun, stones and all, three Cap Dates, stones and all, bruise them all together, and put them all in a pottle of White Wine, and seeth it from a pottle to a quart, then strain it, and put into the drink o••e ounce of the best Sugar candied, and drink thereof morning and evening: it is good. Probatum.
Take seven or nine leaves of Dittony, a pretty quantity of Germander, a branch or two of Peniroyal, three Marigolds, a branch or two of Hisop; take all these and boil them together in a pint of
White Wine, or a pint of Ale, and after it is boiled, put into it Sugar and Saf∣fron, and boil it a quarter of an hour more, and give it the Patient to drink warm.
Take one little branch of Motherwort and six blades of Saffron, pound them together, and then put to it six spoonfuls of Ale, and then drink it blood warme all at one draught, and fast after it half an hour.
Take Wormwood and Rue, of each one handful, five or six Pepper Cornes, seeth them all together in a quart of White Wine or Malmsey, strain it, and drink thereof.
Mallows sod in Wine, and drunk is ve∣ry good.
Also take Sage half an handful, of Cloves, Mace and Saffron, of each half a scruple, stamp them all together, and bind it in a fine cloth, and hang it a
night and a day in a pint of good Wine, wringing it oftentimes out into the Wine, then divide it into three parts, and take one part five hours before meat, the second part in the afternoon, and the other part after supper; but this is to be done in the wane of the Moon, and eat very little.
Take the weight of a French Crowne of Rubarb, of French Wormwood and Egrimony, of each half a handful, steep them over night in a quart of Ale, and slice a Nutmeg and put therein, and so take it three several mornings at three draughts; and this being done, you must make more, and use it in that sort six mornings more. See before amongst the Vomits for a Vomit for the Greene Sicknesse, which is to be taken before this Medicine.
Take of Clary leaves and of Hisop, of each one handful, of Parsley half a hand∣ful, stamp them and straine them, and
put part of the juice thereof into an empty eggshel, and put thereto the yolk of an egg only with a little Sugar candied in powder, then stir it, and set it on em∣bers, and when it is through hot, sup it up, and fast after it two hours, and this do three mornings together in the beginning of the Moon, within five dayes of the Change.
Take a pottle of running water, of pure Cinnamon half an ounce, half a Pomgranat Pill, of Knotgrasse halfe an handful, boil these together till the water come to a pint, and thereof make a caudle 〈◊〉〈◊〉 three mornings.
Also 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Sassaparilla six ounces, Pol∣lipodium of the Oak, Cene and Fennel, of each four ounces, of Caraway seeds one ounce, of Licoras scraped and brui∣sed two ounces, Egrimony and Mai∣den hair of each two handfuls, Liver∣worn one handful, Scurvigrasse two handfuls, new Beer or Ale three gal∣lons; these particulars must be stampt to powder, and all put into a bag together with the Scurvigrasse stamped, then
hang the bag in the vessel of Ale or Beer, the yeest being first taken away, and so stopped very close that no aire get in, then drink thereof the quantity of a pint two hours before dinner, and so at Supper. It purgeth all humours in the body; it will not suffer the bloud to putrifie, nor phlegme to have Domi∣nion, nor Melancholy to have exaltation; it purgeth the wind, it defendeth the stomack, it nourisheth, profiteth and preserveth the Heart, it ingendreth a good colour, it comforteth the sight, it nourisheth the mind, and is good against the Stone.
Take a good handful of Lavender tope and boile them in a quart of Posset drink, till it come to a pint, and drink it off bot with some Sugar, if your please.
Take half an ounce of the powder of steel, as you have it at the Steel-ma∣kers,
but the Needle makers have the best; wash it in three or four waters, and dry it, one ounce of Cremer Tartary, two Nutmegs, Licoras the weight of fix pence, make all into fine powder, and mix them; take every morning the weight of six pence in broth, and fast two hours after, and after this Receipt hath been taken, let the party be purged once or twice.
Take dry Wormwood or green (green is the best) and a new laid egge, shell and all, and beat them together very fine, and make a Salve thereof, and lay it to the place hurt very thick, and let it lye four and twenty houres; and if the party be much pained, change it, if but a little pained, let it lye four and twenty hours more, and then dresse it with other Salve as need requireth.
Take of Rosen and Perrosen of each half a pound, of Olibanum four ounces, of Harts Suet four ounces, of Mastick two ounces, of Mirrh one ounce, of Comfry half an ounce, of White Wax four oun∣ces, let your Rosen, Perrosen, Olibanum, Mastick and Mirrhe be made into fine powder and searsed each by themselves, then take your Suet, and Wax, and dis∣solve them upon a soft fire, when they be melted, put in all your searsed pow∣ders, alwayes stirring them till they be all melted, then have ready a pottle of White-Wine hot in a faire pan, and straine all your stuff through a Canva•• cloth into it, then put in two ounces o•• good Turpentine, and then your Com∣fry beaten to fine powder, alwayes stir∣ring it till it be cold, and then make in up in rolls, and keep it for your use. This Oyntment is very good for new Wound and for the Bloody Flux, and the Wind Cholick, being spread upon a cloth, and laid to the Navel. It is called, Flos Ʋn∣guentorum, The flower of Oyntments,
of which see more at large in Oynt∣ments.
