Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:

A Physical Course for provoking the Courses.

FIrst purge thus, Take of the Powder of Hiera Picra simplex, of the Pilles de tri∣bus Fernelii, of Agarick trochiscated, of each 1. scruple, of Castorium half a scruple, of Chy∣mical Oyl of Time four drops; make these up into Pilles with the Syrrop of Mogwort, to the number of six or seven: Let the Patient take them immediately after her first sleep; Then sleep again; The next day after let her take this Decoction: Boyl in Ale and white-wine, of each a Pinte, half unset Hysop, un∣set Time, Penny-royall, Mugwort, Germander, of each a good handfull, Madder, Smalledge, Parsley and Fennell-rootes steeped in wine, of

each an ounce, Juniper and Cynamon, of each half an ounce. After they be well boyled, strain them hard, and sweeten the same with 3. ounces of the Syrrop of Mugwort, drink of this twice a day in the morning, and after noon about four of the clock, and four dayes after their accustomed time of flowing, open the Saphaena vein, and bleed the quantity of three or four ounces, to incite them down∣ward; The Saphaena vein is running about the Inner Anckle; upon the foot towards the great Toe.