Take half a pound of Almonds, and lay them in cold water till they blanch of themselves, then beat them very smal in a Mortar, Licoras three ounces, scrape off the bark or rind, and beat it fine in a Mortar, and take as muck Anniseeds, two ounces of Sugar, and beat them small as before, and work them together and use it.
Take the juice of red Fennel, and make a posset of Ale therewith, and drink thereof.
Take of pure Sugar four ounces, of Rose water as much as will moisten your Sugar, put it in a possnet, then have rea∣dy
these Spices following, White Pepper, Black Pepper, of each half adram, pure Gallingale sliced and finely minced, Gin∣ger pared and minced fine, of each of these one scruple and a half, pure Turbit white and gummy clean scraped, thin sli∣ced and minced very fine two scruples, skim your Rosewater and Sugar clean as may be, and let them boil on a soft fire, then put in all your Spices, and stir them wel, then take it from the fire, and stir it till it be cold and thick, then put it in∣to a gally pot, and reserve it to your use: of this you may take at a time the quan∣tity of a pennyworth or two pence.
Take a handful of Tansie, and a hand∣ful of Sorrel, and beat them together, and strain them, and make a posset of White Wine, and put in it the juice of the Herbs, and drink it in the morning, and fast after it a while.
Take a Dog berry, and with the juice thereof rub the Ring-worm, and it will help it.
Take a handful of Wormwood, and a handful of Herb grace, a handful of Fe∣therfew, a handful of Vervain, a hand∣ful of Herb-Robert, a bandful of Wild Bugloss, boil these Herbs in half a pound of unwasht butter, then strain it through a clean cloth and annoint the place with a feather, and lay upon the wound Oak leaves with the smoothest side next the wound, the leaves must be withered, and so bind up your fores with linnen clothes, dressing it twice a day after the same manner, but remember your herbs bestam∣ped before you boil them in your butter.
Take an egg that is layed on a thurs∣day, and empty it, and fil it with salt, and so set it on the fire, until it may be made in powder, and rub the Cankered teeth therewith, and it both kills the Canker, and destroyes the worms that eat the Teeth. Probatum.
Take of Wormwood and of Walnut leaves, of Rue and unset Leeks, of each one handful, and put to an Oxgall, and fry them all over the fire, and lay them on a cloth, and lay them on the childs navel all night; and that wil help them: and on the morrow, take half a pint of Malmsey, and put into it four or five spoonfuls of Wormwood Water, and as much Mint water, and warm them toger ther and drink it one or two dayes, and this will help without doubt. Probatum.
Take a handful of Violet leaves, an handful of Columbine leaves, and a handful of Rosemary leaves, stamp all these together, and boil it in a quarter of a pound of unwasht butter, and a little Deer Suet, and when it is half boiled a∣way, strain it, and put it over the fire a∣gain, and let it boil two or three turnes, then put it up for your use, and strike a Plaister therewith, and lay it on the Ring-worm, dressing it twice a day, and washing it every two dayes with White Wine.
Take Curraline in powder as much as will lye on a groat in new Milk three mornings, three dayes before the Full or New of the Moon. It will help old folks and sucking children; it is a groat an ounce.
Take black Soap, and almost as
much Ginger in powder, and mix them well together, and annoint the place therewith four or five dayes together, and this will cure any Tetter or Ring-worm.
Take a quarter of a pound of Ising∣glasse, and boile it in a pottle of milk to a pint and half, then put to it Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Sugar and red Rose water, and so make it to a Gelly.
It saveth mens bodies by the vertue it hath in it, and by Gods help, for who so beareth this Herb about him, preserveth him from Evil Spirits, and this Herb must be gathered in the Harvest time, early in the morning before Sun rising.
Also he that drinketh of the juice of Betony, it will break the stone, and cast it with the Urine.
Also if it be drunk with hony, it is good against the Dropsie.
Also it is good against the outrage of wicked blood.
Also the juice of Betony mingled with Rose-water put in the ear, amendeth the hearing.
Also the powder of Betony sodden with hony, helpeth them that have the bloody Egestions, and marvellously com∣forteth the stomack.
Also the leaves of Betony mingled with salt, and make a Plaister thereof, is a great help to green Wounds being layed thereto.
And the leaves of Betony with Rue e∣venly proportioned, sodden together is good for akings in the eys, and the blood of the Egestions, it putteth away that which annoyeth the Eyes.
Also it draweth away all venom in the body of man.
Also take four handfuls of Betony, and three cupfuls of Red Wine, and seventeen Pepper cornes, and break them smal, and seeth it, and drink it, it purgeth the veins.
Also take an ounce of Betony, and an ounce of Plantane, and drink it with warm water, and it will destroy the Quo∣tidian Feaver.
Also take powder of the root of Beto∣ny, and drink it with luke-warm water, it will purge phlegme.
Also take the weight of a Bean of the powder of Betony mingled with honey, it will comfort the stomack, and the di∣gestion.
Also make a Garland of Betony, and lay it about an Adder, and he will kill himself within it.
Also take Betony well warmed by the fire, and then bound to the forehead, it provoketh sleep, and putteth away wick∣ed blood, and destroyeth the heat of the eyes.
Also Betony sodden in Wine, and held in the mouth, helpeth the Tooth ache.
Also Betony sodden in Wine, purgeth the veines, the spleen, and the stomack.
And the juice of Betony mingled with salt, and put into the nostrils purgeth the Evil savour of the nose.